Chapter 7

Jay could hardly breathe by the time he finally made it to the school, when he had first gotten Neil into his car Neil had been moaning and groaning in pain, but now he was just lying there, and even now as Jay turned on the lights inside the car he saw that Neil was super pale and it didn't even look like he was breathing.

"Oh no Neil!" Jay said as he took his phone out of his pocket and placed it under Neil's nose, waiting luckily a little bit of fog appeared on the screen a few moments later, "oh thank God!" Jay said as he got out of the car and sliding across the hood to get to the passenger side quicker, and picked Neil up gently as he went inside at a fast pace.

When Jay got to the janitor's closet he tried to reach into his pocket to grab his pendant, but after a few attempts Jay discovered that he couldn't without dropping Neil, sighing in exasperation Jay put Neil down gently on the ground quickly taking the pendant out of his pocket and placing it in the door, something he really hadn't done in over five years.

Once the door was open Jay picked Neil up again and managed to turn on the light without dropping Neil, as soon as the blue light appeared Jay quickly rushed through it and ran straight to Chiron's study.

After Jay made it to Chiron's door he kicked it with his foot.

"Chiron!" Jay yelled.

"Jay!" Chiron's surprised voice came through the door, "come in."

When Jay opened the door, Chiron's eyes were immediately drawn to Neil in Jay's arms, and his smile quickly turned to worry.

"Oh dear what's happened?" Chiron asked running to Jay and taking Neil.

"Odie attacked him." Jay said following Chiron watching as he placed Neil on the bed in the room.

"Odie?" Chiron asked.

"Yeah he's a vampire." Jay said watching as Chiron picked up Neil's hand and looked at his watch, clearly looking for a pulse, "oh dear." Chiron said after a few minutes of waiting.

"What's wrong?" Jay asked his voice full of worry.

"Neil's lost a lot of blood, and his pulse is extremely weak." Chiron said as he turned Neil's head softly looking at the two vampire teeth marks.

"Ah so that's why you brought him here instead of bringing him to a hospital." Chiron said before rushing over to a first aid kit grabbing a band aid, and rushing back over to Neil placing the band aid on his neck.

"Neil's going to need a blood transfusion or else he's going to die." Chiron finally whispered.

"But he can't die, his wife is in labor!" Jay yelled.

"Where is she?" Chiron asked looking around.

"She's at the hospital with Theresa, Odie caused Neil and her to get into an accident and she got knocked out, and Odie attacked Neil."

"Go find Hera, quickly." Chiron commanded, Jay nodded running out of the room.

Anna was less than impressed with Odie, she got that he was a vampire now but how could he have attacked one of his old friends from when he was human? Granted she was a vampire, but there was no excuse for it. Anna knew that she had to try to save Odie before he officially lost the small remaining part of him that was still human, since once that was gone he would never be able to get it back.

As Anna got closer to the house she was surprised to see Clarissa storming out looking less than impressed.

"Clarissa, what happened?" Anna asked.

"Odie." Clarissa said sounding extremely mad.

"What's Odie doing?" Anna asked although she could hear him breaking what sounded like dishes and yelling to himself, mostly about her and the girl he had attacked, Theresa, clearly Odie was less than thrilled that Anna had stopped him from feeding on her.

"He told me that I was an awful witch." Clarissa said and Anna could see that her eyes were turning red, a sure sign that Clarissa was about to lose her cool, and Anna did not need her doing that right now, she had enough to deal with since now she was going to have to calm Odie down, she didn't need to have to calm down Clarissa as well.

"You're an amazing witch!" Anna said sounding as convincing as she could.

"Yeah how?" Clarissa asked crossing her arms.

"Look at the spell you put on Odie." Anna said pretending to sound happy, although truth was she had wished that the spell hadn't have worked that well, she liked Odie better the way he was when she had first woken him up.

"Good point." Clarissa said smiling, before jumping in surprise when a loud bang came from the house, and it sounded like Odie broke a lamp.

