MoonMama89: thanks I recalled the scene in the underworld franchise where marcus got to see his father once more and the tension that brewed between the son and father and HAD to come up with a way to get a similar interaction between Emon and the elder BUT I disliked that Alexander died in the franchise so I made sure that the elder would survive this. He's a friggin' elder of course he needs to live! Lol I was intending for the female elder to have some sympathy go towards her but I decided in the end to make her one of those characters that your curious on where she stands and in the end she's a small mix of Semira from the underworld franchise and Kathrine from TVD. Both hate the main character for different reasons themselves (in this case because of how purity was pounded in them as young vampire ages) but both have definingly similar characteristics. You'll see coming up soon. 😊 perhaps… 😉 glad your enjoying the show!
1 review, glad you guys are still enjoying this, there's some major shifts coming up and a big battle coming in that will hopefully have you all moved and stunned. I just have to detail it out. I would have last week but the new guy I started to see took me out and we would up talking from 7pm…ish to nearly 2am. Very nice guy and we would have been out last night but he had to fly out to Nashville later on this evening and will be in St. Louis till Wednesday with his brother. Anyways please read and review.
A vampires forbidden love: the lies that bind us ch.11
Usagi's POV
"I'm going to take a stab in the proverbial dark here and guess that you know more than your letting on…like WHERE Emon and Naoyuki are holding themselves up." I looked at her knowingly. She pursed her lips for but a moment before saying, "Like you said I know a lot…you can know all that you desire on one condition." Of course, there's a condition! Why wouldn't the information she has have a stipulation attached to it…I muttered mentally to myself as I wanted to slap the table in frustration.
"Let me get this straight here…" I began, holding my anger back from saying something truly nasty to her here, after all we needed to know all of what she knew regarding them. "You almost got our elder killed by letting in a morally and quite frankly demented psychotic dick-wad of a monster in here and you want to bargain with his and Naoyuki's whereabouts, the same ones that used you for however long that was?!" I ground out between my teeth, trying not to lose my cool after everything that had happened.
She stood more cool now herself, falling back from the appearance of guilt into that of what the power of her knowledge held. Any sympathy previously held for her being used fell to the sidelines as I recalled the moment I saw our elder bleeding in his own room. Too much blood. I watched as she ignored me and turned to Chikao and the other two elders in the room. Minako, Rei, Makoto and myself falling to the sidelines in her eyes.
"I want a guarantee of safety and security and safe passage out of here. Cause once I tell you where they are neither of them will stop in coming for my blood for giving them up so yes…" she turned her head back to me, anger seeping into her words, "I'm bargaining the information I have to save my ass from two very old and very powerful vampires that wouldn't have a problem with killing me." She snapped at me.
"Something you should know a little something about." My eyes widened at her words, "That was different! I bargained to save my FAMILY from death your bargaining to save your own ASS!" I snapped back. How dare she indicate that I understood her on a personal level. She and I were nothing alike. I would have gone to the counsel as soon as Naoyuki would have issued that threat but she choose to go forward and LET Emon inside here.
That's on her and her alone one hundred percent. Fine they would have hunted her down but she could have turned to the counsel for help and they would have protected her. Otherwise she wouldn't be spilling the beans now so it just proves she knows she fucked up and is trying to yet again save her own skin. She was a weasel and I was starting to see what Naoyuki saw in her to use her so.
Granted her telling us everything is more because she was caught but still. I wouldn't have tried to hide under a rock at the first sign of trouble. She did. "So don't you even think or even dare try to put us in the same boat cause we're not even close." I stated in a clipped tone indicating between us both. "Your right…were not…" she admitted before getting a higher than thou look in her face that had me itching to slap it off.
"After all only a pure blood would be smart enough to save their own asses than to waste time trying to save family that was already bound for death." I looked to her oddly for that statement as my blood began to boil higher. She actually had that audacity to smirk a little. "In case you didn't know, the Lycan's were moving into the territory for fresh new food. Why do you think Damon was there?" she had that gal to smile at me.
I looked around at the other three elders as they gave me the tiniest of warning looks not to act out against her. Never had I known the luck of an elder before this moment as I wanted to bitch slap that smile from her face as it grew wider. But I couldn't as there were two other elders standing in the same room and it wouldn't have helped any of us much in the end. Instead I had to listen her words.
