KATERINA
The next day I found myself looking forward to the day ahead as I began my journey to school on foot. One of the main reasons I was happy was because I was going to school and would be away from my still very enraged , crazy mother. Let’s just say she was not prepared to forgive me anytime soon and I could say goodbye to staying out late, which I feared would soon become a major problem.
The walk to school had seemed weirdly long though, as if I were walking for miles without end. As if each step were futile. Not only that, but I had developed a strange feeling. It was a feeling resembling anticipation, as though I were expecting something great and wonderful to happen. I usually only felt this way when test results were expected at school, but we hadn’t written any tests recently. Eventually, I decided to ignore the tugging feeling. In a few short long minutes, I began to see the tall, brick building covered in thick vines of ivy, appearing gradually in the distance. To say the school was old would be an understatement, it had been here since the Original Huntership.
The Huntership was just another fancy name for the vampire hunter council. The main aim of the new huntership was to promote extremely controlled coexistence between vampires and hunters and to ensure that the pretence of peace between us was always kept. The new Huntership, however differed from the original huntership. Initially, it was an organisation promoting defence and hatred against vampires. This was way back when vampire hunters actually did what their names suggested- hunted and killed vampires. Time certainly did change things. Now, instead of hating the Vampire council we worked with them- a pity and waste of our talents in my opinion. Though I seemed to be one of the few who actually thought so.
I passed the buzzing crowds of teenagers who bunched up around lockers, sticking closely together as waves of whispers whisked between them. My highschool was really no different than any other. We had our different social groups- jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, basket cases, and the list went on. We also had our share of awful cafeteria food, moping teachers, highschool scandals and gossip. In a way, it was comforting- it being so normal. I figured that was why I enjoyed school so much, aside from the fact that I was relatively well liked and smart enough to become the top student of the school. The only thing I did struggle with, was keeping myself modest.
I soon saw my locker in the distance and mentally prepared myself for the sight ahead. My brother, who had left home a few minutes earlier to fetch Jasmine stood with her, and the rest of our friends- Lucy and Nathan- stood a few metres behind them, totally lost in each other. Dylan-my brother- was a dark brunette with piercing blue eyes and the palest skin you could have ever seen. In fact, if you stared long enough, you could watch the blood pumping through his blue veins. He also had a birthmark right below his left eye and one right below his lip. If you looked too quickly, you could mistake it for piercings- as if my mother would allow that. Admittedly, he was handsome- well that was according to what everyone else in my school said. Dylan was a year younger than me, but honestly neither acted, nor looked it. In fact, he and I had startlingly different features and looked unrelated, often bringing up the popular question: “Are you two dating?”. He and Jasmine were actually dating though. They had been for a while and at one pointing time they had become the victims of the hottest scandal in school- a younger guy dating an older girl. Even though there was really nothing wrong with it, nor was it unusual, the people in my school sometimes had really small minds.
" Hey Kat, I tried to wake you, but you were sleeping like you were in a coma," he said, his arm around Jasmine's shoulder which reached his chest. He had this really annoying smirk only a younger sibling could muster up when trying to be smug.
I glared at him for a full five minutes before deciding to speak.
" Is it my fault that you were up all night on the phone chatting to Jasmine. Honestly you two," I said packing my locker which was right next to Lucy's. Jasmine and Dylan were exceptionally loud when speaking on the phone and it was not as though I wasn’t already tired after beating up Jeremy.
Soon Lucy and Nathan joined our little discussion. They were also dating, as if I wasn’t already bombarded by the sickening sight of lovesick puppies. It’s not that I hated love or anything like that, it was just awkward being the only single person in my friendship group. It always felt as though I were the odd one out.
" Hey Katerina. You ready for today?” Lucy asked as she intertwined her fingers with Nathan’s and then gave him a sweet kiss on the cheek.
I smiled, remembering that we had a math test later on.
" Aren’t I always ready?" I said with a raised brow.
She simply laughed and shrugged, causing her ginger her to glimmer with the movement.
“Mind sitting near me, I want to copy from you,” Nathan said with a smirk.
I looked at him sideways and folded my arms and sighed, hopeless. Not only was I the only single person in the group, but I was also the smartest. Really, it was tough being me sometimes.
