New Vampire In Town

Who Is Doing What?

Everything was getting back to normal, the wall was repaired and getting repainted the same color it had been, blood red, our favorite color We were having a good time. Joy filled the air and the smell of cookies. Yum. Joey was solving the conflict with the hybrids, so he would be gone for another 4 days. I told him to do that. I basically tell him what to do as our leader, it's made him look likes he's cleaned it up well.

We were in the ballroom, parting, the usual. Raymond comes over to me, Talia, and a new friend I met after we were let free from the hybrids. He thanked me for saving us. I tried to brush it off like it was nothing, but apparently it was a big deal. I mean a BIG deal to him. His name was Leroy.

He finally stopped thanking me after I said he could hang out with us. He was so happy. He tried to be cool about it, it didn't work. He fit in well with Raymond and Talia. He was French, which means he spoke French. But he also spoke English because he moved to the Americas at the young age of 3.

He is a nice guy with surprisingly blond hair. Most of the vamps hair turns a dark brown, black, or just generally a darker color than they had before. His eyes were green, like Raymond's, and they are the same height.

Then Raymond came over trying to hold 4 glasses of the grape- blood juice, which is called blood juice. It's a stupid name, but it's a good drink.

He almost dropped them before I grabbed 2 of them out of his hands. I caught them just before they hit the ground. That was a close one. He looked relived and I chucked at his expression, and brought them over to Talia and Leroy.

After handing them their glasses, they told us the new startling gossip. "Did you here what's happening in the plains?" Talia asked. I started to wonder the possibilities, but I stopped because there are just so many. "No." I said as my smile turned into a frown. "There are wolf pups being found dead in the plains. Not even just the outskirts, the middle too. Why would a murderer risk getting caught in the middle of the plains?" She asked. My chest tightened. Pup getting killed? Why would someone do that?

"The worst part is that numbers are being cut into them. So far 6 have died." She said as she lowering her head. I could tell she was scared. I was too, what if the wolf killers came for the vampire kids too?

We know this because the wolf leader showed up at our front door. He yelled at us that we were killing them. But why would we if the conflict was resolved, and the way they were killed proves we didn't. They were stabbed and cut, which is gruesome, because they were cut to shreds, but it's not our style. Vampires would use their fangs and go through the neck. I was scared we were going to get into another argument. They would not let's is off the hook as easy.

But when it wasn't us, who could it have been? That's when I was concerned for not only the kids safety but out. Them killing pups could have been a coincidence. We asked every clan, city, village, or person in a 100 mile radius of the plains. None of the killings fit their style. Hybrids would bite and scratch victims, wolves would do the same, but more scratching. The zombies get them infected, which didn't even kill them, and the ghosts make their victims crazy. So what was killing the wolf kids? And why?

Then about a week after the count hit 10, the hybrids got it There numbers were only 3 because they hid the kids indoors. They got 4 zombies and 0 ghosts, but wrote numbers in blood on their village. Then the vamps got hit, that's when the real drama happened.

Since we are all in this giant castle and we don't sleep, they had to break in, and they did. The same wall was broken AGAIN. The carpenters looked like they were going to kill the intruders themselves before the military did. Once the wall crumbled. I ran toward the weapon room and my friends followed me. They knew what I was doing, grabbing my bow and changing into my head. I was an archer, Talia a knife thrower, Raymond a swordsman, and Leroy was a spearman. we made a good fighting team. We were in and out in 5 minutes. We went back out not saying a word, just breathing heavy from running.

We came back out. Smoke was everywhere, and it kept coming. I coughed from inhaling smoke. Neither of us knew where it was coming from but then I heard a scream, of a child. That set me off. I ran into the smoke crouching low, there was so much smoke you could only see about a foot off the ground. I loaded my bow slowly and pulled the string back. I was very alert because I couldn't see what I was shooting.

Then I heard another scream from my left, another child. I turned but what I saw made my chest tighten and eyes widen. I saw bare feet, and they were huge, they were literally as long as are wide. Since they weren't anything I've seen a vampire with, I shot his foot. He yelled in pain and dropped a vampire girl. I whispered run to the wall and go about 10 paces right and you'll find a hallway without as much smoke. Find Trina. Her eyes were wide and she was shaking. She obeyed and ran as I noticed she had a cut in her neck and arm. He had started cutting the number 2 into her gut, that's when I know it's was the same people that killed the pups on the plains. Then the strange thing picked me up.

I didn't scream because I wanted to see its face, I wanted to now what is was. It was wearing tattered clothing with a brown sack along its side. It has smoke bombs. That's where the smoke was coming from. Light bulb. I shot the sack off of his side. "An archer." He said as he pressed me against the wall about 3 feet off the ground. He had me by the waist in one hand. One hand! His hands were huge. I could hear my heart beat in my ears, what in the world is that big that can grab me around my waist in one hand! I am not the smallest of people, but his hand was huge.

As the smoke started to clear, he saw my face. "And I got a pretty one too." Still holding me against the wall, he grabbed some more smoke bombs and scattered them across the room. "We're done here. Let's go boys." He said with as smirk crept on his face. I could feel his hand rap all the way around my waist. I tried to wiggle out but his grip was too strong. He walked through the broken wall and into the night.

When we get outside I notice what they were. They were trolls. The rest of the world thought that trolls were extinct, but they just went into hiding. But why? Did they hide to regain numbers so if war was started they could fight? What is that they didn't want to start war? But why did they come out of hiding? Most importantly, why are they killing the children?