Gevaden: I've just written this right after finishing the last chapter so I've posted two chapters. Hope you enjoy this one.
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Philip was now the chief Arbiter (He's also the only Arbiter at the moment) and was waiting while researchers and scouts found the oldest beings to join him. He decided to take his position and then challenge Conor to Meshnak, he was writing the letter at the moment, suddenly someone barged into his office, he had long black hair and a boyish scowl.
"Can I help you?" asked Phil.
"Master Cremin, I have a proposition for you."
"I'm listening but please be quick I have a lot of work to do."
"Well, I might be able to get in touch with an old friend of yours should you put me in charge of the American coven."
"What old friend is this?"
"Lets say you met her before the birth of Christ and then she disappeared." Philip knew whom this person was talking about.
"Get out of my office you sick bastard!" Phil stood up and frowned.
"Absolutely not. Its true, I can bring you to her."
"She died along time ago you swine! Get out before I throw you out, and consider yourself lucky that I don't have you killed for your heresy!" Lying about an Elder was a horrible act to make, and Phil was even more enraged as the woman was a good friend of his. Phil walked around the desk.
"Fine I'll leave but she is very alive." Phil caught the man around the collar and threw him out an open window, being a Vampire the man landed safely but was still very offended that Philip didn't believe him.
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Selene and Michael had just arrived back in Egypt, they just wanted to forget the last few days, but they found people waiting for them as they approached Ryan's house.
A man in starch white clothes approached Selene and started speaking.
"Madame Selene, Ryan sent various things to you before leaving for the Paris conference." The man handed Selene various tapes and letters. "We are starting to believe that he expected the explosion, will you read them and later perhaps enlighten us as to their meaning?" He had his hands cuffed together in a pleading manner.
"He did not ask us to give you these but we think he would want you to have these." The man handed Selene a book and a key. "The book is his journal and the key is to his personal quarters."
Selene took them and thanked the man.
"I shall do my reading and tell you what I learn." She said before walking into the castle, Michael followed and gave a nod to the people.
Selene retreated to Ryan's quarters, it was full of ancient Egyptian artefacts that should by all rights be in a museum, he had a suit of Elite armour, and weapons made from Ebony, Obsidian, diamond, silver, gold and platinum. The room had fine furs and rugs everywhere. She saw one thing missing…a bed, He had a sarcophagus instead, an Ancient Egyptian one covered in gold and sapphire. She opened the sarcophagus and found a mask and gloves; they were made from a black fabric and had gold along the lining. She noticed that if she were wearing these when someone opened the sarcophagus during the day and the sunlight hit her she would be protected perfectly. She sat on a rug in front of a fire that she set ablaze and started reading the journal.
-Ryan's Journal-
I'm rather excited as I'll arrive in Ireland tomorrow, Ireland is were my mother is from, someday I'll visit Hungary, which were my father is from! What a family I have, I'm a…was a general in the Roman army while neither of my parents are Roman even though they did manage to do very well and have made a small fortune in making armour and weapons, it started off with just my father on his own then when he could afford it he hired an assistant, after awhile he got another then another and now he owns a fine business, of course they are now both dead but I have been following my family, my son Artemidorus had a son, Alexander who has moved to Hungry, The Corvinus family shall live on through him! Although it will not live on through me, I shall give myself an Irish name once I am in Ireland. I just don't like the name Casius Corvinus; Corvinus has caused my family a lot of trouble in Rome, as it is my fathers' Hungarian name. I consider myself Irish, as my mother taught me to be proud of my heritage even thought she was sometimes mistreated in Rome for her heritage.
But onto a different note, I will travel all of Ireland and find somewhere to make a nice house with my massive riches, I shall learn the language and customs, I shall be an Irishman, A vampire in Ireland how mad!
Selene closed the book and realised that if Ryan was a Corvinus, and the ancestor to Alexander, that means that both Markus and Michael are his descendents, he would have been so happy to know that Michael was his family, but now he's dead.
Selene ran to Michael to tell him the news, he was reading a newspaper (well trying, he was learning the language).
"Michael, do you know why you can be a hybrid while most people can't?"
