LoveInTheBattleField: here it comes.
OrientalDanceGirl: yeah I thought that would put a nice little twist that if everyone wants to see a final sequel to the vampire story here they can see more of it unfold. Exactly. I wanted to make sure that I could put in two more storyline elements from underworld without being to direct from how they happened so even though it would have been more so for their elder to give her the blood I felt it was better for him to give it to Mamoru since he sees him at this point as the son he never had since Mamoru is the son he never had. Being completely different from Damon and Emon. Though I do find it ironic now that he feel smore connected with Usagi and Mamoru that aren't his blood compared to his actual blood that while he loves them never really liked them yet still did his best to raise them.
MoonMama89: super glad you enjoyed the chapter. That was a bit of a last minute decision as well till I remembered even in underworld technically, Michael had the blood line of the immortals in him already, it was just dormant, so I figured since mamoru is now a vampire to make him an even stronger one. working on the hunt now and I'm trying to expand on the showdown since I want a huge chunk of the fight to be centered on Usagi with Emon (of course) and the reunited fight between mamoru and the lycan leader. Glad your in for another sequel and if I do, do it I already have the new big bad lined up for it. I really do appreciate all the reviews as I love to communicate back and forth with how everyone feels and the responses I get. This weekend he wont be in since he's gotta fly out early Sunday and didn't get in till really late Saturday so I do understand his busy schedule, but we have plans for the following weekend, it would be earlier in the week but he's doing volunteer work in Oklahoma. I've already made him a homemade lasagna which he enjoyed so this next Saturday its going to be a homemade meat lovers pizza. Not from the box. Trying to show him I can cook outside the box. Lol no problem and thank you. 😊
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A vampires forbidden love: the lies that bind us ch.14
Usagi POV
We had used the motorcycles to get to the place but could only get so close since they were deep in the forest so we hide the bikes at a clearing with some branches and leaves to avoid any wandering lycan on patrol from finding them. "The coven should be half a click from here. We should travel by foot up the trails to avoid suspicion." I suggested as he nodded, "Good thinking, they would probably figure it to be just hikers in the area." He surmised.
"Yeah luckily these trails look pretty old and though they don't look recently used." I bite my lip warry now though I was glad we wouldn't run into any hikers out here. That was the last thing we needed with what we were doing. "Hopefully that won't tip them off." I commented, "I doubt it. According to Soren the coven hasn't had anything with a heat signature leave out recently so I doubt it." he tells me.
We take one of the trails further in before we get to close so we have a good vantage point and don't have as many trees blocking us from view. It would be a forty five minute travel for a normal experienced human but for us it would take a third of the time if we blurred in and out at the right intervals to get there. Just before Mamoru could start to blur I stopped him. He looked at me questioningly.
"Not that I think we'll run into them but just to be safe let's not use our speed all up just to run to them. Pace it so we can use it if we do get caught." I advised. He accepted this as we hiked it regularly for a good thousand paces then when we had a more clear shot for blurring we ran at our vampire speed to gain the time over the footing. We did this back and forth for a while both of us enjoying the run.
The speed flew past my form even quicker than before. My senses twitched with what felt like newer or rather sharper senses of the mind as I dodged shrub and trees in my wake. It felt a bit exhilarating and as I turned back to look for Mamoru curious on how much faster I was going I realized with shock that he was going my speed. Both of us going the same speed which was definitely unusual. And he noticed it to.
We were faster than we used to be. BOTH of us were. He looked to me oddly and me to him oddly as we came to a sudden stop, our vampiric senses of balance keeping us from losing focus and falling over at the sudden halt. We were near the coven as we had covered far more ground with our speed, but were still out of ear shot for anything which was good. We still wanted to be out of range to discuss what would happen next.
Or in this case when the hell he got so damned fast. "Since when have you been that fast?" I asked, barely winded as I saw that he was the same way, barely winded. I knew why I was but not why he was. "Our elder did tell me you could know…" now I was curious on what he meant by that. "Know what?" I asked, "He insisted he give me some of his blood." My eyes widened in shock at the admission and as I sniffed the air I could smell the tell-tale scent of our leaders blood coursing through his veins.
How I hadn't sensed it before made me curious till I realized I hadn't tried to smell it on him prior to now. I wasn't upset as I knew he only would have taken it if the elder himself was perfectly able to give a few sips away. Mamoru cared for him as I did. Plus last I checked our elder was fine and making an appearance for a show of good standing as we spoke right now so I was more curious than anything else.
