Chapter 3
Fabian awoke with a start. He was panting and sweating, why would he dream something like that? He felt extremely stiff, his bones ached. His neck hurt the most though. As his senses woke up, he noticed he wasn't in his room. In fact he wasn't even in a room, he was in the forest. It was evening, he could tell. That's when he realized the changes in himself. He could hear something, breathing. A bird flapping it's wings miles away.
"Hey" Jerome said jumping down from a branch.
"Why am I in the woods?" Fabian asked
"I couldn't have you in there with all the... blood" Jerome said.
"What's happening?" Fabian asked
"You're transitioning" Jerome said. "All you need to do is eat"
"What?" Fabian asked. Jerome sighed.
"Ok, over break I met this girl, her name was Tina" Jerome said. "She was cool, and a nice friend. I hung out with her for the beginning of the week. I did notice some weird things about her, like she was always turning away from me, because her eyes. they would turn this red color"
Fabian remembered what Jerome looked like right before he blacked out.
"One day, she got like, really cranky and talked about being hungry or something. Next thing I know she bit me. That's when I turned. She took me to feed and I lost my humanity. I was really hungry this morning, and I'm sorry. But now I have to teach you how to feed" Jerome said.
"What?" Fabian said. Jerome sighed.
"You are a vampire" Jerome said.
Vampire.
The word hit Fabian like a ton of bricks. Vampires don't exist. They're urban legends. They aren't real. But then what else would explain what was happening to him. And Jerome's eyes, and the way he bit him. Jerome is a vampire. Jerome bit him. And now...
"I'm a vampire" Fabian said.
"There you go!" Jerome said. "Progress! We're getting somewhere"
"Why did you turn me?" Fabian asked angrily.
"Because I was hungry! It seems like you people were relentless in making sure I wouldn't eat. You're lucky I didn't kill you" Jerome said. "Well, you know. Kill you, kill you"
"I don't feel well" Fabian said.
"Yup, that means you're hungry" Jerome said. He took him into town and scoped out the people. "Choose one. Getting a girl is easier"
"Choose one to kill?" Fabian asked
"It's either them or you" Jerome said. Fabian wanted badly to reject the offer, but he was so hungry, and something was pushing him to do as he was told. He saw a girl who was walking down the street, looking lost.
"Her" Fabian said. Jerome looked at her and nodded.
"Ok, go eat her" Jerome said nonchalantly.
"What do I say to her?" Fabian asked.
"You'll know" Jerome said. Fabian walked to the girl and smiled.
"Hi, you look lost" Fabian said.
"Yeah, I am" the girl said she was American. "I'm Lia"
"I'm Fabian" Fabian said. "What are you looking for?"
"A bank" she smiled.
"Ok, follow me" Fabian said. She looked unsure at him, so he smiled and looked her in the air. "Follow me"
"Ok" she said as he walked down to the alley where he knew Jerome was.
"You did better than I expected" Jerome said.
"This isn't the bank" she said.
"She's American" Jerome rolled his eyes at him. "Of course she is. Now feed on her. And tell her not to scream, that's important. The last thing we need is a scene"
"Lia, don't be scared, don't scream" Fabian said. She nodded and he leaned, inches away from her neck, before stopping.
"Ugh" Jerome said.
"I can't do it" Fabian said.
"You have to!" Jerome said.
"I can't" Fabian said. "It's not right!"
"It's just your annoying bitchy humanity talking. Now lean in there and take a bite" Jerome said pushing his head down to her neck. Fabian couldn't stand it anymore and bit into her neck. All thoughts and morals that he had left in that moment. All he could think of was the blood. He drank every drop.
And gone was the Fabian everyone knew and loved.
Nina, Alfie, and Joy were walking down the street, getting ready to go back home.
"Can I have a gummy?" Alfie asked Joy.
"No!" Joy said. "No one told you to eat all of yours"
"Please?" Alfie asked.
"If you catch it in your mouth you can have it" Joy said Alfie turned around and Joy deliberately threw it above his head. Alfie just jumped in the air to get it.
"Whoa, that was really high" Nina said. She grabbed a gummy of her own and threw it higher and farther. Alfie backflipped and caught it in his mouth, landing on his feet.
"That was awesome" Joy said.
"I could never do that before" Alfie said. "That was crazy"
"Ok, we have to get home" Nina said as they waited for the cab. However, twenty minutes went by and there was no cab.
"At this point, we'd be better off running" Alfie groaned.
"Why don't we?" Joy shrugged finishing off her gummies.
"Wanna race?" Nina asked. She held up her half full bag of gummies. "Winner gets these"
"It's like a four mile run" Alfie said.
"Then we better go now" Nina said and began running, and pretty fast.
