Fan Fiction ❯ Alex Night: Vampire Hunter Extrodinare ❯ Seal of Day: Chapter Five: This True Evil Revealed ( Chapter 7 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

"You really don't like him," Chris stated as he leaned back on the bar. He watched as the small necromancer shook her head and polished the glass in her hands. Chris stated, "He's a Shadow, you know."
Aurora looked at him with her brilliant silver eyes and snapped, "Yeah, I damn well know this."
Chris smirked and stated, "I'll kill him for you." Gabriel Umbra looked at him and Chris smiled back. "I'd wipe the floor with that pretty face of his," Chris snorted. He was glad that Aurora smiled at that.
She stated, "It's sorta hard to believe that you're the Catholic Church's vampire hit man."
"I've dealt with demons too," he added, looking around for the blond girl again. Chris couldn't get that face out of his mind. He was about to go speak with her when Gabriel called him out the first time.
She raised an eyebrow and whistled, "Boy that's . . ." She stopped, her silver eyes becoming intense and focused as if she was searching for something.
Gabriel moved over to them and gently touched Aurora's shoulder. "What is it, Little Elf?" he asked quietly.
Chris was about to take the Shadow's hand off Aurora's shoulder when she hissed, "Don't fucking touch me. There's something here . . . Like me."
Then Chris heard the gunshot. He drawled, "That didn't sound too good."

Alex dodged the crimson claws reaching for her face. She grabbed the ghoul's hand and swung it into the heavy brick wall. She then smoothly dodged out of the way of another one, pushing it aside as she had easily done with the first. "Come on, you fuckers, you've gotta be sharper than that to deal with me," she taunted as she snapped kicked another ghoul's jaw.
She flinched as a gunshot fired past her ear. She could see fire shoot out from the corner of her eye as one of the ghoul's head exploded in a mass of black fluid and grey skin. Forest was holding out that huge pistol of hers again as she aimed and fired at another ghoul. The blond stated, "Head wounds or burning are the only way to take care of these bastards."
Alex nodded as she twisted a ghoul's wrist before she slammed it hard into the Raven's wall. Forest aimed another four rounds before she twisted in front of Amber to load the pistol's chamber. Alex noticed that Forest was sticking close to Amber, protecting her.
Alex kicked another ghoul away, but she had no way to take them out permanently. Forest shot another six ghouls before trying to reload again.
The child fiend commanded, "This is getting boring. Forest, drop the gun."
To Alex's chagrin, the gun shook in Forest's once steady hands. The vampire's eyes were nothing but endless silver, glowing in the dark. She gestured to the ghouls and they swarmed at Alex at once.
The half-breed got in a few good blows but she was overwhelmed. She was soon being held by six of the corpses, their claws digging into her skin. She struggled and cursed, "Let me go, you fucking bastards!"
The gun clattered to the ground. Forest's indigo eyes were wide with horror as the mini-vamp sprung from her post. Forest snapped, "What do you want, Jennifer?"
The child fiend's smile was absolutely wicked as she answered, "The girl and the gem."
"Fuck you!" Alex shouted, only to get slapped by one of the free ghouls. Claws raked across her face, drawing blood in a crimson rush. She snarled in pain and snapped at the thing that had hurt her.
Jennifer sneered, "If I would have asked for your opnion, halfling, then I would have. You're in over your head, girl."
"Yeah, and I enjoy it," Alex sneered only to get scratched by the ghoul again.
Jennifer's glowing silver eyes rolled as she turned her attention back on a now trembling Forest. Forest said, "Amber, run."
"No, I'm not leaving you," Amber replied.
Jennifer snorted, "Isn't this amusing? The girl that you protected is wanting to protect you."
"It's annoying," Forest managed, her voice becoming slurred as the trembling in her body grew more violent.
Jennifer smiled and made a sharp, downward gesture with her left hand. Forest fell to her knees, crying out and clutching her stomach. Amber screamed Alex's question before Alex could open her mouth. "What are you doing to her?"
