Day 4

I'm cold.....really cold, in my bed. I opened my eyes to see that my window is open, 'Leo.' I though with a smile, only she would do something like that.

When I got up to close it and crawled back into bed something collided with my elbow! When I turned to see what it was there was Caster! He grinned at me evilly and bared his fangs at me; it took all my energy to stay cool around him, because the truth was he scared me- a lot.

I snuggled in and put my hands behind my head like nothing was going on out of the ordinary and looked at the ceiling. "So, brother- what brings you here?" I asked him feeling a certain cool run over my words.

"I ain't your fucking brother," he said staring at my ceiling as well.

"Polix seems to say different." I said trying to remind him the higher power- or at least he seemed.

"You think he's gonna protect you," his laughter filled my ears and bounced off the walls of my room, than he sat up and outlined my head around the pillow keeping his voice in a low mocking tone. "And what makes you think that he owns us? Hmm? Polix is nothing but a mere child, he can't even drive for fucking sake.......you think he-..." a slight laugh again as he grabbed me under the chin and on my neck, holding my head up as though he were ready to pull it off.

"He won't protect you, all I have to say is 'I wanna fight you' and we're in the ring and-...." he got very close to my face and breathed. "You belong to me...."

I shifted and fidgeted in his grip and tried with all my strength to pull away but he held on tighter.

"They say in life," he began, "you're given choices......I guess yours just ran out." His fangs dove into my neck and my mind spun, the force the strength I couldn't escape it as his saliva ran into me. I bared my teeth through the pain trying to hold back a scream so my parents wouldn't come in and see me like this. He moved from my neck to my wrist and his teeth gashed it fiercely tearing into it. My body hurt, and tears began to fall from the sides of my eyes I though this was the end and he was going to kill me- for good.

A strong wind blew into the window, it was hot and surrounding and when this happened Caster stopped what he was doing and sat up looking around as though he were waiting for someone but no one came and just as he was about to dive back into me there was a crash through the windows glass and frame, a black figure was behind the crash and it swooped in picking up Caster and sucking him back out, reversing the damage that just occurred on the window and the room grew still as though nothing had happened at all.

My heart was pounding in my head as I tried to escape sleep because I was afraid that I really would die..............

The next morning I woke up and looked down at my wrist and felt my neck, they were fine! I must have been dreaming! 'Oh thank God!' I thought wanting to hug myself when my parents came storming in tossing a note on my bed.

"What's this?" I said rather than asked, carelessly.

"This young man is grounded for a month!" My mom shouted at me.

"Really?" I said coolly, "What did I do? Hm? Bother a few nimrods in school? Puleeze that's nothing compared to what I could have done."

"And just what is that supposed to mean?" My father asked me- arms crossed- and with a huff in his voice.

"What ever the hell you want it to mean," I said to him and walked over to the window and closed it- I know I had done it last night, how did it get open?- I had no time to worry about that right now my parent's were invading my space and I wanted them out!

"If you're done with this lecture I'm out of here." I crossed the room to the door and my parents blocked the way. "Move." I said to them crossing my arms.

"Where do you think you're going?" My mother asked as though she had the power over me. "Out." I stated and pushed past them, but my father grabbed the collar of my night clothes and threw me back on the bed out of instinct I got to my feet and attacked them!

I punched my father dead in the mouth and shoved my mother with force into a dresser in the closet; I didn't bother to stick around after that- just ran- long and hard.

I never saw the club in the morning much less knew the location of it; usually when I went there it was by escort of Leo or Polix, but now I had to find it on my own- before my parents could call the police and have them track me down- before I became- extinct.....

I slowed down out of breath and began to pant heavily, a little too heavily for my taste, so I walked over to a near by building and leaned on it for support. 'So tired.' I thought and closed my eyes, I woke up to my heart throbbing in pain, but the sweet taste of peppermint on my lips. I opened my eyes to see Le- Taurus!

I scrambled to a seating position and drunkly looked up at her. "What happened?" I asked and held my head, it felt like I just got whacked over the head, but before I could recover my own balance or strength, Taurus leaned down and put her arm around my shoulders and placed mine around hers, I was cold and felt sick- like I could die or something.

"Stay close, try to match your body heat to mine and your heart rhythm." she whispered into my ear.

"Why? What's going on?" I asked her feeling panic wash over me.

"Just do as I say Chaos, don't waste your energy." She began to walk with me, quickly and not missing a step even on un-leveled sidewalk. We got into a crowd of people a big crowd where everyone surrounded you and bumped you everywhere but somehow we managed not to touch a soul.

It was weird though Taurus kept looking behind us, like she was running from something or someone, but I didn't have time to think about it because I had to keep my mind on matching her body heat and heart beat which was easy because she was always calm as far as I knew and her heart had a steady rhythm to it, and unaware of what I was doing I looked at her throat.

"I'm going to hand you off with Leo get ready for a body heat change- ready?"

"No."

"Now!"

Next thing I knew I was passed off to Leo- thank God- it was good to see her again, especially after last night. But tonight was dark and eerie, like it wasn't natural darkness but controlled darkness and it was freezing because it had started to snow again even though there was already snow on the ground it looked to have the freshness of an hour ago.

"What's going on?" I asked her the same question as Taurus hoping at least she would answer me- but she didn't. We just walked silently, breathlessly, through the streets; she did the same thing as Taurus did- looking over her shoulder as though someone were following us.

"Leo I-.." but she cut me off with a 'ssshhh!'

