DEATHLESS

02

YEAR: 1909.

If there was something in this new "world" that Daisy didn't like, that something was fighting. Well, more like training seeing as they didn't really fight, yet. It was exhausting, and she did not always win, but there was a newborn that always won the fights: Gus.

He was one of the people that Mistress Maria had changed the same night the Major had changed Daisy, and honestly, she could see why she had done that; not only he was huge, but he was also the most muscular of them.

He was also the scariest.

He won every fight that the Major put him. All the newborns that fought against him got some part from them ripped by him. And he would do that with a little, almost unnoticeable, a smirk on his face. He scared Daisy, and at least a good part of the group as well.

Daisy didn't socialize with the rest of them. She tried to stay as far as she could from the others, especially far away from Gus. Though he was a quiet one, much like her, Daisy didn't know what could happen if he got angered because of the others' provocation. If that ever happened, then Daisy had a reason to stay away from him. From everybody.

She tried to stay away from him as well. From the Major, I mean.

Key word: tried.

They didn't talk to each other. No, ever since that night —that night at the village—, they didn't exchange words. That night was the only night that they had ever talked to each other —well, at least in this undead world. But Daisy always felt his eyes; she supposed that it was his eyes, on her. Always watching, like a predator stalking its prey, which was quite ironic since they both of them were from the same species.

It was rare for her to have the courage to look at him, and she always did so when he was talking to Mistress Maria. She would gaze at him, taking in his looks, observing the way he stood, which was always in a tense way. Then, as if he felt her watching him, he would straight up, and look directly at her direction, stopping paying attention to whatever Mistress Maria was saying to him. Wherever he caught her staring at him, she would look away as fast as it was possible. If she were still human, the velocity she used to move her head in a different direction from the Major's would have probably broken her neck.

Anyway, back to the fighting thing that Daisy said that she didn't like. Though Daisy had trained with all the other newborns, today would be a different day. Since she woke up in this new life, all she did was train —honestly, Daisy may have trained more than she fed on someone. The newborns didn't, but the reason why today's training would be different was that they would do something that they had never done before: they would kill some newborns from their group.

They had spent their night, like usual, in the barn, the place that every newborn hated the most. They weren't allowed to go out, and when they were, both Mistress Maria and the Major accompanied them—though most of the time the Major was the only one who went with them.

The day started just like any other day would. The Major began forming pairs —the strongest versus the weakest—, who would fight, while Mistress Maria stood in the superior part of the barn, watching everything with a delighted smirk. Her sharp ruby-colored eyes moved quickly through the newborns, humming in content when the strongest of the pair managed to rip the head from the weakest under a minute.

Though the Major had paired Daisy with someone not so strong, giving her a chance of winning, Mistress Maria didn't seem to be satisfied with his choice of opponent. With a sneer on her lips, Mistress Maria interfered and chose to pair Daisy with Gus. The Major had no choice but to accept her change.

It seemed that today would be the day that Daisy was going to die. And, this time, she wouldn't come back.

After waiting for what it felt like an eternity, it was their turn to fight. From what Daisy remembered from observing Gus fighting the others newborns, he was brute. He relied on his force, not thinking straight while attacking. He was more of the "attack first, think later" type of guy, and that was his weakness. Perhaps if Daisy used the advantage that she had —her speed—, and succeed in getting Gus in a deadlock, just like the Major had shown them, then she could win the fight. All she had to do was evade Gus' attacks, and get him to get reckless.

The fight started.

Grinding his teeth in a snarl, Gus was the one who charged first. Though he was bigger than her, consequently stronger than her—, he wasn't so fast. So, when he came at her direction, Daisy ducked under his arm, kicking him in the back next. He flew a few meters before raising from the floor, a maniac expression on his face.

Great, she was starting to piss him off.

Both of them crouched before attacking at the same time. Every time that Gus tried to land a punch on Daisy, she would deviate it and then would manage to hit him —though the hit wasn't as powerful as she wanted it to be. Everything was happening according to her plan, or so Daisy thought.

His hands came out of nowhere and held her in a tight embrace. Turning them around, he straddled her in a way that it was almost impossible for her to escape. She tried to crash around, but Gus held her hips with his legs, immobilizing her for sure. Wrapping his hands around her throat, he lifted her head from the ground before shoving it back.

In the third time that he did that, Daisy felt like something was opening on her neck, like a fracture. It was small, but it was there. Daisy knew that each time Gus shoved her head into the ground, using the same strength, the fracture got bigger. She had to stop him, but she didn't know how.

