Chapter 4...
I was awoken by a lot of commotion, but no there was a lot of "Please don't!"'S It was coming from the same person. That was the woman that was pregnant and she had given birth, the vampires had come down and took the baby off her. The baby was crying and making such a racket, the woman was been held down and injected with something, probably to make her sleep. I felt really sorry for the child, they were going to kill it so I stood up and blocked the man's path, my hair was hanging down half my face and it was still neat from when it was brushed surprisingly.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, let the baby go back to his mother." I stood my ground as the other vampires came towards us.
The vampire holding the baby by its ankle laughed and said, "And what makes you so demanding?"
"I have been through an eternity of hurt, you kill that baby I will kill you, I know very well that the woman will make a customer very unhappy by their purchase, so then you will get a angry customer, will you not? And let's not forget the little part, you could keep that baby warm and it will grow up and who knows, may get changed into a vampire. So how about it? Keep it alive or die." I exclaimed, every human was watching us wide eyed.
"You will not be able to beat me in a fight." The vampire exclaimed in an annoyed voice.
"You don't know shit until you try it; I can't hurt anymore, so come at me." The vampire laughed, not even believing that I'm telling the truth he handed the baby to the nearest human to him, she hugged it close trying to keep it warm. But she still watched in amazement.
"Who is throwing the first punch then?" The vampire asked, already crouched and his fangs bared.
"Well you first, I'm in the mood to beat you." I got into a fighting stance, and before I knew it the vampire came at me, vampire speed, I grabbed his neck and swung myself around him so his back was to me, "You gotta do better than that, what are you? A new blood?" I teased; I knew new vampires were weaker than an old one.
"No, and how dare you call me that!" He took a swing at me, I dodged it but my hair got in the way, he laughed evilly and grabbed it so I was off balance, I fell to the floor but quickly dodged his foot, oh we are playing with feet now are we? I brought my foot up with much force and got his balls; he crouched on himself and fell to the floor.
"I declare the winner be me!" I pretended to be the referee and held a hand up; I had a straight face and was not in the mood for round two.
All the humans cheered as I turned around to see the woman rolling around on the ground, becoming conscious again. I took the baby off the woman who was keeping it warm and walked to the mother, she was curled in a ball crying, "Miss, here is your baby." I gave the baby over to the mother who planted many kisses on the baby's head.
"Thank you, thank you, and thank you!" She smiled. I just nodded, understanding her relief just hoping I could have felt like that now, but I was too far in and I would never see Aj again. I straightened up and turned to see the vampire stood there, he had a look of embarrassment and anger on his face.
"Come with me. Now." He grabbed my arm and took me out of the lower deck, up to the surface deck. "What do you think that was?" He turned to me.
"Me beating your ass?" I teased.
"Don't get smart with me,"
"I wouldn't think of it, maybe it just comes normally."
Then he slapped me hard across the face. "Don't get cocky either, remember your place, human." He spat that last word at me like it would kill me, luckily I was immune to his pathetic comments, and I had had it with people with people thinking they can push me about!
I punched him squarely in the nose; it knocked him back a bit but didn't do much damage. He came at me but I was ready, I quickly dodged it and swung my legs under him, he fell to the floor with a loud, thump! I stood up straight and looked at him on the floor, he looked up at me angrily and shot straight up, "How dare you do that to me you should learn some discipline, you filthy girl!" He grabbed my neck and looked me in the eyes.
"You know there are lots of your kind waiting for me, and you will just kill me now? How pathetic, you should really know this trade better than me, if I am on a lower level than you how come I know it better and can beat you easily in a fight?" I hissed at him, I was about to snap but then a man from behind me cleared his throat.
"Urmm, I hate to break up this romantic argument," he said sarcastically. "But we are 2 minutes from docking at the shore." He motioned to the land that we were sailing towards; it looked so industrial with all its tall buildings towering over the ground, if you were standing at the top of one it would seem like you were floating, I could just imagine jumping off one of those buildings, maybe I could sneak off but then again what I had just done had drew lots of attention to me, not to mention my hair and eyes. They always seemed to make me stand out.
