Chapter 1: Michael's Death
Selene and Michael ran. The vampires and lycans grew more powerful over the years. Alone, Michael, even in his vampire/ lycan state, couldn't defeat them. The vampires grew wings once again and were not so easily defeated by bullets, swords or any other weapon, as a matter of fact. It was as if the vampires of the olden days came back. The almost truly immortal vampires that could only be defeated by a stake through the heart, holy water or a holy cross. Only difference was that they wouldn't die of sunlight and that their own species striking them through the heart or brain was another way of death.
The lycans grew stronger, too. They changed form more quickly and their jaws and swiftness became more enhanced. The lycans and the vampires united for only this occasion. This occasion being the hunt for Selene and Michael. Michael was the primary target. The two species wanted the abomination dead. Once Lucian died, the lycans seemed to not have any intention of a crossbreed any longer.
"I knew this would happen, but I never thought that they would join forces." Selene had confessed before she and Michael began their escape.
"Don't worry, they won't be able to defeat me. I'll protect you." Michael said.
"You don't get it! They have grown stronger! We both know that! You won't enhance your strength because it has already reached its maximum peak; it cannot go any further than what it is now! Haven't you noticed that I have strengthened, too? I can grow wings and, in case you haven't noticed, I cannot die so easily any longer. Loss of blood will not harm me anymore." Selene lectured. She was right though.
Michael sighed and muttered, "I know…" but before they could say anything else, they sensed them coming.
The two clans became reckless now. They would attempt to kill Selene and Michael right in the middle of the city. The citizens would be in the middle of it all. News reports were spreading madly throughout the nation. No one was safe… that was for sure.
Selene flew rapidly as Michael ran right under her. They barely dodged the bloodthirsty clans as they attempted to escape for the third time. This was the last group of hunters left and Marcus decided to come this time. The luck of Selene and Michael lessened each attempt and they had a feeling that they wouldn't escape this time.
Innocent people were killed in the hunt and others watched from their windows terrified of the scene below. Some at top apartments heard heavy lycan steps run accros their roof.
"You won't be able to escape, this time, Selene and Michael!" Marcus yelled from the lead. He jetted towards the two and slashed at Michael. He barely missed. He then increased speed and flew ahead of Selene and Michael. Half of the mob behind them flew ahead as well and another few flew overhead. The lycans ran on the rooftops and had the perfect skill to jump the two hunted. Selene and Michael were trapped.
They stopped, knowing that there was no other way out than to kill. They knew that they wouldn't succeed, but it was worth a try. Michael wildly slashed and pummeled various vampires and lycans as Selene did the same. She shot several silver bullets at a few lycans, too.
"You know that you won't survive! Why do you try to do something that you know will never happen?" Marcus yelled over the commotion. He laughed maniacally and he just waited. He knew that the two fugitives wouldn't be able to prevail. And if they did, they would be too tired to fight him, so they would be an easier target for him.
A few vampires surrounded Michael and attacked at the same time. Their claws and fangs gleamed in the sunlight. Michael jumped and unsheathed his sharp claws and did a full 360 degree slice. The vampires were easily killed, but just then, a lycan from the rooftop came hurtling down and landed right on top of the Vampire/ Lycan. Michael yelled out in pain as it dug its claws into his back. He grabbed the lycan's head and twisted it swiftly so that its neck would snap and cause paralysis or death. Either way, the lycan would be useless.
Selene shot the lycans and slashed the vampires, but she tired quicker than Michael. Another vampire screeched and tackled her. They were knocked out of the air and ended up tussling on the street. The other vampire was on top.
"It's a shame that you have to die, Selene." It said mockingly before striking at her.
Selene craned her neck so that the claw drove into the asphalt and she rolled the other vampire over.
"No, it's a shame that you have to die!" she cried as she dug drove her already bloody claws right into the vampires heart. Blood sputtered out of its mouth and its eyes became white and lifeless.
The battle went on for a few hours and corpses of dead vampires and lycans lay on the street. Selene and Michael were tiring though and they knew that their defeat would come soon.
Only a few vampires were left. Selene took care of most of them, but only two was left besides Marcus. The vampire pummeled the blood-covered Selene to the ground. The blood on Selene wasn't her own though. It was the blood of the vampires and lycans that she had so ruthlessly killed.
"Bye-bye, Selene!" The vampire cackled just before driving its claw through Selene's stomach, but that couldn't kill her.
Selene let out a blood-curling scream but the wound quickly healed just before she killed the opposing vampire by driving her claw into its heart. Selene rose from the asphalt, but her stomach still hurt. The regeneration hadn't completely healed the pain.
Meanwhile, Michael was battling the last of the lycans. He got clawed at the chest, but wasn't really damaged. He stabbed the opposing lycan through the stomach and yanked his arm upward so that it would damage the heart. Blood was coughed up from the dieing lycan before he completely lost life. Michael dropped the lycan and thought that he had finished all the hunters off. Just then the last vampire (besides Marcus) drove a silver stake through his heart. The two things that would kill him were put together: silver and a stake. He roared out loud in pain just before driving his claw into the vampire's heart. They both died at the same time.
Selene saw this and cried out in anguish. She ran over to her beloved's side.
"No, Michael!" she cried. Tears rolled down her bloody cheeks.
Marcus was impressed by the total massacre and defeat of the only hunting vampires and lycans. He chuckled which turned into a maniacal laugh. Their primary target was killed and the only one left was the traitor, Selene.
"I knew that you couldn't keep that abomination alive!" he exclaimed. He laughed again, which cause the angry fire in Selene to burn the hardest that it ever burned.
"Shut up, you scumbag!" She cried.
Marcus wanted to savor the anguish that Selene was having and wanted her to experience a slow and painful death. He looked at Selene hungrily. She was caressing Michael's lifeless face while silently crying.
She took the stake out of his heart and held onto it. Marcus didn't notice this because he was so caught up in the thought of how to torture Selene. He also didn't notice when Selene cried out, "Damn you!" before hurtling the stake right towards his heart. It stabbed him right then and there… and he was dead.