• I was asleep in my room at the Palace when Kailer came running in. I quickly sat up and looked at him, to find he was looking at me with a lot of worry through his big red eyes. Yes his eyes are red, but his eyes are red because he is a Vampire.
    “Hi Kailer. What’s up?” I asked with a useless smile...
    “We need to go Princess.” He answered grabbing my backpack from under the bedside table. He walked over to my walk-in closet and started putting some cloths in it.
    “What’s with calling me princess? I told you to call me Shikiyra.” I said with a laugh.
    “Get dressed.” He added completely ignoring me. “Now.” He ordered.
    “Why, what’s wrong.” I asked also. He turned around and looked straight at me and again I looked at his blood shot eyes.
    “Please Shikiyra just trust me.” He said again, softer this time. Each time he looked at me I could see more worry rise up in his expression.
    After seeing what I thought was worry I soon realized he was scared.
    “What’s got you so scared Kiha.” I asked getting a bit scared myself.
    He stopped and sighed, “Darren’s here, and not for a good reason.”
    “You mean he’s here... For me.” I said in a bit of a breathed whisper. He nodded.
    “But where will we go.” I asked.
    “To the gate.” He answered, “We will go to Earth and find your Aunt Lissa.” He threw the bag at me and went into the bathroom. He came back out with my ring.
    “When we get to the Gateway put this on. It will protect you.”
    “Okay, but, what about Anika. Oh my god Kailer, what if he finds her.” I asked with worry crowding me again.
    “She doesn’t know of her past so her scent is not strong.” He said confidently. I looked down at the floor. He looked at me and realized that I wasn’t so sure of his words.
    “Don’t worry Shiki. She’s safe.” He said, “But right now we need to go okay.”
    “Okay.” I nodded and got up taking my bag. He nodded and headed toward the door.
    We took a quick left to the main stairs and took another left. Once we got to the bottom of the stairs we went straight through the great dinning hall. Then we headed to the entrance of the castle and we were in the court yard.
    We started running down the path to the front gate and saw some guards. Kailer pushed me a bit so we were headed right toward the kitchen door. Once we were through the door we started to run again towards the castle wall.
    “I can’t jump that.” I complained. Kailer looked at me and picked me up then jumped over the wall (don’t you just love vampires). When we were over he pointed to the Gateway and started running again. I soon realized that there was someone walking toward us. I slowed down and Kailer looked at me again, a look I new only to well. It was Darren.
    “You go on to the Gateway, I’ll distract him.” Kailer instructed me.
    “Kailer no.” I yelled but he was already in front of Darren. They started fighting and I ran to the Gate. As I was walking in the Gateway I looked back at them. They were right in front of me. Kailer was on his knees. Darren was bringing up his arms a sword in his hands and bought them down on Kailer’s throat. I started to scream and saw some guards running this way. I looked up at Darren who was grinning at me. I couldn’t think properly so I ran down and grabbed the sword from where Darren dropped it on the ground and went at Darren so quickly that he had no time to react to my attack and I stabbed the sword straight through his chest. I quickly dropped the sword where I stood in shock. I looked behind me, the guards were nearly here and I had to get away. Then I ran forward and through the Gate not looking back at the damage that I had caused...