"How's it going little sis?" He asked Phoenix. She spat at him.
"Haven't changed at all, have you, Red?" Phoenix spat, glaring at her brother. She looked exactly like him, perfect features and blood red hair. But he was six foot and had eyes the colour of old blood.
"Not at all, little sis. But then again neither have you." He replied with a smirk on his face.
"So, what will it be this time? Fire, stake ripped apart, my own sword?" She said calmly. He growled, turned and left. She sighed and rested her head on the wall. She was still in her Halloween costume and they thought that the wings were a part of it. Don't do that, Phoenix. You will get out of here. You always do. Flame said trying to brighten things up. Phoenix knew damn well that she would get out of this. She smiled at flame and curled up on her left side and gently moved her broken wing out of the way. She draped the good wing over her and soon she was asleep.
"But who is he? You keep saying it's him who has her. She also kept talking about him. But who is he?" Quinn asked. The Daybreakers were sitting round the kitchen table trying to find a way to get Phoenix back. Thierry sighed. He would have to tell them. Even if he had promised Phoenix not to say. He hated breaking promises and rarely did. But this was one he had to break, to save her.
"Red" was all he said, not looking any one of them in the eyes.
"Red what? Sir, we need to kn-" Rashel started but Thierry cut her off.
"Red Fern." Thierry repeated, looking Rashel in the eyes this time. Mare opened her mouth to say something but shut it again.
"Her own brother wants her dead?" Galen asked in disbelief. Thierry nodded.
"But why?"
"I honestly don't know."
Phoenix moved the chain on her foot. This is starting to annoy me now she thought. Another fire dart hit the target on door. It denigrated though because the room had been charmed to stop prisoners from getting out. Phoenix grumbled and conjured up another dart. She aimed it at the door and was just about to let go when it opened. A girl, no older then fifteen, was standing there with a glass of blood in her hand. She eyed the dart and fear flickered through her burning green eyes. She stepped back and some of the deep purple hair fell into her eyes. Ears and a tail were coming from her coco coloured skin. Werewolf. Phoenix wrapped her fingers around the dart and it disappeared.
"Hi. You're new. I've never seen you before. I'm Phoenix and this is Flame. What's your name?"
"C-cassie, short for Cassandra." The girl said. She warily walked in and handed the glass to Phoenix. She sniffed it and poured it onto the floor. She was seriously getting hungry now. Four days without feeding wasn't good for oxygen levels. She had lived longer so she could last longer then other vampires, but this long was starting to take effect. Cassie looked at the blood then at Phoenix with awe.
"You could tell?" she asked. Phoenix nodded and sat. She patted the floor next to her. Cassie blinked then slowly sat down.
"Tell me about yourself. I'm getting bored and I need something to take me off the bloodlust." Cassie hesitated but then launched into a story of her life. She is fourteen and her mother was murdered by vampires when she was six. Her father never got over the death and isolated himself. Her brother stays out till late hours of the morning drinking and partying. Red had found Cassie two years ago and said that he would look after her. He lied, of course. Now he made her work. Michael was the closest she had to a real brother and she hates Reds guts. But she stayed here. She took a deep breath and looked at Phoenix. A tear escaped her eye and she wiped it away. Phoenix wrapped her arms around her and pulled her close.
"I saw them bring you n. You looked dead. It was horrible." The tears were falling freely now.
"Hey, come on, don't cry. My brother hates me but I won't let him kill me. You know, I have been in here every other thousand years. But I'm still alive. I will get out of here and you will come with me. I will be your mentor and I will train you to be the best werewolf you can be. I promise." She had no idea where that had come from but she had promised and she kept every single promise.
