Dhampir

Dhampir:

One night I was getting ready for bed when I heard a loud noise outside. I got out of bed to see what the noise was but I didn’t find anything so I went back inside, got into bed and fell asleep. Out of nowhere I woke up to an excruciating pain in my hand, and when I got out of bed I couldn’t find the light. When I finally found the light I looked at my hand and froze, I was branded with something. It looked like letters on top of each other, the letters looked like V A. what could this possibly mean? Do I belong to someone or something? I thought. That’s crazy. The initials looked familiar but I don’t know where I saw it. I turned the lights off and got into bed. I tried to go to sleep but the pain was unbearable. I finally fell asleep when the pain finally went down. I slept throughout my alarm clock the next day. Probably because of my late night discovery. When I finally woke up I looked at my clock and freaked. I was late and I needed to get out of bed immediately because if I would’ve stayed in bed I would’ve been extremely late and I couldn’t afford that. But the bad thing was I’ve never been late before, never in my life. I got out of bed and got ready for the day. When I came downstairs I realized that my mom and dad were already gone. I rushed to school on my bike. When I got to school I heard the tardy bell. I ran as fast as I can so I can get to my locker before the doors locked automatically. When I got inside, I realized that Mr. Revenson was looking like something shocked him. I came up to him and realized that his face looked like he was in agony but it was frozen on his face. That’s weird, really weird. I also noticed that the bell rang again for the passing period. Crap I really am late I’m kind of confused wasn’t the door supposed to be closed at the warning bell? Hm? I was really confused. But I still put my stuff in my locker and grabbed all my stuff I need

In my next class. When I got to my math class I realized that we had a new student. It was a boy and he looked just like me, he had an athletic build. But others called me thick but I really didn’t think so, I think I’m fat. When he looked at me he stopped what he was doing and looked at me a bit harder. Good thing my hand had a bandage on it because I felt like he was looking at it. I turned to go to my seat and noticed that a very thin male was sitting there. Why is there another new kid sitting in my seat? I looked at him and glowered. I had to sit in the very back before the bell rang and before Mrs. Jordan came into the room. I picked up my Breaking Dawn book and began to read it. “Oh look, bookworm is reading about human disco balls.” “Enough Tyler.” James said “Oh look saby has a boyfriend.” That was it I was getting tired of Tyler making fun of me and others who try to stick up for me. “Tyler we all know you like me and we also all know I turned you down so pull your big boy pants on and get. Over. It. Tyler.” He just stared at me and his face turned red and he stopped talking. I felt bad instantly, I got up and walked to him. He just turned his head to look away from me. “Tyler I- I’m sorry I didn’t mean to say that I was just so angry.” I turned to go back to my seat when I heard a laugh. I turned around and saw that the new kid was laughing. I stomped over to him and said “you think it’s so funny then you’ll come to the volleyball game later tonight and get your butt kicked!”

“Oh it’s on!”

I was so mad that I rambled on.

Sabrina you need to calm yourself down this isn’t even right but you need to fulfill your obligations. You are going to show him that you are the boss in volleyball and he isn’t. When Mrs. Jordan came into the room, she said “We are here today with five new students whose names are Zach, Andrew, Stephana, Elena and Damìnè. Come on up guys! You guys will really like this school if you behave” The five of them looked at each other and then looked at her like she was crazy. Some of the kids in my class started giggling when they saw them making faces like they smelled something bad. “What’s wrong?” “We don’t get into trouble but I don’t know about Andrew” When Elena said that I could tell that she was trying to keep a smile off her face “Don’t throw me under the bus!” Andrew yelped and I was bewildered until the kids up front started smiling and that was when I realized that he was teasing and so was Elena. They all seem to be best friends and all of a sudden I felt kind of lonely and it wasn’t a fun feeling. Let’s hope I don’t go into my depression because that sucked.

