Bloodbreeders: The Revenge (26 page)

“What if you don’t come back? What if no one comes back?” Tears ran down her cheeks and my heart broke into a thousand more pieces. The worst part was, she was asking all the right questions, I just didn’t have any good answers.

“I’m not going to lie, things don’t look so good, and I’m sorry about that. I should have gotten you out when I first got here and this wouldn’t have happened. I’m so sorry baby, but I just can’t change a damn thing, and now you have to be the one to step up and help this little boy,” I tried to explain and felt like I was failing miserably.

“It’s not your fault, Renee. I understand. I can take care of Johnny, because you came back for me, just like you said you would. That means you love me, like you love your brother. Every one of us owes you and your little ones for coming to this place. Can you ever forgive me for being so weak?” she said and dove back into my arms.

“Child if I cry any more, I’ll just be worn out. We all have our weak moments, but let’s dry these tears. It’s time for me to go get the rest of my kids back.” She hugged me tight one more time. I turned and picked up Johnny who never once had a clue of what was going on. He was more concerned about when he was going to get to go with Tanda to see the barn animals, not to mention, pick the small lamb the two would share. I held him as if this would be my last, because for all I knew, it very well could be.

“I love you, sweetheart.”

“I love you to, Mommy,” he replied.

And once again my eyes over flowed. Only this time, I cried with the depths of my soul. I knew his little mind was forgetting our parents, yet in the same breath, my heart was given a new power by those few words that he had just spoken to me.

“Now you be a good boy and listen to Aunt Tanda, momma’s gonna be back real soon,” I spoke as my mother would have as I passed him over to her. He smiled back and we all went our separate ways.

Chapter Twenty Five

I made my way to where Jacob and Derek had been working away on the passage and soon after the three of us were working our way up to the top floor. Jacob was in the lead, holding the only torch. Derek was in the middle and I was coming up from the back. Jacob held his hand up as soon as he reached the top to warn us to be quiet, when he was pulled through the door leaving us in total darkness. Not one sound, nothing. Derek and I just stood there not knowing what to do next, when a body came crashing down on top of us. We both knew it wasn’t Jacob, because it was a large man and very dead. “Push him out of the way, Derek.” He did and we ran in.

Jacob was surrounded by at least seven men, all holding huge blades not a foot from his throat. Jacob wasn’t looking at any of them; his eyes were to the front of the room. “Brandon!” Derek screamed. And it was then that I saw what it was that held Jacob’s attention. I grabbed Derek by the arm to keep him from lunging forward. He was moving his head from side to side, saying “No, no, no” over and over. Brandon was on one side at the back of the large room, and Ashley on the other. Both were suspended in midair, chained by their ankles and wrist, with their limbs stretched out taut. One thick metal collar around their necks was attached to a solid pole to the wall behind them. Other than the chains, it was the only other thing that held them firmly up in the air and they were up good five feet from the floor. They were both covered in so much blood that at first it was hard for me to tell that they were both nude, causing a sound of horror to escape from my trembling lips. I didn’t have to turn my head to see that Jacob had turned his attention to me, but how could I not let this bother me. “Renee.” I heard in a soft voice and I knew it was, Ashley.

I started to go forward, when the old witch herself walked out from a door that was in between Brandon and Ashley. My anger became fire and I took two quick steps toward her. She held up a small device attached to a thin silver chain. “I wouldn’t do anything stupid, or I may have to do something stupid myself,” she said waving it at me.

“Where is, Sydney?”

“Oh, he still lives if that’s what you mean, but once I found out they were lovers, she was much easier to break,” Yvette said with a smirk.

I looked up at Ashley. Her face was swollen and purple from the pressure of the collar. She and Brandon were going to choke or hang to death, if she didn’t let them down.

“Let them go you bitch, or I’ll kill you with my bare hands,” I demanded.

“Will you now?” she asked and she lifted the device.

