Hopefully this is the penultimate chapter. Its been great writing and just to throw it out there, Underworld Awakening is coming out on DVD, early May! Disclaimer: I do not own Underworld.
Chapter 9
A mixture of feelings invaded Selene's every senses when she saw her former lover in the capsule. She felt joy, pure exhilarating happiness that jolted her body alive. She had another reason to fight now. Seeing her lover so defenseless, encased in a prison by the same animals that dared to harm their daughter, simply fueled Selene's mission: Destroy Antigen.
She stared at Michael's handsome face, mesmerized by this turn of events. Their reunion was short-lived as three armed men blasted through the door.
Selene narrowly avoided the bullets, sliding under the table and shooting the surprised men down. Three headshots and it was all over.
"Selene! They have your daughter in the van. They are on the move. Where are you? They are leaving with her! Do you hear me!" called out Sebastian from the apparently still working earpiece.
Making a split second but correct decision, she shot at the cryogenic chamber, thereby allowing the ice to melt. It broke her heart to leave Michael there, but she was confident that he would find his way to her again. If not, she promised to return.
"I'm on my way," she told Sebastian, determinedly not glancing back as she walked away.
The ice continued to melt…..
Seeing Michael again made Selene careless, her actions clouded by her frenetic emotions. So when the Lycan literally came out of nowhere, Selene couldn't react to the sudden weight that threw her towards the empty elevator column.
She grasped the sides of the open elevator door, standing on the precipice of a very long fall. The Lycan continued to throw his weight on her, and when that failed, he clamped his jaws on her right arm, forcing Selene to let go.
She yelled and grunted as she fell the full 8 stories, banging and hitting the walls on the way down.
Gravity pulled her fast, breaking an arm and leg in the process. She brutally hit, not the concrete floor, but a pole that protruded from the ground. It did not impale her, but she felt the blow paralyze her spine. Her gun flew out of her hand and lay uselessly besides her.
The Lycan landed smoothly next to her, and Selene struggled to kill the creature, while at the same time, her body regenerated her grave injuries. Going for her guns, she shot the Lycan, but failed to notice Quint, who was using his clawed hand to destroy the elevator's cable.
The elevator flew quickly towards her and Selene had a quick flashback to when she blasted the floor below her in Michael's apartment in order to survive a similar ambush.
Only this time, it was pure steel that she was shooting through and no amount of bullets was enough to perforate it. Bracing herself, she closed her eyes and ducked down.
It hurt, but the bullets and her enhanced physiognomy easily withstood the crash. She stood, feeling quite unstoppable, there was very little now that could really hurt her.
Selene climbed to the top of elevator and heard Sebastian once more, "Selene, they are heading toward parking level one! Do you copy?"
She ran now, heading straight for parking level one.
Reaching the entrance, she immediately spotted the white van with her daughter inside. Gaining momentum, she slammed into the side, flipping the van over. They weren't going anywhere with her daughter.
She went around and yanked the door open, only to be pushed back by one of the 'doctors'. Selene braced her legs around the soon to be Lycan and held him down while she shot him dead.
Another doctor ran towards her, but she kicked him over to the granite column.
She blew him full of bullets too, her eyes a blazing cerulean blue.
She heard heavy footsteps and the crunching of metal. Turning her attention to the sound, her eyes widen in recognition. It was Quint, but not his human counterpart. Oh no, this Lycan was the same Uber-Lycan that had knocked her unconscious back at the coven.
He growled, inviting her to approach for more. But it wasn't going to be so easy this time she vowed.
Making a spring for the van, the Uber-Lycan immediately retaliated and threw a car!
Oh shit! Selene cursed as the car barely glazed her. She shot at the Lycan a couple of times to get his attention, knowing she needed time to think of a way to kill this lycanthrope with immunity to silver.
He followed fast, forcing Selene to jump over two cars as he easily swiped them away with his massive paws.
She ducked behind a van and saw him push a car. Guessing his intent to impale her with both cars, she threw herself down and pushed off the car, managing to slide harmlessly underneath.
But it wasn't enough, the Lycan was relentless in his pursuit, and he was already perched on top of the van, swiping his burly arm at her attempts to rise. His massive arm and her tiny body collided and she went flying a couple of feet away, once again banging into another concrete wall.
The Lycan's strength and size were commendable, and Selene was quickly realizing that she wasn't going to win this fight in a hand-to-hand combat. The monster itself was now towering over her, showing no sings of weakness or damage. She could only hope that Sebastian was faring better.
Unable to crawl away fast enough, the Lycan once again managed to throw her 5 feet into the air. Selene's body crashed through a window, and landed inside a security room. The glass had cut into her left eye, but otherwise she was still relatively unharmed.
Sparing a quick glance at the video feed, she spotted more guards making their way towards the parking level. She also glimpsed Sebastian on the floor; he was not moving. But what inspired her the most and caused a strong sense of pride to swell within her, was seeing her daughter in her true hybrid glory, holding her own against Dr. Lane.
Eve herself was more than ready to claim the life of the heartless monster that had imprisoned her since birth and who had also separated Eve from her own mother! It was bad enough that she took the treatment passively, or at least this was the case until she met Selene.
Selene might not be the most emotional mother, but nonetheless, Eve admired the Death Dealer. Her mother was the epitome of lethal beauty and Eve venerated the passion that drove her mother to defend her beliefs and those she loved.
So throwing away years of laboratory conditioning, she slammed Dr. Lane into the wall, ready to tear his throat out. She snarled, digging her claws into his shoulders. I can take him on she thought, eager to prove herself to be like Selene.
