Chapter 21

Just as it did Lexi sent a large wave of energy around the large group and protected them from the fall. The next thing Lexi knew something dropped on top of her and everything went black.

When Lexi opened her eyes again all she could see was a large pile of rubble. She heard people yelling and dogs barking but she had not yet gained control of all her muscles. She quickly established she had broken one leg, twisted the other ankle and sprained her wrist and elbow on her left arm. Lexi found her right arm was full functioning and managed to clear some space above her. As she did she heard several more voices.

"Over here!" Lexi recognised Ash's tone and pushed more away. A second later Lexi felt more being pushed away. Soon she felt sun on her face and she felt someone lifting her up. When her eyes adjusted she saw Quinn was lifting her while Ash was moving the remaining pieces of rubble. Lexi looked around and saw not one other person had a scratch on them. Lexi was about to laugh but when she inhaled she felt a sharp pain in her chest. She looked down quickly and saw a large piece of wood was sticking out of her chest only millimetres away from her heart. She looked at Quinn who had obviously noticed it as well. He looked awkwardly at her when he lay her down.

"Just get it out of me," Lexi said cringing from the sharp stabbing pains that shot through her body. Quinn shrugged and grabbed the piece of shrapnel. He pulled it out in one quick motion and Lexi took a sharp inhale of air. She felt her skin healing itself instantly then felt a sudden feeling of hunger. Ash bent down and placed his wrist to her mouth while Quinn started to put her leg bone back in place.

Several minutes later and Lexi was up straight on her feet.

"Thank God you're okay," Poppy said hugging her again. Lexi was ready this time and didn't stumble as the girl flung herself at her. Lexi started laughing along with everyone else.

She froze mid laughter when she heard an almost inaudible noise. She heard a tiny weak cough from below her feet. Lexi stepped backwards and looked at the others.

"Did you hear that?" The others looked confused.

"Hear what?" Thierry asked. The cough came again but this time a lot louder.

"That," Lexi looked at the others then at the ground. "Wait a second." Lexi crouched and began to push away any thing in her way. She quickly heard more coughing and kept digging until she saw a pale hand. She grabbed it and followed it until she had dug up an arm, a shoulder and then finally a head. Lying in the ground was Stephen's body but this time his eyes were open. Lexi laughed with joy as she pulled him out of the wreckage. She pulled him in closer to her and hugged him.

"What the hell happened?" he asked looking around. "And why am I so hungry?" Lexi leaned back and put her wrist to his mouth. He sat staring at it for a while then instinctively bit down. He only took a small amount then pulled back. "Did I just? And you just? And that was?" Lexi laughed at his craziness and hugged him again. Lexi suddenly heard a crunching noise and looked behind him. Through the wreckage came a dark figure who was walking directly towards them. Lexi stood straight and blocked Stephen from and harm. Lexi watched as the figure got closer and remained in front of Stephen. After a few moments Lexi realised who it was and relaxed.

"Marcel?" he looked up at her and she saw there was another figure behind him. "Turist?" She rushed over to them and saw Turist had a piece of wood through his chest and Marcel had wood in his hands. She pulled the wood out of both of them then hugged them both. "Thank God you're both okay, but why are you both here?"

"We were… you know…" Marcel stuttered.

"I know what?"

"You know…." he repeated.

"What?"

"We were locked up in the attic." Lexi started giggling to herself. "Hey shut up it was terrifying in there!"

"What was in the attic?" Thierry asked stepping towards them.

"Nothing." Ash said quickly moving forwards as well.

"Seriously what was up there?" Thierry asked again.

"It was Ash's old room." Thierry laughed along with Lexi. Lexi then put her hand on Marcel's shoulder. "I really do feel sorry for you. Honestly." Suddenly Marcel looked behind Lexi and froze.

"My God. He survived a run in with your father."

"Not exactly," the voice came from behind Marcel and Turist. The tone chilled Lexi straight away and she suddenly recognised it. All of a sudden her and Thierry were being pushed back by Quinn and Ash. Out of a cloud of ash came Hunter. His eyes were gleaming with anger and Lexi was suddenly more afraid than she'd ever been. "So you managed to wake him up did you? Smart little vermin. He realised that if he bit me any taste of blood her gets would finish it."

"Why were you biting him in the first place?" Lexi asked.

"Well first was just to shut him up, the second time was for fun, and the third time…. Well you saw it. My question is how did you know?" Suddenly the ghostly figure appeared beside Lexi again. "Adelaide?" Hunter asked. His face showed his confusion.

"Hunter," her mother's voice was calming and Lexi relaxed slightly.

"So you finally got through to her? Well I hope you explained that she's a half breed monster like you."

"Hey! If anyone's the monster around here it's you!" Lexi yelled.

