Howdarehe.How fucking dare he come here and threaten these people, start a war with these people, just to get to me.
Logically, I knew Killian was doing it because of that vampire money bags, the one that got just a drop of my blood and went bananas. I still didn't know his name or why he absolutely went berserk on me when a blood lust tends to take weeks, if not months, to form, but I didn't have time to figure that all out now. I had some vampires to kill.
My blood was pumping hot and fast as my rage started to bleed out, watching all of the vampires pour through the front gate. I took out my silver blade from my bra at the center of my back and sliced thought the first fuckers neck, blood spraying across my face as his head flew off and tumbled onto the ground. I didn't stay and gloat as two more sped by me with vampire speed. Stopping my momentum forward, I hooked around, about to go after them, when an all-black wolf and a light brown wolf pounced on each of them, tearing into their necks and ripping their vocal cords out as soon as their screams tried to break free. Dino. Duce.
I smiled at them and shifted back around, gliding along the ground like I was on a water hoverboard, using my royal siren powers to let the water guide me.
What pissed me off more than having to fight these jerks was that I was finally having my moment with Rabid. Finally, connecting with him. Seeing if he wasn't just the serious leader he always was and finding that fun soft spot that I always hoped he had yet never got to see, and these fuckers ruined it!
My mind raced as I made a whip out of water and flicked my wrist at the nearest vampire, hearing it snap just like an actual whip right before it wrapped around his gun. I yanked it back towards me and grabbed the grip. I quickly turned it around and let off a stream of pops into his head at close range. His skull broke apart into pieces. Blood, brain, and skull shattered on the ground beneath him. Some of it landed on me, and I flicked it off. I already had blood on me from before, a little more wouldn’t hurt.
I saw a flash of different color furs next to me; silver, brown, black, and gray-white wolves came up to my sides, growling out at the vampires approaching us from the front gates.
A stern calm voice broke through, “Let's make them pay for coming to our home.” I glanced to my side, seeing Rabid with a Glock in his hand as he pulled back the slide, cocking it. As our eyes connected, the side of his mouth lifted. “Thanks for the UV bullets, by the way.” I smiled at him, looking around his back as more wolves collected behind us.
I turned around, ready to slash out hard and fast, when Killian stepped to the side from around the car he was using to cover him as he yelled, “All you need to do is come with me, siren. I will deliver you to him, and then this will all go away. You could save so many people.” His smile was like sludge as his eyes shifted.
“Yeah, I’ll believe that when I’m dead. Having a choice of being his blood slave or the chance of dying here today… I feel like that's a no-brainer.” A few people that gathered behind me laughed and clapped. My heart soared that these people wouldn't give me up. Even if they hadn't known me for long, their loyalty to their leaders was strong.
“Then I guess you condemn these people to die,” Killian called out, cocksure and full of himself.
“We'll see if you're alive after I carve an S into the back of your pretty little neck.” Killian’s face pinched, his eyes growing rounder as he realized what I was alluding to. Who I was telling him I was. His head snapped up as he growled out, “Assassin.”
“I see my reputation precedes me.” I pointed to him, “Mark my words, Killian, if you don't leave right now, you will die here today.”
His teeth clenched as he gripped his rifle hard, grinding his teeth and yelling, “If I don't return with you, I'm dead. So either way, it looks like my last. I better make it count.”
He lifted his gun and shot one of the wolves. The people around him circled as Killian smiled. Something was wrong. I could feel it. I saw Gears’ wolf head over, shifting as he examined the wounded.
I looked over as Gears’ frantic voice called out, “The bullets are covered in a high dose of wolfsbane. Don’t get shot!”
The wolves all bared their teeth as they stepped back, while Rabid and I took one forward. A few other wolves that didn't shift had some of the guns I had given them. Rabid lifted his UV bullet-loaded gun, and I had a silver dagger and my magic. We could do this. “I’ll take the ones on the right. You take the ones on the left?
Rabid laughed for the second time I've ever heard it. “You got it, Little Siren.”
That was all it took for all hell to break loose as those in their human form with guns took off, going after any vampire. As soon as one of them shot and the UV-coated bullet hit one of them, you could see their veins light up bright red against their pale skin, almost like it was lighting them up from the inside. Long, red, wormlike lines covered their bodies, fangs out as they screamed from the burning pain of being cooked from the inside out. Then they would burst into a pile of ash.
Killian’s eyes flew open, shock and anger warred in his gaze before he zeroed in on me from across the battlefield, and I smiled.
My gut told me to go for him and finish the snake off, but he darted onto Rabid's side just as another Fanger came at me, pulling my attention.
I quickly turned water into a dagger and sliced my way up this fucker’s torso, speared my hand into his chest cavity. He snarled as my hand dove through all the slippery gunk in his chest. He lunged for my neck with his long, gleaming fangs, and I ducked to the side just in time, yanking my hand from his chest with the red prize jewel I was looking for. I brought his still-beating heart between us and watched as his face contorted in pain as I crushed it to dust. Damn, was that satisfying.
I heard a large crashing sound as Dino smashed the Humvee into the SUV, making it turn over and trap some vampires inside. Then Bricks flew over the back of the Humvee, shifting midair with a grenade and throwing it into the SUV before climbing back onto the Humvee, as Dino started to reverse. It didn't take long for the vehicle to explode, and Dino yelled out the window, “Quémate en el infierno, puta!”
It was so crazy, so over the top, that I almost pointed and laughed. I couldn't have felt more drawn to these men. All those feelings I had been suppressing were beginning to bubble over, no longer willing to be contained. Soon, I was going to be in real trouble.
It made me think about the question Rabid asked me before all of this started. The question that stunned me, should make me feel like I needed to run for the hills, but it didn't. As soon as the words left his mouth, my heart burst open with happiness. Happiness that felt foreign and weird but wonderful and warm at the same time.
I suddenly heard a few pain-filled howls and turned towards the sound. I saw two Fangers with blades taking turns cutting up a wolf as they taunted it. I could see smoke coming from the cuts, signaling that these blades were coated in wolfsbane.
I ran towards the group, my senses telling me that I was being watched, but I didn’t have time to find those alert eyes and take care of them. I told myself, one problem at a time.
As soon as I was close enough, I threw the AR in my hands at one of the Fangers’ faces, making him fall to the ground as I slipped up to the other, grabbing both sides of his face to make sure his eyes looked into mine as my powers flew out of my mouth.
“You will drop the knife and feed on the body that is on the floor.” As soon as my magic took hold of him, I moved out of the way, and his eyes glazed over. I continued to whisper my deadly melody in his ear, “Don't you see it, see the body to feast on?” His friend shoved the gun away and looked up at his buddy.
“Hey, man, don't let that bitch take over you. Remember what the boss said! Think about what matters most to you, don't let her song take root." The panic in his voice cracked as his friend took a step forward. He would've been right if I was just a normal siren. You could find a way to snap out of it if you thought hard enough, but I was no ordinary siren. I had royal blood running through my veins and the ocean in my DNA; no one could escape my thrall once I had them hooked.
