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Post by erosaf on Jan 28, 2010 10:28:37 GMT 8
Back of book:Predator
Brawny werewolves prowl in the darkness, Cunning vampyres fly in the night sky on silence’s wings, Filled with loathing the demons lurk in the dark. The eternal struggle continues………….
…………...The death of the vampyre’s most elite has angered all of vampyre kind. With Nightstorm gone, and a completely uneasy path ahead, Jenny must try to choose between helping the people she is one of, or turning her back on all vampyres and being with Rudi…………..
…………..However the passing away of her mother has made the werewolves and demons bolder towards her race, not to mention more aggressive. The only way they will find their real place as the ones controlled is if she takes her place as the legendary Nightstorm that she knows she is now…………..
…………..Rudi knows that Jenny has the authority to change their world into one of harmony. However there is the matter that if he angers Jenny too much, she will lash out at him. He has to be careful around her. How will he manage to get this message across to her, that she can bring peace to their war devastated world?…………..
……………Angeline knows that the wolves are getting stronger around her. She herself is. Though she cannot figure out why this is. All she knows is that her strength has grown since Jenny’s mother was killed in front of her. She does not think that any battle between her people and the vampyres would be worth the death it would cause. How can she bring herself to truly hate the things that Jenny stands for? And will she ever see Jenny with welcoming eyes ever again?…………..
…………..The demons grow bolder. They know that Nightstorm died to one of the wolves and are pleased with the werewolves for achieving this. Ashleigh knows that this is not true though. The demons plan around her to take on the vampyres in one last bloody battle for supremacy. Will she be able to stop them before she is wrapped up in a war that may cost her, her life and friendship?…………..
……………Danger, chaos and choices lie before all of them, and not all of them are straightforward to make. Will their friendship’s and other relationships endure?
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Post by erosaf on Jan 28, 2010 10:33:27 GMT 8
Book One Jenny
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Post by erosaf on Jan 28, 2010 10:34:24 GMT 8
PrefaceLove and hate are just two sides of a sword's blade. One side is a light feeling, the other a dark feeling.
When you love the one who is also one generally on the dark side of the sword what would you do?
Throw away everything you feel for them and stay on the light side?
Or keep all you feel for them and not care about the havoc that action would cause?
After all, all is fair in love and war......
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Post by erosaf on Jan 28, 2010 10:38:26 GMT 8
Chapter 1
It was so hard to believe that my mother was gone from me forever. Well at least, until the day I died. It was a hard thing to accept. Not only that, but she wanted me to take her place on the high council.
Of course, I knew that she had every right to name me as her sucessor, but I was not sure that I was the one for the job. I mean, I'm just a teenager, who through a random act of fate, has been changed from a human into a really powerful vampyre warrior.
No one else seemed to care that much about that to be honest. Every vampyre I knew was so happy in this life. They enjoyed having a life of darkness. We were the supreme race of the night creatures at the moment and I guess that was a good thing. After all, the werewoves and demons had no idea what it meant to be a real leader.
They were always intent on apparently protecting humans from us, but in actuality, we were the ones protecting humans from them. It was not the odd occassion when I had to fight a werewolf over a human. There were sometimes the most annoying of things. No human knew what our Achilles Heel's were, only the other races. A good thing, else the humans would fight back against us.
"Are you alright, Jenny?" Elle asked, through my closed bedroom door. There was obvious concern in her voice. An amount of concern that I did not beleive I was worth. It was my fault that my mother had died in the first place. I was the reason and no matter how many times Rudi and any of his pack, James, Kristy and Angeline had told me, I was still the one who blamed themself for it. If I had not met with the werewolves, she would be here now.
I knew without asking, what she was referring to. The only part of me that was alright was the part of my heart that Rudi had with him. Rudi, the werewolf was my soulmate, and he was here for me, if I should ever need him. I sighed. "No, but I will recover."
