The Undercover Freaks Preface (Rylan) Everyday is the same old story; go to school for six hours, then go to the old abandoned house on water street. My friends and I have been using this old house to practice what we want without being judged. That is why my brother calls us the undercover freaks. My friends and I have tons of hidden abilities but we can't tell anyone about them, otherwise who knows what would happen to us. Chapter one (Rylan) Flashback Friday So far today Piper, Milana, and Nathan broke out with an unfamiliar mark on their arms and foreheads during first period. None of us know what it means, and when we tried looking it up on the Internet we found nothing, so then we tried looking through books and when we were just about to give up Sahara found something... "Hey guys, you have got to see this!" Shane was closest to her so he looked at what she found first while the rest of us had to take a small walk in order get to her. "Guys she's not joking." Rushing over to Shane and Sahara, Nathan snatched the book from Shane. Looking at the book Nathan came across a page that had countless pictures of marks that people have been marked with in the past. Flipping angrily through the pages Nathan finally came across the mark that he, Piper, and Milana had been marked with. "Finally, guys I found the mark that we were marked with, the caption says that the undercover freak mark or as it is better known UCF means that you have just been selected..." Nathan flipped the page again and again but found nothing that continued the caption. Milana spoke up first "Just been selected? For what? Does it say?" Nathan shook his head "Why don't you look for yourself Milana. You like books. You will know where to look. WON'T YOU?" I looked at Neveah then back at Nathan "Nathan I think you have been looking at that book for too long." Nathan looked at me "You're right Rylan, I have been looking at that book for too long... Maybe Sahara should just take the book out." I was about to say something but I...

The Songbirds Scene one- At school Mrs. Jay- okay class today we are going to pick our topics for your research projects. I know that for some of you this well be easy and others not so much. Avalon- um Mrs. Jay you said this well be easy don't you mean this will be easy? If not sorry I corrected you (looks down at her paper) Mrs. Jay- actually I did that on purpose Avalon- Really? Why? Roshon-Avalon who cares why she did it. Give it up! Avalon- I'm sorry I am just curious Roshon- you are always curious just let this one go Mrs. Jay- Roshon (looks at him with a stern look) Avalon I did this to make sure everyone was paying attention Charity- oh is it because my brother locked locked me in a dog create yesterday? Mrs. Jay- No Charity (pats her head and gives her a lollypop) anyway pick your topics right now from the list. Avalon? Avalon- Yes? Mrs. Jay? Mrs. Jay- can I see you for a minute Avalon- yes mame Roshon- good luck sis (In the hall) Mrs. Jay- Avalon don't worry you are not in trouble. Avalon- okay that is always good but why are we out here? Mrs. Jay- I have heard your music. The other day after class you dropped your demo and I was curious so I listened and you are really good. Avalon- thanks so what is going on right now. I can't help if you don't tell me what it is Mrs. Jay- there is a music group at school that needs new music and I played them your demo now they want you to write for them. Avalon- really this is amazing but do they know it is me? Mrs. Jay- no don't worry they only know what I told them so they called you the songbird Avalon- this is awesome! So all I have to do is write their music under the name the Songbird? Mrs. Jay- exactly. So what do you say? Will you do it? No one will know it is you. Avalon- yea I'm in. Tell the group they have a song writer.

