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Chapter 8: Revelations

General p.o.v – Warehouse

Addison and Mark stared at the other three in astonishment, and in a move that surprised even Mark, Addison growled and launched herself at Teddy in a flash; but Teddy was far quicker and had her subdued with her hands behind her back.

"What the hell do you think you're doing Montgomery?" Teddy hissed into her ear.

"You're responsible for all the blood in here aren't you? You're a disgrace, killing innocent humans for fun." Addison struggled as she tried to get out of Teddy's hold, but Teddy was a lot stronger and she held on firmly.

"Of course we are, and we even left a half dead stray here to 'surprise' you, aren't we thoughtful" sarcasm laced heavily in her words, Teddy released Addison with a shove. "In fact, we even thought, 'hey just for the hell of it, we'll even come save you afterwards'." Her red eyes burned brighter and Lexie quickly stepped in to diffuse the situation.

"Dr Montgomery, Dr Sloan, we didn't know you'd be here. We didn't even know you had been sired. We were just here to 'clean up'."

"What makes you think we were sired? We could've been born vampires you know? And what the hell do you mean by 'clean up'?" Addison didn't take her eyes from Teddy, even as she was speaking to Lexie.

"Yeah, there's no way you're pure bloods, your auras are too weak" grunted Alex, ever the blunt one, and Mark had to physically restrain Addison from attacking Alex, "And it's our job to take care of any strays around the city."

"Says who?" Addison huffed; she did not like being underestimated by anyone, a resident no less!

"Our sires."

Mark had released Addison after his comment had made her stop trying to attack them, they looked at each other, and Mark took the lead.

"Look, we should probably talk about this, like in a calm, neutral environment?"

The other three glanced between themselves, holding a silent conversation; Mark and Addison watched on curiously as Lexie tensed and her eyes grew wide.

"Lexie, heed my call" it echoed through her head. Teddy and Alex waited patiently as she received her instructions.

"Master?"

"We all need to gather, I have some unsettling news."

"We have a problem,"

"What problem?"

"We've encountered two other vampires, Dr Montgomery and Dr Sloan."

"…"

"Master? Athena?"

"Bring them along"

"We need to go," Lexie look at Mark and Addison, "and you need to come with us." They didn't even have a chance to refuse as Alex and Teddy had grabbed them and they all flashed away.

Bright yellow eyes watched on unknowingly and a smile spread across their face. "Game on."

General p.o.v – Arizona and Callie

"A…Arizona?"

She looked away, completely stoic, she'd never wanted Callie to find out like this, but she couldn't let her get hurt.

"You're a Vampire?"

She looked at her in shock, "Y-You know about Vampires?"

Callie nodded, "my parents told me about them, I'm not sure how they know about them, but Aria and I had a few maids that were vampires."

Arizona stared at her puzzled, 'she had vampire maids?' she shook her head to clear her thoughts; she needed to prioritise right now. "We need to get out of here, come with me."

"Where are we going?"

"To somewhere safe, we need to talk, but we need to get everyone together first."

"Everyone? Who else is there?" Callie didn't like being kept in the dark, but Arizona was less than forthcoming with information and it was frustrating her.

"You'll find out when we get there." She wanted to stomp her feet and throw a tantrum at Arizona's blatant dismissal, but she noticed that she seemed deep in thought.

"Artemis, heed my call."

"Athena? What's the matter?"

"We have a predicament, our brother and sisters have run into Mark and Addison during their mission"

"So they knew about each other then? Great, well I have Callie. And some information."

"We need to gather, I have something you'll want to see."

"Arizona?" Callie had been waving her hand in front of her face for a while now, but she had remained unresponsive, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, sorry, just thinking, but we need to go now, hold on."

"Hold on to wha-eee" she squealed as Arizona grabbed her around the waist and blinked away.

Callie's p.o.v – Warehouse 8: Athena's territory

Terri and Arizona stood by the large windows as they awaited their members to all gather, Arizona had arrived with me in tow mere moments ago, and I was now sat at the long table in front of the windows, fidgeting. There was a gush of wind and the three vampires appeared down on one knee, heads bowed, with Mark and Addison in tow standing behind them.

