XIV

Julie's transformation from human to vampire was a slow and painful one. In the two days that it took David to track down his wards foster mother ; Julie suffered from hunger pains and violent mood swings, Julie was not the violent type (David knew that for a fact) the vampire blood was probably the cause for her change in personality. At times Julie would actually attack David; David took this casually and took down the new born with ease- making sure that he had not hurt her of course.

She attacked because she had hungered blood and after calming her down, David would actually let her bite him on the wrist and allow her to drink from him. It was the only way to calm her down. It was hard for David to look at Julie in that time, she would turn pale and ball up on her bed writhing in pain, she complained of stomach aches and of a sharp pain in her throat. David remembered that pain it came with the territory, but he after calming her down David would reassure her that it was all worth it and it would be okay. Julie would only nod and say that "she believed him". David had offered to bring in someone off the boardwalk for her to kill, so that she could transform now and end her pain.

"No…I want it to be her." Julie would reply in a hoarse whisper, while lying down on her bed with David at her side, David watched her and asked her why "I don' know, I just think it should be her."

David made no effort to understand her reason why.

He managed to track down that woman the following night in downtown Santa Carla; swiftly flying through the air and abducting her with ease as he had done many many times before, David flew the red head back to the cave and through her to the ground right by Julie's feet. Upon seeing the woman Julie became ravenous and uncontrollable, the woman had had enough time to recover her balance despite the shock of being abducted by a flying blond teenager.

The woman had even had time to whisper Julie's name in a shocked tone, she had even had enough time to scream when her adopted daughters face morphed into that of a demonic creature of the night, with fangs bared Julie literally flew onto her 'mother' who fought back in vain as the newborn tore into her skin with her teeth. Newborns were always messy killers, as David watched his offspring commit her first murder-he could not help but think that he should have taken the arena up to the bluff were it would have been easier to clean up after.

After a few minutes, the woman had finally stopped screaming, blood gurgled in the woman's throat as she took her last breath, the woman's eyes remained opened her face masked with horror. Julie had not noticed the woman's demise as she continued to feed from the corpse. David was sure that it would be drained and that not a drop would be left for him to drink, he was fine with this as he had fed earlier in the night, it was just that the blood looked so tempting. Julie sat back after she had finished. Her face returned to its normal look, her eyes had calmed down and now her face was masked with a stunned expression.

It was then that David and Julie locked eyes. Walking over to her David held out his hand for her, she took it and slowly wrapped her pale fingers around his; he helped her up to her feet with ease. Her transformation was now complete; he had succeeded in his first half of the mission, now it was time to find the book.

"We should clean up this mess ok?" David suggested, Julie's usually timid eyes looked into David's and smiled- taking David by surprise. David returned her smile with a grin. Change was upon them, the pack would be complete soon.

Julie was out on the bluff testing out her abilities when Rayne finally decided to make her presence known. The timing was off putting, as David was actually enjoying watching his friend jump from tree to tree and fly around the bluff with newfound excitement, David knew that it was the first time in years that Julie had felt so free. David could tell that Julie was in love with her ability to fly now, hell; everyone in the pack loved that ability-well they used too.

Nicely done, I'm pleased with the progress you have made David. I am thrilled with the results! She seems happy does she not?

David bit down on his tongue, hard. Julie was within fifty feet, if he spoke out loud she could hear him, she was a vampire now so she could hear from as far as eighty feet; so David waited for Julie to fly out a little further out before he finally responded to the entity. Though unlike previous conversations he had his cool intact, and a newfound sense of pride, nothing the ghost would say to him could bring him down tonight-no nothing what so ever. He was sure of that.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure she is happy. I killed the bastard, who raped her, and she killed the bitch who allowed happening, I'd be pretty pleased with that if I was her. Still she has to lighten up some more." David said with a slight grin. He was pretty happy too; phase 1 was over with, now it was time to get his brothers back. He was actually pretty excited about that, his family would be reunited and then they could exact revenge on the Emerson's and the frog boys. David was thrilled at the thought of slicing Michael's throat open, he was sure that he and Julie would enjoy feeding from him.

