Chapter: 7
Recruits
Fear. True fear was painted across everyones face after we informed them of the fall of the Volturi. They fell at the hands of the Immortals, proving exactly how strong Christian and his army is. Fear lives inside of us now, a fear that was never as high as it is now. We didn't know who to reach, who to contact; whether or not to tell people in general. How could we tell the other vampires we knew that TheVolturi have fallen? We couldn't. We didn't really have a choice. Within a few hours, Tanya called Carlisle, apologizing and offering their assistance in taking down the people behind this. They at least understood what this meant where the Romanians laughed and didn't even let us explain to them. The Amazons, feared for their own safety too much but wished us the best. They mentioned that if we did lose, their time to cross Christians path would come. Tia and Benjamin both were on a seek and destroy mission for the two who set up Rena and Seth, but apparently they are completely missing.
The Nomads feel like they could really get into a good fight and have chosen to fight along side us along with the Denali's. The Irish coven said they'd seek as much help as possible, but still haven't given us a direct answer as to whether or not they too will join us. This whole thing is becoming realer than expected and yet, still no word from Rena. I'm sure she's heard of the Volturi Take down so why hasn't she reached out to us? The water had been running for quite some time and now had turned cold on me. No one entered to bother me or ask me how I felt about this all but it was all pretty clear. My feelings toward this has not changed. The hope for something better, something to show us we might win will never come so why fight it? I will just take each passing day with a grain of salt until that day comes where we too fall at the hand of the Immortals.
Something suddenly had me to my feet and I found myself leaving the shower and getting changed. I put on a lose fitting T-shirt Hoodie, as well as some sweat pants then I made my way downstairs. The quiet in the house seemed odd especially since Charles nor Jasper were not here, something felt out of place. The was a thick tension in the air and some voices outside caught my attention. I began walking down the long hallway from the steps that led upstairs, down toward the Ballroom where the Lions were. Inside, there was no one. I began to speed up my step then made it to the empty living room, and suddenly I began to panic. Before I had a chance to make it outside, the roars began. Vicious snarls and angry howl's echoed from outside and instantly I knew what had happened.
Jodie had mentioned a spell her and her coven were familiar with, one that would initially break the bonds of shape shifters with their alphas, leaving the battle for dominance down to a halt long enough to get trained hands on with vampires. That very spell must not have worked because the fight had begun outside by the time I reached the back doors balcony. Leaping over it in two seconds, landing and continue to run, I made it around the corner and witnessed Several large Lions, with huge tigers and bears. Lions, tigers and bears ... oh my. The wolves were even the mix snarling and biting. None of them knew which way to go, who to attack first, but I saw it coming. One of the tigers made a leap for the bears throat, she meant to do a lot of harm. Quickly I jumped, grabbing her by the scruff of her neck and flung her into one of the tall bushes that made an exterior outline of the maze. The bear she was attacking, caught on and went to move, but I threw my back into him, grabbed a paw, and shoved him out the way.
I hadn't seen the Lion coming after the that same bear until it was too late. She tackled me into the side of the house, causing pieces of brick to fall off the exterior. She snarled but once she realized it was me, backed off, not without a growl first. I Stood up slowly and looked around, only to see that the fight had gotten worst. Sam's shoulder had a big slash in it from one of the tigers, and there was a lion on the back of a bear. Something had to stop them before someone got killed. A huge gust of wind blew suddenly and separated the some of the shifters, Adelpha was the one to thank for that. I turned and saw her wink at me. Jodie was behind her crying and Joe held her tight. She knew they fucked up big time by even trying the spell. Latia was also trying to stop the fights by teleporting in and out of the battle, grabbing a shifter each time, moving them else where and away from their targets. Herodes was on my left suddenly, and on my right ... and in front of me. He was everywhere all of a sudden. He multiplies into several different clones of himself? This was an amazingly useful talent in the war. How many could he do?
