Persephone Zoi
I wake up in a bed with Matt and the twins seeing Jackson on the floor. I smile at Alcmene's new mates' jealousy. Then I get up and let everyone else sleep but as I wander the mountain, I don't see Alcmene or Qamar and then I find their bedroom. I knock a few times and hear nothing then I open the door and see nobody, but I find a note on the bed.
-I took Qamar as back up to help me free Eli. Be back soon. Take care of the twins.
-Alcmene-
Oh no, she went without us.
I shake myself and I start to panic about her about us and I feel something swirling deep inside me. Then a green swirling light appears and wraps around me and soothes me then shows me a vision…
¬Alcmene and Qamar are in a cave together a cave I recognize as the one we escaped to and they are talking Qamar kneeling in front of Alcmene her eyes glowing a red swirling with black. She grins at him.
"Hello, anima gemella," She purrs seductively, "I am going to need a favor. I have a need for backup. Are you up for it, amore mio?"
"Anything." He answers a fist to his heart kneeling down head down almost like a knight swearing an oath.
"Perfect." She purrs back grinning like a psycho. Then she grabs his hair and drags him up before kissing him and biting him making blood run over their lips…
"Persie!" I hear Matt cry out loudly. I sit up and realize I must have fallen with the vision and I see ash float down and realize my power must have burned the note. I look up to him and then see everyone else behind him all looking at me worriedly.
"Alcmene and Qamar left to go free Eli, I saw their note and freaked out my powers awoke, and I was given a vision of where they will be tomorrow." I tell them and they all gawp at me talking in the information.
Matt is the first to recover, probably because he has seen my powers before. And he gets right back to business, "Where will they be?"
After that they all seem to snap out of it and look at me intently, even the twins. And I say the words they all expected and feared, "Back to MCI."
Qamar Kelzrecrynth
I am in my dragon preparing for this battle, it has been a while, but everyone shall remember to never wrong a dragon or their mate.
I am excited to prove myself to her as a warrior and devoted mate however I am worried for how I will react as of now I only hold a little respect for helping her and a bit of anger for hurting her, but no actual opinions can be made yet, and the idea of another male touching her makes me want to kill every female and rip out the eyes of every male. I really hope the gods have a plan.
I see her shift but this time it is completely different from the others as she maintains human form with her silver blue dragon wings and vampyre fangs and steam blowing off her perfect skin from the fire in her veins and I can feel the moon powers of her wolf wrap around her and caress me and the silver and red slitted eyes of the beast. She is breathtaking and looks dangerous with a gleam of anger in her eyes.
I rumble appreciatively and lumber over to her. I nudge her with my head like an excited puppy and she laughs and presses her hands to my scales rubbing all over my face and scratching under my chin.
I lower to the ground and she with a grip of my horns and a boost from her wings hops on my neck near my head and I know the spot she chose to ride on is better than my back which is for a leisure rides and my neck is much better for war rides. I feel proud to defend such a powerful woman, like a war horse for a goddess.
She presses into my mind and I can hear that her mental voice is a mix of all her beasts and hers, PRONTO A VOLARE IN BATTAGLIA E COMBATTERE PER VENDICARE CIÒ CHE È MIO, ANIMA GEMELLA?
Always
I stand up and lift my wings and I shoot up into the desert sunrise sky and let out a mighty roar that makes the earth tremble, a call of war, warning of an angry dragon.
We fly for a bit before maybe thirty minutes before we land and when we do I kill the outpost guards that are mostly asleep and shift putting on their uniforms and my taw' am alruwh burns the bodies.
We walk in and I can see some memories run through her mind most not pleasant and I really want to kill something after knowing that.
I can smell the blood and chemicals but even if I hadn't, I could feel my mate's powers tightening and her muscles tensing as we got closer to the experimentation room and eventually her cave.
She walks in to see if they hid her other mate in there, but he isn't, and I assume she knew this because I smell almost no surprise or disappointment. She walks around I assume following her scent and the bond though I suspect the bond has weakened.
She turns and then we see a door the only real door in here and at least seven guards around it. The door is a steel that has no rust. I realize it is silver and that she cannot touch it, she growl at it knowing it is keeping her from her mate and before she can get any crazy ideas like ramming into it, I speak into her mind.
Calm, for I am not weakened by silver and I am physically bigger and stronger.
For a second I worry she will just growl at me and leave by the way she glares at me, but she just sighs and looks back at the door and nods her head towards it from me to go and I do, I walk towards it and knock out the guards and accidentally kill two of them and then I take a step back and ram into it shoulder first.
That hurt. I let out a little groan and shake out my shoulder, but I see the door fall into the room wait for my mate. She comes around the corner and nods approvingly at the door and me, but she walks into the room and gasps at what she sees I run in feeling her anger and pain and look around. I see a guy hanging in chains on the wall covered in scars, wounds, dried blood, and dirt. He seems unconscious but I assume that is her other mate then I look around the room and see dead bodies on the edges all decaying with multiple wounds from…well just about every imaginable weapon.
