Primal Inheritance: Freedom [COMPLETED]

Chapter 42: Change

Gabriel

"You're a fool if you thought I'd just roll over and die." Avery said angrily.

She snapped her fingers and the other guards phased through the walls and entered the room. They flanked me and Avery on both sides, preparing for a fight.

The other vampires laughed.
"These idiots won't be a threat. Magicians have reported their magic is fading. How long do you think your wonderfriends have before they get the dry spell?"

"Long enough to kill you," I spoke up, getting tired of listening to them.

Before their leader could turn in my direction, I felt a rush of wind and saw a couple of the vampires feet knocked back by a blur. I looked to my side and Avery was gone.

The midwest leader, Chris, screamed in anguish. His left arm had been completely ripped off at the elbow, the stump spewing blood I didn't think vampires had. I didn't see pain in his face, I only saw fury.

"THAT'S IT!" Chris screamed. "FIND HER! KILL THEM! MURDER EVERYONE IN THE BUILDING!"

With his good arm he pointed at me, the guards, and dramatically pointed at the floor.

"BURN THIS PLACE DOWN!"

A girl, taller than me, short hair and purple lip gloss had her nails digging into my scalp before he finished his sentence. Staring right into her bloodshot eyes I imagined her slamming my head through a wall before I heard a loud, eerie laughter. I thought it was one of the other midwest vampires but they froze too.

I looked past my captor and saw Chris had turned around. On the floor crouched down behind him was Avery, tearing the flesh off of his missing arm with her teeth. She paused to turn around, and laughed.

The moment I saw her face my heart stopped cold. My glamour was gone, and so was Avery's pretty face. Rotten, peeling and gray, it seemed the revenant disease had spread quickly after ingesting Chris's arm. It was clear her other skin had transformed as well. There was no turning back for her now.

"Burn this place down?" She repeated quickly, her breathing increasing.
"Burn this place down? Burnthisplacedown?Burnthisplacedown?! I HAD THE SAME IDEA!!" She snarled as leapt past him towards me.

She shoved her right hand through the girls throat, showering me with blood. Using the same hand to grab the girl's chin, she turned the girl towards Chris.

"Who's next?" Avery said, smiling evilly while pantomiming with the girl.

"Guards, you know what to do."

I watched as London slammed his have against the wall and uttered an incantation. The others did the same, placing their hands on the floor and walls. Within seconds, orange light trickled from the fingertips and the everything started to burn. Some of the guards teleported and began to burn the other floors.

"What the hell do you think your doing?!" Chris growled, confused. "You're not going to trap us here!"

He shouted something unintelligible to his crew and they all ran towards me and Avery.

"We still have a chance Gabriel." Avery said to me in a harsh whisper.

Her current appearance was hard to look at, but I had no choice.

"Get to Danielle's containment room. Finish brainwashing Allen. That's the only area the guards won't be burning but the whole building will collapse so you don't have a lot of time."

"What if Shaye stops me? What if I fail?"

"Don't."

She looked at the other vampires, hissed, and got ready for the attack.