"He was picking through your little village or town whatever the hell it was off, taking what he wanted form it before they took what they wanted which was everything else inside of it. Nani? He didn't tell you that part? Shame. Or perhaps records were altered to showcase something else?" I clenched my knuckles so tightly that I felt the nerves under the skin threaten to rip apart from the inside.
"He in a sense saved your life or else you would have been ripped apart by those animals and killed centuries ago. Though perhaps that would have been better. We might NOT be where we are today if it weren't for that decision of Damon's…but who knows…I suppose we never will." She sounded so smug about it to. Minako made the conscious movement to grasp onto my hand to warn ME to hold back from acting out.
A move I know she made for me rather than for her as even she, Rei and Minako understood on some level my anger towards her cruel words. So instead with her hand on mine I spoke very low and steady, "If I were you I'd be very grateful for your role and position here AND for the fact that there's THREE elders here in this room with us…otherwise as kami – sama as my witness…" she had the decency to let a facial muscle twitch in response to the underlying threat in my voice at her words.
This is the death of my family were taking about. It's not a trivial matter here. It may have meant nothing to her since it wasn't her family but it meant a great deal to me. I was raised by them from birth. I loved them and still did. I always would, but for her to be so callus and cold regarding that night was uncalled for. And this is the same vampire elder who's the reason our elder is in the infirmary healing from stab wounds to begin with.
Before I could respond any further in my anger Chikao stated, "You couldn't be more wrong." I looked up at him as he spoke, putting a small dent in my rage right now by subtle reminding me that there were two elders present and she was being handled by them now. I step the step back that I hadn't realized I'd taken forward. "Regarding the need to save one's own family that is." He began, letting me know that while her words were cruel that it didn't mean it wasn't the truth she was speaking.
"The purest bloodlines of vampires rely heavily upon family so that there is someone to take the previous elders place. Its why Emon had been given his own coven, even though he decimated them, and why Damon was being prepped to take over here before he was losing his focus and why she was being prepared to take over in his steed once he started to falter. It wasn't just because of his choice to make her a second in command." He stated.
That I hadn't known. It tampered my anger down a little bit more. I thought that the loosing focus part hadn't been till the last few weeks to a few months but perhaps there were things I hadn't been aware of in the meetings with him that they saw as a negative. I wasn't present for all of them after all. So to know that once he started to falter they have already began to prepare me for a life of leadership was very shocking.
"We prefer pure bloodlines believe me Kitiara…however, as you've seen with Emon and later on Damon sometimes the alternative solution…" he looked to me, "Serves a grander purpose in the end. Usagi is that alternative solution to us still being able to succeed in our growing mission in the end." He concluded that part though he still had things to say. It was written all over his face, "We will however grant you your protection and security from both Naoyuki and Emon IF the intelligence on where they are is proven correct." He stated.
I hated that that was all she was getting. I wanted her to suffer for her actions. A true punishment and not simply living in fear as once I killed Emon and Naoyuki was captured there was no fear left to live in. She'd be free of that fear and live in solitude till she decided it was time to die peacefully, but I couldn't demand more. It wasn't my place nor did I hold any true authority to make such a request.
Neither did the girls to my side whom I could tell wanted to see her suffer more as well. Minako was looking at her with distain as Rei looked at her in disbelief with Makoto. In truth we were all stunned by the elders actions. Elders were supposed to be the ones who upheld the laws we had to keep order amongst the covens. Yet she gave proof to us all that that wasn't the case regarding her nor Naoyuki.
Naoyuki had been an ass from jump start but her deception, even if it started form her being used, was no excuse. So for us it was like seeing a crack in the foundation of what we believed in as a whole for our community which was the EXACT reason why we did it the way we did for this meeting. We couldn't allow the crack to progress and break the foundation entirely. We had to in a sense calk it up, where we could to stop it from spreading.
I looked over to them and though none of us wanted to we all agreed for the sake of EVERY vampire and coven out there, other than Emon's that this would remain between us. The only other person to express this to was Mamoru when the time came. We made the silent agreement to protect everyone and to prevent discord from beginning to erupt. After all once an elder that was found to be corruptible what would it do for the rest of the leaders and vampires that followed in line after that?
There were to many negative possibilities that could happen. Mutinies could form. Granted there was no guarantee but a tipping point could happen and it was something that no coven could afford to have happen. It could lead to a downfall. So we would keep this event between those of us in this room. Only two outside would know, Mamoru and our elder and neither would dare speak of it going forward. I watched as no one else disobeyed Chikao's granting of her request for safety and security.
