Fear Academy (Started but still accepting)

Raven

I am in my room, reading abook when I hear someone knocking on the door. I get up and open the door, thinking that it is either Trinity and Luna. It is niether. Instead, it is a buch of burly guys, people I have never seen before, probably vampire hunters. That's when I realize that Trinity has been gone for a really long time. They've probably got her too.

All of the men are armed, and I am utterly defenseless. I back up, and they enter the room. I try to fight them, but they outnumber me, and soon have me pinned to the floor, one of them standing above me, ducttape in hand. As he bends over to tape my mouth shut, I spit at him, getting him square in the eye. That's when another one whips out a baseball bat.



When I wake up, I am tied to a pole, sitting down on a carpeted floor, hands behind my back. I hear a voice behind me, and I almost jumped, until I realized who it is. Its Trinity, simply saying 'Hey', like this was just anotherday, like being kidnapped was normal. Although now, for us, it kind of was.

"So who was it this time?" I sigh.

"Hieke and her online hate group."

"Figures."

That's when we hear footsteps above, getting closer. So we're in a basement. Then we see Hieke and a few of her cronies descend the stairs, all manners of weapons on them. Except for Hieke. She just has her smirk and a long thin blade.

JourneyGirl: My character is mute, and therefore not able to 'hiss' a response.
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Heike

I slowly descended the staircase, a long thin knife in my hand. I knew that I should have felt something. Anger, sadness, even a twisted happiness, but I felt nothing. And it terrified me, but at the same time I knew it was just right.
When I reached the two captive girls, Raven and Trinity, I did not waste time. I would not be another Gideon or a stupid group of children in the hallway. I slashed a knife across Trinity's skin and she cried out in pain. I did this, over and over, as if I was doing some simple repetitive task, like the ASL alphabet. Tainted blood ran from her body as I continued to slash.
Finally, from blood loss or pain, she passed out.
Leaving her to bleed for the moment, I turned to Raven. Using the knife, I gestured to Trinity, nodding my head. Then I pointed at her, shaking my head. I paused a moment. Pointed at Trinity and the knife, and at Raven and the door.
I made the message clear enough. I don't want to hurt you but I will.
Trembling from head to toe, she looked at me straight in the eyes and said in a voice surprisingly strong, "I will not leave my friend."
I nodded. Then I raised my knife to thrust into her heart.
However, before I could strike the blow, someone grabbed me from behind and proceeded to try to strangle me.

Sorry I forgot! I'll change it.

After we walk through the woods for what seems like eternity, we arrive at a place I've never seen before, a house deep in the woods, concealed by trees. This is nothing like the cabin Gideon took us to, it is much larger and creepier. We enter and I am brought down to the carpeted basement, where I am tied to a pole and the ducttape is removed from my mouth.No sense screaming, this place is way past Gideon's old cabin, and they couldn't hear me at campus from there. My attackers exit and return quite a while later with an unconscious Raven. They tie her to the opposite side of the pole and exit once more. "Hey." I say as she wakes up, so she knows it's me. "Who was it this time?" she asks, a bit of fear in her voice. "Heike and her online hate group." I respond. "Figures." she says. Then they all come down down the stairs, Heike leading the group. They all have quite the assortment of weapons, except Heike, who carries a single, long blade. She makes her way over to me and doesn't hesitate to start swinging it at me. I scream from the ;pain, knowing she is going to kill me at this moment. She slices my skin repeatedly in the most painful and vital places, not deep enoufh to kill me, not yet. It's apparent she wants me to die slowly from blood loss or is going to put me through hell then kill me. I am in an indescribable amount of pain, and I'm losing a lot of blood, fast. I watch her take another swing at me as I black out.

(b)Roxanne(/b)
My mother was gone from her room so I return back to Trinity and Heike only to find a struugle where they use to be. "Mom!" I stare ahead adrenaline coursing through my veins as anger rises inside. I connect with Heike's mind oo find where they went soon finding my way towards the cabin shielding my red eye as I near then. As I get close the biggest of the group steps towards me I lung at him and he drops dead at my feet but there's no mark on his body the others look on shocked giving me time to take them down quick and easy without giving them a scuff and I leave them on the pourch dead and me with a wild hungering look in my two red eyes instead of one red and blue. I sneak up behind Heike as she's about to kill Raven and stranggle her till she blacksout. I avoid Raven's eyes as I untie them, slinging Trinity over my shoulder and pulling Raven with me back to the academy where I hand over Trinity then once done explaining I'm left there with Raven and I tell her what I found while at the cabin before I got them. "Sarafine is dead."

