I'm so sorry this chapter has taken me so long! I've been extremely busy and every spare second of my day has been trying to write, but please me patient with me, my readers. This chapter was more of a transition to the next important part of the story, so bare with me through the blood and gore. For my action lovers, you will enjoy this. :) xoxo

"Where were you?" Monica asked Selene. She somehow thought that if Selene and Michael had been there, they wouldn't have let her father die.

"We were attacked by humans; they used some sort of tranquilizer to move us. Where would they be taking us if Antigen is down?"

"I don't know," Monica said, her body going into shock, "I don't know anything anymore."

Selene really did feel bad for her and her heart dropped at the sight of the dead Rhett Linskey who had made a comfortable home for vampires. But she knew they didn't have time to mourn for very long before the humans returned.

"We can't stay here," Selene said, trying to be delicate, "They'll come back; they didn't get what they came for."

"I can't just leave him here," Monica said, looking at her father's body. Selene was reminded of the time she had told Alexander Corvinus's men to not leave Michael under the pier after Marcus had attacked him. Jacob and Adam walked up, tears pricking their eyes at the sight of their dead employer. He had been a friend, boss, and lifeline. They had a hospital bed with them, one of the few things from the lab that were left.

"Moni," Jacob said, "don't worry, we'll take good care of him." She watched as they lifted his body off the ground and onto the bed. Before they reeled him away, she took one of his hands and kissed it gently.

Selene felt overwhelmed at the thought of hiding several covens of vampires when the humans knew they would be close. "Is there anywhere else we can go? We can't stay here and we definitely can't just roam the city streets."

"My father's properties are probably being searched as we speak and..." Monica couldn't finish her sentence before they heard a gunshot and a vampire dropped dead beside them. The humans were back.

Selene instinctively turned and ducked behind some furniture as more gunshots went off. She looked and saw Eve had followed her example and also ducked behind furniture as she turned into her hybrid form. Michael had not ducked at all and simply transformed amidst the chaos. Coming down the hall, Adam and a few other vampires were carrying weapons, which were slid to Selene and Monica across the floor. Selene quickly grabbed two hand guns, stood up, and started shooting at the fragile humans, knocking down one with every shot. Several, though, were carrying bullet-proof shields that she couldn't penetrate.

Monica did the same, shooting humans that weren't shielded until her ammo was up. Anger burned inside her at the sight of the humans responsible for her father's death. She stood up and was immediately shot with a UV bullet. She trembled with pain and frustration as her eyes flashed navy blue and her fangs came out of her gums until she was hissing. She stuck her fingers into the wound and pulled the bullet out. The humans were taken aback at the sight. Of course, they knew she was half vampire (thanks to Samuel) but they didn't know that she could withstand UV rounds.

Selene had to admire the girl, but she knew that it wasn't skill that was leading her to fight, but hunger for vengeance. If she didn't help her, Monica might very well be dead. Before she could throw another weapon at her, Monica had already ran to the first shielded human and tore a chunk of his throat out with her teeth.

"Stay back!" Monica hissed at the other vampires coming through the halls. She knew they had no chance against the UV ammo and she didn't want them to die. Enough death had happened that day for them already. Besides, they would need many numbers if they still wanted a chance in hell at winning the war.

Michael and Eve were fighting together to take down the humans from behind, partly because Eve wanted to help her parents, but mostly because Michael didn't want Selene to be distracted by their daughter's safety and he wanted to make sure Eve remained unharmed. At first the humans were taken by surprise by the hybrids behind them, but after three had been taken down, they began to fire at father and daughter. The hybrids dodged many of their bullets, but one struck Eve in the shoulder, causing her to fall.

Michael growled in fury as he watched his daughter fall to the ground, a growl so loud that it made everyone stop and look. He picked up the gun of one of the dead humans and began firing at them with a burning passion. Soon Selene was by his side, also taking down humans. As Michael pounced on two of them, Selene knelt beside her daughter, who was still amazingly in her hybrid form.

"Are you alright?" she asked. Eve just nodded as she pulled her shirt down just enough to watch the flesh heal and the bullet pop out. Satisfied, Selene stood back up, relieved to see that most of the humans were dead. Only a few more remained, which they took care of easily. She helped Eve up as they walked back toward Monica. Selene had a feeling that this was just the beginning.

"It's not over," Selene said as she watched the entrance, not sure what to expect.

Samuel walked in first with what appeared to be another small group of humans, all dressed in suits as if they were some kind of body guards. The vampires watched in anticipation and curiosity as these humans came in with no weapons and no fear in their eyes as they approached. Monica's blood boiled at the sight of the traiter, silently promising herself that he would be hers to kill.

