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Chapter 16

Sookie's POV

Fangtasia was a real battleground with vampires from both teams fighting each other. We had three things in our favor: first, the element of surprise; second, at least here in Fangtasia, we had the numbers; and three, Eric's people were wearing the Fangtasia t-shirt and that helped with the fight.

Maxwell and Rubio had one of the newcomers surrounded. The newcomer's shirt was half missing, showing a large tattoo of a siren sitting on a rock by the beach. His stand was lethal. Maybe he was a gym trainer or something along those lines before he got turned into a vampire because he was heavily built up.

Eric was the only one with a sword and he swung it so fast that the only thing I saw was an arm falling near his throne. It followed by a few more swings and more body parts flew across the floor. Eric smiled at his victory, but didn't kill the now quadruple amputee. Instead, he moved on to fight another vampire.

Freyda, of course, she stood next to Eric, pretending to fight together. I guessed she wanted to show him what 'together' would mean with her. Karin stood back to back with Eric and she had two vampires fighting her. To my surprise, one of them was Horst Friedman, Felipe's right hand man. The second man was Michael who was also one of Felipe's men.

And I saw it crystal clear, Felipe was going to kill Eric tonight and call it 'a casualty of war'.

Thalia came from behind them and stabbed Friedman on the back of his neck with a long knife she had acquired from the bar. It didn't kill him, but it broke his spine and he fell to the ground, unable to move.

"Maxwell and Rubio," Pam called out loud, "kill the king's entourage." She yelled those words loud enough for all of Eric's subordinates to hear them amid the loud mess of braking tables and bottles. Maxwell and Rubio stopped fighting the siren tattoo guy and turned around in disbelief.

"Now," she yelled and everything was instantly understood. They stopped fighting the siren tattoo guy, they nodded at each other in an understanding, and turned to fight the king's guards.

Several werewolves entered Fangtasia and charged against those that didn't have the Fangtasia t-shirt.

Eric, who was defending the king and Fangtasia, stopped frozen at Pam's words. He knew the king was going to kill her for treason and that put Eric in a very sensitive position. The vampire that was fighting Eric withdrew his stance and went against another vampire without the Fangtasia t-shirt.

It was at that moment that Sophie Anne entered Fangtasia with four more vampires by her side. Her clothes were stained with blood, but she wasn't hurt. Her four companions were slightly bloody too, but in good physical health. I didn't know who was more surprised: Eric or Felipe de Castro.

"Sophie Anne," Eric said in disbelief.

"Impossible!" claimed Felipe de Castro. "You're supposed to be dead," he continued.

"And here I am taking back what is mine," Sophie Anne said and immediately charged against Felipe de Castro.

Eric looked at me and smiled, and off he went to fight Felipe's men without mercy.

I had no idea where did the werepanthers and the fairies go because they weren't inside Fangtasia, but I couldn't worry about them right now. Especially when Freyda launched at me without prior warning and Pam pushed me out of the way just in time before the deadly punch touched me. Once again, I found myself flying across the room, hitting the steps by Eric's throne, right by the cut-off limb courtesy of Eric's sword. The punch that was intended for me landed on Pam's face so hard that Pam rolled on the floor from the impact. There was no way I would have survived a punch like that.

I didn't know where Thalia came from, but she kicked Freyda so hard that she flew across the room, breaking one of the seating booths on her way. That move allowed Pam to stand up and continue fighting. Pam's face was distorted; it was clear her jaw was broken. Yet, she continued engaging Freyda, but her attention was mostly on me. She really wanted to kill me. What she didn't know was that I wanted her dead too.

Jason came out of nowhere and grabbed onto Freyda's neck with his panther's claws. Luckily, tonight was full moon so he was able to shift as much as nature allowed him. His claws tore off a large chunk of her neck, but she reacted super fast and punched him so hard that send him over the counter at the bar, hitting the liquor shelves by the wall. The bottles burst at the impact and a mix of liquor and broken glass spilled all over the area. Meanwhile, Jason fell flat on the floor. I waited a few seconds, but he didn't stand up.

"Jason!" I screamed fearing the worse, but I couldn't get to him because Freyda was once again trying to come at me and Pam was blocking her way.

My anger reached boiling point, and I saw red.