“You may sit down.” when I looked up I saw Damìnè looking at me and I was very confused when he winked at me and then he grinned. The rest of the class I was very into the lesson that Mrs. Jordan was teaching us. Out of nowhere I felt a hot flash come across me like someone had a fireplace in front of me. And that was when I noticed Damìnè was looking at me with horror on his face. I looked around the room and saw that Elena, Stephana, Andrew and Zach had the same horror on their faces. “What?” I whispered they didn’t answer me so I looked down at my hand and gasped. My bandage was coming off and I didn’t have any tape with me to fix the bandage. “Mrs. Jordan?” “Yes Sabrina?” “I got to use the restroom, may I go please?” “Yes you may, but first you need to get a hallway pass.” When I got to the teachers desk I quickly took a long piece of tape when she wasn’t looking. When she got the hallway pass she looked at me suspiciously but she gave me the hall pass anyways. When I walked out the room I heard a male voice ask the same question. The teacher answered and that person said “Thanks so much and plus it’s an emergency!” I started walking towards the bathrooms when I heard Damìnè say “hey your Sabrina Mar right?” “Yes, why do you want to know my name?” “Because you seem Special even when you have that Silly bandage on. Are you also branded with the letters VA?” “Why should I even tell you? Can I trust you not to tell the others? Because if you tell, I could get into trouble with my parents! But yes I am branded with the letters VA” “I have to tell my friends because we’re also branded with those letters. Elena and Stephana are the newest with those letters so don’t be afraid, you are not alone.so trust me in this please? We will be staying for two more months ok? And then you’re coming with us.” “Fine but don’t follow me to the lady’s room please?” “Okay but I will be following you there anyways because I also have to go.” When I got into the bathroom I rushed into a stall and grabbed the tape. I bit it in half and fixed my bandage. When I walked out of the bathroom I kind of felt refreshed and it felt good. I’m guessing that I had some kind of burden on my shoulders and when I told him that, my shoulders felt lighter. I walked into the classroom just as the 5 minute bell rang. I hurried to gather my materials for English. When the final bell rang I accidentally ran into Damìnè. Out of reflex I grabbed my phone and my laptop first before all of it crashed to the floor. When I caught the phone I cried out in delight because last time that happened my phone fell to the floor and the phone’s screen broke and shattered. Damìnè looked at me with surprise in his eyes. I looked at him and instantly felt bad because his phone fell to the floor and shattered. “I’m sorry I should’ve watched where I was going” “No, it’s fine I was wanting to talk to you and try to get your email address or number so I could text and call you, but I guess that won’t be happening until I get myself another phone which would probably be tonight or tomorrow morning since tomorrow is Saturday.” “No hey I can tell you my number and email address so when you actually get your phone we can talk and text.” “Sure. Here’s my phone number, 765-888-8989, and here’s my email, damìnè[email protected]” “okay here’s my number, 765-553-7722, and here’s my email, be careful with it, it’s valuable, [email protected].” “Ok. I’ll get my new phone tonight and then I’ll explain everything.” I just nodded my head and then he said exactly what I was going to say

“Hey we’re almost late for class so I guess I’ll see you later okay?” “Sure.” The rest of my classes I noticed that Damìnè was in all of my classes and so was Andrew and I could tell he liked me because he was almost literally drooling when he looked at me. Then I heard the fire alarm go off. “What the world” I whispered. Then I felt my phone buzz. I looked at my phone and it was from Damìnè.

Damìnè:

I’m guessing that Elena set that off.

Sabrina:

Do you know why?

Damìnè:

To probably talk to you about that mark

Sabrina:

You told her already?

Damìnè:

Yes I actually already had a phone in my locker so I texted her about it.

Sabrina:

