Darkness blanketed the dense forests of Aldmerrow. Three young males, they seemed to be, searching "Move Azz," a young man with dark brown hair ordered the younger male with coal black hair, that held a natural red streak. "Whatever Drav, I'm moving, jeez." Another young man simply face-palmed at his siblings' stupidity, he also had coal black hair, only his held a striking neon blue streak, "You both are idiots." he said exasperated. "Lighten up, Zen, we're searching for Mom and Dad , besides, Drav know he loves me, he just doesn't show it." the youngest quipped, which resulted in his getting backhanded by his older brother. The necklace Draven had gotten on his seventh birthday, had begun to glow a bright green, just then they then heard a beastial growl, a dark shape began , moving around the dark forest with a speed that betrayed its size, Azrael looked at the shadowed creature that had lunged at his brother, thinking quickly, with a near superhuman reaction time he stood in front of his brother taking the hit, upon feeling the creature's jaw clamp around his left arm, he began to scream in agony, Draven's jade necklace began to glow once more, the beast released it's hold on Azrael's arm, dropping him to the ground before scrambling back, almost seeming, scared, The beast vanishes into the darkness, Azrael was left writhing in agony on the forest floor his eyes wide, his once green iris' now a burning gold.
-5 Hours Later-
Clutching his arm, Azrael said, "Yo Draven, no rush or anything, but uh, I seem to be bleeding out, so if you could hurry up, I'd love that." Draven laughed and said, "Azrael quit your whining we'll be at the house in a second. When we get there we can get you all fixed up? Sounds good? Now let's go."
-The Next Day-
Veronica brushed her layered blue hair but realized she was brushing it twice as fast. She dropped her brush, put her face in her hands and said "How could this be happening to me? I don't deserve this."
-At school-
Veronica went to school trying to get whatever happened this morning out of her mind. But she couldn't and she hated it. She also hated the fact that she was getting hungry. She was surrounded by humans, she could hear their pulses her breathing quickened her teeth sharpened to fangs, her hand quickly went to cover her mouth, she had to get out of there, before she did something she'd regret, she quickly began to jog which turned into a dead sprint, before she realized it, she was miles away. Veronica slows down and takes a deep breath. She goes over to a lake she sees a little ways off and looks in. What she sees is surprising and utterly terrifying, It was her, only her eyes were a glowing blood red, and her teeth had become fangs, she felt she looked demonic. It honestly scared her. She couldn't believe this was actually happening to her. One minute she was this, this average seventeen year old girl with not a care in the world. And the next minute she's this girl who feeds on blood and has to hide the fact that she's a vampire. "What am I going to do? What am I going to do?" she cried.
Veronica goes back to the school hoping to see Eleanor and Jessica. The next thing she knows she's being tackled by someone. "Hey girl where were you yesterday at Jessica's party? We missed you," Eleanor said getting up and helping Veronica up also. Eleanor has long black hair with a streak of blue in it and is wearing her usual black pants, t-shirt and hoodie. She looked around hoping to see Jessica but she couldn't see her anywhere nor could she see her little sister Katherine. "Hey Eleanor where's Jessica? She's usually like always with you." Eleanor shrugged and said, "She was here but when she saw you she sort of ran away pretty fast too. But don't worry about it she's just been acting weird since that party at that kid's house the other day." Veronica shook her head and considered whether she should go talk to her or not. "Hey Eleanor should I go and try to find her so I could talk to her or no?" Eleanor just shrugged again and said, "Yeah I guess but just be careful with her. Saturday around midnight she came into my room through my open window and just started crying and she never told me why. She still hasn't and I'm really worried about her. So yes please go and talk to her and see what's up. You're the only person she opens up to even if she just ran away from you," she laughed trying to make the tense air go away, "but yeah she'll open up to you I know she will." Eleanor smiled and waved goodbye just as the school bell rang for school to start. Great looks like I'm not going to get a chance to talk to Jessica anytime soon, Veronica thought. She sighed and started walking to her homeroom class when she saw Jessica walking a little ways off from everyone. Veronica cocked her head to the side and ran towards her trying to keep her speed under control. She actually somehow controlled her speed and was very proud of herself. "Hey Jessica do you have a minute? I didn't see you this morning and I wanted to talk to you. And well Eleanor said I should come talk to you so um here I am." Jessica has, Long light brown hair that reached her back, with blonde tips and is wearing jean shorts and her