Ok, here's part nine, the conclusion (to the cliffhanger, not the story, although this is the last chapter, not including the epilogue, so, never mind, the story is at its conclusion).

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Underworld 2: The Three Sided War

Sebastian's End

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Lazarus was enjoying himself. He had just killed Lucian, one of the oldest lycans to ever live, and he was about to kill his lover, the vampire Sonja.

He raised his hand, as black energy crackled around his arm before going down and swirling around his fingers. He prepared to fire the blast of energy that would vaporize her…

…and then he felt pain in his leg and with a yell he fell backwards, the blast of energy going off towards the ceiling and blowing a hole in it. Sonja had enough sense to move out of the way as a few sections of the ceiling fell to the floor.

Lazarus looked up as Damon stepped foreword, wearing a shit-eating grin. "That was for blasting me in the subway station." he said as he moved foreword and kicked Lazarus in the head, knocking him to the floor. As he tried to get up, Damon pulled out two daggers and stabbed downward, the blades going through Lazarus' arms and impaling him to the floor.

The warlock yelled and struggled, trying to get free, but with no luck.

Damon reached inside his coat and pulled out another dagger and prepared to stab him again. Then, he stopped, and looked over at Sonja, who was now over where Lucian lay, cradling his body in her arms, her face hidden in his neck as she cried.

Damon looked rather sympathetic as he watched her mourn her dead lover.

"Um… hey, Sonja," he said after a moment. She raised her head and looked at Damon, tears sliding down her cheeks. "You want the honor?" he asked, pointing to Lazarus who was still impaled to the floor.

Sonja looked at him, and then back at Lucian, and then she looked as if she got an idea.

"No."

Both Damon and Lazarus were rather surprised to hear her say that. "No?"

Sonja then looked down at Lucian and kissed his lips before standing up and walking over to the two. She kneeled down, a look of pure hatred directed at Lazarus.

"You can revive the dead, and don't say you can't, because you already revived me. Bring him back."

Lazarus spat in her face. "Go to hell you stupid bitch; give me one good reason why I should bring him back."

He then laughed as she drew her gun and aimed it at his head. "Go ahead, but if you kill me then no one will be left to bring him back."

Sonja knew he was right, so she tossed the gun aside. "Fine."

She lashed out with a punch, causing his head to whip back before he spat up some blood. She didn't let up, and continued to wail on him with brutal punches. Finally she stopped. Lazarus' face was rather messed up now.

"Bring him back."

Despite his pain, Lazarus was able to chuckle. "Is that the best you can do, girl?"

Sonja paused, and then she reached in her coat and pulled out a short curved knife. Lazarus eyed her with curiosity. "What are you…?"

He didn't get to finish, as she leaned down, and jammed the tip of the knife into his left eye socket. He screamed in pain as blood poured from the socket before she pulled the knife out, along with most of his eye.

"Bring him back or the other one goes too," she spat. She started to bring the knife down again.

"OK! OK! I'll do it," he yelled. Sonja paused, and then put the knife back in her coat before reaching down and pulling the knives from his arms, allowing him to stand up as he moved one hand to his bleeding eye socket.

As the two walked over to Lucian's corpse, neither one paid much attention to Damon, who practically had his jaw on the ground. "Uh, Sonja; you're not still pissed about that kiss are you?"

Sonja either didn't hear him or didn't care, as she leaned down next to Lucian's body, as did Lazarus.

"This should be easier than when I brought you back, since this time there's actually a body to work with," the warlock muttered before he started chanting, energy dancing around his body before channeling down into his hands. Then, after a minute of chanting, he moved his hand and placed it on Lucian's chest, and the energy poured into it.

For a moment nothing happened. Then, Lucian's eyes snapped open as he gasped and starting coughing. Before Lazarus could do anything, he felt the barrel of a gun pressed against his temple.

"Ok, Lazarus, lets leave these two alone while we go for a little walk," Damon said as he forced Lazarus on his feet, ignoring Sonja as she was practically crushing Lucian in an embrace while still crying on his shoulder, only this time they were tears of joy.

As Damon led Lazarus away, the warlock rolled his eyes. Screw this; I'm going to die either way…

He spun around, backhanding Damon as hard as he could, sending him flying backwards. Then, he pulled out a dagger from his coat that was dripping with some green liquid. He had been saving it for the female vampire. He hurled it at her.

Sonja and Lucian had stood up just in time to see it flying towards them. Lucian tried to pull Sonja out of the way.

Too late.

The blade pierced her heart, and she looked at Lucian, as blood poured from the wound. Lazarus raised his other arm, preparing to blast Lucian off the face of the earth…

…and then he yelled in pain as his now severed arm hit the floor. He looked over at Damon, who was holding a short sword and smiling. And then he looked back towards Lucian and Sonja just in time to see Lucian come at him as his blade popped out of his coat sleeve.