The bitch elder that I called her now lifted her chin up and said, "I will accept this." As she held out her hand in joint agreement in front of everyone here. A show of good faith that her word meant a great deal and perhaps to them it did but for us it showed she wanted absolute certainty of what she wanted and needed going forward. It was in her eyes as she looked at me after shaking his hand. The bitch had won.
I sighed and held in my true words and stated only, "We think we've found the place." They looked to me, "Where Emon and possibly Naoyuki MIGHT be. You confirm its right, and once WE confirm it in person before we raid it, you will then get your promised security, BUT…" and I looked to the other elders to dare defy this one request I had as it was only logical and nothing personal involved, "ONLY AFTER we've confirmed it." I told her.
None of the elders corrected or interjected after my confirming statement. I wasn't letting her get her way without confirming what she knew first. I wasn't taking any more chances even with an elder now. I only held trust enough in Chikao and that was only because he and our elder were very close as friends. I didn't know the other two well enough to hold that trust value, not after this had happened. Another reason to keep this whole thing under wraps.
Trust in our fellow elders would wain further and respect in their decisions would be lost to the younger vampires here. More rogue nature would happen and covens would begin to become chaotic. It would lead to decent. At least with only us in the room it was contained. Extinguished out before it could become something greater. It was also why I was making sure she confirmed things with us prior so that it didn't GET out of hand.
"Fine." She agreed to is as we all lead her to the command room where Soren was. "This is interesting." He stated at the scene before him as I muttered to him, "You don't know the half of it." "The other elders came in and looked to me to see if Soren needed to leave, "He'll keep it quiet to." Before I looked to him as he nodded his head yes to confirm his loyalty to keep it secret, "Whatever she asks of me." He confirmed verbally.
They nodded their acceptance of his support of me as he guided them over to the table and monitor we had. Once she confirmed that the spot we had found on the satellite map was in fact it for their hidden coven Chikao took her face in his palm and said in the deadliest words I had ever heard uttered from him mouth in such a near gentle way I actually gulped hoping NEVER to be on the receiving end of it.
"If for any reason this is a trap of some sort, if we find that your still in some small way working with Naoyuki and Emon, IF we find out that there's ANYTHING you're NOT telling us that could help out in any manner of killing Emon and capturing Naoyuki…" I saw the widening of her eyes at the nature of his small yet very powerful threat. It sent the fear in her he desired her to feel as he nearly smiled at his next words.
"Then I will make sure that Naoyuki is NOT executed and is in fact put in solitude near you so that you will live in your fear for the rest of your life." Her eyes widened up tremendously at that. To have a pissed off elder living near you even if held captive was a thing to truly fear and live in fear of. "Especially for such treachery against your own counsel AND for the treachery done against a grand elder by allowing a homicidal maniac entrance into one of the most secured covens around."
She had the decency to gulp at his words in fear. She truly feared him and in all honesty IF that were me I would probably be shaking a bit, "I promise you Chikao…I may hold my views regarding certain vampires…" she looked to me but only barely since he held her chin in place before her voice hitched up a notch with a small plea etched within it, "But it doesn't mean I don't feel guilt over my actions against another elder." At least she felt true guilt for what she'd done to our elder.
"I've made my mistakes and now living in fear of the both of them is my penance to pay for eternity." It wasn't enough in my mind's eye for her, but it would have to do. Even Soren looked like he wanted to voice out a complaint but held steadfast with two elders in the room and with my warning look at him as well. I wanted to slap her for what she'd done. I wanted to say so much for the pain many of us were now in thanks to her but at this point it was mute. It wouldn't do me any good.
The deal had been made and what was done was done. However, there was one question I couldn't hold my tongue on. One question that while it wasn't cruel, nasty or anything truly bad nor would it make her go back and double down on us, "Is that really all our elder was to you…a mistake?" I asked her. She looked over at me once Chikao released her. I guess he wanted that answered as well.
"Like I said I didn't know Emon was going to go after the elder. The elder is a good vampire, very wise beyond his years. Emon was supposed to go after Usagi. His last-minute change of heart hurt us all." She stated as she complimented and held genuine remorse for what happened to our elder before sounding uncaring regarding myself as she faced me fully, "Naoyuki gave him orders to NOT 'fuck up his shot' as you'd put it, in coming back in here to kill you. I guess once he got inside, he changed his mind." she sounded assumptive.
