The Book of Blood

CHAPTER S I X T E E N:

"I think I'm going to vomit. Whoever died earlier is going through the decomposition stage quicker than usual." Belle covers her nose and mouth while saying this. Jannelle speeds out of the room, looking for Lexi. Celeste follows her. I don't see why she feels so strongly about Lexi but it's something deeper than that. I look at Ambrosina, who's staring at me with no expression on her face. I lean on the rapier for support and stare back at her. She adjusts herself and says, "You know, you have your father's attitude and personality. He was the only that I truly loved. Then, you came along. He was so excited to have a daughter. You know, you were born with his black eyes. When you turned 8, you woke up crying and your eyes were like mine. It was funny to see your father panic like that." She smiled at me as if she could see him. I stood up and glared at her. I pointed my glowing red rapier at her. 
"If you loved him so much, you wouldn't have killed him and you definitely wouldn't have tried to kill me so many times. I don't want to hear your bullshit right now. So SAVE IT!" I sliced my blade horizontally in the air and blood began to pour from Ambrosina's nose. I felt a large hand over my hand that held my rapier. I look to see Daniel looking at me with a worrisome expression. I snatch my hand from his and walked to the left wall in the room. Olivia appears beside me and says, "Just breathe, Celene. I know you're angry right now, especially after she talked about your father as if she loved him. Just calm your nerves right now and think about what we have to deal with now. She's here out of nowhere. That's not common. So-" 
"I know. Thank you, Olivia. I'm calm now. We just need to figure out if Jannelle found Lexi and we need to figure out where the smell is coming from." Olivia nods at me and floats toward Micro and Belle to tell them where we're about to do. While she's doing that, I walk towards the door leading out of the room. Before I approach it, the door flies open and behind it was Lexi. She looked weak and has a few broken bones. Blood was dripping from her wrists and her neck angled in a weird way. She rasps, "Celeste. My room....Help." She fell forward and as a reflex, I moved out of the way before she fell on me. 
Hey Jannelle. Lexi's here.  She's in bad condition, too. Someone broke her neck and a few other bones. Come back. 
"Really, Celene? You could've at least caught her before she hit the ground." Belle gave me a disappointed look and I shrug my shoulders. I smile and say, "Sorry. It was a reflex." Jannelle runs in and picks up Lexi. She nods at Belle and a small cot appears beside the wall in front of the broken window. She puts Lexi on the cot and asks, "Hey Olivia? Can you get a few blood bags from the refrigerator?" Olivia disappears and I catch Jannelle's attention. "Hey, come with me. Belle can take care of Lexi. We need to figure out-" My heart beats loudly once and I hear a flat line in my ears. My vision becomes slightly blurry and I look around to see everyone else wide eyed and confusion on their faces. I grab Jannelle's hand and we run out of the room in slow motion. We hear muffled sounds coming from Lexi's room. Bursting through the room, we see a disgusting sight. 
In front of us was Celeste's limp body wrapped with vines coming from the window. Across from that was a tall woman with hair black as night and lilac eyes. She sat on the bloodstained bed with a sense of comfort. My ears and vision begin to focus and align correctly. I let go of Jannelle's hand and close my hand over the one holding my rapier. She looks at us with nonchalance and stands up. All of us walk a little forward towards each other. 
"Lilith, why are you here?" Jannelle and I say this in sync. Lilith smiles with mischief. She raises her hand and a crack in the wall closes and the vines unravel Celeste. As the vines returned to the outside of the house, I close my eyes and the outline of Celeste was faint. 
She's going to die soon if we don't do anything. 
I open my eyes and I see Lilith's eyes on me. "Well, if it isn't my niece in the flesh. You've grown quite a lot. Did you miss me?" I smirk at her and my rapier disappears. I cross my arms and say, "It's weird for you to greet me before you greet Jannelle. At least have the decency to do that." She rolls her eyes and says, "Anyways, I've been here for too long. So, I'll see you guys in the correct timeline." She turns around and begins to jump out of the window. Before she's able to, Jannelle catches her by her hair. She slings Lilith on the floor and slams her foot on her neck, but Lilith evaporates into thin air. I see Lilith appears beside me and runs out the door and down the hallway. I speed down the hallway, following her. She goes in the room where the rest of us are. I continue speeding and I hear Jannelle behind me. I run in and I see Belle, Micro, and Olivia in fighting stances on one side of the room. On the other side, I see Lilith and a free Ambrosina, holding an unconscious Daniel. My eyes widen and my rapier appears in my right hand, hot. I hold my breath while Jannelle takes her daggers from her back and slicing them in an infinity sign.
"Oh, come on Celene. You couldn't have thought I would come here alone. Who else would I bring other than my partner in crime, Lilith? I thought you were smarter than that. I guess you're as naive as your father." Releasing my breath, me and Jannelle zoom through the air towards Ambrosina and Lilith, fangs out and eyes a dangerous red. While we sliced our blades, they disappeared behind Daniel, causing me to slice Daniel's neck and Jannelle to cut my cheek. 

We both stop and everyone gasps. I look down to see Daniel's head at my feet. I held his arm to keep his body....I sit there silently, while cold blood ran down my face. I look up to see Jannelle's fangs retract slowly and her eyes go back to normal. My fangs are still out and my eyes are still burning from anger. I turn towards Micro, Belle, Olivia, Artemis, Hera, and Trix. They had shock on their faces. I look towards the window. 

I just killed my love. It's all their fault that I killed him. Ambrosina and Lilith are gone. I let the Dark Empresses out of my grasp.