A loud snarl like cry caught my attention and snapped me out of it. I turned and saw one of the shifters was hurt badly. "NO! STOP!" I shouted at the bear who was about to do a deadly body slam onto the tiger but my voice wasn't what stopped him. It was like he froze in place ... all of them actually stopped moving. They looked around with their eyes, but without their heads or bodies being able to move, they couldn't see much. A unseen force suddenly separated all of them into their own sections; even took them out of the positions they were in and into a seated one. The Shifters, including the wolves all looked nervous and uncomfortable. Herodes many duplicates faded and only one stood to my right. Adelpha walked over and looked around sniffing the air. The sent she caught needed no introduction. I knew exactly who it was once I caught it. Out of the bushes, which separated evenly enough for her to walk through, Rena appeared, hand extended, focusing on those she held in place. Gasps came from the humans in the corner as Jodie and Joe recognized her. Her hair seemed longer, darker then I last seen her, but her face was even more stunningly beautiful then it had ever been before. The only difference, were her eyes ... the golden liquid behind them were gone, replaced only by a bright red crimson that glared at those who fought each other. She didn't even glance at me as she approached, but that didn't matter to me. Only that she was back is what mattered. But she wasn't alone.
Ten more bodies slowly followed her, some with confidant looks painted on their faces, others who looked nervous. Ten beautiful new born vampires who all but two, possessed the same odd beating heart that Rena ONCE did. It caught my attention as I analyzed those who followed her, that her heart no longer had the odd hum it used to. Her scent, completely vampire was still the same, but much stronger then it had been before. But why was her heart beating so lively, so strong? This was unlike anything we've witnessed of her, she continues to evolve as time goes ... or she has reached a mature maturity once the consumption of human blood took place. It bothered me that her eyes were as red as they were, which meant she had JUST recently fed, but seeing the light orange tones in the eyes of those behind her made me somewhat happier. They were new borns feeding off animals instead of humans. Their eyes, still to young to be a complete amber, were still transitioning.
In all there were six boys, four girls; however only three of those females and five of those males, were hybrid evolutions. Two of the vampires she walked with, were new born natural made vampires. One of which, had a strange emotional attachment to Rena, but an attachment I could not read. Whenever I looked at him, it seemed as if I would immediately trail off into another thought. I noticed he too was staring straight back at me. Finally As I looked back at Rena, she spoke.
"Noah ... why are they fighting?" She asked, her voice almost melodic, yet evil sounding. almost predator like. Amazing how much a little human blood could change someone. I didn't answer right away, I was too fascinated by her being her, and all the changes made that I was still shell shocked.
"Noah?" she asked again a little more sharply than before. This time, she looked at me, straight in the eye. It made me uncomfortable but I did not break eye contact. I didn't want her to know I did not agree with her new diet.
"For dominance. Its a natural thing they are used to having at all time, but in a area they do not rule over, instincts kick in for them to be the higher shifter. The alpha shifters." I explained.
"It's nothing they chose to do, its just a pure energy force within them that causes them to do it. The wolves have tried hard not to, but Sam said it was hard to fight." Latia said now standing next to me.
"They are no good to us, if they are trying to kill each other. We have a bigger enemy who is more important then some stupid game of who is top alpha." She said almost scolding them. Her entire demeanor was different.
"I tried, Rena, I'm sorry. I tried to cast a spell to break their bonds but it seemed to only strengthen them. It all happened to fast" Jodie tried to explain but Rena shook her head and she stopped.
"It's not your fault. No need to cry over it. Your involvement in this is far too deep and you shouldn't even be here" Rena said now looking at an Uncomfortable Jodie. Jodie straightened up and tilted her head to the side.
"Excuse me? First of all Rena, our involvement is for the better good and future of humans. We're here to help you in not only avenging Seth but to assist take down a really big threat. How dare you speak to me as if we don't deserve to be here. Your not the only one who's lost some one at the hand of them! He meant a lot to us too! How ungrateful..." Joe pulled Jodie back and covered her mouth, stopping her fearless rant.
"Jodie be careful, she's not the same Rena you knew before." He whispered to her. But Jodie wasn't having it; she pulled away his hand from her mouth and took a step forward.
"No, fuck that I don't care if she drinks human blood or not ... she's still JUST Rena to me and I'll be damned if she's going to come here and belittle my help after we sat here for two months with no clue as to where she's been, scared for her, searching for her, hoping she was ok, organizing this whole thing FOR HER!" The one with the emotional attachment to Rena stepped forward and hissed at Jodie causing me in turn to step in front of her to hiss back. Who the hell does he think he is?
