Hey, a new chapter! I'll keep this note short, since I have to go to bed (stupid school and education), but thanks to everyone who's followed, favorited, and reviewed! It's nice to know that people are still interested in my first little brainchild of a story! ~Shaymie
Ellie woke up a few hours later, scared out of her mind. It took thirty minutes to calm her down, though by then she had already caused a thunderstorm outside, making a few trees nearby topple over. That made her cry even more, since she was scared that she would get in trouble for it. It wasn't really her fault. She just… changed the weather whenever she felt an extreme emotion (in this case panic), and she had no control over it. It was the only power she had that she couldn't control.
"It's okay, Ellie," I murmured, rubbing her back gently as she sobbed into my shoulder. "It's okay… I won't let them hurt you anymore."
I narrowed my eyes at the vampires as they came into the room. Ellie shivered and squeaked slightly as the windows shattered from the wind she was causing. I shielded her from the glass, flinching slightly as the glass cut my upper arms. One of the vampires, the younger-looking blonde, stared at the blood running down my arms and had to be dragged out by two of the other males. I knew it. Even though they fed on animals, it would only take a single accident, a scraped knee, to remind them that they were supposed to feed on humans. The others hadn't lost control, surprisingly enough.
The vampires seemed shocked as the cuts on my arms quickly healed. One of the few good things about the experiments was that Ellie and I could heal far faster than the normal human as long as the wound wasn't too bad. I shuddered as I thought of the time Ellie had broken her arm doing an exercise outside. She kept healing too quickly, and Maria had to constantly re-break her arm until she healed properly. I could tell that the vampire got some kind of sick enjoyment from it.
"I want to leave," Ellie whispered, though I knew that everyone in the room heard her loud and clear. She shivered in my arms, and I tried my best to calm her down again. We were getting drenched from the rain now that the window was gone, and I didn't want to risk getting sick. That was the last thing we needed in this situation.
"We can't leave if you don't make the rain stop." I said it mostly as a joke, but it was true. It would be impossible to leave in this rain. I may have enhanced senses, but they were nothing in the rain. The smell of the rain would block out everything else, and I wouldn't be able to hear much aside from the sound of the rain hitting the ground. I would be useless, and that was the last thing I ever wanted to be.
The rain gradually slowed down until it became nothing but a drizzle, and then finally went away. I kissed Ellie on the head and grabbed her hand. She squeezed back gently as I pulled her from the bed and walked towards the door, scowling when the vampires moved to block it.
"You can't leave yet. We have some things to ask you." I glared at the vampire, but knew that there was no use in trying to run. We were outnumbered, and the vampires were way faster than we were. It would be best to just do what they said for now.
Ellie clinged to me tightly as I followed the vampires to the living room. Everything looked really expensive, and I had to wonder why these vampires lived in such a huge house. No, why they lived in a house in the first place. They didn't need to eat or sleep like Ellie and I did. They didn't need shelter because it was impossible for them to get sick.
"What do you want from us?" I asked as I sat on one of the expensive white couches in the incredibly large living room. I hadn't let go of Ellie's hand since we had left the bedroom upstairs.
"We want to know what you are. You're clearly hybrids of some kind, but your scent is different than a normal hybrid."
I opened my mouth, prepared to tell them that it was none of their business, when Ellie started telling them everything about us, ignoring the glare that I was giving her.
"We're kind of hybrids, but kind of not. We were human once before, but we were taken by a vampire who wanted to use us to make a new species. She kept injecting us with venom, but not nearly enough to change us. We're the only ones who survived the experiments. The vampire wants to make more like us so that she can form an army…"
They won't let us leave if we don't tell them anything, she said telepathically as she noticed my glare. They're not with Maria or anything. They don't want to hurt us, Annie. They want to help us.
Didn't you see how that one vampire was ready to attack me the second I started bleeding? It's not safe here, Ellie.
Ellie scowled as she looked at me, and I could tell that she was thinking about it. I knew that more than anything, she wanted to be somewhere safe, but she was insane if she thought that it would be in a house full of vampires.