if any of you are wondering.. i imagine the "human lullaby" to be Safe & Sound- Taylor swift... just because it fits perfectly and has a very haunting, yet, comforting melody... so whenever i mention the human song.. imagine that song ;)

i have a long weekend since its easter so i'll try and write another chapter soon, otherwise expect this to be pretty weekly

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Chapter 3:

Every pair of eyes, mutt and human, were looking at me, but I only looked at Danny and Shane. We were enemies now; I was going to be a vampire and they were werewolves.

I would never see my family again because there's no way in hell they'd visit my in the vampire sector; it's too risky, it's too dangerous.

By sectors, the initiates started filing out. The humans that were never called walked back through the metal doors and into the plaza to meet their families. The werewolves exited to the right, and the vampires exited to the left.

I was frozen, shocked by everything. Why was I chosen to be a vampire?

The crowd of vampire mutts forced me to walk out the door. I turned around in a panic, and tried to look at Danny and Shane one last time; we all shared one last look, and then the doors closed in front of me, shutting me off from their world. Forever.

The vampire group walked through the hallway and we all chatting with each other, while I kept my head down. I need to talk with the vampire. Why did he choose me? I tried to push my way forward to find the black-haired vampire, but the crowd was too thick in this small area.

At the end of the hallway, we were led outside. The light shocked my eyes; it was sunny, and much brighter than the synthetic lighting in the building. Now that we were outside, we were herded into a long silver train. I was gazing at the magnificent machinery and I noticed the black-haired vampire step onboard.

One by one we stepped forward and then walked up the steps. I was the next one to step up.

There was a small, petite, woman that stood on the steps. She was clothed in a light blue-grey dress. "Give me your hand." She reached out. As I gave it to her, I stepped up. She took a metal device and poked my finger.

"Ow." I said. She squeezed my finger and scarlet bubble formed. She took a small, labeled vile and dripped my blood into it. "What is that for?" I asked curiously, but she didn't respond.

"Next?" She asked, ignoring me.

Confused, I stepped up into the rest of the train and looked around. A rush of cool air chilled my body to the bone. I only had on a thin top layer, so I hugged myself to keep warm.

On either side of me there were private booths that had a large window and a door that separated them from the aisle. I picked one that was empty and locked the door behind me. There was a cushioned bench that was a made soft red fabric and I slid into it, maneuvering my way around the table that rested between me and the other bench.

The train jerked to life and began to head away from the human sector. Just as the train started to gain speed, we passed the plaza of the Executive Building. For a second, I saw my family huddled together, crying. I put my hand on the glass window, almost like I was trying to reach out for them and I soon felt myself crying with them.

I pulled my knees up to my chest and buried my face in them. I don't want this life.

I started humming the gentle tune of our lullaby.

. . .

I must have cried myself to sleep because I woke up with my head against the glass window. My stomach growled and I gripped it; I was actually in pain from hunger. I hadn't eaten since breakfast and we had left the human sector around four: that's more than eight hours without food, counting the fact that I have no idea what time it is. I don't know how long I was napping, but it wasn't that long because it was still light out.

I opened the door and looked down the aisle. There was a lady with a rattley silver drink cart. I walked up to her and tapped her on the shoulder.

"Excuse me, when do we get dinner?" I asked politely. She didn't speak, but she handed me a small packet that was about the size of my palm. I looked down at it. It was blood! I was going to give it back to her, but when I looked up again, she was gone.

I huffed out air, confused.

"Aw, come on! The human gets something and we don't?" I heard a voice behind me whine. I slowly turned around. Leaning on one of the doors with his arms crossed was a thin, sandy blonde male. His blue eyes found mine.

"You want it? You can have it." I started to walk past him and shoved the packet into his chest.

"No, no, no. I want real food. You didn't get any?" he asked.

I turned back around to look at him. "No. I haven't eaten anything since this morning."

"Aww. You had breakfast? Lucky!" he whined more.

"You didn't?" I asked, feeling bad for him.

"No. I don't think they're feeding us for a while." He said.

"What? Why not?" I asked.

He smiled. "Why don't you come in our booth, so I can catch you up on all of the vamp stuff." He waggled his eyebrows.

I hesitated. I didn't know this person. He was a mutt, a vampire mutt, but he was being friendly to me, and he was the only person that talked to me this whole time. "Okay." I said and crossed my arms as I walked past him.

It turns out that he wasn't in the booth by himself. There was a redheaded girl sitting down in the booth with narrow eyes that remind me of a cat. When she saw me walk in, she glared at me.

"Hey, place nice." The boy said scooting in behind me and into the booth.

"Shut up, Alex." She crossed her arms and looked out the window.

I took a seat next to the blonde-haired boy named Alex, across from the redhead. "So, human, what's your name?" he asked.

"Allison." I told him quickly.

