What Are You?

Chapter 3/What Are We?

        "Um I don't know. My mom said to open it when I get to my new school." He takes the present, sniffs it for a second and starts opening it. "Hey! My mom gave it to moi! Not you! Get your grubby hands off of it!" He doesn't listen and keeps opening it. He opens the box and sees the present."Well you have it, so what is in it?"

        He takes out the present."Where did your mother get this?"

        "What is that?" It looks like a very detailed and sharp piece of a tree branch. Why would my mom give me that piece of junk?

        "I bet your mom thought that you were going to the other school because..." He looks kind of worried.

        "What? What is it?"

        "It's a stake. This is one of the only ways to kill a vampire. And this isn't any old stake."

        "Just tell me already!" Why would my mother give me a stake? I had a 50-50 chance to go to any of the two schools? Why would she risk it and give me this?

        He examines the wooden stake one more time and one of his fingers falls on something carved into the wood. His eyes goes wide. "By any chance is your mom’s name Gloria?"

        "How do you know my mother?" Before he responds he puts the stake back in the box and then open the door and leaves.

        "Well that was weird." Maggie says.

        "Didn't you see his hands? They had the snowflakes like in the dreams." Rachel says now sounding pumped and ready to do something more than being paralyzed from the waist down.

        "Mrs.Ladova had snowflakes on her hands too. I also saw that the other lady on the stage at the ceremony of dream had the 'X's from our dreams. That isn't a coincidence now is it?" I say. After that nobody says anything else because one thing really stands out right now for all of us. Our legs are moving. After trying for about ten minutes, they finally are moving.

        I quickly jump off the bed and look at my surroundings. I see we all have some new things to wear by our beds that weren't there the first time we came in. Some sweats and a shirt that’s red and says, 'Got Blood?' I guess that's a thing they say here at the school of crazy people.

        I hear Rachel scream a little and see her cup her ears."What's wrong-" I don't need to wait that long because then I hear it. A high pitched shrieking sound. "Where is that coming from?" I look around the place and finally see something. The alarm clock. I run over to the clock and smash it. The noise stops. We all exhale.

        Maggie goes over to the window and peeks out. "Well it isn't morning." I look and see pitch black outside. "The door is open, the alarm went off for a reason. Shall we explore?" I smile while Rachel shrugs.

        "Yeah whatever. Let's just see if there is anyway to get out of this place."

        We put the clothes on and head out of the room to explore this vast castle.

        "I was expecting this place to be..."

        "Peaceful at night?"

        "Yeah." But it isn't. In every corner of this castle someone is dashing through the halls. Definitely vampires.

        I put my hand in my pocket of the jacket to find that they also gave us a note.

Don't tell anybody. Just come to my office. It's right next to the lobby area.

-Mrs.Ladova

        I look at Maggie and Rachel. I need an excuse to get away. "Hey you guys I am going to find a bathroom. I’ll meet up with you soon okay?" They nod and walk a little ahead of me. Good to know I have friends that care as much as they do. I go left toward the lobby.

        While I walk, I hear some conversations, but not in this hallway. I don't know where they are coming from but I stop walking for a second to try to figure out why I am hearing all this talking at one time.

        One catches me by surprise. "I heard that there’s another hybrid. Remember that last one? The one that went crazy because being werewolf and vampire was too much? Then a super powerful hunter killed her just for the fun of it."

        "If there’s a new hybrid, that means war. One of our witches said, 'The second person to be two creatures in one will lead our school into chaos and turmoil.' I know what you're thinking, she is crazy, but hey! All witches are crazy, and she has never been wrong about anything."

        War? Why war? How could I bring us into war?

        "But that doesn't make sense Derek. We technically are already in war with the other school, so how can we be in another?" Derek? Is it Derek from my room who seems to know about my mother? "Wouldn't we already know who the hybrid is? I mean it's pretty easy to see who's who with the eye colors." The woman says to Derek.

        "I think I know one girl. I don't know how Mrs. Ladova will keep this quiet."

        "I don't think she’ll have a choice, it’ll come out soon enough." Then I feel something touch my shoulder.

        I look up and see Mrs. Ladova. "Everything alright dear? You're right outside my office but you haven't moved an inch for the time you've been here." I look and see that I am. How did I get here? I was in the hallway a few seconds ago?

        "Oh yeah... Sorry. Everything's okay. Just a little dizzy, I guess." I am dizzy because I just heard that I will start a war. That's a lot to take in.

        "Come in." She says while opening the door to the office. "We have a lot to talk about."