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Chapter 28

Its bad real bad. The nomads have banded together to fight for the dwindling human resource from the established covens. Any Vamp that drinks a human too far gone to the plague suffers a form of sycosis. They fight anyone, kill everything, and will walk into fire, all though I think they are having a moment of sanity at that point. They become mindless eating machines. We have called the other 4 covens to Volturi's city in the hopes of figuring out what we can do. Zeus was the first to arrive.

He walked into the brother's throne room looking ragged. "It is like the ends of days out there. I had to fight my way here."

Aro looks concerned not for Zeus but for the troubles out there. "How does your coven fair?"

"We are an island I have made sure that no ships have entered our waters since the first sings of this affliction has started. Two of my coven swims a perimeter around my home sinking any ships no exceptions." Zeus looks at the three, "Do you have any ideas what we should do?"

Aro look at him, "Only 3 of the 6 covens are here let us wait for a complete consensus of our group."

He nods "Am I in the same rooms?"

Aro smiles, "Of course I will send you someone to dine on. Go and refresh your self we can meet here in five hours."

It was two days later when Minerva limped in holding her arm, slowly healing because she was afraid to feed on unknown humans. In the throne room we waited, the brothers, Zeus, and I. Almost sobbing she tells us her story.

"Apollo and I left 4 days ago. Half way here we were attacked by 8 nomads he told me to run he would hold them off and catch up with me." She is quiet for a moment like she is going through long gone moments. She smiles "always the brave fool my friend was. He looked for me; I had gotten far enough away that they would never catch me. I could still see them as they worked to corral Appy. They were good; some had talents one seemed to be able to put up some kind of wall. Appy bounced off it a few times trying to get out of there. In the end it was like a circle around him, it kept getting smaller and smaller until he could not move. The one holding him was shaking almost as much as he was. He was looking at me the whole time I could almost hear him telling me to leave him, to run." She looked all of us in the eyes. "He was my friend, I may not be able to stop this, but I could witness. The leader walk up to him talking for a while, then looking to where I was he ripped his head off and the race to stop me began. What should have only took a day to run here turned into three. They knew where I was going; Appy had to have told them trying to get them to back off. Always in front of me I made sure to keep the female that trapped Appy a good distance from me. She was their big weapon; they tried to keep her in-between me and your city Aro." She looks right at me. "They are like a pack of wild dogs killing any competition for food. Like a rabid dog we need to put them down."

Things where a little quiet after that she was shown her rooms and had a meal to heal, we just looked at each other 4 of the 6 were here. Zhou had the farthest to travel everyone was on edge how would he fair.

Torrin and Serris turned up two days later. She was sporting a new scar on her neck clear evidence of someone removing her head. With fire in his eyes "that's it the nomads are out of control. Aro it's your job to police them why are you sitting holed up here nice and safe?"

Aro tries to calm him down "that is what we are here for my friend."

Serris looks like she is ready to jump down his throat "if the Volturi cannot handle this we will!"

Aro bristles looking daggers at her. I jump in before things get out of hand. "Serris, Torrin, can we please not make this personal. Aro had no idea it was this bad out there, I had no idea either. Can we all keep a clear head and when Zhou arrives we can all sit down and come up with a plan. We all agree that something must be done."

They calm down a little and Aro has two humans brought in not even waiting for them to go to their room knowing this is the quickest way to mitigate some of their anger.

2 days, 6 days, 2 weeks, 6 weeks no Zhou, the others are ready to start, deciding that either he isn't coming or can't. The next day Toa and Reail come in, both looking lost.

He stands before us in the conference room "Zhou is no more. 7 nomads overran his home. I felt the bonds brake." He looks at the Romainae's, "tell your coven leader he is the oldest walking the earth."

Aro looks at him "Who leads in your homeland?"

Toa shakes his head "No one, old feuds held in check by my lord are ramped. Half of his vassals have killed the others." He looks at me, "Pablo and Shail did not make it out."

Reail let out a cry and he pulled her too him she buried her face in his shoulder making sobbing sounds. He looked up to the other leaders, "they were sisters in both lives."

Cassias looks worried "my arm, was it destroyed?"

Toa pats his mate and reaches down to his backpack Kat had made for him. Open it up and pulling Cassias's arm out. "We were visiting at the time I grabbed it on the way out knowing my master always meant for you to have it back." He starts to walk toward Cassias to return it.

Lil pipes up "I'll take that." Giving Cassias a look waiting for him to object, she nods her head as he stays silent. "Five hundred years starting now I will keep it safe till then, or your death whichever comes first." She leaves to place it with her other one. Aro looks a little sick reminded she has his arm also.

Most of the others look on with surprise. Lil is so reticent most forget she is even there.

Zeus looks at Cassias "You are just going to let her keep it?"

Aro rubs where his arm is missing "it is a privet matter between us and Lillian."

He looks to me "She ripped them off?"

I smile at the Greek god "Lil has quite the temper, once she reaches pissed off I advise you to back down she can be quite vicious."