"So you have his blood running through you." I was more shocked than anything else, this was huge and I wasn't sure if he realized how huge this really was. Our elder hadn't ever done this before. "Hai…he shocked me with it at first but once I accepted it I saw his past, all of them and what it was like for him with his family…with Emon and Damon as his sons and saw them grow up to a degree." he told me.
I had never had our elders blood before so I had no clue as to what he could have seen, only the memories of Chikao that I was still sorting through even now which made me then ask as we stopped where we were, "You saw clear and coherent images of his family life?" something I hadn't been able to see very well. "I latched onto an image to ground myself otherwise I felt like I'd be swept away in a current of the emotions coursing through me." he explained. That I realized was actually a good idea.
I hadn't thought to do that as I let the images pour into me so I could organize them later on. In his case it was good that he did that so that they wouldn't consume him mentally as well as emotionally. I could handle them as they ran through me since I was a few hundred years older than he was, but they would have consumed him more so, so this was a smart move on his part to focus on certain memories.
"I never would have thought to do that." I admitted. "So how did you run as fast as you did?" he asked me. "Last I checked even you couldn't run that fast before so what changed?" he had a right to know. "Chikao called me to the counsel chambers, said he needed to talk to me, that I needed to see things." I began. I knew I couldn't tell him everything just yet but I could tell him majority and leave the rest for when he was ready to know.
I didn't like to keep secrets from him but he would find out eventually. Either through my telling him which would be best or if he had my blood again which would tell him everything then either way since I had elder blood in me. "Plus he made a very accurate point even if I wasn't a fan of it that Emon is unlike our previous enemy that we've faced off against." I explained, though I was still a little begrudge to admit it personally.
"What's that?" Mamoru asked, genuinely curious. "Somethings I already knew like for the fact that he's cold, calculated…he hates me with a fiery passion…" I gave an eye roll to that in a sarcastic manner. "Then the other parts that I hadn't really been focusing on. Like how he knows how I've been trained and how I react to fights thanks in part to his gaining access to our coven when he was spying on us from the inside."
I hated that he was able to do it and knew once this was over with we'd have to find a better way of vetting through any new comers going forward to avoid this. "The only vampire who knew how I worked prior to him was Damon and the only reason why he went down as Chikao put it was because in the end he couldn't kill the one woman he loved but could never express it to." I saw his face on that one.
He understood and agreed even if both of us saw different sides and had different understandings to it. "He's right as much as even I hate to say it, Damon went about things utterly wrong at times, most times…as he in his own little way wanted to love you but couldn't." I knew he was referring to what our elder did to him. Erasing his memories and putting them in a memory that he then erased and locked away in his own head to never be seen again so that nothing could trigger them to be released.
It left that hole that Mamoru mentioned and prevented him from letting himself love fully and never truly knowing why and being given a half assed reasoning for it. Letting him think it was just one thing when in reality it was something else with it. Perhaps if he had known he could have been at peace with it but we'll never know. "I have a strange feeling that Damon found out the truth in the end…and he is somewhere in peace with those he loves the most. His mother for instance." Mamoru stated.
I gave him an about face expression as he said, "I may not have liked the guy at all but I can understand the love he holds for you even if he couldn't handle it or his own emotions on it. But I do think that he's finally made peace with a lot of things." his simple touch to my face made me feel tenderness and love as I saw him lean in for a kiss. I accepted it as we took a few moments to take in the little moment we had.
When the kiss ended his eyes seemed to become a brighter shade of blue. Like being in the middle of a calm sea. I felt secured despite what was being discussed. However I knew I had to face the tides sooner or later, "I know…Chikao said Emon would be a challenge because he holds no care for those that we care for and only wants vengeance and knows how to get it." I tell him.
"That is true…but there's one thing we have that he doesn't…" Mamoru tells me as he brushes some hair form my face that fell out from the blurring run we took. It was a soothing motion as I felt like drowning I his blue depths. They seem to have a stronger hold on me than before and I didn't mind it as I felt like I held a similar one on him now to. Like our bond together was strengthening as we shared this.