"Alexander stop ... She's right." Rena finally said. The young full bred vampire still had his teeth bared as he stared straight at me. He straightened himself out then walked back to the line that formed behind Rena.
"I'm sorry Jodie. I am no one to tell you not to fight for what you believe in. I am very grateful of everything you ... and everyone has done" She said finally looking at her.
"Well ... you sure have a shitty way of showing it" Jodie said as the tears began falling from her eyes again. Rena's face turned up into pain but quickly she shook it off. She turned back to the shifters who were still uncomfortably being forced to sit.
"What do we have to do to play nice here?" None of them could answer. Sam whimpered but Rena didn't let go of her grip.
"They need to relinquish their control as Alpha. Or at least allow their family to follow someone else as Alpha" The familiar husky voice said from the back door. We all turned and saw Jacob standing there with Renesme by his side.
"Well, how nice of you to join us Jake" I said.
"How do you know this will work?" Rena asked.
"Well, members of Sam's pack chose to be part of a different pack once. Including Seth" he said as he looked straight at Rena. "If they all chose to be part of someone else's pack, that pack will be large enough to make the stand alone Alphas too weak to challenge that packs dominance."
"Two problems ... One, they would have to agree to it, and two they would need a shifter available to do so." Rena said.
"Well, If I were to relinquish my right as alpha to, lets say, you. Then they could all chose to follow you." She looked confused as did all of us
"Jake, theres a difference, shes a vampire. Not a shifter. There is no alpha in a vampire coven." I explained.
"Well not officially, but You, Carlisle and the Greek all stood in as "alpha's" when you called upon Seth's spirit."
"What!" Rena said in a high pitched tone.
"Seth's spirit came to visit all of us. As I'm sure he's visited you." Jake said.
"Wait, he came to you too?" I asked Jake.
"Yeah. He explained to me about the war, blah blah blah to get the other Wolves who haven't phased since the day the italians came to kill Nesse. So I did just that, and we came here" I then realized that there were about a 15 sets of eyes staring out of the windows in the ball room at us.
"He ... his spirit came to visit all of you?" Rena asked looking more hurt then anything.
"His wolf did. HE was with you apparently." Latia said. "His spirit was watching over you while his wolf form came to us." She still just looked at us like she was confused.
"It's ok Rena, The witches and all of us, casted a spell to pull him to us so we could get answers. But we got his wolf only. He explained to us that he was watching over you, to make sure you were ok. He's been with you the entire time really." Her bottom lip began to quiver and she began to let go of the mental grip she had on the shifters. The bears were the first to try and move into an attack but the sound of a snarl caught Rena's ear and she snapped out of it. Quickly she pulled it back onto them, snapping it so tight the bears whimpered in pain. She turned back to us and shook off the emotions she accidentally let slip.
"So ... how do we do this?" She asked "How do we know that they're ok with this?" It wasn't hard to hear the large black wolf screaming it was ok through his emotions of anger. The other alpha shifters felt the same way. They didn't want to fight each other they wanted things to be right so they could fight along side each other.
"They agree Rena" I said out loud. She looked at me and understood that I just got the confirmation. Jake walked over to Rena with Nesse walking close behind. He held out his hands and Rena took them. Jake took in a deep breath and exhaled. She stared at him then looked around confused.
"Thats it?" she asked.
"YUP ... thats it." he said.
"I don't feel anything." She admitted.
"Wait till they all accept you as their Alpha. Start with the Wolves." He said. She nodded her head and turned towards them. They all eased up and were able to move freely. All of them began to bow down to her and I felt the sudden surge of power flow through her in that moment. The sounds of clothes ripping caught my attention from the inside of the Ball Room. The wolves inside all shifted and they too were bowing down to her. With those numbers alone, the other shifters would be forced to join her. And they did just that. Group by group they all allowed her to become their Alpha. Rena had only been back for fifteen minutes and things were already looking up. After all was said and done, she forced them all to phase back into human and they all went inside to change. Jodie and her crew walked back into the house to give us some space and alone time. I had a lot of questions for Rena, and they knew it. Once they were gone, I turned to her and she was not looking at first, but then, she looked up. Rena walked toward me and I toward her. Still not looking me in the eye, she embraced me and hugged me tightly. I missed her more than she could ever imagine and I was so excited she was home.