"We have returned, Master," they said in unison.

"Callie! Are you okay? What are you doing here?" Addison rushed over to me and as I stood up to meet her, she turned me left and right to make sure I was not harmed.

"I'm fine, I was attacked, but Arizona saved me." We looked at Mark, who had yet to remove his eyes from the other vampires.

"You may raise, my family." Terri then turned to address us, "Please, take a seat," she gestured towards the table, "It seems there is a lot that needs to be addressed." She than came and sat down at the head of the table, with Arizona directly on her right and Lexie on her left. To the right of Arizona was Alex, and to Lexie's left was Teddy. We sat down on the other side of the table, with me at the head, Addison to my left and Mark to my right.

"In a sign of good faith, why don't we start first?" Terri started.

"Wait, you said you had something to show us, T?" Arizona cut in. The door suddenly opened and in walked a tall muscular blonde with three women trailing behind him.

"Ah perfect timing." Terri stood up to greet the newcomer, but it was Arizona that caught my attention. She practically jumped up and flashed into his arms.

"Tim!"

"I missed you, Ari" He held onto her tightly, and I could feel jealousy burning through my body. I turned away from the scene and focused on the three women behind him, the two stood in front were Latinas; they both had silky black hair, one had theirs in a high ponytail, with a long braid trailing from her left ear, her fringe was covering most of her right eye, and the other had hers worn uneven, short ending just under her ears on the left and long trailing past her chin on the right, with the back of her hair longer, reaching mid back. Both had full lips and smoky makeup around dark eyes, and they both had an owl ornament, one had theirs tied at the end of their braid and the other had a owl hanging from the long earring in her left ear. They were strikingly beautiful and I felt intimidated by the cold aura radiating off of them. I turned my attention to the final female and … was that…?

"Aria?" She looked in my direction and ran to me.

"Oh my God, Callie, are you okay?"

"Am I okay? What are you doing here?"

"I was attacked, and the blonde guy over there, Tim, he saved me." I looked over to Tim, who was talking to Terri; with one arm slung over Arizona's shoulders, and noticed he looked really familiar. The blonde hair, the deep blue eyes, and when he smiled I saw… Dimples! It hit me, he was just like Arizona; I wondered if they were related.

Terri noticed me staring at turned to us, "We're being rude, I apologise, let me introduce, Timothy Robbins, my left hand." He smiled and nodded before taking a seat at the table where Lexie was previously sat; she now sat to his left. "And these two are my guardians, Thalia," she pointed at the one with the braid, "and Clio," she pointed at the other one. They both took their place standing behind Terri and with that, we were now faced with an impressive team of vampires with blinding energy emanating from them.

I gulped before I sat back down. This was worse than sitting my boards.

Terri's p.o.v

I finally felt complete, now that I had my entire team together and whole again, it was empowering and I felt invigorated.

"Now, where to start?"

"The beginning usually helps, T?" came the helpful suggestion from my right.

"Of course, well a long, long time ago, the Vampire Kingdom was ruled by a vampire named Cronus. He was a very powerful vampire who had ruled for thousands of years, he had managed a peace treaty with humans, and a law that vampires were only to feed off of animals or the deceased. The humans accepted this, and often offered their herds and any bodies of the dead to us, and return we protected them. Back then, all vampires were offsprings of Cronus and his wife Rhea, and of his siblings, so our entire clan was full of pure bloods. But, like with all families, there were always the rebellious ones who decided to feed off live humans, they were killed off immediately to protect the treaty between the humans and us. However, there was one man, by the name of Silas, who didn't like the treaty at all. He believed that we were all monsters and abominations and it was his duty as a child of God to reveal the 'truth' to the world. He tricked Cronus into feeding from a live human, a woman, and tried to convince others that we had broken the treaty and should therefore be destroyed.

When the humans confronted us, the woman turned up alive and well, and Silas was killed for trying to destroy the peace. What they didn't know was that Cronus had caught onto the plan and had instead turned the woman into a vampire and thus became the very first half-breed. Even though Silas was killed, the damage had been done already, and Cronus, after he had his taste of a live feed, wanted more. He began to become reckless and started secretly taking homeless citizens to feed from, but was soon discovered by his wife. Now Cronus had three sons: Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, and when they confronted their father about his actions and they were banished from the clan.