"No fair!" Alfie and Joy exclaimed. They quickly followed, just steps behind her. All three were beginning to feel exhilarated. They began to run faster, faster than a human should be able to. At one point they were all on the same page. Joy did a flip and landed on her feet, kicking off and not missing a step.
"This is amazing!" Joy said. They jumped the high gate easily and ran up the hill to the school, which was empty and quiet. They passed it and Nina did a front tuck. They finally reached the house and opened the door.
"That was incredible" Alfie said. "I never had so much adrenaline in me"
"I know! We accelerated through the air" Nina said.
"Have fun?" Mara asked walking down the stairs.
"Yeah, I'm glad we did this" Joy said and the others nodded as they walked into the living room where the others were.
"And the thing is, that was a long fucking run, and I'm not even tired" Alfie laughed.
"I know!" Joy said.
"I'm hungry though. Nina, where are my gummies?" Alfie asked
"Wait, you didn't win" Nina said.
"Yeah I did" Alfie said
"Are you kidding me? I totally won!" Joy said.
"How about we split them into three, and call it a tie?" Nina asked. The others nodded. Fabian walked into the room.
"Fabian, you will never believe what happened to us" Nina said.
"Anything is believable" Fabian shrugged.
"Hey Fabes, something's different about you" Joy said.
"You too" Fabian eyed the three before heading to his room. He had to leave, their heartbeats were deafeningly loud to him. Even though he was planning on going to his room, he decided he would hang out with Jerome.
"Hey" Jerome said once seeing Fabian.
"Hey, I feel so different" Fabian said.
"Good different or bad different?" Jerome asked
"Good different. I feel like I can do anything" Fabian said. "Although, Nina's annoying me for no reason..."
"That's how I feel about Alfie" Jerome said. Nina appeared at the door.
"Uh..." she said. "Hey, do you want to hang out?"
"Sure" Fabian said and followed her out and into his room. "What do you want to do?"
"I don't know. We can talk" Nina said. "How was your day?"
"It was really cool" Fabian smirked.
"Really? Where'd you go?" Nina asked
"I just went to town with Jerome" Fabian shrugged.
"What did you do?" Nina asked. She wasn't trying to be pushy, she was just interested.
"Nothing" Fabian said.
"Why so secretive all of a sudden?" Nina asked with a chuckle
"Well geez Nina get off my back" Fabian said. That surprised her. "I don't have to tell you everything I'm doing at every second of my day"
Nina was not happy with the way Fabian was speaking to her. "I didn't like that, that was rude. And why is it that you suddenly can't tell me stuff, I didn't know we kept secrets"
"Oh please Nina, everyone keeps secrets" Fabian said. "You know, Jerome was right. No one knows how to mind their own business"
"Since when do you agree with Jerome? And since when did you become such a smart ass?" Nina asked
"Nina" Jerome said in the doorway. "You need to relax"
"I know, always so uptight and paranoid" Fabian laughed.
"I'm uptight? Me? Fabian, you're the most uptight person in England!" Nina yelled. "And I have a good reason to be paranoid I almost lost my life twice!"
"Jerome, I don't know what's going on with them" Joy said. "But you need to give them privacy"
"Privacy?" Jerome asked. "No one in this house knows what privacy means!"
"Why are you yelling at me? I didn't do anything to you!" Joy yelled back.
"You're in my personal space" Jerome said.
"Dude, chill" Alfie said.
"This isn't your fight" Jerome said.
"Well technically you butted to our fight, so you don't have room to talk" Nina said to Jerome.
"I don't know what your problem is, but all of you need to chill" Alfie said.
"Everybody GET OUT OF MY ROOM!" Fabian yelled. "Get out of my room, and find something better to do with your time than bothering the hell out of me!"
Everyone was so shocked, they did as they were told. Nina stomped on Jerome's foot and Jerome quickly whacked her on the head.
"Dude you just hit a girl!" Alfie yelled at him
"No, I just hit an ignorant nosy bitch" Jerome said. Nina punched him in the nose and walked off. Joy followed her and Alfie glared.
"That was not ok" Alfie said. He walked off somewhere, Jerome didn't care where.
Amber went to Patricia's room, who was on her bed listening to music. She tapped her shoulder and motioned for her to go outside with her. Patricia smiled and followed her out. They went to the futbol field, which was completely empty.
"Are you ready?" Amber asked Patricia
"Yes" Patricia said. She focused her energy and closed her eyes. As the wind began to pick up. Amber talked to Patricia and whispered soothing words.
"Don't let it take over you" she said. "Take control of the magic, it's yours. You own it. Patricia opened her eyes wide and Amber saw her dilated pupils. The wind around them spun around. Amber could see it was taking control of her now.
