Alpha's Prophecy

Chapter 17

Jake

Sebastian, Daniel and I set out just after dawn, heading up through the forest to Emma's house. With the sunlight starting to stream through the trees I knew that no vampire would risk being burnt alive so we could easily get in and out without being interrupted.

Once we reached the small house, the first thing I noticed was the smeared blood stain on the path that lead up to the front door. Sebastian had already confirmed that Emma's father was not still laying there, the day he and Daniel came up alone. My guess would be that the blood suckers took his body that night, while it was still warm and if he was in fact a warlock then his blood would be enough to satisfy those who drank from him for days, unlike ordinary human blood which they could drink and still the need for more a day later. Blood is their life force.

I pushed the front door open and step inside, immediately getting hit by a mixture of the scent of Emma that still lingers here and something else, something darker. The house though looks just like any other home, two bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchen, dinning, living room, small back yard but still something feels off.

"You feel it too, don't you?" Daniel asks me as the over powering dark scent becomes stronger once we reach the kitchen. The whole house has hardwood flooring except for the kitchen, it has carpet or all things, it's odd and very out of place.

"I do. I think we should pull up the carpet, it's clearly hiding something" I suggest, not waiting for their reply I begin the lift the carpet and am not surprised when it comes up so easily, exposing a small trap door in the middle of the kitchen, I pull the door open and see a set of stairs leading down to a basement area. "Sebastian you stay up here, Dan and I will check out what's in the basement, mind link me if there's any trouble" I give the order to my Beta before following Daniel down into the basement.

The basement is a dark, spacious area, luckily though, as werewolves our eyesight is heightened, making searching in the dark easier than it would be for humans. I locate a light switch at the bottom of the staircase and switch it on, filling the room with a low light. My eyes are instantly drawn to the long bench along the side of the room, covered in beakers and flasks with bottles of chemicals displayed on a shelf and stacks of files sprawled across the bench top. In the middle of the room there are two hospital gurneys, one with brown, dry, blood stains and on the other side of the room was a smaller bench with a hotplate and a tripod, this where he most likely mixed up spells.

"I feel like we've stepped into a mad scientist workshop" Daniel commented as I made my way over to the long bench, opening up the files to search through, the first two files I looked through  made little sense to me but the third one was titled Soul Transformation . Reading through the notes it became clear to me that this was what we were after, the process though was extremely disturbing and somewhat horrific.

"Dan, read this" I said, handing him the file and watched as he skimmed the page, taking in the notes.

"To perform a soul transformation from one body to another both subjects must share the same date of birth, must be of the same gender and must both be living. Soul one will reside within the body  and become the primary soul. The secondary soul must be suppressed through a nightly ritual or else the secondary soul can become active within the body and may take over the body once again. Cut the still beating heart from the offering...." Daniel stops reading aloud and looks over to the gurney covered in blood, "That bastard murdered his own child?"

"He did it so she could live, she was dying and he wasn't ready to let her go" I'm not defending what he did, I'm trying to make sense of why he did it, I imagine Emma's father was desperate, watching his little girl become sicker and sicker so he turned to black magic, the darkest of all magics, to try and save her, or at least save her soul, "Whose body did he transform the soul to though?"

***I found something up here Jake***  Sebastian's voices fills my head before Daniel and I can process what we've stumbled upon.

"Grab those files, take pictures of everything and meet me upstairs" I instruct Daniel before taking the stairs two at a time. On the dinning table Sebastian has laid out his findings, four plastics pill containers, a box of tea and another file labeled "Soul Suppression Ritual".

"He was drugging Emma, slipping her a sedative each night, disguised in herbal tea and then once she was asleep he would perform some hocus pocus on her body" Sebastian explains to me.

"Except it wasn't her body, it's some other poor girls who is still inside" I tell him, giving him details of what we found in the basement, "Emma told me last night that she hears a voice inside her head whenever she's angry at me"

"So, pretty much often then?" Seb laughs and I give him a look.

"She said the voice tells her that I will betray her and it wants to inflict violence on me"

"Kinky....so you go from having no mate to having two and one of them wants to kill you, plus you've still got that bitch of a girlfriend to sort out too, I don't envy your life at all Jake" Sebastian laughs.

Daniel joins us back in the dinning room, carrying the files as well as a giant binder he found.

"I think I know who the the other girl is and you're not going to like it"