• Character: Siora (see-or-ra) Takamaki
    (Ta-ka-ma-key)
    Nickname: Emi
    Looks: long snow white hair with
    Red highlights, emerald eyes, tanish skin
    Outfit: crimson pants and emerald shirt
    Personality: shy, not really that defensive unless it is
    About something she cares about, then she is like a mother wolf
    Protecting her cubs.
    Vampire? : Yes, but can live in the sun
    Special abilities: to be decided in story (means I don't know yet)
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    Name: Siarah (sea-air-ah) Takamaki (Ta-ka-ma-key)
    Nickname: Sapph (Sapph)
    Looks: long red hair with snow white
    Highlights, sapphire
    Eyes, snow white skin
    Outfit: emerald pants with a crimson shirt (I know, the opposite of Siora’s)
    Personality: the backbone of the two. not
    Really as defensive as Emi
    When it comes to something she cares
    About, but pretty dang close.
    Vampire? : Yes, but can live in the sun
    special abilities: to be decided in story (means I don't know yet)
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    Emi pov

    I run towards
    The school looking left and right, trying to avoid running into
    people. Something is not right today. ‘Sis, you there? I have a
    question for you.’ I abruptly stop running as I fall into a ditch.
    "Smooth Emi. You need a hand?" The condescending voice of him
    infiltrated my ears. Just hearing, much less thinking, about this
    man shot shivers down my spine.. ‘Sis, where are you when I need
    you? I can never handle this guy by myself.’
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    Sapph pov

    Emi is so going
    to kill me. I hear Emi talking to me but I ignore it thinking that
    she is just scolding me. I Normally, I can get myself ready
    without her help, but today something was off. I feel my leg
    sting. Great, Emi just got hurt. I stop as I see Will. The boy who
    torments my Emi almost non stop, staring down into a ditch. Then I
    finally listen to Emi in my head. ‘Sis, where are you when I need you?
    I can never handle this guy by myself.’ I am disgusted that I was tuning her out while she needed me. I sneak up on Will and poke
    him in the back. "Any reason you are annoying my sister today? Or
    are you just being the self centered jerk that you always are?" I
    didn't give him a chance to explain himself. "Just leave before I
    get nasty on your butt." As I say that I glare ice cold at him as he
    walked away.
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    Emi pov

    Sapph didn't see me
    crawling up to her, and I glomped her from behind. "Thank you
    Sapph!! I was about to whimper just before you showed up. I am
    sorry that I didn't wake you up this morning. I thought that you
    would function just like normal without me. I guess I was wrong." I let go of her and walked in front of her. “Thank you. You mean
    the world to me. I don't know what I would do without you in my
    life. Please never leave me alone in this forsaken world.” I smile
    at her and walk on ahead to school, waiting for her to catch up.
    A sly smile made it's way to my face. Emi has no idea how much
    her saying that to me meant. I raced ahead of her while laughing. I
    jumped up to the top step and watched Emi jump up also. She said,
    "Glad we live close to school." I smile and hear some people
    breathing heavy behind Emi and face them. My face lights up.
    "Cameron! Richard!" I waved at them above Emi's head. Emi turned
    around in time to get jumped on by Richard. While she was getting
    jumped on by Richard, Cameron jumped on me. Richard and Cameron were
    laughing a lot as they said, "We have been following you both for 3
    miles! That is about when we saw you running to school."
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    Sapph pov

    I laugh at what the boys said. ‘ And here you said we don't
    live far from the school Sapph!’ I caught Richard's legs when he
    started to fall off of my back. So it kind of looked like I was
    giving him a piggy- back ride. "Yay horsie!" he laughed out. "Hey!
    I am not a horse. If I was, I would be wearing a saddle. “Hey Emi,
    how can you carry Richard?" asked Cameron. I glanced at Sapph. Even
    though these two were our best friends, they don't know we are
    vampires. "I used to lift weights a lot before we moved here."
    "We better hurry and get into the school. It's about to start." Emi
    carried in Richard while I carried in Cameron. 'Good thing that we all
    have the same first period.' I told Emi in my mind. ‘I know. It's really funny
    how we can manipulate the school board in order to get
    the same schedules & teachers as them. All without them knowing.' She
    replied. I grinned and opened the door to first period. Everyone
    stopped talking loud and talked in a whisper. No one could
    understand how the four of us were friends. The boys were friends
    sense second grade. My sister and I just moved here four years ago.
    People expected the four of us to fight. Instead, we became best friends.
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    Emi pov


