"You called?" The familiar voice rang.
"Saniya…" Colton says.
"I am the one who sent you on the witch's mission, there was actually none in the first place. I set this whole affair up." Saniya announces.
"So why would you set this whole thing up?" Alice asks.
"After I engaged Christian with Alex…I decided I want to ask you for help." Saniya comments.
From the shadows came Dominique and Katherine, they were holding hands, a development I have never seen from them before, but I also didn't get a chance to be there long enough to see it.
The rosey maid seemed to have picked him as her mate, I felt a pang of relief.
"Long time see brat!" He saluted me.
"What do you mean you…the time at the hotel!" She screams.
"You disguised as Everett then!" Alex shouts, "But…"
"You don't recall right?" Saniya answers.
"I don't…"
"I need you to be patient with me, but I realized if we don't work together everything might become worse!" She spouts.
"What do you mean worse?" Alice questions.
"I want to tell you a story…" Dominique interrupted.
"Why should we listen to you?" Alice growls.
"Because I have been against you since the very beginning." He states.
"Wait, this was a setup?" Steel said angrily.
"Duh! Have you not been listening?" Katherine sighs.
"Listen!" I yell, "Something is coming soon!"
"Thank you Christian…" Saniya comments.
"Wait, Saniya!" I shout, "Umm nevermind…"
"Soon the veil will crawl over to humanity, allowing for the veil…" Saniya says stop mid sentence.
A sword rams through her stomach piercing her from behind, a man that I had seen in the visions pushes her off his blade with force letting her bleed out on the forest floor. She limps up in an attempt to fight bleeding out.
He catches her fist, he pulls me by my chain. My body starts to move on its own like when Gavyn took a hold of me, dragging my hand back placing his sword in my hand.
I could hear my colleague's screams as I am made to butcher the witch that once took me in, the yellow-white-haired man shrieks in laughter. Steel leaps at the intruder swinging, Clarence hops down from the tree both overtaken. Pulling the weapon out of Saniya, she coughs out sputtering bodily fluid as he has me moving back and forth with powerful strikes knocking them away with tremendous strength I was never capable of before.
He manipulated my hands sliding the edges in and out of her body-hacking away at the betraying enchantress. Colton angrily manifests clutching hard to the man's wrist allowing the control spell to fall off.
My whole body trembled, I heaved in and out trying to breathe, scared for my life dropping the sword to the floor; Alice tried to run over to me when he grabbed her.
"Hey kid…it's alright…" Dominique told me.
"But…I…" I couldn't speak and choked on my words.
"Finally we meet!" He snarled.
"Who are you?" She asks, frightened.
"I am your fate, Alice…" He states.
I am terrified watching Saniya die on the floor alone, Dominique and Katherine sit by her side as she coughs up blood. My chains were still in the newcomer's possession, Alex came from above wailing with all his might at the man.
"I…I…" Saniya whispers, "Chris…tian…"
She says my name, I start to cry the second she tries to call for me. I want to go to her. Her eyes begin to dimmer, settling, losing their glimmer. The look of death set in quickly in her vision, I shuddered dreading my life in this man's hands.
We were watching in anticipation and horror being restrained by the expert vampire who knew who we were before we knew he existed.
Bringing out his own sword he perries the fearless vampire throwing him to the ground with nearly no trouble.
"Oh Alex, do you remember me?" He asks.
"What?" Alex answers confused.
"I am your creator…Shimon, but I don't need you." He states.
Ushering another face from behind him, a younger boy in appearance. Jet black hair in a ponytail taped up high, his red eyes like blazing balls of fire. Hatred seeped in his eyes coming out like rage at Alex.
"He was also a human boy, but now his name is Reid…" Shimon explains.
Reid's nose was slightly running, he was fully clothed in black top and pants, even had a belt and cape that sat on the side of his shoulder, he also had a red highlight curled to the side. His nails could easily extend like Dominique's.
"Not another! This has to stop!" Colton cried out.
He sheds his image revealing it to be Gavyn's finally, the one I saw as a child through his mere heroics to save me from simple underling vampires. Alex's face turned white looking at the dead man projecting himself back into reality.
"Gavyn…" Dominique softly says.
"You thought you could get rid of me?" He asks.
"I owe you, if it wasn't for Christian's consciousness I would be already dead!" He explains.
I never realized his life depended on mine at any key point, he manifested whenever he wanted, but only recently it has begun to drain me. I looked at him in mere shock.
"I see you came back to protect the brat!" Shimon growls.
"He is my master even with one foot in the grave…" Gavyn states.
Yanking my shackles close to him, Shimon examines me first with his eyes then his nose prodding to the deepest part of my hand where the symbol lies. Retrieving a dagger from his pocket he stabs me in the hand.
I simply grunt, watching my sanguine fluid flow down my palm. He twists deeper, pulling me hard and fast so I couldn't get away.
"Stop!" Clarence shouts.
"You want this too?" He answers.
"Why are you doing this?" Steel asks.
"Actually I decided I will deal with you all later!" He shouts.
The last thing we all see is Reid fighting Alex, his formidable attacks matching our masters in speed and ability. Hands from below transport us beneath the world hence he came. We wail together in an effort to reach each other.
Our fingers barely able to touch, Clarence grasped the hard cold ground struggling to get to her. The bodily parts were too strong to fight, unable to oppose the man's odd powers.
That's when I caught it, the dusksong in Shimon's hands. He swung it high in the air as her body dropped against his chest.