So this chapter is not for those with weak stomachs... Just saying
Kaitlyn POV
When I woke up I found myself in a dark room. The only light that I could make out was coming from small window high up in the wall opposite from where I lay. I could tell that it was moonlight, but I didn't know what that meant exactly. Did it mean I was out for a few hours or for the whole day? I get up slowly, but my legs give out on me and I fall to my knees. My hand immediately goes to the source of my pain in between my legs. Dean really pounded me didn't he? …Dean! My memories come crashing back into my head, and everything that happened plays out like a movie. Dean left me in his room after we had sex. He told me to lie down, but when he left I tried walking again, only to fall to my knees. I tried getting up again, but I suddenly felt someone get on my back, and before I knew it I blacked out.
"Dean," I call out. "Dean, where are you?"
"Sorry Kaitlyn, Dean's not here." I hear a voice coming from behind me. I recognize that voice.
"Eve! Oh thank God, where are we?" The lights come on and I finally see that I'm in a prison cell behind bars, and I'm not here alone. Both AJ and Jojo are lying unconscious on the floor, and Eve is on the other side of the prison bars of my cell. "What the hell is going on?"
"Well, first, we're in the Realm of Sirens," Eve informs me. "I believe you grew up here, didn't you?" The Realm of Sirens? Then this must be the jail. I've never been here before. To my knowledge it's hardly ever used because there's very little to no crime in the realm. Then again, Natalya lied to me about my existence so why should I still believe that the jail isn't regularly used?
"Wait, why are you outside, but we're in a cell?"
"Because she's working with me," a familiar voice enters the room before the person does, but I already know who it is. Natalya walks in the room with Ziggler and Axel walking right behind her. She walks up to Eve, with Ziggler and Axel following her, and stands beside her. Both of them look at me with a devious smile on their faces. I'm totally speechless and dumfounded. Eve is working with Natalya? She betrayed us? How could she?! "The human and child are still unconscious? Well, that just won't do." Natalya flicks her wrist and in an instant AJ and Jojo start screaming, forcing the both of them to wake up startled with their hands on either side of their heads.
"Natalya, stop it," I scream at her.
"If you say so, my dear." Natalya puts down her hand and AJ stops screaming and brings her hands down from her head, but Jojo starts crying hysterically. I crawl over to Jojo and take her in my arms in an attempt to comfort her while AJ tries to catch her breath.
"What's going on," AJ asks, looking around the room. Her eyes land on me and Jojo. "Kaitlyn, what's going on? Where are we?!"
"You're in the Realm of Sirens, sweetie," Natalya answers her for me.
"Oh my God!" AJ is in full blown panic mode, and starts to hyperventilate. "How? Why? Oh my God."
"Now, now, human," Natalya coos. "We wouldn't want anything to happen to that baby of yours would we?" I look at Natalya wide-eyed how'd she know?!
"Leave my child out of this!" AJ's hands instinctually go to her belly to protect her growing child.
"I can't do that," Natalya responds calmly with a smile on her face. "You see, you are carrying something very special and with the potential to become the perfect soldier. It will be the beginning of a new race of obedient subjects under my rule. How useful are you that you have provided me with this opportunity?" Terror spreads across AJ's face. I can't believe Natalya. She would use an innocent unborn child in her demented plans? She's twisted. She's deluded and evil in every way. "As for you, Kaitlyn, you already know the all important role you'll play in the extermination of half your kind."
"Well then why is Jojo here," I demand to know. "She hasn't done anything to you!"
"On the contrary," Natalya lifts her right hand, which is bandaged. "That child did this to me, the night I slaughtered her family." Jojo lifts her head in my arms. She may not remember what happened that night, but now she knows what happened to her family before we took her in. I hold Jojo tighter to me. I don't know what I could possibly do to comfort her. "And I know what she is." I snap my head up at Natalya. There's no way she knows what Jojo is. "I had a vision not too long ago of a nineteen year old Jojo, a fully realized sorceress. You can see why I can't let vision happen."
"You're heartless," AJ tells Natalya, standing to her feet and walking closer to the cell bars. "And you," AJ turns to Eve. "It's obvious to me you've betrayed all of your kind. How could you?"
"Rest assured that my heart is in the right place," Eve addresses AJ with confidence. "Don't tell me you wouldn't do the same if you were offered the opportunity to be with the one you love."
"I wouldn't," AJ screams at her. "Not at the cost of my soul, or even worse my entire species! Roman doesn't love you, and if you really loved him you'd want him to be happy!" AJ sets Eve off and she bangs against bars, frightening Jojo and causing AJ to jump back away from the bars.