Okay fine you’ll probably face the wrath of my anger later or probably not.😜

When I got off my phone I rushed down the stairs and got into line behind Damìnè. He looked at me and I glared at him and he just mouthed sorry. When I felt a tap on my shoulder I turned around and said “what?” Elena stood there “let me see your hand.” “Why?” Elena didn’t answer me, she just grabbed my hand and ripped off the bandage and gasped. My hand was healed and the words were still there and you couldn’t even tell I was branded recently. “Why do you want to see my hand if you already know I was branded?” “I really don’t know, I felt like I really needed to find out if you were telling the truth because I’ve been lied to before.” “You really should listen to me and trust me to tell the truth because you’ll recognize the behavior if I lied. My face would turn red and I would fidget with my hands and shirt. So I feel like you should at least put some faith in me.” “Sure, I’ll try to listen and watch your body language but it’ll be really hard because I usually go to instincts when people are talking to me.” “Good.” When we walked into the classroom it was last period and our teacher wasn’t here yet so we socialized and hung out. I finally got to meet Stephana, Andrew, Elena, and Zach. They seem like really good people so when tomorrow comes maybe we can all hang out. “Hey guys, since tomorrow is Saturday, do you want to hang out at the park?” “Sure, but it’ll have to be kind of late because my mom works until 8:00 tomorrow night.” “Where does she work Andrew?” “She works at a factory called Unchastens Factory.” I just looked at him with confusion until I realized why that name was familiar. “My dad works there.” “What’s his name?” “His name is Christopher Mar. why do you ask?” he looked at me with shock in his eyes.

“What’s wrong?” Andrew answered me and he looked kind of shaken, “because my mom said that he hasn’t been to work in a week. And I think I know why, but I won’t tell you until the time is right.” “Ok, well I will see you guys later.” “May I walk you home to see if your father is home so I can talk to him?” “Sure Damìnè” “okay let’s go.” When we started to walk it began to get dark really fast like there was a large shadow standing over America. “Let’s get going, come on let’s get to a running start and show me the way to your house.” “Sure.” That’s when I noticed we were close to my neighborhood. “Come on we’re close to my neighborhood so let’s run and I’ll race you, ready, set, Gooooo!” I ran as fast as I could and soon enough I passed Damìnè and then I saw a figure with red eyes walk out of my house. I stop immediately and Damìnè runs into me. “Why’d you stop?” “My dad just freaked me out for a second.” I said laughing. I ran up to my dad and said “Hey dad, why are you going outside so late into the night?” “Can I say the same for you?” he said laughing “well you should probably get inside.” “Well I can’t because we have a volleyball game and I’m going to kick my friend’s bottom.” I said that and I looked at Damìnè “well you guys should probably get back to the school and stay together because I kind of sense something bad that’s going to happen so go on and get going.” “Okay Mr. Mar.” Damìnè and I ran back to the school and when we got there we got all of our sports stuff on and ran out and onto the gym floor. When I got onto the floor I heard a couple of the kids in the background clap for me and cheer. I turned around and bowed and they cheered louder. I grabbed the volleyball and spiked it towards Damien’s team. It made it over and Damìnè dove for it and hit it over the net towards me. I planted my feet and almost too late realized it was short so i dove and it went back over. The people in the stands cheered so loudly that it made Zach flinch and look over at the stands and that made him miss the ball. “Yes” I yelled. I was so excited. He jumped again and glared at me “what? Are you just mad that you missed the ball, or are you just angry in general.” Zack stalked at me. Even when Damìnè yelled his name he kept walking towards me. “What’s wrong are you big mad or little mad?” before he got too close to me, a guy tackled him to the ground and hissed at him, the guy moved his mouth towards Zach’s neck. I didn’t realize what was going to happen until Zack yelled in pain. I ran up to the guy and realized that it was my dad. “Dad stop it you’re hurting him.” I ran halfway to him and then out of nowhere I got tackled to the floor. Oomph I muttered when I fell to the floor. The guy on top of me hissed at me. That was when I noticed that the guy’s eyes were blood red like my dads were earlier tonight. He brought his head to my neck and bit me. I screamed very loudly because it hurt, it hurt a lot. I heard some kind of ruckus going on. I tried to move my head but the guy on me pulled my hair and said “this one’s a dhampir! Will we have to kill her boss?” “no not until it’s her time, let her grow up a little bit and let her train a little bit before ambushing her and her friends we will have to let her go but I will be snacking on this little fool of a Moroi.” “Sure boss I really planned on turning her into one of us so that’s a disappointment.” “drain her a little bit more and make her pass out at least so she doesn’t remember what happened after the meet only just that she is leaving her little safe town in Colorado to move to Montana the bigger place for people like her to roam around and train all they want to kill us Strigoi.” “”Okay boss” and that was when I felt like my life was slowly slipping away. “Augh!” yelled the Strigoi or whatever they call themselves. “Get off of me you twerp. Get off of me before I kill her!” That was when he yelled in pain and made a choking sound and laid still on me. “Uhng” I moaned and then I saw Damìnè head and he literally started freaking out when he saw the gash on my neck where the stupid Strigoi bit me. “Stop looking at my neck and get him off me please, and where is my dad?” “He fled as soon as I killed this son of a donkey butt”