Ashley began to struggle. “I don’t wanna die. I wanna go home,” she cried, forcing out each word.

“Shut up, I have heard enough of your blabbering,” Yvette yelled.

“Then let her down. Just tell me what you want, Yvette.” I said.

“Renee,” Jacob said. I looked back, and then lowered my head. I had no idea that I was going to see these two beautiful children like this, and how could I just stand here... simple, I couldn’t.

“I want you on your knees,” she said, as a smile spread across her face, “And I want you to be the slave to me that you were meant to be. You have taken my Annabel. I would say you owe me a great deal.”

“Don’t do it Renee,” Brandon managed to say, choking with the pressure around his neck.

Yvette tilted her head and one of her many soldiers took a long blade and sliced Brandon across the abdomen. Derek started screaming at the same time that Brandon did. The next thing I knew, Derek flew forward, hands in a claw like shape. He was knocked out cold and on the ground, before he ever had a chance to reach the man that had hurt his brother. Another man had come up behind him and laid his head wide open.

“Do not fall into her trap Renee, it is what she has based everything on,” Jacob said.

One of the men standing around him made a move to hit him like the one had Derek, but the man didn’t know who he was dealing with. Jacob spun and took him down with a foot to the man’s throat. Two others made their move and those two joined the one that he had just placed on the ground.

“Enough.” Yvette demanded.

“I see you have turned Chin’s son to your side. Did you really think that a few children could come into my home and undo what I have built over hundreds of years?” she added.

“Someone had to try. Everything you do, everything you are, is pure evil, Yvette,” I replied with a vibrating growl.

“And I will be doing it when you have been long gone. Is it really worth watching all of these things that you have created, die? I have to say that it was a wonderful story by the way. I was told everything by your little Ashley, had you been so easily broken, we would not be here now.”

“Let them go and I’ll do whatever you want.”

“Sweet Renee, do you think I would just let you come into my home, kill my guests, and then simply plead for the freedom of the trash you made, and all would be fine?”

“No, not really. I’m sure you know what my hopes were. No more games Yvette, what do you want?”

“You on your knees, begging me to forgive you. I think we can start with that.”

“Let them down and I’ll do everything you ask.”

Yvette threw her head back and burst out laughing. “You must think me a fool. For once do as you are told, then and only then, will I let them down.”

“Do I have your word?”

“Renee, her words come from the tongue of a serpent,” Jacob said, ready for any move that one of the three men still standing, might make against him.

“I’m sorry, Jacob. I can’t let them die because of me.” I walked slowly toward the woman I hated more than anything, ready to give her my soul if it meant the freedom of my little ones.

“Open the great doors, I wish the rest of her people to see how weak their so called leader truly is,” Yvette announced.

I turned to see a small smile cross Jacob’s face, then the doors slowly opened, and the rest of my people came rushing in, weapons in hand. They, like myself, froze at the site of
Ashley and Brandon. And like Derek, Bo was the first to take off toward them.

“Stay where you are Bo, or she’ll kill them,” I yelled.

“Ashley,” he yelled as tears ran down his face. I grabbed his arm and pulled him next to me.

“How dear, I will very much enjoy adding your little family to mine,” Yvette mocked. “But you Garvin, I’m afraid you and that sister of yours will have to be put down. You should have never turned on your Master.” He never said a word. He stood like the rest of us, not knowing what was going to happen next.

I started my walk back to the monster that I had worked so hard to escape from, and when I was about four feet away from her, I stopped. She didn’t say anything; she just looked down at the floor then back up at me. I turned one last time to see the faces of the ones that so willing came to help me, knowing that I was about to let each and every one of them down. Looking back up at Ashley’s badly beaten nude body, and the look of fear in her eyes, then over to Brandon’s as he shook his head still telling me not to do it. I got down on my knees and lowered my head.

“You are the most pathetic, worthless, weak thing that I have ever seen.” Then Yvette twisted the device to the right.