    I smiled at Sapph. It made sense to
    us. We just couldn't tell why the four of us had become friends so
    fast. "Sis, can I talk to you outside?" The edge in my voice was only
    detected by Sapph. She nodded to me and followed me outside. When we
    rounded the corner out of anyone's ear shot, I expressed my concern. "
    We do not have that much time, sister of mine. The council will come
    for us soon. Out free time on Earth is almost up. 10 years was the
    agreement. The agreement ends in 2 days. If we have anything that we
    wish to accomplish, we must by then." 'Is there anybody whom you like?
    Maybe... Cameron?' I watched the blush come over her cheeks as she
    replied, 'What about your feelings for Richard? Hmmmm?' We both smiled
    at each other. 'We could tell them that we like them. I'm glad we are
    discussing this in out heads. Richard and Cameron have been listening
    this whole time.' ‘You noticed that too Emi?' We both called out"
    Come on out boys! No use hiding from us."
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    Sapph pov

    I rolled my eyes and watched as they came out of hiding. ' Wait, sis, did
    you say that they were here all along?' Emi turned her head towards me. '
    Yea. That's why I didn't say the word vampire.' I smiled at her. ' You
    are smart. I should learn from you.' I laughed. 'There is no need. you
    are smarter then me.' The guys approached us and looked us strait in the
    eyes. "What is this council that you were talking about?" Richard asked.
    Cameron nodded, showing that he wanted to know the same thing. "We cannot
    tell you here. Jump on our backs." Emi said. Cameron and Richard did as
    they were told. I nodded to Emi and we raced out to our house. Richard
    and Cameron were surprised because they didn't know that we lived so far
    away. We set them down and opened the door to allow them to enter.
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    Emi pov

    'We are going to have to tell them now. We really have no choice.' 'I
    know. I wonder how they will react.' Richard and Cameron just looked
    around. In all our years of friendship, this was the first time they had
    been to our house. "So, what do you have to tell us about this council?"
    asked Cameron. I sighed and started our long tale about us. " Sapph and I
    are Vampires. No one knows - I should now say knew - what we are. Please
    don't betray us by telling other people what we are. Now, Sapph and I are
    not normal vampires. She and I are the only Princesses in our kingdom. We
    have chosen to live here on Earth." I stopped to breath. "But, our contract
    to stay here expires in two days. We will be moving back to our home land
    then." Sapph finished for me. Richard and Cameron just looked dumbstruck.
    "Do you both have fangs?" inquired Cameron. "Yepoz." Sapph opened up her
    mouth and showed them her fangs.
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    Sapph pov

    The guys didn't seem to register the second part, the part that Emi and I
    are royalty. 'Sis, can you sere what they are thinking? I want to know
    what they think about us being royal vampires.' 'Sure' Emi nods to me.
    'Richard thinks that it is cool and Cameron... well, just ask him that one
    yourself.' She smiled at me and I growled at her. "So, what do you both
    think of Emi and I being royal vampires?" 'You had to ask them both?'
    'Yea, otherwise they would have thought it was suspicious that I didn't ask
    them both.' Richard was the first to reply. "I think that it is awesome."
    Throughout the entire ordeal, I noticed that Richard hardly ever took his
    eyes off of Emi. I also noticed that Cameron could hardly keep his eyes
    off me. 'Seems like they both like us back.' I told Emi. I could see a
    light blush powder her cheeks when she received this message from me.
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    Emi pov

