The Book of Blood

CHAPTER T W E N T Y:

I keep my Rose of Death ready as I watch Micro and the valkyrie stare at each other. The tension was higher than before. Micro stares at her with shock written all over his face, an emotion that I haven't yet experienced from him. The valkyrie comes face to face with him and smiles innocently and said, "I knew you had some kind of magical energy coming from you. I didn't know that you were a Noire Descendant." Belle lowers her stance and walks towards the both of them. "Who are you? It's only right to tell us, seeing as you know our information." The valkyrie turned her attention from Micro and looked at Belle. Her eyes stop glowing and they show a greyish-blue color. Out the corner of my eye, I see Jannelle loosen her grip on her daggers.

What's the problem?
She was the valkyrie that gave your future child to Daniel.

I block all the negative emotions away before I went berserk. His name....I calm down and my rapier stops radiating. The valkyrie gives us a small smile and says, "My name is Alexandria. I am an A Rank Valkyrie on the way to be an S Rank Valkyrie. I am here because one of the books from the Supernatural Corps. Archives. It was in the hands of your mother, Former Empress Ambrosina. I'm here to retrieve it. I'm also here to take in the Celene Shadowblade, Olivia Swan, Jannelle Nightshade, and Belle Noire." Olivia floats quickly in front of Belle and asks, "Why?" Alexandria's eyes scan Olivia and says, "You must be the Swan Spirit. It's nice to meet you. I hate that we had to meet under these circumstances-" Olivia interrupts her.
"Yeah, me too. Answer my question. Why do you need to take us in?" Her face shows that she's irritated. Alexandria's eyes widen and she says quickly, "You are being questioned as to why you are changing things in time without any authorization. I am not going to be the one questioning you. I am only here to escort you to the Valkyrie Acropolis." She scans all of us quickly and her eyes land on me and Jannelle, whose weapons are still out. She smiles a nervous smile and says, "You must be Celene and Jannelle." I give her a mischievous smile.
She's never escorted suspects or handled any suspects and it shows.

"Yes ma'am, in the flesh. How did you know?" I say this sarcastically, leaning against my sword. Jannelle tosses one of her daggers up and catches it. The smile on the innocent valkyrie's face wiped off when she heard the sarcasm. She looks me in the eye and says, "If you don't come with me peacefully, I will be forced to take you all in with violence. I don't like violence whatsoever. Make this easier for all of us here, please."

Ohh, she sounds serious.

I'm sure she means well. We shouldn't give her too much of a hard time.

Yeah, I'm sure she doesn't but I be damned if you think I'm going to let the valkyries have any control of what's going on in our families. Last time they "helped" with any internal problems with any of the Royal Vampires, two whole families were lost in history.

Belle turns to me when I get closer to Alexandria. My rapier glows red as I say, "Well, you already failed at one objective, due to the fact that you're late. Ambrosina and Lilith are gone. As for escorting us to the VA, I'm going to have to refuse. Unlike you, I'm used to resorting to violence as well as the rest of us." Before Alexandria says anything, Olivia says, "I just want to know how you know Micro. You two seemed to recognize each other to the point where Micro lowered his guard."

Alexandria's face scrunches up and she spats out, "That business doesn't concern you." She turns to me and glares at me. "What do you mean I'm late? I came here right when it was reported to me and I was assigned to me." Jannelle said, "I don't know why you think that the whole process is fast enough to catch Royal Vampires in action, much less Empresses." As soon as Jannelle finishes her sentence, Alexandria's eyes begin to glow blue, pupils disappearing. I grip my Rose of Death and quiet my breathing. Alexandria sighs and says, "In that case, you are all royal supernatural beings so I might as well make it fair." Lightning strikes and it hits the ground on her right. A silver and blue sword sticks up from the ground. As Alexandria starts to pick it up, armor begins to cover her body.

She points the sword at me and says, "This is your last time for you all to come with me peacefully to the Acropolis. It doesn't have to be this way." I narrow my eyes at her sword. It smelled like those horrid flowers. I look at my Rose of Death, glowing blood red and then I look back at Jannelle, whose daggers were connected. I raise my eyebrow.

Should we fight her? I know you smell it.

Just don't get to close to her. You can extend that flexible blade about 10 meters. It'll be fine.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see her target the ground behind me. I already knew what she was going to do before she did. Jannelle disconnected the daggers and twirled the right dagger. I turn back to Alexandria and say, "I said I refuse. I meant what I said." Alexandria sighs for the second time and says, "Well then. I'm sorry in advance." As soon as she says this, she disappears and I turn around and sure enough she's behind me but instead of her attacking me, a dagger is embedded in her left arm. It then rips down her arm and returns back in Jannelle's hand. Alexandria cries out in pain. In under a second, the sword she had turns into a spear and she throws it towards me, aiming for my stomach. I quickly sidestep and it goes through Olivia's spirit form. Before it rips through Belle and Micro, they both make a shield. It stops and Micro gets a hold of it.

He throws it back at Alexandria and she looks up in time to see it zooming towards her. I cross my arms as the spear's blade stops right in front of her face. Jannelle throws another dagger and it spins around Alexandria and stops behind her head, blade touching her flesh. I stab the ground with my rapier and I see the tip of the blade under her figure. Micro walks forward and stops in front of Alexandria, whose face is filled with panic. She looks up at Micro. He narrows his glowing eyes at her and says, "You are under us now." Blue shackles appear on her feet and he takes a bracelet off of her wrist. He throws it down and his scepter is put over it. Alexandria's eyes widen and she screams, "No!"

Belle runs to Micro and says, "Calm down! I don't know what she's done to you but do not destroy her valkyrie band." He breathes in deeply and the scepter disappears. I look back at Olivia, who looks as shocked as I am right now. Looking back at Micro, he picks up the band and puts it in a crystal ball. He looks down on Alexandria and says, "If you try to escape one time, I will destroy your band and I won't hesitate to curse you." Before she says anything, He adds, "Oh. You also have a lot of explaining to do." And with that, the two disappear.

The rest of us stand around in confusion and the lingering tension begins to lessen. I retract my blade and send it back. All weapons are sheathed. Belle shakes her head and walks back to the house. I cross my arms and I continue to stand in the same place until everyone else goes back in the house. All except Olivia, who floats beside me. I feel water fall down my cheeks. Olivia floats to the ground and went back into flesh and bone. She hugs me as I silently cry. I hate it here.