I wake up back in my old room in the infirmery. I'm am still in a lot of pain, and I feel too weak to do anything but move my eyes. I'm alone in here, with just the nurse, still bandaging all of my wounds. It's apparent that I haven't been here long. "You lost a lot of blood tonight girl." she informs me, "Gonna be too weak and sore to do anything for a while." I'm definately confused, I was certain that I was going to die in that basement, tied to that pole. The nurse continues patching me up for a long time. Once she's finished, she opens the door and pokes her head out. "Alright, she can have visitors now, but only one at a time, she's very weak and in a lot of pain. She's only going to be able to handle one of you, it's really late anyway, y'all should be gettin' some sleep." She goes to her desk and I hear a few familiar voices outside. After a couple minutes of listening to them debate over whose coming in first, I'm surprised to see it is Roxanne. "You're probably wondering what happened." she begins, "Well when I got there I was almost certain you were dead, but I caught Heike just as she was about to kill Raven. I strangled her until she blacked out, untied Raven and slung you over my shoulder, not sure if you could still make it. But not everyone had a happy ending tonight. Sarafine is dead." So Roxanne saved us, I'm always in debt to someone. Then it hits me, Sarafine is dead! I feel the tears streaming down my face. I would thank Roxanne, but I'm too weak to even do that, plus now I don't think I'd be able to, I'm crying so hard.

Roxanne leaves me to soak it all in, and as she exits, Raven walks in. "She told you huh?" she asks. She sits in the chair next to my bed. "Are you okay?" she asks, "I was certain you weren't coming back this time." When I don't respond, she knows that I'm not. She tells me to get some rest and exits. There are some arguments from whoever else is outside when she tells them to go so I can rest, but after some debate they all leave. Before she goes, Raven shuts off the light and closes the door for me. I should be resting, but I just can't get to sleep now.

Raven

I can't believe it. I can't believe Sarafine's dead. I feel hollow, nt feeling anything. I know I should feel something, but I just... don't. I just shuffle on day after day, never feeling anything. I know I should be angry, greif-stricken, panicked, anything but this hollowness that is consuming me. I wonder if this is what depression feels like; I wonder if I'm depressed. That would make sense, that would be normal. I mean, my friends and I were kidnapped for the- what? fourth maybe fifth time now-, one of my friends was murdered and the other is so injured from her being tortured that she can't even move.

Wait, I was wrong before. I do feel something; guilt. I mean, if I were on my gaurd before my kidnapping, I could have been able to fight them and warn Sarafine. I could have been looking for Trinity when she wasn't in our dorm for such a long time. I could have volenteered to go first. But I didn't do any of those things. And now Sarafine is dead, and Trinity is so injured she is immoble. All because of me.

The little vioce of reason in my head tells me that it's not my fault, that it's Heike's, but I push it aside. No, it's my fault. I want to smash things, to destroy things, but mainly I want to injure myself. To feel what Trinity felt. But no, the voice of reason says, just as I'm about to grab the pocetknife that I carry with me at all times, that wouldn't be right. It would be an insult to Trinity and the pain she's in. And it would alieviate my guilt, which is inexcusable. No, I have to live with this.

I drop the pocketknife and grab my book from off of my bedside table, to distract me. But, much to my chigrin, guess what happens in the book at that particular point? The main character and her friends gt kidnapped. Figures. Then I decide to listen to music, and hit shuffle. Guess what song comes up? Flyleaf's "Perfect", whch goes 'and how can you look at me when I can't stand myself'. Exasperated, I just lay down in bed, staring at the ceiling, alone with my self-loathing thoughts, unable to sleep.

Roxanne
"Raven may I come in please?"I ask at her door my voice sounding very frail at the moment and when she opens the door you could tell I had just been crying really hard. I stumble forward into the room and we sit on her bed then I start aawling again to her. "I should've been faster. I should've just killed them right there while they were moving in...now she's gone. And my sister and I are orphanes." I sob unable to speak anymore but I utter a few more words before I cry uncontrolably "I fear myself."

