Chapter 60

Eric POV

Stark and I stood next to Aurora in the centre isle of the bus, I looked out the window and could see, Swan, Michael and Celine on guard. Aurora took our hands and instead of the usual flutter of a shimmer, my body was twisted and crushed as we spiralled in to darkness. Coming out of whatever that was, was like hitting a brick wall and it knocked the breath out of me, I put my hands on my knees and tried to get my bearings. We stood on top of a large hotel looking down on a busy city bellow, lights flashed and car horn beeped, it seemed as normal as I would expect but my skin crawled with the unknown.

"World jumping is fun isn't it Viking?" laughed Stark, stretching his arms over his head working the kinks out.

"I could think of another word, how long do we have?"

"One minute in our world is an hour here, but the longer we stay the more likely Yannick will detect us." Said Aurora

I watched Aurora climb to the ledge as the shadows around her started to move in an unnatural way, it was like they were excited to see and old friend, dancing and swirling at her feet, the air around us became icy cold and I could feel a painful prickle at my skin. Fear started to seep into my soul, as I got a look at Aurora using Hades gifts. The sound of wings beating in the air caught my attention as the shadows started dancing up Aurora's bare legs. A figure landed on the far side of the roof, studding us for a second before she whimpered and ran to Aurora like her life depended on it, the pair clashed into an embrace.

"Eric let me introduce you to Ezreal, Yannick's attempt to replicate Aurora in the form of an Arch Angel." Said Stark

I could see the similarities, but Aurora out shone this creature in every way. I was surprised to see guns strapped to the thighs of the angel but if this was a taste of what Aurora expected as our army, I was not impressed.

"I didn't think you'd come back." Whimpered the Archess

"I promised I would, I've brought a friend so we can have a look at your Adarian friends." Replied Aurora

The Archess seemed to have spirit as she elongated a set of fangs and snarled at the idea of the Adarians. Stark stepped behind me as he and Aurora extended their wings, one moment we were on the roof top the next we were flying through the night sky chasing the shadows, I felt out of place hanging from Starks arms but I understood why I wasn't flying under my own abilities, the speed we were moving was incredible and I would have struggled to keep up. We landed in a dark alley across from a movie premier, Stark kept the two of us hidden as Aurora began to move in a nature I have never witness before. She kissed the Archess lovingly promising to return sooner next time and sent her on her way as a figure emerged from the shadows. The Archesses eyes flashed with fear as she shot up into the sky, but the creature cared little for the fleeing female Arch as he had his eyes locked on Aurora.

"I don't know which one you belong to but your mine now." Spat the Adarian.

He was fast, faster than I expected. Rage and death pooled in his eyes, he pulled a knife from his back pocket and licked his lips hungry to claim his prize. I stepped out of the darkness snarling at the creature before me, he whipped around slashing at me with his blade. There was no humanity in his eyes, he wouldn't run, we wanted to fight, hungered for it. One of the shadows snaked out like a whip and knocked the knife from the Adarians hand, he let out a huff and lunged at me. The impact knocked me back two steps but I quickly corrected and tossed him against the alley wall, within a blink he was back on his feet and charging again. Back and forth we went, he was strong, extremely strong but no true match for me and that was just fine with me as there weren't many vampires in my world that could match Godric, Bastian and I. Looking over to Aurora who was now snuggled in Stark's arms, I caught the fact she was smiling as widely as I was, the vampires in my world wouldn't dare challenge us if we had an arm of these guys. Aurora twirled her hand and the shadows spiralled up from the ground, swallowing the Adarain crushing him into nothing. I looked at her confused, why kill what we came looking for, but she just smiled wider.

"Don't worry Eric, one or two here and there won't be a problem, there are above 200 hundred of them. And we couldn't have him warning the others."

"Are they all like him?" I asked

"I've seen stronger, they are capable hand to hand but excel with guns and knives." Replied Stark

"What are we waiting for?" I asked.

"Their sneaky little rats, they hide like no creature I've seen before and to add to the fun they can become invisible. To find them I'd have to use more power and this would alert Yannick to our presents within his world, but if we get them to come out of hiding and play, that's another game altogether." Said Aurora with a knowing grin on her face.