"You've got a real set of brass ones." We all looked over at Minako as she was looking at the ground before looking back up at her. The anger in her eyes at what she wanted to truly say was in there to but she had to definitely redact whatever words she was going to use or rather how she wanted to truly talk to her in that moment of time unless she wanted to risk something far greater happening here.
"To willingly let a known murdering psychopath in here with the intent to kill the leader to save your own skin and you honestly see his attempt to kill an elder as merely a mistake made." I looked at her and this time grabbed her hand to help her cool down a bit. Rei even stepped forward as Minako, Rei, Makoto and myself had all been effected positively from the elder who lay wounded in our infirmary.
Taking to the rat that let the attempted murderer in was mentally and emotionally draining as it was beginning to show for us. She looked to me as she reigned in her true words and mere spoke the truth and not what she really wanted to say. "You don't even deserve your seat as a counsel member." Her words striking at everyone in the room as pure truth now. She looked at Kitiara as if she were lower than dirt right now.
"And you're a fucking whore…" that had us taking a deep inhale as we knew we couldn't talk back really. Not unless we were given a say so by a counsel member that wasn't her. She took a step towards Minako, even got within hitting range. I was stunned by it but also knew she was goading Minako on. A dare of sorts to lose her cool in front of everyone. I stood by her side that way IF Kitiara decided to try and strike her it wouldn't land.
It's what the leaders did for the other leaders…what we were supposed to do, we had the others backs. "You who came from a line of somewhat pure blood and stooped low enough to choose poverty in the vampire realm…a little bit like your friend here…" She looked at me referencing Mamoru as my mate before she looked back at her, making me realized she meant for Minako her chosen mate as well.
"From where I stand she made the right call. Better to be with someone you love than someone purely for appearances." Take that bitch. It eased Minako back a bit, "Love…such a foolish notion over that of power." She snapped back. "I'd rather have love than be societies whore." I put my arm in front of Minako as I saw that Kitiara was about to make a move for her words against her. "Careful of your tongue Minako…" Chikao warned. She didn't say anything further. Didn't even gulp at the under laying warning in his voice.
I walked up a foot towards the elder bitch and said, "I will state this…" she looked at me like I could do nothing to her and in truth I couldn't, not without repercussions. Didn't mean I couldn't say this though, "Emon should have killed me when he came here…he should have canceled my ass out when he had the chance to…he shouldn't have gone after our elder…" I got into her personal space.
"Cause now after what he's done…" I took one more step forward till Chikao got tense from my closeness towards her before saying, "I'm coming for him. I'm going to hunt him down, make him sorry he EVER stepped foot into MY coven then I will bring back his head, bloodied on a platter for the world of vampires to see. For Naoyuki when he's captured to see. And that's not a threat that's a fucking promise."
I saw the look in her eyes. She knew I was gunning for him now and in spite of our differences she actually looked at me with a tinge of renewed respect. She knew I would go after him and would do everything to deliver as promised. "Good luck then cause when it comes to Emon you'll need all that you can get." I nearly said something to that when she added, "I say that for a reason." I looked at her as she seemed to be trying to warn me if that were possible. I wondered what there was to know that our elder hadn't already told me about?
"He's more cunning than most vampires alone and is incredibly smart. Your elder made sure he received proper teaching and he and Damon both excelled at it even if he did have a severe attitude problem. Had he decided to stay and not be the threatening monster that he is he could have been one of the greatest leaders and elders there ever was. So do in light of our exchanges take note, he won't go down with ease." I wondered how true that part of being a leader and elder would have been given how he viewed people and vampires alike.
"I guess it's a good thing he's not then." I begin to tell her back. "Cause his way of thinking regarding vampires and humans and even lycan's is what's going to get him killed cause I'm NOT going to let it get the rest of us killed." I expressed, "You and I know, we all know deep down inside if Emon was allowed to continue going forward, with todays world we ALL eventually would have been on the run…constantly looking over our shoulders." I looked to the others in the room.
"After all who wants to believe that the boogyman that they believed was a myth is real and can kill them if they wanted to?" I looked back to her letting that sink in for a moment. The world could never handle the acceptance of us. We'd be hunted down, burned alive. Emon was sending us to our deaths all for the sake of his own deluded need for power over the world. There was no talking him down from this.