"Don't tell me what love is when your mistake of a child is a result of nothing more than stupid, unprotected sex!" AJ looks back at Eve in pure shock. She walks away from the bars and sits on one of the cots in the cell, looking defeated. AJ curls up in a ball on the cot and begins weeping. Jojo wiggles out of my arms and shuffles over to AJ and strokes her hair. I look back at Eve wanting nothing more than to fight her. How dare she!
"At least AJ isn't in love with someone she can never have," I scream at Eve.
"You're wrong! Once this is over I'll have Roman again."
"Oh, Eve," Natalya speaks up, cutting through our conversation. "I'm afraid Kaitlyn has a point." Natalya turns from Eve and walks toward the exit with Ziggler and Axel following closely behind her. Eve's eyes and head follow Natalya as she walks away.
"But you're going to fix that," Eve calls after Natalya, making her stop in her tracks. "You said that you would!" She walks up to Natalya, but is prevented from reaching her when Ziggler and Axel block her path. Natalya turns around to face Eve, looking past her hired help.
"I did say that, didn't I?" Natalya walks past Ziggler and Axel and approaches Eve so that they are standing face to face. "And you have exceeded in executing your end of the bargain. You deserve to be truly happy and find peace, which is why you deserve this." In one quick motion, Natalya reaches into Eve's chest, piercing through her skin and rips out her heart. I hear Jojo cry vehemently, and AJ lets out a violent scream at the top of her lungs. Eve falls lifelessly to the ground as Natalya stands above her, holding Eve's still pumping heart in her hand.
"That's a shame," Axel speaks up walking up to Natalya. "I've always wondered what wolves' blood tasted like. I was looking forward to feeding on her… and all the benefits that come with it."
"Well, you can still feed on her," Natalya replies, still holding on to Eve's heart. "I'd suggest you hurry because the blood is running out of her rather quickly." Axel doesn't waste any time. He kneels over Eve's body and bites into her neck, feeding on her like a starved man. I'm utterly disgusted, but it's like watching a car wreck, I just can't get myself to look away.
"Do you handle all of your alliances that way," Ziggler asks Natalya, walking over to her and stopping right beside her.
"Only when they cease to be useful to me."
"Should we be worried then?" Natalya smirks at Ziggler and turns her body to face him directly.
"Not at all, Mr. Ziggler. You and your associate here are absolutely essential to all my future plans. I intend to keep you around for a long time."
"I should hope so. Now, about the human?" At the mention of AJ, I rush over to her and hold her close to me, trying to protect her.
"Feed her your blood every day until the full moon. By that time both she and the baby will have enough vampire blood in their system to perform the transformation without bringing harm to the child."
"And after that?"
"After that, it'll only be a matter of infusing the child with the ability to perform black magic." Ziggler nods in understanding and looks past the cell bars. His eyes fall on us and I hold onto AJ and Jojo more tightly, staring right back at him with death in my eyes. He smiles at me and turns back to Natalya.
"When Axel finishes feeding, we'll get on that. I have a feeling that this hybrid is going to put up a rather large fight." Natalya looks back at me with a smile on her face.
"Whatever you have to do, do it." She then tosses Eve's heart in the air and Ziggler catches it using one hand. "Consider it a treat. I know you're curious about wolves' blood too." Natalya then exits the room, leaving Ziggler standing there with the heart in his hand. He chuckles and bites into the heart. He begins to suck on it and the color of the heart changes quickly from bright red to a dull pink. Oh my God, I'm going to be sick.
Renee POV
Punk and Dean wanted to leave for Athens the night that the international wolves arrived, but Del Rio informed them that we had to wait for his plane to arrive in Gilford before we could go. Dean suggested that they just steal a plane from the local airport, but Charlotte pointed out that airplane theft would cause the authorities to call a search party for the missing plane, even if they erased the airport employees' memories. They weren't happy, but agreed to wait the extra night.
Del Rio's airplane arrived early the next morning, landing in the backyard. The sound of the engine caused everyone to wake up abruptly around six in the morning. "Ricardo," Del Rio greets the man who flew his plane up here from Mexico. "Muchas gracias, mi amigo." They hug briefly.
"De Nada, Señor Del Rio. I brought along enough extra fuel so that you can fly to Greece and back without a problem," Ricardo informs him.
"Perfecto." Del Rio turns around to face the rest of us. "Everyone, this is Ricardo, he'll be flying us to Athens." Punk walks up to Ricardo and shakes his hand.
"Thank you for this Ricardo," Punk tells him.
"Not a problem. Is everyone ready?"
"Yeah, we're all ready." Punk turns his attention to everyone and claps his hands once loudly. "Everyone get on the plane. Renee, you stay up front with Ricardo and give him directions. Seth, you keep an eye on, Renee."