"And how do you plan to do that?" I chuckled knowing she had a plan in place.

"The Archess, is only one of four. The Adarians what them, need them for their blood, we can use them as bait and get our army to come to us rather than go looking for them." Said Aurora snarling lustfully to Stark.

This crazy idea could actually work, I gave my body a little shack ready for what was to come, one moment we were in Yannick's world the next I was back on the bus ready to vomit up my blood.

"It gets easier, trust me." Said Stark, knocking on the window to let the Angels know we were back.

We climbed from the bus and went in search of our family, Swan let us know we had only been gone maybe 2 minutes which still amazed me. A large portion of the family was resting up against the wall nearest to the entrance of the super store, Kellan rushed forward picking Aurora up so she could wrap herself around him.

"I go with you next time, do you here me." Growled the demon as he ran his nose up Aurora's neck breathing in her scent.

A couple of groups of humans stood around looking at us, Godric gave a quick flick of his eyes as Kellan lowered Aurora to the ground and we entered the human feed shed. Aurora and Stark must have been monitoring my thought because they both coughed back a laugh at my thoughts, our 30 strong group found our targets only three rows in and it was a site to see, Adele had the Berts flanking her each side pushing trollies, behind them was Sookie, Pam, Piper and Terry each all pushing trolleys and the twins seemed on over load dashing back and forth with Boston trying to sneak this and that into the carts. Gerard, Yannick and Bastian looked beyond bored but the site of Aurora had them all stretch to their full heights. I held my breath as Kellan released Aurora and she walked towards Yannick, Stark and I glanced at each other as she stopped in front of him and looked up into his eyes. If he knew what we'd been up to he didn't show it as he bent down and picked her up, Aurora surprised me grabbing onto Yannick with a little too much desperation. She must be concerned how he is going to react when he finds out what we are up to, but at this moment he looks none the wiser and happily wrapped his fellow death dealer in his arms, elated his mated wanted or needed to be close to him. Adele cleared her throat twice before she gave up, everyone could tell from the look in Yannick's eyes he had no intention of putting Aurora down if she wanted to be in his arms. The next hour passed with some amusement, the humans and once humans spent more time explaining the bites and pieces the pureblood found as oddities. The new vampires had moved from just watching Aurora and Yannick to every pureblood within our family, Adele finally had us piled up around the registers when Sookie gave me a wink and took those of our family who ate food over to the little dining area with the twins, all seven of the sins stayed with Godric and I but watched Boston's every move.

"The humans treat your family differently even though you have vampires within your midst." Said Asher.

"Differently, how so?" asked Bastian, as the sins all turned, looking at the vampire with curiosity.

"They can tell that most of you aren't human, but they still gravitate towards you as a whole." Said Asher looking around at the human staring at us.

"Do you find that a good or bad thing?" ask Aurora looking up for the first time since she climbed in to Yannick's arms.

"I find it as amusing as one would watching prey walking towards a snare hidden in the grass, the anticipation of will or won't the creature in question set off said trap leaving them anchored waiting for death to find them or will they sense danger and run."

Aurora held the vampires gaze, as a small smile dressed her face as she giggled ever so quietly and nodded to Asher acknowledging his assessment, the cashier almost choked on her gum when she read out the total and Yannick turned himself and Aurora towards her. I wasn't sure who she found more attractive, but when Aurora arched her back pulling a credit card from her cleavage and waved it towards the poor human she stutter and fumbled, letting her gum fall from her mouth. We all chuckled as Adele snatch the card from Aurora and smacked her bottom, shewing Yannick away.

"I'm so sorry, my grand babies can be cheeky sometimes. They mean no harm, I promise." Said Adele shaking her head.

"No, it's my fault. They are all just wow, you know what I mean. I've never seen people that beautiful before and you said there all your grandchildren. I never would have thought of people like that living in Shreveport." Replied the cashier

"That so very sweet of you, I'm very blessed." Replied Adele as she rolled her eyes, looking back to Godric and I. Sookie was right, Adele was one in a million. She made our crazy look a little grounded and with the creatures that made up our family, a little grounded was a good thing.