"When did you get to be so dark Hunter? When I first met you, you were a kind and gentle soul. I knew you had been corrupted by Maya and I thought I'd gotten you over that."

"No. You were just trying to play me for your evil games. But I found out what you really were and found out your game."

"What game?"

"You wanted to start a 'family' of freaks!"

"Hey! One of those 'freaks' is your daughter!"

"I have no daughter!" Lexi's coolness snapped and she felt a cold part of her open.

"And I never had a father!" Just as Hunter was about to speak Lexi caught his voice and kept it from him. "You've done enough talking now you're going to listen. You treated me like I was second class my entire life. Then suddenly Lily dies and I'm your princess again. You walk around like you're all big and tough but in fact you're just scared. The only reason you really wanted me was because I was a weapon. You wanted your own child to fight your battles for you. It's your fault that I was cursed by Hellewise and it's your fault I now cannot control my instincts. Also in order to keep me under control you did this." Lexi lifted her sleeve to show her scar. "You said that it was just a test and that you would give it to every vampire, but you didn't. You only used it on me."

"You killed me because I loved you're daughter. So you turned me into a vampire and make me into a killer. That's all do you is make people kill." Quinn had stepped closer to Lexi now.

"You made sure my mother was killed. I almost died because you found out about me so I had to go away and hide from my friends, family and even my soul mate!" This time Jez had moved.

"You killed my mother and turned my brother into a vampire against his will." Rashel said taking Quinn's hand in hers. "I was five!"

"You wanted me to keep my sisters in confinement or kill them," Ash added.

"You wanted me to kill my own daughter or myself," Lexi's mother was the last to speak.

"All of this by you. All of those lives and thousands more in only five hundred years. How many more Hunter? How many more have to die until you're happy?" Lexi let go of his voice and waited for a reply.

"Only one," he said whilst looking at the ground. His head suddenly snapped up and Lexi caught sight of his fangs. "You." With that her lashed out towards her. He dodged attacks from Jez, Quinn and Ash. As he reached Lexi she moved at the last minute and her went crashing to the floor. He was standing again a millisecond later and he was diving towards he again. Suddenly everything went in slow motion for Lexi as the man came flying towards her. She span with her leg out and hit in directly in the centre of the chest. The man flew back and landed on his back in a pile of rubble. Everyone looked at Lexi in shock. After a moment Hunter stood up again. He was breathing heavily and pulling a piece of wood from him arm. "Bed Idea." Suddenly a pain shot through Lexi's left arm. She grabbed her wrist in pain and dropped to her knees. Quinn, Ash and Thierry crouched next to her while Quinn tore her sleeve off. Lexi saw that her scar was moving and becoming hotter and hotter. The pain moved throughout her body until she was unable to move. Lexi looked up and saw that Hunter had collected a large amount of wood and had thrown it in their direction. Lexi caught sight of one heading straight for her heart and closed her eyes and waited for the impact. Lexi opened her eyes after several moments as she had not felt any pain. She looked at the ground and saw several piles of ash by her knees. The pain had gone from her body and she was able to stand again until she noticed why the wood had not reached her. In the air floating around Hunter was Spike. As Spike noticed her he flew over to her and landed on her shoulder. He rubbed his head against her cheek then growled slightly. Lexi stroked him then looked towards Hunter.

"Tired yet old man?" Hunter straightened and looked at her. He wiped blood from around his mouth and licked his hand.

"Never." Lexi shrugged and sent a large wave of air crashing down over him. Hunter managed to stand his ground but was pushed back several feet. "My turn," he said. As he did Lexi saw a large gust of wind pick up. She automatically drained the energy out of it and stopped any power building up. Hunter looked at her shocked.

"Oh yeah. I forgot to mention. I control any energy from air now." Hunter glared at her again.

"Go on then. Kill me. Kill your own father!" Lexi froze and glared back at him.

"No." Everyone turned to her shocked.

"Lexi kill him. He's completely open!" Ash yelled at her.

"No!" Lexi yelled back. "There's something I want to know. Where's that girl?"

"What girl?" Hunter asked quickly.

"The girl like me."

"Oh she's dead." Something inside of Lexi tightened.

"But that means-" Hunter started laughing. Lexi frowned then moved until she was only feet away from her father. "What?"

"I forgot I didn't tell you."

"Didn't tell me what?"

"I lied about your powers and the fact that you're going to die." Lexi became confused and looked at Quinn who shrugged at her. Turist was suddenly next to her.

"I swear I didn't know!" he said quickly. Hunter's head suddenly tuned to face him.

"Oh look a fellow traitor."

"Hey he never betrayed me." Hunter glared at Lexi. "What do you mean anyway?"

"Do you really think that if you had anything to do with the end of the world I would keep you alive. Weapon or not." Lexi stepped back slightly.

"What the hell is that meant to mean?" Lexi yelled.