    I couldn't believe my mind! Sapph was telling me that the guys liked us back?
    Plus that means that Cameron likes me and Richard likes Sapph.
    'You go sis! Richard likes you! I understand the other part, but it means that
    you won't be so lonely anymore.' I smiled at her. " Is there anything else you
    both can do?" Inquired Richard. " Well... Yea. We ca---" Sapph put her
    hands over my mouth to stop me from saying the next part. ' What are you
    doing?' I would have said it but her hand muffled my speech. ' Saving our
    hind courters. Father said not to tell anyone anything. We have already
    broken that. Do you want him even more mad at us?' Sapph hissed that into
    my mind. "Um... Sapph? Why are you still clamping your hand over Emi's
    mouth?" 'Perfectly good question. Why do you still have your hand over my mouth?
    If you don't move it I will bite your hand.' Sapph didn't remove her hand.
    "Because our father doesn't want us to tell anyone our special talents." Cameron
    and Richard seemed to believe this lie. Well, technically, not a lie. She
    didn't heed my warning, so I bit into her hand.
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    Sapph Pov

    "OW! Emi!!!!" I yelled as I released Emi from my grip. She moved away from me. 'She is a smart girl to get away.' "Are you okay?" I looked up to see Richard's worried face. 'Oh how it softens my heart to see him.' 'Sorry Sapph. I warned you.' Emi told me. I Looked at her. "It's Okay Emi." I smiled at them all. "Anyway, we have to start packing up to go back home. We have already signed all the forms for our un-enrollment. Now all we have left is packing. Richard and Cameron looked at us evenly in the eyes. "Can we come with you?" Emi and I looked at each other. 'Could they?' I asked her. Emi sighed. 'Alright. They can come, as long as they stay near us.'
    Are you both sure? It would be very un-wise for humans to travel to the
    vampire world. You both could be hunted down for your blood. Unless you
    were with us. Then no one would ever touch you. Mentally or physically."
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    Emi pov

    Cameron and Richard didn't look to sure of themselves after that was said.
    'Do you think they will still want to come with us?' I asked Sapph in my
    head. 'Maybe. Their thoughts are too jumbled up for me to tell. "Emi, can
    I talk to you alone? As in without your sister in our heads." I shrugged.
    "Sure, it isn't all that hard for me to block her out. Where do you want
    to talk?" He looked around the place nervously. "How about outside?"
    Cameron grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the house until we were a
    little ways away from the house. "Can your sister her us?" "Yes she can.
    We both have good hearing. We have to go farther away if we don't want her
    to hear." I replied.
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    Sapph pov

    When Cameron took Emi away, I was left alone with Richard. There was an awkward silence after they left. It was as if they were the two carefree people who lightened our day, and with out them, we were like the moon without a sun, bleak and meaningless. Neither of us spoke for a few minutes. "Richard," I asked tentatively, "is there something you have to ask me while they are away?" Richard looked at me shocked. "Not that I can think of. Well, actually there is, but I think you might take a swing at me if I asked it." I smiled at him, it wasn't the smile I usually smiled, it was the smile I smiled only for Emi. Now, it was also for Richard and Cameron. He seemed disarmed at the smile. "Well, would you conceder being my girlfriend?" He spoke it low and mumbled, so that, if I was a human, I would have missed it. Luckily, I am a vampire and have good hearing. I blushed a light shade of crimson. "I would be honored to be your girlfriend, Richard." I hugged him and smiled into his shoulder. 'Oh Emi, I wish you could see me now. I am actually really happy.’

    Emi pov

    When we were about half way between my house and the school, I stopped Cameron. "Dang, you both have really good hearing." I smiled at him. "What did you want to ask me?" 'Oh Emi, I wish you could see me now. I am actually really happy.’ I smiled even more. Not letting Cameron know that I could still hear Sapph if she directed something to me in her head, I sat down and patted the grass next to me. "Quap a squat." When he looked at me funny I rephrased it. "It means have a seat" The questioning gaze disintegrated a little, but did not leave his eyes. After he sat down, he began to talk. "Emi, I have known you for four years, and I was wondering... would you please be my girlfriend?" I smiled hugely and glomped him. "My answer is yes!" He also smiled and looked relived. I then smiled my smile for Sapph at him. He smiled his smile for Richard right back at me. I tentatively leaned forward and gently touched my lips to his. I was unsure of what I was doing, but it seemed right. I let my lips linger for a second, then pulled back. "We better get going, Sapph and Richard must be going crazy." I stood up and offered him my hand, which he gladly took. 'Sapph, Cameron asked me to be his girlfriend! I know that Richard asked you the same thing, that is the only reason that you would be that happy.'
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    Sapph pov

