Ch. 34 Ascending

It was show night and I was absolutely in go mode. I had my head set on and radioed Ava who thankfully was being my lights and music girl tonight.

"Ok Ava I'm about to go out," I smiled and she gave me the clear.

With confidence I walked out onstage and looked out to the audience. The whole place was packed. People of all ages were in the audience and they all clapped and whistled when I came out, especially a tall blonde vampire and his blonde companion sitting next to him in the front row.

"Welcome ladies and gentleman and children of all ages to the dance recital of thee very lovely ladies you are about to see perform for you all. They have worked very hard and can not wait to show you. So without further ado!" I took a bow and the whole theater erupted in claps again as I made my way off stage.

One by one the dances were coming and going. Every song my little dancers nailed and I was ecstatic! It literally could have not have gone any better.

For the last part of the show all of my little dancers came out and took a bow. Then I came out and gave Ava the go to play Blue Suede Shoes (Viva Elvis) by of course Elvis Presley. Instantly all of us started to dance on stage which caused the audience to start moving. It was absolutely amazing!

I saw Eric get that signature grin he gets when he's about to do something mischievously and hop onto the stage. In seconds we were swing dancing and I was laughing and smiling so hard my gut hurt. Pam even joined in and was dancing with the little girls. For that moment everything was as it should be.

The show was over and almost all the dancers were gone except one. Rosy.

"Hey where's your mommy?" I asked her while walking up to her.

"Miss Violet I'm not sure. She said she needed to go to the bathroom and that she would be right back," Rosy said and I nodded. I told her to stay right there and went to go look for her mom. I knew Rosy's mom and she would never leave her alone for this long.

I made my way to the bathroom and smelt copper once I walked in. All of a sudden ever nerve in my body was on end. Something was for sure wrong now, I just knew it.

I took a quick breath and walked in further. The bathroom seemed fine except for a few small drops of red on the tile floor. Blood. I walked forward more and opened up all the stalls and wished I hadn't opened the last one when I did. Rosy's mom was bleeding terribly and laying on the floor. I ran to her and put my fingers to her neck to check for a pulse. There was one there but it was faint.

"Oh god!" I breathed and pulled out my cell phone and called 911. After that I told Rosy's mom to hold on and called Pam. She and Eric came running in. "Pam hold pressure to her neck! She's bleeding really bad!" Pam did as I said and Eric looked confused and felt the same.

I booked it out of the bathroom and ran for Rosy. Something in me was just screaming something was wrong, and I was right. Eris was not ten feet away from me and holding Rosy's hand. The little girl had no idea who she was with.

"Eris," I warned and she just smiled.

Eric was now standing next to me and grabbed my hand.

"Oh isn't that sweet, the vampire and the demigod. Gee what will I do? I could snap her neck in less than a second, or I could do the same thing I did to her mommy in there," Eris snickered and indicated towards the bathroom with her free hand.

I just watched as Rosy stood there not knowing what was going on while Eris picked her up in her arms. "Let her go!" I yelled and a sense of hesitation came flooding from Eric.

Be careful Violet.

I need to get Rosy away from her!

"Ok!" Eris laughed and stabbed the little girl in the back with a dagger that came out of nowhere.

"No!" I screamed and dived for the girl as Eris vanished in thin air.

"M-m-miss Vio-" Rosy stuttered and began loosing a lot of blood. There was nothing I could do except yell at Eric to call another ambulance or something.

"There is one already on the way," Eric said and told me to just hang on.

I cried and cried as I held the dieing girl to me on the floor. She shook horribly in my arms and I cursed the heavens for this.

"Violet, Violet, look at me," Eric commanded and I lifted my head.

Your eyes are pure red and your tears are blood! The look on Eric's face well indicated he wasn't bullshitting me but I didn't care.

I could feel the life leaving Rosy's body and with out any words spoken I wished I could give her my life in return.

In an instant after my wish something from the very bottom of my soul erupted. I couldn't see anymore except for Rosy's dieing heart beating less and less every second. My bloody tears blurred my vision completely and I felt like I was going to explode.

Eric's P.O.V.

I commanded Violet to look at me for her to calm down. When she finally did I was shocked to see her eyes were no longer the warm light brown, but instead red. Even her tears were blood, I could smell it. What the hell was happening?

I bent down to touch Violet on the shoulder just as my fingers were about to lay my hands on her she began to glow. And I mean like Tinker Bell or whatever that little popular blonde fairy is called, on steroids. It was just like the night when her eyes glowed that burning white light awhile ago except this time she was ten times brighter. I tried to shield my eyes as best I could but it wasn't working out that well.

As I continued to stare at Violet I heard Pam calling me. "Pam go back! Do not come in here!"

"What the fuck is going on Eric?" My child yelled and I told her to go take cover something big was about to happen.

"Eric-" Pam began to object again but it was muted by Violet. She flung her head back while still holding onto the child and screamed. It wasn't like a scream of pain but more of a battle cry. It reminded me of my Viking days instantly.

I could see ripples of magic coming off of my beloved and a golden sphere building around her and the little girl. It was amazing until it looked like it was going to explode. The outer layer shook and suddenly the sky erupted with lightning and I was thrown back while the room filled with the bright light coming off of Violet and causing all the windows to shatter.

