Chapter 14 (I don't own anything) Read and Review please…
Bellapov
"Let me go!"
"Hmmm."
"What are you doing Nathaniel?!"
"It's Afton remember."
He slams me down into a chair.
"I thought you were dead or had been kidnapped my dear."
I roll my eyes and look around.
"Such a small world I must say vampirism as made you quite a beaut."
I grimace as he runs a hand along my cheek down my neck and blouse.
"How is this even possible?!"
He smiles and tilts his head.
"Ah, but my dear I was always a vampire…" He points to his head.
"I just chose not to let other's see it. It seems you as well have ability, quite an impressive one as well."
"How do you choose to not let others know?"
"My ability is that of the mind as well. I can choose to reveal myself or those close enough to me or not. Just call it a mask. I can even disappear if I so wish to you wish for a demonstration?"
Before I can answer the tent becomes empty. I go to dash out and am picked up by the throat.
"Not so fast my dear."
I feel him but do not seem him
"How are you doing that?"
"Because of my ability other's cannot sense I'm a vampire even other vampires. It's rather my camouflage I suppose you can say."
"You were a vampire the whole time?"
"I've been a vampire for quite sometime love."
"But you have wives and children?"
He narrows his eyes rearing back a bit.
"Now how did you know that?"
"Just did!"
"Hmm." He smirks.
"I suppose the cat is out of the bag so to speak. And you'd be correct… I must say I was extremely disappointed that you as well wouldn't be carrying my children."
"That's impossible."
"Not between a human and a vampire. I've many wives and many children. I've been around for relatively sometime. The trick is the wives survival during the birthing process and it seems to be a rarity for a wife to carry more than one child they either die or I have to turn them. I've only a handful that made it past the one child."
"YOU'RE SICK!"
He slams me back down and back hands me. I grit my teeth and hop back up and leap after him as he disappears I tossed about the tent and hit several times. I bow into a fetal position as he drags me by the hair, places me in the chair and starts to tie me up.
"I'm a vampire you imbecile! This won't contain me…"
He laughs and drags the chair with me in it and tied up to it outside.
"No but they can…"
He motions his hands about the other vampires.
"These are my progenies some I created by venom some are by procreation."
"What do you want?!"
"I could use you… Maria proved to be a disappointment and I was bored of her any how the little harlot. She was just supposed to seduce not sleep with them. But you my dear you'd never do such a thing now would you?"
He moves his hand along my neck.
"I'm married Nathaniel."
He laughs and leans into my ear.
"Not anymore you're mine…"
Jasperpov
"Why would you leave her there!"
"Stand down and listen!"
I gather all the newborns and they others have returned with Lucy and Nettie a few other newborns as well. This pleases me greatly to know I can trust them and that there are no more threats out there besides this Afton and his army. I line them up and count them. I sigh as I finish whereas I have 33 this Afton had twice that amount.
"We could create more." Peter says greatly upsetting me.
"NO!" I pace the area looking to them all.
"We will not force the same fate we've been forced upon. This is it no more creating and no more killing! From now on we feed from animals."
"You cannot be serious!"
"Do not test me Peter you and have been friends for quite sometime but I will no longer tolerate your mouth. You've back talked me, betrayed me, and slandered my wife! Therefore if I was you I'd keep your mouth shut sir!"
He nods and falls back.
"In fact many of you have betrayed me! I will never again tolerate this I will be respected and so will my wife. You will either take my orders trust what I have to say or go off on your own and good luck with your own survival. For those that prove their loyalty and honor we will stand and fight together! We will put a stop to this nonsense and for once instead of being the monsters that are killing them off we will stand behind the humans and fight for their protection as we all remember what it's like! Humans cannot protect themselves against us. Some of us still have family and friends out there! Shouldn't we be about protecting them fighting for them?! That was what Major Whitlock stood for! Not this! This, this is a debacle. So if you're to stand with me. We fight for this country, we fight for our people and vampire or not we fight under GOD! We feed from animals from here on and it can be done my wife was the one that showed me herself! Your eyes will become as ours, proving to me that you are indeed following orders if they are not this color within time you will be banished and possibly killed by no other than me. For those that have fought already alongside of me knows. I do not go down easily and it'll take a lot of you to get me down and keep me down!"
I continue to pace and freeze and look over.
"Now is the time to safely back out of this. To do so now if you value your lives to do so once we're back on the trail could cost you, your life."
Not a single person backed out much to my surprise I'd expected some to fall out that were not my originals.
"Very well we make plans now and we will get my wife back alive and we will clear out any threats to the humans."
Peter and I quietly and discreetly make our way back scoping the area out as I come up with a plan I pay attention to their schedules and everything else about them. I'm sickened to see my Isabella surrounded by some sort of guards and she's been tied up to a chair. It took all will power not dash over and try to rescue her but if I wanted her alive and my newborns I had to go about this with my head on my shoulders I had to think like a soldier not a husband, lover or friend at the moment. That would get us all killed.
I return with Peter amongst the others and discuss what we're going to do. We're going to have to gather some materials in order for this to work. I was going to have to find the nearest base and pray they had what we needed. I make myself a map amongst the dirt beneath my feet trying to calculate where I am and try to remember where all bases around the area were. The more the hours passed however the more fearful of my wife's life I became and the concerns of what they were putting her through. But I had to push it all aside for now and focus on the task at hand and that was getting her out safely and disposing as much of that army as possible before they destroy damn near every human life left in this region.
One more thought comes to mind and I wave Charlotte over. I hand her a pouch that I'd been holding onto for sometime.
"I want you to go to this place…" I write it down in the dirt and show her exactly where to go.
"I want you to feed on nothing but animals along the way take no lives and take this pouch to a Texas Ranger named Charlie Swan. No harm is to come of this man. If you fail me Charlotte in any sense of betrayal I will have you hunted down do you understand me?"
"Yes sir."
"Send back word of how Isabella's people are if the town still stands and of her family and friends, mainly of her father. Do not return until you have learned of everything and not a single person in that town is to be fed from or harmed in any sense."
She nods again.
"Good luck Charlotte I'm counting on you watch your back and be careful trust no one."
I watch as Charlotte takes off. Besides Peter she was my most trusted like Peter she was one of my oldest and has been around since the beginning. She's seen it all alongside of us.
Once she leaves I begin the plans and start to walk each newborn through their positions and responsibilities. I repeat of each ones importance and how they're not to make a move without my say so first. I've Peter watch over the others as I quickly make my way to where I deem the nearest base would be and gather what I know we'll need.
I'm thankful to find my knowledge of this base was still dead on and it had exactly what I needed. I sneak around and gather what I can but also knew I was going to need a horse now in order to get these things back to where I would need. So I bag it all up very carefully last thing I want is to blow up the horse I'm about to have to steal or myself. I carefully pack up a nearby horse and watch my surroundings as the soldiers continue to sleep.
The horse and I make it one piece but I've spent an entire day with this alone. Not leaving me very happy the longer I go without my wife and the more time grows the more concerned I become.
I warn the others of the explosives I've gathered and the dangers of jostling them around that even they can't heal from that sort of disaster. I explain each plan thoroughly so there are no mistakes I also mention the importance of my wife or no other innocents that maybe down there getting caught in the crossfire of all this. We start out being precise taking our time mapping it out placing everything where we may need and without being caught.
Whilst they go about their own missions I will be focusing on freeing my wife and she too will join us in battle…