HELLLLLOOOOO! I'm glad that there are more people liking this story. I would have uploaded this chapter earlier if I hadn't been suffering this entire month. My orthodontist told my dentist that I had to get both my lower wisdom teeth extracted if not my whole process with my braces would be scrwed up so I got them removed surgically since they hadn't erupted because I'm 15 and those teeth come out when you're like 20, right?
My teeth were removed after bone had been cut out so my dear mother did not allow me to move so much since she thought that I would bleed out if I got up. So that meant that I couldn't get close to my laptop so that really delayed me in terms of writing.
I hope that my rant didn't kill your interest in the sotry so I hope that you guys like it.
Haruhi's POV:
After we got off the plane –we rode the plane because dad said that it would be best if we left a trail of money behind us if the guys decided to check up on us- we entered a taxi that took us to my aunt's back up residence in London. I took my time looking at everything through the window and the view was interesting for since I had never travelled to any other place in the world. The only place I travelled to was Japan since my mom died and dad wanted us to stay there due to the fact that vampire presence there was almost nothing. Looking at London, I could understand why most vampires preferred to live here than anywhere else in the world. It was simple, the weather was gloomy –almost similar to the weather back at Vel Lux Tenebris- thus making it comfortable for them. I knew that we had arrived to my aunt's house when I saw the 3 story Victorian styled manor –that I always saw in pictures that they showed me whenever they'd visit- I noticed that my aunt Nana was outside the door waiting for us, her hand on top of my youngest cousin's head, seven year old Matt, smoothing his hair.
My aunt Nana was almost similar to mom that if I didn't know any better I'd think that she was mom but if something separated her from mom was the fact that her hair was a platinum blonde while my mom's was a caramel brown. Aunt Nana and Mom were twins but vampire twins were able to be told apart by a simple factor that differenced them such as hair, eyes or even profession. My aunt used to be a head guard for the vampire council but she quit when she married my uncle Aiden who was a judge for the council.
"Anya, my dear!" Aunt Nana instantly ran towards me embracing me. Of course, my aunt preferred to call me by my vampire name than the human name that dad chose for me. She always said that if she didn't call me by my name then I'd forget it. "Brother in law, why don't you get all the bags out of the cab while I talk to my darling niece?"
"Hello Aunt Nana." I replied with my own hug, listening as how Dad grumbled in response to Aunt Nana. I smiled at Matt who was waiting for his turn to hug me, he smiled even brighter once he noticed my smile. I let go of my aunt and I crouched down spreading my arms thus allowing Matt another hugging perspective, he ran into my arms giggling making me laugh too. I noticed that he had a few scars from the terrible car accident, now that I remembered my aunt never told me which one of my cousins passed away due to the accident.
"Hey Matt. Missed me?" I asked him with a smile that he replied to with his own. Matt looked basically like I did at his age except for the fact that he is a boy and that his eyes were a sapphire blue that lighted up every now and then, his height was taller than the average seven year old reaching already my waist making me sad that he wouldn't be as small as I would like him to be.
"Yes. I missed you since Kai went away." My heart suddenly felt heavy. Kai was Matt's twin and he seemed to be the one who passed away in the car accident.
"Do you miss him?" I asked softly.
"Yes. I miss him a lot, playtime isn't the same without him." I embraced him once more giving him a bright smile.
"There there. I'm going to be here for a while so you shouldn't worry. Now let's go inside so I can unpack and we can play together." I said as I stood up grabbing his hand and running into the house with him, we noticed that no one was in the main hallway so we walked dad was being sized up by Uncle Aiden.
"You're smaller than I last remember, Ivan." Uncle Aiden said boastfully as he looked down at dad.
Uncle Aiden was even taller than Mori-sempai and he was tall to me to you can imagine how tall he is to me, his hair was an maroon brown color that was swept back showing off his forehead, his eyes were blue like Matt's, his skin was a pale tone just like the rest of us. His built however was basically huge since he liked to work out even though he didn't have to because of vampire metabolism.