A second, Lazarus' headless body hit the floor, his severed head following immediately afterwards.

Once the warlock was dead, Lucian instantly ran back to Sonja as she lay on the floor. He scooped her up in his arms, as he pulled the dagger out of her chest.

"Sonja, no," he whispered, as he brushed some of her dark hair out of her face.

Damon reached down and picked up the dagger and looked at it. "Shit."

Lucian looked up at him. "What?"

Damon showed him the dagger. "It's laced with poison. I've seen this before, it's lethal to vampires. They call it 'the killed of the dead'."

Lucian looked down at Sonja, and it looked like she didn't have much time left. "Is there anything I can do?"

Damon looked at him. "Yeah, there is. The poison doesn't work on lycans, so I'm guessing it doesn't work on hybrids either. So, give her some of your blood, and it should work."

Lucian looked at him, and then down at his beloved. Quickly making up his mind, he pulled back his coat sleeve before biting into his wrist. Afterwards, he lowered it down and pressed the bleeding limb to Sonja's lips.

Sonja hesitated for a moment, but seeing Lucian's pleading gaze instantly pushed aside any doubt she had as to whether or not it would work. She raised her lips and started drinking from him.

"Are you sure this will work? I became a hybrid after injecting the blood into myself; will ingesting it do the same?"

Damon nodded. "Believe it or not, that's actually how Sebastian became a hybrid."

Before Lucian could ask how that happened, Sonja stopped drinking and started convulsing. Lucian just held onto her as she continued shaking. And then she began to transform, he skin changing to a silver tone, her eyes, turning black, and so on, until she was in full hybrid form.

Then, she changed back into her human form, and looked up at Lucian lovingly as she raised her hand and caressed his cheek.

"It seems we're even now," she said with a bit of humor. Lucian slightly laughed in response as he leaned down and captured her lips in his own, the two sharing a passionate embrace.

"Hey!"

The two broke apart and looked at Damon, who was standing there with his arms crossed.

"I hate to break up your little schmoopy love fest, but there's still the rest of Sebastian's big fucking army to deal with, as well as Marcus' workers. So you two can fuck each other's brains out AFTER we kill everybody."

There was a pause. And then, before Damon could say anything, Sonja got up, walked up to him, and brutally kneed him in the groin. As the half demon crumbled, moaning and holding his private area in pain Sonja smiled.

"And to answer your question, that was for the kiss."

She turned and walked out, Lucian following her after giving Damon a pat on the shoulder, leaving him to his pain.

"Well, at least I'm not you," Damon said to Lazarus' corpse, as if it would answer him.

"You know, I like you a lot better now that you can't talk," Damon said gleefully as he slowly stood up, still slightly wincing from Sonja's blow, and walking (well, slightly limping) out of the room.

***

The battle that was taking place throughout the mansion was growing to catastrophic levels.

Lycans, vampires, and hybrids were getting gunned down, maimed, decapitated, and killed in several other ways.

Michael and Selene had broken off into a large room that used to be the armory before Viktor had been killed. They were fighting three vampires and three lycans, two of which had transformed.

Selene shot down the three lycans while Michael, in his hybrid form, attacked the three vampires, eventually killing all three.

As the last vampire fell to the floor, one of the dreadlocked twins that Michael had battled earlier rose up out of the floor and attacked Michael, but the hybrid was ready for him this time and when he tried to slash him, Michael lashed out, tearing three deep gashes across the twin's arm.

As he fell backwards, Michael moved in for the kill. And then he heard Selene gasp from behind him, and he spun around.

The other dreadlocked twin was holding Selene from behind, a razor blade to her throat.

Instantly Michael stopped, but he let out a low growl at the twin before looking at Selene with a concerned expression. Behind him, the other twin rose to his feet, as he looked at the bloody wound on his arm.

Then, he turned into his ghost form, and the wound suddenly disappeared, along with the blood.

He smiled. "Just like new."

The other twin started to say something also, but Selene's foot came smashing down on his own before elbowing him in the face. As he stumbled backwards, Michael moved foreword and pushed Selene out of the way before leaping up and slamming both of his feet into the twin's chest, knocking him backwards and to the floor.

"Stay out of this, I'll handle them," Michael said in a voice that was deeper and raspier than his human voice. Selene looked ready to protest, but then Michael looked at her with a loving gaze, and she stopped before she started protesting.

So, even though she didn't want to leave him to fight the twins by himself, Selene moved backwards and leaned against the wall. For now she would let him fight them alone, but the second one was about to try something dirty, she wouldn't hesitate to move in and break the creature's head open.

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Sparks flew through the air as Gabriel and Faustus continued to fight, their sword clanging together as they moved throughout the armory. Gabriel swung his leg out in a reverse roundhouse kick, but Faustus simply leaned backwards, the leg passing above him. He righted himself and stabbed his shorter sword foreword, the blade entering Gabriel's stomach.

