1. reunion
Last time it was revealed that Caleb and his friends got over their heads, and it cost Caleb his life. Now, everyone has gathered eagerly, waiting to see what will happen if Caleb wakes or if he will flatline
. This is 12-13 hours later, after the cliffhanger year, which is after 1960
“Wake up bitch” I heard, and once again I heard a SLAM. That’s when I opened my eyes, revealing that I was in a jail cell-like cage, I don’t know where or with whom. I smelled iron and sulfur. I heard something clinking, chains? Shackles, to be more specific, and I looked at my arms and legs
, and I was trapped, I was a prisoner, but where was here? I looked around at the other cages and seem like bodies were taken from the cages, throats slit, where I was? Who was attacking these men and women? That’s when I turned and looked at a hanging mirror and saw myself asleep on the bed with Kali and Ciaran. That was when I woke up.
“He still hasn’t even stirred,” Kali said, solemnly looking at me as I yawned and wiped my eyes, as I was standing with my head down on my chest. That’s right, I had been watching over Ciaran all night, my brother was put into a major coma, and I don’t know why. We were at the hospital
“Hotel Dieu” in Paris. It was the first time in a long while that we were together, and by that I meant everyone, yeah, I had to have Sarah and Kali restrain me from murdering Judas when I finally came in with Kali, who coincidentally and “ironically” called us by chopper to France because Caleb had an “accident.”
“First off whose Caleb? And second, you have a lot of nerve calling us into one place after the shit you pulledsei nei guai,”I growled, meaning “you’re in trouble’ in Italian, and played with my hair in annoyance.
That was when Kali spoke as I was being calmed by her and Sarah, Judas’s sister; we all had long relationships, ironic that we are here now.
“Selena relax hes on our sidela shukr ealaa wajib(no worries) he protected Ciaran it was probably an accident he ended up like this?” my eyes widened when she mentioned our oldest brother and I burst into the room and saw Ciaran in a very bad shape, he was hooked up to the EKG/ECG machine, and his eyes were closed, along with Aimee, jasmine that’s when Judas walked in and I had his throat in my hand.
“What happened, Judas? Cosa hai fatto?” I had said “what did you do?” in Italian. He began choking, and I hissed my fangs, showing anger before jumping back. I growled and swung out my blade-pistols, which got everyone on their feet, and crossed my arms and pulled the
trigger on him before Kali or Sarah could stop me or anyone who coils get in my way, sending out two energy bolts like lightning at Judas, who crossed his arms, and his eyes glowed, causing the beam to freeze at the point nearing him, and vanish.
“Damn it you were always good at running dodging and blocking can’t handle me now can youfuori dalla tua portata?”meaning “out of your league” Judas growled and took another couple of steps, either not sure why or sure why and how to deal with it That was when I pointed my guns again at him but when he got close, I wrapped my hand around his throat and lifted him off
the ground and sent him into the back of the door to impact. “Talk, dude, you’re upsetting me more and more,” I hissed and pointed my barrels at him point-blank again; this time, it wouldn’t miss. That was when Kali stepped in first, along with Sarah, to restrain me and my arm from putting a hole in Judas.
“Selena, stop. We need to be more respectful of Caleb/ Ciaran he’s’i’iinah yastarih”(hes resting)
That’s when Judas knocked off my arm and smacked me across the face, making me take a step back enough to give me room, ok yeah, I deserved that, ugh that’s when I again spoke.
“I’m not going to ask again; what happened?”
Aimee stepped forward into the fray and spoke.
“It was like an accident at a church. We can’t give the details, we dont know you know. All we know is that a beam from a gorgon statue. Demon in the Perseus form, you know, totally hit him twice, and when all attackers were gone, he was unconscious, and he hasn’t woken since. Seriously,” I then spoke.
“And who are you? First off, who are all of you perché sei nella stanza di mio fratello?“(Why are you in my brother’s room?)
I asked more in concern than anger about how our luck has been. There are more rats than allies.
That’s when Jasmine spoke.
“We’re friends, Master Judas and Lady Aimee, and I took care of Caleb here when he was unconscious.” Then Kali spoke. “Ciaran is majorly hurt, Selena, he hasn’t flatlined, but anytime he couldana qalaq," she meant “I’m worried” in Arabic. Sighing, Jasmine spoke
“It’s only been a couple of days that we’ve known how critical,” I sighed, passed, and sat down. “Ok, first thing first, it’s Ciaran, not Caleb, don’t insult our family name by giving him a fake name, second, Judas, you’ve lost your entitlement in this family. Control your lackeys, but your authority means little to me, and I still owe you a blade to the face for sending me to Russia.”
