Broken Chains

"Out of my way dog!" Vice screeched at me while backhanding my face which sent me into the wall to hit the other side of my face. My name is Arthur and I'm just one of thousands of human slaves to a vampire coven. I was lucky, if you could call it that, to be a house slave. At least I will until I turn fourteen. At that time I will be deemed "dangerous" and sent to the mines or fields. I have always asked my parents and grandfather to tell me why the vampires hate us so much but them would just wave me off and say, "We'll tell you when you're older." They never got the chance. That one fateful night when not only did my world change but so did I....