Tyrus scrambles to get off the ground, but even as he is doing it, he feels himself drifting more and more into unconsciousness. He is almost on the edge of falling asleep, but what he doesn’t understand is why is Carl not hitting him anymore or picking him up to carry him away. Is it just his imagination or can he actually hear some more scuffling, a scream of pain, and some words that he cannot comprehend? He tries to open his eyes wider to see, but it’s no use. He faints. Tyrus opens his eyes slowly and then suddenly remembers why they were closed in the first place. He immediately sits upright. He had expected himself to be lying on the ground in a closed room or bound by chains. But instead, he finds himself in a beautiful room that he does not recognize. All the walls of the room are white except the one behind him which is a dark midnight blue. The bed he is lying in is comfortable with clean white sheets. He touches his jaw, it has healed. If Carl had been successful in kidnap
“That’s my brother!” Sabina says. “Come.” Both of them get up and start walking downstairs. Tyrus is a little behind Sabina and as she reaches the bottom step he hears the same voice from her left say, “Now, that’s what I call a surprise.” And now Tyrus knows whose voice it is. But he won’t believe it unless he sees him because what are the chances that out of all the people who could have saved his neck, it was Sabina? “Hi, brother!” Sabina says as she walks towards the man and Tyrus steps down the last step, looks to his left, and sees Sabina hugging Evarius. Tyrus just stands there gaping at the two of them and when Evarius notices him, he says, “Oh, hello Tyrus. That’s two surprises. How come you are here!”
Evarius is waiting for his sister to return. He loves her, but he is not able to digest her sudden visit. So, when she returns, he gets straight to the point and asks, “Why are you here Sabina?” “To meet my brother, why else? Is that wrong to do?” “No, it is not. But you came here all of a sudden, without informing me. In fact, you didn’t even ask me where I have been living lately. How did you know I am here?” “Well, you told me last week that you are in the town, and I just dug around a bit and thought I would give you a surprise. But I think you are not pleased to see me.” “Don’t be silly, Sabina. You are my little sister, and I love you and I am always pleased to see you. Don’t try to play this emotional card, cause it’s not going to work. You come here and then
The next day, Tyrus is a little nervous to meet Sabina. He is not afraid of her, and although she can snap him into half if she wants, he doesn’t think she would. But the task of getting to know her so that he can find out the real motive of Evarius and how she is involved in it is important and he doesn’t want to mess that up. He had spent the entire day fretting over what he'd say. He had asked Brent, Esther, Adeline, and Nadia for advice and they had all provided it.“Just act natural. Be yourself, and you’ll be fine,” Esther had said.As if ‘just being’ is ever that easy.“If you do ask her anything, be subtle about it. Don’t come at her too obviously. It’s just the second time you are meeting. Take it slow so that you can wi
Sabina enters her brother’s house after Tyrus drops her off. It was a good meet. She hadn’t been too direct, but she had made sure to convey what she wanted to. The seeds of doubt have been sown, she is sure. Now, she just has to wait and see what the reactions will be. She is about to go up the stairs when Evarius calls her from behind, “So, how was your date?”She turns around and says, “It wasn’t a date, but it was good.”“What did you tell him then?”“About what?”Evarius doesn’t say anything but keeps staring at her.So, Sabina says, “I didn’t say anything about your death wish if that’s what you mean.”
Tasha and Lilia are walking back to their room after dinner. It is around eight-thirty when Tasha gets a text from Evarius, “Wanna go for a walk?”Tasha shows it to Lilia and asks, “So, should I go?”“We decided for you to stay close to him.”“Yeah, but we haven’t heard from Ty yet. You know what if Sabina said something to him.”“I know, but he said there is nothing to worry about outright. So, you could go. Unless you think it won’t be safe...”“No, I don’t think he’s going to have me for dinner. I’ll be fine.”“What about you though?” Lilia asks, biting her lip a li
Evarius walks back with Tasha to the university gate.“It was a nice walk and nicer ice cream,” says Tasha.Evarius smiles and says, “Good Night, Tasha."“Bye.”Tasha walks to her hostel lost in thoughts about Evarius. He had chosen black raspberry for her. Pink. Bright and beautiful. She touches her cheek lightly and closes her eyes imagining looking into the dark ones of Evarius as he had grazed this very cheek with his thumb. For a moment there she had felt that he might lean down and kiss her, or maybe she had wanted him too and thus imagined it so. She opens her eyes abruptly. No. She can’t think about kissing him. He is an ancient vampire who wants to die and that is her job. She shakes her head a little and quickens her steps.As soon as she reaches her room, Lilia asks her about the walk.“It was good,” Tasha says, “did Ty call?”“No, I said we’ll call him once you return.”“Okay then go ahead.”Tyrus picks the call on the first ring and after a hurried hello and how are you,
Esther and Brent are spending their evening cuddled together in Brent’s room. Brent hugs Esther from behind and kisses the top of her head and says, “I could lie like this forever. Cuddling with you and doing nothing.”He pauses for a second and then says, “With some amazing sex in between of course.”Esther smiles and says, “I second the choice.”“Esther...”“Mhm...”“What do you think Evarius is up to? Do you think it’s wise to let Tasha be with him and do what he wants to be done?”“I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately...”