After all would you give up on a several millennial dream since you were old enough to sink your teeth into something tasty? Just to appease someone whom you hate for killing the only sibling you ever cared for or ever as you saw it, cared for you? Even if the sibling who cared for you was a douche bag dick weed that deserved it. Emon wasn't going to stop unless I stopped him…permanently.
Besides I could only imagine the panic that would surface form his actions if successful. If he wasn't stopped humans would turn to us as the new enemy to hate and want dead. They'd no longer go after each other but unite to go after us and that was if they DIDN'T want to experiment on us. Figure out how to use our abilities for warfare. Figure out how to make us weapons for them.
The list goes on and it was something we couldn't afford to let happen. Emon wasn't caring or seeing the risks only his potential gain and it needed to end. He wants to lead this coven yes and kill me yes, but he wants to lead it into a world where humans are the cattle to be herded and sadly enough humans, as weak as they are, out-number us greatly. His plan would fail, and we would wind up dealing with the fall out.
"Emon is that boogyman to the humans and we all know what the humans would do to the boogyman, the problem is they see one bad vampire they see all bad vampires, so believe me when I say I will bring his head back. Not for you though…but for EVERYONE that can be negatively affected and for those who already have been affected by him." She looked at me as I stepped back from her.
"So you go ahead and sit in your safe house and be content in your guilt and your fear for the rest of your years. You've earned it." I sneered as I turned to Chikao who ordered the other two elders and Rei and Makoto, "Ensure her safety in the dormant section of the estate till she's ready for transport." That had the bitch elder's eyes widening in shock and panic at the order given as she should be. The confidence she exuberated not more than a few seconds ago was now taking a breath as apprehension crept into her features.
"Sir…with all due respect…" she began, "I think that maybe a tad rash, don't you think?" Kitiara asked, sounding worried about the cards she was being dealt with now. The dormant section of each of the covens was meant for selective vampire prisoners to be held until they could be transported safely with the proper security to a very secured prison. The very prison that was rumored where vampires were kept at.
No one but the elders themselves and the transportation team knew of where the prison was for safety purposes. That's when the lightbulb moment suddenly occurred to me as to what Chikao was doing here. I held my smirk in place to make sure I wasn't giving something away as Chikao gave me a 'don't make a sound' glance. I held my tongue and face in check as I gave the same look to Minako, Rei and Makoto.
"It's just for the time being." He assured her which was the truth. She wouldn't stay down there indefinitely. No one did. "After all both Emon and Naoyuki know where your room is in this coven and where the coven is. They won't be able to reach you in the dormant section in here." he gave a polite neutral smile towards her. A sincere way of getting her compliance in a logical manner that I had to give his credit for.
"Don't you think that would be a good place to hide? They would never think to look for you in there." I had to hand it to Chikao he knew very well how to manipulate other vampires to do as he wanted. There was a reason why he was the grand leading elder of the counsel. She walked with the other elders along with Minako, Rei and Makoto to the dormant section of our coven as it left Chikao, Soren and me in the command center.
"Will she go to the prison?" I asked him once she was out of hearing range. I wants to make sure I could get confirmation without her being able to hear me. "She'll be sectioned off in a safer portion of the prison where the regular vampire prisoners won't be able to reach her. "I looked to him when he said that, "She's not as combat proficient as you'd think and has sent a great many vampires in there herself." I realized what he meant.
If she were to be found out to be there it would be like if a cop got sent to jail prison themselves, cops were prey to other prisoners. Especially knowing it was normally a cop that put them in prison to begin with. For the other prisoners in the system who got put there by an officer it made the officers themselves prime targets. In her case, she's the 'cop' so sectioning her off was for her own protection while she was within their walls.
So if she was live out her sentencing of however long that would be she would need to be sectioned off so that way, elder or not she would live long enough to carry out her sentence and not be killed off by fellow vampires looking to get even for being sent there by her. "She'll be safe but kept imprisoned for her misdeeds against us." I nodded my head, "A very clever deception to do so sir." I told him, "What deception? I'm an elder it's not what we do." I looked at him as he gave a tiny little smirk.