"Come on let's go calm him down." Clarissa said running back towards the house, Anna quickly followed, and as they ran inside both Clarissa and Anna couldn't believe their eyes, Odie had destroyed countless plates, and the remains were all over the floor, and the lamp that Odie broke was also scattered all over the floor.

"Odie!" Anna yelled surprised.

"What?!" Odie yelled dropping yet another plate.

"What's gotten into you?" Anna demanded.

"You stopped me from getting my revenge." Odie growled jumping off the chair he had been standing on.

"Revenge?" Clarissa asked looking at Anna who shrugged.

"Yes the revenge on Theresa that I seek!"

"Theresa, who's Theresa?" Clarissa asked confused.

That red headed girl who you attacked tonight?" Anna asked, "But what has she done?"

"It's because of her that I'm an undead monster!" Odie screamed breaking another plate.

"What?" Anna asked confusion evident on her face, "but I bit you when I woke you up so clearly I turned you into a vampire."

"No you just finished off the deed; it's Theresa that confined me to this hell!" Odie growled again.

"Odie what are you talking about?" Anna asked genuinely curious now.

"Five years ago, Theresa, went to play a game that this guy we were fighting, named Cronus, made up for her to play."

"Game, what kind of game?" Clarissa asked.

"Cronus kidnapped Theresa's Father, and forced Theresa to play a game to save him, and of course she decided to play it, and almost died, but Theresa didn't because Cronus put the antidote inside of me and the only way for anyone to get to it was to kill me." Odie said growling as he remembered stabbing himself in the stomach, "when I was human I was happy to do it, but looking back, if I had have known my fate for doing a good deed would be me becoming a monster, for the rest of my life, I never would have done it!" Odie said as he smashed another plate, growling again.

Anna looked at Clarissa a little unsure of what to say, she knew exactly who Cronus was, but she really wasn't sure if telling Odie was the best idea.

"You know, Odie." Clarissa began ignoring Anna's look telling her to shut up, "Anna knows who Cronus is."

"What?" Odie growled looking at Anna, "you do?"

"Yes." Anna said unsure of what else to say.

"How do you know who he is?"

"When you saved Theresa's life Cronus told me that in five years' time I would have to wake you up."

"How is he communicating with you, isn't he in Tarturas?" Odie asked confused.

"With this." Anna said holding up her necklace.

"Why did Cronus want me to become a vampire?"

"He actually didn't care if it was you or Theresa, but his plan was and still is that whoever I changed I would have to get strong enough to help me break him out of Tarturas." Anna said slowly and carefully she didn't want to make Odie even more upset.

"What do you mean by make me strong enough?" Odie asked confused.

"Odie…" Anna said trailing off she wasn't sure how to tell Odie that Clarissa had put a spell on him so that he would only drink animal blood.

"What?" Odie asked impatient now.

"Do you remember how on your first hunt you drank animal blood?"

"Yes." Odie said nodding.

"Well unfortunately, unknown to me animal blood doesn't make a vampire strong enough, especially to break a god out of a prison, so Clarissa put a spell on you so that you would only want to drink animal blood."

Odie unsure of what to say looked between Anna and Clarissa a little taken a back.

"Odie, please say something." Anna said after a few minutes of awkward staring.

"I will help you get Cronus out of Tarturas." Odie said with his teeth clenched together.

"What?" Anna said a little shocked, "you do remember that you and your friends took about three years to put away right?" Anna asked reminding him.

"Yes I do remember that, but if I help break Cronus out then he's going to attack the world, and probably my ex friends, and when he does that I'll step in and kill every single one of them."

Anna looked at Clarissa before gasping as she heard Cronus' voice from inside the necklace.

"Good he's willing to help, and he wants to kill his friends, how perfect." Cronus said laughing.

Except for Theresa." Odie said growling.

"Why not her?" Anna asked.

"Because once I kill her precious Jay and the others and then I change her into a vampire so that she can never die, and then she'll understand what it's like to spend the rest of her life alone, and never looking forward to seeing anyone she cares about again." Odie said laughing.

