ChapterSeventeen: Native Invasion

Halloween. October 2155

It's now Halloween evening. The entire school and all their friends' friends arrived at Kylie's swanky house. All of the girls wore their flashiest and shortest cocktail dresses; while all the boys wore their leather tuxes with some kind of embroidery on their shoulders, from chains to pyramid studs. Of course, all of the former Undergrounders wore masks with specialized lenses to protect their eyes.

Liam and Lance entered the house. Liam was in his flashiest tux while Lance looked, well, plain. Liam pretty much had to drag Lance to the party. The party looked like an indoor rave with nothing but strobelights. The windows were all blacked out. Everyone was dancing while holding their spiked drinks in their hands.

Liam grinned in excitement, despite feeling a horrible feeling in stomach, enough to make him want to hurl. He couldn't deduce anything. He felt helpless and vulnerable as a Normal. Still, he wanted to enjoy the party. He was determined to be mated to Kylie. He could just feel it that she was his mate. He never told this to Lance. His moody twin would probably shoot him down, as he's done numerous times.

At the same time, Hannah and James entered the house. Hannah wore her hot pink cocktail dress with a torn up pantyhose, and a black leather shrug with spikes on the shoulders. James' tux was full of leather, and also had spikes on his shoulders. They were practically dressed to kill anyone that would stop the party. Their masks were a mixture of black and silver, almost looked like they were made of steel. Their outfits were actually based on the fashion trends back on the Surface Earth.

The couple were entranced by the flashing lights and the dub-EDM blasting throughout the house. It was basically a makeshift nightclub for high schoolers, and maybe for college students that somehow snuck into the party.

Hannah then yelled at James as the music was very loud, "Since we're inside, should we take off the lenses off of our masks?"

James yelled back, "Yeah!"

The two then took off of their masks, and poked out the lenses from their masks. The house was dark enough so their eyes wouldn't be damaged. They then put back their masks on, and they shared an excited grin at each other.

Outside the house, the sun was still somewhat out, but it was setting. Cassie was sitting on her car as she kept checking on her phone. She was waiting for Damon to show up. The only person she saw was Lilly, who was wearing her very pink dress. She was always dressed more innocently than everyone else. Everyone would wear clothes that came straight from a post-apocalyptic movie; but Lilly looked like she belonged to much simpler, different time period. Still, Lilly was determined to be claimed at the party. She had a good feeling she was going to get claimed. Cassie deduced the same thing, but there was nothing to stop the severely nauseous feeling in her stomach.

As she waited, she saw Damon skateboarding up to the house. His stature looked lifeless and cold, as if he had other things on his mind. Cassie walked up to him, and she hugged him. He just lightly gave her a pat on her back. She pulled away, and looked at him. She tried to deduce him, but she couldn't, but she knew something was off.

She asked him, "Damon, what's wrong? You seem quite off."

Damon shook his head, and said to her in German in monotone, "Sie werden die Wahrheit über mich wissen heute Abend."

She looked at him with a raised eyebrow. Then he walked into the house, leaving her confused. Damon was definitely acting very off. Still, she followed him into the house. She was bombarded with tons of flashing lights.

She soon bumped into Lilly by accident. Lilly turned to face her, and gave her a big, toothy grin. Cassie smiled, "You look quite happy."

Lilly replied, "I just told you! I'm getting a mate tonight! Besides, this party is way cooler than Amanda's parties! I can see why Kylie's parties are the most talked about on O.N.E.!"

Cassie sighed, and then mindlinked her, Something very bad is going to happen. I can feel it in my stomach. It's making me want to puke.

Lilly also sighed, and mindlinked, I know what you mean. I can't deduce anything, but I have a bad feeling as well.

With that, both girls hugged each other. They both felt fear that something bad will happen, but they couldn't deduce what it was. They just knew something was going to happen at the party.

A few hours into the party, everyone has arrived and then some. The party had gotten wilder and crazier. Some of the former Undergrounders were getting buzzed while the Gen-Mods were as sober as ever. Alcohol didn't affect them as much as it does for the Normals.

Yet, everyone showed up except for Kylie. She never showed her face to anyone. Sure, she could've been wearing a mask as she walked around, but everyone who went to school with her knew she would always come best-dressed compared to everyone else.

Kylie finally emerged downstairs. She wore a blood-red cocktail dress. It was the shortest dress out of all the other girls' dresses. Her mask was very elaborate with red crystals and silver fringes. She wore her highest, strappy heels. She wore fingerless leather gloves. Her brown hair was wavy and up at the same time.

She stopped at the foot of the stairs. She looked at everyone with a proud smirk on her face. Everyone was cheering for her arrival. Kylie then took out a megaphone, and announced, "I see everyone is here now, including your Queen Kylie Reich. Now the party can really begin. Dance."

Everyone cheered once again. Kylie, on the other hand, just stood there a smirk. She then whispered to herself, "Three...two...one..."

