Here I am with the 10th anniversary chapter! Enjoy!

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Diana's first thought when she woke up was that she hoped that her baby was okay. Janus had drugged her as soon as they left the building. She was in some dungeon-looking room chained to a wall.

"Hello, Sleeping Beauty," said Janus from the other side if the room. He was sitting in a chair and his look was dark. "Now that you're up, I have some questions to ask."

"What do you want from me?" she said tiredly.

"Answers. If you answer correctly no harm comes to you and your baby, but if you answer wrong, well I don't really need to explain what happens, do I?" He fingered a silver laced whip on his lap.

Diana panicked when she saw the whip and struggled to get out of her bonds. She tugged and pulled on them but to no avail.

"It's no use trying to get out. The drug prevents you from using your enhanced strength."

"The drug you used," she began but stopped due to a wave of dizziness.

"What about it?" he asked. Diana didn't answer; she was still trying to battle the dizziness and nausea.

"Oh, you want to know if it harmed your baby," he realized. She nodded weakly. "Your baby was unharmed, but whether it stays that way up to you."

Diana was terrified of what he was going to do.

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Blade paced around the conference room, his mind constantly worrying about Diana and their baby.

"Calm down, Blade. We're going to find them," Kafele said calmly. Blade snapped his head in Kafele's direction. He looked like he wanted to murder him. He opened his mouth to reply, but Melina beat him to it.

"Said the brother who abandoned her," she growled at him. Her and Kafele's eyes went blue.

"Know your place, Melina," he warned.

"My place was right by her side when Horus was doing the things he did to her. I was there for her, I even tried to help her but she'd rather have his wrath on her rather than on me," she snapped.

"I'm sorry I wasn't there for her. I tried warning her."

"Yeah, but you didn't tell her what Horus was," Melina countered.

"I didn't want to bring her into this mess," he reasoned.

"Because you didn't tell her, she ended up in it anyway. She became his wife and I became his mistress. Good job, Kafele!" She was getting angrier by the minute.

"It's not my fault he went after her adopted family. I had nothing to do with him turning you and killing your parents."

"No, but if you didn't turn Horus none of us would have had to go through that."

"I said I was sorry. How long are you going to hold that over my head? I couldn't control him," he said icily. He was getting tired of her always bringing that up.

"No you couldn't because you were to busy fucking Nailah!" she hissed.

"Watch it, Melina!" Nailah's eyes turned blue also.

"Shut up slut!"

"You little bitch!" Nailah exclaimed. Curses erupted from everybody. They all started arguing. Blade whistled to get everybody's attention.

"Everybody shut the hell up!" Meneus commanded. "We are here to find a way to get Dyania back."

"What is he going to do to her?" Blade asked. He was more upset than angry. All heads turned towards him. They couldn't bear to tell him the answer.

"He going to use her to draw out my mother and I," Kafele said.

"There's a way we can find her," Chione spoke up. "The blood ritual."

"The same one from the House of Leichen?" Blade asked.

"We can do it only if they're bonded," Meneus said. He turned to Blade. "Are you?"

"Yes, but won't Janus know we'll do the ritual?"

"It's likely that he's counting on it. He wants to be found so that we can drag Kafele and Nenet with us too," Melina said.

"Nenet will never go for it," said Kafele.

"Why not? Dyania's her daughter and she's your mother. Can't you convince her?" Melina asked.

"It's possible but highly unlikely. I don't know where she is at the moment, and it could take weeks to contact her. Let's just go with the blood ritual for now. It's the only thing we've got to work with so far. Once we know where she is, then we'll figure out what to do," Kafele suggested.

"It all depends if Blade is going to do it. Remember, he doesn't drink blood," Melina said. Chione turned to him.

"Will you do it? We could have our scientists make a duplicate of your serum, and we can administer it to you as soon as you're out of the blood," Chione said.

"I'll do it." His answer surprised half of the group.

"Are you sure?" Chione asked.

"Yes, if it'll help Diana." Melina smiled.

