• Death before dawn.

    Aqua Aquarias was sound asleep in her room. She had turned 15 two days ago and today had been her mega birthday party and now she was wiped. Her pillow was soft and her black hair pulled back in a ponytail she had fallen asleep the moment her head had hit the pillow. It was nearing midnight when a large bang snapped her out of a deep sleep. Her father was yelling, her mother was crying she hysterical. And she could hear her little brother asking what was going on. Jumping out of bed Aqua pulled on some clothes and ran out of her bedroom. She bolted into the lounge room snatching her little brothers tired brother along the way. As they both made it to beside their parents they both froze in shock. Their glass front door had been kicked in. Or rather smashed in.

    Looking around Aqua saw two men and one teenage boy. All three had pale skin The two men had black hair they looked related but the boy had blonde hair. He looked at the family, at Aqua's father scolding him, at her mother crying with shock, at Aquas little brother who was tugging at her jeans asking who they were. Then he looked at Aqua his black empty eyes bore into her brown ones he stared at her for a long while and she had a strange feeling he was intruding on her thoguhts. A small smile creeped onto his face before turning to his friends.

    Aqua was getting a strange vibe from them. As she watched them she noticed something. None of them had marks on their arms and legs. But the door had plainly been smashed in by one of them. There was nothing else to use.Quickly she picked up her little brother and handed him to her mother.
    "What are you doing?" There was a look of concern on her face.
    "Just trust me mum." She said trying to hide the sadness in her voice. She kissed her mum on the cheek and stepped away. She didn't look at her father he was still yelling them. She walked half way up to them then stopped as they turned around again. The blonde one smirked again.

    "We have a brave one here guys." He said looking at her with those dead eyes. Her eyes immediantly fell to the floor.
    "I know what you are if I let you take me will you leave my family alone?" She blurted shutting her eyes, she heard her mother gasp, her little brother cried out then started balling. Her father had finnaly shut his trap.
    "If you know what we are then what are we?" One of the men with black hair demanded.
    "You are Vampires." She said simply. This time she heard nothing from her family except for small whimpers from her brother. She had told him plenty of stories to know to be afraid of Vampires.

    "How do you know that?" The blonde asked his voice commanding an answer.
    "You all have pale skin, all your eyes are dead there no light in them no life, plus you have no marks on your skin whoever broke the door would have had loads of them but none of you do." She all this hurriedly forcing herself to look up at them but the moment she'd finished her eyes fell to the floor again. The blonde one smirked again.
    "Your smart for a human." Aqua hardly recieved complements so one, even from the likes of him, brought a smile to her face. That was until he was suddenly next to her sniffing her he grabbed her hair and yanked her head to the side. She did nothing. She heard a grunt from her father it was obviously taking alot of effort not to step in. He sniffed her neck and once again a smile appeared on his pale face.
    "Her blood is pure she will be a perfect treat for our Lord." He said Aqua gulped and glanced at her family.

    "Since you stepped forward of your own free will we will let you say good bye." The blonde said pushing towards her family.
    "But try anything..." He trailed off but Aqua knew what he meant. She walked up to her mother and gave her a hug.
    "I knew something wasn't right when you handed me your brother." She mumbled sadly Aqua sighed and turned to her brother.
    "Wil I'm sorry but I have to go with them. I won't return. I'm really sorry Wil." Aqua very near burst into tears as she watched her brother cry silently, tears falling from his strange eyes. One hazel, one brown. She had always taught him tears were weaknesses but he didn't seemed to care right now. Losing his sister was his weakness. Aqua wiped away his tears trying hard not to cry herself.
    "You have to be strong, be strong for both of us ok?" William nodded and gave her sister a hug but as she started to pull away he let go reluctantly. His sister had been his mother for most of his life he had always thought she'd always be there but now she was going to protect them he knew what vampires were. They were a part of his favourite bed time story. He knew why Aqua was going but still he wished she wasn't Aqua had always been his protector but before she went she had asked him to be strong. To be strong for both of them. So that was what he going to do. He forced himself to stop crying grabbed his mothers hand and held onto it reassuringly. He had a feeling nagging at the back of his mind that his sister was going to come back some day.

    "Ok I'm ready." Aqua said stepping back to them. The blonde smirked again and walked up to her. He walked behind her and rubbed his arm around her thin body.
    "Wave goodbye." He whispered in her ear but all she did was turn and look at her little brother. He stood there no tears a look of determination on his face. But in his eyes Aqua saw growing sadness as the blonde vampire said something and suddenly they were hno longer in her house but a dark castle.