Ch. 51 Oh You Guys
CRACK!
My fist landed right into Eric's cheek. He roared in fury at me and threw me backwards. I hit the stone wall with a loud thump leaving my skin to become bruised and scraped. (As you can tell Eric getting his memory back didn't exactly help his attitude towards me.
"That's gunna leave a mark." I coughed while standing up.
As I fought off Eric, I tried to conjure up my flames but nothing would come up. It fricken blowed.
"I'm going to kill you nice and slow." Eric hissed at me and tears were forming at the brim of my eyes.
He doesn't mean it. He doesn't mean it, I chanted in my head over and over again before shoving him back.
"You don't mean it Eric. What we shared in- even when we didn't know who we truly were to each other!" My eyes pleaded to him to remember, but he just growled at me in hatred.
The Viking backhanded me, causing my lip to break open and bleed. "You mean nothing to me!"
I hit Eric so hard his head snapped clear to the side and fell to the ground. A nice cracking sound echoed the room. "Then why are you so angry if I mean nothing to you?" I huffed and didn't dare let the tears fall. He wasn't going to get the satisfaction of how bad he could hurt me.
Eric shot himself up and went straight to grab for my neck. I blocked his first attempt but not his second because of a noise that distracted me in the background.
"You let him have you! You let him bite you! You whore!" His voice was pure venom.
"That's what this is all about? Caine?" I squeaked through his tight grip around my neck. I kicked him in the nuts and he dropped to the ground.
"Well I guess you got your memory back."
I turned right around just in time to receive a dark energy ball from Eris. "I'm so tired of getting knocked down." I gritted through my teeth and made to stand up.
Eris saw to that I wouldn't. She sent another attack my way. It made my skin feel like it was on fire inside. The electrical shocks and evil squeezing around each living cell in my body.
"AHHHH!"
My eyes began to water and I tried to stand up but just couldn't. I didn't want to give up. I wanted to fight and to get the hell out of there, but I was losing…
"Stay down like the dog you are." The bitch's stone cold voice commanded me. I didn't want to give her what she wanted. I practically screamed through my teeth trying to get up again.
My head struggled to raise. "You-" I raged but Eric had recovered and knocked me out with one final punch from his oh so lovely fist.
Max's P.O.V.
I was more than happy to get away and get back to Caine's house. For a week it had seemed like I was dodging bullets and attacks left and right trying to find out where the blade for the sword was. Apparently more people, or supernatural beings, wanted it hidden more than I anticipated.
As I materialized into Caine's dining room looking battered, it looked like everyone was there.
"What the- WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?" Caine exclaimed at me.
"Hi, nice to see you too. Mind if I change?" I asked sarcastically. With a quick snap of my fingers new clothes materialized.
When I quickly looked around at who was sitting at the table and standing around it I saw Caine, the brotherhoods, Pam with her arm in a sling, Alcide, Leona, and more.
"God what happened to you?" Leona asked.
"Glad you asked. I've been looking for the blade to the sword. Apparently people want it hidden more than I expected. By the way, what happened to you Pam?"
"That bitch ripped my fucking arm off! She also tossed Caine out the fucking window and took Violet!" She cursed and I winced but blinked at the last part.
"She took Violet?"
Ambrose got up from the table. "She also lost her memory too before it all happened. We're trying to come up with a plan to get her back."
"What? She lost her memory too? How- fuck! That doesn't matter right now. I'm going to go get her back!" Thoughts were flying through my mind of the best way to get her back but of course Caine had something to say.
"By yourself? That's suicide!" Caine yelled at me.
"It will be a surprise attack if I get her in the day. And even you know Caine it will be the most affective. With Eric out of the equation it will make it that much more easier. She's probably being tortured-" In an instant I was bent over clutching my head in pain. Violet's screams echoed through my mind. It was deafening.
"What's wrong?" Pam snapped with concern.
"Eric is trying to get into her mind while Eric is hurting her!"
"Can you communicate with her at all?" Alcide asked.
"I'm trying!" I yelled falling to my knees. "I don't know how much she can hold on!"