As soon as we docked the ramps came down and the humans came out in a near wave. I followed them, not getting stopped by either vampire we were led to a nearby warehouse. Well this is going to be fun, the vampires trying to chain me upside down. Surely that would just be amusing if you weren't the vampires trying to do that. I grinned at myself just thinking about it. Lots of vampires were waiting in a group near the doors; I guess they heard about the shipment of new humans. Most of them eyed me with entertainment. I looked away before they got a glance of my eye colour. We got walked to a back room, I was un-naturally calm about this but most of the people around me were stiff and agitated. I looked at the chain man and the pile of chains next to him. He looked about 23 and had pure white hair, it was actually amazing the way it flowed around his face, it went to about his shoulder, while I was gazing at him I watched him chain the few people in front of me with grace, no matter how they struggled he got them. Then they were carried away to the hooks where we got hooked. As I was watching a person get carried away crying I didn't notice that it was my turn to be chained.
"I will make sure I make this difficult for you." I grinned with not much meaning.
"Then I will make sure it's more painful." He played along.
I stood in a star shape with all my limbs stretched. "Smarty pants I see." He whistled, "I haven't had a challenge for a while now. This shall be fun." He raced around me vampire speed, expecting me to turn with him and at least close the distance between my legs so he could chain them, but I stayed perfectly still.
"I will not make a noise if you chain me up, other than that we will be here for a while." I mused.
He went like that for 2 minutes until his buddy came in and helped him by holding my legs together while he chained them, then he just went up my body with the chain."I would call that cheating." I smirked; he looked at me, amused at my comment.
"Oh yeah? Well I call it creative thinking." I tutted as we walked down the isle, well I was carried bridal style down the isle. The man didn't talk until we got to a space. I was hung up upside down and was left swinging gently.
It was about an hour later that the vampires came roaming in looking for a nibble or a little pet. Pet seems a better name for us; it fits us perfectly, except they eat us... I kept my eyes closed as vampires walked around, I hoped that my ankle length hair didn't give away too much of a different person. I wanted to blend in with the other bodies hanging. I heard two pairs of footsteps coming closer,
"Would this one do?" A stranger asked,
"She smells delicious." The other said,
"That would be the normal price for a bite then." I guess he is the keeper? But what I was even more scared of is that he was going to bite me and there was no way to defend myself. I heard the rattle of change and then a gloved hand touch my cheek, it made me shudder as I felt his breath on my neck, then before I knew it he sunk his fangs into my flesh, it felt like my whole body was on fire, and the ignited flame was coming from my neck, the searing pain of every suck was excruciating with little pin pricks, I let out an ear piercing scream at the top of my lungs, but it was shortly silenced with the man's glove. I started crying, what else could I do? Eventually I felt his teeth disappear and a piece of cloth was tied around my neck.
"Thank you hunny," The man said sarcastically, I still hadn't opened my eyes but they were filled with tears that were spilling over my eye lashes.
Eventually I had stopped crying and two men came walking towards me, the men were talking, I recognised one voice, it was the chain man's. The other was a complete stranger.
"Come on, you couldn't have fallen asleep within an hour?" Chain man questioned me.
"Well maybe I'm tired, that ever occur to you?" I grinned, but felt no amusement in the arguments we had.
"So this is the famous Terri...?" The other guy mused.
"And it's great to meet yah, who the fucks are you?"
"Your new master." He answered, my eyes nearly popped out of my sockets when I opened them. He had plain white hair and looked a lot like chain guy. Were they brothers?
"Indeed we are." He answered,
"Okay smart ass, do not go in my mind there are private stuff in there that I don't want to be reminded about." I hissed.
"What, that your supposedly true love set you up and that you beat the fuck out of the vampire on the ship, and that you think I'm a rapist? Oh please forget the past and think about the future, you still have emotions and that's why I have come before anyone else, I'm going to help you learn to love again." He smiled sweetly.
"Why aren't you going to kill me or do any of that nasty stuff the people back home said main landers do?" I questioned, now I was already feeling something, It's called confusion.
