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Love is in the Air, Chapter 14: Circle Daybreak
Elena and Stefan walked back into ShayLynn's room. The gang was on the bed, their heads crowded together, whispering and mumbling. She could catch words like, 'stupid', 'Daybreaker' and 'bad idea'.
They - Elena and Stefan - had just changed into more sophisticated clothes, because from what she had heard, Lord Thierry and Lady Hannah sounded like royalty. She was wearing a white dress shirt tucked in silky black dress pants. The top two buttons were undone. In her ears were the biggest hoop earrings she owned, and her hair was in a low ponytail. She had put on a little make up and worn high heels here.
Stefan was wearing a blue dress shirt with the ends out and over normal jeans ...because Elena had forced him to. He had worn sneakers here, and kept his tousled hair.
Elena cleared her throat. ShayLynn looked up and straightened up.
"Good. You're back," she said dryly.
ShayLynn wasn't wearing the sleek jumpsuit anymore; she changed back to her stylish clothes. She was wearing black skinny jeans with sort of a half black mini-skirt, 2 different styled belts, a black tank top with a red cross in the middle, her usual choker and long black fingerless gloves that reached over her elbows. Her makeup looked freshly applied – in fact all the girls' did – and her hair was woven into a French braid. All in all, Elena was jealous. She was never going to look the best if ShayLynn were in the room.
"Are you losers ready?" ShayLynn crossed her arms and surveyed the room. Elena nodded. She was excited to see Lord Thierry, because he had been alive for so long.
"We're going by car," ShayLynn declared. "Stefan, you gotta be alert the whole time." She grinned impishly. "We'll be breaking all the speed limits so you hafta be able to outrun the retarded police." Stefan nodded solemnly.
At this moment, a sleepy Jordana appeared in the doorway dressed in a tank top and sweat pants. "What are you guys doing?" she mumbled sleepily.
"Visiting Circle Daybreak," ShayLynn replied, while grabbing a black shoulder bag and stuffing things in it.
Jordana yawned. "They know?"
"Mmhmm. Stefan's a vampire."
"Thought so. Cause he likes his steak rare." She smiled sleepily as Stefan chuckled. "Well have fun." Then she shuffled out the door.
ShayLynn pulled the bag over her shoulder and smirked. "Let's kick some shitty police ass."
Elena grinned like the others and walked out.
"Are you excited?" She whispered to Stefan.
"Yes. But I still can't believe it. The world is ending."
Elena frowned. She didn't want to think about that part. It was too scary and mind-boggling. "Let's not talk about that right now." She paused and grinned. "I can't wait for you to break the speed limit. You've never done that before. It's definitely going in the letter to Bonnie, Meredith and Matt." She pressed her lips together. Crap. She shouldn't have said that. She still missed them a lot, and it hurt to think about them.
"Well be prepared," Stefan said finally, in a dry voice. To ShayLynn, he said, "We'll be following you."
ShayLynn nodded. "Try to keep up." She winked and strode out the front door. "Meet us at the start of the road," she added over her shoulder.
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Thierry lived in a gigantic mansion.
It was at least seven stories tall and had palm trees framing the driveway.
It was magnificent. Beautiful. Incredible.
As Elena followed everyone to the double doors in a daze, she noticed the lawn full of roses. To be exact, black roses. Dimly, she remembered the gang lecturing about symbols of Night People. The black flowers are basically a way of recognizing other Night People. The flower for made vampires are roses. Witches, dahlias. Shapeshifters, lilies. Werewolves, foxglove.
The flower for made vampires are roses.
Elena was absolutely confident that the roses were spray painted black for this purpose so the other Night People can recognize him. When her gaze returned to ShayLynn, she was wearing the trademark smirk.
"It's so awesome, right?" ShayLynn said mockingly.
Stefan glanced at Elena. "Yes. We haven't seen anything like it," he answered politely.
ShayLynn just held on to the smirk and turned to the door. It had a beautifully painted black rose, with all the lighting and shadows. No doubt as a recognition symbol again. She watched as ShayLynn knocked three times on the door instead of ringing the doorbell. The door opened smoothly to reveal a young man looking down, in a tuxedo with a Bluetooth clipped to his ear. He had his hair in a ponytail and black glasses.
"How may I –" He looked up. "Oh, ShayLynn. Come on in," he said warily. He had a slight foreign accent that Elena couldn't place.
"Sup Nilsson." She strode in comfortably. "I got the wannabe Daybreakers here," she said as Elena cautiously followed her. Nilsson nodded at her as she passed.
