Vampire King's Pet

Chapter One: Don't Leave Me

Two years earlier..

Avery's POV

The scent of smoke and blood wafted into my nostrils when I aproached my coven where my family and friends lived. Everything was gone. No houses stood, no barns, trees, fruit and vegetable and herbal plants were burnt to ash.

I was only gone for ninty minutes, everything was fine before I left. The coven was bustling with chatter and joyful laughter then my father sent me to the market to grab us some more things for our upcoming blood moon ceremony for the vampires and werewolves.

Each one vastly different from the other.

I walked through the rubble hoping and praying that I could find atleast one person alive. More than anything my twin brother Andrew, but something in my gut was telling me he didn't make it out alive. Just like my parents. I would have found them already if they made it.

The ground was still hot as I walked over the still burning wood and ash that lay beneath the soles of my feet. The flames of the fire had melted the ice cold snow here in Alaska where our small coven of one hundred and fourty-six lived.

I guess it was just one now.

I was only sixteen and had nowhere else to go now that my home was destroyed by the flames.

I turned sharply as something behind me cracked then fell, a sharp breath left me when I saw it was a piece of wall from a house nearby.

That looked like my cousins home. Oh baby Samantha. Tears filled my eyes as I realized my three year old cousin was murdered and I was still breathing. That was so unfair. My chest hurt knowing she didn't have a chance to really live.

The burnt and chard bodies of the people I once called my friends and family lay around my feet as I do my best to avoid stepping on them. I didn't want to disrespect their bodies before I had the chance to send them off to be with the Goddess on the other side of the moon.

The tears that filled my eyes haven't stopped flowing since I arrived back and found this place in flames. I had to use a spell to disperse the fire so that I could find someone, atleast one other person alive left in my coven here.

"Andrew?" I called out to my twin, desperation dripping in my voice. I needed somebody to be alive. I was too young to do all of this on my own.

My bottom lip trembled as the only thing that was heard was the low burning noises and the crackling sounds of the wood from our once beautiful homes, homes that had been built by our ancestors centuries ago.

All of our totems were gone, the family staff and crest was gone. Burned and turned into ash. The only thing that made it out was my coven's talisman. My mother gave it to me for protection when I left for supplies earlier this morning for dad.

I brought my hand up and clutched the cream colored talisman that took the shape of a dove by day, and a deep shade of blue while taking the shape of a raven at night.

The significance of the birds is based on my coven's power and how strong it is. With both the dove and the raven it means we are a neutral coven and take no sides in war between Werewolves and Vampires.

It also means we can be your firend or your worst nightmare because of the neutral aspect of our power.

Well now it's just my power...unless I find a survivor.

I heard sputtering and coughing my ears licked up the sound instantly. It was in the distance but still fairly close to where I could follow the sound.

My heart began racing as I walked faster towards the only building left standing. Our magical armory that was sealed by magic.

Hearing the cough again I bolted to the back of the small building and gasped. "Daniel!!" I screeched as my boyfriend came into view. I rushed by his side and dropped to my knees uncarring that the ground was still burning hot where we were due to the heat of the fire around us.

"What happened here? Everybody is dead!" Nobody could distinguish the pain in my voice as I spoke those devastating words to him.

"Werewolves.." He gasped holding his belly. Red spilled from his parted lips. His hazel eyes gazing at me but I could see his pain. "I'm not going to make it, Avery."

"No don't you dare say goodbye! You promised you would never leave me." My aching heart broke at his words.

Daniel wasn't a Warlock like the men in the coven here. He stumbled upon us as a starving newborn Vampire, my parents took him in and helped him recover properly with herbs and a safe amount of blood a day.

"Please don't leave me too..." My voice wavered at the end, yet he still smiled.

His eyes looked like amber as the sunlight hit them. He hissed when it did, he was a lesser Vampire and couldn't stand out in the sunlight for no more than half an hour at most before it began to bother him.

"I'm no longer healing Av. Even your magic isn't helping the pain so stop hurting yourself." He grabbed my hands and pulled them away from his body. I didn't realize I was doing anything until he had said it and the relief I felt when he made me remove my palms from his chest.

If that was my coven's magic then I can't wear this talisman unless absolutely necessary. I was still learning, but even for my age I was very powerful. Just like my parents and my brother, Andrew.

Daniel's eyes started to close and I freaked and threw my body on his hugging him tightly. I couldn't see his face as he died.

My love, my first love. "I contacted my people when the werewolves first showed up. The King is on his way." He whispered into my ear.

Daniel has said he comes from the biggest Vampire Kingdom in Russia. But when they moved to America they all scattered out after their King's pregnant wife passed. Now the Kingdom has been in disarray since.

And that his King loves a good war.

I didn't want to give a man like that the power to subdue me because I was the sole survivor of my coven and hold more power than even he does around my neck.

"Danny, try and stay a little longer. Atleast until back up gets here?" If the werewolves show up again I would be to upset over his death to do anything to save myself.

Atleast I'm hoping my fight or flight would kick in before that happens.

"I love you, Avery. Don't ever forget..." His voice faded and the hand he had on my back fell.

"No no no.." I cried. "Daniel, wake up." I pleaded moving back and cupping his face. His skin was still warm as I stared at his unmoving form, his eyes half open made my eyes blur as tears filled them. "Danny please?" My chest actually hurt, I had nobody now. Everyone I ever knew and loved was dead and gone.

With my head pressed to his I let out a sob before kissing him one last time. "I will always love you too my love..."

I laid down on the burnt ground and placed my head on Daniel's leg.

As much as I didn't want to I will stay here and wait on the back up that Daniel had called for. He called them because he knew I was either coming home to a coven that was either dead or held hostage.

Unfortunately it was the worse case scenario.

But of course that wasn't so easy because I heard the most terrifying sound ever.

A growl.