    The first thing that popped into my head was ‘How is dad going to react?’ The only thing that made it good was the fact that Emi wasn't going out with Cameron, yet. Then I receive a message from Emi. 'Sapph, Cameron asked me to be his girlfriend! I know that Richard asked you the same thing, that is the only reason that you would be that happy.' At this point, I almost fall down. "Richard, I am scared for you and Cameron." When Richard looked at me quizzical, I explained. "Father still thinks us as his little girls who set out into the human world, knowing very little of it. Thing is, Emi and I had been studying your world for a long time, Father just didn't know. He didn't think that Emi and I would fall in love with humans. Well, neither did we. Thing is, Cameron asked out Emi. They are also going out. Father has not been monitoring us. It was agreed that we could live ten years completely away from him, just like every vampire child." During my monologue, both Richard and I sat down. I knew Emi heard all of what I said, and I could hear her repeating every word to Cameron. When they got in, Emi and I hugged. "Richard, Cameron, would you please excuse Sapph and me for a few minutes? Thank you." With out waiting for a reply, Emi dragged me out of the room and up to our bedroom.
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    Emi pov

    "Sapph, we better think this through. We haven't been home in a long time. For all we know, the place could be in a chaotic mess and our family doesn't rule the lands anymore! We have no idea what we are getting us all into. I am going to go home and tell father and mother to be expecting us back within the next two days." I was looking Sapph strait in the eyes throughout my entire little speech to let her know how serious this is. "I will be back soon. Please delay Cameron and Richard for me. If I do not return, just come home when planned." I hugged her very tightly. She hesitated, then hugged me back just as tight. "I will be listening to the words in your head. Do not think that you will go back alone. I am always with you." Sapph whispered into my ear. I released her and walked over to the stairs. "Please, tell Cameron and Richard nothing. I don't want to worry them. Also," I got a strange glint in my eye. "Congratulations on Richard asking you out." With that I ran down the stairs to the basement before she could say anything. I was laughing as I stepped into the basement and stopped to catch my breath. I walked over to a circle on the floor (see attachment for what the circle looked like) and Chanted: Take me home, not the home in which I live, the home that I lived in.: Over and over. When I opened my eyes, I was greeted by the face of my mother. She stumbled back in surprise, and so did I. "Welcome home, Emerald." Drawled out a voice behind me. The voice sent shivers up my spine. 'I know that voice. Sapph, DO NOT RETURN!!!!' I yelled at her in my head. 'EVER!!!!'
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    Sapph pov.

    I smiled at Cameron and Richard when I came back into the room. "Emi is trying to find something important to her. Please excuse her for a few moments." They smiled back at me. "Okay. Fine with us. Can you come here for a moment?" Cameron practically pulled me into the kitchen. "Yes? What do you need?" I looked up at him. "I know this may sound weird, but what is wrong?" He looked very concerned about me. My head tilted to the side. "How do you know when something is wrong? Do you have some kind of radar in your head?" I asked poking him in the for head. He chuckled and shook his head. "Not in the least. I just have a good ear. Your voice changes when you lie." My eyes widened. 'It does?' "Okay, Mr. Bat, what do you think is wrong?" Cameron looked puzzled for a moment then perked up his head. "Emi isn't in her room. She isn't even in this house, is she?" I looked down. Slowly, I nodded my head. "Don't tell Richard. He would freak out." I looked into his eyes, searching for something, what it was, I don't know. ' Sapph, DO NOT RETURN!!!!' I looked around the kitchen. "Emi?" Cameron looked around also. 'EVER!!!!' I paled. "Oh no..." 'I know that vampires are supposed to be strong, but when your sister tells you not to return to your home in a panicked voice, what the heck am I supposed to do?' I broke down crying. I felt the tears trailing down my face. "Emi..." Was all that I was able to choke out.
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    Emi pov