Arête And Adara (Greek Myth) The daughters of Terpsichore, the muse of dance, and Eros, Cupid the God of love. Arête, the goddess of curiosity and wonder, and Adara, the goddess of health and wellness, used their gifts to aid their parents with their own. One day Arête's curiosity got the best of her and she went exploring on earth, she had always admired the work of Poseidon the God of the sea. Curious of what it was like under the sea, Arête called for Poseidon's youngest daughter and her best friend Nerissa to help her go under the sea and observe everything he made. However little did she know that Poseidon's only son Triton had been doing some admiring of his own, on Arête. "Nerissa... Are you there?" Arête waited a minute then to her surprise Nerissa popped out of the water with her father the mighty, ruthless and regal Poseidon. "Yeah, we're here. Are you ready to go under the sea?" Arête nodded and looked at Poseidon. "Arête, my dear child, drink this potion it will allow you to breath under the water so you can come and observe my creations." With pleasure Arête drank the whole potion then she followed Nerissa and Poseidon under the sea. Meanwhile Adara was looking high and low for her sister. Adara, the goddess of health and wellness was always worrying about Arête and what kind of trouble she might get into. Just as Adara was about to go to her mother she caught sight of Aphrodite, "oh hey Adara, let me guess... You are searching for Arête again." Adara was always trying to come up with an excuse. "Yep you are always right Aphrodite. Can you help me look?" With a quick nod Aphrodite agreed to help Adara find her always wandering sister. Without a single clue of where to look, they started out in Zeus's throne room. Arête loved to sit next to Hera and ask her how she got to be so beautiful. On Olympus Aphrodite and Adara were frantically searching for Arête. However, under the sea Arête and Nerissa were having tons of fun. Arête looked all around the grotto she was in, "Nerissa this is so cool, I love it down here. Everything is so beautiful." Arête was babbling so much that she didn't even notice Triton came up behind her. "The scenery down here isn't the only beautiful thing down here." Nerissa rolled her eyes at her big brother's comment. Triton was just trying to sweet talk Arête so he could marry her but, Arête wasn't interested "Triton, what do you want? How many times do I have to tell you that I'm not even interested in you like at all"

Dove And Dawn Did you ever feel like you didn't matter? Or feel like you never had a voice, well that was me, my name is Dove. I know what it's like because my sister was the only one in my family that mattered. Dawn had it all, the confidence I never had and the voice I could never find. "Oh Dove are you really trying to blame your journey on me?" that was Dawn and to answer her question yes I am because she has always been the fav in the family. Even Liam, the guy I like thinks so. Anyway the journey was tough but at the same time tons of fun. Do you want to hear abut it? "No they don't Dove!" shut up Dawn. Really? You do? awesome lets start at the beginning when the idea of the journey came into my head for the first time. Chapter one Friday morning I was at my locker putting away what I didn't need, taking out what I did need, you know the usual. "Hey Dove, what is going on with you? Even in English when we were in our small groups you were even quieter than usual." Thankfully it was not my annoying sister Dawn, it was Alani and she is one of my best friends. "Hey Alani, I guess I was just lost in my thoughts again." This has been a pattern for me lately and I don't know why. "Alani,".... Just as I was about to ask Alani something Brooklyn came up. "Hey guys you won't believe this." Brooky was very excited to tell us, it was subtle but it was in her voice. "Dove my new lab partner for chemistry, is Liam!" I couldn't believe the words that I just heard from Brooky. "Brooky are you serious? You better not be playing a trick on her." Thankfully Alani was right there for me. "Dead serious Alani, and Dove he was asking about you." I could not shut my mouth no matter how many times Alani closed it. During second period the only thing I could even think about was what he might have said about me and of course him. So second period is study hall and Dawn, Brooklyn, Alani, Aletha, Berlin, and Liam are all in my study hall. "Hey Dove look there's Liam" I looked over and saw him looking straight at me. I smiled in panic then I looked back to Dawn and said "what do I do?" Dawn thought for a minute and said "BRB" when Dawn came back to the commons I saw that she was carrying my guitar case. "Dove you're lucky that I just so happen to know that he loves music." What was Dawn thinking?! She knows I am too scared to talk to him let alone sing for him. I shook my head "no, no way." Dawn looked at me in confusion, "Dove why not? You're eventually gonna need to talk to him. Now is your chance." Dawn was right giving me her hand I took it and we went in the corner closest to where he Liam and his friends were hanging out. While I took my guitar out and got set up, Dawn went and got us a couple of chairs. "Are you ready Dove?" Shaking my head I took my guitar and case then left. "Hey Dawn, is Dove okay?" Dawn looked to see who was asking and just my luck it was Liam. "Liam I honestly don't know" Dawn took his wrist and said "follow me I know where she went." Chapter two "Dove? Are you okay?" I looked up to see that Dawn and Liam had followed me. I nodded and Liam