Chapter 2: First Use

'This had to be some kind of sick joke, it's just bullsh*t!' Sammy had read the first page which was, apparently, a rule page on how to use the so called "Death Note".

1. The human whose name is written in this note shall die.

2. This note will not take effect unless the writer has the person's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.

3. If the cause of death is written within the next 40 seconds of writing the person's name, it will happen.

4. If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack.

5. After writing the cause of death, details of the death should be written in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

Sammy snorted after she had read it for the second time, it just sounded too stupid to be real... but then it was to detailed to be a joke. Plus, who would play this joke on her? Out of the three of the girls that lived in this house she had the darker sense of humour, and even Sammy thought this was sick!

'Well...' Sammy moved off her bed to look for a pen to write with. 'If it's just a joke then nothing will happen.' She was about to write a name when the nib of the pen stopped, right before it could even make a dot on the page. 'But then, if it's real then I've just killed someone... could I live with that?' Three seconds of silence past before Sammy snicker, 'Hangin' out with Jo-Jo must be rubbing off on me, besides, it's just a stupid joke, right?' If that was true then why couldn't Sammy move her hand to write a name?

Her hand just wouldn't move, it was shaking a little but it didn't ink the page. After a while Sammy was getting really frustrated with it. 'Come on already, damn it! It's not real!' But still, Sammy couldn't write a name down on the paper of the Death Note. She sighed and gave up. For the moment anyway. She tossed it to the side and got up to leave her room, she couldn't sleep knowing that the Death Note was nearby; plus the full moon last night was enough to keep her up for days.

When Sammy walked out of her room she was greeted with Alice's panicking, this snapped the werewolf out of the trance the Death Note had trapped her in.

"Sammy! Something's happened! At the corner shop! Jo-Jo! They have a gun! And-"

Sammy had to blink a few times to truly be aware of what Alice was saying; she rubbed her wolf eyes and tried to get Alice to calm down.

"Alice, just breathe ok? Now what was that about Jo-J..."

Sammy's eye went from Alice to the TV, the news was on, the corner shop that Jo-Jo had went to was on TV, with the news reporters talking about a hostage situation. Her world turned cold, her blood frozen in her vines. 'How...?'

"Oh my god, turn it up." Sammy sat next to her werecat sister, Alice turned up the volume, but she was shaking, so Sammy bought her into a one arm hug.

The reporter said that a man who was keeping people hostage was named Hiroshi Yamamoto, and showed a photo of him to the public.

Sammy's heart stopped. She had what she needed, a name and a face. Without Alice noticing, Sammy looked back at her bedroom door; it was like the Death Note was calling out to her, 'Go on, save your friend. If it's not real then the police can handle it.'

Sammy found herself walking into her room, picking up the note book, finding the pen and... The name wrote.

'40 seconds, hu? Fine, I'll wait.'

Sammy walked back into the front room, Alice was still on the sofa cat eyes locked on the TV, worried for her older sister. Sammy watched the clock on the wall, waiting. Funny how time suddenly feels slower when you're waiting for it to past.

Tick tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.

10 seconds... 15... 20... 30... 35... Then finally 40 seconds.

Sammy then watched the TV to see the results. Nothing happened. She sighed, 'Just a stupid joke after all. That's bullsh*t! All that for nothing-'

Alice jumped up from the sofa and shouted Jo-Jo's name, Sammy once again was snapped out of the trance.

"What's happen, sis?"

"Jo-Jo's run out with the other hostages! They say the guy just collapsed!" She said, repeating what the reporters had said. Not noticing her friend's reaction as she was watching the TV and seeing Jo-Jo run out of the shop and...

Sammy was at a standstill, her eyes wined with disbelief, she felt all her body fluids drain from her. Once again her world became cold, and dark.

'The Death Note works? But- but how? It's just a book!'

Sammy had mixed feels about this, but not enough time to think about any of it; Jo-Jo wasn't out of danger yet.

Jo-Jo was the last to run out, so when she felt the sun on her skin she was about ready to fall to her knees. But a hand that grabbed her wrist and pulled her back, and another hand that held a gun to her head, had other plans.

The crowd gasped. Jo-Jo let out a small squeak. There were two men holding them hostage, so when one of them collapsed and the other went to his friend's aid, everybody ran for it.

"Hold it! I'll shout her! I'll shout this b*tch!" The man screamed at the officers that surrounded him and Jo-Jo.

Jo-Jo had half a mind to fight this man and bite his neck; if it wasn't for the crowd of people she would give this guy hell.

Sammy was frozen again; Jo-Jo was still in trouble after she had written someone's name in the Death Note. Should she write this guy's name in the Death Note too? If she had a name she would have, but the reporters weren't going to because they didn't know his name either. Now what?

Alice was about ready to start crying, Sammy noticed this, the killer in her lost to the sister in her. She dropped the note book to join Alice on the floor and hugged her tightly.

They both watched as Jo-Jo's captor held the gun to her head; both had no idea what so about to happen next. Until it happened.

The man that held Jo-Jo in his grasp suddenly looked pale, and then started gasping for air. When his legs gave way Jo-Jo was released, but his hand had grabbed her necklace and the chain broke as he fall to the cold hard ground.

After Jo-Jo felt the man's grip of her loosen she made a break for it, but felt her necklace break as well.

"No," she whispered.

Before the crowd Jo-Jo's human form became her vampire form. Her skin went from a peach pale to a moonstone white, her hazel eyes became ruby red, blue highlights appeared in hair auburn-pony tail and her bangs, her nails want from bitten to manicure with blue nail polish. And, of course, her fangs had grown from her teeth.

Some people screamed in horror. Some gasped. Others phoned people they knew to tell them what they had just seen.

Jo-Jo looked form the crowd to the man that just died. What is going on? That's the third person this week to die without any expiation. Not only that but, they died in her presents, did that mean something?

The sound of sirens rang in Jo-Jo's ears, before a straightjacket was forced on her and something was wrapped around her eyes so she couldn't see, something was also put in her mouth to stop her from biting anything. Jo-Jo swears she heard someone say 'this could be other one.'

What does that mean? What other one?

Then when she felt herself been pushed into the back of a car or van, she heard someone say the word 'Kira'.