Winter
I watch in fear as Wyatt is held by Talen and his friend. He lets Talen inject something into his neck that looks like a thick, silver liquid. Wyatt falls to the ground as Atti is shackled by a pair of handcuffs by two other vampires. They are white and glow yellow when they are locked around both of Atti’s wrists. They both kneel, still watching me but in pain. I can see it in their faces. The vampires are slowly running out of the room, and the king grabs me by my arm, removing the blade from my neck. A few of the vampires are standing at the side, watching us.
"Did you think I wouldn't know who she is?" he says, looking directly at Wyatt, who doesn't reply. He just stares at me. I see Alex, Leigha, and Drake from the corner of my eye. They are moving slowly around the food table on the one side. Using it to hide.
"The prophecy girl,” the king says and laughs.
“You don’t even know who you are. Who your little family is?" the king says close to my ear. I see Wyatt try to move closer, but Talen kicks him in the chest, and he falls to the ground.
"Time to learn some secrets, little princess; a princess I will make sure is never queen," he says and pulls me in front of him, I trip on my dress and nearly fall over. The king catches me by my arm, his grip is painful.
"Stop!" Wyatt roars, trying to fight his way out, but whatever that injection is doing is making him weak. Talen only has to punch him once, and he falls the ground.
“You’re a coward, you can’t even fight your son without the use of silver,” Atti shouts. The king doesn’t respond to him, and I just stare up at the king’s empty, black eyes.
The king doesn't even look his way as he holds the silver dagger in his one arm and pulls my hand towards him. He cuts a deep cut from the middle of my palm up my wrist. I scream with pain, and the room goes fuzzy as blood pours out of my arm.
Everything seems to slow as the king pulls out a large blue stone. The stone is inside a silver circle, and it hovers inside. The king pulls my arm above it, and my blood drops on to the rock. The stone falls out of the silver circle and onto the floor. The king throws me to the side, and I land harshly on my side near Atti.
"Winter," Atti says breathlessly. I couldn't see it before, but I can now. He looks in pain.
I groan, holding my arm as I watch the blue stone glow, the glow gets bigger until it's the size of a large car but as tall as a tree. It stretches to the ceiling of the massive room.
Only a second later a blurred, blue figure walks out of it. The shape looks vaguely human, but it's not. It’s too tall, too broad.
"Demon king," Wyatt’s father, bows his head, and the shadow laughs deeply.
"Your body will do nicely," it says, its voice sounding like nails being grated on stone.
"No, my son is for you," he points at Wyatt, but the demon king doesn't listen and moves towards the vampire king.
“I have the human and vampire army you need under the castle, and we can work together. I kept my son alive all these years so you can use him, he is younger and a waste of existence, anyway,” the king screams. I glance over as Wyatt watches his father. Pain stretched all over his face.
"I help," Milo’s voice comes from next to me and sees him walk right into my face as I lie on the floor. I’ve never been so glad to see the Oreo-covered little demon.
"Help Atti, he needs the cuffs off to get us out of here," I whisper and Milo nods. I sit up painfully as he walks around me, and I grab the dagger that's fallen to the floor with my good arm. Blood is dripping all over me, but I can’t give up. I stand, just as the demon’s shadow floats into the vampire king’s body as he tries to run away. His body shakes, but he doesn't make a sound as a light-blue glow surrounds his body. An eerie silence fills the room as we all stare at the back of the new demon king. Talen and his greasy-haired friend run out of the chamber, apparently giving up on their king rather quickly. Unfortunately, there are still two guards standing next to Atti.
A grunting noise breaks my gaze from watching them running away. I turn to see Leigha and Drake fighting the vampires that were holding Atti. Alex is helping Wyatt up, while I turn to see Milo glowing blue on top of Atti’s handcuffs. He glows like I do when I use my powers, how odd.
"Finally, we meet," a crackly, deep voice says, and I turn to see the demon king watching me. I wouldn’t know he took over Wyatt’s father’s body if his voice hadn’t changed. The new king looks the same, but as I look closer, I can see that his skin is greyer than usual, and his eyes are glowing red like he’s just fed. The king’s body is glowing a faint blue.
"Who are you?" I ask.
"King of the demons, and you are my granddaughter," the crackly voice says as a grin spreads across his face.
"What?" I stumble back, dropping the dagger.
"See, when your great aunt killed herself and locked me back in my dimension, the stupid goddess cast a curse. Only one of her blood line could break it," he waves towards the blue stone on the floor. The glowing, blue wall shimmers a little as five shadows like the demon kings come out of it, and just stand like ghosts waiting to be ordered to do something. What has the vampire king done?
"Winter," Atti shouts, and I see him standing in line with all my friends. Atti has an arm wrapped around Wyatt, who is struggling to stand. Alex is holding Milo with Drake and Leigha next to her. They are all holding hands, and Drake’s hand is on Wyatt’s shoulder. I realise they are waiting for me to get close, so Atti can get us out of here.
I run over, ignoring my blood on the floor and the wave of dizziness I feel. I grab Atti's outstretched hand.
Just before we disappear from the room I hear the crackly voice of the king, "You will come to me, just like your mother did before she died."