Violet's P.O.V.
I was on my hands and knees panting with pain and exhaustion. Hit after hit I took from Eris and Eric. At times I felt like I was a goner, but somehow I still held on.
"My friends will come for me." I stated rough. Eris in return just smiled and said she was counting on it.
"Let me in Violet!" Eric wasn't too happy about me not heeding to him, but I wasn't happy about him hitting me and trying to pry into my noggin for information. Not to mention his new girlfriend sending bad mojo my way every five seconds.
I shrieked again as a huge black cloud of evil energy smacked me down in the ground face first. "Ugh!"
"I've got to hand it to her Eric. I thought she would crack by now." I could hear the smile in Eris's words as I watched my breathing create little clouds of dust to form in the air. It went up and into Opal's cage. I watched as she looked strikingly sad and was pleading something to me through her eyes, but I was far too gone to understand.
"She'll give me what we need!" Eric's words were so angry. It was causing my body to feel like it did on the rainy night I almost died and lost my memory. No blood was showing but the pain was still alive and on fire in me.
"I'm not giving up on you." I whispered while still laying on the same side of my face against the dirty floor.
I was heaved up by the collar of my shirt to come face to face with the man I loved. His eyes were slits and he was trying to push against my mind again. I winced blocking him out once more. He grew frustrated and growled, "What did you just say?"
I sucked in a shy breath and repeated, "I'm not giving up on you."
Something flashed in his eyes. It was just for a second, but it was enough. I knew deep down my Eric was still in there, and I was going to save him someway, somehow.
Eris chuckled, "How cute."
I bit my tongue form saying a retort. There was nothing cute about the situation. Especially since she wasn't the one getting tortured.
"I need to feed," Eric growled and I became nervous. My panic was evident enough that he sensed it and smiled evilly at me.
"Go on," Eris ushered in a casual tone and I yelped as Eric jammed his razor sharp fangs into my throat.
Awhile later I sat against the wall in a cell next to Opal's. She would ask if I were alive and I would give a grunt in response.
"You're a fairy. Don't you have magical powers or something?" I asked and fluttered my eyes open and rubbed my soar neck. The bite marks were healing too damn slow for my liking.
Stupid Eric. Stupid Eris. I need to get the hell out of here. I'm not dying in this shit whole.
"Yes I have multiple powers, but down here they don't work. It's like there is a bubble that keeps all magic from coming in."
Except Eris'. She can still use people for target practice.
"That's so stupid," I huffed and went over to the bars. I grasped them with my hand and thought of the brilliant plan to pull them apart.
I may not be able to turn into a human torch, but I still got some super strength.
"Well sorry, I didn't plan on getting kidnapped. By the way, what in the world are you doing?" Opal snapped. I didn't really blame her. I wasn't the best company right now.
"What does it look like?" I asked and focused my attention back to the bars and how hard I was going to have to pull.
"Like you're about to do something stupid."
I rolled my eyes and sighed, "Don't use my word against me."
"It's not your word," Opal pressed annoyingly.
"Oh you know what I mean!" I hissed slightly aggravated. I was trying to break our asses out of this joint.
"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" Opal asked a little concerned.
"This is gunna suck."
I closed my eyes and gripped the bars with more force. The metal felt cool against my skin, but began to string once I started to pull them in opposite directions. "FUCK!" I hissed as quietly as I could to myself before the bars were apart far enough for me to just slip through.
"Wow," Opal breathed and when I turned around to look at her face was gob-smacked.
I shook my hands to get the feeling back in them while turning around to see if I saw any keys. I didn't.
Great…
With one more deep breath I went towards Opal's cage and pulled on the metal. Blood seeped out of my hands and I gritted my teeth in pain. "Uhhh!"
"That's it Violet! You did it!"
I winced looking at my hands and followed Opal to where the others were. We ran quietly but I saw a guard coming so I yanked her behind a corner. Opal almost screamed but I clamped my hand over her mouth to stifle her noise.
'Shut up!' I mouthed and peeked around the corner to see if the coast was clear.
