I ran through the woods, trying not to trip on the earthy ground as the pain ripped through my body, the fullmoon shining full and glaring above and making my bones crack, feral snarls coming from my own mouth in the process. I raised a shaking hand now to my mouth and felt fangs... vampire fangs, not a wolfs.

What was happening to me-?

But there was another person stood there now as I writhed in agony upon the floor, watching with eyes like my own...

Bright golden yellow.

Neither vampire nor werewolf, but a mixture of both.

I awoke with a start now from the surprisingly short, but violently painful dream. I raised a hand to my mouth and felt my teeth- no fangs, neither wolf nor vampire.

There was a clatter now, then Klaus's voice said, obviously hearing me wake. "We're here."

I felt excited now- we were here in America, and when we finally disembarked in the city of New York, I was looking around, totally fascinated by the massive buildings and bustling roads and streets, horses, carts... everything.

It was brilliant.

"We have a carriage waiting." he said swiftly now, yelling for someone to pick up our luggage and load it in while he opened the door and helped me in, following soon after.

"Where are we going?" I asked now and he grinned. "A mansion just outside New York. We'll be there in half an hour. I have stayed there before... I think you will find it rather comfortable."

I looked out the window now at the sky- it was starting to get dark, and it was fullmoon... like in my dream.

"Fullmoon." I said outloud, quietly and Klaus just said. "Beautiful, don't you think Annie."

Why was I feeling nervous-? So... jumpy-?

Strange.

When we got near the mansion, I noticed how the trees thickened into a dark forest, making it darker than it actually was.

"You seem tense, Antonia?" Klaus asked now, and as if by cue, I jumped at his voice and he chuckled. "I thought you wasn't frightened by me?"

"It's just the trees. It feels... like they are staring at me."

I felt a slightly warm hand take mine gently now, then say quietly. "Nothing's going to harm you while I'm around. I swear it. Now-" he took my other hand now and made me look at him. "What is troubling you?"

There was a silence, then I sighed in defeat. "I had a strange dream."

Klaus was silent, then asked. "What was it?"

There was silence once more, then I heard myself asking. "Is it... possible to have a werewolf and vampire hybid?"

"Yes."

"That was rather quick." I scoffed. "Did you even think about that?"

Klaus's smirk was growing, then as I stared into his eyes... they started to change color and I soon let him go as I saw bright golden yellow ones.

"Oh my god-" I realized now, then just added weakly. "You-? You are-?"

He nodded. "Yes." then he smirked and leaned forwards to say softly into my ear. "Scared now?"

I was surprised, but turned and looked to him, our noses almost touching. "No."

Klaus covered the few centimeters in less than a second to press his lips to mine for a moment, then go. "Why are you asking this?"

I was quiet, then sighed. "Just... how do you become a hybrid?"

Yes, I don't think he was expecting me to say that, but he chuckled and sat back, looking thoughtful. "I suppose... that you have to be born with the werewolf trait..." he chuckled once more. "Then get turned into a vampire. But you'd need a special vampire gene to make the mix stable."

Why was he staring at me in such a... I don't know. Strange way-?

"How did you become a hybrid?" I asked now as we trundled along, and he was silent for a moment, then said quietly. "You could say my mother had the vampire gene... and her lover had the werewolf one."

"You mean-?"

"Yes." he put his legs up and crossed his ankles. "I'm a bastard."

"I know you are." I smirked, but I knew what he meant- his mother cheated on her husband with another man... Klaus's true father, the werewolf.

"So... you can change into a wolf?" I pressed now and he shook his head. "Not anymore. My werewolf side was... well, I'm cursed. I've been trying to break it for five hundred and fifty years now..." Klaus sighed and so did I- there was so much more to him than I first realized...

"So-" he asked now, leaning forwards. "Why are you asking about hybrids?"

"We're here."

I left the carriage before he had chance to ask once more and stared up at the massive redbricked mansion. Beautiful... really and truly.

There were arms around my waist now, then lips at my ears for a moment. Klaus never could keep his hands of me nowadays... huh. Real animal attraction (!)

Although, I had to agree that the attraction was growing stronger as the night went on, and from the observational looks, I was prepared to bet he was as well.

"Come Niklaus, let's go out." I grinned now, pulling him to his feet and he chuckled. "Go out-" he pulled me close and said. "You better run."

I felt myself giggle at that, then drag him outside, feeling him take my waist and stop me dead, and I knew what he was going to do before he did it, and I beat him to it, pulling him to me, a passionate kiss starting up between us, but I smirked against his lips and pushed him away and ran off into the woods, laughing as I went.

