Trinity - The Prophecy (20 page)

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Nikkee jumped out of the car and ran across the road. I followed her out and so did Sky.

“Nikkee wait
,” I half spoke, trying to keep quiet.

“We have to help, Dustin isn’t here it is just them
,” she whispered back.

“Dustin could already be in there
,” Sky said.

“We have to do something Trinity
,” Nikkee said as if pleading with me.

I wanted to do something too; waiting in the car was only going to send us crazy.

“Okay, we are going to sneak in. If they are having a war, then we will slip past them and go get Vex, Garth, and my blood. Then we will go find them,” I said and they both nodded. “Do you think Jason will have any weapons in his car?” I asked.

Nikkee shrugged and we ran back across the road.

Sky popped the trunk from the front of the car, mine and Nikkee’s mouth dropped.

“What tha…” Nikkee said.

“Oh cool,” Sky said as she came and looked.

“This is awesome
,” I gushed.

There were knives, crossbows, daggers,
machetes, small knives, and arrows. The trunk was full of all sorts.

“It’s like opening a
Kinder Surprise, but better,” Nikkee said.

“Oh, this is going to be fun
,” Sky said.

I grinned at her. It felt like that, yet it was also dead serious.

“Ok, let’s just grab something to help us if we need it. Something small like those knives,” I said pointing to the ones I saw before.

We each grabbed one and looked at it. They were like a big fishing knife.

“I don’t want to have to kill anyone but if it calls for it, I will not be holding back,” Nikkee said in a fearless tone.

Sky and I gave a short nod of agreement. I shut the hatch mournfully as I wanted more toys to play with. We stood there for a moment and just looked across the road.

“Are we ready?” Nikkee asked.

I reached my hand up to my neck and held onto my necklace. I thought for a moment. We could do this, they would not expect it. I let my hand drop back down and said. “Hell yes, I am ready
,” Sky gave a chilling grin as if it was the best day of her life.

We crossed the threshold in the forest. It felt like walking through a thick fog even though there were none around.

“Did you feel that?” Sky asked.

Nikkee shook her head and I replied, “Yeah, it’s the spell boundary. It feels kind of different now, though, I still feel like normal me,” I said, frowning.

“Me too
,” Sky said.

We kept walking as fast and as quietly as we could.

“How far did you have to run?” Sky asked.

“It seemed ages but I was hungry and weak, so it could have been one hundred meters for all I know
,” I admitted as I could not quite think of how long it could have actually been.

“Let’s jog then. Are you sure it was this way
,” Nikkee asked.

“Yes, I am not sure how but I do.”

“But you don’t know how long?” she asked with a smirk.

“No
,” I smiled back.

“Works for me, let’s go
,” she commanded.

We jogged along at a normal pace. Good thing we were reasonably fit and
I had gotten a B- in sports at school. The forest was dark, but the moon constantly reminded me that my time was running out as it shone through the trees giving us enough light as we made our way through dense shrubs and bushes.

The trees started to thin up ahead.

“I think we could be close,” I whispered.

We stopped and listened. We couldn’t hear a
nything, not even any animals.

I started walking quietly and after another hundred meters, I saw the cabin. I put my hand up so they would stop, I bent down behind a bush and they came up quietly.

“Looks like someone is home,” Nikkee said as she looked to our destination.

We waited and waited for someone to walk past the window where the light was coming from.

“Maybe not,” I said, as there was still no movement inside.

I took a few steps closer and waved for them to follow. I ran across the clearing and placed my back against the cabin walls.

We walked along the side and then up the stairs. I opened the front door quietly with my heart trying to jump through my chest. No one came. I stood there for a moment and then walked inside past the table and into the kitchen where the trapdoor was. It was left open. That was not a good sign.

I went down the steps cautiously trying not to make any noise. I reached my hand up, felt around for the string, and then pulled.

The room was also empty, but the cell doors were still shut. I sighed and prayed that they were still in there and alive. Nikkee and Sky joined me and we walked up to the doors together.

“You open that one and I will open this one
,” I said to Sky.

I wasn’t sure what we would be walking into. Sky was not a wolf yet, but she would have built up more strength, preparing so she could handle it a little better than our human friend could.

I grabbed the latch and forced it up as hard as I could and then the door was released.

I opened it and looked inside then I was on my back with a sneering face touching his nose to mine. His eyes were blacker than the night, and I looked straight into them with my own and watched as they slightly changed to a pale blue with every second.

I heard Nikkee scream and the sounds of air being knocked out of someone. I had no idea how I did it but fear for my friends had my adrenaline kick into high gear, I pushed, and Vex went flying back into his cell. I leapt up from my back and spun to my side to see Garth on top of Sky. In a few short steps, I reached them, grabbed Garth by the back of his shirt and flung him off her. I grabbed Nikkee’s hand, pulled her to me, and moved her around behind me to where Sky was now standing up. Garth snarled and his teeth and claws were exposed. Vex on the other hand had collected himself and was standing near his cell door.