"Yeah you told me before, my great great great great great great great great great great grandfather Alexander Corvinus got some disease and his blood changed it to help him."
"Exactly, But do you know who Alexander's grandfather was?"
"No, tell me."
"He was a roman general, he's spoken about in this journal." Selene handed Michael the journal and pointed to the appropriate place. Michael read for a few moments.
"You gotta be kiddin'me!" He shouted.
"Nope." She said.
"But that means…"
"That's right."
"My ancestor kissed me!"
"Yes that's exactly what I wanted you to know! Hold on when did Ryan kiss you? Why didn't you tell me?" Said Selene half sarcastic and half surprised.
"You don't tell me when he kisses you!" said Michael with a jealous glow in his eye.
"…." Selene just grabbed the Journal and walked away. When Selene was in Ryan's room again she copped onto something, if Ryan is a Roman, why is his journal in English? Selene didn't dwell on it; she decided to just read for a while. She ended up reading for the rest of the night and when the day came she just put on the gloves and mask and kept reading. It was basically the story of Ryan's afterlife so to speak, but there was fourteen years missing at one point, the pages had been ripped out but when Ryan started writing again his first words were Its finished, we parted this morning. I do not regret making her.
"Ryan made a Vampire!" Selene whispered to herself. Selene frantically read through the book to try find a piece that might reveal who "she" is, but anywhere that mentioned her name was scribbled out.
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Philip was sleeping, it wasn't a silent sleep though, someone was sending an image to him, and it was the last few moments of the conference in Paris. Philip saw it as if he was there, he saw the screen and he saw the traitor Markus, he shall pay! But first Phil had to fight Conor in Meshnak!
Later on that night Conor and Phil stood face to face in the back room of a nightclub that Phil owned, both men brought people to step in if things got out of hand, even though traditionally this is a fight to the death.
They skipped the formalities and Conor ran at Phil who stood calmly with his hands behind his back, Conor grabbed Phil around the waist and held him up, crushing him. Phil got an arm loose and smashed Conor right on the head. Conor fell and rolled backwards, he ripped off his shirt and started to change, Phil took a step back as he got rather worried.
Conor had transformed, he looked just like a hybrid but coloured differently, he ran at Phil and pushed him through a window, the two plummeted down and landed hard, Conor worse as he hit a car. Phil picked up the car and smashed over the head with it, when Conor was about to get up Phil pushed him with a telekinetic blast of energy and Conor was pushed backwards. Conor shot up and cracked Phil with his fist and then started tearing at his chest with his tiny claws.
Phil jumped back, then jumped at Conor, picked him up from the side and started swinging him around until he threw him at another car, before Conor had a chance to get up Phil grabbed him again and threw him into a pole which broke. Conor scampered out of view but then rushed Phil from the shadows and grabbed him, he lifted above his head and brought him down onto his raised knee then he threw him onto a manhole that gave way.
Phil landed in water, and got up before Conor got down, when Conor did get down Phil was waiting and he started punching him in the sides, each punch with the force of a train. Conor stumbled back and tried to block Phil's incoming foot at his face, although he did get his hands up in time he was still knocked over. Phil smashed his foot down in Conor's chest.
"I surrender." Gasped Conor. The vampires and Lycons that had followed them down to watch got down on one knee, to show their respect to Phil. Phil extended a hand to Conor and pulled him up.
"Good fight." Said Conor.
"Indeed." Replied Phil, Irelands controller.
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Selene looked around the room, it was full of Egypt's Immortals casually chatting. Selene was looking at two people in particular, a woman with black hair and a man in a wheelchair, she could sense that both were Vampires, the old man was very weak yet Selene could sense a very strong untapped power within him. The woman had a very familiar aura about her but Selene couldn't place it. The two arrived yesterday and spoke with almost nobody.
"Who are those two?" asked Selene to a young Vampire with big green eyes and short brown hair.
"The woman is the one you read about in Ryan's journal, the sole being Ryan ever created, but the old man is an enigma, I have no idea who he is!" He spoke very quickly.