Slowly, the humans began to realise what was happening and began to attack vampires that were caught at night. The treaty was revoked and the humans no longer offered us the deceased. The vampires couldn't just live off of animal feedings, so they began feeding from humans, and in turn war started. Zeus could no longer stand to see his clan fall apart, and he wanted to return to the peace that once existed, but with Cronus at the throne, there was nothing he could do. So he gathered his brothers, other vampires and even some humans, who all wanted to same utopian world we had before, and rebelled against Cronus. The battle lasted three years, and it took the combined powers of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades to weaken Cronus, but in the end it was Rhea who came to their aid and sacrificed her life to destroy him.

As the eldest son and the leader of the rebels, Zeus was nominated as the new King, but it was too late already. The rest of the humans would no longer accept the treaty and we were pushed away from civilization, practically living underground in order to survive. The humans that fought with us eventually became what we now call 'feeders', they offered their blood and we found a way to feed without killing or turning our prey.

It really should have been our happily ever after, but Hades resented Zeus. He felt that he deserved the throne instead; he had been the one to rally the vampire soldiers whilst Zeus went to convince the humans and Poseidon to the Seers, and so he believed that without him and his vampire soldiers, we would've lost the moment war started. So he started plotting and had tried many attempts to take the throne, eventually Zeus had no choice but to banish him from our clan. He left with many other vampires and vowed to return as the rightful heir to the throne, and since then strays started appearing. We believe that the strays are products of Hades' reckless feeding, and we have spent years trying to destroy them all."

They all sat in silence as I finished the story of my ancestors, I saw that Tim and Arizona had their jaw set and fists clenched and the occupants on the other side of the table were staring at me slack jawed.

"So what does that have to do with what happened tonight? And the fact that Aria and Callie were attacked too?" Mark asked.

"I believe that Hades has made his second move." There were gasps all around the room, Tim and Arizona watched on silently, this was not news to them, they had been with me for the better part of twenty years, and they knew everything I did.

"Wh-what makes you think that?" Addison's voice was quiet, and I could tell she was afraid.

"The simple fact that Zeus has been missing for the last 12 years, and not to mention the steady increase of strays and the one Lexie and co encountered today."

"Why second move? What was his first?" Callie added.

"The disappearance of Poseidon 20 years ago." Tim answered through his clenched teeth.

The room grew silence once again, each person lost in their thoughts. I could feel the anger coming from Tim and Arizona; it was never easy hearing about the betrayal from our own. I quickly reined my own anger in, I was the leader of this team, and I couldn't afford to lose control.

"Is there anything we can do to?" Addison asked.

"Just stay out of our way, and don't attack us!" Teddy shot back.

"That's uncalled for, I'm just trying to help"

"Your help isn't needed, you're too weak." Addison shot up from her seat, eyes blazing green and hissed at Teddy. Never one to back down from a challenge, Teddy shot up from her own seat, eyes burning red and growled in return.

"What is your problem Altman?"

"I don't have a problem, I'm simply stating the facts. You can't beat me and I'm the newest to the team, hell I bet you can't even beat Lexie! And she hates the fighting! We don't have the time to train newborns, this is war, and we can't spend all our time looking out for you, because then we'll become a burden to our Masters! We'll become as useless as you are." Mark and Aria had both stood up by this point, ready to defend Addison if they were to get into a fight.

"Enough!" My voice cut through the argument and the air around the room thickened to a suffocating level. Teddy dropped down to one knee, head bowed and apologised; Addison and Mark had stumbled and fell to both their knees, gasping for breathe. In the corner of my eye I noticed that Lexie and Alex had both stiffened in fear.

"Jesus, what are you?" Addison managed to choke out, both her and Mark felt their vampire side shivering with fear and resonating with my command, they had no choice but to answer to my call.

"What you are witnessing is the power of the Royal blood. One that rules the entire vampire clan and one that every vampire will resonate to." Thalia calmly responded.