"Hello," he said politely.
Elena smiled at him before looking around her in surprise. Where did the rest of the gang go? Nilsson started to shut the door. Suddenly, a black sneaker jammed the door.
"You forgot about us," Haruki sneered from outside.
Nilsson opened the door indifferently and nodded to each one of them as they passed. "Haruki. Nanami. Mina. Caine. I didn't see you people outside," he said pointedly.
Mina waved a hand. "Yeah, we were hiding."
"Whatever. Where are the losers?" ShayLynn asked impatiently before Nilsson could reply.
"They are all in the living room," he answered.
"Thanks, man." ShayLynn motioned them to follow her.
They went through many hallways and up at least two flights of stairs before coming to a stop beside a random door. Or so Elena thought. ShayLynn knocked on the door.
"Come in," a voice said. Elena recognized the commanding tone immediately. She turned to Stefan and mouthed, Thierry. He nodded and grinned. ShayLynn kicked open the door and strode in confidently. The gang followed, and Elena tried to imitate her.
"Sup guys." Elena could hear the smirk in her voice. "These are the idiots."
Elena took a deep breath and looked up. She widened her eyes and nearly took a step back. There were so many people in the room. Elena smiled distractedly while counting. There were fourteen people in the room. Fourteen. And most of them were rather… good looking. She watched the gang take their place on the couch, next to a dark haired girl with blazing green eyes. The girl whispered something in ShayLynn's ear, and she smirked, looking directly at Elena. She flushed, wondering what they were possibly talking about. A white-blond haired boy that looked about her age with dark eyes stood up. He walked towards Elena and held out a hand.
"Hello. I'm Thierry. Both of you wish to join Circle Daybreak?" He asked gently.
Elena took his hand and shook it. Oh. Okay. Not her age at all. She cleared her throat and spoke. "Yes. I'm Elena Gilbert and he's Stefan Salvatore. Stefan's a vampire, and I'm still a human. We don't know how to fight, so we don't know how we can help you." She explained.
"I trust ShayLynn has filled you in everything?" He motioned for her to sit on the loveseat next to him.
"No, duh. Of course I have. They would still be clueless losers if not." ShayLynn's sarcastic voice floated to where a surprised Elena was sitting. If they were royalty, then ShayLynn shouldn't speak to him like that. But it seemed that Thierry didn't mind.
"Excellent. I think I should introduce you to the people here. They're all fighters, except for Hannah." He lovingly motioned to a girl with straight blond hair, clear gray eyes and… a pale pink birthmark below her cheekbone. It looked as if a rose petal had been placed there and removed, leaving behind a mark.
"Hello. I'm Hannah Snow in this life, and I'm Thierry's soulmate." She looked at Elena with knowing eyes and added, "I'm an Old Soul. I reincarnate."
Elena was speechless. So that was real too. She forced a startled smile, and nodded.
Thierry continued. He moved on to a girl with wavy red hair and silvery-blue eyes. "This is Jez Redfern. She's half human half vampire and one of the Wild Powers. Her full name is Jezebel, and she hates it when people call her that."
"Just like Mina does when people call her Wilhelmina." ShayLynn added, emphasising the full name. She earned a jab in the ribs from Mina.
Thierry continued, ignoring them. "Her soulmate is Morgead Blackthorn. He's a full vampire." His eyes were burning green emeralds, and his dark hair was messy, uncared for. Both of them nodded at Elena, and Jez smiled slightly.
"This is Galen Drache, son of the First House of Shapeshifters, technically meaning royalty."
"He shapeshiftes to a leopard, because he learned his soulmate's shape," Haruki teased as Thierry gestured to a boy with golden hair and gentle greenish-gold eyes. He had the look of a classic prince in any story. Elena widened her eyes. He had the gentle golden glow around him, just like the way she imagined his voice was like. As if to prove it to her, he ignored Haruki and spoke. "Hello Elena. Hello Stefan."
"His soulmate is the fierce Raksha Keller, also a shapeshifter. She turns to a panther." Theirry was looking at a girl, probably older than ShayLynn, that had cool gray eyes, darker than Hannah's, and long black hair that went up to her hips. Elena felt a sense of respect like she did for ShayLynn when she saw her. Raksha seemed to have some sort of animal-like qualities that made it seem obvious when you knew she was a shapeshifter.
"Actually I go by the name Keller," The girl said sharply. It wasn't a snap exactly, but it was the voice of someone who was used to giving commands. It held a different tone from anyone in the room.
