• My Enemy Within Me


    This novel was started at exactly 9:08 on Tuesday the 31st of March, of the year 2009, I would like to dedicate this novel to my loving friends, and family, as always, I love you dearly.























    Chapter One

    I gazed up at the miraculous night sky, taking in the over whelming beauty of the full moon. A burning sensation tingled in the back of my throat, signaling that it was time. I crouched down on the roof top of a unknown building, and bound down to the sidewalk, my strawberry-blonde hair swaying behind me, I looked around me of the unsuspecting town of Tokyo, they had no idea what they were in for. I used my acute sense of eyesight to seek out my prey. A unlucky woman was walking down the street, grocery bags in hand. She was whistling a happy tune, seeming unaware what was about to happen to her, then I ran. I sprinted effortlessly down the five-hundred yards that separated us. She opened her eyes in horror when it dawned on her that she was in danger. I jumped on her, sinking my canines into her jugular. The delicious warm liquid flowed down my throat, I bit down harder, in hunger. She squealed helplessly, and I almost felt sorry for her. Almost. She closed her tear filled eyes, and let out her last breath, Ii took a last sip of the enticing fluid reluctantly, I licked my lips and smiled. I stole the woman’s belongings, and pulled out some red lipstick out of my pocket, I rolled it across my lips, and kissed the woman’s cheek, leaving my mark. I stood back up, looked at the woman one last time out of the corner of my eye. I dashed down the gray street, the burning started up again, I wasn’t yet quenched, I spotted a man, and continued the same process again, this time longer, because the man was pretty heavy set, and put up a fair fight but I stronger by a long shot. I kissed his cheek like I did the woman’s. I no longer felt a burn in my throat, so I was free to check in a motel and actually get some rest. I strolled in the inn like any human would, I walked up to the receptionist and smiled cheerfully, I slid four twenty’s to the receptionist, which was more than enough, because his eyes bulged. He handed me a key, and I walked down the hallway, I crouched down at the pintsized door way, and squeezed my way in, the only thing in this extremely tiny room, was a bed, that was actually the floor, and a T.V. that was built in the wall. I crawled in and shut the drapes which was used as a door. I laid on the bed of a floor, it was lumpy, I really shouldn’t have paid eighty dollars for this crappy place, I flipped on the T.V. I starred at the blurry pictures with no interest, and flipped it off because it was a waste of time, I turned around on my side, I fluttered my eyes closed, I drifted off to sleep, dreaming of the mysterious moon.
    I awoke slowly, it had been a long night, and I barely got any sleep. I opened the drapes unhurriedly, and crawled out. I rose to my feet. I walked outside, into the bustling crowd. I crossed into an alley, out of the sight of curious eyes, a ways down a black figure was waited impatiently his foot tapping, I ran up to him, jumped up, wrapped my legs around his waist and kissed him, he pulled away immediately, with blurring speed he grabbed me at my waist and set me at my feet.
    “Where have you been, Lizzie?” the black figure hissed.
    “I was sleeping,” I moaned rubbing my eyes.
    “How long were you out feeding last night?”
    “Is that any of your business Vladimir?”
    “How long were you feeding!” Vladimir growled demandingly.
    “About six hours.” I groaned in defeat.
    “Well, while you were sleeping peacefully you missed a very important meeting with our clan!” he yelled, still taping his foot.
    “You know young ones like me must feed more that older ones such as your self.” I pointed out.
    “Yeah, but six bloody hours!” he yelled.
    “I was thirsty.” I whined.
    “Anyway, the meeting was about the Japanese folk are getting on to us, they are becoming extremely suspicious, they are suspicious because some extremely stupid vampire kiss’s their victims.” I bit my lip, obviously he saw that.
    “You are marking your victims!” he was enraged. “how dare you, Lizzie!”
    “I want to be known.” I muttered twisting my toes into the ground.
    “You are so stupid, so, so utterly stupid.”
    “I’m sorry, don’t tell Marcus.”
    “I won’t.” he walked up to me, revealing his beautiful emerald green eyes. “just don’t do it again.” he leaned down and kissed me for a moment
    “I promise.”
