Blood Secrets: Tales of the Children of the Moon

Chapter Sixteen: The Hunt for Kuza Begins

~*~Two Years Ago~*~

Ashley Costello walked up to the large warehouse building in the industrial side of west Seattle, knowing what was on the other side of the rusty looking metal doors in front of her. Inside that building was a man who sold young women to supernatural beings, vampires like herself in particular, so the men, or even women at times, could have their way with the girls. Their way either being, draining the poor young girls almost completely dry, or have their ways with the girls physically, which would leave the girls bloody bruised and out of commission for days on end.

Ashley found what was going on inside that building the most disgusting thing she had ever even heard of, let alone seen, and God had she seen some things in the work that she had done for the Organization. You see, Ashley, along with her New Years Day band mates Nikki Misery, Tyler Burgess, Nick Rossi, Jake Jones and Jeremy Valentyne, worked with a large group of men and women, ranging from human to Vampire, to Werewolf, to any other Supernatural being you could conjure up, all of who had come together to bring down people like the man inside that warehouse. They had come together to bring down the human trafficking that had been going on in the Supernatural world.

The men and women Ashley and her band mates worked with all had a common bond. They all found what was going on with the human trafficking to be disgusting, degrading, and downright inhuman. They had come together and worked undercover, the Supernatural beings going into the warehouses and posing as potential clients the masters of the girls, scouting out the one's the masters carried and in the end, gaining the girls’ trust's. Once they had their trust's and the girls knew that they were there to help, the humans who worked in the Organization began to plan an escape route for the girls and fashioned new identities for many of them once they had been freed.

Many of the girls who had been freed over the years had, in the end joined the Organization, wishing to help other young women who were suffering like they were, and Ashley knew that many of the girls inside the building she was standing front of currently, would probably do the same.

Ashley took a deep breath, calming herself and clearing her mind, before she slid open the rusted warehouse door and walked inside the building, her silver spiked knee high, high heel boots, clicking on the cement floor and echoing off the metal walls. She looked around discreetly as she made her way to a large room with a window, the Master's office she knew, and she noticed that there were a few other men and women already here, inspecting a few young girls who stood silently in front of their "Master's" client's, their gazes on the ground and their clothes ragged and bloody. Ashley sneered at this. Whoever this "Master" was, he didn't seem to treat these girls nearly as well as some of the other human trafficking Masters she had met and taken down over the years.

Ashley knocked on the office door, the sound once again echoing off the metal walls and this time catching the attention of a couple of the vampires, one who she recognized immediately. Shock resonated through her as the male vampire she had recognized caught her gaze and a telepathic link was immediately formed between the two thanks to their shared ability.

"Manson? What the Hell?" Ashley yelled into his mind, her brown eyes wide. Marilyn Manson's gaze was level and showed no emotion as he responded. "You are lucky I am the only telepath in this room Costello. I could hear your thoughts the moment you entered the parking lot. Are you trying to get yourself killed? You had no idea if this Master had any telepaths on the payroll or not! He could have heard you and then you would have been compromised! Hasn’t the Organization taught you better than that!" He scolded.

Ashley flinched at his sharp tone but glared back at the older, High-Blood Vampire. Yes, Marilyn Manson was a High-Blood Vampire, a class that was considered royalty in their species, but Ashley was half High-Blood, her mother being a pure bred, while her Father had been made a vampire by her mother after he was almost killed trying to protect her. So while Manson was immediately given respect because of his pure-bred status, Ashley also got the same respect from many vampires, thanks to her mother. And Manson himself knew this very fact seeing as the man had known Ashley's mother. What are you doing here Manson?" Ashley snarled, getting back on track. She didn't know where these young girls’ Master was, but apparently he wasn't in his office, so she had a moment to speak with the older Vampire before she had to return to her mission and pretend as if she didn't know the man. Or hadn't seen him. Whichever was easier.