favorite tie dye t-shirt. "Oh yeah sorry about this morning I thought you were someone else but yeah of course we can talk. Our teacher is not going to care we all know this." Jessica smiled her worried but happy smile. "Hey Jessica you okay? You know you can always talk to me about anything and I mean anything. And who did you think I was anyways? You don't have like a creepy stalker or something do you?" Veronica raised an eyebrow and her and Jessica burst out laughing. "No Rica it was nothing actually. Also I know Eleanor most likely told you I went over to her house and cried and I want to tell you I'm alright, seriously. Just something with my dad." Now she smiled her sad smile. Her dad has cancer and she just found out a year ago and it's been really hard for her because Jessica and her dad are really close. "Well Jessie I hope you and your dad are going to be ok and if you ever need a shoulder to cry on I'm always here. I hope you know that." Now Veronica smiled her sad smile because of the fact Jessica chose Eleanor over her. "Yeah I know that and the only reason I went over to Eleanor's was because we live closer to each and I just needed someone to cry to no matter who it was. Not that I would never go to Eleanor it's just well you know what I mean." Veronica sighed and said, "Yeah I know it's just you know how I get easily jealous." Jessica nodded and said, "Yes i know now let's go before someone realizes we're missing." They laughed and just as they started walking towards their class they passed a group of boys and one of them looked at Veronica and her eyes turned red and her fangs came out and his eyes flashed gold and his ears seemed to gain a slight point briefly
-Back with the guys-
Azrael's wolf like changes receded nearly instantly, he shook his head opting to ignore the strange feeling he got from the girl, he kept walking with his brother Zeno taunting him "Staring at random girls now Azz?" his brother joked Azrael just growled, which caused both him and his brother to stop and blink in confusion, "Did i just?" "I think you did." Hearing the bell ring they rushed to what they were told would be their homeroom class, they took off for the class, Azrael's face lit up at the feeling of freedom he got from running the feeling of the wind on his face, the adrenaline pumping through his veins, he grinned and his eyes flashed a burning gold, and though he didn't notice it he had sped up drastically , he eventually stopped moving, upon seeing he reached his classroom, he fixed his black high collar jacket, and patiently awaited for his two older brothers. Zeno and Draven came up a few moments later panting, "W-when in the good lord's name did you get that fast?!" Draven said panting, "Don't know." He then walked into the classroom with his brothers in tow, the teacher. A middle aged man with slowly graying hair, and kind brown eyes, "Well class, it would seem, we have three new students, please welcome, "Azrael, Draven, and Zeno Fallane. Azrael and Zeno smirked), while Draven simply stared blankly.
The girls all looked over to see who was talking about and Veronica was surprised to see that one of the guys was the boy with the gold eyes. On another surprising note Katherine, Jessica's little sister was also in the class.
When Katherine saw that her sister was focused on a guy, she smirked and whispered, "Checking out the new kid, are we sis?" Her sister elbowed her playfully and muttered a, "Back off" before staring back at the mystery guy. Something about him was making her want to stare at him. He felt her gaze on him, and smirked in slight arrogance, he winked before walking off to find a seat with his his smirk was annoying as all hell, she couldn't deny the way that her heart fluttered when he winked at her. 'It's what he does to all the girls, probably. Focus at the task at hand. For starters, you're a vampire! What do you do?'
The thirst was getting stronger and harder to keep in check. Jessica felt herself getting dizzy and weak. She needed blood or else she would pass out. She raised her hand, asking to get out, but the teacher was too busy trying to control the rowdy classroom to even notice. Her head was throbbing, and in the reflection of the glass, her eyes turned blood red. She had to close her eyes before someone noticed; the last thing that she needed was more attention.
"Sis, you okay?", Katherine asks, concern filled in her voice. The pain in her head was too much, one second she was in her seat, the next she was on the floor, gasping for air that she didn't need.
"HELP! . , IT'S JESSICA!", the kind man they knew as their teacher looked over the pale and panting Jessica and simply stated, "Get her to the nurse, miss Katherine." Azrael shot up out his chair and jokingly raised his hand, "I volunteer as tribute." "Azrael, you can assist miss Katherine in escorting her sister to the nurse. But be quick. I have a lesson plan to get back to." "Alright then." he walked over and kneeled down he picked up Jessica much to Katherine's displeasure, "Calm down kid, we need to get her there quickly, and no offence you're not exactly built to carry a body." and with that the two walked off in the direction of the nurse.
