CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: Here Comes The Calvary

Humans

Sterling stood there in the shadows, waiting patiently as he heard two people approach. Jorge hadn't been gone long enough to have made it back to headquarters, so he knew it wasn't one of his guys.

His patience paid off, for he soon spied Sir William making his way back to the entrance for the lycans new lair; and, he had a visitor with him. Sterling didn't recognize the man, so he brought out his binoculars trying to get a better look. The man was tall, with black hair, but had no real outstanding features or characteristics; though he did look somewhat pale. Changing the settings on his binoculars to thermal scan, he looked out at both figures. Jackpot! He had specs showing one human with a body temperature of 98.6 degrees and one non-human registering a temp of 32 degrees. William had a vamp with him. The situation just got a little more complicated.

He knew he needed to hear whatever it was these two were discussing, so he stealthily made his way over to them, making sure he made no sound. When he was close enough to hear their conversation, he stopped and hid himself behind a low concrete barrier.

"See, it is here, just as I told you", Sir William said pointing up to the gaping hole in the concrete ceiling.

"And I'm just supposed to take your word that this is where the lycans are holed up?" came the arrogant reply from the vampire.

"Look, I told you I followed a lycan to this very spot, then he just disappeared. Since they aren't capable of teleporting, I assumed he went up and through that opening", William explained. "Are you satisfied?"

Looking around, the vampire seemed to be deep in thought. Sterling watched him closely, hoping the vampire would think William was full of shit. Unfortunately, he wasn't that lucky.

"Fine, I don't have much choice but to believe you", the vampire responded in a condescending tone. "But we will have to keep this quiet, I don't want this to blow up in my face", he said thoughtfully. "I have a few men that survived that abomination in the tunnels; they will follow me without question. I will gather up a small force and we will come back and surprise the lycans."

"How small of a force are you talking about?" William asked expectantly. "These are lycans, they could tear us apart limb from limb", he reminded the vampire.

"Don't be absurd, human", the vampire sneered. "A team of eight vampires, carrying weapons loaded with silver nitrate, could easily take out the remaining lycans. There can't be more than maybe thirty of them left, anyway. With Lucian dead and the element of surprise on our side, we should have them begging for our mercy within no time", the vampire arrogantly informed him.

"Fine, whatever you say, just as long as you make sure Alexandra Douglas is taken out with the rest of them", William told him.

The vampire grabbed the human by his jacket lapels, and pulled him up into his face. "I will not do your dirty work for you old man. If you want this Alexandra person dead, you will have to do it yourself", he told him, spitting into the councilman's face. Then he quickly released him, dropping the man to his feet.

"Okay, okay, I understand. So when is this attack to take place?" Sir William asked.

"It is early yet; the sun has just set. I should be able to round up a team and be back here within an hour", the vampire replied.

"Good, well I will meet up with you then", Sir William said moving back towards the main tunnels.

"I think not", the vampire said, pulling the human back. "You will be coming with me", he informed the man.

"But, that…that would mean going into the vampire compound", William stuttered.

"Precisely. I have every intention of keeping you on a very short leash", the vampire said dragging the human male with him as he turned and left the area.

Sterling waited a minute before he himself hurried out of the tunnels. He needed to inform Aaron and Malcolm of this situation as soon as possible. He ran as quickly as he could, out of the tunnels, through the subway, and out into the streets of Budapest. Hoping he had a decent signal, he pulled out his radio and tried calling into home base.

"Team leader, this is Black Night, do you read me?" he said speaking harshly,

He got no response.

"Team leader, I repeat, this is Black Night, do you read me? he reiterated, hoping Jorge had made it back to headquarters okay.

His radio crackled to life as he heard a familiar Australian accent come over the line.

"Black Night, this is team leader, come in", came the response.

"You had better gather up the troops and bring plenty of ammo. We have a situation here that will soon escalate to a critical level", Sterling informed Malcolm.

"Copy that. Jorge just got here and told us of the lycan hideout", Malcolm came back in response.

"Well, this location just hit the airwaves and the vampires will be converging on site within the hour", Sterling reported back.

"Shit!" Malcolm muttered, "We have to warn Alex", he said.

"I copy that, but it means the team needs to be here in force, ready for a fight ASAP", Sterling noted.

"Agreed", Malcolm stated back. "We're on our way, ETA 10 minutes", he informed Sterling, then signed off.

Sterling prayed they got there soon, then he went back into the tunnels to wait.