I looked back over my shoulder to see what she was looking at, I saw nothing but the crowd when there it was! Caster! I saw part of his jacket moving out of my view. I tried to run, my bond with Leo broke as I got scared and tried to struggle away from her, she held on tight and tried to keep me walking normal and tried to make her bond stronger but it wasn't working- I knew he was back there and walking wouldn't get me away from him fast enough.

"Chaos don't!!" was the last thing I heard Leo say clearly as I dashed ahead through the crowd of people.

I felt him.......my heart started pounding heavily- matching his even from the distance. My wrist began to hurt too and my eyes clouded over- I looked behind me and saw him- getting closer and closer!

I ran harder, trying to fight my urge to run to him, but it wasn't working. It wasn't until I made a bee-line in Caster's direction that I slammed into a brick wall- no, it wasn't a wall- it was fuzzy and warm- hot almost. I looked up to see Diablo, he grabbed me brutally under my arms and flew me into the air up onto the roof of a building, the last thing I heard was a crowd gasping as we disappeared into the night.

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I woke up that morning, at least I think it was morning? My watch said twelve but which twelve? 'I should get a digital.' I thought blankly and looked around the room, it was dark and mysterious: the sheets were a blood red along with the cushions on the chairs, everything else was black. I noticed that the door was open and Polix walked by turning his head to glance in, we met eyes but he kept going by.

"Polix wait!" I called after him but I couldn't move myself from the comfort of the bed I really needed. He came into the room smoking a cigarette and what he did next would have been missed if you blinked at the moment- he put his knee beside my hip on the bed and then swung his other leg on the bed like he was mounting me and after my insides had a brief freak out of what I thought would happen next, he hurled himself over the rest of the way to a sitting position right beside me. My mind went through this event again to the point where I just had to ask him. "Are you gay?"

His laugh filled the room as he took a puff and shook his head, when he blew out he smiled and asked me.

"What's wrong? You look like shit. You get run over?"

"No." I wanted to tell him that it was Caster scaring the pissy shit out of me but I didn't and went in another direction of conversation. "Tell me more about us? If that's okay?" I said.

"Hell, I don't care what I say, you ask away I don't know from explaining things, better you ask what you wanna hear." He scratched the side of a slightly pointed ear.

I wanted so many things answered but the first thing out of my mouth was, "What is Diablo? How come he's fuzzy and eats the meat when we can only drink the blood?"

"He's a vampire zombie, he died, but, not entirely- you see, Aries didn't bite him.....some guy did a long time ago but he did it wrong and he turned vampire before he died, when he came back he was sorta like a zombie, he needs the meat of humans to live and maintain his face and stuff, but unlike us without blood- Diablo is immortal that's why he sounds so ancient."

I nodded like I knew about such things but I had no idea. "Do you ever fight in the ring?" I asked but was cut off by a body at the door.

"Breakfast."

"We'll talk later, lets go." He said and we got up to leave.

Breakfast was a sight to see, vampires I'd never even seen before were gathered around eating blood pudding and what not.

I was letting myself relax next to Leo who was feeding me something from her plate, I opened my mouth like an automatic and chewed it the same. Polix was looking at me again and when we met eyes he smiled slightly and pointed to the girl with the brown haired girl who helped the boy like me from the ring.

"That's Mantis, she's an infused grass type," he said plainly pointing people out. "over there, is Icis..." he was saying about the pale dark haired girl who danced with Leo at the club. "she is an infused ice type."

Both the girls waved to me and then went back to eating. "You already know Taurus," he smiled particullarly at her and pointed out a girl that looked kinda like Taurus- if you were far away only she was a bit thinner with longer hair.

"That's Sparx, she's like you- a fire type only she was infused with it."

I interrupted him with a question. "What does infused mean?" I felt dumb for asking it but thoughts would have bothered me all day.

"It means that we were given magic, by transfusion- kinda like when you're given blood." Aries answered for him with a smile to the thought of blood. "What makes me different?" I asked and everyone I knew by name better than the others I had just met exchanged glances. "You, were born with it, like me, like- Caster....." he turned his vision when he saw him walk in, than it went back to me.

"That's why I'm interested in you, I though there were only two Gemini brothers" he pointed a finger to Caster and himself. "but than Leo brought you in here and here you are- one of us."

I could see that Caster disagrees with that, but he said nothing and twisted in his seat and began talking to a girl in yellow.

"That," he said referring to the girl that Caster was talking to, "is Ray. She's a walking sun spot." I nodded again all the while noticing I hadn't taken the side of my eye off Caster since he walked in and he the same with me.

'What could he be thinking?' I wondered, with that he looked me directly in the eyes and I couldn't help but get caught up in them. Polix continued his intro without me being aware of it, as I got lost in this mind draining stare; my blood was hot and my wrist was itchy with anticipation.

'Escúche me.' I heard from him somehow, 'what does that mean?' I wondered, I tried to relax my thoughts and understand him when the words finally started to come in clear- like when Leo had done it to me he was saying. "Yo no lo quiero- here." It came in half way and he went on. 'but I think I might have a change of plans fire fly.......if you'll help me?' He had a smile on his face that screamed trouble and I was drawn to it's danger.

'What do you want me to do?' I asked him.

'Help me....' he said quaintly.

'Help you with what?'

"Help me kill someone....' he said, a lusting in his voice

'Who?' I asked feeling the same.

"Polix." He said out loud casually.

"Yes?" He answered him with a stare.

"I wanna go to the arena, is anyone fighting today?" He asked.

"Yeah," he said standing and grabbing his coat from the back of his chair. "I am."

He went into the hall and I ran after him. "You are?" I asked rushing beside him to keep up with his stride.

"You asked me if I fought, I'm gonna show you why I don't." His voice was tight and edged as he walked me and the others- whom I didn't even notice were following us- to the ring.