St Van Helsing's

Chapter 28

What happened? I feel dizzy. The last thing I remember is walking across the hall. I look around, I’m in a gazebo. I’m tied by my ankles and wrists and there’s a piece of cloth tightly wrapped around my mouth. I looked around for any possible way of escaping, across from me is Midnight also tied up. I hear someone outside.

“Let her go Cassius,” said a voice.

“Dear brother, little brother. You remember the deal don’t you? You can go and play spy for a couple of years. Then when you’re 15 we take control of your life again,” Cassius said.

“Yes I remember the deal but it never involved taking prisoner of people,” said a voice.

“Well, that’s because it didn’t. It didn’t until now,” Cassius said.

“I don’t have time for this, just let my friend go,” said the voice.

“I think I’m going to hang on to her a bit longer. Any way you have work to do because if you haven’t noticed we are in a war. But don’t worry if you do what you are told then we’ll give your friend back,” said Cassius.

“Fine I’ll go for now,” said the voice and then I heard footsteps.

I have to find a way out of here. I shuttle towards the entrance. There are too many people outside. They are sharpening swords and axes. I don’t want to go that way or may become a pile of meat on the floor. There’s no way out. I sit there for hours on end just waiting for something to happen, but nothing does. Eventually, I fall asleep my head plunges towards the hard ground but I’m too tired to care. I wake up to the screaming of swords and grinding of axes. These people sure love their weapons.

“Let’s go kick some werewolf ass,” said one of the men.

“Don’t forget the werecat ass as well,” said another.

They must be talking about this war. I must be in the vampire base. Why have they kidnapped me though? I can understand Midnight; she’s a pretty good fighter and hunter, but why me?

I heard the clang of weapons and rattle of chains. They were going to battle. I heard them all the way to battle, they roar with enthusiasm. They were silence and then I heard roars and howls and yells. It carried on for a few hours then stopped. I heard trudges.

“They’re viscous,” someone said. I looked among them, there was a lot less than when they went. They passed the gazebo and wandered to other gazeboes.

“Can I have my friend back now?” said the voice from earlier.

“I guess so, you have done every I’ve asked of you so far,” said Cassius. I peeked around the corner to see who this voice was coming from. It was Adam and Cassius was that vampire we saw the first time we came to the base.

“Can you release her now,” said Adam.

“Fine,” Cassius said and walked toward the tent. He grabbed me by my clothes and flung me towards Adam.

“Sarah, what are you doing here? What about Midnight?” Adam said.

“Well you can’t really call her just a friend, can you? I’ve seen the way you look at her and to be honest she seems more like a love interest,” Cassius said smirking.

“She’s just a friend. Now release her too,” Adam said.

“No because you only bargained for a friend not two,” Cassius said “now you really should take your friend back home. We wouldn’t want her to get hurt. As for Midnight if you don’t come back in 24 hours then I’m going to kill her or if I’m feeling generous I’ll bite her, so do hurry back,”

“You wouldn’t.” Adam said.

“But I would and you know it.” Cassius replied.

“Why are you doing this.” Adam asked.

“Because you need to learn that we don’t mix with humans or werewolves or werecats and especially not hunters,” Cassius answered.

“You know I don’t believe that stuff,” Adam stated.

“Well you need to or you wouldn’t survive because you’ll be thrown out of this clan and the packs and tribes will have you for dinner,” Cassius said. A pack is a group of werewolves and a tribe is group of werecats, you really don’t want to run into any of them.

“Don’t you think that just a little bit over dramatic.” Adam replied.

“Just go and take what’s-a-name home.” Cassius shouted.

Adam untied me and we started to run out of the base.

“I’m dead. He’s pissed off.” Adam said.

“You’ve got bigger worries back at the school. You know Midnight’s friend is there and he wants to meet you.” I said.