Both kings nod Cassias whispers "you have no idea."

Aro shakes it off, "well we can all agree Zhou's territory is in transition. Are you taking over Toa?"

He looks at Aro, "No my mate and I are moving to her coven, the loss of two of their members leaves them in a vulnerable position."

Aro looks at the rest of the table "then we are agreed it is an open territory?"

Zeus, Minerva, and Torrin nod yes I reluctantly agree.

"So be it we are now five, his vote will not pass to the successor. As we are all here can we all agree the nomad problem must be taken care of?"

Again he got nods all the way around. After a few days a record pace for us it was decided, each coven would go out and destroy all nomads we are personally not going to bring into our coven. For me that pretty much ment everyone, I am not saying I would never take someone in but… My 5 left the next day with Minny and Zeus we would run them home before going to Zhou's old home. Toa told me most of his old coven that was left needed killing, but he could not do it his old friend loved them all. He went with Torrin to help get him home, he and his mate would hunt with them before running to his new coven. We were one day out, half way to Rome when we ran into Minny's new friends but there numbers were greater, 8 more had joined there ranks. She growled at the leader.

"Now sweet thing, no need to hold a grudge." He had a shit eating grin on his face like the fight was a for-gone conclusion. He looked at Kat talking right to her. "No need for you to die young one, come over here and I will spare you."

Peter starts to laugh, "You are so fucked. Do you even know who you are fucking with and who the young one is?" he looks at Kat and drops to the ground holding his side.

Kat looks over with a smirk, "ASS, get up before I rip something off."

While Peter is distracting them I am checking for gifts. 3 immortals including wall girl, one of the others has that slow down gift but less effective than that other ass-hat of Aro's. The last has a powerful gift, he can freeze the water in the air around you to five feet locking you in a block of ice that would take a few minutes to free yourself from. He is an older looking immortal in his late 40's I look him in the eye, "Leave and live, use you gift on any here and you are ash."

Their leader bristles "we are almost 2 to your 1, we have all the numbers and gifts to win."

The man looks at me and sees I am not kidding. "Maybe it would be best to let them leave."

I nod my head at Minny "which six killed Appy?"

She pointed out the six, "her, and him, those two on the end, ass-hat and the bitch with the gift next to him."

I nod my thanks and look at the group. "Anyone not pointed out may leave I would go if I were you the rest I am going to kill for hunting my 2 friends."

"Just who the fuck are you?" One of the unselected immortals asked.

"Some call me Thanatos, others Hades, some just plane Death. I prefer Michael or Mac to my friends."

The unnamed 40 year old with the gift lights out of there after the second name, two others run after they hear Death, their leader looks to run but before he takes a step Kat has ripped his head off. Peter's laugh is at full volume and you can hear Kat mutter "get to work fucker that fire won't start it's self."

The rest of us fall on the other 10. Lil, Kat, and I take out three as the other scatter. Wall girl has encircled herself keeping everyone out. The rest are being rounded up as I look at her. "That's not going to stop me you know." As I step through her wall my shield forcing a hole. Her face scrunched tight trying to keep me out but it's like walking through a doorway for me. I use a power that I have not used in a long time and freeze her in place. "How does it feel knowing you will die and are unable to move foolish one? How many have you finished like this? No matter, I will have to go unanswered as I am never letting you go before I rip your head off."

Milly is pushing on her wall "Help me in Mac; let me be the one to end her."

"I'm sorry Milly but she holds the wall I can only walk through it." I reach up with two hands and with the rest arriving back with heads and body parts they watch as her head leaves her body. I toss her the head as I let the body go and it drops to the ground. "Take your time Milly we can wait."

"Thanks Mac" as she is dragging the body to the fire Peter has started. Putting the head so she can look at the flames she rips a finger off showing it to the head and tossing it in the flame. Her mouth trying to scream but no sound is coming out.

After almost 22 hours she tossed the second eye in and picked up the head, whispering something in her ear and then pitching it in the flames.

Kat looks on in approval "too easy for her. I wish I could have thought how to make it hurt more girl."

Milly looks at her friend, "I thought about keeping the head for a few hundred years, but you have to stick it in blood every 2 or 3 days or their memories fade. Too much work for my taste and if they don't remember why you are doing it it's pointless."

A day later we dropped Milly off she was now in a coven of 8. Four would hunt while four would guard their human herds then trade off. We all said our good byes Zeus telling them to call if they need help and if he could he would send aid. The Romans made similar promises to him and we left. We ran into a few nomads and destroyed them as we discussed in the summit. Two days later we dropped Zeus off.

"Stay a few weeks Mac." He asked with an arm around my shoulders.

"Things to do, immortals to kill, a friend to avenge Zeus; Next time we will make a proper visit of it."

We shake hands and the rest take their leave. We have been at his home for less than an hour as he sees our backs. As we reach the limit of his hearing he hears Kat says "time to fuck up some ass-wipes."

Petty and Kat have some mouth on them Mac may have to take steps.

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