Chapter 3

Aasira's P.O.V

The sound of metal hitting metal woke everyone in the cell up, including me. I quickly looked around the cell, then to the guard that had scraped the cell bars with his sword.

"Fighter 242, time to fight." He spoke loudly as he looked at his clip board.

I stood up, ready to face that poor excuse of a king. I am so ready to kill him. Once the cell door opened I calmly walked out and across the hall to the armor room.

I picked up the same sword I had used yesterday. Something felt weird about the grip. I studied it carefully. It felt better, it was comfortable in my hand. They must have fixed it, I rolled my eyes at the thought.

I stood happily near the gate ready to face their king. The guard looked at me, up and down, studying me.

"Aasira Cruz?" He finally asked.

"the one and only" I said fixing my hair.

Once the gate opened, I walked through the dark tunnel, the light at the end of the tunnel transported me to the arena. Once Glitter saw me she began yelled into the mic getting the crowd ready.

"And here is our winner from last week Aasira Cruz!" The vampires hissed at me in disgust, throwing trash into the arena.

I looked up to the balcony, where the king sat on his throne. He stared at me as a girl with light gray hair sat on the chair next to him, trying to get his attention, but his attention was on me. Why did this make me happy?

I bowed to him mockingly, which made him slightly smile as his face rested on his fist. My eyes caught the eyes of the girl with white hair. She was angry maybe even jealous, of me! I smiled at her and bowed mockingly. Her eyes turned a dark shade of red, she was mad now.

"And our next competitor, William!" Glitter spoke as the vampires cheered for this so called William.

He walked calmly into the arena. He had long black hair, his eyes were purple(only half purebloods have these special different eye colors), his skin was lightly tanned, muscular, skinny, tall, He stood in front of me in the matter of 2 seconds, he was about 3-4 inches taller than me.

"Nice to meet you Aasira, I've heard so much about you." He spoke holding his hand out for me to take it, I refused and swung my sword at him, he held the tip of the sword, the sword didn't puncture his skin.

Shock hit me and everyone in the stands. Everyone gasped. I looked at the king. He was smiling, he was up to something and I know it!

"Now now I was only trying to be nice." William spoke gently.

"I don't need your sympathy you filthy vampire." I spat.

"I was only trying to be nice." He spoke with a gentle smile.

William let go of the sword and took a step back closing his eyes.

I charged towards him, I was about to stab him and suddenly I was back to the night my father died.

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A younger version of me hid behind a tree in the holy forest.

"Aww little girl are you lost." A young man said grabbing my younger selves shoulder. He was definitely a vampire.

Young me quickly hit his stomach hard and started running. I looked back waiting to see if the vampire was running after me. This was exactly like my memory. I couldn't control what I did, I just watched from a first-person perspective.

Still running I ran into something that felt like a wall, I looked up and noticed it was him, the same vampire! I couldn't see his face just his light purple eyes.

He held onto my shoulders tightly not letting me go or struggle out. He picked me up and carried me deeper into the woods, towards the Grand Oak Tree. On our walk to the Oak Tree were dead bodies laid across the trail. They killed the tribe members, now all that was left is the tribe elders, and my father.

There next to the Grand Oak Tree, was my father, John Cruz and the tribe elders were on their knees, their hands tied up behind their back.

"Don't hurt her!" My father yelled to the man that carried me. The other tribe elders tried getting on their feet, they were knocked back down on their knees by the vampires that stood behind them.

"Oh we aren't going to hurt her, she's going to watch you all die." A man with blond hair walked out of the shadows.

My eyes caught his. He disappeared for a second then appeared in front of me, he raised his hand and the vampire that carried me put me down on my feet and walked next to the other vampires.

The man with blond hair got on one knee to be the same height as me. He held onto my chin and took out a knife from his pocket.

"Don't you dare hurt her!" I heard my father yell, which startled me. A tear ran down my cheek.

"No need to cry little one, this wont even hurt okay?"

I closed my eyes. He cut a small part of my neck. warm blood from my neck dripped down.

The man licked the blood clean, a few tears left my eyes.

"Human children are always the sweetest." He said standing up licking the blood off the knife while the other vampires laughed at his 'joke'.

"It's againts the vampire law to kill children so we will not kill her." He assured my father and the tribe elders. the vampires began to laugh at his comment.