Hey guys, I know it's been awhile but here is the second in Freshman Feuds so tell me what you think. :] :}
Chapter 2
Juliet's POV
I awoke and dusk was just falling. I glanced over at Alex only to find my love not in her bed. I crept down the stairs and found her in the lounge, dressed entirely in black with her sleek hair in a ponytail. She was reading a magazine, so I slipped behind her and wrapped my arms around her from behind. I felt Alex giggle and reach her hand up to pat my hair.
"Good morning sleepy head." Alex said.
I chuckled and placed a kiss to the top of her head. "Thank you," Alex pulled me around to sit on her lap and I snuggled my head into her shoulder, just under her chin.
"Are you going to get ready for school anytime soon?" she asked, stroking my back. "They start a little after eight and right now it's six forty-five."
I snuggled deeper and sighed. "I guess I had better go get dressed then, huh?" I asked.
Alex nodded. Before I went up to go change, I gave her quick peck on the cheek. When I came back down five minutes later, Alex had on Camp Rock.
"Why are you watching Disney Channel?" I asked absently, sitting beside her.
"Because Mitchie Torres is an old friend of mine. She's a werewolf." Alex sighed. "God, I miss her."
I shot her a sideways glance and she smiled slightly at me. "She was an old girlfriend, sorry. When her Mom said that they were moving to Cali, she had to leave. I was still in touch with her a year after but, for some reason, she stopped responding."
Alex sighed before looking up at me with her trademark smirk. "So, classes don't start for another hour. What do you want to do until then?" I smiled slightly and was just opening my mouth when my stomach let out a growl.
I stared down in shock. "It has never done that before." I said in awe. "At least not while I've been a vampire."
"Maybe this place makes dead vampires more alive so that the Regs can be fooled." Alex suggested. I shrugged.
At that moment Alex's ears perked up and she looked toward the girl's staircase. I glanced that way too and saw Selena, the Twins, and Desiree coming down. Their fur was completely out so that they looked more like the werewolves they were. And when I said their fur was out, I meant it was completely out and we could see every inch of their bodies.
"Shouldn't you guys, like, cover some of that up?" Alex asked uncomfortably.
Selena shook her head. "No Regs take the night classes, so it's alright for the more prominent monsters to be out. Are you girls going to accompany us to breakfast?" Alex and Juliet nodded and followed the four werewolves outside.
The moon was full and beautiful. I saw Alex staring up at it lovingly, just like the night we fought against Mason. A small smile crept across her heart-shaped face and she jumped into the air, doing a backwards flip before landing on her feet. She was chuckling slightly and looked over at me. The werewolves were looking at her as though she'd grown a fourth head, as if the second and third ones weren't strange enough.
"What are you doing?" Selena asked curiously.
"Don't you just love the moon?" Alex replied, staring up at the pale circle again.
Selena scratched behind her ears in thought. "I guess. But we should probably be going."
"I'll catch up to you in a moment." Alex said offhandedly. I waved the others on and stayed behind to watch my love. She just stared with a confused expression on her face.
"Alex?" I called softly. She turned to me with luminescent eyes and took off running in the opposite direction of the dining hall. I followed as fast as I could and found that she was heading toward a blood bank, just a few meters inland. With a mighty jump, Alex vaulted across the bay and landed on the ground. She snuck into the blood bank and came out again, smelling like A-positive. I watched her jump back across and she threw me a bag.
"I smelled what was in the cafeteria and I didn't like it. I wanted my favorite blood type."
Alex and I began walking toward the dining hall again and sat next to Selena and the others. Most of the monsters in the hall had grown quiet and were staring at us. We glanced around and wondered what we were supposed to do. Everyone stood up and kneeled toward our table. Alex and I shared a look of confusion and looked to Selena for help.
"You have to raise your hands to get them to rise and continue on." Sel said from the floor. Alex and I raised our hands as one and everything went back to the way it was.
"Haven't you two been worshipped since the Great Uniting?" Annabeth asked.