Though Katherine wasn't looking forward to this random stranger hauling off her sister to God knows where, she was going to try to be nice-for now at least. "Why did you volunteer. I could've taken her myself", "Don't know, she just seems, interesting, I guess, that and I was bored out of my mind." Azrael grinned. "Listen, the last thing that she needs in her life is some guy like you; you get one girl hooked on your finger, then leave her after you fuck her. So let me make things clear, you hurt her in anyway, I personally promise that it won't end pretty for you.", "First off, you think you're a threat, that's adorable, secondly, I'm not like that, besides i barely know her, let me get to know her then we'll see." Azrael said with a far off look in his eyes, which he quickly shook off,
"You won't get to know her. Stay away from her, stay away from me, stay away from all of our friends, or else. Besides, we don't need you and your pack of mutts stinking up the place." "Did this, short ass smurf bitch, just call me a dog." Azrael flinched from his tone, but refused to back down. "Clearly you're new and don't know how this school works. It doesn't matter to me how tall you are or how old, talk to me like that again and you'll be in the doghouse. Now be a good boy and go fetch. Do you some encouragement, like a scratch behind the ear?", Katherine smirked evilly and grabbed her sister from him, struggling to haul her the rest of the way. Damn, she's heavy. Azrael's eyes glowed a burning gold and his pupils slitted, he growled at her, before realizing what he was doing and stopped, "Listen short stack, it's adorable that you think you're a threat but newsflash, you're not, welcome to the real world." with that he walked off to the nurse's office, he fixed his high collar and shoved his hands in his pockets."Why are you still here? I'm carrying her, while you're just skipping class. What do you want to become dumber than you already are. And newsflash, my name isn't 'kid' or 'short stack' , it's Katherine, jackass." He stopped and turned around smirking, "First off, my intellect trumps yours, several fold, secondly I'm "still here" because I said, I'd get her to the Nurse, second she's there, I'm out of your hair, Mkay kid?" "If I'm so dumb, then why am I in your class at 14?" "While that would be true, I got bored on the way here so checked this school's student's overall test scores, cause I can, and they were sad at best, without a doubt I am your intellectual superior. Of course you won't see that because I'm rather lazy." Azrael stated, with his eyes half lidded giving him a lazy expression, as if he were bored. "Listen, I don't give a fuck how smart you are, you're testing my patience, so leave. Besides, you don't know or care about Jess, you did say that you came cause you were bored. Are you still?", Katherine asked with an annoyed glare. "Well, seems short stacks got a temper as short as her fuse, anyway nah I'm just here cause you both seem, interesting, also I get this odd smell from the two of you, her's is a bit like, death, yours however is what's interesting, smells like a chemistry set gone wrong." "Yeah, and you're smell of wet dog is getting to me, so get lost, we're at the nurse's office, so you've completed your job. Now leave", Katherine says firmly. Just as Azrael was about to verbalize his rebuttal, the nurse appeared. "What the hell happened to her!", Nurse Debra asks, frantically rushing all three of them inside her office. Azrael just stood in the back, glancing between them and his phone not really caring, being beyond happy that he wasn't in that classroom. He snooped at the teacher's lesson plan for the day, nothing too important, just simple review for someone of his caliber, simple biology. Azrael mused to himself.
-Back in the Classroom-
Veronica and Eleanor were really worried about Jessica but Veronica kept thinking about what had happened this morning. She got a really weird feeling from him and didn't like the fact that he went with Katherine to help out Jessica. She got the feeling he went with them for a different reason than just skipping class. There was something about him that was odd and she's going to find out what it was. Also, why in the world does he smell like wet dog? "Hey Eleanor, do you think Mr. Alexandros will let us go see Jessica before the bell rings? I'm really worried about her and I just have this horrible feeling something's going to happen to her." Eleanor just shook her head and said, "You and your 'feelings' why do we always listen to them?" "Because they're always right? Now c'mon let's go before the bell rings." was too busy working with a couple of students so it was easy to sneak out. They started running down the halls towards the nurse's office when they heard more running behind them. Veronica stopped and turned around and saw Zeno and Draven running behind them. "Why is everyone so fast in this school, goddamn," Draven said panting. Zeno laughed and Draven started to laugh along with him. "Okay, why are you guys following us?" The brothers looked at each other and Zeno said, "We sort of heard your plan to sneak out of the classroom to see your friend and we wanted to see our brother who is with your friend. Wait aren't you that girl we saw this morning? Staring at my brother? No offense but he would never go out with you." Veronica and Eleanor just started laughing. The brothers looked at each other with raised eyebrows. Veronica was still laughing when she said, "Don't worry boys. I would never go out with him because I have a boyfriend of two years. But sadly he's not here today. But he will be here tomorrow." Veronica smiled her sarcastic smile that all her friends loved to see. "Well we better get going before the teacher notices we're missing. Sadly for us since you're new Mr. A probably won't even notice you're gone but he will most likely notice us missing. Anyways bye."