Hello readers, here is chapter eleven. I hope you all review and tell me what you think, I'm kinda lonely without them. Please even it is is telling me all the bad things about my story just tell me everything, I won't hate you for it, actually i would love you for anything you guys have to say to help be. Thanks and hope you enjoy!
P.S please forgive the late update I've had writers block, sorry.
~RegoWolf
Chapter Eleven
Amie found herself caught in a terrible nightmare. After Adrian charger at her, spear at the ready, her vision did blur for a split second, but still kept going. Amie's mind froze, still trying to think of a way out, her body instead moved without her. She put her arms up in a defensive position, moving the spear away from her heart, but punctured her right side leaving a deep whole. Adrian moved it trying to get to Amie's heart again, she moved it down, so it made a long painful line across her chest. Then in an instant she grabbed the middle of the spear and the wood broke, leaving Adrian with only a half broken piece of wood to defend himself with.
Theh Amie smelled something. Never, in all of her life, had she ever smelled something so sweat and intoxicating. Before she knew it, everything went black, but she could taste what she had smelled now running down her throat. Amie found herself drinking and drinking forgetting about what ever was happening before the sweat smell hit her. Amie only paused when she heard a distant sound, thump, thump.
Amie tried to ignore the sound, but when it became quicker, Amie found it impossible to ignore. She let go of her sweat drink right when the sound started to go weak. When Amie wiped her mouth with the back of her hand she expected to find some sort of liquid, but she felt sick when she actually saw it. It was a dark red substance that she had been accustomed to seeing every time her dad beat her, but the thought of it being on her mouth made her sick. She looked down and was ofically in shock.
Adrian laid at Amie's feet, his neck was covered in blood, but two puncture wholes on his neck were still visible. They looked exactly the same as the marks on the dead people in Zack's memory. In her shock Amie's body continued to move without her, and she felt her teeth, and surly enough her canines were longer than usual. It was only when she cut her finger on them, did her mind started to work again. She tried to move on her own, but it did not work, her body was now out of her control. Her hand suddenly reached for her chest, where it found a golden medallion, that Amie knew all to well. She pulled the chain off of her neck, and with shaking hands placed it on Adrian's cold body.
It was not until, Amie saw her clothes that she truly realized what was really happening. She was wearing old roman armor, that, to Amie's shock, was being worn by a guy. The wound on the chest had healed, but left a long scar going from the right of the chest to the left hip. The clothes were familiar, just like the medallion, the from her dream, with Alexander and Pluto.
"Alexander!" Amie shouted as the shot into a sitting position in her bed. She looked around, when she locked eyes with a frightened and curious Adrian, tears filled her eyes, and her emotions filled her body. She leaped out of bed and tackled Adrian with a hug, knocking them both out of the computer chair and onto the floor, "Adrian, thank god you're alright," Amie paused, remembering something. In one swift movement, she pulled his shirt away from his neck. When she saw nothing she rubbed his neck with the part of Adrian's shirt she was holding, revealing two little scares hidden by foundation, "Oh, god Adrian," Amie stared at the scares, while Adrian looked at her in utter shock.
"How-how did you know about that?" Adrian said looking at Amie a little worried, "And who did you call when you woke up?"
Amie kept looking at the scares with tears in her eyes, "Who did this to you?" Amie asked ignoring Adrian's questions. When he looked away Amie had a strong sense of déjà vu, it looked identical to the one Alexander had in the mall. Amie slowly got off of Adrian and sat in her bed, "Was it Alexander?" Amie asked not caring about the consequences of her words.
"How do you know about him?" Adrian asked and Amie could see that her dreams were real, no matter how much she did not want them to be.
"I had a dream, you attacked him and he attacked you," Amie paused, "did you know Alexander before?"
Adrian suddenly looked grieved, "Yes, he was…he was my older brother."
Amie had to hold in her gasp, she should have seen it coming, but then it would have to mean Alexander was a vampire, "How do you feel about him?"
Adrian looked down, "I thought for such a long time that he was a monster who killed his own brother. The only person who tried to tell me other wise was the vampire who saved me, but as the years went on, I began to understand him a little more," He looked up at Amie, who stayed silent, "I only came close to seeing him again once. When I heard he was there I wanted to confront him, I wore a cloak, and kept my face hidden incase I could not bring myself to talk to him. When I found him he was fighting with an old man inside a local bar. I thought it was weird that he was openly showing off his powers, or fight such an old man, until I realized who was winning. The man seemed to be his equal in every way, but I only realized after the fight that her was an Atlantian.