Jennifer smirked wickedly and Alex found herself wanting to smack that look off the little bitch's face. She answered, "My dear, I'm a necromancer. Now, that means that I have control of the dead."
The ghouls that didn't have their brains plastered on the ground or the walls or holding Alex advanced to Amber. Amber gave a tiny cry as Forest struggled to stand up. Jennifer made another sharp gesture and Forest actually screamed in pain.
"I have control of her body. I can shape her from the inside out. I can't kill her and she's constantly healing, but it hurts like hell. Now, Forest, where is the gem?" she asked, peering at the crouching vampire.
Forest looked up with gleaming crimson eyes and snarled, "Fuck off."
Jennifer smirked and Forest cried out in pain again. She stated, "Well, I'll just have to reach inside your mind, don't I?"
Forest screamed in pain and Amber screamed as one of the ghouls grabbed her arm. "Okay, you claim that you're a necromancer, bitch, well, I'm glad that I'm not the only one around," Aurora's voice sneered from behind Amber.
The ghouls parted and dropped Alex as if she were on fire. The tiny blond stood there, holding her left arm out. Alex noticed that she had taken off the large, leather wrist band that she wore, revealing scars cut out in something like a rose pattern. She saw the blood drip from a fresh cut and hit the ground.
Aurora's eyes were all silver as well, matching the vampire's. Aurora smirked and stated, "And now any thought of becoming a vampire has been washed away by seeing you."
Jennifer smirked as well and replied, "I was hoping that I would meet you."
"Good to be wanted," Aurora snorted as Forest started to stand up and grab her pistol.
"Freeze! FBI!" a familiar voice shouted as a tall, dark figure emerged beside Aurora, towering beside her small frame. Alex smiled when she recognized Gabriel. And she was happier to note the Lugar in his hands.
Then, a flash of silver beheaded two ghouls that were standing by Amber, who, during all of this, collapsed to the pavement. Chris spun his scythe and crowed, "The Angel of Death is going to send you to Hell, bitch!"
Jennifer smirked and stated, "I've gotten what I've wanted." Then, she took off, leaving her ghouls behind her.
Forest aimed at the retreating figure and took several shots at her. "Don't let her get away!"
Alex took off running. She shifted forms as she did, soon running on all floors and watching the world in black and white. She looked around for the girl and noted that she was gone. She returned back to her human form to find Forest and Gabriel appearing from the darkness beside her.
"Dammit, she got away," Alex huffed, crossing her arms.
Gabriel smiled at her and replied, "We'll catch her, Alex, don't worry."
"Gabriel take your charm and shove it. She knows where I hid the gem and has a head start," Forest said grimly, holstering her gun.
Alex took a deep breath and got her second wind, "So, we go get her."
"Not that easy," Forest sighed as she looked around.
Gabriel shrugged and asked, "Why not? I can just Shadow Walk the three of us there."
Forest grinned and suddenly Alex wasn't as afraid of the child fiend being in the lead again. She tossed back her long, golden hair and replied, "Because the room that I hid the damned thing is made out of solid iron. Any magical being wouldn't be able to get in and unless she picked up hacking in the last ten years that I've seen her, there's no way in hell that she's going to get in."
"A lot of people get into hacking, Forest, why don't you think that she wouldn't?" Gabriel asked crossly.
Forest smirked and explained, "Because she's a technophobe. And she didn't get the access code from me either."
"Not bad for a vamp," Alex commented dryly.
Forest smiled and asked rethoricaly, "Where do you think Minerva learned all of her tricks?"

"I wonder if they're beating that little bitch's ass down now," the blond waitress stated, looking at her watch.
Amber smoothed the folds of the burgundy dress she had picked to go clubbing in. There was something disturbingly similar to Jennifer the vampire and the waitress with the dragon tattoo. Then there was the guy with the scythe.
