Ok, here's part 7

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Underworld 2: The Three-Sided War

Plans revealed, and Preparations

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"Damnit! Where the hell is Damon!?" Sebastian cursed aloud as he paced back and forth. The others in the room, which included Ortega, the twins, Faustus, Jared, and a few others, just watched as their leader walked around angrily.

Ortega opened his mouth, and was about to speak, when suddenly they heard the sound of a door opening, and the sound of a body hitting the floor following.

Sebastian and Ortega walked into the room to find one of the hybrids who hadn't been killed at the shootout down below lying on the floor in pain. He was bleeding in several spots, and it appeared he had a few bones broken. But he was alive.

"What happened to you?" Sebastian asked as he walked foreword and crouched in front of him.

The hybrid coughed up some blood before answering. "They outnumbered us, and Gabriel couldn't be stopped. What the hell is he?" he asked angrily.

Sebastian didn't answer, and the hybrid sighed.

"Well anyway, we have another problem now."

Now he really had Sebastian's attention. "What?" Sebastian asked, a hint of the anger that Ortega and the hybrid could tell was going to surface when he heard what ever the hybrid had to say.

"It's Damon; he's sided with Gabriel and the renegades. I heard him say he knew what your plan was."

For a moment Sebastian didn't answer, but the people in the room could tell he was angry.

"Sebastian?" Ortega asked, worried about him.

A sickening sound of the hybrid's neck snapping was his answer as Sebastian took his anger out on him, smashing him with a brutal open palm to the head.

He stood up and grabbed Ortega by the throat before snarling, "We don't anything yet. I don't want anymore hybrids or any warriors period going down below at all. Anyone who does otherwise will be killed. We will continue as planned. I don't care if Damon knows how we're going to strike, it won't make any difference when he, Marcus, and whoever else had the balls to stand against me, lie dead at my feet. Understood?"

Ortega angrily knocked Sebastian's hand aside, but he still nodded.

"Good," Sebastian spat before exiting the room. Ortega just rubbed his throat.

"He needs to lighten up."

***

"Alright; here's the scoop. Tomorrow night, Sebastian, Ortega, those twin things, Lazarus, and every vampire, lycan, hybrid, and whatever else he has on his side, and some of them I don't know what they are, and frankly, I really don't want to know either," Damon began. "are going to invade the mansion, and kill Marcus."

Marcus pulled out something from his coat. Unrolling it he placed it on the table they were standing at. They all looked at it.

It looked like blue prints for the mansion's layout; with several spots marked by an X.

"How did you get these?" Selene asked as she looked up.

Damon grinned. "I stole them from Sebastian. He actually had two copies of it for some reason, so I just stole the copy." He pointed at the Xs, one was in the garage, one in the armory, and one was in the main room on the first floor.

"Now, Sebastian is planning on having Lazarus make holes where these Xs are and have his men sneak up inside, with the exception of the twins, who can just come up through the floor, fucking showoffs," Damon muttered to himself before he noticed everyone looking at him with raised eyebrows.

"Ummm, anyway," he continued. "I have this idea, that if we wait until the get inside the mansion and start shooting up the place… wait, we're going to need the big guns for that."

"The what?" Sonja asked.

"Heavy firearms; explosives. We wait until they're inside, and blow as much of the house to hell as we can. Afterwards, we go in and finish off the rest." Damon paused as he noticed Gabriel was looking at him with a disbelieving look. "What?"

"It's just, that was what I had been planning."

Damon grinned. "Hey, I guess demons do think alike."

"Wait, what?" Lucian asked Gabriel.

Gabriel rolled his eyes before looking at Lucian, his eyes now the same black color they had been when he had killed Magnus. "I'm a half demon. My mother was a mortal, my father was a powerful demon warrior." Kane opened his mouth to say something.

"Don't start."

Kane closed his mouth.

Damon just muttered something under his breath before saying, "Okay. So, any questions, comments?"

In a flash the sound of metal unsheathing filled the air and Damon felt the tip of a sword resting on his neck. He glanced over at the wielder of the weapon: Sonja.

"Yes, I do. Why shouldn't I just kill you right where you stand?" she asked, venom dripping from her voice. Everyone seemed rather surprised at her cold tone, especially Lucian.

Damon chuckled. "Dear Sonja," he trailed off and before she could react he had knocked the sword out of her hand and had one of his hands coming very close to crushing her throat. Almost everyone moved foreword to do something but Damon's tightening of his grip just made them stop.

Damon leaned in close until his face was less than an inch away from Sonja's. "I'm not asking you to trust me. All I'm asking is we have a little temporary truce until after Sebastian and Marcus are dead. After that, then you can try to kill me. Besides, if I wanted you dead, I would have cut your throat wide open right before you impaled your lover-boy to that wall."

With that he leaned foreword, and gave her a quick kiss on the lips before letting her go, and she stumbled backwards. Damon chuckled as he sat down. "Lucian, the look on your face when she stabbed you was so fucking priceless. It was great."

