tomorrow we fight.”
“Tomorrow?” I asked as Jack pointed up to the moon hanging large in the sky. I turned to look at it and saw the red color seeping into the white.
“A blood moon. An omen. It will be full tomorrow night and blood red. The son and Father will rise at midnight tomorrow.”
I stared at the moon trying to contain the horror of it all. I could not tell if I was relieved to be getting the chance to kill Lucifer once and for all, or that Jet would finally come back to me? But in what way and what form?
“You need to understand that when he rises, your son will no longer think of you as his Mother. You will be his enemy, as we all are.”
I shook my head and Gunner took my hand.
“First we visit the vampires, no need to worry about that now,” he said and we walked away from the wolves as Jack’s words made my chest ache.
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“You are kidding me,” I said as we stood outside a blood bank. Gunner turned his sword and placed it onto his back. Ari turned and stood by the door as did Finna, both holding weapons and looking as if they were on guard.
“It is not what it appears to be Halo, come.”
He opened the door up and I was immediately met with the smell of blood. My teeth elongated inside my mouth and I covered it as I walked behind Gunner and towards the back of the building. My senses heightened, my muscles tensed and my fingertips hummed as the blood was overwhelming.
“I know it may seem obvious, but that is the way of the vampire. They have very large egos.”
“Thank you,” I muttered as he stepped up to a large door and stared at it. He then pulled a small knife and grabbed my hand. He sliced my palm open as I hissed and he pressed my palm against the door. The blood started to seep into the wood as if it was a vampire itself and needed to drink. We both stepped back as we could hear the locks undoing themselves one by one and finally the door opened on its’ own. We stared into a hallway and I shook my head.
“Bad idea.”
“This is the only way in,” he said as he stepped in and I had no choice but to follow him. Once inside, the door closed behind us and the lights overhead started to come on, one by one. I looked up and held my hand over my eyes to block it. Light does not kill a vampire, but it is still annoying as shit. Gunner walked along cautiously as I followed him and then once we reached the end, he stared at the door and I shook my head as he pulled his knife again.
“I can do it myself,” I said as I took it and sliced my hand back open. I pressed my palm against the door and just as before the locks started to undo themselves. Only this time once they stopped the door did not open. I looked down as the floor started to tilt and both Gunner and I rose up as the floor did. I looked for anything to hang onto, but there was nothing. The lights started to go out one by one and Gunner and I slid down the tilted floor and into the unknown.
I landed on something hard and cried out as did Gunner. I shook my head and pushed myself up. I looked out and realized that we were in a very large room and as I looked under me I saw skull after skull of human beneath my feet. The skulls also lined the walls, and everything around us. Gunner balanced himself on the skulls as I did.
“This is so bad, so very bad,” I said as Gunner looked across the room.
“There is a staircase.”
“Made out of fucking bones.”
“Yes, but it will get us out of here.”
He took my hand and we ran across the uneven floor of skulls and reached the staircase. I reached out and touched the railing and felt the smooth bone that it was made of.
“I guess they are hungry.”
“Aren’t you?” Gunner asked me and I sighed.
“Don’t,” I said as I started to climb and so did he.
We reached the top and as we did the staircase changed from bone to marble. I looked out at a beautiful ballroom. It was decked out in crystal chandeliers on