Chapter 4 "Sleepless Nights"

Dawn rolled over in bed forcing images from her head. The wind hit her window and lightning flashed across the sky making the midnight hour come alive with fierceness. She mumbled a curse under her breath as climbed out of bed. She shivered at the temperature of the room and pulled a long silk robe around her small figure. She walked towards the door her hair bobbing up and down as she walked silently through her room.

She felt the wind blow through the open window and she pulled the robe tighter around her. She sighed and continued down the stairs. She walked slowly into the kitchen and pulled the refrigerator open and looked for something to eat that would satisfy the hunger that she was feeling at the moment. A hand pulled around her growing stomach and felt the baby kick and she felt a shake go through her body at the touch of the baby. It was growing at an accelerated rate because of her being the key and it frightened her in every way possible.

She pulled out the crackers that had been placed in there for some strange reason and sat down at the table. She felt breathing at her neck and then she saw a shadow of something. She screamed and jumped around her hand going around her stomach in a protective manor. The teenager looked at the monster and it looked back at her with a shade of yellow in its eyes. It seemed to be studying her and then it brought its claws up and went to shove them down upon her.

She swallowed and closed her eyes knowing she could not fight in present condition. She heard a clash and then a liquid fell on her face. She opened her eyes only to see the teenage boy with a sword in his hands and the monster grasping where his arm used to be. He glanced at her momentarily and then he was cut across the stomach by the demon.

He whimpered and then pulled the claw from his stomach and threw it to the ground. He swung at the monster and it ducked and once again cut the boy but this time across the face. He took advantage of the moment and sliced upward making a deep wound on the demons chest. Blue blood ran from the things chest and fell on the floor with a splashing noise. The boy smiled and charged at the monster with his sword up in the air ready to go in for the kill.

He was stopped by a massive hit to the stomach that sent him flying into the wall. He slumped to the floor blood seeping from the wound on his head. He shook the pain off and jumped to his feet and he cut at the monsters throat and it only made the demon split and there in his place stood a new demon along with the previous one. He cursed and cut the head off the injured one making it fall in a puddle of its own blue blood.

Dawn felt her heart pound and it was like it was caught in her throat. Her feet were glued to the floor and all the young girl could do was watch the teenager fight. He charged at the new demon and it sliced her arm, it fell open exposing the bone and releasing the blood. The demon licked its claw and growled as the boy whimpered in pain. He took the sword in his other hand and cut the demons horns off and then followed with another slice to the leg.

Dawn heard the clashing of weapons and the cries of the boy but the some force seemed to keep her in place. She felt fear rush through her as thoughts of the boy dying and the demon coming after her and her unborn baby. She fought to get free but then she realized it was useless because the Fang Gang was trapped on the stairs by the same force that was holding her.

Connor felt the claw of the demon cut through his stomach and adrenaline rushes through him as his own blood began to color the floor in red. He felt his heart race as the demon hits him and slings his bleeding body back onto the floor. A burst of energy flows through him and he rears up and kicks the demons head off. It falls onto the floor and the rest of the people are released from the monsters spell. Connor smiled at the girl and felt his head get lighter. He fell to the ground his blood cluttering the floor as he fell.

TBC........... Well I hope you like the idea. I'm sorry to leave you at a place such as this one but I thought it would get you to want to read the next chapter so I did. I was thinking and I would like to get another character into the story and the person that reviews the most and gets the most people to read and review the story will get to be a character in the book. I hope that makes all you people want to read and review even more.

- Trinity Dawn Armstrong