"I will catch you." he called after me and I laughed back. "You can try! Silly old dog hybrid!" I sped off into the woods now, running and glancing behind me with a big grin on my face, but I didn't see him anywhere.

There was a snap of twigs behind me now, and I stopped and smirked. "So soon Niklaus? So very pathetic!" I pushed the bushes away now, then said in a sing-song voice. "Oh Nikla-?" but I stopped dead as I was faced with a figure that most definitely wasn't Klaus... and he was holding a blade. He was a vampire from his fangs... then the blade embedded itself into my chest, just missing my heart. He leaned forwards now and snarled into my ear-

"Let's see how Niklaus likes losing someone he loves."

There was a dark snarl now that I recognized anywhere, and the vampire dropped me to the floor and turned to face the rather pissed off hybrid who was, to my surprise, smirking.

"Well, well brother." he said now to the marauding dark haired vampire vampire who snorted. "You were always the bastard Niklaus, even if you weren't an abomination-" then he vanished and I heard Klaus hiss as a silver blade protruded from his heart, then the other vampire, his brother, looked shocked and backed off as Klaus pulled the blade out and sighed.

"Brother, really do your homework."

The other vampire just snarled. "The whole family-! How could yo-" but he never got it out as Klaus rammed the same blade into his brothers chest, and a second later, he crashed to the floor, but not before Klaus said quietly into his ear. "Quite easily."

I was coughing up blood now, and Klaus was by my side at an instant, making me drink his blood, but I couldn't feel it healing me.

The last thing I saw was the fullmoon... and it was calling to me.

How long I was out of it, I truly didn't know... but when I did wake up, I was inside the mansion...

And I was hungry.

There was a voice now, but it didn't make me jump-

"My family were always meddlesome."

I opened my eyes and saw him sat with ankles crossed and a glass of blood in his hand... I could smell it, and he could tell. Klaus now set it down and walked over, taking my face into his hands and said. "This is truly an intriguing moment."

"Why?" I coughed, then froze as I saw his grin... and I'd never seen such a big one on his face before. "Am-? Am I a vampire-?" I asked now, feeling afraid, but he leaned forwards and kissed my forehead.

"Oh, much more than that."

"What do you mean?" I pressed and he just asked. "Are you hungry?"

"I... am." I just said and he called for someone to come in, then the young man walked over and Klaus said to me. "Here- drain him. Completely."

"Kill him-?" I didn't know about that...

"Yes. Only then will you feel at your best, and complete the change."

I snarled at that. "And if I don't?"

"Oh, you die."

Just seeing that look in his eyes was enough to convince me he was telling the truth. I grimaced at the thought of draining the man, but his blood... so tantalizing... I had to have it, and now. Instinct took over me now and I ripped into his neck.

I could feel Klaus- he was excited about something, and that wasn't like him. Not like this.

"I guess now would be a good time to tell you about your parents." he just said now, and I frowned, but didn't let the man, my prey go. He continued. "They were rather powerful werewolves that were in my service for a year or so."

I finished the man and let him drop, but shock was rolling through me. "What-?"

Klaus just took my face in his hands once more, then grinned. "You're like me!"

"Klaus, what are you-" but then it hit me. He knew. This was what he'd... why he'd come to my home. My parents were wolves-?

So that meant that I was-?

"But-?" I started, then felt angry. "What the hell are you talking about-!"

Klaus shrugged and simply said. "You're like me."

I didn't understand for a start... but then my dream came flooding back to me;

My dream of turning into...

A creature like himself.

He'd been following my bloodline for years, waiting for the perfect time... and now he'd made his own hybrid. Me. Just... the perfect weapon.

My body started to burn now as the fullmoon above hit me, and the vampire side finished the change... then a shot of fire went up my spine, making me jolt, a scream of pain escaping from me and Klaus just held me by my shoulders and said quietly.

"I'm sorry for deceiving you."

"Go to fucking hell." I snapped back, then another shoot of pain went through my body and the burning got worse. "Owww-!" I yelled now as a crack sounded, and the walls seemed to be closing in, so I pushed Klaus out the way and ran out the mansion, the memory of my dream coming true as I tripped and stumbled through the shadows while feeling on fire.

I lay on the dirty ground now, staring up at the fullmoon, wondering just one thing before everything ripped away-

What would Klaus do with another hybrid-?

So! A few secrets out the bag now, so next chapter we should get the whole story;D cheers for the reviews and much moce loved! x