“Draven killed your mother…didn’t he?” Alex turned back to me and he became a shadow with the light behind him, making his presence even more menacing now I knew his plan, but more importantly, where his plan had grown its roots from.
Then those roots grew deeper with one truth…
“And my father.”
Lucius
Chapter 41
Caliburnus
I could barely believe I was back in this town let alone stood outside the one place I vowed I would never set my eyes on again. Well, not unless I had a sword in my hand and was about to face my enemy but oh, how things had changed and all in the name of one troublesome little blonde.
And speaking of troublesome little blondes I knew any minute I would be receiving yet another panicked call from my once King and someone I had pledged my loyalty to. So how I found myself back here after the part he played in my demise was down to one core point…The Electus.
Of course I was rational enough to know the reasons why he did what he did in keeping the spear tip from me but still bitter enough not to give a fuck. Or at least this was what I told myself and also at least finding comfort in the knowledge that Draven had also been fucked over by the Fates just as I had.
“Ah just as predicted.” I said to myself as my phone started blasting out Rage Against the Machine’s, ‘Killing In The Name’, which I found very apt for my current mission. I rolled my eyes to the Heavens I still loathed before swiping across the name Dickhead that I had Dom stored as a contact in my phone.
“I am standing outside Afterlife.” I said in answer to what I knew would be yet another demand as to my location.
“Any signs of her yet?” Dom barked at me from the other side.
“I have tracked them to this point but as you know I will not be granted access into the Temple…unless…?” I left the question unasked and I smirked when I heard the frustrated growl coming from a Being I knew was close to the edge of losing his famous temper. I would have thought for a Being as old as he was that he would have learnt the level of control needed with both great power and position.
“There is a way in.” He finally said after a few contemplative moments and this time the bastard in me grinned.
“But of course.”
“Facing the building walk down the right hand side and you will see an access door, to the right of that is a hidden door above you, get there and call me back.” Dom said petulantly and then hung up.
“Charming as always.” I said looking at my phone screen and now seeing the new Lamborghini Veneno I had on order. I looked back up at the building and even in the dark I noted how much time the ivy had had to take over the pale stone. I expected to see the mortal line of bodies waiting to get inside and unbeknown to their simple minds a feast for the council I was once a part of. However, this late into the night more souls were resting than not.
Oh those were the days. Having the essence just walk right up to your door and literally beg for entrance. Although my distaste for the race helped fuel the power that was enforced upon me, I couldn’t help but feel compelled to aid in their survival. This sense of duty was of course renewed since the Fates intervened forcing me to see myself differently and finding that image was mirrored back in the eyes of one blue eyed girl. One mortal girl created to change the course of impending doom. But on a more personal level the one girl who managed to bring me back from the dead sands of time and forced me into the light of the living sea.
She had done the impossible and given me a peace I hadn’t wanted to have ever admitted I was searching for.
“Sneaky…very sneaky, my little Keira girl.” I said to myself as I shook my head smiling at the thought of my people’s Chosen One. The possibility of the fate of the world resting on the shoulders of one feisty little blonde from Liverpool was a thought that always had me shaking my head with a knowing smile on my face.
I could just imagine what it must have been like for her back in those naive days of innocence. The first time she had taken these steps back when she had no clue of the hunters closing in on her heels. Two Kings that each wanted separate things but in the end they had become one and the same. It hadn’t taken me long to begin my obsession with the girl and soon that started to override one that had been with me since my rebirth. Because in the end the Fates had decided that my destiny was to follow one path and for a long time I had believed it to be my king but now I knew the truth.
It was his Chosen One.
And now it was once again time to save the little bird before someone clipped her wings. So with this new mission in mind I walked to where Dom had told me and with each step I took going back to a time. One that was tainted with bad blood now made pure with the Spear of Longinus embedded beneath my new wings. And it was these wings that I now used to fly up to a small balcony that unbeknown to Dom I already knew about. What I didn’t know however was the words needed to gain access to the building I had once been welcomed into.