Primal Inheritance: Freedom [COMPLETED]

Chapter 43: Meaningless

Shaye

I woke up, steaming hot, sweating through my clothes. My nose and lungs burned with smoke. Colorful spots obscured my vision, but I could see burning things falling of the building from the wall with the huge window. There was an ambulance and firetrucks below, but I doubted they could save any of us.

I glanced over at Allen, and in his arms was Jacob's wolf corpse, just as he was in Gabriel's illusion. His fists were clenched and his eyes still glowing, an angry scowl on his face. Further behind him, six more people suddenly appeared in the room near the wall. They were all sitting beside each other on their knees, bloody, beaten, and dirty. Their hands were chained behind their backs, and a bright silver chain was around their throats. They all had their heads bowed, there wasn't much indicating whether or not they were alive. Some of their clothes were all but ripped up. They were either vampires, werewolves, or both. They could've been test subjects like Danielle. Or they could also be illusions.

"Donovan!" I shouted. Marissa! Jamie!"

I tried to get up and run but that illusion gave me vertigo. I fell to my knees, and the magical spots in my eyes didn't make things any easier. Gabriel was sapping my power while I was in his illusion. Trying to use my powers now was risky, but I was out of options.

"Isaac!"

He turned around and looked at be, but only for a second.

"What?!" He replied back, keeping his attention on the dead vampires.

"If you aren't going to help us fight don't distract me!"

"Just look at me for one second!" I pleaded.

He swung hard at one of the dead vampires then looked back at me, breathing heavily. I sent my spheres of light into his eyes as fast as I could, damaging my own vision in the process. While I struggle to see, Isaac begins to see the real world. All the dead vampires, laying on the floor, inanimate. Donovan and the others barking at and attacking nothing.

"How long have we been doing this? Why haven't you stopped us sooner?"

"It doesn't matter." I say to him. I blink a few times. Normally, my vision would've retuned by now. My powers were progressing further than I thought.

"Get the others attention." I directed him. "Once they look into your eyes the illusion will end."

I could heard Gabriel's laughter again.
"Did you enjoy your little tour, Shaye? It sucks to be Allen, doesn't it?"

Allen started growling in the center of the room, his body trembling with rage.

"Oh, you're mad now? We'll look around. These mutts did this to you. From the day you unearthed them in the park, your life has been out of control."

"Don't listen to him Allen! You have control!" I called out, squinting at a blurry blob.

"Control... I don't have control." Allen murmured.

"Marissa tried to control me... Samantha controlled me..." He turned around, and I'm sure he was looking at me.

"You.. even you controlled me."