The Call of War: The Watchers Chronicles

Chapter 5

     We spent the night making love, and if I had of let him we would still be going and without sleep. It was sometime after one am and several rounds of s*x that we finally went to bed. Marcus never left, he curled himself up with me and we went to sleep wrapped in each other. So it was no surprise when I woke up to Marcus tracing gentle swirly patterns on my chest and neck.

“Hmm good morning beautiful, did you sleep well last night?” He asks in a sensual voice.

“Good morning my love. I did, just like I always do every time we are together. How did you sleep?” I ask moving as close as I can get. I can feel his excitement, so I move slightly, and his huge length slips back into my core.

“OHHH f**k Ianna.” Marcus hisses as his eyes go red, and he starts thrusting hard. He rolls us so I am on his lap as he sits and wraps his lips round my n****e. I moan when his fangs pierce the sensitive bud, while I am sliding up and down his length taking him deeper and deeper each time. When he lets go of my n****e, he rolls us again so he’s on his knees. He lifts my hips a little and start slamming into my core.

“Oh f**k Orion harder baby!” I moan to which Marcus groans.

“Say my name again, you make me c*m when you do!” He demands, and I smile biting my lower lip.

“OH Orion fill me baby!” I scream as Marcus slams hard and deep. I feel the eruption of heat as he pours into me.  Marcus gets up once he finishes, thinking we were done I go to move. Only to have him yank me by the ankles back to him at the edge of bed, flipping me on to my hands and knee thrusting back into me harder.

“We aren’t even close to done my little Watcher.” He says taking my hair into his fist and pounding into me.

“Oh yes baby, give it to me!” I scream and Marcus moves faster. “f**k me Orion! YES!!” Just like before, me calling his name cause him to release. He groans in pleasure but doesn’t stop. Bring my up so my back rests on his chest, he keeps pounding into me. His one hand goes to play with my nub and the other with my n****e. To help give me the most extreme pleasure, he bites my neck to feed. My body explodes with the most intense orgasm I have ever had, and it causes me to collapse into Marcus’s arms.

“This is how we are going to stay forever my beautiful little warrior, and I will be happy when I see this body blossom with our baby inside of it!” He says which causes me to stop and pull away from him.

“Marcus, I can’t. The last time I tried to have a family, the gods had them slaughtered by the Picts and I died as well. I would be devastated if anything happened to you. I lost you once and have died each time I came back to remember how I would never see you again. I don’t want that this time, I’m sorry.” I say as tears start to stream down my cheeks.

“Hey, hey. No more tears and I am not going anywhere. We are going to be together forever do you hear me! I love you Aretha! I love you Ianna! I love you as every woman you have been throughout history. We will work this out, for now let’s just enjoy being with one another while we have the chance.” He says cupping my face and wiping the tears. He moves back in between my legs and slowly pushes back into my core. I let out a soft moan as he has slows down and takes his time to give me pure ecstasy that has me caving into my deepest desires.

     After another hour of making love, I finally get out of bed. I had to look at the clock to make sure it had the right time. It was 11:30 am, we were really late for our meeting with the Council and my handler. I take a shower first and when I get out Marcus is still laying in bed, going through his phone.

“We missed our meeting; you know that right?” I say smiling at him as he puts his phone down to look at me.

“No we didn’t. That’s why I was up so early, they called and said that they needed to change the time to this evening. Charlie sent them over all the information, and they are extremely pissed. Seems he also found information linked to your Uncle Stephan too. So they are going to deal with that first.” He says getting up from bed, he gives me a quick kiss before walking into the bathroom to shower. I for one never thought I would be attached to Marcus Valarian. Yet I couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities.

     After we dress, we head down to the hotel restaurant for lunch. Both Kane and Helix are there also getting ready to eat. The waiter comes right over and brings us to their table, and as I walk over both Kane and Helix are eyeing me with suspicion.

“Perfect timing you two. Ianna I have a couple of goodies for you to take with you to the museum. Dr. Thaddeus called again, and he would like you there as soon as possible.” Kane says, then he looks to Helix. “I think it best that you take Helix with you, from what is being said around here by other supernatural guests. There is a lot of s**t going down with the Watcher Council, so Marcus will be a little busy. I will make sure to send my best men with him, we need all the allies we can get. The war is coming, and it won’t be pretty.” He says looking at Marcus and  then to me.

