Chapter 14: Assembly

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*Lilith P.O.V.*         I could not believe what I had just heard, I was speechless. “Throughout the years we have learned many things about vampires, they can be made as well as being born. And vampires also have mates. When you meet your mate as a vampire the smell of blood will become sweeter, and your heart will stop beating for about a minute.” I looked over at Adrian, this is exactly what had happened before my fangs came out and the hunger took over. “born vampires stop aging the moment they first feed on blood, vampires that have been turned, they stop aging the moment they awaken as a vampire” it seemed that Cole was finally done talking, “So from this moment on I will not age?” I was a little worried, Adrian would probably age while I stay the same. “What does that mean for Adrian and me?” I asked him. “Don’t worry about that, werewolves live for many years as well” Cole reassured me. “Or you could always turn him too” my shadow said in my mind I could tell she was smirking creepily like she usually does. “huh, that’s an idea, we would be with our mate forever” Ilene purred. It seemed like she was getting along well with my shadow.                Adrian walked up to me and hugged me from behind, “I can feel you worrying, just don’t think about that for now” he buried his head in my neck and took a deep breath, I could tell he was thinking about it too. “well enough of that, I brought you here so that I can show you how to take your wings out” my eyes widened “My what?” I almost yelled. Cole looked at me annoyed for a moment before letting out a sigh, “did you not pay attention to the story? You are a descendant of the first vampire who happens to have wings, which means you have the ability to take out wings of your own” he sounded disappointed that I didn’t pay attention, but I did I just happened to forgot about that part. “I paid attention, I just forgot” I looked down embarrassed that I admitted that out loud.  He shook his head back and forth in a disapproving manner and walked up to me while putting a hand on my shoulder. “you have to pay more attention from now on, you have many responsibilities now, we are getting ready for a war, and when this is over, you’re going to be a Luna. Just try not to get too distracted ok?” “Yes, grandpa” I said in a mocking tone and he smiled “Good, now let’s get started.”         “Close your eyes and focus on your vampire self. Feel the blood running through your veins. Listen to the sound of your heartbeat.  Breathe in and breathe out” I started breathing slowly focusing on the beat of my heart, I could hear my heart pumping, and with each pump I felt the blood running from my heart spreading out to my arms and my legs. “Good, now picture your wings. Imagine your wings making their way out from your back” I was listening to everything Cole was telling me to do, I pictured myself having wings, my body started feeling itchy, tingles ran up from my shoulder to the tip of my fingers, my legs felt weak and numb. My back started feeling hot, the tingles were getting stronger and stronger. I wanted to scratch my back; the feeling didn’t hurt but at the same time it did. Then I felt it, the pain, between my shoulder blades the skin started breaking. First a small rip that slowly grew bigger and bigger. “AAAAHHHHH” I cried out in pain; tears started to run down my face. I dropped down on my knees and dug my nails into the ground. I wanted to bite into something hard so badly so I could tolerate the pain better, but there was nothing.         My fangs made their way out, I was desperate to bite something. I heard the sickening sound of skin braking apart and in a big swoosh, my wings spread out on top of me. I pointed them up and brought them down fast making me take off in flight. I don’t know where I was going, all I knew was that I needed to sink my teeth into something. I heard someone crying for help, I slowed down to see where the screams were coming from. A man was trying to mug a woman, with my super speed I snatched him up without her noticing me, leaving her confused, I sunk my teeth into his neck and drained his blood, when I was done, I dumped his body in the ocean. “What are you doing?” I heard Ilene in my head “I’m hungry” I snarled back at her “get ahold of yourself, you’re letting the hunger control you” she growled back at me. she snapped me out of it, “You just killed someone, even if he was a bad man, you killed him” Ilene softened her voice.         