Then I look to the chains holding up her other mate and I sense the silver and since he is a wolf, I can only imagine the damage done to his wrists. Thankfully as she walks up to him, she doesn't go near the silver but just reaches up and touches his face caressing him and he seems to relax and lean in as much as possible.
The jealousy hits, but I do not wish to kill him like I would expect but rather I just want her touching me. I look up and see where the chains attach to the wall and the first thing, I do is break them off the wall.
Then I shift I finger into a talon and heat the claw up with my mates' fire. I carefully then start cutting and sawing at the cuffs on his wrist and with the heat from her fire it breaks off. I do the same to the other cuff. Then I pick him up and shift my wings out tearing the guards' uniform shirt I am wearing knowing it will be useless now.
I run out pulling on my mates' arm and get us out as inconspicuously as possible and we get out without any trouble. Then I fly her Elijah into the cave we hid out at and I shift completely into a dragon and offered her a ride. We fly back to the caves and I land and let out a roar alerting them of our presence.
Guards come spilling out of all the entrances by the hundreds. My and my mates' excitement build, I have not fought this many since before the sleep. Finally, they stop pouring out and my mate lets out an excited roar from all of her beasts and hops off me and spreads her wings. She lets her fire out a bit more for show until flames of about three feet completely cover her except for her face and she slowly descends, and when she does, she attacks.
She kills with a grace few can master burning and slicing and blood everywhere. It excites my dragon, and he takes over control and I let him. He should get to experience his mates' battlefield capabilities. She grins and her grin widens when she sees me stomping on some of the men.
I keep fighting stomping and biting and breathing fire and the numbers drop dramatically until there is one left and I shift. My taw' am alruwh breathes fire inside his mouth and he explodes, his charred insides flying everywhere and on us. Then just as I pick her up to celebrate a thousand more guards come out and more and more. Then I hear a roar and I see another dragon in the distance, the Matt kid, and his girl. Backup.
I shift and they land, and we go back to attacking in every way possible. I see Persephone use her magic that instantly kill every soldier in a 20-foot radius. Blood soaks the ground, and the scent of death, magic and smoke is all that fills our nostrils. The numbers drop again, but more come out and attack. My mate is amazing, but I can see her tiring out and everyone else is too. I see Persephone stand still and her hair change into a green flame and her eyes glow green and gold. Her magic wraps around her and she is lifted off the ground her magic swirling around and around, growing larger. She yells, ""
And her magic implodes. It kills all the guards and the few plants within a mile. When the dust settles, we see dead bodies crumbling away as though having been decaying for years. We stare at the bodies then each other and then Persephone and find her passed out on the ground, probably from magic exhaustion. Matt shifts into a human and picks her up. He shifts out his wings and flies off probably to go back to the cave and wait for us. We walk inside the caves again and wait for something, anything to happen. Nothing happens. We see nobody and hear nothing and all we can smell is death and smoke from the battle.
Nobody survived even those that had stayed inside the caves are dead on the ground crumbling away. Then an older man walks out oozing with confidence.
"You didn't really think you could get away did you? Even with my traitorous son's help." He speaks in a weird slow way that I find annoying so I pike him up and fly up high holding him by a single leg.
Then I poke the smallest holes possible and many so he is bleeding out of a lot of places and then I tie him up to an abandoned rooftop letting eh blood flow.
Then I go back to my mate as I hear the man scream in pain as the first scavenger finds him and no doubt starts eating him, whether human or animal I do not know. I ignore his pleas and turn to everyone.
She looks to me and says, "We did it. We fucking did it." Then she jumps on me and hugs my neck wrapping her legs around my waist. I immediately catch her and steady myself, so we don't fall. I push her head into my neck and unfurl my wings and lift off the ground with a strong flap. And I head back to the cave.
When we get there about an hour later, we find everyone else there, even the twins, and cooking dinner, a freshly killed coyote, and the other mate is still asleep.
"I've put him into a healing sleep he should be awake sometime tomorrow completely healed with maybe a few scars." Persephone tells us as she sees my mate's worried gaze.
She walks over and eats a bit before sitting next to her other mate's side. When she walks over there, I let her be for a bit knowing she wants some time alone with him but when everyone else retires for the night I walk over to her and sit against the wall next to her and stroke her hair, "Sleep, I will keep watch." She falls asleep in my arms holding the hand of her other mate and it feels right. I keep my word and stay awake watching him and sneaking glances at my beautiful taw' am alruwh. I stay that way unmoving until I see the sun start to rise.
Alcmene Argent
I slowly come too basking in a sense of content. I open my eyes and see my mates on either side of me and Qamar still awake.
In his dreams Elijah's hand gripped onto my hand already in his. My hope flies at the thought of him recognizing me in his dreams and the fact he had enough strength to grab me.
I try to slip my hand out of his grip to check his body for wounds, but his grip tightens, and he pulls me closer a slight growl under his breath. Qamar feels the tug and snaps his eyes to Elijah before tugging me back to him. Then Elijah feels it and tugs back harder. Then it turns into a game of tug of war with me as the rope. Eli's eyes snap open when Qamar tugs me sharply and his dragon lets out a rumble of irritation. Eli growls back. I can sense his wolf in a jealous rage and Qamar's dragon getting irritated with him too.
