I slow our vehicle down as soon as a dim light from the camp reaches my eye. As we get closer, I notice there being more movement than usual. Because of that I decide to park further from it.

"Will you stay here?" I ask my mom hoping that she decides to remain safe in a car.

Without answering she opens the doors and rushes out immediately, so I follow.

"I can't trust you to find Paige, Penryn." Her simple words still cause the same exact pain even after countless insults and attacks. This time I choose to ignore it as we have things to do before the Blood Hunt starts.

Midway me and my mom turn separates ways. She goes looking for Paige and I go the same direction Raffe and I just walked. Obi needs to know everything. He may be the only one that could be trusted in situations like this.

"Can we talk?" I ask as soon as the doors to the meeting hall opens. The only answer I get is the pales faces of everyone around the table including the twins who always try to stay positive.

"Did something happen?" I stutter and close the doors behind Me. Obi is nowhere to be seen and the situation becomes clear even before I am informed about the incident.

Seeing them all like this makes me feel even worse about what I have yet to tell them but there is no Time to be sentimental, so I do it anyways.


"So, what is the plan?" Dee asks. His eyes desperately trying to get the answer from everyone in this tiny room.

Unfortunately for him, nobody has anything to say. They lower their eyes and get lost in their thoughts. I start wondering whether they have already lost any hope they possessed before Obi died.

I try to push all the negatives thoughts out of my head. And turn to Doc.

"What stage is the plague you have been creating in at the moment?" I ask. Doc raises his eyebrows at me as if I have said something stupid but the glim in his eyes tells me that he has been waiting for someone to mention it.


"I have been trying it for few weeks now." Doc says with excitement in his voice as the doors to his lab widely open. "Every time I try it does more and more damage to their bodies. I think we may be able to improve it by the morning if I am being very optimistic."

I know I have brought this up but the idea that I am willing to sacrifice Raffe and his Watchers for the sake of killing other angels makes me want to puke. But I am doing it for the right reasons. I need to save my family and everyone in this camp. If anything happens to even one of them I will be forever blaming myself as they would not be in danger if I had not brought Raffe here with Me.

"Penryn?" Doc waves his hand before my eyes. It hit me after a few seconds that I have not been listening to him at all.

"Yes? I am sorry. Just a little sick." I mutter. Sick of what I am about to do and what I have already brought into this world by simply existing.

"As I have said, I feel like I know what it lacks." Never before have I seen him so confident about his work. I bet he knows how to make it but I am not sure if I want him to. "We will just need a test Subject. One shall be enough."

"I will get it. What will you need?" I ask still not aware of the situation I am being pushed into.

Doc seems to be done with me. I might have missed something else.

"An angel, Penryn. We are trying to kill angels." He exhales slowly, a light laughter follows shortly after. "I thought it was obvious."

I blink trying to get back to reality. He is expecting me to catch an angel for this.

"How am I supposed to get it?" The hysterical laugh erupts from me before I gain any control over my confused emotions. "Seriously, Doc. Maybe there is another way?"

"No. Besides I do not think it may be a problem for you." He comes closer to me as he says it. "I am aware that you have made some acquaintances among them. So?"

"You need to think of something else." I spit the words out of my mouth. There is no way I am doing this.

"And you need to get your priorities straight, miss Young." I am not sure how to react but before I can respond some people from the old camp rush inside the room.

"We caught an angel," they say simultaneously. "He is badly injured but we thought it would be useful."

Doc smiles as he looks at me. I have been spared.

We run to the corridor to see the dying angel and I try to make sure it is not someone I know. Lucky me, this angel reminded me of no one in my life. So I sight and let Doc do his work. I stand outside of the laboratory and watch everything unfold from further away through the tiny peace of glass installed in the already broken doors.

It might have been hours or only half one of Doc mixing the solution. Either way, I am not aware as all the possible scenarios of how this could go has been running through my mind. Finally, he injects the barely resisting angel. I badly want to shut my eyes but instead it locks on the celestial body covered with mud as well as blood and I can only stare as his veins on the forehead start to bulge and eyes get filled with blood, the same one he starts choking on.

He died. Doc looks at me not so proud of his work and confirms it. He might have some morals after all.

"What now?" I ask as I open the doors slightly. He turns his gaze away.

"We duplicate.".


The darkness in the sky is fading with every heartbeat and every passing second. It is going to be a magnificent dawn it crosses my mind. I wish I could sit here and watch. Except the skies are about to be colored red instead of blues and gold. This setting of the sun is reminding me of that one damn sunset, the day I first met him, the day I lost my sister. It was as beautiful as it gets. Even if it is long time gone it will forever stay in my memory like a stain.

The whole camp is being evacuated. Doc has multiplied the plague and infected the bullets as well as other weapons. Angels might think we are silly when they see our little effort to kill them off but they will be greeted with a surprise.

I managed to suppress the urge to go to the Aerie and warn Raffe. Maybe he will be smart enough to know that I would not leave the camp just like that to be razed to the ground.

The moment lasted one more second before I started to notice the creeping of hundreds of shadows in the sky. Apparently, Uriel and his followers decided to go the same route Raffe did. Smart of him, having in my mind that Raphael stayed with humans for a hot minute. Bad for us if we run out of bullets.

I lock the doors behind myself as I enter the main building.

"Let's go on the roof," Boden whispered to the room of about fifteen people who stayed to end this massacre.

With the twins on both of my sides I leave the corridor and get exposed to the cold breeze. We all receive guns and take our positions.

It seemed like the ages had passed before angels decided to take on any action. As soon as they speeded up our way the fire broke out and plague was released to the atmosphere.

The sky got filled with smoke and screams, both human and angel. They might have gotten someone fast enough for anyone to react.

I grit my teeth. I barely manage to make shots due to my hands shaking heavily. Few more minutes and my head start to spin. I fall backwards not being able to see or hear a thing because of this chaos and smoke all around me.

Only thing I hear is how fast my heart is beating and my ears ringing. I feel blood leaving my mouth as I press the palm on my stomach. So, I reach for the doors to get back inside. The pain is unbearable. I try to think of how I could have been shot. I am sure angels were not carrying any other weapons but their swords. Someone of our own must have got confused.

I reach the stairs and try to look for a wound. Instead, the sight in front of me turns black and I fall.


hello, everyone.

I hope you had great holidays.

I know it has been awhile since I updated my story but I still want to continue it despite having a lack of motivation to write in general. That being the reason this chapter is a little too raw and cut in my opinion but I still wanted to upload something so here you go. I will try to be more consistant with it in the future. i hope your are enjoying the story. If you have any criticism regarding my writing or the plot itself feel free to tell me so as I am trying to improve.

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