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Chapter 3: The Drama Club

The final bell for the school day rang, and as quickly as it rang the halls were filled with students. Students chatting about how the day went, others how much it sucked, how the teachers all talked about the rules, friends catching up about their summer, couples kissing on their lockers totally forgetting they're at school until a teacher separates them, students searching for their lockers, including Justin and Benny.

"Hey Benny, have you found your locker?" Justin yelled to his friend searching for his locker number. Justin had just found his locker and placed a hand to the locker next to his while trying to open the lock. He was greeted with a friendly feeling one that he knew too well especially when he was around Benny or when Benny would put his arm around his shoulder. "I think I found your locker B!" Justin called to his friend who was still looking for his a few lockers down.

Benny rushed over puzzled by how Justin found it without knowing the locker number. Benny raised an eyebrow towards his shorter friend who simply replied, "Just a feeling, I guess." Sure enough it was, but it didn't surprise Benny because they've always been paired for everything, even in junior high.

Ozzie had met up with the boys near the school's entrance and started to walk out. The three boys suddenly stopped when they saw Alison and Erica at it again. From where the boys were it sounded like girl drama. The typical you stole my boyfriend, I thought you were my friend kind of drama. Justin and Benny both looked at each other and Benny could tell what was being projected from his best friend's look, and they nodded in agreement. It was something both did well just by looking at each other's eyes. Almost like they could read their minds; a skill both have developed over the years of knowing each other.

They turned back only to see that Erica was physically fighting with Alison. Erica had pushed Alison onto the ground and was slapping her around when a guy in their group stepped in and pulled Erica from Alison, with no effort whatsoever.

Erica and the guy got into a car and sped off nearly hitting the three boys. "Watch it NERDS!" he yelled out from the car window while Benny put his arms in front of Ozzie and Justin and pushed back so they wouldn't get hit.

The boys rushed over to Alison who was still on the ground. "Are you alright?" Justin asked holding out a hand to help her stand up. When Alison made contact with Justin's hand he felt a rush of sheer cold surround his body and it quickly went into his body sending waves of numbness throughout his body; causing him to stumble onto Benny who caught him. The coldness shifted from Justin and made it's way into Benny's body causing him to fall backwards and drop Justin in the process.

Both boys were now on each other recovering from the shock their bodies felt. "Cold, cold, cold, so cold!" Benny was repeating over and over again while holding his head. Ozzie was trying to hold a laugh because the guys were on each other, again.

"They'll be fine," Ozzie started, picking Justin up, "they do this all the time." Justin glared at him while trying to help Benny up who was still holding his head and repeating cold over and over again.

"No we don't." Justin retorted at Ozzie and turned to Alison who had a smirk on her face, "Are you alright?"

"You're the one that feinted in home room," Alison started, realizing he had fallen onto Benny too before she left, "and fell on your friend there, I guess know we're even. You should probably check on your friend," she smirked and pointed at Benny and left causing Ozzie to laugh because he didn't know Justin had passed out and fell on Benny, yet again.

"There's something not right about that Drama Club." Benny stated loudly at both boys.

They waved Ozzie goodbye and started walking to Benny's house. There was an awkward silence for about five minutes until Benny broke it, "So, today was," he paused trying to think of the perfect word, but perfect doesn't even begin to describe it.

Justin chimed in sarcastically, "Magical!" and burst into fits of laughter, earning a light chuckle from Benny. They turned a corner and entered the all too familiar Victorian Style neighborhood where Benny lived.

Across town, Erica and the rest of drama club pulled into the driveway of a gated community. Ridgeview Grand Island, a lavish, high-class community that is home to lawyers, businesspeople, self-made millionaires, and the newly remodeled Lockwood Estate.

Ridgeview Grand Island is made up of twelve very distinct mansions and the Lockwood Estate. The Lockwood Estate sits in the bottom center and extends north that when viewed from an aerial perspective forms a "V" with a man-made lake in the middle. The other twelve mansions surround the Lockwood Estate giving the impression of a ring around the letter "V."

While the surrounding mansions went for a modern era style look, the newly remodeled Lockwood Estate held it's similar style to that of the original estate that had burned down many years ago. The group pulled into the driveway of the Lockwood Estate and made their way up to the main entrance. Erica's driver had a key and opened the double entry doors and they all stepped into the home.

The group entered into the brightly lit foyer and made their way into the main living room where the lighting was dim and quiet. Erica and her guy sat down on the white leather couch and everyone else tried to get comfortable in the room. Some stood near the fireplace, others sat on stools near a bar, some were standing, it was all a waiting game because today he returned.

Back at the Victorian style Knight Manor, Benny and Justin were finishing playing a video game on Benny's computer when Benny noticed Justin tapping the controller in a nervous manner. Benny is really observant of Justin's body language and has figured out almost every move he does when he is under any emotion and right now he was nervous fumbling with the controller. "Stop," Benny started and eyed Justin who raised an eyebrow, "stop doing that."

