Poor, Poor Michael

When a Blood Ones enters a classroom full of Vampyres...

Being a Vampyre, Dread has never met a Blood One. He's only seen pictures in books, and learned about them in school, but he never thought that he would meet and befriend one.

It started just like every night. At exactly seven in the night, Dread was woken up by his mother, Lithia Slate.

"Rise and gloom, my darlings! Dread! Jinx! Get out of your coffins! School's waiting!" With that, Dread woke up, and headed into the showers while his twin, Jinx, went upstairs for breakfast and to wait for him to finish.

Living in their small ranch house that surrounds the Green Dale Cemetery in Cora, Wyoming, Dread, Jinx, Lithia, and Lucifer, the twin's father and Lithia's husband, live snuggly in the three extra rooms in the basement. The rooms on the first floor were used for storage.

Because Wyoming had the smallest population in the USA, Vampyres tend to live there. In fact, more than half the population are Vampyres.

Because Vampyres don't have jobs, they usually just move out and let other Vampyres move in, since there is no need for money. As for the tax collectors, Vampyres just hypnotize them into thinking they paid.

Their items are either stolen at night from stores, or paid by money stolen off of tables near open windows.

"Jinx! I'm finished!" Dread called up the stairs while drying his black hair with a black towel.

"Yeah! I'm coming!" Jinx replied. He spotted her black wavy hair, pale skin, and violet eyes in the dark as she quickly went down the stairs for her turn.

Throwing his towel back onto the rack in the bathroom, he ran up the stairs for food.

"Tortoise eggs, and cinnamon pumpkin oatmeal. What flavor drink do you like?" Lithia asked.

"AB, Buffalo," Dread replied, referring to the blood. His mother nodded and poured some from a carton in the fridge.

"Good thing we have some left. We'll have to collect more tomorrow. Do me a favor and collect some buffalo blood, mountain goat, and pumpkins from from your trip to the mountains. Jinx is collecting the black bear and mountain lions this time."

"Aw, I wanted to do the lions," Dread complained. "I call it next time!"

"All your's," Said Lucifer from the other side of the kitchen table, while reading the Blood One's newspaper. "Just make sure you don't kill them. We're running out of lions. Maybe we should save the seeds and plant some pumpkins this time, the stores and farmers are getting suspicious that there's a pumpkin thief going around."

Lithia agreed. Finishing the last of his breakfast, he called to his mom.

"I think I'll take a flight around the path this time, just to see the scenery of the full moon on the plains. I'll probably sketch it too, so I'll go half an hour early." His parents nodded, and he ran down the stairs to grab his satchel and books, then flew out his small window in bat form.

The scenery, was as he guessed, very beautiful. The moon was full and bright, and the pure light was dubbed off onto the trees and grass, giving it a whitish glow. The gravestones seemed like it was almost alive.

He landed on one of the gravestones that read Samuel Douglas Reed. Dread prayed silently to Samuel, in hopes his spirit is not disturbed and will not arise like Vampyres do when they sit or rest on a gravestone.

Taking out his sketchpad, he drew the wonderful scene in front of him. Since it took fifteen minutes to arrive here, and two minutes to arrive at his classroom, Dread only had thirteen minutes to finish his drawing.

Sighing, Dread put away his sketchpad, and went out to