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Chapter 29

Running, that's all we do heading to my friends home. Deep in thought I remember all the kindnesses that Zhou paid me over the years. He was content to spend his days in his home the idea that a group of wonderers could come and end his immortality was pissing me off the more we ran.

Kat looked at me we had to keep our speed to the slowest in the group sadly that was Peter. "Hurry up fucker, I swear paint dries faster."

"Some of us are not gifted with speed Bitch." He looks over at me with an apologetic smile. He knows I would prefer they would tone down the language.

Lil takes care of it. "Language you two, I swear I will wash both of your mouths out if I hear your pet names again." Last time she used soap Kat told me it was weeks before she could taste blood again.

Kat cringed, Lil was as good a fighter as her and she held the advantage as Kat could not bring herself to truly hurt her sister. Lil was a little more pragmatic about their disagreements. Never holding back always apologizing after the fact but she would rip Kat's head off if she thought she deserved it. "All right Lil no need to get your nickers in a bunch."

Peter was quick to pick up most of our strange sayings looks at Lil. "Too right sis, no need to get out the soap tell her highness over there I am running as fast as I can."

"Ass" Kat whispers looking daggers at her bestie, then looking to me to agree with her.

"I feel like the dad on a road trip." Kat and Lil laugh while the other three look at me with confusion.

"Future shit Petty," Kat looks at her brother and smiles; "Sorry."

He nods at his favorite sibling "no probs Kitty cat."

And like that all is forgiven I smile to myself, Kat always fast to fight but first to apologize after the fact. Two days of this and we reach Amuen home. He greets me with a wary respect. Stories and word has run before me. Our world is not such a big place as one would think, if as an immortal we can span it in weeks. He meets us at his gates four immortals grouped behind him as if he could stop me if I wished to kill them. One of them is the 40 year old that left before our fight a few days before.

"Mac so good to see you again." He holds his hand out for me to shake.

I smile taking his hand "Amuen good to see you too." After I introduce the rest of my family to him he does the same including the nomad Clark. It seems he was trapped by them with two others a mated pair it was join or die. With soulful eyes he told us of his friend's demise he had spent the last 400 years with them.

"Did you kill Abraham and his bitch mate Serra?" He looks at me waiting for me to tell him if I avenged them for him.

Kat smiles at him "You won't be seeing those scumbags again."

He looks at Kat he is unsure what a scumbag is but by her body language and tone he is sure it can't be good. He smiles at her and with old school charm bows "Thank you my lady."

Peter cracks up "My lady, are you shitting me."

Kat throws a dirty look at her bestie, "what, I have class you Ass."

Lil throws a look at both of them and Carman murmurs "you two never learn, here comes the soap."

El can't keep a straight face and smile at his mate's observation.

All this is going on and it's all I can do not to cover my face. We go in and discuss what is going on and the decision about the nomads. Clark glues himself to Kat and Peter looking for a full account of the battle. She looks to me and I give her a nod I see no point in not letting him know how close he came to his end. Kat as always was blunt and to the point, with Peter chirping in now and again gave a disturbing account of Serra's last day. Amuem and the rest of his coven listened as she told our tail some looking on with horror. We stayed a few weeks learning all we could about Zhou's home and the ass-holes that killed him. I told him that the territory would be open for claiming after we left but he told me he was happy with his home, but would pass the word to the two other covens in Egypt. We parted on good terms I would never tell him but I did like him. A little fear would go a long way to keeping him on my good side. I had too many friends (Aro) that thought they could take advantage of my good will. Not to say I was closing myself off from finding new immortals to call friends but the gauge was going to be set a lot higher.

With what we learned we crept to the first strong hold. It was not fear that was the motivator but stealth. No one was to escape to spread the word, Death was coming and they had nowhere to hide. El, Carman, Peter, and Lil were to circle the palace killing any that passed. Kat and I would be knocking on the front gate. It was the home of one of Zhou's vassals she was quick to kill three of her old coven mates to incorporate there territory's into hers. She could not MAKE an immortal none of Zhou's people could it was a rare gift, only few could. My friend Ature would miss his son Pablo the only one he was able to turn and who had the gift of making. She would press immortals into serves like the nomad we fought that killed Apollo. I was sad that some would pass that had no fight in this war I would wage they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. I let my power flow looking for immortals with gifts, three in the palace and one deep underground below us. One of the gifts I picked up along the way was a gift of sensing vamps not just gifted. There were 16 counting the two below the ground. I let the others know and then we part to go to our places, even Peter is quite, knowing when to shut up.

4 immortals greet us at the gate thinking we are a mated couple. Ready to scoop us up and press us into serves, we let them take us it's the fastest way to get where we wish to go. They bind our arms behind us making it easy to rip them off or so they think. Kat gives me a shity smile and I roll my eyes at her. We are dragged to her thrown room, Shekar sits looking down on her people she takes one look at me and smiles.

"I never understood why Zhou held you in such high regard. You don't look so formidable to me." She smirks at us.

