Ch. 4. An Unexpected Appearance
After changing in to my full black attire with the exception of the silver rose and the other silver jewelry we were all adorned with. The three of us left my old house and headed to the theatre uptown.
The three of us were quite a sight, with us all looking unnaturally pale. In the black I must have looked totally undead. The skin around the bite was a pale pink in contrast to my snowy white skin. The theatre came into sight and we all started to prepare. By the time we got to the theatre we al knew the song 'Only time' By Enya backwards and forwards and everyone else's part.
"So two seconds and a soprano, for only time, what no alto wanted to sing with you?" the people who checked everyone in said.
"I know the alto part. I can hit the notes." I growled. My mood was a little off today. But what could you expect from a girl who was attacked by something the night before, and was suffering major blood loss. They gave us the wave to go through and we took our places in the dusty back stage. At that time Rth figured it was time to start getting an explanation.
"Good Lord, Rae. What did you do to get you're floor covered in blood." Ruth asked, as she remembered the look of the house.
"I fought with a creature that wanted to drink my blood." I explained thinking it was clearly obvious.
"You're on!" The stage hand said, casing us to stop or conversation and I to bite deeply into my finger, drawing blood. For some odd reason I licked the blood off before entering the stage.
Our Instructor took her place in front of the three of us and gave us a wink, as if to say we would do great. How I wished I cold believe her though. She must be upset to lose three of her students. As we lined up I saw the three people, they didn't look so bad. When the music played I fell instinctively into my part.
Every thing went fine as the song played through. At the end the judges clapped and waved us through to the next round. We were going to secondary rounds! When we got backstage something odd happened. Three pairs of glowing eyes appeared, Blue, grey, and topaz, and I passed out.
The wind blew through the bushes around me wildly, determined to destroy all in its path. It was impossible to hear yet I knew I was not alone. Some inhuman thing had awakened inside of me, creating a new powerful version of myself. I was changed, physically and mentally and ever so totally that I almost forgot who I was.
I couldn't pin how got here though, Or why I suddenly was so powerful. I started to walk through the forest looking for any clues to the mystery. I continued to walk until I came to a pond and caught my reflection. And what I saw chilled me to the very core. The girl that was staring back at me had glowing amber eyes.
I looked like the form in my dreams only I was more defined. The eyes were wrong too, they appeared to glow with amber light. This was so strange, but it wasn't what scared me the most. What did was when the girl suddenly smiled revealing two long fangs.
"No!!" I screamed jolting back to the waking world. " Oh it was only a dream, only a dream." I said relived to hear my own voice as I reached up to ouch my two canine teeth, thankfully they were the same size as they had been before. But doubt was in the back of my mind, had it been a vision like those I had before the accident? Or was it a dream? It seamed way to real to have been a dream, but I can never tell anymore.
I was jolted out of my worried thoughts by a pair of Perky voices.
"Rae! You're awake!" Kelsey and Ruth shouted simultaneously in my ears. Ouch. It was creepy how they managed to speak in sync so much. Or scream in this case.
"Yeah what happened?" I asked rubbing what felt like a bump on the back of my head.
"You fainted." Ruth replied. Wow this happened a lot more since the accident than ever before.
"Well, at least I didn't break anything." I said smiling brightly at their two confused faces while worry gnawed at my thoughts. "Or fall off the stage again." The corners of my mouth twitched as I thought back to the last time I fell off stage. It had been in the middle of an assembly and pictures are still on the website. I broke out laughing a few minutes later to the confusion of my too friends. They stared at me funny for a moment before joining in the laughter.
"We should get home." Kelsey said as she headed to the door. Ruthie and I padded after her and out on to the dusky light in the streets. I blinked as my eyes readjusted to the growing dim.
"Ruth, do you want to come with us? You could stay the night and celebrate." I suggested as Ruth pulled out her cell phone. She nodded and walked a short way away to talk with her mother.
When she returned we started off towards my house, The whole way I could only think 'safety in numbers' but that's been proven to be untrue. I mean how often have a herd of cattle or sheep been attacked by wolves or big cats or other predators? My point.
Well we could forget that and have one night without fear and with pizza, cake, ands cheesy movies. I mean what harm could come of that. The three of us padded down the well worn sidewalk and walked into the shadows shrouding my home. And like a hunted animals we walked right towards the hunters.