At Ash's apartment.
"Thanks for the food but I'm not really wanting any.." Ash sweatdropped, sitting on his couch. "You thought I would make you food? Dawn made it.. But since you won't eat it..." Barry grinned, taking the breakfast Dawn had made, for himself.
"How are you doing Ash? I've been pretty worried." Barry admitted, sitting on the couch as well. "Not great.. She was my best friend, man. She meant so much to me.. and she was so selfishly taken away." Ash sighed, still visibly depressed.
Barry tried to think of something to talk about, anything. He didn't want to make Ash sad by talking about May.. and when May was mentioned, all he could think about was her dead body. The image remained in his mind, like it did for Dawn.
"I have told you my Dad is a vampire hunter, right?" Barry asked. Ash looked up, "Yeah, you did say he had weapons at least." He replied. "Well, he's a vampire hunter. And my Mum is a vampire." Barry added. "As much as Mum left us, and I'm still outraged... I want to see her again.. But Dad will kill her if he finds out she is talking to me." He admitted.
"We could try find her carefully, I'm sure we could get ahold of people that know her and could lead us to her. And we can make sure it's all hidden from your Dad." Ash admitted. "I don't know.. I'm really worried Dad will find out. He seems very determined to get rid of her permanently, from our lives.." Barry sighed. "I'll help you. We can do this easily." Ash admitted, forcing a smile in an attempt to make Barry smile. "I guess we can try.." He replied.
"What's going on with you and Iris?" Ash asked, after they'd been quiet for a moment. "What? Nothing-" Barry blurted, blushing slightly. "Your cheeks say otherwise." Ash chuckled as Barry became flustered, he then relaxed as the blush went away. "Nothing is going on.. We're just good friends." He admitted, as Ash looked at him blankly.
"After going with her to the church, I've learnt a lot about her and witches in general. Seeing her be so powerful and then so full of fear, hurts. This whole witch thing.. isn't just cute little spells.. she's going through a lot.. and I don't want her to feel alone.." Barry admitted, to which Ash understood.
Barry then looked around, noticing an old book in Ash's book shelf, stick out. "What's that?" He asked, getting off the couch to grab it. "It's an old photo album." Ash admitted, as Barry sat down, with it in his hands. "May I look at it?" The blonde asked. "Sure." Ash replied.
Barry sat by Ash and flicked through the album, asking questions as Ash had some stories to tell about some of the pictures. Barry stopped at one in particular, that Ash looked at, just as confused.
"I see you and May.. and Ursula.." Barry trailed off. "But who is the other person beside you?" He asked. Ash looked at the photo, next to him stood Ursula and next to May stood a man with green hair.
Ash studied the photo hard, before suddenly having a flashback.
Flashback time lmao
"Alright, dont be intimidated by them, I swear they're not as scary as they like to seem." May said to Ash, as they stood out the front of the Original family's home. "Alright." Ash sweatdropped, as May knocked.
The door opened, to reveal a tall girl with long blonde hair. "Hello Ms Cynthia." May smiled, as the lady smiled back. "Hello May, hello May's friend." She replied. "Uh, Ash. It's nice to meet you." Ash introduced awkwardly.
"Please, come inside, it's freezing out there." Cynthia offered, stepping aside so the pair could enter. As the pair stepped inside, Ash looked around in amazement, as they lived ik an old, beautiful house. They noticed a girl with pink curls, wander past them. "Drew, your mistress is here!" The girl called out. "Ursula!" Cynthia growled, "This is Drew's girlfriend, be polite."
"Hi Ursula." May smiled awkwardly, "Hi May.. Didn't realise my brother was keeping you around. Usually girls don't last more than two weeks around him." The girl shrugged, before walking over to Ash. "The names Ursula." She introduced, offering out her hand. "My name's Ash, it's a pleasure to meet you." Ash smiled back, before taking her hand and kissing it.
Drew wandered down the stairs, May's eyes lighting up. "Hey hun." She smiled as the green haired boy stopped in front of her, "Didn't think you'd ever get here." He joked before leaning down to kiss the brunette.
Once the pair separated, May decided to introduce Ash. "Babe, this is Ash, he's my best friend.. and definitely the best." She laughed, tugging on the raven haired boys arm. Drew nodded, "Hi Ash." He simply replied. "Ash, this is Drew. My wonderful boyfriend, whom I haven't stopped talking about." May said cheerfully, moving back to her boyfriend happily.
