Chapter 6

Krista smiled as her baby kicked, she rubbed her stomach happily, even though she had been terribly uncomfortable for the past few weeks Krista was excited that now her due date was just over a month away Krista couldn't wait to finally give birth and find out if her and Neil were going to have a son or a daughter.

"Krista, are you alright?" Neil asked as he walked into the living room and saw Krista with her hand on her stomach, Krista laughed rolling her eyes in the past couple of days Neil had been on edge and any time she even touched her stomach Neil was concerned that she was in labor.

"I'm fine, just feeling our baby kick." Krista said smiling up at Neil.

Neil smiled back at Krista sitting beside her on the couch Krista moved her hand so that Neil could put his hand on her stomach.

"I can't wait to meet our baby." Neil said kissing Krista.

"Well we probably won't have to wait for much longer; I'm due in a few weeks." Krista said as her eyes filled up with tears, she was so excited to begin this new journey with Neil.

Neil smiled putting his arm around Krista, "me too sweetheart, me too."

Krista rested her head against Neil's shoulder smiling happily, and closing her eyes, drifting off to sleep.

Atlanta watched as Chloe slept, sighing she rested her head on the back of the chair she was sitting on, blinking to stop the tears that were filling up in her eyes from falling, Chloe was so young, and if her parents were both dead, what would happen to her?

"Atlanta?" Chloe asked as she opened her eyes looking at her.

"Yes?" Atlanta asked.

"Can I talk to you for a second?" Chloe asked unsure.

"Of course." Atlanta said standing up and kneeling beside her bed.

For a few long moments Chloe didn't say anything she just looked up at the ceiling.

"The reason that I was on the road and you and your husband hit me, is because…" Chloe said trailing off before taking a deep breath, "I was running away."

"Running away?" Atlanta asked, "From what?"

"I've lived in an orphanage since my Mother died, and after my best friend, Sarah was adopted I just couldn't stand to be there anymore, and so I decided to run away and hopefully get a fresh start." Chloe said wiping away a tear.

"Where were you going to live?" Atlanta asked curious.

"On my own, I was going to survive in the wild."

"Chloe that's crazy." Atlanta said.

"I know, I just really wasn't sure what else to do, I wanted to have a fresh start."

"How old are you?"

"I'm thirteen."

"Hmmm." Atlanta said as she noticed that Chloe was barely able to keep her eyes open, smiling Atlanta moved some hair out of her face, you'd better get some sleep."

"Alright." Chloe said as she began shutting her eyes.

Atlanta smiled and stood up as she tiptoed out of the room as quietly as she could.

"Atlanta?" Chloe said just as Atlanta reached the door.

"Yes?"

"Thank you for listening, it was kind of like having my Mother around again." Chloe said smiling as she drifted off to sleep; Atlanta felt tears well up in her eyes as she turned to walk out of the room.

Krista was woken up by a sharp pain in her stomach, "ouch!" she cried as she rubbed her stomach hoping that it would make the pain go away.

"Krista, are you alright?" Neil asked as he was stirred awake by her moving.

"No." Krista said as tears began filling up in her eyes as the pain go worse.

"What's wrong?" Neil demanded worried.

"I think I'm in labor!" Krista said before crying out in pain as another sharp pain hit her.

"What?!" Neil asked surprised, "but you're only a eight months!"

"Neil just go get the car started!" Krista demanded before crying out again, "we have to get to the hospital!"

"Right, OK!" Neil said as he got off the couch and ran out of the house starting the car.

"OK baby…" Krista said rubbing her tummy, "please hold off until we get to the hospital." Krista said as Neil ran back into the house out of breath.

"The car's ready!"

"OK we need to get going." Krista said as she began trying to get up, but before she could Neil scooped her up in his arms.

"Neil I can walk." Krista said before crying out in pain again.

"I'm not letting you walk." Neil said as they reached his car and placed Krista in the front seat gently, before running around the car and getting into the driver's seat.

"Hold on sweetheart." Neil said squeezing Krista's hand before speeding out of the driveway and towards the hospital.

Jay sped down the street, neither he or Theresa had said anything since they had left his parents' house, but Jay was sure that they were thinking the same thing how they had hoped to never have to see the Oracle again, not that they had a problem with him of course but because of Theresa's vision Jay was sure that the Oracle would probably not have good news for them.

