Silas’s Point of viewI awoke the next afternoon after our visit to the pub with a pounding headache. Gregory was sitting at the desk in my room looking over some papers and researching something on his laptop. “Oh, good you are up” he said excitedly.“Ah, quieter please.” I answered grabbing the sides of my head.“Sorry I forgot; vampires don’t get hangovers after all.” Gregory said in a whisper that still seemed to bounce off all sides of my head. “I won’t have one for long.” I answered grabbing my suitcase and getting the herbs needed to cure this atrocious headache. I dumped the herbs into the filter of the coffeepot, added water, and switched it on. “If you can answer quietly, what are you so excited about?” I questioned.“There is a chance that I have found a lead on owner of the journal.” Gregory whispered happily.“What how?” I loudly exclaimed causing pain to radiate in my own head. I grabbed my forehead and squeezed. “Maybe we should talk after you are better.” Gregory sa
Silas’s Point of ViewA couple more days passed, and we searched and searched for more information but didn’t have any luck finding out more. Samantha was growing more and more impatient to leave. I was getting more and more anxious about being away for so long, I had no idea what Esther would think. I had thought about calling her, but I didn’t want to raise any suspicions, for all I know she wasn’t even worried about it. Finally, today Doctor Schmidt contacted Gregory to let him know that he was completely done analyzing the journal. We went straight over the lab. This time Samantha decided to go with us, we checked in with security and proceeded down to the lab. Doctor Schmidt was on the phone when we arrived, he just waved at us and pointed to printed out sheets on a nearby table. We walked over and found two booklets one for Gregory and one for me. I flipped past the cover of the booklet; it was made up of scans from the book that had been analyzed and the translations. The fi
Esther’s Point of ViewThe party was a success, Dimitri had live bands play, supplied endless drinks and distractions to keep the lords occupied, and distracted. But today the trial would reconvene, and I was to give my statement to the lords about what I knew. Unfortunately, that meant we would have to leave Hannah alone for a little while since both Dimitri and my presence was expected. “What do you plan to do with her during your testimony?” Dimitri questioned a few hours before the trial was to begin. “I guess, I will tie her up so she can’t open the door or anything.” I answered. “Should we gag her too?” he questioned.“No, I cast a privacy spell the first day so the only way you can hear anything in this room is if you are in it.” “Have you heard anything from Silas yet?”“No, not a peep” I answered shaking my head “I sent Dylan back out last night and still no sign of him.” “That is strange” Dimitri answered his eyes distant as if he was lost in thought.“Have you heard bac
Silas’s Point of View Once we arrived back at the hotel room, me and Gregory sat down deflated, where as Samantha started happily packing her things into her suitcase. “I can’t believe there wasn’t more.” I said quietly almost to myself I didn’t want to believe it. “I know” Gregory answered. “I don’t even know if its worth pursuing any further.” “The only thing we have really learned is Esther does at least know how the first vampire came to be, but it doesn’t matter she will never tell us more.” I sighed.“We still have the possible lead at the Vatican, you could check it out just to be sure it doesn’t lead anywhere, I am sure you are probably returning to Rome anyways.” “Yes, I can do that, I will leave for Rome tonight.” I stated standing up to go pack. “Well, it has been good to see you again, Gregory and I will contact you when I know more.” “It was good to see you as well” He answered standing up to shake my hand and see me out the door. I went to my room and gathered up m
Hannah’s Point of ViewI did hate tricking Silas like that, but I didn’t have a choice it was time for revenge and justice. Besides he would have caught onto my lie when I couldn’t walk out the door. I didn’t know what, I was going to do yet, but whatever it was needed to be fast, maybe I could lure a vampire inside. I flung the door open, so I could see into the hall then I walked over to the kitchen grabbing one of the wooden chairs and flinging it into the wall. On impact it cracked into different pieces, I grabbed one with a sharp edge and went to lay down on the floor next to the door feigning that I was unconscious, I tucked the stake under me, so it wasn’t visible and now I just had to wait. I laid there for a while, I lost track of the time, but it was ok because I had my thoughts to keep my company, I tried to figure out ways to burn down the catacombs completely, although according to the information I found in Silas’s things when I was pretending to date him, there is magi
Esther’s Point of viewWesley’s lifeless body laid there taunting me, I pushed through the crowd, until I reached my room. I was surprised to find the door unlocked. I pushed the door open slightly, slipping inside. Once I was in the room, I was face to face with distraught Hannah, who looked terrified beyond words. I think this was the first time I had seen true emotion in her face. Then I took in the rest of the room, the broken chair shards of wood on the ground. The bathroom was barricaded, and I could hear someone crying on the other side to be let out.“What did you do?” I cried stepping forward grabbing Hannah’s shoulders, she burst into tears. “Why, why does he have a body” I scream cried.“What are you talking about?”“His body it didn’t disappear, all the others disappeared” She cried tears running down her cheeks. “Do you realize what you have done, the lives you have put in danger.” I squeezed her shoulders harder the anger coursing through my veins, I don’t even remember
