MoonMama89: that plot twist was an idea from a friend that I took to the next level. Thank you though I re-read it at least three times to make sure it fit in well and covered everything I was looking for. I sort of do have a third arc in mind if everyone wants one, but I will still have a finish to this one that is satisfying if one isn't requested. I appreciate the bit with the zombies, yes the ending I admit was a tad rushed but by that point I was honestly done with the story and I didn't have the discipline that I have now to flush it out a bit. I appreciate your honesty. As for the family thing, I appreciate that as well. Believe me I want to experience all of that myself, only with in my case hopefully more kids. I didn't used to have bad luck with guys it just sort of happened over time as I got my feelers out and realized what I wanted and when I wanted it. I recognized that in some areas I needed more time to finish with schooling and in others maturity and financial growth. Sucky part is now that I've established a bit of that I'm so ready yet there isn't a man that I'm romantically linked to, not really, that I can say were on the same page in that way and I currently live for the day I find him and have that beautiful life. The good the bad and the blur in between. I appreciate your hope. 😊

A vampires forbidden love ch.8

Usagi POV

We walk into the counsel's chambers as everyone was surrounding us. A judgement appearance if you will. "Have you come up with any further developments?" Chikao asked us. The elders to each of his sides sitting comfortably as they drank their wine and blood concoction. I could smell both. "Actually yes. We have major updates to share with you all." I looked over to the one elder that I knew despised myself, Naoyuki. A little bit of a smirk in my eyes yet I made sure none of it showed in my face.

I made sure to look at every elder in the room as a way of acknowledging everyone. Plus it granted me a way to look at Naoyuki without suspicion falling on me for what I was about to say. He looked curiously at me but was unmoved by my words which I was grateful for in the moment. I didn't want him to seem spoked just yet, "The evidence that we have is that Eldon is the one whom you're looking for to place any kind of blame on."

That's when I smelled the residual effects of wolfs bane in here again. I nearly narrowed my eyes at the knowledge. That smug bastard couldn't resist the temptation of seeing if I would end up being removed from my position as a leader here. It would be his downfall in the end as long as the elders here believed me. I held onto my faith in the truth of what we had. "I beg your pardon?" the member next to him asked.

Obviously stunned by my words. "Eldon is the culprit you're looking for in this case not myself." I answered simply. "And what is your proof?" she demanded. "After all to blame someone else for potential inadequacies is far beneath that of a respectable leader." She mocked as she drank her wine. I knew in some form Naoyuki had gotten to her and twisted things around against me.

"You are correct however, as our elder pointed out to me earlier, sometimes the truth is harder to absorb than light." I looked to Chikao, "Please allow Minako to come in. She has some of the evidence required. The rest is with me." I pulled up the fragile book that we had as well as the documented footage that Soren had managed to get from the cameras. The detailed stills were in my hands as I couldn't readily bring archive footage in here. No medium to play it on unless he sent the footage to Minako somehow.

Chikao motioned for my blonde friend to be let it, but Rei, seeing that the door was being opened for her, insisted upon entry to. The grand counsel members huffed a bit but accepted their presence. I looked back as she held out her phone. "Here." She handed it to him which showed the picture images she captured of Eldon conferencing with the Lycan. I saw his face shift from interesting to disbelief.

He looked back at Minako, "I followed Eldon out into the woods near where we were narrowing down where the Lycan pack that up and moved without cause could have gone to. I wanted to verify what I found before giving Usagi a dead lead as we are all working together on this as a team rather than as foes." Minako began. I could tell Naoyuki was beginning to shift in his seat a bit, though out of nerves or irritation was hard to tell.

Her stance was that of a leader much like myself, "Usagi asked us to help her in her aid to locate the source of where the Lycan's had gone to. Due to Eldon's negative treatment of her especially to a leading figure in her own coven which last I checked with any elder counsel member is nothing more than disrespectful and the ways he looked at me for my resemblance to her, I decided on a hunch to follow him."

I was stunned but I kept my mouth shut and the shock from my face as she effectively manipulated the entire counsel or rather everyone that wasn't an enemy of mine, into believing that I hadn't asked her to follow Eldon by using true facts and wording them properly to showcase that he caused her to distrust him enough to follow him and find this evidence to support things. Clever girl.

