Secret Bloodline

The End of The Beginning

"Camila..." Zayn says.

"You... You're..." Lauren stutters.

"You're scaring me," Dinah says.

But their voices sound a thousand miles away to Camila.

Before they can react, before they can do anything, Camila takes off after Katerina and Vlad, grief blazing through her like fire in her veins as her friends run after her.

The brunette storms through byzantine passages of the opera house but a team of Katerina's vampire security guards rush to intercept her.

"By the order of the Goddess, stand down!" A male says.

"Drop your weapons!" A female says.

Both guards' hands flick out, revealing electrified batons.

"Out of my way!" Camila yells.

Before they can speak, Camila leaps forward, smashing her knee into the first guard's stomach and slams him into the ground.

"Get them!" The female orders.

The rest of the guards move forward, batons sparking, and Camila's friends leap to meet them.

Camila moves with dizzying grace and precision, her body a force she can barely understand as she smashes one guard into the ground, tosses another into the ceiling, knocks the legs out from a third while flipping over a fourth.

One of the last guards standing rushes at her and Camila effortlessly kicks his legs, shattering his shins as he crumbles, screaming.

"Stay down!" Camila growls.

The brawl is over as quickly as it began, the vampire guards laying around Camila, wounded, moaning.

Camila puffs out an angry breath, glaring at them, burning within.

Those cowards, those vermin, serving the monster who killed Shawn.

White-hot fury pulsates as Camila snaps off a lance of wood, jagged and sharp.

"You want to serve your Goddess? Then wait for her in hell," Camila growls.

Before anyone can stop her, Camila grabs the first guard and stabs down, driving the stake into his chest.

He gasps as he flutters to ash while the guard next to Camila tries to crawl away.

"N... No!" The female vampire says.

But Camila is on her in a flash, staking her too. "Die!" Camila growls.

"Camila..." Lauren says.

"They are..." Zayn frowns. 

Camila doesn't hear them, their pleas lost to the roar of blood in her ears.

The brunette weaves through the room, killing one after another, she can't stop, she can't think, she just wants them to die.

"Camila!" Dinah yells.

Panting for breath, Camila looks down at the corpses beginning to turn to ash, but she feels no regret, just satisfaction.

"Who's next?" Camila yells. She turns to move towards the stage, to Katerina.

When a throwing knife comes streaking across the room as it nails Camila in the side, hard, and bounces off.

The impact is hard enough that it knocks Camila out of her trance, jerking her back to her real self. 

"That hurt," Camila says.