Selene woke suddenly from what felt like a never ending sleep. She looked around the room trying to figure out what happened and where she was. She was lying in a rather large room in a big bed with black covers. There were two windows on one side of the room but they had heavy metal blinds and thick black curtains covering them. Beside the bed there was a dresser, a nightstand, a desk, and a shelf filled with books. There were strange paintings hanging on the wall. Everything seemed to follow one color - black.

Selene wondered where she was. She pulled the covers off her and got out of bed. She noticed she wasn't wearing her blood stained cotton night gown anymore. She was wearing a new black one.

She walked over to the books and started looking at the titles and authors. They seemed very old. Some weren't even books, just papers held together by a folder or some string. She took one off the shelf and was about to open it when she heard the door open. She turned suddenly and saw the smiling face of Viktor.

Selene smiled and ran to him and hugged him tightly. "I woke up and I didn't know where I was and I was beginning to get scared and-" Viktor cut off her and said "shhh…..it's alright I was just downstairs. Come and sit down. We have to talk."

Selene and Viktor walked over to the bed and sat down."Where are we?" Selene asked.

"You are at my home. Myself and the rest of the coven live here. The vampire coven." Selene's eyes practically flew out of her head and that's when she noticed her teeth. She had fangs!

But Viktor didn't let her speak, he just when on talking. "You are now a vampire. You now have the abilities to avenge your family. Like you said you wanted.…" he said eyeing her closely. "You cannot leave here, if you do you will be rejected by the outside world. They will try to kill you. You cannot go outside during the day. The sunlight will kill you almost immediately. You will sleep during the day and awaken at sunset."

Selene nodded her head slowly. She couldn't believe this was actually happening. "When do I get to avenge my family?" She asked.

"Now now, don't be so hasty. There's no rush. I can't just send you out on a hunt yet. You need to be properly trained, and that should take a little while." Selene nodded. "It's 1:30 AM. In a little while I'm going to take you down to meet the rest of the coven. But before we do that you must learn some ground rules. First off you must never, NEVER, leave this house without permission. It's a very dangerous world out there and if you leave I can't protect you and keep you safe. Second, you must address all the overlords, including myself, as "Lord," at all times and bow your head respectfully, you kneel when you address me, its only proper. Third, you must never associate with humans. Fourth, you must show only your highest respect to the overlords meaning not only bowing your head to them but try to do whatever they ask of you. Fifth, digging into the past is forbidden. The past is in the past and you cannot change it, so there is no point in trying to. There are quite a few more but we will not get into them right now. Failure to follow these rules will result in punishment. Punishments range from being made a servant, to imprisonment, to banishment from this house , to……execution. Now, go take a bath and wash up, get dressed, the closets over there, and I will return in about an hour and a half and i'll take you downstairs and introduce you to the rest of the coven. Is that alright?"

Selene nodded her head.

Viktor got up and kissed Selene's forehead and walked out the door. Selene felt a wave of emptiness fall over her the second Viktor walked out . She felt alone. Her family was dead, she was the only one that lived. "don't think of that, " She told herself quickly, "It's over, you can't change the past."

Selene got up from the bed and walked over to the closet. She opened it up and it was full of dresses. The colors weren't that cheerful though. Black, dark blue, dark red, dark green, dark purple…..not a spec of whiteor pastelanywhere. She grabbed a black dress and headed for the bathroom.

She entered the bathroom and found the bath was already drawn. Steam was rising from the top. She stripped and put one foot cautiously into the water fearing she might burn herself. To her amazement though, the water seemed only lukewarm to her. She got fully into the tub and washed herself up.

Selene finally got out of the water. She didn't want to not be ready when Viktor came back. She put on the dress she had chosen and became extremely self conscious when she saw herself in the mirror. The dress wasn't very modest. Her mother had always told her that to be a proper lady she should always be modest. Selene frowned but brushed her hair and put on her shoes anyway, and sat down to wait for Viktor.

Only a few minutes passed before Viktor arrived. It was somewhere around 3:00 in the morning Viktor had said. The vampires would be going to sleep in a couple hours. Selene felt somehow relieved at not having to spend the entire night with the rest of the vampires.

She and Viktor walked quietly down the hallway until they reached the top of the staircase. She wanted to make a good impression on them. Most of all however, she wanted to make a good impression on the overlord who was going to be training her to become a death dealer.

