Here it is peeps! The last chapter of the introductions! I've been planning this chapter since before I planned the first one! (This one's my favourite!)
P-Gigi owns nothing! And neither does Calico! Or Miko! Or Ben! Or Emma! Or Cait! Or either Sophie! Or EM! Or any of us! (Though this is just P-Gigi talking...)
Ben sighed. "Right, this is really difficult to say, so I'll just show you."
"Show me what?" I asked.
Ben looked me in the eye, when suddenly his turned into a bright silvery blue, his canines lengthened, into fangs. I screamed, but someone's hand clamped down on my mouth before the sound could escape.
"I'm so sorry, Emma." Ben said easily around his fangs. "I'm a vampire, and so are a few people here. The others are different things."
Cait popped up seemingly out of thin air. "I'm a shape shifter!" She squealed with a grin.
Polly half smiled at her, "Yes, Cait can turn into a wolf, but she isn't a werewolf…"
"Yeah! I'm a werewolf!" TC announced cheerfully.
"So am I!" Brandon called. "And so is George, but he's not gonna say it."
Naomi grinned a little. "I'm a Lamia," she said. "A born vampire, we can age, have children, but we can stop aging at anytime we want, and we still have to drink blood."
"So you're a vampire?" I asked.
Naomi smiled sympathetically, "I know it's a lot to process. But it's quite simple really, I'm a Lamia, so are EM, Megan, Lauren, Sophie A, Paris and Ben. Jack, Cait and Matthew are shape shifters. TC, Brandon and George are werewolves. Polly, Lucy, Harry and Daniel. Sophie U and P-Gigi are made vampires, they're pretty much the same as Lamia, but they can't age or have families."
"So are there any humans?" I asked.
"Yeah!" Jenni answered enthusiastically. "I'm a human, and so is Sam! But we're special humans!"
"How are you special?" I pondered.
"We're trained vampire hunters, called Lancers." Sam answered. "Jenni's never actually battled a real one, but I've killed before, I only stopped when I met Naomi."
"My parents are Lancers," Jenni said in response to my questioning look. "They trained me up, but I didn't want to murder, so I joined Circle Daybreak."
"What's Circle Daybreak?" I asked.
"It's what we are." Lucy said. "This class is for teenage members who need protection from the Night World."
"What's the Night World?" I asked.
"The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. It's a secret society of vampires, werewolves, witches, and other creatures of darkness that live among us. They're beautiful and deadly and irresistible to humans. Your school teacher could be one, and so could your boyfriend.
The Night World laws say it's ok to hunt humans. It's ok to toy with their hearts, it's even ok to kill them. There are only two things you can't do with them.
1) Never let them find out the Night World exists.
2) Never fall in love with one of them." Said a random spooky voice.
"Oh, shut up!" Sam yelled, otherwise, everyone ignored it.
"Wait, so you've mentioned everybody, except Calico. What's Calico?" I asked.
Calico grunted and nibbled on Polly's finger.
Ben grinned. "Calico's warped."
I ended up questioning them some more, then settled down and sat with Polly, Naomi, Sophie U, and Calico on the floor.
"So what's it like to be a vampire?" I asked.
"It's amazing," Sophie breathed. "You can see and hear everything, you can move inhumanly fast, you can read peoples minds. All you have to do is drink blood and avoid wood."
"Why do you have to avoid wood?" I asked.
"Because wood, fire, and decapitation are the only things that can kill us," Naomi said.
(Flashback time!)
I covered my eyes, but that didn't stop me from hearing it. The sound of metal slicing through the air and the wet sound of it driving into a body. I heard Megan and Lauren scream and lots of people sob. Sam and Mr Driver eventually just yelled for quiet, and a minute later, Ben told me I could open my eyes.
There was a blood stain on the floor.
"What happened?" I whispered.
"P-Gigi stabbed herself." Ben replied grimly.
"Is she ok?" I mumbled, though I didn't want to know the answer.
Ben shook his head mechanically, a tear rolled down his cheek. "She's dead." He forced out.
(Flashback over!)
"But…" I choked out. "But, P-Gigi stabbed herself with a metal knife… didn't she?"
They looked at each other, then at me, and grinned.
"I was wondering when you'd figure it out." A voice said behind me. I turned to look, and there, in all her living glory, was P-Gigi.
Her hair was flipped over one shoulder and she was still wearing her blood stained school uniform. She still didn't look happy, but she was breathing.
"Why'd you do it?" I asked, after tackling her with a hug.
"Because my parents started to notice I wasn't aging," P-Gigi whispered, stroking Calico's hair. "The Night World would have killed them if they found out. I had to save them, by giving my old life up."
"Where've you been all this time?" I persisted.
P-Gigi grinned slyly. "You know I haven't actually gone anywhere? I've been living in the woods outside of school, I was at the funeral."
"Why didn't you just tell me?" I shouted.
P-Gigi looked impassive. "Because if you didn't react correctly, you would have looked suspicious, now where's my, 'P-Gigi, I'm glad you're alive?'"
I laughed and told her just that. Maybe this class was alright after all…
The next chapter is called...
*drum role...*
TRAITORS! (dun dun duuuuuuuuun!)
