Amaranthine Dawn Of the Supernatural

Part 23

"Exact same words said to Griffin, before he left." said Eve. "Once Griffin returns, I'll explain everything, please, just trust me for now, that's all I can say." said Peter. "But Peter, how will you progress from now? What about school? What about your career?" asked Jacody. "It's not important right now, Jacody, if it weren't for us, Ceuvest would have underwent a civil war, this stone, it chose us." said Peter as he shows off the Amaranthine in his bracelet.

"And another one with Griffin." said Jim. "There are two stones? You said you only found one." said Jacody. "We did find one… Or it found us, but this belonged to Lynede's brother, who's headless body lies in the tomb." said Peter. "To be honest, we don't need the Amaranthine to make us feel special, it caused us more harm than power." said Eve.

"Then get rid of it, all of it, come with me, I can help you." said Jacody. "Not this time Jacody, this is more than just escaping from a messed up biological dad." said Peter. "But…" said Jacody before getting interrupted by Peter.

”I'm sorry Jake, I…just wanted to see you." said Peter as one of his clansmen approaches him in human form.

 "We have a situation.," said the clansmen. "What type of?" asked Peter. "Follow me, its best if your friends see it too." said the Clansmen who leads them to the south side of the Camp. The camp is where usually people store the goods they collected and distribute among the people, but this time, two bodies lie ahead, both are drained of blood and has bite marks and has signs of heavy punches on their entire body, looks to be brutally beaten. "What the hell is it?" asked Peter.

 "God, what the hell is this, these people, they look familiar, do you know them?" asked Jacody taking closer look on one of the bodies. "No, looks to be like people from your world, we found them on the mines, evacuated everyone else but, whatever did this still lives there." said the Clansmen.

"Well, looks like we're up for a new threat, show us the way." said Peter as he follows the Clansmen. Suddenly Jim stops Eve for a second. "Look at the bite marks, are you thinking what I am thinking?" whispered Jim.

"What are you thinking?" whispered back Eve. "Never mind, come on." said Jim as he follows Peter leaving Eve in confusion. They approach to the entrance of the Cave which is dark enough than the night sky. The Clansmen takes a nearby torch and lits it and ventures into the Cave but is stopped by Eve. "Wait, give me the stone." said Eve.

Peter nods and hands him over the stone to which Eve draws out the energies, leaving Jacody shocked to see the powers of Amaranthine first hand. He senses some presences and tries to pull it from outside the Cave as Jacody goes over to Jim. "What's she doing?" asked Jacody. "Nothing, just waving her hands at dark places after seeing too much horror movies." replied Jim.

"Seriously?" asked Jacody. "Jim, please shut up, get ready, it's almost here." said Eve as she drags out what looks to be a Man nailed to a plank, bites are all around his body and his body is almost drained of every blood in his body, despite being weak, he is clinging onto his life, hoping to warn others what is to come.

 "It's…. It's a….trap, leave…. please." said the nailed man with great difficulty as a shadowy figure latches Clansmen into the shadows. "What the…. Vyrd?" asked Peter as they hear noises of the oncoming threat. Suddenly a hoard of bats comes raining down from the Cave, attacking each and every one of them before they could get ready. Peter roars, making the bats attacking him flee in terror, as he transforms into wolf.

Eve telekinetically pushes all the bats into the Cave and shuts in down, just then, without a second delay, Vampire thralls start lashing at them from shadows. Peter and Eve fights out most of them while Jim takes Jacody to safety. "What are these things?" asked Eve. Peter roars, as he bites off the neck of the next, then more thralls start emerging, as Peter jumps onto on one of the thralls, tearing off its head and claws to the next.

 A t****l leaps In front of Eve which Eve telekinetically stops, but more t****l begin emerging as Eve throws down the t****l she lifted at them.

 Just as more thralls approach, the rest of the wolves too rush to help Peter and Eve. Meanwhile, Jim grabs Jacody's hand an runs as fast as he could, without a second looking back. Suddenly a familiar figure could be seen following them, and disappearing from view. Just before he could recongize who it is, it jumps from the shadows directly at Jim, to which Jim lets go of Jacody's hand, making him throw himself down by this figure.

 It tries to byte Jim with its fangs as they roll over to the cliff side of the Wakefield Falls. Jacody rushes to help them, taking out his g*n this time, and starts shooting at the figure to which one shot successfully lands on it, but unfortunately it doesn't bring down the predator as she turn towards Jacody, revealing her appearance none other than Ilayda.

"What? Ilayda?" asked Jacody as Ilayda lunges forward to tear him down to pieces, but before she could, Jim pulls down her leg and grabs a nearby wooden stick and stabs her in the heart. Ilayda falls down as her appearance slowly turns from raging monster to an innocent girl as tears rein from her eyes. "I'm…..so…ry…." said Ilayda as she falls down.

Jacody rushes to Jim, helping him get up. "Are you alright?" asked Jacody. "Yeah I'm fine, I'm alright, check on her." said Jim as he slowly gets up. Jacody goes over to Ilayda and checks her pulse, only to find out she is no longer alive.

Meanwhile, Commander Hector leads a squad into the Romania state of India, where the place had been fully evacuated and under full lockdown due to the rapid increase in cases of missing person and dead bodies all around the streets. The Commander along with his squad are present in the chopper, briefing about their mission.

"Listen up kids, as you've been briefed before, the place we're going to visit is Bran Castle, now dubbed as the "Kingdom of Devil" thanks to the social media, couple of weeks ago, the research team that led a research on St Mary's cathedral in Ceuvest found their way up to here, leading a expedition, that usually ends up in entire team going missing, I'm just going to cut to the chase, we're going in, weapons hot, shoot anything you see and do not hold back, we have no idea what we are dealing with, understood?" said the Commander.

 "Yes sir!" replied the soldiers in chorus. "Good." said the Commander. Just as the Chopper reaches its destination, the Commander, along with his squad land on the entrance of the abandoned fort from the chopper.

"You got your orders men, prepare to be full vigilant, that's it, move out." yells Commander as the squad ventures into the fort. The fort remains quiet, apart from the footsteps of the soldiers venturing in, the sound sound could be heard is the water leaking from a nearby pipeline. The squad reaches a point where they have to split into two.

"You three, move to the left, maintain Comms, rest of you, with me." said the Commander as he leads them deep into the fort. Suddenly the leaking sound stops, but the crew doesn't take a notice out of it. As they venture, suddenly the commander gets a radio transmission from the three soldiers he sent. "Report." said the Commander through Comm.

"Sir, we reached a dead end, awaiting further command." said the soldier. "Trail back to us, your GPS navigation is working right?" asked the Commander. "Yes sir, we'll follow you back, over and out." said the soldier as he ends the transmission. The Commander enters a path where it leads to a stairs deep below. "Come on men, through this way." said the Commander as he leads them deep into the fort.

As they proceed, surprisingly they encounter a injured person alive, clinging himself to the corner of the stairs. "Sir, we have a civilIan." said one the soldiers. "Help me." cries the person. Without a second delay, Commander shoots at his head and proceeds forward, leaving his cold corpse to be eaten by rats. Suddenly they hear bats swarming through the cellings.

The squad is in vigilance, to shoot anything that they see. Suddenly one of them notice a strange type of marking written in fresh blood in the wall. "Sir, you may want to take a look at it." said the soldier holding his g*n at the marking. "What the heck kind of marking is this?" asked the Commander taking a closer look. Suddenly the marking starts glowing. "Get down!" yells Commander who dives for cover as the wall blasts, and a vampire emerge with a bloodthirsty fangs.