Canopy of abyss

CHAPTER one

Blinking hard and trying to adjust my eyes to the darkness around me seems to be the hardest thing worth doing.
I sat up from the cold ground I was thrown to and tried to take note of my surroundings which consisted of an iron cage that smelt of blood, and other things I don't even want to know.
I can't even remember how I got here after what happened yesterday. Am sure you are curious about the beautiful scenery of what happened yesterday, so here goes how my peaceful life got turned to a freaking nightmare: You See, our world got captured and enslaved by vampires before I was even born for reasons not known to me and if you ask me I'll say it's cause they are annoyingly dramatic leeches.
How was I just captured you might ask. Well my parents were rogues, yea 'were' cause they died when I was eighteen.
We've been staying hidden in the woods that shared boundaries between the vampires and the were people..
Where were the werewolves that was supposed to at least hate the vampires and protect the humans you ask?
Well, they ran away, cowards I say, they only protect their own and not even a glimpse of them to be seen.
Anyway I was born as a rogue and was trained in fighting back by my father and some of his friends that escaped the slavery.. We weren't many people that had the luxury to live by our rules, just twenty or so people.. My parents were killed by the leeches last year when they went for patrol.. I think the vampires smelt them. The thought of them still makes my heart hurts.
Our little group was discovered yesterday and captured, some were killed but for the rest of us that weren't, are being held in this freaking place.
I hear thudding of footsteps approaching.. I guess it's coming towards my cell.
I begged my eyes to adjust to the darkness of the cell and when it did, soon discovered a figure inside my cell. Abruptly I stood up making me dizzy... Damn! My head hurts too much to stand upright but I concealed the pain.. Show your enemy no sign of pain, my father once taught me.
I looked up to the figure and discovered my eyes had adjusted to the leech cell guard.. He was tall but Slim.. I wonder where all the blood he sucks goes to. I looked into his red blazing eyes watching him watch me
"Don't look into my eyes rogue" he snarled making me smirk
"Or what leech? You gonna suck me dry?" I said chuckling.
He took slow deliberate steps towards me.
"tempting right?" he said before pulling my hair back aggressively
" Of course, when you get back, you will be taught for two weeks the act of slavery." he dragged me out of the cage.
"where are you taking me to?" I asked hoping to get little information from him.
He stopped abruptly slamming my head to the wall
" You don't ask any questions here slave." he hissed
"But I already did." I smirked only to be back handed.
I fell to the floor coughing out the copper taste in my mouth. Maybe I am trying to get myself killed but it delights me to see that I got under his skin.
" You will get punished for talking back all in due time."
I know I have been acting all tough but trust me, I've been a mess inside.. I just knew how to steady my heart beats when I'm face with any supernatural.. It was a trick my mom taught me.
He dragged me up up a stair to a very big and spacious hall filled with humans or rather pets and slaves..
You see, the pets are the only ones allowed inside a vampire's personal room so. The slaves are living blood bags for the vampires.
"Go stand with the others slave." the leech pulling my hair spoke and pushed me towards the rest of the slaves. I staggered but straightened myself up.
I caught a blonde girl peeking at me through her side vision.
"Are you okay?" she whispered softly surprising me considering she looked more badly injured than I was.
" I'll live." I tried to offer her a smile but I guess I must look like a drowning fish.. OK fish don't drown maybe a donkey then... You can't blame me, that idiot slammed my head hard
" it'll be fine, one day someone will come save us." she smiled brightly startling me..
She must be the only crazy one waiting for an hero that doesn't exist... Or that hasn't been Sucked dry.. She sounded like a child with hope in her eyes.
" what's your name?." I was definitely interested in this conversation more than ever now
" Amelia, how about you?." she asked with her big blue eyes fully on me.
" Khalen... I don't mean to be rude but why do you think someone will come saving the humans anytime soon?." like I said I was interested in her craziness.
" um... There must be someone out there willing to help" she answered with wide naive eyes.
" what are we even doing here anyway?." I tried another topic approach.
"We are to be trained as either a pet or slave but before then we are to be grouped" she answered looking around her quickly
" What a way to show their boredom." I was getting bored with this people. Amelia immediately turned towards me with shock written on her face as if I was the insane one.
" you don't say that out loud unless you want to get into trouble.. Anyway I hope to become a pet so I can at least be treated well." Now it was my turn to look at her as if she was crazier than I thought.
" I rather I was nothing but free but that will be unrealistic... I would settle for a slave so I can get killed while being sucked dr-"

"-gather round slaves... Some of you will become pets today while the rest of you will continue as slaves" A very tall man with brown hair and broad shoulders thundered silencing the whole room..
The vampires as you know were far more beautiful and alluring than the humans hence the arrogance.
He started calling names
" Melissa cobalt, Amelia Vincent, Phoebe Torr and Khalen Sebastian. All the names-"
What? No freaking way..
"- I just called will be the only pet chosen today. The rest of you get out" he boomed
I can't be a pet! I can't believe this!.

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Oh boy! Is her life about to take a strange turn?. I think I'd have panic too.
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