"I watched as he conversed with the Lycan for several minutes." I looked over and saw that Naoyuki was looking none too pleased with Minako for having my back in any form. I had already gained him as an enemy, but it seemed she was now to in her own right. "It appeared as though it hadn't been the first meeting between them. The body language alone was convincing me of this being a routine meeting spot for them.t she said.

"This made me stay longer to assure myself as to what was going on outside the estate walls." she confirmed as Chikao looked at the images on her phone. The look on his face was unsettling as his frown merely deepened. "That sir is the Lycan that attacked Mamoru." He looked up and looked towards Mamoru who nodded his head in confirmation. "He confirmed it with us later on when I brought the footage back to Usagi." Minako continued.

"We believe that Eldon conspired to have him move his pack from their home in the early hours of the am to lure us out and attack." The caused a defiant stir as Naoyuki to my left snapped in indignation, "This is ridiculous. Do you really expect us to believe such - " Chikao silenced him with a glare as he had the elder to his right to take the phone and show him the pictures before having it retrieved.

The glare he sent forth was hot enough to melt ice in the winters of Alaska and had I been a lower vampire with less training and a newbie I would have gulped in fear and lowered my head, but I wasn't. Not even in the least. "So perhaps he was forging an alliance with them for the benefit of us all." He jested. Trying to make Eldon seem as though he were trying to be for the betterment of us.

"Son last I checked it's against counsel policy and has been for over half a millennium to form ANY sort of truces or alliances without the express permission of the counsel." Our elder said and it took everything within me NOT to smile. "That is unless of course YOU gave him permission to move forward with an alliance without the consent of the remaining counsel." Our elder added on.

The remark shut him up so well I had to bit the inside of my cheek to stop from smirking in triumph. He simmered down from the other elders glares and waited as I spoke up again, "We believe that he's doing this to have myself removed from my position here as leader." I expressed as they took this in, "You fail to mention one thing." The dick to my left muttered out, "And that is?" I asked.

"You fail to mention motive. Eldon is new here and other than your lack of when it comes to leadership which he obviously saw…" he emphasized as if everyone should be aware of this, "There is no reason why he would want you out. It stands to be that despite this so-called evidence you have fabricated…" he tried to appear nonchalant, but something told me he was getting anxious over this matter.

Perhaps we were getting to him after all. The problem for him was that we were only getting started. Or rather I was only getting started on him. "That he's been proving to everyone that your leadership is not near what it should be and that your removal from your position is required." He snapped in the end. I acted nonchalant then. I made it seem as if I was actually considering his words.

I could feel the tension off of those I cared for radiating behind me as I put a hand back behind me to calm them down. I felt the dissipation but only by a little bit. I could tell Chikao noticed the subtle move and found it interesting the small and subtle display of power I pulled forth just then. "Alright then…riddle me this…" and yes, I had the nerve and gall to gloat for all of two seconds before Chikao gave me a warning look before I spoke.

"Why was he meeting with the Lycan's IF none other than the reason we presented?" my question left him pursing his lips momentarily before saying, "For all we know you invented this information to shift focus away from yourself so that we gave you more time as leader of this coven. Besides he has no motive." I smiled at his words, "Oh but he does, and it had NOTHING to do with leadership abilities." I clapped back in a polite tone.

I looked back as our elder stepped forward just a bit in his acceptance of my next words. I knew it would drag up old history that was mostly his so I wanted to be sure on everything I was presenting before presenting it to the counsel. "We also found proof that Eldon isn't who he says he is. In fact he's a much older vampire than even myself, Minako or Rei here." I didn't put Mamoru in that equation as I wanted to showcase just how much older he was than the secondary oldest ones in this room.

"What do you mean?" the elder to Chikao's right asked. I handed Chikao the ancient book for them to see Eldon or rather Emon. His portrait right there for them to see. "Anything that seems off setting I can explain." Mamoru stepped forward near me. "I did a year studying in anthropology and identified bones to the faces of people long since deceased." His tone was that of a medial in doctoral.

