• Chapter 2


    Night entered the courtyard and looked around. A lone sakura tree stood by itself in the middle of the clearing. She heard a low growl by the tree.
    Night quickly turned to the source. It growled again. “What do you want, intruder?”
    It clearly spoke in wolf, which meant it was a wolf. Night raised her hands to show that she meant no harm. She let out a series of barks and growls which meant, “Don’t worry brother. I have been granted access here by the headmistress.”
    The wolf cocked its head to the side, obviously surprised that she could speak wolf. It cautiously crept towards her and stopped two feet away from her. It sniffed the air and growled. “I smell wolf from you. What are you?”
    Night nodded and barked. “I am a vampire wolf demon. I mean no harm.”
    The wolf nodded and padded up to her. It lowered its head to allow her to pet it, showing her that she had its trust. She knelt down and rubbed its ears. The wolf bounded off into the forest leaving Night alone. She took off her jacket that was the color of dusk.
    She scanned the trees with crimson eyes. A movement caught Night’s eye and she pelted after it. She sniffed the air and scented deer. Night smiled form exhilaration. The deer jumped over rocks, trees, and small streams hoping to confuse Night. Even with the deer doing that Night was quickly catching up. She swerved to the left and as the deer jumped over a fallen tree Night lunged.
    She grabbed the deer by wrapping her arms around its stomach. She sent the deer soothing thoughts to calm it down. Night bared her fangs and lowered her head. She heard a strong pulse of blood and bit into the artery.
    Night heard movement behind her and swiveled her ears. ‘What do you want?’ Night had sent that thought using telepathy. “I didn’t’ mean to disturb your feeding.” Said the person.
    Night unlatched herself from the deer and turned around. NiNie was frowning, clearly in a bad mood.
    “So you kill animals?” she asked. Night shook her head.
    “At least it’s better than feeding on humans.” Said Night softly.
    NiNie sighed and gave Night a small smile. “I guess. You done feeding?”
    Night nodded. “I need to do something first.”
    She stood p and howled. She howled letting the nearby wolves know that there was fresh kill.
    “I never let a good meal go to waste.” Explained Night.
    Her and NiNie walked back to the courtyard. Upon entering, the wolf from earlier growled at NiNie. Night let out a series of barks to let the wolf know that it was alright for NiNie to be there.
    “You going to sleep out here or in the room?” asked NiNie.
    Night thought about it for a while before answering. “I’ll sleep out here. I feel more at home in the courtyard for some reason.” NiNie nodded and then yawned.
    Night chuckled and gave her a hug. “go get some sleep. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
    NiNie nodded and walked through the door that connected the Academy to the courtyard. Night jumped up and climbed into the tree. She leaned back and stared at the crescent moon. She soon closed her eyes and fell asleep.

    Around dawn, Night woke up. She jumped down from the tree and stretched.
    “You look beautiful when you’re asleep.”
    Night jumped back and turned towards Lance. “What are you doing here?” asked Night, her eyes narrowed.
    Lance shrugged. “I was talking to Lady Mitsuru. I asked her where you were and she told me either here or in your room with NiNie.” He said. “So I decided to check here first.”
    Night nodded. “Ok, that explains how you knew where I was at, but that doesn’t tell me how you were able to enter.”
    “What do you mean?” Lance asked confused.
    “Only people with my permission are allowed here.” She explained.
    “Oh….” Lance had a small smile on his face. Then in a few minutes he starts to laugh. “I should tell you but Lady Mitsuru granted me the same thing. You’re not the only one with feeding problems you know.”
    Night stared at him and quickly shook his head. “Sorry, I didn’t know.” She said
    Lance shrugged. “It’s alright. It happened last year, but that vampire got killed by some damn vampire hunters.”
    Night shuddered. During her time that she went to the human school she had to keep her vampire properties hidden. “They can go ******** themselves for all I care.” Replied Night.
    Lance laughed and nodded. “I couldn’t have said it better myself.”
    Both Lance and Night laughed. They stayed out in the courtyard talking about random things. The wolf that Night had met the day before came up to Lance and licked him on the face. Lance had named the wolf Shoun, which meant ‘Shadow’ in the wolf language.
    They stayed until eight playing wolf games.

    Night was walking down the hallways when she ran into NiNie.
    “I heard that Lance watched you last night.” She whispered. Night stared at her speechless.
    “What? The window was open.” Night breathed a sigh of relief.
    “Good, I thought everyone in the Academy knew… It would suck if that red head found out.” Replied Night.
    “What did the red head look like?” asked NiNie.
    “Well, she had long silky red hair, and some sort of skank outfit on. I think it was a dark purple.” NiNie stared at Night in shock.
    “You mean that you met….” Her voice dropped down to a whisper. “Emma?”
    Night nodded. “Yeah, I was on the way to our room yesterday and Lance and I ran into each other. He helped me pick up my stuff and ran off to Lady Mitsuru’s office. And the next thing I know is that b***h knocked all my stuff out of my arms. She even told me to stay away from Lance because he was out of my league.”
    NiNie didn’t say anything. She looked around and stopped in front of a door. “Well this is Demonic History.” She said opening the door.
    Night walked through it and stopped. There were already many demons there. She looked around and found Emma sitting next to Lance. Night made a low growling noise in the back of her throat and followed NiNie towards the back of the class. NiNie sat down next to a guy who seemed to be writing a note.
    “Vash, are you writing to Suto again?” asked NiNie.
    Vash nodded and drew a couple of heartagrams. NiNie noticed Night’s expression and laughed. “I’m sorry. Vash is gay.” She said.
    Vash frowned at her. “Well you didn’t need to say it like that. She’ll think of me as a freak.” He replied.
    Night shook her head. “I don’t think of you like that. I’ve always wanted to meet a gay person.” Vash smiled. He turned his head toward the teacher.
    “Today during Demonic History we are going to discuss the wolf demons. Who here knows what they do during their spare time?” asked the teacher.
    Night looked to see Emma raise her had. “Wolf demons lay around all day.” She said with a sneer.
    “I’m sorry but that’s not it. Anyone else?” night raised her hand. The teacher pointed at her and nodded.
    “Well they usually go out and hunt. Sometimes for fun but mostly to feed themselves.” She said.
    “Go on.” Said the teacher.
    Night nodded. “If there is more than one wolf demon then they go and hold competitions. They love to show their skills on hunting, how fast they run, and how well they can fight.”
    NiNie and Vash smiled while Emma scowled. Night looked to see if Lance was looking at her, but found him hunched over a piece of paper.
    After another fifty minutes of discussing wolf demons the class was finally dismissed.
    NiNie and Vash had to go to the ‘how to change into your animal forms’ class so they went in a different direction. Someone tapped Night on the shoulder and her reaction was surprising. She whirled around and knocked the person into the wall. She dropped her things and pounced on him, holding a kunai against his neck.