"Patricia, stop" Amber said. Patricia began to look in human, the veins became more visible, almost popping out of her skin. Her eyes turned completely black. Amber was thrown back and the sky turned black. Amber knew she had to stop Patricia now. It was getting dangerous, and the magic was taking power and energy from her very being. Amber used all of her strength, her eyes turning all four colors, and was able to send enough energy to send Patricia flying. Amber then created a ring of fire, surrounding her. Amber thought she was safe and that Patricia couldn't get through, but she suddenly ran through the flames, pushing them out of her way, and pushed Amber far into a tree, causing her to hit her head and black out.
Mick decided it would be a good idea to train and go for a run. There was so much fighting and tension in the house lately, it was becoming unbearable for him. Mick cared about his housemates, and he didn't like it when they fought. Yes this is coming from the guy who threatened to rip Alfie's head off, but he had a good reason to be upset. He figured the others must have a good reason to be upset as well, and it wasn't his place to try to fix whatever was going on between them. But he needed to clear his head and break away from the craziness that was Anubis House.
As he made his way to the track field, he had to pass the futbol field and couldn't help but notice as he was approaching it that there were strange sounds coming from there. It sounded like a fight, another fight. However, this one seemed a bit more intense. As the field came into view, he was surprised to see that it wasn't just two people fighting, it was Amber and Patricia. And they weren't fighting like normal teenage girls do, they weren't even making physical contact.
Amber raised her palms at Patricia, and the redhead was suddenly enveloped in a curtain of flames surrounding her. This wasn't an ordinary fight. Amber just created flames with a simple raising of her palm. Amber seemed to have a moment of relief crossing her face, when Patricia suddenly walked out of the flames and panic was shown on it instead. Patricia didn't look normal. She looked scary. Granted she always looked scary, but this was a different kind. Her skin was pale and her eyes had gone black. Her veins were visible all throughout her body and there was some kind of tattoo or something on her neck.
Suddenly, Amber flew across the field and hitting the tree with such force, Mick was sure it would fall down. Patricia's eyes went back to normal and the dark sky Mick had hardly noticed turned into a very light one. Patricia looked around, looking at her surroundings and taking in the scene. Her eyes grew wide with fear when she saw Amber. She rushed to her side and tried to wake her up. Mick decided he didn't want to be there anymore and left as Amber began to move. He ran back to the house. What he saw just defined all the laws of Physics that Mara helped him learn. And it wasn't just anyone, it was his housemates. It was the people he lived with and went to sleep right under. The girl he had dated for two years when he was younger and the girl he first met and had been friends with for six years. He had to tell someone. Anyone. Everyone.
"Guys" he called as he sprinted into the house, stopping with a skid. All eyes were on him as he took a moment to catch his breath. "Amber and Patricia"
"What is it?" Eddie asked immediately with Alfie close behind him.
"What's wrong with them, where are they" Alfie asked.
"They were fighting, they had powers or something. There was fire and flying" Mick breathed out.
The room was silent for a moment, before everyone burst into a fit of laughter. Mick felt a bit betrayed. But at the same time, he really couldn't blame them. It was a crazy story, he would have thought it was a dream, if he didn't know that it wasn't. But he did know. It happened just moments before! And if it weren't real, where were the two girls now?
"Wow Mick, you say a lot of stupid things, but this was just, wow" Jerome said making Fabian and Alfie laugh harder. Joy threw a pillow at Jerome, who blocked it easily. And even though Joy felt bad for him, she also had to hide her giggles.
"They were flying?" Eddie asked. "You should write a book Mick, because your imagination should not go unnoticed"
"The only thing that made sense was that Amber and Patricia were fighting" Alfie said.
"Where are those two anyway?" Mara asked.
"Two what?" Patricia asked coming in with Amber.
"Mick said you two were fighting with superpowers" Nina said. Amber and Patricia shared a look of panic for a fraction of a second, and Mick almost missed it. But he didn't. He stared at the two girls as they laughed with a hint of nerves in their voices before retreating to his room. Amber and Patricia quickly walked up the stairs and into Amber and Nina's room to talk privately.
"Amber I'm so sorry" Patricia said as soon as the door closed. "I don't know what happened"
"I know, it's ok" Amber responded.
"Are you still going to help me?" Patricia asked
"Yeah, but I think we need to do some research first" Amber said. "This isn't just a problem with the magic, it's taking control of you. I fear it's taking over you. I think it's feeding off of you. I think it could be more dangerous"
Patricia groaned and fell on Nina's bed. 'Why is nothing easy for me?' she thought.
Jerome walked into his room to see a tall strong pale man standing in the middle of it. Jerome knew immediately upon seeing his blood red eyes that he wasn't human. Jerome closed the door behind him quickly, making sure to lock it.
"Not that I'm not 'totally team vampire, woo!' but there are people in the house that aren't vampires, and I seriously don't want to deal with them knowing about them, so if you could be more on the down low with the whole vampire thing, that'd be great" Jerome said. The vampire who was obviously older than him just looked at him. "So who are you and why exactly are you here?"
