Well everyone it's time for a new chapter and its almost time for this story to come to an end. Its getting close to the final showdown. This chapter will make you wonder make you think things are going from bad to worse. Well they are. So enjoy the chapter and get ready cause the next chapter will answer so many questions. Please R&R thanks.
Disclaimer: I own nothing to do with the Victorious universe. This is a work of fiction inspired by the are of C Plause. It is not meant to gain profit.
Rated M for strong graphic violence, strong sexual content, and strong Language.
Fireflies
Chapter Sixteen
Jade walked through a building, ear buds in place she coolly listened to music. As she walked she nodded her head to the beat of the music, humming softly along with it. Her wings were rested against her back. They fluttered a bit, the feathers swirling around. Looking to her left she saw a man charging her. He gripped tightly onto a knife.
Spinning around she slammed her right wing into his neck breaking it. Turning she saw another man raise a gun up at her. Her blue eyes glowed brightly making the man stop. He started shaking slightly as he slowly turned the gun around. He placed it into his mouth. There was a muffled shot as the man fell dead from his own hand. Smiling she continued forward.
It had been a week since she had killed her first human. Since then she had killed fifteen people. All were drug dealers or their clients. She knew if she killed anyone of power her bloody sport will be found out. She didn't need Tori to find out.
She paused, a soft whimpering was heard. Looking up she looked to see a teenager hiding on a catwalk. Flapping her wings she floated up and landed in front of the teen. He looked at her and slowly backed up. She just smiled as her left wing shot out. It slammed into his knee breaking it. He screamed out in pain.
Slowly she walked up to him. Reaching down she picked up the young man by the scruff of his neck. She looked at him an smiled a bit.
"Please, I'll go straight I swear" he pleaded.
She reached to her left ear and pulled out the bud. She smiled at him. "What was that, I was listening to music. Do you like Paramore, they're one of my favorite bands. Monster, that has to be my favorite song" she said smiling down at her bud. Looking back to him she smiled. "How old are you?"
"Seventeen" he replied with a whimper.
"Wow, you're practically a man" she replied with a chuckle. "I just turned nineteen".
"Please, I'll stop using" he pleaded again.
Suddenly Jade's phone started to ring making her look. "Oh, hang on" she said pulling it out. Looking at the screen she saw Tori's face. "Shit" she muttered before looking to the teen. "Can you keep it down, my girlfriend is calling?" She said smiling. She answered the call, placing her index finger over her mouth. "Hey babe, what's up?" She asked into the phone.
"Help, help me" the teen shouted.
"What was, who was that?" Tori asked her.
Jade glared at the teen. Suddenly her hand went up and forced his mouth open. Reaching in she grabbed his tongue and ripped it from his mouth. Blood gushed from his mouth. She smiled at him as blood poured out over her hand. "Oh nothing, you know how much I love horror movies" she said pushing the teen to the catwalk.
"That's true, hey Sikowitz just called me. Can you meet me at my place. We might have a lead on Isaac" Tori said making her look back to see the teen trying to crawl away.
"Yeah, give me half an hour. Movie will be over then" she said walking up to the teen.
"Okay, no problem. I love you" Tori said into her ear.
"I love you too" Jade responded with a smile before ending the call. With her foot she rolled the teen over. She stared down at him, blood covered his face. She pressed her foot down on his chest. "I told you to keep quiet" she said with a sigh and a shrug. "If you had, well you'd still have a tongue and you would have lived" Jade said lowering herself to look him in the eyes. "You would have told them about a winged woman, no one would believe you. They would play it off as a heroin induced hallucination. You'd get clean, go to a hospital for a bit, then you'd have your life. You would have thought 'yeah, it was nothing more than the drugs'" she smiled a bit before patting his cheek. "However you fucked that up when you screamed" she said standing back up. Smiling at him she brought both of her wings down quickly. In that final blow she smashed his head. Turning she looked out over the building. Ten druggies were dead across the building. Smiling she grabbed the body of the teen.
Cutting his abdomen open she looked as his organs spilled out. Tossing his body over the catwalk she looked on. The organs were caught onto the railing causing the body to dangle in the air. Smiling she flapped her wings and flew off leaving a blood bath behind her. Her kill count was now thirty.
XX
Tori looked to see Jade pull up to her house. She sat on her motorcycle. Pulling her helmet off she smiled up at Tori. Walking down to her, the Latina smiled as she kissed her girlfriend. They held onto each other. Both were smiling as they walked up to her house. Walking in they looked to see Sikowitz drinking a glass of bourbon.
"Ah, Jade, nice for you to get here. What movie did you watch?" Sikowitz asked looking at her.