HE had the facial expressions of that of someone explaining a medical procedure. It was fascinating and held the counsel's attention very well. "Through extensive rendering of his facial features when it came to body structure and any remodeling done after the extensive battle with any and all injuries sustained from it as rendered from our elder himself, I came to the defining conclusion that that is Emon, Eldon is Emon…Damon's thought to have been deceased brother." He concluded.

The shock of gasps that was heard from the counsel members as one even spit out her blood took everyone by surprise. "Impossible." Chikao muttered stunned by the news as he looked at the different images. A side by side comparison if you will. "That's not possible he was killed and you assured us of that." The member who chocked on her blood and glared at our elder. I almost snapped at her but our elder stopped me.

"I had been assured by my hand picked guard that he was. Obviously he survived his wounds when none thought he would or could as I didn't know of this until I saw Eldon's picture. That is my son Emon." He confirmed for them as he motioned to Minako's phone and the picture from the old archived book. "This does confirm what you've been stating thus far." Chikao stated still stunned to see the truth of it himself. "This merely confirms that we have the true leader of the coven here at our disposal." Naoyuki snapped.

I couldn't help my glare this time even as Mamoru, Minako and even Rei whipped their heads around at him for his ridiculousness over the matter. "Oh for the love of - give it up already!" I knew I might get yelled at for this but I'd held my tongue from him long enough. My eyes burned with white hot anger at him and not only his view of me but his disregard for the actual matter at hand here.

"You're only fighting this because you have such a distinctive hatred of me for putting an end to Damon's life!" I snapped at him as the other members looked between us both in shock. I think my own behind me were shocked that I was not only standing up to an elder but standing up to him in front of the whole counsel. You either had to be incredibly brave or incredibly stupid to attempt such a feat.

"You've gotten to the point where you're allowing your personal feelings to cloud your judgement and help this hateful, disturbed individual so he can run this coven and full fill a deadly life-long dream of his that could destroy us all!" I knew it was going to be a shocking move to pull off. I mean to accuse a counsel member of such a thing, but he had this coming and it was true. "How dare you raise your voice to me you impudent pet whore!" he yelled at me as I resisted the urge to cower.

Plus I was really getting pissed off at being called that name. I wasn't a pet whore anymore and hadn't been one in a long while. I hated it when I was, but I did what I had to do. "Why? Can't stand to hear the truth?" I nearly growled back at him in my anger. "Your wayward tongue is going to get you in more trouble now." He looked to the other counsel members as if outraged by my actions.

"Can you NOT all see the gall of this former pet whore?! She's NOTHING to us! Yet you give her a coven to run!" he was nearly spitting in his rage as he sat forward in his seat. I could tell he wanted to do more but was trying to reign in his temper from doing it. "This case is so obvious I feel that the decision to have her removed should have already been commenced by now!" he raged his eye turning.

He was also deflecting so I reflected the truth back onto him in a calmer tone showcasing how much I believed in this but also showcasing the truth of it by NOT allowing my emotions to dictate how I worded it, "You know the one thing I can't figure out yet is whether you did this with him in FULL awareness of his deception therefore your OWN deception of YOUR fellow counsel members who TRUST your decisions…" I indicated them.

"With him having met with the Lycan's AND with the intention of tarnishing MY reputation as a leader AND to have myself removed from my position therefore LYING to them in full awareness of what you're doing against them…" I indicated to myself on that one then to them as I hoped that this would be the end of the case. I hoped that with my ending words he'd have no choice but to tell the truth.

"OR if you had NO idea about that and was actually USED by a vampire who was your old friends supposed to have been dead brother, or even if you knew the truth of that fact which then if you DIDN'T know makes you look even worse for allowing yourself to get conned by a vampire at all considering your status in here as a grand elder!" I verbally smacked him down so hard I could practically see the smoke coming from his ears.

He honestly wanted me dead. No beyond dead. He wanted my very existence to be nothing more than ashes. It was when Chikao looked at him with a mix of warning and anger that made me hope that no blood, other than from the metal glasses would get spilled today, "Naoyuki?" his questioning in the name alone had Naoyuki turning his burning hot red eyes from me to him to me again in utter hatred.

