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Chapter 9: Cages

Still in Kelly's POV

I sat there panting, they had left after a while after getting bored of watching me scream. My throat was scratchy from screaming and it hurt to talk, not that I had someone to talk to. I was alone now and I knew it. I was a goner and I knew it.

Suddenly the doors flew open, I didn't move. I was ready to die; I no longer had any will to live. I heard the soft click of my chain as the person unlocked it and then a reassuring hand on my shoulder. It felt like when Danny had saved me.

"Danny?" I croaked, but I knew it was a false hope.

"No sweetie, I'm not Danny, but I am here to help you. Come on," She slowly lifted me up and began to help me walk out of the cell. I looked up at her to see dazzling green eyes and light brown hair like mine, but I couldn't see anything else. Her face was covered by a mask.

Suddenly my knees gave way and I collapsed in her arms, "Can't-make-it." I panted.

"You have to sweetheart, please," she begged. I didn't know why, but her voice seemed familiar. Like a voice I had heard in a dream. It was soft and soothing like wind chimes.

"O-okay," I stuttered and shakily stood.

"Listen Kelly," She began to explain as we walked down a flight of stairs. "I'm here to help you, but I need you to listen to me carefully okay?"

"Okay," I mumbled, my eyes growing heavy. I was too weak to fight even if I had wanted to.

"I know where we keep our ghost portal; I'm going to open it for you okay?"

"Open ghost portal, got it," I said dazedly.

I felt the women slap my cheeks softly to wake me up an then continue to explain, "Okay so after I open the portal I can give you an hour to gather up as many Fallen as you can find."

"Why?" I asked suddenly interested.

"I have a way to fuse them back to their human half. I seem to be the only person able to tell that there is no way they are going to be able to survive without their other half." She looked at me as she spoke keeping me alert. "They are all the same person; it's like taking out part of your soul. No one else, but me can see that nothing is wrong with these halfas they don't change because they become half dead or whatever. They're still the same person, just with a different face."

"Like superheroes," I said slowly remembering what I had explained to Valerie.

"Yes," The women nodded. "Very much like that. Now as I was saying you can't have one half without the other, that's why I came up with a way to fix them change them back, but I need your help."

"How do I know this isn't a trap?" I asked suddenly cautious.

"You don't, but you have to trust me," She replied.

Suddenly we turned a corner and I saw it. Millions upon millions of cells. Each one held either a ghost, werewolf, or vampire half or a human. Their halves were across from each other as I watched them push against the clear door trying to get to their other half. Above each cell was a label. I gasped amazed as I read them,

Ryan Little, ghost, unstable across from him was Uppercut, ghost, unstable

Kylie Brown, werewolf, unstable across from her was Moonfang, werewolf, unstable

Yes there was even one that said,

Laura Goods, ghost, dead across from it was BlackNight, ghost, escaped

The lists went on and on then I saw something that made my heart skip a beat.

Nick Black, vampire, stable, but slowly dying no I thought no no it couldn't be my Nick it just couldn't be. I looked across from him and I felt tears come to my eyes as I read. Firespark, vampire, unstable.

I fell to my knees and desperately started to try and open the cells I had to get him out. I saw him sitting in the back of the cell, curled tight in a ball he was shaking and tears lined his cheeks. I heard him mumbling over and over, "Firespark come back, come back, please I need you."

"Nick," I cried. "Nick listen to me, you have to hang on okay. I'm going to help you Nick!" I felt tears beginning to line my cheeks as I watched him. He seemed so helpless.

"Kelly," He mumbled looking up. "Kelly I'm so cold, so cold."

"It will be okay," I said trying to comfort him through the glass.

"So many knives, so many needles," He said looking off into the distance. "So much pain, they took him Kelly they took him." Then he looked at me and more tears began to form in his eyes, "I don't want to die, Kelly. I had so much I wanted to do, I'm not ready."

"Nick stop it you're not going to die," I told him.

But he seemed to have lost it and went back to mumbling stuff like, so cold and Firespark come back.

I stood up and shakily went over to the women, "He'll be okay right? He can't die I love him, he can't die."

The women looked at me sadly and then knelt down, "Kelly he may not die, but that depends on you. You have to hurry; there is only one way to open these cages." She pulled out a picture of a key. "When your gathering Fallen I also need you to find this key, it's called the Skeleton Key it will open anything."

"Okay," I said slowly.

"I can only give you an hour, you need to find the key and leave or I'll to close the door on you and your friend will die."

I gulped and nodded, "Got it."

"Okay good, now listen to me sweetheart I have one more thing to tell you," She pulled off her mask and there in front of me was my mom.

"Mom?" I cried tears of joy forming into my eyes as she hugged me.

"I love you Kel, I promise. I never agreed to what your father did, but I couldn't do anything he wouldn't let me. I told myself that I would never let you die ever," Suddenly she started to cry. "I'm so sorry Kel will you ever forgive."

"Mom," I said softly. "I forgive you and if we can save Nick it will be even better. Now let's continue with this shall we."

"Yes," My mom said wiping her eyes. "Let's go." She pushed a button on the wall and soon a bright swirl of green was above me.

"An hour," My mom reminded me. "That's all I can give you hurry."

"I will," I told her and transformed flying into the vortex, not looking back. Maybe if I had looked back I would have seen a name on a cage that would have changed everything. If I hadlooked back I would have seen the name,

Amber Porter, werewolf, stable, but dying slowly and across from it Thorn, werewolf, unstable She had served her purpose to them and nowshe was being tossed away like trash.

The traitor has been betrayed.

I hope you liked this chapter I really did it's like my new favorite!

This is also the last chapter; the next book will be called The Hybrid Wars Book Three: The Final End. It will be the last book! And I will have the whole series done YAY! Anyways I will do a short epilogue for this story and then I will post for the next book!

Stayed toned people.