"Outlaw! Talon! Wake up, we need to speak with the two of you." Danny said, shaking me awake. We groaned, but rolled out of our bunks and followed him anyway. We walked into the conference room, where five others were sitting.
"This is Batman, Frodo, Athena, Mermaid, and Faerie." Danny introduced, and we nodded at them. Frodo pulled out a slip of paper, slamming it on the table. Looking closer I saw it was a wanted poster... for me.
"What is this?" I asked, feeling my anger grow. Frodo leaned back in his chair, glaring at me.
"Why do they want you? Why does it say murder?" He asked, his eye twitching.
"I don't fucking know!" I yelled, running my hands through my hair. Athena slid the poster towards her, reading it silently.
"So Ashley, are their any of the vampyres now that may want you back?" She asked calmly, and I groaned.
"Matt... I was about to kill him when Talon told me that we needed to go. I surely thought he would either bleed out or burn when the sun came up again." Mermaid got up and rubbed my arm. Her silver hair was pulled into a tight braid.
"Do you think that maybe this... Matt could have told others that you were alive?" She asked quietly, and I felt ice water plunge into my veins. I felt weak, and began to sway.
"Whoa! Take it easy there!" Danny said, catching me before I began to fall.
"Brit Boy... Andy, CC, Jake, Jinxx and Sammi were infected... They thought I froze to death from the blizzard..." I began to feel sick to my stomach. "Meaning... they want me back. And not just as a human..." Talon looked shocked too.
"They want to capture him and infect him. We can't let this happen, Outlaw knows too much about future attacks against the vampyres. We must keep him away from the vampyres." Faerie said, and jumped up from her chair, muttering orders into her walkie talkie.

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I was never allowed outside of the compound for the next few days. Talon was assigned as my personal guard, and we actually started to get along better. But we had gotten reports from the other quadrants in America about how every vampyre was out looking for me, determined to get the prize money that waited on my head. I was anxious, and the amount of dead vampyre bodies began to grow outside of the base. And then, it happened. We recieved a letter from the nearest vampyre city, a letter that made our blood run cold.
Dear Rebellion,
You have someone in your possession that are looking for. If you do not hand him over, or if he doesn't surrender himself peacefully we will declare war. And this will be a war you cannot win. At sunset tomorrow we will be expecting him outside of the rebel base, unarmed and bound. If you refuse to comply with these wishes we will have no choice but to invade the base, taking Ashley and as many humans as possible. Choose wisely.
We all sat in the conference room in silence, a huge burden now placed on our shoulders. Even though I did not want to give myself up, it was the right thing to do.
"I'll go. No matter what they do to me, I will never give up any information about the rebellion. It's better this way." I said, and saw the look of hurt on both Talon's and Danny's faces.
"But Outlaw... You can't!" Talon said, getting close to tears. I pulled her into my arms, hugging her tightly.
"It's better to sacrifice one, than to sacrifice many. I'm sorry Talon, but I need to do this. I can't let any of you get hurt." Talon began crying in earnest. After wiping her tears, I pulled my shotgun off, placing it in the middle of the table, followed by my many hidden knives and guns. A pile was on the table after I was finished, and I walked out of the conference room.