Chapter Two- Run Like Hell (and yes, i have a poetic license to write hell. i just cant say it under my moms roof)

Chapter two!!!!!! back by unpopular demand!!
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The light that streamed in through the small window stung my eyes as they fluttered open. Elena was curled up in a ball in the corner. Alec was standing at the gate, holding a bottle filled with a dark red liquid. He tossed the bottle to me through the iron bars. “Drink up, kid.” he said. I then realized what was going on. I was becoming a vampire. If I drank blood, I would complete the transformation. I needed to make a plan. I had to get me and Elena out of there. I went over to Elena. “Elena.” I shook her awake. “What?”
“Elena, I have a plan to get us out of here.”
“What is it?”
“I’m gonna drink that, and I’m gonna turn into a vampire. Then I’m gonna break open the bars, and you’re gonna get on my back.”
“Then what?”
“Then we’re gonna run like hell.” Elena nodded. I walked over to the bottle and unscrewed the lid. As I drank it, Alec left and Lukas came in to take his shift. Lukas slid an old fashioned ring through the bars. I put it on. “It’s charmed so you can walk in the sunlight.” he said. How much stupider could these people get? They were only HELPING me! As soon as Lukas left, I ran with as much force as I could into the gate. The door fell to the ground with a loud “BANG”. “Now!” I screamed. Elena jumped on my back and I started running. I ran into something hard and nearly fell down. Alec stood in front of us. Elena hopped off of my back and clung to my arm. “Relax, I’m trying to help you!” He took my other arm and led me through a dark tunnel. We stopped in the middle of a village and Alec took out a long rope with a hook attached to the end. He threw it up . We looked up as it went through the hole in the dirt ceiling of the village and stuck into the earth above us. “Take Elena and climb up the rope. When you get there, pull it up. I’ll distract Damien.”
“How do I know I can trust you?” I asked.
“Please, just trust me. I’ve hated Damien since the moment he recruited me, and I’ve only followed his orders because if I don’t he’ll kill me.” I nodded and gestured for Elena to jump onto my back.

I climbed up the rope as fast as I could and when we got to the top I pulled myself onto the solid ground. Elena got up and looked around. It was dark, as if only seconds had passed since I fell into the hole. “I can see my cabin from here. Thank you, Kieyra!” she said. A tall boy came out from the darkness. “Elena? Is that you?” he called. “Drake!” Elena ran to the boy and hugged him. I followed. “Kieyra! This is my brother Drake. Drake, this is Kieyra. She saved me.” Elena said. “Um, hi.” I said shyly. “Thank you for finding my sister. If you ever need anything, we live just down that path over there.”
“No problem.” I said. I hurried back to the campsite. I heard my name being called and saw a flashlight. I ran towards it. “Kieyra! Like, holy crap, we were looking, like, freaking everywhere for you! Where were you?!” Have you ever had a family member who never shuts up and just the sound of their voice makes you want to scream? Well for me, that was Sarah Wilkins, Dave’s eldest daughter. “Um, I got lost. Sorry.” I replied nonchalantly. I walked back to my tent, lied down in my sleeping bag, and drifted off to sleep.

The next day I woke up in a wooden cabin. I was tied up on a bed and my body ached. “Ow.” whispered to myself. “Vervain hurts, doesn’t it?” I heard Anna’s voice nearby. Dave walked in. “Oh, thank god it’s you. I think Anna tied me up, and-”
“No, stupid girl, I tied you up.” he said. “I told you there was something different about her.” Katie came in. “Let me go!” I shrieked. “Who turned you?” Dave demanded. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I replied. Dave put on latex gloves and walked out of the room. He came back in with a strange plant. “Vervain...” he started. ‘It’s supposedly harmful to vampires. I wonder if that’s really true. Only one way to find out.” he stroked the plant across my face. I screamed out in pain as it burned my face. “Now, I’m gonna ask you this once more. WHO TURNED YOU?”
“Damien, Damien from the hole.”
“When did this happen?”
“Last night, I fell into the hole while I was looking for kindling.”
“Now, what do you know about Katerina Petrova?”
“Nothing, I know nothing.”
“You’re lying.” Dave growled.
“No, I’m not, I swear! I don’t know anything. All I know is that everyone keeps thinking that I’m somehow linked to this Katerina person and something about a prophecy or curse or something and something about a doppelganger.” Dave started to untie me. “Listen, Kieyra. I don’t know why the heck you look like Katerina, all I know is that you do. That’s it, end of story. I’m very sorry I had to do this and it will never happen again. I only wish you could forget it.”

After that, Dave took me back and explained that we all went on an early morning hike and didn’t want to wake her. This was followed by a disgusting old people kiss, which me, Nathen, and Anna cringed at.

A few days later, I was walking on the trails at Gunner Park, the biggest park in Almonte, Ontario that has trails leading all the way up to the Esso Gas Station, which is basically at the end of the town. Someone tapped my shoulder, and I reacted by turning around at lightning speed and pinning them to a tree by their neck. “Kieyra! It’s me, Alec!” I loosened my grip. “Oh, you finally decided to learn my name, did you?” I snapped. “Will you stop making snarky comments whenever I try to help you?” I released his neck and stepped back a bit. “Sorry.” I muttered. “Listen, this is really important. Damien is coming for you.” my eyes widened. “He won’t take you without putting up a fight, though.”
“You’re basically implying that I have to fight Damien and win.” Alec nodded. “How am I supposed to do that?” I asked. “You’ll need to train people to help you. An army of vampire hunters.”
“And how do you suppose I do that!” I shrieked.
“Trick them. It’s pretty simple, actually, with humans. A), you could compel them to do your bidding, B), you could tell them that people are coming for them and that they’re vampires and so are you, or C), you could trick them into thinking that they are doing ‘fun fake war activities’ so that when Damien and his army of dirt bags come for you they know how to defend themselves. Take your pick.”
“When are they coming?”
“I’m not sure yet. I’ll tell you when I know, though.”
“What do they want with me, Alec?” he sighed.
“A few hundred years ago, there was a girl who stumbled upon our little world. Her name was Katerina. She was a vampire. She had a girl with her, though. Her name was Isobel. Isobel was a witch. Damien recruited Katerina and Isobel as slaves for him. One day, Katerina tried to escape. Damien was displeased and threatened to kill her. That’s when Isobel created the curse.”
“What curse?”
“That unless Damien died, in the year 2011 when the sun is at it’s brightest, Damien and everyone who served him at the time would turn to ashes, and if Katerina died, Damien would die alongside her. But with every great curse, there’s a reverse. In order to break the spell they needed a lapis lazuli stone, the blood of the storyteller’s family, the blood of a witch, and the sacrifice of Katerina’s doppelganger, the Petrova doppelganger. That would be you, we think.”
“So, I have to kill Damien?” Alec nodded.
“So, what does this mean? I was born to die?” I was holding back major floods of tears.
“Not if Damien dies or gets a hold of you.” he said reassuringly.

And then he was gone.