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Sorry I haven't been on you guys. I've been having some technical difficulties with my computer.

Luna


Things had just gone from bad to worse. The girls had been kidnapped again, Sarafine's dead, and I couldn't do a thing to stop it. I was so mad when I found out that now there's a hole in the wall where the min hallway is. And then I felt sad. How could things have gotten so out of control? I find Kai talking to Lila out in the hallway. He walks up and wraps his arms around me, and I don't have the strenght to push him away like i'd like to, so I just bury my face in his chest listen to his beating heart.

"There was nothing you could've done." he kissed the top of my head.

"If I'd stayed with them like I know I should have, two girls wouldn't have lost their mother and two other girls wouldn't have lost their friend. I knew something was wrong the moment Heike talked to me in the hallway." I buried my face father into his warm strong chest.

He sighed and rubbed my back soothingly, thought it did nothing.

"Blaming yourself does no good." his lips pressed against my ears. "No one could've predicted this."

"But it could've been prevented." my voice broke.

"Maybe," I felt him nod. "maybe not."

I sighed. There was no use in arguing. Instead I switched to something else. "What are you going to do with Heike?"

"What do you think I should do about her?" he countered.

"I'd put the stake through her myself." the venom in my voice was muffled by his chest.

I listened to the grumbling sound coming form his chest as he chuckled. "Still a blood thirsty little thing I see."

"Always have, always will be, baby." I looked up at him.

"One of the reason I love you." he touched my cheek.

I almost cry then and look down at his wide chest. He grabs my chin with his thumb and index finger and tilts my chin up to meet his eyes. I smile sadly. "That's just what a girl wants to hear."

"Good, i'll say it more often." he smiles.

"Thanks, but no thanks." I laugh.

He touches his forehead to mine. "I don't know what I would've done if that were you."

I pull his face between my hands. "Well, i'm right here, in your arms, and i'm safe."

"I don't ever wanna lose you." he whispered. "Never."

Then he leaned down, and pressed his lips against mine. I sighed into his mouth and gave in. We both needed this. He pulled me close and pressed me against the wall. His hands roamed my body softly and traveled lower than needed. He tasted so warm and delicious. I didn't want this to end, but seeing as how we were in a school and there were kids here, ripping our clothes off of each other wasn't very school appropriate. I closed my hands around Kai's and reluctantly pull them away with a sigh.

"Down boy," I kiss his cheek. "gotta keep it PG-13."

"R would be better right now." he murmured against my temple.

"But it's not." I pat his chest.

He takes a step back, a few deep breaths, and then runs a hand through his thick midnight black hair. "I have to head back into my office and handle all of this crap, but if nothing else goes to hell, my place for some much needed time together?"

"It's a date." I smile and nod.

He steps forward for a quick peck on the lips and heads off. I turn and head for Raven's room to give her, and anyone else who needs a shoulder to cry on.

Heike

I woke up handcuffed to a pipe and rolled my eyes.
This whole 'waking up from a nearly deadly attack, tied/chained up in a strange room' thing is becoming a theme at this damn school.
Breathing deeply, I allowed my super senses to tell me where I was. Things were a bit fuzzy, as it had been awhile since my new monstrous form had forced me to consume blood, and the event with Trinity had been a bit like forcing an alcoholic to sit in a bar while the bartender gave everyone else free drinks. In Russia. I was, however; still able to do some impressive detective work.
I could hear the sound of water sloshing through the pipe, so I knew I was probably in a newer part of the school, not the older parts where the water was shut off. The harsh smell of cleaning chemicals was overpowering. But beneath it was chalk and graphite. I was in sometype of janitor's/storage closet.Detention for the damned.
I tugged on the cuffs and the metal pipe became dented. I smirked. This was too easy. I yanked harder and harder until finally the cuff tore through the metal and it started drenching me in water. The door was easy too, I simply broke it down. Standing on the otherside howver, was something no one ever wants to see, Vampire or not. The teacher and the headmaster.
Grinning ear to ear. I waved at them, using my hand that showed off the cuffs.
Suddenly I realized I had reason to smile. I might not have killed Trinity, but she was no doubt weak. Weak meant that she needed blood, bottled blood that I had gotten rid of. Mrs. Wenchester made a comment about my belonging in an insane asylum as I began to shake with silent laughter. Trinity was either going to die, or end up attacking someone. If she died, fine, mission accomplished. If she ended up drinking from someone... well then all hell would break loose and in the aftermath she would wish she was dead.

