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The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 12 - Closer
The sweat poured down my face as Del knocked me to the floor once again. My lungs and throat were burning while I tried to catch my breath, my back was red raw and tender from the amount of times it had been slammed against the mats. "Get to your feet!" He demanded as he walked back to his position. I pushed myself up and my arms and legs wanted to buckle beneath me. I had the urge to punch him for pushing every part of my body to breaking point, but I only had myself to blame. After all, I had told him over and over not to go easy on me but the motivation just wasn't with me today. I woke up angry and frustrated with everything and we all felt the same. Sick of being watched, being isolated and confined to these walls, having to train day after day. The neverending searches, finding nothing but a random foot or shoe print that lead to nowhere. Ten days had passed since we went to Bluebay and according to the mayor, not one person had shown any interest in us all uniting, despite th
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 13 - The light to my dark.
"Good morning human!" I heard a deep voice across my bedroom as my eyes flickered open to see the daylight trying to shine through the drapes. I looked in the direction of the voice, half expecting it to be Del or Talon, the last person I expected to see hovering in my room whilst I was sleeping, was Magnus! I quickly sat up, shocked when I suddenly realised who was in my room. "If Talon see's you in here, you know he'll be pissed!". "Ahh, well, we don't have to worry about that, he left about two hours ago with your other bodyguards, Kyan and Del. They're still out there searching for Zekan". He scoffed with an unamused grin. "A fools errand if you ask me. After all this time they're still hoping he's alive out there". "Would you think them fools if it was Hyvan instead of Zekan? You don't know them at all, do you?" I asked I sat forward confidently leaning my arms on my knees. Trying to prove he couldn't intimidate me just because we were alone. "I think I know them well enoug
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 14 - The visitors
The loud banging of the main doors startled, Kiko, Kyan and myself as we just finished another session of our training. The two guards looked at Kyan with wide eyes, waiting for his command. We all stood, staring at the doors, our backs tensed, our breathing became heavier as we tried to prepare ourselves for what was on the other side of those doors. Not a sound, a tap had come from them since the day of the battle, no one had used them, as far as Talon was concerned, they were completely off limits to everyone. "Roman, go inform my father, quickly". Kyan whispered to one of the guards and with a quick nod, he dashed off to Talon's chambers. "WHO DARES TO TRESSPASS ON OUR LAND?" Kyan called out as he made his way closer to the reinforced doors, covered in metal planks and chains nailed to the old rustic ones that once stood beautiful and historic. "WE'RE SORRY, PL... PLEASE DON'T HARM US, WE... WE JUST WANTED TO TALK, WE NEED TO TALK TO ELLIE!" A woman's voice called back. "That'
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 15 - Lovers peace.
The last two days, me and Kyan had decided to spend the nights tucked away together in Emma's old room. It was out of the way from everyone and it gave us more time to be ourselves, holding one another, kissing, talking, laughing. He kept reassuring me that everyone would be fine with the idea of me and him together, but I'd finally got him to understand, it is what Magnus would expect and the less he breathed down my neck, the better. He pulled me in closer toward him as he breathed in the smell of my hair as I rested against his chest. "Mmmm, I love these moments". He exhaled heavily. "I can't wait to have more of them with you". "I know, me too. I feel so safe, so calm when I'm with you". I murmured as I ran my hand across his hard muscles, picturing how good they looked underneath his shirt. He suddenly rolled me onto my back until he was positioned on top of me as he gave me a soft lingering kiss. "I mean it Ellie, you make me feel so much peace and I know that sounds stupid,
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 16 - The hunt.
"Stop that!" I said with a chuckle as Kyan flashed past me again placing another peck on my cheek. "You're making it hard to concentrate!" I tried to scold him but so far we'd been in the training room for an hour and I hadn't even broken a sweat! He was just playfully toying with me, maneuvering so fast, catching me in a quick embrace, a kiss or tapping my bum, laughing in amusement every time I missed the opportunity to tackle him."I can't help it". He called out as he whooshed to the other side of the room. "I've wanted to do this every time I trained with you!" He said with a flirty grin."Do what? Let me stand here without actually getting any training done?" "No! Kiss you.." He called back and was instantly behind me again, wrapping his arms around my waist, tucking his face into my neck. "and hold you!" He whispered and I let the pleasure tingle down my spine as he did so."Hmm, that definitely sounds more fun than regular training!" I grinned as he continued to trace my ne
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 17 - Gone in the night.