    *CLANK* The sound of iron clamping together turned my stomach. When the last cuff was in place, the person holding me up, let me drop. The pain was immense. The cry I stifled back choked me. "What is the matter, Siora?" HIS voice cooed in my ear. "Something wrong with the princess of vampires? The girl who never experienced pain before? Well, now you have." His evil cackle rang throughout the dungeon. 'Sapph, protect the boys. HE has me. don't ever return home.' "Now I am going to go wait for your sister, Siarah. Then I will have the two princesses locked away. When the time comes for your father to croak, I will be named King Of Vampires!" With that, he swept out of the room and up the stairs. I looked around the dark room. 'Nothing else in here. I will let out my pain, not my pain of being HIS prisoner, but the pain of having to tell the ones I love never to come here.' The first tear fell down my cheek. 'I'm sorry, Sapph. I couldn't escape if I wanted to. HE is guarding the portal.' The tears fell freely down my face. I twisted around in my bindings. 'The fool wasn't smart enough to have me put into the right bindings. This will hurt, but I will go back.' I pulled down on my arm bindings. *jingle jin -- CRACK* My right arm is free. I looked over at my left, and pulled down. *jingl -- RIP* 'Not what I had in mind, but okay.' The chain had ripped from the wall. "What's going on down there?!" My heart stopped for a moment. I looked around and dove down behind a stack of paper. 'What is paper doing down here?' "SHE GOT OUT!" A voice boomed at the doorway that I was once restricted in. 'Please don't let them catch me. PLEASE don't let them catch me.'
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    Sapph pov

    I couldn't walk. Richard had rushed in when I plopped down onto the
    ground. Both Cameron and Richard were looking at me with concern plastered
    over their faces. 'Nothing makes sense.' My mind was a mess. That was
    probably the only coherent thought in my mind. 'Emi... What did she do to
    deserve what she is going through? All she ever did was protect me.' Tears
    welled up in my eyes. One or two slid down my already red face. 'She
    protected me ever since we were little. This was a shot for me to protect her. And I failed.' I strained my mind's ears for anything from her.
    'Sapph, protect the boys. HE has me. Don't ever return home.' I curled up
    into a ball on the floor while Cameron tried, quite unsuccessfully, to get
    my to stand up. Quiet sobs racked my body from head to foot. Cameron, who
    had been holding onto me, was forced backward from the force of it. 'I'm
    sorry, Sapph. I couldn't escape if I wanted to. HE is guarding the
    portal.' I cried. 'Emi isn't coming home.' My right arm hurt a little.
    ‘Emi's right arm is hurt." I mumbled into my chest. Unfortunately, Richard heard what I mumbled. I looked up to see his ashen white face looking down
    at me. Now my left arm stung with immense pain. "Left arm now. She got out of her bindings." I smiled. When I stood up, I had to grip the table for
    support. I tried walking, thankfully, when I fell, Cameron caught me. "I
    smiled up at him. "Thanks. I am feeling much better." I walked over to the
    stairs to the basement. 'I am not leaving. I am going to wait for you,
    Emi. Know that. I will wait until you come back home.' I sat down next to
    the portal.
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    Emi pov

    The sound of feet finally died away. I was alone in the room. 'At last, I
    can make my escape.' I cautiously looked up. 'Nothing in my view, have
    they finally left, though?' I took the cuff off of my wrist, and threw it.
    It sounded like glass shattering on the floor. Nothing. 'That is a good
    sign, I think.' I cautiously walked out into the room. The coast was clear
    of people. I walked out the door and to the stairway. I go to the fourth
    level and finally found a door. "Well, nothing compares to being locked up
    and tortured until you die. That beats all the other bad things that we
    have come up with." "I feel sorry for the two princesses. They have to
    endure that fate." The words floated down the stairs toward me. 'Crud,
    this isn't good.' I jumped into a shadow, good thing I was wearing black.
    "Didn't you hear? The princess that was captured, escaped." There was a
    gasp. 'How? I thought that he went through the cells so many times that he
    memorized that entire room. What did he miss?" I noticed something,
    'I know those voices. I must tell Father.' "Turns out, the chains were too
    weak." When the voices passed, I ran the rest of the way up the stairs.
    When I got to the top, I ran out the door. I saw a figure that I
    recognized 'Yes! Father is up here!' "FATHER!"