Yannick's POV

Time could have stopped for all I cared, to have my mates crave to be in my arms was ethereal. I knew she was trying to hide where she'd been, I don't know why she needed to go there, but that wasn't my number one concern at the moment. She needed me, the moment she stepped into the ridicules store, I felt a pull through our connection. Her skin cooled to my touch, her breathing steadied and she relaxed completely into my body. I lowered my head into her hair, drowning in her scent, a little alarm went off in my mind that I could detect a hint of the dark magic she'd collected from Hades along with the scent of my world. She nuzzled at my neck, while dragging her nails in slow circles around my shoulders. My goddess may have been in the beginning of her heat cycle but in this moment she wanted nothing but to hide in our connection, her mind brushed and danced within my head, her heart slowed to beat in unison with my own. I was letting go and falling deeper and deeper into our connection. When she spoke to the vampire Asher, I felt a unique pull to our bond, it was as if she had pulled it over her head and was looking from under the covers while communicating with the people around us. When the human read out the money needed, I moved us forward and went to reach for my wallet, but my goddess held my eyes, while arching her back raising her breasts towards my face as she pulled her credit card to hand it to the human. This little show was all for me and my staff swelled in approval, my nerves flashed with a fiery need to be flesh on flesh, and thankfully Adele motioned for us to move as my fangs elongated and hands gripped flesh pulling Aurora's body closer to mine. Each step I took was mechanical as I let Aurora pull me beeper and beeper under the covers of our bond, I managed to get us back on the bus, but besides that the outside world was lost to me. I bathed in the beauty of our bond, we'd moved past flesh, it was something similar to when we communed with nature but now it was just the two of us lost in the peaceful warmth of nothingness and everything that our bond held. I'm not sure how long we'd been like this but Gerard was trying to pull us back to the here and now calling to us through our connection. Aurora pushed beeper down but I had to respond to our alphas call, I took a few steading breaths as I opened my eyes slowly and took in our surrounding. We were still on the bus but it was now parked next to the garage at the compound and all that remained on board was our mates.

"Are you both ok?" asked Stark leaning forward and brushing hair back from Aurora's still face.

Gerard reached out to take Aurora from me and I don't know what came over me but I snarled at him. My emotions battled to obey my alpha but my need to keep Aurora safely hidden in our bond countered it, my distress must have shown on my face.

"It's ok Yannick, I just need to take Aurora for a moment to pull her from your mind link. She's not coming to my call and we need to make sure she's ok. I know she still not 100% but she can't hide away in your mind." Said Gerard slowly reaching forward again.

I knew he was right but it twisted my gut to let him removed Aurora from my arms, he lifted her slowly and took a few steps back stretching the distance between us. Her eyes fluttered and we could all hear her heart beat increase, slowly she came back to the here and now, my heart pounded in my chest as she looked at me and sadness and desire danced behind her eyes. Gerard lowered her to her feet and turned her face so he could study her, his body relaxed a little as Aurora looked up into his eyes.

"Why did you hide from us?" asked our Merman.

"I didn't hide, I just needed a small moment in time, I'm so tired and I wanted to go somewhere we didn't have to pretend to be anything else but what we are. My body is on fire for each and every one of you and I hate having to hide that. I want to be able to enjoy the desire that builds in me when Stark and I kiss, his moans and touch sends me soaring. I want to scream from the power and pain I feel when Kellan and his demon enjoy us, I want to swim in the passion I feel from Yannick giving over his power to lose himself in us. I want to bathe in Bastian's wants and desires, giving him everything he craves, from us and others. I want to get lost in giving over my free will to your and Preston's hungers and desires. But we can only ever scratch the surface, never fully fore fill our wants and needs, I'm sorry I just needed a little quite." Replied Aurora as a blood tear dropped from her eye.

"I'm so very glad you can tell us this, and you must always talk to us, we love you. I can promise it's hard for all of us, the things I want to do to you and our mates, haunts me daily. I hunger to spend day after day just lying in our bed enjoying the flesh of our mates, fucking and feeding until exhaustion take us. I want to watch our mates bite and lick every inch of you at my command. But for tonight, why don't we have a little fun while you're healing and give Bastian one of his desires." Purred Gerard, letting the hardness drop from his eyes and for a brief moment, all that remained was his love for Aurora and us.