"Unfriended" she said with a shrug before adopting a serious expression. "What's this lead on Isaac?" She asked.
"Well, there have been a string of murders over the past week" He said setting a newspaper down.
"Do you think he's still trying to bait the Death Angels?" Tori asked looking at him.
"Without a doubt" Sikowitz said looking at her.
"Why?" Jade asked.
"My brother has never been one to let a vendetta go" he said pausing as he looked down. "That's why he's still after me" he said looking back up at them.
"What do you mean?" Jade asked.
Sikowitz sighed as he ran his fingers through his hair. "At one time I was a hunter, I hunted humans" he said looking at them both. "We founded the clan he's leading now. We were the worst, we killed villages of humans. We had no mercy. We killed not just humans but the other immortals too.
"Naturally our actions had attracted the attention of the angels and good werewolves. After we killed a village I started to question why we were doing this. Eventually I surrendered myself to the angels. I turned over a new leaf. Isaac saw it as a betrayal. He claimed he would kill me, kill me out of revenge".
Jade and Tori listened as Sikowitz recounted his story. He stood up and finished off his drink. Looking over to them he smiled a bit. "My brother, when he sets his mind to things he gets results" he said looking at the empty glass.
"Sikowitz, we have to stop him" Jade said looking at him.
"We will, I just don't know how" he said before walking between them. "Just enjoy your time together tonight. The Death Angels are doing some investigating into it" he said leaving them behind.
Jade slowly turned to Tori. They looked at one another, letting Sikowitz's words rattle around. Slowly the werewolf walked over to the angel and wrapped her arms around her. They held each other in their embrace. Tori looked down at the paper.
"I just want this to end" she said softly.
"It will, soon" Jade said softly as she stroked her hair gently.
"How could you know that?" Tori asked looking back up to her.
"I have faith" Jade said smiling at her.
XX
Cale stood next to Nikki both were standing in a warehouse. They looked on as Samuel and Mitch were examining dead bodies. They walked around looking at the slain drug users. They have been following the slaughter of fellow humans. Isaac was leading them on a wild goose chase. Slaughtering drug users, most wouldn't care about that. However they knew this was bad. Glancing back they looked to see Drake and Summer walking up.
"Anything?" Cale asked.
"No, just a lot of blood" Summer said.
"This doesn't make sense, the first time we face Isaac he put on a show. Now, cat and mouse, why?" Nikki said looking around.
"Sikowitz would know?" Drake said.
"Yeah, he would" Cale said rubbing his mask covered chin. "Dad" he called.
They looked to see Samuel turn around. He and Mitch were dressed like them. All black, and a mask as well. Samuel's mask was a skull style similar to thay of The Punisher from comic books. Mitch looked more like just a human skull. Nothing special about it.
"What?" He asked looking at his children.
"We're going to go talk to Sikowitz. He might be able to help" Cale said watching as Mitch and Samuel looked at each other.
"Okay, we're going to do some more looking around here. Meet us back at the headquarters" Samuel said with a nod.
"Gotcha" Cale said turning to walk with his siblings.
XX
Allison looked to see The Death Angels walk into the office of their business. She smiled a bit as she got up to greet them. "Nice of you four to visit, what's going on?" She asked offering a warm smile.
"Where's Sikowitz? We need to talk to him?" Nikki asked returning a warm smile.
"He's in the back" she said motioning them to follow.
As they walked no one noticed Summer hadn't joined them. She was standing in a door frame. She was staring forward into a darkened hallway. Slowly she walked forward. She moved down the hall, coming up to a door. Slowly she stopped, her hand reaching out for it. Opening the door she walked in. She looked around the room, seeing a combination of old world and new world decorations. She ran her fingers over a small fish sculpture. Walking around all of the old world decorations seemed to spark something in her.
"What the fuck are you doing in here?" A voice snarled from behind her.
The voice seemed very familiar to her. She didn't know how. "I'm sorry, I just stumbled into here" she said turning around. She was face to face with Carmilla. Both stood there wide eyed, like they had seen a ghost.
"Estate?" Carmilla asked softly in an Italian accent as her hand reached out.
"Summer" Summer said as she felt the cold hand of the vampire run gently over her warm ebony cheek.
"That means Summer in Italian" Carmilla said letting out a soft chuckle when she realized Summer was real, and not a figment of her imagination.
"How... How do I know you?" Summer asked leaning her face into the vampire's hand.
"I'll show you" Carmilla said pulling her into her arms. Together they sat on her bed.