"Doing what?" Justin asked back and Benny mimicked his gestures.

"You're doing that thing with the controller and now you're making me nervous."

Justin looked down and realized what he was doing, "Sorry, It's just," he paused and made his way to Benny's bed while running a hand through his hair, "Today has been so," he let himself fall onto the bed laying down, "hectic and tiresome."

Benny got up and went to lie down next to his best friend, "I can't exactly say I know what you are going through, but just know that I'm here for you. I mean we both sort of felt what the other felt, I don't know to what degree but I know today wasn't exactly normal. Even your predictions from this morning seemed out of the ordinary, except for the being geeks one."

Justin sat up on Benny's last statement and looked down to him in a serious manner, "Look B, I know I'm not psychic," Benny sat up as well and gave Justin his full-undivided attention, "but I know what I saw and felt. I'd be lying to you if I said otherwise."

"I believe you Justin, that was never a question. Your past predictions were always right, but they were always simple things and only involved us two. Plus you never actually see what's going to happen, it's always a feeling you get and this time you saw images. My only conclusion to this is that you actually are psychic." Benny started to grin and Justin questioned why, "Because how many people can say 'my best friend can see the future'!" They both started to smile and continued with their game on the computer.

Both boys didn't notice that the old women had heard their entire conversation. She made her way downstairs and went into a room, one that Benny didn't know about. She got the device that Justin's dad had given her. It was only to be used for matters that involved the boys. She dialed the all too familiar number and waited for an answer. She looked anxious and excited because of what had happened. She thought all hope was lost since the boys were nearing their fifteenth birthday. She was pulled out of her thoughts when a light from the device emerged and someone said "Yes, Grandma Knight?"

The light from the small device took the form of Justin's dad, Jake Baywood III. The light feathered out and Jake's upper body was shown in mid-air. Justin's dad was in his mid thirties and looked fairly young for his age.

"Jake, I've got good news!" the old women excitedly spoke, "Justin is showing signs of having a gift!" Jake looked surprised because she wasn't supposed to find out, he wondered if Benny was showing signs as well.

"How do you know? What about Benny?" Jake asked the elderly women. She responded with what she overheard earlier from the boys. Jake was relieved to hear that because that meant they haven't discovered it yet, not even Mrs. Knight who always knew what was going on, even when her son Brandon and him where growing up. They could never get away with anything.

"Also since I have you now, there have been reports of teens recently gone missing. They're not just from this town either." She said with concern in her voice.

"What do you mean, gone missing?" Jake asked curiously.

"All Aaron could dig up was that they were last seen with a group of other teens. When do you get back?" she asked hopeful that it was soon, currently Justin's dad was on a business trip the last two weeks.

"I'm hoping tomorrow after the boys get back from school." Jake said and saw a relieved look from the older woman. "Don't worry the boys will be fine, they know how to handle themselves. I'm heading into a meaning, talk to you soon Grandma Knight." The light faded away into the device.

"I hope I'm wrong about this." She whispered as she closed the door and made it vanish from its spot and a picture frame took its place.

"I am tired of waiting!" Erica snapped as she got up from the couch. Night had fallen and there was still no sign of him and Erica was getting really impatient with the whole situation. "He said he was going to be back today with news!" she exclaimed to Trevor who was still sitting. Erica went over to the window, looked outside and turned around.

"What is so important about this thing that it has to be done on the night of a full moon?" she exclaimed while signaling the moon with her hands. Trevor rose up and looked pissed off, he approached the girl and grabbed her by the shoulders she tensed up but luckily Trevor held back.

"This is not just some full moon, that is the night-" Trevor began but was cut off when someone in the hallway spoke.

"That's all she needs to know, she is still a fledgling in transition," the figure spoke as he approached the living room. Everyone stood up to acknowledge his presence.

Trevor turned around, "Jason," he began crossing his arms around his chest and smirking evilly, "you're back."

Jason stood in the center of the room opening his arms wide, "In the flesh."

Jason Lockwood, a nineteen year-old, tall, suave young man, with short spiked jet-black hair and brown eyes. Like those in his group he wore black jeans, a black shirt and black shoes. To top it off he wore his signature black collared coat that went down to his knees.

He looked to Erica and back to Trevor, "Where is Alison? I thought I made myself clear that when I get back she should have joined already!" He yelled angrily causing everyone to shake in fear because they know how important the full moon is for him. He went over to Erica in the blink of an eye, and held her head, "You were supposed to convince her," he sneered.

Erica was too shaken up in fear but spoke as clearly as possible, "I tried, but she won't listen. She doesn't want this kind of life, can't we get someone else?"