I stood up and grabbed the marriage knife which had fallen off my hands when I hit the floor and turned to face Freyda. My waist area hurt badly and I knew that maybe a broken rib was the cause of it. Karin joined us, and between the three of us surrounded her.

Most of Felipe and Freyda's entourage was either dead or safely restrained on the floor to prevent interference.

Eric was restraining a vampire, and when he tried to escape, Eric swung his sword and amputated both legs. I guess that vampire won't be going anywhere anytime soon!

Sophie Anne and Felipe were savagely fighting. When Felipe de Castro saw that his entourage was done and he was the only one left fighting against Sophie Anne, he ran out of Fangtasia in an attempt to escape. Sophie Anne followed him out. She was determined to win tonight.

Freyda found herself alone; not even Eric tried to help her. So, she followed Felipe as fast as she could. We weren't expecting that!

"Fuck," Pam said, and both Karin and Pam left for the chase. I ran as fast as I could which wasn't really that fast at all because each movement felt as if my body was breaking in half. Maybe I had more than one broken rib. When I reached the parking lot, I saw Pam recovering near an old, thick tree. The tree had a missing chunk on the tree trunk so I could safely assume that Pam got slammed against it.

It was chilly out here and the soft wind dropped the temperature a little bit more. I had to hurry up and find Freyda because the night was close to an end and I couldn't let her recuperate. If she escaped, then she could ask for reinforcements and that wouldn't be good. The time to kill her was now.

Even though the night was clear and the full moon illuminated the area pretty good, I couldn't see Karin or Freyda. It was until I spotted Freyda taking off and Karin right behind her that I learned of their whereabouts. I also learned she could fly too. I wouldn't be surprised if she added it in her 'things I have in common with Eric' list.

"No!" I yelled full of anger. I raised my hands and brought them together into a tight fist. Something happened, I didn't know what, but Freyda stopped mid-air, put her hands over her throat as if she was suffocating and plummeted to the ground. Karin did too a few seconds later.

I couldn't see where they had fallen because it was somewhere in the property next to Fangtasia. Even thought I have never been to this side of the property, I crossed the rusty wired fence and walked as fast as my broken ribs allowed me towards the direction I saw them falling down. I tried to rush, but the dense bushes and the tall trees prevented me from seeing anything pass three feet in front of me. People never crossed this property, so I had to forge my own path with the marriage knife as I carelessly cut whatever bushes were in front of me. I held my breath each time I swung the knife to hold the pain on my ribcage. The humidity of the night made everything wet and slippery. The lower branches got my legs wet at first, but as I walked deeper into it, my clothes got wet too. My hands hurt from time to time as I pushed stubborn branches out of my way.

As soon as I spotted them, I rushed to them and climbed on top of Freyda, pinning her down with my knees. She had slightly started to decompose, but was slowly healing right in front of my eyes. I didn't want to waste time and I plunged the knife into her heart. She gasped in pain.

"He's my husband and not you or anybody else will ever take him away from me. Enjoy hell bitch," I said as I rotated the knife to a full circle motion while inside her heart. I removed the knife and stabbed her again and again until I had done it so many times that there was a large hole on her chest. With the same knife Eric used to marry me, I used it to remove Freyda's heart piece by piece until there was an empty space. Immediately, her body lost its shape and turned into a pile of guts.

That was the final death of Freyda.

I looked down at my body fully covered with a mixture of my blood and Freyda's, and for the first time I didn't feel remorse. I sat down right there; I breathed deeply several times in a futile attempt to stop the pain. A minute later I slowly stood up and turned to return to Fangtasia and stopped frozen in place. Pam, Karin, Eric, Sophie Anne, Bill, Thalia, naked Alcide and two of his pack members, Quinn, and Sam stood there staring at me.

"What?" I asked, but nobody replied.

"Is Felipe de Castro dead?" I asked Sophie Anne.

"I'm wearing his blood on me just like you are wearing Freyda's," Sophie Anne replied.

"The ceremonial knife used to marry you to Eric was also used to kill the woman that tried to break said marriage. A queen nothing less," Bill said.

I guess there was some kind of significance to his words, but it escaped me.

"What did you do and how did you do it?" Karin asked in shock.

"Where's Jason?" I asked in an attempt to break the 'let's stare at Sookie' spell, and since nobody answered my question, then I slowly walked back to Fangtasia leaving all of them back there in the woods. Eventually, they walked back with me and even helped me with the bushes problem.

