Awakening

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What you are about to read is the story of a young lady. Not a human lady. She is growing up inside a world of people who can walk amongst the day light and live a normal life. Yet she herself is unable to do so. She unknown to herself is part of a bigger circle of people. People just like herself. Those who live inside the shadows only living at night. They live off of those who walk in the day. Yet unknown to her yet she is about to become the member of the largest coven in England. She will be moved from her home and trained as a hunter and live her life out just like the rest of them. This story will follow her from the point to where she remembers the start of the strange events to the point to where she became part of the new underground world of the vampires. 2

January 3rd 20053

I  sit up in my bed wondering again if it was 4

just a dream. I know it is but when you  5

have the same dream night in and night6

out you start to wonder what is going on 7

that keeps this on coming to you. My 8

existence is a very complicated one. Living 9

my life in the dark and unable to be part 10

of the world I hear outside my window every 11

day. These dreams make no sense, but only 12

prove that the war is about to reach a point 13

where the houses will all be shattered and 14

forced to fight one another based on the facts 15

of who believed she was right and who believed16

she was wrong.17

Chapter 118

My name is Isabella Darcia . I was not always the person you see standing before you today. I can not fully explain what happen to me and that is because I was not ever prepared for the changes which over took my life one night. Well let me start by giving you a look into my life my from the start. I was born October 31st 1982. So now that makes me 23 years old. I was the only child of my parents. My mothers name was Emily and my father was known as Benjamin. I am 5’5” and if you ask me my weight I might just have to slap you because that is none of your business. I have black hair and blue eyes and not just your normal blue eyes, they have this very deep color and if you believe it like I do they have a life of there own. Yet that is really of no importance to my story. I just find it best to be fair and tell it to you. If my birth was not strange enough, you know being born on Halloween and all was not enough. As I grew up I always found myself different to say the least. I was always eating and drinking some of the strangest things and I am sure you do not what to hear that right now. I never got to go play outside with the other kids, I was normally asleep while they where all outside playing. My parents told me it was the way we had to live but I never understand. How would it feel if you where 7 years old and couldn’t go play with anyone else your age because it was our “way of life“. I hated it. I was home schooled, my mother spent all of her time teaching me the basics. You know I took all the classes any normal child would in school. I did math, science and social studies, but I didn’t take normal language classes my mother had me studying old English and that is what we spoke around the house. To me it was not strange because we lived in England yet I guess some people would. Then one day I looked through my school books and found a book on the history of Vampires. I looked puzzled at the book, I asked myself way are they teaching me about a create from the movies. Being stupid and 7 years old it did not click in my head yet. My mother did not want to force me to read the book but told me to at least make myself aquatint with the book and then there would be another one.  I looked at my mom was just let it go. 19

Then on my 17th birthday some strange men showed up at the house my mother and father asked me to leave the room. They where wearing all black and they looked sickly and would not put my finger on it. Yet in so many ways they looked like my family did.  I did as I was told but sat in my room with the door open so I could try to hear what they where saying. It did not work very well they seem to have known I was going to be listening after all I hated being left out. Later that night my mother walks into my room with three different book. She told me “Learn them all and learn them well you have just under a year and you can not fail this test.” I looked at her and just answered ok mom. At that time I was fully unaware that this test I was getting ready to take would either prove me worthy of the coven or get me band from it for life. I studied all the time. I don’t know why I took to studying these book so much, maybe it was because my parents had asked me to, but I did it without asking questions.  Time flew by that year. I felt more alive than ever as the summer went by. October was coming around the corner very fast and I was unsure what I would need to know for this so called test I would have to take. My parents just told me to keep studying yet I really wanted to know if there was something I needed for sure yet no one was allowed to tell me. I kept asking them why no one could help me with the test and they would tell me “everyone must learn it on there own, we and every other person who have taken this test had to do the same thing you are going through, just study and do it in variety” so I did. Then about a week before my 18th birthday the same men showed up at my house again and this time they came to talk to me. Even though they did not say very much, they came to talk to me all the same. They came to ask me if I was prepared to take the test. How do you respond to a question, if I said I was ready for the test they could consider me over confident and if I told them I was unprepared they might think I totally blew off the past year and never broke the binding of the books. So I said I think I am ready yet I am not sure. I have had no idea exactly what to study. I have been study a little bit of everything hoping I am studying the correct things. 20