    “Good.” I starred at his straight jet black hair swaying in the wind. He smiled showing, his razor sharp canines. I let out a growl showing mine as well. I jumped behind him I glared at him from behind, and with swift speed I wrapped my arms around his throat.
    “No games, Liz.”
    “Fine.” I growling hissing in his ear, I let go and retreated back in front of him.
    “So where are we going, we can’t stay in Japan anymore.” I asked.
    “We are going to America, Austin, Texas to be exact.”
    “I’ve never been to Austin.”
    “Well, because of you, we all get to see it.” he glared, his green eyes sparkled.
    “Yeah, yeah, when are we boarding the plane.”
    “In thirty minutes.” he said smiling.
    “Thirty minutes!” I exclaimed.
    “Yeah, you should have got up earlier.” he said sticking his tongue in my direction.
    “Your so childish, Vlad.”
    “I’m fifty years older than you!” he said grinning.
    “To me you look seventeen.” I asked looking up and down at his obvious youth.
    “We are burning daylight here.” he said, grinning yet again, and when he said that, I walked out of the alley, and whistled to a taxi, I couldn’t run, because it would draw attention to myself. I slid into the butt dented seat. The woman driving, looked up at me from the back view mirror, her double chin jiggling when she did so. She said something, I didn’t understand, probably Japanese. I told her I didn’t understand it, I spoke English, she reached under her seat and stuck her nose into a book, it was a Japanese/English dictionary.
    “I….mean……where…….toe I mean……..to.” she said extremely slowly.
    “The Japanese International airport.” I said hopefully she would understand. Her fat hands flipped through the book looking up the words.
    “Right……..away….kid.” she said.
    She whizzed down the streets, she stopped by the airport. I gave her fifty dollars, she got mad because it wasn’t in yen, I told her:
    “Whatever lady, I got to go.”
    “Sayonara, kid.” she groaned. I shuffled out of the car in a hurry, I glanced at my watch, I had fifteen minutes left, I ran inside, but at human speed. I went to the ticket woman, I gave her three thousand dollars out of a fancy leather clutch I stole from a meal a whiles back.
    “The plane to Austin, Texas please.” I asked politely, ignoring the urge to jump over the table and attack the woman, she smelt delicious, but I could bare it.
    “Here you go.” she said all bubbly, typical of a person in an airport. I passed her slowly, but when I was out of her sight, I ran, on a human pace, ignoring the fingers and the distressed faces. I boarded my plane with time to spare, Vladimir was already on the plane, I sat by him, he was crunching peanuts between his fingers, obliterating them to dust.
    “You sure look bored.” I told him, turning away the pillows the unnatural blond stewardess offered me.
    “I am, I hate planes, they are just so…so boring.”
    “I know right.” I said just as bored. The plane took off, I had that “butterfly” feeling when it rose off the tracks.
    “How long do we have to be on here.” I asked.
    “A good twenty-two hours.” he moaned.
    “Can’t we stop somewhere else then Austin, we can run, it will be much more exhilarating than sitting in chairs all day.”
    “People will see us.”
    “Oh, I didn’t think of that.” we ended the conversation there, I asked the blonde for something to do, she handed me a newspaper, in Japanese, I groaned. I started ripping the newspaper to bits, starring off into space. It became dark outside, I decided I wanted to go to sleep, I asked, the now redhead stewardess for pillows, she handed them to me, I leaned back my chair and closed my eyes, I very quickly drifted off to sleep.














    Chapter two

    I awoke to a blast of screams, I opened my eyes in an instant, the airplane was flying in a diagonal direction nose pointed down, Vladimir and I stood up, we knew we had to stop this plane. We practically slid into the control room grabbing the door frame, the driver lay dead, sprawled across the panel, blood pouring out of a wound in his head, I almost lunged for the driver, but Vladimir held me back, he pointed to the paw prints on the floor, Werewolves. I heard a rustle behind me, a hot hand clamped my frozen lips, with unbreakable strength, the person behind me leaped through the glass, leaving a yelling Vladimir behind me.