“Okay, I want to go home to clean up this wound because -”

“No you are coming with us to St. Vladimir’s because as your father said you need to train your but off”

“Fine, I’ll come but you aren’t dragging me to and from the car.”

“Okay that’s fine by me.”

When Damìnè helped me up, I saw Zach on the ground with blood on the floor around him I shrieked and ran to him

“Zack? Zach can you hear me? Open your eyes if you can!”

His eyes stayed still and shut. “That’s it I’m going to kill my dad at whatever cost. He won’t get away with this, not at all, not ever. He shall die.” I yelled. I was so mad that it wasn’t even funny. I turned to see all of them looking at Zach on the floor. I ran outside. I really didn’t care anymore, I was so mad at my dad that at the moment he wasn’t my father, just a murderer. I ran towards my house to get my mom and me far away. Probably go to St. Vladimir’s with my friends. I started running towards my neighborhood. When I got to my house I rushed inside and ran into the living room and saw that my dad was arguing with my mom about who was going to take who. When my mom said “you aren’t going to take Sabrina she’s really happy here and I bet she doesn’t even know what she is. Plus it’s best for her not to know that you’re a Strigoi and so are your Strigoi friends.” “She already knows gosh dang it. You don’t need to keep her in the dark.” My mom cussed at him which made him even madder. So he grabbed her and bit her in her neck. “No!” I screamed. He sucked her dry and broke her neck. I ran at him but I guess Damìnè followed me here and he tackled me to the ground. “No, don’t let him get away, I want to kill him.” “You will get your chance but not right now when you haven’t trained how to kill one.” “No, I want him dead now. I don’t want him killing more innocents.” “Like I said earlier you’ll get your chance to kill him, oh and by the way Zach’s awake and fine. He’s just in shock at the moment” “Okay take me to the school so I can see him.” When Damìnè helped me up I looked at my mom’s corpse and tried very hard (unsuccessfully) not to cry. I walked out of the house and started to run ahead of Damìnè to the school. When Damìnè caught up to me he took my hand in his and pulled me to a full stop. When he did that I was trying so hard to stop crying and he could see that so he pulled me into his arms.

“Why? Why would he do that” I sobbed. I was so full of grief.

“I’m going to miss her so much” I said

“I know you will.” Damìnè said. When we pulled apart I looked at him and then Damìnè did something I didn’t know he would do, especially since we just met this morning, he kissed me. I was so surprised that I pulled away from him and turned around. While I was facing the other direction I was touching my lip and I was smiling.

“Did I do something wrong?” asked Damìnè.

“No you did something right.” When I said that Damìnè started to laugh. I turned around and ran right into his arms. When I looked into his eyes he whispered, “You are amazing.” When he said that I smiled really big and that made Damìnè laugh. Damìnè took my hand and we walked the rest of the way to the school. When we got to the school I had to see Zach and see how he was doing. When we walked into the gym I realized that my face must’ve been red from crying a lot because Elena and Stephana ran to my side and brought me to the bleachers. “What happened, did Damìnè hurt you?”

“No, my father and my mom were arguing because she wouldn’t let him take me with him, so he sucked her dry and broke her neck.” Again it was the same moment with Damìnè when I was trying not to cry but it didn’t work. I sat there sobbing when Damìnè came over to me and brought me into a hug. “Why’d you ask that question? She just got over crying and you had to bring it up again”

“Sorry Sabrina for making you cry again.”

