Chapter One

I awake from sleep to screaming, laughing, and the undeniable smell of blood that overpowered my nose with the iron thick in the air which is creeping from under my dark bedroom door. I quickly but quietly lock my door and hide in my closet. That's when I heard voices that shook my bones and made my blood run cold. Deep...rough...voices.

" I can still smell another, coming from...there," with quick footsteps following right to my door. The nob tries to turn but stops.

"It looks like the little punk knew we were coming and locked the door, very well then," the next second the door split in two, wood going every which way.

" come out, we know you're here, if you do I'll make your death quick and painless," I go dead still not daring to breathe in fear that they will find me, I close my eyes as soon as I did the voice rings out in the dead air, " found you," the closet door breaks reviling me pale as a ghost.

I've read about them in books and seen pictures but never been this close to one. It was tall and slender, had pale blue skin, black eyes, sockets almost gone, long sharp nails like claws, very visible black veins under its eyes, and unmistakable teeth like sharks. This creature that stands before me is none other than a vampire.

It pulls me out of my hiding place to the openness of the room and grabs me by the neck as tears stream down my face. As it leans in to bite one of my vital arteries in my neck a voice rings out.

" sliver! Let the boy be!" He stops sighs still having a firm grip on my neck, his claw-like nails digging into it.

" Why Mirina? Everyone else is dead, so why?" He says as he gestures behind her as she stands in the doorway blood creeping around her shoes.

" can't you see he's one of us, you idiot, we can't kill him. We have to bring him back with us," she points to me and the vampire that is called Silver looks at me with a disgusted look and lets me go. The other one walks from the doorway, grabs me by my chin, looks at me, says something to me, and the next thing I remember I'm somewhere else.

I look around and it looks to be an old mansion.

" where am I?" I ask

" I ask the questions around here kid," comes a voice

" what's your name?"

"Ethan, Ethan Hunter," I speak

" So,...Ethan, do you know what you are?"

" yes, I'm human, unlike you, I'm guessing,"

" ahh, you are right about me not being human but wrong about that you said you are,"

" you have no right to say what or who I am, especially not coming from a monster!" I yell.

" now, now, where did this temperament come from dear Ethan, I mean you no harm, I just want you to be aware that you're more like me, a.. " monster"...you said then you may think,"

At that moment I tried to run at where the voice was coming from only to be stopped by chains which made my arms jerk back and almost rip out of their beloved sockets. I cry out in pain.

" I wouldn't do that if I were you, those chains are bound by magic there's no getting out unless you have a witch..which I do," I look up to see the voice come out from the shadows it was a tall slender built man in a freshly pressed black suit with a blood-red tie.

" Hello, my dear boy, you seemed shocked, did you expect to see the gruesome vampires?" He said with a genuine smile showing off a perfectly white pair of teeth that seemed to be slightly too sharp.

" Who are you?" I ask.

" I am Bastian, my dear boy, and as long as I'm around no harm will come to you," he said with a deep bow. As he was straightening himself from the bow his eyes became sharp and threatening.

" Ethan, you are not aware of what you are, I can not teach you what you need to know but I can give you aid and teach you how to defend yourself for what's to come, there's a war coming and you'll need to know,"

My blood ran cold at his words and my face turning pale once again.