Silence took my ears and what fell before my eyes moved in slow motion. I looked up to see Ashley’s face, her eyes grew wide as she looked down at me, her limbs pulled taut, and she began to scream, and in one quick motion her body pulled apart. Her arms and legs ripped from her torso, as well as her torso being pulled from the heavy metal collar. Blood flew, spraying across my face, soaking my body. I was still looking up in shock, when the sounds of screaming returned to my ears, and then I realized that it was my voice that I was hearing, along with everyone that loved her that stood behind me. Her head was all that remained, held by the thick metal collar, a look of horror frozen in time forever on her sweet face. A look that I will never forget.

I looked up at the smiling abomination and screamed as I sprang from the ground, right at her. She pulled a blade and caught me across the throat, never fazing me. I had her by the shoulders, pushing her all the way back against the wall, causing her to drop the device,
hopefully saving Brandon from the same fate. I then pulled my own blade, but she knocked it free by slicing my hand, so I used the weapons that Martin had given me. I drove my fangs into her neck, and I began to drain her as she drove her blade deep into my side. All that I heard behind me was the voice of Garvin screaming my name, “Renee...no!” I gave no mind to his words, I locked my arms around that bitch’s body and held tight; her relentless attempts with her blade and me with my grip of death, with no intent of letting go until she was no more.

She and I both slumped to the ground as I relieved her of her precious life fluids. She went down because I was draining her to her death, me because I didn’t have the strength to stand. I took one final drink and she was gone, nothing but ash was left in my hands, seconds later. The battle was all hell breaking loss behind me. I fell backwards and landed on my side. I crawled toward my people, only then did I feel the pain in my side where she had made her mark several times. I rolled onto my back so that I could see if Brandon was still alive. At this point I wasn’t sure if she had managed to do the same to him as she had done to Ashley, but seeing him struggle was overwhelming.

I looked back to the others to find that Jacob was in a mess of about ten. Garvin took on four, Tammy and Jessie fought side by side, against six. Bo, who was fighting two, saw a large sword being swung toward Jacob’s back. He quickly swung his on sword around, taking out the two he fought then he ran and dove taking the sword that was meant for Jacob, into his own chest. I watched as another of my little ones went to his death. Jacob spun but it was too late to help his fallen friend, and continued in his own battle. I laid there and prayed for death, for what I had done in bringing them here. I stared at Bo’s lifeless body, that stayed as beautiful as if he were just sleeping, but I knew the blade hit his heart, because I felt it go through mine.

Jacob moved like nothing I had ever seen, with moves sharp and very precise. One foot to a face, breaking a neck; seconds later a hand going through the chest of another. Then without thought he jumped in midair hitting two at the same time with both feet, breaking their necks at once, landing perfectly on his feet, ready for the next to come his way.

“Your Master is dead,” Tammy yelled at the top of her lungs.

All who heard her froze where they stood, looking in my direction. There must have been fifteen of Yvette’s men left after the battle. Jessie spun to see where her brother was when one of Yvette’s men took his blade and came down across her back, laying her open from shoulder to
hip and she dropped like a rag doll.

Jacob’s body started to shake and the look that came over him was almost unexplainable. I reached my hand out to him, trying to stop what I knew was going to be complete carnage, knowing I had little hope of stopping anything from where I laid, so I too watched. His forehead became misshapen, the bones deformed, his eyes glowed a bright red as his skin pulled away from his now very long fang’s. He no longer looked like the beautiful young boy I first meet, but a wild animal of mass destruction. His sister lay on the ground at the foot of her enemy, no one knowing if she was dead or alive. Jacob threw his head back and the sound that came from his body was not the sound of a human, or anything that once was. It was the sound of something I had never heard and to this day cannot explain. The three men that were left standing near him, dropped their weapons, and began backing up, but he paid no mind. His chest rose and fell as he turned to them first, one screamed as he saw his own death in Jacob’s eyes, and then Jacob was on him.