Silas’s Point of viewIn all of my life, I had never seen Esther that mad, I didn’t mean for that to happen, I really did think Hannah needed my help. I knew it wasn’t open for discussion right now though. I supported Hannah and walked through the door Esther had made it led to another suite that was empty and much to my surprise another door appeared once we were in that room, I went through that one as well. We went through room after room until we were far away from Esther’s suite. We needed to get out of the catacombs completely, but I wasn’t sure how to make it past the guards yet. I peeked into that corridor outside the room we weren’t far from the exit and the hallways were abandoned for now. I pulled Hannah towards me.“Listen up, we need a plan to get out of here.” I said looking into her eyes, but there was no reaction, she had completely shut off now. Her body was merely going through the motions, but Hannah had checked out. Great I closed the door to the corridor once more
Esther’s Point of ViewI stayed in my room pacing back and forth, nibbling on my fingernails, listening to what was happening in the hallway. Many lords were muttering back and forth, Luckily, they hadn’t noticed anything other than the ground shaking from my anger episode and they merely thought it was an earthquake. I was waiting for Dimitri before I made any more moves, on the plus side we both had alibis with many witnesses the downside being Wesley was found right outside my door. A second pure blood, dead in so few months wasn’t something that happened very often. I had no idea when the lords would receive the information about Renee, but now that Wesley was dead it was inevitable. We were so close a mere few votes away from putting all of this behind us, and now I didn’t know what to do, or what to expect. Soon there was a knock on the door, I went over and peered through the peep hole to see Dimitri on the other side, I unlocked the door and Dimitri slid inside. “What in t
Epilogue Esther’s Point of ViewIt has been one year since the battle for Renee’s life. After what happened I couldn’t bring myself to leave Southern Illinois. So much has happened and so much has changed. I almost didn’t get to the wand in time, and I guess for Victor I didn’t. He would have made a great great great honestly I’m not sure how many greats grandfather to little Vickie but he sacrificed himself to save Alpha Ethan. When I removed immortality on Earth all the vampires returned to human and as far as I can tell I’m also aging again. Ethan and Renee opened the pack grounds to any once vampires that wished to stay and adjust to being human once again. Some staid while many others rushed back home as quickly as they could. Dimitri and myself decided to stay and I’m for the first time in my life truly happy. I have a little baby bump of my own now and I can’t express how excited I am to be a mother after all these years. Renee has blossomed in her roll as Luna and the pa
Renee’s Point of View The first wave was a horrible mess as the untrained vampires rushed forward their mouths practically unhinging as they tried to bite whatever they could. They were a chaotic mess, but thankfully we were prepared for just that, we fell back several paces to give the illusion that we were struggling. By the time it was over there were only minor injuries to report. The next wave however came rushing forward like a tidal wave. We had no sooner finished off the first wave before they were on us they were better trained and much more difficult to hold off. “Come on Esther, what is taking so long?” I questioned under my breath. We were trying to wait as long as possible before using the flood lights as it would inevitably kill many of the vampires and if Esther succeeded they would all be saved from that fate. Unfortunately we couldn’t wait any longer and Ethan had no choice but to issue the order. The screams that echoed will forever haunt my mind. As they evapor
Esther’s point of view Once I reached the location where I had hid the wand all those years ago, I was really wishing I hadn’t put a spell on it blocking it from magical recovery. There were mere minutes before the sun would set on Renee’s pack territory and I was looking at a research center sitting on top of the site where I hid the wand. I couldn’t believe my eyes out of all the places, here is where they placed their stupid huts. I knew the wand was still here I could sense it’s energy. I just had to figure out how to move the research pod that was sitting on top of it. “Damn it, I don’t have time for this I muttered under my breath” as I tried to think of the best course of action. I ran up to the window of the pod to take a peek. I could see at least three people inside. I decided things would be easier if they were unconscious so I cast a spell as watched as they all passed out. I ran back from the building a lifted my hands bringing the pod up a couple inches and scooting