The youngest of the men looked at me and told me to just relax. He just had such a calm look to him I just kind of relaxed on the spot. They asked me again if I was ready and I said yes this time. Then the older man handed me a piece of paper with an address on it. I asked the man what is this about. I thought to myself in the instant what is going are they trying to get me to join some secret club, I don’t get it. Then the two men stood up and got ready to say good bye. Your parents shall explain the rest of what to do from here. Just be ready on your birthday and have said your good byes.  Before the two men left the house, they handed yet another piece of paper out, but this time it was handed to my parents. They told my parents to give it to me the night before my 18th birthday, I would need it to finish my studies and be prepared for my test. Then my parents walked them to the door and said good bye to the men. As my parents walked back into the house as I saw my father wiping tears from my mothers eyes. I looked to my mother and asked her what was wrong. She would not answer me and she walked up the stairs leaving my father to explain the details to me. This was about to become the one father daughter talk that I would never forget in my life. This one was going to take all night. 21

October 24th 198722

There is something very strange about to happen.23

No one will explain to me what is going on.24

Yet those men showed up again and it looks25

as if I am going to finally get a look into the26

life that has been hidden from me for so long.27

The life both of my parents had lived until28

I was born and they wished to raise me 29

away from there old home. I don’t know if30

I am ready to handle all of  this, but I guess 31

this is going to be the night that it is time to32

ask all my questions that have been building33

up in the past year. I hope my father is ready for34

this because I know that I am not. Yet now is the only chance I am going to have and now I am35

going to do it because I want to know, and yet36

I don’t want to know, but I need to know.37

If this secret they have been hiding is about38

to become a major part of my life then I 39

think I have the right to know now because,40

I am about to take a test. Some test I have no41

idea what to do with and I hope my father will42

be able to help me and give me more answers than43

anyone else has in the past. I guess this is my only chance so I am going to take it.44

Chapter 245

My father sat me down in the living room so we could talk to each other without my mother being able to hear about the conversation about to take place so we would not be hurting her anymore. So we sat down in the living room preparing for the conversation about to convene and just sat across from each other. I just looked down at the floor, I was half way scared to look at my father at that time, but at the same time I wanted to know what he was thinking about the whole thing. I needed answers, I was confused and looking for answers. And just then he looked to me and asked me what was on the paper that the two men have gave me. I responded with the truth, there was an address and along with the address there was a small note telling me to be at that address by the time that was given along with the address. He then asked me if I knew what it meant. Of course I sit there thinking to myself how do I know what this is for, some strange men hand me a piece of paper ask me if I am ready for the test then leave. I calmly told him I had no idea what it was for. How was I to know what this was about. I di not even know these two men, but some how they knew all about me. I figured that they knew my parents they could have been friends from back when they where younger. Yet that night they had come to talk to me and to find out if I was the one ready for the test. He looked to the floor as not to look into my eyes as he told me the next part of the paper which was given to him and my mother. Then he told me the news some 18 year olds would have loved to hear, but me I had a great life with my parents and I did not have any plans to leave my home yet. I was comfortable there and I was happy. Why would someone want to leave there home and move in with a bunch of strange people? My family made me happy, why would I want to leave them yet, I had plans to stick around there for a while. Then he told me the address was to be my new home.  Hold on one second, my new home who said I wanted to move out. I did not want to leave. I mean come on now. This is not even funny anymore. I almost wanted to ask if they where planning a surprise party for my birthday, but this conversation was way to serious for it to have anything to do with my birthday, or at least in that kind of way. Ok now this is more than I want to handle all at once. This is not fair, when did these written laws of turning 18 come into play and why didn’t someone tell me sooner. 46

Your telling me I have to move out of my own home to live in some other house with a bunch of people I do not even know. This is not fair. I want to stay with the people I love. I never had to learn to trust people you know. When you grow up with just your parents around and you never really have any friends you don’t have to worry about anything now do you. Does anyone else think this is just a little crazy? I asked him why I did not grow up there if I was going to end up living there in time anyways. Wouldn’t me living there have made more sense. He told me that when he and my mother found out they where going to have a child they wanted to try to allow me to grow up outside of this house, I still had no other name for the place, they wanted to raise me as normally as they could despite what we where. If you happen to ask me my childhood was far from normal and if it was normal I want to know by who standard was my childhood normal.  I look puzzled at him, so what are  we? He looked at me, did you even wonder why we where having you study vampire books and learning all that you could about them. I sat there quietly for a second then told him, I thought about it a lot of times but I was never one to make assumptions about things and was just like many other things, going to let it pass in time. I never thought to give it another thought. I just did what you and mother asked me to do all the time. I figured it was something that I needed to learn for my own good. The world that we live in is not the safest no matter who you are. I mean we do live by the night...hold on you are trying to tell me that I am a v-vampire. Ok father I have heard some crazy things but you just topped the cake. So you are trying to tell me that I am a creature that lives in the shadows of night and can not live in the light. I must have blood to keep on going. 47

