Gevaden: Just to clarify, In my last chapter I said that Selene would be going to America and that's because I thought the movie was based in America, now I have reason to believe its not, and something I read says she's from Hungary, so she will be going there, if anyone knows were the movie is set please tell me as that would be great because I'm getting really confused, thanks. I have posted a new version of the chapter before this one that says she will go to Hungary but if you spot any mistakes please tell me.
Selene was standing before the helicopter atop of Ryan's castle. Ryan and Michael were standing behind her.
"You must now leave now." Said Ryan.
"I don't want to, I'm…I'm…. I'm scared." She sounded scared indeed.
"You must, what do I have to do to make you go?"
"Well, you could go with me." Ryan heard her say this and he just raised an eyebrow.
"That will not happen child. I have work to do here."
"You have people to do it, I know you do. Please come." She didn't try puppy dog eyes or any tricks; her happy side was as dead as it was when Kraven was in charge back when she was with that coven, she was happy before Anub'Arak was awakened.
"I swear someday I'll die for you." Said Ryan with an angry tone as he walked onto the helicopter. Selene nearly smiled before following him. Ryan then turned to Michael.
"Michael, there is a list of things for you to do in your room, you will be travelling around so be ready." Ryan closed the door to the helicopter and watched as Michael gave a nod and walked back into the castle.
"Thank you, for coming, going back there is very hard for me." Said Selene trying to make eye contact with Ryan.
"I understand child, I understand. But I hope you understand that I hate the Hungary coven, and I hate Markus. When he was alive I hated Viktor even more."
"Why?" asked Selene.
"The vampires there are foul beasts that believe they are the greatest beings on the planet, Viktor probably thought he was the oldest vampire."
"But you are."
"No I'm not." Said Ryan with a hint of surprise in his voice. He expected Selene to be wiser than this.
"Then who is?" Asked a very curious Selene.
"Philip Cremin. To my Knowledge."
"How old is he?"
"About five hundred years older than me, I think."
-
Michael found the note in his room and read it.
Oh great, I'm going to Germany.
He was to leave in two days, Michael had no idea how to speak German, but the note said he'd be travelling with Eric Masterson, a Lycon who could speak it fluently.
Michael fell onto his bed and fell asleep, the events of the last few days were too much for him, he would sleep for a while.
He woke up several hours later and walked to a security room down below the castle and found Eric, a giant of a man with long scruffy dark grey hair.
"I'm looking for Eric Masterson."
"That's me."
"Your to escort me to Germany."
"Ahh yes, Michael, it's a pleasure to finally meet you." Eric stood up and put out a giant hand to shake Michaels.
"Yeah, same here." Said Michael. Despite Eric being very big Michael was clearly the stronger person, with the advantage of being a hybrid anyway.
Michael spent the day talking to Eric, talking about the trip and what it would involve.
-
Philip brought Anubis through his coven mansion; it was full of old armour and manuscripts that cover the walls.
"So, what do you intend to do old one?" said Phil with a large smile.
"I intend to destroy Anub'Arak once it is possible." He said with a grim voice.
"I must ask you, is it true you can change your body?"
"I can change my appearance and voice yes, even my scent is at my control."
"Hmm, amazing." Phil left out a small laugh.
"Would I be right in saying that you are the third oldest Immortal?"
"Yes, I am indeed the third oldest."
"What is the meaning of your emphasis on oldest?"
"Well, I am not the strongest Vampire anymore."
"So who is?" Asked Anubis, his eyes fixed on Phil with a passionate stare.
"Ryan, he has become Hybrid and as a result is stronger and faster then me."
"I see, yet I sense no jealousy."
"I am not Jealous of Ryan, I never will be…we have a love for each other that forbids me to be jealous of him."
"It is good to see that some of us have love for their brothers."
The two entered a large oval room where they sat and exchanged ideas for getting ready for Anub'Araks incoming attacks on the coven houses.
-
Selene and Ryan landed outside the Hungary Coven house; even there taste in architecture displeased Ryan.
Ryan was welcomed with open arms by Markus; Ryan pretended to like Markus greeted him warmly, they had a hug and a laugh then Markus spotted Selene.
