Chapter One:
AUTHOR'S NOTE: THIS CHAPTER BEGINS THE ACTUAL STORY. THE PROLOGUE WAS JUST A PREVIEW. This is my first story so I hope you guys like it, please review, or I will not be motivated to right the next chapter.
Over the past few weeks Phil had gave in to Poppy's request and began to gather some weapons that could protect him from the Night People. Poppy had finally let him in on what had been upsetting her so much that she had asked him to take precautions. It seemed that someone had informed on her illegal rebirth to the Night World Council and she and James had been in hiding ever since. She feared that one of the death dealers chasing her and James might have traced their crime back to Phil through their phone calls. Phil at first refused to believe her, telling him that she was just overreacting and being paranoid. There was no way that anyone could ever want someone as kind and sweet as Poppy dead, especially since James had promised to safeguard her with his life. It just did not make any sense why such a high council would even be so concerned about eliminating Poppy and James. They had not done anything wrong in truth, since he turned out to be a lost witch in the end.
It would be the top story of the early morning news the next day that would persuade Phil. According to the reporter police had found seventeen bodies of teens near a warehouse, completely drained of all blood with large bite marks on their necks, along with four more unidentifiable human corpse skinned to the bone just a block away. Chills went through Phil's spine as the images of the corpses bore into his mind and Poppy's warning suddenly seemed very much real and more frightening than he had imagined. It was time he began to take this whole Night World thing seriously and learn to defend himself so he would not become the next victim.
The first safety precaution was to make wooden stakes, since that was the only creature he knew could have possibly drained the bodies of blood. Luckily, his father had moved out to another condo shortly after Poppy's death, but left his wood crafting tools behind in the basement along with massive blocks of wood meant to build a shed originally. His mother had opted to stay with Phil in the house, but was almost always gone. She had begun seeing a therapist twice a week and took up other activities that occupied her time when she wasn't working. Taking advantage of the time he had while his mother was away, Phil began making pointy edged wooden stakes that could be driven far enough through a vampire's stone cold body to kill them. If that was not enough to stop one, he had purchased a gun that could shoot small cylindrical blades and silver bullets in case Poppy hadn't been lying about the werewolves that she had encountered in a club that looked like they belonged to the WWE. Now if he could only figure out how to disarm a witch if he had to. He obviously did not have magic on his side at the moment since he had chosen to stay clear of anything supernatural that he couldn't understand. If only he had listened to James about joining Circle Daybreak: a witch's circle that was accepting lost witches and humans that wanted to live together in peace. The whole idea of witches actually living amongst humans sounded completely ludicrous at the time even though he had just witnessed his twin sister made into a vampire before his eyes. He had almost even become her first meal if it had not been for James. Witches and werewolves were still a far cry from reality at that time. Phil began to regret his decision now, to not join Circle Daybreak earlier when he could have been able to learn some protective spells or wards to keep the rest of the Night People not as nice as James from attacking his family if the chance came.
Two more weeks passed by with reports of more dead corpses being found either drained or skinned alive. However, now teens were beginning to go missing daily during the night and had not been sighted again. Even some of Phil's own friends from school who had gone clubbing a couple nights earlier had disappeared and had not been seen since.
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One month later…
Phil had been anxiously waiting to hear the latest update on the disappearing teens and corpses being found almost daily near warehouses and clubs. One particularly disturbing coincidence Phil had noticed was that each club or warehouse had some the Night World insignia of a black Iris or dahlia near it. He had been considering letting the cops know about his discovery, but was unsure how he could explain that the flower symbol belonged to a secret society called the Night World.
Instead of hearing the news report that morning, Phil received a phone call from Poppy asking him to come see her immediately. The tone in her voice made him think something was seriously wrong. She wouldn't tell him when he pressured her, she only mentioned to him that he had to come to Vegas to find her and she would inform him in then. Phil had been caught off by surprise since the last Poppy called him was to tell him that she was in hiding with James to stay alive. He had not taken her seriously than, but due to the horrific deaths that had been occurring lately, he had no doubt in his mind that she was being paranoid.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: I hope you guys liked the chapter. I was short on time so this chapter was not very long as it was supposed to be. BUT, THE STORY DOES GO ON, ONCE I GET THE TIME I'LL POST THE SECOND CHAPTER. Please REVIEW AND I'LL POST UP THE NEXT CHAPTER SOONER, if I don't get bombarded with homework again.
p.s. the story gets more interesting in the next chapter so don't be too critical, because this is barely the beginning to help get everything set up for the rest of the story.