The half-demon grimaced from the pain, but only for a moment before smashing Faustus in the face with an open palm before pulling the blade out of his stomach and blasting Faustus with a reverse thrust kick again, this time the blow had enough force to send Faustus backwards before crashing into the opposite wall.

Faustus was barely back on his feet before Gabriel was on him, slashing at him with incredible speed. Even so, Faustus was able to block every blow. He finally ran out of luck however, as Gabriel knocked the shorter sword out of his hand and kicked him to the ground. As Gabriel tried to stomp on him with his foot, Faustus rolled out of the war and slashed Gabriel across the arm, causing him to drop his katana. Faustus kicked the sword across the room before kicking Gabriel in the head.

Faustus stood up and walked over to Gabriel as he recovered, he raised his sword and swung downwards.

The blow was blocked…

…by Gabriel's twin handguns, which were now crisscrossed to form an X.

Faustus only had a second to wonder how the hell two handguns were able to block his sword before Gabriel opened fire, peppering his body with bullets. Then, Gabriel lashed out with an uppercut, knocking his opponent skyward. Moving quicker than any human could have seen, Gabriel ran over and grabbed his katana before leaping up while Faustus was still in the air before slicing the half demon in half. As his body fell towards the ground, Gabriel reached out and fired, sending a bullet into his head.

As the corpse hit the ground, immediately followed by Gabriel, he sheathed his sword before scoffing at Faustus' corpse.

"Yeah, you didn't have a challenge in two hundred years, well I hope THAT was a challenge," he muttered before turning and leaving the room.

***

The largest group of the renegades in the same room consisted of Lucian, Sonja, Raziel, Kane, Raze, and Eliza, as well as several lycans and vampires, as the group shot and sliced their way through a large group of opponents.

Lucian cut one down and turned as he watched Sonja, now using her enhanced hybrid speed and strength, fight a hybrid without any problem, blocking its attacks before lashing out with her sword and slicing its head off.

As the body fell to the ground, a blur of movement appeared out of the corner as Raven, Marcus' top death dealer, moved foreword with incredible speed. Sonja turned just in time to see this as he leapt skyward and lashed out with a kick to her chest. Then, while still in the air, he twisted his body and kicked her again, this time with a reverse thrust.

As she fell to the ground, Raven pulled out a short sword and swung downward. The blade was blocked by Raziel, just as Lucian moved foreword to help, but Raziel held his hand out to tell him to stand back.

"I'll handle this guy," Raziel said confidently as he raised his own sword. Before Lucian could protest, he was tackled from behind by Ortega, who had just killed a transformed lycan with incredible ease.

Once Lucian was on the ground Ortega began pummeling him mercilessly with brutal blows. Finally, Lucian was able to catch one of his arms and throw him off him before jumping to his feet and facing off against the reaper.

Jared, meanwhile, had just walked into the room as he observed the others in the room. Besides himself, Ortega, and Raven, there weren't any others besides the renegades.

He looked at the closest opponent: Raze, and grinned.

Reaching into his coat he pulled out a short sword lined with silver, before whistling towards the lycan.

Raze turned his head just as Jared swung the sword, and the blade broke apart into sections connected by chains, revealing that it was a hybrid between a whip and a sword. One of the sharp section edges tore into the side of Raze's face, causing him to yell.

What is it with you people and whips? Raze thought to himself, recalling his fight with Soren several years ago.

Jared just cracked the sword/whip in anticipation before slashing at Raze again, tearing another cut onto the lycan. This time, Raze growled before throwing off his coat and transforming into his werewolf form. As Jared swung again, Raze dodged and was able to grab one of the small chains that connected the sword/whip. He pulled with all his might, and Jared found himself airborne as Raze swung him through the air before throwing him into a wall, the force of the throw causing him to be knocked through it. Unfortunately for Jared, that was one of the outer walls he crashed through. Because of that, he fell from rather tall height before smashing into the ground.

Jared groaned before getting back up. "Ok, that's it. Sebastian, you can go to hell for all I care, I don't feel like dealing with this crap anymore," Jared yelled aloud, as if Sebastian would hear him, before turning and walking away from the mansion and the chaotic battle that continued within.

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Meanwhile back inside, the fight between Ortega and Lucian, who had transformed into his hybrid form, was becoming rather brutal, as the two exchanged vicious blows.

Surprisingly, Ortega won out, as he took advantage of a slow block from Lucian and grabbed his arm before kneeing him the guy before headbutting him, and then smashing his knee into his feet.

As Lucian started to crumble, Ortega looked at him curiously. "I wonder," he thought aloud. "If I take some of your blood, will I become a hybrid? I wonder what that would do to me, considering I'm not an ordinary vampire. Well, only one way to find out."