Alex and I shook our heads. "What's 'the Great Uniting'?" Alex asked curiously.
"It was the battle the wizards and vampires had against the evil clan of werewolves. You wiped the entire clan out and now there are only good werewolves in the world. You also united the wizards with the vampires. Everyone in school are your friends because of it. Well, everyone except the Regs."
Alex nodded and stared around. I sniffed and found a rather disgusting stench in the air. Following the source with my nose, I found that it was the blood in the line. It was three days old and looked really brown. I saw multiple vampires begin coughing. Alex and I shared a look and she nodded.
With that incredible speed of hers, she zoomed around the room and healed the sick vampires. I ran around the room and swiped the blood from the ones who weren't already sick. There were protests when I threw it out the window. Alex came to my side and we turned to face the many ages of vampires.
Alex raised her hands to quiet the noise and I spoke. "The blood was bad. My mate and I could smell it so we got it out. You need healthier blood than that, just ask those my mate healed. Use your sense of smell more often so that you can detect things like that all right?"
All of the vampires nodded and a few even clapped. Beside me I saw Alex… blush? Alex hardly ever blushes. She turned her head away slightly and smiled at me. We went out and got some new blood for the students and sat down to talk to our friends. By now, Katherine, Gwyneth, and Madison had shown up. We saved them a few bags of blood and they sucked it up gratefully.
"So, like, Alex did you win the wizard competition or did your know-it-all older brother win it?" Selena asked. Alex and I glanced at each other and our minds flashed back to that morning.
Narrator's POV
Alex and Juliet awoke in each others' arms and smiled. Alex looked at the clock and saw that it was only six in the morning.
"We still have a few more hours before I have to compete, what would you like to do?"
Juliet smiled and dipped her head to kiss Alex. Alex was about to deepen the kiss when they both heard Justin's voice.
"Hey guys, get up! Dad wants Alex downstairs so he can explain the rules of the competition to us." His voice sounded strained and the girls wondered why.
Alex groaned and got out of bed. She changed from her sleeveless Tee to a stylish purple jumpsuit that she had used in the first competition against Justin. Juliet quickly got dressed and the two walked down to the lair.
Though it was Friday, Jerry wanted to make sure that just in case the fight lasted the entire weekend, the young adults would have enough time to compete for the wizardry.
When Alex and Juliet entered the lair, they found the entire family in there waiting for them. They sat together on the floor, looking up at Alex's dad. Jerry Russo cleared his throat and began to speak.
"Ok, you're all of age, well Max is seventeen, but since Alex and Juliet are planning on leaving soon, we have to speed this up.
"Here are the rules. You may not aim to kill-" they all shot a look at Justin, who shrank down a bit in his seat. "-you can aim to severely injure but not kill. You can use any spell that comes to mind accept summoning spells because the magic won't come to you. Now, do all of you have jumpsuits?"
Justin and Alex nodded, but Max shook his head. Alex waved her wand and conjured him up a red jumpsuit since Justin already had blue.
They all turned to Jerry and he nodded. They flashed in Professor Crumbs.
"Ah, I see it's time for the competition," he said. "Well then, let us go."
He clapped his hands and they were standing in a graveyard with three-foot high tombstones everywhere and open graves here and there. The three siblings were on opposing sides of the square graveyard with the magic in the very center. Alex looked around and spotted Juliet standing not too far out of the graveyard. She smiled and the other vampire returned it. Professor Crumbs appeared on a high platform out of the graveyard and began to speak.
"Alright, Russos," he said. "You have as much time as you need to get the magic. And remember, you may not try to kill each other. Begin!"
Alex took off at high speed, but she was mortal here so that she could be as fast as her brothers. Suddenly, a tornado came her way. Alex easily dodged it and continued running.
She saw Max running as fast as he could and decided to have a little fun with her little brother. With a silently cast spell, Max fell into a puddle of mud. Alex chuckled to herself as Max tried to find his wand.
Suddenly, a giant ogre came bounding out of nowhere. Alex cast a quick spell and the ogre was swallowed up in a hole.