Flashback end
Ash froze, surprised by remembering this so suddenly. "She was right.." He trailed off, causing Barry to look at him confusedly. "Ursula told me we used to be together and she had me compelled to forget about her.. I didn't really believe her but.. She was right." He trailed off. "This picture it.. it triggered a memory!" The raven haired boy added.
"So she made you forget about her then decided come back into your life and expect you to be in love with her or something?" Barry asked, as Ash bit his lip. "I guess.."
A tall boy made his way up the stairs to Iris' doorway. He reached out and knocked on the door, before stepping back and waiting in anticipation for her to answer.
The doorknob turned and opened, as a sleepy looking Iris stood in the doorway. "Cilan? Hey I uh, wasn't expecting anyone to come over." The purple haired girl admitted, scratching the back of her head. "Sorry to come over without warning.. I just wanted to see how you are going. I heard about what happened yesterday.." Cilan sighed.
"Yeah.. I'm alright.. Why don't you come inside." Iris admitted, stepping aside so Cilan could go past her. The witch closed the front door and locked it, before turning back to Cilan.
Books and loose pages laid in a messy pile on the floor, to which Cilan had seen. "Are these spell books?" The green haired boy asked, causing her to nod. "Yeah, some of them are.. there's old family journals there too... At the moment I'm looking for answers."
"Answers to what?" Cilan asked, turning to Iris. "Answers to.. I can't tell you.." She sighed, causing Cilan to eye her curiously, "Since when have we kept secrets?" He huffed. That caused Iris to laugh nervously, "Boy, you must be oblivious.." She sighed, as Cilan was the last of her friends to not know anything about vampires, which were a vital part of the supernatural beings.
"Sit down.. I have to explain some things to you.. because you're right. We shouldn't be keeping secrets. We've been friends for longer than I can remember." Iris admitted. "And keeping a secret is essentially what tore you and Touko apart, correct?" The girl asked, as Cilan shook his head, before sighing. "Sort of."
The pair sat down. "When I had found out what Touko was, I can't lie, something changed.." Cilan sweatdropped. "I wanted things to be the same, we were so happy before that moment.. but I guess it didn't work out because... I began to like somebody else." The green haired boy said hesitantly, before looking to Iris.
Iris nodded, "It does suck that you two aren't at least on talking terms.. I miss the three of us being best friends.." She admitted. "God this is all a bit off topic now.. My point of this conversation was, a lot is happening that you really don't know about.. and keeping secrets have proven to ruin relationships and friendships, so I'm going to be honest and tell you about what has been happening." The witch said, turning to Cilan as he looked to her, listening intently.
Leaf's POV
"Alright Mum, I'll see you later." I said, grabbing my bag and walking up to the door. I was going to see Gary today, which I was really excited for.
As I opened the door, I saw a boy, about my height, with black hair, outstretching his arm to knock. "Uhh.. Mum?" I asked, as the boy pulled his arm back. My Mum rushed over, stopping beside me.
"Oh my god.." She trailed off, "Lucas!" My mother boomed, stepping forward to hug the boy. "Huh?" I sweatdropped, confused.
"Leaf," My Mother began, pulling away from the boy. "This is your older brother Lucas. When your father and I divorced, when you were little, Lucas went with your dad." She explained to me. I blinked, processing this. "I have a... brother?" I thought, turning to the boy. Why hadn't Mum told me about this earlier?
"Come in sweetie, I'm sure you've got a lot to share with us. Leaf come sit with us." Mum said. I stepped aside as she lead Lucas into our kitchen, as I was still very surprised. I closed the front door and turned around, heading to the kitchen where my mother and.. brother.. went.
Calems POV
I sighed, walking to Paul's house. He had demanded I come over, but didn't say why.
I figured he was probably going to order me around and because of this stupid sire bond, I'd obey. I can't lie, this bond thing is making me miserable.. I hope the group and I can get to killing him soon.
I approached the house, hearing yelling. I just assumed Paul and Ursula were fighting, and went to go inside, until i realised the yelling came from the back of the house, which ends up at a very popular strip of shops. I decided to walk around to the back, where the side alley was, to find Paul and a stranger, fighting.
The stranger was about my height, wearing a big white hat and an orange and black tshirt. He shoved Paul into the wall of the alley, with inhuman speed and strength, before smashing him over the head with what looked like a crowbar.
