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Playlist For Chapter:

Every Single Day - Benny Benassi
Sandstorm (Basshunter Remix ) - Basshunter/Da Rude
Zombie - Andrew Spencer/The Vamprockerz
Come Back - ? ? ?

The cab pulled up to the beach once more, and I was at once blown away with the beauty of the colorful rocks and gritty sand and the jagged, broken cliffs that acted like some sort of rim. The trees swayed in the gales of wind that blew, the gray waves crashing into the shore line, making some sort of roaring noise. I got out of the taxi, and Nikki jogged up to my side, her red hair blowing and dancing like a flame in the wind. The taxi bolted away, almost spraying rocks at us, and as the white car moved away, Ivy appeared on my other side, looking mystical as her white-blond hair flew around her, pulling out of it's bun. We stood for a few minutes, taking in the wonderous purity of it, I knew.

"I love Washington," Ivy sighed, smiling. "It's good to be back."

I nodded. "I like it too." The wind blew at me, making my vision blurred with my black hair. I pushed it behind my ears so I could see my friends again, and when I looked at Nikki once more, I caught some sort of figure far down on the beach, walking sullenly, dressed in black with it's head down.

I nudged Ivy, and she nudged me back, both of us wondering who it could be. It could have been a tourist, but the chances of a tourist on the end of the crescent shaped beach was very odd, from what Ivy had told us.

Nikki didn't pay attention. "Well, let's go find 'em," Nikki said, grinning from ear-to-ear once more, her lithe body springing into motion as she ran forward. But, just as her right foot hit the ground, just as she was going to run, she crashed head first into a wall of black, and she bounced off, and Ivy grabbed her to steady her. Nikki's almost black eyes flared, and her fists balled as she cried, "Hey, watch it!"

It was the black figure, and now he or she was standing in front of us, tall, and built, probably male, I realized. He kept his head down, his eyes away from us. But I knew something was wrong; the pit of my stomach curled, and the hair on my neck stood on end. He had been too far away; he had almost been a black dot in the distance. But now, he was not three feet away from us, creepily standing there like some sort of hunter, awaiting for it's prey.

"What the hell is your-" Nikki started, but she was completely cut off as the figure lifted his head.

His skin was pale, paler then Ivy's, paler then a sheet, vampire pale, but I knew vampires weren't and couldn't be real. His feature's were sharp, pulled into a snarl, showing off milky white teeth, longer then a human's, but completely perfect, like he had spent his life in a dentist's chair. His whole appearance was something horribly . . . demonic. Demonic and evil and hungry, like he hadn't eaten in days. His animalistic snarl turned into some sort of strange smile before my eyes slowly started to scan upward.

Ivy screamed and stumbled backward, dragging Nikki with her, who was quivering, her eyes wide, but her postion and body tense.

Ivy was freak-out screaming for good reason. A very good reason. My own mouth opened in a shriek, but nothing came out, my hands shaking, knees knocking together as I processed what sort of abomination I was witnessing. His eyes were red. Blood red, tomato red, as red as Nikki's hair, as red as fire, as red as a sunset lit sky. The closer to the pupils, the reder it got, until it was some sort of crazy, insane shade of scarlet that was gleaming at us, flashing with the light and every movement we made. He wasn't an albino, for his hair shone like melted chocolate, so that possibility was done for. He could have been sick, or hurt, or something, but everything else in his body seemed too healthy.

Oh shit. Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit oh shit ohshitohshitohshit-

This time I really screamed, and Ivy was screaming too, but Nikki wasn't; fearlessly, she strode right up to him and asked, "What do you want, freak?"

Oh, why now Nikki? Why be stubborn and stupid now?

The person, guy, animal, thing just smiled once more and reached for her. She took it as he was just a grabby male; she swung her clentched fist backward, her shoulder tensing, as she prepared to give him the punch of his life-

He grabbed her fist in his hand, and with one simple, blurring motion, grabbed it in his own hand and squeezed it, causing the bones to snap and break so loud I heard them.

Nikki shrieked as loud as a freight train as he then let go of her mangled hand. She pulled back, cuddling her broken and half crushed hand to her chest as salty tears welled in her eyes, making them darker and gleam more the usual. From the safety of her other hand, I could see that the skin was already starting to go black and blue, bruising faster then anything I had ever seen before. The fear flied through my veins, and I was so flabbergasted and so fucking scared I just couldn't move.

The person grinned now, having fun with this new game. Or maybe it was Nikki's pain. I would never know. Nor would I ever care about him and his stupid thoughts.