"You bring that murderous bitch here! How dare you?" Markus was infuriated. Ryan struck Markus across the face with the force of a train; Markus fell on his back and felt his nose bleeding heavily.
"You dog, she is here with me! You shall apologise! She never did anything wrong!" Ryan could have killed Markus then, very easily. Ryan grabbed Markus by the collar and threw him with ease to the feet of Selene.
"I…shall not apologise to the abominations whore." The words were bitter and nasty. But it didn't matter to Selene, she expected it and she hung her head low. Ryan picked Markus up and struck him again, this time he used his other hand to hold Markus in place so he didn't fall.
"What did she do? Defend herself and the man she loves from Viktor! Or was it the vile act of defying Kraven?" Ryan had fire in his eyes and he was hoping for a chance to punch Markus again.
"She killed Viktor!" Spat Markus, spewing some blood onto Ryan.
"He killed her family you mutt." Ryan threw Markus to the floor "show me to my room."
It was rather funny for Selene to see the great Markus thrown about and beaten like a human against Ryan, of course Ryan was ancient and his power was like nothing Markus could dream of.
Two vampires brought Ryan and Selene to their rooms, But Selene didn't want to stay on her own, she almost wanted a bodyguard to defend her encase Markus ordered someone to kill her in her sleep. Ryan could hear her thoughts and sensed her fear.
"Would you prefer it if I stayed with you child?" asked Ryan with a soft and nurturing voice. Selene looked him in the face, she had secretly hoped that Ryan would read her thoughts and make this offer, she was just so nervous about being here again.
"Would you? Just tonight though."
"Of course." Ryan held her in his arms and for a moment she rested her head on his shoulder, she could feel his power surging from him as she did whenever he was very close, it can only be described as a pulsing heat that you just know isn't caused by fire or a radiator. It was actually rather intimidating.
Later on Ryan and Markus disgusted Anub'Arak.
"I think we should side with the stronger being of course." Said Markus, keeping the safety of his people in mind.
"I think that your secretly saying that you want to side with Anub'Arak."
"And why would you think that friend?" Markus looked puzzled.
"Because I can read you mind. I heard you saying you say it fool!" Ryan had a suitable smile to suit the occasion.
"Well okay, perhaps I think that siding with him is wiser." Markus had been pushed into a corner and was going to try and sneak around this one with careful words.
"And why is that?" Ryan leaned forward and put his fingers into the shape of a church steeple.
"Well he has proved that he is a capable combatant already since he woke up and escaped your guarded facility, that is already a famous incident around the world."
"Your point? He has over six thousand years of power behind him! Anubis has yet to show his power, both are out there feeding now probably! There is going to be a war, and I'm starting to wonder if you can be trusted." Ryan was concerned about Markus's allegiance. Markus swallowed hard, and then changed the subject.
"Why did you humiliate me like that earlier?" He was in a bad state and needed an answer.
"You need to learn your place Markus, I have guards you would consider you young! You are very lucky to have the influence you have! Very lucky!"
"I got were I am through my ability!"
"That is a lie and we both know it! You are got here because Philip wanted to see what you could do! And indeed you have made some successes but you also made the greatest blunder! Well that snivelling dog Viktor did, and you did nothing to stop it."
"The war with the Lycons was out of control by the time I was awake we both know that! Besides what did you do old one?"
"What did I do…what did I do? I have been keeping Anubis safe for all these years! I have had research into our evolution! Our telepathy! This discussion is over." The two stormed off in there own directions and there own intentions.
-
Philip sat in a tower; Anubis had left the moment it got dark. Phil was stuck in an insane laughter, everything that was happening was so fascinating, Phil sensed Ryan becoming a hybrid, he felt Anub'Arak and Anubis scurrying about the world feeding and discovering the world.
When he finished laughing he looked at the very nice room he was in, mahogany furniture everywhere, fine carpets and silk curtains at the very large window, he looked at the window and gave a little snigger, he remember back hundreds of years ago.