I packed in the last of my textbooks and headed down the hallway, needing to check that my hair was in place since I had styled it in a strange, complicated style and the clips were already beginning to fall from the silky stands of hair. As I walked, I couldn’t help but begin to feel more and more uneasy as the strange feeling of anticipation slowly crept in again. If only I had known that my anticipation would be met with something unthinkable and unexpected.
KATERINAThe waiting room was crowded, filled with the presence of my friends and family as we all waited patiently for my brother’s results. Haydon was sitting next to me, clutching my shaking hand while my father had my mother in a tight embrace. Today was the worst day of our lives, but it was also the best. Today we had finally changed history, and it was all thanks to my mother. She was eleven steps ahead of Death, who was only ten steps away from us. She truly was the greatest hunter to have ever lived.After a few hours, the nurse had come out and told us that Dylan was going to be fine. Jasmine, who had been crying with Lucy and Nathan cried even harder. Things were going to be okay, we were all going to be okay. Haydon smiled at me, and I smiled back.“Thank you, for trying to save me.” He said.
KATERINA“Why mom, why!” I cried out, holding the silver box which had now regained its shape, and contained my mother who had, just moments ago began to fake into dust particles and enter into the box. Elizabeth was no longer a threat, and Haydon and I were free. It was all thanks to my mother’s sacrifice. By now the Veneziano’s were awake with tears streaming down their faces. Death was still in the centre of the pentagram, clutching the silver box, which we now had discovered, was a mere replica. He opened it, looked inside, and threw it on the floor.He then stormed up to where we were hovering over the box and took it from me. He tried to throw it on the floor, but Haydon grabbed his hands before he could. Death looked up at him and snarled which made Haydon whimper. He was still treating Haydon like the abusive man he always was, but I couldn&
KATERINABy now we were all tied up, all except for Dylan who was still not awake yet and his skin was beginning to turn a shade of blue. At this rate, he would be dead in a few hours.“What do you want from us?” I yelled out, my eyes still on my brother.Bianca, who was towering over me smirked and kicked me in the face.“Sir, Dylan Connors has a question.” She said, taking my face and inspecting the blood on my face.“I love seeing you bleed Katerina.” She whispered. This made Haydon growl and bare his teeth at her.“Don’t touch her-““Bianca, leave those two al
KATERINAThe air in the house was cold and tense. The rooms were dark, and the home I had once felt comfortable in, was now uncomfortable and dreary. “Death?” my mother called out. She was standing in front, holding a gun in her hand which she had kept in the boot of her car. It was more a sort of anchor than anything else. Hunter weapons did not work on a vampire as rare as Death.The halls were silent, save for the clicking of our careful steps and heavy breathing. Mr and Mrs Veneziano seemed to know what they were doing, so did my parents. All we needed to do, was make sure we did exactly as we were told. Of course Haydon and I were not known for such things, and secretly, Haydon had decided to think up his own plan, and I did the same, neither one of us uttering our plan to one another or to our parents. B
KATERINAWe had gotten on the first available flight, rushed, panicked and panting. The phone call my mother had received was one fatal call, the call from Death. Apparently, my parents had not been secretive enough, and he had caught on to their plan. He was, at the moment, holding my brother, along with Jeremy and the boys hostage. Tonight, was the night he was convinced that he would achieve his goal. He knew that he had power over us, and we could bend to his will.The flight was once again, long and uncomfortable and distress was evident on Haydon’s parent’s faces as well as my own.“I just don’t understand how he figured out that we knew. How the hell could he have known. We showed no evidence whatsoever that we knew about his real plan
KATERINADestroy the remains. Destroy the damn remains.Haydon and I might as well have just broken up because there was no way in hell, that we’d be able to, firstly take the remains away from Death, and secondly, destroy them when they were imbued in dark magic.“That’s why we tried to keep you two apart when we started suspecting. We wanted to figure out how to prevent the prophesy. But clearly you two had to start liking each other and ruin our plans. Honestly Katerina, first underground fights and now this.”And once again, I was busted.“How did you know?”My father smirked and shook his head, “Your brother is an awful liar, Dylan Connors.”