"I'm here to deliver a message from The Highest" the man said. Jerome's eyes widened upon hearing this. "She has been informed that you have turned a human into one of our kind and wishes to meet with him immediately"
"Ok, of course. When would be a good time?" Jerome asked.
"Immediately" the man said before leaving in a flash. Jerome sighed and mentally groaned upon hearing Victor give his infamous speech for bed. At eleven Jerome knew he couldn't wait any longer. He needed to go now, or he'd be be exterminated like termite. He went into Fabian's room and dragged him out of the house.
"What are we doing?" Fabian asked groggily. "Where are we going?"
"Somewhere important" Jerome said
"Can't it wait until morning?" Fabian asked.
"We're going to meet The Highest" Jerome said. "The oldest vampire and strongest vampire to anyone's knowledge. We have no room to disobey orders, so we have to go, now. "
"Ok" Fabian said as they arrived at a tall mansion and were let inside immediately. Fabian didn't know why he expected to see a man who was really old and whose age was equivalent to Dumbledores. Instead he saw a young woman who didn't look a day over twenty.
"Hello" she said. "I am Theodora Mason"
"Hi" Fabian said feeling a bit nervous.
"I've seen you before" she said to Jerome before turning to Fabian "But you I have not, so you must be the new born. Give me time to speak to him alone"
"Of course" Jerome said leaving. Fabian didn't want to be left alone with The Highest. Though young looking, she was quite intimidating.
"Has Jerome told you the rules of feeding?" Theodora asked. Fabian shook his head. "Well, first of all, once you've start feeding on someone, you must feed until they die. We have venom that changed humans to vampires unless they are killed. Only if you decide to turn the victim do you not kill them"
"Ok" Fabian said, finding it odd that venom was in his system.
"Now, you can not be around werewolves" she said very seriously. "This is important. Stay away from them. Werewolves were brought up hating vampires, and that they should be exterminated. Most don't even realise that's what they are being taught. Werewolves capture vampires and torture them until they believe that vampirism is bad. if they don't comply, they are killed. However, if we do not feed on human blood, we die"
"Why do they do that?" Fabian asked
"Because they believe that our way of living is terrible and that we are menaces to the community. They've been trying to kill me for centuries. They believe all vampires should adapt a new lifestyle or be exterminated. But we can not change how we live, just as humans need air and food, we need blood"
"Can't we feed on animal blood?" Fabian asked remembering Twilight. Nina loved that series. She never liked Edward surprisingly. She was always Team Jacob...
"I tried that many, many years ago. It almost killed me. We can't live off of animal blood" Theodora said. "I am serious Fabian, stay away from werewolves, they will kill you"
"I will" Fabian insisted.
"That's what you say, but I can smell their scent on you. You are in the company of werewolves" Theodora said. "Find out who they are, and kill them"
This was news to Fabian. Was there someone at their house or at their school who was a werewolf? They were soon dismissed and Jerome and Fabian decided to get something to eat before heading home.
Alfie got up at one like he did every night for the past two weeks and went into the living room. He was surprised to see Joy there, and surprised again when he saw Nina coming down the stairs headed towards them.
"What are you two doing up?" she asked.
"I was looking at the moon" Alfie confessed. "I couldn't get a good view of it from my room"
"Same here" Joy said.
"Me too" Nina said. They sat in silence for a moment, appreciating the beauty of the moon, before Joy spoke up.
"Want to go closer?" she asked.
"How?" Nina asked. She led them to the door and opened it.
"What about the security lights? Victor will come running in a second" Alfie said
"That's only if we set them off by stepping on the grass" Joy said. She jumped up onto the roof, surprising the other two. "Come on"
Alfie used his upper body strength and Nina used her lower body strength and both pushed or pulled themselves up. It was surprisingly easy for both of them and they followed Joy, making sure not to fall. When the moon came out of the clouds, they were enchanted. The bright thing in the dark sky shone bright, and they all wondered why they hadn't noticed before.
"Wow" Alfie commented.
"It's beautiful" Joy gushed. Nina looked at her friends.
"You know, something's different about us" Nina said. The other two looked at her. "We shouldn't have been able to get up here so easily. Plus, your eyes are hazel, and I'm sure mine are too, when they've always been brown"
"I feel like I have this connection with you two, that I never had before" Joy said.
"And all three of us were the only ones to have that weird illness or whatever it was called" Alfie said.
"Amber's been hanging out with Patricia lately and Fabian's been hanging out with Jerome lately, so we aren't really hanging out with our best friends" Nina said. "So I'm glad I have you two, because I think we'd all be feeling lonely if we didn't hang out"
Alfie and Joy smiled at Nina, and agreed with her. Their best friends had kind of abandoned them. But now they had each other. The three continued watching the moon, not wanting to ever come down.