Chapter one: Happy Halloween

"Can you get off of me Conner? I need to get the corset on. You think that because your older means you can do what you want." I growled baring my fangs at him. "Calm down Destiny I will get off in a minute let me just put the necklace on its pretty plus you look so huggable to!" Conner giggled and hugged me tighter and didn't let go. So I mumbled a quick spell and he was in a blue goop hugging himself instead of me. I naturally laughed and when mom came up to check on us and looked at my glowing hands and at Conner in the blue glob. "Why is he in that?" she asked giving me a mad look and made me undo the spell. "Sorry mom."I sighed still smiling as she walked away, her blue wings making a trail of sparkles that lit up the dim hallway like stars in the night. I snickered and finished getting dressed and then realized that Conner was just staring at the window, there was a pair of glowing eyes staring at me intently. I barred my teeth and faced him. "Who is that Conner?"I looked back at him and made bright blue orbs with little energy bolts on my hands and snarled.

Conner hissed at him and big black wings ripped out of his back, in his hand a black sword molded out of his hands and held it out. The window opened and a boy came in, it was Craig, our best friend and fellow vampire. Craig had short curly orange hair and deep blue eyes that had flecks of gold and red in the center. He was beautiful beyond compare and was lightly built. He was my closest friend. "I can't believe you both still can't remember that I sneak in through here to hang out with you all the time." Craig laughed and hugged me. Conner was still iffy about Craig so he put his sword away safely in his skin and sat down. "Could you at least knock?" Conner asked. "Why? I do like a good laugh once in awhile…" Craig responded, still hugging me. "Get off Craig, "I pulled myself off of him and took a step back. "I don't want my wedding dress wrinkled even more." I sighed and smiled. "Ready, Conner?" I asked looking at him and Craig finishing up their costumes and smiled. "Why are you both working in each other's costumes?" "I am trying to prove to your brother that you can trust me" Craig answered. "So? I trust you. That's all you need." I smiled

And looked at the red pendant around Conner's neck. "A little tacky don't you think Conner? Are you supposed to be Dracula?"I laughed at the pendant. "No I like it, why? Do you think it looks bad?" he looked at me wide eyed. "It looks fine don't worry Conner."I smiled and looked around, Craig was gone. "Where is he?" I started worrying. "Who?"Conner asked and his wings came up, thick and dangerous. "Craig… He isn't here anymore. Do you know?"I got nervous and the orbs re appeared in my hands. Craig jumped out of the black corner and tackled me. He was in his cat form (more like a black jaguar). "Craig gets off! Now or el-" was all I could manage before a paw came down on my lips. Conner killed the lights and we saw a red line aiming at a wall where my head was. It was a snip. One of the Queen's little bugs that hunted uncontrollable vampires. We called them black mosquitoes on account that anything they bit turned into vampires with black markings all over their bodies. This snip had the wrong vampire we weren't black mosquitoes. We were good vampires. My mother was a good friend to the queen and we had special rights than the others. We were allowed to live with other human families and could pick what blood we could get from the hospital. Unlike the others that had the rules drilled into their very souls. I felt so bad sometimes…

"Destiny, hey Destiny you ok?"A soft voice mumbled in my ear and I opened my eyes. It was Craig. He was leaning over me putting a band aid on my cheek; I must have cut it when I got knocked down. "Thanks Craig. You saved me from an accidental death." I hugged him and smiled. "Why was a snip after you sis? Who did you kill?" Conner joked and Craig looked outside and his eyes were fidgety and he didn't move his position at all for at least five minutes. It was almost like he was in a trance but it didn't last long because I zapped his butt with a tiny blue orb the size of a penny. Ok maybe a quarter but who was measuring? I sure wasn't but I did measure the distance he jumped which was funny to Conner. "I'm sorry Craig. I didn't mean to hurt you…" I apologized. "It's fine… I'm out of here; see you both at the party. But be careful the bloods gang is planning something and I don't want you both in the area. Craig warned. "We will be fine." Conner let him know. Craig nodded and jumped into the night. I shivered at the fact another gang was going to pull something illegal this year. I guarantee that they would go to an all human party and lure poor victims to their knees and near death. Or make the hair brained queen get nervous. She doesn't realize that all vampires' students pose as humans and get mixed in. "Ready to leave Destiny?" Conner nudged my arm and made me jump. "Yeah lets go…"I sighed quietly and sprouted my wings. They were an amethyst with gold and silver flecks and silver swirls all on the tips of my wings. They also were almost as big as my mom's enormous wings, but still smaller than my brothers. His were raven black feathers that looked like they were groomed to perfection.

