The Dragon Diaries

Chapter 9

I managed to have a long sleep, it was pass twelve and I could sleep again before I’ve got to go to school at eight. I changed into another comfortable outfit and went down to make a cheese and mushroom omelette with a chocolate smoothie, I know…smoothies should be healthy and having a chocolate smoothie just makes it a chocolate krusher but it sounds so much better. It’s raining outside and it is so killing my mood to do anything but watch a movie under the blanket but this is going to be my first day at this school so I my nerves are too hyped up to sit still and do anything, the waiting is always the worse part, I need a distraction and fast. I already explored so what else is there to do? I don’t like shopping and I just bought things so I can’t use up Baal’s card and Jordana is not here with me to help and unlike Baal’s, my parents gave me a card with a limit each month. Sigh, is this what it feels like to live on your own? So bored out of your mind, that you can’t do anything? Maybe I can try the human hangout place and see if I can make friends or see if I can meet up with that guy again and see if he has anything interesting to do and drill him about school, not like he gave me many answers yesterday when I asked him, it seemed like he just answered what he felt like and how he felt like it. He must be a loner like me because for all the crap that he is an old vampire and powerful and that is why he can stay out in the day, there is and can be other ways, like me for example, I’m not even a full year as a vampire, yet I can walk in the sun and do other things vampires can’t, and I did not feel any radiating power from him like I’ve felt from Michaela and Master Hunter or any other old and powerful vampires I’ve come across. Maybe since he thought me new and human, he could overpower me and feel superior over someone once. Well, it must have sucked when I didn’t scare easily like he thought so he just decided to be mysterious to seem old and powerful like the old and powerful vampires do automatically but I wonder what he will do or feel if I tell him that I am a vampire as well, the fact that he did not pick it up would probably make him feel shity, although it would not be his fault since I did not die but became a vampire through the mark plus the added bonus of being a shifter that never shift yet, which I can’t wait to shift into a dragon, I wonder how she looks like and what other powers besides hypersensitivity nerves and senses I will gain. Sitting on the garden bench outside while sipping my sweetened coffee, I like my coffee sweet with a touch of bitterness, I was so into my thoughts that when my alarm went off to get ready, i awoke to find that I’d fallen asleep on the bench again.

This school is busy, I thought it was going to be medium packed, the way the private school is compared to public schooling but I guess since most supernatural are rich, private school is the only choice, especially since it’s a school for the supernatural. I’m lucky that forest punk guy found me and helped me to find my intro class, he is being so helpful yet he still did not introduce himself to me. I saw the stares as soon as he took my arm and guided me and it made me think of the kiss though this too does not seem sensual but I still need to talk to him, everyone seems to be either wary of him or scared of him, it’s so not what I expected.

I thought that class will be slow the first few days but it seems I’m wrong again, all my books got mailed to my house besides the books I’d be using today and I, as well as the rest of the school has a small travelling trolley bag. My first class was swordsman class, for half an hour we went through the book than we went straight to using the techniques we read about. I must admit that I was useless at it, first I could not find my sword, that is, a sword that is the right length and balance for me so my swings and balance were off but I was glad to see that I was not the only one struggling and hopefully I’d get better as time went on, after all, we have fifteen years to learn... gosh that is a long time to learn. Next, we had history which gave the in-depth history of each and every supernatural there is which overwhelmed me and I had to rethink that fifteen years isn’t a long time to learn, in fact it won't cover it all. The break was next and I’ve not made any new friends although they all looked and some greeted me and went their way. I think I’ll just buy food and go talk to the headmaster since I forgot until now and I am starving for blood, maybe they will sell it at the cafeteria and right now I don't care who sees me because I need it. Maybe they will think I’m buying it for forest guy, urgh why doesn’t he just give me his name?

I was waiting in line and I smelled it in the air, they do sell blood. "Hi, I’ll have a blood bag and a veggie burger with chips please" the lady did not look shocked or disgusted with the order but then again this is her job but some of the kids were and some looked interested but a few just didn’t pay attention… I liked them already, I guess because they all think I am human... oh well. While walking out of the cafeteria, the spotlight was on me and I hate being the middle of attention so I ate the chips while heading out of the cafeteria and to the head master's office, as soon as I was alone though, I bit into the blood bag, I can eat the solid food later but after not having blood for a few days, it was the only thing my stomach wants right now. When I reached the office, he was gone on lunch, how stupid am I not to think about the headmaster taking a break, of cause they all take breaks as well… urgh! Now, what do I do? The afternoons are the only time I can talk to him since we come early and we leave ten minutes after last period in the mornings so I don’t have time to talk to him then. Oh, I can call him. I went back to the office to find the secretary to get the office number so I can call later.