We all knew what Bastian had been desiring, we'd seen it enough times while he slept, as his desires would drift into our minds. It was to fuck and feed hard from a human while we watched him. It was a foreplay he hungered for, he didn't want to finish with a human. He just wanted us to watch him being the big bad vampire making a human scream in both fear and euphoria before he moved on to the main event, us. He wanted to be the aggressor, the predator and then he needed to move on to us and become the willing participant, a submissive to the collective. We had no problem giving him this, we knew he loved us, it was a small sacrifice to pay having a non-pure blood within our mating.

I rose from my seat and walked towards Aurora, I didn't know if she was aware of it but she was still calling to me through our bond. Gerard could sense this releasing his hold on our mate as I quickly scooped up our goddess and took a moment to let our connection swirl between us and slow both our racing hearts. Bastian was excited about our upcoming play but his concern for Aurora seemed to be dulling his excitement, I brushed my mind against our vampires and let him feel the lust Aurora had dancing around in her mind at the idea of the upcoming entertainment. Bastian's eyes sparkled and he excused himself to make arrangements. Gerard thought it best we use one of the empty cabins within the compound after the Sandra debacle and I couldn't agree more, as we disembarked the bus Aurora's mind started to push on mine. Lust, hunger and need washing over me like a title wave, I felt her fangs elongate then scrap against my skin, the thought of her feeding from me sent me into hyper drive. My blood pounding in my ears and when she wrapped herself tighter around me and bit, moaning in her need for me. I erupted with an orgasms I couldn't have imagined. My stride faltered and I dropped to one knee, keeping my love wrapped in my arms. Aurora broke from my neck and stared deep into my eyes, I saw it then, the link that I always believed was there but kept locked away, the link that was cemented the night we turned Stark into more of a death dealer than an Arch and joined our hearts. Aurora kept so much of herself hidden, but it was moments like this, when her guard was down that made me love her more. She loved us more than her own life, she was ours the moment she'd taken her first breath and we would be together until we took our last. A ravenous growl left my lips as we fell to the ground and locked lips, I knew our mates stood circled around us, as well as a few onlookers within the grounds but nothing was stopping me in that moment. Aurora laced her fingers in my hair and our kisses slowed, I pressed my weight down against her, letting my tongue dance with hers tasting my own blood. My hips started to move on their own pressing my swollen length against Aurora's bare thigh and I cursed the clothes between us. Before I could rectify the problem, Stark chuckled giving my leg a nudge with his foot, I pulled from Aurora's lips and roared 'WHAT' at our Angel. And there not more the three strides away stood our fathers, standing side by side looking down on us with amused looks in their eyes.

"Yannick" said my fathers

I groaned resting my forehead against Aurora's, our breathing was harsh and as I looked up Aurora's eyes where a pool of black lust. I was torn between shimmering us away to finishing what we had started and greeting our father, Aurora reached up and glided her thumb over my bottom lip, running her tongue over her fangs making the decision easy, but a small voice dragged us back to the here and now.

"Hello Grandpa" said Boston walking up to Poseidon.

Aurora let her head fall back to the lawn and I chuckled as I got to my knees and pulled us both up, Preston quickly stepped up and pulled a few pieces of grass that had embedded themselves in Aurora's hair as we turned to welcome our fathers. It didn't go unnoticed by our fathers as Boston quickly stepped up to Aurora and I as I picked up our little shifter and Aurora leant in and kissed Boston's cheek before she stepped away to greet her father.

"How is it possible you become more beautiful every time I see you." Said Poseidon as he embraced his daughter.

"You are to kind, what brings you here tonight?" asked Aurora.

"Does a father need a reason to see his daughter or grandchildren?"

