Chapter 16, prepare for an evil monologue. Cassandra explains it all1! YAY Now you can all figure out what's really been going on, because I'm sick of having to hide my secrets. Well most of them anyway. ;)
There was a chorus of gasps from the crowd, mostly from witches and a few of vampires including a wide eyed Thierry.
"What," He asked horror stricken. "Have you done? No Night Worlder can have the abilities of both a vampire and a witch, it's impossible."
"Not impossible," Hunter pointed out with another one of his mischievous grins. "Just never attempted, until now. Cassandra is one of a kind, because only I was the one who decided to create a girl like her. Using the DNA of Aradia and myself, I made Cassandra allow the magic of a daughter of Hellewise but have the manipulation and mind techniques on anyone. This explains what she's done to Mary-Lynnette of course." He turned to his daughter proudly. "Care to explain that to us my darling?"
Cassandra nodded, "Of course Daddy." She turned to the group. I haven't lied about my blindness, or about how I can see your auras but I haven't mentioned to you my abilities. Every touch, the longer the better, I was taking things from you. Your abilities your personalities, all went to me, without anyone knowing. And I would send them, to Mary-Lynnette."
Mary-Lynette reached in the broken case and pulled out the nearest knife as a dark brown wolf charged at her from behind; with an easy moment Mary-Lynette twisted and slashed the wolf in the shoulder, falling down on the floor next to her in pain. She flipped the dagger in her hand skillfully and pulled out two others to place in her pockets of her sleep shorts, in case she lost the first one. A loud snarl cut through her action and she was faced to face with the black wolf she had escaped.
"Come and get me." Mary-Lynette whispered as the creature ran at her before skillfully tumbled out of the way and throwing her dagger into the wolf's chest. Another howl of pain and the wolf fell down next to the other one. Two down, one tiger to go. Mary-Lynette thought turning around slowly holding the dagger in her good hand and the casted hand behind her back.
A low growl sounded and she instantly turned to become face to face with the tiger. Its yellow eyes stared at her with ferocity that Mary-Lynette was able to match carelessly. Something in her was animal and out for blood. The tiger growled again and Mary-Lynette watched unafraid. The tigers claws retracted and he ran at her, allowing her a few more seconds to wait. The tiger charged faster and the moment it thought it had her she jumped and the tiger slid under her. When she landed she was above the tiger's tail and with a twist she turned and grabbed it pulling it hard to the tiger turned claws out and tried to swat at her, but instead of swiping her head off, it smashed into the blade of her dagger.
The fighting skills, Ash thought. I knew they looked familiar, when Cassandra was holding onto me, I thought I was just imagining it.
"But I couldn't do it all the time." Cassandra added sadly. "It takes a long time for me to do it, and drains a lot of power when I do. So I have to grab onto someone for a long time or else I will become weak, and instead they do."
"We want to spend Christmas with Raven." Val said as Jez ordered the tickets.
"She hasn't been feeling that great recently." Thistle agreed sadly. "We have no idea whathappened to her."
Those moves, Morgead thought suddenly. And pretending to take my offer, that's what Raven would have done.
"Though Mary-Lynnette would be very tired afterwards too." Cassandra sighed. "To bad she could only fight and be well rested when she fought humans, must have evened the playing field." Cassandra shrugged and walked over to Mary-Lynnette, holding onto her hand. "I'm still working out the issue with the way she talks when she is under my control. You all remember what happened when I was holding onto Iliana's arm don't you?"
"Thank you for your concern." She said sweetly. "I am smart girl and I know he has hurt some girls in the past, maybe you were one of them? You do look like the type he would have used."
Blaise blinked and stood, putting her hands on her hips. "Is that so?"
"Yes," Mary-Lynnette smiled. "It is actually. Maybe after he dumped you, you had to go for every boy you could get your hands on to try and fill the void."
That was completely Iliana. Keller thought. I should have seen it.
"But the best thing would have to be tonight." Cassandra smiled wildly. "When your sweet precious Mary-Lynnette finally lost it. I can't take all the credit though; I had to borrow one of Blaise's books to find out the right spells I would have to use on her necklace." The garnet around Mary-Lynnette glowed slightly, as if showing off its true power and strength. "And now we come to tonight. I thought I would have had to wait a bit longer to sink in my full powers into the necklace but thanks to Daddy returning to night, I didn't have to keep putting more power into the protection spells around the gate."
A Vampire appeared at the other side of the gate; he laid his hands on the bars and started to climb until he was at the top. When he jumped down onto the grass and his feet touched the soil, he disappeared. A small burnt patch in the ground was the only thing that was left from where the Night person had been standing, making Cassandra smile.
"So you see?" Cassandra asked the crowd. "I've been waiting, a long time for you all to catch up, for someone to tell me that I'm wrong, unnatural, an abomination, but when Mary-Lynnette said all these things you didn't believe her."
""All of you stop it!" Mary-Lynnette yelled scrambling to her feet and leaning herself against the iron fence for support. "Lily knows some important things and I need to talk to her, things about her." Mary-Lynnette pointed at Cassandra with a shaking finger. "Something is wrong with her, and Lily is the closest one that knows."
Everyone stared at the trio of evil before them, a cruel and vicious man, a little girl that was an abomination to nature, and the girl that had told them all the truth but no one would listen to her.
"You can't do this!" Mr. Carter yelled pushing through the crowd and shaking his fist in the air. "That's my daughter and you've turned her into this…this monster like your own." He glared from Hunter to Cassandra and back again. "You can't do this."
Hunter Referent smiled and appeared in front of Mary-Lynnette's father; resting a hand under his chin and making him look strait up into the cruel monsters soulless eyes.
"Watch me." With a flick of the wrist, Mr. Carter was air born, and then landed hard against the stairs where Mark and Claudine ran to his injured being.
"We will stop you." Jez screamed from the crowd with Rashel by her side, holding two stakes in hand. '"Even if we have to band together to do it, there is no way your leaving this room alive."
Hunter threw his head back and laughed fearlessly and stared confidently at the two girls.
"You think that with some stakes and some night world teens you can stop me? Even with the wild powers you can't stop me."
"And why is that?" Rashel asked testily.
Hunters smile grew wider. "Would you all really kill your friend, Mary-Lynnette?"
Would they? Well lets see, either they kind of maim her and stop hunter or they don't hurt her and let him take her away forever as a weapon of mass destruction who can be used to get the forth wild power. Decisions, decisions. Review?