Chapter 1
That Night

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I ran as fast as I could in the freezing, bitter cold. The cold and slight wind was burning on my frigid face and I couldn’t stand it. It was midnight, and I was running down Maple Drive in Eastport, Maine, avoiding any of them. They were everywhere and they were after me. They probably were just toying with me the whole time, but these games they played on anyone they would find was destroying me on the inside. The slightest sound of an animal or human would lure them even if you just tapped your foot. The smell of flesh to them made them itch with excitement. I continued to run as I would trip every so often but wouldn’t fall. The wind wasn’t helping me at all. The claw marks all over me were burning so much I felt like I was dying but they made sure I wouldn’t die, yet.

“Come here little girl,” I heard one of them purr, chasing me. He sounded like the one who clawed at my face when I escaped them.

I continued to run hastily, but tripped on a rock and this time I fell over face first to the cold, hard ground. My nose starting bleeding and the cuts on my face opened up again making my face just ooze crimson blood onto the hard pavement. They all stopped and surrounded me, all 5 of them.

“Heheheh… finally, and just in time for dinner…” The leader proclaimed with an eager voice. He sounded really anxious for his dinner. One thing struck me as odd was his strong Japanese accent, he must be from Japan; his accent was way too strong for an American born Japanese.

“Yeah. Plus, we got us a pretty one. This will be entertaining.”

‘Oh no… please God help me… I don’t wanna die…’ I kept thinking that to myself. I really didn’t want to die even if I had no family. I was old enough to live on my own and I was a junior in high school. I always wanted to see the world but these things took everything away and they just always reappear to try and take me away with everyone else.

“NOOO!!!” I screeched as loud as I could, getting up, and running but one appeared right in front of me and grabbed me rather harshly by the collar of my shirt. It pulled me up to its face and I could see it licking its teeth and smiling getting ready.

“You better not have all the fun!!”

“Yeah!! You always have to ruin it for us!!”

“We always have to go after animals because of you!!”

“Well,” the one holding me continued, “I have a right to do as I please. I am the oldest and the leader. Plus, you have to admit I’m sexy…” he explained making me sick to my stomach. This couldn’t be happening.

Everyday after school or even whenever I went outside, something like this would happen. I run from the creatures of the night and trying to avoid getting sucked dry until I was dead. Or anything worse. I always was able to get away without any major injuries, but today the leader guy brought his friends. It was just my luck.

‘He is so overconfident it’s annoying.’ I thought trying to relax and find a way out of this weird situation.

One of the boys came up to the leader and punched his leader the hardest I’ve ever seen in the face. It was the weirdest thing, probably because I was still being held by the guy who just got slugged and his grip was getting harder instead of looser. The guy looked at me with something weird glint in his eyes that freaked me out a little. He seemed a little sad but had a look that the others all had and it worried me. A lot.

“Let go of that little girl. Now Kosuke.” The guy commanded to his so-called leader. The guy holding me looked at him and merely laughed probably because this was new to him. “I mean it too. You will pay.”

The guy that just punched the leader of the group called Kosuke, looked at me and took the back of my shirt and pulled me into his arms and held me like that while kicking Kosuke in the shin and pulled me off of him and carried me, bridal style, away as fast as he could. I was flushing so badly and I was glad he was to preoccupied to notice my insane blushing. He carried me all the way to another alley and set me down on one of the boxes that were still standing up.

The moon was shining brightly and the reflection of it showed a glint on the boy’s fangs. He looked at the moon and shifted his gaze to me and walked up to me. I was trying to get a good look at his features but he kept his face carefully hidden.

I really was scared since he was one of them, but he had this aura to him that seemed different. I stared at him so long that I didn’t notice that he was leaving.

“Wait!! Are you going to tell me your name?” I ran up to him but he disappeared right in front of me and I felt him reappear right behind me.

“Someday,” And with that I was sound asleep.