Fire

Prologue
RAIN. IT HAD TO rain on the first day of work. Great. Just perfect. I'm standing just right outside of a an old wooden blue house. Looks like no body's home but I know better. Trying to keep a low profile I see, I think silently. I hold the now damp paper in my hand. 'There's a spare key under the mat' the writing says on It. I bend down and look under the mat that says 'Welcome' on It. Just like the writing said, right under the mat. I don't really know why someone like the person who lives here would need a key but that's none of my business. Dusting myself off a little, I carefully place the key in the lock and It automatically opens. Just that easy huh? It can't possibly be this easy. Something's up. Slowly, I walk inside, making sure I don't make myself too loud, that would blow my cover. Looking to the right of the wooden stairway I see the living room which hardly has anything in It other than a plasma screen TV. Weird. You'd think guys would really go overboard and have such expensive things like a huge TV, a couch, a fireplace, and whatever else I forgot to mention, but no. Guess not. And to the left lies the kichen which is just the place I was looking for. Grabbing a set of matches from my pocket and placing the backpack I had on my back on the small wooden table, I take out the huge gallon of fuel and take the cap off. It smells horrifying but I'll deal. Quietly, I turn the oven on start to turn the oven on 500 degrees, and start putting the fuel on the floor. She said the first room on the left right, my mind quietly asks. We'll well just have to see for certain. Walking upstairs I become more and more nerve-racking because the stairs won't stop creaking below me. Not a good sign if he's not asleep, then again if he's not asleep he would've killed me already so I guess I'm in the clear for now. First room on the left. I keep pouring the gasoline fuel on the floor until I hear a pang. I jump back a little bit. I could always hit the button on my wrist covered with my wristband, but no. Not this time. I will get this done all by myself.

I hear more pangs but then I look down the hall at the window and realize It was just the rain hitting the glass so hard. Gosh, this mission is really getting me all nervous and jumpy for nothing. I press my ear to the door to make sure I don't hear any moments from inside. Although It could be a trap and he could be just waiting for my move. It can really go either way. After a few more minutes I determine he's asleep and pour some gasoline right outside his bedroom. I slowly back away and pour the last of the gasoline in the living room. With the box of matches still in my hand, I light up the match. BOOM! The door from the left is completely shattered and an angry blond haired vampire comes flying out of the room. I completely drop the match and before I knew It, the blond haired vampire was already down the stairs when the house was blown into tiny pieces. I'm completely protected because of a magnetic force field around me so It doesn't bother me. Mission accomplished. I'm Joelene Dugart, and yes, if you're wondering, I'm a human vampire hunter.


Chapter 1
Before I even have time to look back at my accomplished mission I have to run, run away from the scene. No use in staying if you don't want to get caught by the police. I'm sure residents near by are already doing so. And anyway, It's still raining hard too so It's not like the fire explosion I started is going to sustain very long. They couldn't have given me the mission on a day where It wasn't raining? Note: Never wear a dress when It's raining either. It just makes everything worse. Good thing I have boots on though. It helps me run through the mud and the grass as tall as me. It's hard navigating your way around with so much grass in the way; It's like a never ending maze. But I've gone this way before, I just have got to get through this mudhole. It seems that the deeper I go into the grassy muddy area, the harder the mud is to get out of. Yep. A very bad day to choose a dress for my first mission. As I stumble through the mud, a roaring thunder alarms me enough to quicken my speed a little. At the edge of the grassy area, my people are supposed to be at the end in a truck. Another bolt of lighting hits the ground and I'm nearly running like a bat out of hell to get into the truck with mud flying in the air as well. I can tell some of the truck out now.

A huge black Tahoe awaits and the door is opened with Levi's hands ready to take me in. I'm so close to the truck when I feel my boot get stuck in the huge thick of mud. Levi has now got out of the truck and tried to help me out of It, but he himself if in a bit of a rut. After 60 quick panicking seconds of trying to get out, we finally reach the truck. "Congrats," Rainer says looking at Levi and I from the mirror in the front. Rainer has been my mentor for 9 months and he's been pushing me every day for this moment."Thanks," I say out of breath. "Yeah, you did a great job, way better than any other vampire hunter who was on their first mission." Levi is my friend and we are both vampire hunters. He didn't have to do any missions today so he decided to tag along. He's another one of the few humans that got to be vampire hunter. Only few humans can do the job that we do. They have to have superhuman abliites and know how to use them correctly or have connections with someone who is a vampire hunter have to be obligated to become on. Both of which I have. Mostly the good vampires are the ones who do this kind of thing but there are few humans that do this too. And the only response I have for that is to nod my head. He understands. I'm out of breathe from running and getting stuck in mud. Rainer immediately drives off and we're on the road again. "You look like crap." Rainer says to both of us but mostly to me. "Ha, thanks for the input." For the first time today, I actually look at myself. There's mud and whatever else in my black hair, mud all over my black and white dress, and definitely on my boots. "Your mother would be proud." He said in a sorrow voice. She died when I was two when she was on a mission to kill a vampire, she just wasn't careful enough. "Yeah." That's all I could say.