"Let's go," she said.

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Blade stood in front of the pool in blood with nothing on but his boxers and a robe. Melina stood at the side with his serum.

He took off the robe and stepped into the pool. As he went in further, he could feel the Thirst building. The urge to feed was becoming overwhelming. The blood was up to his chest. He took another step and it was up to his neck. He progressed forward and was soon submerged.

Blade felt the scenery around him change. He stood in front of a castle. He recognized it from Diana's nightmares. It was the same one she had been held captive in by Horus.

The scenery shifted again. He was now in a dungeon that he assumed was underground. He was facing Diana. She was chained to a stonewall. She wore a short black nightgown and her hair was loose around her shoulders. She sported bruises and cuts all over her body. Her head hung low in exhaustion. She lifted her head and looked up as if sensing him there. She parted her lips and uttered, "Help me."

A whip came out of nowhere and lashed her left cheek. Fresh blood dripped down from the cut.

Blade turned around and found himself face to face with Janus. He wore an evil grin and lashed out at Diana again.

"Where is your mother?" he demanded.

"I don't know," her voice was hoarse. Another lash caught her on the leg. She barely flinched.

"I'm going to ask you again. Where is your mother?"

"I don't know! I never knew her!" Janus cracked his whip and she flinched. "I swear I don't know. Please don't hurt me! I don't want to lose my baby! Please!" she pleaded.

Another crack of the whip silenced her. The scenery started to blur and swirl.

Blade was pulled out of the vision. He surfaced and gasped for air. He swam to the edge of the pool trying to avoid the urge to swallow the blood that surrounded him. He lifted himself out of the pool and Melina covered him with the robe.

"Are you okay?" she asked. He nodded and took deep breaths.

"She's in Egypt. At Horus's castle," he managed to get out.

"Oh god," Melina said in horror. They were going back to the place that had plagued her dreams for centuries.

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Diana was now handcuffed to a bed. Janus had left her there for what seemed like days. She was tired and she ached all over. She constantly worried about the health of her baby. The torture she had gone through had made her sick with worry. But something inside her told her that her baby was still alive.

Janus hadn't given her blood and it weakened her greatly. The baby was draining her energy and she had no way of replenishing it. The headaches and nausea came back in full force and plagued her endlessly.

She felt like a cripple. She could barely move, let alone see straight with the growing hunger gnawing at her senses.

It's so dark in here, she thought sadly. I can't even tell how long I've been here. I hope my baby and I make it out okay. If we do, what am I going to say to Blade? I kept this secret from him, and there is no doubt that he is going to be mad about it. After he wouldn't let me talk to him before he left I gave up. I wonder if he'll ever forgive me for it.

The door to her cell opened. A figure stood in the doorway.

"You ready to start talking?" Janus asked.

"I told you, I don't know anything!" she said hoping he would finally get it.

"Bullshit! You know. Deep down, you know where they both are. Now tell me!"

"I-Don't-Know!" she said through gritted teeth. He slapped her, leaving a small cut on her cheek.

"Oh, look. Another cut. It kinda blends in with the other ones don't you think?" she said. He raised his hand to strike her again. She held up her cuffed hand to stop him.

"Janus, you might want to reconsider that. Just to let you know, if you harm or kill my baby, nothing and I mean nothing, will stop me from killing you. And if I don't finish the job, the council, maybe even Blade will. And Blade is not a kind person when it comes to vampires. So you might want to watch your step," she said in a deadly voice.

Janus looked furious.

"Are you threatening me!" he said with a laugh. A smile formed on her dry, bruised lips.

"No. I'm warning you."

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"Okay. So now we know where she is, we need to figure out how to get her back. If we go rushing in there, he'll kill her," Kafele recounted.

"Yeah, but if we wait too long, she'll die from exhaustion or blood loss," Blade said. Melina turned to him.

"What do you mean by that? What did you see?" she demanded.

"She was being tortured. It looked like someone had beaten her and left her for dead. And I'm willing to bet that Janus hasn't given her blood. Her body could just shut down," he explained. And the baby could die with her, he added in his hand. The very thought made him ache with sadness.

