Hailee Winds's Story

Hailee was tired and annoyed at the people who kept staring at her. She was hungry and annoyed. She walked along the side of the cage pacing. Her eyes were black in anger and irritation. She thought of how she had gotten here and how much she missed her brother. She was very sad her eyes turned from black to green. Green wasn't new it started changing to that color when her brother was taken away and now whenever she thinks of the color she gets sad and reminded of how sad and lonely she feels without him.

Suddenly she felt someone flick her skirt up and a pinch on her rear deep evil laughing sound from the other side of the cage. She jumped and screamed softly running away to the back of the cage. She fell and sat on the ground crying softly to herself her eyes blue and green. "Leave me alone please!" She yelled at the two guys. They started to whisper scary things to her and the made biting and kissing noises. She turned away from them. "You stupid humans are dumb. Just go away." she said, getting up and grabbing onto the cage clawing at them as they mocked her. She growled at them.They pushed her back and she fell to the bottom. They opened a hatch on a glass wall. They opened her cage door leading only into the enclosure. They poked her and pushed her into the enclosure by the butt. She stumbled ingot he glass cage and looked around and saw two other people inside. She leaned against the wall still sitting on the ground. Her eyes were bright blue and she was frightened.

Alex turned at the sound of clanking metal and a girl not much younger than him walk in then instantly lay against the wall. He rushed over to her. "Hey you okay" he extended his hand "They suck don't they " he smiled a bit. "I'm Alex by the way and that little bundle of death is Delta and what is your name m'lady ?" he wanted to make her somewhat friendly she was bound to be better at conversation than a sixteen year old obsessed with death. "You look scared are you okay ?" he asked seeing the fear and anger on her face , him trying to be gentle with her.

Delta turned her gaze away from the werewolf enclosure at the sound of the hatch snapping open. Expecting to see a lab coat clad scientist entering to take her or Alex away again to prick and poke at them, her eyes were instead greeted with a girl with long ginger hair being forced into the cage. Another vampire?

Alex wasted no time in rushing over to greet her. Delta trudged over as well, just in time to catch Alex introducing them.

"I'm Alex by the way, and that little bundle of death is Delta and what is your name m'lady?" Delta smirked at how he referred to her. She dropped to her knees to get a better look at the girl. Her eyes were a vibrant blue color and she could easily detect fear in them.

"Hellooo~" Delta greeted.

Hailee was suddenly rushed up to by a guy who seemed to be a bit older than herself. She looked up at him. She looked him over and saw that he was also a vampire as was she. He looked very handsome and nice to her "Hey you okay" he extended his hand "They suck don't they. I'm Alex by the way and that little bundle of death is Delta and what is your name m'lady?" He said to her with a smile. Hailee placed her in his softly lightly. As she slowly stood up she replied in a soft shy voice, "My names is Hailee. Its nice to meet you both." She offered them a soft smile as her eyes turned a soft orange for she felt shy and embarrassed at her predicament. "You look scared are you okay?" Alex asked. Funny this guy seemed generally concerned about her. She stared at him as she slowly stood up still holding his hand. "Yea I kinda am...some of the men who brought me here touched me and did scary things." She looked at Delta then at Alex and bit her lip embarrassed.

Alex sighed a bit hearing about Haliee's expiriance. "Yeah those are humans, evil strange beings. " he thought about the old legend how each of the species were once in that shape but each changed because of their pursuit. The mountain tribe searched for speed and grace so the studied the bat graceful and free. The hill tribe strove to be one with nature so they became one with the wolves. The forest tribe wanted the ultimate hunt so they trained their ears and body's to do so. The canyon tribe saught gold mounds of gold so they dug and grew smaller to fit into the smaller shafts. The swamp tribe saught after power so they trained and grew large and powerful. But the grasslands tribe wanted knowledge and left the island and eventually thought were dead until now.

He noticed Hailed's eyes change but decided to ignore it and he walked back a bit. "Well anyways welcome to hell population us so yeah make yourself at home and try not to go insane or let them break your sense of freedom. " he smiled back then walked as some of the people were amazed at the sight of her coming in the cage as well. Then he noticed the man in a white coat walk past and Alex wanted thought of how to kill him. He saw him everytime he wasn't in his damn cage since he had been brought here.

Suddenly she heard her dad’s voice call “Nadelin! Could you come here please?” Nad growled, considering yelling back she was too busy, but instead shouted, “Alright Dad, coming!” With a final, apologetic glance at the elf she turned and walked to where her dad stood. He was as he had been since he had come to such great fortune; surronded by reporters and pressed from answers from all sides. Just the way he liked.

