Disclaimer: see chapter 1
A/N: no major changes, but corrected a few grammatical problems
Funny Quote:
Watching the beginning where Selene and Michael first see each other. Before Speedman leaves.
Speedman: ah, and here's… love.
Len: immediate love.
Kate: damn it though, I have a pimple.
Minor laughter
Len: Do you?
Kate: you don't see that? That's the first thing I see.
Len: I thought we wiped that out?
Kate: no
Chapter 11: Finding Michael
The time slowly passed for Felicite as she waited for Selene to return. About two minutes after Selene had entered; a fear stricken Kraven emerged from the crypt. Unsure why he had left, she sat on the bench and did not move, not wanting to get in more trouble than she was sure she was in. He had a panicked look on his face as he high-tailed it out of the crypt and down the hall. It was suspicious but it was not something she could deal with.
Another eternity passed before she heard something hit the floor and Viktor say, "Absolution will be your, once you kill the descendant of Covinous." She could only imagine what went through Selene's mind at that point. But the two emerged from the crypt and Felicite got her first look at the illustrious Viktor. He was tall and strong, making Felicite think twice about her final decision to tell Selene of Viktor's betrayal on their way to the Underworld. She fell in next to Selene who was merely a few paces behind Viktor. They were silent until they loaded up on weapon in the armory.
"Selene, I need to talk to you about something," Felicite said. Selene looked at her with a look like she knew what was coming.
"Michael will be okay," she whispered, barley even audible to Felicite.
"That's not-" she was cut off by the Kahn's entrance to their particular corner of the armory.
"Selene, you're going to let her come?" he asked.
"Eh-hem, still here," Felicite interjected.
"Yes, she has proven herself twice in two days, I think she's earned it," Selene defended looking directly into Kahn's eyes.
"Alright," he answered, not in the mood for an argument. She is with task force 3, you're with me, force 2."
Selene nodded and motioned for Felicite to follow Kahn so she could join her fellow death-dealers in their entrance to the underworld. Reluctantly, Felicite left Selene's side and followed Kahn to a group of vampires she barely recognized. With a gulp, she joined the group, one hand resting on the pistol waiting on her hip.
They quickly loaded into a group of cars waiting outside. It was slightly cramped, but not awful. 'I'm sure Selene is in better shape, being with Kahn and, in all likeliness, Viktor,' Felicite thought begrudgingly. The ride was only a few minutes, but still almost nauseating with the crazy way they were driving. 'They must have learned from Selene, how to drive', she thought as she was pushed, unwillingly on the death dealer next to her. He gave her a look of you-don't-belong-here and then back out the front of the car. Felicite shrunk a little with the withering stare burned into her memory.
The teams all arrived in one piece, and all willingly emerged from their cars, prepared for the battle of the last few centuries. Felicite caught sight of Selene who was right by Viktor's side. She was the only one who was in a real close proximity to the elder. Felicite wanted to get close to her mentor but seeing the way the others were behaving, she decided against it. She always wanted to be a death dealer but she was not as confident without Selene by her side.
Viktor fell back, waiting for a later time to fight. The rest of the task force (those not assigned to stay with Viktor) followed Selene and Kahn down into the Underworld. Everyone was a poised tiger, just hoping for a lycan to jump out and attack. Just after entering the water drainage pipe, their wish came true. The first wave of lycan defenders attacked the group. Felicite at first stood frozen as out of all the small off shoots came lycans, both transformed and not. The death dealer from her car elbowed her, spurring her to fight. The fight was short but loud, alerting the rest of the den to their presence.
Merely a few steps further and they hit the shaft that led to the main hideout of the scummy creatures. They threw a few silver grenades down the shaft before them, to clear any lycan defenders that were at the very close base of the ladder. Following the subsiding of the screams, Selene, Kahn, and a few others were the first down the to the fight. They began to shoot the moment they hit the bottom. As soon as the firing stopped, the next wave jumped, followed soon by the rest of the death dealers.
Soon, her wave split off from the rest of the group, eager to fight the war to surely come. As a unit they wandered through the labyrinth of tunnels merely looking for a fight. They found a few minor scuffles, but not to the mass fighting that was expected. But when they least expected it, the group entered a wide-open room, full of debris, but at first glance, nothing else. They all cautiously entered the room, knowing it could not be truly empty as it appeared. And as they thought, soon after their cautious entrance, fire erupted taking down a number of the lead dealers. This time Felicite did not need a nudge to encourage her to fight. Her weapons fired over and over again, hitting multiple lycans. They fell as did many a vampire around her. Their flesh would char and burn away from the inside out. Felicite had a hard time watching the events and found herself soon perusing a wounded lycan down a side passage way to escape with dignity from the carnage. The lycan lead her down many winding passageways until she lost him. But he had led her unwittingly to the one person she had hoped to find, Michael.