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Chapter I - A New Beginning
Out of all the high schools I wanted to go to, Fang High Academy was not on the list. It was however, the one I was currently being banished to, thanks to my stupid, short tempered brother and my colder-than-normal heartless Vampire father.
Fang High - or Hollywood Arts to the humans - isn't a school for your typical everyday teenagers, no, Fang High was the best school for housing two of the most predatory supernatural beings in existence - Vampires and Lycanthropes - but the Nevada campus was one of the few to house both species TOGETHER, without either side trying to kill the other.
Fang High mainly accepted 'pure blood' supernatural though the did accept half-bloods as long as they promised not to cause trouble for the other students and staff, especially the halfblooded lycanthropes or 'werewolves' as everyone calls them. They were the worst, always losing control during the full moon unlike the full blood.
But why am I complaining about going to this place? Well its two simple reasons really,
1) I was quite happy at my old school, Sherwood. I had all my friends there, was crowned Miss Popular even if I didn't want it, was a straight A student, and best of all, no one knew who - or rather what - I really was. I got to live a normal life, well, that was until my brother had to fuck things up.
It was at one of my we're-not-really-friends friend's Halloween party and my brother Leon caught his girlfriend hitting third base with the Jerk of the school and captain of the basketball team, Ryder Daniels, in one of the upstairs bedrooms. Naturally he was pissed beyond belief, and if me and my best friend Carly hadn't been where we were at the time, then not only would he have exposed both him and Ryder to the human world, but most likely the Council would have been alerted and both of us would have been put to death for exposure to the natural world. That didn't, however, stop us from getting noticed by our dad who had been called up after one of the neighbours had called in to complain about the load of noises and 'dog fighting' (gotta love partially blind people).
After being 'punished' for a good month, I found out from Carly that I'd been taken off the school register. When I asked our father about this he told us we had a choice - attend Fang High or he would turn us in and give us to the Council - either way it was a win-win situation for him. For him, he could finally be rid of us. Father hated us. He blamed us for mother's death and hated us even more when he found out what we were. If it wasn't for mother's dying wish to keep us alive and safe he would have killed us or turned us over to the Council long ago. Now he finally had the chance to get rid of us and 'get back in the game'.
So after beating the crap out of my brother for getting us into this mess, I reluctantly went to my room and started packing my stuff into suitcases. I was in my walk-in closet looking at old photos of my friends when I heard a knock at the closet door.
Looking up I saw Leon was still sporting cuts and scratches from his beat down. I could tell his ribs had already healed and he had already put his arm back in its socket. "Can I come in?" he asked. If he was in wolf form his wolf ears would be hanging low and his tail between his legs.
"Depends, you want me to beat you up again?" I asked. I was still pissed off at the fact that because of his fight with Ryder, I most likely will never be able to see my real and only human friends again. Not to mention live a normal life.
"Oh come on sis," he came and sat down next to me, "I just wanted to show him whose boss," he whined.
"And blow our cover as humans! Not to mention showed Ryder what you really are, all for a girl who, might I add, is currently dating Conner Marchel right now instead of the pair of you!" I growled. I threw the pictures back in the box with all my other memorial stuff. As I looked down into the box I saw some pictures of me, mother, Leon and father when we were a 'happy family'. I picked them up and started shuffling through them. There were some from when she used to take us deep into the woods behind our house and let me and Leon shift and run around freely in our skin walker forms. We were just small pups then.
I felt a wet nose and muzzle brush up under my arm. I looked down to see Leon had shifted into his skin walker form - a huge black wolf, like the ones from those stupid Twilight movies, with white tipped ears and 8cm canines that stuck out of his muzzle. He was currently lying on the floor next to me, putting his head in my lap and looking at the pictures with me.
"I miss it too you know, back when we were a real family. I miss mother especially," he whimpered telepathically.
I started patting and stroking his head. I really do miss her. I continued shuffling through the pictures from when we were born, to our 7th birthday party. She died two weeks later protecting us from a Souleater. I remember father hunting it down and killing it mercilessly. He was never the same after that day. I looked at the last picture, two fairly large wolf pups, one white with black tipped ears and one black with white tipped ears, both about the size of a 6 month old German Shepard with small fangs sticking out the sides of their muzzles, lying sound asleep cuddled up next to each other. I turned the picture around to read the writing on the back:
'Leon & Victoria - First Shift - Age 4 (My Angelic Pups)'
I was about to put the pictures back when something caught my eye. I put the pics down gently on the floor and reached into the box to pick up an envelope. I could feel there was something inside of it. On the front was the initials 'V.V. & L.V'. I glanced at Leon and then pack to the envelope. Without warning I ripped it open. Inside were two chains with a Ying pendent on one and a Yang pendant on the other. I held them up and watched them twirl in the artificial light. As they twirled I saw that the white chain with the Yin (black) pendent had a 'L' on the back and the black chain with the Yang (white) had a 'V' on it.