Roxanne
I suddenly gain control over myself as my sence Heike breaks free from where I had put her. I bolt away from Raven down the hall and right as I round the corner I have her on the ground even though I'm not touching her. "You killed my mother bitch now your gonna pay early instead of on time like I hadd planned." I growl darkly to her my icey blue eye suddenly turns an insane red just like the other and Luna and the proffesee look on a bit frozen from shock. As I step closer hheike bends lower to the ground till she's on her face bowing infront of me then she shoots upwards in an instant. "Do you know what's different about me and my sister, Heike?" I spit her name out as if where poison in my mouth. "We feed diferently. Ever heard of soul suckers before? Well just by the name you can tell we feed on life and souls, very hard to control and very powerful as well. Here I'll show you." I slash around and lightly touch my two fingers to her forhead and listen to her shriek as I drain away half her eternal life and soul slowly. "Roxanne stop killing her won't bring your mother back!" Luna finally steps forward shouting at me. I step away from Heike an turn to Luna "What are you really Luna? Answer me that atleast or I'll get it from you forcefully and I don't want to do that to you cause you are the next one in line I can actually trust besides my mother's friends and my sister."

It is really late now, but I can't sleep; for so many reasons. Also, I'm getting weaker by the minute, if I don't drink some blood soon, I'm going to die. I feel my life slowly slipping away. I send Raven all over campus to look for a bottle of blood. None to be had. Maybe this is what Heike wanted. I don't tell Raven or Steve that I am dying, slipping away right before their eyes. I know that they wouldn't be able to handle it, especially right after losing Sarafine. Raven sits in here, even though it's long past midnight, she couldn't sleep either. Steve is finally asleep, in his dorm. I can't take this, I wish I could just be put out of my misery. I decide what I must do. Raven gets up to go to the bathroom. I pull out my knife collection, and select a pretty wicked looking dagger. I hold it so the point is barely touching my chest. On the count of three. One. I get one last good look around. Two. Raven comes back in, wide-eyed. Before I can finish myself off, she runs over and rips the knife from my hand and confiscates my entire collection. "What were you doing!?" she screeches at me. "Don't you get it!? I'm dying anyway! I am a vampire, I am extremely weak and wounded! I need to drink blood soon or I will die! I won't last twenty four hours!" I begin sobbing. She backs off me a bit. "Why didn't you tell me?" I shrug, and wipe my tears. We sit in silence for a minute. "Let me help you. Drink my blood." she says looking at the floor. I refuse and we argue about it for a while. Finally she gives up and goes back to our dorm. It's already 2:30 in the morning, no one is awake. I hear some noise outside and somehow manage to crawl, literally, over to the window. There are more vampire hunters outside. This is my chance, I'm not drinking any of my friends' blood, I'm dying anyway, might as well let some people enjoy my death. "Hey up here!" I yell, "Come get me!"

They look a bit confused, so I show them my fangs. They smirk at each other and head up. I crawl back into bed. A couple minutes later they enter the room. I'm more than willing to go with them, but just to be safe, one of them grabs me by the throat and holds me to the wall. He holds me steady while one of his buddies ducttapes my mouth shut, blindfolds me, ties me up, and shoves me into a trash bag. Now I can die and not have to hurt anyone else anymore, plus these guys and Heike, who i can see through the bag, will get some enjoyment out of this. We walk through the forest for at least two to three hours until we reach the farthest cabin we've come across yet. As they dump me on the floor in the basement, judging by the looks on their faces, this is going to be the most painful attack yet, only I don't plan on surviving this one.

Luna

Heike escaped from where she'd been out and now we had to find her. When I did she was on the floor and Roxanne was standing over her.

"You killed my mother bitch now your gonna pay early instead of on time like I hadd planned." she growled.

