Midnight Feeding By: Autumn Fields

A/N: Okay, this is the first in my series of short stories that I have written during fourth period when I should have been listening to my geometry teacher. They are all meant to just work on my writing skills and some suck really bad. If you like my writing, check for updates regularly because I will constantly be writing in class when I'm not supposed to. Here's number one.

Raven looked up just in time to see three or four figures dressed completely in black fall to the ground in front of her. She hissed wildly, rolling over onto her stomach, barely missing the piece of wood that was being thrust in her direction. She rolled forward, popping up onto her feet and turning around to face her attackers.
They wore black leggings and tight black shirts, a boy and two girls. The boy's face was set, his chocolate brown bangs falling into his dark eyes. His build was muscular, and he looked to be not a day over 16. The girl on his left side was the one with the sharp wooden stake in hand. She had silver blonde hair that was pulled back into a tight bun and piercing blue eyes. She was tall and lean and looked to be around 18. The last was definitely the other's sister. She had the same face and hair color. Her silvery hair fell in a mess around her face, touching past her shoulders. She was much shorter, and skinnier, and looked as id she were nearly 14.
Raven took this all in in the three seconds she had before the first girl lunged out at her again. She spun and kicked, knocking the stake out of her hand and to the ground. She barely had time to land before the boy was on her, trying to beat her to the ground. She took his fist in her hand as it flew towards her face, twisting it around and snapping his wrist. He let out a cry of agony as he fell to the ground in shock.
'One down, two to go!' she thought, turning around to climb up the wall and jump onto the balcony of a nearby building. She smiled looking down on the scene, crouching quietly like a cat.
The oldest girl was tending to the boy. The younger one had picked up the stake and was standing at the bottom of the building.
"Come down here, you filthy piece of bloodsucking scum!" she yelled, in a voice that was too mature for her build.
Raven bared her teeth, licking her fangs venomously. "Such strong words for such a simple being. You don't even know anything about me." Her voice was cool, and her smile implied she was ready for anything.
"I know that you're a killer, and that's enough to make me hate you!" she said, and her voice was icy cold.
Raven laughed a cool, collected tone. "My dear girl, so are you." She started to walk along the railing of the balcony, pacing slowly, staring at the girl.
The older one stood up, bringing the boy up with her. Her piercing eyes stared holes through the pacing vampire.
"Oh yeah? Mind telling me how?"
They all three stood together, glaring up at Raven, who stopped and sat down, hanging her feet over the edge.
"You kill bugs, spiders, and others just like you kill cows, pigs, and infinite other breeds of animals," Raven explained calmly.
"That's different! They're lesser beings, and we need to eat to survive!"
Raven looked calmly down at their faces, full of defiance, and said, in a voice you might use to calm a baby, "Well so do I."
In an instant she was on top of the older girl, and then they were rising up. Raven's long sharp fangs bit into her neck and sunk deep, extracting rich warm blood from deep inside of her. A rush of adrenaline flowed through Raven's body, as they rose higher into the air, the girl in her arms struggling just slightly. Her blood filled her body, blinding her temporarily, rushing through her veins, singing in her ears. The girl struggled to get free one last time, and suddenly fell, limp in her arms.
Raven extracted her fangs from the girl's neck and looked down to the two screaming on the ground. She was a good 50 feet above them, and was dropping fast. She landed on the ground swiftly, kneeling before the two mortals.
The young girl's face was a mess of horror and disbelief. She had hold of the boy's bent hand and was squeezing it tightly. The boy had a similar look on his face, and his eyes seemed glazed over.
Raven stood before them to her full height, and looked directly in to the young girl's eyes, her older sister's body clenched tightly in her arms, lifeless. A pool of blood dripped from her neck to the ground in front of them and glistened in the moonlight.
"Do you understand the food chain, mortal? Animals eat the plants, you eat the animals, and I eat you. Welcome to reality, darling. Learn to live with it, or die along in it." She dropped the girl's body in front of them, their eyes following the body to the ground. When they looked back up, she was gone.
Picking up the body from the blood-strewn ground, the boy blinked back tears of sorrow. Four years they had sought to find a vampire, and in one night his entire life was ruined.