"Because that is a stereo typical main lander, me for one. I find it revolting and would much rather not behave like a rabid animal to a living thing. I have lived with many humans that I have bought and saved from the stereo typical vampire. But there is a lot of buzz about the unique girl that is mysterious with her purple eyes and jet black hair. So I decided to save you from the rapists, but if you don't want me to I can just leave you with my brother who is very rough when it comes to play fighting." He gestured to his brother who gave me a lopsided grin along with a wink.
"Would rather be saved from broken bones..." I felt a bit of amusement from that. Chain man looked upset that I didn't pick him, "Maybe next time sweetie." I batted my eye lashes at him, "And what are your names because so far you are Chain man and Stranger."
"I'm Jake. That's Leo." Chain man was Jake then, hm I never would've really guessed.
"Nice to meet you, I would shake your hands but unfortunately my hands are a bit tied at the moment." I joked while wriggling about, "and you are such a cheater Jake."
"Oh really? You never told me you were a-" Leo slammed his hand over Jake's mouth to shut him up, I looked at them confused, what actually was I?
"What let him finish that!" I frowned.
"Okay brother, get her down and I will pay you later." He said cautiously eyeing me and completely ignoring my demand.
"You expect me to drop this you got another thing coming." I growled. Jake got me down and landed me on my feet; I wriggled out of the chains and then turned to face him, "What am I?"
He looked at Leo for help but neither of them knew what to do. I slapped Jake around the face, "Tell me!"
"Ah, okay! Jeeze, okay you probably will not believe me, but you may be kind of... A deadra?" He flinched, thinking I was going to hit him but I just stood still dumb-founded.
"What's a deadra?" I raised my eyebrow.
"Well, they can make connections with the 5 elements, air, water, fire, earth, and spirit. That's why you made yourself immune to the pain, you made yourself know it was just an illusion and you used air to sort of make you go faster. Please don't burn me!" He flinched again as he stopped, expecting me to smite him or something, I looked at Leo for help.
"Well, because we are brothers, we both know pretty much the same stuff. And we both know that we are on a higher level than normal vampires. We are more intelligent, fast and cunning than them, we don't know why but the vampires you see with white hair are usually like us. But the problem with that are the higher vampires, we call ourselves Lenoo's by the way, we made enemies with the deadra's a long time ago, that's why Jake is the chain guy and this way we can keep an eye out for deadra's... Like you." He gave me an evil stare, was he intending I would start a fight with him?
I instantly got it, well I had an idea. "You can't kill me, you will burn before that and I will not go down without a fight."
"Look, let's make this nice and easy without any blood or gore." Leo said, holding his hands out in front of himself.
"Wouldn't want all these witnesses though, would you?" I teased. Not wanting to set the place on fire because I don't know how to use the powers yet.
"Or you just don't want to be humiliated in front of these people?" Jake mused, and then looked over his shoulder at a group of vampires coming. "Shit, you take care of her; I'll tell these guys she is gone."
"Kay brother," Leo said and then grabbed my hand and ran vampire speed round the back of the building.
"You know I would rather be friends right?" I raised my eyebrow as he looked through his shoulder bag for something.
"Uhuh, that's what they all say." He said while looking through his bag still.
"No really, I was really excited that you came instead of a rapist, and I kind of owe it to you, so why would I try and kill you?"
"Because, it's in your nature, better you than me. Or my brother for that matter, I know he can be a bit of a dick and competitive but he is my brother, and I will kill anyone who hurts him." He looked up to me for a second and then went back to his bag.
"Please don't kill me..." I nibbled my lip nervously thinking of what he would pull out of the bag.
"Sorry, you seem nice enough but that's only because you don't know our peoples past. When you hear it you will want to kill me for sure."
"Then we will go our separate ways..." I pleaded.
"Then you will kill more of my kind though."
"Look fuck you, you bastard I am going, and don't bother following me."
"Can't do that." I turned around and saw he was holding a little tiny syringe in his hand, looking at me.
