Dead Ever After Re-write (Sookie Stackhouse and Eric Northman)

Chapter 16

Disclaimer: I am not the owner of these characters. The original story and the characters belong to Charlaine Harris. I am only borrowing them for a little while.

Chapter 16

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Sookie's POV

Fangtasia was a real battleground with vampires from both teams fighting each other. We had three things in our favor: first, the element of surprise; second, at least here in Fangtasia, we had the numbers; and three, Eric's people were wearing the Fangtasia t-shirt and that helped with the fight.

Maxwell and Rubio had one of the newcomers surrounded. The newcomer's shirt was half missing, showing a large tattoo of a siren sitting on a rock by the beach. His stand was lethal. Maybe he was a gym trainer or something along those lines before he got turned into a vampire because he was heavily built up.

Eric was the only one with a sword and he swung it so fast that the only thing I saw was an arm falling near his throne. It followed by a few more swings and more body parts flew across the floor. Eric smiled at his victory, but didn't kill the now quadruple amputee. Instead, he moved on to fight another vampire.

Freyda, of course, she stood next to Eric, pretending to fight together. I guessed she wanted to show him what 'together' would mean with her. Karin stood back to back with Eric and she had two vampires fighting her. To my surprise, one of them was Horst Friedman, Felipe's right hand man. The second man was Michael who was also one of Felipe's men.

And I saw it crystal clear, Felipe was going to kill Eric tonight and call it 'a casualty of war'.

Thalia came from behind them and stabbed Friedman on the back of his neck with a long knife she had acquired from the bar. It didn't kill him, but it broke his spine and he fell to the ground, unable to move.

"Maxwell and Rubio," Pam called out loud, "kill the king's entourage." She yelled those words loud enough for all of Eric's subordinates to hear them amid the loud mess of braking tables and bottles. Maxwell and Rubio stopped fighting the siren tattoo guy and turned around in disbelief.

"Now," she yelled and everything was instantly understood. They stopped fighting the siren tattoo guy, they nodded at each other in an understanding, and turned to fight the king's guards.

Several werewolves entered Fangtasia and charged against those that didn't have the Fangtasia t-shirt.

Eric, who was defending the king and Fangtasia, stopped frozen at Pam's words. He knew the king was going to kill her for treason and that put Eric in a very sensitive position. The vampire that was fighting Eric withdrew his stance and went against another vampire without the Fangtasia t-shirt.

It was at that moment that Sophie Anne entered Fangtasia with four more vampires by her side. Her clothes were stained with blood, but she wasn't hurt. Her four companions were slightly bloody too, but in good physical health. I didn't know who was more surprised: Eric or Felipe de Castro.

"Sophie Anne," Eric said in disbelief.

"Impossible!" claimed Felipe de Castro. "You're supposed to be dead," he continued.

"And here I am taking back what is mine," Sophie Anne said and immediately charged against Felipe de Castro.

Eric looked at me and smiled, and off he went to fight Felipe's men without mercy.

I had no idea where did the werepanthers and the fairies go because they weren't inside Fangtasia, but I couldn't worry about them right now. Especially when Freyda launched at me without prior warning and Pam pushed me out of the way just in time before the deadly punch touched me. Once again, I found myself flying across the room, hitting the steps by Eric's throne, right by the cut-off limb courtesy of Eric's sword. The punch that was intended for me landed on Pam's face so hard that Pam rolled on the floor from the impact. There was no way I would have survived a punch like that.