"It means… if I kill you. The end of the world can still be stopped. You have nothing to do with it."

"So why the hell would you tell me that?" Lexi yelled again grabbing Hunter by the shoulders.

"Because you're part of something much bigger." Hunter grabbed Lexi by the wrists and stared directly into her eyes. "You're part of the trinity council." Lexi froze and blinked a few times.

"You mean trinity… as in… the guy who doesn't exist?"

"No not God." Suddenly a voice piped up from behind them.

"Wait. How do you know God doesn't exist?" Stephen asked stepping closer. Lexi smiled at him.

"If he really existed… would I?"

"You never know Lexi. What ever that Trinity Council thing is it must be important. Why else could you exist?"

"I don't mean just me. I mean vampires in general." Stephen shrugged as Lexi turned back to Hunter who had let go of her. "Anyway what the hell is this Trinity Council?"

"It's some sort of council set up by the ancient powers but for some reason it just surrounds the number three. It's three people, with three types of being together and you're meant to have some kind of ultimate power to kill all evil on the world. Personally I didn't think it existed until the night Hellewise cursed you."

"Wait. How am I a trinity?"

"Vampire, Shape-shifter and Witch." Thea said as if it was obvious.

"I'm not a with Thea."

"You had direct contact with Hellewise. That's what I found weird. Why would Hellewise use a curse on a child, because it had to be directed at you because she never misses. But then I realised that she didn't curse you. She protected you."

"Protected me from what?"

"I don't know but you'll find out somehow."

"Well this is just brilliant! Is there anything else anyone wants to tell me? I've already found out that I have two sets of ears, a tail, my father killed my mother, I'm not going to die, my cousin is now my brother, I fell in love with a human who is now a vampire because someone bit him, my mother's ghost has been following me and I was actually meant to become the leader of every vampire in the whole freaking night world. So is there anything anyone missed out because now would be a good time." Everyone fell silent and looked at each other. "Wait a second…. Where's Luke?"

"Don't worry he's at mine." Marcel said. Lexi span to look at him.

"Excuse me? You've left a child in a building full of evil vampires werewolves shape shifters and witches who hate humans?"

"Don't worry I closed first."

"After this I am going to kill you Marcel." Lexi turned to Hunter who was looking less terrifying and more tired by the minute.

"Well then are you going to kill me?" Lexi froze then picked up a large piece of wood. Lexi stepped closer to Hunter who stood with his hands out to his sides. Lexi held it to his chest and watched as Hunter closed his eyes. Lexi leaned forwards until her mouth was near his ear. After a few moments Lexi whispered softly so only he could hear.

"Start running." She leaned back as Hunter opened his eyes. He frowned at her but Lexi turned her back on him and started walking away. As she did she felt a gust of wind behind her and no longer felt the presence of her father. Lexi didn't turn as she knew he had left.

"Why didn't you kill him?" James cried.

"Because I won't be like him," Lexi said simply. She then walked over to Stephen who hugged her tight. Lexi heard a noise and heard someone yelling her name.

"Lexi!" Lexi turned and saw running towards her was Luke. Lexi smiled at him and lifted him when he reached her.

"Hey sweetie. Wait what are you doing here?" Suddenly from behind where Luke had just ran came Terra.

"Where the hell did you go?" she was yelling angrily and froze when she saw Lexi. "Oh thank God. I'm so sorry but for a human that kid really can run!" Lexi laughed slightly but turned back to Stephen. She put Luke down and turned to him.

"Lexi, there's one thing I don't get."

"What?"

"This morning. When you were leaving…. I was going to tell you something, but you said I know… but how." Lexi stepped closer to him and put her head close to his.

"Because I love you too." She then kissed him and her body was suddenly full of life. She pulled back a second later and turned to everyone else.

"I guess that makes you a damned day breaker now right?" Quinn asked. Lexi smiled slowly then looked at her new family.

"No." Quinn frowned at her. "I've always been one Quinn… I just didn't know it." Lexi then turned and saw the figure that was her mother fade away. Lexi then looked down at her dress and then at her arm. As she did she realised that the scar on her arm faded and in its place a large spiral appeared. Lexi frowned as the black shape formed but shrugged once it had appeared. She then turned to her friends and leant her head on Stephen's chest.

"What are we going to do about these three?" Ash asked signalling to Marcel, Turist and Terra. Lexi smiled at them.

"They're clear." Ash looked at her quickly.

"How do you know?" Ash asked.

"I just do." Lexi smiled at them and turned back to Stephen who was now holding Luke.

"What about your father?" Stephen asked.

"What about him? I don't need him now. I have a family." She held Luke's hand and face Stephen. She kissed Stephen quickly and felt the sun finally rise and warm her body and she suddenly felt complete.

Lexi Boutelle was the most deadly vampire on the earth, and she knew it. And that's why they loved her.