I did not want to be here at the school for the young vampyres like me, but the most powerful vampyre alive had died at the hands of a werewolf, leaving me, her fledgling daughter to take her place. Worse than that, she had died right in front of me. The wolf responsible, needless to say, died straight after her. He'd been zapped by all the elements I controlled.
Now everyone looked up to me, well all the fledglings at least. Not everyone knew my mother's last wish, only me, Rudi, my freinds and my mentor, Head Warden Karen. I told her lots of things. Though not about Rudi yet. That I could tell no vampyre, seeing as he was an enemy to everyone else.
I sighed, glad none of my old freinds could see me now. There were so many humans I no longer spoke to, and I guess that these days it is a good thing. They would be afraid of me, since I was no longer a pitiful human like they were.
Life as a vampyre was not as easy as I always thought it was going to be. School though an important thing for all of us was actually interesting. I liked my classes, but the thought of my human freinds graduating in a matter of hours really sucked.
Then someone else knocked on the door and I knew I had to let this person in. It was Karen. My mentor. The head of the entire school had chosen me, and that sometimes amazed me, I was so ordinary. I sometimes did not think I was worth her time and energy as a student. There were so many fledglings that were better than me, I was so aware of them, and yet she had chosen me.
It was something I would never understand. She was so much more stronger than me in every single way. And yet they all expected me to be stronger than her. How shocking was that for me? No way would I ever be as strong as her. She was so many years older than I was. Definately with all that time came a lot of power. Power I was only just strarting to gain.
As a fledgling I was much weaker than she was, since she was a fully grown adult vampyre. Goddess, I knew that one day I would be like her, but no day too soon in the future. I loved being who I was, and not who people expected me to be.
To me, being forced to be who others wanted me to be was wrong. I mean, I am a free person here. This seemed wrong that we were all being molded to be someone whom we were not really. Sure we all were learning to fight, but with the werewolves and demons lurking it was a natural thing for us to learn. Both other night creatures were meant to be our enemies, though to some, like me, they were not seen as such. I loved my own personality and if I was to give way to the school's teaching, Rudi would end up as nothing to me.
That was something that I could never allow to have happen. He was after all, my soul mate, no matter how many of the vampyres around me would not want to learn that I was with a werewolf and not trying to kill him. I have to admit though, we do have our disagreements, which often end up with us fighting in earnest. Luckily one of us is always able to stop before either of us kill the other. I love Rudi with all my heart and sometimes he is the only thing in the world that matters to me. After all, it is hard to be away from him and in the school where he cannot come to see me.
I looked up to see Karen standing there, watching me with a lot of sympathy in her eyes. "What is it?" I asked. I was worried now. What had happened to make her look like that? I was recovering from my mother's death and now something else had happened that I would be upset about.
"We went to visit your father about Julia's death," she began. "That was not something expected that was waiting for us. We got into the house, the door was open as if he was waiting for us." She stopped.
I stared at the rearing griffon tattoos on her face for a few moments. "Go on," I said. What could be so bad that she had to stop? This uneasy feeling that was forming in my stomach was always hard to hide on my face when I spoke to her.
"We found your father. He was not where he said he would be when we called him before going there. Instead of being in the study as he said, we found him in the lounge room. There was a lot of blood everywhere. Something had attacked him. We believe the werewolves are responsible, there was a lot of their smell in there," she said. "The smell of the creatures was all over the house."
I gasped, my eyes widening in shock. Was she serious? Werewolves had killed my defenseless human father. I knew as the thought finished that my eyes were filling with anger at the mongrels. I could feel my face burning as something was triggered deep inside my very core. What it was though, no one could ever explain. My head drooped for a few minutes with the strange burning feeling.
When I lifted my head to look at her again, she gasped in astonishment. "What?"
"You might want to take a look in the mirror, that looks beautiful, Jenny," Karen said softly.
I got numbly to my feet and walked over to my mirror. Then I looked at my face. There framing my face was the full tattoo of the older vampyres. A rearing golden pair of unicorns was there on my face, their horns touching in the middle of my forehead. "Oh my god," I exclaimed, amazed. Completely stunned, I reached up with one hand to touch the marks. My skin felt no different where they were, which was a surprise.