Heading towards the library, I felt like I was being followed but kept going until they show themselves, no use checking if or when they hide and you feel stupid even though you know you being followed. Can I smell cold? I guess it must be vampires because it makes sense. A guy just glided before me, he was tall, lean and dark, he had black hair and eyes, his eyes sparked with a dark humour that suited him well with his mischief smirk. “how was your blood bag? Was it good enough or would you like to drink from a source? We can take you to our hang out and feed…” sigh great, they think I’m a human that had blood to fit in or get attention “no thanks, I’ve never fed on a source but isn’t it forbidden to drink human blood from the source” I tried to walk around him but didn’t see that his friends had me surrounded. “you seem to know so much… are you a mate?” I smiled because I know they would leave me alone now “no; I don’t do vampires but demons, my mate is Baal” they were not impressed, maybe they don’t know him, though demons only have one name per species so maybe they thought I was talking about a lower demon “demon mates drink blood? Even human mates? Wow not even vampire mates change much to stay with their vampire” I didn’t think I’d care if they though I am human but god damn it I do “look, I know you’ll think I am a human that drinks blood but really, that’s disgusting, I am a vampire” they looked me up and down and I could just see that they did not believe me and I did not know what to do to prove it to them, though again I ask myself why? “well then, we can’t abandon our kind, come, you can stay with us” he smiled but I knew it was fake “erm thank you for the offer but-” “great! Let us go outside, don’t you think the night is wonderfully fresh? By the way, I am Azrael” he pulled me out with the others still boxing me in so there is no escape so I went with them, thinking what have they got up their sleeves because they definitely don’t think me vampire, so they would want to make me feel humiliated and embarrassed for pretending and I’m worried because although I’m a vampire, I don’t know how I became one and then there is the fact that I’m also a born dragon shifter, there are things that I can do that vampires can’t and because I am also born a shifter, I can do other things as well. I think I was obvious about checking things because they did nothing to me, yet… we sat outside and they introduced themselves to me and we got to know each other and I felt myself becoming comfortable and more relaxed the more time went and nothing happened, I was sitting under the tree while some of them were sitting on the big branches or around me, like they were still making sure I don’t get away which is ridicules but maybe it was habit so I let it be. They had given me a small bottle of blood and told me it was one of the most elusive bloods to get, that the dragons are all but extinct and I froze and my heart started beating higher and because I can hear heartbeats, I knew they could as well so I tried to make them think it was for another reason “dragons? Are you for real? They really exist?” hope they buy it “yes well, as I said they are near extinct so the few that do live, keep a low profile and only select few know of their existence and whereabouts” “and the fact that you have their blood means you are one of the select few or you know someone that is part of that select few?” mom and dad are not helpful about being a dragon because they say that we cannot be dragons anymore or we will be hunted so they give me minimal information just to help me along whatever problems I’ll have but nothing more so maybe I can find out more information from other dragons that my mom and dad wanted to keep me away from because they would be a bad influence when we need to hide “if I said I’m one of them, what would you do to get in contact with one of them?” sigh, I should have seen this coming but if I’m serious about learning what I am and could be then I’d have to make sacrifices right? “it depends on what you want” “how about we just keep it blank for now till I think of it?” if he keeps his demand blank and gives my demand then later on I might not be able to say no like I can now before my demands are met “I don’t think so, think of what you want then we will see” I can’t agree so fast; even if he has me where he wants me “ok, how about you being honest with me about everything I ask for this year?” well that is not bad at all and it would just be for a year “deal” we shook on it and he smiled in a way that made me regret making a deal with him but then I thought about meeting another dragon and I smiled back “wait, does that mean you a dragon shifter?” asked Jared “yes but I’ve been turned into a vampire before I was seventeen so I did not lie when I told you’ll that I’m a vampire”. The bell rang for the third period and I got up but the others did not but I didn’t want to be late “bye, it was good to have lunch with you’ll” I left but when I was at the door, as I was closing it, I glanced back but they were all still sitting there and they were staring at me so I hit a fast retreat and managed to get to class which was on the other side of school on time and just sat when the teacher came in. This is an introduction to language so she just gave us a sheet to complete at home, great my first homework, we are to write down a different greeting in seven languages and speak it at our next lesson which can be tomorrow or next week, this is also a lesson to get to know other students because we have to have the students signature of the student that speaks that language. Vampires are old so maybe I can ask my new friends for help… they are all here for more than a year, the only one closest to the first year is Amelia who is in the third year.