Kyan's POV:We hurled the three prisoners over our shoulders and proceeded to make our way back home. We all felt a little underwhelmed to come all the way to their old hideout only to find just three hunters. Of course, our group outnumbered them, so most of them didn't even have to lift a finger. Considering these men were hunters, they didn't seem too well equipped or skilled, it took mere minutes to knock them all out long enough to get them back to the cell room.But still, we kept our wits about us as Kiko and Del led ahead to make sure there were no other hunters waiting to intercept us on our way back. But nothing came... no arrows, no gunshots, not even any hooded figures running through the trees.I could see both of them reach the castle doors waiting for them to be opened. As the guards opened only one, I could see their frowns of worry as they spoke to Kiko and Del. Perhaps they were just as surprised as we were to find out we hadn't managed to take down as many hunters a
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 18 - Face to face.
Ellie's POV:My eyes felt heavy as I began to stir. I could feel a cold hard floor beneath me and a distant dripping sound was echoing around me. It slowly started to register that I wasn't in bed or anywhere that seemed familiar. I tried to blink my eyes open, only for them to feel sore to the touch and blurry. Just as I tried to move my hands to rub the blurriness away from my eyes, I could feel they were trapped, bound behind my back with cold, thick chains.I suddenly gasped as the memory came back of being in the kitchen and someone grabbing me with a cloth over my face. I started to shuffle around, moving my legs as they scraped across bits of loose rubble. Feeling vulnerable, with my lack of clear sight and no idea where I was, the quicker I tried to blink in an attempt to clear my vision. A slow sound of footsteps began to make its way across the ground and I could hear them coming closer. I kept trying to move away from whoever was approaching until my back was met with a dam
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 19 - You're mine.
"I'm sorry Ellie..." Zekan spoke glumly into the damp, caved room. "I tried... I tried to get out of these chains so many times to warn everyone, but the bitch keeps weakening me with her venom". "Vampires can do that?""Mmmhmm". He nodded."You know... they never stopped looking for you". "Hm, I didn't think they would". "Where are we?" I asked as I looked around the room. Apart from Zekan's chair there was nothing.. just dim temporary lights wired across the bumpy stoned walls. The room was big and had a slight chill and the dripping ceiling never seized to stop."I don't know". He shrugged. "I remember leaving with Lyra, we headed straight for the shore, then they surrounded us. She pretended to be so scared. So I fought them, mainly to save her life than mine. I got shot with an arrow, then another, then something was hit over my head and that was that... I woke up here. I figure, she's only kept me alive so she can rub it all in my face. Like some sort of karma for not pushing
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The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 40 - Epilogue.
We stood on the top deck at the railings as we saw the Island come into view and the ships horn blasted into the sea breeze. As we came in closer, I could see two figures standing at the dock, waiting for it to anchor. As the ship finally pulled in, I could see it was an older man and woman, elegantly dressed in a black suit and an emerald, green gown.“Who are they?” I asked both Kyan and Talon, but neither of them answered, Kyan just squeezed my hand, with the biggest smile on his face and Talon patted my shoulder with a knowing look. But I watched his face as he looked from me and out to them and I thought I saw him looking slightly nervous, but it was gone too quickly for me to really know.We stepped off the ship and made our way over to them as they waited with bright smiles. Well, they seem friendly enough! I thought to myself, still wondering why Talon had looked a bit uneasy.&nbs
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 39 - New beginnings.
We had arrived at Shelter Island two nights ago, and from that moment, Donny and Marina were more than welcoming as they set us up in white and cream decorated guest rooms in their own castle with beds that were big enough to fit ten people in.Their castle wasn’t as large as ours back home, but it was so elegantly decorated, bright and modern. Their main dinner hall was all painted white and a pastel blue with a long glass table set in the middle for their meals, glossed white chairs around it. They even had several cream fabric couches against the walls for everyone to calmly relax in once they’d eaten.They had a hedge maze in their rear garden that stretched out as far as the eye could see and their own lake that swept through the edge of their trees. There were other smaller houses that were only half a mile from the castle that housed some of their permanent lodgers, couples, friends, families. It was a busy island, constant music, gatherings in the n
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 38 - Bittersweet goodbyes.
One month later:As I packed the last of my things I knew I’d need and zipped up my bag I quickly planted a kiss on Kyan’s cheek as I left the room to find Kiko.Four weeks ago, after I had been to my old house I had come back and told Kyan all about it. That was when he suggested that it would be good for us both to take a little trip together and kept talking of how much he wanted to introduce me to some of his oldest friends and for me to see more of his world, the world that I was now a part of.We had spoken to Talon and Zekan about it straight away, with Zekan assuring us he’d be more than capable to keep things going while we were away and Talon, was all too eager to join us, only he was choosing to extend his trip a lot longer than ours.I wanted to say goodbye to everyone, to remind them we were only a phone call away should they need us, but
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 37 - One last time.