"Ryan made her!" Said Selene with surprise. Selene knew what the aura was, it was a trace of Ryan, she was sort of branded with his signature so to speak.
"Yes, her name is Susan." He said before being called away.
Selene approached the two, and offered.
"I am Selene, I was a friend of Ryan."
"Hello, I'm Susan, he made me hundreds of years ago." The woman had a very friendly voice.
"Do you think he's really dead?"
"I understand how you feel, you're looking for hope, but every body the French authorities took out of the rubble was crispy, they didn't find any survivors." She said with a sigh.
"And who might you be?" Selene said to the old man in the wheelchair.
"I am Anthony." Said the old man, struggling to breathe, and then he looked up to Susan.
"Why can't I have human blood? I'll heal faster Dammit!" He said before breaking into coughs.
"Because it might do you more damage, it could be to strenuous on your body. So you can all the animal blood you want but no human blood." Susan said while shaking a finger. The old man just muttered "stubborn little bitch" under his breath…they both heard him.
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Daniel, the old chief Elite sat in his seat waiting for someone to come to him, after three hours that someone came.
"Just as we expected." Said the person, a tall and intimidating woman.
"What proof is there that Markus is the one who placed the bomb?" asked Daniel.
"Master Cremin has issued a death warrant, the elder had a dream."
"So our master is having visions?"
"Further evolution I'm sure."
"Lets hope so, now lets get moving…we have a Markus to kill." The Elites got up together and got into their cars, they were phoning everywhere and every contact they had to find the whereabouts of anyone who could be Markus.
While inside the car Daniel asked a vampire to his side:
"What weapons do we have?"
"Enough stolen AK's to equip everyone, stolen ornamental swords – they should still cut."
"What do humans think stole the weapons?"
"Middle Eastern terrorists, we planted the evidence ourselves."
"Excellent." Said Daniel as he licked his fangs.
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Philip licked the envelope of the last letter, he had just finished writing letters to Vampires and Lycons around the world asking them to be Arbiters or Coven Leaders and he sent a letter to a woman named Selene, Ryan spoke very fondly of her, she was hopefully going to be the next Egyptian Coven leader, and the first woman to lead the Egyptian Coven.
Suddenly Philip was hit by a throbbing pain in his head, but then he realised it wasn't a headache; it was Anub'Arak sending a message to every immortal alive.
Philip could see Anub'Arak, in a city, but what city…it was London.
"Now that I have the attention of you all, I shall show you my power, and those that don't swear allegiance to me will share a faith with this cities inhabitants." He said with the voice of an Angel.
He raised a single finger into the air, and a sphere of light started to grow around the finger, then it spread, further and further and anything it touched was incinerated. Phil couldn't look at the light, but it was everywhere. The process of covering all of London took only a few minutes. And when it was done there was a perfectly shaped crater that got all of London territory and nothing more.
When it was over Phil massaged his head, and silently wished for Ryan's aid.
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Selene and Michael were driving through the streets of an Egyptian city, doing nothing important just learning their way around, the street was absolutely empty. Suddenly they crashed into a figure that stood in the way of the car, he didn't fall down which suggested that he was an immortal, Selene sensed him, and it was Markus.
Markus grabbed the car and started pushing it, the two got out before he rammed it into a wall. Michael changed into a hybrid and jumped at Markus, the two were tearing at each other's throats. But it was a fight that Michael couldn't win, Markus changed also before kicking Michael through a wall which led into a bar.
Everyone in the bar saw Michael and ran, Markus walked in the bar, picked up Michael and started slamming him into tables and chairs, Suddenly Markus heard pistols going off and he felt the metal bullets pierce the flesh of his back. He fell to his knees, before crawling up.
Selene watched him crawl, suddenly he was right in front of her and she felt his fist crack against her face, she fell against the wall. Michael jumped behind Markus and started cutting Markus's back with his claws. Markus span around and the two exchanged blows and slashes. Michael jumped and kicked Markus in the face, Markus fell back and landed on Selene who bit deep into his throat.
Markus raised up and flipped Selene onto the floor in front of him, then he crushed his foot down on throat, Michael leapt forward to grab him but Markus caught Michael by the throat and held him still in mid-air.