He stood a short distance from the werewolf cage, a couple of feet at most. This was obviously close enough for the reporters to get some good shots of both the people and massive wolves that were caged behind her father. In addition to the eye popping backdrop, this was directly across from the vampire exibit. Since his recent success her dad was as he usually was; surrounded by a throng of reporters. “What's up Daddy?” she asked him in a chipper voice her had instructed her to use in the face of the cameras. He smiled, putting his arm around her shoulders and pulling her into a sideways hug. Nad squirmed uncomfortably, her perkiness faultering against his side, but his arm held a vice-like grip on her shoulder. Oh boy, here came the "I-love-my-daughter" speech.

“This is my daughter Nadelin,” her father beamed while Nadelin tried to force her mouth into a weak smile. “I do this every day for her. It’s hard sacrificing so much time to my work but since her mother left us everyday life has been hard.” The reporters kept talking and Nad mumbled answers to the few questions in her direction. Finally her dad’s grip loosened enough she could slip out from under his arm. “Hey Dad, I’m going to go get some cotton candy, okay?” Nad said with a most fake cheerful smile she could compose. “Sure dear. Here,” He replied happily, handed her some money. Then Nad turned to walk back to the elf, the smile dropping from her face like a two ton weight.

“And Nadelin,” his voiced called, making her stop in her tracks and turn back around. The false smile had returned as if it had never left. His voice was light but his eyes were stone serious; the way they always got when he was threatening someone. “Stay away from the elf exhibit please sweetie. You’re upsetting it.” Nad’s shoulder’s stiffed but she couldn’t look away from his warning gaze. Unable to avoid defeat she beamed. “Yes father.” Nad chimed, then turned away. Her eyes were narrowed in anger and she slouched a little, dropping her eyes to the pavement. The accursed smile she had worn was gone as well as the faked craving for cotton candy. Instead she walked in the opposite direction, heading towards the “Vampire” cage in an attempt to get further away from her fame-struck father. If his career hadn't eaten all his humanity, his sudden fame was going to finish it off.

Hailee looked at Alex and smiled a bit confused by his joke but understood what he met. She know that he and Delta had been through something similar just like she had been. "Thanks I guess. Well what do you guys do for fun or exercise and stuff?" Being in a tiny crate and cages had made her very restless. She needed to start running or socializing with actual people, not the monsters and evil scary men that brought her here against her own free will. She started to bounce up and down in an eager way to get to start exerting all the anger, fear, hate, and longing to be out. She looked at Alex and Delta hoping they would say yes and give her some good ideas.

"Thanks I guess. Well what do you guys do for fun or exercise and stuff?" The new arrival to the vampire cage asked. Alex responded with a solemn shake of his head.

"As far as exercise goes...this place is a little cramped..." Delta pursed her lips slightly, hand perching on her hip. Her eyes slid toward the werewolf enclosure across from theirs. "But you could always do what that werewolf is doing." She looked back at the other girl, her expression brightening noticeably. "And as for fun, I'm an awesome conversation partner if I do say so myself." She boasted, a broad smile splitting her face.

The sound of the door that lead into the cage unlatching once again interrupted the interractions of the residents of the vampire enclosure. Delta swiveled around to see a scientist enter. In a flash Alex was behind him, pushing the door shut before lunging at him, putting an arm around him to hold him in place, all the while hissing and screaching.

"W-what do you want?" The scientist stammered, a look of horror on his face.

"Get me your leader in the next five minutes or I will not hesitate to kill you." Alex threatened. Delta's eyes flashed with excitement the moment the word 'kill' found its way into the sentence.

"Ooh! This just got really exciting!" She beamed. "Oh, oh! Can I help kill him?"

"C-certainly, Mr. vampire." The scientist agreed. Out of the corner of her eye Delta saw the door to the enclosure re-open and another human leaned in, firing a tranquilizer directly into Alex's neck. As Alex grabebd for his neck both of the humans fleed.

"Come back and fight like a maa..." Before the blonde haired vampire could finish his sentence he wilted into the ground. Delta watched, putting on a look of dissapointment.

"Aw, dammit."