"Well, I'm sorry that I'm not a 6 ft. tall giant that looks like he could squash everyone in this household." Dad sneered back at him.
"I'm pretty sure that you shrank. Oh Haruhi, my dear niece. How have you been?" Uncle said as he noticed me and embraced me. Uncle Aiden had the tendency of calling me by my human name since he thought that it was better than my birth name.
"I've been fine, Uncle. It's been a while, I'm sorry for Kai." I said softly.
"His presence is missed in the house but you might be able to fill it in with you being here for the meanwhile." He answered with a sad smile.
"How about you go up to your room, Anya? I'm pretty sure that Hana finished fixing it by now." Aunt Nana said as she looked at me. "I'll go with you so you won't get lost."
I nodded at her, grabbing my luggage in both my hands and making my way up the stairway behind Aunt Nana who was parroting faster than usually, I only muttered a few words of reply to her as she leaded me to my room. Once we stopped in front of a door, she stopped talking and opted to turn around to look at me.
"Anya, I know that my brother in law did not want you to live the luxurious life that our kind deserves but… this is the way that my sister would have wanted you to live. So I tried to make sure that the room would be fit to the lifestyle that you used to live in but I'm pretty sure that the room is still as eccentric as it should." Aunt Nana said cautiously while opening the door.
The room was gigantic –it was basically the size of the entire apartment and possibly more- it was painted a coral blue all 4 walls, there were large windows along with a balcony with two large glass doors, the bed was king-sized canopy bed that had ivory white sheets. It had pictures of the family and my mom along with special paintings that most likely my aunt that sure that someone made. As well as a desk, a laptop and a flat screen TV.
"Isn't this a little too much?" I asked as I turned to look at my aunt.
"No. this is how a vampire is supposed to live, now I'm going to let you unpack. I call you when dinner is ready." I nodded my head at her reply and she smiled at the fact that I accepted the room.
What my aunt said is true, vampires that live in the human world are those who have the highest of privileges along with riches since vampires are creatures who have lived luxurious lives along with the fact that we are extremely vain. Especially those who have high positions in the government of Vel Lux Tenebris, like my parents and my aunt and uncle. I remember that I used to live in a house like this when we lived in the capital but Dad decided that once we lived in the human world that we wouldn't have anything that showed that we used to possess riches that we would have to learn to live with the hardships of humans. I wasn't happy with that idea at the time but of course you have accept what's being thrown at you even if you have to sleep on the hard wooden floor of a two room apartment on a futon.
I shook my head as I kept placing my clothes in the drawers and closet, I hadn't even paid attention to the fact that two other figures entered the room not that I heard them talking to me
"Earth to Haruhi!" A voice yelled in my ear causing me to shriek in alarm, I turned to see my younger by a year cousin Hana smiling with her older twin Michael who didn't look quite amused at the fact that they had to yell to get my attention.
"My ears have been massacred by your yelling." I snapped back at Hana who smirked at me.
"That's what you deserve for ignoring me." Hana huffed at me while crossing her arms. "Even Michael had to speak and you know he hates that."
Hana and Michael were split images of one another and of my Aunt Nana. From the top of their heads to the tip of their toes, they looked way too much like my Aunt Nana except that when they're disappointed at someone they look exactly like Uncle Aiden. Hana, however, was livelier than Michael would ever be. She loved being a big ball of joy or basically being a puppy. Michael hated being the center of attention, he had the personality of a cat.
"Sorry I made you talk, Michael. I was distracted."
"Because of the test?" Michael asked softly. I lifted my head to look at him properly and noticed that he was worried.
"Of course. It's the most important moment of my life, whether I become dark or light." I replied as I sat down on my bed. Hana and Michael both instantly sat at my sides, worried for my wellbeing. Suddenly I remembered Kira's words, the fact that I helped him hide the murder of my friends would be a factor in the test?