I step up and back, "Stop." I tell them sternly but quiet down when I see everyone else still asleep.
They both stare at me like lost puppies. Then they side glare the other for making me leave. I roll my eyes at them.
"Come." I whisper command them and turn knowing they will follow, and they do. Brushing the others shoulder a little too hard and "accidently" running into each other.
I walk out until we are far enough away that we can yell without them waking but close enough they can see us if they look out. Especially if one of us shifts.
I turn to look at them glaring at each other. I snap my fingers in front of their faces but neither break eye contact nor blinking.
"Seriously, a staring contest, what are you, six? And I know for one Qamar you are much older than six, stop acting immature." I glare at them and Qamar listens and looks at me and Eli smirks and looks smug like he won something.
Qamar huffs, "At least I listen to my mate." He replies to Eli's smug expression.
Eli growls at his words, "My mate." Then he shifts into a large black wolf, however his wolf just walks over to me and rubs against me like a dog looking for pets. I reach down and scratch his ear and his tail wags, and he smiles at me.
I look to Qamar and he just grins at me, "Your Elijah needed to shift to fully heal, and I may have gotten a bit possessive, but I really don't mind."
"The staring contest was you challenging him wasn't it to get him riled up enough to shift?" I ask understanding and I see Eli look to Qamar with narrowed eyes, but Qamar just shrugs and nods.
I sit down with the wolf and pet him rubbing his stomach. I can tell his wolf wants me to touch him, but he is going a little overboard his ego taking a hit to make sure I forgive him. I stand up and shift into my silver wolf.
I stand up and am the same size as Eli. I look to Qamar, Shift, and follow, anima gemelli. I tell him and with that I run off.
I bound across the desert and make sure to give off enough scent for the others to follow if they worry.
I bring them to a pond I had found at the bottom of a mountain. I yip and jump in the water. Turns out my wolf loves the water. She swims deep and paddles on the surface and runs around splashing in the shallows.
We walk over to Eli and splash him before walking out and shaking off the water all over him. He gives me an unamused look before running at me and I jump up and yip. He tackles me and bites the ruff of my neck and drags me into the water.
I jump free after he pulls me in, and I pounce on him and push him down before darting away and onto the shore. I see Qamar in his dragon form circling us from above keeping watch.
I shift and climb up a tree sitting on a higher branch so Eli can't get me while a wolf. He shifts and grabs his pants. Then he climbs up and sits with me offering me his shirt which I take.
It hangs down to my knees and covers everything up, it is warm from laying in the sun and smells like him. I sniff it a few times reminding myself that he is here. I lay back halfway against him and my head lays back on his shoulder.
"Sorry." I whisper, not knowing what else to say. "I missed you."
"It's not your fault, I knew what I was getting into and knew I would probably get caught, I could've said no to you if I really didn't want to." I tells me with a soft smile, and I look at him disbelievingly, "Okay, I probably couldn't have said no but I still made the decision, and I knew I would get out and find my way back to you and I always will."
He leans down and tilts his face softly kissing me just grazing his lips against mine before deepening it and pulling me onto his lap.
Then we hear a large gust of wind and a thump the gust almost breaking the branch and knocking us off. I know exactly who did that, looks like someone didn't want to be left out.
I turn and see a naked Qamar smiling softly at us.
"Really, was that necessary?" I ask him a hand on my hip.
"I apologize my heart. However, your friends' approach and I thought you would appreciate a warning." He bows his head dutifully for a second then I smell Persephone.
I nod at him letting him know that I'm not angry and for him to leave us alone and Elijah takes the hint too walking off with Qamar but sticking a couple feet away from him.
Then Persephone runs to me her eyes holding fear, "Come, I felt the virus on Melisande with my magic!"
My heart starts to beat faster as I do not believe my ears, "Mel has Guillotine-V?" I ask her quietly almost as a statement.
She nods her head and true fear spreads through me worse than anything I have felt before.
The panic floods through me consuming my thoughts and freezing my body and the blood in my veins. It feels as though my heart stops beating. Then my breathing increases in tempo and sweat runs down my back even though I start to shiver.
My thoughts turn to her circling around the memories when she was a baby and when I had to take care of her. The trouble her and her twin got up to.
I scream into the night sky letting out my anger and fear taking it out on everything around me and my vampyre joins in and I can see a few birds explode.
I shift into my Phoenix and fly off into the sky letting my flame burn as brightly as possible almost becoming a miniature sun.
I feel my mates draw closer Eli riding Qamar-his dragons back-flying up to get closer to me. My Phoenix lets out a screech and flies even higher.
Then we fall. Down and down to the ground. Splat my body connects with the ground and I mean my whole body is touching the ground.
Nothing is stacked anymore organs and bones splattered around me and blood everywhere. I am completely numb to the pain (though shock and lack of connection in my body probably help) for a few moments.
Then I die.