Fourth class was behavioural studies, which means we discuss the rules, behaviour, belief’s etc. of different species and like all the other lessons, today's lesson was an introduction. Break was uneventful because I ran to the library as soon as the bell rang and managed to sit and read for a while but then the chair in front of me moved and I thought they found me but it was just forest guy who still did not introduce himself and his mysterious ways are getting on my damn nerves “hey forest guy, what are you doing here? For some reason, I did not think the library was your kind of place” he just smirked like he knew that I was irritated “it is not, I just have a history research to do then I saw you and came to ask what the fuss at lunch was? I did not know you drank blood or that you were a vampire either” I did not want to have this conversation with him, he is the only one so far that has been helpful and if he found out what I am, he might be angry I didn’t tell him or he will get caught up with the vampire gang and although he said he was old and powerful, I still could not feel it and do not wish to put my almost friend I have in danger or trouble even if he tries not to be a friend, or at least it seems that way with how he avoids talking about himself and makes sure no one sees us together, maybe not introducing himself also means that I cannot ask him or find out about him from others but he better hear it from me than from the grape vine “ok but please don’t tell anyone, I’m not trying to keep it a secret but it is just too complicated to keep explaining and I don’t really understand it myself, I found out weeks ago that I’m a born shapeshifter that would shift on my eighteenth birthday but before I found out too much, I was kidnapped I guess and I don’t remember what happened but I awoke a vampire and a master vampire found me and called the council and I was put with Master Hunter and I started going to school when again I was kidnapped but this time by a demon who also marked me as his mate, ok sorry I didn’t mean to tell you all that but what it means is that I’m a vampire that did not die and that I might still change next year and I’m mated to a demon” I did not know what to expect, did he understand what I said? Was I too fast? I heard him breath in and out deeply “well that is some story… I’m guessing that is how you can be out in the sun?” “yes… erm, do you believe me? And you do see the problem in having everyone know, right? It's why I have to try to keep it a secret but I don’t really know how” “well you could have but then you had bought blood in front of almost the whole school…” sigh yeah way to go me “that I could not help, I never had blood in two days but only solid food” I saw his eyes go wide “you don’t need to have blood? And you eat solid food?” “I didn’t die to become a vampire, remember? And I need to have both” he looked thoughtful and after a while just faded out and I jumped, he is a traveller? He never told me that, I rolled my eyes, of cause he didn’t because that would mean telling me something about himself! Gosh maybe I’m just sour about him not trying to be my friend and maybe he just came to the library for answers, I mean he is a vampire so he could be in Azrael’s gang and they left him out when they came to me because I knew him? Nope can’t be, for one, I’d have to answer any questions he has truthfully so he doesn’t need anyone else asking so I can maybe lie as well and he’ll not know, it’s like they only have high powered vampires here at school. I went the rest of break reading but kept getting distracted by any and every noise, like I was a new vampire that didn’t learn the control of hypersensitivity senses.

The last class of the day is math’s, urgh talk about boring, I wish it would just finish now but the teacher didn’t even come yet. I was wrong, so wrong, I actually like math’s this time around, the teacher is funny and just fun and it is nothing like the math’s that I had before, here they teach you how to survive in the real world, what you would really need to use after school, not the 90% that you won’t use unless you go into a mathematic industry. I was sad that school is finished because I’m not tired the way I was before, I use to drag myself to walk the ten-minute walk home but I still had to hurry to get to the schools travelers post or I’ll miss my chance to go home with them and walk for hours since I stay quite away. I think I got there just in time, pushing my way through, I noticed that forest guy was not there and neither was he here in the morning, it is like he doesn’t exist because he only shows up when I’m alone and I don’t see him any other time besides in the morning when he helped me, I think I should ask him next time why he is avoiding me, I can just imagine what he would think if he really is not avoiding me and I accuse him of it or maybe of being a ghost…. He would probably be like, I am dead so maybe I am… laugh out loud… sigh, I don’t think I’m funny. I am almost home yet he did not show up, I was hoping he would but I guess he has had enough of me for the day. Maybe I should phone… who should I phone to get advice from? My parents are a no-no and definitely not about meeting another dragon… Master Hunter would give good advice but I don’t know him well enough to rant my other problems to him but I guess I can phone him for a second opinion… I think the best person for my ranting and advice would be Jordana.