The way Chikao said his name was a severe warning of 'you better be careful what you say next' and 'this better be just ridiculous theoretical or else there will be severe consequences to pay for this'. I think Chikao really hoped that my words were merely hearsay considering I was accusing a counsel member here. Yet when I looked at Naoyuki I had to admit that I'd never in my years seen such intensified level of blinding detestation leveled at me before as his focused shifted to me in its entirety.

Before I could even gasp he rose from his seat and blurred towards me in his blinding hate before our elder stepped in the way and hit him hard enough back to have him hit his own seat. Mamoru himself was in front of me. His body acting as a shield on the off chance Naoyuki got past our elder. Fat chance but it was in Mamoru's instincts to protect me as his mate. I pulled him closer to myself so that I could see what was happening. Naoyuki was incredibly fast for me not to have seen that right away but I also hadn't counted on him losing it like that.

"Do NOT forget your position here!" our elder rose his voice up. Something we rarely heard from him, "You are a GRAND ELDER! YOU MUST ACT LIKE IT!" his words loud and booming in the room. Minako, Rei and Mamoru all stood by his side like protective children around him. That was the level of respect and loyalty he garnered from everyone in our coven and those around him.

They would risk their lives for him. THAT WAS RESPECT. That you ONLY got from doing the right thing and NOT from being underhanded or from being like Naoyuki was and attempting to attack someone our elders expressed more than once as being a child to him. You DON'T go after an elders family, blood or otherwise. Naoyuki truly fucked himself over when he pulled that stunt. I watched as the beyond pissed off elder stood back up, the glare evident in his eyes as he disapproved of our elder's choice of protectiveness.

"Ah the dutiful father figure…" he began, his face in an unwavering snarl of utter disapproval, "Who chose some piece of shit pet whore, the same one his OWN son used for hundreds of years to do WHATEVER he wanted, for a daughter figure and leader because oh yes he lost his own before she was even born. Such a waste and a pity." He stunned us all and had many of us growling at him for his audacious cruel words but everyone was silenced by Chikao's damning words, "Naoyuki!" he began.

The red eyed elder whom hated me beyond words could describe right now was now standing in the war path of one of the grandest elders in the room. Chikao not only stood up but in a move I can only describe as beyond a blur got nearly in front of Naoyuki as if to give the elder vampire one last chance at redemption, yet also show cased that if he were provoked he would literally kill him on the spot.

Thing was everyone knew that and yet we also knew that no one would dare stop him nor could anyone truly stop him. I looked to our elder and saw the look of disgust enter his face and knew even he wouldn't bother to stop Chikao if he so decided to end the elders life. He would be the only one strong enough to be able to stop him to. I was strong but I wasn't strong enough to take on such a powerful elder by strength alone.

Yet Naoyuki didn't back down. His anger at the situation wouldn't allow it. Minako and Rei backed down only a little bit as Chikao was now angered by his words and demeanor as a highly ranked elder even as Mamoru stood closer to my side, ready to pull me out if need be, not that I needed it but his protective instincts were easy to read at this point. "You will hold your tongue regarding you own personal issues." He snapped at him.

"And to bring up such tragic memories for one of our most eldest and beloved grand elders, a personal best friend of mine and brother in arms is disgraceful, disgusting and revolting. Not to mention criticizing the adopted daughter his has to run this coven AND to such a defiling degree…" he motioned in my direction, "Yes we are aware of why she was brought into the collective here…" he looked to me in minor sympathy.

"But so was Rei at one point and many others who are now valued members of our covens and even leaders themselves!" his voice rose as Naoyuki simmered in his anger, but never relented on what he truly wanted to do, even if all he could do now was glare hatefully at me, "Rei didn't murder DAMON! She did!" he snapped back, "HE tried to kill her! HE made the attempt during an attack on the coven when EVERYONE should have been uniting together as one force, yet he let his personal feelings get in the way and it ended in his death!"

For a moment I thought Naoyuki was going to hit Chikao, he looked so ready to do it that I saw his hand begin to raise up to do it when he instead said, "Then the bitch should have bowed down and let him kill her. She's not worthy of her position as a leader NOR as a future counsel member. The counsel should remain as ONLY pure blood members. Your words in the beginning if I recall correctly." He snapped.