Luna Renee’s Point of View As I stood waiting for whatever hell was about to be released I tried to run everything Dimitri had said about Vampire tactics through my mind. The vampires including my father couldn’t fight with us here with the uv flood lights that we had in store for the vampires, but they all did their best to prepare us and help us train. The Vampires on our side planned to circle around behind the lines to help us without being in our strong hold. Dimitri said they would send their least experienced soldiers first, it would test our strength and cause chaos. They instructed that it would be best to try to fight them off without revealing any of the traps we had set.They said we would be able to handle the first wave easily but to make it appear like it was hard giving a false sense of security to the next wave. This wave would be much better trained. This is where we could start using our traps and me to fight back. The hope was the second wave would rush forward th
*Esther’s POV I had been trudging through snow for over a day and a half now, I was frozen to the core and really wishing I picked out a warmer location to hide the wand of destiny. To make matters worse there was a snow storm blowing in and I had less than an hour to get the wand and cast a spell to remove immortality from Earth, before the Vampire would most likely be attacking Renee’s pack. Luckily the plane ride, boat ride, and dog sled ride here had given me plenty of time to work on the wording for the spell. I wanted to make sure there weren’t any loop holes. I only had 5 more miles to go but they wouldn’t be easy. I hid the wand in the most remote place in the world I could think of somewhere that no one should ever be able to find it. However that made getting there near impossible, if it wasn’t for having magic I never would have made it this far. To occupy my brain I just kept repeating the spell over and over in my head. “To the God above grant me this, remove immoral
Esther’s point of view“Can I talk to you a minute, alone?” Dimitri questioned looking at me. “Yes” I answered standing up to walk into the hall with him. When we reached the hallway and closed the door behind us Dimitri turned to me and asked “can we be overheard?” “No” I answered “Ok good, then let me ask what in the hell are you thinking, we are talking about Renee here, we are talking about the end of the world!” He yelled “and what your plan is to just sit by and watch it happen?” “You know I made a promise.” I answered “Sometimes promises have to be broken, and I would say this is definitely one of those times.” “I guess you are right.” I answered reluctantly. “How long will it take you to get to the wand?” Dimitri asked. “At the very least three days.” I answered “but even if I get the wand I’m not sure how to fix everything.” “What do you mean?” Dimitri questioned “can’t you just make it where the angels can’t possess Renee and her children.” “Well sure that will ta
Esther’s Point of View“Many, many years ago I was apart of a secret group called the Seven we were tasked with protecting valuable, powerful and dangerous artifacts. Such as the ark of the covenant to name one.” I sighed before taking a big breath “but ultimately we failed when a fallen angel tracked us and attacked us with the goal of taking over the world. His plan was to make two new species each modeled after his daughters personalities to be his army on earth, Using the power he gained from the artifacts especially one from Jesus’s lost years which is a powerful wand. I was afraid if their eyes widened anymore they would pop from their sockets as I told my tale. So this fallen Angel made his new species using other members of the Seven my family and from my family he created Vampires and Werewolves representing each of his half human daughter’s. But before he could use his new species to create and army I was able to recover the wand, using it myself to stop him. I basically
Esther’s point of view Silas didn’t have time to answer as I noticed Renee coming to in my arms.“Renee! Renee? Can you hear me?” Yes, why are you talking so loud.” She answered with an annoyed voice, bringing her fingers to her temples. “Oh thank goodness!” I said pulling her closer to me. “You mean thank Goddess don’t you, seeing as I’m part Goddess.” Renee rambled with her eyes still closed as she rubbed her temples. “What?” I questioned confused, truth serum doesn’t make you high. What was Renee talking about? “Yep I’m the daughter of the moon goddess, and she needs my baby to keep everyone safe.” Blood rushed to my head and I felt lightheaded, my past flashing in front of me as I realized what was actually at stake. “What is she talking about?” Silas questioned. “This can’t be possible” I mumbled under my breath, trying to piece everything together. Why would the “Moon Goddess” impart her DNA in Renee and why was Renee’s baby important to her plan. In that moment Ethan a
Esther’s point of viewWhen I saw Renee pass out I acted quickly and was able to catch her before her body crinkled onto the ground. A “No” echoed in the field around us and I scanned the area trying to find the source. “Who goes there?” I shouted scanning the area once more. I sent an alert in my head to Alpha Ethan not knowing if there was a threat or what has caused Renee to pass out. “It’s just me” a familiar voice filled the air and I turned to the source. I could see Silas stepping out from behind a tree. “Silas?” I questioned confused. I couldn’t help but notice he didn’t seem to have his mandatory escort with him. “I’m sorry Esther it wasn’t meant for her” he stated cautiously stepping forward. “What do you mean?” I questioned still confused, then I saw his eyes flash down to Renee “what have you done?” I questioned anger and fear coursing through my body. “The water was meant for you” he stated Once again I was confused until I looked down and saw the water I had given