Chapter 35
*****Strix’s perspective*****
Suddenly a bunch of hushed thoughts not voices several miles down the road caught my attention. It seemed we were about to have some visitors. I quickly alerted the others and we prepared for war. It was up to me and Rose to decipher their thoughts. There were ten of them and we could only read two of their minds; the others were blocking us. The two we could read were constantly at odds with their own thoughts that it was hard to tell what they were actually thinking.
As they got closer to the house I realized it was Michael and most likely the rest of his clan. (While locked in that cage, I learned that the wanderers were what remained of the Fairchild Clan.) Then I realized it was nearly midnight.
Michael’s family was very different from ours. It wasn’t like they were aliens or anything but they might as well have been. It was like they were stuck in the eighteenth century or something, except for Michael who dressed like it was the nineteen eighties; even their clothes looked like they were from the seventeen hundreds. They had lived off the grid for most of their existence, relying on Michael to survive in the modern world. They had decided that it was time for them to evolve and adapt to the new world that grew around them.
Michael somehow got past the wolves and snuck up on me. Ben saw me from the backyard and came in just in case I needed him. Jason, who was just itching for a fight, came in with Shawn, he felt my fear and anger, and Kyle right after Ben. Ben and Jason grabbed Micheal and held him while Shawn and Kyle tore him apart. Then they left me to clean up while they went back to the fight outside. I found some powdered corpse flower and powdered dead man’s blood on the counter and mixed it together. This combination keeps vampires from regenerating, and keeps them dead, dead. No amount of magic will bring him back. I made enough for the other nine vampires outside, hoping we would kill them all.
*****Taylor’s perspective*****
I saw Ben, Kyle, Shawn, and Jason running from the house covered in blood. I hope Strix is okay. Phoenix said the protection runes would keep her and the baby from harm. Not that she has acknowledged she is preggers, yet. I was burning a vampire alive when he screamed for Michael. Must have been his blood on their clothes. I continued to burn him until he was nothing but ash. Then I ran to find Phoenix. Wolves and vampires were fighting everywhere. We easily outnumbered them five to one, at least. I almost got knocked over when a wolf threw one of the wanderers to another wolf. It was close, but I dodged just in time. The wanderers were no match against us. They were going down fast.
*****Ben’s perspective*****
After killing Michael, I ran out of the house to help Scott with the vamp he was fighting. As I approached, Scott grabbed the vamp in a bear hug and held him. I then ripped off his head and ripped out his heart.
“Strix okay?” He asked.
“Yeah, we took care of Michael, he’s dead.” That’s when we heard the screams. Two voices screaming for Michael. “Must be his parents. They’ll be joining him soon.” With that we went to help the others.
*****Shawn’s perspective*****
With Strix now safe in the house, I ran out to help the others. I saw a wanderer sneaking up behind Phoenix and rushed over. I grabbed him from behind and snapped his head clear off in one bite. Then I went to help Phoenix with his vampire. And then it was over. All the wanderers were dead. Strix came out of the house carrying a bowl of what smelled like death. It smelled worse than the corpse flower tranq dart from that day. She walked up to a dead vamp, knelt down, and reached into the bowl pulling out the disgusting powder. She then punched a hole in the vamp’s abdominal cavity and mixed in the powder.She must have felt my confusion because she looked up at me.
“This is so they cannot come back, even with magic.” She stated.
“I did not know you could bring a dead vamp back with magic,” I said.
“If you have all the pieces and a witch to do the spell, but they won’t be the same when they come back. They tend to be more aggressive. Don’t want these guys coming back.” Then she went to the next corpse and did the same thing.
She did that with all of the wanderer corpses except the one that was ash, that one she just mixed the powder into. Afterwards, we burned them all to ash in a huge bonfire. There’s no returning from that.