Author Note

Hey, folks! Hope you're all feeling fine. I've had a great week!! First, I got Lost Boys 2; it's not as good as the original, but it's still pretty darn good! Then, there's the last issue of Reign of Frogs; didn't answer many questions, but that makes my life so much easier while I write this! Then, I got the original Lost Boys novel!! Never did I think I would get my mits on that! Obviously I'm happy about it.

Feel free to leave me any tips, ideas, constructive critisism and general whathaveyou.

Hope you enjoy this one!

Story Start

Drumming her fingers on her desk, Lexi waited for class to start. It was one of those good days when she could actually get to school on time without her dad dropping her off. She glanced up at the clock; another ten minutes.

'Might as well do something educational.' She thought.

With a sigh, she pulled a comic from her bag and started reading. It was a classic - Vampires Everywhere. She knew the whole thing panel to panel, back to front, but she always noticed new things every time she read it; like a shadow in a strange shape or some kind of odd phrase on a wall. Last time she read it she saw a load of 27s along the page, tiny ones between the panels.

Some poor sucker had just picked up a wine bottle full of vampire blood and was about to -

'Hey, Lexi.'

She looked up. Her own dark eyes met with sharp green ones.

'Nathan.' She said with a nod.

He sat down next to her, casually running his hand through his longish blond hair.

'Good weekend?'

'I guess.' She said, gently flicking a page back. 'You?'

'Awesome. I got a mentor!'

She shook her head amiably.

Nathan was determined to become a vampire hunter. He'd begged her to teach him everything she knew, and after three months she finally did. Unfortunately, she didn't have any actual hunting experience; she just knew facts. It had taken him a while to find out how she knew all of this. He'd had to promise never to tell a single person, living or undead. Then she had turned around to see nobody was watching and whispered to him;

'My dad's a vampire hunter.'

Nathan raised an eyebrow in disbelief. 'Right. Your dad hunts vampires.'

'Seriously!'

'I don't believe you.'

'Just ask him then.'

He'd had to find out where they lived from Alex, the guy who ran the shop across from the Sushi Ten, Nathan's mom's restaurant - well, it had been his dad's restaurant before he disappeared. Then he'd had to walk for hours looking for the place. He sighed in relief as he heard a loud whirring from the shaping shed. He was a little shocked by what he saw.

'Lexi never told me she lived in a trailer.' He thought as he marched to the shed.

Taking a deep breath, he knocked on the open door, keeping his stance confident. Lexi's dad looked up as he switched off the sander.

'Um... Eddy?'

Her dad removed his mask. 'It's Edgar. Edgar Frog.'

After a few short moments, a strange test involving holy water and a long, embellished story from Edgar, Nathan finally realised his dream and became a vampire hunter... Well, a vampire hunter in training. Part of the 'Frog Army.'

'So who is it?' Lexi asked, breaking his train of thought.

'No-one special. Just your dad -'

'What?!'

Uh oh. She looked mad; and god knew that Lexi was really scary when she got mad. He gulped.

'Now, Lexi, you told me to ask your dad about vampires and-'

'How come he'll train you but he won't train me!?'

Before he could come up with an answer, the teacher cleared her throat.

'If you two are finished, I'd like to begin the lesson.'

Lexi put away her comic and replaced it with her books. Nathan 'listened' to their old bag of a teacher trying to explain trigonometry, mainly to the idiots in the back. His mind failed to follow his example and he was soon daydreaming.

...

The school day crawled along.

Starting with maths was bad enough; gym straight after was just torture. Dodgeball - the game where the popular girls always throw the balls at the geeks when they aren't running and screaming. Great! - Not! English class had been all too short, while French and Chemistry had her almost screaming and ripping out her hair. Lunch had been slightly better - the vampire hunting was thankfully not mentioned - Then Drama and Homeroom. It was a relief to leave the building at the end of the day.

Ah, well - it was Friday. And Friday afternoons were cool. Normally she got to hang out with her bandmates - she, Nathan and three other friends were part of a band. Thak God Erika was a friend of theirs or they never would've gotten their instruments.

Now they all sat on their respective armchairs or couches in the attic of the abandoned house they lovingly named Carfax. It was structurally sound, so they could easily take it. No-one lived there besides the bats, it wasn't up for sale and as far as they knew, nobody was interested in it - apart from themselves.

Daria was the drummer; she was a tall girl with dark hair, one eye green, the other a deep, dark blue. Her father was the head of LBPI - Luna Bay Paranormal Investigations. This was how she had met Lexi; both of their fathers were involved, so they had met every so often and became great friends. Her house was just a few doors away from Carfax.

Bobby was the bassist. She was an immigrant from Scotland who had an obsession with the occult. She had moved to Luna Bay not too long ago and gained a friendship with the others after arguing with the popular kids.

And finally, there was Danny, the guitarist. He was the movie buff of the group; you name it, he'd seen it. He'd been born in Luna Bay and didn't plan on leaving unless it was absolutely necessary.