"This counsel had made exceptions to that rule over the last few centuries due to special extenuating circumstances." Chikao growled in anger. "More like grew weaker to accept half breed bitches into this counsel." Naoyuki snapped back. I could tell that Minako, Rei, Mamoru and myself, were all stunned by the level of balls the asshole elder had on him to talk back to Chikao to this degree and still be alive and walking.

"So it's true then? You've been working with and knowing about Emon all this time?" Chikao confirmed. Having used Naoyuki's own hateful words against him to corner him. A move I don't believe any other elder, besides ours, could have had the stones, ability or even the true cunning desire to pull it off. He was the leader of the counsel for a reason. I had to admit Chikao was a bad ass. "You knew who he was and you've been coercing and LYING to us, your fellow counsel members all this time." Chikao accused.

"I did what I had to do to protect this counsel!" he growled, "I love this counsel…more than my own family." I grew disgusted by that. Family made you stronger FOR your counsel that way they could one day take your place to keep the blood line strong. "And each time she was in here for a meeting no matter how small I despised that she was being trained to take Damon's place here. This counsel is meant for pure bloods only. The exceptions to the rules made only show us how weak we've become." He looked to me now.

"It's growing weaker and more decadent by the century and will be even weaker when she takes her seat among us." Naoyuki pointed at me. "The fact that we are growing low on pure bloods only strengthens our need to let go of past misdeeds and grant those who SHOULD be in power back their right place as heirs to their covens." His words secured him to the theory I deep down inside…he knew what Emon had done and STILL wanted him to be in power.

I pulled away from Mamoru and stood in front of our elder, "You've been conspiring against me to have Emon take over this coven with the full-blown knowledge of what he did to his OWN coven. That he murdered them all in the pursuit of assassinating his own father, an elder at that so that he could try to take over the human world which puts everyone in every coven at risk of exposure and death. What made you think you or he would get past our elder? Or the counsel for that matter?" I demanded as he looked at our elder.

"ANSWER HER!" Chikao demanded. Naoyuki spat out, "It matters not. Emon is the rightful ruler of this coven and will bring it back from the grave it's digging itself by obeying the laws of humans and the weakened laws we ourselves have passed." He looked at our elder, "Your decision to put her in charge when you should have picked your sword back up to lead has led to this." He angrily spat. "You forgetting one thing though." Rei spoke up, having stood silently as Minako and Mamoru did.

Her amethyst eyes were dark in her condemnation against him, "Damon choose her to be his second in command. You're so called friend. The one you 'fight' for." She used quotation marks to emphasis her point, "When she killed him it was an act of mercy not an act of murder. He had damaged his reputation with us all by his actions even before the major fight last year took place." She told them but mostly to him.

"He was avidly avoiding his responsibilities as a leader and choosing to instead seek comfort in the arms of another pet whore as you so lovingly referred to us. Then DURING the battle he fucked up by letting his own emotions get the best of him and attack both her and Mamoru who were both fight for our kind. Usagi was leading us where he had stepped back and presented an extreme lack of caring any longer. We stopped looking to him as a leader before the final battle had even begun." I was a bit shocked by that admission.

I never thought Rei would have my back in such a manner to such a degree. "She put to rest any more damage that he could do to himself…or his family name." she looked to our elder on that note. "After all the responsibilities of a second in command are to protect the leader no matter what, until such time when that leader becomes a harm to the coven or himself then and only then does he forfeit his title and rank as a leader and designate him or herself as an enemy." I held back the thankfully response of appreciation for her words.

"Usagi did what she had to do to protect us all from his vengeful wrath in the end. He'd lost it knowing he'd lost her to another." Rei finished. "Ahh the pet whores that work together have the others backs together." He quipped. "Not really…" she added on, "For the longest time I despised her." I looked to her a bit shocked that she was admitting to that part. I always knew she didn't care the greatest for me to have her voice out her dislike was admittedly unsettling even if it was true.