Hailee saw Alex grab the human and threaten him with his life. Then suddenly another human with a gun came and shot a tranqulizer dart into his neck. Hailee then witnessed Alex falling to the ground in a daze. "Alex!" she ran up to him and took the dart out quickly. She held his head up and looked down at him with luminous glowin blue eyes. She looked at him sadly, and took off her jacket which she then proceeded to put under his head as a make shift pillow. She stood up her eyes dark black and she grew her wings. Even though she didn't know Alex or delta that much she knew they were probably to be her new family.

Hailee flew in the blink of an eye she was at the scary hatch clawing at it angrily glaring and hissing at the humans behind it on the other side. She stood at the doorway with her wings spread out high an wide to make herself look bigger even though she was a small girl. She stood guarding the door so no one else could come in without her attacking them. "you assholes leave us be! I swear if I get out of here I'll rip you all to shreds!!" she enunciated the last sentence and the humans who attacked Alex ran off to another part o the zoo like the cowards they all are and always will be.

Alex woke back up a few minutes after he had the dart in his neck. He sat up then looked down his head resting on Haille's jacket. He rubbed his head then looked around. Delta sat dispopointed again and Hailee was scratching at the door as humans fled with terror. He smirked then stood up and put his hand on the angry vampires shoulder. He shook and he looked pale and weak. " You can't get them they have too many tools to keep us in here. " he said in a weak voice. " I'm gonna go lie down for a bit. Oh and thank you Hailee. " he gave her a weak smile then walked to his hommack and plopped down. He saw a few humans by the elf tank and shook his head. "They can love eachother but not us. " he closed his eyes then fell back asleep.

Hailee was scratching angrily at the door as the humans fled like Scaredy cats. Then suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder and she immediately calmed down when she knew and saw that it was Alexs fingers and palm. She turned around and saw him shaking and paler than usual as he spoke to her softly but weakly,"You can't get them they have to many tools to keep us in here. I'm gonna go lie down for a bit. Oh and thank you." he said shaking. Hailee hugged him and as he started to walk towards his hammock she held onto his arm helping him. He fell asleep on his hammock soundly.

Hailee wandered aoumd and sat facing the werewolf exhibit. She then noticed two humans a boy and girl making their way to it. Sat on her knees and looked sadly miserable at them. She knew the wolves would be set free and not her and everyone else in the terrible zoo. She began to cry softly tears streaming down her face but no sound or whimpering coming out of her mouth. Only tears. Soon a crowd began to crowd around her staring at her and hooting and hollering probably mean things to make her give them more emotion an actual show for them. But fortunately she couldn't hear their insults, the only thing she did see was five guys crowded squatting in the front of the line making gross and sexual things that they wanted her to do. She hissed and cryed more no being able to move from the sorrow and pitifulness she felt for herself.

Nadelin signed. “Yeah, you’re right. I’m just sort of scared that if we wait too long it’ll be too late, but in the end you’re right. We’d better take this operation slow and steady if we want it to work.” A faint smile returned to Nad’s face and she looked at Logan happily. “I’m kind of glad we’re in the same boat. It’s sort of nice not having to go up against such a big problem all alone.” Nad gave his arm a small squeeze as if to say ‘thank you for being here’. They were mere steps away from the elf’s door when Nad caught the sound of jeering. “Hello, what’s that?” Nadelin muttered angrily, turning around. Her eyes trained on the five mischievous boys who were making rude gestures at a female vampire, who was crying under their inappropriate threats. Well this cruel new form of torchure certainly wasn't the way for the captives to like humans any more then they did currently.

“Oh hex no! I am not going to let this happen! Doesn’t anyone get that they’re suffering enough without all the profanity! C’mon Logan!” Nadelin fumed, furious that they would be doing something so vulgar at the expense of the poor vampires. Grabbing the boy’s hand, Nadelin marched over the five guys. Nadelin’s heart melted at the sight of the vampires who had been reduced to tears, confined in a clear prison and trapped in a strange place with wretch people like those boys. “Please… hang in there just a little bit longer…” Nadelin plead quietly to the vampiress, as if she could hear Nad’s voice. “I promise, I’m gonna get you out of here. Please hang on…” Then she turned her burning gaze to the idiots tormenting the poor girl.

