A.N. Ahhhh! I am so ticked off again I have to type this whole chapter again cause my twin practically broke my jump drive but I swore to myself that I would get this one single lousy chapter uploaded before school started so that is what I plan to do. Again so sorry about the long absence I truly hate myself for having to post two of those chapters and hate myself for letting my twin break my jump drive it just seems that god just does not want me to upload this chapter but I will go against the world just to get this posted, now enough of myself anguish enjoy.

Disclaimer: no time to put this damn thing down but you already know what I meant to put here.

Chapter 18

Two days have passed Gavner and I arrived at Vampire Mountain and today Gavner was going to present me before the Vampire Princes. This morning I wasn't able to eat anything, and the night before I was up all night starting up at the rocky ceiling above my coffin. Now my mentor and I were making our way to the glowing down that housed the Vampire Princes and the Stone of Blood. On our way Gavner and I ran into two members of the clan that I had met on our first day here.

The first person we met was a tall slender man with long blond hair tied back and had three small scars located on his left cheek. The man noticed us and greeted us. "Gavner, how have you been?" Gavner looked at him and replied. "Well Kurda, considering the fact that you asked me that the day before," Gavner paused with a smile coming on his scarred face, "I'd have to say I am still fine."

Kurda simply nodded then joined us as we were once again checked for weapons for what I believe was the fifth time. As the dome finally came into view I saw another vampire unlike all the rest. This vampire had long dark almost black hair. This person kept their hair up in a high ponytail.

The clothes that they wore were simply to say the least just a white shirt with brown pants that stopped just below their knees. The main thing that separated this vampire from the rest was the fact that this person was in fact female. The reason that this was so amazing is that among the clan there are at most three maybe four other females among the hundreds of men.

"Arra, I was starting to think that you wouldn't come!" I yelled as I ran over to where she stood. The vampiress turned towards me and smiled, which both Kurda and Gavner had made sure to tell me was rare for her. "Ah, Dorene are you ready to be presented?" I nodded a large smile on my face, but the butterflies in my chest were driving me crazy.

I just seemed that the closer we got to the glowing hall the more nervous I got.

*Time Skip*

Who knew that my life would end deep in the tunnels of Vampire Mountain, never to be accepted as one of the clan. I can to another divide in the tunnels, 'right of left' after a few seconds I decided to go left.

The tunnel soon went down into a slope and the sound of water flowing could heard from above. Just like before I began to grow nervous so I tried to bring my mind away from the thought of the water by thinking of other things.

The first thing that popped into my head was how I even got into this situation in the first place, starting from when I ran away, to my meeting with Steve, and then finally my time with Gavner the snoring beast. After that my mind went to the trial that I finished the night before; The Blooded Boars. Technically in this trial I had to fight two large ugly boars that were crazy on Vampire blood.

I passed that trial with little to no trouble except for when one of the punctured my side with its tusks. At this thought I gingerly touched the wrappings on my side wincing at the pain that came soon after.

The water could no longer be heard above I brought my focus away from the scar on my side and back onto the task at hand which was to find a lousy bronze token in the many tunnels of this large mountain. So far this trial was proving more difficult than I had originally thought.

I continued through the tunnels trying to find any signs that someone had been through them but found nothing of use to me. I continued making my way deeper into the caves always taking turns at random, unsure of how long I've been down in the tunnels.

As I came to another split in the tunnel and was about to turn left, a sudden urge came over me telling me to turn right instead so that is what I did. As I was making my way through the dark tunnels I began to feel like I had made a wrong turn when suddenly I saw a glint off in the distance.

Running towards it I soon realized that it was in fact the token that I was sent in here to find. I picked it up off of the rocks and held the small bronze token in my hand.

As I turned around to head back, it dawned on me that I didn't even know where the hell I was let along how to get back. At this point of realization I began to panic, but my panic attack did not last as I quickly began to calm my nerves trying to remember the path that I took to get here.

I stood for a minute before finally giving up and just began walking in the direction that I had just come from. As I was walking through the tunnels I couldn't help but get the feeling that I was just walking in a circle so I decided to try something different.

I stopped dead in my tracks and closed my eyes thus enveloping myself in complete darkness. I strained my ears trying to pick up and familiar sounds such as the water that was flowing from before or the vampires talking, although I doubted that I would be able to hear talking from this deep in the mountain.

As I strained my ears more I finally picked up sound and to my surprise it was the sound of a group talking. Keeping my eyes closed I began to use the voices as my guide. After a few minutes of this I could see that the path this time was completely different from the one that I had taken to get the token, I didn't even pass under the flowing water this time.

I got to the entrance of the tunnels and was greeted by cheers the loudest of which was from Gavner. I smiled then handed the token to the Vampire Prince that was present, in this case Vancha. Vancha took the token and smiled. "Congratulations now follow me to the Hall of Princes for your next trial."

A.N. sorry about the long wait but here is the chapter I hope that this is okay for you, I find that the beginning is okay but once it gets to the end of the trial it just seemed rushed sorry about that but truly I didn't really want to do this chapter. What I really want to do is get to the third book as soon as I can. So I will probably skip most of Dorene's Chapters to do that.