Chapter 1

Hi. My name is William Ridel. I am just a boy that is 15 years in age. I have white hair and red eyes, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that, my eyes wasn't always blue and I am not exactly a normal 15 year old.

Well, several things happen before I got to know I wasn't really normal, so just follow the story and you'll know exactly why…

The train station at Hathrow City in the Serna Kingdom. Among a sea of blonde, red and brown, there was a white haired boy in the middle. His hand shot up into the air as a man at the front of a giant crowd of teenagers shouted out – what seems to be – his name.

"…William Ridel, Wayne Road, Winston Song, Wendy Street…"

William yawned and smacked his lips. The girl beside him moved away from him in the train station at the sound, giving the boy with white hair. The so called 'Ground Guardian' of the Poistoris Higher Academy was reading names out. Well, obviously William had waited a little too long for his name to come out.

"Alright, move off according to the classes you received in mail last week!" The Guardian said, scattering the crowd. Everyone started moving into their respective classes. William held up his letter like everyone else is doing. "Let's see… I-"

At that instant, someone knocked into him and the letter fell out of William's hand. He rubbed his arm as he looked down to a girl sitting on the ground and rubbing her head. "S-Sorry." She said, picking up her letter and running off. William glared at the girl as she ran off and picked up his letter. "Let's see…" He looked at the text.

"Dark 3. I am finally in Dark class!!" William exclaimed, throwing his fist up.

About 30 meters away, the girl who had knocked into William looked at her letter. "Li- Light Class?! There must be a mistake…" She yelled, looking at it. "Light… 3…"

"I-Its real…" She felt the paper and rubbed her eyes. Then she sighed.

"Engel Stone! How long do you want me to wait?" A girl with pink hair said to the girl with layered black hair. Engel looked up from her letter and smiled. "Ellen! Sorry. I got into Light Class 3."

"Light Class…?! But…" Ellen said.

"Shhh! Not so loud…" Engel muttered. "But now I can be in the same class as you anyway. Just keep it a secret. No doubt everyone will start asking me why am I not in the Dark Class."

"Alright everyone! Settle down!" The Guardian yelled. "Now, cease your babbling and we can proceed to the Academy. Now will Dark Classes please follow Guardian Tima and Light Classes follow me!"

The students soon began filing off with the respective Guardians. Engel looked around. There was about fifteen students in each Light Class. It was ranging from Lower Light 1 to 6, Medium Light 1 to 6 as well and finally Higher Light 1 to 6. The same goes for the Dark Classes, where the levels are the same as well.

Engel groaned. She was in the 3rd worst class in Medium Light Classes. She got 1st position last year in Lower Dark Class 1 – the class where everyone had the highest entrance exam scores. And there is a secret of the Dark Class too.

They're not human.

There might have werewolves and nymphs, the higher grades of demonic beings. The highest and grandest was the family of Vampires. Engel was one of the few that were Vampires in Poistoris Academy, and she is a 2nd Class Vampire herself.

But why did she get into a Light Class?

William Ridel looked around the empty halls of the Dark Towers, where Dark Class lessons were held in the evening. "In the evening? Don't I need to sleep?" William grumbled. The boy behind him smiled and leaned close to him. "You're lucky. You can sleep at night?"

"What do you mean lucky?"

"You'll fall asleep in class, then you won't smell the blood." The boy with green hair said, raising his eyebrows as if William was supposed to know that already.

"B-Blood?"

"By your looks, you're a Vampire right? What class are you?" The boy asked.

"V-Vampire?" William whispered. "What are you talking about?" Suddenly, he got this spine-chilling feeling.

"Okay, Class. You may spilt up in pairs and explore the building. We rebuilt the place so newbies will also get an advantage." The Guardian muttered.

The boy smiled and grabbed William's arm. "You're mine, come on!"

"W-Wait!" William said as the boy dragged him up the stairs. "What's your name?"

"I am Griphen, 3rd Class."

"Thi-Third? And… umm, I am William Ridel. What is your fullname?" William asked. Strange… I know we're in 3rd Class in Dark…Why is he saying it?

Griphen climbed up to a small dusty room at the top of the narrow stairway. "Ah… so they didn't rebuilt my favorite hideout. That's great!" Griphen said. "Close the door behind you, dude. And my fullname is Griphen. Yeah, just Griphen."

William closed the door behind him and he locked it. "Wow… its sure dusty in here." William muttered.

"I am pretty tired but it getting close to evening. The best thing about this room is…" Griphen threw open the rotten curtains of the only window in the small room. William expected the setting sun, but outside the window was a night sky and a full moon that glowed so eerily it gave William the creeps. "Uh… What…? Why is there a moon? Its not night yet!" William said, looking out of the window at the moon that does and doesn't exist at the same time. Griphen laughed.

And William froze.

His fangs were glinting in the moonlight. This was the first time William had seen fangs. "V-Vamp…" William muttered and he was transfixed, unable to move. Suddenly, a warm, burning sensation flared through his entire body and he gasped. Griphen was suddenly alarmed. Griphen looked over at William, his eyes burning red. William's blue eyes reflected that colour as Griphen and him stared at each other.

There was silence.

Then suddenly, Griphen was behind William, embracing the white-haired boy. But William didn't move. His eyes were still wide and crystal blue, as if he was shocked by something he just saw.

"Its against the rules… but you're tempting me! Its impossible for your blood to smell so good when it didn't even break through your skin! You… are not a Vampire, or a human, or anything!" Griphen whispered. Then he paused, breathing on William's neck. William did not answer, but his eyes had softened, and he was like in a deep sleep, as if hypnotized.

"You're human… but… There's something else…" Griphen whispered again and his arms tightened around William's body. He licked William's neck and flicked his sensitive tongue over that pale skin, and finally – he found it. The thumping of the pulse, where the vein was in William's neck. The fangs hovered above the skin, then it spplied pressure and sank with some difficulty into the softness of the flesh.

William's head jerked out, and some emotion returned to his eyes.

"Unngh!"

Engel's head snapped up as the teacher flung the chalk at her. The she looked up with bleary eyes. "How the hell can I keep awake in the day? But its almost evening. Come on!" Engle slapped her face as the teacher went back to teacher. Then Engel stopped. Then suddenly, she had a queasy feeling in his chest. Then she looked out of the window, at the top of the tower.

Where she knew she always hung out with her friends from last year's Dark Class. The small room where they always take their victims to – and have moonlight for all eternity.

CHAPTER 1 END