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When I finally got the courage and strength, I turned the lights on and took a last glimpse of my Prince. Well, not my Prince anymore.

I drove the car out of the cemetery and drove all the way home. I was home a couple hours early and when I opened the door to my house, I found a horrifying surprise.

The people from the photos I had received in the package today… were standing right in front of me. I almost screamed when I saw them. They looked just like me.

The had dark hair and brown eyes. They were all wearing dark clothes. The older lady, Gloria Beth had a long black dress on with a deep black corset that hugged her small figure. She had her long black hair in a ponytail that was tied back by a velvet black ribbon. Her eyes were soft and warm, she smiled at me.

"Raven, darling." she walked over to me and gave me a hug.

I was speechless.

Instead of thinking about anything stupid that would make me cry more, I looked at the other three girls.

One of them wore a corset and mini dress combo that was a dark blue and black. She had a dark blue streak in her black hair. It looked… awesome.

The shorter girl next to her looked about fourteen years old. She wore a gold and black corset and skinny jean style. She had chains that hung off her skinny jeans and looked like suspenders for her pants that slid off her small shoulders.

The girl on her other side wore a long dress that was a dark purple with a magenta hair extension streak in her black hair. She looked at me, her cat like eyes could burn a whole in my soul.

"Raven, darkling, did you get my package?" Gloria Beth asked, she broke my trance.

"Yeah, today." I said,

"Oh, stupid mail service. We sent it a week ago." she said,

"Mother, can we just train her and get over with it?" the girl in the dark purple asked, she moved her bangs out of her face.

"Oh, yes, yes, yes. Raven, darkling, let's go to our hideout so we can teach you more." she took my hand.

Gloria Beth was just about to lead me outside the house and she stopped.

"First, why don't you clean up?" she suggested, she must have noticed my make up in smears and my clothing full of dirt from kneeling in the soil from the cemetery.

I nodded and head up the stairs. I went into the bathroom and rubbed off my makeup. I took off my dirty dress and changed my whole outfit.

I wore a short black and lightning blue dress. I redid my make up and put on lightning blue and black tights instead of my red and black ones. I laced up different combat boots. These were taller, they barely touched my knee caps.

I went downstairs to my "spiritual family", whatever that was supposed to mean.

"Oh, Raven! That looks absolutely delightful." Gloria Beth smiled, she took my hand again and led me to a large black van that was parked right in front of my house.

I'm surprised I had noticed it when I drove home in my Mom's bleach white mini van.

It was a very nice change in Dullsville to see a couple more Goths other than… him… and I. If we kept it up, we might one day… ONE day, out number all of the preppy soccer obsessed people in Dullsville, but that wasn't really on my mind right now.

Instead, it was him. He backed away from me, he… he backed away. He stepped away from me… I couldn't get it out of my head. The scene replayed over and over again in my head like a movie screen.

The look on his face and his harsh voice. He didn't ask about how I felt when he backed away, or how I felt that he left me, he just asked if I was trained. If he truly loved me, would he really had done that? Maybe he just wasn't in his right mind? Anyways, what was done, was done. I was single.

Gloria Beth opened the back of the big black van and clicked open what looked like a normal suitcase. It wasn't.

Inside the suitcase there was weapons. Wooden stakes, silver bullets, guns, crossbows, arrows, poisons, knives, daggers, and worst of all… swords. It gave me a haunted feeling that I was going to be trained to kill the creatures I loved ever since I was four. I hated the fact that these hunters might be in town for Alexander, or maybe we were going elsewhere. Hopefully I wouldn't have to see the familiar faces from Benson Hill any time soon.

"Choose your weapon." Gloria Beth instructed me,

I choose the long sword. It looked traditional and horrific.

"Nice choice." the girl in dark purple said, she smiled.

I put the sword back in the case and we all climbed in the van. Gloria Beth sat in the drivers seat. She turned back to look at us and smiled.

"Our first stop, is the cemetery. There's been some reports from the High Council about a few knuckleheads draining some children." she said,

"Before we get started, can I ask a question?" I asked,

"Didn't give us a choice, now did ya' sunshine?" the smaller girl laughed,

"Christine! Be nice! Raven is a new recruit, you shouldn't be laughing." the girl in purple said, she nudged the smaller girl in the ribs.

"Yes, go right ahead, Raven." Gloria Beth smiled,

"Do you guys kill all vampires?" I asked,

"No. Just outlaws and ones that drain people. Your boyfriend should be safe." Gloria Beth turned back to the steering wheel. "Any more questions?" she smirked,

"Nope." I said,

I clicked my seatbelt and the others did too. The van started and it pulled away from my house. We drove back to the cemetery.

We slid out of the car like a sort of Gothic FBI crew. We went to the back of the van and grabbed weapons.

"Okay, Raven. All you need to do is swing at them. Everything else should just come natural to you." Gloria Beth said, she handed me the sword and I put it in my gloved hand.

We climbed over the gates and began looking around for any weird activity. I took off near the huge Mausoleum that Alexander and I had shared many picnics near.

"Raven?" a very familiar voice asked,

I didn't respond. I just continued to look around.

"Raven? Did you hear me?" he stepped out of the darkness. He still looked very sexy, but I turned away.

"Go away." I said,

"Raven… please, just hear me out?" he asked,

I walked away from him. I could hear him following me.

I turned and around and put the tip of my sword, almost to his neck. His eyes widened and he nearly fell backwards. He still remained in front of me, he closed his eyes for a while and then opened them slowly, to see if my blade was still near his neck.

"Did you hear me? I said to go away." I said,

He took a step back from me. His eyes were saddened and they still sparkled in the moonlight. I hated doing this. I didn't want to break his heart, but he broke mine. Stuff that wasn't going to heal. I just wanted him to feel a little bit of what I had felt. Just a smidge.