Even as he finished talking Ortega's lower jaw split open, revealing the venom laced fangs and barbed tongue. He lowered downward, preparing to drain the hybrid of his blood…

…and then the top half of his head fell away as Sonja moved foreword and lashed out with her sword. As the reaper's corpse hit the floor, Sonja moved foreword and caught Lucian before he hit the ground.

Meanwhile, Raziel and Raven were moving around the room, exchanging a vicious series of punches, kicks, blocks, and dodges. Both hybrids were bruised and bleeding, but they didn't let their pain slow them down as they continued to fight while waiting to see which one made a fatal mistake.

Raven was the first. He tried to stab Raziel, who caught his arm and broke it, before hitting him with a jumping roundhouse. Raven hit the ground and before he could recover, Raziel stabbed downward, his sword impaling Raven's head to the floor.

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Selene watched as her lover battled against the twin phantoms, slashing and kicking at the two in a ballet of deadly moves, while the twins were either trying to slash Michael or change into their ghost form and avoid getting hit, but they did get struck every once in a while.

Then, one of the twins ducked and slashed Michael in the leg, forcing him down on one knee while the other twin savagely kicked him in the head.

The other twin tried to attack again, but Selene had decided to stop watching and moved foreword and brutally punched the twin in the face, taking satisfaction at hearing his nose break. Michael quickly recovered from his wound before grabbing the other twin and throwing him into the other one, knocking them towards the wall.

Almost in slow motion, Michael pulled out something from his coat, and both twins' eyes widened when they saw what it was.

A grenade launcher.

Michael fired.

The twins tried to change into their ghost forms, but they were too slow.

The blast blew up a good portion of the room. When the smoke cleared, both twins were gone.

Michael lowered the weapon before suddenly wincing in pain. Selene instantly looked concerned.

"You're hurt," she said as she moved towards him, but he held his hand up, stopping her.

"I've had worse," he said with a smile, which caused her to let out a little chuckle, which pleased Michael, since she rarely smiled or laughed, and when she did it was something he enjoyed.

She noticed the look he was giving her. "What?" she asked curiously.

"Oh, nothing."

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"MARCUS!! COME OUT NOW!!" Sebastian roared as he and a few hybrids moved down one of the halls before entering one room which appeared empty. As they looked around the room, they suddenly heard a noise and looked towards one of the dark corners of the room.

Talos emerged.

For a moment no one said anything. Then, Sebastian looked at the small group behind him.

"Leave the room, and lock the door."

One of the hybrids nodded before the rest shuffled out, closing the door behind them and locking it. When they were gone Sebastian turned and looked back at Talos.

"It's been a long time Talos," Sebastian said as he moved foreword.

"Too long," was Talos' reply.

"Now," Sebastian began as he removed his gun from his coat and tossed it aside. "Let's make this a fair fight. No guns, no weapons; just simple hand-to-hand."

With that he charged…

…a second later he fell to the floor, a rather large hole now in his stomach. He looked up as Talos lowered the small shotgun he had been hiding behind his back.

"You didn't play fair when you killed Jessica, so I don't see why I should play fair."

Sebastian tried to say something, but he didn't get the chance before Talos pulled the trigger, blowing his head off

(A.N.: Yeah I know, Sebastian's death was a bit quick, but I figured Talos wouldn't feel like toying with him, that he would just kill him and get it over with.)

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A clapping sound filled the air, and the group turned their heads as Marcus emerged from the darkness, still clapping.

"I must say, you have all done very well. I never would have guessed that a group of renegades would have had the nerve to storm this coven, kill most of my warriors, and challenge me," he said as his eyes changed to a pitch black. "But now, it's my turn."

He prepared to attack, but suddenly he felt something pressed against the back of his head. A gun.

"It's over Marcus, and you know it."

Marcus recognized the voice. It was Selene. She and Michael stepped out from where Marcus had just come from.

"So…are you going to kill me?"

"No."

Everyone looked surprised at this. "No?"

"I'm not going to kill you because there is really no point. We've wiped out your army, as well as Sebastian's. You're the only one left. Of course if you force me to, I will kill you, so the choice is yours, just give up."

Marcus looked beyond livid at listening to the death dealer say this to him, but he remained calm.

"Fine. You people will no longer have to worry about any more of my death dealers coming after you. But I hope we don't meet again, because I will kill you all if that happens."

The group looked at each other, nodded, and then one by one they turned and left. Soon, the only ones left were Damon and Marcus.

Damon looked at him, opened his mouth to speak, stopped, and then he said, "Umm, sorry about the mansion."

Marcus turned and glared at him.

A second later, Damon went flying through the wall and out into the night before smashing into the ground down below.

He cursed under his breath before getting up and walking away, still cursing.

To Be Concluded.