Heike shot up from the floor in an instant and at Roxanne. Roxanne knocked her back down.

"Do you know what's different about me and my sister, Heike?" she spat.

"We feed diferently. Ever heard of soul suckers before? Well just by the name you can tell we feed on life and souls, very hard to control and very powerful as well. Here I'll show you." Roxanne touched two finger to Heike's forehead.

She screamed in pain as Roxanne slowly sucked the life force out of her.

"Roxanne stop." I stpped forward. "Killing her won't bring your mother back!"

She steps away from Heike's limp body and turns toward me. "What are you really, Luna? Answer me that at least or I'll get it from you forcefully and I don't want to do that to you 'cause you are the next one in line I can actually trust besides my mother's friends and my sister."

Well. That certainly wasn't what I was expecting. I tried playing dumb.

"What are talking about?" I frown. "I'm human of course."

Roxanne stalked towards me. I stared her dead in the eye.

"Are you really playing stupid?" she laughed humorlessly. "C'mon Ms. Wenchester. I'm not stupid and you certainly aren't. You can't even fake playing dumb."

I guess she had me there. I sighed. Kai came up to us followed by Axel and looked own at Heike. "Is she dead?"

"Would you rather her be?" I raise an eye brow.

"Yes." he nodded.

"So would we all." Roxanne hadn't taken her eyes off of me.

Kai moved to tie Heike and throw he over his shoulder. Then he looked at me. "Still on?"

"If nothing else goes wrong." I answer.

"I'll put her some place where she can't get out." Kai took his leave.

I walked up to Roxanne, put a finger to her chest, and pushed her back against the wall so hard she winced.

"I'm with you one hundred percent. Never question that." I tell her. "But never threaten me. I don't take threats lightly, and I don't let them slide that often, so watch it. And don't think what you do scares me, because it doesn't. I've had much worse done to me. If you ever try that on me, i'll put you down like a dog. Do you hear me?"

She nodded but said nothing. My phone rang and I answered it.

"Yea?" I step away from Roxanne.

"Looks like tonight's plans may be canceled." Kai responded. "Trinity was snagged again."

Again? I sighed. "I'm on my way."



Roxanne and I meet Kai nad Axel out near the woods and head out.

"Where do you think they've gone?" Kai looks at me.

"The cabin Gideon had taken them to probably." I look back at him.

"That isn't very smart." Roxanne snorts.

"Nothing about these people are smart." I shrug.

As we set foot in the cabin I hear screams. We all head down to the basement and slip inside.

"Die you blood sucking scum!" someone spits and this disgusting crunch sound through the room followed by a soul shivering scream.

I pull out one of my throwing knives and aim for his neck. He drops instantly as do the other ones as I repeat the motion several more times. I move to kneel beside Trinity.

"Trinity, honey?" I touch her cheek. "Let's get you back to school."

It didn't look like there was too much damage. Most likely she had more broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder. She shook her head and shrank away from me.

"No," she cried. "Let me die."

That brought me up short for a moment, but I recovered. "You're going to give up? Just like that?"

Trinity began to cry. "I'm just so tired."

"Tired of what?" I ask.

She looks at me through tear filled eyes. "Everything."

"Of the people who love you?" I stare her down. "The ones who are worried sick about you?"

"No." she shook her head.

"Look, if you wanna be weak and cry like a baby, then you do it on your own time. We came to get you out of here, and that's exactly what we plan on doing you wanna take the cowards way out? Fine, but make us waste our time." I lifted her into my arms and we headed out of the cabin.

"Please just let me die." she sounded so defeated.

"I've had much worse done to me when I was only thirteen." I shake my head. "If I can handle this and more at that young of an age, then a vamp as old as you should see this as a walk in the park."

She didn't say anything. She'd blacked out. Most likely from the pain she was in.

"When we get back put her on an IV to get her the blood she needs because she won't wanna eat anything." I brush a lock of hair out of her face.

"What did you do with Heike?" Axel asks Kai.

"I stuck her in that room with no windows and a titanium dead bolt on the outside. She's not going anywhere." Kai moves up beside me.

"Let's get her back on her feet." I look down at her. "And place guards with her. Wouldn't want another mishap."