Bang!

Not knowing what else to do, Daisy closed her eyes and focused on Gus. She didn't know why, but she had a feeling, and that feeling was saying that she should forget about everything else around her, and just focus on Gus, concentrate on getting him to stop bashing her head and to get off her.

Bang!

The fracture got bigger, and that wasn't helping Daisy concentrate at all. She closed her eyes, as if doing so it would get easier for her to concentrate. Strangely, it did help. To Daisy, it seemed like everything was in slow motion. Concentrating harder, she imagined herself and Gus in a dark place, somewhere far from the barn. She didn't know where they were, and to be quite honest, she wasn't curious at all to find out. And then, she felt it. "It" being some that she couldn't quite explain, but it seemed almost like a pull, something running through her entire body.

She let it out, almost like letting a beast out of its cage.

And then Gus started screaming.

Vampires weren't noisy creatures, so seeing Gus screaming like that was not normal and surprised everyone in the barn. His screaming was sounding almost like he was in physical pain, which was impossible since Daisy was paralyzed under him, looking at him with a concentrated expression on her face.

A loud crash broke her from the focused state that she was, and, as soon as she looked to see Mistress Maria, who caused the noise from jumping from the upper level of the barn, Gus stopped screaming. He just stood there, not moving from Daisy, but almost looking like he was lost in thoughts.

Realizing that, perhaps, she now had a chance to win, Daisy attacked. She pushed him away, and it took Gus a second to understand what was going on. They both stood up, Gus being slower than Daisy for a few milliseconds. In an average fight, those milliseconds wouldn't have made a difference at all, but in a newborns' fight? Perhaps those milliseconds just defined who would live and who would die.

Getting Gus in a headlock was easy, something that Daisy didn't think that it would be, though maybe it had been easy because Gus was weak from whatever she had caused him, something that both the Major and Mistress Maria noticed. Struggling a little to contain Gus, Daisy looked at the Major, a silent question in her eyes. He nodded.

In a quick twist of arms, she ripped his head. It was something that she had never done before, and she knew that she didn't want to do ever again. But it was quite impossible to her not do it, seeing as she was made to fight, to be part of the war.

She would never stop killing.

Biting her lower lip, Maria observed the newborn with attention. She had noticed the looks she gave the Major as well as the looks he gave her. A malicious grin began to form on her lips as varies ideas started to form on her head. She could work on the concept of the newborn and the Major together. It seemed like that little newborn could be much more useful than the others to her.

— AUTHOR'S NOTE: This chapter was going to be much bigger, but I thought that it was for the best if this was focused more on the fact that Daisy killed a newborn for the first time, and that Maria has big plans to use her in the army. I was planning on adding a little more interaction between Jasper and Daisy, but I'll leave it for another flashback. Anyway, I just want to make something clear: when you guys see "Mistress Maria", then it means that it's Daisy's point of view. I didn't want you guys to get confused :) aLSO, I imagined the barn, like, a two levels barn, with a hole (?) in the middle of the upper level (that's where Maria stays to observe the newborns when they're training/fighting). Anyway, thanks for waiting so long for an update!

— time-twilight: Great chapter. What is Daisy's gift. I would love for you to do a chapter of how Jasper and Daisy left Maria's army and did Jasper had to get Daisy to run away with him. Plz update soon.

A: I'll talk more about Daisy's gift in a few chapter, darling, don't worry. You don't need to worry about whether I'll write about how Jasper and Daisy left Maria's army or not; I'm covering most of Daisy's time in the army, so it means that yes, I'll write about them leaving the army together.

— DarkAngel2581: Love it so far. Can't wait for the next update!

A: Awn! Thanks, fam!

— lisahra: WOW love the Story.

A: Thanks, love!

— kimmi9x: Liking this very much.

A: That's good to know, sweetie!

— lightbabe: Poor Daisy and Jasper having to suffer because of the bloodlust.

A: Right?! I hate making them pass through all this, but I have to. But fear not my sweetie reader, they will gain some control over time.

— RoniMikaelson: A great second chapter! I can't wait to read more about how Daisy fits in with the rest of the storyline and her relationship with the rest of the Cullen's. Great story so far!

A: Thank you so much, darling! Her relationship with the Cullens is something that I want to write with care; I don't want her to be a Mary-Sue, so I'm making her relationship with them as unique as it can be.