I just stood there flying in the air showing no emotion whatsoever, did I feel bad about just killing someone? Huh, I don’t think I did. He was a bad man who just so happened to be my source of food. “We should probably head back, Adrian and Damon will be getting worried” Ilene said, “You’re right, let’s go back.” I flew back to the waterfall spot where we were. “I’m sorry I took off just like that, and for taking so long” I looked over at Adrian with apologetic eyes, he was staring back at me speechless and with admiration in his eyes. “Actually, you were only gone for about 5 minutes” Cole said when he noticed Adrian wasn’t going to speak, he was too lost looking at me. “You look so beautiful” was all he managed to say, I’m fairly sure I could see his eyes twinkling. “Wait did you say Five. Minutes? Wow, that felt like I was gone for hours” I took my attention away from Adrian and admitted “It does feel like that the first time, but you’ll get used to it, and eventually you won’t confuse time anymore.” “That’s great news, so how do I put these back?” I pointed to my wings “Just relax and think about them going back inside” I closed my eyes and thought about my wings making their way back in, I felt a pinch between my shoulder blades and when I opened my eyes they were gone. “Well we should probably make our way back; you still need to meet everyone” Adrian walked up to me and took my hand in his and lifting it up to his lips where he placed a soft and gentle kiss. We started walking making our way back. *Adrian P.O.V.*         The story of the first vampire, I had heard it before, but I wasn’t expecting him to be Cole’s father, just how old was that monster anyway? I don’t know what the point was in telling this story again, but then I remembered that Lilith didn’t grow up learning about any of this, this was part of her, and she needed to know. Somehow a good kid had turned into an evil man wanting to destroy everything. When I heard Cole tell Lilith that she needed to learn how to take out her wings, my attention diverted to her now, I wanted to see how she would look with her wings. She closed her eyes and started focusing on everything Cole was saying. Not long after, I could see her making faces; I don’t know if it’s because we marked each other we could feel what each of us was feeling, but I felt my whole body going numb, then it felt like a whole bunch of ants were crawling all over my body. My back grew hot and enormous amount of pain shot through in between my shoulder blades. Whatever I was feeling was probably nothing compared to what Lilith was going through.         I hadn’t noticed that I was crouching down on one knee, I looked up to see Lilith, she had gone down on all fours and tears were running down her face. I wanted to go to her and wrap her in my arms, try to take away her pain somehow. Just as I started moving towards her, wings popped out of her back in an upward position, they came down so fast she took off flying knocking me down backwards with a hard thrust of air. “Where did she go?” I asked Cole as I stood up on my feet again, “don’t worry, she just needs to stretch her wings a little bit and get used to them, she’ll be back.” “I didn’t quite get a good look at her because she took off so fast, but I’m pretty sure only wings came out of her, her skin didn’t change like yours does”  “I guess we’ll know when she comes back, I didn’t expect her wings to have so much force and got knocked down myself.”         After about five minutes Lilith made her way back, for some reason I thought she would be gone for an hour at least maybe more. She landed a few feet in front of me and I couldn’t help but stare at her she was magnificent. “I’m sorry I took off just like that, and for taking so long” she said with apologetic eyes, but I couldn’t take my eyes off of her. She looked exactly the same, except for her ears, they were longer, pointy, and stuck to the sides of her head. Her wings were those of a bat, jet black and each one about five feet long, I was in awe of her. She was talking to Cole, but I couldn’t hear what they were saying I was too busy admiring her, then her wings were gone just like that. I walked up to her and took her hand lifting it up to my lips so I could place a kiss on it, “well we should probably make our way back, you still need to meet everyone.” As much I wanted to stay there with her by ourselves, we had a lot to get done today, starting with assembling everyone.”         We made it back to the field behind the castle, tents were set up everywhere and campfires were set ablaze outside of a few of them. The castle was big and had many rooms, but as big as the castle was, it couldn’t fit everyone that had joined us. “My uncle wants to see us in his office before we assemble everyone for a meeting” Lilith said, she must have gotten a mind link from Derek, since I wasn’t from this pack I couldn’t mind link him and vice versa. We headed up to his office where Raven, Dominick and Blake were waiting already, “I guess we’re the last ones to arrive huh?” “Unless you want to include your Beta in as well?” Derek suggested “No that’s ok, I can fill him in later” “Great then let’s get started.”         “Wesley just gave me word that everyone is here, the majority have made camp outside of the castle, and those we housed inside are mostly the Leaders of every group that arrived and some others that got lucky enough to get a room. We will be holding a meeting around 1 P.M. with the Alphas and Betas of the werewolves, the Nobles of the vampires, and the Elders of the witches. We decided it would be easier to meet with them all at once and then they would talk to their people in what we discuss in the meeting.” “So, what exactly are we going to talk about?” Lilith asked. “Mostly when we will be attacking, and then they might ask for a demonstration of your powers, at least the witches will. We all have to be present as leaders, my brother and I also because we are the Gemini twins; Lilith nobody has seen a child of a Gemini in years so many are curious to meet you and see what this whole thing is about” Derek already sounded exhausted, I looked over at Lilith and she just nodded, nervousness starting to show a little on her face. “Don’t worry beautiful, everything is going to be fine” I gave her hand a squeeze and brought her close to me to lean on my chest as we sat down on the couch.                *Lilith P.O.V.*         After we left my uncles office, we had about an hour before we would make our way into the great hall for the meeting with all the leaders. I was nervous, how was I supposed to give a demonstration to all these people? I had practiced magic when I was in the time space, but that was different I didn’t have an audience. They were probably going to judge how much I have improved. I heard somebody running towards us in the hallway, my dad and uncle were trying to catch up to us. I looked over at them and raised my eyebrow, what could possibly have them acting like this? “Lilith, I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you sooner but, happy birthday sweetie” my dad brought me in for a hug, after he let me go uncle Derek pushed him out of the way and gave him a look to move away, then turned to me and smiled brining me in a hug as well “Happy birthday Lilith” “Thank you both” I laughed at their sibling rivalry.         They started walking back the way they came from pushing each other back and forth, each time harder than the last, until one of them pushed one to the floor taking off in a sprint, the other getting up and running after the other one, laughing the whole way. “They act more like teenagers than adults sometimes, I heard Wesley said that even Cole joined in one time” Adrian was laughing at the way they were behaving, and I joined in on the laugh too, it was entertaining watching them horse around, but I couldn’t imagine Cole doing it too. “well, they certainly missed each other, we should get some food before heading to the great hall” I grabbed his hand and led him over to the kitchen where the omegas were preparing massive amounts of food for all of our guests with the help of other packs. The kitchen was crowded, so we took some sandwiches that were stacked up on a tray and went for a walk outside while we ate them.         As we were walking around, I heard a scream and turned around to see Cathy running up to me, Darrion looking at her amused. She took me in a hug and twirled me around once “Happy birthday Lilith, I can’t believe you’re finally 18” she squealed “So how does it feel?” she excitedly asked, by then Darrion had caught up to her and took her in a hug from behind “Alpha” he nodded looking a Adrian and Adrian nodded back. “Honestly I don’t feel any different, I mean, Ilene showed up three days ago and I forgot that it was my birthday this morning” I laughed scratching the back of my head, “that’s understandable I guess, but be ready later I’m coming to find you and you’re dressing up” she started walking away waving her hand “Dressing up for what?” I yelled at her, “Oh just because, bye see you later” she threw a kiss at Darrion and disappeared around the corner of a tall bush.         I looked over at Darrion who looked like a puppy in love looking back at her. Is that how I look when I look at Adrian? Then I turned to look up at him and he was just staring down at me with a huge smile on his face. I guess it is, then I smiled back “What a marshmallow” Ilene joked in my head “Oh shut up, you’re worse” I snapped back “true, after all he’s big and handsome, I just want to be with him all the time” she purred and I felt my shadow roll her eyes at her, I laughed out loud. “What’s so funny?” Adrian asked, “Oh nothing, just something Ilene said” I turned to look a Darrion. “hi Darrion, I don’t think we have been introduced yet, and if we were then I forgot and I’m sorry, it’s been a crazy few days” I gave him my most sincere smile. “Luna, you don’t have to apologize, and yes I’m here to join you for the meeting, all Betas are required to go” “please call me Lilith… well should we head on inside then?” Darrion nodded and led the way inside Adrian took me in a hug “You my dear mate are an amazing woman, so polite” I blushed “Come on we got to go inside” he put me down and we followed Darrion inside the castle into the great hall.         