Trip to Vermeil Island

The cold breeze swept pass through the leaves of elms and hockey, producing horrendous sounds as it was making the night under the full moon ,more cold and dreadful. Many lives were taken under this moon light by the forbidden creatures.

He was running for his life as he didn't care about the thorns coming in his way. He just wanted to get out of this Island. The beauty of this Island attracted him but least did he know that it wasn't the beauty of the Island but his death.

He stumbled over some rock as a result his knees got scratched but he didn't stop as at that time his life was more important. Running through the wild forests the faces of his family were coming in his figment of imagination. He was praying to listen the voice of his daughter ,once before dying. He wanted to see his wife who got anxious just for coming one hour late from office. He looked back to see as if someone is coming as he couldn't see anyone but luck wasn't at his side as he collided with someone causing him to fall back on the ground as that person's rock like chest was enough to do it.

"P-please." He crawled back as he joined his hands to beg them to have mercy but that old creatures didn't even know about mercy so how could they do that?

"You run so fast man. You should participate in marathon." One of them spoke up with mockery in his voice.

" But you know what? We didn't like to run so we had to stop you like this." Other one came forward with a smirk on his face.

"L-leave me. I-I beg you." He started crying in full flow ignoring the fact that he was a man. They laughed at his miserable state which seemed funny to them but that wasn't funny indeed ,they were just used to it as they were blood sucking creatures.

Everyone was enjoying his state but they all got alert as a man came from behind them, whose face he couldn't see, as there were fog everywhere. He was coming through the fog as his black long gown was swaying with the cold breeze. He seemed like their boss as they all bowed their head to him.

He walked through them and knelt down in front of the man crying for his life. He looked at him with no emotion as he was getting scared of his dominant aura.

"L-let me go." He again begged him.

"It's our rule ,whoever knows our existence, have to die but to ease your death I will kill you before sucking your blood" His cold radiating voice echoed in the solitude of the forest and with that, ignoring all his pleas his with one hand twisted his neck ,as a consequence, the man's dead body collapsed on the ground.

ALAINA'S POV:

We all were boarding the bus but, I was waiting for, Lidia, my friend, hadn't come yet . Professor Johnathan were surrounded by students who wanted him to solve their problems of luggage and other minor problems. I sighed looking at them.

" Where were you ? I am waiting for so long." I scolded Lidia when I saw her running towards me with her two suit cases .

"Sorry, this packing took my time ,after all we are going for three weeks"she squealed in happiness at the end of the sentence. We probed into the bus and after putting our luggage all settled in their seats. At the beginning of our journey, the guide whose name might be Caleb ,with dark brown eyes and almost 6 feet height give us a brief introduction about the Island.

"Why this Island is called Vermeil Island?" Lidia asked him after raising her hand.

"Ahh. Good question . Whats your name please?" He stopped for a minute then asked in his deep husky voice.

"Lidia"

"So Lidia do you know the meaning of vermeil"

"Yes it's known as silver glint which is known for its shine" Lidia was one of the toppers in our literature class, who knew about every minor details of new words in vocabulary and their meanings.

"Yes , so there are many myths about it but the most heard is that there was a queen who was admired by the beauty of this island because it looked so enticing so she  decided to spend her autumn there under the yellow old trees of elm and hickory .  But the glint of that Island was fake .There she fall in love with a commoner named Ian , but he betrayed her because he was a vampire and wanted a broken heart to free himself from the curse . That's why this Island is also called decepted island, which deceived everyone with it's fake glint,because of the betrayal faced about the queen."

" I  know ,its just a myth ,but be careful don't fall in love with anyone there.''He added in a mischeivious tone ,to lightened the air in the bus which got tense after hearing this tragic story.

"But what happened to the queen" I  asked out of curiosity .

"umm  that no one knows ,and its just a myth there is nothing real in this."he said with a reassuring smile.

"Oh  come on vampires are not real" James  the play boy of our school with no good but bad reputation in college, spoke up.

"What do you mean? they can be real, you never know" Lidia fires back.

"Have  you ever seen them"and  the rants continued .

I don't know they are real or not ,but they can be , there are millions of creatures in the universe they may be in one of them.

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After withdrawing our luggage from the bus we head to the small boats.

"I can't believe we are going there by boat" Lidia spoke through amazement.

"Me too,I have never been in a boat"  I answered with an excited smile . I never went on a trip nor in high school but Lidia forced me this time and I couldn't say no to her puppy dog eyes. Due to my introvert attitude I had only few friends and lidia was one of them.

"Your luggage will be delievered to your respective camps just put them there and board on the boats."Caleb said and we did as we were told.

We both squealed when we step onto the boat causing it to move up and down , we started laughing.

Soon we reached the island ,and we all eyed the island full of elm and hickory trees , with approbation. The Island was looking beautiful and divine but the eerie silence seemed to me apparitional. I shook my head and move towards caleb who was giving us briefing about the rules and the places , where we are not allowed to go.

"You guyz can't go anywhere without being informed, no individual will use such things which can cause a blazing fire, if you have a problem or you want permission to go somewhere you will contact our section head Aaron Miller . Any questions?" Caleb pointed behind him , I tilted my head to see who he was ,due to the crowd ahead me.

Then a tall man with a well built athletic muscular body appeared from behind him and addressed the students. He had raven hair from which one flick was touching his eye brows, dark plum lips with amber colored eyes which were as cold as ice, with no emotions. He was breathtakingly handsome who could make any woman drool over him easily.