He looked at me dead in the eyes, his eyes had become cold. Not the lively eyes that I had grown to know all of my life. The calm and strong father that I always turned to when I needed a shoulder to cry on or someone to chase the ghost out of my closet. At that moment in time he had become cold and drained he looked almost dead. He told me that I was going to be moving out to live in the home of the vampires, this house is our coven. Your mother and I where both members of this coven. We lived there once upon a time too. Now you are going to be living there now too. I just am going to tell you point blank there most likely will not be the chance of being allowed to live outside of the mansion. Your mother and I are one of the very special cases. This is one of those nightmare fairy tales. Inside the coven you are not going to be allowed to see us. It may be a long time before you get to see us again if ever. We did our jobs of raising you now all we are here to do anymore is what we did once before you where born and that is to uphold and guard the house of those dogs. Ok I am a vampire and now he is talking about dogs. Ok come on one things at a time. I swear I feel like I am sitting in the middle of a room and all the walls are falling in onto of my head. How is an 18 year old to take this. I am about to lose my parents, the two people who have always been there for me. I am being forced to move out of my own home and into another. I am not even going to be allowed to see them. Now if you ask me this is kind of crazy and unfair. Then I asked my father, Don’t I have a choose in the matter, can I not chose to stay here with you and mother. I then saw a tear fall from his eyes as he looked up to me, no my dear child you do not have a chose in this you must go. My mother sat there next to me and told me, she wanted to keep me there. She had wished to keep me from the world I was being pulled into and now that I have come of age I was not longer going to  have a chose. If I did not go I would never be allowed into there world and would become the one that they hunt and they would kill me off. I wish we could have made things easier. Easier, at this point in time I think brain surgery would have been easier to perform. 48

Then he handed me the other piece of paper. I feel you are ready to read this. This has a list of things you going to be preparing for. Ok, I know I have to move from my house and now I have to prepare for things. What else are they going to ask for, blood sample? My father understood he told me, I know it is hard to except this and all with you test coming up and all, but the list has all the things that you are going to be learning how to do before you are able to become a full member of the coven. I looked back to him, what if I can not do it and am unable to become a full member. There are other ways around it. Your mother could not do some of the task so she was allowed to bear children. There where people who did not like the fact that she was being allowed to have children at such a young age. Due to the fact that other ladies where upset about it. Which is how we where allowed to raise you outside of that home we wanted to raise you as normally as we could. So I was given a disadvantage because you and mother wanted to raise me out here. So now I am going to be the underdog in this test because I did not get to grow up in the house around them every day. He looked up the stairs to see my mother walking down the stairs. She came and sat next to me and started to play with my hair. She looked at me Isabella I do not want to let you go, but we must let you go, this is for your own good. This is the best thing for you. This house will keep you safe from all of those who want you to be dead. There are people who are there who will help you whenever something comes your way you are not ready to handle on your own. I asked them both, do I ever get the chance to have a normal life you know. Do I get to fall in love with someone and do I get to have a job and raise kids. My father left that one up to my mother to answer. She told me, I would have the chance to fall in love with another member of our coven and I could have children with him. Yet having a normal job was another story. In our world there was no such things as normal. Those of us who had the strength where put into the war which was all they would tell me. They where still not allowed to tell me about this war that had been going on for years I guess. I mean I understand them because they where still not sure if I was going to be able to pass the test or not. Then my father told me to go on up to be I would need my rest. I still could not go to bed that night. I sat up in my room with thousands of questions running through my mind. I just wish I could have asked them, but I knew my parents would not be ready to answer these questions for me.49

I mean why did it have to be me who had to take this test? Does it happen to every member of the vampire community on there 18th birthday? Or am I just a special case? I thought of that a little more, maybe I am special. I was raised outside of this house which they all lived in and my parents got to live a normal life they where always home with me and I never saw any weird people coming by the house, until I was 17 at least. Then I thought to myself, maybe I have to take this test to prove I am worthy to become a member or not because I did get to grow up outside of the house, they have to be sure I am able to act as they do and if I am able to fully understand the changes which are about to fully occur.  I guess this was more or less my time to prove to them that I could be one of them and that I was worthy in a sense. I am just so unsure if I am ready to leave the home of my parents. The two people who I can trust. Now I am being forced to put my life in the hands of a group of people I do not even know. And if I am a vampire as they say I am, how come I have not been hunted or been hunted by some slayer? I know I am looking at the TV world, but I have never really seen a vampire world work outside of the movie and books I have read. 50