As Jay stopped the car right beside where the Oracle liked to sit, both he and Theresa looked at each other.

"I hoped we'd never see this guy again." Theresa said her voice barely above a whisper as she remembered being in high school and having to visit the Oracle whenever they had a question about Cronus that her visions couldn't answer.

"I know." Jay said as he got out of the car, Theresa quickly followed suit.

"Jay! Theresa!" The Oracle said smiling, "I was wondering how long it would take for you two to come and see me."

"So you know why we're here?" Jay asked.

"Of course I know why you're here!" The Oracle said crossing his arms annoyed, "I'm the Oracle I know everything!"

"So when is Cronus supposed to be escaping from Tarturas then?" Theresa asked trying to regain the peace between Jay and the Oracle.

"Three months." The Oracle said smiling.

"Three months?!" Jay said shocked.

"That doesn't give us much time." Theresa said worried.

"Ah I see that you finally proposed, Jay." The Oracle said looking at Theresa's ring.

"Uh yeah." Jay said unsure of what else to say, before turning to face Theresa, "We need to go to the school and talk to the gods." Jay said walking to his car, Theresa was about to follow Jay when the Oracle grabbed her hand spinning her around to face him.

"There's something different about you…" The Oracle mumbled to himself as he stared into Theresa's eyes.

"Hhmmm." He said as he let go of Theresa's hand a few minutes later.

"What did you see?" Theresa asked nervously.

"You have the power to change into a werewolf now." The Oracle said as if it was no big deal.

"What?!" Theresa asked shocked, as the vision that she had had came back to her, that's why she was on all fours…

"Theresa, let's go!" Jay said yelling from inside the car, apparently he hadn't seen The Oracle grabbing her hand and staring into her eyes, that or while time seemed to slow down for her it stayed the same for everyone else.

"Coming!" Theresa called as she ran to the car, as she touched the handle she was thrown into a vision, this time Theresa saw Neil and his wife, Krista, it looked like she was in labor, driving down the street fast, but then their car crashed into a tree, and when the vison changed Theresa saw Odie standing there with blood covering his mouth, and then Theresa saw Krista and Neil lying there dead, Theresa gasped as the vision ended getting into the car looking at Jay horrified.

"Theresa, what's wrong?" Jay asked alarmed.

"Neil and Krista are in danger!" Theresa said breathless.

"What?!" Jay yelled as he started the car.

"I'll explain on the way just drive!" Theresa ordered as she told Jay the direction to go and told him about the vision that she had just seen.

Neil hated to hear his wife in this much pain, he wished that there was something that he could do for her but what could he do?

"Hold on honey, we're almost there!" Neil said as Krista screamed and began breathing heavily.

"I'm seriously hoping we're going to make it!" Krista said as another contraction happened, in hindsight maybe she should have had Neil call an ambulance, but Krista thought that they could make it to the hospital before the contractions got too bad… clearly she was wrong.

"It's OK, Krista." Neil said as he sped up, normally Krista wouldn't let him drive this fast, especially since it was dark and the road that they were on didn't have that many street lights, but right now Krista just wanted to get to the hospital and make sure that their baby was OK.

"Oh my God this is the worst pain ever!" Krista cried as she rested her head against the seat breathing heavily as she got another contraction, as she looked at the clock she gasped, "Neil my contractions are only three minutes apart."

"Is that bad?" Neil asked unsure.

"Yeah it is Neil, speed up!" Krista demanded.

Neil did as he was told and was now going way above the speed limit but he was sure that even if a cop did pull him over as soon as they saw the state that Krista was in he would be pardoned.

"Neil watch out!" Krista screamed as Neil noticed a second too late someone standing in the middle of the street.

"Whoa!" Neil said as he turned the wheel a little bit harder then he meant to in an effort to avoid hitting the person, but then Neil realized that he couldn't get control of the car again.

"Neil!" Krista screamed as they slammed right into a tree.

Neil could taste blood as he forced his eyes open, before remembering Krista he gasped and looked beside him, in the passenger seat Krista had been knocked unconscious.

"Oh no!" Neil cried as he took out his cell phone about to call 9-1-1, but before he could he felt something hard grab his arm and throw him out of the car onto his back.