“Hurt my friends and I will put you back in there
,” I said in an authority tone.

His breathing slowed and his eyes started dying down to a normal brown.

“Shit. Sorry,” Garth said and added, “I thought she was one of their puppets.”

Sky grinned and then dropped to the floor clutching her stomach in pain and a moment later, I did the same.

It was excruciating, much worse than period pain. There seemed to be no words. I bit down on my lip to help hold the screams in and then it slowed and went. I was on all fours breathing heavy.

“The change is starting
,” Garth said and walked over to help me up.

“Is it going to get worse?” Sky asked, breathing heavy also.

“Yes,” he said in his deep voice.

“We have to hurry then. We need to find my blood
,” I said in between deep breaths.

“Marie took
it,” Vex said.

I looked at him. “How do you know that?”

“The spell started to falter, the barrier is still up, but it is nearly completely broken, that is how we were able to break out of our bonds. We started getting our strength back so I was able to hear what was going on,” he answered.

“Where has she gone?” Nikkee asked.

“To the new sight of bones,” Garth said.

“Crap, how far away is that?” I winced.

“About a kilometre that way,” he said, pointing north.

“Right lets go
,” I said running to the stairs.

“No, you three stay here
,” Garth commanded.

I spun around and pointed a finger at him. “NO. If it weren’t for us, you would still be in your cage. We are not going to stay, so either you come with us or we go alone
,” then I turned back, ran up the stairs, out of the kitchen, through the lounge room, and out the front door and my face met a fist.

I was knocked back and slid across the floor on my butt and my back slammed into the couch. I reached my hand up and touched my nose. I felt wetness on my fingers and had no need to look to know it was my blood. I grinned and looked up to see the person who had punched me was Brandon.

“Shit, Trinity, your eyes,” Nikkee said in a disbelieving tone.

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Before I could respond Vex was on Brandon out of nowhere tackled him out of the doorway, off the veranda and down onto the ground. Nikkee ran over and pulled me up.

“Freaky,” Sky said with an almost scared look.

“Your eyes turned so bright and f
lorescent. Nice, but scary,” Nikkee said.

“It must be my grumpy look
,” I said and grinned.

“Come on, we have to hurry
,” Garth yelled.

We ran out the door, down the steps and past Vex laying into Brandon.

We then followed Garth back into the forest, and left Brandon to the arse kicking he deserved.

We ran as fast as we could, I held my knife tight and the girls did the same. There was a loud bang and then the night air was filled with howls. We ran faster and got closer to the noise until we reached a dead part of the forest. In a large area, every tree and plant was dead, nothing but rock dirt and petrified trees that opened a way for the moon to shine like a light and let us see the monsters fighting.

I stopped in my tracks and looked with wide eyes. Garth had run straight into the fray. We could hear screams and howls. I scanned for Jason and Lachlan, but I could not see them. I heard a song or rather a chant. I looked over the far side and saw Marie standing on a rock ledge. I went to run in her direction, but a snarling female blocked my path and threw her fist right were Brandon had punched me.

She did not pack as much of a punch as he did, my head just went back and then forward again. I swung my arm that held the knife, but she dodged it.

“Bitch,” she said with a sneer.

I grinned. “Puppet
,” I retorted.

“Oh no
, I am here of my own free will honey.”

“Even better, I won’t feel as guilty if I kill you then.”

Her leg came up and kicked me in the ribs. I felt the crack and it dropped me. I didn’t stay down long, I needed to get rid of this wolf, but I was no combat fighter. The only other fight I ever had turned my best friend into a werewolf.

I started moving my right hand around in a cross action and hit my target down the side of her face. She screamed in pain and then pounced on me knocking us both to the ground.

Her body went limp and lay heavy on me. I closed my eyes for a moment and then opened them. I knew what had happened; she had landed on the knife I was holding. I couldn’t move, I was frozen. Sadness and grief struck me as the realization that I had just killed someone.

I felt the pressure release as her body was pulled off me and I looked into Sky’s face. Her makeup was smeared and she had a lot of blood on her. As if she knew what I was thinking, she shook her head, reassuring me it wasn’t hers.

“Where is Nikkee?” I choked out.

Sky pointed to where Marie was. I jumped up and left my anguish on the ground for another time, I could not deal with it now, with so much going on.

Droplets hit my face and I looked up, as it started raining. The sky was still bright with only few clouds. I took a few steps towards where Nikkee was and saw Marie punch her. She fell back, rolled on her side and smashed her palm on the ground. I didn’t know what she was doing. I started running as the rain started pouring down faster. My hair was sticking to my exposed back and my face. I swiped it out of the way.