Alex hadn't seen any sign of Justin and saw that he was being dragged into the earth by zombies. Alex's warred with her desire to be the family wizard and her feelings for her brother. In the end, her brother won out and she sent a spell at the zombies. They shriveled back into the ground.
Justin looked at her with a blank expression and sent a spell just past her shoulder. Alex looked behind her and saw a crack in the earth heading straight for Juliet. The older vampire wasn't paying attention; she was discussing something with Professor Crumbs. Alex attempted to shout out to Juliet but she was too late. Juliet fell into a crater in the earth and was swallowed up by it.
Alex turned to Justin with a furious expression on her face. Everything was silent; not even the zombies were moving. They stared at Alex, Alex stared at Justin, Justin stared at the magic, and Max stared around for his wand (which was stuck to his back with mud).
All at once, Justin and Alex attacked each other with magic. Alex, though rebellious, kept to the rules and aimed to greatly injure Justin. Justin was the one aiming to kill. He sent the lightning like he did last time, but he also sent an ogre at her. Alex watched as the ogre bounded toward her, waving its club, and Justin took off for the magic.
In one spurt of energy, Alex ducked under the lightning cloud and dodged around the ogre. She was running as fast as she could toward the magic and she was neck and neck with Justin. As they got closer, Justin attempted to attack Alex again, but Alex had been expecting it and barreled into him before he could do anything more than open his mouth. They both went sprawling and Alex held her wand above Justin.
"Animatius Corpsius!" she screamed. Immediately, arms began pulling Justin into the earth. "Alex, no!" screamed Justin.
"Bring back Juliet." She growled.
Justin stared up at her incredulously. "Don't you want the magic?" he screamed. "Why are you worrying about a vampire when you could most likely become the most powerful wizard in the world?"
Alex's wand sparked and shocked Justin's neck.
"I said," snarled a very pissed off Alex. "Bring… her… BACK!"
Justin hurriedly flicked his wand and Juliet came back up from the earth. Alex relaxed her wand and took off for the magic once more. Justin was hot on her heels and he was passing her.
Just as he was about to get to the magic, Alex sent the old mud puddle spell at him and he slipped. She quickly passed him and stretched her hand out to get the magic. She was almost to it when Justin grabbed her leg. Alex tripped and knocked her head on the stone around the magic. But in some trip of fate, her hand touched the magic as she went unconscious.
When Alex woke up, Juliet and the rest of the Russos (minus Justin) were sitting around her hospital bed. Juliet was the only one awake because it was the dead of night (pardon the pun). "Alex?" asked the older vampire. "Alex!" She woke Mrs. Russo and Max, but Mrs. Russo had to shake Mr. Russo to wake him up. They all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that she was alive.
"What happened?" asked the injured vampiress. She attempted to sit up and fell back to the pillows with a pained scream, clutching her head.
"Alex, stay down and let me call a doctor." said Juliet as she reached for a buzzer.
She clicked it and a goblin came in. Alex eyed the creature warily as he checked her wounds and made sure the needle sticking in her arm was functioning correctly.
"You know," said the goblin in a raspy voice. "I would have expected you to heal faster, being a vampire and all."
"She was mortal when she got hurt." Juliet growled. "We've told you that already."
The goblin shrugged and left the room after reassuring Mr. and Mrs. Russo that Alex could leave the hospital the next day. Juliet scooted closer to Alex and placed a kiss to her forehead.
"How are you feeling?" she asked.
"Just perfect," replied Alex. "Absolutely wonderful. Incredibly terrific. Do you need anymore sarcasm?"
Juliet chuckled wryly and stroked Alex's cheek. They stayed that way the entire night, while the rest of the Russos went to sleep.
In the morning, the goblin doctor came back in and gave the ok that Alex could go home. Juliet helped the weak vampire to her feet and they began walking out. When they were out of the hospital, Alex flashed them all home. They entered the Waverly Sub Station to find it had a few customers more than it usually would on a Saturday. Justin was behind the counter making sandwiches as fast as he could.
