Gevaden: Here's the next chapter, I hope you enjoy. If you have any questions or thoughts on the characters please tell me when you review, which I hope you do because the more reviews I get the more priority I give to the fic.
Also there is a new character into the Fic, Nekkita, Why is she special I here you say? Well she is from a different fic. That Fic is Sunlit Shadows I suggest you read it, I can't make you but I think it's really cool.
Vampires and Lycons watched as the castle doors opened and Ryan entered with a child. A vampire raised an eyebrow in disapproval; the child was immortal but too young to exist. It was a recognised rule that only adults can become Immortals, this child was an insult to the laws of Immortals and most people in the room knew that.
Ryan walked to the centre of the room and spoke to his people.
"For those of you that question young Nekkita's existence, I tell you now that she is a hybrid, a child, an immortal, but most importantly she is one of us! She is under my protection, Lucien created her, the weak Lycon held in captivity down in the dungeons. For his crimes he shall stay there until the house is destroyed. If anyone feels like challenging my authority in this matter I shall see you in my office, you know you need not fear repercussions for expressing your views on any matters, no subject is taboo." Said Ryan before bringing Nekkita to his office.
Nekkita looked around the office, there were shelves with books, old books, there was a beautiful table that Ryan sat at and took out some papers, there was a comfortable chair she sat into. The chair was very comfortable and looked to suit, everything was expensive looking and elegant. The table Ryan sat at had a state of the art computer yet for some reason he was still writing on paper.
"I have a little work to do, I'll be about half an hour here is some chalk you can go outside and play hopscotch." Said Ryan handing Nekkita a long stick of chalk.
"Hopscotch? Are you serious?" she said.
"Why not, I often see kids in the local town playing it?" He muttered.
"How old are they? Are they a little above five?" she asked.
"They would be about that, yes I suppose they would be older." He said while writing through pages and pages very quickly.
"Well I got bored of that game some years ago, mind If I try your computer?" she asked.
"Go ahead, it has Internet access if you know what that is, I never use the thing." He proclaimed somewhat proudly.
She span around the monitor to face her and turned on the computer. There might not have been any games on it but she did find a bunch of digital photos that had been sent to Ryan via E-mail, he had never opened them though. One set of photos were taken at some sort of mortal fancy dress party, Ryan was in the photo with four others. Ryan was dressed as a Dracula type Vampire, there was something funny about it, a vampire pretending to be mortal pretending to be a vampire! She recognised one of the people, it was James Mooring, a lead singer in a band that got very famous about a year ago, they brought out an album since which did well.
"Who are these?" asked Nekkita, spinning the monitor around so Ryan could see. Ryan looked at the screen.
"I'M ON THAT SCREEN! WHAT FOUL CURSE HAVE YOU CAST!" shouted Ryan, totally unfamiliar with computers and Televisions.
"No no it's just an image, a copy of your appearance, the result of computers developed in world war two and cameras!" she said. "Down Kitty!"
"I see the logic in that, well the blond thin person is Philip Cremin, oldest immortal, my good friend and the leader of the Irish Coven, the broader black haired character is Conor Mahon, the Alpha Lycon in Ireland and also a good friend of mine, the woman is Susan, she is only Immortal I ever created and the other one is a Lycon that you probably know also a good friend, James and Susan are in the castle at the moment. Personally I think James's music is painful to listen to but what can I say about modern music, I'm a relic." He said laughing a little at the memories that the digital photos brought back.
"Yeah I know of James, he's okay. On a different topic do you wanna make a deal?" she asked.
"What kind of deal?" he asked.
"You teach me to be an Immortal, and I'll teach you about modern technology. How about it?"
"Deal." He said while biting his pen.
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Selene and Michael sat in a car, the rain was pouring down.
"Have you told Ryan yet?" asked Selene.
"No, I haven't spoken to him." he said as he watched a woman run over to a man clad in black, she handed the man a envelope of some sort then the man handed her a bank card. The woman ran off and the black clad man ran over to the car, he jumped in.
"Well what does it say?" asked Selene to the black clad man, he opened the envelope and read one of several pages.