They walked down the stairs and everyone rose from their seat and kneeled in respect for Viktor. They were eyeing Selene very carefully and a few people started whispering quietly. Selene heard things such as "favorite," and "pet," come from their mouths but pretended like she didn't hear it.

That's when the introductions began.

"Selene, I would like you to meet Kahn. He's the head of the death dealers. Selene here wants to become a death dealer herself." Kahn eyed her carefully with a look of doubt upon his face. She became very discouraged at that but it quickly faded when he said, "With a little training I think you'll be perfect." Selene felt a great rush of happiness at that.

Selene was introduced to quite a few more people and that's when she met…..(dun dun dun!).…Kraven.

He was quite attractive, she must admit, but that thought quickly faded from her mind when he opened his mouth to speak. "Kraven, this is Selene. Selene this is Lord Kraven. He is the my overlord of this household."

Selene bowed her head in respect as Viktor had told her to do. Kraven kissed her hand gently with his lips. Selene had a sudden urge to pull her hand away and smack him across the face. But she held it in.

"I do hope that I'll get the pleasure to see more of you in the future Selene." Selene felt like vomiting. She tried to blush for modesty's sake but instead of turning pink she turned slightly green.

"Oh you will," replied Viktor, "Selene is going to begin training to become a death dealer." Kraven's jaw practically dropped to the ground when he heard this. "Surely not my lord. Why waste such a pretty face on war and battle? I think, Selene, once you see how the rest of us live, you'll be quick to try and join us."

Selene got the feeling by the way he was looking at her that when he said "join us" he really meant "join me." Does no one but Viktor believe in me? She thought to herself. Well then I'll just have to make them believe in me.

"Yes, well, that is Selene's choice and she chooses to become a death dealer. Come along now Selene." Viktor grabbed her arm and pulled her gently away from Kraven. She was glad. She could already tell that she disliked Kraven. There was just something about him that she didn't trust.

While she was walking away she could feel Kraven's eyes practically burning a whole through her. She tried to ignore it.

When she had been introduced to a few more people Viktor had suddenly took two goblets full of a dark crimson fluid from a tray a servant was carrying and handed one to Selene. Selene looked down at it. Blood. A wave of panic started to flow through Selene like never before. All of a sudden all eyes were on her. They all wanted to see her take her first drink. Selene was very hungry. She just hadn't noticed it before now because of all the mixed emotions she was feeling. She looked up at Viktor but only to see that he had already finished his glass. Selene knew that either she would have to buck up and drink or not drink and look like a baby in front of the whole coven. In front of Viktor and Kahn. She couldn't have Kahn think she was a baby. Selene closed her eyes and took a small sip. To her shock, she found it delicious! She had a sudden urge for more. She began to drink again but remembering all eyes were on her she sipped delicately, to be polite and not gross everyone out. She drank to the last sip and still wanted more, but she didn't ask for anymore. Viktor had only one glass so she would have only one glass too.

Selene went back to talking and introductions. She had also another glass of blood. When anyone heard she wanted to become a death dealer they all had a look of shock on their face and said things like, "Her? You can't be serious?" This discouraged Selene very much, but she didn't say anything.

When it was about 5 AM the vampires started to leave to return to their rooms. They had been up all night and were beginning to get tired. Anyway sunrise was soon. Viktor said goodbye to everyone and led Selene back up to her room. At the door he stopped and said with sad eyes, "Selene I want you to know that I won't be favoring you like this anymore. You will begin training tomorrow. You are to be at the dojo at 11:00 PM. Do not be late. Kahn will be training you. Have a good night." He kissed her gently on the forehead before walking away down the hall.

Selene felt alone and sad. Her family was dead and no one seemed to believe she had what it took to be a death dealer. She knew she did though. And she would prove that tomorrow at training. "I'll be the best death dealer ever," She told herself, "I'll kill every lycan that ever lives. I will."

That was the last thing she said before drifting off to sleep. She woke to the sound of breathing only a half anhour later. She opened her eyes and looked up. Kraven was sitting there on the edge of her bed staring at her.

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(A/N) Hey guys! How do you like the story so far? Is it good, bad, ugly? Is there anything i should change? This is my first fanfic so i don't really know how good my writing skills are...Please review :)