Flashback 1023 A.D.-
Philip, Ryan and Conor (Alpha Lycon in the Irish Coven) stood in the same room but it was designed for a king of the time, the three stood looking out the window, they could see the moon high in the sky, houses in the lands below with fires in the windows.
Phil gave a wink to Conor and the two caught Ryan off guard, they tied him up at the hands and pushed him out the window, Ryan would have landed on his feet but the surprise had thrown him off guard and he landed on a slanted roof, he crashed through and felt pain shoot through his body, the two had a grand laugh at Ryan before he shouted up.
"I hate you two." Ryan said it but in a joking manner. The two jumped down to him, he stood up and slipped out of the rope.
"Was that really necessary?" Ryan asked with one hand over his quickly healing ribs.
"Absolutely." Said Phil with a big grin.
"Why?" asked Ryan.
"We had to see if you would pass our test." Said Conor, and man with big thick black hair and small bits of unshaven hair around his jaw and neck.
"And did I?"
"Of course!" Said Phil.
"I fail to see how!" Said Ryan with an odd tone to his voice.
"You didn't get angry. Conor didn't either." Said Phil with a huge grin.
Modern Day-Phil gave out one more laugh,
"Good times." He said before jumping out the window and started hunting. Phil searched the streets for people and eventually found the ideal first person, a girl, about sixteen, very clean, and with nobody around.
"Hello my dear!" Said Phil with a twinkle in his eyes.
"Hey." Said the girl, she was rather worried about the stranger, but he had a beautiful glow about him, hid skin looked soft, pale and as smooth as marble.
Phil spoke with her for awhile and when he had really gained her trust he brought her down and alley saying he knew a good restaurant, once out of view he pinned her to the wall and dug his teeth deep into her neck, she left out a moan as he sucked the blood. When he was finished with the blood he ripped her chest open took a bite from her heart then he ripped open the head and took a bite from the brain.
"Always some hidden in there." He said before hanging her naked body at a latch over a door. Then he walked away. Phil was a very important figure in the underworld, he was wise and cunning…but he was as mad as a hatter.
After he had finished his first bite to eat he just wondered the streets for a while, while a teenage girl was excellent for starters he enjoyed something a little more mature for the main course. It was an hour or two before he spotted the next part of his meal, he found a man of about forty about to get out of his car, a nice car too, very expensive.
Phil simply walked up to this one and dug in as soon as possible, Phil drank him dry then threw the body onto a road and drove off in his new Mercedes. A fine sleek black vehicle this one was, Phil's driving was rather bad as he almost never drove, and if it wasn't for his faster than light reflexes he would have crashed a dozen times.
-
Michael, Eric and several others arrived at the German Coven; it was nothing like any other Coven Michael had seen before, all the other Coven houses he had seen were mansions and castles while this was a house built into a mountain, it went very deep into the mountain and had four or five floors that were underground.
"Ahh you must be the hybrid Michael. Brother Ryan told me of your coming." Said the German leader Alexander, a Lycon with slicked back black hair and wearing a suit.
"You speak English?" Asked Michael slightly confused at Eric's role.
"Of course, what did you expect me to speak, German? Were would my hospitality be then? I could speak my German, English, Spanish or Japanese, take your pick." His German tone of voice was almost stereotypical.
"English is fine." Said Michael as Alexander came over and kissed Michael.
"You are welcome here brother Michael." Said the German, Michael thoughts went to the different places in the world were all the old vampires and Lycons had a tendency to kiss him, the men did anyway.
"Thank you, but I'm here bearing bad news."
"I am to understand that a great evil has been set upon the world." Alexander's voice become grim as he said this.
"Yes, Anub'Arak, the second immortal ever made has woken up and as far as we know has the intentions of well, world domination."
"But how do you know of his plans?"
"The ancient god Anubis told us that's why he was locked up last time."
"Anubis did! Well that explains everything, know we have gods running around and talking." Alexander got sarcastic and the many inhabitants of room started to snigger.
"Well Anubis is the original immortal, and because of his inhuman abilities he was called a god by nomadic peoples who would later become Egyptians." As Michael said this Alexander dropped a glass in his hand and it shattered to many pieces.