said, "hey Dove, what happened? I was looking forward to hearing you play and sing." He sat down next to me, why did he do that my stomach is flipping out of control. "I get really shy around you" I really wanted to tell him how I felt, "Dove, if you were that scared to play guitar for me you could have just pulled me out where no one could hear you except for me." He was right, I guess I was just too scared to talk to him again. "Dawn could you give us a second?" Dawn nodded and left us alone. "So...... Now my only question for you is can you play something for me? Please just one song?" Taking a breath I nodded and started to play a song I listen to all the time when I finished I looked at Liam and he was speechless. Back in the commons no one had a clue of what just happened I was just about to go back to my sister and my friends when Liam grabbed my wrist "Where are you going? Come with me." I looked at Dawn and shrugged my shoulders, it didn't take long for me to realize that he was bringing me over to the table where he and his friends were hanging out. "Liam please don't make me talk." Liam smiled at me in understanding. "Hey Liam who da chick" that was Ely, he is an idiot. "Ely this is not a chick, this is a girl, and her name is Dove." I waved but didn't say anything "she is really shy, but she can really play guitar." Okay thank you but where is this going off to? "Really? Can you play for us Dove?" I stood there frozen. "Colton she is really shy and she just met you." Lucky for me, Dawn came over "Dove, come here I am so glad you're okay. Now what's going on over here?" I gave Colton the evil eye and he answered "I asked Dove to play guitar for us, but Liam said she is too scared. Boo hoo!" Colton was so mad that I gave him another evil glare and he shut up. "So Liam can we steal my sister back?" Liam nodded and added "Dove can you and I meet up after school today for a jam session?" Dawn shook me and then responded, "yea she would love to, why don't you follow us to our house after school." Liam gave the cool sounds good look and said, "okay I will find you after school then." As phsyced as I was, I could not think about anything except for what I was going to do about Dawn being the family favorite and what I was gonna do to breakout of my shell and find my voice. So that day in school I decided that when everyone was asleep, I would leave to start my journey. The only detail I had left was how I was gonna tell my sister. -------end of chapter two first section----------- After school I could not wait for Liam to come over to my house, it will give me a chance to play a song for him that I was working on. "Hey Dove, I can't wait to jam out at your house. Are you ready?" I nodded and said "Dawn is already at her car so we can go meet up with her." We were just about in the parking lot when Colton jumped in front of us with Ely right behind us. "Yo homies where ya going?" I looked at Liam and shook my head "I'm going to Dove's house and before you ask no you can not come with us." Ely started talking gibberish "bra da na sa blah cool" Liam looked at Colton, "he said... I honestly don't know. Dove I just wanted to apologize for how I talked to you and your sister this morning. And I would love to hear you play guitar, maybe when you are ready." I looked at Colton and said "wow thanks that means a lot. I will let you know. Should we go Liam?" Nodding we said see ya later to his friends and then we were on our way to my house. Chapter three When we got to my house our parents were already home, if my dad saw Liam I know that he would get the wrong idea. "Dove, Dawn, is that you?" That was my mom "yeah mom it's us and our friend Liam." Dawn told us to go to my room and put the stay out we are studying sign on my door so no one would interrupt us. Liam took one look around my room and said "wow you really love music" he saw so many different instruments including a piano, keyboard, bass guitar, guitar, drums, and even stuff you would find in a recording studio. "I guess so. I have been playing since I was two, and I started singing when I was three." Liam walked over to my amp and picked up the lyric sheets that were on it and started reading them. "Wow these lyrics are really good. Did you write these?" I nodded, "If you want we could record them. With you on guitar and me on piano both parts are written." Liam nodded and said "I would love that just let me go get my guitar." While I was setting up the recording equipment, Dawn had to call up to me "Dove, get down here, Dad met Liam and started interrogating him... Dad stop it... Dove hurry." As Dawn said I rushed downstairs to make my dad stop interrogating Liam. "Dove, why is this guitar boy here?" I don't think my dad understood that Liam was gonna record my song with me. "Daddy stop it, he is gonna record a song with me in my room that's all." Clearly my dad has some trust issues to deal with. Thankfully Liam spoke up, "hello sir, my name is Liam I go to school with your daughters." That just made my dad's day, "Well why didn't you say that about twenty minutes ago? So, I see you play the guitar. So does Dove, she is quite the little protege." Dad why did you say that? "Well daddy, I'm going to bring Liam to my room to record a song together." I took Liam's hand and brought him up back to my room so we could get started. With the song I mean, not that... Not that at all. "Sorry about my dad interrogating you Liam." I was so nervous "Dove it's fine. Hey, are you okay? You look like you need to talk. What's wrong?" Then the truth came out... .