"You people can roam around anywhere except the southern region of Island , if anyone will be found in that area then he will be charge a heavy fine and will be thrown out of this Island. I hope you guyz understand . Any questions from your side." He said in deep authoratative voice.

We all nodded our head and everyone went to install their own barracks. I and Lidia were sharing the same one ,so we started to install our ,at one side.

"This tour is gonna be our best one" Lidia said as we hold the string of the barrack.

" I hope so". I said staring at the cloudy sky which was that indicating rain is coming.

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We were aligned in a row ready for going on a lake near our camp. Everyone was calling their attendance to Caleb and beside , Aaron was standing talking to Professor Johnathan.

I didn’t know but I was feeling an attraction towards him which I never felt towards anyone before.

After calling the attendance we all headed in three groups towards the lake. Lidia and I had camera through which we were taking pictures in different poses. After walking for some time we reached that lake surrounded with willow trees.

“Wow” we exclaimed after seeing the wonderful sight ahead us. The cool breeze made us to rub our arms with our palms. Caleb told us to install our barracks here as we were staying here tonight for bonfire.

“Again” Installing the barracks ,were the most hectic work but we had to do this if we want to sleep under some kind of shelter.

“Excuse me” I said to Lidia as my phone started ringing.

“Hello” I said to my mom coming at the side ,away from the noise.

“Hello mom I can’t hear you” There was signal problems so I raise my phone to catch them standing on the big stone. I moved a little but slipped my foot as my face was about to met the ground I was in an embraced of man. I turned my face to meet with the cold amber eyes. His arms were around my waist our nose was almost touching I could feel his cold breath on my lips. He stared in my eyes then darted his eyes on my lips, he leaned forward  and I, in a trans state, also leaned in.

But other foot also slipped from the stone but I regained my balance before meeting the ground. We both were startled and looked everywhere but each other.

“Um.. thank you otherwise I would probably broke my nose” I said lighting the situation while rubbing my hands due to cold or remove my embarrassment as I was leaning to kiss him.

“You are welcome. I think you got a sprain in your ankle” he said pointing towards my foot which I was raising due to pain.

“um think so” I said with flushed cheeks biting my lower lip to ease the pain .

“eeeeehh” I was drowned in my thoughts when he without warning embraced me in his arms in a bridal style.

“What are you doing?” I asked as I interlace my arms around his neck, preventing to fell, but I was looking like a tiny small cat in between his muscular body.

“There is a first aid box in my camp” With that he entered the barrack and placed me on the rolled mattress as there was no chair for me to sit. His barrack was large from our, it should be, after all he was the head of this guiding team. He sat on his knee in front of me with a first aid box in his lap.

“You should be careful because it’s slippery here due to rain”

“Hsss” I hissed as he grab my foot gently and placed it on his kneecap.

“Does it hurt?” he glanced at me while examining my foot.

“A little” I said in my meek voice, because my senses got paralyzed due to his intimidating personality, his black button up shirt seemed like it would rip off any second due to his well built sturdy muscles.

“It’s a little sprain which will get heal by tomorrow” he said in deep voice, before taking out the spray from the box and sprayed it on my ankle.

“Thank you for this” I said with a smile.

“No problem, safety of every student here is our responsibility” he said placing back the first aid box.

“Hey Alaina are you alright” I was about to say something but Lidia came in.

“Yeah just a little sprain, I got slipped” I stated as I saw her face became tense after hearing my sprain. She was my childhood friend, always like a caring and loving friend to me.

“Now you are fine right”

“Yup, totally fine, Aaron gave me a first aid” I signaled to Aaron while he was staring at me with an emotion which I couldn’t give any name.

“Thanks again”

“Let me help you” Lidia handed me her hand as we went out of the barrack, after I thank him again.

“Nope that’s fine it’s my duty after all” With that we exit his barrack.

“So what was that” Lidia asked me as I was busy thinking about his weird personality. He was different from others, something about him was odd.

“What? There is nothing like that you are thinking”.

“Ohh really but why you guyz were looking each other like that” she asked with a suspicious look on her face.

“I was just got slipped from that stone, Aaron was there so he helped me and it’s his duty to help us as we are his responsibility.” I said as I hold her hand to jump as we were heading to our barrack through that roughly path full of stones.

“Yeah we all are his responsibility but he is fulfilling his duty in your case only” I knew she was just teasing me then.

“Oh my virgin merry is going to fly away with his prince charming soon” I just rolled my eyes.

“But remember what Caleb said about don’t fall in love with anyone in this island”

“Talking about me” Caleb came from nowhere when we were talking.

“No we were just talking” I spoke up as i noticed a pink shade on Lidia’s cheeks. Something is fishy.

“I came here to tell you that sadly the plan of bonfire has been cancelled for today”

“But why” we both asked in unison as we were excited for today’s bonfire.

“Sorry but we can’t do it today because according to the weather forecast it might rain tonight” he said apologetically after seeing our sad expressions.

“It’s ok but we will do it tomorrow night.”

“Hope so” he went away giving a smile to Lidia.

“So what was that” when he went back I asked Lidia who was still staring at his back in a mesmerize state but compose her posture after hearing my voice.

“What” I raised my eye brow.

“There is nothing he just helped me, when you were gone, in installing the barrack that’s it nothing happened” she explained.

“And are you sure that nothing will happen in the future” I asked with a smirk.

“um ah I don’t know ,now shut up ok”

“You are blushing” I laughed pinching her crimson cheeks. After few seconds she joined me too in laughing.

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