I nod my head "Good to see you again Shekar. Coming up in the world I see."

She glares at me "why not, those boot lickers of Zhou's always keeping me down. The moment his binding broke I was plotting how to dispose of them always keeping me down, well no more."

She was mad I could see it in her eyes. Toa was right, looking around her people were no better, grasping for power waiting for their chance to rip her down and sit where she is. She had a powerful gift, disorientation. She could make it so bad you could not stand, but unlike some it affected all but her in a 100' radius. Kat looked at me and I smiled the one holding me turned to dust. I turned to Kats captive and kicked his knee in letting Kat work her way free. 4 of the 14 ran thinking it was there chance to flee little did they know it was pointless. Kat and I worked our way through 4 of her people before she unleashed her gift. Surprisingly it got through Kat's shield but not mine. Looking at my girl on the floor with the rest of them pissed me off. The look of horror on Shekar's face as I stared her down was priceless. No one had ever been standing after her blasts of power. I felt her use her gifts again making the rest wither in pain.

"I think we have had enough of that don't you?" I look at her with a head in my hand. Slowly walking up the stairs to where she stands.

"Mac please, I'm sure we can come to some sort of agreement." Thinking she can weasel her way out of this like she had always done.

I look at her with contemp. "I could bind you like your old master, but his would look like a walk in the park to what I would do to you." I would never do it; it would leave a black mark on my soul if I did. I would really have to hate someone to do what I was threating. "Better to just end you now it's a kindness." With that I use my speed to fly to her side and rip her head off. I had used Anubus's power earlier, it was the first time I had. I was right, it was too easy to get used to it. With a touch your opponent was gone. I would only use it if I was bound like I was. I tossed her head in the pile Kat had started four heads looking at me. The rest including Kat were still disorientated I moved around the room ripping the other five heads off of them, muttering "where's Peter when you need him." as I start the fire to burn their heads.

Kat come too and starts putting body parts on the blaze of heads like it's a camp fire and they are wood. Purple smoke fills the high ceiling drifting out the higher windows.

"We still have the two underground to deal with."

Kat looks at me "I will finish up here if you want to go ahead. No point having to chase them down."

I let my gift guide me moving deeper I wonder what would make them stay down here. I come to a room with a 20'x20' cage on all 4 sides.

A male and a female that hasn't feed in months stair back at me then the female raises a shield like none I have ever seen, power ripples off it. In a clear voice she tells me "go back to you bitch and tell her the answer is still the same we will never sever her. We would rather wither away that help that witch take more immortals."

I smile at her "Then this is your lucky day I just ripped her head off and burnt it."

She looks at me in confusion "she gone?" With that her shield drops she had not the strength to hold it to begin with.

I nod my head "names Mac, Zhou was a friend I've come to clean up this mess."

The male looks on with horror whispering something to her. She straits up looking me in the eye and gives me a bow. "My mate Pippen and I am happy to meet you. My name is Orrif. If it would not be too much to ask could you to find the key and let us out?"

I looked at her and walked over to the bars trying to pull them apart even with my enhanced strength I could not even deflect them. "What the hell!"

She nods "A long time ago an immortal had the gift of binding he made the cage to hold his slaves until he miscalculated one day and the rose up ripping him apart."

I looked at it with my gift of binding it was so complex it would take me hundreds of years to break it. I moved to the lock using a different gift I move the tumblers drawing the bolt back to the door. With a click I pushed it open. "I'd advise you to stay with me my coven is under orders to destroy every immortal here. I think we will make an exception with you two." As we walked up she told me other horrible things he had made. Shackles, leg binders, iron masks, and other horrors too hard to mention by the time we reached Kat I was wishing for a bath I felt so filthy.

Kat lifted an eye "are we keeping them or did you just bring them here to rip them apart?"

Pippen looks at me with horror. "No ripping Kat most likely I'm catching and releasing these two."

Kat gives them a smile looking around "help yourself to anything here except in her room my sisters may see something they want." She takes a closer look and bounds over to them a little faster than a normal immortal. "When was the last time you fed?"

Pippen looks at her "248 days ago."

Kat's eyes open wide and she grabs both their hands almost dragging them behind her, "dad I'm getting them someone to eat."

She almost sounded mad at me but I knew better. She was what would be known as a ball busting bitch but everyone knew they were the girls with a heart of gold that once you got in to her heart there was no getting out. I had never seen someone so staved they looked like walking corpses. Kat later told me they ate ten humans apiece.

My family rounded up the runners and before I burned anyone else I used Aro's gift. Out of the 4 only 1 was not a piece of shit Pippen and Orrif agreed to take her into their coven and be responsible for her. The girl was not very old under a hundred and more or less a good person, but she had started down a dark road. I looked her in the eye as the other three were being ripped apart and tossed on the flame, "this is your one and only chance Eryn. I will be checking up on you reading you memories seeing if I made a mistake today. Don't prove me wrong, listen to your new coven leader." I glance at Orrif and she gives me a nod she has taken responsibility for the girl. "You are to stay with them for the next 2 hundred years do you agree?