"Of course not." I gave a tiny little smirk back. She would be going to 'vampire jail' after all for what she'd done. She just didn't know it yet. She would very soon though and I guarantee you she won't be happy about it. However she did earn what she's getting done to her. "Now as for this location, once you have it confirm via visual's on Emon within the coven and have prepped up I want you to go inside and confirm the kill." I looked at him as he gave me a no-nonsense expression that I mirrored back at him.
"Consider it done." I remarked, "Soren here can help monitor us as he did the last time. Quarter backing us as we go in and ensure we don't run into any trouble." I motioned to Soren to my furthest side. He looked him over, "Good." As he walked over towards Soren. He looked him up and down as if assessing him, "My guess is your head of security?" Soren looked to me for confirmation as I nodded, "Hai, sir."
Initially like myself he started out lower but by this point he was essentially the head of security around here now just like I was leader here now. Chiako gave a small smile, "I reckon she wouldn't have placed you in this position if you weren't good at you job. So I know you will do well to ensure her and the others safety when they enter that coven. Emon is not going to be an easy target." He warned.
He turned back to me, "He will use whatever emotional triggers he can to play with your head. You must not let him get to you like that. If anything, use his own measures and tricks against him if you can." Chikao suggested, "I won't leave until I'm carrying his head out." I vowed as he said, "I know. You've never once missed your mark Usagi…I don't think you'll start now." A small warning in his voice as he walked out. "Well that wasn't intense at all." Soren remarked, "Yeah not intense at all." I agreed.
Didn't mean I didn't feel the pressure or the full weight of what was coming up hit me hard. We were down an elder for the next day or so and I still had to see Chikao later on this evening probably later on tonight for whatever he wanted to talk with me about. So yeah pressure big time and we hadn't even begun the fight yet. "You can do this you know." Soren said, making me look at him.
Perhaps I had been in my musings for to long and he suspected I was in self-doubt over things. I guess Emon managed to do his job well so far after all. "We all have faith in you." Soren pulled up camera's form all over the estate. Showing me vampires all over preparing, helping, doing their jobs without question. "You've lead us well in Damon's permanent absence…" he began as I saw the expression in his face.
"Damon was a good vampire yes, but he wasn't you. You're a better one and one that actually cares more about the coven than in pleasant indulgences." I gave a small smile to that, "You actually know our names and I don't think there was more than a dozen occurrences that Damon even called me by my name…yet you give me the respect of doing so. You give us all that." There was something in the way he spoke that made me feel brighter somehow. Less weighed down in a sense.
"When you took Yamamoro out you could have left us behind, left us to fend for ourselves till a new leader was picked. Forced us to learn to trust someone new in charge but you didn't. You stayed and encouraged us to be a team together." he smiled now, "And I know you'll keep going for centuries more to come. We believe in what you can do cause you started out like us." I knew what he meant but it was nice to hear all the same.
"You were us. You still are us." He used air quotes as if to emphasize it, but it just made us both chuckle a little bit, breaking the tension in the room. "It's what makes us know that we can be and do better cause we see what you've done. You didn't back down to Damon after a while you stood up to him and made the hard decisions that I don't think he could have made. That's what makes you a better leader…you make the hard decisions and you stick by them and your resolve to do better." He encouraged me.
"Arigato…truly…cause I'll be the first to admit Emon's a bigger bad than Yamamoro…" he nodded in agreement, the mood turning somber again. "Cause let's face it, he may not be as old as Yamamoro is…so therefore not as strong BUT…" I looked up at the satellite footage. "He's been in our coven." I look to him so that he knows how serious this is for me, for us all as the image of his coven comes up.
"He knows our methods, our routines, he was very clever to play the role of a newbie." It was something I was still peeved at myself for not realizing earlier. Maybe then we could have done something sooner. "His tricks, lies and deceptions, it gave him an all access pass to the insides of our coven." That much we knew now since he was able to get to our elder with minimal blow back once she let him in.
He didn't run into hardly anyone on his way. Locked himself inside and caused harm to our elder in his path. He accepted my words before he asked me, "So what will you do before you cut off his head and serve it to the counsel?" I looked back at him, "Make him suffer as he did with us…to the coven he once had…make him pay for the pain he's caused." He will soon find out what true pain is, he thinks he's put me in pain…he had no idea what's coming for him. Payback is a bitch…and I am one very pissed off bitch.
