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Chapter 2
It was a few hours before she woke, and when she did Brianna ached all over. Pain flooded through her and it was a large effort even to open her eyes. As she gazed around at her alien surroundings, she realised she was in some kind of cell. There were no windows whatsoever and the only light came from the harsh light of the strip light above. The hard mattress she lay upon was naturally uncomfortable and the metal bed frame was not very exactly homely. Apart from the bed and a metal plate with some food on, the room was completely empty.
How on earth did I end up here, Brianna thought to herself bitterly, trapped in some prison like cell under the control of a Vampire gang lord. Thinking back was much less painful then considering her current situation. Even if the memories where painful, at least she would never have to actually experience them again.
When had she learned about Night World? When she was young. Too young. It had all begun a long time ago. As a child, Brianna had, like most children, been scared of the dark. She had always thought that it had contained some nameless horror. And she'd been right.
When she was five her father had put a small light bulb into her old wooden wardrobe. Brianna remembered her mother saying how 'The light will stop any monsters getting in'. But Brianna never had believed in the kind of monsters, which lived in wardrobes. Her monsters were much more terrifying.
Whenever Brianna became most frightened of these monsters she always went into the wardrobe and turned on the light. She would take comfort from the smell of the freshly washed clothes, which always reminded her of her mother. She would stay there until she felt safe again.
Her parents would often find her asleep in her wardrobe, huddled in a corner. But as Brianna grew, she stopped needing the security of the wardrobe as much. It was only on the darkest of nights, when the wind seemed to scream, that she crept into her wardrobe for a while.
Yet one night her wardrobe failed to protect her from the monsters of the night. She'd been around eight. It had been the last day of the summer holidays and the hot still air meant she was unable to sleep. Lying in her bed, staring up at the ceiling, she had heard Them enter. The small click as the door was forced open. Brianna had tried to tell herself it was just her imagination and that she was probably just dreaming. But when she heard the soft pad of footsteps travelling up her stair she knew it wasn't a dream. It was a nightmare. And it was real.
Brianna lay frozen in her bed but the spell was broken by the screams of her mother, which echoed around the house. But it was when the screams suddenly stopped and the house plunged into silence she truly began to get frightened. Breaking the silence was the sound of footsteps travelling across the hall. To Brianna's room. Instinctively Brianna scrambled out of her bed and managed to reach the wardrobe just before the door opened. Looking through the gaps in the wardrobe she saw Them enter the room. Staring at them, not even daring to breath, Brianna saw something, which took her breath away. They had fangs. All of them. Some of them even had blood around their mouths and the two vampires at the back where carrying something…the lifeless bodies of her parents. They were vampires and they'd killed her parents. Brianna had to bite her hand not to scream. With a predatory assessment of the room the vampires began searching. They looked under the bed, behind curtains and under the large piles of clothes scattered around the room. Slowly, one of the vampires nodded towards the wardrobe. Two vampires began approaching the wardrobe. Brianna pushed herself into the corner of the wardrobe and just prayed she'd die quickly. With one sudden motion the two vampires tipped the wardrobe over. Brianna managed to muffle her scream and the wooden splinters had sunk into her hand brought tears to her eyes. Silently crying, Brianna just wished they would hurry up and get it over and done with. Then a strange thing happened…they vampires just turned and left the room. Leaving a sobbing girl trapped in a wardrobe who would haunted for the rest of her life by the nights events.
It was some hours before they realised that someone was actually alive amidst of the wreckage. Hoping for some kind of reason of for the wreckage they were disappointed when they found out the girl had obviously severally mentally damaged by the event. Rambling on about vampires, no sense could be got out of the girl. It had obviously been an attack of some kind but they had no clue who had done it. Brianna's parents were presumed dead though no one bodies were ever found. Brianna was sent of to a care home. The few relatives Brianna had were either too far away or too old to take care of her.
Being labelled as a 'Problem Case', Brianna was sent from care home to care home until she eventually ended up in Boston. This was were she found out about The Lancers, one of the most successful vampire hunter organisations on the East Coast. One of it's ex-members had been the infamous 'Cat', one of the most famous vampire hunters around. Brianna was by now 13 and was no stranger to vampire hunting. Determined to get her revenge, she had joined every hand-to-hand combat club there was, in each and every one of her care homes.
As soon as she started to improve she took to the streets and began practicing by taking out every vampire she met. That was part of the reason why she had been labelled a 'Problem Case'. Being out half the night then still somehow managing to find time for a large number of combat clubs wasn't exactly the kind of thing a normal girl her age did. As soon as she found out about the Lancers she searched all over Boston and eventually found Elliot, the leader of the Lancers. Glad to have a new member, Brianna soon began taking over all of the work which Rashel, the 'Cat', had previously done. With help from one of the vampire hunters there, Brianna soon learnt to use a large range of different weapons. By 15 Brianna, though she was very young, was arguably the best vampire hunter in the whole of the Lancers organisation. It was at around this age when Brianna finally discovered who the vampires where that had so mercilessly slaughtered both her parents. But the killing of these monsters did not bring Brianna satisfaction she thought it would. The harsh reality that she was completely alone left her empty and cold. So Brianna began to take on more and more dangerous missions, ignoring the protests of the other Lancers. Suicide missions where there was little or no chance of survival began to appeal to Brianna. Again and again she survived these missions then quickly found a new, even harder missions. Not caring how badly hurt she was after each mission and that her health was now steadily deteriorating. Eventually she made a mistake, as the rest of the Lancers had told her she would. Whilst fighting a large group of vampires one night she was stabbed then left to die from blood loss. As the blood drained from her, Brianna fell into unconsciousness.
Some of the Daybreakers had heard rumours about a large fight going on, so Ash had decided to check it out. This was how Ash found her. Barely alive and slowly dieing. Realising how close she was to death, he immediately took her to the nearest Daybreaker safe house. Though her physical injuries soon healed, the mental scars took much longer. Gradually realising that not all vampire were as evil as the ones who had took her parents lives, Brianna eventually lost her prejudice towards them. Wanting desperately to prevent anyone else to suffer as much as she had when she lost her parents, Brianna became determined to achieve peace between the Night People and Humans. As soon as Brianna had fully recovered, she began to take on work to help the Daybreakers towards peace.
But her latest work had brought her to where she was now. The Daybreakers had heard how a gang of vampires were capturing both humans and Night People and then using them as an endless blood supply. Brianna, sent by the Daybreakers, was going to try and find out where their headquarters were. Well I found it alright, Brianna thought to herself bitterly. And what a great time I am having. I am currently trapped in some cell waiting to have my blood sucked by a vampire. And if that isn't enough, I've also just found out that my soulmate is a vampire Gang Lord who would sooner kill me than look at me if he got the smallest hint that I'm a Daybreaker. Great.
If only I hadn't…but that was no use. It was already too late. Going to where the last person had been taken, Brianna had got herself caught by one of the gang members. Then she had been knocked out and when she woke up she was being dragged by two vampires into an abandoned factory, which she now knew was the factory. Realising she was awake, the vampires stopped and tied put a blindfold over.
When the blindfold was taken off she had found herself lying on harsh concrete floor of a small cold room. Shakily, Brianna stood up and found she was not alone in the room. A vampire, leant against the wall, was staring straight at her. Like most vampires, he was good-looking. But there was something different about this one. It was in his eyes. He'd been looking at her in a way which Brianna supposed was meant to be intimidating, but she had seen through that. There was a strange loneliness in his eyes, one which matched her own, and there was a kind of also a sadness. Sadness that he was there, about to bite another innocent girl. He didn't want to have to bite her. But Brianna had known he was going to. Going to try that is.