"I hated that Damon preferred her over me, that he took to wanting to be with her and even making her his second in command over me, yet I grew to realize that she was a much better leader than he was or that even I could be. Damon had made the right call and you seem to forget that HE made THAT call." She turned to me in a way of saying 'were good now but it wasn't always good'.

"It took his dismissal of everyone for me to see that and for me to see her as a friend and confidant rather than someone to hate simply because of petty reasons. She's an amazing leader and has learned a lot from Damon over the centuries or else why would he have entrusted her to be his second to take over if he were to perish?" She concluded. The room was thick with tension from her words and from the argument between Naoyuki, Chikao, our elder and myself. "I think this matter has gotten out of control." Chikao stated.

Naoyuki made to say something when Chikao said, "NO further interruptions as I will deal with you in a moment." I nearly gulped for the elder…nearly. "Usagi due to the nature of recent events I'm willing to sideline the error in judgement made considering where it came from." He began, "This is be - " a metal glass flew at Naoyuki's head so fast it almost hit him. He barely dodged it in time as it seemed to come from nowhere, "I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions." Chikao said.

"That was excellent." Mamoru whispered behind me as the elder that hated me gulped just a bit on that one. "I've heard enough and not only am I still stunned by the level of information received I'm also incredibly disappointed in those around me." He looked down at me first, "I do understand that you were set up and for that I am sorry for that…especially since it was done in part by one of our own that's supposed to help guide and not hinder." He sent a glare at Naoyuki for that.

"Brother…" he looked to our elder next, "For his words though truthful are uncalled for I do apologize for that as he doesn't speak for everyone here." He then shockingly turned to Mamoru, "Your back-round is enabling positive changes all around from what I hear and your presentation regarding Eldon as Emon is befitting a second in command along with your protective instincts for your mate as well as leader." Mamoru nodded behind me as a thank you.

"Rei I appreciate your words as you speak of not only experience but also of your own emotional ties and to so put forth one that you had considered a rival for centuries into a positive light speaks greatly of how evolved you and she have both become over time. Not letting past issues guide your current path." He glared at Naoyuki for that, "It shows some vampires are able to evolve as others aren't." he snipped.

"Minako even for you to come forth with this evidence having helped out another coven leader even as she helps out your own coven from the fight taken on last year is remarkable. Working together in unison so tightly and well-coordinated is a remarkable feat and shows your great abilities as a leader of your respective coven especially in coming together with this one here." He commends as both Rei and Minako bow their heads in appreciation.

"Usagi you've certainly garnered respect and loyalty from the furthest points one could have imagined considering your many…positions here…" I swallowed as he spoke, "Both past and present and I must say I'm impressed from where you've come from…from where you've ALL come from. I do expect to see this same level of dedication from all of you continuing forward as you evolve within the covens." He notated to us all.

"As for you Naoyuki…you've DELIBERATELY defied us all. You LIED to us all and broke secrete VOWS that we took in place centuries ago to uphold the sacred duty that we all shared as a collective counsel. All for personal reasons to allow a murderous monster into power." He turned his face away from him for but a moment as if he couldn't bear to look at Naoyuki before glaring back at him, "YOU will be judged for your crimes against us all AND for your crimes against her!" Chikao spat.

"All those in favor of having Naoyuki effectively removed from this counsel show your hands." Everyone in the room rose their hands in favor of his removal. "This is an OUTRAGE!" He rose up from his seat. "The only outrage here is how you've continued to break the rules and laws we have in favor of personal gains. You will not be shown an ounce of leniency. Leave and don't return." Chikao simply said. "I'd rather have as you called them 'half breed bitches' in here than someone who cannot be trusted." He finished.

"You'll regret this. Mark my words…soon you'll be seeing things my way." Naoyuki stormed out of the chambers glaring at me hatefully as it felt like great weight of negativity left out the doors with him. Along with a fleeting scent of wolfs bane. I couldn't believe it. I had completely forgotten about Emon being in the room. With all the tension going around back and forth and everything being revealed he had been here and LISTENED to everything that had been said. I had a feeling he had left out but I didn't know for sure just yet.