I looked up to him, "Love…what we have." He kissed my forehead, "Family and friends…we have things that he doesn't and he's knows it." I smile at his loving words, "He thinks he doesn't need them but truth is there's a tiny part of him deep down inside that does. He thinks its cut off but reality is it's not." I listened intently on his words, "Otherwise he'd hold no care for Naoyuki either yet he sees him as a father figure of sorts." I looked slightly surprised by that admission, we'd had our suspicions yes but nothing stating it really.
"Our elder's memories." I nodded. "He's smart and cunning yes but he's not us nor does he have your traits." He tells me. I smile as I look up at him, needing to tell him. "Chikao had me drink his blood to." He looks at me startled then in question himself as I did towards him. "What did you see?" he asked me, genuine curiosity in his voice regarding the memories I received as I was by the ones he'd seen.
"A lot…good, bad…it was all a blur to me to a degree." I didn't tell him the bigger parts that I knew. Not yet anyways. "I didn't try to focus on any one memory as you did which is probably why I couldn't be more selective as you were able to. I saw them and felt them to a certain degree. The images bringing up emotions that you'd never think to feel until seen with your own eyes through theirs." I express. "I know what you mean. It's like this out pour of memories just got downloaded into me and I'm still sorting through it all."
His confession made me glad I wasn't the only one now. "So he wanted you to be stronger?" he asked me, "Hai…said I needed to be stronger for what was coming, whatever that means." It seemed like he knew something more to come at the time but the words of what he could really mean eluded me. Whatever it was it would be bigger than us both. Otherwise I don't see Chikao as having given me his blood like that.
Which brought me to my next train of thought. Why did our elder give him his blood? Not that I bore any negative feelings towards him, hardly. It was more like shock and curiosity and what inspired our elder to do so. In all the years I'd known him, in all the time I'd been a vampire period, I'd never once heard of or seen a vampire as young as he receive elder blood before. The younger you were the least able you were to handle it or sort through it.
Our elder had to have seen something within Mamoru to do so, but what? And how would this effect the coven going forward? "Not that I'm not pleasantly surprised by this turn of events as its obviously needed for us both on different leveling reasons but why did he give his blood to you? Why insist on it?" I asked. He had a mixed emotional look on his face as he looked around, as if the elder himself was out here watching us.
I knew that wasn't the case but it was more of an unconscious thing to do when you were telling possible state secrets and didn't want anyone but the person in front of you to hear them. It made me all the more curious to know what happened and why it did for him to be like this as I too looked around for and listened for anything but heard nothing but the little bit of forest life around us. Birds, chipmunks, even some deer nearby as he refocused on me.
He sighed before saying, "So that I could be strong enough to take out the Lycan leader considering how that last fight went between us and be there by your side in the coming future." I looked at him carefully as he told me this and knew the words to be true but still felt it wasn't everything. Like there was something he was still keeping from me yet I couldn't figure it out, "He just want to make sure that I could be all that I could be for you and for our coven in this fight coming up." he stated.
"Understandable considering Chikao said something similar." I nearly chuckled, ignoring that nagging feeling for now. "You'd think that they conspired to do this on purpose." I joked right before we both stopped to think on that and looked at the other before dismissing it entirely as we both knew for reasons that we knew the other either did or didn't know that that couldn't be possible…right?
Right…I shook it further off. Nothing in the blood memories indicated so…not yet anyways from what I was able to decipher as of yet. I would think on it later on though when we weren't on a recon mission for this coven. "You'd think…but in the end I don't think either knows of the other doing this." Mamoru concluded. He sounded so sure of himself and confident. Sometimes I wondered where he got that from. Mine came from years as a vampire yet he had barely been one and yet had this knowledge it seemed.
Unless it was a trait he gained more from the memories he received. "You sound pretty sure of yourself." I smiled in retort before his facial expressions got serious, I lost my smile yet still felt entrapped in a good way in his gaze. "Listen Usa…he wants the blood he gave me to be kept secret from the rest of the coven. Only those we know and can trust with our very lives can know and maybe not even then."
I nodded without a fuss as I had wondered that myself. It made sense though. If anyone were to find out that he had elder blood within him it could raise questions on why and favoritism. It was already enough that he was my second in command around here and if it weren't for his very generous contributions to the research he was conducting to help everyone out in some area or another and the fact that he was in the front lines of the battle over a year ago even that would be questioned by others.