"Alright." Kai nodded and said in a hushed voice, "So you still wanna head back to my place for some quality time together?"

"Yea," I nodded. "definitely."

One of the guys dumps me out on the cold cement floor. They beat me pretty badly, but I've been through worse recently. Somehow through the attacks one of them dislocates my shoulder. The guy who I assume to be the head of the group, approaches me, "What do you with you!?" he says with an evil laugh. I don't respond. He grabs me by my throat and holds me to the wall, right when I'm about to black out he throws me across the room, and I hit the wall spot on, sending a sharp pain through my ribs. He comes over to me again. "Too easy. I want to enjoy this as long as possible." He chuckles. Another one comes over and pushes his friend out of the way. "Die you bloodsucking scum!" he shouts, then spits at me. He grabs me by my wrist, the one that just healed and twists my arm until I hear my elbow snap. I can't help it, I scream in pain, even though I expected this. He pulls out a knife and looks to the others saying how he's going to end the fighting, and how they can all sit back and watch me die in misery. He goes to slit my throat, but I move when I see the familiar faces, so he ends up putting a very deep cut in my forehead. I gently touch the wound with two fingers, but when I pull away, my entire hand is soaked in blood. Ms. Wenchester kills them all with her throwing knives. I feel my life slipping away from me still. She kneels by me.

"Trinity honey?" she touches my face, "Let's get you back to school." I curl up away from her, wanting her to go and leave me here to die in peace. I shed a tear, I'm in a lot of pain, all of my fight is gone. "No," I cry, "Just leave me here to die!" It takes most of the little bit of energy I still have to even keep my eyes open to talk to her. It's apparent that this is not the answer she expected though. "You're going to give up? Just like that?" she asks. Just like that? Is she kidding me?! She knows what I've been through, my life doesn't have much purpose left in it. I really begin crying. "I'm just so tired." I say weakly. "Tired of what?" she pushes. "Everything." I cry. "Tired of the ones who love you? Who are worried sick about you?" she asks. "No." I say. But really, who actually cares about me? Raven and Steve, that's it! They're two people, they will get on with their lives. But I know I can't do this to them if they find out there was an attempted rescue. Especially not after Sarafine's death. "Look, if you wanna be weak and cry like a baby, then you do it on your own time. We came to get you out of here, and that's exactly what we plan on doing you wanna take the cowards way out? Fine, but don't make us waste our time." she says. I can't believe her! I am in too much pain, and my senses are fading, I stop fighting with her and she lifts me up.

We get out of the cabin and start the long trek back to campus. "Please just let me die." I am barely able to spit out. The defeat is clear in my voice. "I'd had much worse done to me when I was only thirteen," she shakes her head in disapproval, " "If I can handle this and more at that young of an age, then a vamp as old as you should see this as a walk in the park." I know what she went through, heard all about it. And while yes, she went through hell, it's nothing compared to my troubled life in which she only knows of th recent events. I'm done living this way. I'm done living. I can't fight it anymore, before I can respond to Ms. Wenchester I black out from pain, and probably also from blood loss.

When I wake up I'm in the infirmery again. I wonder if I'll ever be able to get out of here. It's guarenteed there will be many more vampire hunters at the school, that was posted online, they'll be able to see it whenever. Now the world knows where I am and I'm waiting for them to come and get me. I fully open my eyes and see late afterrnoon light come in the window. Steve stands up from his chair. He walks over and we kiss for a while. I'm too weak to say anything, but he must know what I'm thinking. "They got you back here at dawn yesterday, it's about 4:30 now, you slept a day and a half. I wondered if I'd ever see those hypnotyzing green eyes again." He moves a lock of hair from my face. "You're pretty banged up, as usual," he says, "But the good news is you don't need casts on your ankles anymore. When you're strong enough you can start walking again, though not to much at first." he explains. We kiss again. I know Steve is glad I'm okay, and suddenly I'm glad I didn't die, it would send him into a depression that would be depressing to even watch. It's obvious how much he loves me, and I love him to. We are meant to be. I'm still in a ton of pain, and he goes through my list of injuries and recoveries.