He was tall with broad shoulders, dressed all in black, but not flamboyantly like the FBI agent, but practically. His black turtleneck and cargos were stylish, comfortable, allowed movement, and let him fit into any crowd. His only adornment, other than his lovely violet eyes, was a silver cross.
Amber focused her unique talent on him. She sensed death, a powerful need to hunt, kindness, a sort of grudging nobility, wit, and that he was very horny. Like almost every teenage boy she decided to read. He looked at her and realized that she was Reading him. He blushed very attractively to his pointed ears, tinting them crimson.
Aurora asked, "So, what are you anyway?"
Amber sensed that tact wasn't a word in the necromancer's vocabulary. Necromancer. The word and power of the dead screamed across the waitress like a siren, pounding like a fist. There was a sense of loss, distrust, and girlish hopelessness carefully hidden beneath the cynical exterior of emotions and feelings that Amber was Reading.
Then Amber ran into something like a brick wall. The necromancer glared with her intense silver eyes and snarled, "Don't read my mind, got it?"
"Rory, quit it," Forest scolded from behind them. Amber spun around to see Alex Night, the Shadow Guy, and Forest standing there as if they had materialized from the shadows. Shadow Guy smiled and Amber realized that she wasn't that far off.
The elfin guy asked, "What happened?"
"Jennifer knows where the Seal is. We've gotta get there," Forest said crossly as she holstered her weapon.
Amber looked at the vampire and played with the necklace that Forest had given her years ago. She had figured out that it was for her own protection and always wore it, not mattering if it clashed with any outift she was wearing or not. Amber asked, "What's the Seal?"
The raven haired girl looked at Amber with brillant blue eyes that didn't hold any human exspression in them. She snapped, "It would be bad for that little bitch to get."
The scythe guy smiled gently and described, "It's a talisman of sorts. It would give vampires the ablity to walk in daylight with the right blood. Apparently, it's your blood."
Amber swallowed as he added, "But I won't let that happen." He held out his large, caloused hand and stated, "I'm Chris Skye by the way."
"Amber Anderson," she answered, gently shaking it.
The Shadow Guy gave a polite bow and looked up at her with those stunning eyes. There was some sort of attracting force to him that he was aware that he had, but didn't know that it was even being used right now. He stood back up and said, "I'm Gabriel Umbra, FBI." Then he grinned at the waitress and said, "And Miss Smiles over there is Aurora Winters."
"Get bent, Fuck Wad," Aurora snapped, giving him the Bird.
Amber licked her lips and asked, "Could you tell me what's going on? Forest told me a little bit . . ." She died off and looked at her hands. Forest had told her that her blood would activate the Seal of Day, a mystical object that would grant a group of vampires the ability to walk in daylight.
Forest had out a digital phone and turned around, speaking rapidly. She sensed relief from the ancient vampire as well a sort of overwhelming protectiveness. Aurora snorted, "I'd like to know what the hell is going on myself."
Alex ran her fingers through her long hair and answered, "Little brat's a necromancer, but you knew that. She's the one looking for the Seal. And she knows where Forest hid it, but Forest claims that there's no way for her to get in there by magic and that she's lacking in the techno compartment." She rolled her eyes and Amber sensed disbelief heavily mixed with the halfling's normal cynisism as Alex added, "If we can belive a leech."

"Yeah, if we can belive a leech that tried to kidnap a helpless little girl," Brandon grumbled as he looked down at his digital phone. He closed it as he swereved a curve in the SUV. Quinn's words were disarming to say the least.
"The vampire wanting the seal is a necromancer and knows where it is. Ami's looking for a magic user and we're meeting Forest at the old Devoe Paint building." True, Quinn stripped everything to it's bearest level, but this was kinda wacked. A vampire necromancer. Like someone had tried to make Rory not to long ago.