As it was his intelligence and back round was more extensive than the vampire doctor's we previously had and since we lost so many vampires in that fight he had been more than making up for it and making sure that he was seen as being there for a damned good reason. It may have also been the reason why our elder gave him his blood. "When the time is right we will tell them but not before hand." I expressed. Give him my utter faith.
Perhaps his having elder blood in him now could help us tip this fight into our favor and allow us to win this in the end after all. I hated to admit to it but I did hold doubt in some form. Though it was merely there as a 'don't get to cocky' measure to so that I wouldn't let Emon when the time came get the jump on me. I didn't need that. Question was, was Mamoru breaking the promise he made by telling me?
The question must have been in my eyes as his features softened. "I made sure I could tell you though." He assured me, "Yeah me to." I admitted regarding what I asked of Chikao before leaving the chambers. It seemed like he wanted to tell me something important, the question of something burning in his dark blue depths as they darkened even more by the second but as soon as he closed his eyes he said, "So we tell everyone close to us when its time and not before then...and your blood?" he asked.
Something told me that was NOT the question he had on his mind when he closed his eyes. It seemed like he wanted to ask something more personal but forced it down for the time being. I told myself I would let it go…for now but that I would ask later on what he really meant to ask me. "I'm not to tell anyone myself. So we keep this between us till we know the ones we trust, Rei, Minako, Makoto and Soren can keep it safe to."
I agreed in an unspoken promise to him just as I did with Chikao and as he did with our elder on the blood given to us both. It seemed like things were deepening between us even more so than before and I wondered if the new blood in our systems had anything to do with it. Maybe giving us the ability to bond closer since it was much older yet I doubted that was the true reason why I felt bonded closer.
It seemed he felt the same as Mamoru leaned in and kissed me near breathlessly, his arm moved to wrap around my waist to pull me in till we were waist to chest against the other. Our breaths mingled together as I felt like fighting control over my body before we did something that definitely shouldn't happen on a recon mission especially when your so far from home and closer to lycan territory.
It wasn't a good idea to get turned on just by being in close proximity to your mate. I looked up at him as a bit of his five o clock shadow was creeping on his face and felt myself reacting sexually to it. I had to stop myself now before it got to late. Though why I was feeling so sexed up at a time like THIS was a bit unreasonable and had me questioning it. "Let's get this done and over with so we can give the data to Soren and have a good night's sleep."
I tried to emphasize on the word 'sleep' to make it sound like that was what was going to happen but it came out sounding like sleep wasn't what I needed or wanted. Mamoru agreed nonetheless even though his eyes spoke of the things that my tone was referring to as we continued to walk along the path that was ahead of us. I gripped my fists tightly to stop the flood of hormones in me. It's just stress and I need relief is all.
Mamoru POV
I had wanted so badly to tell her the other reason why. That I had wanted to know the ups and downs of being mated for life in a marital setting as our elder and his mate had been. Having children in the relatively near future in the mix and all the good and bad that came with it. I wanted to tell her that I wanted to ask her to marry me yet again, that I had been trying to find the right time and place, and yet again I knew why I couldn't and it burned me once more as I held my tongue on the matter.
I could see the want in her eyes at her unspoken words. What she meant to really say compared to what she did say to avoid getting to in the moment. Yet I knew if I told her the real truth and not just the other truth that it would only lead to her wanting to know more and there was more to tell and that would prompt her to ask the burning questions on why that got brought up and as much as I wanted to ask her now WASN'T the time to propose to her.
We were here on a recon mission, far from our own coven and not too far away from Emon's coven we were here to spy on so as much as I nearly did ask her, and by kami – sama I almost did pop the question, I swallowed my feelings on it for the moment and stopped myself from doing so. I not only DIDN'T have the ring on me but this wasn't the time nor the place to propose to my long time mate and hopeful lifetime long partner in the very near future with a couple of kids to boot.
I was just thankful our com's were turned off till we needed them to be on. We would do so when we got into range for Soren to aid us but till then they were off. We finally managed to make it to the coven and found that it was fortified but one had to know what to look for. "Stay down." she pointed to a few camera's she'd spotted. The trees we were up by providing enough camouflage to coven us and yet keep us at a distance away.
We really needed to get close. "Stay here…I'm going to get closer and see what else I can view from my position. I need you here to watch for any lycan's that come around. We may have the scents on us to repel them but it doesn't guarantee that an older one won't still go sniffing around." I wasn't a fan of that. Something in me was craving over protectiveness of her so close to the danger zone.
