I've fed on the blood of a thousand innocent victims, but none screamed as much as he did. I must learn how to kill silently. I will learn how to survive as a vampire and make it my life. It is a part of me now, and I will teach myself or find another to teach me.

Lucrius Next

Gryffindor Boys dormitory 24th September 12:00 AM

Lucrius climbed up to the window, he hadn't slept but then what need had he for sleep. He clicked the window open and looked down the tower. He couldn't decide whether he could really fall all that way and so he climbed down the first 100 feet. After he could see the ground clearly he pushed off the wall and fell he opened his robes, not for any practical reason he just decided if he was going to do things he would do it with a little finesse. He touched the floor and fell into the ground bringing his body close to it. He then looked up and ran towards a small clump of trees near the greenhouses. This allowed him to for the first time open his mouth fully and reveal 2 rows of perfectly set teeth complete with his canines, having grown a lot since the initial transformation, which were sharp needle thin points. He flexed his jaw opening it wide and closing it at great speed making sure that his teeth would sink into the flesh perfectly without causing huge great rips in the flesh to be created, this was the biggest error of his first few kills. The bodies were found very quickly, with the Vampires kiss as it had come to be known, very little blood was spilt and only 4 small puncture marks were left.

He set off running at his full speed across the open areas of the grounds until he came to the edge of the forbidden forest. Here he rested for a few minutes if there was one thing he knew about hunting, it was once he had committed himself to a kill he would have to stick to it and follow it through. This always required energy and so he needed to be on top form. His eyes glared through the darkness and as his eyes did not require sunlight to see, everything was clear as daytime, except everything was slightly hazy and dimmer than daytime viewing. He set off by scaling a tree and as he reached the top he set about running and jumping his way from tree to tree. This created some noise but his vampire-enhanced limbs saw that this was not going to hamper him in the slightest. He came across a pack of Thestrals when he got further into the forest, he ran down the tree gripping it with his hands and his feet and running head first down the tree. This caused the Thestral pack to turn on him and as they charged towards him he glared his teeth and they calmed down and trotted along towards him he stroked one on the nose and said,

"You wouldn't know where there are any Centaur's would you?" The Thestral then snorted a lot and bowed its head and let Lucrius ride it and then it galloped off towards the centre of the forest. All the other Thestrals followed and as they neared the centre of the forest a Centaur walked up to them.

"Who goes there?" he shouted.

"Your worst fear!" Replied Lucrius dismounting from his Thestral; the whole pack then galloped off into the distance.

"Stupid wizard thinking you could scare me by way of threats. We centaur have been fighting wizards for centuries what makes you think you will change the tide of the ages."

"I'm not hear to fight or ask for help!"

"Then why have you come so far into Centaur territory?" Lucrius smiled and slowly opened his mouth revealing to the centaur his teeth, The centaur turned started to gallop and blow its horn, calling the other centaur to his help.

Lucrius started after him and chased him right into a full legion of centaur guards.

"This is more like it." Yelled Lucrius. He jumped and bounced over the centaurs' weapons and evaded all attack. He also put in swipes of his own injuring several of the centaurs in the process until he finally jumped onto a Centaurs back and brought his mouth towards the neck.

"Time to meet your maker." Lucrius whispered into the centaur's ear, and then lunged in for the kill. The centaur kicked and lunged trying to flick Lucrius off but Lucrius had already begun to drink. This filled the centaur with a feeling of death and scared him more in one final effort he tried to put all his weight behind one final kick but he failed to dislodge Lucrius and the centaur fell to his knees. Lucrius drank his fill and as he lifted his head up the leader of the legion said,

"So you were brought into the school. Vampire!"

"I've heard it all before you have no respect for the school and will one day drive out the humans."

"But we have all the respect for vampires, especially the stronger ones." Replied the leader

"I know all about you but how much do you know about me." Replied Lucrius

"Nothing more than the respect you deserve."

"I am Lucrius Next, from the house of Next, Romanian Vampire."

"I know that name just about every one does, and you say Romanian." Replied the centaur.

"I've been hunting for hours, and the sun is fast approaching, I must depart."

"We will meet again Vampire." Replied the leader

"I'm sure we will."