“Daddy, don’t!” Zoe rushed to her father. “I have no idea what I am doing but this doesn’t feel right to me. Aldrich is dead they are free of him. What do they have left?” Zoe pleaded.
“Bitch we will kill you. But first I will force you to bite me. I will rape you day and night until you are a broken shell of a woman and then I will…….” The man never finished as Christian surged forward and placed his hand on his head. He stopped the man’s heart before that man crumpled forward legs still buried in the ground.
“Sorry Zoe but he was telling the truth and his intent was to do just what he said. In fact, this one and this one and this one they are all sexually excited at the thought of raping you.” Christian explained
“Paulo let these one out!” Zoe asked Paulo with a smile on her face. Paulo placed his hands on the ground. The four half-bloods Christian had pointed out were now standing out of the holes and they didn’t know if they should attack or run. Zoe smiled at the men. “Well you are free. Why don’t you try and see if you can do what he said? You think you can take me? Let’s go then.”
No one moved as Zoe lunged at the first man that smiled at her. She caught him right in the nose with a fist and then rolled to the ground. As she got back up she pulled the two small led filled wooden sticks from her back. The half-blood she hit was still standing there her back to him. She swung her arm out turning her body back towards the man and she struck. She had struck his nose once more with the stick this time and he crumpled to the ground. The other three crowded around.
They created a circle around her and she turned as she watched the men. The half-blood at her back lunged however she anticipated the move and swung her arm back. The wooden stick hit the man in the side of the head and he went down completely knocked out. She went to step away and one of the half-bloods rolled towards her taking her down to the ground.
The half-blood had Zoe flat on her back and was sitting on her hips holding her wrists above her head. Zoe just smiled up at the male as she brought her knees up to his butt and placed her right foot over his leg. She then braced herself and twisted her hips to the right using the momentum to roll the man over placing her on top. The half-blood still had a hold of her wrists so she tucked her elbows in. This caused his hands to go into her chest and left his face open for a fabulous head butt which Zoe took full advantage of. Once he was passed out she turned to look for the other man.
The last half-blood had taken off running towards the cliff. Zoe looked to her family and had to smile because none of them moved to get her target. She took off running after him. In mid stride she shifted into her Dragon and continued running. She caught the half-blood with her mouth. Zoe had the half-blood by the torso in her mouth and she bit down until her teeth matched back up. Zoe also shook her head from side to side until the struggling stopped. She then flung the man over the cliff into the ocean.
Zoe turned her huge Dragon body around and looked back to her family. She smiled as she caught sight of the proud smile on Kaiden’s face. She trotted herself back to her family and as she approached Kaiden took off his shirt handing it over to her after she shifted back.
“We took care of the two you left alive and they are all now deep in the ground. Good job Angel.” Kaiden praised her.
Zoe was kind of surprised that no one tried to step in and help. Was even more surprised that the natural fighters, the Fury’s, were the calm ones in the group and they were just watching the half-bloods in the ground like hawks.
Leon had gone to search for the trunk he saw Aldrich drop in the vision. While the rest watched over the men and women in the holes. The half-bloods in the holes were arguing with each other. Some stayed silent and looked on with scared faces while the others all argued. Vivi stood looking at all of them like she wanted to rip them all apart with her teeth. Then a little voice broke the arguing voices and little Abby came running up with Ben and the dogs right as Vivi went to step forward towards her siblings.
“Wait! Wait! Wait!” Abby yelled
“Abby! Honey you are supposed to be in bed!” Piper hollered surprised to see her little girl however she knew her daughters strong will and knew if Abby felt the need to be here she would be.
Abby walked right over to Vivi. “Vivi yous colors are all wrong, so sad. Miss Alexi you make it better?” Abby cooed
“No!” Vivi yelled
“Vivi if she no fixes it you will go bad. I see it trying to change to that bad color. I don’t want you to be bad. I want yous to be how you were.” Abby stated. As soon as those words came out of her mouth Christian grabbed Vivi and his mother surged forward and took the pain and heartbreak away.
“No, no, no” Vivi wept and crumpled to the ground.
“Honey if you can tell me, I can draw her for you. Every face you saw on her if you describe it I can draw it.” Sarah explained as she crouched next to a sobbing broken hearted Vivi.
“You can?” Vivi looked up at her hope filling her eyes.
“I can and I will. Right now let Christian take you inside. I think you are done for the night.”
“Yeps, Maggie sent me here. She wants you.” Abby said
“Maggie? My sister?” a teenage female half-blood asked
“No, my sister along with all the other babies they are mine!” Vivi yelled as Christian helped her up and carried her away.
“Okies, Mommy you helps me? I hads to gets Vivi aways. Maggie tolds me to get her before she did bad things to dems” Abby announced and everyone turned to look at her. Piper walked over with a curious smile on her face and held her daughters hand.
“Okies, this one bad, bad, good, good, bad, iffy…” Abby informed everyone as she walked down the line with her mother at her hand and pointed them out.
