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Chapter 8 missing

Ethan's POV

Everything was blurry until I fully opened my eyes to receive four worried faces peering over me yet again.

"Mum?"

"Ethan, honey we were waiting for you to wake up again you were asleep for a long time, how do you feel?" Mrs Morgan asked worriedly.

"Okay I guess, I mean I don't feel any different from yesterday, I'm still pretty sore."

"Do you think you can hang in there for a little while whilst we take Jane back home? It's been a long day for her and we will be straight back."

"Mum, seriously don't worry about it, you don't need to come back I will be fine and besides you and Dad look as if you haven't slept in days."

"Are you sure sweetheart?"

"Yeah it's fine and besides I have Sarah here with me." I said turning to smile at her.

"Okay well if you're sure honey." Mrs Morgan said before smiling and disappearing out of the door with Jane and Mr Morgan.

"Soooooo…." I said glancing at Sarah; she was looking down at her hands again which she had been twisting endlessly since I had woken up. Something was wrong I could see it written all over his face.

"What's wrong? Wow I feel like I haven't seen you in ages, what day is it today" I said

"It's Friday."

"Fri-d-ay!?" I said as if I were saying it for the first time. "I've been out for a week?"

"Yeah." She said quietly

"Sarah what's up your acting different."

"It's fine Ethan don't worry about it, all you need to worry about is getting some rest."

"Sarah if something has happened I want to know. Please."

"It's Amanda." She said. I knew instantly something terrible had happened. Slowly I took Sarah's hand in mine helping her to continue. "That night when the elixir was destroyed they knew that she was their last hope and they went straight for her, she has been trapped down in the tunnels with them for a whole week! It's my entirely fault; I should've been there to protect her! I-I would've but."

"Sarah you couldn't have known, stop beating yourself up about it." I told her but she was silent. "Where is Benny, Erica and Rory? What have they been up to?" I said quickly changing the subject.

"Rory is at home I think and Benny and Erica are on patrol tonight."

"Patrol?"

"Yeah we've been taking it in turns to watch the tunnel entrance, you know see if they bring Amanda out or if anything strange happens."

"I see…." I whispered barely able to keep my eyes open, I was already tired and I had only just fully woken up. Before all I got were snatches of conversations, little bits and pieces but nothing that I could actually understand or put together.

"You look tired; here I'll leave you to it." She said carefully drawing the blanket up and over my arms before disappearing into the empty hallway. I slowly closed my eyes in an attempt to relieve myself of all the stress that had just been brought upon me.

Amanda's POV

I sat on the cold concrete floor of the little cell I was trapped in searching my pockets for the old locket. All I could feel were the insides of my jeans until my hand came to rest upon a smooth metallic surface. Carefully I pulled it out and held it between the pads of my fingers, slowly examining it as the memories of my mother came flooding back to me all at once.

"What are you doing?" Ashton my guard piped up from the chair outside my cell. He was the same age as me but strikingly beautiful with his deep black hair and searching eyes brown eyes. He looked like something out of a magazine, a guy that that caused regular girls like Amanda a lot of problems.

"Just thinking about all the memories of my mother, her wearing this locket, the beautiful red ribbon that she always wore in her hair which always smelt of her unique scent. All the times she read stories to me before bed and then my favourite memory, my 15th birthday…. I was the biggest book worm just like my mother and our favourites were the classics…. I stopped speaking instantly, why was I telling him all of this. I was talking too much again!

"Go on I'm curious." He said

"Why do you care anyway?"

"Because… I know what it's like… the pain I mean of losing someone close." He said quietly. I felt a twinge of sadness but quickly dispelled it, he was the enemy, I would absolutely not feel empathy for him.

"Why would I care anyways?" I said indignantly. I didn't mean for it to come out as harsh as it did but it was too late to take it back now, his sad eyes turned to hard slits as he examined me in the cell. I suddenly felt like an animal trapped at the zoo for everyone to just watch.

"I don't know, I'm sorry – I didn't mean to drown you in my life story but I thought you would understand, I thought you were – different. I guess I was wrong." He said cuttingly. Why did I suddenly feel so guilty, I was the one being kept here against my will by him!

"What exactly do you want from me Ashton, why am I here?"

"Just drop it Amanda." He snapped. I shuffled away from the bars; I didn't like his harsh gaze. It kept boring into me and I needed to get away. What exactly was he looking at, I was a dishevelled mess! His gaze softened as I stared intensely at him, he seemed so different from all the other rogues but yet still so brutal and cruel all the same.

"What was your favourite classic novel?" he asked interrupting my mental babble.

"Oh, um Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, The Scarlet Letter but my favourite is definitely Pride and Prejudice…." I cut myself off again; words were just spewing out of me uncontrollably. I mentally slapped myself as Ashton looked at me quizzically; he opened his mouth to speak when a voice echoed further down the tunnels.

"Ashton!" the booming voice yelled. Instantly Ashton got up to leave taking the burning candle with him, it was the only thing that illuminated my dark cell. He moved swiftly and with ease down the tunnel before turning to look at me once more as he headed off. The light slowly got dimmer and smaller until once again I was left in darkness. I felt uneasy why did I care so much about what he was going to say, I pushed all thoughts of him away and lay down on the hard floor, I was severely tired and needed to sleep.

