A/N: Finally a new chapter! I think I'll do two more chapters after this and that will be it for this book. Then you'll just have to wait for the next one :) . Right, let's get this party started!

CHAPTER SEVEN:

I was scared, so I ran. I ran until I got lost, then I ran some more. All the while clutching the cut on my arm that seemed as if it would never stop bleeding. It wasn't a life threatining amount but I was already feeling dizzy.

I cried the whole time, and ran past several people, all who just stared and let me run by. At some point along the tears dried up and I realised that it was dark and that I was in a very strange part of the town. I didn't know what way I was supposed to go to find my way home.

I looked around to see if I recognised any of the street names. Nope. Nada. Zilch-a-rooney. I was lost. I hadn't been lost since I was about six and I went too far away from my Mam in the shopping centre.

I saw someone standing over at a corner of one of the houses with boarded up windows. He was tall and wearing a brown trench coat buttoned up to his chin. In the dim orange street light I couldn't see his face very clearly, but nevertheless I walked up to see if he could provide some insight into where I was.

"Excuse me? Mister?" I stepped foward another step "Can you tell me.." I trailed off as he stepped foward into the light. I saw the red hair and eyes, the purple skin. I saw a big purple hand as it grabbed me by the colar and dragged me into the darkness of the ally behind him.

The last thing I saw was a mouth of rotten teeth open and exhale into my face.

Then I saw nothing.

RAPHAEL'S POV:

I did chase after Melanie after a while, just to make sure she got home okay. But when she started taking random turns I knew something was going to go wrong. I kept following her, I thought hopefully that at some point she'd stop and turn back, go home.

When she finally did stop I had to dive behind a bin to keep out of sight; not a great smell. I emerged after a few seconds to peep out and make sure I hadn't lost her. She was approaching a strange person. Not strange to me. I knew who he was; he was the other vampaneze.

I was about to dart foward when he grabbed Melanie and dragged her into the alleyway behind them. I trailed them, using the roofs as my pathways. I would have attacked right then, but I was hoping that the vampaneze would lead me back to wherever he had been staying, along with any... 'house guests' that might have been staying there aswell.

He finally stopped outside a rundown old werehouse. He dragged Melanie inside and shut the door behind him.

That was when it started to get interesting.