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Bad News

"If I were you, Tony, I'd keep to myself," David snarled as the figure stepped out into the dim light of the cavern. He wasn't tall, or even scary-looking despite his threatening voice. He was rather stout and lanky, yet muscular. He was Mexican, which wasn't a surprise living this close to border, but it was his eyes that were the most shocking. They were bright silver.

No vampire that I had ever seen had had silver eyes. They always had eyes like infernos, blazing like eternal suns. Tony's eyes were like the moon. Sheesh, was he even a vampire? He smelled a little bit like me and my brothers but…there was something different, something strange, about his scent and…well, just about everything else.

Tony grinned at David. "Hey, I'm just saying, is all," he sneered. "Just get out of here. Didn't I tell you I never wanted to see you again?" David yelled, and I flinched at the deadly tone of his voice.

I exchanged a quick confused glance with my brothers; none of us knew who this Tony was, and why he and David seemed to have some sort of relationship. Some sort of strained, deadly relationship.

"Touchy, aren't we, chief?" Tony murmured and something flashed between them- some pained memory that they both understood. "What are you here for?" David asked more quietly, and Tony shrugged. "I just wanted to warn you that your father is angry with you…and that Damien is gathering a coven together to destroy yours. I have no idea whose side I'll be on," Tony added, flashing us a wide grin. I snarled low in my throat threateningly, and Star scooted Laddie closer to her.

"When?" The word slid darkly out of David's throat as if dragged through a forest made of broken glass. There was the pain of betrayal in his eyes, and also black fury. "Oh, I don't know…in a few days maybe…" Tony replied insolently, pretending to be uninterested. David's hand darted out and in a tenth of a second he was holding Tony up by his shirt, his face just inches from the newcomer's.

"When?" he hissed. "I told you, I don't know!" Tony insisted, serious this time. David snorted in disgust and threw the strange vamp to the ground. "Are they gathering the wolves?" came my leader's quiet murmur. "Yeah, I think so…" My heart skipped a beat. The wolves? Who were they?

After a moment of silence, David turned back to Tony. His eyes were glittering slits of anger as he glowered at the newcomer. "Get out of my sight," he growled, low and dangerous. "No problem, chief," Tony hissed in reply as he stalked out of the cave. I waited until he was out of sight to relax.

"What was that all about?" Paul demanded. "Yeah, who are the wolves?" Star asked. "I'm scared," Laddie chorused. "Oh would all just shut up? I'm trying to think!" David yelled and all of us fell silent as our leader began to pace frantically. "If Damien's gathering vampires and wolves together, then we're going to need help to fight them. Our coven alone isn't enough to defeat them," he muttered, mostly to himself.

"Uh, David? I think it might help if we had any idea what the fuck is going on," I growled. For a moment, David glared into my eyes and then he sighed. "Yeah, sorry, I'm just kinda…surprised," he finally said, as if he had to think to decide what word to say.

"The wolves are just a short name for werewolves. That's what Tony was- a werewolf. You can tell because they smell a bit like us, but a little bit more woodsy, and their eyes are either bright yellow or silver." I nodded thoughtfully. So Tony wasn't a vampire after all.

"And why's Damien gathering a coven to destroy us?" Marko asked and David sighed. "It's sort of complicated, so I'll shorten it a bit. A long time ago, my parents were killed in a car accident and I was adopted by a man named Max. He had two kids- Damien and Ashlee."

Something flashed across my mind's eye. An image of a different time, when I was still human and had just begun to hunt vampires with Edgar and Allan. An image of a dark, dilapidated room, where three vampires crouched, deadly snakes of steel waiting to pounce. Their names had been Axel, Damien, and Ashlee.

"After a while, me and my new siblings learned that our father had a secret- he was a vampire. Of course, you all know that once you learn about vampires, you either have to become one or you have to be killed, to protect our secret. We were terrified and we tried to hide that we knew…but of course, we couldn't and we ended up becoming vampires. When that happened, we were introduced to new people, new vampires, and we started getting in too deep with the wrong crowd.

"That crowd would go around, barely concealing their existance as they killed massive amounts of humans. Some of that coven wasn't just vampires, either. It had werewolves, too, and Tony was one of them. Ashlee and Damien loved hanging out with that crowd…I was younger than they were, and much more innocent than I am now." At that, David smiled ruefully.

"And so, I got in a fight with them. Max protected me, and sent his kids to live with that coven while he trained me as a vampire. He told me that I had to lead my own coven to become great, so, I did. Ever since, I've tried to keep you all away from Damien's adoptive coven. But…it was only a matter of time before they came for us," David finished reluctantly.

I narrowed my eyes suspiciously. There was something in his voice, something that suggested he'd left things out, or edited things. There was something he wasn't telling us, and I planned on finding out what that was.

"So, we fight?" Star inquired reluctantly. David raised his eyes to meet her gaze and they were crystalline orbs of fire. "Yes." I closed my eyes as fear tingled through my body. We would fight?

R+R please! No flames.