    Sapph pov

    I sat out of the view of the portal. 'If Emi is going to return, it is
    either through the portal here or through Uncle's portal. In which case,
    Uncle would call me.' "Sapph? Where are you? You ran away too fast for us
    to see!" I chuckled. "Do.." I stopped mid-word. The reason, I saw a pair
    of floating eyes. These eyes were unlike any other. One was neon orange
    and one was neon green. I could faintly make out the outline of the body.
    'I know that Person. Could it be?' I stood up and slowly made my way over
    to the eyes. I slowly raised my right arm. when it got to the point where
    it was bent at the elbow going strait up, I stopped it. The fabric
    covering that arm, fell. I raked it farther up,, past my elbow. When a
    scar became visible, I stopped. "You are the one who gave me this. I know
    those eyes anywhere." I spoke so clearly, but I was trembling inside. "Yes
    I am the one. I made sure that you would never forget my eyes. I have
    something to tell you." The woman's voice spoke softly. I ran upstairs and
    closed the door, then ran back down. "Now the others won't hear us. Please
    speak what you wish without the fear of being overheard." The eyes stood
    up.

    Emi pov.

    When the person turned around, it was indeed Father. "Siora? You weren't supposed to come back for one day! Did you come back because something is wrong?" I nodded and hugged my father. he cautiously put his arms around me and hugged me back. "Father, HE is trying to take over." She said it right in his ear, barley audible to even the vampires surrounding them. "HE is who?" She slapped herself mentally. 'Only Sapph and I call him HE, HIM, or HIS. Silly self!' I looked at my father and pulled him down to his room. 'It is too much of a risk for anyone else to hear.' I closed the door behind myself and looked at Father. "Travis, Father, your brother. He tried to kidnap me and he is waiting for Sa-- Siarha down at the portal." I watched as the color drained from Father's face. "My brother? Why would my brother kidnap my daughters?" 'I really hoped that I wouldn't have to tell him.' I sucked in my breath. "Because he wants the kingdom when you kick the bucket. He would be next in line after Siarha and me. So, he tried to eliminate the next heirs." I looked sideways, anywhere but Father's face. 'Sapph, I told Father. About HIM, and his wants.' I felt a tear fall down my cheek, and wiped it away before Father could notice. "Go check the portal if you don't believe me. He should be there, waiting for Siarha. By the way, he also has Mother as a captive. I saw her when I first came back." I looked at him to see the fact that news of my mother held as a captive was a shock. 'Travis must have stolen her today.' I sighed.
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    Sapph pov

    "As you know, Garran is trying to take over the vampire world. What you do not know that your sister does is, he has your mother. She was taken from her slumber last night. Your Father thought nothing of it, because she is usually out of bed before him. He just found out and is storming the basement. What I have come to tell you though, is she isn't your mother. Your father married her after he found out that your real mother was pregnant. The new wife agreed to act pregnant and the doctor was held to secrecy. When the time came, your mother had to give you up to your father and 'mother'. She was heart broken. She and your father kept on seeing each other, and the wife knew. She didn't care for the king, just the babies whom she pretended to have." The woman stopped to take a breath. "How do you know all of this? Why should I believe you?" I asked, falling down to the floor. 'It all makes sense. Why Emi and I don't look like her, why Father always paused whenever he told us to go apologize to mother. She isn't our birth mother.' I looked up into those eyes and noticed a longing in her eyes. "Do you want a hug? She asked in a quiet voice. I nodded and reached out to hug her. She stepped into the light and I hugged her closer. Slowly, she wrapped her arms around me and hugged back. "I missed you so dearly." "I missed you too." She stepped back, and looked at me. I didn't see an old woman, I saw a woman who was a little older then me. Plus, It looked like I was an exact replica of this woman, minus the hair. Her hair was like Emi's. I smiled at her.