"Even if tried to give her blood, it wouldn't help. He'd have to do it intravenously." She caught Blade's confused look.

"She can't tolerate the taste of blood right now. It's a symptom of her pregnancy," she said sadly.

"How far along is she? Four months?" he asked.

"Three actually but she'll be entering her second trimester in a few weeks." Blade nodded absentmindedly.

"If her condition is as bad as you say, we need to leave in atleast a day or two with a full-proof plan. She's been gone for more than a week and her condition could get worse," Kafele announced.

"Well, have you come up with one yet?" Chione asked.

"No, but we need to think fast. Two lives are at stake, and over a dozen more if we go unprepared."

"I have an idea." Everyone turned to look at Meneus.

"Well, spill it!" Nailah said.

"We send Kafele looking for a trade. We assemble a tactical team and sneak in. Melina and Nikolus go with Blade to find Dyania. Chione and I could make sure that there are no traps to set off if Janus is killed or if Diana is removed. The rest can take out his bodyguards and accomplices," he said.

Everybody seemed to ruminate the idea in their heads.

"Sounds good to me. Any others?" Calix asked.

"It's a bit reckless since we're going in there blind, but Dyania is definitely worth it," Kamilah said.

"Anybody else agree with Meneus's plan?" Kafele asked. He raised his hand and so did everybody else. He smiled.

"Alright, let's go get her back." Kafele smiled. Everybody turned to leave.

"Wait. I have a question," Blade said.

"Sure. Ask anything," Melina said.

"Why did you all set up the event when Diana announced her pregnancy?" he asked. Everybody avoided his gaze.

"Well, she needed to tell the vampire community and…" Melina began jabbering.

"Don't bullshit him, Melina. The reason we did it was because she wasn't planning on telling you. Ever. Once we made you leave to give her more time, we soon realized that she was never going to tell you," Kafele said.

Blade's jaw clenched in anger. "Excuse me," he said curtly and stalked out of the room.

Melina walked up to Kafele and slapped him. "You're a bastard!" she hissed. She ran after Blade.

She had to jog to catch up.

"Blade, I know what you're thinking right now and you're wrong," Melina said. She kept up with his fast pace.

"Oh, and what's that?" he grunted.

"That this is your fault. It's not. It's not your fault she was kidnapped."

"But I was the one that made her run out of the room, right?"

"It was her brother too, remember?" she countered.

"Oh, that makes me feel better."

"That's not what I meant. But it's also not your fault that she wasn't going to tell you," she continued. Blade stopped.

"Oh, and who's fault is it then?"

"Hers."

"So now you're blaming this on her. I was the one who treated her like crap and told her that there was no future for her and I. I was the one who made her go," he explained.

"That may be true, but you had a right to know that you were going to be a father from the moment she suspected it," she said with determination. Blade noticed that she said the word "suspected".

"What do you mean 'suspected'? Has she been pregnant before?" he asked. Melina looked like a deer caught in then headlights. She didn't say one word.

"Spill it," he demanded.

"When we were still in Horus's captivity, she got pregnant several times. She never made it past her third month because Horus would beat her so bad. She miscarried all of the times. In case you're wondering why she didn't tell you, it's a sensitive matter with her. Losing a baby that many times can really do damage to a person. Then when she was married to Horus, she found out she couldn't have kids. It really scarred her," Melina said.

"I didn't know," Blade said in shock. No wonder Diana was guarded when it came to her past.

"She doesn't advertise it. Just go easy on yourself. It's not your fault."

Melina laid a comforting hand on his shoulder then left Blade to think about what she just said.

Blade went back to his room and meditated. It wasn't of much use. He kept thinking about Diana and the baby. They were in danger and could die.

Diana, little one, whereever you are. I will find you, rescue you, and make sure you're never harmed again. I love you.

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2001 miles away

Diana opened her eyes from her slumber and smiled.

I love you too, Blade.

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