"Hi Keller," she and Stefan chorused.
"This is one of ShayLynn's best friends, aside from her gang, Rashel Jordan. She's Keller's long-lost human sister and a vampire hunter." Thierry was motioning to another tall black haired girl. But her hair was tied up with some sort of Japanese ribbon and her eyes were a blazing green.
Rashel nodded at them coolly. "I only hunt the bad ones." She sounded vaguely annoyed. Elena once again felt respect for her. This girl seemed like she had total control of her body.
"And her soulmate is John Quinn. He's a former bad vampire, but Rashel changed his ways," Thierry smiled.
John Quinn gave Thierry such a ferocious black look, that Elena half expected him to melt on the spot.
"Call him Quinn if you value your life," a boy with ash-blond hair and light blue eyes said. Quinn turned his glare onto that him. But the boy didn't seem to flinch or react in anyway. He just rolled his hazel eyes. Wait, what? Elena double checked. She was pretty sure his eyes were blue… but they were purple now. And she was sure they were hazel before… huh?
"This is Ash Redfern, a lamia." Thierry said. He motioned to the lanky boy with ash-blond hair and… eyes that were now pink. She thought he had a strange resemblance of a lazy cat. Noticing Elena's confused stare, Thierry added, "Yes. His eyes change colours according to his mood." To prove it, the eyes turned purple again. Weird. "He's got his genes from Maya. She has the same eyes." Elena nodded.
"Be careful of him," Quinn warned mockingly. "He's sort of a Don Juan. Watch out."
"Shut up Quinn," Ash said idly with green eyes.
"Anyway, he was one, but changed for his soulmate, Mary-Lynnette Carter." Thierry continued.
A girl with dark shiny hair that reached above her hips, a tan face that was lighter than ShayLynn's and matching dark eyes smiled at her and Stefan kindly. "Hi. I'm still human, because I didn't let Ash change me. Umm…" She hesitated. "Do any of you enjoy star watching?" She leaned into Ash, who put his arm around her. His eyes were a warm and loving brown.
Elena spoke for both of them. "No, we've never tried. Is it interesting?"
Mary-Lynnette nodded. "Very. Maybe I can show both of you sometime?"
Elena grinned. "Sure." Stefan nodded too. She started to like this girl. She seemed just as normal as her, just as weak as her in this mansion of the supernatural.
"Mary-Lynnette is not normal," Ash muttered, narrowing his eyes at the ground.
Elena widened her eyes fractionally as Quinn snorted. "Whatever." Rashel shoved him off the couch.
"Ow."
Thierry shook his head, amused, and moved on to two people behind the couch. "This is Winfrith Arlin. She's like Mina, a fighting witch. A member of Keller's team." This short girl had strawberry blond hair and a sweet face. She lifted up her hand a wiggled her fingers. "Unity. Call me Winnie. My last name's actually "Arm-of-Lightening" but it's shortened." She grinned.
Stefan and Elena nodded hello. She guessed "Unity" was some sort of greeting.
"It is," Thierry murmured. "It's a greeting for witches only, mainly."
Ah. Okay. Thierry moved on.
"And this is Nissa Johnson, a vampire. She's also in Keller's team." Nissa had mink coloured hair that reached up to her chin and cool eyes that were a few shades darker than her hair. Like all the vampires in the room, she had a pale skin tone. She nodded to them curtly.
Elena and Stefan smiled at her while Thierry sat back down.
"That's basically it."
Elena sank into the couch. Wow. These were the same people she had overheard in the room, except it was missing James. But Jez and Morgead were new additions. Were there more?
"Um… Elena?" The boy with changing eyes asked. Ash.
"Yea?"
"I didn't tell you but… we've met before." He grinned lazily and glanced in the direction of Quinn and Rashel.
Elena frowned. How? She'd never seen him before. And she would never forget him if she ever saw him. There was no way they could've met.
"We've met before too," Quinn said with his fathomless black eyes.
"We have too." Rashel gave Elena a dry smile. "You just didn't know."
Elena just continued to frown.
"How?" Stefan asked for her curiously.
"We were walking back from a Circle Daybreak meeting..." Quinn said, pulling Rashel closer to him.
"'We' as in Quinn, Rashel and I," Ash clarified.
"We were walking back," Quinn pressed on, ignoring Ash. "And he" Quinn jerked his head towards Ash. "And he heard some shouting and yelling."
Elena started to have a floaty feeling. Dismayed, grateful and hopeful all at the same time.