"Maybe I should go forward instead." I tried. She looked back at me, "Mamoru I've done plenty of the these recon missions before. I need you here to have my back since I can only see so much from my vantage point. Your my eyes and ears back here." Her touch against my shoulder soothed my sudden doubts and made me wonder why I felt this way suddenly when I knew this to be true.
It reminded me of moments earlier when she had that look of want in her eyes. Now wasn't the time to be having these wayward thoughts and we both knew it. I put it to the new blood in our systems. We were still adjusting…that had to be what it was. I'd have to analyze it further when we got back home. "Com's on." She turned hers on as I did mine. "We've got you both on live here." Soren's voice came over.
"We?" I asked, "Pleasure." Rei's slightly sarcastic voice came over, "Minako would be here herself but is taking care of a few things for you till you both get back." She expressed, "Good cause I have a feeling were coming back with a lot." Usagi commented as she jumped forward between the trees we were hiding behind as I stayed put as requested. "There are two lycan's out on patrol but both are also facing opposite directions." I iterate.
"Best bets the west side of the coven." Rei suggested. I could only guess she was looking at the satellite view at Usagi. "Negative, there's a camera on that side. I'll have to find a blind spot to get past it and oh lovely…" that had me curious, "Usa…?" I asked as she ventured further forward. I barely had her in my sights as low and far as she was now. I was still up high in the trees using them as blinders to the lycan's as she blurred her way closer forward. The moments were becoming tense.
She was to close for me to see her in full view. I tried to use my vampiric eye sight to get a better idea but the depth, trees and distance wasn't helping. She slipped into my own blind spot and it agitated me. Not that she did it on purpose, we were here for a reason but still…not having her in my sights was worrisome. I had to keep reminding myself she had done this a hundred times before so why was this any different?
"The camera's are motion sensored…" she muttered into the com's. I narrowed my eyes, she had to be close to notice that. "Usa." I hinted in my voice to back off the camera's. not that I didn't think she could hold her own but this was about gathering information not tipping our hand so that the lycan's know we know where they are. We couldn't let Emon get away. "Radio silence." She hushed us as everything felt like it went dead after her words.
It was then that I saw a lycan come by her area where the camera's were and activate to see a man, a bit older looking but not to old doing his own rounds. That's when I saw her around the corner and saw the distance between them. No wonder she had us on radio silence. The slightest spark of vocals could blow her cover that's how close she got to them. Fear for her danger hit me hard and I had to clench my fists together to stop myself from running down there and acting all caveman about to protect his mate.
Usagi POV
I slipped through the trees and down the hill that lead to the coven with ease. I used the momentum to help aid me as I got in much closer than before now that I had slipped past two of the lycan details. I shook my head a bit thinking…amateurs. I had to see what type of camera system they had cause if I could I could relay the information to Soren and he could hack into them and monitor what was going on.
This is why you do recon, you get much more information than you previously had. I got within range but stayed in the blind spot to avoid detection and memorized the camera system and wondered briefly if we had any tools that we could use to link their security in with ours and not only monitor them but loop fake feeds into it for later use. I would have to ask Soren about that but before I could I heard sounds coming from the opposite direction.
"Radio Silence." I muttered fast as possible. Using my new speed I spun around and hid in a tiny little alcove that barely fit my small frame as the man whom I could smell the lycan on him started to walk by. I could have easily have killed him but we couldn't tip out hands just yet. I purposely lowered my heartbeat to avoid even that being heard by him as he came around the bend. I wish at this point I didn't have to be silent so I could kill him but we had to get to Emon no matter what we personally wanted to do.
Just barely after he walked by I blurred and sped past till I made it to the other side of the camera and found there to be two more on the other side. It was an entry point that's why…I thought to myself. I looked around with my enhanced eye sight and found that there was weapons being loaded inside. It appeared as though the lycan's were preparing for something big when I nearly gasped at seeing Emon step outside.
It would be so easy to sneak up behind him and shank him where he stood…yet it was be also easy enough since I was far away for him to catch me before I could get the full drop on him to turn around and alert the other three lycan's I was there. The odds weren't favorable and even though I normally would take them on I needed to know more. Besides there was no guarantee that I would strike the killing blow even with the added blood.
