Authors Note: I'm thinking that this is going to be the last chapter. I'm going to do a short epilogue type thing to sum up any loose ends. That will be up in about a half hour. So here it is. The moment you've all been waiting for. The epic battle with Lysan Corp. See what goes down. READ!!!!!!

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Sarah paced the floor of the old motel until she heard the sound of a keycard being swiped through the door. Said door opened and Jazz walked in. She grinned at Sarah and whispered,

"Good luck."

Sarah nodded and slipped outside into the silent night. Floating silently into the air, she flew around the empty boardwalk. The vans were still there, parked in random places around the pier, seemingly harmless. Out of the corner of her eye she saw one of the vans move. It was following a black Honda Accord. After pursuing both vehicles for about five minutes, she realized it was heading in the direction of Hudson's Bluff. Adrenaline rushing through her, Sarah took off back towards the cave to warn the others.

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Diana Hallaway followed the red dot on her GPS screen. Hayley was on Hudson's Bluff. She shuddered at the thought of what those vampires could be doing to her little girl. Diana froze as she heard the sound of a car door slam shut behind her. Whipping around, she paled. The smirking face of Veronique Duncan was revealed.

"What are you doing here?" Diana hissed.

"Same as you, I'm here for Hayley." Veronique answered, smirking still.

"Stay away from her!" Diana screamed, trying to shove the woman away.

Veronique sidestepped her and ran down the up the steps to the top of the bluff. Diana began to follow but stopped abruptly when she heard a scream.

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Five Minutes Ago

"There here." Sarah said skidding into the cave, gasping for breath.

Six pairs of eyes snapped toward her alarmed.

"Now?!" Spencer asked, eyes widening.

"No, next week. Of course now nimrod!" Sarah shrieked.

Hayley stepped between them to stop the coming argument. She turned to Sarah,

"Go get the others. We'll hold them off."

Sarah was gone before Hayley finished her request.

They rest of them all tuned into the sound of footsteps outside the cave. Before Hayley could react, David had gone outside to meet the intruder. Seconds later, they heard a scream.

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Veronique managed to grab her taser out of her pocket just before she was pushed to the ground. Looking at the boys face, she paled, glowing body, red eyes, and fangs. A vampire. Wonderful. She activated the taser and pressed it into his stomach. He cried out in pain and rolled off her. She continued into the cave and was met with three other vampires, the still form of Mara, Hayley's annoying little boyfriend Spencer, and of course Hayley herself.

"Found you." Veronique said in a sing-song voice.

Hayley feigned surprise.

"You're still alive? Last time I checked you were begging me not to let you burn to death." She shot back mockingly.

"Just goes to show you, if you try to kill someone, you should wait and make sure their dead. A mistake I don't intend to make again."

Anger flicked behind Hayley's eyes as she remembered being locked in a burning basement.

"Great advice. When I kill you this time I'll be sure to remember that." She said.

Without warning, Veronique lunged at her. Before she was able to tackle her to the ground, she was grabbed from behind and slammed down to the floor. Sarah, Renée, Jazz, and Katherine stood at the entrance to the cave, David behind them.

"We're heeeeeeere!" Renée called out happily.

"Sorry it took us so long." Jazz said stifling a laugh.

"You could have waited for us." Katherine pouted.

"I tried, but Miss. Impatient over here just had to start." Hayley answered, gesturing to Veronique.

"Enough of this!" Veronique shrieked. She pressed a button on the walkie-talkie clipped to her hip. The cave was immediately swarmed with armed men. That's how it started.

Sarah, Renée, Jazz and Katherine began to fight back, kicking, punching, and flinging men across the room using the power of their mind. Spencer had grabbed Mara's body and was trying to bring in into one of the back rooms with Hayley and Dwayne covering him. Once they got her in the room, Hayley and Dwayne joined the chaos back in the lobby, while Spencer stayed with Mara. Hayley threw two guards into opposite walls as she walked one destination in mind. Striding towards Veronique, she was suddenly yanked down and put out of everyone's range. She turned around, annoyed, expecting to see David, but instead she was met with a pair of identical Hazel eyes. She gasped.

"Mom?"

"Hayley." Diana said disbelievingly.

"Mom!" Hayley threw her arms around her mother, momentarily forgetting that she was the one who attacked David in the alley. Her mother pulled away and pushed some of her bangs off her face.

"C'mon, lets get out of here." She said, grabbing her daughter's hand.

Hayley drew back.

"What?" She asked disbelievingly.

"We can't stay here! It's dangerous! I'm not letting anyone take you away anymore. Now we can go home."

"No. Mom! Stop, I'm can't go now! They need my help!"

"They'll be fine sweetie."

Hayley continued struggling as her mother pulled her towards the entrance, managing to stay undetected. Normally, she could have got out of her grip easily, but she didn't want to hurt her. Suddenly a firm voice from behind them spoke,

"She said she doesn't want to go."

They both turned around. Hayley was relieved to see David standing there. He held out his hand to her and she took it. He pulled her semi-behind him and bared his fangs to the woman. Suddenly, it licked in Hayley's head.

"You're the one who attacked us in the alley."

"He's a vampire Hayley!"

"I know that! I don't care! He and his friends found me and they've been helping me."