"What is going on!?" I shouted, as Paul shoved the stranger back and put a hand around his throat. "This little punk thinks he has a chance of defeating me!" Paul replied, with a mocking laugh. The stranger pulled a pocket knife from his pocket and stabbed it as hard as he could, into Paul's arm, causing the original to flinch and release the boy.
"Look, I don't know who you are, but you sure as hell don't have a chance of winning against him." I admitted, crossing my arms. The last thing I was gonna do was help Paul. "He deserves to die!" The stranger yelled, kicking Paul with quite some force, knocking him down. "It's what he deserves for killing May."
My eyes blinked, recognising the name as he looked to the stranger. How did he know Paul killed May? "Look, I don't know who you are but you're sure as hell about to die. You're dealing with an Original Vampire who has Werewolf blood. I'd run if I were you." I sighed, before noticing Paul about to grab onto the boy again, who looked worried. Quickly I sped over, shoving Paul, and using all my force to try and keep him there. "Run. Run to the black ute parked by the house back there. Unless you wanna fucking die." I admitted, struggling. "Let go of me!" Paul yelled, before pushing me away from him like it was nothing.
I turned around to notice the stranger had spend off, and I turned back to Paul. "Who do you think you fucking are, helping him!?" The man before me growled. I quickly picked up the pocket knife the boy had dropped, before racing forward to stab Paul. "I'm not your bitch anymore." I growled, before speeding off back to my car, where the stranger was waiting.
"Get in right now. I don't even know who you fucking are but I just put my life at risk to save your dumbass." I growled, locking the car and speeding off once we got in. "Who are you!? Why are you trying to kill him!?" I asked, as the boy wasn't talkative. "My name is Brendan, and he killed my girlfriend, May. I want revenge, for her."
I processed what he'd said, before sighing, suddenly feeling bad. "I'm sorry for your loss.. she seemed really lovely.." I bit my lip. "Me and some others are seeking revenge on Paul and his sister, if you'd like, you can help us." I offered. "I'd.. definitely like to help.." Brendan replied, seeming quiet.
"Random question, May told us you were human.. uh what happened?" I sweatdropped. "While May was gone, a vampire came to our town and I asked them to turn me. May and I made eachother so happy.. I wanted that to be forever.." He sighed, sounding miserable. "I knew if I was a vampire, I could live forever, like May was spelled to do." He added.
I sighed, feeling bad for him. "Don't worry, we'll kill him. You'll get your revenge." I admitted, before we pulled up at my house. "I need to be honest, I don't think you'll be safe here. I'm sired to Paul.. He doesn't know where I live but he could easily ask and I'd be forced to tell him." I admitted.
Ursula's POV
"Alright lab rat, I need you to do something for me." I announced, sitting in a seat beside Bianca, who was a girl I had turned into my little witch.
"I want you to take down the wall to the other side." I decided, to which Bianca became confused to. "What is the other side?" She asked. I sighed, facing her properly to explain, "The other side is basically where supernatural beings go when they die. An after life. It's very lonely and scary." I began.
"The wall to the other side, stops us from seeing the supernatural ghosts and stops them from being able to do anything to alter our world. So if you take down this wall, we can see them and touch them and they can touch and move things around in our world." I added.
"Why would you want such a thing to happen?" Bianca asked, scared. "Because, I need to bring May back. She is the only one that knows where my family are and I want to be with them again." I sighed. "Won't that meant you're going behind your brothers back?" Bianca asked, aware that Paul killed May.
"Yes, but I don't give a fuck. I want my family back and I will do whatever it takes, even if it includes bringing back somebody I hate, from the dead, to help me." I concluded, before thinking. "You seem to be pretty useless right now, but I know a witch I could force into helping me bring May back.. you keep studying those spell books though, you'll become useful eventually." I smiled, fakely.
Dawn's POV
I got back into my car after saying goodbye to Touko and Serena. It was good to hear a bit about them, though it all was a lot to process.
I put the keys in and started the car, I put on some music and left. Getting back on the road, I quietly hummed to the song that was playing, before it ended.
I sighed, wanting to change it. I waited until I was out of the bend I was driving through, and back onto straight road. The way I was driving, was the quiet way to Ash's house. It had gotten really dark in the past hour, looking like it was going to storm, I switched on my headlights so I could see.
Once on the straight road again, I looked down to change the radio station. I looked back up to focus on the road and had the shock of my life to see a tall, unknown, feminine figure, standing in the middle of the road, around 10 metres from the front of my car.
