From The Moon Goddess

Chapter Six

- Third person P.O.V -

" firstly you need to understand that the things that you thought was only in the imaginations of story writers and movie scripts are real, the things that go bump in the night, are real, and with that there are people out there searching for these things to exterminate them to make the world a safe place to live for all humans" started Emerson

as Ella sat in her chair looking slightly amused as if her relative was about to tell a campfire story she had decided at this point that she would take what they said with a pinch of salt maybe they are trying to scare her from asking to many questions about her parents past who knew she wiggled in her seat and relaxed her body waiting for Emerson to continue

" along time ago the world used to be overrun with all manners of gastly creatures from Angels to Demons and all that sits in between, most tended to keep to themselves and only came out to feed or move around the world but others like vampires, werewolves and succubuses would terrorise the humans slaughtering town after town city after city till there was barely and humans left in America the vampires would turn hundreds of humans into living blood banks hanging them in there basements as if they were bottles of wine for storing keeping the humans in a comatose state until they had taken as much blood as the person could produce and then cut their throat ending their suffering some if strong enough would be turned to increase their army's the wolves didn't seem to be so domesticated as they say and would just run threw a town and rip it to shreds if you was unlucky enough to live threw the attack after a bite you would turn into one of them the next full moon and have to find a pack as they call it" Emerson had stopped to take a sip of his coffee when he noticed Ella biting her bottom lip and raised one eyebrow at her in questioning " im sorry Emerson but you expect me to believe in vampires, werewolves and demons? i think you might of been watching to many horror films" she remarked not believing a word that was said " just listen Ella please" asked Henry which shocked Ella into silence once more considering he had asked her nicely nodding her head she relaxed again signaling Emerson to continue.

"witches had surfaced at one point in a feeble attempt to eradicate the vampires and werewolves but failed although they did manage to place them both on a tighter leash casting a spell that could not be broken by making the vampires susceptible to the sunlight and the wolves only able to shift on a full moon which the vampires could never enter a home without permission for some strange reason so this did ease the amount of killing and enslaving they could do as the humans made a curfew for all as the sun started to set all was made to return to there homes and wait out the night unless it was a full moon then all humans his in there basements and held on for dear life as the werewolves ransacked their towns after a few years of having to rebuild their homes once a month they started leaving offerings to the wolves leaving cattle and other living creatures tied up in the centre of the town for the wolves to feed on this did stop the destruction although the odd human that had been caught short did end up dying by these creatures but it was their misfortune it wasn't until the early 1900 when a handful of children was snatched on an eclipse by a vampire that a group of townspeople decided to take the matter of these creatures in there own hands and became the first hunters it took them a few decades to perfect their art of killing the evil creatures in the world with the help from a few witches they could trust and the Angels that was sent down to help them but soon enough they had the creatures running in fear of them as time passed more of the hunters had joined the cause and more and more of the creatures you was told that didn't exist was exterminated or hide in fear of being killed" Emerson had stopped talking and stared into his coffee cup that had been empty for some time the fire was the only sound as Ella waited slowly growing angry before she snapped and rather rudely asked "so what has that got to do with why you and my parents didn't talk, its a nice story and all but... " Ella sat and shrugged her shoulders before Marcus gave her a sharp look before sighing

" Ella your parents were hunters of our generation, the first hunters was your ancestors as was mine as time moved on the skills our ancestors learned was passed onto there children who improved upon them who passed them onto there children and so on you and Henry are two of the latest generation of hunters" replied Marcus watching Ella for a reaction

Ella when me and your mom was teenegers just like you and Henry are we was as close as we could be we was more like brother and sister then cousins and i lived to protect your mom we had joined the hunt at 18 like all do and we had been following the tracks of a pack or wolves for the best part of a month when one night your mother went missing only for a couple of hours but when she returned something seemed different with her we later found out that she had been protecting the werewolves creating different leads for us to follow telling them were we would be your mother and father was only dating back then and your father being to loyal man he was helped her to do these things when our parents had found out what had been happening they tried to punish your mother and in the end your mother and father left the hunt and left the town i only ever heard from your mother and father once after that i had tracked a coven of vampires to miami and ran into your parents who had been tracking the same coven we worked together to get rid of them and when it was done your mother sat me down as i have you and told me what her ridiculous idea was when it came to the werewolves, your mother thought that we could work together with the wolves that one had come to her the night she went missing and protected her from a rough vampire and helped her kill it she said the wolf then turned to her and sat down by her feet and helped heal her wounds and helped her back hear, after that night she refused point blank to kill a werewolf" Emerson was sat shaking his head at this point remembering how foolish his cousin was to think that the werewolves could be trusted Ella sat their for a moment in shocked silence at what she had been told she knew her mother had been in an argument about something big but to fight over the life of a creature that lives in the pages of a book was ridiculous Ella sat and weighed her options for a moment before opening her mouth " i don't believe you, these.. these things don't exist" she said as calmly as she could before getting up and pacing in front of the fire " Ella its true your mother and father was a traitor to the hunt the organization we served if your mother had of just faced her punishment then maybe they would be here now maybe werewolves woul....." Marcus went silent realizing what he was about to say Ella's head turned to him " maybe werewolves what?" " sweetie i'm sorry the car crash it was a cover story made up by the hunt, they was killed by a werewolves, your parents had stopped hunting when your mother fell pregnant with you she didn't want this life for you and although your dad trained you just incase they got lax in their own training and was killed by the very creature your mother tried to protect" Emerson finished saying what Marcus couldn't.

Ella shot from the livingroom and out of the front door without a word but tears streamed down her face Ella ran as far and as fast as she could before she fell to her knees and sobed until she had no tears left.