17 years later

Sera woke up to another bad dream. She'd been having the same dream every night for the last week the man her in her dream had ash, blonde hair and blue eyes the colour of the sea. Nothing really happened in her dream the man just frightened her. He would say a different thing every time it would be something like "Hello Sera come for dinner?" she knew he meant that she was dinner. In her dream she could on see his head floating around. He would have his fangs out and they would be covered in blood and so would his chin. It would start off as a good dream but then bad things started to happen, such as a vampire invasions.

Sera shook off her dream and went to go and get some breakfast; she could smell the eggs that her mother cooked for her down stairs. She walked in the kitchen and saw her mother cooking in the tiny kitchen. They had found this small cottage away from al the villages to avoid any vampire invasions. Sera's mother looked nothing like her, Sera had blonde wavy hair and blue eyes, and she was pale, short and slim. Her mother's name was Fiona, and she looks nothing at all like Sera. She was short but not as short as Sera and a bit more over weight then Sera. She has black hair that reached up to her shoulders whereas Sera's was long.

"How are you this morning Sera?" Sera knew that the tone in her mother's voice was off. She sounded nervous about something, she just didn't know what.

"Yeah I'm fine just had another bad dream again." Sera said

"What are these dreams about that make you so scared? I've never seen you so scared!"

"Don't worry mum its fine"

"okay, if you say so." her mother gave her the plate of eggs, Sera ate her eggs as fast as she could, it burned her throat as it went down but she ignored the pain and kept eating until her plate was clean.

"I'm going to have a shower now mum" Sera yelled as she climbed the stairs up to her bedroom, she picked up a purple long-sleeved top and shorts. She stood in the shower and let the water burn her skin, she stood there for a while thinking about nothing in particular.

She hoped out a little while later. She got herself dressed, brushed her teeth and bush throw her mangled her.

"Sera, could you please come down I would like to have a chat with you please" her mother said. "Uh-not his can't be" Sera thought. Sera turned away from her bedroom door and walked to the green and white floral couch where her mother was sitting. The lounge room was small; it had light green walls and a small television that they never used. a white, blue and green rug under a dusty glass table held a vase that Sera loved it was beautiful, it was all the colours of the rainbow it had more blue and purple more than any other colour the detail of the vase was amazing. The floors were wooden a dark wood the same colours of a pine tree bark. Sera sat on the couch next to her mother. They sat for a while before her mother broke the silence.

"Sera, I'm sure how to say this… I should have told you sooner, but I just didn't know how to tell."

"Mum just tell me" Sera whispered softly, whatever her mother was about to tell her wasn't going to be good and she knew she wouldn't like it.

"First of all I have to say I'm not your real mum" Sera waited for her mother to continue but she didn't she just sat there. Sera wasn't at all surprise that she was adopted she could tell just by the way they looked. She knew that's not what she needed to say though.

"Your farther had died a week before you were born by a vampire invasion in one of the small towns you were living in. your farther scurfiest his life to save you and your mother's life. Your mother's name was Mary and your Father's name was James. She was heartbroken when she realised he wasn't coming back ever. She had to find somewhere else to live for the time being, it was hard for her to move when she was due for a baby. I was good friends with her and she told me that she would never have let you go. She couldn't live with herself if you died too. When she finally gave birth to you, she wouldn't let you go the doctors had to drug just so they could bath you. When they manage to drug her, the nurse bathed you, when she walked in the room she saw someone standing there, it was a man. He was handsome, so I heard. He was a vampire. He killed your mother, and nearly killed you, your mother saved you even though she was in so much pain, she sacrificed herself for you Sera that's how much she loved you."

Sera was very surprised, she knew of no one who would do anything like that for no one at all. It just proved to Sera that some people actually have hearts, big hearts and kind hearts. But everyone she knew even if it was someone they loved, would rather watch them suffer then have their own life taken away. It was mean she knew that… some people just cold hearts and she was glad to know that her mum wasn't one of those people.

"Anyway…." Her mother… well really Sera should have been calling her Fiona or something of the sort but it was a habit to call her mother or mum.

"The vampire that had killed your mother, and the nurse, had bit you, so… you're not going to like this… but… your half vampire. We took you to the doctor after the attack, he said that there wasn't enough venom in your body for you to complete the full presence, but you still have the advantages of being a vampire, better eye sight, faster running, stronger and better hearing. He also said the when you get to the age of 17, 18 you will reach a stage where you will turn into a vampire." Her mother whispered the last bit; Sera had to lean in to hear what she was saying. She was shocked when she heard what her mother was telling her. Well no not her mother a trader… why did she have to lie couldn't she have told her sooner so she could get prepared? Her birthday her 18th birthday was only 3 days away.

"But it's only three days away! Is this a joke because it isn't funny!" she yelled

"No Sera, I'm sorry, but I'm not lying I would never do that to you" Fiona said

"I hate you, why didn't you tell me sooner?" Sera said but before her mother could say anything she had run out the door and had headed straight for the woods.