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  Serenity’s Journey

  Journey Home

  C.l. Barrett

  Copyright © 2022 by C.l. Barrett.

  Library of Congress Control Number: 2022904669

  HARDBACK: 978-1-957575-48-3

  Paperback: 978-1-957575-47-6

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  Contents

  Glossary

  Prologue

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty-One

  Chapter Thirty-Two

  Chapter Thirty-Three

  Chapter Thirty-Four

  Chapter Thirty-Five

  Chapter Thirty-Six

  Chapter Thirty-Seven

  Chapter Thirty-Eight

  Chapter Thirty-Nine

  Chapter Forty

  Chapter Forty-One

  Chapter Forty-Two

  Chapter Forty-Three

  Chapter Forty-Four

  Chapter Forty-Five

  Chapter Forty-Six

  Chapter Forty-Seven

  Chapter Forty-Eight

  Chapter Forty-Nine

  Chapter Fifty

  Chapter Fifty-One

  Chapter Fifty-Two

  Chapter Fifty-Three

  Chapter Fifty-Four

  Chapter Fifty-Five

  Epilogue

  Prologue

  Chapter One

  Dedicated to

  My family for supporting me while I write and helping me put it together. I want to give special thanks to my grandfather Bart Bachman for helping me with some of the editing and grammar in my book. I also what to give thanks to my sister Jasmine for helping me type part of first book I published.

  Serenity’s Journey

  Journey Home

  Glossary

  Dhampir — half vampire and half human

  Pureblood — 100% vampire or human

  VH’s — vampire hunters

  Vampire Hunter — human or dhampir who hunts vampires

  Feeder — a source of blood, mainly humans

  Vampire Hunters Society — a group that hunts vampires

  VHS — Vampire Hunters Society

  Shape Shifter — A being that can take on human form along with one or more other forms.

  Falcon — A race that not know to human with many type of magic users.

  Serenity — Silver hair, silver eyes, pale skin. She wears jeans, tank top, coat, and sneakers while traveling to blend in. When home she will wear fancy dresses and high heels. When occasion calls for it crown fitting of princess.

  Nightmare III — Black long hair, purple eyes, and tan skin. He normal dress in black jeans, black t-shirt, leather jacket, black boots. But in his home land in Japan Fireland, he dresses in royal attire.

  Cloud — Blond hair shoulder length, baby blue eyes, tan skin. Normal in t-shirt and jeans. He a falcon with black wings. But also, is a royal prince and his family enemy with the Capulets.

  Dr. Clide — Short black hair, brown eyes. Wears blue scrubs and white coat works in ER and surgery unit. He deals with critical cases.

  Scott — Green hair with silver highlights, green eyes, tan skinned. He wears coat that goes to waste that combined with colors green black and silver. His shorts match his coat and wears black boats. He has two guns hand crafted with family seal on left side and many other weapons.

  Janine — Green hair, green eyes, tan skin. Trained guardian. She is a dhampir. She is Scott and Serenity mother.

  Jonathan — Silver hair, silver eyes, pale skin. Lord of Capulet lands. Father to Scott and Serenity.

  Roza — Serenity’s oldest friend and personal maid. She has red hair, pale skin, and red eyes.

  Nightmare III grandmother — Gray hair, pale eyes, wrinkled tan skin. Dress in dresses and high heels since she royal. Her name is Lillian and is his mother’s mother.

  Nightmare III grandfather — Black hair, purple eyes, winkled tan skin. His name is Justin and is his mother’s father.

  Prologue

  Serenity, Scott her younger brother, Janine her mother, and Jonathan her father traveled from Russia to America for a vacation away from their homeland. They never traveled outside of Russia before now on a vacation. Serenity and her family landed in America from incoming plane from Russia and got off in a orderly fashion and went to the baggage claim to grab their luggage for their weeklong vacation. Once they got their luggage and walked outside, they caught a cab to their hotel all four of them riding in the same cab not talking hungry from their flight over to America. When the cab stopped in front of the hotel, they all got out and grabbed their luggage.

  Serenity has long silver hair, silver eyes, pale skin. She wearing a red dress and red high heels. Scott has green hair with silver high lights, green eyes, tan skin. He wears green, black and silver coat that stop at waist the selves go just below the shoulder with red tank top, and shorts with pockets that match his coat. He carries 2 guns and other gear to keep his family safe on him. Janine has long green hair, green eyes, tan skin. She wears a golden dress and heals also haves a gun and stake attached one to each leg. Jonathan has blond hair, silver eyes, and pale skin. He wears traditional royal cloths. They look different from most of people in America because the way they dress. But this will be their first-time spending lot time around humans. To Jonathan and Serenity, they are a natural source of food.

