Mateo could not believe the nerve that he had. He was threatening them when all they were doing is a favor to them. There was no way he was going to let that slide.
"Do you think you are in your position to threaten us?", he asked Edmund.
"Threaten you, do be silly now am not threatening you am just telling you what will happen. We have not hurt anyone so on what grounds would you be sending us out of town.
We haven't caused any trouble at all", said Edmund.
"I could just say that you did something and trust me no one will think otherwise given the history of your family name ", said Mateo chuckling.
Edmund was done playing nice. He was tired of trying to reason with someone who saw nothing but the bad things in them.
"Do you think you will be able to do that ?", asked Edmund as he walked to where Mateo was sitting.
The members who were sitting beside him tensed up not sure what he was going to do. He knew they feared him and that was all he wanted.
When people feared you they respected you They made noise hoping that they would leave town because they knew they were not powerful enough to drive them away.
He did not want them to like him because there was nothing he would benefit from that. It was his family they were talking about he could not play that game with them.
"Yes I could do that and it would work ", said Mateo as he stood up.
They were sat ding facing each other the people in the room were scared that a fight would break out.
"Just because I said I won't hurt anyone doesn't mean that I won't hurt you, Mateo. I would like nothing but that. We are not here to hurt you. We came here because this is our home.
As I said earlier there are rules and if we break them then we will leave but if we didn't break them and you still insist on this bullshit that you are trying to protect people then you will get hurt and so will your people.
You don't want to see me angry. So if you love your community of witches. Think you know what you should do. ", said Edmund.
"Mateo did not want to step down. He did not want to look inferior in front of everyone and that was what Edmund was reducing him to.
Elijah glanced at his brother and wondered if for once he used his head to think. This person would drive them away and he was making matters worse.
"If they know the fight is with you then trust me they would give up their lives ", said Mateo.
"It's so cute to think that your plan will work. I could kill you even before you reached the door so that plan won't work. I don't want this to reach there.
Why are you being so difficult?
Do you think that you will no longer be powerful because we are back? I do not care about your witches and no vampire will kill them will make sure of that.
We just want our freedom I don't even know why we are arguing about that", said Mateo.
The other members seemed to like Edmunds's plan better. They had not done anything but exist. They had not hurt anyone since they had come back to town so they had no reason to turn them away.
They did not want a war because, in the end, it was all they knew who was going to win. They were the hybrids they could not be killed.
"I think he has a point ", said the priest as he stood up.
He had seen enough of these two men trying to see whose was bigger than the other. They couldn't play ego games when it involved the life of other people.
He knew what Edmund meant and he was not lying he could kill all of them if it meant proving who was more powerful than the other.
"We do not have any reasons for asking them to leave two when they had not committed anything. We have to create rules for how this town will run.
We do t want to fight we just want peace so I don't see any reason by which we should deny him his request.
Whatever happened with their parents happened. It isn't like there were rules back then against killing humans. They know the rules now and they know they are not supposed to break them.
There is no point in arguing we all know that this is the best solution. The only people who even know about the are us and a few other elders so let's not make matters worse ", said the priest and sat down.
Edmund grinned and looked at Mateo waiting for him to object. If he did then it only meant that he had a feud with them that he wanted to settle.
Mateo was not stupid, he knew when he had lost a fight and this one was one of them. If he pushed too much everyone would wonder what the problem was. He just had to let it go.
"Okay then ", he said as he sat down.
"Well, now that we have come to an agreement this meeting is over. And we need to be in the committee or whatever this group of yours is ", said Edmund.
They all hated his guts and wanted nothing but to be out of there.
They had been stupid to come in and think that they would just order them around like a bunch of puppets.
"Will you be representing the vampires?", asked Mateo.
"Yes I think that the crown should come back to the original vampires don't you think ", he said.
"Yeah sure it should ", said Mateo.
Edmund might have been hotheaded but there were some things that he did not play with. They could not come around and tell them what to do.
This was his family and if it meant going to war to fight for it he would do it over and over again. That was something Elijah knew and he never doubted his brother when the matters involved them all.
He always found a way around it just as he did.
"It was lovely meeting you guys ", said Edmund as he moved aside and let the elders leave.
The next time they would meet he had to tell them not to start a war that they would not finish. They should have known they would not stand a chance with him.
He was Edmund no one could kill him.
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