    I felt an impact, from under me, probably from us landing on this person’s feet, I felt a leather exterior of a car surrounding me, the glass was tented black, I couldn’t see a thing, I then was aware of black silk covering my eyes, probably a blindfold, then I felt a rag covering my nose and mouth, I had to breathe, when I did, some weird tasting air filled my mouth and lungs, making them numb, fog clouded my mind, my mind whirled from the scent of the chloroform, I was being forced to go to sleep, where were they going to take me, when I was passed out? But before my mind could reach an answer my eyes closed without warning, I tried to fight against it, but it only made me more tired, I gave in, I let the fog surround me, taking me prisoner. I felt like I was falling in the cloudy abyss, and everything went black.
    I woke up to the sound of murmurs above me. I fluttered open my eyes, men stood above me, with syringes in hand.
    “What are you going to do to me, where am I?” I screamed
    “She’s awake.” a man with black hair said. “How are you Miss Lizzie?”
    “Why are you asking me how I am, are you crazy or something, where am I answer me!”
    “You are at a doctors office, no big deal.” a man with brown hair told me.
    “Well, how in the hell did I end up here I’m not sick!” I yelled
    “Gosh, do we really have to tell her?” brown hair said to black hair.
    “I guess so…Miss Lizzie we are conducting a experiment on vampires, as I’m sure you know, you are the kin of Marcus the great, so you have the right genes for this experiment, we are injecting you with werewolf venom, to see the results.”
    “Huh.” I said in surprise, “ I didn’t give you permission to experiment on me!”
    “We are werewolf doctors, I don’t have to ask a puny little seventeen year old vampires whether I can stick a needle in them or not, you’re a kid, technically, and last time I checked your little mommy died thirty years ago.” Black Hair said. I began to cry, I really missed my mother, there was an accident we were extremely rich, and I lived in the lap of luxury, we were robbed, by men with fangs, they drained my mom of blood, so she couldn’t be a vampire. I was in my room, writing in my diary, when I heard a guttural snarl outside my door that made me jump, and I got really scared, I curled up in my covers, staring at my door, my heart beat in my ears. A complete stranger came in my room, there was blood running down his mouth, and all over his white shirt, he lunged toward me, he sunk his teeth into my neck, the pain was excruciating, it felt like knifes covered in barbwire, and salt were cutting into my neck. I pushed and shoved at the stranger, but he wouldn’t let go, I was sure I was going to die, everything went black, I woke up a few weeks later, in an unknown place, I wandered into the black streets, the back of my mouth was burning. I bumped into a man, he said excuse me politely, and I jumped on him, drank his blood, he lay dead on the cold side walk, I doubled back, horrified on what I had done, I bumped into a rock hard figure, I turned around to see my daddy, his lips were blood red as mine were, he was a vampire too, we ran away together, and started a clan of our own, that consisted of many people, such as Vladimir, I really missed him too.
    “Hello…Miss Lizzie?” Brown hair said. I realized I was starring off into space for a while.
    “Yes, dog?” I snarled, without warning they stuck the syringes into me, my veins felt ablaze , I was struggling twisting in pain that I couldn’t imagine, it was worse than vampire venom, my whole body turned a bright red color, my eyes turned black pitch, my body went limp, and I was blinded by light and it slowly faded into black.


































    Chapter Three

    I awoke exactly twenty four hours later, again I was in another place, there was an I.V. stuck into me, with a blue fluid dripping slowly into my arm, it caused a numbing effect. A man walked into the room, it was Brown Hair, I growled at him, to my surprise it sounded like a growl from a dog. He smiled, his experiment worked, I hissed at him, I still sounded like a vampire.
    “My daddy will get you.” I hissed. He laughed darkly.
    “Your not going back to your daddy.” he said, his putrid breath that reeked of rotten meat washed over me. I held my nose, I screeched in pain the movement pulled at the I.V. , he laughed again.
    “Your can pull that out now.” the mumbled, sticking a syringe into a vial, with a murky tan liquid. I slowly pulled the I.V. out of my arm, I glared at him, he snickered, he stuck the syringe in my jugular, I screeched.
    “What was that for?” I whimpered in pain.
    “The final dose of venom, venom of a vampire.”
    “But I’m already a vampire you idiot!” I yelled.
    “Yes, but the venom of the werewolf probably fought the venom of the vampire in your body, abolishing it, we need to inject you with more to balance it out.”
    “Ugh,” the back of my mouth tingled.
    “Um, whoever you are, I’m thirsty.” I muttered
    “Deal.” he muttered.”