She whispers "yes sir."

Before she realizes I use Zhou's power binding her to it. I smile at her, "well all right then." she scampers over to her new coven hiding behind Pippen.

We spent two weeks looking through all the loot Kats eyes gleamed I swear she was part magpie every pretty bobble she just must have. Orrif's coven stayed looking at the leftovers they were still pretty impressive. I tried to work the girls down to four chests.

Peter looked at me in disgust "by the time where done I'm going to look like a pack mule." El laughs Peter gives him a dirty look, "you'll be right there beside me chuckles."

Kat looks at her brother "oh shut up I'll just make another box for all of it. You and El might as well pick out a few things you two will be hauling ½ of it back."

Visions of a box 2x or 3x the size of the last one run through my head. Shit, "no bigger than the last one Kat."

I put my foot down and she gets a faraway look on her face thinking hard. "Fine dad we will just have to make a few more trips back and forth."

I find myself pinching my noise wondering if it's worth the fight. We will need the money later, I fold and tell her to take all the gold some of the artwork and min vases.

She has the humans make her carry box, who am I kidding it's a shipping container just 20% bigger than last time. She has it ¼ full and this is only the first stop we have 10 more to go. Being over 3000 years old I have learned when to keep my mouth shut Peter not so much.

"Are you filliping kidding me, look at that thing Mac" he stared at it with horror. "Once she fills it we will never be able to pick it up!"

"Stop exaggerating Petty we brought home one all most the same size."

I looked at her "REALLY."

She had the good grace to look down and mumble "it's not that much bigger."

I had a talk with the other coven letting them know about our decision to remove any nomads we come across. I told them about my home it was all of North America and Canada, Ature took all of South America and Mexico. I offered a hunting range to them, mostly where South Carolina was down to Florida and over to where the Mississippi ran. The hitch was they would have to stay with me till we finished up here. They took a day to decide and then another box was made, Carman agreeing to help with the lifting for them. I shook my head I was becoming a freight hauling company.

We hit them like lighting fast and hard working from the outside in. after the first 4 Kat and Orrif's boxes were full. Kat had the humans at the first city making two more boxes before we had left the first time so after leaven them at the northern point of Zhou's territory we sped down and grabbed them. She happily told them to make two more as she through a bag of gold coins on the workman's counter.

Peter was lived as she placed the next order losing his cool he looked at me and for the first time called out, "dad do something." As if he realized what he said Kat looked at him with a shit eating grin. "I mean Mac do something."

I shake my head "There's no stopping her son." I pat his shoulder as I pass him. She beams a thousand watt smile my way, turns to Peter and sticks out her tongue.

Lil always paying attention sees Kat and her pink little tongue pointing at Peter says, "If I see that pointing at anyone else I may have to pull it out."

Kat dips her head muttering "sorry Lil."

"It's not very lady like Kat what do you think Orrif's coven will think of you dear."

I slid up to Kat in a low voice I tell her "three boxes apiece is enough Kat. Do you understand?"

She just nods "ok dad."

The girls got pickier after that, after the gold, silk, and jewelry became the biggest acquisitions. They worked to dissuade me and the boys to leave things we liked only if we insisted did it make it in the box. Peter nicked on quick how the land laid picking the biggest shit and insisting he had to have it. Kat got more and more pissier every time.

"Fuck Petty what are you going to do with that?"

He came down with this monster 4 posted bed with a wooden canopy. "I think it would look snazzy in my room Kat." He tells her with a big smile. "It's the only thing I've seen here I like."

"Dad, tell him to stop it he doesn't even sleep for Christ sake."

I look at Kat, "he is carrying the boxes too honey." Then I look at Peter, "You better love that Peter because it will be staying in your room for the next 1000 years." The thing was huge it would take up ½ his room all by itself. It was quite a piece of work all the animals carved in the posts.

He pulls me aside after he stands his guns with Kat. In a low voice so only I could hear, "It's a gift. Carman really loves it but there was no way Kat would have let her put it in." he gives me a grin. "I'm already on her shit list, besides El was trying to work up the nerve. Don't tell them ok Mac I want to surprise them back home."

I put my arm around his shoulder "OK son lay off Kat would Ya, I'm going to tell her you are going to back off after this piece. This is incredibly nice of you Peter."

Smiling at me "Thanks dad El and Carman have always been real good to me, she never asks for shit for herself. Sometime Kat can roll over her without even knowing it, it pisses EL off sometimes."

After that I started to think of the things he had picked to go in his share of the boxes. At first I thought his tastes were eclectic now I was sure he was picking things he thought others would like but were afraid to face off with Kat for. I laugh to myself Kat was going to eat a shit load of crow when he doled out his gifts. I heard Kat and Peter going at it again. She was trying to convince him to cut off the canopy so she could get more of her shit in there. Shaking my head, time to dash her dreams and power trip I was going on her shit list too.

big fight next time someone with a scary power