"Mom, why isn't Justin using magic to make the sandwiches?" Alex asked.
"Because he can't." replied Mrs. Russo. "He doesn't have his powers."
Alex looked at her questioningly.
"Don't you remember what happened just before you went into a month-long coma?" Mr. Russo asked.
Alex shook her head. "Actually, I don't remember going into a coma. I don't remember what I was doing a month ago. I was in school, wasn't I?"
Everyone shook their heads. "Justin!" Mr. Russo called across the Shop. A few heads turned, but most people just ate their sandwiches.
Justin turned to face his father and caught sight of Alex. His expression went blank and he turned his back on his sister. The Russos went across the shop and everyone entered the lair.
"Family meeting," Mr. Russo said. Everyone moved away from Alex. She stood on the edge as they spoke.
"Justin," said Mr. Russo. "She doesn't remember a thing before you put her in that coma. She can't remember that she's a full wizard or that the competition even happened."
"I didn't put her in a coma!" Justin whisper-hissed.
Everyone glared at him and he said, "Fine so I did put her in a coma. It was an accident!"
"That was not an accident, Justin." Juliet contradicted. "I saw the look in your eyes as Alex was getting the magic. You were calculating it so that Alex didn't get the magic, but did hit her head. I saw your hand jerk back when you grabbed her leg. The only thing you didn't calculate was Alex's arm length."
Justin glared at her, but otherwise did nothing.
Then he turned to his father. "You mean to tell me that she doesn't remember becoming a full wizard? She doesn't remember sending the spells at me? Or me sending spells at her? Oh sweet that means she can't hurt me for it!"
"On the contrary," Alex interrupted, walking toward the group. "I can punish you greatly for it. I am an actress, you guys. I just wanted to hear Justin's confession. I knew he'd calculated my fall and so I wanted to hear him admit it. And technically, I did." She turned to her brother and bared her fangs.
"You were so sure you were going to be the family wizard, Justin." She growled. "All you wanted was the approval of everyone around you. I wanted to show everyone that I'm not as stupid as they thought I was. And I did, at the same time proving that you don't care about anything but approval. I win. Game over."
With that, Alex turned her back on her older brother and flashed to the same cliff Juliet had found her on not too many months ago. Juliet was with her and the older vampire put a comforting hand on Alex's shoulder. After a few hours, Juliet put her lips to Alex's ear.
"We have to leave soon," she whispered.
Alex nodded and flashed them back to the Sub Station. She and Juliet packed their things before saying goodbye to the rest of their family. Justin wouldn't speak to Alex at all, even when she said that she would miss him. He shrugged off her hug and walked up the stairs to his bedroom.
Alex felt tears sting her eyes, but before they could fall, she and Juliet quickly flashed to the Bermuda Triangle to begin college.
Juliet's POV
Alex and I pulled out of the memory and Alex muttered, "I won, but now Justin won't talk to me, so I kinda came out here to sever ties with my family for a bit."
The girls looked at us with sympathetic looks before going back to their food. I glanced at Alex and saw the sadness in her eyes. She missed her brothers, I knew. She missed the lair, the living room, and her mother's Spanish accent. I sighed because there was nothing I could do to make her feel better.
When everyone was finished, we all headed to class. First, for Alex was science, while I was going to geometry. We were learning about the algebraic way to find the area of triangles. I was thoroughly bored since I'd done this at plenty of other night schools.
However, halfway through the class a loud boom emitted through the school and multiple bats came screeching down the hall, followed by a number of students. Luckily, the school was in a different building than the dorms so I don't think any of the Regs heard. The teacher, Mrs. Harp, flew out of the room and down the hall. She actually spread her wings and flew. Everyone in the class was right behind her.
"It came from the dungeon science room!" A teacher off to the side called.
I sped up in fear: that was where Alex was. Running faster than Mrs. Harp, I made it to the dungeon long before she did. I surveyed the scene and saw a pile of rubble moving in the center of the room.
I strode over to it and began moving rubble aside. "Alex?" I called. "Alex!"