"Punk, after all Renee's done for us, I think she's earned our trust, at least," Seth defends me.
"She's still a siren, Seth, and that's not going to change." With that Punk walks over to the plane and climbs the stairs to board it. Everyone else follows him, passing by Seth and me while giving me sympathetic looks. Bayley stops beside me and hugs me tightly.
"Don't worry, Renee. Pack Master CM Punk doesn't trust a lot of people. I don't think he would trust any of us if we hadn't spent so many years together." I know she's trying to comfort me, but it still sucks that no one else seems to trust me.
"No it's okay Bayley. I understand. I mean I am a siren."
"Yeah, and Seth's a wolf, but you don't hold it against him." I look at her quizzically. What does that mean exactly? Just as I'm about to ask her to elaborate, Roman calls for her, and she runs over to him as they board the plane together. The next moment, I feel Seth putting his arm around my shoulders.
"Renee, don't worry about them. They'll come around." I look at him with a small smile on my face and nod. "Good, now come on. By the way, where in Athens is this door," he asks me as he walk over to the plane.
"It's atop of the Acropolis. At its midpoint is the center of all spiritual energy in Athens and that's where the door is located. It only shows up when the moon is at its highest point in the night."
"Well it's a good thing it's early because this flight is going to be at least twelve hours."
"As long as we are there before midnight in Athens, we'll be okay."
Seth POV
It took a little longer than intended to reach Athens. We ran into some turbulence, which added an extra two hours to the flight, but it wasn't a big deal. When we arrived it was about 9 o'clock, which left us with about three hours until the door would appear anyway.
"So what are we supposed to do for the next three hours," Corey complains. I hate hearing his voice. I want to pull out his vocal chords every time he talks. I feel the same way about Punk. He tells everyone that we kept Renee prisoner, but he fails to mention that Corey raped her. War or not, what Corey did was wrong and he deserves to be punished for it, and yet, Punk insists on protecting the bastard. I've got half a mind to punish Corey myself, even though Renee doesn't remember what he did to her.
"I'd rather we be here early than late," Punk comments. "Everyone, stay in your assigned teams, and remember, if the first team doesn't return by tomorrow, the next team is to enter the Realm on the rescue mission without the least bit of hesitance. In the meantime, everyone relax. We'll need our strength for when we enter the Realm of Sirens.
"Oh I'm afraid you won't be entering our realm on your terms," a voice says from above us. I turn my head and spot a blonde woman in a pink Grecian robe perched atop one of the structures surrounding us.
"You're outnumbered, Natalya," Dean yells at the woman. That's Natalya! How'd she know we were here?
"Good to see you too, Dean. Glad you recognize my scent." Natalya crosses her arms over her chest and laughs while looking down at us. "And I might be outnumbered, but I am NEVER out-powered." Just then five more women appear above us, spreading themselves out among the many structures. "May I introduce you to my high ranking officers: Alicia, Rosa, Melina, Beth and Tamina. I believe Roman and Bayley have already had the pleasure of meeting Alicia and Rosa." I look over at Roman whose stare is fixed on two women standing together on the Parthenon. He is fuming with anger. The two women wave coyly at Roman and Bayley with wide smiles on their faces.
"You don't scare us, Natalya," Punk screams at her.
"You fools," she laughs. "Hasn't it sunk in yet? I've won. You're surrounded with no way out. What could the big bad wolves possibly do to get out of this?" I look over to Renee, who is standing beside me. I'm hoping to everything that she can give me some type of ideas. She just looks at me dumfounded and defeated. She has this hopeless look in her eyes that's telling me that she has no idea what to do. "By the way, Renee," Renee both look to Natalya, curious as to what she has to say. "You've completed your mission to perfection. Well done." WHAT?! I step back from Renee. I can't believe this. She was in on it all along?!
"W-w-what?! No, I," Renee looks around panicking.
"How could you Renee," I shout at her.
"No! It's not true! I didn't! I swear I didn't!" I don't have time to respond to her because in an instant my body and head is overtaken with an insurmountable amount of pain. I look around to check on my pack and find that they are all doubled over, writhing and screaming in pain. We all fall to ground one by one. I can't take this agony. I see Renee bend over me, panicking and trying to comfort me. I want to believe that she's being sincere. Why else would she be so concerned about me? Then again, after what Natalya said, I don't know what to believe.
"Tra-traitor," I manage to say through the throbbing pain.
"No! I'm not, she's lying! Believe me! Please Seth," she continues trying to convince me of her innocence, but I black out before she can get in another word.
So Eve is no longer alive. I think it's fitting that she got her heart ripped out, if a little disturbing. Sorry to anyone who felt the need to throw up.
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-J.