Markus could smell someone coming, there was a few of them, Vampires.
He dropped Michael and kicked Selene across the room. Markus stood outside the hole and saw a little stick on the floor, he picked it up and sniffed it, and it reeked of Vampire, suddenly he felt swords dig into his shoulders from above, the attackers flipped down and started kicking Markus at the back of his knees and his chest, he fell to the floor and several Vampires rushed out of nowhere and held guns in his face.
He couldn't smell as the smell from the stick was extremely heavy and it completely covered over their scent.
They pulled the swords from his shoulders and started kicking him while he was down. After a firm beating he was lifted to his knees and someone wrapped a chain around his neck.
"Got'ca yea little bastard!" The attacker cracked his elbow down on Markus's head and they all picked him up, tied him heavily in chains, drugged him with tranquillisers and threw him into a van.
Selene and Michael got up and slowly walked towards the warriors draped in black Ninja outfits.
The one that had spoken took a step towards Selene and raised a hand to caution them to stop, once Markus was out of view they removed their headgear.
"I am Daniel, I used to be the head of the Elites, until the Lycons took our place." Said the leader, the one that strangled Markus with the chain.
"Well why are you in Egypt?" asked Selene.
"Hunting Markus, we think if we can bring him to Justice then perhaps we might get our position back."
"Bring him to justice?" asked Michael.
"Yes, he had the bomb planted at the conference." Said Daniel, the leader.
Selene had walked over to the van and opened it up, she walked in and started punching Markus, she didn't stop for quite awhile, she kept punching while Michael and Daniel spoke about their plans to bring Markus to Phil and request to become the Elites again.
After an hour or so Daniel and the old Elites drove off. Sometime later they were driving along a hidden road that that led to a private airport. They were driving by a seaside cliff when they noticed something running at their cars.
"It's the Lycons!" Said someone sitting next to Daniel.
"Drive faster, they cannot catch us!" Daniel shouted into a radio. The cars drove as fast as possible, the strange thing is, why were these Lycons both out here and wearing the Elite armour?
But the cars couldn't drive fast enough and the Jumped at the cars, they knocked over the van with the force of their jumps. The vampires got out of their cars and started shooting at the Lycons, but they were slightly outnumbered and forced to flee, much to Daniels dismay, now the Lycons had Markus and the vampire's one chance of redemption was gone.
Daniel ran in one direction turning around every now and then to shoot at the Lycons that were chasing him down. Eventually they caught him and grabbed him, he struggled so they grabbed him by the legs and arms, he was immobilised. A Lycon walked up to his face and changed back to his human state, it was Dredrick, the head of the current Elites.
"Tisk tisk Daniel, we expected it to be harder than this." Said the fiend before he started punched Daniel.
"When the Arbiters hear about this you're finished!" Said Daniel as they dragged him to the cliff, they stopped with Daniel held right in front of the edge with his back turned to it.
"Now Daniel, your foolishness entertains me, the Arbiters ordered me to do this." Said Dredrick, the Lycons started laughing. Dredrick stepped back and took out his giant war hammer. He was going to blow Daniel off the edge, but Daniel had seen this sort of thing a dozen times over, from the way he was holding the hammer, Daniel could tell that he was going to swing upwards but Daniel new that if he ducked at just the right time when the Lycons let go so they don't fall down as well then he'll get one chance to kill the three attackers. Dredrick ran and Daniel prepared to duck, but as Dredrick got closer he jumped and did an odd spin and brought the hammer down, it cracked against Daniels head and he fell into the edge, it shattered to rubble and he fell down the cliff, his body bouncing off the rock on his way down.
The Lycons got Markus and left.
Gevaden: another chapter and the story gets thicker still! But what will happen next? Did Philip order Dredrick to take out Daniel? What will Selene do next? Does Susan know more about Ryan than she lets on? What about the old man, what is his untapped strength? Does it have any significance with anything at all? Will I ever finish going on like this? Should I switch to a batman type ending? Maybe next time I will? The only way to find out is wait for the next chapter!…or possibly the chapter after that!…or maybe later chapters still!