"Well Adein you seem to have seen better days. What happened? Did someone break you?" I asked as he came closer.

"As a matter of fact, you did. Now I'm going to ask nicely, whatever it is you did to me, reverse it." He said to me with a smile.

"And why will I do that? You think I'm stupid. I'll rather just kill you and be done with this." I replied to him nonchalantly.

"In the spirit of fairness, aren't you n.o.bles supposed to fight all your enemies on equal ground, as a means to protect your honor or something?" He said to me as the corner of his lips and eye lids twitched fiercely.

"First of all, Adein. Do I look like a normal n.o.ble to you? I'm a f.u.c.king vampire dumba.s.s, what works for me as a human is a whole lot more different for me as a vampire. Besides, you're not worthy of honor, even in your death." I answered him as I took a step forward.

"Are you sure you don't want to reconsider, you might regret it." He said to me with a nasty grin.

The tone he used this time raised warning signs in my mind as I began to feel suspicious. It would be too much of a rookie mistake to think that Adein did not have a plot of his won cooking somewhere. This fight was way to important to the both of us, and because of that, it's going to be as crooked as possible, and filled with numerous potholes that would deter both our momentum. But by now, without any prior knowledge of what he has planned, I could do nothing but move forward and roll with punches.

"I've come to far to regret wiping you off the face of the earth Adein. If there's consequences to be had for killing you, I welcome it wholeheartedly." I said to him with a resolve in my conviction.

"Well then, that's a pretty speech. You've made your bed Kael Cor, and you're going to lie on it. But before we start, I have a gift for you."

After he finished speaking a bundle was thrown from within the crowd of guards that followed him. Soon enough it was followed by a couple of others, I didn't look at what was thrown, but focused my attention on Adein, and that was until I heard Kodak's broken whisper.

"No….."

I looked down, and there was decapitated head at my feet. And on it was a face that was all to familiar to me. Someone who has shared in my tough times and hard times. It was Kodak and Gus's mother Va.r.s.essa. And it was not just her head that was on the ground, but also different parts of her body, all ripped apart and mangled. Everyone around me was familiar with the handwork of werewolf, she was shown absolutely no mercy.

I couldn't turn around, I couldn't. Gus and Kodak were right behind me, and at my feet was the mangled and torn apart body of their mother. The only parent they had left after their father was killed in much the same way. Adein was a monster, but he was not done yet. Three guards came forward, and ripped in their hands, were the crying forms of Nivae and Lynn; Gus and Kodak's sisters. And with them was also someone all too familiar, it was Nisi.

"What do you want?"

I asked Adein in a subdued tone, barely above a whisper. To any body here, without a doubt, he had me beat, he had me broken. He had won.

"Oh how the mighty have fallen! YOU THOUGHT YOU CAN DEFEAT ME....HUNH! SHUT UP! I WON, I ALREADY WON, I SAID SHUT UP!"

I had no idea who he was talking to, but I couldn't react in time as Adein abruptly got up from his wheel chair and swung his whip behind him towards his guards. The guards hastily scattered, but the one guard who the whip was heading towards, was also the person who was holding Nisi. I was a vampire, I could teleport, but I couldn't get there in time. It was almost as if I could see everything happening in slow motion as that whip flew towards the guard, who chose to use Nisi as a s.h.i.+eld rather than run away. There was a flash of silver and I was there, I was there, I swear I got there in time. I held her, but her eyes were closed, her body was cold, cold like the earth.

Then her skin began to crack, turning into tiny flakes as the broke down, and turned to dust. Dust that was blown with the wind, gone, just as if she never existed in the first place. She was in my arms just now, and then nothing! Nothing. I could vaguely see Asare grab Nivae and Lynn, burning quite a number of guards to ash in the process. But did I care, what just happened, how could they be gone.

ARGHHHHHHHHHH, ARGHHHHHHHHH!

Adein screams drew me out of my stupor, and I turned to him, eyes blazing and my fangs throbbing out of my gums with a ferocity that it has never experienced before. All I had left of Nisi was a residue of dust in my hand, dust that lurched tightly as the black band around my right wrist moved like liquid to reform into my sword. I looked at the mad Adein, who was crazily swinging his whip around like a mad man, he had lost it. There was murder in my eyes, but I was not the only one looking at him like that, the bloodl.u.s.t and rage in my eyes, were shared by three others. Adein was trapped in a circle, and his executioners were me, Teluna, and the heart broken brothers Kodak and Gus. We wanted blood.