“I don’t expect it to be, we need to know who the main players are, and take them out if we can one by one. If they all get together then we are screwed.” I say looking at the three men sitting at the table. I just realize that two of these men could pass as father and son. Though I would never think Kane to be a father. Both Kane and Marcus have honey tanned skin, muscular shoulders, broad chests and both hit the 6 foot mark. Kane’s eyes are hazel, while Marcus’s are a vibrant green. Kane's hair is salt and peppered charcoal grey, while Marcus's is jet black. Both have luscious full lips a chiseled jaw line and solid cheek bones, a feature you would find more on an MMA fighter than on a supermodel. Kane is clean shaven though, Marcus not so much but I love the scruff on him.

“You done analyzing us there kid?” Marcus asks with an amused look.

“You and Kane look way to much alike. Hell you have more similarities to him than your father Maxum. Are you sure you weren’t switched at birth? I mean you are a 117 years old right?” I say, which earns me a jab in the ribs from Kane. Marcus just leans on his elbows with his hands clasped together and laughs. Our lunch comes and we dive in. I keep stealing Marcus’s celery and carrots he got with his wings, while Kane stole my bun that came with my soup appetizer. Once my fish and chips come, all three are stealing my fries. After we eat Marcus has to leave, the council wants to meet with him now.

“Ok I will see you for our meeting tonight. Be safe and make sure you do as Helix tells you! I want you home safe with me tonight!” Marcus says giving me a kiss and strokes my cheek with the back of his hand. After he leaves, both Kane and Helix look at me with a raised eyebrows.

“What?” I say turning bright red.

“How long?” Helix asks and I know exactly what he means.

“Three years. I didn’t see a reason not too since I knew I wasn’t staying with the Watchers.” I say with a smile of pure happiness.

“Wow, I haven’t seen a look like that on your face in forever! Well other than when you’re killing someone in battle, but then it’s eviler looking.” Kane says. I laugh nodding because he’s not wrong on that. We get up from the table and pay the bill.  “Ok kid, I have a gift for you, and I know you are going to love it!” He says leading us across the hall into his office. As we walk by reception, the bitchy little plant is sitting there glaring at me, but she looks horrid.

“Yikes you might want to put her out of her misery Kane, she looks like hell.” I say once inside his office.

“Yea she does, found out that she took a beating from whoever hired her and Greg Scott to grab you. She’s trying to maintain her cover. She won’t be making it out of here today, actually Kya should be pulling her now to have a “private talk.” Kane says. He brings out a secure case and undoes the locks on it. Inside sits a long black bag with ties at the top, beside that is a long sword that looks new but used at the same time.

“What is she going to do with this? Doesn’t she need to get her weapons for the war?” Helix asks looking at Kane confused.

“She does, but what I found out through research is the Sword in the Stone they kept mentioning in their communications, is at the museum now. It’s part of the Arthurian collection, but it’s not from that time period. It’s from before then, almost a 1000 years before. If I am right, they want it pulled to use it in the war. It might have the same abilities as the Atlantean Battle weapons.” Kane says looking at us with uncertainty.

“s**t, if they have something like that, and they activate it that could cause a mass slaughter of millions and not just supernatural’s either.” I say looking between the guys with worry.

“They want to start a war with both humans and supernatural’s too. s**t! We can’t let them get their hands on any of those weapons.” Helix says. He has this look of planning on his face, something I use to see on Octavian’s when he was doing strategies to win battles.

“We won’t be. Here take this.” Kane hands me a small piece of stone.

“What am I to do with this?” I ask looking at it confused.

“When you go to the museum, go into the Arthurian exhibit. Place this on the stone with the sword in it, pretend like you are going to pull the sword. When you do step on it, it will activate the pressure censor to implant a continuous loop into their security feed showing you pulling the sword and it no longer there. When in fact it will stay in the stone until you leave with your weapons, then pull it and bring it back.” Kane says looking at me with a smile that he only gets when it’s like a “Mission Impossible” scenario. Kya walks in looking like she took a bloodbath.

“What the hell happened to you?” I ask giving her a “do I want to know” look.

“I had a large rat to kill. The extermination process got a little messy, what can I say I enjoy my work.” She says walking into a bathroom off Kane’s office to get cleaned up. It doesn’t take long, and she is walking Helix and I out with Kane.

“Thank you Kane and Kya for the help. How far is the museum from here and how am I getting there?” I ask looking to Kane and Kya.

“Subway, the station is about a block away, the underground travel system will take you right to the front doors. The station access is just across the street from the museum.” Kya says.