Ivy shrieked once more, and a clammy hand grabbed mine and began to pull me the hell out of there. She dragged us along as Nikki was still trying to comfort her hand, but she finally gave up, and let Ivy grab her good hand. Ivy yanked on me so hard I thought my arm was about to fall off. But again, I didn't care.

Instinct was screaming at me. Run, run, get away, scream, screech, run, get out of there!

And that's what my shaking legs did.

They ran.

We all ran, as fast as we could, bring up sand behind us and Ivy still shrieking, surprisingly loud for her normal self. Nikki kept glancing back, as if he were some sort of tracker, and we were suddenly transported into his hunting game. All I could feel was the horror shaking through very bone in my body, and even though I was starting to get tired, I kept running, my pulse pounding, my heart racing, as if I knew that if I didn't run, I would die.

I looked back, only to see that he was following us; he was walking, some how still keeping pace with us, his black-covered legs looking as if he were walking, but he was coming at us at the pace of an olympic sprinter.

We kept running, ditching the sand now as we got to the road that we had just been dropped off from. The gravel-sand was hard, but steadier to run on; it was easier to run now, and Ivy felt she didn't need to pull us anymore; Nikki was bolting like some sort of red-headed banshee, the tears gone now, but her tears were replaced with a horrid expression of fury and terror mingling into one. Ivy's eyes were filled with terrified tears that ran down her face in rivers, her angelic face worried and trembling. I could feel my legs shaking so much that it was really hard to actually take steps; I stepped the wrong way, and fell flat on my face, my palms scraping against the rocks and sand.

"Renny!" Ivy cried as Nikki came back for me, Ivy hot on her heels. Nikki grabbed my forearm with her good hand and jerked, pulling me up to my feet in one effortless pull, and she began to pull me along, my body on autopilot now as hot tears burned my eyes.

"Fuck it, Renny, c'mon!" Nikki yelled as we caught up to Ivory once more, running together now, trying to pace ourselves so that we could still run and keep an eye one each other, but get the hell away from that guy.

We kept running, panting now, as we started to slow; Ivy was the fastest, still at full speed almost as fast as she had been able to run when she was younger, but she turned around, yanking at us. Nikki shook her head, her eyes night-dark again and she said, "Go!"

Ivy shook her head wildly, panic filling her eyes.

"Ivory, go! I'll keep him occupied well Renny get's the fuck out of here!" Nikki said, her face tense with pain and fury and self sacrafice.

"No, Nikita-" Ivory started.

"Ivory Melanie West, get your skinny ass running!" Nikita shrieked as sudden tears burst from her eyes, making her look like some sort of crying, yet strong red-haired guardian.

Ivory sobbed, but took one look at Nikki's tears and bolted, her legs shaking and she was sprinting in a swirly line away from us and farther up the road. My own knees gave out, and I whipped my head around, tears blurring my vision until all I could see was a black blob coming toward us. I had no clue what his problem was, but whatever he was, or whoever he was, I knew he was now after us.

"Renita, I love you," Nikki said, before her long lean legs appeared in front of me; she was shielding me with her body. "I love you, sister."

"Nonono, Nikita, no, please!" I was tripping over the words as my world was completely a buzz with the fear. My pulse was louder then my own voice, and everything was shaking, including my toes. The horror kept flowing through my veins, making me come to realization far faster then I wanted too.

Suddenly, the black figure was in front of us, and Nikki glared at him, her arms flying out to create more of a boundry from him to me. Normally I would have been helping her, but I felt as weak as a newborn kitten, and my limbs wouldn't let me move anymore. I just wanted to fall over and stay there, dead as could be, just so he would look at me and Nikki could make her escape. Tears ran down my face in wet rivers, puddling under my chin, dripping silently. I slowly reached for Nikki's pant leg as the male looked down at me, his crimson eyes staring, shimmering like jewels in the sunlight that was creeping out from behind the dark gray clouds.

It was our last stand.

The figure lashed out, becoming barely a blur of black, but he was knocked out of the way by something huge and barreling toward him. Nikki hit the deck, crashing on to me, only to be barely skimmed by whatever had thrown the male away from us. My head smashed against the ground, and it throbbed with instant pain. Nikki jumped off of me, obvivious to the fact that my world was slowly spinning out of my control, and the pain burning from my head down my spine to my whole body.

The last thing I saw was Nikki jumping up, and the last thing I heard was her blood-chilling scream before I past out, my mind tumbling into a black void.

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