"You are her best friend, how can you not convince her!" he exclaimed throwing her on the armchair next to her. He turned around and looked at everyone, "You were all supposed to help her, whatever it takes, and you all failed! And YOU!" he turned to Trevor, "What have you been doing? There is a reason why I left you in charge!"

Jason stepped back over to Erica, pulled her up and took a hold of her shoulders. He looked straight into her eyes, Erica ready for the worse. His eyes flashed neon blue and Erica stood still not even blinking once, "You will get Alison to join."

Erica repeated in a zombie state mind, "I will get Alison to join."

Jason continued, "You will do whatever it takes for Alison to join."

Erica repeated, "Whatever it takes." Jason's eyes flashed back to their brown color; Erica blinked once and had a new priority on her mind; convince her best friend to join the Drama Club.

"Now that this situation is taken care of I want you to meet two very old friends of mine." He motioned towards the hall and two beautiful, flawless women walked in. "This is Aleera," he motioned with his left hand to the girl with long, loosely curled, natural red hair, "and this is Rebekah," he motioned with his right hand to the girl with long, golden blonde, semi-curled straight hair.

"These lovely girls are going to help us find our object of objection," he said as one girl took out a parchment and showed everyone in the room.

"It's just a piece of rock?" Erica blurted out and Jason glared at her.

"That's right just a rock that can resurrect the dead," he spoke sarcastically.

"It's ancient crystal that was made by a witch that could alter reality." Aleera stated and glanced at Jason, "When used on the night of a special full moon it can draw power that can be used to bring back the dead." Rebekah then pulled out a second piece of old parchment and laid it over the drawing of the crystal.

"This map shows the exact location of the crystal," she stated directly at Jason, "only problem is translating it, it's probably why you've never been able to find it."

Jason stared at the map; it looked very familiar to him especially the way it was written. The map shows an early settlement of Knightwood Bay with three family names owning most of the land, the Baywood's, the Knight's, and the Lockwood's. Jason tried to remember where he had seen the map before, but could not recall.

"Before I split you into groups to find this crystal," Jason turned to Erica, "we need to take care of one final problem." Trevor acknowledged Jason's words and went to fetch what Jason needed. "Since you are not completely one of us yet," he said holding her shoulders. "We need to finish your initiation before we continue with our plans."

Trevor had reappeared with a teenage boy, who looked terrified out of his socks. Trevor pushed the boy towards Jason who caught him by the neck and dragged him over to Erica. "Why don't we have fun with this one? It's been a while since someone hunted!" He turned the boy around and looked into his eyes. The boy stopped fighting and was motionless, only starting deeply into Jason's now neon blue eyes.

"Run! Run and don't look back." Jason whispered to him and let him go. The boy stood still for a few seconds, then took in the scene before him and immediately realized that something was wrong. "Erica you might want to give him a head start."

The boy dashed out of the room and into the foyer. He opened the door only to see that the blonde girl known as Erica was already there. He quickly slammed the door, turned around and headed for the spiral stairway. When he passed an open door he did not realize Erica was in the room, he continued to run down the hall hoping that he would make it out of the house alive. His heart was racing a million miles per second, and his heartbeat was getting even louder that his ears were starting to thump. Erica centered on the heartbeat he was making and her eyes shot open revealing a bright golden hue to them. She inhaled the new smell that had awakened her inner demon, and opened her mouth to hiss revealing razor sharp fangs. Erica flitted out of the room in an instant that could not be seen by the human eye.

The boy went down a second flight of stairs and tripped on the last couple of stairs. When he got up he had a bad headache, he ran a hand on his forehead only to notice that blood had formed from the fall. He saw a door and opened it and ran outside into the darkness. He ran towards a tree and hid behind it, hoping that whoever was chasing him had given up. When he didn't hear anyone approach him he took it as an opportunity to leave. He turned around but was greeted by Erica who had her fangs out hissing at him. The boy screamed in horror but was to slow to flee because Erica had a hold of his body. She titled his head to the side revealing his neck. The sound of fresh blood running up and down the boys neck was mesmerizing Erica, the bloodlust intensified, everything around the tall blonde became silent as the only sound that was audible was that of fresh blood pumping inside the boys jugular. She took one last smell and sank her fangs into the boy's neck. The boy shook under her but with her newfound strength was able to keep a hold of him and drained him dry of his blood.

When the last of the blood had been taken out Erica dropped him, wiped her face with her sleeve and licked her fangs with her tongue. Her eyes returned to their normal color and her fangs retracted back to her normal teeth. She picked up the puny boy and flitted back into the house. She dropped him on the floor of the living room and went to stand next to Trevor and Jason. Jason was smirking at his newest member and motioned a couple others to dispose of the body properly. No one must know his kind have returned to Knightwood Bay.

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-Dominus Trinus 13