“Hey you!” The boys stopped a moment to turn to the new arrival, the sick grins still on their faces. “Hey! Just what the hex do you five think you’re doing?” “Just looking at the blood-suckers.” One of them replied, and to the side another boy made a sexual gesture, triggering laughs from the rest of the group. “Do you think you’re funny?” Nad fumed, “You’re really going being stupid If you’re going to be retarded, do it somewhere less humiliating to yourself!” “Better watch that mouth chick. You don’t wanna get in trouble with it.” One of the guys sneered and another stepped foreward, gripping Nad’s wrist. “Stop it! Ow! Let me go!” Nad cried, angry and in pain from how tightly he was squeezing her wrist. Jerking her wrist from his grip she stamped on his foot and he yowled in pain whist another boy grabbed her wrists. He gripped tightly, practically crushing them in his hands and making her yelp. “Let go you jerk-offs!” The gang of boys laughed in response to Nadelin’s pain.

Hailee noticed the girl who she saw earlier come to her and say something through the glass to her, but sadly all hailee could take back from the saying was that tere was hope and reassuress in the message. The boys turned when the girl stood up for Hailee and Hailee smiled a little that someOne on the other side actually cared about the beings on the inside.

Suddenly as the girl was yelling at the boys that turned on her and were starting to beat her up and other stuff. Hailee's eyes turned from fear and sadness, blue and green, to the darkness of black in the night. She was enraged by the vulgar males. Hailee stood up hissing an grew her wings big menacingly to try and scare the boys but that seemed to egg them on or something. She scratched at the glass helplessly from the inside begging to be let outside to help the girl. Suddenly the other boy tht was with the caring girl came over and did in a much nicer way than hailee woul have, beat them all up and sent them running like the pathetic losers they were.

Hailee stood glaring at them as they ran. She stood behind the glass right in front of the girlabd now boy. She put her hand up on the glass and two long tears fell down her face. Her eyes turned an unnatural electrifying green in sadness that she felt she had caused the girl. "I'm sorry. Please forgive me." she said to the girl through the glass.

Nadelin glared in the coawardly boys direction and showed Logan her wrists. There were bright, red marks in the shapes of meaty hands wrapped around her small wrists. She winced at the sight of them, knowing she was going to regret this scene in the morning. "Looks like they're going to bruise." Nadelin said, rubbing them gently and blinking away tears. "Thanks Logan..." Nad said quietly, then gave him a quick hug of thanks. She owed that to him at the minimum. If he hadn't have stepped in, well, things could have gone very badly for her. She knew as well as anyone that if a fight started she wouldn't win, considering she'd never taken any kind of denfense class in her life. Letting go of Logan she turned her attention to the vampiress.

Nadelin could feel her heart breaking as the tears steamed down the girl's face. Knowing she couldn't hear her, Nad instead got out her notebook and wrote something in it, then pressed it to the glass. "Please don't cry," it read, "We're going to get you out of here as soon as we can. Just hold on a little longer." Nadelin gave a sympathetic smile of reassurance to the girl. Then she took Logan's hand and held it up, level to their shoulders, to prove they were both going to help her and the others escape. Hearing the loud BANG BANG BANG noises, Nad's attention was turned to the elf exibit where she saw the elf slamming on the glass with a board. Where had she gotten a board from? "Oh cripes! Logan, we'd better get over there!"

After Alex dragged himself to the hammock to rest, Delta watched as Hailee slumped over and began to cry. To add insult to injury, a group of humans outside of the exhibit began making crude gestures toward her. Delta watched as two other humans interviened. The situation worked itself out and Delta was left with nothing to entertain herself with once again. That was the problem with being locked up in this cage. It was boring as all hell.

The dark haired vampiress shuffled to the other side of the enclosure and leaned against the glass, sliding into a sitting position. From where she sat she could see the orc exhibit. There was only one resident of the cage. A towering being who now sat against a tree. She watched him, her interest piquing slightly. She had never witnessed an orc in its natural habitat, but she could recall her mother's warnings about how they were vicious, mindless killing machines. With a neighbor like that, maybe things didn't have to be such a drag...

Alex woke up groggy and tired. He looked up and saw two things that made him want to get out of the cage more. The first was Hailee crying. She felt the pain of the humans poking fun and the constant testing. He wanted to help her but he knew there wasn't much he could do. He was awful with women and always screwed up when talking to them.

The second was when Delta grinned at another enclosure. It was an orc habitat. He looked down at his boots and clicked his heels and a small blade popped out. He was more if kicking than punching so he had a pair of boots made to have a blade hidden in them. Luckily for him it was kept hidden enough for the humans not to notice. He sighed and clicked them back retracting them ,then walked to Hailee. He could at least try " Hailee you okay there " he knelt down beside her.