"I heard that it's not that bad." Hana's hand came to my hand and wrapped itself around mine. "All you have to do is fight and use your brain so that shouldn't be a problem for you." I laughed at that remark.
"Stop sugarcoating it, Hana. We've all heard about what happens the moment you go in there. Dad says that when you go in there….." Michael started but then stopped.
"What did Uncle Aiden say, Michael? I want to know, I need to start preparing myself mentally as well as physically and what Uncle Aiden said might help him." I said trying to make him tell me. Dad never wanted to talk about the topic with me for some reason, I never minded because I thought that he would talk to me about it when it got closer but he seemed to close himself even more when the time got closer so I stopped asking. Knowing what Uncle Aiden said, what happened to him in there will help me.
"Dad told us that when you go in there, you go savage, brutal. The way vampires are supposed to be." Michael mumbled.
"Dad says that you go feral in there, that survival is your only worry." Hana kept going for her twin who didn't want to talk anymore. "That you, yourself, don't know how long you've been in there. You could think that you've been in there for weeks when you've only been in there for a few hours."
I noticed that both of them were shaking in their places next to me, Hana started crying very loudly and Michael released small inaudible sobs, I wrapped my arms around both their shoulders and let them cry themselves out on me.
"Guys don't cry. I promise that I'll come out safe and sound so you guys shouldn't worry about me. That's what I'm supposed to do." I tried comforting them but they cried even harder when I said that. "I'll be training for the next week making sure that when I enter the maze I won't die easily."
"You promise?" Hana asked with a runny nose and puffy red eyes, I wiped her tears softly with my thumb and smiled at her to give her reassurance.
"I wouldn't promise you anything if it wouldn't be real." I replied. "This goes to the both of you and Matt, I will come back."
"You better." Michael mumbled from his spot.
"Now let's go down for dinner." I said as I finished wiping both of their tears. "You two crybabies."
I walked behind Uncle Aiden and Dad who were walking in front of me talking about all the changes in the vampire government since Dad hasn't been active in about 3 years. We were heading to the training grounds in which I'd be training for the exam, of course we'd have to head to the capital. Uncle Aiden was taking us to the gateway from London to the capital.
"The council is planning on passing a new law against hybrids." My ears perked up at this statement. I honestly didn't think that hybrids existed. "An extermination law."
"Why haven't they?" Dad asked as we neared the gateway. "Hybrids are extremely dangerous, they should pass the law as soon as possible."
This was one of the things about the capital that dad never talked about with me and it irritated me to no end that Dad doesn't want me to know about what is happening in the vampire realm. He doesn't even want to explain some things to me so I've had to learn about them from some books that he keeps at home. But hybrids were not included in the book.
"Well, we're here." Uncle Aiden pointed at the gateway that looked like a simple ruined building but I knew better than to underestimate the vampire ability.
"Haruhi, how about you go first?" Dad asked me. I walked forward facing the gateway.
"I'm not going to explode, right?" I asked as I looked back at them. My question seemed to make Uncle Aiden explode in laughter.
"No, you're not going to explode. Vampires get to pass safely through the gateway while if humans try to pass through the gateway then they get a mild headache." Dad explained. "Now go through."
I sighed as I walked through the gateway. The first thing that I was greeted with was partial darkness, I had to blink several times to get used to the darkness. Once I felt I could see again, I looked around just to see like a million dim lights that surrounded the place. There were a lot of people bustling around where I suspect to be the center of the city, I felt a hand on my shoulder which caused me to jump. I turned to see that it was just Dad and Uncle Aiden, Dad was blinking a lot like I was before he got used to the lighting. I turned to noticed that there were soldiers stationed at almost every corner of every building.
"Ah, they've increased security." Dad commented.
"I know that it must be hard on your eyes but you'll get used to it." Uncle Aiden said as he noticed me looking confused. "Now come on, I have to take you to the training center."
