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a/n: rating to go up when more story is added

January 9

I feel sore all over right now. Rigel and I were walking the street of Buda when we ran into a couple of lycans. Literally. I never thought I'd get the smell off. We were surrounded by humans, which is why the lycans didn't smell us. Also, the wind was at our faces. So we knew where the lycans were but they didn't know where we were. Unfortunately, it was raining and their smell was somewhat washed out. I realized my mistake soon enough. Hmmm, objects in the rain are closed then they smell.

It reminds me of my first day of training…

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After a day of sleep, Viktor came into my room and woke me. He handed me a black pair of pants and a tight black corset. I put them on as he instructed. I also drank the blood he gave me. He led me down the hallway past the staircase. We turned and went behind the staircase to the hallway beyond it. At the end of the hallway we turned left, and after we went down a flight of stairs and through another hallway, we arrived in what appeared to be a dojo.

Vampires all around were engaged in various forms of training. Viktor led me past them and to a desk, behind which a vampire was sitting, pointing various weapons at the wall. Viktor introduced him to me as Thomas, the weapons master. Thomas was to help find someone to instruct me in my training. He called over another man, named Kahn, to help me. Kahn, I later found out, was just a few years older then myself but had been training all those years.

He took me to an empty room with different textures on the walls. One wall was very rough, the other gritty, one smooth, and one slippery. The ceiling was also textured differently. He kindly explained to me that the different textures were to help me learn how to crawl on walls and ceilings well. We would start by learning how to jump to the ceiling. He moved me to the rough part of the wall and told me to watch him. He jumped straight up and crouched on the ceiling briefly before dropping down to land on my feet.

"Now," he said, "you try to jump up to the ceiling. Jump as hard as you can. Aim as if your going to jump through the ceiling. You will hit it hard and cling." He gave me a few more pointers and it was time for me to attempt. I tried not to show him my fear; I was mildly afraid of heights after my sister had tried to push me off the barn roof when we were younger. Just thinking about that made anger drown out all fear. I looked up at the ceiling and jumped.

The first time I didn't' jump hard enough. My fingers and toes barely brushed the ceiling as I fell down, twisting sideways to try to land on my feet. It nearly worked. I landed painfully on my hands and knees on the hard floor. I knew I would have bruises the next morning. Kahn, however, seemed pleased with my attempt. "Next time, jump harder," he instructed me. "Although the way you nearly saved yourself from landing on your back… that was good. Really good."

I beamed with pleasure on the inside, while my outside face maintained a hard mask of coolness. I nodded to show I understood and picked myself off the floor, ignoring the hand he stuck down. I hoped he wouldn't take offense, and he didn't. "All right," he instructed. "Jump harder and aim for the ceiling."

I looked up at the ceiling. I jumped again, harder. THUNK. I hit the ceiling with enough force to crack it and fell too fast to be able to save myself. CRUNCH. I landed on the floor on my back with the wind temporarily knocked out of my mouth. I heard Kahn snigger as he hauled me to my feet. "I did the same thing too!" he told me.

I smiled slightly and brushed myself off. Without waiting I jumped, less then try number two and more than try number one. Instead of aiming above the ceiling, I aimed for the ceiling. I hit it with enough force and stuck there. "Bravo," Kahn congratulated me. "It took you only three tries. It took me at least five. All right. I'm going to teach you how to crawl. Come on down." I let go and dropped to the floor, this time landing on my feet.

But the crawling lesson is another story for a later time. I've spent too much time writing and am now going to bed.

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Sorry I haven't updated for a week. I've been really really busy with school and stuff. Oh. If anyone has written a story and would like me to read it or whatever please tell me! Btw, does anyone know how to set up a link in the website? Like, Underworld is under movies… Does anyone know how to make up a new link? I was wanting to submit a story for a book called Eragon but there is no link for it.

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