"Please Hayley, just come with me."

"No!"

Diana snapped and struck her daughter across the face. This was the end of David's patience. He tackled the woman to the ground and was about to rip out her throat but was interrupted by a bloodcurdling scream. The three of them turned to see Katherine on the floor writhering in pain. Her eyes were staring at the ceiling expressionlessly as her body was rapidly stripped of all color. Finally her eyes went white and she stopped convulsing, her screams stopping as well. The entire cave was silent for a beat.

"YOU BASTARD! YOU KILLED HER!" Jazz screamed at a guard who still had his taser outstretched. He was staring at Kat's body as though he himself couldn't even fathom as to how he has killed the girl. Jazz jumped at him and the fight resumed.

David turned back to Diana who was still pinned to the ground under him. He turned to look at Hayley who shook her head slowly. He nodded and turned back to the woman and whispered,

"I'm not doing this for you, I'm doing it for Hayley. Touch her again and I can't be held responsible for my actions." In one swift motion, he struck her and she passed out.

"Thanks." Hayley said softly.

David just smirked at her and went back to fighting off guards. They just kept coming, and it seemed like there would be no end. Hayley didn't care about that though. The guards were simple enough. She walked over the prone form of her mother and exited the cave. There was her real target. Veronique turned around.

"Just you and me now, huh?" She said smirking.

"Yeah Veronique, It's just you and me."

"Let the games begin then."

"Veronique lunged at Hayley and had her pinned in seconds. She grabbed a syringe out from one of her many pockets and just as she was about to stab Hayley with it, she was launched 30 feet into the air and held there. Hayley got up and sent the woman crashing back down to earth. The blow could have been deadly, but Hayley didn't want to kill her just yet. She walked over to Veronique's prone form in the sand. The woman pulled her down and slashed the side of her arm with a switchblade that had fallen out of one of her pockets and into the sand. Hayley shrieked in agony as Veronique continued to slash her arms and her abdomen to ribbons. It took all of Hayley's remaining strength to throw the woman off her, causing the blade to fall out of her hands. Hayley, dizzy from the pain, stumbled over to the small bade and picked it up. She walked over to Veronique and glared at her as she plunged the knife into the woman's chest.

"That's for everything you did to us." She gasped out.

Veronique's eyes widened and she struggled to breathe as blood flooded her mouth. Finally her face went blank. She was dead, for real this time. Hayley went back to the cave to see the others getting rid of the last of Lysan's men. Spencer was back in the lobby with Mara's body. Jazz and Renée were bent over Katherine's completely white form.

"There's nothing we can do." Renée said slowly, tears escaping down her cheeks.

Sarah kicked a nearby wall angrily.

"I hate them. I friggin hate them." She yelled.

"Did anyone get lysoserum for Mara?" Hayley asked quietly, still holding her wounds protectively.

It was then that they all realized she was back. She had been surprised that none of the boys had smelled the blood on her. David walked over to her and mover her hands away from herself to get a good look at her stomach.

"Yeah, we did." Jazz said holding up a syringe filled with green liquid

"Is Veronique dead?" Sarah asked

Hayley nodded her vision swimming.

"Hays are you okay?" Spencer asked walking over to her.

Hayley began to feel weird. She could barley see everything was so warped and her knees were buckling under her.

"Hays? Hays! HAYLEY!" Spencer yelled tapping her face.

She didn't respond. She couldn't form words. She just watched as her blurred vision went black and the sounds stopped. She wasn't dead, she could feel the others around her, still trying to wake her up. She didn't know how long it had been when she finally opened her eyes. She had an odd sense of Déjà vu. She was lying in a bed with David next to her, his arm slug lazily around her waist. She struggled to sit up but after a while gave up. She dozed until she felt someone's eyes burning a hole in her head. She opened her eyes to see Davis staring at her intensely.

"What happened?" She said groggily.

"We don't know." David said finally.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

He gestured over to the single cracked mirror that was in the cave she looked in it and gasped at what she saw.

Her skin, which had always looked unhealthily pale, was now a flawless shade off alabaster. Her hazel eyes were brighter and you could clearly see every single shade of every single color in her irises. Her usually scrawny figure had filled out and her red hair was, if possible even redder. She turned to David.

"How…?"

He walked over to her and pushed her against the wall, his arms on either side of her head.

"You passed out three nights ago. While you were out, you changed." He said simply, drawing nearer to her lips as he spoke.

"Not that I'm complaining." He whispered huskily against her mouth just as he kissed her.

The kiss escalated into more and needless to say, none of them said anything else for a while.

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Hayley laughed at Paul as he tried and failed to reclaim his stereo from Marko. She smiled to herself, thinking about the decision she made the day before, to stay with the boys in Santa Carla. She felt closer to them than she did to Sarah, Jazz Renée and Mara. She felt like she belonged here. Maybe she did. Maybe she finally belonged somewhere…

TBC…

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Authors Note: Writing the epilogue as we speak!!! There IS going to be a sequel, I'm happy to say. It might not be up right away though since I'm starting another story for Skeleton Creek. I hope that you all check that one out too; you don't need to have read the book in order to understand it. Thanks 4 reading! Stay tuned 4 the epilogue!