Chapter 14

Damon's POV:::

I had been waiting two whole minutes for the incompetent Vampire and two Casters who had let my nephew and his idiotic friends get away. After they returned from their mission I found out they were the only ones who made it and they had somehow failed to capture six teenagers.

I let out another huff about to leave the room and find them ready to bring even more of a punishment then I had planned. I walked over to the door reaching for the handle when it swung open showing two heave breathing men in black robes and a man with a black vest all three having my brother and I's crest on them. I walked back to the metal table in the middle of an empty room other than the table with a sizable chair made of expensive black leather on the opposite side of the table were three small foldaway chairs crammed very close to each other. I hide my fury toward them and calmly spoke. "Please come in, each of you take a seat." I pointed to the hide away chairs.

They each took a big gulp slowly walking over to the chairs. All three took a seat the caster were shaking slightly, while the Vampire was biting his nails. I sat down in the brown chair giving each of them a look down. "Now who would like to start first?" I began none of them said anything so I decided to push more. "So I hear the three of you and and nine other supposedly strong warriors who all had the element of surprise. Were taken down by six freaking children!"

"But sir they may be young but all of them are very well trained as well as strong for their age." The Caster on the right said.

I just gave him a warming smile. "Well I guess your right, hopefully next time I'll have you better prepared for them, no biggy." I sat up from my seat and turned to face the wall behind him. I mouthed the words to a spell a technique passed down through the Weir clan. I turned to face him again. Channeling my magic I shot two bolts of lightning from my hands at the Caster who had given me the excuse. Hitting him straight in the chest I knew he was dead. The other two in the room jumped back in surprise. "Now anyone else want to give me a reason why you failed." Both of them shook there heads fast no. "Than that's all I have for you. Get out of here! And tell all of your friends this is will be the punishment for anymore failures from here on out."

Both ran out of the room as fast as they could. I followed behind them but when they turned right I turned left walking down the long corridor. I opened the large metal doors that brought me into the old counsel meeting room for the Vampire council before we took it over.

I walked over to the exact middle of the room pointing my hands at the cobble stone ground and mouthed another spell. An iron trap door appeared I reached down to open it stepping down my feet touched the ladder that led to the room a story below. Once my feet touched solid ground I walked through a narrow stone hallway to the room on the other side of it.

Once inside I looked to see Derek standing next to the back wall talking to the prisoner locked in the iron cage like jail cell with different barrier symbols covering it bolted against the wall. I walked closer to talk to Derek. "So little bro is she ready to give up her power completely?"

"Unfortunately she's as stubborn as you brother. She still would rather us keep absorbing it from her everyday for the past year each time so slow and painful, rather than giving the only family she has left the rest of the magical energy she has left at once."

I gave another deep annoyed huff since I was not in the mood for more bad news today. "Mother listen to me! The foolish idea that you are still hoping onto, of that grandson of yours coming and save you. Will. Never. Happen. I'll tell you for the hundredth time the massive group of Vampires we sent after him and his friends two weeks ago killed each and everyone of those weaklings. So believe me when I say this, The dream you have of us being overthrown by a small group of rebels and you old allies is just that a dream. Between the amount of magical energy we have stolen from you as well as the thirty master level Casters and Seeirs we have captured. No one is powerful enough to stop us and in six months time our army of supernatural creatures we've built will be strong enough to not only have crushed all who still oppose us in the Magical community but to take over the human world as well."

The old women didn't even look up from the hard cement floor she was sitting on but just started to laugh. "You know Damon you two haven't changed a bit since you were both five years old."

"You are correct mother, Derek and I have always been the strongest of your sons. Yet somehow you always ignored that fact and always paid so much more attention to Berton and ignored you more deserving sons. But you see the difference now is that instead of you ignoring our power, the entire world will see it!"

Mother raised her head and looked at both me and Derek. "What I was going to say was that both of you haven't changed a bit because your both still the horrible liars with a short temper I remember raising."

I charged at the cage ready to end her life now. I felt Derek grab me holding me back. "Woe calm down brother. You know we need her alive for her magic."

I pushed Derek's hands off me taking a step away from the cage. I turned away no longer able to look at my mother. "I'll be back later to get some magic you old bat." With that I walked back over to the ladder climbing back to get more search parties ready to hunt down the pain in my ass nephew.

Six months later

Sarah's point of view~

"Ay yo Rory throw me the bag of chips!" I yelled to Rory who was in the kitchen putting some dirty dishes in the dishwasher.

"Oh I'm sorry I didn't know you were injured Sarah how about I speed down to the restaurant and interrupt Ethan's shift so we can bring you to the hospital." Came his snarky response.

