Chapter Eleven

Back at the mansion, Rotor walked to the front doors and to the guards from the garden hoping to find out what set off the alarm. "Any luck?" he asked "False alarm" said one of the guards "The dogs would have been all over it if anything had gotten even near that fence"

Rotor then looked down at a watch he was wearing, "Blaze should have arrived by now" he said "yes" agreed the guard. Rotor paused then looked at the guard "look" he said "I want you to slip off the property and find out what's keeping her" "You've got it" said the guard.

On the train, the Lycans had destroyed and slaughtered everyone on the train, the bodies lay in the carriages and blood was splattered everywhere. Amongst the bodies, Blaze lay on the floor gasping and choking as she lay dying from her wounds.

As she was breathing her last breath, a Lycan grabbed her face and held her in place as Knuckles walked into the carriage with a Syringe. He pushed the air out of the syringe then walked over to Blaze's body. He knelt down and stuck the needle into her neck withdrawing blood to take back to Sonic.

In the police car, Angelous shifted around uncomfortably as the Lycan Police officers drove him to their lair. Vector noticed him being uncomfortable and feared the worst. "Maybe we should pull over and dose him" he suggested.

"Fuck him" snapped Jet "He'll be alright, we're almost there". So they kept driving on, but Angelous kept breathing hard and fast as pain started to grip his body. He tried to breathe calmly but it didn't help. Because of his body starting to strain his nose began to bleed.

Jet and Vector looked back at him, then back at the road, hoping he would be ok. Angelous looked out at the street and felt sick as he watched the streetlamps whizz past. But as they reached a gap in the buildings he saw the full moon rising in the air! As soon as he saw it Angelous began to choke and gasp as he felt the curse of the werewolf consume him.

He grunted as his eyes turned from aqua blue to black and night time blue, he then felt his body seizing as if he was having a fit. He could feel his teeth starting to get larger and his muscles got bigger and ripped through his body. Angelous began to scream and yell as he felt like his insides were being wrenched out.

Jet started to get annoyed and put the stereo on blaring out a Heavy Metal song and stepped on the gas pedal to go faster, but that didn't help Angelous as he writhed and screamed in agony as his body began to change from human to Lycan. Vector looked in the back seat and saw how fast Angelous was transforming.

"Oh Shit!" he shouted "He's not gonna make it pull over!" he ordered to Jet "Pull over!" Angelous yelled again in agony as he felt his snout get longer and his teeth bigger and his hands turn more long and grow razor sharp claws. Jet instantly found an alley and stopped the car.

"Get the Kit!" shouted Jet as he stopped the car, Vector grabbed a syringe Then he jumped out of the car and opened the doors into the back. Jet helped him but Angelous struggled against them as they tried to hold him down. "Stick him!" yelled Jet as he managed to hold Angel down "Stick him!" Vector quickly stuck the needle into Angelous's stomach and Angelous went limp in the back.

At the mansion, Gabriel was in his office with Fiona smoking when a Vampire servant came in. "My Lord" he said. Gabriel turned to him "Max wants to speak with you" Gabriel looked worried, then stubbed out his cigarette and walked to the tomb to find Max.

He walked into the tomb where he saw Max standing in by the throne putting on a leather coat with gothic patterns on the back. Gabriel walked up to him and knelt before him "My lord?" he said. Max turned to face him, Gabriel saw he was no looking more mobian, his fur was shiny and smooth and his hair was slicked back.

But he could also see he looked furious "I sent for Alyssa!" he snarled "not you!" Gabriel stepped forward "She's defied your orders..." he said "...and fled the mansion, my lord" Max looked angrier. "Your incompetence is becoming most taxing!" "It's not my fault!" insisted Gabriel.

"She's become obsessed, thinks I'm at the core of some ridiculous conspiracy!" "AND HERE'S MY PROOF!" came Alyssa's voice from the other side of the tomb. Gabriel and Max turned and saw Alyssa standing at the doors of the tomb and holding a bloodied up and beaten Snivley by the scruff of the neck. She threw him towards Max and walked over.

Max glared at Snivley and Alyssa chained him to the floor and stood over him, Snivley looked up at Max and felt terrified. Max gave a slight smile at the scared Lycan. Alyssa placed her hand on his shoulder and gripped it hard. "Now" she snarled "I want you to tell them exactly what you told me!"