Chapter 24
The Good the Bad and Iffy
Morgan let the half-bloods out of the holes and they stood in a groups surrounded by a group of turned half-bloods. The ones that were deemed good ones were only teenagers most of them looked to be very young teenagers. There were three girls and four boys, eyes as big as saucers as they watched their other brothers being put into groups from what the little girl told them. The Fury’s all stood in a line in front of all the ones Abby had said were bad, which were still halfway in the ground. Another group, the “iffy” ones, stood between Gabe, Mateo and five turned half-bloods. They were all waiting for Leon to return from walking off.
Leon had told everyone about the journal and that he was going to look for the trunk that it was in before he walked off. He wasn’t sure what it was yet, he just knew that Aldrich went to it a lot in his memories.
Rosa and Michael had gotten curious about it and followed him from a distance. They saw the trunk before Leon with their excellent night vision. They jogged up to Leon and pointed it out. Leon grabbed the trunk and they all walked back to the groups that were waiting for them.
Once they reached the groups Leon asked Donny to provide a little light. Donny held up his palm and little balls of fire erupted in them. Leon opened the trunk once he could see. As soon as the lid was open Leon felt the evil Pull of the journal. His hands hovered over the thing, the journal wanted him to pull it out and listen to it. This scared Leon more than anything he had ever come across so he refused the call and slammed the lid of the trunk closed. He backed away from the trunk and muttered “No.”
That got Rosa’s attention and she bent to lift the lid but felt nothing at all. She picked the journal up and opened the leather flap. She read quickly and then turned to Leon. “What did you feel?” she asked him knowing he felt something from it from his reaction.
“I felt an evil Pull from it. It wanted me to touch it and read it. That thing wanted me to listen to it.” Leon tried to explain.
“I wonder how he got this. This journal is the account of a Dragon. It is his life written in words, like Marsali thought. Only this one died slowly and as he died he wrote his feelings. I believe this book is spelled for Blood Dragons. I think this is what u
ltimately corrupted him. I think this journal is what made him believe he could be a King. I also believe it is meant for Blood Dragons because I don’t feel a thing from it. Not even the magic.” Rosa explained
“It needs to be destroyed. We cannot risk this book getting in the hands of our children or our grandchildren. If it did this mess will happen all over again and that cannot happen!” Sarah bellowed.
“I agree, I only request that you give me a moment to read through it all. The magic does not affect me, I just…. Well… this is a piece of history.” Rosa pleaded to Kaiden and Zoe to understand the historian inside of her begging.
“Take your moment while we figure out what to do with these ones.” Kaiden answered and walked over to the group of Fury’s. Well ladies and gentlemen what do you suggest?”
“Well when we hunted them we let them fight. I think Tia and John want a little action since they haven’t gotten any but this time we will do it weaponless.” Colby answered
“Burned or buried?” Charles asked the group of bad ones.
“What?” One of them asked bewildered
“When you die, do you want to be burned or buried?” Charles asked again, irritated with them all. The fight had not gone as they all had thought it would. Charles saw visions of pure chaos, a battlefield full of it. He was not mad or jealous that it wasn’t however the pain that was still in the air from Vivi had them all a little tense.
“You’re serious?” another asked with fear in his voice.
“Deadly.” Charles sneered
“Buried then.” The scared one stuttered.
“Paulo would you kindly make a hole pretty deep and about ten feet to our left?” Charles yelled out. He didn’t wait for a response before he started to explain the rules. “Alright, you guys were deemed the bad and unfixable by our little one and well this is how this is gonna play out. We are going to move into the valley over there. You guys are going to try and escape the circle we are going to create around you. We will leave all of our weapons behind. If you have a hidden knife, good luck to you with that.” Charles explained.
Morgan heard the plan and since she was still in her Dragon form she concentrated a bit and then the bad ones were in the hole moved to where she thought they were going to fight. She waited until the Fury’s were a good distance apart from one another in a perfect circle around the half-bloods. Morgan waited until she got some kind of signal and then she filled in the hole. From the bottom up she filled it in until the half-bloods were standing in a large group in the middle of the Fury’s.
The half-bloods looked around at their enemies. Some looked scared where the others looked like they wanted blood. A brave one ran for the space between Tia and Camilla. Tia laughed and let him get close. Tia used her speed ability and scooted over a bit then kicked the man back towards the others and he went flying into a few of his brothers.
Another brave one walked right up to John. John let him get a punch in before he let loose. John took it easy on him though and mainly just dodged what the man was throwing out. He was trying to get more of them to come at him. He let the half-blood punch him a couple times and then the others went wild when the half-blood got a good punch to John’s eye and it split open leaking a bit of blood. As the smell of blood hit the half-bloods noses they all ran out and into the other Fury’s reach. A few ran close to another and then went for the opening between two Fury’s
Etana was wicked with her krav maga skills taking men down left and right. Colby and Makayla had some payback built up in them from the last fight when she almost died so they were brutal with the punches. Charles also let loose and Claudia was right there with him. Sebastian and Camilla were a little more refined in their fighting and preferred to get it over with quickly except they had not killed anyone yet. John was having fun sharing blow after blow and Tia was a speed demon, flying all around the circle and kicking the ones who managed to get out of the circle and were trying to escape.