    “Bring me some donated blood or something pup!”
    “Okay, okay, wait here, by the way my name is Tony.”
    “Okay, Tony, hurry up with it.” I said clenching my throat. He walked out of the room and not that long later he came back with a packet of blood, he handed to me, it swished as I inspected it, I twisted off the blue cap, and poured it my mouth, it was disgusting but it was the best I would get, I took every last drop, I handed the empty pack to him, I was still thirsty, but it was bearable. He wrinkled his nose in disgust, he probably hated the fact I drank blood, as matter of fact that had to be it. Tremors went down every inch of my body, my bones cracked, I screeched in pain, Tony’s eyes bulged wide as I transformed into a werewolf, but I was no ordinary were wolf, I was standing on two legs not four, I had vampire fangs no rows of razor sharp teeth, and I was still thirsty for blood. Tony transformed into a dog too, he was barking, but it was like he was speaking in English.
    “So how’s it like being your enemy, cool huh, not like those leeches.”
    “for your information I’m still I leech, just in a reeking dog form, I am not enjoying this, when will I transform back.”
    “I have no idea.” he barked. I growled so loud it made my ears hurt.
    “I don’t want to be a dog anymore, can you take the venom out or something!”
    “Nope, it’s irreversible.” he grinned, I closed my eyes and concentrated on my vampire form, slowly but surely, I was transforming into my regular self, but to my dismay I was butt naked, I screamed, he was human again, he turned around and closed his eyes.
    “I’m so sorry I forgot, I’m so sorry I didn’t warn you.” he looked down to realize he was naked too.
    “Oh, s***!” he yelled bursting out the room. I ran to the closet and clutched a towel and wrapped it around me, he came back, he had a lab coat on he was sweating from embarrassment.
    “Ahem, would you like something more decent to wear.” he said eyeing my towel.
    “Sure.” I said sitting back town on the hospital bed, the paper crackled as I did so. He held out some panties, a bra and a sunny dress, it was yellow and pink, it made me want to barf.
    “its all we had for a girl.” he said, “ I’ll leave so you can get dressed, besides we don’t want you to meet the rest of the pack while your in a towel do you.” he said. I gulped. He walked out laughing. I slipped on the clothes, I looked at myself in the mirror in the bathroom, my skin was so pale in contrast with the dress, I walked in the room with the bed and peered out the window, it was dim, gray, and cloudy outside, it matched my mood. I walked outside the room, hoping there would be and exit so I can make a run for it. But there were people right outside the door, the pinned my hands behind my back like I was some criminal, they were the criminals sticking syringes in vampires that are unwilling to become a repulsive animal, I was shoved outside where a circle of men had formed I was pushed in the middle of it, Tony was beside me, his hand on my shoulder, I tried to shove it off, but he gripped harder when I tried.
    “Gentlemen.”
    “Dogs.” I muttered under my breath, he slapped the back of my head playfully, did he think that was a joke, I meant it.
    “this is Lizzie, the experiment was a success, half vampire, half werewolf, she is seventeen, and shows little potential but we’ll get her there, ok Lizzie transform.” he said
    “Tony, I’ll be naked when I transform back.” I whispered in his ear. “that’s okay, you will not transform back here.” he whispered back. With that I punched him in the face, he stumbled back, shocked, I ran, I ran as fast as I could, practically running for my life in a way, but where was I? How would I know where I was going? Before I could think of another down side, I was tackled by eight large men, my mouth was full of dirt, and I knew I dislocated one of my arms, I screeched extremely loudly when they put their hands underneath my shoulders, I screeched again, do these guys have any sympathy? Tony came up to me, his face was enraged he pulled his hand up and slapped me across the face, one of the men grabbed my arm and yanked it, relocating my shoulder, I couldn‘t even screech it hurt that bad.