There was a moment of silence before the heap of junk exploded. I was thrown backward slightly and shielded my head. When the debris finally stopped flying, I looked up and saw Alex curled around something in the center of scattered trash. I ran over and pulled her to her feet. She uncurled and I saw a shock of blonde hair. When I pulled Alex completely to her feet, I saw that Kellie was unhurt and completely conscious.
"What the hell?" she exclaimed. "You were supposed to be injured! Or dead. Why are you still alive?"
Alex glared at her while holding her wrist tenderly. "I oughtta kill you bitch." She hissed. "Should've let the rubble do it, but I couldn't let you die when I can prevent it." Alex's lip was busted and she seemed to have a sprained wrist.
"What the hell are you doing out of bed anyway?" I demanded, pissed that this was the reason my love had been hurt. I should just kill her myself, but that would mean Alex got hurt for nothing.
Kellie turned her glare at me and spat, "I was trying to make an explosion, why else?"
"Why… the HELL… were you trying… to make… an EXPLOSION?" Alex roared. I watched as my lover's (odd term to use since we've made love only three times) fangs extended. I saw the thirst glint in Alex's eyes and she took a furtive step toward Kellie.
The blonde didn't notice because she answered the question and kept babbling. "Because I like them. Do you have a problem with that?"
Alex took another step forward. She was still holding her wrist, but it was nearly healed. "As a matter of fact," she growled, low in her throat. "I have a huge problem with that seeing as how I'M THE ONE THAT GOT HURT BECAUSE OF IT!"
Alex leaped at Kellie and threw the other girl to the floor. Kellie screamed out in panic as Alex tore at her clothing and ripped out chunks of hair. I stood and leaned against the wall. It was about this time that Mrs. Harp came rushing into the room. "Ms. Russo! What do you think you're doing?"
"I'm making her pay for making me sprain my wrist and bust my lip." Alex shouted from the ball of clothing and skin. Mrs. Harp and a few other teachers went over and grabbed Alex away from Kellie. Kellie was unconscious and Alex didn't have a mark.
Panting slightly, Alex glared down at the heap of skin and blood she'd left behind. "'I like explosions' she said. 'You got a problem with that?' she said. Who's injured now? I heal quickly, you don't."
I guided Alex out of the room and down the hall. Alex was fuming the entire time it took for us to find an empty classroom.
Alex forcefully pushed me back against the wall and slammed her lips into mine. This was the most aggressive Alex has ever been with me so I was extremely surprised. I made a small squeak and Alex pulled back slightly.
"Juliet, I need you." Her lips made their way to my throat and I felt two pinpricks penetrate my skin.
"Alex!" I cried. Alex pulled back and I saw blood on her lips. "I'm a Danag?" I squeaked. Alex nodded and replaced her lips at my throat.
I moaned slightly and tried to push her away. "Alex, get off!" Alex looked back up at me and she turned her back on me. I saw her chest cavity expand in a deep breath and she shook her head.
"I'm sorry," Alex sighed. "I just don't know what happened. I was so angry. I need to cool off for a moment. Could you give me a sec?"
I nodded and left her in the room for a few minutes. Mrs. Harp came by and asked me where Alex was. I pointed to the classroom behind me and she made to pass me.
I stopped her with a warning, saying, "I wouldn't do that. Alex is quite bloodthirsty when she's angry and I think she's meditating to cool off."
Mrs. Harp slowly stepped backward and nodded to me. I sighed and waited for a bit longer.
Finally, Alex came out and gave me a small hug. "You ok?" I asked. Alex nodded with a smile and we headed to our separate classes.
What the hell had been wrong with Kellie? I thought all through chem class. If she hadn't lived I would have danced around her body. I worried about Alex, but quickly pushed it off, saying to myself that my love was fine.
Class (and the rest of school for that matter) passed extremely slowly. The good, and slightly strange, news: Alex and I did have sex-ed. Together. We sat next to each other and Alex threw me a wink. I gave her a smile and turned to face the front.