"Monica," Samuel said in a cool, eery voice, "I see you're handling things well. Too bad your wretched father couldn't do the same when I shot him over and over not three feet from where you stand now." Monica went to lurch at the man, but Selene grabbed her arm and held her back.

"Don't," she said, "it's a trap."

An all-too-familiar howling noise came from just outside of the mansion which all the vampires recognized. Lycans had come. Eyes were widened in confusion and surprise. Monica watched in horror as Samuel and the other 'humans' began to turn into their lycan forms as their clothes were shredded from their bodies.

"Lycans!" she heard Adam yell to the other vampires, which quickly flooded the room they were in. Humans with UV ammo were one thing, but lycans were another; it was as if the vampires' instinct was to kill the manging beasts, they couldn't control the urge. Soon there was a loud hissing noise, which was the unision of hisses coming from the nearly two-hundred vampires around the room, eyes all icy blue and fangs all protruding. Before a single lycan could be taken down, nearly a hundred more came through the doors and windows. The battle underground seemed pathetic compared to this.

Adam slid more weapons to Selene, which she quickly started using against the animals. Michael and Eve became more ferocious in their attacks, Michael tearing limbs apart and Eve clawing eyes out and muzzles off, carefully avoiding flying bullets.

Thomas was using his ancient sword, not caring for the new weapons. He knew he could feel his sword much easier than he could point a gun, and since he was born, swords were his weapon of choice. He gracefully slammed the pointed edge into the faces of several lycans, dodging their blows and almost dancing between them. David, on the other hand, was skillfully using his famous whips, catching arms and legs of lycans and pulling them off. The sharp metal shards within the whips made it much easier.

When Selene ran out of ammo yet again, she took the knife that was attached to her upper thigh and began pushing it into her lycan victims until they were dead. Surprisingly, the vampires were winning this battle, but not without losing some of their own. Selene recognized some from Thomas's coven and some from her old coven. She had no time to remember their names since she was still fighting off the raging animals.

Monica had attacked Samuel at the first sight of his transformation, furiously wondering how they didn't know that he was a lycan when they hired him six months ago. Perhaps his animal nature was a new thing. Either way, she couldn't reach him before he was fully turned, so as she pounced, he slammed his right paw into her face, causing her to do a backward somersault through the air and land on the floor. She didn't have time to think about the throbbing pain in her neck from the blow as she quickly got back to her feet and charged again.

This time, they went through a large floor-to-ceiling window into the courtyard in the center of the mansion. Luckily it was almost dark out so she didn't have to worry about vampires being exposed to the sun. She landed on top of Samuel and started beating his head in with her fists, hissing the entire time and yelling in anger. He was able to throw her off of him over his head and stand back up. As she went to stand, he came at her and slammed his whole body into her small frame, causing her to fall yet again. She looked up just in time to see his mouth open and his sharp teeth become exposed as he quickly pounced on her, ready to bite...

Eve had been taking out lycans as if she were a pro, not knowing where the strength that she had was coming from. As she finished one off with a swift kick to the face, two attacked her at once, grabbing her from the front and back, trying to tear her apart. She felt the one behind her being jerked away as she pounded her fist into the open mouth of one lycan, her hand going straight through the back of his throat and out the other side. She turned and saw that her mother had been the one to pull the other lycan off of her and had stabbed it with a raging fury. Eve could read Selene's expression of concern for her daughter, so she nodded to show that she was alright.

After Selene made sure Eve was fairly safe, she quickly began fighting again. She could hear a lycan charging at her from behind, but instead of turning to face it, she simply waited a mere two seconds before it reached her as she jumped in the air and used its shoulders as momentum to land behind it, quickly grabbing her knife as she landed and stabbing the side of its head. She looked up to see that only about twenty lycans remained and they were all in one general area.

"Move!" she shouted her fellow vampires as she pulled a grenade from one of her weapon holders and flung it at the beasts. The explosion hardly wounded the large building, but all the lycans fell to the ground.

"Where's Monica?" Eve asked as she looked around. Selene looked up as she too noticed the young woman's absence. She saw the broken window and quickly jumped through it to find the beast almost biting Monica. She quickly grabbed him by the mane of fur on his back and threw him against a wall. Her knife was out and she was ready to stab him to death.

"Wait!" Monica shouted before Selene could stab him. She looked at Samuel, now turning back into his human form as he saw all the vampires crowding him, and said, "He owes me answers."