(A/N: Yeah! Summer school is over! If I didn't have choir or Spanish I wouldn't have to take it but hey, Spanish I have no choice over and there is no way in heck I'm going to stop choir. I love to sing to much, but enough rambling. I don't own anything from Underworld.)

CHAPTER TWO

Amber woke up the next morning with Raven leaning over her. She was about an inch away from her face. Amber screamed from surprise and rolled off the bed. She wasn't used to people staring her in the face when she first woke up. Raven was laughing. Apparently she thought this was funny. Man, she either has issues or no life to go and do that. Amber thought angrily to herself.

"Um, morning." Amber said groggily getting a glance of the clock as she stood up. "Shit, I'm late for school."

Amber pushed passed Raven, ending the girl flying and landing on the unmade bed.

"Crazy!" Raven shouted at the girl.

"Thank you!" Amber replied as she ran down the stairs. When the girl turned her head back around, she almost ran into Lucian. She stopped in less than a split second. What could she say, she had a fast reaction time to things.

"Oh, sorry. Will you tell Michael I went to school?" Amber asked him.

"Of course." Lucien said smiling at her.

"Thank you." Amber said then ran out the door at top speed, which was pretty fast.

If Amber had left at this time yesterday, she would have been to school extremely early. Today, she had to run halfway across town to get her backpack and then get to school. Needless to say, she didn't want to go, but kind of had too. If she didn't Michael would kill her. If she had learned anything in her sixteen years, it was don't get Michael angry. He's usually very calm, but once you pass his limits…you're basically dead and get to chose how your remains will be displayed.

Amber got to the apartment and madly looked for her backpack. No one had entered the apartment while she was gone (of course there was nothing worth stealing anyway). Amber saw it and then grabbed her backpack off the couch, then bolted out the door again. She was getting quite a work out getting to school today.

When she got to school, she received her cold unwelcome by the popular kids as usual. Her classes were boring. It was school, what did she honestly expect? Then the class bully wanted to start something…again. Amber really had no patience today and mouthed off to him. Her tolerance level was at zero. Then, the stupid idiot wanted to fight her, so Amber flipped him over her back. That ended that argument. After school was busy as usual, but busier than usual. She had art club till three thirty, choir till six, and then she had debate till eight. Amber liked debate, she always won. Michael always said she was stubborn. She never doubted it for a second.

Amber won her debate, as she had become accustomed to, and sat down as she looked out at the dark sky that had formed outside. Another team went up to debate when the loud speaker came on.

"Will Miss Corvin come to the front office. Miss Corvin to the front office."

All eyes turned to Amber.

"I didn't do anything I swear." Amber told them.

"Sure you didn't." the teacher replied.

Amber shrugged and stood. If they believed her, fine. If not, that's fine too. She made her way to the office, which was on the second story of her school. Why did they want to see her? She honestly hadn't done anything. Did they think she did? Amber entered the small room and closed the door behind her. She walked up to the front desk to see woman sitting there. The clerk looked a teeny bit worried. Amber didn't know why, so went ahead and spoke first.

"You wanted to see me?" Amber asked her.

"No, we did." she heard and turned around. There was a man dressed in all black with three other men behind him. Amber was extremely confused. Who the heck were these people and why were they in the school? How did they even get in the school in the first place?

"Who are you?" Amber asked him.

"Is your last name Corvin?" the man in black asked.

"Yes." Amber replied slowly, not sure if that was good or bad.

"Then you don't need to know." the man said and pulled out a gun.

Oh shit…not good. Amber thought. "What the heck?"

"Now come quietly and nothing will happen to you." the guy said. Amber didn't even wait for him to finish before she was out the door. Once again, quick reaction time. They ran after her, but Amber didn't look back. She bolted down the hall as bullets went off around her. She screamed and dived to the ground as one barely missed her and crashed through the window, shattering it. Amber jumped up before they got any closer. It was a dead end, she had nowhere to go.

Amber looked around madly for an escape route. Then, she decided and took the only exit available. She jumped out the shattered window and flew through the air. She hit the ground hard, landing on her butt. She immediately scrambled up and looked back up at the school as she backed away quickly.

She saw the man look out the window then he disappeared back into the school. Amber turned around to run and smashed into someone. They were both flung back onto the ground. Amber landed on her rear, once again.

"Raven, Taini?" Amber asked.

"Rocky?" Raven asked.

"Amber. What are you doing here?"

"Michael sent us to get you." came a deep voice. Raze came running up behind them. Amber was glad to see him, even if she really didn't know him. At least she could go to Michael."

