Chronicles of Araxx - Forever Broken
Chapter 18

As Lee made it back to Bree and her ‘friend’ the lights changed colour from blue and red, to a bright violet light, ultra-violet, in fact.

Anyone who was wearing white changed to a pale bluish colour, and teeth glowed in the dark, and that’s when she saw it.

There was something wrong with the strange man dancing with Bree, something very wrong.

He looked like he was in pain and then it happened.

Lee screamed, but there seemed to be no air in her lungs. No sound. Nothing. It was like she wasn’t even there, and no one else had noticed.

The man bared his fangs, which glowed in the dark. His eyes turned even darker than their normal colour and looking directly into Lee’s, he sank his fangs into Bree’s neck, holding his hand over her mouth to stop her from crying out.

Bree’s eyes went wide with shock and pain, but there was nothing she could do to get away from the vampire. He was holding her tight, draining the blood from her.

Lee wanted to move forward, to help Bree, but she was rooted to the ground. She couldn’t move, couldn’t speak. She was helpless and still as a statue as she watched the vampire drain her friend’s blood from her body, and no one was doing anything. Why did no one else see what she saw?

Adz was keeping his eyes on the red-head, not wanting to lose sight of her again when suddenly something was very wrong.

She was standing very still, her mouth open in a gasp, and Adz’s heart sunk.

He heard a faint smashing sound over the loud music as the redhead dropped her drink glasses to the floor. She stumbled backwards a couple of steps, before bumping into another girl.

Adz looked closely at the other girl and saw something he hoped was a trick of the eye. The girl was tall and beautiful, but skinny and pale. Her eyes were black, black as the night, and tiny purple veins emanated from them. She opened her mouth, and sharp fangs glowed in the UV light.

Then it hit him. The UV light was causing the vampires to act up, to show their true nature. Everyone in the club was in danger, not just the red-head.

It was then that Adz glanced around the rest of the room. He’d been sure there was only one vampire here, and one they could handle, he was sure, but now he counted six.

Things were getting bad, and quickly.

Adz shot a look at Gray, who realised his mistake, changing the lights in the club back to red and blue, but it was too late. By this point, the vampires had blood on their minds, and it was blood they were going to have.

“Watch where you’re going, cupcake,” the blonde vampire behind Lee hissed through her fangs.

Lee was taken aback. Did this girl really have fangs too? No. She must be seeing things. The alcohol was sending her funny. Vampires didn’t exist.

She turned to look back at Bree and as she looked at her friend, almost lifeless in the arms of the undead, red beads falling down her neck and into her cleavage, Lee started feeling hot and sick, dizzy, but there was no way she was going to faint, and there was no way she was going to leave Bree with that monster.

Adz attempted to make his way through the crowd to the Hemplesworth girl, while Jay and Gray were trying to get all the other people safely out of the club, but the panic that ensued was chaotic.

Whilst fighting against the oncoming crowd, Adz saw the red-headed girl grab her friend’s arm, tugging it.

The vampire dropped the blonde in shock, but soon regained his grip on her, cutting her bare arm with his claw-like fingernails.

“Just get out of here!” Adz shouted at the red-head, but she could not hear him, either that or she was ignoring him.

“Give Bree back to me!” Lee shouted in the face of the vampire.

The vampire laughed.

Lee felt something cold on the back of her neck, and the feeling made her hairs stand on end.

Adz saw what it was before Lee felt it.

“You smell sweet, like a cupcake,” the blonde vampire whispered in Lee’s ear. “Let me taste you.” She opened her mouth to bite into Lee’s neck, but something caught her.

By this point, the club was empty, aside from the vampires, Lee, Bree, Gray, Jay and Adz.

The blonde vampire stumbled backwards, a wooden stick protruding from her forehead. She staggered on the spot for a few seconds, her trembling hands reached for the wooden stick and then she let out a scream as she crumbled to the floor, nothing left of her but bones and ash.

All eyes turned in the direction of the assailant, replaceing Gray at the other end of a cross-bow.

From the back of the room, a dull clapping noise could be heard. “Well done, Warlock, I am impressed with your aim,” a very familiar voice spoke out.

Lee’s whole body went cold.

“Now. Dear, sweet Annaleah, where have you been hiding all this time?” Jacob stepped out of the shadows, followed by two of his betas.