  It’s early morning in America, Serenity and her family getting ready for fun fulfilled day at the carnival. They leave the hotel at 10 a.m. and not due to return until 9 p.m. that night. Serenity and her family walk from their hotel to the carnival.

  While at the carnival Serenity and her family are having a blast doing whatever they wanted. As day turned to night and the shadows of darkness falls over the carnival Johnathan and Serenity start to feel the tension from their hunger for blood. As they look around the carnival all they see are humans; their natural blood source. Serenity and her family work together to lure prey in to a dark alley at the carnival. Janine and Scott stand guard one at each end of the alley way
make sure no bystanders witness the act of taking human blood or accidently walk down the alley. They also do it stay on lookout for any unexpected enemies that may pop up in America.

  When Serenity and Jonathan finished feeding and erased their prey memories and made sure stop the bleeding and cover up their marks on the victims with magic. They called it a night and walked backed to their hotel. As they walked in the hotel, they were greeted by the front desk clerk.

  “Capulet family please wait up. Your rooms were broken it to and destroyed,” said the clerk.

  “It’s fine we will collect are stuff and pay for damage cost to the hotel,” said Jonathan.

  “Okay,” said the clerk and let them go to their rooms to collect their belonging.

  Once they reached their rooms, they packed what they could fit into one suitcase: the priority items, including their emergency funds and aliases along with whatever weapons and cloths they can fit in it. After they all got packed and left the hotel, they caught a cab to the airport. Once there, Serenity used her magic to make sure her mother’s and brother’s luggage made it past security. They made a pack as family that no matter what happens no one will return home except Serenity; than she will go after rest of the family and reunite everyone. They all bought tickets for sprite flights to leave America to their chosen destinations. Serenity choose Scotland, Scott choose Japan, Janine and Jonathan choose China. If for any reason a vampire hunter catches one of them, they all wouldn’t get caught all at the same time. Serenity is waiting for her flight out of America all alone and anxious about getting caught before escaping America.

  Part One

  VAMPIRE HUNTER TROUBLE

  Chapter One

  Serenity flight landed in Scotland in the early morning from incoming plane from America. She walks off the plane and walking through the airport to baggage claim to claim her suitcase. She walks out of the airport and through the streets of Scotland looking for a hotel to stay in awhile durn her stay in Scotland and don’t stick out in a crowed, so she is looks for high class hotel. After walking around for a while, she finds the perfect hotel to stay at. She walks through the door and up to the front desk clerk.

  “Miss, can I help you,” asked the front desk clerk.

  “I would like a room I’m here visiting Scotland for a while before returning home,” said Serenity.

  “Okay, but the only thing we have for a long-term stay is a penthouse suite,” said the front desk clerk.

  “I’ll take it,” said Serenity paying in advance.

  The clerk handed her the key and Serenity walks over to the elevator and takes it up to the penthouse suite that on top floor. When she walked into the penthouse it was a bit of a shock to her it looked just like a house with a big open foyer, the kitchen to her left and a living area to entertaining guest to the right. If you walk down the hallway you will find the office room on the right bathroom and laundry room on the left. It even has a second story with four bedrooms. Each of the bedrooms have a walk in closet and personal bathroom. Once she settled on a room she unpacked and put her cloths away. It is close to 4 a.m. when she goes to bed. After good long rest that lasted a day and half, she wakes up around 3 p.m Serenity dressed down from her standard royal cloths to more of commoner look. She dressed in blue jeans and pink top with black sneakers. She plans to check out the town and find more commoner cloths and some food so she can stay in hotel for a while until more comfortable to leave it.

  Serenity walked out of her penthouse suite and takes the elevator down to the lobby and walked out of the hotel after dropping off her room key at the front desk to have them hold on to it, while she out exploring the general area of her hotel she comes across a clothing store and goes inside to look around. She started picking up few outfits so she could fit in. She even found a grocery store and picked up a week worth of groceries. Once she was done walking around and shopping, she headed back to the hotel. Once inside she got the key to her penthouse suite and went back to her temporary home.