"You know a simple no would have sufficed, you single gays and your nasty comments."

In a flash I saw Rory in the doorway with a grin plastered on his face holding something behind his back. "You know just because some of us have a boyfriend doesn't mean we get to brag about it!" He moved his arms behind his back showing he had a spoon full of what smelled like corn syrup aiming at me.

"You wouldn't dare!" I challenged.

He ran at me flinging the spoon back then forward hitting me straight across the face. I jumped off the couch chasing after him with my fist held high ready to give him a light punch. He quickly sped down the hall headed to the nearest room to hide from me which was Benny, Jane and Erica's room, when he opened the door his body tensed up and his gaze went straight to the floor. I walked over to see Benny standing in the doorway.

I had forgotten how awkward those two were since they broke up, since they both avoid each other like the black plague ever since they broke up a month after we arrived in London.

Five months ago

Ethan, Erica and I were sitting down on the couch in the living room watching some weird documentary on caterpillars, when I heard a door slam and Jane yell something I heard stomping and Jane plopped next to Erica on the couch. She took a deep inhale. "I'm about ten seconds away from casting a mute spell on those two if they don't stop arguing!"

Ethan took his arm from around my shoulder and patted Jane on the back. "What is it this time?"

Jane gave a fake laugh. "What else Benny will go to work then come home and Rory will ask him if he did magic in public and remind him how important it is that he doesn't. Then Benny will counter with how Rory said he forgave him but how he really didn't since he will never let it go and then the yelling starts."

I heard the door slam again and saw Rory run past the TV and out the door. Then I heard a loud crash come from the room we had just been in. I rolled my eyes and motioned for Ethan and Erica to follow me so we could do some damage control.

We walked down the hallway I knocked on the door. "Hey Benny we're coming in, okay."When I opened the door I saw the room was trashed Rory's bed was flipped upside down as well as a bookshelf. Benny had his back turned to us sitting on his bed, he waved his hand sending Jane's bed crashing against the wall. Erica jumped a little, I gave Ethan a look and he knew to stay back and try his best to calm Benny down with his Empath ability. I took a small step forward then another and another until I was next to Benny's bed. "Hey is this seat taken?"

He didn't even look at me he just growled in a low tone. "Go away Sarah. I just want to be alone right now."

I sat down next to him on his mattress. "You know I wouldn't be a true friend if I did that, now would I?" I got no response from him. "So you wanna tell me about the fight?" Still no response. "Not to be cliche or anything, but if you don't talk about it, it's not just going to go away."

Benny moved away from me but still kept sitting. "Fine you know what if it will get you to leave me alone. You know what sucks the worst is I know I messed up big time in New York and I've been trying so hard to prove to each of you that I'm sorry and just when I thought I was making progress, Rory just shoves it down my throat again!" Tears started to fall onto his knees. "So this was it the final straw he may be the love of my life and is probably my soul mate but until he truly forgives me and at least gives me some of the trust I've worked so hard to earn back I just can't be with him."

My jaw dropped in shock, I mean I knew that Rory and Benny had been fighting a lot but normally after every fight they would talk it out and go back to normal. They've never called it quits before. "Benny if you really love Rory as much as we all know you do then you can't just give up."

Benny promptly stood up. "You know what Sarah, you're wrong. Love can't be the only thing holding a relationship together there has to be something else bonding it together. Do you know me and Rory haven't had sex once since this whole thing started and do you know how many times we've haven't had a serious talk in I can't even remember! I know that I'm mostly to blame for all of it but it seems right now Rory has given up on us a long time ago."

Benny ran out of the room and I heard the front door slam. Ethan walked up behind me and put a hand on my shoulder. "Baby you tired your best but I couldn't even effect Benny he was feeling such rage and sadness. So for right now we just have to take a step back and hope they can work it out."

The present

But Ethan was wrong they didn't work it out and have avoided each other as much as they could for the past five months. The next day Erica and Rory switch rooms after Benny had cleaned the room back up when he got home that night. For about two weeks Benny or Rory didn't leave their newly separate rooms or speak to any of us. Rory even skipped our nightly training exercises on the roof and Jane was on her own for magic practice.

After those two week Rory finally came out of his room for a nightly hunt for some rabbits in the nearby park. The day after Benny started talking to Ethan over breakfast. Over the next few months me and Erica's friendship with Rory grew stronger to the point where I would count his as good of a friend as Erica and same for her.

On the other hand Benny seemed to mend his friendship with Ethan to the point I'm pretty sure they are better friends then when this whole thing started which I really didn't think was possible. Jane and Benny have become almost as close as Ethan and Benny.

