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Chapter 2

David made his way back through the crowd to where all the guys were waiting.

"Well? Where's our toy? I thought we were going to play!" Angel whined.

"She left. Let's go I'm hungry." David replied as he stalked by them.

"Someone seems to be P. m. ."Joseph said to Angel and Cody as they followed David down the boardwalk. Hopping on their motorcycles the group made their way out to the cliffs.

The boys stood atop the cliff looking down at the beach below. A group of teens sat around a bonfire with music playing. They were having a hell of a time. Some were drinking others smoking while another was chasing a girl around the fire. Another was playing guitar.

David looked down at the lot shaking his head. They were insignificant, nothing to him. Just food. Most humans were. None ever peaked the least bit of his interest. He scowled and let a low growl escape his lips.

When do we eat boss?

Wait for it Cody. David replied.

"Well if you guys are gonna take your time I have my eye on a tasty morsel I intend on having some fun with since our other toy went away." Angel walked over to the edge of the cliff and stepped over the edge. He dropped down into the sand without making a sound. He made his way over to one of the girls sitting on a piece of driftwood.

"Mind if I bum a smoke?" The girl looked up and pulled a smoke from her pocket. She lit the cigarette then handed it to him. After a few minutes of chatting up the girl he decided to make his move. "Why don't you and me go somewhere a bit more private?"

He grabbed her hand pulling her up from the stump of wood and began leading her away from the others . When the were a sufficient distance he kissed the girl. She kissed back. He started to run his hands along her body while trailing kisses down toward her neck. From behind him screams began to ring out in the darkness. That's when his features changed, eyes turning an unnatural yellow, fangs extending out. He sank his teeth into the girls neck and began to drink.

David hadn't bothered to waste time toying with the humans. He flew down from his perch on the cliff tackling one of the men to the ground and sank his fangs in. Once he was done he picked up the body and flung it onto the fire as if it had just been another log.

Joseph had grabbed two of the people trying to run. He knocked their heads together knocking them unconscious. He threw them to the side before grabbing another girl who came running by. He grabbed her by the throat and ran a nail along it opening up the skin. He began to squeeze slowly cutting off the girls air supply as more blood rushed to the wound he made on her neck.. He drained her and threw her into the fire as David had. He repeated his actions with the two men he had knocked out earlier.

As all this carnage was going on a girl huddled cowering behind a boulder near the bottom of the cliff. Cody had walked over to her and knelt down. "Hey there, it's all right. Come with me. I'll get you out of here." He reached out a hand for her. She picked herself up and stood there staring at him in confusion. He was 6'6" with light brown hair and blue gray eyes. She found him handsome. "Come on. Follow me."

He lead her through the carnage ahead of them pretending to be her savior. When he got her far enough away she turned to thank him giving him a hug. That's when he vamped out and sank his teeth into her. He picked her limp dead body up and carried it bridal style back to the bonfire. "You know I think she's still got a bit of life in her yet." He said as he let her legs drop to the ground and began dancing around the fire while her corpse lolled its head back and forth from the movement.

Angel came back body in hand and surveyed the scene around him. Joseph sat sated on the old stump wiping his lips as his face returned to its human form. David stood watching Cody twirl the dead girl around the fire a few times before finally throwing her onto the inferno. Cody spun a few times before finally falling down into the sand from dizziness. Finally Angel came and threw the remains of his dinner away.

"Let's go the suns coming up soon." David shouted.

A shrill beeping sounded through the bedroom. Suddenly out from under the covers a hand shot out and felt around the nightstand beside the bed tipping over an empty glass. "Must . . .stop. . . horrid. . . beeping noise." Finally the hand hit the snooze button as a disheveled Raven crawled on her belly out from under the covers. Her hair hung around her in a puffy rats nest ans she willed herself to sit up and rub her eyes.

She was startled by a loud crash from outside her door. Hopping out of her bed she headed to the closet, she flung it open and grabbed a bat before turning and heading out her door. She looked around and found nothing. Then another bang and a string of curses resounded from the kitchen. Raven ran to the door and hid beside it raising the bat. She ran in and swung. Edge ducked out of the way just in time.

"Swing and a Miss! " Sabin shouted from over near the stove.

"What the hell are you doing in my kitchen?!"