"Will this work?" I asked. She looked at me and then looked down to the ground as if she was ashamed of herself.
"We have no other choice but to make it work." The vampire line behind her all looked around at every one. I realized then that with the ten of them, and the fifteen new wolves, We would need to really convert the Garage into a guest house. She looked up at me again, then back at her little army.
"What do we have here Rena? Who are they?"
"They are here to help. Eight of them are like me. Human Vampire evolutions. I remembered Christian saying explaining how he found out about me and he mentioned there were others. So I did the research and hunted down the possible winners. I found them all except one. I think that I may have been too late and they might have been killed." She explained as she looked at the beautiful vampires who stood behind her who were now conversing amongst themselves.
"What about those two?" I asked pointing out the male named Alexander and the odd uncomfortable looking female standing next to the strong built male"
"Those two are new borns. Madison, was an accident. During Dannys transformation, he bit her, releasing enough venom to turn her. She has no special gift, but we couldn't leave her to just roam around the streets alone." Danny was the one she stood next to, he was tall and very muscular built. He kind of reminded me of Emmet. I nodded my head and looked at Alexander who was looking around at all the super naturals.
"And him?"
"Thats Alexander. I created him." I didn't want her to see my initial shock at first, but Im sure she could see it. "I smelled blood while traveling through Philadelphia, I came across him being beat to death by some thugs who thought it was ok to beat on a crippled kid."
"Did you kill them?" She didn't answer my question. She only kept staring at him then continued talking.
"His gift is amazing. He's very talented." She said. "He has the ability to make people change their minds on things. Its like he can paint an entire picture in your head that makes you do something totally different then you originally planned." That explains what happened earlier when I was trying to read his emotions. Rena must have filled him in on my gift.
"He seem's really attached to you Rena." I said.
"I'm his maker, the first of his kind to ever meet. I also gave him the ability to walk again. Something he thought he'd never do. You'd have an attachment too" She said. I nodded my head and looked at the others.
"What about them? Do they have any gifts?" I asked as we walked over to a bench to sit and talk to each other.
"Well Danny has the ability to manipulate fire. He's having trouble understanding it, why or how that is his gift, but it might be useful if we can get him to control it."
"Make sure theres fire at the war site ... check" I added while acting as if I was making a check list. She nodded her head and continued.
"Jenna has the ability to make people feel violently ill with a single thought. They convulse, they get pail white, or sometimes green. They begin to vomit, its a good skill if she were a predator after humans."
"It doesn't work on vampires?" I asked.
"Not by looking at them, she has to touch them, but even then it doesn't have the same affect. The vampire become lethargic, and dry heave. Weakens them a bit, but I have a feeling that with practice, she could make it do more harm." Jenna was a taller girl, looked like she could have been a LaCross player at one point. Her strawberry blond hair was pulled back into a lose braid and she wore plain clothes, ones that one would wear at the gym.
"Christos is the fun one. He lived in a very snowy part of Alaska, grew up there his entire life. He worked as an ice sculptor since he was 14. His Father taught him, and he grew such a passion for it. A passion so strong that it carried over with him."
"What do you mean?"
"He can freeze anyone into ice sculptures with a single touch." powerful and fun indeed. Christos had short and shaggy hair. It was a light brown and unkept. He himself was short also, probably as short as Alice. His facial features were strong and his jaw was always tight.
"Jaiden has the ability to make your brain go into information overload. It feels like he's feeding your mind with thoughts and ideas and visions that make you go insane. It wasn't the most pleasant of feeling, but it will be virtually useless on our immortals, they know nothing of pain or unpleasant feelings." Jaiden was quiet and average height. He seemed to be mixed with something but overall not a bad looking kid. His skin might have been a nice dark tan before becoming a vampire. His hair was short, nothing really fancy about it. He too wore simple clothes like a hoodie and some jeans.