"Sir, if I may I do believe that there has been another party in here this whole time under our radar." I stated. Chikao looked at me oddly, "He's been using wolfs bane to cover his own scent, the same wolfs bane that's found near a large section of where we were also suspect of where the lycan's could be. Minako was near there herself." I stated, "That doesn't make any sense, Lycan's hate that." Another elder said.

"True but if they wanted to evade where they wouldn't be found and have us lose their scent their best bet would be to hide near a large growing crop of it near the woods to throw off suspicion." I began, "I believe Emon has been using the wolfs bane to hide his scent from us and using it as a deterrent against the Lycan's he working with so they DON'T try something against himself." I added.

This had Chikao calling in the guards to search the room we were all in. Several seconds passed as they came up empty save for a few flower fragments behind Naoyuki's chair, "He was hiding behind his 'benefactor' In here the whole time." I muttered. Of all the times Naoyuki had me on the defense and offense Emon was listening in on everything. "But how could we not have even seen him?" one of the elders asked.

Chikao rolled his eyes and cursed himself, "Naoyuki showed him the secret tunnel passage out. Rat bastard." he turned around and stood up before we all followed in his lead as he felt the wall around the torch on the wall and pressed in on the seemingly innocent brick only to reveal a hidden tunnel that not even I was aware of. "How did I never know this existed?" I muttered to myself in shock.

"Because this is only meant in extreme emergencies for counsel members to use on the off chance Lycan's or humans managed to over-power the coven and get inside. It's a failsafe for our escape." Chikao explained, "And Emon's been using it to play eavesdropper." I quipped as he shut the entrance back up. "Where does it lead to?" I asked, "A tunnel that empties out a half a mile away from here into an empty field that we own to ensure our own protection on that end as well." It was clever I'll give it that.

"Usagi we need you to go after Emon now. Bring him back. Alive if possible so that he can pay for his crimes or if not…dead to a sure us all that he won't be able to do anything that could jeopardize us all." Chikao ordered. I nodded, "I'll make sure of it." I promise, "If it's death for him bring us back his head for proof of mission completion." I nodded at Chikao's words as those I came in with left together.

Emon POV

I cannot believe that stupid rat bastard. I took off running through the passage way I had long since known about. It's what enabled my survival all that time ago in my own coven. Cowardly traitors they were to think that they could stop me. Only temporarily so though. I would still make this work. I only wished that that bitch hadn't figured me out so easily. I had underestimated her and her small group of friends. It would not be a mistake that I would make again…starting with that elder.

He next to Mamoru were her biggest weaknesses. The father figure and the mate. MY father! I felt like in a sense she'd stolen him from me when he sided with her instead of agreeing with Naoyuki. Then again he always did have a weakness for humanity. Blinded by it. Letting the humans take over when we are the rightful heirs to this world. It's ours for the taking and yet he cowers like the rest of them in covens all over the world.

I knew I could only go to Naoyuki for a reason. He was the only one that could truly understand that my views were the right ones for a powerful leader. My own father was to weak to see it and even though Damon had his moments of weakness with the right brother behind him he could have succeeded with his coven. I wished I hadn't waited so long. I figured I'd wait till our father handed him the reigns for good then come back out of hiding but then Usagi had to kill him pulling me out of hiding earlier than anticipated even if it was wanted.

I ran till I reached the end of the tunnel and burst through it before taking off running some more, further into the woods as I ran back to my renovated coven. Where my Lycan army awaited me. I knew I still held an ally with Naoyuki but for now his cover with being in league with me was burned and I needed to let him lick his wounds till he sought me out. For now I had to ensure that the Lycan army I had was trained enough to endue what Usagi had been training her fellow students to.

I couldn't help smiling at that. Yes it took decades to learn what she knew and to be as skilled as she was but when you have an eidetic memory such as mine it wasn't hard at all to learn everything you needed to know to kill someone. Usagi would die at my hands and I would make sure that that lousy father of mine died with her. Her Mamoru would suffer knowing his mate was dead and by killed by my hands or kill himself out of agony…the very thing I wished my father had done when our mother was killed.