“Tara and Tanner will be tail you. We don’t want to cause any unwanted attention. I think your grandfather should be all the back up you need.” Charlotte says as she walks up to us and nods at Helix.

“Huh?” is all I manage to get out.

“You were right Ianna. I am Octavian, and your mother was my daughter in our first life. She and my wife were taken prisoner during an attack while I was away in battle. I had been looking for her for so long. When I found your mom, she had been injured in a raid from another tribe that resulted in her death, but she told me who took you and where they were headed. So when I found out Hyda had taken you as one of her workers, I spoke to her and she agreed to help me right away, making sure you were trained and educated. I just wish I had of done a better job of keeping you both safe.” Helix says with a look of great loss. I give him a hug because he’s the family I have always had without knowing.

“It’s all good, it would have happened one way or another. The gods had something planned for me and obviously they still do.” I say pulling away and grabbing his hand. “Now let’s get going, I want my weapons back!” I say and everyone laughs at me.

“Ianna, your Uncle Stephan summited a request for your resignation. He has been talking to an Elder Vampire lord to marry you off to his nephew. That’s what the meeting was supposed to be about last night, it will have changed in light of the new information we have against him, Franny and Leader Maxum though.” Helix says as we get to the stairway entrance to the underground travel walkways. I stay quiet just so Kya and Kane don’t try to kill anyone over at the Hilton.

     I notice earlier that the demon’s Watcher is still here, but they’re nowhere in sight. He nods when we walked by and I respond with a nod too.  Kya, Charlotte and Kane take their leave when Helix and I walk down the stairs into the underground travel walkways to the subway access. Until yesterday I didn’t realize that the underground walkway was even here, they will be very handy. Once we get to the subway and got our fare paid, we have to wait for about two minutes for the train to arrive. I haven't seen a sign of Tara or Tanner, but they will track us from a distance and be there if we need extra hands in a fight. During our wait I have found one of the missing demons, he’s trying to blend in, but his unmistakable red eyes give him away.

“Helix, eight o’clock demon from CB lobby. He has been watching us. I haven’t seen his two friends yet.” I say low enough just for Helix to hear, as I pretend to become a restless teenager being told to behave.

“The purple eyed demon’s sitting in the coffee shop on the other platform, and he keeps glancing over. The one with black eyes is behind us at the restroom entrance. I was looking for the last one, but you have eyes on him, so we are covered.” Helix says just as the announcer comes on to tell us of our train’s arrival to the platform. As the train comes to a stop, Helix places his hand on the small of my back to guide me. We both have a place marked to keep us equally safe. As we take our seats I see the demon with black eyes sit near the door we walked in and the red eyed demon takes the other door on the far end. It’s the purple eyed demon that is crazy, as he walks right up and sits across from me, causing Helix to hiss at him.

“Oh wow, a vampire. Now that is a new one, especially for Leader Maxum. Tell me does your Leader know you two are out traveling without permission?” The demon asks smirking.

“He isn’t my leader and because of his f**k up his coven will be handed over to Marcus and Matthias as his Watcher. But you already knew that, since your after Franny aren’t you?” I say b***h slapping the smirk off his face.

“Whoever the leader is makes no difference to me, but yes I am looking to take my betrothed home now that she is of age. She is in some trouble for not showing to our arranged meeting, she knows better. Though the timing was perfect to be able to collect her, but I am more interested what the f**k up is that caused the change in leadership to his son? Please do tell!” The demon asks.

“How about the ‘sale of a Watcher’ as a wife before Council sanction, the planning and setup of a kidnap and r**e on a Watcher. And last but not least, breaking the arranged marriage of his mistress to one King Roglan of Milthgar Kingdom, better known as Detroit. I am surprised our own Demon King let you come to collect instead of bringing her to you.” I say and King Roglan is smiling at me again.

“You are quite observant little Watcher, but I do have to ask, why get Leader Maxum taken out of power? Surely having an ally in that position is better than an enemy out of it.” Roglan asks, he’s fishing for something.

“Let’s just say, I am going to have quite a few enemies in the very near future. So I am going to secure my list of people I need to kill, tick them off one at a time and not worry about questioning it. Now my question for you, do I need to include you on that list? Since your bitchy little fiancé is on it.” I say leaning forward and showing I have no fear of the demon.

“No you don’t need to put me on it, if my troublesome fiancé is a casualty of war then oh well. It’s not like I don’t know she is pregnant already with Maxum’s child. So you would be doing me a favor.” He says which causes Helix to shift in his seat. That last little piece was news to both of us.