"Aleigha has the ability to appear as if she's not really here without ever actually leaving. She transformed about a year ago and is one of the older of the bunch. I found her robbing banks for money and stealing food as well. She was technically homeless and was living out of a house that belonged a rich man who had no family. She obviously killed him, but decided to use his resources and her gift to continue living there. At least she continued to pay his bills for him." We both chuckled a moment. A brief moment where everything felt normal again, but that changed and Rena went back to her somber and serious self.
Aleigha was a light skinned african american female. She seemed like she was a very trendy young lady. Obviously a year or two younger than Rena. She wore her hair in long, well kept dreadlocks but they were thick bulky looking. They were thin and looked really nice on her. She wore a cut off jacket that exposed her toned stomach, lose rise jeans and combat boots with them. She had tattoos up and down her arms as well so she might get along with Joe and Cazwell. They seemed like they rolled with the same crowd.
"Oliver has a similar ability to that of Farrah, from the Volturi. She could only manipulate a storm cloud which would have had to be present or close. Oliver on the other hand can completely manipulate weather in general. He caused a crazy rain storm in Arkansas that helped us find Carter." Oliver wore glasses and a suit. His suit had wear and tear on it by now but he looked like a kid who might have been interning somewhere.
"Where did you find Oliver?" I asked. The suit really intrigued me.
"Well he was interning at the local weather station in Atlanta. He was about to present the weather for the first time, when he instead killed the other intern and fed off him in the copy room. Alexander was a big help on that one because he had to use his gift on him to get him to let go. Oliver was so freaked out by us that he ran away from us for a week. We had to track him down and luckily the odd rain cloud that was only over one single apartment lead us to him. Thats how we figured his powers out." A lot of these kids were brand new transformations. Still babies to the Vampire world.
"Don't worry, he and Danny are the youngest transformations. The others had a few months on them at least." She said almost as if she knew what I was thinking.
"Carter, was a very well hidden transformation, living in Sunny Arkansas. I didn't know how he did it everyday at first. Get up and move around town like a normal human but then when he caught onto the odd amount of rain in his city, he knew there was something odd behind it and let his guard down. He literally has the ability to make others not notice things about him, almost change his appearance at the drop of a hat. Its really quite neat and yet another great gift for someone who wants to be a predator." Carter looked like the average town going guy who just enjoyed being around people. He talked to the others freely smiled, and seemed to want to make good of the situation. I don't think he understands what he's getting himself into.
"He has a love for human life. He was terrified when he found out what he had become. He thought he'd never be able to be around those he loved again. He just wants to be normal. But when he heard what really lurks in the shadows, and what the immortals plans were, well ... he agreed to help. As useless as his powers might be physically toward the immortals, its still strength in numbers." She explained. As she continued on, I noticed that one male in particular was staring at me through his hood. He was sitting on the ground, arms wrapped around his knees just analyzing my face. From the angle he had his head tilted I couldn't see any of the features on his face, just his orange/reddish eyes. Rena caught onto to it as well, then looked back at me.
"Thats William ... would you like to meet him?" She asked. I looked at her confused on why he was more important to be introduced then the others.
"Sure?" I said in a question like tone. She smiled and called for him to come over. The others stopped talking and watched as William stood up and walked over to us. The entire time his head was down looking at his feet. His walk was like a soft glide across the back yard toward us, it was an unnatural movement; he must have been living alone as a vampire for a while before anyone found him.
"William, this is Noah. He's the one I told you about.
"I know ... I can smell HIM in his DNA." William said. His voice was delivered with pain and confusion. Out of everyone his eyes were the brightest and closest to red.
"What is he talking about Rena?" I asked. No one answered at first, but William finally took his hood off, exposing his face. The features, the exact features I carry, the exact features that are subtle in Rena's face too, were all painted into a beautiful sculpture that made this young Vampires face. He looked more Like Christian than both Rena and me combined but the resemblance was something you could not deny. I slowly stood up and stared into his face shocked. I wanted to ask so many questions but the answers were clear as day. He was a product of Christian, a half brother to both Rena and myself.
"William grew up in homeless shelters his entire life. He wasn't as lucky as I was after his mother died giving birth. He's never had a parent figure in his life." The way she said it meant that he doesn't take well to authority or doesn't like being told what to do either.
