“How long have I been out?”
“Only about twelve hours,” Zoe said matter of factly.Ryder wasn’t happy about being out so long, they could be anywhere by now.
“I enlisted the help of some humans; a lot of people noticed the war happening on their doorstep and are also scouring everywhere trying to find a lead.”
“Humans?”
“Yes Reid, they aren’t stupid.They know what happens in their City they just choose to turn a blind eye to it, but now I have spoken to some, human or not these monsters killed innocent children they won’t stand for that, they are going to help move yours and those of David’s Pack that are injured to the stadium, they are willing to help if needed, we just need to find them first.” Zoe added.
I nodded.It felt strange knowing they have turned a blind eye.I knew a few high up members of the city knew of our existence but never in a million years would I have thought the entire City knew, times were definitely changing.We had a war on our hands and could really use the extra reinforcements, maybe this is a good thing them knowing.
“So, what do you know?So far?”
“Not much I just got off the phone and was about to tell Abel what I know, but then you woke up, and I couldn’t get a word in with you two trying to kill each other” Abel turned to her giving her his attention.He lent back on the table, and I folded my arms across my chest, waiting to listen as well.Now realising our mistake, we weren’t going to get anywhere fighting amongst ourselves.
“Well, he didn’t have much, an old friend heard about what happened and called me.Apparently, the Hunters dispersed years ago, but everyone was called back with the promise of immortality if they helped catch the Hybrid.Apparently, their numbers have grown massively and that a man by the Name of Kade Barclay is now running things.He said he noticed some of the original labs had been undergoing refurbishment, that he has been watching them for a while keeping tabs on them, he is on his way to help try locate them.” I nodded and looked at Abel.He looked livid and his face changing to a crimson colour with his anger.Like a kettle about to boil over.
“Did you say Kade Barclay?” he asked.
“Yes, why?Have you heard of him?” Abel nodded deep in thought.
“Yes, but he is human.I don’t know how he could still be alive.” My eyebrows furrowed, and I felt Ryder press against my skin listening in.
“What do you mean, he should be dead?”
“He is human, and the only Kade Barclay I know was alive in the eighteenth century, it would be impossible.”
“Could be someone else with the same name,” I suggested he nodded but didn’t look like he believed that.
“Say it is this Kade, how do you know him?”
“He captured me when I was younger, him and a group of Hunters noticed I wasn’t aging figured out what I was and hunted me down, I was placed on a ship brought here to some underground labs, he was a mad scientist, crazy smart for the times and had a few small breakthroughs in medical science.After he caught me, he started looking for ways to prolong life and create immortality.As far as I knew it never worked, he also tried to replicate my Hybrid gene.He became obsessed with becoming like me.He used to test my blood on other werewolves.He even managed to capture a Vampire, using them like guinea pigs trying to mutate their genes and make them like me.All of them died from his science, and after a while, I managed to escape when they were moving me to a different compound, they sent off litres of my blood to a French scientist.He claimed he found a way to change the DNA and mutate it.I haven’t seen him since I left the country.I returned a hundred years later forgetting about him and assuming he died.”
That was one hell of a story, was it possible he did find a way to create immortality?Ryder was thinking the same thing.
“When will your friend get here?” I asked, looking at the clock, it was already the middle of the night.
“He should be here soon, he isn’t far from here,” Zoe stated.We both nodded our heads.
Not even ten minutes later we heard a knock on the door upstairs, Zoe looked to the TV screen above the bunker entrance, a man was waiting at the door with an armful of papers.
“That’s him, I will go let him in.Wait here and don’t kill each other.” She gave us both a pointed look, and I chuckled.We were past that now, our little dispute was forgotten.
I walked over and looked at the documents on the table which were actually the City’s blueprints.Every building, including mine, had underground tunnels.Something to look at in the future would be destroying those tunnels or at least blocking access from underground.I noticed one of the tunnels leading into the City ran along the boundary lines between both mine and David’s Packs.
I pointed to it, and Abel nodded.“Yeah, I’m fairly sure that’s how they got in without being noticed.If you follow that tunnel, it leads to nowhere though, only to the city library and cuts off halfway through in the other direction, if these maps are still correct.It could have changed by now, I think these maps are outdated, they belonged to Joe,” Definitely something we needed to check out, we were going to have to go into the tunnels and see where they lead.
Chapter 47
Aria’s POV
Wendy looked up atthe noise that ripped from Christine.Christine climbed to her feet, having not noticed Wendy’s crumpled form lying beside her, her eye’s only on her prey.That prey was Amber, her own daughter.I struggled with my restraints, my hand slipping out from the wrist cuff, leaving only my elbow now stuck in the second cuff along that arm.
David, noticing the crazed look, started calling out to her, fighting to release himself, anything to distract her from hunting her own defenceless daughter, who was unconscious and unaware of the danger she was in, from her own mother.Wendy grabbed Christine’s leg, but her bloodlust had completely taken over her.She didn’t even look down at the tug on her leg, her eyes solely focused on that of her daughter.
“Wendy, you have to stop her, I can’t get free.” I screamed.My bone in my upper arm snapping under the pressure I was exerting trying to break free.My bone breaking through the flesh just above where my elbow should be.I screamed from the horrendous snap, my nerves in my arm feeling like I just tore straight through them.My arm bending, I was able to slip out of the cuff, my right arm dangling at a weird angle, blood running down my arm and dripping on the floor.I could already feel my arm shifting back into place and the wound healing as I endured the pain of my bones rearranging.
Christine, smelling my blood, turned and looked in my direction.The first thing I noticed were her amber eyes, except the pupil was blood red.I don’t know what they gave her, but it was clear to me whatever it was, it wasn’t just my blood.Whatever they did altered her DNA.Right now, I was staring back at the perfect predator.No recognition on her face that I am her friend, her Luna.I realised in that moment whatever was left of Christine was gone.