That is until he transformed into a Lycan and had her in a choke hold against the seat of the van. Eve writhed underneath him, but the doctor had her tightly pinned.
"Get away from her!" yelled David, who had arrived, fully recuperated and with a shotgun. Dr. Lane turned towards him but David shot another round into the Lycan's grotesque head. A couple of more rounds followed, further mutilating his face.
Meanwhile, Eve used the distraction to escape Lane's grasp. This was when the reinenforcements arrived.
Eve's only goal was to kill the doctor, so she immersed herself back into the fight, leaving David to shoot the incomers.
In another section, Selene was stuck inside the security room, as Quint was too large to enter through the window. Not that he wasn't trying and pretty soon he would succeed too. For now all she could do was avoid his massive teeth and pocket a silver grenade that she found next to a dead guard.
Grabbing her knife, Selene slashed through the Lycan's face whenever he came too close. Finally, she thrust the knife into his face, but his skull was too thick to do any damage. She tried to dislodge the knife again, but with one shake of his head, Selene found herself flying out of the room, her fingers slipping from the knife.
She landed on top of a car, the grenade landing nearby. Selene analyzed her opponent. He was strong, and she was out of breath. He seemed to enjoy throwing her like a rag doll and each landing left Selene sprawled on the floor.
Lifting her head she spotted a narrow hallway. Finally she had a plan, but she was weak. Selene quickly crawled over to the entrance, leaning against the wall to steady herself. She felt disoriented from the numerous falls and would need blood soon.
Eve though was fairly even matched with Lane as both attacked each other mercilessly, exchanging blows with their sharp claws. It was Eve who gained an upper hand and had Lane trapped underneath her. She furiously slashed at his face until he managed to kick her off.
But she was not discouraged; Eve hissed, enticing the doctor to finish this once and for all. He was right about one thing: She wasn't a little girl anymore.
And when he came, Eve was ready. She grabbed the creature and jammed him against a car, finally using her true hybrid strength to rip his throat out. Panting, she climbed off and watched her tormentor die.
"It's worse if you try to fight it….trust me." She delivered each word with a sense of fulfillment, satisfied that she would never again let herself be used as a science experiment.
If only her mother had the same luck, but she was once again trying to avoid the Uber-Lycan's claw. Come on, come on you bastard!
She continued to move away from the Lycan, using the handrails for support. She smiled with satisfaction as Quint had no choice but to revert to his human form.
He marched up to her and grabbed Selene by her neck, lifting her from the ground.
But she was ready, Quint fell for her trap and in one smooth move, she turned around and imbedded the grenade in his stomach.
Survive this asshole! Selene watched Quint, who did not realize it yet.
"I heal instantly," he claimed.
"I'm counting on it," she replied, throwing the grenade pin in his face.
He caught it, and stared at it for one long second before the rumblings in his torso began. Selene ran towards the exit, and Quint transformed halfway into a Lycan. He walked forwards, confident that this had solved the issue.
He was wrong and the bomb went off inside him, blowing him to pieces. Selene ducked behind the wall, avoiding the blood and flesh that exploded in the corridor.
It was finally over.
Selene turned around and found Eve; she was alive. Dr. Lane lay dead next to her and Sebastian was slowly coming to. Even David had made it, Selene's immunity to the sun clearly transmitted to the young vampire.
Without further delay, Selene marched right up to her daughter, wanting to pull her in for a tight hug, but unsure of how to proceed. Eve though, felt the same way and met her mother halfway.
She hugged Selene tightly, fully yielding to Selene's hesitant but warm embrace. Her own eyes closed, relishing the feel of her daughter safely in her arms, after all, it was why she fought now.
"You came back for me," came her tiny voice, buried deep within Selene's arms. Out of pure instinct, Selene soothingly rubbed her hand over Eve's hair.
She felt a tear drop, and knew that she had finally gained her daughter's trust.
"I said I would," she stated simply, feeling that perhaps now, she had convinced her daughter of how much she loved her, of how far she would be willing to go to protect her own flesh and blood.
"Selene, you should go," said Sebastian urgently.
David agreed, "There's a safe house not far from here."
"Go, I'll set them on a different path, buy you some time," said Sebastian.
Selene nodded, looking at both men appreciatively.
"Thank you."
She motioned at Eve and David to follow, but she had one more thing to do.
"Are we going back in?" David asked.
"We are." There was one more member of her family missing.
Selene led the way back to the room where Michael was held, worried by his absence from the fight. Surely he should be awake by now.
But no, there was one more surprise to be revealed. Inside the room, the capsule was indeed thawed and opened, but Michael was nowhere near. Selene stared at the capsule critically, wondering where the hell he could have gone.
Behind her, Eve gasped, suddenly receiving a vivid image of the roof, her mind touching her father's for the first time.
Selene did not miss the exchange, "What is it? Michael?" she asked, knowing the answer before seeing her daughter nod.
"The roof," she answered.
The trio ran to the roof swiftly, knowing that Eve's vision had already passed. Selene reached the roof first, her eyes searching the darkness to no avail.
Finally she surrendered, knowing that Michael was gone. He probable saw the helicopters and left, she mused, standing over the edge of the roof.
Next to her, Eve shyly grasped her hand and squeezed it, a silent reminder that Selene would not be alone in the search for Michael. Selene gazed at their joined hands and then into her daughter's eyes, giving her a small smile.
Though the world has changed, our enemy remains the same. The Lycans will rebuild, and will hunt for her father as they did for her. The vampire coven will not only survive this world. We will reclaim it.
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