"Has he met Christian before?" I asked. Williams grimace was enough to answer my question but I needed answers ... spoken answers.
"He's been running from him since his transformation. He, like the others, were plagued with nightmares that included the face of Christian. It was like his venom carried horror stories through each one of his victims."
"Everyone except you?" I asked.
"I was the only one to have my birth mother survive so maybe that makes it different?" I nodded my head. Maybe Carlisle would have an answer for us.
"After William transformed, he killed a person in his foster home, and fled. He traveled from North Carolina to Colorado. Thats where Christian came to him, alone. He explained who he was and explained that William was created for one purpose only. To serve him. William didn't take well to this and attacked. William, is actually the first evolution he met, which was only a few months before he met me. He learned about the possible powers I had through William."
"You share the same gift?" I asked.
"No, not exactly, however the three of us all have similar abilities." She said. The surprised look on my face made her smile.
"You see, as Christian said our powers evolve, so my natural vampire power is to mentally repel things, almost like telekinesis, which we knew. But the other powers came when I met Christian in the compound. He brought the anger out of me so much that I summoned up the energy blasts. William, can take from others emotions, convert it into energy and use it against them. It looks almost exactly the way my blasts do." She was right, our powers are all linked. By emotions. I can read emotions into thoughts, and words, Rena channels her emotions into a blast of energy that can be deadly if used right and William can channel others emotions to do the same thing.
"Wow, can you channel your own emotions too?" I asked in an excited tone.
"My own emotions is what drives me to pull from others. It makes it that much more lethal.
"Wait, Christian was following you? How did you evade him this long?" William lowered his head as if I struck a sour chord in him. The pain and hurt smacked me like a bag of bricks, sending me down into my chair. His own emotions bounced back to him and his hands began to glow. Everything around us began to tremble, tiny stones began to levitate.
"William control it, concentrate!" Rena said grabbing his arm but it didn't seem to be working.
"CHARLES!" I called out and he appeared quicker then I thought. He already knew what to do and then shut Williams powers down. William fell to the floor with his hands covering his face.
"I'm sorry ... I didn't mean to. Did I hurt anyone?"
"No, not at all its ok. Its hard to control, we have people here who can help you control it." I explained as I kneeled down to him.
"Latia and Ditto are finishing up the last room downstairs in the basement. The shifters already set up the Garage. If you want to get everyone in and settled it might be a good time now." Charles said to me and Rena. He seemed nervous around her now, it was odd. Rena nodded and smiled, then looked over to the others.
"Can you show them to their rooms please." She asked in a softer tone. He tilted his head smiled, then agreed. He was having trouble controlling her powers. Rena has grown stronger then we imagined. William stood up, still looking down at his feet, and followed behind Charles. One by one they all entered the house and made their way downstairs. Rena and I were alone. We started cleaning up the debris around us and continued to catch up.
"How are you holding up?" I asked.
"I can hear all the packs in my head." she said. looking at the mess caused by their little fight.
"Is it overwhelming you?" I asked.
"No, its like theres a specific part of my brain storing their conversations, a small enough part that I can ignore and focus on other things." she said.
"Like keeping people out of your head." I said referring to me. I haven't been able to read her since she arrived. she looked at me and smiled.
"Precisely."
"So what happened just then with William?" I asked.
"Well, after he attacked Christian, he fled. He left him banged up to the point where christian didn't have time to track him down for about a week."
"He's that strong?" I asked.