  Over the next week she spent a lot of time in the hotel. She mainly eats, sleep and writing in the office space in the penthouse. She decides after a week of staying inside she really needs to go out for a walk and clear her head and get some fresh air. She been so worried that vampire hunter may find her, so she stayed inside and rented the suite under one of her many aliases. She leaves her hotel and explore more of the area away from the main part of town. As she is walking and exploring the area of Scotland more it becomes well past dark and close to midnight and she comes up upon an old road that looks like it hasn’t been used much in years. Since she not scared of anything, she decided to start down the road when all a sudden a black carriage with black widows stop and 2 black vampiric horse pulling it. The doors opened and a gentleman stepped out of the carriage he has black hair halfway down his back, purple eyes, pale skin. He wears black leather pants, red t-shirt, black leather jacket with studs all sizes on it, and black leather boats, but full moon in the sky and her vampiric version also made it easier for her to see the man clearly.

  “Miss, you shouldn’t be out here,” said the gentleman.

  “Why is it a crime to wonder around here at night, what if I like the dark,” asked Serenity.

  “No, it’s not, what is your name if I may inquire,” asked the man.

  “It’s Lilly or at less what I go by,” said Serenity.

  “No, I want your real name, not what you go by,” said the man.

  “Okay, it’s Serenity and may I inquire your name,” asked Serenity.

  “No, you can’t have mine yet, Serenity dear, I’ll tell you when the time is right but for now, I must go,” said the man.

  “But sir, I would like to get to know you more,” said Serenity.

  “Serenity not now, I’ll send a carriage here at midnight sharp, be here if you truly want to get to know me and only then will I tell you my name,” said the man.

  Serenity started walking back to her hotel with the sexy pale man on her mind. She ended up dropping her guard down on the way back to her hotel and not realizing he is fallowing her. When she finally reached her hotel, she walked inside the hotel, and up to the front desk to get her room key and head back to her penthouse suite. Once inside her room she goes to bathroom to have a shower. She undresses and gets into the shower with the man she just met on her mind. Serenity took a long shower to relax. When she finally got done taking a shower, she turned off the water, then wrapped herself in a towel and walked back into her room to get ready for bed. She put on pair of underwear and bed cloths. She wears bed pants and bed shirt since she not home. She laid in bed thinking about the man she just met until she finally fell asleep around 3 a.m Her dream was at ball dancing with man she just met.

  The man she met on the old unused road used his magic to gain access to her room. He watched over her for a while when it became close to dawn. He used his magic to leave her room the same way he came and got into his carriage and returned to his family secondary castle here in Scotland. Once he arrived back at the castle, he then got out of the carriage and walked through the castle to his room. When he got inside his room he stripped down to his boxer and went to sleep just in his boxers. Little does he realize he fallen in love with this mysterious commoner. He has never felt this was towards a woman before.

  Chapter Two

  Serenity wakes up at 4 p.m. that afternoon and goes out to her favorite store she found here same day she arrived. She wanted something little more suitable to wear to meeting with this man. Serenity finds a nice pair of jeans that is black fading into gray and nice pink tank top with v cut, she even buys a leather duster coat. She wants look good but she also trying not stick out around locals. She only paid $60 for jeans and top and another $30 for the coat. It’s now around 5 p.m. and Serenity heads back to hotel to clean up and changed and ready for the meeting tonight. She knows she has plenty of time before she has met the carriage at mi
dnight. Serenity not one-bit scared what pale man may want with her or do to her.

  She decided to leave her hotel at 9 p.m. so she can walk around until it’s time to meet the carriage at midnight. Durn her walk she runs into trouble. A young man grabs her and then takes her to abandon apartment building where he lives. She started struggling to get away after a while of fighting with him she finally catches him off guard and throws him aside. She gets up and runs away from the abandon apartment building.

  Serenity didn’t stop running until she figured she was a safe distance away from the abandon apartment building. Once she looked around and realize where she is she realized it place where she need meet the carriage. She hears the church bells ring midnight.

  All a sudden a carriage appears in front of her. She gets in feeling exhausted and hungry. She is a pureblood vampire. Serenity falls right to sleep, overtired from using too much of her powers and not feeding off blood since coming to Scotland. When the carriage comes to a stop the master of the horses comes outside to greet Serenity. He opens the carriage doors to find Serenity sound asleep. He picks her up and lifts her out of carriage and then carries her inside the castle and to his room. Once inside his room he laid Serenity on the bed gentle and laid next to her holding her close to him. He doesn’t know she is the perfect match for him since they both are purebloods. Serenity wakes to find herself in his arms.

  “Umm…sir, why are you holding me instead of me being in the carriage where I was and where am I,” asked Serenity?

  “You are in my family secondary castle in Scotland and I wanted you close to me Serenity dear,” said the man.

  “Why me out of all the girls here in Scotland,” asked Serenity.

  “I love you with all of my heart,” said the man.

  “Sorry I can’t love someone I just met and don’t know besides I’m not from around here,” said Serenity.