XX
Cale had been standing at the door frame. He smiled a bit, he was happy to see that his sister was happy. Turning he let them be as he walked back towards the room that held Sikowitz. Walking in he was still in the middle of his story about he and his brother. Cale looked to see Nikki looking back at him.
"Find her?" She whispered.
"She's with that vampire Carmilla. I think they both found a missing piece to their lives" he said smiling a bit as he listened to the elder werewolf tell his tale.
"My brother likes to lead his prey on. Make them always be one step behind him. When they are getting exhausted then, then he strikes" he said looking at them.
"He's killed twenty more people" Drake said looking at him.
"He's making work, wants to tire you out. He may be working with Dracula, but he has your heads he still wants to claim. He won't stop that hunt" Sikowitz said walking over to him.
"We'll end him" Cale said making Sikowitz look at him.
"I know, you're a very capable team" he said pausing before sighing a bit. "I am sorry I unleashed him upon you four. I shouldn't have done that".
Nikki looked to see Cale tense up, he wanted to punch Sikowitz. Slowly her hand reached up and was rested on his shoulder. He looked at her, looking into his eyes. Slowly she looked to Sikowitz. "We accept your apology" she said offering a small smile.
XX
Isaac walked through Dracula's lair. He looked as his two bodyguards walked with him. They only followed him when it came to Dracula or Lilith. They all knew he didn't need them, they just didn't like leaving him unprotected. Walking in they looked as demons fed on dead or dying humans. Vampires walked around, gearing up an arsenal of weapons. One pointed into another room guiding him to their leader. He walked through the door. Dracula was on the phone talking. He looked at Isaac and held up a finger. The werewolf nodded before looking around. He noticed there were a large number of pictures of a black haired woman.
"What do you need?" Dracula asked hanging the phone up.
"Who's the bitch?" Isaac said pointing at the pictures.
"Didn't your mother or father teach you to never call a woman that?" Dracula asked making Isaac look at him.
"No, I killed them" he deadpanned. "Who is she?"
"An old problem of mine?" Dracula said before motioning him to follow him.
"When do we attack?" Isaac said following Dracula up a flight of stairs.
"Soon, I just got the call" he said before turning around. "Would you two please go and alert my vampires and the demons we need to be gone in the next hour?" He asked looking at Isaac's escorts.
They looked at each other before looking to their leader. He just glanced at them and nodded. Slowly they walked away to report Dracula's order. Isaac looked as Dracula opened a door. Both stood their looking at the shaded figure. The chains rattled a bit.
Dracula walked forward and punched the figure. There was a loud crack as the figures head dangled a bit. "Help me, unchain the left side" he said starting to remove the chains.
"Why are we doing this?" Isaac asked undoing the chains.
"Part of the plan" he responded before stopping. "Six thousand years and this is the first plan I've had that ever went one hundred percent right" he said with a chuckle as they dropped the figure.
"What now?" Isaac asked as they walked out of the room. He prepared to close the door but was stopped. He looked as Dracula just shook his head.
"Now... Let the games begin" he said walking down the stairs, Isaac following him.
XX
Nikki stood under the shower. Hot water soaked her hair as steam filled her vision. She smiled a bit, seeing how happy Summer had been. An immortal and a human, something she never thought she would see. Shaking her head a bit she smiled as she shut the shower off. Stepping out of the tub she dried off. Wrapping the towel around herself she blow dried her hair. Walking out she saw Ashley sitting on the edge of the bed watching cartoons.
"Eighteen years old and you still watch cartoons" she said placing her hands on her hips.
"Shut up so do you" Ashley said standing up to face her.
Nikki smiled as her and Ashley playfully struggled against each other. Slowly they leaned into kiss each other. As they did Ashley reached up to try to pull her towel off.
Suddenly the window shattered making them scream. A brown flash shot by them. They dodged glass as Nikki tackled Ashley to the bed. "You okay?" Nikki asked looking at Ashley.
"Yeah" Ashley said with a nod.
Nikki rolled across the bed and slammed her fist into the headboard of her bed. The center opened and out fell a revolver. Grabbing it she stood up and turned to face the attacker. She looked at the brown furred back of a werewolf. On the right side just under the shoulder blade was a scar. Her eyebrow arched as the werewolf slowly stood to its full height. Turning slowly Nikki was face to face with the werewolf. Nikki's eyes shot wide looking into a pair of bright green eyes. Slowly her revolver lowered. "Tori?" She said softly.
Tori looked down at the blonde Death Angel. Her muzzle slowly curled revealing her teeth. Suddenly she backhanded her sending her crashing through the door to her closet. Ashley screamed making Tori turn to her quickly. She stepped forward and roared at Ashely.