A tall, thin man was just walking into the room. He was nearly transparent and had a brown hat on his head. "Hello class," His voice was positively dripping with sensuality.
Alex and I leaned away while the rest of the class leaned forward, falling instantly in love with his voice. I stole a look at Alex and saw her wrinkling her nose at our teacher.
I turned back to the front as our teacher introduced himself. "I am Mr. Lovebird. You may call me Mr. Love." There was another dreamy sigh from everyone in the class except the two of us.
What is with this guy? I asked myself.
Alex shook her head and whispered, "I don't know, but he is so not cute. I mean, what is wrong with the girls in this class? And the boys for that matter?"
I shook my head to signify that I didn't know and we looked back at Mr. Lovebird. He had out a mannequin of a female, complete with vaginal hair. Alex and I stared at it in horror.
In one swift motion, Alex pulled out her wand and gave it a flick towards the mannequin. The giant, stringless puppet exploded into pieces and everyone took cover.
"Well!" Mr. Lovebird didn't have the sensuality in his voice anymore. He turned a glare on Alex and growled at her. Or at least, he tried to; it came out sounding like a sick cat mewing loudly. Alex glared at him and did an actual growl, sounding like an angry lion. Mr. Lovebird took a step back and cowered slightly.
"What are you playing at putting a female, and only a female, in front of a class?" Alex asked angrily.
"At least put a male version up there at the same time!" I added softly; I didn't want Alex getting all the fun with the teacher.
He seemed to contemplate this for a few minutes before nodding his head and pulling out a wand. "So which one of you is the hermaphrodite?" he asked. Alex and I glanced at each other before bursting into laughter.
"That's a good one Mr. Love." Alex said.
"Neither one of us is a hermaphrodite." I added.
Mr. Love looked at us in confusion. "But you're monsters dating the same gender monster. One of you has to be a hermaphrodite."
Alex and I looked at each other in confusion and shook our heads. "We're not dating." Alex said.
Mr. Love just gave us a confused look before conjuring up a male and a female mannequin. Alex and I were still a little uncomfortable, but at least we weren't the only two in the class. All of the students were shooting the mannequins uncomfortable looks.
A girl at the back of the class raised her hand and Mr. Love called on her. "So, like, what are the mannequins for?" She asked.
Mr. Love smiled and gestured to the mannequins, the sensuality returning to his voice. "The mannequins are so that we can learn the parts of the other gender. As all of the females should know, the female body has…"
I just tuned the teacher out because I know exactly which parts of the body belonged to both genders. I glanced over at Alex to see her doodling in her drawing notebook. I caught a glimpse of it and saw that she was drawing me naked. I giggled slightly and poked her side. She stiffened and shot me a glance.
Why are you drawing me naked? I asked her.
Because we're in sex ed and I'm bored. Alex replied. I shrugged and went back to daydreaming. I didn't come out of it until Mr. Love said that we were going to be assigned partners to practice with. Every student in he class protested at that.
"Why do we need to be assigned partners?" One girl next to Alex asked.
"Yeah," the boy on the other side of me added. "I mean sex is supposed to be an affectionate experience. I mean who here doesn't have a boyfriend or a girlfriend?"
Two other people in the class raised their hands. Alex and I both glanced back and saw that it was a Goth werewolf with sunglasses and an Emo vampiress with only top fangs. They weren't overly attractive but they weren't unattractive either.
Alex and I shared a glance and we both sighed in exasperation. "Why don't the both of you date?" Alex asked them. "Or at least try it. If it doesn't work out…" Alex looked at me for help. I gave her a look that said I didn't know what to do, so she took a deep breath and went on. "…Juliet and I will be your partners."
I stared at her in horror, but she just shot me a what-was-I-supposed-to-do? look.I shrugged and put my head down on my desk for a moment before raising it up again. Mr. Love nodded at us in approval before turning back to the board.
"Now, you're homework is a 400 word report on what it was like having sex with whatever partner you choose. It will be due a week from today. Dismissed." As soon as he said that, the bell rang.
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