Aurora and Poseidon looked at each other and the mighty god of the ocean burst into laugher as her kissed Aurora's forehead and draped an arm over her shoulder. I spent the next hour taking to my father who was an enamoured with Boston as we all were, Gerard, Aurora and Poseidon excused themselves and strolled around the grounds in silent conversation. It didn't pass my notice that Bastian had returned and gave me a strained smile as he nodded towards one of the empty cabin, which now had the Berts standing guard. Obviously inside held Bastian's human play thing for the night, which only made the need to say goodbye to our fathers that much more important.

"Boston why don't you go find Aurora and tell her Bastian has returned." I said putting Boston down and taking the opportunity to speak one on one with my father.

Boston's eyes flashed to honey as he took Starks hand and the pair went in search of Aurora.

"Where you ever going to tell us about the child?" asked my father the second Boston was out of ear shot.

"What is there to tell, we connected with him, he's ours now." I replied matter of fact.

"Don't play stupid with me son, what that child is becoming is a miracle. He is tuning himself into the child of your mates, he is absorbing a piece of every single one of you. He is willing it out of pure love and desire to be the child of your mating." Said my father.

I knew Boston loved us, but was it possible for an Elf/ Shifter mix breed to transform themselves into another creature all together, I watched my father study my reaction before he looked away and watched Boston and Aurora skip towards us hand in hand.

"Whatever that child is becoming is irrelevant in the big picture, look how he has your mate bewitched and from the glow of love and happiness radiating from her, it worth it. Your little miracle has opened the heart of the deadly daughter of Poseidon. You are a very lucky man my son." Said my father giving my shoulder a squeeze.

"We will take our leave and return tomorrow night, so you may get back to your nocturnal activates."

My father stopped in front of Aurora and Boston kissing them both before he and Poseidon took there leave, we all hugged and kissed Boston good night as Godric emerged from the house to collect his son. The moment we were alone Bastian became a bundle of nervous energy, Aurora walked up and took his hand. We followed as he led us to the cabin, the Berts gave Bastian a mischievous smile as they excused themselves.

"Are you sure about this?" said Bastian as he spun around to address each and every one of us.

"Do you not desire this?" asked Gerard.

"I do, but I don't want you to think differently of me afterwards. I can lose myself in the moment, I hate to admit it but I like to choose humans that have committed unthinkable crimes and punish them while I take my pleasure and possibly end their lives." Replied Bastian lowering his eyes a little ashamed of what he had just admitted.

"Explain unthinkable?" asked Aurora

"The male I have found, is known to rape and beat women."

"Then let's not keep your play thing waiting, and Bastian my love you will ends its life and I look forward to watching you do so, make him scream for me." Purred Aurora as she stepped forward and ran her fingers up Bastian's thigh and over his swelling staff.

What we were about to do may not seem right to many, but Bastian like all of us, was a killer by nature and I respected him more for choosing to kill those who would inflict pain and terror on those weaker than themselves. If our vampire wanted to take his pleasure while ending the life of a monster, I for one was an excited as Aurora to witness it. We entered the main living area and there in the corner was a human male chained by the neck anchored to the floor, he lunged at us and attempted to scream but someone had stuffed a rag of some kind in his mouth. All of us except Bastian moved to the three seater sofa at the far end of the room and got ready for the show, Kellan, Gerard and myself sat of the sofa. Aurora climbed onto my lap, as Preston and Stark sat on the sofas arms leaning into our mates. The human looked at us with disgust and a little fear as we all elongated our fangs and watched Bastian approach his play thing. All six of us growled and bathed in the excitement of Bastian going full vampire, the screams of the human where like a sweet song as Bastian took his pleasure from the humans flesh and snuck his fangs into his thrashing victim never breaking eye contact with Aurora and it was as sexy as hell. I slid my fingers up Aurora's thigh and over her core to be meet with a delicious pool of heat waiting for us to consume, Aurora leant back into me as I circled her sweet hard nub and this drove Bastian wild. The human was taking his last few breaths as Bastian roared with release, ripping his fangs from the dead body, none of us moved as he stalked forward and knelt in front of Aurora lowing this bloody mouth to join my fingers. Not one of us wasn't breathing heavy as we watched Aurora screamed her release as Bastian raised his grinning face licking lip ready for more. And more we were going to give him.

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