When we walked into the room, it was already full. My dad and my uncle were at the very front, so we went to join them, at their side Cole, Dominick, Wesley, Darrion, and Raven were waiting for us to join them. When we made it to the front, everyone turned their attention to me, “welcome friends” my uncle boomed through the room for everyone to hear and just like that all the attention was on him now. “I wanted to thank each and every one of you for joining me and my family, as most of you already know we gathered everyone asking for help in protecting my niece. Most of you joined to finally end the reign of the Vampire king” you could hear chatter throughout the whole room, my uncle raised his hand to quiet down everyone and continue speaking. “it doesn’t matter what the reasons for joining are, but we all agree on one thing, that the vampire king has to go… He is a powerful threat to not only werewolves, and witches, but to his own kind as well. Many vampires have been killed by his hand; he seeks power by taking it from whoever he pleases. At this very moment we have something that he wants. My brother and I being the Gemini twins are stronger and faster than anyone of you other werewolves, my brother being the eldest having a magical power of his own. King Vladimir seeks this power for himself, he has recently learned that my brother had a daughter with a vampire Gemini twin, making her a hybrid more powerful than any vampire and werewolf, possessing unknown magical powers that could grow to be more powerful than a witch. Vladimir has already taken the power of the vampire Gemini’s and many more before them. We believe that if he were to ever possess my niece’s power, he will destroy every werewolf and every witch, and any vampire that stands in his way. We are the only ones that are a threat to him, we are the only ones that can stop him and keep him from reaching that of what he wants the most, we will do everything we can to stop him and put an end to him once and for all.”         My uncle raised his fist into the air and everyone that was in the room cheered and threw their fists in the air as well. So much power emanated from everyone, I took a deep breath in and felt powerful and confident. Coming together was the best plan we could have, we will defeat king Vladimir and Ciaran, and we would do it together as one. After everyone was done cheering they suddenly turned to me and stared, I looked over at Adrian and he was smiling at me and made a small head bow, why did he just bow to me, I looked around and everyone bowed also, what is going on here? We will follow you, our queen into war, I heard someone say. I looked over at Cole for answers “why is everyone calling me their queen? What is going on here?” “you let out an aura more powerful than anyone has ever felt, everyone always looks up to the most powerful creature in their species. You being a triad automatically makes you the most powerful out of all of us in here, for every race not just one.”         I looked back out to the crowd and everyone was smiling at me, they somehow had accepted me to lead them into war. “Embrace it, you are their queen after all” my shadow said, for now I will be strong for all of them and lead them into war, after we defeat Vladimir then we’ll see what happens then. “Thank you everyone for being here today, now that we have established why everyone has joined. We will now create a battle plan, uncle?” “yes, Cole has a spy that is roaming the castle right now, we have learned that Vladimir has been recovering by drinking the blood of some unfortunate humans, our best chance of attack is now, while he is still weak, we cannot wait for him to recover fully.” Uncle Derek said “We also know that he has an army of vampires, those who were compelled by him to be his followers, and those who worship him. There are about five thousand vampires protecting the castle, they are expecting us. With that being said, we will attack in waves. Vampires are strong and fast; their attacks are deadly and can kill you in an instant. Wolves and vampires will be at the front of the line, witches will follow behind creating protection barriers and attacking with spells. This way we hopefully don’t have to suffer any casualties. Only another witch can break a barrier so this way we have the better chance of attack. We outnumber them easily. But we also don’t know how strong Vladimir will be.”         “It is most likely that they won’t all attack at the same time, so we will send one thousands of each for the first wave, and a thousand of each for the second wave, by then we should be able to break inside the castle, where Vladimir will be hiding under the protection of all the rest, everyone else will stay back for backup in case we need it. Once we are in there the strongest of every kind will join my brother and I, Cole, and Lilith. hopefully, we’ll be able to take him out fast” my said after my uncle had finished his part. “Once Vladimir is dead the rest of the vampires that are left will be free of their compulsion, and hopefully we won’t have to kill them as well” Cole added. “Now we will need each of you to talk with everyone and figure out who is going to be in the first wave, second wave and the rest as backup, that is it for now. We will leave tomorrow morning. For tonight join us in Celebrating Lilith’s 18th birthday, and just have one last day of fun before we go fight” with that, the meeting finished, and everyone exited the room.         Adrian and I stayed behind so that I could speak with my uncle and dad. “Dad? Uncle? Do you really think it’s a good idea to have a party right now?” I asked, “Of course, turning 18 for a wolf is a big deal, and you only experience being 18 once. I know it doesn’t seem ideal right now to have a party right now, but that’s exactly why we are doing it, it’ll be good for everyone else too” my dad smiled at me and brought me in for a hug, “Don’t worry about anything sweetheart, everything will be fine” Uncle Derek said and joined in on the hug too. “Thanks guys” I said and smiled. Being here right now felt really nice, I had my family and they loved me, they wanted me to be happy and have fun. I was lucky to have them in my life. Apparently, everyone felt like hugging today because Cole and Adrian joined in on the group hug too. Odalis and Cathy were the only ones missing out, I’ll have to find them later.         Adrian had to go and talk to his pack warriors to get them ready for tomorrow, I wanted to meet them, but he said that since it was my birthday I should enjoy the rest of the day instead of worrying about war stuff. So, I mind linked Cathy and Odalis to see where they were, they both told me that they would meet me in my room, so I headed upstairs. When I got to my room they were already there and had a whole bunch of dresses laid out on my bed, “what is all this?” I asked as I walked inside, they both turned to me with mischievous smiles. “It’s your birthday, so we are dressing you up!” Odalis squealed “Um? I don’t know how to feel about dresses. Last time I wore one it got shredded” I said remembering how when I shifted, the dress I was wearing ripped into tiny pieces. “It’s a party, you’re not going to need to shift. Go take a shower so we can start picking out a dress then do your hair and makeup” Odalis pushed me into the bathroom and closed the door. I heard her giggling on the other side of the door and running off to somewhere in the room. I sighed thinking there is no way I am getting out of this, so I jumped in the shower and cleaned myself.                When I came back out to the room, Odalis had her hair done and was working on Cathy’s hair, “Hey, just pick one of those dresses and try it on, I’m almost done with Cathy’s hair then we’re moving on to yours next” Odalis said trying not to lose her focus on what she was doing. I walked over to the bad and saw there were more than a few dresses laid out, there was one in particular that caught my attention and I lifted it up to take a better look at it. It was a maroon dress one shoulder strap with two blue lines going down from the shoulder to the other side ending on the side of the hips, with that side running down longer than the rest. “I like that dress, I think it’ll look really good on you” Cathy yelled out looking at me through the mirror, “Thanks” I smiled at her “I think this is the one I’ll wear” I said.         I went in to the bathroom to change into it and came back out, Cathy and Odalis both looked at me with wide eyes, “Damn girl, you look good” Odalis blurted out, then we all cracked up laughing, she motioned for me to go sit on the chair of the vanity and started curling my hair. Even though we all laughed the dress really did look good on me, maroon went really good with my skin color. After she finished curling my hair we moved on to makeup, I really didn’t want to do much, so I just went with the usual eyeliner with some mascara and lip gloss. Cathy put on a purple dress that had a wide swing skirt and came up just above her knees, Odalis wore a blue strapless dress skintight that came halfway down her legs. We all decided to wear converse instead of heels, the castle was too big to walk around in heels. It was now around 7 p.m. so once we were ready, we headed downstairs.
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