Laurance POV

We arrived at O'khasis, Aphmau still yet haven't spoken ever since her Mother's death. Before we left we quickly dumped Gene, Zenix and Ivy's body somewhere deep in snow, we also had a funeral for Aphmau's Mum yet she didn't cry or mourn. There was a snow storm on the day of the fire, we still haven't found out who caused it, but it was most likely Gene and his group.

Aphmau hasn't left my side ever since that 'incident', instead she has been more closer towards me, not that I'm not liking it. I think she has forgiven us for keeping a huge secret from her, but sometimes when the fact that we're vampires come to her head she just separates herself from us becoming more distant, the only person she ever talked to during these past few days was me, in fact she hasn't even spoken much besides a few words.

Hopefully our small vacation at O'khasis makes her lighten up a bit, I found out from the school records that Aphmau has a cousin living in O'khasis, so I'm taking her to see her cousin. Considering that Aphmau's family is no longer alive, maybe seeing her cousin will turn her frown into a smile.

O'khasis is really big town, filled with lots of house on one side and beautiful fields and hills on the other side. Many witches said to be living hidden in the houses not wanting their identities to be revealed. My dad is good friends with many of the witches here so they shouldn't be a problem, but what matters to me the most is that there is vampires living on the others side of the hill's, the place where Aphmau is planning the spend most of the time, so we need to be very cautious.

The girls were out shopping, they tried to persuade Aphmau to go with them, but she declined. So Dante, Travis, Garroth, Zane, Aphmau and I were walking down the streets, all of us looking like bodyguards.

"Can we go to the fields?" Aphmau muttered the first few words she spoke in hours.

"Uh, we can go somewhere else like...bowling! I heard that the bowling places are pretty amazing." I said trying to persuade her to change her mind.

"I'll like going to the fields...please?" She said weakly.

I looked her face to see her looking all innocent to the world, I couldn't disagree.

"Fine, we can go to the fields." The guys looked at me troubled, but they brushed it off.

It took us half an hour to make our way to the fields, I felt Aphmau smiling a bit admiring the flowers. She then saw the hills that was filled with flowers, but coincidentally covering the manor that the vampires lived in. Before I could stop her she already ran of to the hill, we speedily followed her trying to tell her that it's getting late soon, but she had to be stubborn.

My eyes widen as I saw a familiar figure stalking towards Aphmau like a zombie, Aphmau looked horrified staring at the fangs the elongated from the figures mouth as well as the figures blood red eyes, he was going to bite Aphmau. I quickly pushed Aphmau out of the way strangling the stranger who made me recognise him immediately, angler flared through me as I snarled my fangs, Garroth was with Aphmau, who was whimpering like a child.

Zane, Travis and Dante tried to hold me back from going all vampire mode in front of Aphmau.

"Why Are You Protecting The Human?" Aaron, my 'Friend' growled out me.

I stayed quite dropping him to the ground.

"Oh, You Like Her? Better Yet, You Love Her! I Could See It Right Through You." Aaron chuckled humourlessly.

"Too Bad You Won't Ever Be With Her!" Before I could ask what he meant I felt a dart injected with vervain being pulled into my back making me drop to the ground, the others got shot too, making them drop to the ground. Aaron quickly grabbed Aphmau harshly to his chest before using his super speed to quickly run away.

My vision blurred, Vervain was extremely fatal to vampires, it could actually kill them but luckily since all of us were originals we were still alive, but not conscious.

Aphmau POV

I stayed quiet not wanting to anger the predator who could kill me in just a second, we arrived at a huge manor, almost like the ones you would see in a horror movie. The man was tightly gripping on my arm making me wince inwardly, I didn't want to show any weaknesses to my supposed kidnapper and murderer.

I didn't really care if I died or not, at least I will live happily in heaven with my family who abandoned me by myself on this lonely earth, but then I realised I have a few people who care for me, like my friends and Laurance. Ethically I don't know whether me and Laurance are a thing, I do like him and we did kiss, but I kind of lashed out on him, but lately we've been very close together and I admire his presence, for him being there. However right now, it doesn't really matter about my relationship status, I wonder if the guys are alright, I saw someone in the bushes but I didn't say anything, but little did I know that they were going to throw poisonous darts at them knocking them unconscious.

"Hm, Aaron did you bring back our feast, it smells like a good one!" A pale brunette walked in licking her lips deliciously.

"Unfortunately, no. Maybe we might take a few bites, I mean she does smell delicious, but we need her for the plan and she seems fit for it." The guy who I learnt was named Aaron pushed me to the ground making my body crash against the floor. You could hear the impact from probably outside, I squeezed my eyes closed, biting down on my tongue to not show any emotion.

"At least she ain't an ugly one . In fact she seems perfect, but can I take one little teensy weeny bite." She inched closer towards me making me scoot backwards ignoring the pain I felt throughout my whole body.

"No, Lillian. We need to keep her fresh for the ritual." Lillian rolled her eyes disobeying him by walking towards me.

"Find another pawn, she's my feast. I never had a good meal in a long time," She ran towards me making me grab the poisonous dart that I found on the floor, throwing it at her blurry body.

