Blood Secrets: Tales of the Children of the Moon

Chapter Fourteen: Graveyard Battle

Acacia Memorial Park.

Vixen read the sign as she pulled her Jeep into the drive. The Park itself was technically also the Modesto Pioneer Cemetery, which was their destination. She sighed as she looked at the gravestones they passed, thinking of two gravestones in a cemetery back in Seattle she herself had put there. Aimee and Alex's graves. They may not have been born but Vixen had still had a burial for them. Instead of bodies in their caskets she had placed memories; ultrasound photographs, stuffed animals, certain things they had seemed to like when she was pregnant. That’s what filled their otherwise empty coffins. Michael had understood her need for it and had added his own things, a couple songs he created for them, never to be played by the band again, a stuffed animal he'd had when he was a kid, all that stuff. Vixen had sealed the caskets shut magically so no one but herself or her blood could open them. It was her first spell ever done.

Vixen shook away her thoughts and cut the engine, sighing deeply. Andy placed a hand on her thigh in comfort. He'd heard her thoughts, seen the memories of her burying Aimee and Alex's caskets, once with Kuza, the other with the red and black haired vampire, broken and trying to hide the fact that she was bleeding badly from the mortician and priest. Vixen looked over at Andy and smiled, covering his hand with hers. "Thank you," she mouthed. He just nodded and pulled her to him, kissing her temple.

The group got out of the Jeep and Andy, Kitty, and Ashley watched the tattoo on Vixen's back shimmer, the ink seeming to seep from her skin and yet remain at the same time, before sliding down her right arm and onto the ground where it solidified into a pure black wolf with silver eyes. Kitty grinned. "Wicked," she whispered. Vixen smirked. "Midnight, this is my sister Kitty. You saw her earlier today at the shop."

The wolf turned its silver eyes upon the pale skinned half purple half black haired teenager and bowed his head respectively. "Kitty," he said, his voice sliding over Kitty's mind like soft silk. "Always a pleasure to meet another of Raven and Marax's children." Kitty smiled. She looked at Vixen. "Can I...can I pet him?" she whispered.

Midnight chuckled before walking up to her and nudging her hand. "My dear I would let you give me a bath if you so wished it. I don’t even think your mate would let you do such a thing," he said, chuckling as Ashley scoffed beside her. Kitty raised a brow at him. "Would you?" she asked. Ashley gulped audibly. "We'll talk about it sweetheart," he said awkwardly. Vixen and Andy chuckled, shaking their heads. "You know what to do son," Vixen whispered. Andy raised a brow at the word "son".

Midnight answered his silent question.

"To her I am her adopted son and she my mother. We are each other’s family, and all we have had is the other since she was eighteen." Andy nodded, understanding. Vixen jerked her head towards the graves and Midnight nodded before taking off into the night. "Where's he going?" Kitty asked as they grabbed their gear out of the Jeep.

"Scouting," Vixen said, shouldering her quiver. "No need to go in halfcocked like morons." Everyone nodded at this and stood by the Jeep waiting for Midnight to return.



Twenty minutes later found Andy and Vixen smoking a cigarette each a few feet from the jeep and Ashley drinking from a flask while Kitty sipped on a soda she'd bought at a liquor store earlier that evening. Mental conversations and plans were being passed between the four but it all came to a halt when they heard paw steps coming fast.

Midnight came bounding towards the group, yelling into their minds. "It’s not just Vampires!" Midnight skidded to a halt in front of the group, panting hard. He looked up at Vixen and fear was in his eyes. "Michael's here."

Vixen froze at the name of her ex before rage filled her. She loaded her bow and took off, Andy on her heels, shifting forms. "He's working with them. He must be. That’s got to be the only reason why he would be here with vampires!"

"But why here of all places?" Andy asked, running along beside her. Vixen was about to answer when they rounded the corner and caught two vampires chasing a high school couple. Andy rushed the one vampire, lunging on top of it, his teeth clamping onto its throat and sinking in deep. Vixen raised her bow and shot her arrow, its orange and purple feathers flying like a speeding bullet through the air until it embedded in the vampires back.

The vampire stopped and turned around, anger clear on his face by how red he was getting. Or at least, that’s what it would seem like to anyone else. But Vixen knew different. And soon the vampire himself would know as well. The arrow she'd shot was another of her specialty arrows she had named "Sunlight = Night-Night". She'd created it when she still believed vampires couldn’t walk in daylight and while technically they could, with the spell she had created for this arrow...there would be no walking away.

The arrow had all the light as if you were staring straight into the sun (with some added UV Rays just for kicks, which was why there was a strip of purple feathers), and all the heat of one of the suns many solar flares (which was why the arrows feathers were as orange as the sun itself). All in all...the vampire whose skin was becoming as red as a lobster before her was quickly going to learn what it felt like to take a trip to the sun.