Finally, after three hours of driving, we stop for gas, and I ask Rainer to get me a hot dog and a umbrella if they have one. Now I'm left alone in the truck with Levi. "So what have you been up to lately? You never answer your phone or email me back." Levi says. I pause for a moment. I have been avoiding him for a while and so sooner or later he's gonna want a explanation on why I haven't answered him back. "Rainer's been training me every day to become a better vampire hunter, except for Sundays, so I don't have time for much else,' I say. For a long moment he just stares at me and I stare back at him. He's testing me to see if I'm lying to him: I am. But It's hard to pull a fast one on Levi. He's about my 18 which is a year older than me but I swear he's like a living lie detector or something. After a while, he decides to believe me for once and says, "Okay, I just wanted to know what have you doing lately." He says in sad tone. I feel sorry for lying to him like that, truthfully. "Well what have you been up to since we last talked?" I asked trying to get some of the mud out of my hair. It's still raining pretty hard even though we're miles away from where we were. "Not much. Just finishing the last of high school, going on missions, and few other stuff." He said. He's wearing a AC DC band tee shirt and black pants. I can't really judge him for wearing that so I leave the comment alone. "Good for you." I say. And until Rainer gets back here we sit in silence, just looking out at the rain that's getting heavier and heavier by the minute. After what seems like an eternity, Rainer finally runs back to the truck and hands me a hot dog with a Coke-a-cola on the side. "Want some?" I offer. Levi shakes his head but I give him some of my fries and place in a napkin in his lap, just in-case he changes his mind. A few minutes later he finally eats some of the fries but I can't help but wonder is he mad at me? I could understand if he is.

We're on our way back to Raleigh, North Carolina. Yes, It was a very long drive from Marion North Carolina, near the Tennessee border. It's becoming nightfall and the rain has died down a little bit since our last two stops at the gas station and I figure that Levi and I aren't going to talk much more on the trip so I let my eye lids close. It's been a long day, so I think I deserve a rest. We should be back in Raleigh in the next few hours. It seems like every time I've had a very long stressful day, I get good dreams. I don't know why but It just happens. Maybe I'll dream of mom tonight, or maybe just plain nothingness, who knows? I feel warm against something, and It feels good. I snuggle against It some more and then my eyes fly open when I look straight into Levi's eyes. "Hey to you too." He says and smiles. I'm to tired to respond and to move out of his grasp so I just lay there in his arms until we get to Raleigh. In another hour or so we should be back. I hear Rainer in the front teasing me and Levi about something so I just mumble, 'Go away' under my breath. After another hour or so, Levi nudges me to get up. "Or would you rather me carry you?" He said went I was just waking up. "Whatever," I say as I slam the door behind me. The rain has stopped. The building Harry works at is failry tall. He's part of this huge company, but he's one of the most well known vampire hunters to date. He doesn't do It anymore but I here stories of when he use to back then. My mom was well known as well, just when people think of her, they immediatly say 'She was a fighter', you know? Stuff like that. The inside of the building is huge, other than the fact that this place looks like a hospital with all the white lifeless walls. And as we walk up to the building downtown where Harry, my father, works, when I'm greeted by a girl with long dirty blond hair who looks me up and down and says, "That's my half sister? I guess It's true that they do keep let cats and dogs in."




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Chapter 2
Levi was right behind me and stepped forward towards the girl. I held my hand out and he stopped. This is the last thing I want to deal with right now. She couldn't be more than fifteen years old. With her black fringe tunic and black jeans shorts I wouldn't be caught dead in, and some sort of a long necklace that looks like a green gem I believe, with the old black boots and a long studed purse. "Excuse me?" I say. Harry never said anything about a half-sister? He married another woman after shortly after mom died, but never said anything about this? "You're excused," she said in a snapish tone. And out of nowhere, Harry shows up behind this girl who claims I'm her half-sister. I push the girl out of the way (and partly because I'm about tired of hearing her talk) and step face-to-face with Harry. "Is this true Harry?" I ask, completely furious with him. He frowns a little bit. He's got black hair and a few gray streaks in It but instead of having green eyes like mine, he has hazel ones and he's wearing that old black suit that he always seems to have on. His bodyguards behind him are ready for any attack that might be looping apon us. "Easy you two," He tells his bodyguards. He turns his attenion back to me. "Now I've told  you before to call me dad-" I cut him off. "You don't act like one," I mutter under my breath. He stops talking and I could imagine Levi's face behind me falling to the floor. Even his guards a little surprised. It's true. He doesn't act like one. "Now isn't the time or place for that dissicusion young lady," He says in his "serious voice." Yeah, right, I think quietly. "As I was saying, yes Hazel is your half sister. A little after you were one-" I cut him off again. "Please skip that part." I said not wanting to know. "You stayed with your Uncle until the time you were 8 and I wanted to wait until you were older to tell you so you could understand more clearer." Ha, It doesn't get much clearer than this. "So you decided to tell me 15 years later?!" I scream. "16." Hazel says in a still snapish tone while wiping off the mud I put on her arms. Two mintues into talking with 'Miss Morgan' and I already don't like her. "She'll be coming to live with us since her Aunt Adele was killed a few days ago." I could see Morgan's face change at the thought of her Aunt mentioned. I start to fell a little sorry for her until-"Wait, you said she's gonna be staying here with us?" That came out a little harsher than I intended. "Yes, I'm coming to live with you guys. What part of that didn't you get?" She said going back to being a pain in the butt. "Easy now," Harry said, now feeling the tension in the air.