"I see, this is the treasure brother Ryan has been protecting all these years."
"Yeah big surprise isn't it."
"Indeed, come we should feast."
"Right, sure." Alexander brought them into a beautiful dining room, lights shone everywhere and people sat and drank blood like wine, as Ryan often did. They all sat down and then Michael heard people screaming.
"What was that?" asked Michael getting a little worried.
"Dinner." Said Alexander with a sneer as minions came in pulling defenceless women behind them.
"We can't eat these women!" roared Michael.
"And why is that? Has Ryan not thought you our ways?" said Alexander curiously.
"Yeah but, he drinks the blood of drug dealers, child abusers, even street thugs but these women have committed no crime.
"What do you mean, they were all taken from a prison complex! They are a combination of murderers and traitors to their country." As Alexander explained himself a woman was thrown in front of Michael, he stood up and took a step back.
"Look, there is going to be a meeting in Paris between the coven leaders to discuss a course of action, just show up." Said Michael as he left, he ushered Eric and the others to follow, they did but first Eric gave Alexander the details of when and were to be in Paris.
When they were on their way back Michael was really on edge.
"Its disgusting they will kill people like that." He said with tears on his voice.
"It is our way of life, you might not like it but Alexander and Ryan are excellent friends and Ryan sees no problems, why can't you trust his judgement?"
"Maybe Ryan isn't the great leader everyone thinks he is." Michael hung his head low, but Eric grabbed him around the neck and forced eye contact.
"If it wasn't for him the human race would be our slaves and food, he has fought for them for five hundred years, he has averted world wide disasters! He has brought the covens all around the world together, if it was not for him you would be long dead as would Selene! He has kept the Vampires and Lycons friendly when things were looking bad, he has done more for us then the great Philip Cremin or sacred Dánse rest her soul." Eric hit a point with Michael.
"Alright." The flight back was a silent one from then on.
-
Two days later Selene had gotten used to being in the coven, she even got to see Erica again; they had a quick and pointless discussion.
Erica was now looking out a window to the front of the land, the gates had opened and six or seven cars were pulling in.
"Markus, come look at this." She said to her leader, who was sitting on a fine antique chair gazing into a fire. He got up and saw the cars, four Vampires with rifles got out of each car and walked to the door.
"What the hell is this?"
A random vampire answered the door and was met with the barrel of a gun in her face. She was forced back by the men who came in.
Markus was about to leave the room he was in when he found Selene and Ryan staring at him.
"Ryan what is the meaning of this?" he snapped.
"The Arbiters have deemed you incapable in running a coven so I they sent my enforcers over to take over, I'm in charge now." Said Ryan in the most businessmen like voice he could muster. Selene had heard of the Arbiters before, as far as she could tell they were the four oldest and wisest immortals they acted as a grand council, the leaders of the immortal world to be blunt. They consisted of Philip, Ryan, Alexander and Marie, the leader of the French Coven. Anub'Arak and Anubis were not on the council as when it was formed they were asleep and thus, not counted. Philip left his portion of power to Ryan, as he wanted little to do with such a role. Thus Ryan got a fifty percent say in the running of things.
"Don't you mean you think I'm not capable, so you decided to use them as an excuse to take over my coven you bastard!" Markus snapped.
"No, I mean The Arbiters have deemed you incapable in running a coven so I they sent my enforcers over to take over, I'm in charge now, as I said."
"Selene, even you must think this is stupid, he's here three days and he's taking over, he's power mad." Markus was resorting to Selene he and was probably desperate. But she gave no response.
"Markus, just stand down and things won't get violent. Your pawns can't stand up to my powerful guardians, they are the elite." Ryan was perfectly confident.
"I will fight you!" Said Markus as he swung for Ryan, but as he swung Ryan seemed to just run behind him so fast he was just a blur, Markus turned around and swung again and again, but Ryan could both read his mind and move very fast.
Erica bared her fangs at Selene and jumped at her, Selene found she could actually move very fast, she remember drinking Ryan's blood, obviously it was making her stronger.