    “Now listen to me you b****!” Tony yelled. “ you better not run away again, you are important! We don’t want you running off to your little parasite friends!” I spat in his face, he slapped me again, I got him in the eye, my venom stinging it, I smiled, I spit out blood on the ground, my whole face throbbing, I quivered in pain, and was forced to transform. They all gasped in astonishment, a lot of oohs and awws! I tried to make a run for it again, I ran outstandingly fast, faster than I was in my vampire body, they would never catch me, they were so stupid not to chain me or something. The pull of tendon and sinew in my legs was satisfying, I felt like I could go on forever, there was not a inkling of fatigue to stop running in my body, when I felt safe, far enough away, I transformed into my regular self, I was naked though. my strawberry blond waves were a little tangled, I looked like a street rat, and I was thirsty, to my dismay, I was in a desert, I could have been in Egypt for all I knew! I walked around and searched for the tiniest lizard, even a bug, along with any clothing item. I searched for a day, I found a potato sack, it fit to my knees but my voice started cracking from my thirst which was not a good sign. I was caught in surprise by the overwhelming scent of human blood, I haven’t realized that patches of grass have started to appear. I jogged toward the scent, houses and shacks were lined around a dirt road, a sign to my left was creaking, I squinted to read the rusty white letters on the green background, the words read El Paso, to my excitement I was in Texas, I walked down the dirt path, there was a small Mexican boy was skipping across some stones,
    ‘should I?’ I thought to myself. ‘yes’ I slowly walked over by the boy and I said
    “Hello.” he looked at me all confused, he must have spoken Spanish. I leaned in and looked him in the eyes, I looked down to see he was clutching a small teddy bear, its arms ripped, a little button eye was dangling from a string, he was also barefoot. I looked back to his eyes, he stared back with curiosity, he reached up and tugged my hair and giggled, I bit my lip, could I really kill this little boy. My aching throat screamed Yes! But my mind said no. I held my hand out, he put his into mine, I crossed between two houses where it would be impossible to be seen, I leaned in to his jugular, the warmth of the outside of the skin made my eyes dilate. I open my mouth my teeth glistening, I was just about the sink my teeth in when I heard a voice behind me.
    “What do you think your doing Liz?” I couldn’t speak, I knew this voice, I let go of the boy, he ran away chasing a small sand colored lizard. I turned around tears welled up in my eyes and spilled over, I ran up to the figure and hugged him, I stood on the tips of my toes searching for his lips, he leaned down to kiss me, he pulled away too quickly.
    “Oh Vlad!” I murmured. “ I missed you so much!”
    “I did too, more than you can imagine.” he stroked my hair.
    “How did you find me.”
    “I’m a vampire, nothing is impossible with this nose.” he tapped his nose.
    “I have to tell you something…” I murmured in his shirt.
    “Anything.” he replied.
    “They experimented on me.” I started crying.
    “What did they do!” he yelled his face enraged
    “they made me half and half.” I said, not looking into his eyes.
    “What do you mean?” he muttered
    “I’m half vampire and half werewolf, and the results are permanent.” I sobbed, ruining his shirt.
    “Lizzie, how can this be, our clan can’t accept you back in if your our enemy.”
    “Than don’t tell, please Vladimir for me, please, please, please!” I sobbed.
    “Okay, I won’t tell this is so horrible.” he said, he put his hand on his face. I coughed.
    “You must be so thirsty.” he said, “ we will find that little Mexican boy again…”
    “No, not the boy, he wouldn’t fully quench me.” I said.
    “Ahhh, that’s right, we will find a man, okay, and a decent change of clothes.” he murmured.
    “Thanks.” I looked into his eyes, he looked into mine.
    “Okay, lets go.”
    After I was quenched, and I was wearing decent clothes we ran, as fast as we could, of course he was faster than me, but he kept at my pace.
    “How far is it?” I said after we ran about an hour.
    “Only about one hundred more miles, k?”
    “Okay.”
    It took another hour but we made it, all the way to Austin, Texas. We stopped running when we hit the city, he opened a trash can and pulled out two black cloaks.
    “We don’t want you to be uncomfortable do we?” he said tossing me the coat.
    “Thank you.” I said, kissing his forehead. I pulled the cloak over my head to shield from the unforgiving sun, we walked down the street we got a lot of weird looks, but we didn’t care.
    “Where is our base?” I asked after walking for two hours.
    “Its just around the corner,” He murmured.
    I looked around me, this part of town was covered in graffiti and I could smell cocaine, lots and lots of it.
    “Um…Vlad…its stinks out here.” I mumbled
    “Of course it does, do you think we can settle in the happy little neighborhoods?”
    “Um…I would prefer it to this dump but I guess no.”