Before I could leave Soren pulled up some footage and I noticed that I saw a progression of the coven that he had. It looked bigger than before. "I ran the property through the data base for floor plans and here's a real shocker it wasn't in the data base." I agreed with his sarcasm I wasn't shocked either. I doubted anything Emon did with that coven was done through anything legal. It also made me realize once we killed him and his lycan horde to have the property cauterized before authorities could get to it.
We couldn't afford any bodies that could link our existence to be found. Not that I worried to much but lycan DNA could still be recovered so we couldn't take the chance. If they were found out they would rat us out in a heartbeat. It would defeat the purpose. "Here's a better shocker I did a satellite scan for any signals coming out to see if we could see if he was talking to anyone on the outside for assistance…" I looked to him on that one, "You can do that?"
He had a momentary look of 'sorta' before saying, "Let me remodify that, the satellite I'm 'borrowing' can do it yes, usually only if there's a terrorist issue going on that they can monitor through the government but like I said I'm 'borrowing' it." I raised a brow to it as I asked, "Anything from it?" his response stunned me, "Not a peep. I think all his followers and contacts are within the coven." He answered.
Which either meant Soren was right and they were all in there which was good or it meant that they were using an older way to communicate and were calling in for supplies that way. "Is there any other frequency coming from there?" I asked to verify. He scanned the area, "It would really need to be active to do so but it looks like there's no residual frequency data there. The last ping from anything was a day ago and that was a phone." Soren confirmed.
The message sent to Kitiara to let Emon in to kill me. "Keep an eye on it." I tell him. "But...take a look at this." Went he sent the waves of the satellite over it, it almost appeared to be another room within the place. "What is that?" I asked him. Seeing it unusual for there to be another structure within it. Its what made the place look bigger than what it was. "According to the average blue prints of covens now the structure of what this place was originally supposed to be, there was no sub -basement." I looked to him.
"They didn't start to have them for a few hundred more years. Emon added this to his coven." I was about to pass it off as nothing new when Soren said, "This makes the place much larger than we first though and we should definitely figure out how accessible it is to the outside. We could be looking at more egress routes for escape or PANIC rooms." He suggested. He had a point though, if there were more of those in the coven we needed to make sure we had them all covered and not let the bastard escape.
I nearly snorted and looked to Soren, "Remember when this was merely a lycan hunt and not a homicidal vampire issue?" he nearly smirked to, "I hate the fact that were even referring to his place as a coven now. Can it technically be called one if the coven is composed mostly of lycan's though?" he asked. I wasn't sure but stated, "Well it was a coven several millennia ago so I guess no matter how many lycan are inside its still first and foremost a coven…" I guessed. One that we needed to bury in history.
"Soren you do know though that everything to do with this coven needs to be buried right?" I asked looking at him, "Hai." He agreed, "Which means I need at least two dozen vampires to take over and destroy the coven he's inside of." Before he can compile a list I tell him, "I know the original vampires I worked with will be of help. So that's at least four, then there's Minako, Rei and Makoto with Mamoru. But they won't count as I need them to know when to fall back or move forward." I tell him.
"Are they to know about Emon, or rather Eldon?" Soren asked. I realized what he meant as I spoke, "What they will know is the truth. Emon came in here as another vampire, Eldon to try and undermine me as a leader by getting Mamoru hurt and working with lycan's without permission from the counsel which we all know to go up against the counsel like that is asking for a death sentence. Especially when one decides to make promises that cannot be guaranteed or kept." He nods understanding.
"Therefore, making him an enemy and his execution for his actions against everyone here decided. After all can't have someone making false promises to lycan's and have those lycan's retaliate against us for something we never did or said." He nodded his head, "And Soren that is the truth you will give to them. We need at least sixteen more vampires who are combat trained and ready to handle this." I warn him.
"You've got it. I know just the vampires you need. Just point them and they will follow." I nodded as he asked one last thing, "So what will happen to her?" I knew he was referring to Kitiara, "Well once the elder's personal guards take her to the prison in fact…" I walked back towards him, "I know you can use infrared to do this but I need to know if its vampires on guard of the place or lycan's. I need to confirm if there's one vampire in particular on the inside or if he's hiding elsewhere." He looked to me strangely.
"Keep it to yourself but Naoyuki is no longer a friend nor a good elder. I need to confirm if he's in there or not. We assume he is, but we don't know for sure. Its also the reason why she's being held down there. So that not even he can find her." he nodded and got to work as I left out the command center. I needed to go see our elder, something in me spoke to go seek him out and now was a good of time as any.