Erica's POV

"Benny stop it, stop zipping and unzipping that stupid jacket!" I nearly yelled

"But it keeps getting stuck; do you think if I jiggle it then it will work?"

"I don't care whether you jiggle it or not just stop! I can't concentrate with you making so much noise and we are meant to be keeping a low profile."

"But I'm cold! This thing won't do up."

"Here just give it to me I'll do it!" I snapped pulling the zip this way and that.

"What are you doing? Don't break it!"

"I'm fixing it just keep still." I said pulling as hard as I could.

"You're going to break it."

"Keep still." I said leaning closer in to get a better view until my hair got stuck in his nerdy zip.

"Great!"

"What the heck! Benny stop pulling."

"You stop pulling!"

"ow,ow,ow stop my hairs stuck."

"Wait." Benny said tugging in the other direction until we had lost control, within seconds we were tumbling head first into the mouth of the dark tunnels. My head felt as if someone had been yanking at it all day as we landed with a thud on the floor.

"Ewwwww!" Benny groaned examining his zip.

"What are you whining- ewwwww!" I said looking at his zip which had now got a nice chunk of my blond hair hanging from it. I thought if ever I would end up going bald from all this rogue stress NOT because of nerds like you ripping my hair out, now I know how my dolls felt when I was a cute but sticky little kid.

"Why are you complaining, I'm the one who has to wear your hair!"

"News flash! It's the best thing that's happened to your style since you started buying shirts like that." I yelled pointing at his disgusting outfit.

"Well-,"

"Shhhh what was that!"

"What was what?"

"That noise…."

"Huh"

"Benny we have to get out of here. I sense…darkness."

"Sense darkness? What are you a…"

"Well, well, well what do we have here?" A rogue with deep black hair cut Benny off as he smirked from the shadows.

"Ashton what was all that noise about?" A voice boomed from somewhere deep within the intricate tunnel maze.

"It seems we have visitors master." Ashton replied as several feral rogues began gathering around him in the ever suffocating space.

"Stand back." Benny said pushing me behind him as he mumbled some words under his breath. A bright white light gathered at his fingertips temporarily blinding the rogues. The rogues may stronger and faster but they were also more sensitive to light. Immediately the tunnels echoed with the rhythmic sounds of violent hissing from the rogues. They were still in pain which meant we had time. What had we walked into? Night of the living dead!

"Nice one nerd." I smirked as more rogues began to appear behind us, blocking off the entrance.

"Less talking more running!" he said grabbing my hand, within seconds we were heading further and further into the never ending maze.

Ashton's POV

I examined the remaining three rogues that had surrounded me, couldn't they think for themselves, honestly! "You two can go searching for the missing visitors! Find them! Master will have you dead otherwise- understand? Good!" I instructed. "You!" I pointed towards the third rogue – go and tell master that our visitors have gotten lost in the tunnels.

"But he'll be so mad; he will kill me for sure!"

"Well – it was nice knowing you Leroy, very nice indeed." I spat out sarcastically, I had no patience for newbie rogues – at all. "If I find you have copped out and run, I will hunt you down and kill you myself…." I said coldly. I revelled in the fact I had power down here, I drank it in – being masters favourite rogue came with privileges that others had no access to. It made me feel good, wanted….useful.

"Aston please can't you tell him, he will be less mad if you do and he won't hurt you, he wouldn't mind as much."

"Forget it! I have other things to attend to. Run along now all of you, oh and Leroy don't scream too loud when master tortures you, we all have work to do and it's rather…. Distracting" I smiled viciously when I saw his face mould into a face of fear and desperation. I practically fed off it as I walked back to Amanda's cell.

Amanda's POV

I woke up with a start, how long had I been asleep for, it seemed like hours except something was different. I had a blanket round me, where the heck did that come from and I could also see. I glanced towards the metal bars where the candle sat next to Aston's chair, he had come back. There was a small book propped up against the inside of the bars, was this some kind of trap? Slowly I inched my way towards it, illuminated across the dusty cover by the flickering candle light were the words pride and prejudice by Jane Austen. Where had this come from? Carefully I took the book within my grasp and leafed through the worn pages. It was really here, pride and prejudice the most classic epic novel of all time. My geeky side took right over loud and clear forcing normal Amanda out of the window. I settled down against the wall and began to read the novel from the beginning for the hundredth time, enjoying every single second that I could do something somewhat normal other than eat and drink the unappetising food and dirty water they kept giving me here. Footsteps bounced around the cell as Ashton reappeared by his chair.

"Enjoying it?" he asked casually a brief smile playing across his face.

"Yes actually I am, but where did you get this from and why do you want to give it to me?"

"Well you said it was your favourite so…..I gave it to you to read, I had it with me anyways, I've read it so many times."

"You're a fan of classic novels, but you're…!" I said in a surprised tone

"Yes, well I'm not just beautiful but smart too." He said mockingly. I realised I had just managed to insult him accidentally.