Sonja glared at Damon as she stormed out of the room, even as she wiped her lips in disgust.

"Oh come on!" Damon mock protested. "You know you liked that kiss."

Lucian just glared at Damon also before following Sonja.

"Ok, so Sebastian is going to attack at dusk tomorrow? So that means we have a little less than twenty four hours to prepare. And I suggest you guys get rest. We'll need it," Gabriel stated as he walked out of the room. Soon, only Damon, Kane, Raziel, and Raze were left in the room.

"So, what do you guys want to do to pass the time?" Damon asked.

There was a pause. Then Kane reached into his coat and pulled out something before setting it on the table. It was a pack of cards.

"Anyone want to play poker?" he asked.

The other three looked at each other, and then shrugged before saying, "Ok."

***

"Are you ok?"

Sonja turned around and looked at Lucian as he stood in the doorway. She shrugged.

"I don't know. It's just… I'm scared."

Lucian walked over to her and cupped her face in his hands. "I'm not going to let anything happen to you. I'll protect you for as long as I live."

Sonja nodded, and then looked down. When she looked back up she had a few tears in her eyes.

"What is it?"

"I'm so sorry."

Lucian raised an eyebrow. "For what?"

Sonja moved one of her hands to where she had stabbed him a few days earlier. "I hurt you, and I didn't even care when you looked at me the way you did after I had stabbed you. And you nearly got killed fighting Lazarus because of me."

Lucian just stroked her cheek, wiping away the tears before pulling her into his arms as she nestled her head against his chest.

"That wasn't your fault Sonja. You didn't remember who I was because of Lazarus. I love you, and nothing that that damn warlock did to you will change that."

Sonja nodded before raising her head and looking into his dark gray eyes. Leaning upwards she pressed her lips against his.

For a moment Lucian actually pulled away from her. "Sonja, I would really love to do this, but…"

Sonja raised a finger and silenced him before he could finish. "Lucian, please. I need you right now; just kiss me."

Lucian just nodded before leaning down and locking lips with her again. Soon, the kiss became far more passionate. The two laid down on the makeshift bed in the room, even as Sonja began to unbutton Lucian's shirt before pushing it off him, before beginning to pull off her leather outfit…

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"So, there's gonna be a big battle."

"Yep,"

"We might die."

"Possibly, yeah."

Eliza rolled her eyes. "Gabriel, you could at least try to be positive about this."

Gabriel turned around and faced her. "Yeah, I suppose you're right. I mean, things could be worse."

Eliza smiled before walking up to him and running a hand through his hair. "So, you didn't really mean it when you said we were going to get rest, did you?"

Gabriel grinned a predatory grin. "You know me to well," he said with a chuckle before leaning down and kissing her.

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"Selene."

Selene, who was loading a gun, looked up as Michael entered their room, carrying a few bags. Walking over to the table in the room he set them, down.

Selene looked at the bag curiously. "What's in there?"

Michael answered her by opening the bad and pulling out a miniature grenade launcher (think the one from Terminator 2) as well as several grenades.

"I found the right weapon to blow that mansion to hell," Michael said rather gleefully as he handed it to her. Selene took it with an arched eyebrow. "You sound rather anxious to use it."

Michael shrugged. "Well I'll just be glad when this is over. Then we won't have to be on the run anymore."

Selene nodded before putting the grenade launcher down and looking at him. Michael noticed the look she was giving him.

"What?"

"Sometimes, I wonder what might have happened if I never met you in the subway station that night. How different things would have been."

Michael didn't answer at first. "And if you could go back in time and change something, would you?" he asked.

Selene paused, and then walked foreword and gently kissed him. When she pulled away she asked, "What do you think?"

Michael didn't answer, he just smiled.

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"I fold," Damon grumbled as he set his group of cards on the table. Kane grinned.

"Got any 2's?"

"Go fish."

Damon and Kane looked over at Raze and Raziel as if they had sprouted six more heads. "You two have been playing 'go fish' this whole time?" Kane asked disbelievingly.

The two shrugged. "Yeah, so what?" Raziel answered.

Kane and Damon looked at each other.

"Idiots," Damon muttered before Kane picked up the cards and handed out some more.

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"Is everything ready?" Sebastian asked Lazarus as they looked at the large group in the armory, who were arming themselves to the teeth with weapons. Handguns, machine guns, shotguns, combat knives, swords, anything they had they were using.

"They're dieing to get a chance to use those weapons to spill blood."

"Well that time will be close," Sebastian said with a smirk.

"Just one thing." Lazarus said.

Sebastian looked at him. "What?"

"When the fight begins, and the renegades arrive, tell your men to stay away from Lucian and Sonja," Lazarus hissed as he moved his hand down to where Sonja had stabbed them. "I want the pleasure of wiping those two off the face of existence myself."

To Be Continued. R & R.