Sure enough, the vampire had taken three steps towards her before he stopped, suddenly patting down his body before he began to scream. Then he fell to his knees and all you saw was a bright orange glow come from his eyes nose and mouth...and then he burst into flames. He ran around like a chicken with his head cut off, until Kitty ran up and cut the thing down with her sword. She looked at Vixen panting, blood covering the new spell protected outfit Vixen had given her earlier before they left to go Hunting (just like she had done for the boys only with them she had done the protection spells on their clothes and on their wolf forms as a just in case).

"That was AWESOME!" she grinned. Andy came back in human form suddenly, panting. "That’s two down. I got the kids to their cars. Where's Ashley?" Kitty's eyes widened as she heard a yelp. "NO!" She screamed before taking off in the direction of the noise. "Kitty!" Vixen and Andy screamed as the teen ran after her mate. "Damnit!" Vixen yelled before taking off after her sister, pressing a button on her bow and making it collapse in on itself to where it became a small box that she then placed in her trench coat pocket. She then pulled out her nine mm. as Andy ran up beside her, once more in wolf form.

Midnight soon joined them before taking off ahead, going to protect the youngest daughter of his first Charge and longtime friend, Marax Sola. Midnight had blamed himself for two years for not being able to protect Marax and his mate Raven, from Raymond Vegas and his pack of mutts, and he had vowed to Marax the night his spirit left to the otherworld that he would protect his friends children with his last breath. He did not plan to break that vow tonight. As he made his way around the corner, Vixen and Andy just feet behind him, he immediately lunged on the first vampire he saw, knowing it wasn’t one of the ones aiding in the fight to bring Michael and his group down.



Vixen rounded a corner and found the scene before them to be total chaos. A group of wolves ranging in colours were attacking vampires, while it seemed three other vampires, two Vixen immediately recognized as Chris and Ricky, helped said wolves in the attack. Kitty was at the far end, fighting off four vampires with her silver swords. Working alongside her was a black and white wolf Vixen recognized to as their brother Devin, as well as Ashley, who was also in wolf form, and by the looks of it, was injured pretty bad.

Vixen took off towards her sister and brother, intent on protecting them, when she was suddenly knocked to the ground by a female vampire who'd jumped out of the trees. The female snarled at her, its eyes blood red and rage contorting it's normally beautiful features into something terrifying. "You! You murdered my mate! I will drain you dry for killing him you bitch!" the female screeched as she raked her fingernails across Vixen's cheek. Vixen screamed in pain before kicking the female off of her and aiming her nine mm. right between the bitch's eyes. The gun went off right as the female went to charge her and the female went down like a sack of bricks, exploding into a pile of ash. Yet another specially created thing by Vixen. The spells she had created for her arrows, she had used on her bullets. Only these worked faster.

Vixen turned, panting hard, and raised her gun to fire it again as another vampire, a male this time, screeching about how she murdered his brother- man, how many of these things family members had she killed? And why did she care?- but the thing never got to her, for a black and white wolf met the vampire in midair, clamping his jaws down on its throat and slamming it to the ground where he tore it to shreds.

The wolf looked up at Vixen when it was done, blood dripping off its muzzle, and Vixen heard Devin's soft voice slip into her mind. "No one harms my little sister and lives." Vixen nodded her thanks before taking off once more.



Vixen was half way through a fight with another male and female vampire, a couple this time, the male holding her by the throat with a shovel while the female walked towards her with a wicked looking dagger and a deadly gleam in her eyes, when suddenly the female stopped dead. Her eyes grew wide before she collapsed to the ground. Both Vixen, and the male vampire holding her, looked at the female body confused before a new form came from the shadows, her half black and half red hair illuminated by the street lamps that speckled the graveyard. Vixen smiled as the newcomer came into sight. The woman smiled as well.

"Hey Vixy," she said in a perky tone. "Need a hand?"

Ashley Costello had returned.

Notes

Author's Note's:

Whoo! Ashley Costello to the rescue! Haha I honestly had a lot of fun with this chapter mostly because I got to write a fight scene. If there's anything I'm really good at its Smut and Fight scenes...and torture scenes lol. you can ask Kat (Blackrosekitten) about that. I did a torture scene for her character Scarlet in Blood Secrets and I got really freaking dark man. I mean it freaked her out and yet she loved it all at the same time lmao.

Anyways, next chapter is gonna be chalk FULL of DRRRRRAAAAAAMMMMMAAAAA!!!!!! hahahaha so be on the look out!

Until next time guys! See you on the other side and Blessed Be!



- Vixen Biersack =^.^=