It's been in the air ever since she opened her mouth. Growing tired of her attitude, and Harry's presence alone, I turn my back on all of them an head downstairs where I sleep. The bottom of the building is sort of like a small apartment or hotel. "well welcome to hell, just try not to get burned, will you?" I say as I hug Levi goodnight. "And also, she'll be going to school with you tommorrow," Harry calls after me. I just wave all off and open the door to the spiral staircase which eventually leads to my room on the last room to the left. I open the door to my room and I'm shocked. The whole left side of my room has changed from my queen sized bed to having twin beds and the one on the left has tons of luggage on It. "Oh no." I say out loud. A knock at the door distracts me from being anymore furious. "And she's also taking part of your room." Harry said as I opened the door. "Guess you forgot to mention that part as well." I said. He said nothing and Hazel appeared behind him? How do they keep doing that? This is only temporary until we get you two with your group." Harry says. The 'group' he's reffering to is a group of vampire hunters, living under the same roof. "Mhmm." I say growing ever more annoyed. I move to the side to let Hazel in and Harry says goodnight to the both of us. "Oh, I almost forgot to tell you, congrats," Harry said. "Thanks." I said closing the door. It's only the two of us now, alone. We'll see if she'll act any different now that Harry's not around. "So-" She cut me off. "Look, I don't want to know anything about you. I know all I need to know about you. You're the superhuman freak who only got in because you daddy's a vampire hunter superstar, okay? So from now on you and I don't talk." She rose her voice at the end. Alright, no more trying to play nice. "Okay, first of all, you don't talk to me like I'm a piece of crap. Second, I suggest you stop trying to be a brat. You won't last long around here if you do." I said, completely worn out. Morgan has moved all her luggage while I was talking to her. "Goodnight Joey," she said not even changing her clothes and covering herself with the blue covers. "It's Joelene." I said. "Whatever. Goodnight." She said, turning her body away from me. I can tell we're going to get along just fine. Like best friends who haven't seen each other in a while. Yeah, right. I decide to take a shower to wipe the junk out of my hair and off my clothes and  climb into bed. I can't help thinking what Morgan's life was back at home. Has she always been this way or only when her Aunt died? Hard to tell because I have a feeling she could of acted like this at home as well. My thoughts finally come to a rest when I drift off into a endlless sleep.



A radio station booms through my alarm clock and I annoyingly turn It off, not wanting to know what time It is. A loud thud hits me right on my head. That sends me flying out of the bed. "What in the hell do you think you're doing!" I yell at Morgan. Morgan points to the clock. "The old man said I had to wake you up 'or else'." She air-quoted the last part and left the room. It's 6:45-wait 6:45? I rush to find a long zebra tank top and ripped jeans with boots and grab my purse and upstairs where Harry and Morgan are waiting for me by the now clean black Tahoe. It looks a lot better now that It isn't drenched in mud. "Looks like I'll be the only one keeping everyone on track today," Morgan says tiredly. "I doubt that,"  I said walking up to the truck. She chuckles faintly and says nothing else. Harry walks up to the truck and says, "Now, Jolene you be sure to watch out for Morgan today and Morgan, try to have fun." She smiles faintly.The truck zooms off the moment Harry is through talking. Rainer has a heavy foot. "Why was Harry in such a rush this morning," I ask. It's really not a surprise because he does It all the time but I'm curious. He's about to go into a meeting to dicuss the murders of Morgan's Aunt and the other rash murders that have been going on recently. At the sound of Morgan's Aunt she jolted from her seat. Uh-oh. "What," she exclaims. "All this time you've known my Aunt was murdered and you didn't tell me about It. How could you," she yells at the end. Now that was wrong. Not telling someone if someone they cared about was murdered, I wouldn't blame her for yelling either. And then she said no more and swallowed herself back into the seat. I feel bad for her. The rest of the way in the car is in silence until we reach the school. The silence is almost distrubing in a way. The silence breaks when Rainer says "You two have a good day." Morgan says nothing but close the door in my face. "What the h-" I said angerly. I told Rainer goodbye and closed the door. As soon as I got to the school door something was different about It. I scaned around and look for any signs and I see a girl and I instantly know. We're in trouble.
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