"Ow!" Neil said surprised, "hey buddy what's the big idea?!" Neil demanded trying to get up but discovering that the person who had pinned him down was much stronger then he was, and Neil was no weakling, finally giving up Neil looked up at the person holding him down and gasped as he saw that the person that was on top of him was Odie. "Odie?" Neil asked dumbfounded.

"Hello Neil." Odie said smiling.

"But you're dead!"

"No I'm far from it, but you soon will be." Odie said as he turned Neil's neck and began sucking his blood.

"Odie what are you doing?!" Neil asked panicking.

Odie didn't respond he just continued sucking Neil's blood out of his neck.

"Listen dude, I have to help my wife!" Neil said as he tried to get Odie off of him, but Neil discovered that he was getting weak from the loss of blood and could barely lift his arms up, and everything was going fuzzy as Neil began to feel light headed, and weaker and weaker.

"I love you, Krista." Neil whispered as he finally lost consciousness.

Jay could hardly breathe as he and Theresa had finally found Neil and Krista's car, but the scene was just as Theresa's vision had described.

"Neil!" Theresa cried as she saw Neil lying on the ground not moving, Theresa quickly jumped out of the car with Jay following her running over to Neil, kneeling down beside him.

"Odie's been here." Theresa said noticing the bite marks on his neck, and as Theresa picked up Neil's wrist she held her breath as she began checking for a pulse, "he's alive!" Theresa said surprised, she was so sure Odie would have drained him of all his blood.

"Kr…i…st..a" Neil mumbled.

"What's wrong buddy?" Jay asked hoping that Neil would respond but he was too weak.

Theresa quickly got up running over to the car opening the door, Krista was still unconscious, Theresa gently touched her head, before gasping, "Krista's in labor!"

"What?" Jay asked looking at Neil, "We can't risk taking him to the hospital how do we explain the bite marks?"

"Take him to the school." Theresa commanded, "I'll call 9-1-1 and take care of Krista."

"I'm not leaving you out here where there's a vampire, who used to be our friend running around." Jay said in a final tone.

"Jay we don't have time for this!" Theresa said taking out her cell phone, "if Cronus is escaping from Tarturas again in only three months we're going to need the remaining members of our team, and Krista is going to need help, I'll be fine."

Jay sighed before realizing that she was right, "Be careful." Jay commanded picking up Neil and running to his car, Theresa watched Jay speed off before picking up her cell phone and dialing 9-1-1, she would have to think of a story as to how she found this girl and do it quickly, but for now she just wanted to make sure that Krista and her baby were going to survive.

Anna watched as Odie withered on the ground in pain, she had lost him for a couple of hours, and when she had finally found him Odie was sucking one of his best friends dry, and Anna refused to let Odie kill anyone that he knew, it was bad enough that he was drinking human blood now anyways, so after trying to coax Odie to stop sucking his blood, and Odie not listening, Anna's only option was to bite him and unfortunately for Odie vampires biting each other hurt.

"Anna!" came Cronus' annoyed voice from inside the necklace.

"What?" Anna thought a little harsher then she intended but she really wasn't in the mood to be harassed right now.

"Why did you stop Odie from sucking that annoying boy Neil dry?!" Cronus yelled loud enough for Anna to have to cover her ears.

"Because I didn't want him regret it later." Anna said unsure of what else to say.

"Oh you idiot!" Cronus said and Anna could tell that he was really mad now, "the six of Odie's friends can still beat me when I escape from here!"

"I thought the prophecy called for seven heroes?" Anna asked confused.

"Prophecy's change." Cronus said annoyed, "I need you to go and ask the Oracle if the new prophecy is set for six or the original seven." Cronus demanded.

Anna looked up at the sky it was starting to get light out, "OK I'll do it tonight." Anna said although she really didn't want to she was so busy babysitting Odie that she hadn't even had a chance to feed tonight, and she was thirsty.

"Let me know." Cronus demanded, as his voice left her head,

"finally." She thought as Anna looked down at Odie who was glaring at her.

"Feeling better?" Anna asked trying to lighten the mood.

"Why'd you stop me?!" Odie demanded.

"I couldn't let you kill your friend."

"Like I'm supposed to care now." Odie said laughing.