Brandon growled softly in frustration as he saw the rundown paint building. ICI had lost almost all of it's stock around 2005 and had to drop the former Devoe paint coatings factory. The building had been left to rot ever sense. Unless Forest did something weird and bought it.
Brandon had to admit to himself that Forest didn't act like any vampire he met or even read about. She did her own thing and basicaly said the hell with everything else.
Hell, if she wasn't a vampire, Brandon would probably find himself in the same sort of situation that Quinn was in, well, if Amanda wasn't in the picture that is. Still, he would of liked to have her as a friend if she wasn't a vampire. Hell, she was even likeable now.
He sighed as stepped out of his X-Terra and grabbed his sword from the back. He fasciened the strap around his chest so that it was ready to draw at his back. He waited and he didn't have to wait long, Quinn's shitty green Dodge Shadow pulled up followed by a classic black Camero. Brandon wasn't a sports car nut like Gabriel was, but he had to appreciate the car.
His jaw dropped open when Alex emmerged from the Camero with Forest. Quinn stepped out by himself and drew his Glock. Forest rolled her eyes and said, "This isn't a raid, we're just meeting Jennifer before she gets here."
"Who's Jennifer?" Brandon asked as he looked around.
Alex looked at the old paint factory and answered, "Necromancing child fiend little bitch."
"You weren't the one's organs she was twisting," Forest said with a wiry smirk.
Brandon had to smile and whistle. He exclaimed, "Cool."
"Not really. Stupid little bitch," Alex grumbled as she started to walk right to the front entrance of the building.
Brandon sighed as he grabbed her arm. He jerked her back and she glared up at him. Forest was looking at the building, probably scanning it for other ghouls. Brandon turned his attention to his cousin.
"What the hell do you think your doing?" she growled, trying to get away.
Brandon snarled, "Keeping you from doing something extreamly stupid."
Alex's smirk wasn't pretty as she asked, "And what would that be?"
Forest answered for him as she checked her gun, "You're entering head first. Don't you use stelth at all? Lupine hunting skills, all that?"
"I like to go in head first," Alex said cockily, the grin getting a hungry look to it.
"And you'll get killed," Quinn intoned as he started to creep from the side.
Brandon snapped, "I was thinking more of the lines of running in by herself." He looked around the building as he shifted his field of vision. The muted colors due to the street lights became a very detailed black, white, and various shades of grey. He saw movement in the shape of a human in several different spots. He narrowed his eyes and focused on the movements. He noticed that Alex was doing the same thing.
Forest asked, "What do you see?"
Brandon looked harder and frowned. The shiny skin and sexless apperence signaled ghouls. Plus they were naked. He answered, "Ghouls." He counted the moving shapes and added, "There's seven of them."
"Not much for a pack of ghouls," Alex snorted as she impatently pushed her hair out of her face.
Brandon looked over at Forest who was frowning. Forest was one tough bitch, even for vampire standards. Not much bothered her, but a necromancing vampire would be a pain in the ass. Literaly from what Quinn had briefly told him. Forest replied, "Not the ghouls I'm worried about."
Brandon asked, "Should we go back and get Rory?"
"No. Jennifer would rip her apart," Forest hissed as she checked her cashe of bullets.
Brandon frowned. Aurora may be tiny, but she was tough. And strong. And mean when she needed to be, but Brandon never felt that first hand. Aurora was under his list of people he protected, but he figured most of the time she could handle herself. Hell, even Quinn was on that list of people.
Forest went on, "You all don't know what you're dealing with so I'll tell you, especialy you Alex."
"She's just a kid and I'm not dead," Alex snorted, crossing her arms, "So the problem is what?"
Forest smiled and it wasn't friendly. Brandon was suddenly aware of how she got her reputation. She snapped, "She's a fiend. Even other vampires fear her. She's merciless, cruel, manipulative, sneaky, and smart. She may look innocent, but she'll gleefuly rip your heart out and then raise you as a zombie as soon as your soul leaves your body."