I followed him and Dad because if I got lost, I would never be able to find my way to anywhere and I'm pretty sure that the soldiers would not like to help me anywhere. Trying to memorize my way to the training center.
The training center is where all vampires that are supposed to perform at the coming of age exam to train so they can make sure that they at least survive because there are so many dangerous things in that maze that you need to be apt enough that can only be achieved through training.
We entered the training center that was as big as the academy itself, I was astonished at the size of the entire place. The lighting of the training center was perfectly right for my eyes that needed the good lighting for the day. I looked around and saw a bunch of teenagers who were entering, some that looked just as surprised as I was when I entered and some that looked plain bored.
"The council is going to look for their replacements in this exam." I heard Uncle Aiden whisper to Dad which made me feel even queasier.
"Darling, I'm going to go attend some business that I left unfinished before I left so you have to train as hard as you can." Dad turned to look at me. I nodded at him with every word he said. "Good girl, try to make me and your mother proud."
I watched as Dad and Uncle Aiden left the training center and I was left alone, I turned to look at my sides noticing that everyone was either worried or showing that they had extreme confidence in themselves.
"Idiots, aren't they? Those who think that they're better than everyone else end up dying first." I turned to see a girl smiling at me. She was definitely a vampire by the way she stood and how she turned to look at me. Her ebony black hair was cut in a bob cut and her forest green almond shaped eyes were looking at me, her body was ten times better mine will ever be.
"Excuse me?" I asked as I turned to look at her.
"You were looking at those prideful idiots, weren't you? I was just clearing up the thought that you were trying to define." She said to me. "My name is Anna, pleasure to meet you."
"You do know I'm not a boy, right?" I asked.
"I know. I swing both ways so don't worry, I'm only flirting." Anna replied and I nodded my head slowly.
"Well, my name is Anya if you want to know." I said to her with a soft smile.
"So Anya, you and me are going to be the best of friends so you better not die when we enter that maze and you better be light too." I just nodded my head to all of her petitions.
"Okay." I mumbled.
"So let's go. I can already hear the sound of bodies hitting each roughly as we beat each other senseless." Anna mumbled as she wrapped her arm around mine.
"You're an aggressive person, aren't you?" I asked as she led me to the training grounds with everyone else.
"It's not being aggressive, it's called being logical." Anna said with a smile as we entered the grounds and went to stand with all the other girls. With all the people in the room, I rounded it to around 100 people were in the room.
"Sure, whatever you say." I mumbled as I looked around to see if there was something out of the ordinary, my head went down but my eyes flickered to the ceiling and there was something up there that caught my attention. There were a bunch of people looking down at us as if they were waiting for something to happen. A feeling in my gut told me that they were the council and that they were going to be watching us during the training sessions which made me feel even more uneasy.
"Hey, look over there." Anna pointed at the line of eight training instructors that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. I took a good look at them; 4 of them were light and the other 4 were dark.
"Now listen up!" A dark vampire spoke up. His build was bulky which meant that he trained a lot. "For this week, all of you unfortunate fools will be trained to at least try to survive the coming of age exam."
"But of course, we will also train you to get pass all of the trials as fast as possible." One of the light vampires spoke up trying to diminish the negative feeling that filled the room.
"So, let's start. Remember this exam will define your position in our society." A dark vampire continued.
I felt nervousness fill my chest along with a deep heaviness in it, I thought about the guys and the son of a bitch called Kira. I know that I have to do well in all of this because if I don't then I'll be the same thing that Kira is. And if I do well then I get to see the guys again and that's what I want to do.
If you are a fan of It's A Secret then you will understand that I include a bunch of OC's to mkae sure that the story can progress.
I hope that you liked it so far. Next chapter will include a bit of training, the exam and we'll know what Haruhi and how much she'll change.
What do you guys think that is up with hybrids?
What do you guys think about Haruhi's Dad's distance with her?
What do you think that Haruhi will be? Light or Dark?
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