"Odie, you're better than this, don't lose the side of you that's still human." Anna said begging.

"That side of me is gone." Odie said as he looked behind him and saw Theresa, "and I'll prove it to you." Odie said as he jumped through the bushes and right in front of Theresa.

"Odie!" Theresa said surprised, Odie didn't say anything he just growled at her, Theresa took an involuntary step back, "Odie…" Theresa said her voice barely above a whisper, "you remember me don't you?" Theresa asked hoping that maybe she could make him remember, but Odie growled and jumped on her knocking her to the ground.

"Odie!" Theresa cried, in the distance Theresa could hear the ambulance that she had called for Krista, but it sounded like it was too far away and wouldn't get here in time to help Theresa get Odie away from her.

"Odie get off of her!" Came a female's voice from somewhere nearby, but Theresa couldn't see past Odie to see who it was.

"Leave me alone, Anna!" Odie growled as he turned Theresa's head revealing her neck, he was just about to bite down on it when Theresa noticed a flashlight inches away from her, all Theresa had to do was get Odie off of her so she could reach it.

"Get off of me!" Theresa said as she punched Odie in the face but instead of Odie flying off of her like she intended Theresa heard a crunch and yelled in pain as she realized that she just broke her wrist, Odie just laughed.

"Odie get off of her!" Came the female's voice again and Theresa suddenly saw a silhouette grab Odie off of Theresa and throw him quite a distance away.

"Anna, stop doing that!" Odie commanded.

"We have to get out of here!" the girl that Theresa now knew was called Anna said pointing to the sky.

"We will but first I want a midnight snack." Odie said smiling at Theresa.

"Crap!" Theresa said trying to get up but Odie just grabbed her legs.

"Where do you think you're going?" Odie asked laughing, Theresa stretched her good hand out as far as she could trying to reach for the flashlight, but her fingertips just barely touched it.

"Odie you're better than this!" Anna said and Theresa heard a thud and a tree fall, she risked a look behind her and saw that the vampire Anna was lying unconscious on her back.

Odie pulled Theresa's hair to pull her neck up to his level, "looks like it's just you and me now." Odie whispered in her ear, Theresa screamed as she made one last attempt to grab the flashlight before he could bite her neck, luckily for her she was just able to use her fingertips to roll it close enough to her to grab it, Theresa turned it in Odie's direction turning it on, Odie screamed jumping off of Theresa and disappearing.

"This isn't over!" Theresa heard Odie's voice from somewhere far away, and as Theresa sat up trying to catch her breath she noticed that Anna was gone, she must have disappeared in all the chaos.

"That was too close." Theresa said resting her wrist in her hand; it was the same wrist that she had broken in Cronus' game five years ago.

Theresa stood up just as the ambulance finally arrived, she smiled as two paramedics ran over to Neil's crashed car and one ran over to her.

"Are you the one who called 9-1-1?" He asked.

"Yes, I was going for a hike and I heard a bang, when I got here I found the car crashed into the tree, and only the passenger was in the car, the driver must have bailed." Theresa said thinking fast on her feet, "before she passed out she told me she was in labor." Theresa told the two paramedics checking Krista out.

"What happened to you?" The paramedic asked Theresa noticing her cradling her wrist.

"I fell and broke it." Theresa said unsure of what else to say.

"We have to get her to the hospital!" one of the two paramedics said still leaning over Krista, the other one had ran to the ambulance grabbing a stretcher and running back, Theresa watched as they gently picked a still unconscious Krista up and placed her on the stretcher running back over to the ambulance.

"We'll take you too." The paramedic said looking at Theresa, "it looks like you might need your wrist re located." Theresa looked down surprised and saw that her wrist was definitely not sitting where it should be.

"OK." Theresa said as she followed the paramedic to the ambulance hopping in the back, where Krista was now lying with an oxygen mask on, please be OK Theresa said praying that Krista would get through this, Theresa fought back tears as memories of Odie almost biting her came flooding back to her.

I don't own COTT

End Chapter 6.

Sorry if this chapter was a little bit more dark. Again guys I am having SO much fun writing this story and I would really like to know what people think of it, I haven't had a review in quite a while so it would mean the world to me if some people who read this story could please review, thank you!