Overall it seems as if our group has become almost divide from the breakup but apparently I was the only one who has noticed since when I bring it up to Ethan or Erica they just brush it off as me worrying to much.

What also scares me is it seems as if everyone is so distracted by the break up and other things happening in our lives it appears as if everyone other than me has almost forgotten that we're on the run. It's as if we're actually become these new identities we created.

I look over to Rory to see him slowly sidestep out of Benny's way still looking at the ground. Benny mumbled a small thank you and continued just walking down the hallway giving me a small nod and a smile when he passed me. I heard the front door shut and the engine to Benny's car start. Ethan and Benny both drive since we don't use Benny's teleporting unless it's an emergency.

I turned back to Rory seeing he had a slight frown on his face. "Hey Rory let's go to the mall I need to try get a new dress since Ethan is bringing me to that super fancy restaurant a few blocks away."

His lips formed a slight smile "Yeah sure let me text Erica to let her know that's where we'll be if she gets off work soon."

Six hours later

Rory, Erica and I sat down at a table in the food court with our trays of food. I still liked eating normal food when I went out since it reminded me of when I was human. What was supposed to be a quick shopping trip turned into a long day of looking at clothes for Erica once she arrived.

I had just bitten into my Chinese food when I got the feeling someone was watching me. But I just shrugged it off as paranoia. We finished eating and threw our garbage away, each picked up five of Erica's shopping bags and rushed home. When we got to the door of our loft I saw that the door was slightly ajar. I looked to Rory and Erica to see they had already pulled out their weapons we always carried. I pulled my daggers out of the small hide away pockets in my boots. And but my back to the wall I moved my hand motioning for Rory to go on the other side of the door and Erica to float above the entrance way. Once we were all in place in one swift movement I kicked the door in sending shattered splinters of wood everywhere. I scanned the room it was empty. "All clear Rory you know what to do."

He swung in behind me throwing five of his knifes at all of the light bulbs breaking each one since it was dark out it left the room in complete darkness I felt a breeze over my head and knew Erica had already switched her vision to see in the dark. I heard commotion come from the kitchen. Rory and I sped to there to help Erica out.

I was shocked to see a pile of dirty pans that had been on the counter had been the cause of the sound but even more surprising was Erica was in a headlock under the muscular arms of the the only man I knew who was a better fighter then us none other than Phil. Sitting at our kitchen table behind him was a very pretty skinny blonde women who was sitting across from Benny, Jane and Ethan. I was in such daze I couldn't even find the words to start all of the questions I had.

The blonde women stood up from her chair and went to stand next to Phil who had let Erica out of his grip. "So first things first my name is Melinda the women who trained the two idiots behind me to not be such wimps. Now that introductions are out of the way. We need to get out of here right about now."

I took a step forward. "I get that you're with Phil but I'm going to need a little more of an explanation than just that."

She gave me a glare before talking overly slow to me. "Okay here's an explanation for you Derek and Damon just gave the order to an army of over one million Vampires, Werewolfs, Demons and Caster's to attack fifty of the world's largest cities and London happens to be one of them."

I couldn't believe what she was saying there was no way that Benny's uncles could have created such a large army in such a short amount of time. And to top it all off I don't even think they were crazy enough to break the oldest rule in the Supernatural handbook. Ethan stood up and walked over to me putting his arm around me. "Sarah their telling the truth Benny and I didn't believe it was possible so Benny cast the truth spell."

My daggers dropped from my hands. This can't be possible if Benny's uncles really do have a supernatural army of that size than the human race had no chance against it. Rory stepped up from behind me. "What do we need to do?"

Phil answered this time. "For right now Melinda will create a portal to her pocket dimension where the rebels have been hiding out. There is only about five hundred or so of us but for it's all we've got right now."

Erica spoke up. "Wait a second you're not suggesting we just leave here and let Derek and Damon's army just lay waste to the human race, are you?"

Ethan turned to Erica. "Erica I'm still not entirely sure how but in Melinda's pocket dimension time moves differently when Benny and I were gone for that week it was as if six months had passed for us."

Melinda took charge of the conversation again. "Now get your stuff spell books and weapons are all you're going to need so get them and meet me in the living room in one minute."

The six of us spread out through the house and were all in the living room in less than thirty seconds. Melinda was standing next to the door chanting something I didn't understand. Next thing I knew she opened the door and I saw what looked as if it were a cave. She stepped though the doorway next Phil than the rest of us followed suit. I really hope this was the last time we would have to start a new life.