"Raven. Please!" he said, his voice was thick and it sounded like he was crying.

I took a step closer, I lowered my sword to my side, showing him I was at ease. I walked closer so I could speak in his ear.

"There are vampire hunters all over here. Get out of here! They don't know the difference between you and the screw ups we're taking care of. I don't want them to hurt you." I said,

He gave me a kiss and then disappeared into thin air.

"Raven!" the girl in dark blue ran over near me. "We found them." she said, she led me off into the darkness.

We ran through the darkness until I could hear the sound of a arrow being launched through the air. Then a few colorful words and a few loud noises that sound like a door being slammed.

Quickly, I noticed the vampires. They were from the Coffin Club. I noticed the brunette girl that was defending her boyfriend, the guy with the comb tooth Mohawk and the safety pins all over his clothes. If he entered a airport, he'd literally have to strip to get through the metal detector.

The guy was the one that had tried to buy me a drink on my first visit to the Coffin Club. I remembered his facial features.

"Hey, I remember you!" he said, just then the younger girl appeared behind him and plunged a wooden stake in his back.

He dissolved into dust.

His girlfriend screamed and burst out in tears.

"Please! NO! PLEASE!" she yelled, she put her hands in front of her face.

"Raven? Do the honors?" the girl in purple said,

Gloria Beth moved over next to me. She leaned in and whispered in my ear, "See the necklace around her neck? Just remove that." she said,

I turned to Gloria Beth, "Will it kill her?" I asked in a whisper,

"No. It just releases her from his mind compulsion." she whispered back.

I walked over to the girl. She started to freak out when she saw my sword.

"No, please! No! I have children!" she cried,

"No, no. It's okay." I said, "I'm not going to hurt you." I said, I pushed my sword into the soil and stepped away from it.

"Oh thank you, Miss! Thank you so much." she said, she was still crying though. "Thank you, so much. You have no idea…" she said,

I moved closer to her.

"I just need to see your neck for a moment. Okay? I'm not going to hurt you one bit." I said,

"Oh, he didn't turn me. I'm not one of them." she said, I could tell she wasn't lying. She was human because when ever a vampire was near, the air got cooler.

I got close enough and I took off her and she fainted. Her body slumped in my arms, lifeless. It sort of startled me at first. I had a girl's life in my hands, and she looked my age. Alexander could've done this to me, but he loved me more than that, right?

I laid her on the ground softly, trying not to wake her.

Her eyes flickered open and she sat up quickly and shook her head, getting some of the leaves out. She looked around her and then at me.

"Thank you so much!" she cried, she hugged me tightly and then let go.

"You might want to get out of here. There are more of them around here." the girl in purple said,

The girl gasped and rose to her feet. She took off running to the exit of the cemetery. She didn't take another second to say anything other than a "Thank you.".

"Raven! Your not a fighter! But you're a negotiator!" Gloria Beth was shocked.

"Huh?"

"Your more into calming them down, not fighting them. But you should still fight, too. We always need assistance with that." Gloria Beth smiled,

"Oh, um, okay." I replied,

When all was done with my spiritual family, they offered me a ride home. I gladly excepted and when I got home, my parents were all waiting for me to clue them all in.

"What was that all about? Was it fun?" my Mom eagerly jumped in,

"Mom, do you even know what we were doing?" I asked, I gave her a weird look and then I walked past them all up the stairs and into my room.

Without hesitation I logged on my MSN and hoped for Dark_Knyte1313 to be logged on. Dark_Knyte1313, obviously was Alexander's username. Just my luck, he was online. He had the busy setting for his status and it said he might not reply to my Instant Messages.

I opened the chat log.

Me: We need to talk. Seriously. No secrets, strings, contracts, bills, or fees attached. Just human to vampire.

Dark_Knyte1313: I was going to say the same thing. You start… I don't know where to start. It's just… so… you know?

Me: Well… I'm not happy. You really hurt me. Okay? And I've been told I can't be with you. It really sucks, for more than just you, okay? You're my other half, but you broke my half.

Dark_Knyte1313: I'm so sorry, Raven. I never meant to hurt you. Not at all, you know that! I love you more than there are stars in the sky, more than anything in the whole world! You are my world!

Me: It's nice to know that, but it just haunts me. The look on your face, your action. It kills me inside to even think about it.

Dark_Knyte1313: Then don't think about it. Think about now. How I'm talking to the universe's most beautiful girl ever.

Me: I'm not the world's most beautiful, or even the universe. You were better off with Luna! Your not even supposed to be talking to me. That's probably why your not here in my room, or in my backyard again. Your taking it seriously, that's why we're on MSN chatting, not face to face.

Dark_Knyte1313: Raven, do I have to prove it to you? I will. You just say it.

Me: Then do it. Prove to me you don't hate me, or your not taking extra precautions. Prove it to me, Alexander David Sterling, I dare you.

Dark_Knyte1313 has gone offline.

I unplugged myself from the computer and laid on my bed. I looked up at the ceiling again and waited.

I hated waiting, but it would only be a while until he showed up, that was if he could show up. I doubted him in so many ways. There was proof in the faces he had given. The fear and anger in his eyes, he thought I chose this life. He thought I did this.

Was Alexander turning out to be more like the Dullsvillians than anyone else? Could he really betray me this way? Would he have the nerve to do that to me? I loved him with all of my heart and all of my soul, but seriously, was this too much. I couldn't even believe myself.

Why did I accept this job as a vampire hunter? Was there any way out of this? I had to ask Gloria Beth. Especially before Monday's morning sky dawned upon the Dullsville sky.