Fantasia Preface I have always thought that if you were undead you had no soul. I was right until the day I met Fantasia, a sixteen year old vampire with long flowing, golden red hair. For me meeting Fantasia was the best day ever but it is a rather long story so... Shall we get started? Chapter one We met last year, a group of friends and I were in the woods climbing trees, practicing archery, and hunting. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and tripped. "Ow who put this log here?" I was alone as I said this outloud, which to be honest I personally do that a lot. Anyway, after looking at the log I tripped over, I took a closer look “Hey guys, come here” I shouted to my friends to show them my treasure. “Hey man, what’d you find?” asked my closest pal Austin. “Okay tell me what you see right here” I told Austin so he would have the same reaction that I had. “I see a log. Why am I looking at a log?” I could tell that Austin was mad. “Dude look closer” as I brushed her hair to the side I saw her true beauty “Austin, now what do you see?” Austin stood there speechless at the beauty I found unconscious in the woods just after tripping over her. Lucky for Fantasia, and I, we all had the same idea. My friends helped me pick her up and bring her to a small hut in Austin’s backyard. About twenty minutes after getting Fantasia to the hut, she started to gain consciousness again. The others were outside and I told them that I would stay with her until she woke up, then slowly she said, “Who are you? How did I get here?” as I explained everything to her she actually understood, smiling at me the girl stated, “Hi thank you for tripping on me and taking me out of the woods, by the way my name is Fantasia.” Not that long after she woke up Austin and the guys came in the hut that Fantasia and I were in. “Guys this is Fantasia, Fantasia these are my friends; Austin, Ryker, Evan, Travis, Tyler, and Chase.” Mainly Austin was mesmerized by her, but Tyler the youngest of us soon piped in “Hi Fantasia it’s nice to meet you.” “ it’s nice to meet you to Tyler.” Then from that moment on Fantasia and I have been talking non stop. Even though we were talking everyday I knew that she was still hiding something from me and I was determined to find out what it was. Chapter Two In order to get to the bottom of what Fantasia was hiding from me I had to get some help so as the alpha male of the pack I called an emergency pack meeting to get my friends to help me find out what Fantasia was hiding. “ Guys I know that Fantasia is hiding something from me I mean us. I can sense it” as I told the pack what I was thinking to find out what she was hiding, Austin had his own idea "what if we had a stakeout and we follow her and see what she does." That was an idea that was better than what I came up with and everyone seemed to like it. So that night we talked about where everyone would stand for their position in the stakeout and when the stakeout would start. The next day in school I was shocked when Fantasia asked me to talk in private. "Fantasia, is everything okay?" Fantasia clearly had no idea what to say but she finally found the words to say it, "Brady, you and I both know... I mean we have been texting non stop and I think…” Lucky I knew what Fantasia was trying to say. “Fantasia do you want to go out with me? Tonight?” I thought tonight we should start the stake out so it worked out perfectly. Fantasia nodded and said, “Thank you for asking me that normally I don’t do the asking. So I will see you at seven.” I told Fantasia to meet me at the diner that was where everything, our date and the stakeout, would start. This date would surely help me find out what she was hiding. That afternoon I told the rest of the pack what was going on. You know like why Fantasia asked to talk to me in private and where our date and the stakeout would take place. “Okay we start with dinner at the diner, then I will take her to the movies and let her pick what we see. How does that sound? To dorky or what?” Only Austin was paying attention, “Brady I think you should plan your date however you want. Change nothing about your plan.” As Austin was babbling on and on about the stakeout I just couldn’t wait for my date with Fantasia, that was by far my favorite part of the stakeout. Even with my date at seven, the pack and I got to the diner early so we could get everyone’s position determined and ready. “Okay Brady the pack and I will communicate through walkie talkies and you have an earpiece to hear what we are saying but not respond back.” From how Austin described everything it sounded like we were ready but there was still one thing we forgot about, “Dude what if she has to use the ladies room how will we know what she is doing then? I mean seriously she could be going in there to fix her lipgloss and then she could go crazy.” Austin could tell that I was just nervous for my date but everything I said could end up happening well mostly the thing about her lipgloss not so much her going crazy, I will shut up now. When Fantasia got there I couldn't believe it was her, she stood in front of me in a golden top and her black leggings with her sparkly black and gold heeled boots. Totally different from what she wears at school. "Hey Brady, so should we go in?" Fantasia asked meanwhile I couldn't find the words to say yes so I nodded and held my hand out for her. She took my hand and we went in the stakeout had just started. "Fantasia you look incredible and I'm sorry I didn't tell you that when you got here I was...yeah I think you know what I'm staying." Okay apparently I was insanely nervous and was at a loss for