"I didn't mean it like that." I floundered. I didn't need a mirror to know I had turned beetroot red. "It's just well, most guys are age don't really, I mean. You just don't seem like the smart type." Wham another accidental insult. I just bit my tongue so I wouldn't come out without any more unnecessary crap.

"Just forget about it okay otherwise I'm gonna have to hand you a shovel so you can just keep digging yourself a bigger hole."

"Sorry." I said rather embarrassed before retreating back to my book.

Sarah's POV

It was freezing and I felt numb to the bone as I walked up the front steps and hunted around for the spare key under the flowerpot, all I could feel was cold concrete until jackpot the small key was in my grasp.

"Sarah!"

"Ahhhhhh!" I screamed knocking over the flowerpot. It broke into millions of pieces as soil and flowers dispersed to the floor in an instant. Great, just what I needed!

"Rory what the heck are you doing here!"

"Looking for you! There has been an emergency."

"if this is about resuscitating your cat again then forget it!"

"Hey! Mr fluffybatwings is the cutest cat around and no it's not about that! Benny was meant to text me when he got back from patrol with Erica but he didn't so I tracked his scent to the tunnels but it goes down into them. Ooooh I got sooo mad I couldn't follow the scent. I just wanted to bite the moon again! Bite the moon!"

"What is with you and the moon?"

"Well it just looks like it could be as soft as cheese, wow, imagine if the moon was actually made of cheese then we can rocket up peperoni and pineapple then it's like an all you can eat…"

"Shut up! What happened to Benny and Erica."

"Don't say shut up you always have to say sugar up it's more appropriate and besides I like sugar but my mum says it makes me too overactive."

"Sugar up? Seriously Rory concentrate!"

"Oh yeah what was I saying? I think Benny and Erica have been taken into the tunnels!"

"Okay let's go we have to find them before something seriously bad happens." I said, I knew something bad was going to happen, the tell-tale sinking feeling was welling up at the pit of my stomach.

"Were going now!? But it's cold outside and I got a new action figure today, I was supposed to open it up and…" Rory began to protest.

"Rory sugar up just sugar up and get in the car!" I said running down the front steps taking two at a time at full sprint.

"See now that is more appropriate!"

"Rory!"

"Okay, okay I'm coming, sheesh!"

I quickly locked the car door as me and Rory began to work our way towards the tunnel entrance following Benny's scent. They had circled the entrance more than 10 times before they had gone into the tunnels. There were still no clues as to how or what happened, the only scent that lingered was Benny's…..he was human. "Rory what are you doing?" I asked in a hushed whisper. He was sniffing his way towards an old garbage can.

"I can sense something odd, like death….but much worse, it's powerful and evil and…" he trailed off as he reached towards the lid of the can before lifting it up only to scream and drop it instantly with a bang, he knocked the bin over sending it skidding as something disgusting rolled out. The putrefying stench hit me instantly as I walked towards Rory who was paralysed to the spot whilst staring at what lay beneath. A vampire head lay gorged and bloodied, the eyes rolling sickly back in it's head with skin that had turned a leathery yellow colour. I felt sick to my stomach but I didn't have much time to react. A low growl emanated from the depths of the tunnel. Someone has heard us. Instinctively I pushed Rory in front of me and the two of us began to run, run like we had never run before in our lives.

Ashton's POV

I need to put as much space between me and Amanda as possible I thought as I worked my way through the tunnels with Amanda's food tray balanced in one hand. I'm just thinking too much about her, spending too much time around her, it was getting risky… muttered voices rang above the grate into the tunnels maybe it was more visitors. Good. I could do with a snack but the voices disappeared almost as quickly as they had come. Until there was a bang. I dropped the tray to the floor instantly moving into my attack stance as I eyed the grate, emitting a low growl as I sniffed for a scent. I couldn't smell anything which meant they were vampires not humans. Vampires had no smell, no soul…..not like Amanda she smelt sweet and pure just like her soul. Innocent. Where had that come from? I was thinking about Amanda again! And just as I had gotten my hopes up for a nice meal for a change more vampires come by. I had to check anyways. Slowly I pushed the grate out of the way as I hauled my head above ground into the cool night air. I scanned the surroundings but all I saw were the abandoned buildings which surrounded the entrance until my eyes fell upon the disgusting vampire head besides the garbage bin. Slowly I pulled myself up further and out until my whole body could feel the night air whip against it. I moved swiftly, closing the small space between the tunnel entrance and the vampire head. It was Leroy. Master must have gotten seriously angry this time. Great. He would be in one of his moods. It looked as if we all would have to feed off rats tonight, master wouldn't want me out hunting tonight, no, he would want me to watch over her…I felt weak, I needed the elixir but it was gone, rats were just going to have to do. For now.

Authors note: hey guys! Thank you for reading the chapter I really appreciate it! Please comment it would mean a lot to me and tell me what you think about the current otp's. I meant for there to be more in this chapter including the final part an epic etharah moment but you guys are just going to have to wait for that because this chapter got really long. Hopefully that chapter will be up next Friday as an early Christmas treat!