Falcon

I had a terrible feeling that something bad was about to happen, but I had an announcement to make. The sun had just set, and I gathered our forces around the courtyard.

“I have a message for all of you. I ask that you remain strong and vigilant as an attack may be on the horizon. But I do have good news. Excellent news in fact. We have found a cure.” Cheers roared through the night sky along with questions and tears. I waited for them to settle down before I continued. It took a long time, but I was finally able to address them, “I must tell you that it will be months before all of you will receive the injection. I know that’s not what many of you wish to hear, however until we can find a way to mass produce it, we have to wait. We have already administered the serum to my nephew and sister-in-law and a few others as we tested its viability. I wish to ascertain the actual number of those suffering from the curse. Please fill out the forms below with your names and your immediate family that are affected. I will be working on the list in batches. Remember that you have gone centuries without sunlight, waiting for your turn should be manageable. I am sorry that I cannot give you all the serum at once, but as it is, I will do my best to get the rest for us.”

“Can you tell us who discovered it?”

“Yes, I can. My mate, your queen.”

“All hail Queen Leonora!”

“Thank you,” I told them, but I must go. The radar showed that they were nearing the island. We didn’t have long to prepare for their first attack. “And know this. Should any of you, fight over it, harm or threaten to harm my mate or anyone involved in the process, you will not receive the serum. Goodnight.”

Draco and I teleported to the first ship. “Let the games begin,” I said. There were only a handful of men on this one. We easily destroyed the humans, sending them into the water to be eaten by the sharks and any other sea scavengers that wouldn’t mind picking their bones clean.

“On to the next,” Draco chuckled out before we went to the next boat. One after the other we killed all those aboard. They hardly put up a fight. A part of me felt this was all a diversion from their true motives, but it wouldn’t be long, and Nora promised to tell me if they came for her. I didn’t have time to dwell on it. A distracted mind would be a dead one soon.

“One more to go. I’m not looking forward to this,” I told him. “They aren’t even worthy of our effort. Maybe we should just send a missile on this one.”

“That sounds like a plan,” he responded, giving me a slow nod. We teleported back to the island and targeted the ship who was turning about. They were chickening out. We couldn’t have that now. Draco slammed the button, sending the missile toward the ship. And with loud, howling screams and splashing water, we watched the ship explode.

Just then, another alarm went off this time it wasn’t the island. The castle was under attack. “We have to help them.” We got there, and it was total chaos. How the fuck could this have happened? The men were fighting in and outside the forest around the castle. Then I saw two jets. The ones Charlotte saw coming. The bombs fell from the first jet. I didn’t have time to stop it. It crashed to the ground just to the back of the castle, setting the backside ablaze.

Screams and cries of our people being burned and dying screwed with my head. There had to be over five hundred Lamian soldiers and their human men fighting ours.

I had to get on that plane before they released another missile. Teleporting onto the top of the cockpit, I tore off the glass and steel, pulling the fucker from his seat, sending him to his death. The fucker ruined my damn castle again. He was lucky I took my family away from there. I jumped in and flew the plane to the edge of Lakes Garda and let it plummet into the water. It crashed through the semi-hardened icy water with a loud bang.

I dashed back to the battle. The swords and guns were going off. What the humans didn’t know was our men were faster than their bullets. One of the many benefits of our species. The Lamia didn’t prepare them for us. I saw several of my men turn to dust from a group of vampires and it felt like I’d been struck myself. Enough.

“Draco, let’s do this.” Dante and his hard crew were killing a batch of humans when several vampires came up behind them. Draco and I got there first, slicing every single one of their heads off. Dante turned and stabbed two of them with his Sai. We butchered that group, but there were still hundreds of soldiers going around. Fuck, I saw three women were being corralled by some human men. I knew damn well what their vulgar thoughts were. “Spoils of war,” I heard one of them say. That was it. I rushed over there and ripped two of their heads off while the other two opened fire, but the fucking idiots stood on opposite sides of me and all I did was teleport out of the way sending the bullets into each other. With their armor on, they weren’t dead yet, but I grabbed one of the guns and tapped two to each of their heads. “Run back to safety,” I yelled at them. They shouldn’t have been here in the first place. They probably came to help their mates. That was a big mistake. I went full force back into the battle. Bodies of humans were scattered around. And the breeze carried the bodies of our fallen. The other jet disappeared, but I had a feeling that Draco did the same thing, tossing it into Lake Como.