Demon Child (Motionless In White & Black Veil Brides) *COMPLETED*

Chapter Seventeen

*NOT FINAL CHAPTER - ONE LEFT*

LOLA

"LOLA!" Ricky screams from the other side of the cemetery.

I turn my head despite the grogginess to see Ricky and the rest of the coven fighting against Emerald's vampires who were managing to keep them back despite protests.

"Enough nonsense," Emerald snaps, grabbing the wrist she'd jammed Andy in and holds it over the bones before slicing it open again.

"Anima corpori fverit corpus totem resurgent," she chants.

I watch as the bones glow red on the ground, my blood dripping on them making them glow brighter. Slowly flesh starts to form on the bones, and I watch in both shock and awe as in front of my eyes the bones start to change into a human being. Then after a few minutes, Andy stands up, cracks his neck and smirks.

"Well, its good to be back."

Ashley stumbles through some tombstones before coming to a halt in front of Andy, "is it really you?"

Andy closes the space between them, and he looked genuinely happy to see Ashley who looked equally happy, "it is. Thank you for staying loyal and making me a family."

Ashley gets down on one knee and Andy extends his hand allowing Ashley to kiss a ring on his finger. It wasn't the great reunion I was expecting, I wanted more hugging and kissing on the lips. But I had to remember they were still adapting to these more accepting times and were acting on tradition.

"Andy you need blood to complete the transition."

Emerald wraps an arm around my waist pulling me against her and puts the still bloody knife to my throat. I gasp as the cold silver digs slightly into my skin.

"Stop Emerald. I want to do this," Andy states confidently.

Emerald giggles behind me, "I wouldn't have it any other way."

She pushes me towards Andy and Ashley, and Ashley catches me. Andy sends me a sneaky wink before he approaches Emerald and she hands him the knife with eager eyes. Ashley lets go of me and I tilt my head in confusion at what was going on.

"You'll like this Lola," he whispers.

Andy twirls the knife while Emerald practically jumps for joy next to him. Next thing I know Andy brings up the blade, spins around and stabs Emerald through the chest, before dropping the knife and attaches his fangs to her neck and begins to drink.

"Oh my god Lola, are you okay?"

Ricky shoves Ashley out of the way and throws his arms around me almost smothering me and knocking me to the ground. I hug him back and kiss him square on the lips because it felt like forever since we saw each other.

"LOLA MOVE!" Andy shouts behind me.

I pull away from Ricky confused why Andy was shouting at me to move. Then a stinging sensation runs down my spine and I dare a glance at Ricky whose eyes had gone wide.

"No...no...no..." Ricky stutters.

I follow where his eyes trail down, and shock runs through my body seeing a pretty big and expanding red patch on my top. Feeling my knees go weak, I let my knees give out from beneath me and fall to the ground. Ricky falls with me seemingly unhurt.

RICKY

Emerald had somehow used the last ounce of her strength after being stabbed and drained of blood to grab the fallen knife and stab Lola in the back while I held her. As if time slows down as I hold my dying mate, I watch Chris dart past me and snap Emerald's neck in one clean motion.

"You guys can heal her right?" I ask anyone closeby desperately. Ryan and Ash got their mates saved.

Andy and Chris both crouch down either side of me, sharing an awkward yet concerned look.

Andy runs his fingers through his hair, "she was stabbed with an enchanted knife Ricky. Her transition won't be as easy as everyone else, and you might have to say goodbye."

I know Andy was telling me the truth, but I refused to give up that easily so I stare at Chris hoping he had better news for me.

Chris sighs, "Andy will you help me bring her back? This will take all our power and knowledge."

Andy nods, "we need to dispell the knife, then we can both bite and then feed her our blood. Maybe two strong bloodlines are better than one."

"We'll take a look at the knife, Chris. Ashley and I have both been around magic a long time."

Angelo picks up the knife from next to Chris while Ashley flanks him. I couldn't believe that it took Emerald's death to get everyone to work together, she really had poisoned vampire against vampire.

"You need to let her go, Ricky, let the four of us help her. Understood?" Chris questions, wariness in his voice knowing I could be quite stubborn and set in my ways.

But if it meant Lola coming back to me I would step back and let the four older vampires work their magic. Andy gently takes Lola from me and I stand back up, disgusted by the blood covering my hands and the front of my shirt. I didn't want anything else to do with this cemetery, I wanted everything to sort itself out.

"Ricky, where are you going?" Josh pipes up, as I walk past him and the rest of our coven.

"I want to be left alone, Josh. I want to be far away from this place."

No one dares try to stop me as I make my way out of the cemetery and start walking down the street. It was bizarre walking down the street, seeing families and people laughing with one another. All these humans were completely unaware of what had gone down in the cemetery, they would never know what happened here this evening. They could go about their ordinary mundane lives never knowing of the supernatural event that took place in their town.

Before I could begin drinking my sorrow away, waiting for Lola to come back to me, I needed to head home and wash her blood off me. Because I'm pretty sure no local drinking establishment would let me in covered in blood and looking frazzled and out of it.