Shane.

We readied our weapons as we walked underground. It used to be an old army HQ but now it was worn down and practically falling apart. It smelt disgusting, like blood and rotting corpses. If someone has hurt my Claire then they are going to pay for it. No matter what the rules say. Myrnin walked in first, with me close behind. I would've wanted to be first but we needed him as a guide. I felt my teeth set on edge as I thought about how we needed him. It was like having to work with an enemy. Worse still an enemy who liked my girlfriend.

We walked into a huge room, it was filled with people, some dead and some alive. All of them were chained to the walls and were covered in blood. They each had at least five sets of bite marks in either their neck or wrists. I heard Eve gasp in horror. I turned to see where she was looking and I saw one vampire biting a young woman. I ran forward and plunged a wooden stake through the vampire's chest. He fell limp and turned him over; eve kneeled forward, looking shocked.

"That's one of the jerks from the University. He was always rude when he came into the coffee shop."

"Great. Now let's go find Claire." I stated, dropping the vampire to the floor. I looked around at the other people. "What should we do about these guys?"

"We have to find Claire first. We can come back for them later." Said Myrnin harshly, but in all honestly I couldn't argue, I just wanted to find Claire. To know she was ok. But it still made me feel guilty to leave all these people behind. And by the look on Eve's face, she was feeling the same way.

Myrnin led us towards the door at the end of the room. He stood by the door and placed his ear up against it. We all jumped when we heard the scream. Myrnin pulled away from the door in shock. It was Claire. I ran at the door and tried to push to open, it wouldn't budge. Myrnin took a step back and gave the lock one hard kick which nearly broke the door into splitters. He then ran and gave it an almighty shove, pushing it open. Immediately I saw her. Tied in a chair, helpless. I could see the N shaped red scar on her cheek, which was fresh and pouring with blood. Next to her stood Naomi, blood dripping from her fangs. Claire didn't have any bite marks on her, but she looked weak, like she had been fighting, hard. I ran at Naomi with my stake, ready to plunge it into her chest. I wasn't thinking straight. I just wanted her to pay for what she had done to my Claire. I was but inches away when she grabbed me. She threw me across the room with little effort. I slammed against the wall, hard. Myrnin growled and shot at her. She grabbed the arrow out of thin air.

I got up as they all began to charge on Naomi. I ran to Claire and began to untie her bonds. She smiled and got out, she looked tired and weak. I handed her a few stakes so she wouldn't be unprotected. I held her hand as we saw Myrnin shove a silver stake through Naomi's chest. Even as her eyes closed she was still smirking. Not a good sign.

Just then floods of vampires, all of them around Claire's age, entered through the back doors. They all looked vicious and angry. They all looked from Naomi to us.

"Run!" Shouted Myrnin. I held Claire's hand as she tried to run, she was weak and kept slipping. Myrnin scooped her up into his arms as he ran. "Come on, we can't afford to have anyone fall behind." We all ran, not wanting to look back. We couldn't let all those vamps catch up to us. Even I knew that was a fight we weren't going to win. It took a few seconds for them to start chasing us. By then we were all the way across the other room, making our way to the exit. I could hear them coming, the hissing from behind us. Suddenly Myrnin was gone, just gone with Claire. Michael grabbed Eve, picked her up and disappeared as well. I was running with the vamps on my tail. I ran as fast as I could, then a saw something running towards me. It saw the whip of black coat. Myrnin. And, despite my protests, he grabbed me and flung me unceremoniously over his shoulder. Then the whole world blurred. The vamps behind us got smaller until they were just fuzzy dots. Then the world stopped fuzzing and Myrnin dropped me next to the car. I got in in a flash. I looked out the window in time to see the vamps flooding out of the secret HQ then cowering back down as soon as the sun hit their skin.

I felt myself lurch back as Michael floored it. I couldn't see past the black tinting but considering how fast it felt like, I didn't think I wanted to. Claire was sat next to me in the car. She wrapped her arms around me and held me tight. We were safe. That's all that mattered. We were safe.

I looked to see Myrnin reaching into his pocket to retrieve his phone.

Myrnin.

Now she was safe I had to call Amelie. She had to know that Naomi was alive and was planning something. It seemed Naomi was building her own army of vampires. Considering they must all be her own and her influencing powers there's no way they could've resisted her. Amelie picked up and said simply,

"What is it Myrnin?"

"Naomi's alive."

"What? How can you be sure?"

"She tried to take Claire. She's building an army of vampires; she's creating new vampires of her own with the students."

"Thank you Myrnin. I ask you get here immediately, all of you."

"Yes." I hung up and turned to Michael. "Turn around. We are needed at city hall."

"That's hardly ever a good sign." Michael stated, making a sharp U-turn.