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The stakes are raised high...

A/N: 7/3/12 I decided to go over this and re-do this. The grammar and punctuation was horrible, so. Here we are. I hope that you guys still liked it with all the badness in here. :)

I fell through the air hearing everybody screaming my name was torture. But it was all necessary. Mr. Crepsley was louder than all the others combined.

"DARREN!"

I knew that I wouldn't survive. And I think that they knew that too.

So long world. thanks for everything you gave me.

And then I felt the wood slice through me and I knew that I was going to die.

A few days earlier

Breakfast at the mountain could be pretty weird sometimes. Take today for example. Mr. Crepsley was talking to Seba about something called " The Red Change." When I asked what that was, he glanced at me for a second, then he just turned back and started to talk to him again. Why did he always do that? Lately he hasn't been talking to me. He was talking to everybody but me. I wanted to know why he refused to talk to me.

Since today was pretty being uneventful as ever, I went to the game hall to see if somebody wanted to spar on the bars or something.

When I saw Vanez fighting I ran over to see if he wanted to fight. "Sorry Daren, I'd love to but I cant. Everybody is getting ready for The Red Change. Of course, you know all about that from Larten." Vanez said, wiping sweat off of his forehead.

"Um...no he hasn't told me anything about this. Can you?" I asked, with some hope that he could tell me something about this "Red change."

Vanez suddenly looked seriously nervous. "Wait, he hasn't told you anything about The Red Change?"

"No...?" I said. I was confused. Should he have told me about it?

"If he hasn't told you anything, I don't think I should either." He said, quickly. He took off running to who knows where, leaving me all alone,for the second time today, and I felt like the odd one out. What's the big deal with the Red Change? It's- well...What is it? Why is everybody so secretive about this?

Later that day,after I had asked almost every vampire I'd seen what the red change was, they just got up rather quickly and left me and my questions by ourselves, the vampire princes called everybody down to the hall of princes. When I got there, almost every vampire was there already, so I just focused to find somebody I see. I found the 3 princes, standing with a cup of something red that was fizzing. I tried to figure out what it was because I could tell straight away that that wasn't blood.

"Welcome everybody. Welcome to another Red Change day. I hope that everybody had a pleasant 100 years since last time?" Paris yelled,but he didn't need to. Everybody looked absolutely terrified,as if something bad is going to happen. Maybe it was. Maybe it was so terrible that all the vampires were scarred of it!

Paris went on with the speech during which I found Mr. Crepsley across the room. I tried to catch his eye, but he didn't seem to be looking for me. Yet again.

Wow. Thanks so much old man. I thought you'd be at least glancing around for me. Not just focused on Paris. Thanks. I thought with some attitude. I was not one of the happiest half-vampires at the moment.

After Paris finished his speech and all the vampires drank the red fizz, Mr. Crepsley finally found me. When he did, he looked really worried for some reason. And I don't mean, like how some kids gonna fail a math test,I mean how a mom sees a kid about to fall of the edge of a cliff or something. He looked THAT worried. He called over the crowd ,pushing the other vampires out of his way, trying to get to me. I stayed where I was, while all the other vampires drifted off somewhere else.

"What are you doing here?" he demanded when he had finally reached me.

"Me? I just followed the crowd. Why? Is there a probl-" I started to ask innocently, when he interrupted me.

"YES there is a problem. You are not suppose to be here." He said as he glanced around the room. He looked really scared now.

"Mr. Crepsley... what is the red change?" I had to know, I needed answers. All of this, was just too crazy. A speech, for a few seconds, then we all drank some liquid. Was that really a reason to call all of the vampires here?

"Darren, listen to me, okay? You were not included in this because it is when we ch-" He tried to explain what was going on-finally!- when he started screaming at the top of his lungs as did almost every body else.

Except the odd one out. Except for the one that wasn't suppose to be here. Except for the one that was a half vampire. Except for me. As they all slowly got up, I noticed something right off the bat, they weren't vampires anymore. I couldn't smell any thing vampire-y in their veins.

They were now human.

100% human.