While I did care for mother getting pregnant again to another child to take my brother away from me was NOT going to happen. Damon was the only one who truly understood my darkness. Who cared for me and was there for me. The love of a brother goes deep and that brat in her was threatening to take that from me. I enjoyed it so much whenever she fell or had an 'accident' and was so happy when that Yamamoro took her life.

Yet no one shared in my happiness. My brother least of all. It disappointed me that he couldn't be happy to spend time together as brothers yet again. Instead he conformed and accepted whereas I didn't. Truthfully I wish I had had a hand in how Yamamoro got so close to my mother's death. For she had it coming when she became pregnant. Just like Usagi has it coming for murdering him and taking him from me permanently.

For over half a millennium I've waited for a chance at a reunion and while I was upset that he didn't try to seek me out he knew he believed me to be dead as the others did. It quelled the anger that I had as I held back and let times roll on. Secretly rebuilding my coven over the several hundred years that passed by. Making it impenetrable so that no other but myself could get in without my letting them in.

If Usagi thought even for a second that she as getting away with this simply because the counsel was too weak to do to her what should have been done and I don't care that Damon made her second in command. She was as Naoyuki said…nothing. She was my brother's mistake. Nothing more and now, soon enough she was be nothing but ashes when I destroyed her and those she held dear to her.

I had to think on this properly. I had to figure out how to kill those she loved within the confines of that estate but I had to be fast and smart about it. My own cover was blown now as was Naoyuki's so I had to find someone to get me in without risk. The first person that I truly wanted to take out though was my father. As much as I hated Usagi for killing Damon I despised him more for taking my brother from me all those years ago.

Ever since we were kids he tried to separate us. He thought I was a bad influence on Damon. If anything I made him stronger and more powerful. Yet he got Damon to become more human, to accept that the world belonged to the humans when in reality it's not. I learned that eons ago yet he convinced Damon in the end to remain behind the walls of his coven. It's why I needed to kill him all those generations ago.

To assassinate him and free my brother from my father's blinding human words of love and devotion to family. The only true bond and family is the one between brothers that understands the growing darkness within the other. I could tell the brat growing in our mother's belly was going to be more human. Something in me just spoke of it. Naoyuki recognized the darkness with in me and nurtured it in a way that my father couldn't comprehend.

Naoyuki was more of a father figure to me than that pathetic elder ever was to me. Such blind hopes that I would be 'redeemable' as his son. That I would see the light and accept that humans ran the world and we merely lived in it, "Such a pathetic waste of an elder's life…all that power yet no will to truly use it and make the world their own." I muttered as I kept running and running still further.

Only beginning to slow down once I realized I was not only in the clear but ran till my vampire side was now tired. It was as straight run for an incredible duration of time. I had almost cleared the woods to. Home would be closing in. Plus Naoyuki was absolutely correct in everything he said. My father was just to ignorant and pathetic to see it and to stand so proudly by HER side was nothing more than a slap in our faces as his only sons. I was only thankful that Naoyuki stood up for me in there since I couldn't.

Even if it did burn his cover of helping me. He would be rewarded greatly. Especially having been the only one that knew I was still alive. Giving me aid and reprieve over the generations with no one knowing what he was doing. No one ever did ask an elder, no one would dare to do so. I have more to thank for him so yes I would ensure he was granted full access if he ever choose to come to me for aid.

It was the least I could do for all what he's done for me. I just had to see whom else could be of service to myself. That's when I received a text from none other than Naoyuki. Don't have much time. Stay at your coven till stated otherwise. He sent me. I asked him only one thing…who else can get me back into Damon's coven? I smiled ignoring his advice. I needed to take care of something important.

It's utterly unwise to go back. He responded. I merely smiled and responded. You go to my coven and wait for me there. I have one last thing to do before I take a hiatus and go underground for a moment. There was silence for but a moment before he responded back. One last text. Whatever you do make it worth your while and fast and priority one is DON'T blow you're only shot in killing her. I didn't just sacrifice my seat for nothing.

And there it was the one name I needed to read. Sent over. The only other vampire that could get me in that no one would suspect. Everyone's guards were down now so this would be perfect. I mean seriously, who would expect me to come back and make this risk after everything that's happened? It was perfect. The grin on my face couldn't get any wider as I made new plans. She would fall hard after this one.