"Come on," I whispered and Opal continued to direct me where the others were.
"They're right here," Opal whispered and ran to the cage. Three people appeared and began to whisper excitedly.
"Opal what are you doing here?" A dark, spiky haired guy, with tan skin, and really blue eyes asked.
"How did you get out?" A girl with long purple hair, green eyes, and fairly shiny skin questioned.
And the other person, another girl with brown hair, hazel eyes, and tan skin asked, "Who is that?"
"It's Violet Knight, the demigod. She's here to get you guys out!" Opal explained and I went to bend the bars again. It wasn't fun and I felt like shedding a tear because of the pain shooting up my arm from my palms.
"Come on there's no time for-" I tried to usher us to get moving but I was interrupted by a vampire guard. He made to sound some sort of alarm by yelling.
"Shit!" The guy with the spiky hair cursed as I kicked the vampire in the back sending him down to the ground and pulled till I ripped his head off. Blood spattered everywhere and I made a face of disgust.
"I will never get used to that," I gushed grossed out and got up to run while ten creatures came sprinting towards us.
"Damn! Our powers still don't work!" The purple haired girl yelled and dodged a stone thrown at her head.
We ran and ran down the corridors trying to get to the entrance that would lead upstairs and to our freedom. Our breathing was becoming short and just as Opal was to grasp the door handle, Eris came in and grabbed her by the throat.
Shit!
Opal began to squirm and screamed a terrible sound. It made my skin crawl with panic. By that time I even had time to react, the creatures who were chasing us caught up and grabbed us. We struggled and something in me was building. It was the feeling I always got before a surge of energy would explode from my being.
"Let her go!" I ordered as I struggled against the ugly thing with horns holding my arms behind my back.
"As you wish," Eris smiled and flung Opal like a rag doll against the far wall.
"Opal!" I yelled along with the others.
"Oh Violet. How I tire of our games," Eris sighed and motioned for the goon who had a hold of me to bring me forth. I struggled the whole way and almost got free until Eris went for my throat this time and placed her hand on my stomach. A thunderstorm shot through me. I yelled from the scorching aches bursting in me.
"Let her go you bitch."
Eris turned slowly around to give me enough view to see Max with Alcide, Annabelle, Leona and some of her coven.
"Oh you guys!" I sighed happily looking at my friends.
The grip around my throat tightened and I tried to rip Eris' hand off but she wouldn't budge.
"Or what?"
I could hear the shake in the evil goddess' voice and smiled a little inwardly to myself.
"Or this!" Max flung himself at her and soon all hell broke loose.
Noses were being broken, slashes here and there, fists being thrown, and we all somehow got upstairs where the chaos continued. I didn't however expect Eric to come into play. Especially since I saw it was daylight outside but all the windows were carefully covered up with thick curtains.
Eric went for Max who was still fighting Eris. I jumped in front of him as he started to lift his arm out to strike.
"Hold on there babe," I piped up and flung myself into Eric making us collide and roll onto the floor. His fangs snapped down and it was our turn to dance.
The roar Eric produced sent ripples of emotions through me. "A little cranky are we?" I asked innocently standing up and hitting him in the gut where his kidney would be. He really didn't like that and attacked.
"You stupid-" He began but I kicked him back.
"Hey! There is no need for name calling honey," I stated and ducked as Leona sent a vampire straight over me. "You go witchy woman!" I cheered and ducked again as Eric leaped at me.
I had planned to somehow get him alone. If I could get him alone, even fighting him alone, maybe I could beat some sense into him.
We ended up in a car garage because my strength was building and I threw him through a wall. It was a huge space and could fit five cars no problem.
"I can't believe I loved you," My soul blood bonded hissed. His remark stung and I pursed my lips.
"I can. I can believe you loved me, and I know you still do. I saw it deep in your eyes. Our souls were meant for each other. That's what soul blood bonded people are. No matter what I'll always love you Eric. Not even you can take that away from me."
I was quite proud of my little speech from the heart but Eric seemed to be seriously struggling with something internally. I just hoped it was himself coming back.
