"Don't worry, I promised yesterday I'd explain everything."
"But what about my friends?"
Hana clicked her fingers and a clone of himself appeared out of thin air. "Meet your doppleganger!"
The clone grinned and waved at him. Taemin stared at it in absolute shock. Uptil now he had thought he was dealing with it in a good manner. But not now. Oh, no. Oh, hell no!
"Dopplegangers are my speciality." Hana ignored his reaction and gave a little bow. "Your doppleganger will make sure your friends do not grow suspicious."
Taemin tried to stomach what she had said and just nodded, wearily. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. Magic for real? The one thing his brother Taesun had been denying actually existed. He would have loved to shown his brother wrong, but something totally different knocked him out of his thoughts.
A large swirling vortex was forming in the air. Dark purples and blue's growing larger and larger. In a matter of seconds the portal was large enough for a person to jump through.
Hana grinned. "Don't be scared, I'll see you on the other side." With a military salute she catapulted off the floor like a cat, and disappeared through the portal.
Things couldn't get any crazier right? Ah well.
Taemin stared at portal as if it was the gates of hell. "You can't be serious."
Being left behind with no information didn't seem pleasing either, so he had no choice but to launch himself in. The mass of colours swallowed him in immediately. It was cool and scary at the same time. The scary part being whether he was going to come out alive, or in more or less one piece. And the fun bit being the bit where his body was ceremoniously flipped and tossed, as if in a rollercoaster. Not long after his heroic entry, he was spat out like a dog toy on muddy ground.
"Uh, you alright?" said Hana. She sprinted over and pulled him up.
Taemin put a hand on his chest and gave her a pained look. "Just answer me one question."
"Ooh-kay."
"Is this me, hallucinating?"
Hana grinned. "Nope."
Taemin straightened up and dusted himself off. "Well I'm ready. Why did you bring me here?"
"Have you ever been hunting before, Taemin?"
"Um, no."
Hana retrieved an elastic hair band from the insides of her cloak and tied up her hair. She cocked her head to the side and sniffed as if there was something delicious waiting for her.
"Fresh game." she sighed with delight.
Taemin tried to be kind with his look but however way he put it, his face still resembled the "wtf" look.
Hana just laughed it off. "Ok, sorry. I won't deny you it any longer." Her face grew serious. "Taemin you are no longer human. Yesterday was the day of your renewal."
Taemin broke out in a cold sweat and his voice shook. "So I'm dead."
"Not necessarily." Hana tried to hold back a grin. "You're a Lunai vampire, Taemin."
The boy sure didn't know what Lunai was but vampire was fairly explanatory. "So now I'm a monster."
"Your not a monster Taemin. Your a vampire."
Taemin put his hand up to say something, but she cut him off. "No we don't burn in direct sunlight." She answered as if it was her hundredth time saying this.
"I wasn't going to ask that..."
Hana raised an eyebrow. "Ok. But save questions for later, we've got some hunting to do."
She gave him her award winning reassuring smile and eased his heart. Like always he had no choice but to trust her.
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He hadn't registered the blood-lust until the animal was a few feet away. The deer was beautiful but an air of fear encased it. It's eyes seemed to know there was danger, but it stood rigid in its position. Taemin could hear its heart beating. The squelchy thud, like music to his ears. Growling quietly, in delight, he pounced on the animal. There was a hardly any struggle because the poor thing was dead and drained of any blood in seconds.
Taemin moaned and tossed the carcass to one side. He wanted more and the forest was teeming with them. Hana was by his side before he could think about locating another delicious treat.
"No. That's more than enough." she said, putting a gentle hand on his shoulder.
He wiped the blood off his mouth and looked at the animals dead body in horror. The realization hitting him like ice cold water. "I c-can't have d-done that."
Taemin shrugged her hand off his shoulder and staggered back. "N-no. I'm n-not a monster."
"Your not a monster, Taemin. Calm down. " Hana said in a soothing voice.
"Looks like things are going smoothly." a voice chuckled.
Taemin was momentarily distracted by a figure who was emerging from the shadows. A boy with the same luminous skin as Hana walked out to meet them. He too was dressed in a black cloak but unlike Hana, he had blonde hair that reached the nape of his neck in messy waves. He didn't look any older than thirteen.
"Why hello, sister." The boy said. "Having a good time?"
Hana rolled her eyes. "What do you want, Leo?"
"Ah, see that's the thing." Leo strolled over to her. "Mum and Dad asked me to come, and fetch you and your little friend. Your lack of transportational skills were simply too risky for them, noona."
Hana's eyes blazed. "Why you, little!" She stabbed a finger violently at his chest. "I'll have you know, that it was me, who transported us to the forest. I don't need your help."
It was Leo's turn to roll his eyes. "Yeah, yeah." He turned his back on them and started mumbling under his breath. Two very large doors burst out of nowhere and slid open to reveal a portal.
"Pretty neat, huh."
Hana growled but Leo just laughed. "Aren't you going to introduce me?" He asked.
She sighed. "Leo this is Lee Taemin. Taemin this is Tempest Leonald."
"It's Leo." Leo said tightly. "Anyway, you're really Lee Taemin from SHINee?"
"Neh. It's me."
"Oh right. My girlfriend loves SHINee." Leo explained, clearing his throat awkwardly.
"You don't have a girlfriend, Leo." Hana told him.
"Yeah I do. Jan di remember?"
"Mmm right."
Hana didn't look the slightest bit bothered by Leo's irritated expression. "Let's go Taemin. My parents are expecting you." She said.
Taemin didn't know whether to be nervous or not but the day had been long and tiring. Not wanting a fuss he followed their lead. He'd just have to hope on his lucky stars that he wouldn't up as a Korean delicacy for a family of vampires.
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Chapter 2
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