"Is it what we're looking for?" asked Michael.
"Yes, it is! This is it! We have it!" said the black clad man handing some of the several pages to Michael and Selene.
"We have to get this back to Ryan!" said Selene as she started to drive.
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Nekkita was pacing around Ryan's office when Selene and Michael burst through the room.
"Selene, Michael! How wonderful to see you." He said ushering them to some chairs.
"We have it!" said Selene handing the pages to Ryan.
"What's this we have here?" asked Ryan as he started to read.
"It's a list of every one of Anub'Araks agents in Egypt, complete names and addresses also you'll find towards the bottom the addresses of several safe houses." She said with pride.
"How much did this information cost us?" asked Ryan.
"Half a million." Said Selene.
"Half a million! You say that as if that's nothing!" said Nekkita, the sound of that figure made her eyes bug out slightly.
"That is nothing, I have hackers stealing me thousands every ten minutes, plus I own several business including weapon manufacturing and toy manufacturing." Said Ryan as if he was starting his lessons with Nekkita already.
"Isn't stealing that money illegal?" protested Nekkita.
"No because legally only a person or animal can commit a crime and by definition we're not humans or animals we're monsters!" said Ryan, again like a teacher. Nekkita started to think about that, we're monsters…we're monsters…we're monsters. She kept thinking that while the other three were talking. The next thing to get her attention was when Ryan said.
"I want every person on this list lifted tonight, bomb the safe houses!" he said while biting his pen again.
"What's lifted?" Nekkita asked.
"My men will arrest them basically and bring them to special prisons, later I'll go and question the two oldest of them to see what they know." He said before giving her a pat on the head and a smile.
"Can I come when you question them?" asked Nekkita.
"If you want but I warn you it's going to get violent." He said, now sounding like he was her father.
"I've killed Lycons in the past, I'll be fine." She said crossing her arms.
"Fine by me." He said.
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It was twelve hours later. Nekkita was following Ryan down an alley that lead to a derelict mansion.
"What's this?" she asked, slightly scared after seeing too many horror movies.
"This is the mansion of madness, this where we take prisoners and question them. Are you sure you want to watch this?" he asked, genuinely concerned for his new fledgling's mental health.
"Yeah I'll be fine."
They made their way inside and a Lycon with a nasty cut on his hand lead him to a room with a vampire tied up from the hands and hanging from the ceiling.
"Who are you?" asked Ryan first.
"Fuck you!" shouted the vampire. Ryan launched his elbow into the vampire's stomach.
"Okay…I'm Darius, I was to keep people hidden and as you can see I failed." He coughed.
"Can you tell me where Anub'Arak's fortress is?" asked Ryan.
"Fortress? Are you that clueless? Hahaha!" Laughed Darius. Ryan cut down the vampire and stood him up straight, then punched him in the face; he started throwing the vampire around the room. Ryan then took a broken plank and drove it through Darius's leg.
"Yes I am that clueless! Now tell me about it!" shouted Ryan digging his nails into the vampire's shoulder.
Nekkita looked at Darius in horror, his face was torn, his leg pierced with a plank, his right arm twisted in an odd way. Selene walked in and watched as Ryan picked up the vampire and held a pistol to the back of his neck.
"It's not a fortress it's a temple, but I'll never tell you where it is." He said. Ryan looked to one of his soldiers beside him.
"Are there older ones then him?" Ryan asked.
"Yes several." He replied. Ryan gave a little smile and shot the vampire in the neck, the UV round killed him quickly. Nekkita was shocked at what Ryan was capable of, she had spent little time with him but he seemed so calm and nice, now he was killing a vampire without a second thought.
As Ryan went to leave the room Selene grabbed his arm to get his attention.
"What's wrong with you?" she asked.
"What do you mean?" he replied.
"You weren't this cold before, I've seen you interrogate a prisoner and this is not like you." She said vehemently. "And with the girl here no less."
"Perhaps I have changed, but everything changes." He replied. He walked on to the next room and then Selene's words set in and he realised that Selene was right, he had changed and not for the better.