You seem pleased as well. But your excitement is expected then, since you will be with your brothers once more.

David heard her laugh, he quickly changed his tone.

"Did you have something to do with Julie having that dream?" David asked abruptly he heard Rayne snort.

Of course I did. I showed her you're past; do you have a problem with that? I thought it was only fair, since you saw hers it made you bond did it not?

David growled.

"It was not my past; you exaggerated it to make her feel sorry for me." David remarked.

I did no such thing, you may not remember it. Some vampires choose to forget the most painful of memories; it's interesting what our blood can do.

David ignored this part. He was sure she was making it up.

Now it's time to find the book.

"Do you have a clue where it might be?" David did not hesitate to change the subject.

Where else…in a safe place, your maker kept with him at all times. It should be in his former residence still, you should look for it there. It is an old book-ancient really. An old leather bound brown book with yellow pages, I'm sure you've seen it before. Find it now.

Surprisingly, David could recall old leather bound book in Max's place, Max kept it in a safe in his study. David had seen it more than once when the pack had just been him and Max. He was stunned to learn of its importance now. Without missing a beat, David leapt onto his feet, took a running start, and flew up into the air to catch up to Julie whom was flying too far out towards the ocean, it took him less than a minute to catch up to her.

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The pair landed ten feet outside of Max's residence, Julie marveled at how nice it was. David looked over his shoulder at his accomplice and shrugged. Leading the way into the house, David heard a familiar growl, his lips curled to form a wicked grin, for once in his life he was happy to hear that damn dog growl. Here had gone and thought that Thorne was long gone.

"A dog?" Julie whispered, she looked somewhat frightened, David shook his head.

"Don't worry, he's one of us. He'll smell your blood and accept you since you're my offspring." David assured Julie who eyed him skeptically.

"Dogs can be vampires too? And why do you keep calling me your offspring? That's kind of weird don't you think?" Julie retorted her tone of voice had taken a drastic change as well; she now spoke a little surely with confidence. David kind of liked it, but he was sure that it was going to make her seem like a pain in the ass one day- Not that she wasn't already.

"No, they can't be vampires. But they can drink our blood and gain some new skills; they become our guardians while we sleep actually. To keep humans away, my master had fed this dog his blood almost forty years ago. Thorne watched over him faithfully in that time." David explained and held up the palm of his hand "Our blood has a different effect on dogs; it makes them live longer, and makes them stronger. But they do not turn into one of us…it's strange I know but I choose not to question it".

So then Julie decided not to question it as well.

David proceeded to open the front door, he remembered where Max kept the key for door, and he walked in slowly. The growling Thorne hopped out from behind the living room sofa, both David and Julie stood still as the big white dog came charging towards them, Julie grabbed onto David's arm out of reflex, she still saw him as her protector so David was not surprised by her reaction. Thorne stopped a foot short of the duo, his teeth bared and his eyes glowing angrily, Thorne sniffed the air, stepped back a few inches, his nails scratching on the tile floor in the living room before planting his bottom down into a sitting position, his tail began to wag.

Thorne's growl turned into a whine before barking at David, David smiled and walked up to Thorne; holding his palm out for Thorne to sniff he petted the dog after it had remembered who he was.

"Good dog." David patted Thorne on the top of his head and stepped towards the stairs that led to the upstairs study. "Her name is Julie, play nice Thorne." David said over his shoulder as he ascended the stairs "Hold out your palm for him Julie, he'll take to you quick since you're a vampire you got that?"

While David climbed to begin his search for the book. Julie sat down on the floor to get better acquainted with the dog, Julie and Thorne ended up bonding quickly.

Meanwhile, in the study.