"We kept quiet in the beginning because we thought it was some kind of random shouting, like there always is here," Rashel said disgustedly.
"But then they were getting quieter, as if the person was getting weaker." Quinn tapped one finger on Rashel's shoulder thoughtfully.
The floating feeling got stronger.
"So Ash started to sprint to the source, because he promised to right his wrongs," he recited. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Mary-Lynnette blush. Hmm. Something to do with it?
"We had to follow. When we reached there, Ash was tackling a vampire. There was a werewolf holding a girl." Rashel said grimly. "Quinn went to help Ash, obviously. And I took care of the werewolf." She said coolly.
Elena felt herself float out, as if she had wings. Sunlight and knowledge hit her like a slap. So these were the people. She had a new respect for Rashel and Quinn, and as for Ash, she no longer thought of him as a cat. More like a fierce lion, or tiger. But still lazy.
"Ash carried the girl towards the closest Daybreaker house, which happened to be ShayLynn's." Quinn nodded at ShayLynn.
"Along the way, someone skateboarded behind us in the middle of the night." Ash rolled his now-deep blue eyes, earning a snort from ShayLynn. "She saw the girl and told us she knew where the girl lived," he continued. "So we followed her and we put the girl at the door."
"Then I rang the doorbell and everyone ran away," ShayLynn smirked. "Ash screamed like a girl."
"Did not," Ash protested.
"Did too," Quinn smiled-the smile was beautiful, but slightly nerve-racking, as if he were some evil genius plotting to take over the world.
"Did not," Ash argued.
They continued like that for a while, but Elena's mind was on other things. Wow. So she was saved by Daybreakers. She nodded inwardly. Yes. She should help in any way to repay them for that.
"Did not!"
"Did too." A short girl with coppery red hair and metallic green eyes stood in the doorway. Her arms were crossed, and her mouth was quirked up in a smirk. Beside her was a boy with messy brown hair and warm gray eyes. His mouth was quirked up in a smirk too. Both of them had a predator-like grace and their skin was pale white. Vampries.
"And how would you know, Poppy?" Ash folded his arms around his chest. His eyes were now black, like Quinn's.
"Because I just know." The girl called Poppy pranced to Winnie. "Right Jamie?"
"Right." The boy replied. His eyes wandered across the room, skipping Elena and Stefan. They stopped at Rashel and then went back to the two of them.
"They're new damned Daybreakers, Stefan and Elena." ShayLynn explained mischievously. Elena noticed Rashel raise an eyebrow and smirk. Ah, so it was true. ShayLynn copied the "damned" part from Rashel. "Guys, it's time that you've met this vampire dude, James Rasmussen. He's a lamia and a Redfern on his mother's side."
Oh. Okay. That makes the voices all there. "Hi James," Stefan said. Elena just nodded politely. James grinned and it was impossible for her to smile back. He held out a hand. "Hello Elena. Nice to meet you. Welcome to Circle Daybreak." His gray eyes were warm and inviting. Elena took the hand. His hand was cool and the grip was as firm as ShayLynn's. James leaned over to Stefan and did the same. "Hello and Welcome to Circle Daybreak."
"And that pixie is Poppy North, James' friken soulmate. She's a vampire-witch cross." ShayLynn said lazily, while yawning. This caused Elena and Stefan to yawn, which caused Thierry to yawn, which caused Hannah to yawn, which caused everyone else to yawn.
"All your fault Lynnie," Nanami mumbled.
ShayLynn flicked her hand lazily at her.
"Hi. I'm actually a made vampire by Jamie cause I was dying from cancer." She made a face. Her voice was rather high and happy.
"Soulmates. And Poppy's the only one allowed to call him Jamie," Hannah explained with a glint in her eye.
From the other side of the room, James looked like he wanted to growl at the girl. But he was restraining himself. Thierry turned to curiously eye Stefan.
"How do you not know about the Night World? All supernatural creatures should," he said.
Everyone also turned to stare at him too. Elena knew how he must be feeling, so she just stared back at them.
"My creator didn't tell me about this. Actually, I don't think you got all of them. My brother, Damon, he doesn't know either." He said in that soft voice of his.
"Did someone say my name?" A handsome young man was perched lazily on the window frame with his arms crossed. His straight dark hair was neat and his eyes were amused. Black, amused, bottomless pits. He folded his arms on his trademark black leather jacket.
Damon.
Teehee. I'm actually a fan of Damon, instead of Stefan. Soo there he is! And tell me how I did with the characters. Review??