Best not to get cocky and as what they call it in the military catch a case of 'mission creep' where I let an unplanned move cause a major shift in our objectives for the long run. I held myself still as I listened in intently on what was being said. "Just make sure you continue to do your part in this." Emon responded, "Listen here you night stalker, we're here to help you not the other way around." One of the lycan's stated making me lift a brow at the 'night stalker' term regarding us.
Emon seemed to look at his almost as if he were toying with him. The lycan in his human form clearly had an 'I'm bigger so I'm better than you' appearance to him. I ALMOST felt sorry for him as Emon walked a few feet up to him and said in one of the most cunning and calculating voices I'd ever heard, "Listen to me very carefully…" the tone seemed to begin to knock the smirk form the lycan's face.
"If it weren't for me you'd still be eating rabbits and squirrels in some sewer somewhere instead of dinning on what I've brought in for offerings. The humans I've brought you all have served you well no?" his words made me sick as we had suspected such a thing but held no proof of what he was bringing in through the tunnel or where it ended. We needed to know. "You've got something to say - " the lycan didn't get to finish as Emon backhanded him hard enough to send the lycan to the ground.
The lycan was definitely bigger than him and Emon was strong enough to send him crashing to the ground. That was strong. More and more I was understanding the need Chikao had for me to be stronger. "I don't speak as much as I prefer to demonstrate. Or else the message can get lost in the words." I kept watching as I listened to my surroundings to make sure I wouldn't give my position away.
"I do have this one additional task in mind, other than your main one. When you go out there to the coven see if you can capture a vampire and bring whomever you can get back here. The closer to her the better. That way it'll screw with her head even more. After all the best message to send is one where you kill the fucking messenger and lay it scattered on her doorstep." He really looked like he would enjoy a task like that to.
"Only if you can though, this is mostly a check-up mission. The more information we have on them the better. That way when their defenses are down we can strike them hard and fast and no one will get out alive unless they swear themselves to my lead." Demented didn't even cover what this vampire was. "But!" Emon ordered before sticking his finger up at them, "NO one but ME gets to kill the vampire whore!"
I rolled my eyes at the term he used regarding me as he then stated, "I have a severe bone to pick with her and once her blood and head are in my hands then you can rip her apart to your own enjoyment." I wanted to growl at the threat but remained silent, "Now I want you lap dogs to go to their coven and see what their guard's shifts are like now that I'm gone. I know the ins and outs but they will have increased it since my abrupt departure so I need to know the updated routines." He ordered as they, with heavy issue, left.
I had to leave out so that I could relay this to Soren and the security there that way they could kill the lycan's before they could give Emon and his lycan's here the field advantage. It seemed like we were finally starting to get the one up on him. I started to backtrack around the building when I spotted a lycan about to spot me. Knowing I had very little hiding places now that I'd moved a decent distance away from the spot I had been in and had no time to get back in there I jumped up and into a groove of the exterior wall.
Even for a vampire it was difficult to do considering the angle I was at. Perching myself between two brick like edges with my boots spanning wide as the camera was to my left. Never in my life had I been more grateful that I was flexible and bendy as all hell so that I could avoid knocking the camera down and avoid the lycan from spotting me as he stood under me for a few moments while deciding to take a moment to take a swig out of his canteen.
I just didn't know what was in the canteen. Nor did I care to know. I used one hand to search my form to see if I had anything to attach onto the camera only to realize my com was beginning to go out. That's when I realized being so close to the camera was screwing with the com's reception. If I didn't get out of here quickly Mamoru would be itching even more so to come down here and rescue me.
While it was sweet of him to do that we needed to avoid that. I used my strength and flexibility to get my leg out from around the camera and jump up even higher towards the roof of the coven. Its old exterior had me curious on how much of the structure was original to the old one when I found that there were other camera's up there to. "Shit!" I cursed under my breath as I walked forward just a few feet to find them starting to move towards me.
Crap. They must have been motion censored to. I halted going forward as I looked at my current predicament. The roof top had a balcony close by to the top half of it. A simply jump and I could avoid the camera's on the roof top no problem but who knew if the balcony that I was barely able to see from my angle was covered or not. I listened for any signs of life and heard none from up here.
Problem was that didn't guarantee that if there were doors or curtains to it that it was blocked off from sight. The point here was to be discrete and to blow that would be to undermine what we're working towards. Deciding on it the balcony was a no go and I from my angle I couldn't see if it was being watched or not. I looked back towards the woods and barely saw Mamoru trying to see if I could see him gesturing to come back over.
