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Footsteps in the darkness

Chapter 1: beginning

We spend all our life in the dark

Searching

But we find nothing.

Until we step into the light....

Chapter 2: Bethany diary entry; life

I lived all my human life worrying what would happen tomorrow

and didnt live for the day, when it all ended on the eve of my16th

birthday I realised I needed some perspective. Dying was

the perfect solution, I didnt want to die, but I had no choice,

the creature I tried to fight was so much stronger, faster and

much cleverer than me, he even seemed to know what I would

do next. What happened? - Well telling you would probably be

easier. I awoke to my uncle Stephen standing in the corner of a

large clean smelling room looking very dishevelled and tired,

now when this would have been comforting most people, myuncle to whom I had been very close had been dead for

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almost 8 years, which was not a good sign that I was alive. He

walked over and put a reassuring hand on my shoulder when I

looked at it closer I saw everything in such definition that it

gave me a headache, every smell overwhelmed me, every

sound was incredibly clear like someone had replaced my ears

with those of a cat I could even hear what the people were

talking about on the high street (the price of meat in the

market) I swayed and my vision blurred, again he put a hand on

my shoulder to steady me its all right, your safe now he said

Am I dead? I asked

No

Why not?

Because if I hadnt stopped him you would be dead.

That still doesnt answer my question,

You had to change a bit to not die

What do you mean ?

Look for yourself I looked down my usual dark skin was

replaced with what looked like a mix between the darkest

Indian and the whitest albino the colour shifted and changed in

the light, I touched the back of my left hand with the tips of my

fingers of my right hand it was strange like there were tiny

scales instead of my usual skin

what happened? I gasped

like I said you changed a little

please explain

well your kinda well like a . . . A... um...well...a

please just spit it out

youre I mean were um kinda like well his voice faltered and

he looked down to his feethalf dragon like things

WHAT!,

um well you got attacked by a dragon and a fully-fledged one

at that but when he saw me coming he backed off immediately

it was very strange behaviour but only after slashing you with

poisonous claws, I tried to save you but the poison was

already half way around your body there was nothing I could do

I.......

if Im a dragon then why do I still look like a human?

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oh thats because I put an incantation on you, which I will

teach you later, to keep your form human

ok, so what were you saying

um oh yeah I was about to tell you... Im sorry but your

parents were killed by him before I could save them as I saved

you oh I felt my

eyes well up with tears I fought to keep them hidden but a

solitary tear escaped and rolled down my new cheek

its ok you have the right to be upset. you can cry if you want

no I must

be strong and for me thats not crying

ok whatever you say

what are we going to do, people will recognise me but Im so

different wont they ask questions?

no because according to what I told them youre dead; you

died in an accident along with your parents

so I dont get to say good bye to all my friends?

"No

"family?

Nope, no one. We need to keep our identities secret

if people see or hear about a dragon they grab their spears and

torches then hunt us down until were extinct

oh I felt my heart drop never seeing any one I knew or loved

ever again and if I did, they wouldnt know who I was. I let

another tear slip down my cheek after the last one I wiped it

away before he could see.

That was over two thousand years ago and Im still here.

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Chapter 3: Luke; first day back

But why wont you go out with her? shes perfectly fine and

she is easily won over Ben pleaded

Im not going out with your cousin because after going out

with your sister who beat the snot out of me when I went to

give her a kiss on the hand. Ive given up on your family theres

a mad gene somewhere in there. Now stop asking,

ok ok fine Ill stop asking but say you will think about it,

fine... Ive thought about it and its still no. We

walked in to the canteen it was jam packed (the first day back

was always the worst) there was nowhere to sit except with

some unusual people who I didnt recognise who sat with their

heads together

oh god I groanedwhat?,

theres nowhere to sit except with those weird new kids,

well

were going to have to sit somewhere so I guess we better get

it over with,

yeah suppose we trudged slowly over to the strangers table.

Three of the strangers looked up with intense glares except the

one on the far left of the table who looked up with a halfsurprised half amused look. She was beautiful (as were they all)

but her dark eyes looked so deep it seemed like I could see

straight in to her soul, her hair which was a shade darker than

chocolate framed her well proportioned face her full lips, her

high cheek bones and proud nose, just seeing her face made

my heart beat unevenly, I felt the heat rush to my ears making

them turn red.

And what do you want?she asked in the most beautiful voice Ihad ever heard, it stunned me after a few minutes when

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neither of us had spoken she cleared her throat and looked

expectantly at us

oh yeah um theres um nowhere else to sit so.....can we um sit

here I muttered

wed rather you didnt the slightly older looking boy said

well theres nowhere else to sit I said angrily

well actually there is he motioned with his chin towards two

seats which had just been vacated the insanely beautiful girl

shot him a furious glance. Ben elbowed me in the ribs as a

signal to go over to the empty seats

um yeah thanksBen mumbled and propelled me towards the

table on which Chris and Jonty were sitting they stared at us in

disbelief.

So you tried to sit with the Crosses?Chris chuckled

yeah but we got told to get lost Ben said glumly. From the

corner of my eye I saw a small fight between the beautiful girl

and her two brothers who were standing either side of her

holding her arms, she struggled against their grip then broke

free from the smaller of the two brothers and put her hand in

her pale cream jacket and brought out a small piece of paper,

which she threw with a casual flick of her wrist, it landed neatly

in Bens lap. She shot her sister a pleading glance, she only

shook her head. The girl let her head droop and stormed out of

the canteen her two brothers and sister not far behind.

Who the hell are they I asked,

the blond boy Dylan, the black haired girl Schreyer theyre an

item and have been for ages apparently, the black haired boy

Joseph and the brown haired girl Bethany. Ben was still staring

at the piece of paper lying in his lap

oh for god sake just open it! I said heatedly. I was annoyed

she had given Ben the paper and not me. He tentatively

opened the paper it said call me in incredibly neat writing,

above there was an eleven digit number and below the initial B.

Ooo looks like you pulled mate Jonty teased. Ben stared at

the paper as if, if he blinked it would disappear

do you think she would mind if I called her now? he said in a

bemused tone

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maybe if you waited until after school I suggested he nodded

then continued to stare at the paper until the bell went.

I walked a daydreaming Ben to his English room then trudged

sullenly to mine. As a came to the door I glanced at my watch, Irealised that I was very late for English and opened the door

quietly hoping no one would notice I was late. It didnt work the

moment I was in the room miss Reeves said

and why are you so late Mr. Sears ,

lost some books I lied unconvincingly I looked around to go to

my usual place but it was filled with Marcus Wannts so the only

seat left was the one next to the unnaturally beautiful Bethany.

I walked slowly to my seat and sat with a quiet groan. She

looked at me like she heard me but she couldnt it was way too

quiet for anyone to hear no matter how close. When I turned to

get my books out of my bag she flashed me a breath taking

smile and whispered hi Im Beth Im kinda new here so youre

going to have to explain a few things to me, I scowled at her, I

was still sore from the rejection Id received at lunch, she

frowned and when I looked away I swear I heard her push her

chair further away from me. All through the lesson we didnt

speak another word to each other. Once the teacher told us we

could go she was up and out of the class room in two seconds. I

stared after her longingly.

I had to find out more about her, I just had to.