Violet's P.O.V.

I felt weird. Not in a bad way but in a new transformed way. Without getting up I looked down at Rosy. She was alive and smiling at me. No longer was she bleeding, and in fact she looked perfectly fine.

"Rosy you're alive," I breathed and wrapped my arms around the little girl.

"Miss Violet-" Rosy whispered but the next moment medics and Max came bursting through the door.

"Violet!"

I stood up slowly as Max got to my side. He looked like he was in the shock of his life.

"Where's Eric?" I asked and handed Rosy over to one of the medics that came over.

"I'm right here," I heard and looked behind me.

Eric was slumped against the wall with wide eyes. His shirt had some holes in it like they were caused by a cigarette's lit end.

"Uh…" I didn't know what to do but just stand there like a total moron. What the hell happened?

"I would like to know that too," Eric responded and got up but walked slowly towards me.

"Can someone tell me?" I was scared and faced Eric. He took my hands and looked into my eyes.

"I have never seen anything like it-"

"She accended," Max interrupted.

"I what?"

"She what?"

Eric and I were equally as confused.

Max's face was utterly gob smacked. It was like he couldn't believe what he was saying. He turned around in a circle, "You broke all the windows too."

"No I didn't!" Why would I break any windows? I too now turned around in a circle and looked like I was going to swear. SHIIIITTTTTT!

It was true I broke all of the windows. All of them! Not one lay intact. "I think we should get out of here," Eric advised and I let him pick me up and zoom outside to his car.

After talking to Max a little more he finally said what "ascending meant". I now had all of my powers as a demigod. My strength, my speed, and I would somehow get a power, but I didn't know what it was yet. Also now if I needed to, I could talk to Max just like I could with Eric through our minds. It was a little freaky, and it only happened because of Eris. When she stabbed Rosy and I held her in my arms, wanting to give my life to her. That's what did it. It triggered the essence or whatever in me that would speed up the process. Basically I was willing to sacrifice myself to save an innocent. Though with all good things still come the bad. Apparently I wasn't immortal, that would still have to wait till I would reach the age of twenty four. Humph…just when I thought I might have the upper hand in this war.

When Eric and I got home I felt exhausted and he still was watching me closer than a momma eagle watching her chicks. I suddenly felt self-conscious.

"Are you sure you're ok?"

I literally think it was the fiftieth time Eric asked me if I was ok since this whole ordeal a half hour ago. I shrugged and slumped my shoulders. He studied my closely and warily made his way over to me. I held my breath for some reason as he stood in front of me and looked down.

"Breath," Eric said and I let out the air to gain some. I felt extremely nervous, like the time when Eric and I sat on my bed and he placed a kiss on my wrist for the first time. That kind of nervous. It was making my stomach flip and my legs feel like jello.

"U-uh…I think I n-n-need a shower."

Eric bent down a little and picked me up. Instinctively I wrapped my legs around his chiseled waist and held tight even though I didn't have to. The guy could pick me up with his pinky. I'm serious, we tried it one time just to see.

"You are so beautiful," Eric spoke sincerely and my heart melted like a popsicle in July.

I tried to form some sort of words but I couldn't, I was speechless. I knew what he was saying he meant and I wrapped my arms around him to give him a hug. I didn't let go of him and laid my head on his shoulder while he walked us with human speed to the ever so grand bathroom. With one arm still holding me, he flipped the light switch on and I blinked to adjust my eyes to the brightness.

"Bright," I murmured and blinked some more as he sat me on the counter next to the sink. He kissed me lightly on the lips and then made his way to the shower. Instantly the hot water was fogging up the room and Eric came and stood in front of me once again. I didn't know what to do but watch as his hands went to the bottoms of my shirt and lifted it above my head.

He was slow and in no hurry as piece by piece he undressed me and then himself. I will admit when I saw him bare I felt excited and he gave the littlest of grins of satisfaction. Of course my vampire knew he was a babe. Tons and tons of people drooled over him every night at his bar and just in general. Eric was blessed with good looks and I wasn't complaining.

My Viking took my hands and lead me to the shower. Inside he washed every square inch of me as I stood trembling with anticipation, but it felt good none the less. Through the bond, the ability to feel emotions, and catching glimpses or words in his mind like "want" and "need", I knew he wanted to have sex, also his man hood was pressing against my back side as he continued to washed my shoulders.

"I need you," I whispered and turned around to look up at him. I didn't know where I had gotten the courage to say those word out loud came from but they made his eyes smolder.

I had no time to react as Eric picked me up like he did before and was holding me against the warm tile wall. My breath caught in my throat and my chest was heaving. The look in his eyes told me there was no going back and his fangs clicked down. I reached one shaky hand forward and touched them both. They pricked two of my fingers and Eric's body vibrated while pulling the two fingers in his mouth. He sucked at the blood and wrapped his tongue around them both for a few minutes before letting them go. We had never done that before and it was more exhilarating than jumping off a cliff.

This time he couldn't stop himself and kissed me long and hard while pressing me further against the wall. I moaned and it drove him more crazy with want. I just had to accept I wasn't going to get out of the shower for a very long time.