The four of them jumped around the room for a while but eventually Ryan threw Markus out the window, he landed on his feet and found Ryan waiting for him.
Selene punched Erica in the face and watched as Erica flew into a painting. Erica got up and darted at her, Selene grabbed her and placed hanging by a strap on the horns of a stag's head, Erica just jumped off but ripped some of her dress.
"You made me ruin my dress, you bitch!" The two grabbed at each other and started throwing each other about.
Meanwhile downstairs a gun fight had broken out, Markus's Vampires had barricaded themselves in a room and Ryan's vampires were shooting at the locked up doors with great effect, the guns tore threw the wood with maximum ease. Once there was a large enough opening Markus's vampires shot out through the gaps, this caused Ryan's Vampires scatter.
Daniel, the head of Ryan's elite, ran up a stairs until he was above his foes, then he took out his large sword, he started swiping at the floor under him until he fell into the room beneath him, the vampires beneath him turned to see him and started shooting, he jumped across the room and got cover. The vampires were distracted when they came under fire again, once they weren't looking Daniel ran out and threw his sword at the foe, but his sword had bit of a personnel touch, it had a chain attached and to the end so he could use it in a handy way, once he had pulled it back he leapt close to his foe and started swinging it around him, this cut many Vampires but he didn't go unnoticed, they started ducking and slicing at him swords that were designed to be for hanging on a wall, but were still lethal in their hands, Daniel was able to avoid most of the attacks but then one grazed his face, The elite ran in with swords and pistols out and started shooting up the place. Daniel had fallen to the floor when he was hit and now many women had jumped on him and started drinking from him, they bit into his neck and chest mainly. It wasn't long before they were forced off him and locked up with the ones that had given up, but he had lost a lot of blood. The rest of his team gave him some of their blood until his condition was stable. His wounds healed almost instantly once he fed but the loss had mentally wounded him.
Outside…Ryan kneed Markus into either side before grabbing him, lifting him up and running at a window, he jumped through and forced Markus's back to the floor, Ryan then pushed himself against Markus and brought his legs to the floor on the far side from the window they came threw, so his back was now facing the floor and he still had a hold of Markus, he rose up to his feet carrying Markus over his head and then he threw Markus through a wall. Markus landed hard but was still able to get up. Ryan telekinetically pushed Markus against a wall and held him there. Ryan took out a pistol from his waist and shot Markus in the wrists and feet. Markus then fell to the floor, completely helpless. Markus had never known a greater loss in his life till that point.
Markus and the remainder of his pawns were locked into the basement for the time being.
Ryan eventually had to leave after a few days; he left Selene in charge of the Coven while he met the underworld leaders in Paris. Selene drank more of Ryan's blood and she was now showing signs of telekinetic power.
Selene could sense Ryan anywhere he went, which was reassuring and comforting.
Ryan was at the conference with the rest of the underworld leaders bar Phil as he didn't enjoy politics. Some of Ryan's Elite went with him for his protection; they teamed up with the Elites of the other Arbiters to safeguard the complex.
Everyone sat in a big oval room and discussed the matter of Anubis and Anub'Arak, suddenly a large screen was turned on and everyone could see Markus's sneering face.
"If your watching this that's means that I'm not with you, which means Ryan has probably interfered with my plans and discovered that I am loyal to Anub'Arak, well if that's the case I'll see you in hell." Suddenly the screen showed him laughing while people started shouting things like
"What the hell is going on?" Or "What is the meaning of this?" But as the screen blanked out the whole building just blew up!
Back in Hungary Selene suddenly realised that she couldn't sense Ryan anymore, she thought it was something trivial in her power, like perhaps they hadn't focused yet or something, but later on she was called by Michael and told to turn on the news. She saw the news presenter show a wrecked building and he said.
"We now have footage of the conference centre in Paris that was bombed earlier today."
Selene turned off the T.V. and covered her mouth with her hands as she began to cry.
Gevaden: That's my latest chapter, what will happen next? Who now's? Will Selene link the bombing to Markus? Will she discover his connection to Anub'Arak? Only one way to find out! Wait for the next chapter.