"This is too perfect!" Cronus said laughing again, "good job, Anna, I'm impressed!" Cronus said before leaving her head again.

"Now I'm going to go get some rest so that I can go and feed again tonight, after all three months isn't that long to get a god out of prison." Odie said as he walked out of the kitchen and into his room.

"Well that went well." Clarissa said smiling.

"Yeah it went better than I expected." Anna said sighing.

"Then what's wrong?" Clarissa asked concerned.

"Nothing, just the whole plan was that if I did as Cronus asked he wouldn't hurt my daughter, but I just wasn't expecting to ruin the lives of some children in the process, is it really worth saving my daughter but dooming Odie's six friends?" Anna asked.

Clarissa unsure of what else to say put an arm around Anna as she rested her head on Clarissa's shoulder.

Atlanta wasn't surprised when she found Archie in the food court of the hospital, it had been quite a while since they both had eaten, Atlanta was hungry too but she had too much on her mind to eat.

"Hey Archie." Atlanta said as she sat down across from him.

"Hey, how's Chloe?"

"She seems alright, the doctor even said that she could be discharged as soon as tomorrow."

"That's great!" Archie said taking another bite of his burger.

"Archie, I think that maybe we should invite Chloe to stay with us." Atlanta said so fast that she was surprised Archie even understood what she had said.

"Atlanta…" Archie said before Atlanta cut him off.

"Look, Archie, I know it's crazy, but she doesn't have a Mother or a Father, and she really doesn't want to go back to the orphanage." Atlanta said almost begging.

Archie sighed before taking Atlanta's hand, "you really have gotten quite fond of Chloe haven't you?"

"Yes." Atlanta said fighting back tears, "Archie, please can we at least ask her, even if it's until her broken leg heals?"

"Alright." Archie said squeezing her hand, "no harm in asking."

"Oh thank you, Archie!" Atlanta squealed as she leaned over the table hugging him and giving him a kiss on the cheek, "come on let's go tell Chloe the good news!" Atlanta said wiping away tears of joy.

"But what about my burger?" Archie asked looking down at it sadly.

"Oh alright." Atlanta said rolling her eyes, "I should probably talk to Chloe alone anyways." She said as she walked out of the cafeteria praying that Chloe would say that at the very least she would agree to stay with her and Archie until her leg was healed.

Theresa was glad that the pain pill that the doctor had given her had finally kicked in, she had forgotten, or repressed was maybe a better word, how painful it was to have to get her wrist re positioned, and she had done a number on it this time, and now Theresa was stuck with her arm in a sling for the next six weeks, which meant that she wouldn't be able to even practice turning into a shape shifter until right around the time that Cronus might be escaping from Tarturas.

"Theresa?" Came a voice that took Theresa off guard.

"Archie?" Theresa said turning her head and smiling.

"What are you doing here?" Archie asked walking closer to where Theresa was sitting, "and what happened to your arm?" Archie asked noticing the cast and the sling.

Theresa tried to hide the nervousness on her face, since she wasn't sure what to tell Archie yet she decided to just give him the short story, leaving out the fact that she had been attacked by Odie and that he was a vampire.

"Well Jay and I were out for a late night drive," Theresa began thinking fast on her feet, "when we found a car that had crashed into a tree and when we investigated we discovered that it was Neil and Krista who had been in the accident."

"What?!" Archie asked alarmed, "Are they OK?"

"Krista was in labor, and after I brought her here the paramedics rushed Krista to the ICU, and they rushed me to get my wrist put back in place, I don't know how Krista is." Theresa said looking at the door of the ICU nervously.

"So where are Neil and Jay?" Archie asked looking around the waiting room.

Theresa silently cursed she hadn't thought of a story for where they could be, plus there's no way that Neil would leave his wife, especially since she was in labor.

"Jay took him to the school, to get Chiron to check him out." Theresa finally said.