"You've changed Jenny," Karen said. "You're an ...
"Adult vampyre," I finished the sentence. Every vampyre in the world had these tattoo's but there was a theme to them all. Mythical creatures. That was what they all were. There were rose garlands around the unicorn's necks, and an obvious dappled pattern to their coats. Something that seriously amazed me. Most people just had plain looking creatures, with no extra embellishments like my unicorn's and Karen's roaring griffons.
"You have to show your freinds," she said. "And you certainly cannot stay here in the school grounds, as well. You seem to have enough knowledge to make the change early."
I'm an adult. School's over, I thought. I looked at her. "I guess so, yeah."
She laughed. "Of course you must, my dear girl." She seemed overjoyed that I had actually made it to being an adult. Then we heard the gasping of many students down in the common room. Quickly both of us rushed down. A lot of the other fledglings were backing away from my freinds, Elle, Emily, Rachelle and Sally. Soon I spotted why. Their adult marks had came to them too.
Our eyes all met, I could see that they were all confused what had happened. Only because they could not see the new additions to their faces. Then they saw my mark.
"Oh my god, Jenny, you... you..." Elle was lost for words.
"Shit that's beautiful, J," Emily said.
"Yourrrr'ee...." Rachelle stammered.
"Wow," Sally said simply.
"Yeah, I know, I changed. As have..." I started.
"You four as well," Karen said. She was smiling at my four freinds. "Never has more than one fledgling changed at the same time." She seemed extremely happy with the five of us. "I wonder why that happened to come to pass."
"Jenny is sort of our leader," Sally managed to say.
"Go take a look in the mirror guys," I said, a lot happier than I had been minutes ago. There was no way they should know the shape of their marks. They had to see the marks that they had all just gotten from me changing. My four freinds did, running to the mirrors that we all could use at any time we were allowed to. I smiled as they, did knowing what they would see.
Elle would see the pattern of a flying pegusas horse, just one of them, covering her face. Every muscle in the mythical horse would be easily made out by her eyes. Emily had two griffons, poised on their hindlegs. Though in no way as ornate as Karen's. Rachelle had what looked like the sprite of a elemental dragon curled around her face. And Sally had a beautiful pheonix on her face, rising from the flames.
We had all changed at the same time and I knew that I had been slightly before the others. Five different vampyres, all different marks. Though I did notice that each creature was linked to one of the elements in particular, even mine. Pheonix of the fire, dragon of the earth, griffon of the air, pegusas of the water and unicorn of spirit.
I could see from Karen's face that she was making the same connection. It seemed only natural that mine was related to one of them, I was after all, master of all the elements. But my freinds? That was very confusing. We were all looking at each other in surprise. My freinds came over to me now.
"Can I get you five to come with me please?" Karen asked. "I want to try something."
We all nodded, following the older vampyre out of the common room. People had started to cheer as we walked towards the exit and I could see a lot of boys in the corridor, staring at our common room, wondering what was going on in there to cause such a racket. Then understanding showed in their eyes and I smiled. Even the boys started to cheer as we left Fyre House's main hallway.
I was amazed by how proud all the other fledglings seemed to be as they saw me and my freinds heading out of the house corridor quickly. Even the griffon that gaurded our area bowed its head happily as it saw us. And yet it was simply a lump of metal really that was animated. "Well done, you five."
Karen led us to one of the rooms that none of us had ever been in and opened one of the glass cases in the room carefully. She turned to face us. "Now, can any of you control any of the elements?"
I stepped forwards immediately. "Yes I can, but not only one of them, but all of them. Wind, fire, water, earth and spirit all listen to me." I smiled as I saw my freinds looking at me in awe. "Not only that but I can tell that each of my freinds can control an element though they are not aware that they can do so. Possibly that has something to do with their marks."
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