"Lupines can't be raised as zombies," Alex snorted as she glared.
Brandon nodded in agreement and continued to watch the ghouls. "Well, then she'd just kill you then," Forest snapped.
Brandon looked over at his cousin then to the vampire. "Fine. Then what do suggest that we do about it?" Alex asked sardonically.
Quinn was watching the building as well. He moved a few steps closer and asked, "Brandon, do you think you can take them out?"
Brandon smirked at his friend and drew his sword. "Wanna distraction?" he asked with a grin.
Forest frowned and looked upon the plant with glowing eyes. She mused aloud, "This isn't right. She'd have this place crawling with ghouls unless this is just the icing on the cake."
"What do you mean?" Quinn asked softly. Brandon turned his attention away from the ghouls to focus on the dhampire and the vampire.
Forest turned to Quinn and answered, "I know there will be more in there waiting for us. Jennifer's not stupid."
Alex suggested, "Give me the password and keep the Dead Brigade off of my back and I'll bring you the Seal."
"Nope," Brandon snapped down at his cousin. Alex didn't have the technical knowhow that Forest, Quinn, or he had. She'd challange the vampire to a fight before she'd do something logical like get the gem out.
Alex asked, "Okay, why the hell not?"
"Cuz you know nothing about computers and you'd get too caught up in the big fight to get the Seal," Brandon explained with a smile.
"Bite me," Alex snapped, crossing her arms.
Brandon spun his sword and looked at the ghouls. He gave Quinn a little salute and a grin. He said, "I'll go clear out the door and give you the okay to come in."
Forest opened her mouth to say something, but Brandon was already in motion. He heard Forest grumble, "Quinn, if he get's himself killed, you're telling Amanda."

Minerva looked at the moon's refection on the river and frowned. How could Forest keep something like that from her? She had the Seal of Day for years and didn't even bother to mention it to anyone except Quinn.
And Forest knew who the girl was. She could of told someone until now. Damn her, Minerva thought as she heard Chris talking happily to the girl, Amber Anderson. A pretty little blond thing that looked like an angel who'd been misplaced. Not a fallen angel; little Amber lacked any darkness to her and to make things even worse she could Read a person's true self, which Minerva thought was quite disconcerning.
Minerva growled softly as she stood up. She was sitting on Brandon's roof, wanting to get away from Chris, Gabriel Umbra (who she thought was quite charming by the way), and Amber Anderson for just a moment. She walked to the roof's apex and wrapped one arm around the chimney to steady herself.
She sighed as she looked at the Ohio River and a barge lazily floating down it. She should of volunteered to go with Ami when she said that she was going to bring a magic user who could be powerful enough to destroy the gem. Minerva thought that was going to be highly improbable, not impossible because nothing was truly impossible, just highly improbable.
Minerva stood there in retrospective, thinking about Forest, the Seal, Alex, Amber, Chris, Ami, the Circle, and then back to Quinn. Everything seemed to go back to him. She dug her fingers into the heavy stone and frowned.
Dark, intense blue eyes, that unruly dark brown hair that she always wanted to smooth from his face ever since she met him. He was so distant, so frusterating, and so lost. She had this sneaking little hope that she would be the one to find him, to bring him back to life and to feel instead of not letting anything touch him. Forest had beat her to that as well.
"Damn you, Forest, damn you," she cursed softly as she stood there. Minerva resigned herself to her fate as being cursed, but she didn't resign herself to being forever alone. She mentaly shook herself as she jumped off the rooftop. There would be plenty of time for brooding when everything was over.

The last ghoul's head rolled to the ground and Brandon waved his sword. Alex frowned to herself as she followed Quinn, who she had discovered didn't like talking, and Forest. Brandon grinned and held his black blood coated sword in front of him. He stood at the door and asked, "Who wants honors?"
Alex smirked and went to go kick it in when Forest was kneeling infront of the door, doing something with the lock. Alex asked, "Do you wanna get out of the way?"