"You left the door unlocked, plus we were out of food so we decided since your our new friend/neighbor that you wouldn't mind if we came over and cooked breakfast."

"I tried to tell them not to they wouldn't listen." Morgana said reaching for one of the pans that had fallen to the floor.

Raven directed her glance from Morgana to Sabin. "I take it you were the one who was cursing up a storm when my cookware came crashing down?"

"Nope. That was Edge." He said pointing the spatula at him. Some scrambled eggs that had stuck to the spatula went flying as he did so.

"Well that's nice. I had no idea you had such a colorful vocabulary Edge. Did you at least leave any food for any other meals Sabin?"

He looked around at all the open containers, boxes and pans strewn about the kitchen then smiled sheepishly. "I don't think so."

"Well that's just peachy."

Edge turned to Raven"If you want I'll go with you and get some more food."

"Thanks. Let me go make myself look normal then we can go."

"What about breakfast?!" Sabin said with a pout.

"We'll be back to eat it in time. Besides that gives you time to restore my kitchen to the clean orderly state it was in before you wrecked it." She replied as she headed to her bedroom.

Ten minutes later Raven was ready to go. She and Edge made their way down the stairs and out into the street. They trekked through the streets to the store.

"So what is it you guys practice?"

"We're in a band. We aren't much good though. It sounds kinda crappy with just three people and no singer."

"I play. Would you guys mind if I joined you. I even have some things written down we can use for songs."

"Sure why not."

After about an hour they emerged from the supermarket bags in hand. When they were a few blocks from home a sudden gust of wind blew something off the telephone pole right into Raven's face. She reached up and pulled it off. Raven was about to chuck the flier when she looked down and noticed that it was a poster for a music competition.

"Hey look, they're having a battle of the bands at the pier in a few weeks. It's on Halloween! We should enter."

"Are you serious? I just said we're terrible."

"No you said you guys were terrible. You've never heard me play." She said matter of factually as they walked through the door of the building. Once upstairs she put the bags down and ran in and showed the flier to Morgana and Sabin while Edge began putting the groceries away.

"I say we go sign up tonight."

"We?" Sabin asked.

"Yeah peaches. You got yourselves a fourth!"

"Fourth what?" Morgana slapped Sabin upside the head.

"A fourth band member fool!"

"Since when?" He asked rubbing his aching head.

"Since tall, blond, and talkative voted me in at the store. That is if the rest of you want me, and before you say anything stupid or perverted, I don't mean it like that Sabin."

She Got up and walked over to an old writing desk that came with the apartment. After looking around in it for a few minutes she pulled out an black leather bound journal that she bought with the money she pilfered off her family as a last Screw you. She came back over to the group sitting down in the blood red, velvet winged back chair and put the book down on the table.

Morgana opened it and began to look through some of the pages. "This is good. Could we use these?"

"Sure I don't see why not."

"They seem so personal."

"Some of them are."

"Did you all forget about breakfast? I slave over a hot stove and this is the thanks I get!" Sabin was quieted when a throw pillow was thrown at him by Edge. Morgana leaned over to Raven. "Let's eat before he throws a tantrum."

"I heard that." Sabin said as he walked in from Raven's kitchen balancing plates on his arms as if he were a waiter.

"It's settled we'll start practice later." Morgana said excitedly.

It was about eight o'clock when Raven made her way through the crowd toward the stage. There on a billboard was the sign up sheet. She reached in her bag pulled out a marker and signed their names. She turned and began making her way over to the bumper cars where she had promised Sabin a bumper battle. As she walked along she began to get goosebumps up her arms and the feeling she was being watched. She stopped and looked around. Satisfied that she was going crazy she just shook her head while walking to the bumper cars. What she didn't know when she left was that four pairs of eyes were following her.

"Come on. If we don't hurry the line for the spook house will be too long!" Sabin began whining as he pulled Morgana along with him.

"Do we really have to?" Morgana asked as she tried digging her feet into the pavement to stop Sabin from dragging her along.

"Come on it isn't that bad. It's just a bunch of cheap dime store Halloween decorations rigged to pop put and scare people. Plus it's all fake. There are a lot scarier things in this world than a little haunted house." Raven added as they got in line. She couldn't help but get the feeling she was being watched again.