"I wanted to go help Alexander out, but in the midst of the fight my brother's eyes were glowed red and his teeth were ready to rip the old man's throat out. The sight brought back the memories of the night he attacked me. I found myself stunned, and to scared to move. The more I looked at my brother, the more I wanted to run, but when Alexander was at the old man's mercy I still could not bring myself to help. I did not stay to see if he lived or not, I just left, leaving Alexander in the man's mercy," Amie felt hot tears in her eyes. She knew that talking about all that was difficult for him, and she truly felt sorry for both of the brothers. Amie saw first hand the terrible night that had probably ruined both of their lives.
"Have you tried looking for him?" Amie asked, hoping the answer will help her somehow.
Adrian let out a shy smile, "Actually that is what led me here. Madeline and I found a rumor that he was somewhere in Texas, but we have only looked at Frisco and a few neighboring towns. Being vampires we can't really stay in big cities, so that narrows down a lot of areas that he could be in. Unfortunately that also means it is easy for Hunters to find us," Adrian added.
"Hunters?" Amie asked, "you mean the ones with stakes, like last night?"
Adrian nodded, "Yeah, although they are still pretty stupid. They have been thinking for over a thousand years that the sun, holy water, and wooden stakes will kill us," Adrian shrugged, "The stakes can kill us, but so can normal weapons. We just have a sturdier bones and skin, so it just makes it difficult to kill us, but not impossible."
"Then…" Amie shock her head trying to ignore the questions filling her brain, "Have you found Alexander yet?"
Adrian shock his head, "I have seen very few people who look like him, like your friend Austin, but the only way to know if it is him or not is by the people he travels with. Madeline has kept a close eye on the town, and have caught a few glances of people who look like them," Adrian looked a little glad by all this information. Amie on the other hand felt a little guilty, but felt like now was not the time to confess.
Amie nodded ignoring her plaguing guilt, and looked at her alarm clock. It was nine on the dot, school just started! Amie suddenly panicked. She tried to get up but immediately felt dizzy and had the weird sensation that she would throw up at any moment.
"Amie are you alright?" Adrian asked and was immediately by Amie's side making sure she did not fall to the floor. He immediately checked her forehead, Amie felt a little relieved at his cold hands, though his body temperature is the same as everyone else's, "You have a slight fever, you need to rest, I'll get Madeline to bring your breakfast up here," and in a flash Adrian was gone leaving Amie in her room, alone. Amie saw her phone and was tempted to text Elizabeth that she wasn't going to make it to school, but then realized she was in class.
Amie sighed in her bed bored out of her mind, and a little reluctant to get up to get her laptop after what she just felt. When Madeline finally arrived with some French toast and eggs Amie felt relieved to have someone to talk to.
"Hello Madeline," Amie smiled, and Madeline smiled back.
"Hello Amie, how was your night, I heard the commotion down stairs. Did something happen?" Madeline asked, in a worried tone, not at all suspicious. Amie was a little stunned. Almost everyone she knew would conclude that one boy and one girl in a single room would be doing something… wrong, but Madeline seems to not even think that it is even possible.
"Oh, it was nothing really, I'm sure Adrian will tell you about it later," Amie said. Then looked out her window, but what she saw made her want to jump out of bed, if she would not feeling like crap when ever she tried.
On the other side of the road was the most breath taking woman Amie had not seen in almost eight years, her mother. She was wearing a long white dress with red roses decorated all over it. Her hair was light brown, and messy, just like Amie's, but her eyes, her magnificent eyes is what Amie admired most about her mother. They were a light blue, that practically looked white, it always made Amie feel like her mother was the most powerful person she knew. Amie wanted so badly to go talk to her, but then, in a blink of an eye, she was gone. Amie just stared at the empty sidewalk, hoping desperately that her mother would come back. After two minutes, Madeline pulled her away.
"Amie, is everything alright, you seem a little distant?" Madeline kept moving her eyes from the side walk to Amie her eyes filled with worry and sympathy.
"Y-yeah, I'm fine, just a little light headed I guess," Amie looked away from the window, assuming what she saw was just her mind playing tricks on her.
The passing classes became torture to Ash knowing that Amie was not at school. Could she be in the hospital? Oh, dear lord, what is her father did something, again! Ash thought remembering how beat up Amie looked in the hospital, and how lifeless she seemed while in her coma. God, what if her dad did something! He should be locked up in an insane asylum! Ash now felt jittery, she wanted so badly to go see her, to help her in any way, but she knew better. Ash knew the type of person Amie was, and how her father would react if she got help. Amie wanted to deal with her father her own way and interfering would just push Amie away from any type of help.