“It’s ok. You didn’t damage me more than I damaged myself by watching her die.” Elena and Stephana looked at each other and then back at me. “Please don’t talk like that” they cried in unison. At that moment Tyler and Andrew walked in.

“Now what?” I asked.

“Nothing. Just wondering if there’s volleyball tonight. But now I can see that it won’t be happening with blood all over the floor.” Tyler said that with no remorse at all in his face. “Don’t you start now Tyler it’s not a good idea to mess with me and my friends.” Tyler walked up to me and put his face right in front of my face. This made me very uncomfortable and I do not like to feel uncomfortable so I gently pushed Damien’s arms off of me and I stood up and then I punched Tyler in the face. He just stood there for a second and then he punched me in the jaw. I was so freaking mad that it wasn’t even funny so I attacked Tyler. Tyler went to the floor at the second punch in the face and I kicked him in the stomach repeatedly until Damìnè grabbed my arms and pulled me away from him. I stared at Tyler with pure hatred. I was only pulled out of the anger trance when Damìnè took my face in his hands and he waited patiently until I looked at him in the eyes, and that was when I realized that I was getting out of control. “Get me out of here.” I whispered to Damìnè. “okay.” he whispered back to me. When he let go of my face he called our group to order by saying “We are leaving tonight. Gather everything you brought tonight and I’ll meet you in the car after I have a little talk with Tyler.” I hesitated for a quick moment before asking “Do you need me to wait in the car?” “Yes I do please go with them, I love you Sabrina.” “I love you too Damìnè.” I walked outside and realized that my friends were waiting for me in the car, so I rushed up to the car. I stopped short when I recognized the driver getting out of the car. “Dimitri?” Dimitri stopped short when he heard his name. “Sabrina? Is that you?” “Yes it’s me.” “You’ve grown since I last saw you.” “Obviously, I was a little kid, now I’m 17” Dimitri stood there gawking at me “Mr. Belikov!” “Yes Damìnè?” “Get her in the car please like now, I can sense darkness.” “Sure.” That was when Damìnè walked up to me and said to Dimitri “Tell her, tell her now Dimitri.” “Do you know why you look like me?” “Yes, it’s because you’re my cousin.” I said “That’s not true. You’re my biological sister. Your first name stays the same but your last name is Belikov, not Mar.” “What?” I whispered. “That’s impossible, when did I get adopted?”

“You weren’t adopted.” Dimitri said.

“They took you away from us in the middle of the night. You were only a 1 year old”

“That still won’t change my mind about killing Christopher Mar.” The rest of my friends looked at me with confusion but I ignored the look my boyfriend gave me.

“Let’s go to St. Vladimir’s.” I got into the car and waited for my friends and my boyfriend to get in with me. When they all got into the car Damìnè sat next to me so I could lay my head on his chest. I decided that I was comfortable enough so I drifted off into a dream but it ended up as a flashback:

Flashback:

It was a summer night, the night of my 4th birthday and I was hanging out in a big oak tree when my dad was saying “Where are you Saby bug? Come out, come out wherever you are.” I was trying to hold in a giggle but it didn’t work. My dad looked up and saw me in the highest branch “come on down Saby bug” “No” I squealed in laughter. That was when I tried to climb higher but the branch that was holding me snapped under my weight. “Ahhhhh” I screamed really loud. I was terrified of dying but the good thing was that my dad caught me before I hit the ground. I started to cry hard because my life almost ended right then and there.

“Thanks so much dad, you saved my life.” My dad only smiled at me and kissed my forehead.

Present day:

I was woken when the car jostled and then stopped. I opened my eyes and realized that we were at St. Vladimir’s and it was dark outside so the students were out walking to their next classes. “Your destination awaits you.” “Thanks, Mr. Belikov” “Hello, Guardian Belikov” “Hello, Headmistress Kirova” “Guess who got into trouble again” “Not again, she needs to come with me next time I leave” “Sure but she’s in my office so try to calm her down.” He just looks at Headmistress Kirova and walks to her office. “Now, what’s your name?” When she looked at me her mouth dropped open “Sabrina…..” “Are you Olena Belikova’s daughter?” I stared at her with confusion but thankfully Dimitri came back with a girl about my age and said “yes she’s my biological sister.” “What?” shrieked the girl? She shrieked like Dimitri just said I was his girlfriend. I looked at her like she was crazy and when she saw me do that she ran at me. Good thing Dimitri and Damìnè were next to us because I took a good swing and it knocked the girl on her bottom. But I could tell that she wasn’t used to being hit because she stopped for a second and then launched herself at me. I also ran at her but Damìnè grabbed me and Dimitri grabbed the girl. “Rose calm down.”