Colby was the one who dealt the first deadly blow. His fist landed just right at the side of a temple and the man fell to the ground with half his skull crushed in. After that the half-bloods started to fall one by one although John made sure that Tia did not take a life that night. The fight was over pretty fast and when all the half-bloods were down the Fury men grabbed them and tossed their bodies in the hole Paulo had created. When the last man was in Morgan made the hole deeper and then covered it in.
The Fury’s walked back over to everyone else. Most of the family had gone back up to the house knowing that this was not a true fight any longer. The huge threat had been eliminated by Vivi. All that remained were the two groups of half-bloods surrounded by a handful of half-bloods along with the Pearls. Kaiden looked over to the group that Abby deemed the good ones.
“You alone have the opportunity to change your future now that Aldrich is no longer here. Our Little Abby has the ability to see good in people and she said you guys are the good ones.” Kaiden started to explain to the young ones he stood before.
“I am going to tell you a story before I offer anything to you. A few months ago we met Vivi and she has since joined our family, as you can tell. Then one day about a month or so later four boats showed up in the ocean full of children and four women. We took them all in and gave the four women a choice. They could stay here with us and learn our way. Or they could leave. Two chose to leave and two chose to stay. Another month passed and we had a park built for the children to play on. We renovated rooms for the kids and gave them a home. Those children were kids again and enjoyed being here. My wife and I sort of adopted one of the babies and while my wife was giving her a bath she felt something in her foot.” Kaiden had all their attention even the ones in the iffy group.
“She took the baby to Vivi and there they got the object out. We then checked all the children and found more objects that were imbedded under the skin. In every child five and under there was a small metal object. We later found out that it was a tracking chip and we took them as far from us as we could get them. However we missed one of those metal trackers and the sister tracking chip was inside a missile. We lost every child over three years old that day and some of our own.” Kaiden informed them. As he looked at the group he noticed that the females were all in tears and one of the boys. The other boys looked sad save for one in particular who did not look surprised.
“A missile also hit the two who left. He put it in their belongings. I was in the car with him when he pressed the button.” One of the boys told him, he was one that didn’t look surprised.
“That saddens me. Those girls chose a good future and last I heard from them they were doing very well. They had bought a home and were enrolling in school. Now I am giving you that choice. You can stay here and learn our way or you can leave. It is up to you and what you want to do with your life.” Kaiden told them.
“Maggie is here and she is happy?” One girl asked. She was the same one that asked before.
“She is and she is a doll. She is quite special to us all.” Halina replied.
“What about them?” One asked as he pointed to the group that was deemed iffy.
“They will not be offered a chance to stay with us. Their choice will be freedom or if they choose…death.” Kaiden said as he looked to the other group.
“The three that held us aren’t here. Did you guys kill some of your own before you got here?” Claudia asked. “They weren’t in the group that fought either.”
“I noticed three run off as we were told to go forward but I wasn’t going to stop them. More or less I wanted to follow them but I was too scared. They never killed anyone and they stuck close together all the time. I don’t think you will have to worry about them.” One of the boys in the good group replied.
“I don’t like that one bit but they never did harm us. They held us yes but they never abused us. Believe me if I see them though I will confront them.” Claudia announced.
“I wish to leave. I don’t want any part in this anym
ore. I didn’t ask to be born or to be used and I really don’t want to hurt anyone. I just want to live.” A boy in the good group announced.
“I would like to leave also. Forge a life that I want instead of one that was planned out for me.” Another boy said
At the end, all the good ones chose to leave except the girl who asked about Maggie. Kaiden told her to step to the side and he would explain more to her as soon as he was done. Jaco drove up in an SUV and handed the ones that chose to leave a duffel bag and a backpack each.
“In those are clothing and food. Enough money to get you started on a new life too. I know none of you asked for this and I thought most would want to leave. We all know what you have gone through in your lives and we don’t wish you to continue in strife. We really are good people here. I just hope one day you see that.” Jaco said as he handed out the bags. Jaco then went back and grabbed more bags. He walked over to the group of “Iffy” ones. “Same applies to you guys too. Just leave and start a new life. I will be monitoring the news and papers. So if anything at all stands out and it appears that a half-blood did the crime… well… we will come find you and stop you. So take this opportunity we are handing you in a bag and disappear.”
“How are we supposed to just start a new life?” One of the girls in the iffy group asked.
“Well I am the computer tech here. I took a picture of all of you when you landed. In those bags are new identities and the documents to prove them. At the airport in Dublin is a one way ticket for each of you. You just have to pick where that one way ticket is going. There are no set times on the tickets. You just have to go to the counter and give your name. After that it’s your choice on where and what you do. There are also taxi’s waiting on the main road for you all. So you might want to get going.” Jaco said as he walked away and sat in the SUV waiting to drive whoever wanted a ride back to the house.
The two groups didn’t hesitate they all grabbed the bags up and walked toward the main road that Jaco had pointed out. Once they were out of earshot Kaiden turned to the only half-blood that chose to stay.
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