After what seemed like forever they finally had made their way to the front of the line. Sabin had dragged Morgana into the front seat with him Edge hopped in behind them. Raven went to hop in too when suddenly she was stopped by the ride attendant. "Sorry but I have someone waiting for this car." He motioned over to an eight year old boy next to him.

"Aw why can't she ride with us?"

"It's fine. Besides I'll be in the car right behind you." Raven said as the little boy climbed in next to Edge and they took off.

The next car pulled up and as she climbed into the front seat Raven heard boisterous laughter coming from behind her. She turned to see Angel and Cody plop down in the seat. She began to face the front again when she was met by the stare of ice blue eyes as David climbed in sitting next to her. Raven Faced ahead tensing up a bit as the car pulled off into the darkness of the ride. She could hear the laughter of Sabin and the screams of Morgana from up ahead as she looked around trying to ignore all the noise that Angel and Cody were making in the back seat.

David looked at her as if he was deep in thought. He was trying to tap into her thoughts. He could pick up Morgana's thoughts of how she was going to beat the hell out of Sabin for making her come on this ride. He heard Sabin's thoughts of how funny it was that Morgana was scared half to death he even heard the thoughts of the boy with them. He shook his head and concentrated on Raven even more.

"Are you kidding me. That witch is so fake." Cody said.

"Ya think! Besides they aren't even real." Angel added.

Raven didn't even realize it but the words just came out of her mouth before she could stop herself."Those kind aren't but there are real ones."

The car fell silent as she finished her sentence.

"Well she does speak."

"Wait I know you." Angel said s he leaned over the seat between David and Raven. "Your that chick that ran into me the other night?" David shoved Angel back into his seat. You'll have to excuse him my friend can be an idiot sometimes." David said giving Raven a smirk. Just as she was about to answer the car Gave a sharp jerk hard to the right sending Raven sliding across the seat into David.

Aw isn't that sweet

Like they are meant to be.

I swear if you two don't knock it off I'll stake you myself! David gave them a small warning growl. Raven heard and pushed herself off David and back into her seat. David tried once again to concentrate on Raven. Again he didn't seem to be getting anything from her. In the back Angel and Cody were carrying on their own mental conversation.

Will you two shut up! I can't concentrate with you two yacking. He tried once more.

Look at me. Raven turned to face him but he wasn't expecting what came next.

"Why the hell are you staring at me?" Her face screwed up into a confused expression.

Just as he was about to answer the car returned to the front of the building. Once it stopped Raven hopped out followed close behind by David. She quickly spotted her friends waiting on the platform near the exit. Just as she was about to reach them David caught Raven's wrist. She turned looking at him shocked. He turned on his charm as best he could he knew he didn't mean any of what he was about to say, well most of it.

"I'm sorry. Your very pretty, you reminded me of someone. I thought you were her. I hope you can accept my apology."

"It's fine."Raven replied as David released her wrist and gave her a smile.

She joined up with her friends and they continued their tour of the boardwalk. They passed the time playing games, eating junk food and riding the rides. They decided it was time to leave and started heading home. Just to kill time on the trip home they talked about their band name and about the haunted house.

"That vampire they had flying over head was scary." Morgana said.

"The only thing that would have been scarier about that vampire was if he was full of glitter and sparkled." Edge said. Sabin nearly spit out his Pepsi from laughing. Raven coughed because hers went down the wrong way when she laughed.

Morgana turned to Raven. "So who was tall peroxide blonde and handsome you came off the ride with?"

Raven stopped thinking about it for a second. "You know I don't know he never did give his name. It don't matter anyway. He gave me the willies staring at me like he did. Hey did any of you go flying when we hit that one turn in the ride?'

"I did. I went flying into Sabin. Edge had to hold on or he would have squashed that little kid."

Sabin giggled."Why do you ask? Did you go flying into Romeo's waiting arms?"

"Yes I did. . .and he wasn't sitting there with waiting arms. . . and he's not my Romeo!" She said poking him in his chest.

"Who said anything about him being YOUR Romeo? I just called him Romeo."

"Well he's not." Raven mumbled kicking an empty bottle at her feet.

"Me thinks thou doth . . ."

"I swear Sabin if you say me thinks thou doth protest to much I'll slap you."

"Okay. I won't say it, but me thinks it."

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