Primal Inheritance: Freedom [COMPLETED]

Chapter 41: Inside

Shaye

Allen, be careful. We don't know what they've done to get, or what state her mind is in. She could be under their control.

I highly doubted Allen would listen to me. Sure enough, he didn't move, didn't take his eyes off her. I inched closer to his big, beastly form to cover his back. Jamie and the others followed slowly.

"You came to save me," said Danielle, voice cracking again. "I thought I'd be trapped down here forever."

"Allen don't trust her!" Donovan, of all people, shouted.

"Look at her, you can tell they've screwed her up. Who knows what they did with her after they took her."

Her smile slid off her face like butter in a skillet. I felt my chest tighten, suddenly it felt like I was breathing through a straw. Then me, Donovan, and everyone except Allen went flying backwards into a wall. I wasn't anywhere near as durable as these super werewolves that the vampires couldn't even kill. I almost blacked out and every ounce of strength I had in my body dissipated.

Blinking away spots, wiping the dead vampire blood off my face, I saw Danielle embrace Allen then softly but forcefully jab him in center of his back, and run run her hand down his spine. I thought I was imagining it because of all the pain, but no, he was actually reverting back to human form! Donovan was right!

She opened her mouth and leaned towards his ear, so I used my powers to listen in.

"Allen... You have to get us out of here. You have to find a way."

She breaks down and begins to cry.

"I can't escape. The more I try the more people they send to stop me. And the more people they send the more I... I... I just can't take it anymore!" She screams.

"I can't take it Allen! Please! Please!"

"Is this endearing or pathetic? Because I can't tell."

I'd recognize that voice from anywhere. Gabriel, in a silky blue suit emerged from a dark shadow he created, and the whole room started to change. Suddenly, it wasn't a huge chamber without a ceiling. It looked like an big empty office room without any furnishings, a door on both sides of the room, and one of the walls was completely made out of windows, allowing us to see the sun setting behind other buildings outside.

No, that can't be right. That has to be another illusion, there's no way we've been here that long.

"Oh, but you have. You've been here for hours. You just didn't notice." said Gabriel, reading my mind.

He kept his distance from us and Allen, who stood at the center of the room, holding a distraught Danielle in his arms.

"I guess you also failed to notice that the one thing that isn't an illusion, besides yourselves of course, is the amount of dead vampires in room. The amount of dried up- and still fresh- blood that covers this floor. This was all your pretty little friend there, Danielle."

Danielle lifted her head up and turned towards Gabriel, eyes filled with malice.

"I'll kill you!" She screamed with rage.
She half ran half flew towards Gabriel in a way no other creature could have possibly done, only to fly straight through him and hit the wall.