"Well, Allison, I'm Alex, and this cheery lady is Christina." He told me. I smiled a little. I may not make friends with Christina, but Alex seemed to like me. "You look cold." He said, taking off his sweater and handing it to me.

I looked at him. "I'm fine." I lied.

"No, really it's okay. I'm used to the cold. The vamps like to keep everything like an icebox. It doesn't bother me as much as it bothers you." Alex said kindly.

"Fine." I said and took his sweater. "Thank you."

"So…Allison," Christina stumbled while using my name. "how did you do it?" she asked.

"Do what?" I asked.

Christina rolled her eye. "How did you, a human, impress the vamps? Did you let the rep bite you?"

"What? No! I-I don't know how I got in." I said.

She had a sly smirk on her face and chuckled. "Alright." I don't think she believed me.

Alex turned to me and talked in a hushed voice. "She's normally really nice, she just gets cranky when she hasn't eaten." He joked and threw the blood packet at her.

"Ugh!" She picked it off of her lap.

"Y-you guys drink blood too?" I asked hesitantly.

"No. Well… yes. Some of us do; they think it will make them stronger when they are turned into a vampire, but Christina and I don't."

"But there are other mutts that do." Christina finally gave up her attitude and came into the conversation. "There's a black-haired girl, she's got naturally darker skin—her name's Jade—you'll always see her attached to and equally dark haired boy named Ethan—"

"They look like brother and sister." Alex snickered.

Christina eyed Alex for interrupting her. "Anyway… stay away from them. They do whatever and whoever they want just to get their way."

"I'm taking it they won't take it lightly that I was put into the vampire sector?"

Alex and Christina shared a look. "Just watch your neck." She said.

My eyes widened and Alex stared down Christina. She gave a look back at him as if to say 'What?'

Slowly, the train came into a tunnel and I could see nothing but blackness. I could hear the breaks creaking as we came into our destination. The tunnel ended suddenly the view was replaced with the vampire compound.

"Home sweet home." Alex said as he looked out the window with me.

"This is it? Everyone lives… underground?" It's kind of cliché, isn't it? I thought.

The underground fortress was sophisticatedly built with dim horizontal lights that lined all of the walkways. From the train, I could see several stores, but they had gates in front of them like they were closed. Scattered along the rocky walls there were tunnels that I assumed lead to other parts of the sector.

There weren't many people roaming around, which was quite different than the human compound; we kept ourselves sane by keeping ourselves busy. "Where is everyone?" I asked.

"Probably sleeping. It's still daylight, remember, the days and nights are reversed." Alex said. "Come on!" he grabbed me and started heading for the exit.

We were rushing out of the train, and were about to explore when we both noticed a vampire standing in front of us. I hadn't seen him standing there before. He was young, tall, not overly muscular like a werewolf, but he definitely had muscles. He had dark black hair and… whoa… two different colored eyes! One of his eyes was all green, light green, and the other was half green, half brown. He stood near the door of the train with his hands behind his back. He wore a black t-shirt (even though it's freezing in here), and dark loose pants with black boots. He just stood there until everyone was off of the train.

I searched behind me to look for the vampire I had saw before, but he wasn't there. I looked by the shops to see if he was walking into the depths of the cavern, but he wasn't there either. The only other explanation was that he was still on the train, but it left, and as soon as it was gone, the dark-haired vampire started speaking.

"My name is Cashile," Interesting name. I thought. "I will be training you for the next week." His two toned eyes began scanning the crowd. "If you are lucky, you will be turned within the end of this week, if not, you will be given a job in which you must serve until you are decreed 'ready'." His eyes stopped scanning and landed on me. "Are you all ready?" he asked. We all mumbled our yes's. "Very well, follow me." Cashile turned his back to us and walked us into the cave. I looked around one more time to look for the vampire I saw in Observation—my last hope for knowing why I was here—but he had vanished.

All of the halls were made of rock and were lit by the strip of blue light. As we walked, the light kept morphing from deep blue to light blue. It was mesmerizing. We stepped down a winding staircase until we entered another hall. The railing was small and didn't offer much protection. My heart picked up its pace. If I were to fall, I would fall several feet down and onto jagged rocks.

I was so preoccupied with fear that I almost ran into the person in front of me when we stopped. Cashile's eyes found mine again. "If anyone does not wish to go through training now, speak up. This is the last call."

I knew better than to speak up. He wanted me to back out, hell, I wanted to back out, but we both knew what that meant for me. My new 'job' description would include me being bitten and tortured for blood. If that is what is in my fates, so be it, but I'm not going down with out a fight. I'm not going to give up this early in the game. I was the only human chosen for a reason.

No one said anything.

"Very well, we will begin training immediately." He opened a heavy metal door in order to lead us into the training room and my new life.

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and p.s. the name "Cashile" is pronounced "Ka-shile" not "Cash-ilse"...i'll explain the reason for the name soon...

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