Marie screamed and then turned around and started running into the woods, Nikkee jumped up and followed her.

“NO, Nikkee wait,” I called out.

My screams were muffled in the mud as I found my face on the ground.

“Get off her,” I heard Sky scream.

I felt my hair being pulled and my face rose off the ground and then pushed back down fast. My nose crunched again and I thought, how many times in one night can my nose possibly break?

Then fear sprung back for Nikkee. I heard a thump and a growl and then the hands that held me were gone.

I rolled over and wiped the mud off my face so I could see and stood up.

“Go! Now Trinity, get Nikkee,” Sky yelled as she swung her knife at the wolf that held me down.

I took off sprinting towards where Nikkee and Marie and started heading into the forest. I dodged fights and hoped no one would get in my way.

The forest was darker and not much light shown. It made it hard to see
if I was three monsters in one. I dropped to the ground and screamed, clutching my hand as it felt like someone was trying to rip my fingernails out. I breathed deeply, trying to push through the pain, it did no good and I let out another blood-curdling scream that seemed to echo through the whole place.

It slowly eased and I looked at my hands. They looked normal. I pushed myself to stand and start running again. I heard screaming ahead and
pressed myself further only to come to a stop as I found the source for the bellows.

Nikkee looked at me and put a hand to her chest and it seemed like slow motion as I watched her body fall backwards onto the forest floor.

I stood there, looking where she fell. I felt my body vibrate and my hands shake. I looked to Marie and I wasn’t sure what I looked like, but it scared her, and she took a step back.

“She ruined everything
,” she screamed as if trying to defend what she had just done to my friend.

I started walking closer to her.

“You should not be. Sherra made a grave mistake. I am only undoing it,” she yelled at me.

I kept walking as if I was calm, but I was anything but. My eyes were locked onto her. I was going to make her pay.

I made it until I was right in front of her. “The only thing that needed to be undone was yours and Eba’s birth. And I will gladly take it from you,” I said in a slow, calm voice as I brought the knife up to her neck and slit her throat.

She blinked as the blood started flowing out fast and then her body dropped along with the knife in my hand.

I turned and ran to Nikkee. I knelt down, picked up her head, and rested it in my lap. She blinked up at me.

“I smashed the vile of blood
,” she whispered and lifted her hand to show the gash and cuts that were on her palm.

“You won’t die now
,” she said with a weak smile and a trail of blood started seeping from the corner of her mouth.

“No, Nikkee. I don’t know what to do?” I whimpered as tears were streaming down my face.

I closed my eyes, put my hand to my neck, and clutched my charm.

I don’t know what to do; I don’t know what to do. Help me. I screamed inside my head.

I felt a warmth gush come over me and then a voice spoke. Pick a side.

My eyes sprung open and I looked around. There was no one but Nikkee and Marie’s dead body. I lifted the charm up and studied it and then my eyes went wide. Old Mothers
’ tears. I had already thought of the pendant as a raindrop but it was a tear. Carra’s tears.

Choose a side.

I looked down at Nikkee and her eyes started to slowly shut. I placed her head back on the ground and leaned over her body and I whispered in her ear. “I will not let you die for me. I am choosing a side…Mine,” then I bit into her neck and sucked.

My body sprung to life as adrenaline and the biggest rush I had ever had kicked in. I sucked again and my taste buds begged for more. It was like tasting the best cup of coffee and wishing the cup would never empty, or a meal that you wished would never end. I could gorge myself for days savouring every drop. I was lost from the buzz, my morals had left for a moment and I wanted to eat
every human I could find but then I felt warmth on my shoulder and I paused, unclenched my teeth from the human and snarled. No one was going to take my dinner.

“That is all you need
,” a deep voice spoke. The same voice from my dream. The same voice as Garth. I looked behind me and saw no one there.

I shook my head, puzzled and then back to my human meal, back to Nikkee.

I bulked as I looked at her, she was my friend not my food and I was trying to save her. I brought my wrist up to my mouth and moved it under my predator teeth slicing it open. I winced a little from the pain, but moved it to Nikkee’s lips fast. I opened her mouth and let the blood soak in.

Tears started springing from my eyes again. What if I drank too much of her, what if I had killed her myself.

I tried to concentrate. I could hear low, shallow breaths that seemed to get stronger and stronger with every gush of blood that flowed freely from my wrist.

I heard a branch snap and then someone suck in a deep breath.

“Trinity, what have you done.”

I looked over to Sky who had long, sharp nails coming from where her normal nails should be. Her teeth down from her gum just like a wolf and her eyes a bright brown that glistened in the moonlight.

I looked back to Nikkee and saw her chest move up and down and the stab wound in her chest was no longer bleeding. I pulled my wrist away and stood up, Jason and Lachlan came into view.

He looked to me and then to Nikkee
, I answered Sky’s question.

“I have picked a side.”