Six years later.“Tasha! Where are you?”Lilia is standing at the bottom of the stairs in a sea-glass green colored off-shoulder gown and looking up. She sees Esther stepping down the stairs in a halter neck gown of the same shade as hers.“Have you seen Tasha?” Lilia asks her.“She was with me like five minutes ago, and then she went downstairs.”Lilia groans.“I can’t see her anywhere.”“She’ll turn up,” Esther says, now climbing downstairs, “she is very excited for the day after all.”Lilia smiles, “Yeah, she is. I’ll check with the men. Maybe she is there. Does Sabina need anything else?”“Not for now. I just gave her her perfume of demand. She wants everything to be perfect! Honestly, I don’t blame her.”“Mumma.”A voice comes from their right, and they see a small blonde-haired girl in a light green frilled frock running towards them from the hall.“There you are!” Lilia exclaims. “I was looking for you everywhere. Where did you go?”“I was with Uncle Ty. He said he wanted to se
He is hoping that she will feel him and realize what he is trying to say. Should he close his eyes? But he doesn’t want to. He wants to keep looking at Tasha if things go the way he thinks they will.Just as he is looking at Tash, he sees a trickle of blood flow out from her nose. She is having a nosebleed.“Tasha!” He says.Sabina hears his voice and looks up to see what the matter is.“Are they doing something to her?” She asks in a horrified voice.“I don’t know,” Evarius says, panicking. “Hey, Tasha!”He shakes her, but it’s no use. It looks like she and the eight Junta witches that are still standing are having a battle inside this trance that they are in and it’s hurting Tasha. Evarius has no idea what to do. He places his hand again on Tasha’s and closes his eyes this time.*Tasha feels rather than sees Evarius enter this realm. She uses her other hand to force him out. She can do this without him. She knows what he is trying to do. She won’t allow it.“No,” she says in her mi
Relief courses through Tasha as she sees Lilia standing near the fire looking absolutely fine. She rushes over to her followed by Evarius.“Let’s leave,” Tasha says to Lilia.“I have been trying, but I can’t,” Lilia says pointing to the Head’s grip on her wrist. “It’s like she has an iron grip.“It's magic,” Tasha says and places her hand over the Junta lady’s.At first, Tasha can’t feel anything, but then it’s like she is being sucked into a different world and now she knows why the Junta can’t hear anything from outside because she can’t hear anything anymore either. But now she can see. She can see hundreds and hundreds of people lying on the floor slowly turning gray and Tasha realizes with a jolt that these are all the vampires that are dying. The younger ones first.Tasha focuses harder and now it’s like she is flipping through a book and in the next few pages, she finds a lot of other people of different ages clutching their chests. Dying. Among those people, she also sees hers
Tasha and her group move forward. They do not find any more werewolves in their way. Maybe they are fighting on the other side. When the very edge and can clearly see the cloaked witches standing in a circle Tasha says, “Okay, I need to break into the innermost circle. That’s where the real stuff is happening. The rest of the circles are for elevating the effectiveness of the spell.”“I think we should spread out and take on as many witches as we can without causing too much chaos,” says Evarius. “Otherwise, they will try to push us back like last time and it will complicate things. Although this time we have witches which is much better.”“Okay then,” let’s spread out. “We won’t be able to see each other. So, once you and your neighbors are in position, wait for ten seconds and then attack. This will ensure that we do it at the same time.”Everyone agrees with this idea and spreads it out. Evarius stands right beside Tasha. They wait for ten seconds and then Tasha places her hand on