Taking her mind off of Amie, Ash found herself thinking about Alexander instead. The look he had in his sleep made Ash want to wake him up, but she knew better. Michael said that he tried once and ended up having every bone in his body broken, so Ash was forced to watch and hope that Alexander would wake up soon. He thrashed and groaned but the only thing that really scared her was when his canines got longer a few minutes before he woke up. Ash had never seen Alexander react that badly to a dream before, not even once since they moved to Frisco.
"Ash, are you paying attention?" asked Ash's chemistry teacher, Mrs. Reeds, with a worried, yet stern look on her face. Mrs. Reeds was a very young and beautiful woman in her late twenties, early thirties. She was also black, like Ash, but she was a little darker, and the top of her hair was not dyed blue. Mrs. Reeds was a very rough teacher, she told you what you needed to hear without even considering what you may think about her afterwards, but next to know one ever disliked her. She was fun loving and always made her classes smile, she let you do what you want as long as you did not disrupt the rest of her class.
"Sorry Mrs. Reeds, my mind was somewhere else. What were you saying?" Ash answered.
"I was telling the class how this lesson will be on the test next week, I was also asking you if Amie will show up today," Mrs. Reeds, said with a sad look, Amie was in this class, "If not will you let her barrow your notes when you see her. She needs all of this," Ash did not reply instead she just nodded and looked at the board, knowing exactly what the subject was over.
After class Ash saw Alexander in the halls. Ash was still pissed about this morning, but she had to talk to him. She knew that in some way Alexander's dreams were connected with Amie, so if anything his dream last night would at least give her a clue about why she is out.
Ash sucked in a big breath of air and let it out slowly, then smiled like she was not angry in the slightest with Alexander, "Hey Alex, how was class?" She asked while now walking right beside him. Alexander gave her a questioning look.
"What do you want?" He asked.
Shit! He read me like an open book! Ash panicked, but still kept going, "Why would I want something, we are siblings, can't I just be nice to be nice?"
Alexander let out a small stressed smile, "You can, but the last time I checked you were angry with me. So, unless I did something nice back to you, which I'm sure I didn't, you should still be angry," Alexander said in a knowing tone.
Ash pouted, but with an exhausted sigh asked Alexander what had been on her mind all day, "What did you dream about this morning, and don't give me 'it was nothing' because we both know it really was something," Ash said staring holes into her brother's face.
Alexander suddenly looked pained, but he looked straight at Ash and said, "I-I dreamed about the day I killed… I killed… him," he now had a sad look that Ash only saw twice, once was the night he found her. The other time was when he told Michael and Ben that he killed some random boy in the forest.
"You- you really killed your own brother?" Asha asked, she did not want to ask, but her mind could not wrap its self around the idea of the man in front of her, that was offering her a free pass to freedom, actually killing someone.
The man said nothing, he just nodded with a single tear falling from his left eye. Asha felt sorry for him, she knew he regretted it, and before she knew it, she was comforting him.
"Excuse me sir, but may I know the name of the man who it saving me?" Asha did not know why or how she decided to actually trust him. The wound on his chest could have been caused by anything, but his eyes proved to Asha other wise. They were so sad, so wounded, and Asha knew that very few things could actually fix them.
He did not answer for a minute. He looked a little stunned, but eventually words did come out, "It's Alexander, please, just Alexander," Asha laughed, she could tell that Alexander did not like being called 'sir', "but before I take you anywhere I have to tell you something. If you decide to come with me you will have to know what exactly you are dealing with," Alexander looked stern, like what he was about to say could actually change whether or not Asha will come with him, "My family and I are… Vampires."
Ash only heard all of Alexander's story once and she knew she would never hear it again. Alexander looked totally hallow when he told everyone just the simple highlights of his turning and what happened after. He did not even have it in him to tell everyone what his brother's name was, and only Ash knew that the person he killed was his brother. He only told Michael and Ben that it was just some random boy in the woods, but after already hearing it Ash knew better.
However, this information did Ash next to no good, "Hey Alex, do you know anything about Amie. I am staring to get worried about her," Ash said staring at Alexander who still looked like he was reliving his memory.
"N-no," Alexander stuttered, Ash had a weird feeling about it, but later assumed he just stuttered because she pulled him out of his thoughts.
"Can you at least tell me what you think she is?" Ash said a little annoyed, he refused to say a single thing about her since Elizabeth's out burst in Algebra yesterday.
"Can't I'm not even one-hundred percent sure if I'm right or not, and there is no point in confusing you about it," Alexander said but Ash could tell he was lying again.
