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Is it just me, or does the new rating system suck? I hate it. I sent in a complaint. I think the old way was better and a lot less confusing. Anyone feel the same? Anyways, on with the story!

January 22

That stupid vampire, Erika, followed me all the way down to the crypt, where I was standing, looking at Viktor's grave. It was common knowledge that I went down there often. It was understandable. I missed my sire greatly. Normally, Kahn was the only one brave enough to come down and talk to me while I was thinking. And, of course, Erika had to talk to me.

"I hardly think Viktor would want you freezing down here, watching his grave."

I turned from my thoughts to glare at her and reply rudely, "No. He would want me scourging every last inch of this city for lycans." I turned back, ignoring the stupid maid, who was trying to talk to me. No avail. She muttered something about Amelia's coven arriving soon, and I pushed past her to go to my room, in hopes to find solitude.

Erika left me at my door and went off, coming back soon with a cheaply made dress. She let herself in, much to my annoyance, and started looking for a dress for me to wear. It is useless. I haven't worn a gown or dress since I was human. Kraven keeps trying to force me into one, using the excuse that I am required to go to parties. I normally just don't show up. And if I do, I go in my uniform. I downloaded the pictures of the lycans from Rigel's camera onto my laptop. I started clicking through them while Erika chose which dress she thought I was wearing. I saw that one human who looked at me and enhanced his features, memorizing his face to every last detail.

I don't know why I was. I backed up and looked through the rest of the pictures for the human, noticing him in every one, the lycans just behind him. Then it hit me. "They were following you," I said to myself, studying the pictures. Nosy as Erika was, she came over to look at what I was doing.

She simpered, "He's attractive, for a human…"

"Who's attractive?" Erika jumped as if scalded, embarrassed to be caught by Kraven who had invited himself in. I spared him a withering glance, which he didn't notice, too busy examining himself in my mirror. Erika made a rather hasty retreat. One problem down, one more to go.

Kraven began talking to me, but I wasn't even half listening. "This human," I said to myself.

"What of him?" Kraven asked, exasperated. I noticed he said him, and not it. Odd, that he should already know.

"I'm beginning to think that-" But Kraven had already turned away to look out of my window at what the dogs were barking at. A limo pulled into the drive. Amelia's envoy. He told me to get ready and get down there. I had other plans. I nodded along, agreeing to whatever he had said, and closed the door behind him. I raced to my laptop and quickly sent a search for this human. I found him. Name: Michael Corvin. I skipped the rest and saw his address. Within seconds, I had jumped out of the window and was running stealthily across the lawn to my car.

I saw Kraven stand at my window as I raced away, not even caring what he was doing. I sped toward the address, kicking open the door to Michael's apartment. I rummaged around, looking at photos. I found one of him and another girl. They looked happy together and I felt a swoop of anger. It settled though, when I found her obituary. He too had lost someone he loved. The phone rang, and I jumped up, listening to the recording and hiding myself in the shadows as someone approached. That someone was Michael.

I quickly decided that dramatic was the best way to get an answer out of a human, so I decided to scare the shit out of him first. I reached around, picked him up by his throat, and slammed him against the wall. I shouted out my questions, very forcefully. Of course, lycans ruined our meeting, and I pulled out my favorite guns and started shooting at his ceiling. I managed to hit a lycan and turned as Michael ran out the apartment.

I followed him, too slowly as the elevator's door closed shut. I smacked them, but turned as more lycans came. I realized that going on my own was a foolish thing to do. Instead of shooting at them, I shot in a circle around myself, until the floor gave way. The elevators doors pinged open as I landed, and I raced down the hallway. A lycan was waiting for him.

I shot fiery silver into the lycan, who fell on Michael. I grabbed the human and fled, shoving him into the car. He was terrified. We started away. We had nearly escaped when the lycan I had shot at jumped on the top of my car. He began putting holes into my expensive cars, which pissed me off greatly. His blade then hit my shoulder. I gasped and slammed on the breaks, throwing him out into the road. I ignored Michael's horrified gasp as I backed up then ran over him.

The stupid human wanted me to pull over, not knowing that I was a vampire and would burn in the quickly rising sun. Unfortunately, my night got worse. I passed out from blood loss and Michael pushed the steering wheel left, throwing my nice, lovely car into the Danube. He broke the windows and pulled me to shore, tossing me under the decks. When I woke up, I could see the sunbeams coming closer, but there was no where for me to go.

I rented a car and took Michael back to Ordoghaz, putting him on the bed. Erika came in, wanting to know if he was my boyfriend. "Oh my god, you're going to try to turn him!"

"Of course not." I turned back, looking at the human who saved my life.

"Then why bring him here?"

"He… saved my life." I then realized that I was talking to Erika. "Why are you here?" Apparently, I was to go see Kraven. I went out of the room, seething, leaving Erika and Michael alone. That was a big mistake. Going back, I heard a thunk and a crash. Michael had jumped out my window, terrified at what ever Erika had done. What is it with this human and breaking windows? That's now my car windows and my own window. I'm afraid what would happen if I put him in a glass elevator.

Kraven yelled at me after that, really pissed off. He needs to calm down. Odd thing though. I was talking to him, and he mentioned something about there being no reason for Lucian to want a human. What's odd, is that Lucian is dead. Kraven killed him, also setting the great blaze. Something is wrong here. I'm beginning to doubt that Kraven really killed anyone. I am going to break into the library later. I will uncover Kraven's treachery for all to see by the time I'm done. Maybe he'll leave me alone then…

Sorry I took a long time to do this ch. I had a million tests last week, a huge English paper, and a horrible ancient history assignment. I hate dioramas. With a passion. I wonder why I signed up for all honors…

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