"C'mon, we're leaving town." Raven said talking her arm and Taini taking the other one.

"What?" Amber asked confused, but they were already running away from the school with Raze behind them. Were they leaving because of those men? Who were they? Was Michael in trouble? Was this a gang thing? Was Amber just over analyzing her life?

Raze turned around and saw the men who had chased Amber running after them over the grounds of the school.

"Raven. Taini." he said. The girls turned around and saw them.

"Oh, no." Amber said and was about ready to bolt. There was no way that she was going to stand there any longer than she had too.

"Kraven." Raven whispered hatefully as her eyes flared.

"What's he doing here?" Taini asked with the same hatred in her voice.

"How should I know? Wait you know him?" Amber asked.

"Unfortunately." Taini replied.

"We hate each other's guts and want the other dead." Raven to Amber.

"Okay." Amber replied as she pulled something out of her back pocket. There was a click and the object was made clear. It was a switch knife. Raven arched an eyebrow where she saw the blade.

"Nice." she said. "You're not so stupid after all."

"Thanks…I guess." Amber replied not sure if it was an insult or complement. She really didn't have time to decide right now. They began to run away from the men that were pursuing them. Raven and Taini were first, Raze was second with Amber trailing.

The men seemed to get closer to them as they ran, which was not good. Amber was once forced to use her knife to get away from a man who grabbed onto her leg. She stabbed him in the leg and then bolted off so she was running even with Raven and Taini.

"Hey, Rocky has a use after all." Raven said.

"Amber! My name is Amber."

As they ran, the scenery changed into the downtown part of the city. The four were exhausted and badly needed a rest. However, those strange men were on their heels. They couldn't afford to rest. Suddenly, Amber was pulled into an alleyway. Raven, Taini and Raze followed her.

"Lucien." Amber said breathing hard looking up into the man's face. There was a woman next to him all in black with short black hair. Lucien smiled down at the teen.

"Amber, this is Selene. Selene, this is Michael's sister." Lucien quickly introduced then turned to Amber. "Follow her."

Amber nodded and looked over to Selene. Selene went down into a sewer pipe and Amber followed, slightly disgusted. Down in the pipe Amber found Michael.

"What's going on?" Amber asked him. "And why are we in a sewer?"

"He will tell you later. Right now we have to out run Kraven." Selene said as Taini jumped down followed by Lucien. Raven was next with Raze last. The seven of them ran till they got to the end. There was a ladder on the wall before them and they climbed it. Amber was still confused as ever but really didn't complain. She just wanted to get away from the smell. The group came up outside of the city. Amber looked around and saw a silver SUV parked waiting for them. Raven jumped in the back seat with Taini and Lucien and Raze sat in the middle two seats. Selene took the drivers seat with Michael riding shotgun. Amber sat between the two, feeling very uneasy being seated so close to someone she had just met.

"Hold on." Selene said as she threw the car in gear. They quickly sped off into the night, throwing everyone against the back of their seats.

"Where are we going?" Amber asked as she whipped off her knife with a handkerchief and carefully switched the blade closed. She then put it in her back pocket. She had kept it out this whole time as protection incase she would need it. She thanked god she didn't have to use it again.

"We found a new place to stay." Michael told her gently.

"Who were those men that chased me?" Amber asked, her heartbeat still quick from the run. She guessed it had been at least two miles, maybe more, of them eluding their pursuers.

"Their leader is Kraven." Selene replied.

"Don't worry about them now." Michael interrupted. It seemed like he was keeping something from Amber, which made her angry. He goes and disappears, leaving her all alone and now he's keeping secrets after she was almost killed. She didn't know what had happed to Michael, but he had changed.

"You need to relax." Michael told her and pulled Amber against him.

"But…" Amber started tiredly.

"Shhh, rest." Michael told her gently. Amber gave up and leaned against him. Okay, maybe he hadn't changed so much. He was still protective of her and she couldn't win an argument with him, no matter how hard she tried. Michael put his arm around her to try and comfort her.

The sky clouded over and it began to storm, but still they kept driving. There was no lightning, just rain. It was raining hard and they had to keep the windshield-wipers going quickly so Selene could see to drive. Raven or Taini didn't seem concerned at all about the weather. They chattered quietly to each other. Amber could hear them, but didn't even bother to try and decipher what they were saying. She was to tired to care anymore. Amber fell asleep to the tapping of the rain on the windows.

(A/N: That's it for this chapter. Next update won't be for a while. I'm going to New York and I get to see WICKED on Broadway! (EEEP! EXCITED!) NO FLAMES please, but REVIEW! Thanks!)