I had two decisions to make in a split second, run away from the camera's and use the few steps I had to jump as far and as fast as I could away from the coven's roof top or take the chance to jump over the camera's on the roof, land on the balcony and NOT alert anyone to an intruder up here. It was pointless to jump to another spot on the roof when there were camera's all over it the further you stepped. Knowing I had a decent amount of information already I took the former choice as it was the best.
Using my new speed and strength I ran the few steps towards the edge and jumped as far and as high away from the coven as I could. It was actually a pretty good jump thanks in part to the new blood in me. I could feel myself soar for a longer duration than before and thankfully soared far above that of the lycan's below who didn't think anything of what they heard. Probably assumed it was a squirrel or something considering where they were.
I barely noticed this as I barely touched the end of a branch and used it to give myself enough momentum to propel me further forward and grant me the cover of the trees. It also gave me the advantage of making it to the thicker set of trees for clearing before I would be spotted. I landed and ducked and rolled to mesh in with the appearance of the trail instead of standing out if my impact made any noise where they could hear me.
I rolled a few more times aiming to roll further out of sight till I hit a tree. I had to admit that was a long running jump I managed considering. It was seconds later that I heard Mamoru come up to me. I could hear his frantic heart beat as he rushed to my side to check for any wounds sustained during that vaulting jump. He nearly crashed into me as he felt over my form for any wounds as I straightened myself up from the position I was in to standing up.
He didn't even bother to ask if I was okay, needing to feel for himself as I hit my com's and said, "Everything's fine." I assured those over as I heard a collective sigh before Rei said, "What the hell happened to gain that long of radio silence?" she near demanded, her voice sounded reasonably tense. Mamoru was still checking me for injuries before I reassured him as I began to lightly walk away from the coven.
"Almost got held up for a moment but I got out." I assured letting them know I didn't go dark for nothing. "Soren, we might have a lead here." I began. "What is it?" he asked. I knew he was ready to start typing away, "Emon's using camera systems on site. Motion censored." I read him the camera stats before giving him the serial number on the side. "Is that helpful?" I asked, "Oh its way more than helpful." He actually sounded near giddy.
"You sound like your barely controlling your glee what's up?" I asked, "I've just managed to hack fully into his surveillance system. Well I'll be damned…You guys need to get back here to see this." he expressed, excitement and a hint of dread in his voice. That usually didn't spell great news for us so it had me curious on what he was able to see. I wish I had been able to hear and see more but this would have to do for now.
"There's more, we're having visitors coming around the area very soon. Any and all vampires are to remain near the perimeter till the lycan's have been caught. If possible capture them as they could know information that the camera's can't give us. They will be a part of the pack that's at this coven." I tell them, "On it for sending out an alert." I heard Rei say. As they signed off and hit the com's to shut them off Mamoru kissed me.
"Please don't scare me like that again." He near asked, "I know you can take care of yourself but that was just a little too close for comfort as simple recon mission. Please Usa…" he nuzzled his face in my neck as I felt a certain warmth take over me. Like I felt his worry over me and his love at the same time. I nearly frowned but kept it from my face. What was this? It felt like we were closing in on something.
"I held him close as I said, "You'll never loose me, but we do have to get back to the coven." I pulled back, "Emon plans to send a few lycan's out there to take then kill a vampire as a message to me. He's aiming for someone close but their main objective is to see how well are defenses are now." which reminded me. I turned the com back on as I said, "Pull in some of our security and turn on the outer motion sensors." I ordered Soren.
Mamoru and I left out and began to blur in and out back towards our own coven, "Pull them in?" Soren clarified, "Hai, I want Emon to think we don't have enough vampires to have for the patrols. Hold the extra forces back so that we have that element of surprise." I stated, "Do you think he's coming back here?" Soren asked, "I'm positive he will. Only this time he's going to bring with him the lycan pack that he's been feeding as his guard dogs." I tell him before getting more through the woods now.
"He's feeding them?" I looked over at Mamoru, "Hai. He's making them stronger for the up -coming fight. We need to know where that tunnel leads out to." I spoke in to the com as we raced out of there. Using all of our speed this time to leave as we became literal blurs to anyone who MIGHT have seen us. "Makes sense." He commented, "An army marches on their stomachs." I looked over at him after that comment and knew the truth of it. We have to get back to the coven to make sure we can capture them.