Chapter 2: Transformation

I woke up to the sound of running water. My eyes were trying to adjust to my surroundings. I was in an underground cavern. I rose to my legs and looked around the dark cave. It was bare but it had candles lining the walls giving it a gothic look that for some reason I seemed to like. I noticed I was on a Victorian bed with black lace and red satin covers. I ran my hand across the soft bed covers wishing I could just lie back down. I walked away from the bed and explored the cave's darkening trance. It baffled me that I could see crystal clear in the dark.

I heard a noise like a door opening and I hurried up and ducked behind the other side of the bed. My breathing was coming out in ragged gasps I covered my mouth and held my breath.

"Luna?" "Where are you?"

It was my brother but for some reason I didn't want to trust him anymore. So I stayed where I was feeling betrayed, anger, and resentment. I thought about all the times I use to help him with Algebra. The times we use to go down by the lake and just talk about things we couldn't talk to our parents about. The thought of our parents hits me so hard that I cry out with loud sobs. It didn't take long for Gabri to appear before me.

"Luna."

"Leave me alone!" "Get away from me!"

Before I could run Gabri caught me by the arm and half-walked and dragged me to the door. I felt nothing in my soul, nothing. Just emptiness of what has been stolen from me. He took me to another room brighter than the one I was in. He closed the door behind me and all was quiet.

There was a mirror on the wall. I got up and saw my reflection staring back only it wasn't me. I looked different somehow, my eyes were my first thought they weren't green anymore they were red!? I gasped and backed away hitting my head and back on the door. My hand went up to my mouth in horror at what I saw. How did this happen? Why do I have red eyes?!

I went closer to the mirror and looked at myself in shock. How much I look different; my hair turned black, my hips got wider, my breasts look more firm. What has happened to me?! I slid my tongue across my teeth and sliced my tongue.

"Owww!" I opened my mouth and looked at my tongue it was bleeding pretty badly. Something started smelling very sweet making my mouth water. My eyes had shown brighter in the mirror. My mouth was still open and I saw something that made me scared as hell. Two protruding fangs slid down. My stomach was growling, the hunger getting stronger, I grabbed my stomach in agony.

I needed blood I already knew. I tried lying on the floor seeing if the pains would go away but they weren't. I stood up and tried the door handle to see if it was locked it wasn't. Hope surged through me I ran out the door looking for the thing I craved most, blood. I smelled it down the next corridor I smelled the sweetness of somebody's blood. My mouth watered, my legs started to tremble, my brain became cloudy. I had to have it my body craved it. I got to the next corridor and head-butted whoever was in the hallway. I didn't care at that point who the person was I just opened my mouth and sank my fangs into the nice soft flesh and started sucking the blood from the veins. Apparently whatever I was doing I made the person moan with pleasure. I knew why, vampires have endorphins they send through the veins and into the body giving them pleasure.

My belly got filled and I finally looked in the face of my BROTHER! I got off him and wiped my mouth with the back of my hand and looked at him with embarrassment. I felt my cheeks burning and I instantly looked away from his face and looked at the floor.

"It's okay sis you just changed your prone to doing that." He helped me up off the floor. We both stood up and we both felt awkward just standing there. I finally broke the silence between us.

"So... you had our parents killed?"

"Yeah, I did." He looked at me with a dignified look.

"How could you-

"I had to!"

"WHY!?"

"Because… they told me to." He turned around and walked away.

I walked around the halls not sure of what to do with this information Gabri had told me. Why would mom and dad want to be killed? I don't understand. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and I bumped into a body. We both fell from impact I finally looked up and saw a boy.

"Oh!" "I'm so sorry. I wasn't watching where I was going." The boy looked back at me like I was crazy. He got up then started continuing to walk like nothing happened.

"Hey? You're just going to leave?" The boy looked back at me and shrugged. What he said next shocked me.

"Roza budet tsvesti, kogda yego gotovy. No on nachnet spat' v techeniye sleduyushchey zimy." He stared at me intensely and I knew what he said because I was also part Russian. I repeated back in English to him "The rose will bloom when it's ready. But it will begin to sleep for the next winter."

He looked at me in shock that I understood what he said I decided to say something in Russian to him "Menya zovut Luna. YA prevratilsya v vampira. Moya sem'ya byla ubita." He looked at me and said "My name is Luna. I was turned into a vampire. My family was killed." He knew exactly what I said.

"So you speak Russkiy to?" What he did next startled me. He started to smile at me.

"Yes I speak Russkiy, where are you headed?"

"Back to basics; I'm trying to find my way towards the queen." At the mention of the queen I started to boil. The boy noticed right away and said "Oh! I take it the queen did you wrong?"

"You don't know half the der'mo I've went through." He started to laugh which made me smile. We walked together and we talked about a lot of stuff I've never opened up to about. He told me his name and apologized for not telling me when I told him mine. His name was Zmeya which meant "Snake" in Russian. My name originated from Latin which means in English my name is "Moon". The reason my name was Luna was because when I was born my hair was literally white as the moon. But apparently it changed when I got older to chestnut brown, now it turned black because I'm a vampire. Zmeya and I reached the queens chambers and we departed I said bye to him and said "Will we see each other again?" he replied "I hope so."

It was hard getting used to all the vampire qualities that I had. I was still not talking to my brother; I haven't seen him in a week. But after a month my anger started to simmer down as I got used to being different. It kind of felt good to be a creature of the night. I went and hung out with Zmeya a couple of times he was the only norm I had because of the Russian part other than that it's been me and my weird ability to climb on the walls. It was pretty cool when I was able to get used to it after a couple days. The queen finally summoned me to her chambers. I was still perplexed about the whole situation to even see her. As I was walking to her dark dismal room I saw Zmeya in the hallway walking the opposite direction.

"So I reckon the queen summoned you?" Zmeya asked.

"Yea, unfortunately." I gave a weird face and Zmeya laughed.

"I'm not looking forward to this at all." I stated.

"It will be ok; don't worry about it you'll get used to it." He gave me a hug and started walking away. Well here goes nothing. I walked into her room dreading what's going to become of my life for the next year and a half.

She was sitting on her black mahogany chair when I walked in. Her expression looked sharper than I remembered. She looked up at me and said "So you're finally getting used to being one of us I see dear?"

"Well I have not much of a choice do I?" I said coldly.

"Well look who's talking, I had no choice either."

She got up from her chair and started pouring what looked like a dark liquid into a tea cup. She handed me one and I smelt a very rich dark smell. My mouth began to water and I downed the whole cup. She looked at me for a couple seconds then said "You and your brother will do a task for me."

"What task?" I looked at her about to say "No" but what she said kind of excited me, thrilled me even.

"You and your brother will be going back to high school."

"Why?" I asked dumbfounded.

"I have someone I need that's why."

"Who is it?"

"Never mind that you'll find out soon enough."

"When do we go?"

She looked at me with a wicked grin and said "Tonight my dear." I looked at her and her evil grin gave me no satisfaction at all.