words. Fantasia didn't even care though I was just like thank god she doesn't care. Out of nowhere Fantasia went blank, “Fantasia, are you okay?” Fantasia nodded and finally got the chance to tell me the one thing I knew she was hiding from me. “Brady, I am really sorry I will tell you everything but just not here --- you would flip out. Like I am not kidding.” As Fantasia brought me into the alley I turned on the mic that was hidden in my pin. “What are we doing in the alley Fantasia?” I asked since she was leading me down the alley, I knew my way around town but I had no idea what alley we were in. When Fantasia stopped she didn’t say very much except for, “I don’t want to tell you because it is easier to show you, but please don’t freak out.” slowly she picked up a rat, and came close to me so I could see what she was doing. With eyes closed and heart beating slowly she bit the rat. ‘Finally I know what she wasn’t telling me.’ Now I knew it I can proudly tell my friends, Fantasia… is… a… vampire. Chapter four Saturday morning after my date I called another emergency pack meeting to tell them what I found out about Fantasia. “Wait what did you say?” Austin was clearly still trying to catch up to what I had just told him. “You heard me Guys, Fantasia… is… a… vampire.” The guys were in so much shock that they were not sure how to tell me she is a kind of our mortal enemy but finally Chase broke the silence. “Dude Fantasia is a VAMPIRE her kind is our mortal enemy you can’t be falling for… that no matter how hot she is.” With Chase’s words in mind, I thought it was only fair if I told Fantasia the truth about me. I don’t exactly know how Chase’s words made me think to tell Fantasia the truth of who I really am but I went through with it anyway. Monday morning at school Fantasia was at her locker this was my chance to tell her the truth about the real me no matter how much I didn’t want to. “Hey Fantasia can I talk to you for a minute? Please?” “Oh hey Brady what did you want to talk about? Is everything okay?” My heart was racing and I was sweating so hard that Fantasia had to take me in the bathroom to dry me off. “Fantasia friday night you told me the truth about you and I want you to know that I still really like you but now it’s my turn to tell you the truth about me.” when I stopped sweating I took Fantasia’s hands and whispered “I… am… a… werewolf.” The worst case scenario fortunately didn’t happen and all Fantasia did was look into my eyes and said “I don’t care what you are I will not leave you ever. Actually I kind of already knew...” After school, that day, the pack and I went in the woods to the exact spot we found Fantasia. I wasn’t really that thrilled to be going there because I knew that Austin would be like ‘Hey man did you tell Fantasia that you can’t see her anymore?’ and I just didn’t want to deal with it but I knew I had to deal with it eventually. “Hey man so… how’d it go with Fantasia?” Austin clearly was trying to sound subtle but came out the way he usually talks to me. I knew that he wouldn’t stop bugging me about Fantasia until I said exactly what he wanted so when I finally did tell him he got really mad like break a vase to steam coming out of his ears mad. “Dude you told her you are a werewolf? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!” Of course with Austin rambling on and on of what could have happened from telling Fantasia that I'm a werewolf it was hard for me to jump in but, he ran out of breath after his second thought. "Dude I did tell her but she somehow already knew." Chapter five The only part of telling the guys that I told Fantasia that was hard was that the guys and I didn't talk to each other for weeks. If you ask me it shouldn't have taken that long for us to start talking to each other again but of course... And I'm rambling again aren't I? So anyways the first person who started talking to me was Evan, he had something that he had to warn me about... "Hey man," clearly he was unsure of if he should have been talking to me or not "so uh there is something you should know" I had never seen him so nervous to tell me anything. "Ev what is going on is something up with Fantasia?" Clearly there was "Brady I overheard Austin say that he was going to think of a way to steal Fantasia from you. I'm sorry I thought you should know, I know how much you like her." When he told me this my mind went blank for about five minutes "wait you are serious?..." He nodded "thanks for telling me but do you by any chance know what he is going to do?" He shook his head, "sorry I don't but I will let you know when I find out." Later that day Fantasia and I went to the park to study and hang out just the two of us, but unfortunately there was too much on my mind for me to pay attention to what she was saying. "Earth to Brady... Do you read me?" Fantasia was so pretty and so sweet "oh sorry babe did you say something?" She was clearly getting suspicious, "Brady you don't seem like yourself, are you okay?" I nodded "yeah sorry I guess I should have told you this morning..." "Wait are you breaking up with me?" She had the wrong idea in her head. "What no I'm not breaking up with you, but this morning Evan told me that Austin was going to try to steal you from me." I tried to hide it from her but she was so worried I didn't want to make both of us so stressed. "What? I don't want him I want you, do you know what he is going to do?" I shook my head, "Fantasia don't worry, Evan told me that when Austin knows what he is going to do, he would tell me." That afternoon with Fantasia I promised her that I wouldn't let anything happen to her or us... Chapter six Chapter Three