Shadows in the Dark: Rise of Three

Chapter XVII

I wake up with my neck hurting like hell. I take a deep breath and sit up abruptly. I look around and I'm in the infirmary. Jake was asleep in the chair next to my bed, but he's awake now.

"You're awake! How do you feel?" He asks me.

I try to remember how to talk. I open and close my mouth several time and make grunting sound. "Neck. Hurts. A lot." I say. Barely able to even say that.

"Jennifer! She's awake!" Jake yells. Jennifer arrives by my side in the matter of seconds. Damn she's fast.

"Hey! How do you feel?" Jennifer asks me.

"She said her neck hurts." Jake answers for me.

"Oh. I can fix that." Jennifer sits down next to me on my bed and puts her hands on my throat. My throat gets really warm and the pain starts to go away. When she takes her hands off my throat there is no more pain.

"Thanks." I say, my voice sounding scratchy. "What happened?"

"You were fighting Michel. He killed you. Jennifer caught you before you hit the ground and jumped out the window. She ran here. Katherine gave us an one time only ride. Jennifer fixed your neck and you healed yourself. She said you had to do it on your own."

"How long?" I ask.

"Two days." Jennifer tells me. "I went back to the mansion the next day. They cleaned out and left. I tracked them to there newest place. Everyone is ready.

"I have an idea of how to get him to where we want him to go. You. We're gonna have you walk past his place and head to our chosen area. Isabelle found the perfect spot." Jennifer tells me their plan.

"Sounds great. Where is this place?" I ask.

"We are going to lead him to one of the less crowded streets. Ferndale Road, I believe." Says Isabelle.

"How do I get there from where he is? Where is he anyway?" I ask.

"A very fancy semi-small house. The nicest place just outside the city of London." Says Jennifer.

"Ok. So I'm going to walk past that place and head to Ferndale?"

"Yes." Says Jennifer. "We'll get you back to you're normal self then we kill Michel."

"How? Last time I tried, I ended up here. Dead. He stronger than I am. He's who knows how old!" I say frustratedly.

"We will all be there. Last time you were alone. We will be there this time. He doesn't know we have an army. And this time we will. We can beat him this time." Says Jennifer.

"Ok... Can someone lend me a vein? I want all this to be over with."

Jake pulls up his sleeve and extends his arm to me. I take his wrist and bite into his arm. I start drinking the blood, and I drink until he starts trying to tug his arm away.

I let him pull his wrist away and thank him. I pull away the covers and get out of the bed. I grab the neatly folded clothes off the end table and go behind a curtain to change out of my hospital gown. I try no to think about how I got in it and just change.

I dump my hospital clothes in a bin and join the others by the bed I've been sleeping in. I take Jake's hand and we all walk up to the training area.

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I've been training for hours now. Jennifer has been getting me back to my normal strength.

Isabelle at one point started showing me how to do flips. She is always doing flips while fighting. She flips over people and away from them. She is always doing flips.