On instinct, I swerved to avoid them, but veered off the road, struggling to control my car. I stepped on the break, hoping the car would stop, but nothing happened, as if I couldn't control my own car.
The vehicle charged towards a tree, which was on a bit of an incline. Once smashing into the tree and rolling back down the hill, the car managed to flip.
I tried to calm down my breathing, as I'd been hyperventilating. I just crashed. I nearly hit somebody.
Struggling upside down, I tried to push open the door and undo my seatbelt, but I was stuck. God can something go right for once?
I heard a wicked laugh, which caused me to turn around. I noticed a pair of legs, about 20 metres away from me. My eyes widened, as it was the person I'd nearly hit. The one who'd suddenly appeared out of no where, with a chilling laugh.
The figure took footsteps, beginning to walk over me. Already in fear, I began to hyperventilate as I knew I couldn't run away anywhere.
The figures footsteps became faster, before turning into a blur, as they came closer to me. I began fearing for the worst.
(A/N: Originally I was going to end the chapter here, on a big fat cliff hanger but the chapter would be too short and uh.. I guess that'd be a pretty mean cliffhanger-)
At Iris' house
"So," Iris began again, after explaining pretty much everything about all of the different supernatural beings to Cilan, "May is dead and I want the Original siblings dead for it.. Paul killed her, I'm sure of it. And if it wasn't, well they deserve to die - things weren't this horrible until they showed up!" Iris admitted. "I'm trying to find useful spells that can help me to get rid of them. I have the power now, just not the spells." Iris explained, looking back up to Cilan. "I'm sorry, I really overloaded you with information." She sweatdropped. "No no, I mean it will take a lot of time to process but.. I am glad you told me all of this.." The green haired boy trailed off.
"This a lot you carry on your shoulders, and I hope you're taking care of yourself through all of this." He added. Iris nodded, "I'm trying. That's all I can do at the moment." The girl sighed, "It's just really tough at the moment, I'm sure things will get better.. but for things to begin to get better, the original twins need to be dead."
At Leaf's house
Leaf, Lucas and Leaf's mother had been talking for quite a while, Leaf mostly staying quiet to process everything she was hearing. She was still in disbelief, angered by her mother and fathers actions to seperate the pair growing up.
The brunette was in the kitchen making coffee when she'd heard footsteps. She ignored them, focused on making coffee. "I think you're missing something." A voiced piped up, sounding like Lucas.
Leaf went to turn to Lucas, before noticing he had quickly moved beside her, with a blood bag, from assumably the hospital, in his hands, pouring blood into her coffee. The sight of blood had caused the girls eyes to go bloodshot, as she was craving blood.
"What the fuck!" Leaf growled before shoving Lucas with forced, putting a hand around his throat. "I knew it!" Lucas managed to say. "If you came all the way over here, just to out me to my mother, I'm going to kill you right now." The brunette growled lowly. "What - no! That's not it at all!" Lucas managed to say. "We are the same, Leaf."
Leaf loosened her grip around his neck. "I am a vampire too, and since entering your home, I couldn't help but notice your characteristics and how you act.. Actually you make it quite obvious." This caused Leaf to let out a panicky sound. "I can't make it obvious-" She panicked before glaring back at Lucas. "Get that thing out here before my Mum sees it!" She pointed to the blood bag. "Did you mean our Mum?" Lucas asked, before sipping on the blood bag.
"I wasn't joking, get it out of here before she sees it. God, don't be so foolish. At least I don't bring blood bags into my home, making it obvious." Leaf growled. "Oh right, I'm guessing you kill people then?" Lucas asked. The brunette spun around, shooting a glare. She wasn't getting a good first impression from her so called brother.
Back to the crash site
Dawn panicked, not sure if the figure was going go do something to her, but the figure had stopped zooming over to her, and instead ran away, as someone else sped over to Dawn.
"Are you okay?" That voice was so familiar. "Gary?" Dawn asked, panicked. "I can't.. move.." The blue haired girl admitted, her legs crushed. "Don't worry, I got ya." Gary said back, before pulling off the door with strength, before then doing the same with the seat belt. He managed to pull Dawn out of the wreck, that was her car.
"Can you feel your legs?" Gary asked, as she went to stand. "Not really-" Dawn admitted, about to fall, when Gary had caught her. "Where were you even going?" The brunette asked. "Back to Ash's apartment.." Dawn replied, painfully.