    “There are many crazy’s out here, so if we end up biting one of them and someone tells a police officer, they will end up in a asylum, if you question this plan, ask your father.”
    “No, no, no it seems reasonable enough.” I said.
    There was an empty warehouse in the middle of the field, it was utterly falling apart, graffiti tattooed every inch of it, with profanities and sexual references as the overall theme. I just stared at it in absolute non-belief , we were living in this trashy place? There are probably homeless people sleeping in mattresses inside it…
    “Um-”
    “My thoughts exactly.” Vladimir interrupted.
    “I really am scared to go inside, is everyone in there,” I asked
    “Yes…every vampire in our clan.”
    “I guess its big enough…but look at it…its horrifying.”
    “Lets just go inside, I’ll protect you if there is anything, if we sleep you will never leave my sight, so don’t be scared.” He murmured.
    “Oh, Vlad,” I jumped up and he wrapped his arms around me, to share in this unexpected, passionate kiss. He set me down quickly though, he was fighting a smile, I could tell.
    “What?”
    “Um…you taste like dog,” he sighed
    “Do you have a breath mint?” I sighed
    “one breath mint is meaningless, sorry Hun, I think you need five.”
    “That bad?”
    “Yes,” he said, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a package of tic-tacs, he taped five of them in his hand and gave them to me. I popped them into my mouth and chewed them up and then kissed him again, longer this time.
    “Better?” I asked unsurely
    “Fairly,” He said.
    “Well I guess we better go inside, they probably smell us,” I said.
    We crossed the high grassed field, bugs nipping at us, and stepping in ant piles, finally we reached the door, I reached for it, but Vlad grabbed my hand.
    “I’ll do it, its unnecessary for a lady to open a door for a man,” he murmured. It made me stand there, struck in awe, he really followed being a gentlemen by the book. The slowly opened the door, it was pitch black inside, we walk inside, I held Vlad’s hand, our eyes quickly adjusted, hundreds of vampires turned in our direction, including my father but his arms were outstretched, but his face was not harsh like the others, he was smiling.
    “Come on my darling,” he whispered “come say hello,”
    I let go of Vladimir’s hand and slowly walked through the wave of inconsiderate vampires, I walked inside my dads outstretched arms and I hugged him, then the whole scene turned into chaos in a matter of seconds, my dad picked me up by my hair and looked at me with the most ghastly face he has ever used.
    “How dare you, you reek of them,” he snarled, spitting in my face “so you have denied you own kind?” he hissed “do you want to follow those repulsive mongrels?”
    “No daddy, please put me down, please,” I gasped, pleading.
    “Only when you explain your stench,” he hissed.
    “They captured me on the,” I was gasping for air, so much pain “plane!” I screeched. I eyed Vladimir, two vampires held him back, he not dare touch the King of our clan, but for what he was doing to me he would rip Marcus’s head off, and more.
    “Explain further,” he yelled.
    “I don’t want to,” I whispered.
    “EXPLAIN!” he ordered shaking me at my roots. I screamed.
    “They took me to a hospital, with w-w-werewolf doctors,” I screamed
    “And?” he pushed
    “They experimented on me!” I yelled.
    “What?!” he yelled, he put me down then, “Why didn’t you tell me at first!” he yelled “oh those mongrels those mutts, those DOGS!” He yelled at the top of his lungs, he fell down on his knees and took my hands.
    “What did they do to you,” he pleaded
    “They-they-they…”
    “What, tell me please!” tears were now falling down his cheeks.
    “They made me into half and half…I am now a vampire and a werewolf, and its irreversible,” I whimpered.
    He fell apart then he let go of my hands of put his hand into his palms, he was quivering and shaking uncontrollably, he murmured something, I didn’t understand,
    “What?” I asked quietly
    “GET OUT!!!!!” he shouted.
    My knees buckled and I fell to the floor.
    “Daddy please, please, please keep me, don’t banish me, keep me, keep me!” I screamed, pleading, tears water falling down my face.
    “what did I tell you?” he said, shaking, “GET OUT!” He yelled, I got on my feet and ran outside, Vladimir was yelling,
    “Then I am going too!” and he punched both the vampires holding him back in the nose, a crack filled the house, and blood poured down their faces.
    “Lets go,” he mumbled, grabbed my hand and we ran out the door, into the world of the unknown.