“Next stop is the National World History Museum. Exit is on the left platform.” The announcer says causing Roglan to look up and then back to me with his head tilted.

“You will want to speak to Ika, she will be the one to take you to Dr. Thaddeus. Although I don’t think you are going to be happy about meeting him at the moment, but I am sure it will be better than what his grandson wants from you.” Roglan says causing me to smile.

“I already figure out who Dr. Soren Thaddeus is, and he betrayed me once by having his men kill Hyda. It won’t happen again; he’s top of my kill list don’t you worry too much.” I say causing the demon King to laugh. Helix and I walk out the door of the train car when it opens, and I turn and watch as the door closes, and the demon King nods when it pulls away.

“What do you think he meant about that?” Helix asks.

“Do you remember who Theron’s father was in our first life?” I ask while watching the train disappears.

“I do, it was General Thaddeus. I believe I put a knife to his throat when he was beating you to prove that he was stronger than me.” Helix says as we start to climb the stair out of the subway station.

“That’s right, so who do you think Dr. Thaddeus is?” I ask giving Helix a knowing look.

“f**k! This can’t be good. Do you know what it is that he wants? Or have an idea?” Helix asks looking more worried.

“Somewhat, but I am sure he will tell us when we get there.” I say. We walk through the station and up the stairs to street level. Kya was right this put us across the street right in front of the Museum. Walking into the main entrance I see lots of people and security, which seems to lighten a bit when Helix and I start to walk up to the admissions counter.

“Good afternoon, two adult admissions or one adult one student? If you’re a student we will need to see your student card.” The young man says in a cheery voice.

“Actually, I have a special invitation from Dr. Thaddeus, did he mention that to any of the staff?” I ask and the young man’s eyes go huge.

“Oh yes Miss Foster right?” He asks. I pull out my I.D for him to check so that we can get in with the invitations. “Perfect, although he never said anything about a guest.” The young man says eyeing Helix.

“That is ok, I’ll buy his admission. It was a last minute decision for us to come.” I say hoping it will work.

“Oh yes I see, it’s not a problem at all.” The young man says and quickly prints a new admission. “Here you go sir, I will just page Ika for you. She will take you right up.” He finishes once I hand him the money, then he picks up a phone and makes a quick call. “Ok she’s on her way down. If you like there’s an Arthurian Exhibit on the left there that will be leaving by the end of the week if you would like to wait in there.”

“Oh thank you so much that would be lovely.” I say with sickly sweet sarcasm, that Helix definitely caught from the look on his face. We walk away from the front desk and as we make our way into the exhibit, I quickly glance back to see that the attendant is on the phone watching us as he talks to someone. We walk in through the exhibit taking notes on what they have collected and what pieces are replicas for security purposes. Walking into the star attraction’s exhibit area, and I notice it’s title.

“Wow nothing like stating the obvious. They have a sword in a stone.” Helix says and the amount of sarcasm dripping from his words is hilarious.

“This is what they want, to pull this sword from its resting place, but do you notice anything interesting about the sword and why they would want it pulled?” I ask Helix, I have already seen the symbol, noting that it is also of Atlantean origin. The symbol of Poseidon is in full view on the cross guard.

“Is that from Atlantis? It looks like one of the swords Arreon gave to the gods in the ceremony they held when we visited. Why and how would it be here?” Helix asks, a far off look comes in his eyes as he recalls memories from the past.

“They want to pull it and have me activate my weapons to cause a massive war between the supernatural races and humans. Remember most humans still think vampires, werewolves and witches are all just movie myth and Halloween make believe. It would be a mass slaughter on both sides, no one would come out on top from a war like this.” I say, when I look around the room, it becomes clear there are no guards. There were tons in the main lobby and there was several posted through the rest of the exhibit, but not one is posted here.

                I reach into my pocket and pull out what looks like a piece of a rock. I set it so that it blends in with the stone and step on it when I lean forward to make it look like I am pulling the sword. An image is project showing me pulling the sword, but what I haven’t done is just that. The sword still sits in the stone. The small rock is an altered time loop that will play like the sword has been taken from the stone and just like I expected the guards come rushing in and hold me.

“Helix don’t fight, it will be ok. If they want my weapons activated they will play nice, or I won’t touch the damn things and they will sit idle and be of no use.” I say to Helix with a smile as the guards are trying to figure out how to handle a vampire.