In Fangtasia, I went straight to Jason. He was in a lot of pain. Pam offered her blood, but he refused. It was then when Calvin and the other four werepanthers entered Fangtasia in their human form; yes, they were naked. I blinked twice at the view, but it seemed I was the only one affected by the naked men. Opposite to me, vampires have seen this a thousand times.

Calvin got on one knee and inspected Jason's source of pain. "A broken pelvis," he said and the four werepanthers grabbed Jason in unison and walked out of Fangtasia. Jason's painful moaning broke my heart.

Calvin put my hands in between his, "it will take him a little longer to heal because he's not full blooded, but with the full moon in our favor, he will be back to normal by the night's end." He looked me straight to my eyes while he spoke, and I knew I could trust him.

"Thank you," I whispered and off he left. With the fight over, there wasn't any reason for them to linger around. I just had to pray really hard that Calvin was right.

I looked around and whatever was left of Felipe de Castro and Freyda's entourage was either seriously incapacitated or strictly guarded.

Sophie Anne walked in and sat in Eric's throne as each one of the vampires lined up to pay their respects to her. "There will be a ceremony very soon where we will swear loyalty to her," Pam whispered to me. I nodded, understanding that my presence will be requested for such event.

Eric was the first one in line and he swore his loyalty to her right there on the spot. I knew he was going to accept the new change of administration. After all, it benefited all of us. Once he was done, he came straight to me and kissed me so deep that I thought his tongue was going to scrap my throat. He tried to lift me, but I hiss from the pain.

"Would you like me to heal you?" he asked not trusting my reply. After all, I was the one that broke our blood bond.

"Yes," I replied and he lifted his eyebrow. "We need our blood bond back," I stated as a matter of fact.

He smiled and immediately bit his wrist and offered to me. I drank without hesitation. He closed his eyes as his blood entered my body. The immediate relief I felt on my broken rib was just perfect.

"You need blood too," I stated and offered my neck. His fangs broke my skin slowly and he leaned against me as he drank my blood, letting me feel his erection. I smiled, wanting him more than ever before. When he was done, he pricked his finger with his fang and healed the small wounds on my neck. He then lifted me in a tight hug and we continued kissing. His kiss was hot and full of energy. His erection pressed against my stomach and I wanted him with every muscle in my body.

"Lover," he said after breaking up the kiss.

"And wife," I smiled at his shocked expression. This was the first time I have acknowledged our marriage with total acceptance. He didn't know this yet, but I was ready to become his wife to the full extent of the vampire law.

"There's too much we need to talk," he said while kissing me again. "And I want to fuck you right now," he said not caring for the many vampire ears around us.

"The sun is about to rise in a little bit, but tomorrow we must talk," I told Eric.

"And fuck," he stated boldly.

"Well, that too," I laughed at his words. "Also, enough procrastinating and leaving things for a later day. From now on, we are going to change many things within our marriage and relationship," I said.

"Today you showed me so many things. And most importantly, you reminded me the reasons for marrying you in the first place. This mess will never happen again. You have my word lover."

I smiled at his words because he was promising me the very thing I wanted the most: to be his priority in life.

Eric let me go and moved on to take charge of Fangtasia. After all, he was still the Sheriff of Area five. At that moment Alcide walked in, this time he was dressed and I was thankful for that. He went to Eric, "my people, the panthers, Sam, and Quinn found some vampires hiding in the woods around Fangtasia. They were far enough for us not to smell them, but we found them once we decided to extend our perimeter," Alcide reported to Eric.

"Are they dead?" Eric asked Alcide.

"Yes," Alcide replied and Eric nodded in approval.

Eric turned towards one of Felipe de Castro's ex-guard who was being restrained against the wall by Indira, "Why were they hiding?"

The vampire being questioned knew that he had no other choice but to tell everything. At least, that might save his life. "King Felipe de Castro had requested five vampires from Nevada. They were to hide until the divorce was finalized, and then they were to take your ex-wife back to his Nevada palace. Without being married to you, she would have become the King's property. He also ordered us to kill you because he had a better offer for Queen Freyda. He wanted to consolidate both kingdoms into one, but he knew that she was infatuated with you and she would not have accepted his business proposal as long as you lived."

I almost fell to the floor after hearing such revelations. If I hadn't planned this attack for tonight, I would have been on the way to Nevada as we speak. My legs were threatening to fail me and it took everything I had to not give up.

