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The Monsters We Are

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Emma Popović—now known as Emma Davies, after compelling a human couple to become her parents—was forced to flee her hidden supernatural world when hunters, wolves, and a powerful witch launched a deadly attack. Vulnerable and on the run, her vampire family escapes into the city, desperate to protect a secret hybrid child and start over. Meanwhile, Austin Miller is falling apart. He’s a rare, terrifying breed—part human, part enormous skeletal monster—and he doesn’t understand what he is or why he exists. Wracked with guilt after accidentally killing someone he once loved, Austin is drowning in self-loathing, depression, and fear of his own power. Now living in the city, Emma and her friends struggle to adapt to human society and search for meaning beyond survival. Their path leads them to Newoaks High, a mysterious school where they discover they are not the only supernatural beings hiding in plain sight. While facing enemies, secrets, and inner demons, Emma and Austin find something neither of them expected: love. But their bond is tested by Stephen—Emma’s childhood friend and fellow vampire—whose hidden feelings for her spark a dangerous rivalry. Together, they must fight to stay alive, protect their found family, and face the monsters—within and without.
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Chapter 1 - Prologue

Emma stood silently in the words, under

a large tree, hiding herself in the shadows

as she studied her prey. The prey, oblivious

of the danger it's in stood there eating, unaware of what was coming.

It's been long since she felt this rage, this hunger for blood, and the demon inside her awakened. And there was the perfect timing. Her prey wasn't walking clumsily around anymore; it was now still, calm and unaware of the danger around.

Emma's face lighten up like a burning coal,

bright red light. She sped up towards her prey, but before the poor Antelope could blink it was dead. Emma's teeth had sunk deep into its neck, she ripped its heart out, sucking the juice out of it, and dropped the remainder and that was it, she was satisfied. She stood up slowly, staring at what she had done, she was a monster, a blood-sucking one at that

She turned, took one more glance at the antelope's body, and within a second she was gone, like the speed of light, one would have thought she disappeared 

Austin entered the room and locked the door behind him, he had been acting weird lately, he hardly talked to anyone at school, he had been skipping classes, he was always alone even when he was at home, he rarely talked to his parents but today was different. This was not the regular depression, this was harder, he felt like he was going to split into multiple pieces, like his bones 

were going to rip out of his body.

He has seen his hands painfully turn into Skeleton but he had always thought he was crazy and he was seeing illusions. He stopped going to his therapist because his therapist had also thought he was going crazy and has been stylishly referring him to the hospital, his

parents had been trying to persuade him to go back to therapy but he has been refusing.

He felt a strong pain in his brain and held his head tightly like he was trying to stop it from falling, he went down slowly and then let out a loud cry, he could feel his skin tearing, and his bones getting larger.

"Austin are you alright?!" he could hear his neighbor's daughter shouting, his cries had been loud enough for his neighbors to hear and

after sometimes the pain was gone but he knew he wasn't himself anymore, he could feel it.

He stood up slowly and faced the mirror and behold a huge skeleton form was what he was seeing, it looked like a monster's skeleton with, a large bony head. He slowly looked at his large hands and then his body, the monster he was looking at in the mirror was him, not an illusion, he wanted to scream but he couldn't let anyone come see him like that. He couldn't stand up straight, his head was already touching the ceiling, he was a skeleton monster!

He sat down slowly, shaking as he turned slowly from the mirror, his reflection was scaring him, who or what had made him like this?. he closed his eyes, "all this isn't real" he said to himself