She stopped moving staring wide eyes at me before dropping on the floor, red cracks appeared on her skin as her eyes turn a pale white and her lips a blood red. Overall, she looked like a monster.

I looked wide eyes at her before realising that, I killed someone.

I'm a murderer, yet I don't feel any remorse or guilt. I feel satisfaction, but I needed to get more of my revenge at that witch Ivy who killed my mother. Lillian's skin cracked open on her head making parts of her head fall of.

I was not even feeling disgusted, I felt happy.

But soon all happiness went to a end when I realised how much trouble I was in, now Aaron was probably going to kill me.

Aaron looked at me surprise before shrugging his shoulders, looking like he couldn't care less. "Meh, I was gonna kill her sooner or later. She would've messed the plan up, I owe you one." He sat down on the chair grabbing his wine cup that was set on the table, taking a tiny sip.

"What? Want some?" He gestured to his cup making me look at him dumbfounded.

"No, I don't drink." I looked away from him planning a escape plan away from this lunatic.

"Well you are going to die in a few days, so you might as well make the most of it." Wow, way to be blunt on telling me when I was about to die.

"Why did you take me here?" I asked changing the subject.

"Well it's a long story, but I'm sure you want to listen to the whole thing, isn't that right Aphmau?" I looked at him confused, how does he know my name?

I nodded signalling him to continue. "Well it all started when your little old grandma was alive."

"One sunny day, your grandma's mother and my father had a little disagreement, you see my father assigned your grandma for a task, but her foolish mother declined not agreeing to our terms, so we killed her mother, then we persuaded your grandma to follow our plan- which she absentmindedly agreed upon."

"My father told her to feed you a drink, and since you weren't living with her at the time we told her to tell your mother to send her daughter to stay with your grandma for a few months- making our plan a whole lot easier. We fed you the drink made of rare ingredients which are impossible to find-"

"Yeah, but why would you want to feed me a, one of-the kind drink, if it's really rare?" I butted in but he glared at me.

"As I was saying- we only fed you the drink because of your ancestral genes, that you inherited from your great, great, great grandmother; who looked exactly like you."

"What about the ritual you were talking about?"

"Paying attention I see, well- your great, great, great grandmother was a wizard; a very powerful wizard, and at the time there used to be a very powerful vampire named Shad. Your great grandmother: Irene used to have some sort of love relationship with Shad, but the classic; Shad broke her heart by cheating on her so while Shad was distracted she performed an powerful spell to freeze Shad and turn him into a statue, but somehow Irene died as well and you somehow have her blood running through you veins."

"Why did you feed me a drink?" I tried processing the information that was given to me.

"To unlock your powers on you eighteenth birthday?"

"Then why did you say I'm not going to be alive in the next few days if you need me?" I asked trying to find my answer.

"Some process of the ritual that you have to perform requiring you to die for a few minutes. Any more questions?"

"Why do you want to resurrect Shad?"

"I knew that question was coming- ah, well. It's not me that wants to resurrect Shad, it's more like my Dad, son of Shad and some bimbo." That made more sense.

Although Aaron probably doesn't know the answer to my question, it's worth a shot. " Aaron, do you perhaps know about some angry, psycho witch soul essence who was resurrected in order to try and harm me and knows some type of vampire melody?" His eyes widen.

"The only witch that I know that knows the vampire melody besides Irene, was her best friend, who Irene taught to. She is probably trying to kill you so you can't bring back Shad and let her best friends efforts go down the drain." Everything links up and made much more sense.

"I know I'm not suppose to like you, but you are not that bad for a vampire. Thank you." He looks at me weirdly before replying.

"Your welcome, honestly I didn't want to hurt you. I just did the act so Laurance thought that I was the bad guy, but in reality I'm nowhere near the word dangerous. Plus me and Laurance was friends a long time ago, but our dads interfered with our friendship and we just broke apart."

"Who was Lillian?" I looked at her rotting body.

"Just some random newborn who was out for the taste of human blood, Vampires. They need to control their blood lust."

"Just so you know I'm totally against about using you for resurrecting some old guy, I'll try my hardest from this to prevent in the future, but right now I can do nothing about you dying in a few days.

"So, why do I need to die in a few days?"

"Well like I said, it is part of the ritual, you need to be part of a vampire transformation in order to get your powers when you turn eighteen. You'll first would be fed Vampire blood the you'll have you neck snapped, which won't hurt that much since you die, but then you'll come back alive- but this is the hard part, we need to lock you up and keep you away from the blood for a few months, after that we'll feed you a potion made by a wizard which will bring you alive, then you'll also have vampire blood running through you veins." I was impressed and horrified at the same time, this seems like some horrifying process that looks like will hurt a lot and I don't want to resurrect some powerful guy who cheated on my great, great, great grandmother with some 'bimbo'

Oh, how my life changed a lot, too much for my liking and I'm hating it, but it just adds the excitement that I need, but also a hoard lot of danger.

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Well this is the longest chapter I've ever written. Sheesh. Things are getting a little spicy up in here, next chapter might surprise you a bit, but non the less, I think you'll enjoy it.

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