Fight to be Free
It didn't take long to find the warehouse that the man had spoken of, and Katie and Crepsley waited for the others, with Katie sitting on top of an old wooden crate as Crepsley lent against it.
"Katie, I know that I've never told you this, but I'm proud of you."
Katie looked at her father, and she smiled softly. "Thanks dad." She jumped down. "I'm sorry for these past few decades."
"Don't worry about it; I shouldn't have left you on your own like I did." He told her, gently running a hand down her cheek.
She rested her head into her father's hand and she looked up at him. "I understand, you didn't want to risk death, and neither did I, and actually I should thank you."
"Why?" He asked her confused.
"Because if you hadn't had left me, then I wouldn't have been able to become as powerful as I am now." She smiled. "Protect your lover dad, I'll be fine." She smiled.
Crepsley was about to tell her something, when the other Freaks joined them, and they walked the rest of the way towards the warehouse. They got within inches of the doors, when a werewolf walked out, and they were suddenly surrounded. The Freaks watched as Crepsley and Katie managed to take down those that went for them, and as the other freaks dealt with the rest.
"Katie, look out!" Corma shouted to her as a werewolf went for her, and Katie turned just in time to see Crepsley collide with it, and the two started to fight.
"Katie, go!" Crepsley managed to shout to her, and he saw her leave with Mr Tall and Madam Trusca.
The group got inside, and they looked around, soon finding Darren, Rebecca and Evra hanging from ropes which were attached to the tall ceiling.
"Evra, Darren, Rebecca." Katie flit over to them, and she managed to undo Evra's gag.
"Katie, you have to get out of here." Evra told her when she had removed his gag.
"I will, and you three will be coming with us." She told him, as she tried to undo the ties of the rope that bound him.
"No, you have to go now." Evra told her.
"Not with-"She cut off as she hit the floor, and Steve stood over her.
"Don't make me do this Katie; I don't want to fight you." Steve told her.
"Steve please let me get them out; I don't want to fight you either." Katie told him as she stood up.
"Awe, isn't that sweet." Mr Tiny told them as he walked forward, getting another werewolf to bind Madam Trusca and Mr Tall so that they couldn't go to Katie.
Katie looked at him as she stood, before her eyes found Steve's. "Why are you doing this?"
"Katie, I don't have a choice." Steve told her.
"Everyone has a choice."
"Oh, I'm afraid that he doesn't." Mr Tiny told her as he patted Steve on the head. "Steve will never have a choice; he made sure of that when he became part of my Vampanese."
"You're a monster." Katie told him, and as she got to her feet. "Why are you always after me? Why are you trying to control me?"
"I do this because you can't have your own life, you need to be controlled, your power is unstoppable and I know that you can't control it." He walked towards her.
"You're wrong." She smiled, and it was a dark smile.
"Please elaborate." Mr Tiny told her off handily.
"I can control it, I've lived for years on my own and yet I've killed no one." As she spoke, her hands lit up in flames as a fierce wind started up and thunder, lightning and rain sounded as the ground shook. "I've been able to do things that you have never imagined; I've lived a life that you could only dream of. I do not need to be controlled, yes my power is unstoppable for others, but it's not for me!" This time, she suddenly caused most of the elements to hit Mr Tiny. When the dust cleared, she flitted towards Madam Trusca and Mr Tall and she sent a fire ball at their captors, before she used her extendable nails to cut the ropes on them.
"Katie!" Madam Trusca shouted, and Steve suddenly pinned her to the wall by a hand tight on her neck.
Katie pushed him off and suddenly punched him in the face, before she tried to flit off before she went to help Evra, Rebecca and Darren.
Steve lightly touched where she had punched him, before he went after her again, and this time when he caught her, he threw her into the wall, watching her hit the ground hard, before he picked her up by her hair and he hit her head against the wall harshly over and over again.
As Katie was getting the life beaten out of her, Mr Tall and Madam Trusca got Evra, Rebecca ad Darren down and towards the door, but they were stopped by one of Mr Tiny's werewolves.
"Going somewhere?" One of them asked, and as he went forward to grab Rebecca, because she was closest to him, Crepsley suddenly snapped his neck from behind.
"Crepsley!" Madam Trusca whispered loudly, as she hugged her lover, before looking over his injuries. "Oh my love, what did he do to you?"
"It is nothing that won't heal my love, don't worry." He told her, before he looked over at Katie and Steve, as Kate suddenly reversed positions with Steve and she was raining punch after punch down on him. "Everyone out quickly."
"No Crepsley, not so fast." Mr Tiny told him as he walked over, and the state of him made Rebecca scream and hide herself in Darren's chest as Madam Trusca done the same with Mr Crepsley.
Mr Tiny walked to them, his clothes were burnt and he looked like he had died and been buried for a while as his skin and melted in places and he also had open wounds on his body and face.
"No one is leaving until I get what I want." He suddenly grabbed Evra, and he pulled a knife from his pocket, suddenly making a cut in his neck. "Steve, come here!"
Steve looked over at the smell of blood, and he left Katie to be a curled up mess on the floor, coughing up blood every so often and breathing heavily from many other areas of her body, and she forced herself to move in such a way that she could see what was going on.
"Drink from him, until she listens, her 'precious' little boyfriend will be drained." He pushed Evra to the ground in front of Steve, who almost instantly latched onto Evra's neck.
"No! Steve, stop!" Katie shouted, suddenly sending a beam of lightning at Steve, knocking him away from Evra before she looked at her father. "Please, get him away from here, and all of you leave."
"I'm not leaving you." Crepsley told her.
"Please papa, just go, and get them away from here." She whispered, before she winced as Mr Tiny picked her up by her neck.
"You will die tonight, or join me." Mr Tiny told her, his grip tightening.
"I'd rather die." She told him, and suddenly her skin became too hot and he dropped her onto her feet as see through red fire started to radiate from her body. "I will never join you, now understand that!" As she spoke, the warehouse started to go up in flames. "Now you leave me and my friends and my family alone, or so god help me, I will be seeing you in hell!" As she suddenly shouted, everyone in the room was blinded and turned to dust, except for Katie, who looked around at the amount of dust that had suddenly appeared because of how hot she had made everything. When she had enough strength to move, she made the few steps to the melted doorway, and she climbed out of what was left of the warehouse, finding that everything within a 5 meter radius had also turned to dust, and she headed in the direction of Mr Tiny's place since the sun was about to come up and that was the safest place at present.