We took off out of the window into the cool night. The moon wasn't out but it tried to get its heavenly light beam through the purple clouds that were refusing to share it with the world. "I hope that Craig will get to the party ok. All we need is the vampire gangs after us again." I sighed.

Soon it was a dark area that we could land and I let my wings melt away into the black night. We started walking and we heard 3 gun shots going off. The patrol must of caught wind of the others that were getting into trouble; so we hurried along till we reached the top of Merry St and Summit Drive. There were about six vampires that surrounded us. "Hello Staci. Funny seeing you a member of the lowest club. I thought you were going to better yourself instead of being another pet to another dumb ass junkie." Conner smirked and spread out his wings, they looked sharp and deadly like a black beak. Staci hissed at him and took a step forward and cussed something in Spanish. I made a neon green orb around us and closed my eyes focusing on the footsteps of the vampires walking around us. The one on the left lunged so I made an opening big enough so Conner could make his orb around us. He created the orb just as the boy crumpled against the black and neon green bubble. We opened our eyes and his were a solid black and mine were amethyst with gold sparkles around my eyes. We only would look like that if we were combining our energy. "Ready Conner?" "Ready Destiny?" we asked each other and nodded, then the fireworks began. We were watching them squirm as Conner made a super high pitched screech and then I created a tie-dye green and black spike at the first two gang members then Staci took out a gun with a cloth on her hand. No…I thought, she was able to get one of those guns, one hit to the heart and we were dead. He was my brother and I loved him. And if he was gone I wouldn't be able to protect myself. I thought to myself. So when she took the shot aimed at his heart I flung myself in front of the bullet with the cross and it hit my shoulder, "Good I got the girl Seth."Staci smiled and said in a Spanish accent. I started bleeding and the green was fading fast and I was in pain. I let out a screech for help and our parents where there within seconds. "Who shot the gun?" my father asked and stared down all of the ones that were alive. The blond haired boy pointed to Staci and dad raised a hand to her head and froze here while mom pulled out a crystal spear made of frozen holy water and stabbed it through Staci's heart. Staci let out a scream before she died and turned black. My body started convulsing and I cried out in pain. Mom must have killed the rest of the low life gang with dad because Conner was trying to take out the bullet by himself and kept failing. The pain was too much. I gave up and sank into unconsciousness.

When I woke up mom was wrapping a bandage around my body and Conner was holding me up half naked with dad covering his eyes and looking away himself. "Mom? What happened?" I looked at her and blinked. Conner got out of dad's hands and looked at me. "You're ok Destiny!" he turned me and hugged me not remembering that I had no shirt on and mom was bandaging me up. I was blushing at the compassion he showed towards me. There was a quiet click at the window and I noticed a black panther was on a thick branch looking at the street. He was watching for my dad? My brother? What was Craig doing up there and not at the party? I would ask later. "Get off of your sister so your mother can bandage her up please." dad sighed and looked at me; he smiled at my face when I looked at him. "Sorry…" he looked at me then let go quickly. I got finished and put a pink top on over the bandages. "Is Conner ok?" I looked worried and hugged him. "Yes I'm fine… don't worry; I would never leave your side. I promise that Destiny." Conner sat down and pulled me with him. Craig slinked into the room and looked at me. "I told you guys pay attention where you're going so you wouldn't get caught in their plans. It's the same every year and now look at what happened." Craig sighed. "What do you mean Craig?" mom asked. "I had warned these guys that one of the low life gangs were planning something an attack so they should of watched where they were they landed…" he explained while I sat in Conner's arm. He refused to let go of me and I didn't care. "Ok, thanks Craig, you're a big help." She smiled sweetly and left with dad. "Can you leave? I can take care of her from here." Conner looked at Craig and had a splash of jealousy in his voice. "Fine I will watch the outside of the house to make sure nobody comes near." Craig sighed annoyed and climbed out the window again. "Conner, are you ok?" I asked him. "Yeah. I'm fine I am just a little anxious. You could have died taking that bullet. I don't want to lose you." He started crying and hugged me tight.