Two weeks later.Me and Kyan didn’t take what Talon had asked of us lightly. The very next morning we had told him that from hereon out he was to show us everything we needed to know. We spent hours going through files of different islands where other vampires lived safely in anonymity. There were four other islands that housed just vampires and two others like our own, who had certain territory on a shared human island. We had to learn all the names and current whereabouts of the well known rogues, which ones were animal based feeders, and which hunted on human blood. It would be our duty to regularly know where they are along with the lords on the other islands, and for us to always keep one another up to date.Talon had already told mayor Jackson of his decision and that he had to now only converse with Kyan or myself. I knew that would mean, Andrew Jackson would have to announce it to the town and although they tru
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 36 - Passing the torch.
“Wow, this looks incredible Faye”. Talon commented as we all gathered around the table. “Faye..” he quickly said as he placed his hand on her arm just as she finished placing the potatoes down. “Once all the food is brought out, I want the rest of you to sit with us, it’s been too long since we’ve all shared a meal together. Make sure you tell Bianca and Constance too”. “Of course, Talon. I’ll tell them all now. I’ll have Stuart call for Gerald, I think he’s in his room”. “Thank you Faye”. Just as she was leaving the room, Talon nodded for us all to sit down. This was our first night back in the main hall and as I sat in my seat next to Kyan, for a minute it felt like we had suddenly gone back in time, months had passed since we were last all i
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 35 - Not alone.
“I knew the real Ellie was still in there”. Kyan whispered as he lightly brushed his fingers through my hair. I led in the nook of his arm as the birds began to wake and start their morning song.I liked it up here, even though it had only taken us no more than ten minutes to get to the top, it somehow felt like a million miles away from all the death, the heart ache and all my fear. All those problems were down there, but up on this hill, it was just me and him, alone, peacefully minding our own business, talking and making love all night.“I’m so scared Kyan. I’m scared that the moment we go back I’m going to become something I don’t even recognise again”. “I won’t let that happen sweetheart. I’ll do whatever it takes to not lose my Ellie”. He said with a reassuring smile. &l
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 34 - The monster.
Ellie’s POV:I woke this morning with an anger swirling inside of me, Kyan was lying next to me, and it was him that would be in my firing line.I jumped out of bed in a huff and got dressed into my fresh clothes for the day, purposefully making enough noise for him to stir.He rubbed his eyes and looked at me in concern. “Morning. How are you feeling?” He asked cautiously.“How am I feeling?” I retorted, frowning at him. “How can you of all people even ask that!” “What do you mean, me of all people?” He asked, sitting up, giving me his full attention.“Oh, have you forgotten what you did?” “Clearly I have, so you’ll have to remind me!”
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 33 - On the edge.
Kyan’s POV:I stared at the roaring fire that swarmed over the pile of bodies. The flicker and snap of the flames erupted into the sky as bits of ash floated along, carried by the soft breeze. I looked up at the window of Ellie’s bedroom, wishing I was up there with her instead of seeing to this mess. I had hoped with every breath that she was still alive, I’d hoped I’d see her again safe and untouched. Of course, I knew I was hoping for a lot, my realistic side of my brain always told me she would have changed one way or another, that they’d damage her to a point…Only I had expected it would be bruises, cuts, tearing her down mentally. I never thought that if I got to see her alive again, it would be with her as a vampire, one of my kind, something I knew she was too sweet and kind for. Now, not only was she one of us but they did in fact manage to change her heart too. That crazed look I saw in her eyes, the w
The Cold ones. Part 2 - Rise of the hunters Chapter 32 - The days that followed.
The rest of that day and night was a blur. After Kiko had managed to successfully knock the rage out of me, the next time my eyes opened was to see her with Faye and Melanie washing all the blood and dirt off of me in the bathtub. I was still hazy, only keeping my eyes open for a minute at a time, as if my brain was still choosing to shut down the moment I’d wake up.“It’s ok, Ellie, we’re here. We got you”. I remember Melanie speaking softly with tears in her eyes.The next time I woke, I found myself tucked in my bed in Talon’s chambers. Clean clothes and not a trace of blood on my skin, I looked out the window to see it was almost sunset and everyone else were still outside, dragging the hunter’s bodies into a pile and carefully lining up our own that has died and the human’s side by side in front of the castle.I don’t know how, I don’t know what pa
