When he returned to the forest outside the cave he waited for a gust of wind to pick up where ever else the scent or scents would lead to. The wolves scent led south and the human scent as well as Christina's all led back north towards town. Once Dominick was able to compose that Christina was indeed alive but also in the hands of the mayor his instinct led back to his safe grounds for the war that was about to arise.
When Christina reached the town she feared for the worst, there were so many possibilities and outcomes running through her mind she began to feel dizzy and light headed. What would happen once she reached her aunt and uncle, she had no way to predict the future and feared that maybe she would not be strong enough to fight off whatever may come her way. The man, who was obviously one of the many servers of the mayor, kept shoving at my back and pushing me forward so I had no time to really think.
My aunt and uncle sat in a jail cell that was beneath the sheriff's office. Their faces read everything I feared. A sharp pain shot through my head and when I turned to see what had happened another sharp pain flew up the side of my head as the mayor's pet took another swipe at me with a club. "Christina!" "Bill you need to stay out of this if you want to stay alive, there is no way of preventing what we shall do. Why put yourself in deaths path as well." Bill stared at Christina horrified as she lied on the floor bleeding. But then the mayor's face turned to horror, as Christina's bloodied head started to dry back up almost instantly. Christina stood up as if nothing had happened and placed one hand on the man who had clubbed her. He began to turn a pasty white and shrivel up.
I went to turn to the next little lap dog as I was attacked by something so strong it took the wind out of me. When my senses came back to me and I looked around there stood the native man staring me in the eyes. "Would you like me to step into the cell with your little family? Would you like me to tear them to shreds, because either way you are going down so would you like to take them down with you?" I stared at them sitting in the cell unsure of what to do or say.
"Ok you have me let them go." "That can be done when everything else is said and done until then they stay here for leverage." The mayor had such a spiteful look on his face, I wanted to attack him where he stood but I knew that would only jeopardize my aunt and uncle. The Chief grabbed my arm and yanked me forward, and at that point I know this was it. I could not harm him from my touch, I would have to battle him and that wouldn't end well. I had no idea of my skills or powers and there for he would have the advantage on me.
We left and headed for the two lonely gates still standing in the field behind my house. I had no fear, I had no idea what was about to happen, how it was going to happen and how it would all end. Town's people were already crowded around the gates in black gowns and hoods as if they were waiting there all along. When we got to the gates they stood me between them and tied my wrists, one to each gate. That's when the chants began, they were giving me a headache as if they're words were pulsing through my head.
The grown began to shake harshly as if an earth quake was coming. Was this is could this be how it was all going to end. But the chanting had stopped and the town's people began to look shocked and look around to each other for an answer. That's when it all became clear, through the darkened edges of the forests hundreds of figures emerged. Wolves, vampires, witches, goblins, elves and eagles in the sky. The war was beginning and the town's people had no idea successfully like the creatures of the haven wanted.
Apparently there were more surprises to come, people from the town started transforming into wolves and witches. "This is the best you have to fight against them; you people are lost causes now you're all dead." As I screamed the words a piercing pain shot through my chest, terrified to look down because the pain was not ending this time I saw an arrow sticking out from my chest. Now I realized I was a lost cause, my hands were bound and I was in so much pain I couldn't pull them undone and the pain only got worse.
Was it possible that even with all of the power that lied within me that this arrow would be the death of me? A screeching roar raged through all of the crowds and the ground began to shake. A crack started breaking the ground and separating beneath our feet. The skies turned blacker then the night sky, no stars were in sight. This had to be it hell has now broken loose and the world was about to end starting here in this little town.
Innocent children and families were about to disappear without reason. A woman rose out of the ground, she had ashy hair almost a mixture of black and white, her eyes were pure black, nails long like knifes but through all of this horror she was still beautiful. The woman glanced around almost trying to calculate everything around her until her eyes zeroed in on mine. "Who has woken me from my slumber? Why is it I'm here staring at all of your pitiful faces?" She began to walk towards me as the mayor intervened. "My queen, it is I who has summoned you, take us with you, we have been waiting for you and doing your bidding. Kill all of these hopeless souls and we will serve you and only you." The woman who I presumed to be the almighty one hells queen of darkness and all that is damned. This was Lucifer. She laughed an evil cackle and pointed at the mayor. He dropped to his knees and started to convulse and then the strangest thing, he busted into flames and his skin burned away until it was just bone. At least I knew in my last few minutes that he had suffered on his own accord.
She than continued towards me, I had no more strength to even keep the eye connection with her and I just let my head drop. "This is tainted blood, not even the blood of the innocent! And you call yourselves my followers. Ha Child look at me. Look at me damned one." I pulled my gaze back up to hers, she was even more breath taking up close. "Well what are you waiting for, finish me then." I snarled at her. "You have the strength and conceitness of one of my own. I grant you this gift young one, you are being blessed you are now an angel of hell. Use this gift wisely and do my work here or I will come find you and bring you back to hell with me."
She gradually pulled the arrow slowly out of me, the burning was horrid even worse than when I was shot with it. Placing her hand across my stomach the burning ended, I was myself again. Well not my human self but the evil I was turned into. "Lucinda no! You cannot do this, she is an abomination." Ivy stepped fourth out of the crowd. "Oh Ivy, what a horrific sight you are! What exactly did you think I was, your words will not stop me my word has already been done and it certainly over powers yours." "This may be true Lucinda but we will just hunt her and kill her again and again every time you try to save her damned soul."
"Ivy I do enjoy your challenges every now and then, but I don't quite think you are grasping the severity of this situation. It is her who I plan to send upon all of you, you are the abominations. Who ever heard of such a thing as a good witch, vampire or wolf? It's an insult to me and it will end, then once it has a new era shall arise."
"I will not do it!" Lucinda turned and glared at me. "Oh my child this is just the purity that's left in you, soon it will dissolve and evil will consume you. You have no choice in the matter; your soul was damned and your mine." In a cloud of smoke Lucinda was gone and the ground resumed the long green full grass it was. The stars shown in the sky brightly again, I thought this was the end of it all until more screams shattered the peace. All of the followers began to erupt into flames even those who tried to run away. All that was left was Ivy's followers; obviously a ploy Lucinda wanted a war after all.