Evarius is clenching his chest and breathing heavily. It feels like someone is stabbing him in the heart continuously.“What is happening? I don’t understand,” he can hear Tasha say, as if from a long distanceHe cannot speak for the pain that he is feeling and just as he feels that he is going to pass out from the pain, it starts reducing in intensity, and soon it is gone. He massages his chest, but it feels absolutely normal now. What the fuck was that?“Evarius,” Tasha says, on the verge of tears.“I am fine Tasha.”“What? No -““Yes. The pain is gone.”“But why did it come in the first place, that’s the question,” says one of the witches.“Exactly. What did it feel like?”Evarius explains it to them. The more he talks the more confused Tasha looks.“Nothing like this happened the last time,” she says, “Did it?”“No.”“Then why now? They are targeting my bloodline, but I don’t feel anything. This is just weird.”“But the Serafina line is related to vampires,” a witch suggests.“Yea
The sun has gone down the horizon and because it's a new moon, the night is very dark. Lilia has been brought out of the house and she sees that it’s not a small house, it’s actually a huge mansion. The junta has cleared the space for the ritual and other than cloaked figures, Lilia can spot some other people. This makes her wonder. Who are these people? All the time she has been with the Junta, she has only seen them in cloaks.She walks to stand in front of the fire beside the Head who gives her a little smile. The smile makes her otherwise rigid face softer and calms Lilia’s nerves.“How long will it take?” Lilia asks.“A few hours. It’s a long process. We will be done before dawn, I hope you have rested during the day.”Lilia nods.“Then, you’ll be fine,” the Head says.Lilia glances around the scene. There are a lot of people here. Much more than there were before. There is a lot more commotion and people are talking continuously and moving in and out of the house. It almost seem
The junta is gathered on the first floor of the mansion. This entire floor Carl has given to them for the time being. It is in the backroom on this floor that they have kept the binder. They don’t want Carl to get close to her before they have no choice.“I have given her the food,” Chiara tells Amyra.“How is she?”“She is fine. I told her she will be going home today and she looked happy with the prospect.”“Good. Now, we just need to make sure to get her out of this place before Carl lays his hands on her. Make sure that no matter what happens he can’t get to her. Once she is back home, we will place the spell that keeps Carl and his people away from her back and she will be safe.”“I will make sure that everything goes as planned,” Chiara says.“It should because if it does we will be able to correct the grave historical blunder that our ancestors had committed. We will finally be able to wash our hands off it.”Amyra turns around to look out of the window thinking about all the g
Carl, Luther, and Garrit and sitting with the Junta head. Her name is Amyra. They are discussing the arrangements that Carl has provided the Junta with and something else that he has found out recently.“Are your plans for the new moon set then?” Carl asks her.“We are almost done. We’ll be ready by then, don’t worry. We’ll be off your hands after that. You’ll get what you want.”“Which is the binder?”“The binder, yes.”“Good. But there is something else that I think you should take notice of.”“And what is that?”“The binder’s friends are in town again. Does this mean that they know she and you are here?”“How can I tell you that? This type of thing should be your concern. Anyway, I have no idea how they can possibly know that we are associating with you. We never associate with werewolves and vampires, or at least that’s what everyone believes.”“Right,” says Luther, “but let’s say they do know and they try to sabotage our plans. Will you help us fight them?”“Of course, we will. H
Everyone looks from Evarius to Sabina to Tasha in shock, but Tasha smiles because she knows that Sabina’s fainting means that it has worked.“What happened to her?” Tyrus asks, kneeling down beside her, looking scared.“She’ll be okay Ty and so will Evarius,” says Tasha. “Can you guys please carry them inside? Their bodies are going through a change and they might be down for some time.”Tyrus carries Sabina in and Damion and Brent carry Evarius. They place them on the two sofas and Tasha asks, “Did you guys feel something when Evarius fainted.”“Yes,” five of them say.“No,” says Damion.“Of course, you didn’t feel anything, D. You are a werewolf. The rest of you, what was it?”“A swooping gust of wind inside,” Esther says.“Yeah, like a blood rush,” says Nadia.“Does that mean it worked?” Brent asks.“In my humble opinion. It does.”“Is there any way to check?” Tyrus asks“Not really,” says Tasha, “at least nothing that I know of. But I am sure we will find something out once Sabina