New Vampire In Town

The Change

I am going to skip about a year into this. The only big thing that happened was I met Talia. She was new and we became best friends. Not much there.

So we were drinking some punch and talking when a tall, old looking man stood on the platform for the throne, for our leader, with a frown on his face. The whole room was quiet it that second. "I have terrible news. In his slumber, Dracula had died." Gasps shot through the air. He continued, "He left a note of his successor. "His name is, Joey." I was very surprised, he was scrawny compared to most of the other vampires in the clan. The whole room looked at him. He walked up to the throne. "How may I serve my new people?" Cheers cried out. The funeral for Dracula was that night. It was sad. He was the first, and the oldest vampire ever know.

I hadn't known him well, I only spoke to him once. I wondered down the wrong hallway looking for the bathroom and all he did was give my directions. I wanted to know him better, I should have know the clan leader better.

Now Joey was our leader. He chose the sign of peace. A black piece sign. His rain was nothing but peaceful. Every leader must choose a sign for there legacy. Dracula sign was the sign of life. It kind of looked like a stick figure with a circle behind it. But Joey was a terrible leader. He got us into a disagreement with the wolves and the hybrids. He made the vampire seem like the most greedy people ever. He got the whole clan into stupid arguments. The clan is like a country of humans but smaller.

Then when war was threatened, me and Talia decided to prepare ourselves for war, so we didn't die. We wanted to learn this new life of the vampires. That is just a fancy way of saying we wanted to explore the ways of the vampire before dying.

We went to a target room to try out some weapons. I grabbed a basic bow and arrow. I loaded the bow and pulled the string to my lip. I aimed at the center and shot. First try, hit the center of the target. "I like this one. I choose this one." I told Talia. She picked up a 5 inch knife and threw it. She chose that one. That's when he walked in.

His name was Raymond. "Do you even know how to fight?" He asked us. I bluntly said nope. He told us to follow him so we did. He led us to what looked like a yoga studio. It had rubber flooring and padded walls. This is where I will teach you. First you will change out of your dresses.

He led us to the changing room and just said change into something leather and silver. I went in and was still surprised it was that big. The organization made it easy to find. Size medium, leather. I found a pair of skinny, black leather pants. I don't like tight paints, but I could move in these so they were ok.

Then I found a leather jacket that had silver zippers. Along the collar I had silver spikes about 1/2 inch long. It also had the spikes on the ends of the sleeves too. I walked down the line of clothes and grabbed a slim black t-shirt. I slipped the clothes on and was going to walk out but realized I still had my 4 inch heals on. I ran, or walked quickly, to the shoe department.

I put the heals back and grabbed a pair of black combat boots. I looked bad, the good bad, you know what I mean. I can out at the same time Talia did. She was wearing the same pants and shirt I was wearing. But she had black running sneakers and a different style jacket.

"Ok, you guys look good. Can I have your names?" He said. Talia was silent and looked at me. So I spoke, "My name is Laura, and this is Talia." I said gesturing to Talia. "Good. My name is Raymond. Now, back to the Dojo(the room with rubber floors)!"

We followed him back. Since we were both new we followed everybody that gave us directions. When we got there we immediately started basic training. Like how to punch and kick and basic defense. He even showed us how to flip someone. I always beat Talia. This stuff came easy to me.

When it came to using the weapons, I needed some target practice but I was good with the bow. I went just for the final exam to see if I qualified as an archer. Joey had the entire clan tested if there field of military. I was deemed the best archer. I was happy. Talia was the best knife or weapon throwing person in the clan.

We both thanked Raymond a lot. I mean a LOT. He was a swordsman so we weren't competing with him. Now, let me explain the testing.

For the archers, we all got the same bows and arrows then walked down a narrow hallway with the same hard wood flooring. It lead to a room with a low ceiling and about 50 target lined up about 5 feet apart. We each lined up in front of a target.

The General for the archers cued us to shoot. We were told to shoot at the center and hit nearest to the center as we could. It was cued so slow. Instead of hitting the center every time, I hit the center only the first time. Enter the first time the I hit the rings of the target making 5 circles following the rings on the target. It looked cool. The others had arrows scattered on the target. When I had completed filling the rings of the target, the I did what I have only seen in the movies, I split the arrow directly in half. I loaded and drawled my arrow to the corner of my lips. I wondered where to hit next, to I aimed at the end of the arrow I shot in the center earlier. Then the cue came,"Fire!" So I did and the arrow flew through the air. Broke the arrow clean in 2, even the silver tip!

They stopped the testing after that. I heard they had never seen that good of an archer. I smiled at that. Then they gave us our metal, heavy, shinny, and heavy armor. I met up with Talia and Raymond who also got the armor. "This armor is way too heavy for me to shoot like I do." "If you stay out of site, like in a tree or in a window, you won't have to wear it but you won't get in trouble if he doesn't find out." Said Raymond, emphasizing he. "Who is he?" "He is the leader. He will especially be mad if you get hurt not wearing it." "Your not supposed to tell her!" Talia scolded at Raymond. Raymond looked embarrassed.

"Not supposed to tell me what?" "He likes you and is waiting till he saves you during war to say so. Everybody knows." Talia explains. She said the part about him saving me sarcastically. I chucked. I wasn't surprised. He seemed nicer to me when I asked him favors, like where are the extra cookies. I love cookies. That is something to take note of.

When we were talking about the horrible armor, and how it wasn't ever silver, a loud thud and a crumbling sound came from the ball room. Me, Talia, and Raymond rushed to the ballroom to find the biggest Hybrid I've ever seen, it was really just the first hybrid I've seen. Hybrids are the offspring of a vampire and a wolf. They were created in like 500,000 BCE. A very very long time ago.

He had Joey by the neck with a giant claw threatening to cut him neck. Joey looked so scared he could scream like a little girl. "You will follow me or your leader will be killed." He said in a deep voice. I loaded my arrow and stepped into the shadow behind Talia and Raymond. They didn't see me. I slowly walked to a shadowy spot to the hybrid leaders right. Where his right arm was around Joeys neck. I fired my arrow and would have hit the center of Joeys neck but I hit, which I meant to hit, the middle of the hybrids hand. He howled in pain. I stepped into the shadows to not be seen when he looked for the shooter. Joey ran toward the shadow where I was, the. War broke out.