Ash could not help but growl, "God Damn it Alexander! Amie is my friend as well, and if you keep lying to me about her I swear I will ask Elizabeth or even Amie if I have to!" Ash's temper was still rising even after she finished her statement.
Alexander did look a little stunned, but he did rise a questioning eyebrow, "Then ask, you will probably get a better answer from them," Alexander said without even a pinch of fear in his voice, Damn, he knows me to well! Ash growled in her head. She knew she could not tell them about her suspicions. Ash was about to yell some more but Alexander was already in his classroom and out of Ash's line of fire.
Amie woke up not even remembering when she fell asleep in the first place. After a moan and a brief yawn she sat up. Amie looked around her room to find Adrian sleeping in the same computer chair he was in this morning and last night. With a smile Amie got up and went into her closet. She quickly found a blanket and then gently put it over Adrian. She was not sure if vampires were affected by the weather, but she thought it would still be nice to cover him anyway. Amie let out a small smile and walked out of her bedroom. She wondered around the mansion, curious of what she had yet to see. She only saw her room, the dinning room, and Adrian's office before now.
While wondering, she found almost a dozen rooms, although she soon realized that almost every one was labeled. Amie laughed and went into the one that said, Library, when she walked in she found herself dumbfounded. The place was just as big as the Frisco public library, that was four stories tall. This one had to have been four stories as well, but it was much wider, and the shelves reached the roof. Amie had to smile, Elizabeth's mansion is actually just as big as this mansion, she laughed realizing that Elizabeth must have inherited a lot of money form her ancestors to afford such a house. Adrian had to have lived over two thousand years, and actually has a smaller house than her.
"I trust you found what you wanted easily around the house," Amadi said behind Amie, practically scaring the crap out of her.
"Y-yes, this is nothing compared to my friend's, her mother makes it a habit to show off how much money she has," Amie said referring to Elizabeth.
"Really?" Amadi said his eyebrow now raised, "How long have you known your…friend?" Amie was a little confused by how he paused before saying 'friend.'
"A little over a year now, why?" Amie got a bad feeling about this.
"It is nothing, do you need any help looking for some books?" Amadi said changing the subject.
Amie wanted to ask more, but he seemed to suddenly ignore her altogether. He wondered around the library looking at random books and flipping through the pages of every other one. Amie decided it would probably be best to not say anything, so she sighed and looked though the book shelves, which seemed to be in alphabetical order based on the title of the books. None were actually organized from fiction to nonfiction or adult, to teen, to kids, it was exactly like how Elizabeth had them.
Amie had found a few books that looked promising and went back to her room. She found Adrian asleep in the chair still, but his position changed. He now held the blanket a little tighter like the cold had gotten to him. Amie could not help but smile so they are affected by the temperature.
Amie slowly got into bed, trying her hardest to now wake Adrian. When she was finally in bed, she pulled out one of her books that she got from the library. Amie only got a few minutes into the story before Adrian started to move, and fidget. Amie looked up to see that he was still sleeping. Must be having a nightmare, with a sigh of relief she started to read again.
Until she heard Adrian say something, Stop! Amie almost jumped out of her skin. When she looked up he was still asleep, but with a pained look on his face. With another sigh to relieve some stress she stared to read once again.
Adrian, you have to hear this, if you don't you will be lonely and may eventually start hating yourself! Amie heard a familiar female voice.
Okay now I'm now starting to get seriously freaked out, Amie thought.
I don't have to hear anything! Adrian yelled, when Amie looked over at him she felt his aura go from anger to overwhelming fear.
You will not talk to me like that! I am almost three hundred years older than you and far stronger than you would ever dream to be! Now you will listen to what I have to say! Amie now understood what was happening, she was reading Adrian's mind, and that includes his dreams.
Amie suddenly felt sick My powers really are getting stronger! In her sudden panic Amie rushed to Adrian. Amie did not want to hear anymore of his dreams especially since they had nothing to do with her, but in her shock she forgot about his current state.
"Adrian wake up, please!" Amie yelled. Then in a flash Adrian's eyes open showing blood red irises. He immediately leaped onto Amie, pinning her to the bed. Amie did not scream, she was kind of getting uses to weird stuff like this, "Adrian?" Amie yelled trying to see if he was truly awake.
Adrian blinked in confusion, "Amie? Oh, I am so sorry," He said while getting off of Amie and backing up a few steps. Shit, now I did it! Adrian yelled in his head, and Amie flinched.
"Adrian, can- can you think of a number between one and ten?" Amie asked she wanted to be absolutely sure that she was actually reading his mind.
Wha- shouldn't she be mad at me? Adrian thought.