“Fine but I can’t promise that she’ll keep her hands to herself after I leave.”

“That’s bullpoopie. I bet that you won’t keep your anger in check long enough to stay away from me.”

“Go Rosemarie Hathaway and stay in your dorm oh and by the way you’ll be sharing your room with Molly Luck.”

“I’d rather have Sabrina as my roomie. But I’ll have to live with the bully.”

“If you’re telling the truth then you’ll have Sabrina as your roommate and we’ll move Molly’s stuff back to her room. To be truthful we moved her stuff without her knowing so if you keep Molly as your roommate then you’ll pay the consequences.”

“You know what? I’ll take Sabrina even if she’s a pain in the butt.” Said Rose

“Hey I’m right here, and thanks for accepting me by the way.” I said. It means a lot to me to be accepted. The night passed really quickly. The next week passed really slowly because I never really got into the classes. But my favorite time of day for some reason is training. It makes me feel strong and faster because it makes me feel closer to killing him. I’ll make an oath to never say his name ever again until I see him up close and tell him that he lied to me so I can at least catch his attention before I killed that bastard. And I hate liars. Once I was up for the day, I decided to actually pay attention in all of my classes so I could at least become a better fighter and better dhampir. When I walked into my first class I got punched in the face. I don’t even know who even did it because Damìnè jumped into my line of sight and towed me out of the room before I also threw a punch too. Wow this isn’t usually like me. Ever since my thief of a mother died I was stressing about killing that bastard and thief of a father so I put all of my anger into fighting. I really should at least get my anger out in training.

“Let’s get you to the gym with your brother so he can at least calm you down and I’m sorry that I’m not that much of a help to you.” I was shaking so badly with rage that I actually had to take a moment to process what he was saying.

“You are a great help to me so don’t stress about it, like I’m doing”

“Okay, I’ll try not to.”

“Thanks so much, I love you by the way.”

“I love you too Saby bug.”

I stared at him shocked. “What?”

“Nothing just tired and mad at the same time.”

“Strigoi!!!!!” Rose yells.

Shoot what am I supposed to do? Then I got an idea.

“Take all of the Moroi to the dorms and secure the area. I’m going to investigate the scene. Also give me a stake, I think I know what to do if it’s my thief of a dad.” Rose looked at me and realized that I was telling her and Dimitri to go with the Moroi.

“No. That’s not going to happen. You’re not going to risk your life for him. Let us kill him.”

“Sorry I cannot do that. It’s something I have to face because I made an oath to kill him before he kills any more innocents.” Molly handed me a stake and said,

“Don’t get killed please.”

I stared at her in shock but I recovered quickly.

“Do it now!” I yelled. I ran at full speed outside and saw Stephana fighting my father.

“Get away from her Christopher Mar.” my thief of a father looked up and saw me so he grabbed a hold of Stephana and snapped her neck just like he did to my thief of a mother.

“No!” I yelled. I ran up to him and stabbed him in his chest and right into his heart. I was so angry that I didn’t realize that I killed him and then I killed all of the Strigoi in the area when it hit me. It then hit me hard that my best friend is dead because of me. I sank to the ground and screamed a broken scream and started crying really loudly. I am tired of hurting everybody that I care about. So I decided to kill myself. I grabbed the stake that was in the closest Strigoi and aimed it at my heart……..

TO BE CONTINUED

I am so sorry to leave it on a cliff hanger like that. I am still writing the second book to this very day. i am sorry if the writing isn't that good because i wrote this hen i was 15.