Hailee felt an overload of guilt that seemed to weigh on her shoulders. Her were bright, unnaturally green and also filled with small tears. She didn't make any noises or movement when she cried though. It just seemed that her eyes were having a leakage, as the tears rolled slowly down her soft pale cheeks. She was kneeling in front of the glass staring as the girl and boy left her. She held a hand up and placed it on the glass wishing to be let out. Oh the things she would do to be outside again, in the fresh cool breezes of the wind and feel the warm embrace of the sun's lovely rays of heat.

"Hailee you okay there?" Alex asked in a soft voice and knelt beside her. Hailee quickly hugged him, holding onto him tightly and buried her face into his neck. She didn't want him to think she wasn't strong and she definitely didn't want him to see her like this. She needed someone to give her a hug after everything that had happened to her within the last two days. She couldn't stand being without any comfort or affection from someone for even a day. It was just who she was.

"No, I hate confined spaces. I don't like to be treated like that." She said in a shaky voice pointing in the direction that the guys who were teasing her ran from before.

Alex blushed, surprised by the sudden hug from Hailee. He tried to keep his cool but almost completely failed as he tried to refocus himself. He rubbed Hailee's back slowly trying to calm her as her tears ran over his many dart wounds. " It's okay I know what you're going through your going to be fine. I promise you if they even try to hurt you I will do all that I can to hurt them back. " He paused for a moment. " I might be able to get us all out of here maybe even some of the others. " he shuddered at the thought of freeing an Orc and it rampaging about killing them all.

" All I need you to do is to stay calm ,okay. If you can keep your cool , you won't go insane. If you don't go insane I'll have someone to talk to besides Delta and all she wants to talk about is death. " he laughed a bit then sighed knowing it was true. " Well just be calm okay. " he lifted her head off his shoulder for a moment " You have very pretty eyes you know that " he smiled again then realized they were extremely green now as he realized she had mood eyes a strange trait unique to the vampires. He snapped back into reality and wiped a dew tears from her face. " Just please stay calm its gonna be okay, I promise. "

Hailee clinged to Alex crying softly into him. She listened and slowly gradually stopped crying. She was still hugging him listening to his calm soft words of comfort. He promised her he would make sure she wouldn't get hurt as long as she didn't cry or go insane. She nodded softly at his agreements and words. Hailee relaxed her body at the nice, and very pleasant hand rubbing her back to calm her down.

When Alex mentioned that he'll have someone to actually have conversations with a small smile crept onto her face at the tiny joke. she giggled softly as he lifted her head off of him and held her face gently in front of him. He looked at her eyes and gave her a compliment on them. He even wiped her tears away for her. He was being very nice and sweet to her which she liked a lot. She didnt feel so alone anymore. She blushed giving him a big smile and her right eyes turned yellow and the other pink. The two emotions of happiness and love.

"ok I will Alex. Thank you. That made me feel so much better." she smiled and gave him a small kiss on the cheek in thanks. She sat back and looked at him.

As hailee kissed Alex she noticed him blush a bright red shade. She smiled shyly and looked up at him giggling quietly to herself. She watched him get up and walk away, trying to hide the adorable blush. Hailee loved it when people blushed, she thought that it was the cutest thing in the world when someone got shy or embarrassed after a kiss or anything that wasn't too harmful.

Hailee got up and ran around the enclosure. This got herself yet again more attention but not from spectators from a couple of scientists. They watched as she grew her wings and hovered over the ground back and forth and forth. She even scaled up and down the glass walls trying to find a way out. The whole time she was inspecting her new habitat she only thinking about one thing. And that one thing bothered her more than anything in the world. What had happened to her family? Were they still safe? Was what she had sacrificed for them enough to help ensure their safety for a long time? After all the huntsmen only needed another vampiress for their bounties. Once they had her tied up and locked up they left from her home leaving her family behind unharmed. Ever since then hailee has been scared of humans and their weapons and such. She will fight regular humans, but it was the scientists, zoo staff workers, and huntsmen that drove her to shaking in the corner and crying in fear.

Once she had grown tired of the running and flying around she slowly came to a stop near the door hatch. She decided that she didn't feel like leaning against the wall in fear that the humans from before would come back and start their abuse over again. She looked around the enclosure and didn't know where her bed or anywhere where she could sleep and she was a little worried if Alex or Delta would get mad at her for sleeping in their hammocks. She lay on the floor curled up on the ground. She hugged her legs and lay on her side.