"Please," Amie begged, "I need to see something."
Adrian gave her a curious look, but nodded Okay, one thought ten…hmmm…four…I guess, "Okay I got it," Adrian said, "now what was the point?"
Amie let out a sigh Goodness let me be wrong… "Four?" Amie said.
Adrian looked stunned and nodded, Can you hear me? he asked seeing right through what Amie was trying to accomplish, she nodded, "Your powers are truly becoming stronger then, but didn't you say your mom could only read auras?" Adrian asked, and Amie nodded with her eyes tingling and something caught in her throat, "So an outside force is causing it," Adrian stated, and Amie felt her eyes starting to water.
The last thing Amie wanted was to become stronger and be considered a bigger freak than she already was. Then finally Amie's face was buried into her hands and the tears started to fall. It only took Adrian a split second to understand what was going on and go comfort her. Amie reacted to the sudden comfort and was now crying on his shirt.
"Hey, Amie, it's not the end of the world. I am sure you will come to control these powers," Adrian said while hugging Amie, but she was to tired to reply. The more she cried the more her eyes started to fall over themselves. Before either of them knew it Amie was asleep on Adrian's chest, holding on to his torn shirt like it was her anchor to reality. Adrian smiled and tried to lay her down onto her bed without waking her, but it was next to impossible to get her to let go of his shirt without her waking up. With a sigh he laid down next to her and before he knew it he also fell right to sleep.
"How dare you fail us yet again!" Zack's master yelled.
"I-I'm sorry," Zack said looking down. He never missed his kills heart no one did in the order, but then how did that one survive? Zack asked himself, but now that he thought about it he did feel the stake hit something metal before it sunk into the vampire's chest, Did he have something in front of his heart? Zack had to hold back a chuckle, what a punk to resort to such tricks.
"You better fix it, it would ruin our whole orders reputation to let one vampire get away from us. Now don't disappoint us again, you know the consequences if you do!" his master yelled, and Zack nodded and left. I must go back soon, but next time they will be prepared so I have to be ready, with a sigh Zack went to his room and got all of his equipment ready, Shit i don't have enough equipment for such a task! I need to go back later, who knows how many there are or how powerful they will be. It will take me at least a month to get everything!
Alexander and Ash had another awkward silence on the way home, but Alexander was determined to get what he wanted out there. When Alexander parked the car and they both got out, he let out, "Ash, we need to have a day out, just the two of us," Ash still looked a little pissed, but Alexander also saw a hint of a smile. Alexander let out a small smile of his own, "How about tomorrow, after school. We can go where ever you want, and talk about what ever you want, but I make no promises that I will say what you want," Alexander gave Ash a warning look, and she sighed and nodded.
"Okay, but you will have to answer some questions!" Ash explained pushing a finger into Alexander's chest, "I will not take, 'I don't knows,' or 'It's nothing' I want real answers!" Alexander let his smile widen and nodded, "good, now lets go inside before either of us can change our minds," they both smiled at the other and went inside.
When they were inside the house they were welcomed by a slightly annoyed Michael, pacing back and forth throughout the living room, "Hey Michael, what's the matter, you usually don't pace like that unless…" She paused when she remember what happens the next day after his pacing spree is over, "you're thinking about breaking up with Elizabeth aren't you," Ash stated staring at Michael's worried face.
But Michael just kept pacing like he never heard her speak, "Hey Michael?" Alexander asked, placing a hand on his brother's shoulder. Michael jumped and looked at Alexander with a shocked look, "How are you and Elizabeth?" Alexander asked already knowing the answer.
"Oh, um… We are, um… I guess we are… okay…" Michael stammered, and Alexander raised an eyebrow, and Michael blew up, "We're drifting apart man!" He yelled and Ash had to suppress a giggle, "We were fine this weekend, but on Monday we barley talked, then today we stopped talking entirely!"
Ash finally cracked, and busted into a fit of giggles, "And…giggle… you think it's just for…giggle…nothing!" she finally got out, and when she finally stopped giggling and whipped away her tears, she said, "You two are total opposites, and you spend more time with the popular kids than you do with her!" Michael was a little stunned by her words, but Alexander knew that they were true, and by the look on Michael's face it looked like he did also.
"Well I guess it's settled. I'll be going to bed, see you guys tomorrow," Michael said with a sad look. Alexander and Ash knew what he was going to do, and with a sigh they both went to their own rooms as well.
Again sorry for the wait, but better late than never right? Oh and the next chapter may be a little late as well it's going to have a lot happening and i need to see how i'm going to fit it all in, :/ Hope you enjoyed it!
~Thanks RegoWolf