I'm still bandaged up from Heike's knife. I have a bandage around my head from getting cut and it still bleeds if I move my head. My shoulder should be fine now that it's back in place, but I'm not allowed to move it much. My ribs are extremely sore. Two broken and a lot of bruising there. My elbow is fractured, so I'll be in a sling. I'm still insanely weak from blood loss. Then Steve looks into my eyes. "But you know what you don't have to worry about? Dying from not drinking blood." I look at him puzzled, then it clicks, I nearly hop out of bed. He moves back his hair and shows me two small band-aids covering fang holes. "It's amazing what we can make you do while you're passed out. Don't worry, I'm not a vampire, the venom was removed, it was only a little. I'm fine." he reassures me. I start tearing up. What an amazing guy. That night we have a service for Sarafine. I'm unable to go, so in the infirmery Steve, Raven, Roxanne, Ms. Wenchester, the headmaster, and I have our own little service.

I can somewhat speak now, I built up a small bit of energy during the day. I cry and say some things about Sarafine, then I cry some more. Everyone leaves except Raven and Steve. Steve sits next to me in bed, and Raven is in the chair. I have to be supervised at all times. They're still afraid I might do something to harm myself. Steve refuses to leave and has been sleeping in the chair and everyone else just takes shifts watching me with him. They weren't as protective while I was out, but since I'm awake they need to make sure I stay alive. The three of us talk for a while. As everyone's shifts roll by, I say thanks where necessary. When Steve has a shift to himself he comes back next to me in bed. He puts his arm around my shoulder. "I love you." he says. "I love you too." We kiss for a while, then talk. Then he gets up to go to the bathroom. After he's gone a while, I begin to worry. I hear a rucuss outside and, difficult as it is, walk to the window. Raven zooms in from the hallway. We look out at the same time, then at each other. There aremore vampire hunters outside, but this time, they've got Steve. They see my reaction and look satisfied. It's obviously just a ploy to get me to go with them. I know what I must do, Steve has done so much for me, I have to take care of the one I love.

I load up my knife collection and somehow manage to actually run downstairs and outside. Steve has a pained look on his face, I don't know what they did to him so far, but to him the real pain is watching me carry out this deed. They go to grab me, but I dodge them. "Hear me out." I say, "I know that you just want me and have no interest in hurting him. So here's the deal. Let him go and I'll go with you, no arguments, complaints, rescue attempts from others. None of it, Iswear." They look at each other and nod. Ms. Wenchester tries to stop me, but I whisper to her, "Trust me. I'm armed this time. I point to my boots with my eyes and pretend to fix it, so only she can see my knife collection. She sighs and wishes me luck. I approach the group. They let Steve go and walk with me, surrounding me like guards. We walk through the woods past every cabin we've seen until we arrive at a very spacious one, isolated from everything except the trees. They lead me inside and I don't say a word. As easy as it would be to get myself killed, that is no-longer my goal. My goal now is to get back to Steve safely.

ATTENTION: As I have previously stated Heike is mute. She is unable to talk, hiss, scream, yell, or yodel. Anything involving the vibration of vocal cords is a no-no. Sound no-no. Silence yes-yes. Thank you. That is all.
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Heike

Soul sucker. I found the name both interesting and fitting.
The pain... is something I will never be able to describe fully. I felt like someone was completely and totally ripping me apart from the inside. Everything from my life, from memories of my grandparents teaching me German to my father slitting my throat, being showed and shredded before my eyes. I was being torn away from everything I was.
I hadn't blacked out, but the pain was so all consuming that I was catatonic.
I felt someone lifting me. Kai, I realized half-way down the hallway. He looked down at my limp body in his arms. "I don't think you realize just what you've done."
Of course I realized what I had done! I was helping to rid this school of an infestation. To destroy what needed destroying. Monsters...like me. And when I had done all I could, I would take my own life, ending the entire problem.
My next memories are hazy. Being dumped unceremoniously on a laminate floor. Kai leaving, two women entering, and being stripped naked. Metal clinking.
When I finally became coherent, I pushed myself up on shaky arms and looked around. I was in a cage. A giant f-ing cage.What kind of school is this? They just have giant cages lying around?!?
Wrapping my arms around myself I glanced at the guards, only to do a double take. Clapping my hands loudly, I gave three simple signs. A wave, the letter A, the letter N twice, and the letter A again.
Hello, Anna.

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