He was a monster, brimming with red hot rage and violent tendencies. She was a hunter, full of arrogance, hate, and secrets. So, what happens when the worlds of the beautiful hunter, Katerina Drackon, and the dangerously gorgeous vampire, Haydon Veneziano clash?The words "I love you" have never been more dangerous.
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I stood in the centre of the forest, surrounded by the sweet scent of fresh blossoms that littered the trees and the ground. The scent grew stronger with each step I took, as I crushed the petals on the underneath of my shoes spreading the nectar in between the grooves. I was just a few minutes away from my home, yet the journey ahead seemed endless.
I soon heard the rustle of leaves in the near distance. My ears honed in on the seemingly innocent sound... and then I smelt the scent of it. The vampire who had been stalking me the entire walk home, completely unaware that I was aware of it. I had been visiting a friend when he first caught my attention. His red eyes watched me intently from afar. He was stalking me, mentally marking me as his prey. To him, I was possibly a challenge, a sport. The unsuspecting teenage hunter roaming around unprotected. But I wasn’t, and I was about to prove it.
I reached behind me and pulled an axe from a secret pocket hidden in my clothes. It was light and comfortable. It has a dark silver blade coated in a shimmering covering of diamonds. The silver handle had two golden wires intertwining, yet leaving enough space between each twirl for my hand to fit in.
"You sure are pretty!" He slurred. Great, he was drunk!
He stumbled out of the darkness, into the pale moonlight. He was, from what I could discern between the shadows covering his appearance, beautiful. He had thick, dark black hair which hung messily in his face and eyes the colour of gold which peered through his silky strands of hair. His sharp white fangs shone brilliantly in the light. He looked about eighteen, though, he could have been one hundred. Vampires aged up to a certain point and then they ceased to age entirely, preserving their youthful appearances for an eternity.
There was, however, something familiar about this vampire. I knew I’d seen him before. I just... Could not quite place him. The dim forest wasn’t helping much.
"Do I know you?” I asked.
" ...I don't k-know...” he slurred and then stumble forward again.
Slowly the nerves began creeping in. If humans were frighteningly unpredictable intoxicated, how much more frightening and unpredictable were vampires? He was however gaining distance on me and I realised that I needed to make the first move. I lunged for him, catching him off guard, but he was extremely fast, and I tripped and fell. He jumped on top of me, inspecting my face.
“Shoot!” I mumbled to myself. Speed had always been my strength, but I guessed that drunken vampires were more agile than normal ones. This situation was becoming more dire.
"What's your name love?" He asked, still slurring.
I could still smell the thick, lingering scent of alcohol on his breath, but I refused to look up at him. My heart was raging, and I could hear it thumping loudly in my eardrums... Hell, I could feel the blood pumping through my every vein. It was not like me to be so nervous. To be so... Scared when battling a vampire. But there was something about those red eyes which glowed and pulsed dangerously that had my skin crawling.
" Katerina, Katerina Drackon." I said without a second thought. I was too scared to keep my mouth shut with him so close to me. I had trained myself to death for combat... But he had the upper hand. In situations like these, I knew I had to be careful and strategic.
He looked at me as if I were his little toy. Then he moved his lips, revealing his long fangs. And that was all it took for me to regain my senses.
Immediately the hunter in me woke up and I was tearing him to shreds. I don't recall what happened, all I remember was the deep red colour of blood and how every inch of me wanted to destroy, tear apart, rip, until nothing was left. I thought I was going to kill him, in fact, I hoped that would be the case. But, something stopped me. It was a sort of force against my arm, preventing me from delivering the next few final blows. My arm was still raised mid-air, my breathing still raged and my blood still pumping. Whatever that strange force was, the stranger needed to thank his lucky stars it had acted upon me when it did.
I slung the bloody creature effortlessly over my shoulder. He was heavy, but it was nothing my hunter body was not used to. Hunters were definitely not human...we were more supernatural than anything and with the extra practice I got from- never mind, it’s not important- I felt as though I was carrying a bag of flour.
I walked down the dirty and almost deserted streets to my home- a beautiful mansion which stood out against the rest of the modest looking homes on my street. It was enclosed by high white walls, split perfectly in half by a pale silver gate which granted entry into the yard. Slowly I opened the gate, attempting to be as quite as I could as the pair of keys jingled softly between my fingers. I entered the yard, readying the keys for the wooden front door to my home. Once unlocked, I walked into the living room, practically tiptoeing and praying that my mother was not up.
"Young lady what is that over your shoulder?" I froze hearing my mother's chilling voice.
Damn it!
I dropped the body quickly as my mother turned to face me and at that exact moment, she switched on the lights revealing the bloody body, as well as my guilt-stricken face. She looked at me, then at the body and immediately her eyes grew wide, a sign that I would be in even deeper trouble than I had prepared myself for.
"You just 'kidnapped' Jeremy Giovanni! Our neighbour!" She yelled making her face a red colour.
I looked down slowly, as if the extra time I took would save me from my mother's wrath. As I glanced at his face, panic ran through my every being and I could feel myself break into a cold sweat. That was why his appearance seemed so familiar. I gulped and looked back up at my mother's enraged face.
" Well I wouldn't call it kidnapping..."I said shyly. Her face became even more red and I could swear I saw steam emitting from her ears
This , ladies and gentlemen, is where all the trouble began.
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.”
KATERINAWe sat in the lounge beside a fire. It had gotten colder now, so much so, that I found my self near Haydon, clinging to him for dear life while receiving some serious glances from my mother. Haydon’s parents were clearly way more accepting of our relationship than mine were at this point.“So, let me start,” Mr Veneziano said. “It all began the day Death resurrected Haydon. For something needing so much of power, there are always serious consequences. The first, was the death of his wife, Elisabeth.” He then paused, clearing his throat, and the continued. “The second, and most dangerous consequence, was a prophecy. It was a prophecy fortold by the oracle, Cecilia. The day Haydon was resurrected, she rushed here and immediately told us what she has foreseen. That day, I had kicked her out of this house, banishing her from ever se
KATERINAWe sat in the dining room which was as grand as anything I had ever seen. The beautiful mahogany table was decorated with a white silk cloth which had intricate blue petals embroidered in. The table was filled with many different types of food which was odd, since Haydon and his parents did not eat any food, instead, they sat with wine glasses filled with blood on the table. It had been exactly five minutes of the four of us staring at each other awkwardly, when finally, Haydon broke the silence. “Is there a reason that we are waiting and staring at each other?”Mr Haydon spoke, never lifting his eyes from me, “Yes, we are waiting for a few guests. They should be here, right about-“Knock. Knock. Knock.
KATERINAWe arrived in Italy after a long, uncomfortable flight. I hadn’t been able to sleep at all as I though about what Haydon’s father’s reaction would be to me and began to mentally prepare myself for rejection. Italy was quite beautiful this time of the year, and the weather was warm enough to allow me to remove my thick jacket soon after we arrived at the airport. After we had gathered our luggage, Haydon rented us a car and we began driving. In all honesty, I paid less attention to the road, people and homes which passed us, and more attention to my shaking hands.“Katerina, calm down please. You have nothing to fear, I will be beside you the entire time, okay?”His words, meant to be reassuring, did nothing to get me to calm down. If
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