Suddenly, loud, inhuman growls were emitted throughout the house. Everyone stopped dancing to the heart-pumping dub-EDM blasting though the house. The party-goers looked around, trying to find out where the growls came from. Suddenly, they heard the growls even louder. They finally saw what was making the growls...and they were some of the party-goers with their bruised jaws and their bandaged fingertips, except they now have sharp fangs and sharp nails!

James saw one of them next to him. He screamed, "NATIVES!!!!"

The GH569 teens knew what that mean, so they began running. But everyone else, they stood there, confused. Some of the GH569 teens told them to start running now. So they did.

Cassie ran around the house, looking for Damon. She kept yelling for his name as she took off her mask. At this point, she didn't feel the nauseating feeling anymore, but she was feeling something. She tried to deduce where Damon was, but she before she could, she heard a low growl behind her. She turned to see who it was. She gasped at who it was.

Damon was standing there in front of her. His jaw was completely healed, but he was also baring what looked like vampire fangs.

Cassie, trying her best not to show fear, said to him, "Damon, what's going on here? What are you doing?"

He then ripped off his mask, and threw it to the floor. Cassie noticed his eyes. They weren't a dull, almost colorless blue anymore. His eyes were completely blacked out, and his pupils were blood-red. This made Cassie even more scared as she walked back into the kitchen. She kept her eyes on him, staring into his demonic eyes.

As she kept walking backwards slowly, Damon growled at her, "MINE!"

She was confused when she heard that. Before she could figure out what he meant, he pounced on her, and sunk his teeth into the croak of her neck, as if he was marking her! Cassie groaned. A part of her wanted to push him off, but another part of her told not to.

After a minute, Damon pulled away. He stared at her a second, and then he passed out. Cassie's breaths were short as a mixture of emotions raced through her. She took out her phone to look at what he did to her. There was no blood. Just a tattoo with his initials on it. Cassie touched the mark he gave her, and she looked at the passed out boy. What is he? she thought to herself.

At the same time, Liam was trying to find Kylie. He was hoping she wasn't hurt by the Natives. His mind was restless as many thoughts ran through his head. Like, how did the Natives get into the fenced-in Parisian? There was no way the Natives could get in. The commuter trains weren't connected to the Native cities. None of this made any sense.

As he kept running around, he found Kylie. She held her mask in her hands while she bared her fangs at him. Her eyes were also blacked out with red pupils. Liam wasn't sure what to make of her...new appearance. He felt a pull towards her. His own pupils dilated greatly for her. It was his body telling him, and showing her, that Kylie was his mate.

He walked up to her slowly. As he was about to embrace her, she marked him roughly as she sunk her teeth into him. Liam felt a slight pain in the croak of his neck. He held her and rubbed her back gently. It seemed to calm her down a bit. She pulled away. She tried to keep her eyes open, but fainted in his arms.

Liam looked up at the stairs. He picked her up gently, and slowly walked up the stairs. He walked by the doors, trying to figure out which room was hers. He peaked into one of the rooms. He saw posters of the latest boy bands and teen male celebrities. He knew she was into that stuff, so he figured this room as hers. He laid her down on the bed gently. He grabbed a chair, and sat next to her. He gently stroked her hair as he thought to himself, What is she?

At the same time, Hannah locked herself in the bathroom. She was in the bathtub, trying to get away from the Natives as much as possible. Or something like that. She wasn't sure what they were. Then she thought about James. She realized he was still out amongst the animalistic Natives. So she texted him, "Where are you?"

Suddenly, she heard hard banging on the door. She scooched further into the corner of the bathtub. She tried her best to not show fear, but it was spilling out. She kept an eye on the door until it was burst open. She recognized the boy from a rival high school. He was in the American Football team. He was the quarterback. He was the Mason Jameson. He was quite attractive with his perfectly coiffed hair and his leather tux.

Yet, he was clearly a Native with his fangs and his sharp nails. She looked at his eyes, and noticed they were blacked out with red pupils. Hannah never read anything about that concerning the Natives. Not even the sketches she saw indicated their unusual eyes.

She saw him looking around the room. She tried her best to be as quiet as possible. Then their eyes met. Hannah stayed as still as possible, hoping Mason wouldn't see her. But unfortunately, he did as he walked up to her. He picked her up, and carried her over his shoulder. With that, she began kicking him and screaming. She screamed as loud as she should for James' name.

At the same time, James was hiding in a tiny closet. He wanted to out and find Hannah, but he wasn't sure what happened to her. Suddenly, he got a text from her. He read her questions. That gave him a bit of hope. So he jumped out of the closet.

Then he heard screams. He recognized them to be Hannah's. He screamed back by calling out her name. He soon saw her being carried off by some guy. As he ran up to them, he felt teeth and some liquid into his shoulder. He screamed in pain. Then he passed out onto the floor.

As for Hannah, she saw what just happened. A Native just bit James! She screamed, demanded to be let go. But Mason didn't listen to her. Instead he carried her to his car. By now it was night. He threw her into the car. He got in the driver's seat, and drove off recklessly.