"Quiet, they might hear you," Forest whispered as the door opened. Alex switched her vision scope immedieately as soon as she set foot inside of the dark factory. She heard Forest and Quinn get out their guns. Forest instructed, "Everyone on their toes."
Alex started to walk when she smelled something very strange. It was really nasty. Rank, rotting, and just all around gross. She pinched her nose and snapped, "What the hell is that smell?"
Brandon took a stance, making sure that he was infront of them, and spun his sword once. He snarled, "Everyone on their toes, we're not alone."
Alex waved her hand infront of her face as they walked. The smell was horrid and it got worse as they proceeded down the hallway. They reached an elevator and Brandon started to pry the doors open.
The smell intensified and Alex heard a low, steady, moaning. Alex spun around and her mouth dropped open. There had to be at least thirty of them, rambling down the hallway in tattered clothing, peices of flesh falling in rotting shreds down their faces and bodies. She made a stuttering sound and pointed wordlessly as they advanced. No one was paying any attention to her, they were working on making the elevator work.
Alex reached over, not tearing her eyes from the horrid sight of the undead army advancing on them, and tugged on Brandon's shirt. Brandon snaped, "Not now Alex. You can bitch about this to me later."
"Z-z-zombies," Alex stuttered, backing up into Quinn.
Quinn stated in his monotone, "Watch where you're going. She's a necromancer and I can smell the zombies too." She elbowed him as she continued to back up from the horrifying sight. Quinn spun around and he pulled out his gun. He immediately started aiming at the zombies and firing at them.
Brandon snarled and stepped beside Quinn. He pushed Alex over to Forest, who was now in the elevator. Alex glared as Brandon shouted, "Go! We'll take the zombies! Just get the Seal."
"Come on," Forest coaxed as she gently pulled Alex into the elevator as she hit the button to go to the bottom level.
Alex breathed, "I've never seen so many before. Ghouls, sure, but not zombies. It's worse . . ."
"Yeah, I know. You fell sorry for them, but pitty the dead later, we've got work to do," Forest told her as she tried to get the elevator to go down.
Alex watched as more zombies kept coming, despite Quinn firing rapidly. Quinn cursed softly as he ran out of bullets and Brandon stepped infront of him, swinging his sword to take heads. He didn't bother plowing into them, he just stood in front of Quinn and carved a bloody, headless path. She noticed that the two of them were making sure that none of the zombies got past them.
Forest said something that had to be very unplesant in a language that Alex didn't recognize. She knelt down and ripped off the bottom hatch off of the floor. She started to slide down the portal as she looked up at Alex. She said, "Follow me." Then she slid through it. Alex sighed and followed suit, wrapping her hands around the steel cable as soon as she got through.
Forest let go and did a wild sort of freefall. Alex looked up and saw Brandon's feet approaching. She heard more curses, mainly Brandon, running down his litany of insults, then more gunshots along with the horrid zombies' moaning. Alex closed her eyes and let go.
The air rushed up around her, her stomach felt like it flew into her throat, and finaly, after what seemed to be an hour's wait, her feet hit the ground. She hunched up her muscles from the impact and stood up. Forest was there and she slid her fingers through the door and began to pry them apart. The metal lurched and groaned heavily, but the doors opened. She only pried them enough for them to slide through.
Alex looked around. There was a dim light here and she could see. There was no horrible stench of zombie here, but she could smell the trail of Jennifer the Necromancing Vampire. Forest smiled and said, "We're close."
They started to run down the corridor. Alex had to ask, "So, how are we planning to kill the little bitch?"
"We won't have time, trust me. As soon as her zombies and ghouls feel that she's in distress, they're all going to rush to her aid," Forest explained as they ran.
Alex nodded then asked, "So, how do you plan to get past her?"
"That's why you're down here. Tear her apart as much as you can before I get out," Forest answered with a tiny grin.