"Every vampire huh? Why aren't you affected then?" she asked

"Simply because I am stronger than you," Addison's eyes widened and her nostrils flared in anger, "and also the fact that I grew up around the Royalties, I was there when they hit puberty and their powers were out of control, I was there when they discovered their new powers; I've been through more than you could ever imagine, child." I couldn't help but laugh at that, Thalia looked no older than 20, yet here she was calling the 38 year old woman a child.

"What did you mean by Royal blood?" Callie broke the intense staring between Thalia and Addison.

"It means that we are the royal heirs to the throne."

"We?"

"Yes, myself, Arizona and Timothy." Her eyes widened as she glanced at Arizona, who had yet to make eye contact with anything other than the desktop.

"Arizona and Timothy, better known as Artemis and Apollo are the children of Poseidon, and are Fourth and Fifth in line to the throne respectively." A gasp left her lips and I smiled wistfully, "And I am Athena, the daughter of Zeus and the Crown Princess, the direct heir to the throne."

Callie p.o.v

I couldn't believe it, Arizona was a vampire, and not just any vampire; she was a vampire princess and hell Terri was the fucking Crown Princess of the vampires. Talk about mind-blowing.

Terri had told us all to take a quick break to process everything before continuing and I saw Arizona head out towards the pier behind the warehouse. So whilst Addison and Mark pestered Thalia and Clio for stories, I followed Arizona. As I walked past Terri, she grabbed onto my arm.

"We weren't lying when we said Arizona lost her memories, it didn't have anything to do with her hiding her true identity from you. There was an incident regarding a stray and her when she was 16, I don't know the full details yet, but from what the Seer told me, someone purposely wiped her memories. She genuinely cares about you as the Arizona Robbins she is today, and not because of some partial memory that she may or may not recall. She told me that there's an unexplained tug that she feels towards you." She looked me dead on in the eye, "Don't hurt her." She let my arm go and walked off.

I was still reeling from the information that someone purposely wiped her memories. Why would anyone do that? And who the hell was 'the Seer'?

I made my way out to the pier and found Arizona leaning against the railings, looking out towards the sea. She had a gloomy aura surrounding her and it broke my heart.

"Arizona"

She didn't move, nor did she attempt to acknowledge me. I moved to stand next to her and I could see that her eyes were clouded, conflicted.

"I didn't want to get you involved," she sighed, still not looking at me.

"But I already am aren't I? I know about the existence of vampires, and I have for a long time, my two best friends are vampires, and you, Arizona, you're a vampire. I would've been involved either way."

"No you wouldn't. I could have ordered Mark and Addie to keep that side away from you, I could've distanced myself from you, you never needed to know about us, and you would've never even known there were vampires in Seattle at all!" she insisted.

I turned her so she was now facing me "Would you though?" She refused to make eye contact, "Arizona, look at me." I waited, but she still didn't move, "Would you have distanced yourself from me?"

"If it kept you safe, I would do anything." She replied in a small voice.

"But could you? Are you standing here, right now, telling me that if, by not being near me, you could keep me away from the vampire world, you would stay away from me forever?" My heart pounded, I couldn't believe that I was going to lose her before she was even mine.

"No." she looked me right in the eye, "No." she repeated just as firmly, "I could never stay away from you Calliope," she placed a hand against my cheek and I nuzzled against it, "I would miss you too much." She then moved her hand to rest above my heart and took one of my hands to place against hers, "there's something that keeps pulling me back to you, I don't know what it is, but you make me feel calmer, you give me a sense of peace, and just being near you makes me happy." I could feel tears falling, and she raised her hand back up to my cheek to wipe away the tears. With the hand not in her grasp, I raised it to hold her hand against my cheek. "You give me serenity, joy and hope," she stepped closer to me so that we were just inches apart, "and I just want to be with you." She leaned forward and our lips met. She was soft, so very soft, and I had only one thought running through my head.

Finally

A.N: I'm trying to bang out as many chapters as I can because I have so many random ideas that pop up for potential future chapters, but I've got to get the middle figured out too! Hope ya'll are enjoying this story.

A.N 2: Don't worry, I'll address Callie and Aria's part in this soon. So many ideas, so little time!