Disclaimer: I do not own Aubry, but I own all the other charaters in here. IF you try and tell me that I don't, here is a peice of monkey skin. You deserve it. ; ).


Chapter 1

Mr. Bushes, an old man form down the road from me, said he heard someone screaming. He came over to see waht the problem was. Found my parents, brothers and sisters, dead in the house. He heard yelling from the woods and quickly followed it. Ack-rin was disrupted and disappeared. Mr. Bushes came to my side. Pale and limp as ever. He was afraid that I would lose my life on such terrible terms.

The Maroon family was murdered by vampires. I was the one who had to watch it all. Six vampires came to my house on the night of my birthday. June 23, 2004. I had just turned 15. Ack-rin was there. One of the most jealous, and easily annoyed vampires that I have ever met. As soon as my family was gone, all but Ack-rin left. Why they chose to kill my family was one thing. But keeping me alive to see them die a horrible death was beyond my mind.

"Shawna...you know why I am here....and you know what I want." Ack-rin looked me in the eyes. He had pinned me up against the wall when I was trying to get out of the house earlier. Vampires have a power that vampire hunters like myself, don't have. He used his mind to pull me back. I flew back and hit the wall, and there he pinned me. He was putting pressure on my chest to where I could hardly breathe. I spat in his face.

"NO....I don't know why you are here and I don't know what you want. You may want to kill me but I am not going to let that happen." He kept putting pressure on my chest. Trying to get as close as to breaking a rib, or all my ribs. "What I want is for you you lose your POWERS!" In a matter of seconds his fangs became to their natural size. Not having any of my knifes on me was a big mistake. I thought that I would be safe in my own home. I guess not. I thought that my family would be able to kill the vampires. I guess that they were not strong enough.

"PLEASE!" I yelled. "Please spare my life for you didn't on my family. I will do what ever you want. I will even get you a Latte. But please Ack-rin let my family live through me." The tear started to flow.

"You always do this to me and every time it works. Every time I try to kill you on your birthday every year. AND it never works. SO I figured that I would kill your family and you would want to die to...but I dont want you to die so that defeats the whole purpose." He said as he sounded like he had planned this all wrong. I should have figured that after moving to this small town that I would be safe on my birthday. I guess not.

We moved here because there was more of a population of vampire hunters than mortals or humans you would say. Now I will always carry my weapons with me wherever I am. He had stoped reading my mind and that is when he fell to the floor in a burst of pain. He took down his guard and that is when it happened. I took in a large, deep, breath to fill my lungs. I ran. I ran out the door and into the forest. One thing I shouldn't have done. Now this was going to be an adventure. Hitting the hard ground hurt a bit. I had tripped over a root sticking out of the ground. I checked to see if I was bleeding Ack-rin was right in my face.

"You....You won't get away this time. I promise." He pulled me up and i struggled for a minute. I knew that I would not be able to get away this time I let him. I surrendered my life to him.

"Damn you Ack-rin....Damn you!" "Too late. I was damed 300 years ago. Now shut up!" I don't know what came over me but that is when i became silent. The fear rushed thrugh my veins as I was about to join my family. I was afraid of death.Death could be a good thing after all. You never know.


Lisa de Lujun