When they need us, they will hunt us, when they shun us, they burn our names from history itself.
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The council Gathering.
"Oh Ember, if I didn't want to kill you before, I want to do it now." Thalia hissed as lightning flickered off her in threatening flashes. "Please, I summoned you here so we could talk, all of us know that we can't face the threat out there without the help from each other, we have peace once again, and those things out there are threatening our peace, we need to unite and fight together." The girl argued as the others in the room nodded in agreement. All the next in lines of the mystic community were in the council room, along with representatives of independent families, who wished to live without the rules of clan leaders, it also made them easy pickings for whatever threat there was, so it was wise sticking to a united front that Ember was proposing. "You have all of them here, they can fight." Roman argued as they were led to open seats, Marc was the first to sit, as Roman sat next to him, Allen followed, then Thalia, Amon had to take the vampire seat as did Lex with the wolves so that they were recognized.
"True, but we don't have enough power, and supplies, this could turn into a full scale war, and we don't know if all our resources can handle that, we need help, from the wolves, and the vampires." Kyren the fae leader spoke her long grey and blueish hair accentuated by the light. "My wolves will not be part of this, mystics always put wolves to the forefront of fighting battles, and when we need help you turn a blind eye." Lex stated his voice dominating every part of the council. "Then what do we do, are your wolves so protected in the barrier you've created for them, a safe haven for only wolves, isn't that a bit selfish Lex." Briar the banshee stated with a questioning brow and Lex growled his eyes flashing crimson. "No its not, my wolves are protected without question, and who I chose to be kept safe in that haven is my damned decision, there is no selfishness in that, its not as if we didn't ask the banshees to help us with a cure when the rogue kanima attacked us, and you barely paid us any mind, you've never cared about us, why pretend now." Lex drawled as his fist was clenched. "The wolves won't be joining this war." He finally stated his decision and Ember rose up in anger.
"Put away your pride wolf, we've all done some pretty shitty things to each other, that doesn't mean when we truly need help you turn us away, that's not the wolf way!" Ember snapped as her power spiked in the room. "Of course you would try and use that, I'd advise you to fall back Ember, your spear is dangerously close to my mate, I wouldn't want to cut your arm off for threatening him." Roman spoke gently but everyone could feel it, his magic had now overtaken the room, it burned at their very souls. Ember realized that indeed her spear was threatening Lex and she pulled it back, vanishing into little lights. "I'm sorry but as you can see he's being stubborn, we need help, and you Roman must understand out of all of us, what this means, you have the power to kill them, be rid of them once and for all but you stand by and watch." Ember stated waiting for Roman to reply, but the witch snickered. "You think this is funny." A vampire from an independent house called out and Roman's eyes turned to catslits. "Not in any way, but I won't stand to hear a girl who knows nothing about what my life has been since she's been gone, to accuse of not doing my part, when your brother turned all our lives miserable, who finally put an end to him, I did, when your brother tried to harness my best friend's life in exchange for his mates who stopped him, I did, so girl, don't mind me when I'm not self sacrificial with a bloody bleeding heart for idiocy." The witch snapped back and everyone was silent, Roman was right, they had all seen the light of a new day because of him.
"But now more than ever we need your help, the awakening has begun, they will kill our friends and family, like they did before, they hurt us and eat our very souls for sustenance, Roman, any power we can get to make sure our families and friends live, we will do anything to get it, and that means you, your coven, your mate, the hybrid, all of it." Briar asserted and Roman nodded as he sat down. "I cannot make the decision whether or not we help you, but I've made my stance clear." He concluded as Lex looked into his eyes, they burned with love. "I'm sorry Ember, Kyren, Briar, my mate won't risk the lives of her people, therefore I cannot join your alliance, the vampires are protected and that is all I need." Amon spoke finally, as he knew what Thalia had wanted, before this council meeting, a friend of Kay's had attacked him, and the witch had burned him to oblivion, she made herself clear than crystal that the vampires would stay in their territory protected, and if anyone disobeyed that order, they would know her wrath, and because Amon was a good boy, he listened to his queen.
"Amon please, don't do this." Ember begged. "Any of the independent vampire families who wish to join their clan, now is the time to do so, I won't open the gates again." Thalia announced looking at the vampires, some of them ran straight into the portal, some stayed, that wasn't Thalia's problem now. "The wolves will not join you, and the pack has no independents therefore they're all protected, we are your outcasts Ember, this is what you made us into, we aren't self sacrificial and we definitely are not powerless, goodbye." Marc stated without room for argument as he took his mate's hand and vanished, Roman was by Lex's side in an instant and vanished with him aswell. A yellow portal opened in the council room and Vincent walked out from it, his presence regal, as any high born witch, he was surprised that the mystics in the room didn't look away in disgust like they did before, he scoffed and turned to Amon. "The killings have begun, Kaden's siblings and the lower ghouls have risen." He whispered low enough only that the vampire heard him. "You might want to start preparing Ember, they have risen." Amon announced as he stood up from his seat, took Thalia's hand in his and they walked through the portal Vincent had come from.
~|• Wolf Territory.
"Incendia." Roman cast the spell as fire burned away the lower ghouls, they just kept on coming, barraging the barrier Marc had created, but the more they tried to get past the barrier, Marc's magic either destroyed them or absorbed them making the barrier stronger. "They just keep coming." Roman mumbled next to Allysa who just looked on at the ghouls with anger swirling in her eyes. "You knew, and you didn't tell me because you wanted to spare my feelings." She finally broke the silence and Roman sighed. "It was a crude way but that's the only way we could've helped you, he had enchanted you and if we hadn't found a way to break you away from him, I wouldn't have forgiven myself." The golden haired witch explained and the girl beside him sighed. "I always bring trouble to you guys, I'm sorry." She sadly muttered and Roman shushed her. "Hush now, you've never brought trouble to us, we are just unlucky with these things, don't blame yourself for it, and look on the bright side, you got that whole package as compensation for whatever shitty things you might've experienced later or might've gone through already." Roman comforted as he gestured to Danton the vampire, he waved back at them with a dashing smile. "Goddess he's thick, I can see it all the way from here." Roman joked and Allysa smacked his arm laughing. "Now that's what I want to hear, laugh, you deserve to be happy, in whatever form it comes in." He added and she hugged him again as they looked at the dark sky, Roman hoped this would be over soon.
"So, I hear you did the do with him, I have to say he's good looking, but that body completes him." The witch began again and Allysa giggled like a school girl. "I needed to forget, and Goddess he made me forget and now remember things." She confessed as the two giggled again. "Ventus—." Roman cast the spell and paused. "We are trying to talk about boys here!" He yelled as the spell blasted away the lower ghouls. "Hhm, I like the sound of that, so have you decided to keep on forgetting." The witch teased and Allysa looked back to Danton. "Gurl, you know I am." She confessed and they both burst out laughing. "Roman!" Kay yelled in the middle of the hoard, he couldn't get close though, as the lower ghouls protected him. Allysa also turned to face the now man she had fallen for so easily. "Did you think changing the spell wouldn't work in my favour?!" Kaden yelled as he sent a bolt of black lightning into the sky. "No!" Roman yelled as up above a dark cloud began to gather then release a wave of magic that blasted everyone, the barrier was still intact but they had all been knocked out, even the caster of the spell himself. Roman coughed as he staggered to his feet, what had the psychopath done.
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