I set the chains down and took out the piece of paper, unfolded it, and read over the note:
'To My Little Angels, no matter what happens I will always treasure and love you with all my heart.'
I carefully put the letter down and picked up the Ying necklace and put it around Leon's neck, the white standing out against his black fur, and then put the other around my neck. I looked down at mine and then at Leon before giving him a hug.
"I forgive you. Like it or not you're my brother," I said. I could feel is left paw around my back as he hugged me too.
"Thanks sis. We'll get through this, together like always." He then let go and shifted. "I'm gonna go call Uncle Tim for a lift. Dad still has our bike even though the bags won't fit on them and I refuse to run with two suitcases on my back," he joked. I couldn't help but give a small chuckle at his joke.
An hour later we were in our Uncle Tim's truck driving to the new school. He was a Vampire like father - they were turned together - but unlike him he knew what we were and didn't hate us. He and mother were best friends and promised her that he would keep us safe no matter what. I was looking at his hand that was holding the wheel and noticed he was wearing two different rings.
"The silver ring is an enchanted ring like yours and Leon's. While yours allows you to shift without ruining your clothes in human form and your other one allows you to age as a human would, mine allows me to walk in the sunlight without getting burnt to a crisp," he explained without taking his eyes of the road. I guess he must have felt me staring at his hand for the past ten minutes
"What about the gold one?" I asked. It was just a simple gold ring that had the word 'forever' written on it in fancy writing.
"Wedding Ring," he said with a smile.
"You're married?! You didn't say you were married! When did you get married?! Who are you married to?!" I heard Leon shout from the back seat. I completely forgot he was in the car.
"You never asked," he chuckled at Leon's eagerness to get information out of him. "I got married two years ago. As to who, well, you're about to find out." I looked at him, confused, but shrugged it off and decided to get some sleep.
Seven hours later and we pulled up into the car park of our new school and home. It was secluded from the neighboring town many miles away and would defiantly take at least two and a half hours to get back into town. As we walked up to the gate we saw that the campus was made up of a huge castle surrounded by an immense and dense forest as well as huge rock wall stopping anyone from seeing what was on the other side. The castle looked like it was made from dark oak and stone, giving it a slight gothic, dark aura to it, having many towers and long corridors as well as more than enough rooms. I looked at Leon and saw he was thinking the same thing as I was.
"Hogwarts," we both said in unison before laughing. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad here?
As we got to the front of the 'Hogwarts' castle with our suitcases we saw a tall, creamy pale skinned woman waiting for us. She had a diamond shaped face, uneven lips, wolf like eyes, and a short nose. She was quite slim, had light brown straight hair that was pulled back into a neat bun but had a couple strands hanging loose. At first I thought she was a Lycanthrope but when we got close enough I could tell she was in fact a Sorceress and on her finger was wedding ring identical to Uncle Tim's as well as a daylight ring.
"Kids, this is my beautiful wife, and your new Vice principal, Ocelia (Oh-See-Lee-Ah). Ocelia, this is my niece Victoria and my nephew Leonardo." We both bowed our heads and she smiled, "It's nice to finally meet the in-laws my husband so fondly talks about. I'm sorry about your father but I'm sure you'll settle in just fine here," she said, and I could hear the warmth and sincerity in her voice. She then started saying things in a language I had never heard before and four basketball sized orbs appeared under our suitcases before they were engulfed and disappeared. I looked at Leon with the same shocked expression he had at what just happened. "I just sent your stuff to your rooms so you didn't have to carry them anymore," she explained, sensing our dismay at what just happened. She then escorted us into the castle. I saw a few wolf kids talking to each other and a couple of vampires walking around. Two students caught my attention though, a red haired girl and a pale raven haired girl with red streaks were talking to each other as if they were best friends but had stopped to watch us. I could tell they had stopped because they could smell us, I made sure to keep an out for them.
We arrived in a small office, and sat on the long leather couch at the back of the room whilst my uncle and aunt-in-law sat at the desk sorting out our referrals and registration. I closed my eyes and just listened whilst Leon whipped out is 3DS from his back pocket and started playing one of his games.
Twenty minutes later we were almost done. She just had to take our classification details, give us our timetable and room keys, and then she would call a guide to show us around the place.
"I normally wouldn't have to ask this because your medical history and school data would tell us your classifications but seeing as you went to a human school and were home birthed it's understandable," she said whilst typing.
"Vampire, Werewolf, Lycanthrope or Half Blood?" she asked, finally taking her eyes off the screen to look at us.