Ray Hartly:

"Daddy! Mummy! What's happening?!"

"Ray! It's okay darling, you're going to be fine!" My mother said. The house was a blaze of orange and yellow, the smoke almost choking me. My father's short black hair smelt of smoke as he ran over and hugged me tightly. He pulled away and looked into my eyes, tears running down our faces.

"Ray, promise me this. Promise me that you will never be involed in anything bad. No gangs, no tattoos, no crime." He turned away, searching for mother, "And definaitly no vampires." Then a big black shape dragged him away. We were both screaming, trying to hold on to each other. We managed one last kiss on the cheek before the black shape pulled him into another room, where I heard my fathers last screech.

I looked around, desperatly searching for my mother. I ran into their -- her -- room and ran around to the other side of her bed, where I saw the devastating sight of my dead mother. Her eyes were glazed over like glass, open in shock, and, as I looked over her body, I saw two puncture holes in my darling mother's neck. I fell to my knees and started wailing over my dead mother, the woman who'd taken care of me all the eight years I've been in this world.

I screamed as a shadow loomed over my badly burnt body and grabbed me by my waist, another of them pulling my hair. One of them advanced on me, as I felt a searing pain all over my body, making me have a short spazm. The last thing I heard before darkness took over my body was: "Ah, the younger the sweeter!" An unusually deep voice said. I blacked out.

I jumped as I came back to reality. My black hair dangled in my amber eyes, so I flicked it out, just as I noticed a letter on my desk. It read:

Dear Mr. Hartly,

We have gladly accepted you into Devon College. Attatched is the school list of things you are required to bring, a map, term dates and a list of school rules. School lessons start at 9:15am but you must be in school for 9:00am. The school day ends at 3:30pm.

Yours,

Mr. Almack. [Headmaster]

Well. An anivamp in a school. That was a knew one.

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**Closed for dancingshoes14, Kai-Chan, DaneTrotter, SummerzAngel and xkatiesheperd.**

Characters:

Ray Hartly
15
Race/Animal: Vampire, Wolf
Appearance: just-below-shoulder length black hair, with ginger flecks (never worn in a pony tail), bright amber eyes, sharp teeth as well as fangs, slim, muscular, pale complexion, tall, looks feirce and intimidating, athletic.
Personality: sarcastic, confident, kind, loyal, hates arguments, a surprisingly gentle person, gets angry easily but it goes down just as fast, would put his life on the line for someone he loves.
Other: "turned" when he was only 8 when his family were attacked by vampires, he was the only one to survive so he lives alone in a studio apartment.
Animal abilities: can turn into a wolf whenever he wants, but is naked when he turns back, can beat nearly anything or anyone when he turns, mentally and physically, can run up to 50mph because he's naturally athletic.
~~dancingshoes14

Evangeline Kyu (short for Kyuketsuki meaning vampire in japanese)
16
Race: Vampire/Tiger
Appearance: Waist long wavy auburn hair with a full fringe, pale skin, crystal blue eyes average height and weight
Personality: Fun and confident, adventurous and get's bored easily, loyal, kind, put's other people before herself, no self awareness, sporty, loves athletics.
Animal abilities Can turn into a Tiger, or part tiger*, almost as fast as Ray, eyes turn amber when angry.

* Ears pop up, grows whiskers, sharp nails and senses sharpen. Also grows a tail.
~~Kai-Chan

Tara lockwood
16
Race: Vampire/Raven
Appearance: Very striking in her looks. Has very dark hair, almost black that falls in natural thick waves past her shoulders. Pale complexion, dark eyes that always seem piercing. Roughly 5 foot 6 with a slender figure.
Personality: A little bit of a loner, other people are intimidated by her although she is actually a very calm, caring person. Only has a few friends she holds dear.
Animal abilities: Can change into a Raven at any point. Feels more at home in the outdoors, perfectly content by herself in unusual locations: cliff tops etc.
~~xkatiesheperd

Damien Black
17
Race:Vampire/Cat
Appearance: Raven black hair that falls to his eyebrows, the tips of his hair dyed bright neon blue. He combs the sideburns forward toward his face. Pale, ivory skin. Bright blue eyes with long eyelashes. Roughly 6 foot, athletic build.
Personality: Keeps to himself; he's very quiet and brooding. Nice when you get to know him. Never lets anyone down, and seems to always know what to say to someone. But he can get very awkward and shy.
Animal abilities: Extremely agile, and a very good fighter. Brilliant gymnastic skills, and can run, jump, walk and do anything silently. Likes to sleep in caves or ditches, because he doesn't like being kept in a closed house; he needs a huge way out.
~~DaneTrotter

Raina Fields
16
Race: Vampire/Snowy Owl
Appearence: Naturally pale blonde hair, quite short- like a bob/jaw-length, but very frizzy and sticks up a lot; slate-grey eyes; slighty tanned skin with a few frckles around her nose and cheeks; medium build and short height, pretty average all over; wears reading glasses.
Personality: Sharp-tongued but never really means what she says as she can't help saying the first thing that comes into her head; can be very clingy; has 'ecletic' taste in music and friends- she sometimes finds it hard to make friends but also can find similarities with anybody despite their age or status; quite 'booky'; very faithful, but tries not to pick fights (or debates- as she tends to agree with the other side or back down); can be solitary; has quite a short temper; tries to be an 'all-round good-girl' (but often makes mistakes and blames herself), used to be Christian, but gave it up when she turned.
Other: More recently got turned into a vampire, so is still testing out her abilities and doesn't know the full extent of her strengths; had a bad childhood and doesn't trust many old women (her mother beat her as a child)
Animal Abilities: Intelligent and good at logic puzzles; can jump quite far; finds it thrilling to be up high, and likes to be able to see (what) everybody in the room (is doing).
~~SummerzAngel

updated Apr 28 '11 by dancingshoes14