"Touching, really," he spat at me and cracked his neck. "Too bad it doesn't mean shit."
I said I loved him, not that I wouldn't ever hit him if I were extremely pissed off. So I did, straight in the nose. Blood gushed out and flowed freely down his face.
"You hurt me, and I hurt you," I proclaimed and we both went at each other again before the others came into the room.
Max and Eris were still fighting, Leona and her coven has made a force field around them, Opal, and her three friends, and Alcide threw a vampire so hard against the garage wall he went all the way through it to outside. In seconds he lit on fire and was dust in the wind.
Eric made sure to stay away from the sun's rays but continued to go after me.
"The day will come when you are buried six feet beneath me Violet."
"You don't mean that," I gritted through my teeth.
Eric's face twisted with evil and the love of pain he knew he was causing me. In the brief second he sent me down to my knees.
"It's nice to know I can still send you to your knees," he chuckled maliciously and the air around me snapped.
Rain started to pour outside, crackling sounds filled the air as if electricity were dancing between everything, and my hatred of constantly being put down by the man I loved finally burst though every fiber of my being.
I stood up, eyes hooded with slits, my skin tingling, the phoenix in me coming alive, I was to not be pushed on anymore.
Eric could sense something was happening to me and decided it was time to strike again. I grabbed his right fist before it could hit my face and his left before it could hit my throat. There we were in a power struggle of strength, pride, and will. Who would crack first?
I yelled to the others to get out of there and Alcide, Annabelle, Opal and her friends, Leona and her coven ran to the outside. Leona somehow got all of them inside her protective bubble so no more harm could be done to them. The rain was still pouring but the sun was shining as well. My attention went back to Eric who was still trying to fault my strength and Max was still fighting Eris.
"You won't win. You'll be sent to hell to burn just like the rest of them," Eric hissed to me.
I wanted to cringe at his words but I held firm. "Max get out of here!"
I couldn't see Max but I could hear the bodies banging against one another. "Not without you!"
Eric was still trying to make me crumble under his strength and hate but it was time to teach the love of my life I wasn't his, nor nobody's bitch.
"You are not stronger than me!" I yelled and tossed Eric outside into the sun.
"No!" Eris's screams rang out and she ran to Eric.
Max took this time to teleport us to Caine's house. The last thing I saw before the air shimmered around us was Eric on fire.
After we appeared into Caine's kitchen and saw everyone there, introductions were in order. I figured out the guy with black spiky hair was Sky, the wizard of the royal line. The girl with the purple hair was the mermaid princess, and the girl with the brown hair and hazel eyes was Hazel, a witch of the royal line. Go figure.
It had seemed as I pulled away to look out the window that the daylight had ended, but the rain still poured. My mind stared aimlessly at the night while I could feel my body ache. It was a rough fight, I thought and stopped myself from beginning to cry. It was not the time to cry. I would cry alone when I could get a minute away.
"Are you ok?" I turned around to see Max. He looked fine except for his knuckled. They looked a little red.
"I'll be fine," I smiled lightly and turned back to the window.
"Do you need to talk?" Max whispered in my ear so no one would hear.
"I can't right now."
Max heard the sadness and despair in my voice and gave me a huge from behind. It felt nice to have a friend like Max. One that just wanted to be what he was in my mind, a friend. He didn't say anything further but just held me protectively. For once, I knew I really needed to let someone protect me.
I could tell all the vampires were awake and Max took his arms away so we could face the music. In a second the room was even more crowded. The brotherhoods stood in amazement when their eyes landed on me.
"You're alive!" Caine zipped in front of me. He placed me in a hug and then let go.
"That I am."
"How- What about Eric?" Caine asked curiously.
"I threw him into the sun."
The whole room went silent. From Alcide to Ambrose, no one made a sound.
"Is he alive?" Caine was the only one who dared to ask. The vein in his neck started to become present. Was it hope I felt coming off of him?
"Yes, he's still alive. It was a risky statement I had to make to him to not underestimate me," I spoke truthfully.
This didn't lighten the mood any.