    Emi pov

    I paced the silent slumber chambers of my father’s. He was off to see if anyone had seen Mother, which I knew they didn’t. ‘Sapph, Father is checking on Mother. I know that Travis holds her in his iron grasp. It will be hard for anyone to have seen her at all.’ I shuddered a little at the depressing thought of the reality Mother must be in. “No matter how the wind cascades, it cannot change the present. The present is neither past nor future. It Is something completely different from all other forms of tense.” I was just spouting random words to calm the raging storms of my mind. Somehow, they managed to tame it. I welcomed the calm bliss for a moment, then turned my mind to more oppressing matters. Just then Father decided to come back. “I have confirmed your knowledge. It hurts me to say this. Travis will pay greatly for his treachery.” The last words that escaped his royal mouth came out in a growl.. Father looked strait at me, looking for something I could not fathom. ‘Father is searching for something in me I have no knowledge of. Do you know something, Sapph?’ She mental checked on her twin, making sure she was safe in the humane world they lived in. Father spoke, regaining my attention. “I have cleared a path to the portal. You will leave, and not come back for three years. I will have forsaken my so called brother by then.” I nodded absently, already knowing this. ‘Sapph and I can read minds, but I don’t think he knows that.’ Silently, we walked out of the room and down the stairs to the portal. I stepped onto the glowing white circumference of it, and thought the incantation. Right before I left, something shot out of the shadow and rammed a blade in my stomach. Then, I left the vampire world, hearing the scream of my father echoing through my mind. All I was able to say, was “He…. hit... home…”

    Sapph pov

    I disbanded myself form my real mother, my birth mother. The one who was always in the shadows, protecting us from harms unseen. “I missed being able to hold you in my arms every night as you got older. I knew I had to leave you as you grew, because otherwise you would have memories of me.” She gently wiped a tear that fell down my cheek. I had felt the salty wetness before she was able touch it. It showed that everything in life was not meant to be taken away, some was left unharmed by the disastrous world. A crackling sound filled the air, and we both turned to the circle. I almost smiled when I saw Emi’s familiar shoes appear, but then I saw blood on them. “EMI!” My cry echoed through the small room, and I spun out of my mother’s shocked grasp. I ran to the portal, and wrapped my arms around Emi’s body when she appeared. “He… hit… home…” Was all my sister managed to get out before passing out. I held her close, and sagged to the floor. Slowly, I pulled the blade that was protruding out of her stomach. I quickly through that knife away, and pressed a clean cloth to the wound. Mother walked over to us, and gently placed Emi’s head in her lap. I heard banging on the door, but was zoned out. My entire focus was on my sister, and her life slipping away. When the door finally opened, light flooded the basement, and two pair of feet came down the stairs. “EMI?!” Was the only words that were able to filter through my mind. Hands grasped me from behind, wrapping me in a tight hug. Hands lifted Emi out of Mother’s lap, and hugged her. One thought was running through my mind. ‘She needs my blood….She needs my blood…’ I looked around for the blade I just banished, and grasped it in my hands. I opened her mouth, and sliced my palm over it. I let the bleeding wound drip into her mouth, and watched as it trickled down her throat.

    Emi pov

    Darkness surrounded me. It wrapped me in it’s cold embrace.’ Will I live to see my loved ones again?’ The thought went through my mind. A numbing sensation washed through my limbs, releasing the pain. Several times, I felt my body moving, not of my own will. My will, as it was, was completely depleted. ‘I am nothing, nothing is me. I do not exist anymore.’ The calming sound of babble went through my mind, relaxing it. Slowly, I felt something trickle down my throat. For a moment, I tasted it. ‘Sapph’s blood.’ I wrenched myself back to my body, which I felt jolting around. I moaned, and slowly opened my eyes. When I was no longer blinded by the light, my eyes were able to focus on the world surrounding my now moving body. There, I saw Sapph, Richard, Cameron, and someone else. My eyes watered, and I tried to smile. However, something touched my stomach, and I withered in pain. My throat opened, and horrible sound emitted from my mouth. The humans surrounding me shrunk back, so only Sapph and the stranger were there. When the boys were finally able to move, they moved to my sides. Cameron cradled my head in his hands as the woman stranger placed her hands over my wound. After a moment, it felt like someone put ointment to the burning sensation coursing though my veins. I finally stopped withering, and straitened out. I looked down to where I was stabbed, and there was no wound. True, there was blood and hole in my shirt, but there was to hole in my flesh. I was finally able to smile, and sat up. “Thank you all.” I whispered, that sound being the only one I could make. Cameron hugged my from behind, while Richard hugged me from the front. The strange woman also hugged me, and I closed my eyes at the love surrounding me.
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