"Why wouldn't you bring him to the hospital as well?" Archie asked.

"Well um…" Theresa began before hearing someone else call her name, Theresa turned around and saw a nurse holding the ICU door open and holding a clipboard.

"Theresa Cook?" She called again.

"Right here!" Theresa called.

"Please follow me Ms. Cook." The Nurse said.

"Um sorry Archie I have to go!" Theresa said walking towards the nurse breathing a sigh of relief as she followed the nurse down the hallway.

"So Ms. Cook you're the one who found Ms. Krista Saunders?"

"Yes." Theresa said.

"Alright, and you're her sister?" The nurse asked as she stopped walking in front of a closed door.

Theresa was glad that her little white lie had worked; she had to tell the hospital that she was related to Krista in some way or else she wouldn't have received any information to keep Jay and Neil updated.

"Yes."

The nurse looked down at the clipboard she was holding again before nodding her head and opening the door, Theresa followed quickly behind and felt her heart skip a beat as she saw Krista lying in a bed with an oxygen mask on and her leg in a cast, as well as her head bandaged.

"Oh my gosh…" Theresa said her voice barely above a whisper.

"We have her on some heavy duty pain killers, so that will keep her out for a while."

The nurse said walking over checking Krista's blood pressure and heart beat before writing it down on the clipboard, and placing it at the bottom of her bed.

"Is she going to be OK?" Theresa asked wiping away a tear.

"She's going to be sore for quite some time, but because you got an ambulance there as fast as you did, it looks like she's going to make a full recovery." The nurse said smiling at Theresa.

"What about her baby?" Theresa asked remembering that Krista had been in labor when she and Neil had been in the accident.

"Come see for yourself." The nurse said walking back out of the room, Theresa quickly followed her down the hall and to the elevator heading to the third floor.

When Theresa and the nurse got off the elevator they walked up to a window that was right by the elevator, and as Theresa looked in the window she felt tears well up in her eyes.

"Oh my…" Theresa said wiping away a tear that had escaped from her eye, for inside the window was a single baby with "baby Saunders" written on the end of the bed.

"Yes Mrs. Saunders' baby girl is fine." The nurse said placing her hand on Theresa's shoulder.

"Thank you." Theresa said smiling at the nurse.

"Helping people is what we do Ms. Cook, and don't worry we have a couple of nurses who are going to be looking after her until Mrs. Saunders is well enough to take care of her baby."

The nurse said smiling at Theresa before looking at her watch, "I'd better get back to my rounds, I'll check on you and Mrs. Saunders later." The nurse said walking away, Theresa watched as Neil and Krista's baby girl opened her eyes Theresa smiled taping the glass lightly and waving at her, wiping away another tear, for the first time ever she was actually happy that she had a physic ability, and was able to save two lives because of it.

Jay rushed back into the room with Hera and Zeus following close behind him.

"How's Neil?" Jay asked rushing over to him.

"Neil needs a blood transfusion." Chiron said looking down with a worried expression at Neil.

"I'll do it!" Jay said even though he really couldn't stand blood, but he wouldn't let anything happen to Neil.

"Are you sure, Jay?" Hera asked, "I know how much you hate blood."

"Yeah I'm sure." Jay said rolling up his sleeves, "Especially with the potential of Cronus escaping from Tarturas in three months.

"Theresa told you about that?" Zeus asked surprised.

"Well yeah I'm her fiancé she tells me everything."

Jay said as he sat down in the chair that Chiron had just brought over.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Chiron asked as got ready to put the needle in his arm.

"Yes." Jay said looking away and closing his eyes, Hera walked over taking his hand, as Chiron placed the needle into Jay's arm.

"It's Ok, Jay." Hera said trying to soothe Jay.

"I'm doing this for Neil, and the world." Jay whispered to himself as he began to feel light headed.

"Almost done." Jay heard Chiron say from somewhere far away as he began to hear ringing in his ears.

"You're doing great." Jay heard Zeus say before everything went black.

End Chapter 7.

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