I growled, and both Aimee and Jasmine looked at me. I was ready for a fight.
“Dont like it, do something about it,” I growled at Judas, and Judas stayed silent. That’s when I took control.
“Ok, if anyone doesn’t mind, I’m taking over. Tell me what attacked him and what our options are. We can’t do anything standing around.
Aimee stood up and HIT me across the face.
“Seriously, knock it off. First off, that’s for Judas, since he doesn’t want to stand up to you. Like, you may be Caleb’s Sister, but hes ten times what you’ll ever be. You know, and to be honest, I can see why he sent you to Russia. You deserve to be in prison, seriously, now listen well, little girl, like we dont know what happened to Caleb. Ah, Ciaran, what
master Judas said was true. We were in the middle of a fight with shadows, complete and total statues with strange abilities. Seriously, off, but you like making everyone feel nervous and small, which is only making it worse. Right now, like seriously, all we can do is wait for him to die or to wake up; those are our options. Now, you know, there are three of us and three of you. You want a fight, stand up, but it’s not going to make the situation any better.”
I growled at her. This woman has guts, and honestly, I was looking forward to making it visible when Sarah spoke for the first time.
“Selena we love you but this girl is right Calebs not looking good he’s literally in a coma right now, all we can do is our best to support him” I growled in anger and annoyance and slipped my guns back in my belt and looked at Kali then Sarah I was too flustered so I turned and walked out of the room and walked down the hallway I needed caffeine. I
spun my boots and left, ignoring my sister’s calling my name as my form left the door within a matter of moments and started down the hallway, letting my aura and my fierceness control anyone who would want to get close.
I walked through the hallway into the elevator and took a deep breath, thinking about the reality that Ciaran’s not going to die. he’s just not. of all of my brother’s ability and power dying to something as small as a demon attack is not in his equation ”I sighed before growling and letting my eyes turn from bright sharp emerald green to a crimson red for a small time and putting a dent in the wall of the elevator that hit so hard that it flickered the lights.
The downstairs cafeteria was only a couple of floors down, and the silence only gravitated to the reality of my brother’s situation. When the door opened and there were a few members of the public looking at me, I had on a pair of sunglasses that would make it so no one would see my eyes, and for a second they looked after me after seeing the massive hole in the wall that could take a bullet from a shotgun and yet was now effectively showing the INSIDE of
the elevator. I know they whispered, and I didn’t care. I sighed and headed into the cafeteria, which had food and a market inside. With no game plans made in my head, I just loaded up on anything in the fridge section that connected
to “energy, caffeine, Red Bull, monster, rockstar, etc” When I dropped it onto the conveyor belt I got looks from half the building I didn’t care I had about 2000.00 on me enough to buy the entire fridge sector, when the lady looked at the 10, 20 drinks she raised an eyebrow and as the security was about to step up to me, and saw what I had she spoke.
“You Military?” I sighed and faked a smile. “Honestly, you could say that,” how much?” I asked, looking at the man behind the counter.
“To be honest, selling that much would be a while, just take them.” I nodded. Well, at least I got drinks. I packed them all into my duffle bag along with my swords and walked back to the room,m leaving even the security unsure what I was doing there. I entered back through the OTHER elevator to ease suspicion, and I was going to leave another dent in it, but decided that instead to take one of the monsters I bought and began drinking it hard. When I got back to the room
I was mostly relieved of my need to put my fist through something, or someone (that would have been Judas), after putting a hole in the elevator wall. Looking at everyone who was already tense by me, I sighed, even I knew when violence wasn’t the key, especially to my clear allies. My eyes went to everyone in the room before throwing an energy drink from my pile. “I’m sorry for losing my temper and putting everyone on edge. After the likelihood of attack we’ve had, it was natural to be on guard of new commoners,” I then looked over at Aimee, who struck me in the side
of the face. “You’re brave for swinging on a stranger, ok,non è stato un brutto colpo“(wasn’t a bad blow), I said, pulling up a seat, and I could faintly hear Jasmine ask, “What’s with the sunglasses?” Kali answered by saying, “Her power is revealed through her eyes.” Jasmine nodded, and I continued. “Tell the story of what happened. I don’t want the story, I want the details, because if there’s a chance that Ciaran was attacked once already, there’s a good chance that they’ll likely come to finish him.”
