Panicking when I wake up in a coffin, that girl laughing at me... the girl introducing herself as Mariel... doing a spit take when she told me she was a vampire and showed me her wings... looking in a mirror to see that I have fiery orange hair, red eyes, black bat wings, and fangs... realizing I look just like Mariel...

-waking world-

I woke up with a jolt and ran to the mirror in my room. Seeing that I looked the same as I always had, I let out a sigh.

"These dreams just keep getting worse and worse," I muttered, sitting down on my bed and running a hand through my hair. I put on my glasses and stood up to go downstairs. I stopped at the door, having noticed something odd.

Why are my glasses all blurry? I thought. I could have sworn I cleaned them yesterday... I took my glasses off so I could clean them when I saw that I could see perfectly without them. What the heck..? I rubbed the lenses with the bottom of my shirt to clean them, then put my glasses back on. And sure enough, my vision went blurry the moment they were back on. I took them off again.

"Well, I can't just suddenly start not wearing my glasses," I muttered, then I popped the lenses and threw them in the trash. I held the frames out in front af me and nodded in satisfaction at my handiwork.

"Hopefully no one will notice the difference," I said, putting my now lense-free glasses on and heading downstairs. "Now, what should I have for breakfast..?"


Having eaten breakfast, decided to go to the bookstore and see if there were any new books available that I might like to read. I felt the warm rays of the sun as I walked down the sidewalk, and I smiled.

After a little while I started to get the feeling that someone was following me. I looked over my shoulder, but I didn't see anyone, so I continued on my way.

There was a shortcut to get to the bookstore by going through a back alleyway, and I always took it. I was about halfway through it when I got that feeling again. Just before I turned around I felt something slam into me, and I was thrown back against the brick wall of the alley. Pain shot through my head, and I collapsed to the ground. A pair of black boots was the last thing I saw before I blacked out.

-dream world-

Mariel and I are standing at the edge of a large cliff with our wings spread out behind us.

"How are you going to teach me to fly?" I ask.

"Like this!" Mariel says, pushing off of the cliff and into the air.

Screaming as I plummet to towards the ground, I close my eyes and flap my wings as hard as I can. When I realize I haven't hit the ground, I open my eyes to see I am hovering in the air, and Mariel is hovering in front of me. She grins.

"Ta da!" she says. "This concludes your flying lesson!"

-dream change-

Flying through the sky with Mariel... the two of us going to a pub... pinning a man to a brick wall and drinking his blood... slayers attacking our home and killing Mariel... escaping from the slayers only to be ambushed by a werewolf... being badly wounded by the werewolf... feeling my life start to slip away...


A/N:

Hey guys! It's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry for the delay! I've been really, really busy as of late. But I HOPE to start updating somewhat more regularly, or at least a little more often.