"Well now that we have Violet back we can still go on through our battle plans," Max thankfully cut in and I nodded with the others.
"Tomorrow?" I asked and again everyone nodded.
I bid everyone a good night and was about to take off somewhere to get away but Caine quickly picked me up and zipped us to his bedroom. He set me down slowly and closed the door.
"Sorry," he whispered and rubbed his neck. "Can we talk?"
I gave a yawn and sat on the edge of his bed. It was still comfy from the last time I was on it. In fact I had half a mind to just crash and go to sleep.
"I suppose we should," I concluded and gave Caine the signal to sit next to me.
I watch you spin from afar
I drink you in and breath you out
I'm camouflaged by the timeline
I'm camouflaged when the sun shines
He looked hopeful, happy even, but sad mixed all into one. I wanted to stroke his face but I forced my hands to stay in my lap. Caine saw this and grabbed both of my hands and held them lightly, afraid to break them. I just closed my eyes and let him have the small pleasure for a few minutes because I was going to take it all away for good.
Two ships passing in the night
Two lips pressing ground the tides
It was as if he could smell my sadness on me. I hated that I could be read so easily lately, but maybe it was because we had exchanged blood. I tried to get the courage to pull away from him but it got even harder once he pressed his lips lightly to my forehead.
I believe the world it spins for you
We wil never be, I am the moon
I sighed sadly, "We both know this stops."
I believe the world it spins for you
We wil never be, I am the moon
Caine let go of my hands and held my face like it were made of glass. "It doesn't have to. You gave yourself to me, and I you." His voice was barely a whisper and his eyes started to turn red. The bloody tears almost spilling over. I could feel his pain, his love for me, and his hope for us to be together crumbling.
"I still love Eric. As much as I hate him, I still love him," I wept and removed Caine's strong hands from my face.
Bloody stained tears streaked his handsome face and I placed a small kiss on his lips. He sat there motionless except for the small shakes. "Violet-"
"What we shared can never be taken from us, but I need you to be my friend, my ally, someone I can count on."
I was shaking by now and the only thing I could think of doing was to stand up. Caine didn't move off the bed. He placed his hands over his face and tried to stay silent as I wished with all my heart to be anywhere but there.
I long to be a part
I isolate my heart
You've drawn me into your world
Now I too spin limbless
My vision blurred and suddenly I was standing in the old boxing building where Max and I trained. I couldn't stop me emotions of regret, hate, sorrow, wanting to have this whole war over with, and wishing upon anything to have Eric back.
In the past hour I had thrown the love of my life into the sun where he could have died, had broken a good man's heart, and wanted to just give up. I fell to the floor and broke out into to tears. Tears that made the old building shake around me and start to collapse. My flames ignited and covered my skin while the tears turned into screams.
I screamed, and screamed, and screamed till my throat was going hoarse. I hit the cement till it be a pile of rubble beneath my fingers, and I heard Max come up behind me. His arms wrapped around me with his wings sheltering the both of us like a cacoon.
"You have to stop Violet. You have to calm down," Max's voice caressed my ear while his strong arm continued to me to him.
"I-I can't. I can't stop!" I was shaking, vibrating, feeling the hate Eric had for me.
Max's voice tickled my flesh against my ear as he tried to coax me. "You have to. You'll destroy yourself if you don't."
"I tried. I tried," I cried gripping Max's arms around my front. My nails couldn't stop themselves from digging into his skin, but he didn't nothing but whisper in my ear.
"Come back to me Violet. Come back to me," My winged friend begged me softly.
One hand clapping, where's the wind
I stand spanning at your distant wings
I believe the world it spins for you
We will never be, I am the moon
I shut my eyes tight but I could see through my eyelids Max was shining bright. I didn't know how but it was like looking into the sun. It made me start to calm down and relax against his hold. I wasn't screaming and on fire anymore but I couldn't help the tears still falling.
"Don't leave me Max. Please," I pleaded and gripped him tighter to me.
"Never."
I believe the world it spins for you
We will never be, I am the moon
I believe the world it spins for you
We will never be, I am the moon