The next room had another Vampire in there but this one was far older he was about fifteen hundred which meant killing him would be difficult, at least he wouldn't die during torture.
Ryan decided to skip the small talk and just rape his mind. The vampire watched as Ryan fixed his stare at him.
"What are you staring at you prick! Kill me and get this over with!" shouted the Vampire. But then he felt his head getting warm and he knew what was happening. It was moments before he was squirming around on the floor, his legs trashing about and his hands set firmly on his temples.
"What's happening?" asked Nekkita to a soldier.
"Ryan's using his mental power to see into this one's thoughts, it allows him to find out plans but its very energy consuming, if Ryan presses this one too hard then the vampire will die, his body will probably spasm first then his mind will quickly collapse before he dies. It's a necessary evil in the modern world." He replied.
Ryan stopped after a few minutes and the vampire was panned out on the floor, gasping for breath.
"What did you discover?" asked the soldier.
"A lot, now execute him and lock the others down stairs. I'll send some people over tomorrow. Nobody gets in or out with out my written and stamped approval." Said Ryan before ushering Nekkita to come after him, the two left the building and drove into a nearby town.
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"What are we doing here?" asked Nekkita; they were in a town with lots of shops and people rushing about.
"We are going to buy you something's like clothes, books, jewellery and later we'll find one of my special friends who'll will build you some weapons." He said, his words slightly apart, as he was distracted looking for something.
"Weapons?" she asked with a surprised voice.
"Yeah, in our world you'll have to defend yourself at some point, now what kind of things do you like? You can have anything you want, don't worry I can afford it." he proclaimed while giving her a little pat on the head.
Nekkita stepped away from his hand. Pats on the head were soo 3rd grade. She looked at him.
"Seriously, I can have a weapon?" she asked. Ryan nodded and led her through the streets and brought her to several stores, he pointed out various pieces of clothing that she might want but his style for a 14 year old girl was very different to that of Nekkita, while he opted for purple and red dresses that made her look like a porcelain doll she preferred more modern clothing. In the end he said she could have what ever she wanted.
After the clothes they went looking for jewellery, Ryan brought her to a trusted jeweller, Nekkita picked out the styles that she liked and Ryan told the jeweller the specifics, Ryan wrote up a cheque and the Jeweller said to come back in three months and they'd be ready.
Then they went to the fun place, the weapons. Ryan led Nekkita to what looked like a normal antique store, it was obvious to Nekkita that the character behind the counter knew Ryan as they nodded to each other, the woman at the counter opened a door that the two pasted through.
Nekkita entered a workshop of some sort, they were glowing things everywhere and guns that looked like something from a sci-fi movie.
"What is this place?" she asked.
"This is where my special friends make special weapons." He replied. A tall character with grey hair and a big stomach walked up to Ryan with his hands opened in greeting, he gave a very regal bow to Ryan in a way that almost took the piss.
"Welcome my lord, what do I owe the pleasure?" he asked, chewing on a cigar.
"Two things, I need custom gear for this girl and I wanted to check how my new rifle is doing." He said.
"Well the rifle can shoot as fast as you wanted, put I'm having trouble with the loading system, it keeps jamming up. As for this one…" he said looking at Nekkita and putting out a greasy hand to grab her cheek. "I'll have her dripping with gear. What do you have in mind for her?" He said clapping his hands together. Ryan scratched his chin while thinking.
"A small pistol she can hide up her sleeve, a holding mechanism to hide it, extendable wrist blades on her left hand made of silver with the UV injectors…of course and perhaps a rear ammo container." He said, the grey haired man nodding the whole time with a face on as if he was painting a picture in his head.
"Fair enough, I'll just get measurements so I can custom make them." He said walking off to get some measuring tape. When he returned he told Nekkita do stretch out her arms and stand with her back straight, he then took some measurements and gave her a pat on the back when he was finished.
"Come back in the usual time and I'll have these ready, I'll take the price off your account." He said. Ryan nodded and the two left.
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That's another chapter, I hope you liked it!