My baby sister Kali opened her drink and smelled it before taking a sip. “Rockstar, sis, you remembered.” I nodded, and she spoke again. “How do we know that the one who attacked you guys would attack again?” Aimee spoke to her. “The one that is likely after C..Ciaran is after the throne of the Vatican City, Alexis and Gabriel were after him from the get-go.”
“When was this?” Judas spoke and looked at Kali and Sarah.
“About the time that we went to see you guys.”
My eyes widened moderately.
“Kali Sarah, you saw Ciaran and Judas? Why wasn’t I informed?”
Judas stepped forward to me.
“Because I left you in the hands of the Russian alpha wolves to get you ready for something like this, there was no time between you working your ability as the sanguine I trained you and Sarah to be and the pleasantries of Kali and my sister.”
I growled and clenched my fist.
At that moment, Jasmine spoke.
“You’re saying that you sensed Alexis and Gabriel would do something like this, and you didn’t report it, Judas?”
I nodded, “New girls, right? You dared to send me to Russia and Ciaran to the Vatican city. What were you planning on happening that we would need this to happen? Non molto pianificato”(not very planned out)
“Anything...”
“And why weren’t we involved lays eadilan?” asked Kaliya sighing translating to “not fair” “I’m not just some little girl and Sarah could take Judas and Ciaran out in no time flat we handled a shooter at our high school while our entire high school population was Murked by a population of 4000” and Sarah looked away because she knew what they went through.
That’s when Judas walked over to Kali and put his shoulder on Kali and Sarah.
“You a lot more part of this than you’ve understood, Kali you have done so much more to this situation than you’ve honestly seen and you haven’t fought yet but you might well soon..so as of right now-” I growled at him, I still have a huge grudge on him, but I pushed it away and at this point, my eyes went back to emerald green so I took off the glasses. “SO there’s a chance something could come after Ciaran even here in France?”
I asked, annoyed. That’s when Aimee spoke, getting up and walking around the room we had, drinking a coffee.
“It’s not entirely accurate right now. The churches knew moderately where we were when we were attacked, but now that we’re in France, there’s no clue for them that we’re safe for now.”
“Unless a church gets back to the Vatican.”
“Ok, SO I guess that’s good, so who are these Gabriel and Alexis? sono minacce?“(Are they threats?)
Jasmine spoke, cracking open her monster.
“Gabriel and Alexis are members of the Regio crime family. They targeted Ciaran for the past few years and maybe even were the masterminds behind the attack, but there’s no certainty. Ever since Caleb was attacked, there has been no word on Alexis’s movements, nor Gabriel’s, not right now.”
Then Sarah stepped up. “There are three vampires, two witches, a fox demon, and no one can confirm the major attack on Ciaran’s life, or who their next move is?”
“There’s a bit more that we haven’t put into account...the Death Knights,” Judas began, and I stepped in. “Judas, there hasn’t been the involvement of the nazi death knights since we were kids. WWII ended years ago...non è un problema,” meaning “not a problem.”
That was when a voice spoke up
“Not as true as you may think selena, when Judas and Ciaran were heading out of Venice, we ran into six members of the Nazi Deathknights. After hearing this, I have a feeling they are taking a stronger lead behind Alexis and Gabriel than you may think.... We need to stay strong,” it came from Arshin in the corner. He was taking everything in.
“That was when my real family passed away in World War 2, it’s how I got this book... It’s all I have of them, and now I’m about to lose my brother for the second time, and just now being reunited with everyone.” Kali sighed and closed her eyes before opening them again with a sense of emotion behind them, determination possibly. “If there are members of the Nazis that are taking hits on my family, I deserve to be on the front lines lan nataearad lilkhidae”( we won’t be F* with)
That’s when Aimee put her hands on her shoulders because she was closest.
“Don’t be so willing to risk your life, Caleb I mean Ciaran is bound to wake he was never one to give in and give up your brother is tough I think it’s in the family gene, and waking to the news that his littlest sister was taken would be a poor choice to make for exchange of his revival” She said and Kali nodded and wiped a tear away that all we could give was hope that’s all we could do was hope.