Snivley looked up at Alyssa but didn't speak. Alyssa glared and dug her fingers into his shoulder cracking his collarbone to make him talk. Snivley gasped in pain "All right!" he gasped "all right!" He then began to talk in a stammering pained voice. "We've been searching for someone" he breathed "with a special trait!"

"A direct descendant of Charles Corvinus, Eastern Mobian, a warlord who came to power in the early seasons of the fifth century, just in time to watch a plague ravage his village, he alone survived, somehow his body was able to change the disease, mould it to his benefit" Snivley took a breath "He became the first true immortal"

He stopped for a few seconds, but Alyssa crunched his shoulder again with her fingers making his scream out "All right!" he cried "And years later" he continued "he fathered at least two children who inherited the same trait" Max smiled "The sons of the Corvinus clan. One bitten by bat, one by wolf... one to walk the lonely road of mortality as a mortal Mobian. It's a ridiculous legend, nothing more"

"That may be..." said Snivley "but our species do have a common ancestor, the mutation of the original virus is directly linked to his bloodline" "There is a descendant of Charles Corvinus lying there" said Max pointing at Shadow's grave "not three feet from you"

"Yes" agreed Snivley

"But he's already a Vampire. We needed a pure source... untainted. An exact duplicate of the original virus. The Corvinus strain itself, which we learned... was hidden away in the genetic code of his human descendants... and passed along in its latent form... down through the ages all the way to Angelous Corvin"

Snively took another breath as he continued to speak "For years we tried to combine the bloodlines, and for years we failed, it was useless, even at the cellular level, our species seemed destined to destroy each other" he paused "That is...until we found Angelous, the Cornivous Strain allows for a perfect union, a triple-celled platelet...which holds unspeakable power"

"There can be no such union" snapped Max looked furious at the thought "And to speak of it is heresy" "We'll see" smirked Snivley "Once Sonic has injected himself with Angelous's blood..." "Sonic is dead" growled Max "According to whom?" asked Snivley, his smirk getting wider. Max looked up furiously at Gabriel but the coyote was nowhere to be seen. He looked across to Alyssa, "I can assure you my child" he said softly to her "Gabriel will pay with his life".

Meanwhile the cowardly coyote had fled the tomb then ran outside to a car where Geoffrey and some other vampires were waiting for him. Fiona ran outside after him carrying a gun. He had asked her earlier to go and get it for him.

She handed the gun to him then tried to get into the car with him, but Gabriel shoved her away and slammed the door. The car then drove off leaving Fiona standing on the steps of the mansion with the look of anger on her face; she then turned and stomped back into the mansion feeling used.

Back in the tomb, Snivley continued to talk as Alyssa pointed a gun at his shoulder. "Soon this house will lie in ruins" he said "Not before you" Alyssa snarled cocking her gun and placing it against Snivley's head.

"No, wait. Wait. You and you alone will know the truth of this" Alyssa lowered her gun to Snivley's shoulder "If Sonic was able to get his hands on the blood of a Pure-Born... a powerful elder like Blaze... or yourself" he looked up at Max "and inject it along with Angelous's blood..."

"Abomination" whispered Max with a slight snarl "Half-Vampire... Half-Lycan... but stronger than both!" said Snivley with a smile. Just then, a group of Death dealers entered the tomb led by Rotor "my Lord!" said Rotor "the Council Members have been assassinated" Max looked shocked.

Snivley smirked again and chuckled "What of Blaze?" asked Max devastated "They bled her dry" said Rotor. Alyssa was also shocked and looked across to Max who closed his eyes with pain and devastation. "It has already begun" said Snivley, he looked up at Max and chuckled evilly.

Max then snapped and punched Snivley hard across the face, the Lycan man then fell to the tomb floor and never moved again. Blood poured from his mouth all over the marble floor as he died. Alyssa looked up at Max "I'm sorry I doubted you" he said "fear not my child, Absolution will be yours..."

Alyssa felt a wave of relief sweep over her "the moment you kill the descendent of Corvinus" continued Max "...this...Angelous" Alyssa felt a stab of worry in his stomach as he said those last few words. Max then left the room with the other Death Dealers, Alyssa then followed him leaving Snivley bleeding in the tomb.

So the Truth has come out! And what's happening to Angelous? Find out in the next chapter!