Alex smiled wolfishly and streched her neck. She replied, "That sounds like fun."
"I knew you'd like that plan," Forest said as they continued to run.
They reached the end of the corridor. Standing there beside a door with a computer locking system was Jennifer. The vampire looked up and said, "Glad of you to join . . ."
Forest didn't give her the chance to finish. She pulled out her gun and emptied six bullets into Jennifer. The bullets ripped holes through the small vampire as her blood and thicker matter smeared against the wall. Forest typed QUINN into the keypad and the door slid open. She slid into the room as the door closed behind her.
Jennifer, surprisingly, stood up, blood smearing her face and clothing. Alex snarled and plowed into her, changing as she did, tearing into the small vampire with razor sharp teeth and a ton of bite power. The vampire clawed at her, snarled at her, tried to bite her, but Alex was faster. She lunged in for the killing blow, tearing the throat . . .
Then the next thing she knew she was flying through the air. Her back hit the other wall with a loud crack, but the pain meant nothing to Alex as she stood up. Jennifer's eyes started to glow silver and Alex smelled the zombies again. She lunged herself at the vampire again.
The door opened and Forest stepped out, shooting Jennifer again, this time between the eyes. Alex stood up on to legs and snapped, "I thought you used silver bullets!?"
They began to run again, except this time their way was blocked with zombies. The things were blocking their path and they could only push and kick them so far. Forest grunted, "When a vamp gets old enough, we gain an immunity to silver. Still hurts like hell and it is harder to heal, but not as bad as a young vamp's reaction to it." She snapped kicked another ghoul as they tried to move.
Alex wrestled a pair of zombies to the ground and shouted, "Thanks for the infromation!"
"Leave the sarcasm for later, we've gotta get the fuck out of here!" Forest snarled as she started shooting zombies through the head. Five shots later she put away her gun and resorted to using vampire strength and speed.
There was a loud, familar howl and Alex's eyes widened. Charging through the path was a huge wolf creature that stood on two legs. It wasn't like a werewolf that looked like a cross between a man and a wolf, but more like a hulking wolf that stood on two legs, had hands, and slender muscles rippled under the fur. Claws slashed through the zombies as Brandon reached them.
Brandon said in his growling, inhuman voice, "Com'on!" Alex wasn't about to dissagree with him as he reached out for them. Forest grabbed his hand and Alex grabbed his arm. Within moments, they were shimming up the elevator.
"Where's Quinn?" Forest shouted as they climbed. Alex pulled herself into the elevator portal followed by Forest. Brandon was last and he had turned back into his human form, except he lacked the special suit that Alex had and was perfectly nude. Brandon wasn't naked, he was nude.
Alex noticed the pair of cargo pants lying beside her and chucked them at her cousin. Brandon slid into them, managing to keep moving as he did. Quinn was standing there, looking bemused, beside were Brandon had shoved his sword into the carpeting. His eyes brightened as he looked Forest over.
She dangled the jewel infront of herself. It glowed like a captive sun in her hands. It was even more beautiful than the fake. "Got it," she said proudly if a little wearily.
Quinn walked over to her and gently brushed a lock of blond hair from her face. Forest took his hand and smiled slightly. Alex snorted, "You all can make out later, it's not gonna take the zombies that long to get up here."
Forest tossed the Seal to Quinn and said, "Keep it safe. I've gotta see someone." She headed out to her car and Quinn to his. Brandon shrugged and walked to his X-Terra.
Forest shouted, "Hey Alex, know a Sprite named David?"
Alex froze and looked at the vampire.
Forest smiled briefly before she started to get into her Camaro. She stated, "I thought as much."
Alex thought, There's something definately wrong with me. She called out, "Wait up!" Then, at the severe look of disbelief on Brandon's face, she ran over to Forest's car and got in. "If you're going to see David, I'm coming," Alex told her as she buckled up.
Forest started the engine and shifted gears. She smiled and said, "Good because he wants to see you too."