The noise was the first to bring me out of my drug state sleep. Growls just like the wolfs echoed all around the room battling the screams coming from the door at the other side. One lone cold steel door had everyone's eyes held, the bright silver a contrast to the dark and dirty brick wall. My fingers started to slowly grow feeling back in them, which soon spread to my whole body. That was when I noticed the cages. There must have been at least thirty, all lined up against the back wall pressed up against each other. The silver door in the distance illuminating the rest of the space. Only three small candles lit this cold lifeless room, two next to the door and one further down the row from me. I crawled to the far end of my cage and sat against the wall, drew my knees up and rested my head against them. I was hungry, cold and scared. A small male laugh made me lift my head up and turn it to the cage on my right. I couldn't see what he looked like but I could make out a silhouette of his body. His hair covered my view of his face structure but his body was a lot more relaxed than mine as he was sat against the wall one leg out in front while the other bent with his arm resting over the top. His head turned towards me and he smiled revelling perfectly white straight teeth. Was he mocking me? "are you laughing at me" the words came out sounding more disbelief than angry. "No innocent female, you my sweet…what does your ticket say, vampire."
Ticket? "But I'm not a vampire" his laugh was a little louder this time. "oh I know that human, but obviously the Matra do not" the word Matra made me pause in my crawl to examine my ticket. "Matra" my voice held pure confusion causing my new cage neighbour too lean closer to the bars separating our cages revealing yet again perfect white teeth, hair that has been growing awhile, now messy and un clean falling around his face in sticky chunks. But the red eyes that glowed back at me are what made a shiver run down from my head to my toes. But not from fear, I welcome death remember, no this was from a sort of joy that I was indeed sat talking to a creature who was far from myself. "Yes small female the Matra I assume are the ones who brought you here. Tall, green, smell really bad and are thick as pig shit" "oh" was all I could say. I'd been kidnapped stuck in a cage and mistaken for a vampire in the space of twenty four hours.
I reached for my ticket and almost laughed at what was written on the small brown label:
NAME: Test Subject H365
SPECIES: Vampire
GENDER: Female
BONDED: Unknown
AGE: Unknown
"Test subject H365…are we being experimented on?" "Nice to meet you H365, names K103. Yes we are, that big door over there…" both our eyes turned to the silver door from which the screaming was now getting worse "…that is where they take you. Once you go in your lucky to come back out normal"
We feel into a silence as I rested once again against the brick wall and K103 had gone back to his hiding place in his own cage. I don't know how long I sat trying to get my head around where I was and what was going to happen to me but a question popped into my head and out my mouth before I could stop it "K103, what are you"
There was a longer pause of silence where I thought he wasn't going to reply then he just said one simple word. "Vampire" his reply echoed inside my head until it sank in. "There was a wolf in my kitchen when they took me, they were hunting it"
My eyes never leaving the door where the screaming was now dying down. "He was trying to protect me, I think" I couldn't turn my mouth of as it kept saying everything that was running through it "they got him to".
K103 finely replied "A male wolf will always protect a female, it is in their genetic makeup as a species" his voice as even and steady as ever. "So if you're a vampire and he was a wolf, are supernatural beings real" my question sounded stupid even too me, but I needed to know the answer to a stupid question. "Yes young female, we are all true, right now you are in cell block D, in a room with thirty male vampires and wolves who have not eaten or made love in a very long time" His last comment made me whip my head around to face the creature in the cage to my left, only to find it empty. My only companion is a very blunt vampire named K103. The silver door slammed open and whimpers echoed around the room as every creature sank back into the shadows to try and avoid being seen. I crawled to the darkest spot in the cage which was leaning at the back right hand side of the cage.
The Matra emerged from the door dragging a wolf by its hind legs across the floor. Wolf whimpers came from cages down the row and the wolf was dragged by my cage, my hands flew to my mouth as I turned my head to fence shutting my eyes. They had ripped of the wolfs head that had tried to save me, dragging its dead lifeless body in front of the cages laughing. Blood seeped out from the neck wound leaving a tail on the floor. A hand found itself wrapped around my own, as I jumped only to realise it was K103. "Close your eyes female, I will say when they have done parading the wolf in front of its pack" I concentrated on his voice near my right ear, anything to get the image out of my head. After a while the Matra left with the wolf and K103 gave my hand a final squeeze before whispering in my ear again "They have gone little one, you may open your eyes" I opened my eyes to be greeted with the red ones of my neighbour. This close I could make out his face, he had perfect teeth. A face structure the gods would be jealous of and by the looks of it deep black hair or chocolate brown, this light I couldn't tell, what I could tell though was he was very handsome.
I moved away from the cage and rested my head on my arms, curling up to go to sleep. K103 began to hum a song I had never heard, but was thankful as I slowly drifted off to sleep.