The girl was covered in cuts, bruises and blood, she couldn't walk properly either, but despite all this, figured she just needed to rest. "I don't need to go to the hospital." Dawn admitted, before Gary said anything else. "Me? Take somebody to a hospital? I have healing blood, Dawn." Gary replied sarcastically.
"Do you need blood?" He asked, to which she shook her head. "Gary did you see.. who that person was.. I nearly hit somebody.." The girl explained, as Gary picked her up. "Yeah, I don't know who she was though. By the looks of it, she was targeting you. I'll get you back to Ash's. I'm sure your supernatural prince charming can keep you safe from.. whoever that crazy bitch is." The brunette admitted, beginning to walk.
"Why are you out here anyway?" Dawn asked the boy. "I was heading to Leaf's house, I was supposed to see her today.. but she didn't show up so I was heading to her house.. but then that all happened." Gary admitted. "Hold on, I'm about to super speed to Ash's apartment." The vampire explained, as Dawn held onto him, before he sped off.
"Alright, we are here." Gary said, getting to Ash's doorstep. He let Dawn down, but kept an arm around her to support her. "Are you sure you don't need any blood?" He asked again. "I'm sure of it." Dawn nodded. The pair made their way slowly to the door, Gary trying to support Dawn's walking, before they knocked on the door.
The door opened, Barry answering it. "Dawn?? What happened to you!?" The blonde asked, in a panic. With that being said, Ash sped over to the door. "Oh my god, are you okay!?" He asked, also very worried. "I'm alright." Dawn nodded, letting go of Gary to walk inside.
"What happened?" Barry and Ash asked at the same time. "She got into a car accident, some supernatural looking person appeared on the road. It looked to me like they were targeting Dawn." Gary explained. "What- That's crazy!" Barry growled.
Ash on the other hand was grateful Dawn wasn't seriously injured or dead. He pulled her into a hug, "I'm so glad you're alive." Dawn hugged back, "I'm not even that injured, I definitely need some rest though." She admitted.
"What were you doing to have found Dawn?" Barry asked curiously. "I was heading to Leaf's house, which I probably need to do now." Gary admitted, looking to Ash and Dawn. "I'll take my leave now, take care of her." Gary shrugged before turning to leave. "Thank you Gary." Ash replied, grateful he'd helped Dawn.
Barry went over to close the door. "How much pain are you in? Do you need blood?" Ash asked his girlfriend, concerned. "I didn't do any serious damage, luckily. I think I just need a lot of rest. No, I don't want blood." She sighed.
"I just want to sleep." Dawn added, exhausted. "Today's been quite a day." She added. Suddenly, a strike of lightning flashed, causing the power to go out. "Wonderful." Barry sighed, opening the front door to notice rain gushing down too. "You two can just stay here for the night." Ash insisted, as the weather turned nasty. The storm had finally begun.
The trio locked up the apartment and decided to call it a night. Barry slept on the couch, using the blanket and pillow Dawn had left on the couch the night before. Ash had placed Dawn in his bed, grabbing extra blankets and such. "Are you sure you don't need anything? I'm sure I've got medication laying around somewhere, after all I have human friends-" Ash trailed off. Dawn shook her head sleepily, "Sleep is the best cure right now." She yawned.
Ash exited the room and returned, to find his girlfriend had drifted off to sleep. He smiled, before going over to lay the extra blanket over the bed. Once it was spread out, he switched off the light and also went to sleep, laying on the other half of the bed.
Calem's house
"I'm sure you'll be fine for one night, but we need to find you a new place to stay by tomorrow." The paranoid, black haired hybrid admitted, worried for Brendan's safety. "Thank you for letting me stay tonight, it means a lot." The brunette vampire replied, getting comfortable on Calem's couch.
"I'll introduce you to some friends probably tomorrow, theres a group of us who want Paul and his sister dead." Calem admitted. "They've both done horrible things to undeserving people." He added. "They're both very manipulative people."
"I hope they get what they deserve." Brendan growled, angered. "Oh, they will." Calem admitted, in a low tone.
(Finally, this chapter is finished!! My apologies it took so long. Now my question for you guys; who do you think the person is, that caused Dawn to crash? I'm curious on what your theories might be.
Also enjoy the lazy titling, I'm beginning to give up on titles I swear ,) )