"You are a vampire though right? You drink blood?" He nodded, slowly taking a step towards me. "Great," I simply said, I held my right arm out and imagined a sharp stone there, with my eyes still closed I felt something in my hand, something solid, and when I opened them there was a stone there. He was waiting for me to make the first move; I knew that always ended up wrong so I slit my wrist, drawing the smallest amount of blood.
His eyes blazed crimson and he came at me, dropping the syringe as he ran and went for my wrist. I used air to blow the syringe into the water and then just as quickly I tried to move my wrist but he already had a grip on my arm, he launched his head down to my wrist, fangs ready and fucking sharp. I squealed as he pushed them into my skin and ripping my flesh, I felt his tongue run over the cut and made it sting like hell. I squealed again and tried breaking the grip he had on me. I heard him slurp as a bead of blood escaped his lips, I retched at the smell of my blood, god!
"Brother! What are you doing?!" I heard Jake's panicked scream, Leo defiantly did and his head shot straight up, the crimson in his eyes slowly fading as he looked down at my wrist, it was shaking greatly and my eyes were wide.
"I-I-I-I don't know... I had the syringe and was about to inject her when she cut herself and then I lost it... I couldn't help myself, I'm sorry brother." He bowed his head in shame; I found the courage to talk, after healing myself with the power of spirit though.
"Look doggies, fetch if you want your death-to-me shit, I blew it over there." I pointed in a direction which I knew it wasn't in.
"We don't need it though, Guys! Come on out!" Jake roared.
As soon as he said that many white haired people jumped from the roof's, came through glass, either way I was going to die if I didn't think of something quick... Oh wait I know just what will work! I ran behind Leo, he tried to turn around but I had my arm around his neck in no time, I was smaller than him but used the air to make me float. I felt my hand get warm and sure enough there was a little flame there, I put it next to Leo's head.
"One wrong move Jake and Leo gets it." I growled, I really wanted the confinement of my tree house right now.
Jake looked at me shocked, I could see him swallow an invisible lump in his throat. "What do you want?" He was obviously worried about his brother been in my hands.
"Let me go, that's all I ask. I really don't want to go through with this but I really can't see any other way of me getting out of here alive." I gulped; I really did not want to start a war with these guys.
"Is that all?"
"No, I want you to leave me alone forever. He took a lot of my blood; I think the deal is equal."
Jake went over it in his head, and then nodded. "Okay then, deal." He said. I let Leo down and he ran over to Jake.
"Now let me go." I said, back on solid ground.
"Oh no, you made the wrong move of letting my brother go, now you have nothing against me," He smirked while rubbing his hands together.
"And we never even shook on it... Impressive." I said, he bowed in agreement. I called air to me and started to shoot up into the sky, but what I didn't know is that they had trapped me completely, I flew straight into an invisible barrier, when I made contact with it, it glowed blue and electrocuted me, I fell to the floor with a loud crack. I closed my eyes to dull the pain. I felt no pain actually, but then I opened my eyes and noticed the actual floor was cracked! I tried to sit up but felt Jake's boot on my bare belly.
"Nice of you to DROP in." He emphasized the 'drop' as a joke, some of his friends laughed along with him. I groaned at how tired I was, I didn't actually think using my powers would make me tired. I tried to budge his foot but it was actually in place really well, that or I was really weak. "Awh, are you tired? Want us to put you to sleep?" He pouted his bottom lip like he really wanted me to say yes.
"No, I am ok."
"Well too bad, because it's kind of for the best. Hey Leo pass me your syringe!"
"Are you missing something? She fucking lost it for me."
"What? Urghh, Mikey pass me yours." A person chucked a syringe over to Jake, he caught it with ease and took the cap off with his teeth, he spat it out and looked down at me. "Nightey Night." He grinned, showing off his fangs.
"Do not dare rape me or drain me when I'm dead you blood sucking bastard." He grabbed my arm and lifted it up, so my veins where facing upwards. He slid the needle into my arm; I didn't feel it because I was staring up to my fallen angel that was falling at a massive speed towards us.