David found the safe quickly; he did not know the code, so he did the only logical thing that came to mind and pulled the safe door off the hinges. He knew that it was meant to keep humans out and not vampires, otherwise Max would have used something a little stronger than a steal box in the closet to keep him out. And sure enough there was the book, easy as that.

David smiled to himself. His mission was coming to an end, and this excited him, he felt a whisper in his ear, he knew who it was speaking to him, though Rayne did not have to do it so dramatically, he shrugged and began to turn the pages of the book. Rayne had whispered to look for a page that said Ritual of Rebirth on it, he found that page easily.

The blond vampire was starting to feel excitement run through him, how could it be this easy? There must have been a catch right? David chose not to think of that and began to read what the page had written down, he recognized the hand writing to be Max's and read it with slight difficulty because Max used to right with fancy handwriting.

To bring the dead back, it is possible; yes I have made it possible at her majesties request.

I do not know why she fears her so, she is the queen of all of vampires so she has nothing to fear, she is stronger than the rest of us, she is our mother, no one could possibly be capable of destroying our lady.

Even so, I did as I was ordered to do. I had to sacrifice several of our clansmen, but they died serving our lady.

To bring back our kind is a difficult trek, A female is required, preferably a female newborn vampire I found that a young woman was the easiest to use, men proved to be difficult and were unable to connect with the dead. My theory is that because woman are the mothers, the carriers of life, so I believe their wombs are used as vessels for our souls.

A distracted female heart is the best to use as I have learned, for they are the easiest to con, and manipulate. A relationship must be established with this female, the female must feel secure with the one performing the ritual in order for this to work. A bond must be established with the subject for the ritual to be succesful

During the course of a full moon, we conducted the ritual on the sacred stones we chant our spell, forcing the female heart into a deep slumber, we slit her wrists allowing the blood to fall onto the sacred stones. We continued to chant, with another pit dug into the ground with small rocks formed into that of a human shape, we dropped blood onto the rocks with the subject's blood and through in a keepsake of the one we wanted to resurrect.

Chanting the spell, we continue to sing until the pit of blood begins to gurgle and the earth begins to boil. Bone should start to from the rocks in the pit; flesh begins to form on the bones there after. Within minutes, the soul should return to this new body, and should take form of the one we chose to resurrect.

I felt somewhat saddened after performing the first test, but I learned that it is best to choose someone expendable for this, we chose runaways from the streets of Paris, girls who were easy to be rid of.

Yes, the subject will die in the process.

But our loved ones are returned.

David paled upon reading the last part. His fingers dug into the leather of the book. As his breath quickened. He knew that there would be a catch…somehow he knew something like this would happen. He bit down on his lip, as he heard Rayne whisper in his ear, "now you know" she had said to him.

Upon walking downstairs with book in hand, he locked eyes with his friend once more, Julie was smiling and at him, she had made friends with Thorne and the dog was barking happily at her heels. David suppressed a frown, and returned her smile, signaling that it was time for them to go. He remained silent as they left the residence. Thorne came with them, seeing as he no longer had a purpose in Max's home.

Nothing though, could distract him from the cold hard truth. Looking at Julie, he felt the cold in his stomach worsen.

It was clear to him now why Rayne wanted him to find a runway, a troubled child, why he had to gain the girls trust, it was so that he could cast a spell on her, to slit her wrists open and drain her of blood. Her blood would resurrect the boys.

She was going to die. David was going to have to kill her.

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Lordofthebreakdance- hope you enjoyed this chapter!

Emma- you seem to like Julie - . – I'm glad you do, I feel bad for what I am doing to this character, she seems to suffer a lot more with each passing chapter. I hope you don't get mad at me for what has to happen to her.

Imaginationstation- yay! I love that your cheering on the characters I hope you liked this chapter, It's been awhile, but I'm close to the end, only a few more chapters to go and it's over. (finally!). David is kind of starting to get soft in this story, I'm thinking of making him do something that he wold have done in the movie.

I hope to finish the next chapter soon. I hope you guys stay tuned!.

Lady C