“Jordana…hi how are you?” “hey Ari, I am good and you? How is school?” “it is not as how I thought it would be, the classes are different from the norm that I’m used to and they actually teach what we will use later on but the students are a problem because they are all not my age, there are first years that are a thousand years old and I actually think that I am the youngest one here and they think I am human which I thought I was fine with; but then they didn’t give me blood for two days and I was just so thirsty that I couldn’t think when I saw that they had blood in the cafeteria and bought it in front of everyone in the cafeteria so now they think I am a human trying to fit in by drinking blood and it really troubles me and I know I don’t feel like a vampire or like a shifter because I didn’t shift yet, if I actually shift next year since I am a vampire… gosh this is all confusing and my parents are not helping because they are strict in thinking that I do not need to know much about dragons because we have to stay hidden, the only thing they want to teach me is to suppress my dragon the way they do and I made a deal with someone that knows a dragon shifter and I will get to meet him or her and hopefully they can help me… the thing I need advice on is… should I let it be known what I am and how I became so? It’s just so complicated when people ask questions that I don’t know the answers too and there are so many” I was sitting outside on the bench but when I started ranting, I started to pace but now when I went to sit down, I saw that forest guy was leaning against the tree and I could see by his blank face that he has heard everything including the part about being a dragon shifter that I did not tell him… “hey Jordana? I will call you back ok?” “that is some s**t bucket you in, love, but yeah, it will give me time to give you better advice” I hung up and bit my bottom lip while looking at him but then he looked to the side and disappeared, I looked to where he was looking and I saw Azrael and his gang and I knew they too heard, I wanted to go after forest guy because I thought him as my friend and I didn’t want my leaving out a small detail in my story to come between us but I can see that Azrael will not let me leave until we talk “you are one interesting girl Ariella, you surprise me over and over again… I am not old a vampire as Fabien is but I really thought you just a human and one lacking in psychic power as well even after that story you told us and I see that he too thought that… but a bit of friendly advice, Fabien is one of the oldest and most powerful vampires around, he likes the old ways and traditions and sticks around here to enforce those traditions… you are a threat to that… but being a dragon shifter and a mystery could put you on the side of interest in his books, he is a ghost to most because only the old vampires knows of him, this is the first that I have seen of him and I can hardly believe that the story is true, I hope he loses interest in you girl, I really do” I was speechless but I didn’t know what to say and then he and his gang too were gone. I looked out the forest to see if I could see ‘Fabien’ who is forest guy apparently but it was getting light out and although he can go out in the sun, I don’t think he enjoys it and he would of come out by now after they left.

I went inside and remembered that I should call the headmaster then I will call Jordana again, I went to the kitchen while I called headmaster but he did not answer, I put the phone down and got the stuff to make pasta out and washed it then while it was boiling, I called again and decided to leave a message if he does not answer again but luckily he did “hello, headmaster Travis speaking” “hi headmaster, it is Ariella, the new student” “well that was quite a stir you put on at the cafeteria, and after what happened at the cafeteria, I thought I would hear from you, I must say that I’m deeply sorry for the misunderstanding but when you told me that you did not die… I took it upon myself that you do not need blood to survive” “yes well I actually have to have both solid food and blood, apology accepted and if you could please supply me with blood that would be great!” “yes that was done as soon as I found out and I was just about to call you, you see food supplies are not exactly delivered house to house except for the first week, I will send you the direction to the estates store, if they do not have what you want or need then you can order it online and to their address, after Friday you will be expected to buy and get your stuff there but for this week you can get your blood from Azrael, he is your neighbor” “ok thank you, I will, bye” he hung up and I was just thinking just how hard it would be to stay away from him now... but it's only for this week so I will manage just fine… as long as he does no funny business that is.