"Sookie, are you ok?" Quinn asked. Eric gave him a threatening look and I glared back at Eric. Quinn was not a threat to him, so Eric needed to back off.

"I think I will be," I replied to Quinn with a small smile. I wasn't sure I was going to be ok for a long while, but right now I had to stay strong.

"Let's get this mess cleaned up," Sophie Anne said as she stood up from Eric's throne. "We should not keep any of Felipe de Castro's men. Within seconds, Felipe de Castro's men found their final death. Almost simultaneously.

"Sookie," Bill approached me.

"Where were you all this time?" I demanded to know. Tonight was an important night for me and Bill was nowhere in sight.

"I just got back from out of state. Felipe de Castro sent me on a task and I returned to find Fangtasia in the middle of a battle. I'm still in total shock to find Queen Sophie Anne back in power."

I didn't reply anything. It was useless to argue over his 'errand boy' position with Felipe de Castro. Felipe was gone. Freyda was gone. And Eric was mine. Tonight was a successful night.

"Sookie, what do you want to do with Freyda's minions. You decide with the lives of those three," Sophie Anne said pointing to the last three prisoners. I was shocked at her words, why would I decide about their lives?

The three vampires stood there in silence, I assumed they were petrified of the outcome because their faces were of plain horror. They remained silent; I guess they were expecting me to dictate their future, or lack of.

"That's not for me to decide. You're the queen again and this is vampire business," I said. The three vampires looked from Queen Sophie Anne to me, back and forth.

"I would kill them if I were you. It's not good to leave loose ends," she stated.

"If that's the reasoning to decide about their final death, I think they deserve a second chance. They swore loyalty to the queen in charge; they should at least have the opportunity to swear loyalty to you."

"I would kill them if the decision is up to me. But this decision will be up to you," Queen Sophie Anne said. Why did she keep insisting in making me decide their faith?

The three vampires in question took a few steps forward towards me and Eric, Bill, and Quinn were right there to stop them if they move the wrong way. They stopped a few feet away from me, bowed their heads while they introduced themselves. "My name is Ruben Salazar and I have been in charge of the social events for the Oklahoma kingdom. I was called here to help organize the wedding," Ruben said. He was dressed formal with very expensive shoes. I recognized those shoes because I have seen them in magazines where the rich and famous from Hollywood were wearing them for one of their red carpet events. However, today they were blood stained and I highly doubt his suit was going to get cleaned up properly.

"I'm Mario Smith and he's Stephan Docket," said the other vampire standing next to Ruben, "I'm the engineer in the oil business in Oklahoma and he's the geologist. We were to meet Queen Freyda to discuss the possibility of finding new oil. We have been doing research in search for new reservoirs and we were to present tonight our preliminary findings to her."

Mario had a nerdy look with office clothes. He was not overly elegant like Ruben, but he was properly dressed up for an office meeting with an important client. And on the other side of the spectrum was Stephan who was wearing blue jeans and cowboy boots with a black jacket loosely thrown over his open down white shirt. However, just like Ruben, they were all bloody from top to bottom. At least they weren't missing any limbs! I bet that during the fight they kept their distance from Eric and his Viking sword.

I nodded to the three vampires in front of me. At least they seemed civilized. They looked terrified at Sophie Anne and everybody else around them, especially Eric who was ready to kill them if they breathed too long or blinked too often. Suddenly, the three of them got down on one knee, "Your majesty. We are here to implore for our lives and to swear our loyalty to you," Ruben said.

"I second his words your majesty. I want to swear my loyalty to you," Mario said.

"I repeat their words your majesty. I want to swear my loyalty to you," Stephan said.

"I'm not the queen. She is," I stated as a matter of fact while pointing towards Queen Sophie Anne.

"With all due respect your majesty, you killed Queen Freyda and that makes you the new Queen of Oklahoma," Ruben stated as a matter of fact.

I was shocked. More than shocked and speechless.

Everybody in Fangtasia was dead quiet.

Note: Surprise! Can you imagine Sookie becoming the new Queen of Oklahoma? Imagine this: A Fairy to be the new queen of a vampire kingdom! Felipe de Castro was very clear about the vampire's believes of Sookie not being their equal…. well… this will be interesting uh!

What do you think about the fight? Was it intense or not?

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