"Almost as stronger than me" She explained. "Well in that weeks time, William met another vampire. His name was Fred. Fred had the ability to make any vampire or any one in general, want nothing to do with him. Make them not even look his way. He found William tearing apart a homeless man in an ally way in Denver, the strange hum of williams heart and the smell of blood caught his attention. The way William reacted to fred, caused Fred to understand that he was in trouble. William explained to him the best way he could, and Fred offered to help him hide so that he wouldn't be found. Using his gift of course, this was possible. They traveled together for a year and in that Years time, William finally felt as if he had a parent figure in his life. Someone to look up to. Fred became his best friend, his only friend. They were inseparable, until the night I found him. I only found him by chance, He was the last on on my list and I had just about given up. I was on my way home when we found two immortals chasing after something. Someone. It was William. Four immortals, including one who had the ability to block powers created with the mind, attacked William and Fred. They fought hard, but Fred didn't make it. With no emotions other than his own to go off of, Williams gift was almost useless because of the immortals gift. So he ran. He caught onto our scents and tried to distract the immortals by bringing them to us, but we ended up destroying them. He knew what we were the second he saw me use my powers, he thought we were sent by Christian. He gave up and sobbed at my feet. When I explained to him that I was on a mission to kill Christian, only then did he agree to join us. Since then, he's been kind of distant, and hard to handle. He doesn't know how to use his powers fully, and it scares him. He puts on an act some times like he doesn't need anyones help and doesn't want to be here, But he obviously wants to be here as apart of the team, because he hasn't left."
"He's the one we'll have to work on then the most." I said.
"Yes, I will be working closely with him, he needs family Noah. He really does."
"He has us Rena, we're his family ..." I said as I put my hand on her shoulder. She wrapped her arms around me and hugged me tightly. "It quite the team you have there Rena, with the exception of two of them, I think you might have brought the numbers to an even playing field."
"I know Madison is useless, but we couldn't leave her there in Boston." She explained.
"She's dead weight." I said.
"She's a newborn vampire Noah. She's stronger then you at this point" She was right. However the emotion she carried might be something will work against us in the end.
"Listen Noah, none of them asked to be part of this life. But they are now and they have the right to fight for what they believe is right. They all stay and they all fight!" She said sounding more angry then I expected.
"Alright alright! I never said they couldn't fight along side us" I said throwing my hands up in a 'I give up' motion. We locked eyes then as I smiled at her, but my smile faded when the red eyes replaced those of the golden eyes I was used to.
"Your not disappointed in me are you?" She asked. I knew her question was in reference to her new diet.
"What happened?" I asked.
"I killed a man who raped and killed a young girl. I came across him as he planned to bury her body in a field in Washington. I hadn't eaten, in weeks, I smelled the blood, and the fact that he killed an innocent, enraged me. Before I knew it, he was bone dry of all his blood, and I felt the strongest I had ever felt. I knew then what Christian meant when he said I was limiting myself on animal blood. It was then I knew I was too weak to take Christian on by myself. So, I did the research and found the others."
"All while killing humans in the process?" My question hurt her, I felt that much at least.
"I remember Edward told Seth a story once, that when he was a young vampire, he rebelled against Carlisle and fed off humans. He only attacked those who were killers, molesters, people who lived their life as monsters haunting the lives of the weak. I took notes from that story, and followed the same trend. Anyone I drank off, was not a person who didn't deserve it."
"an evil Human life is a life regardless of how you look at it Rena." My body tensed up, everything around e felt tight, like I was being squeezed by an powerful unseen force.
"Noah, I don't need to be lectured about this, my life has been fucked over since the day I transformed into a monster. If Im going to live the immortal life out as a monster I might as well use my talents to take out a few monsters while I'm at it." She said.
"OK Rena, I'm not judging you... let me go please" She did. I fell to my knees, she was there with me apologizing.
"It's ok. I'm fine. Rena, I didn't mean to cause you anger or hurt. Obviously your still not ok with killing humans, since you have the others feeding off animals. I just wanted to make sure that after all this is done, and we win the war, that YOU will go back to a regular diet." she looked at me then nodded her head.
"Yes ... Yes I will."
"Good" I said as we continued to clean up.
"So you think we will win eh?" She asked.
"I hope we will." I said truthfully. She nodded her head and picked up a statue that was knocked over.
"Well one thing I know for sure is, Christian and Lysander will die in that field. I'll make sure of it." She said with a deep rage built up in her voice.
"They sure will die Dragoste. That we will make sure of." The deep accented voice came from behind us. It startled us into a crouching position and we both hissed. It wasn't until the sweet smell of licorice caught our nose that we knew who it was. Boian stood there, with a smile on his face, a large duffle bag in his hand, with eleven other tall sweet scented individuals. Eleven Children of The Moon, eleven real powerful werewolves.
