Chapter 2: No Trust
I followed Cassidy and Katy to what was apparently their camp. From the outside, it looked like an abandoned, warn out store. There was a burned down city behind it. I remembered hearing stories of the near by towns that had been burned down when the vampire attacks first started. Anything that was once standing was now burned down or abandoned. No one dared go into the city, because they were usually vampire infested.
When we entered inside, I noticed that there was a hole in the back of the store. Tents were set up, along with a barrier of scrap metal and building parts.
"This is our camp. The only other person that lives here is Brad, and he isn't very social. Stay out of his way and you should be good." Said Katy as she walked into one of the tents.
Cassidy stayed by me as I looked around the camp. Tables were set up outside of one of the tents, wood was stacked by one of the walls, supplies were stored in different containers, and a large steel safe was placed against the far corner wall.
"Since you have nowhere else to go, you can stay here. You can sleep in here." Cassidy said as he walked to the last tent.
Inside, there was a table, a matress, and a lantern. A small box of matches was placed next to the came into the tent with a shotgun in her hand.
"Here, take this in case anything happens. Just don't kill yourself."
I took it, and as I did, Cassidy's eyes widened.
"Are you insane? It's one thing to let him stay here, but arming him too? How do you know he's not gonna kill one of us and make off with all of our supplies?"
"Shut the hell up. You know as well as I do that this kid isn't gonna kill us." My ears perked up as she said this.
"How do you know?" I asked her carefully.
She turned and looked at me. Cassidy shook his head, looking pissed off.
"I just do. It's getting dark, don't go outside. If you do, don't blame us if you get killed."
With that, they both left. Silently, I sat on the matress. So many things were going through my head. Was Drake going to be okay? Were the vampires going to kill him? Or worse, were they going to kill my parents when they went back to the village?
Sighing to myself, I layed down and put the gun beside the lantern. I just needed to sleep. When I was almost asleep, I heard Cassidy and Katy quietly arguing outside.
"You almost gave us away Katy! He can't know anything."
"Oh give me a break. You're the one that said i couldn't give him a gun. He's just a kid, he isn't going to hurt either of us." Katy harshly replied.
"He's not some poor lost kid. He's a sixteen year old boy who could easily take us out and run off with our stuff. Do you not remember who his parents are?"
I stopped listening at that point. My parents? They hunted vampires and stayed alive. That's all they did. How could my parents be involved in this?
"All I know is, we have to take him into the city tomorrow. Sauli will be waiting for us." Cassidy said.
My heart began to race. Sauli... If it was the Sauli I had heard of, I couldn't let them take me to him. Back when vampires first came to be, a woman mated with a vampire. She had his child and it was half human half vampire. The vampires tried to kill the boy, but instead, his mother was brutally tortured and murdered while her mate watched. When the time came, the boy had to choose whether to join the humans or the vampires. He chose to follow in his father's footsteps and join the vampires.
The boy's name was Sauli. People had legends that once the boy turned seventeen, he never looked any older. After he was born, more vampires mated with the humans, in hopes that the world would become safe again. The vampire lords refused to believe humans could live in peace with the vampires, and so the children of these vampires and humans, had to try and live in the human world. Most of them were killed by humans, but those who stayed with the vampire clans lived.
Needless to say, there was no way I was going to let them take me to Sauli. He would take me straight to the vampires that took Drake, and we would most likely be killed. I would fight to keep my freedom if it was the last thing I did.