As I sat there that night I made a promise to myself. I promised myself that I was going to become stronger than those who had grown up there. I was going to prove myself special and worthy to me there. I was going to handle everything given to me without questioning. I was more or less going to put my feelings aside when it came to business I was going to do what I had been born to do. I was going to prove to my parents and to this so called coven that I am one of them and that I can be just as much part of there world and there lives. I hope this works. I really hope that I am able to be the person that my parents want me to be. I hope that when I leave this house that I will be able to move into this new house and not be looked down upon because of the fact that I was brought up out of the house. I am just hoping I am able to pass the test. I want to be able to become just as part of the society as every other person in the place. I have heard from my parents how people can be when someone new comes in that in there mind does not belong. This I was not going to allow this to discourage me, I was going to prove to everyone that I was one of them and that I was going to stick around for as long as life allows me. And I hope that I can not let anyone else down. It seems that people are counting on me. I do not know why, why would someone look up to me when I have no idea what is going on. I just have to keep an open mind. Jump into this head first and I am sure I will be able to come out strong just like my parents want me to.51

October 30th  198752

I really wish I knew why they made me study53

this so much. I do not even understand why, I 54

mean this stuff to me is like the life I have been living every day of my life. Am I a vampire. This can not be true I am normal I can have a normal 55

life just like everyone else, right? If I am a vampire, what is this test tomorrow about, I have had no time to prepare for that kind of life, what are they going to do to me. Suck my blood till I agree to join them in there fight for there freedom. This is  crazy I am only 17 soon to be 18 how can I be of any help. Or is this just some right or passage. I really need some of these questions answered. But no one has been able to help me, they tell me I must learn it on my own. How can I learn something that I do not even understand on my own explain that one to me. My father has tried and it is no more of a comfort.56

Now I will be forced to move from my home and live with a group of people I do not even know.  I don’t know how this is going to work. I know I am not ready for this, I just want to be with my parents. Now I am not going to have a final day with my parents. I hope this day will last forever. 57

Chapter 358

I woke up at morning fearing that today would go by too quickly for my liking. I had wanted to spend all my time with my parents and I did not ever want to have to spend what would end up being the last night in my own bed. I just had hoped that time would be able to freeze around us and that I would be able to spend the rest of my life there and for no one to even notice. I would be so happy at that point if everyone else just forgot my family was even here. Then I would not ever have to worry about leave this home. I had already been preparing for this for the past week. Even now it seems so much closer than I was ready to handle myself. I had more or less all my things packed all of my things. I did not really have a choose in the matter. So I just went by in the only thing I had considered normal in that past week. All my things where packed, I guess I would have to say I was physically ready to go. Yet as much as I wanted to hope I would be emotionally ready to leave, I was so far from it. 59

As I walked into the dinning room that morning, I saw sitting next to my place at the table was an envelope. As I had sat down at my place at the table I tried to ignore the fact that the envelope which was sitting next to me. I was afraid to open in and it did not say who had given it to me. My mother was already sitting at the table and my father was not there. Normally he is there before either one of us are, so I just had to ask where he had gone. My mother looked at me and told me that the had headed for what was to become my new home. My father had left that morning so that he could prepare my room so that when I left for my new home tomorrow I would have a comfortable place set up, so hopefully the move would not be so hard on me. I had almost totally forgot about the move that was coming up. Or more or less I did not want to face the fact that I had to leave my own home. No one around my house really talked about it. If it did come up there shortly followed with a long and painful silence. So we just chose not to talk about it at all if it was possible. Yet she kept moving on in life. That morning breakfast was very quite she knew she would have one more breakfast with her family, yet she hoped they could all be together for that one. 60

After I finished my breakfast I went up to my room to finish putting all of my books into my bag so I did not have to worry about them. i had no plans on working on my studying anymore. I figured that if I was not able to pass the test now then studying will do me no more good. I should know the material by now and if I did not then there is no amount of studying that I could do to prepare myself for the test. I was just going to spend this day with my parents and enjoy some of the final hours i would have with them as a family. I just kept my hopes high that I would be able to see my parents again in the future, but they both sounded so sure that I would not be able to see them again in the future which tore at my heart every night as I tried to fall asleep. I just did not understand why they would not allow me to see my family. I really did not want to know I was not going to ask my parent this had placed them in enough pain with me having to leave them, so I kept all my comments to myself most of the time.61

That afternoon went by way too fast. As night fall began to fall over our town my parents began to place my things into the car and we headed on our way to this new place I was to be living in. I cried almost the whole way there and once I got there I never wanted to open the car door and step out into this new place. This place was huge it was like a mansion. I looked like it was at least three stories high and it looked like one of the houses you would find in a scary movie. It just made me feel uneasy, I wish even more that I could just wake up and this all be some very bad dream, or some huge joke and I was going to walk inside it be a huge surprise party. Yet I know that it is not going to happen. I had my parents help me carry my things into the house that was to become my home.62