"I think it's quite obvious my dear," Manson purred and Ashley scoffed at his tone. Manson was ever the charmer, but his charms had never worked on her, just made her feel sick. Manson chuckled as he heard these thoughts before continuing to explain. "I may not be a member of the Organization Ashley but I've been working with Scarlett and Jeordie to take down these human traffickers since before you were born. I know far more than you and I know what to look for. I also happen to be looking for a certain young woman. A young woman who was taken from a friend of mine a couple years ago...just days after she, her mate, and her whole pack were slaughtered."

Ashley gasped as Manson said this. She knew of only one pack who had been slaughtered recently, and that was the Biersack Pack, the alpha's being Kyrian Biersack and Isabella Crowley Hawthorne-Biersack. Ashley would never understand, even to this day, why Isabella had taken both her mother's maiden last name as well as her father's last name but she had and she had kept them even after marrying Kyrian. Hell she had even given her two daughters, Maddison and Taylor each one of those last names. Her youngest daughter Maddison, had received her Grandmother's maiden last name of Crowley when she had been born, while Maddison's older sister Taylor, had received her Grandfather's last name of Hawthorne. The only child of Isabella and Kyrian who had received Kyrian's last name and therefore inherited the Biersack Pack Alpha status had been their oldest child, a son named Andrew, or Andy as he went by now a days.

Ashley had just recently met Andy and his band, Black Veil Brides, while on Warped Tour this past summer. She had had no idea that Isabella and Kyrian had been Andy's parents. She hadn't put the pieces together. But now, now everything fell into place and sadness washed over Ashley as she thought of the grief the poor boy must be going through. At least he had his band mates with him. When Ashley's parents and baby sister Emily had been murdered by Hunters, she had been alone. She had had no one there to lean on and help her through her grief. At least Andy had his friends, and when Ashley was done with this job, she would make sure to seek the boy out and make sure he knew that she would be there for him as well if he ever needed someone and his band mates weren't around.

"Costello! Focus!" Ashley shook her head as Manson yelled at her. "I am focused you dick!" She snarled at him. Manson smirked at her. "Of course you are. Then you know that the Master of this operation is on his way back from one of the cells and is headed straight for you?" Ashley spun around and schooled her features into a blank look as she heard heavy boot steps headed towards her. "I knew that," She grumbled to Manson, not wanting to admit that she had actually lost her focus once again. "Of course you did my dear," Manson taunted, his voice beginning to fade away as his let the link dissolve between them. "You’re welcome."

"Fuck off," she was able to hiss to him before the link was completely severed. She heard Manson chuckle from where he stood a few yards away from her and she refrained from rolling her eyes. She returned her focus instead on the man who was making his way towards her, and when he rounded the corner, coming into Ashley's line of sight, Ashley almost had a heart attack. If her unbeating heart could have such a thing happen to it that is. The man coming towards her was the last man she had ever expected to be in this kind of business, and if she wasn't seeing it with her own eyes at this very moment, she still wouldn't believe it. Because the man walking towards her she had known for years. They had been friends for years. Hell, her band and his had toured together multiple times! So how the Hell had he hidden this from not only herself, but also their mutual friend Chris Cerulli, and his band Motionless In White? Ashley didn't have the answers to any of the questions that were running through her mind but she did know one thing: That the man walking towards her was definitely the Master of these girls, the spike embedded leather whip he carried in his hand was proof of that. She also knew the man's identity.

These girls’ Master was her best friend Michael Kuza. And Ashley had just come into a situation that left her way in over her head.

~*~Present Day~*~

Andy slammed open the front door of Vixen and Faith's home, rage coursing through every fiber of his being. His band mates, as well as Kitty who was helping Ashley to stand along with CC, Chris and his band mates followed behind, while Ashley Costello and her group brought up the rear. Every one of them were bloody and beaten, but not one of them was more angry than Andy at that moment.

His wolf was howling with anger, wanting to go back out there and find Vixen, but try as he might, Andy hadn't been able to find a scent. No one had been able to find anything on Vixen or whoever took her. The only thing Ashley could come up with was that someone had used a non-tracking spell so they wouldn't be able to follow Vixen or the people who took her.

It was easy to figure out who had taken her, and that was why Andy was seething with rage. Well, one of the reasons. He knew it was Kuza who had taken Vixen, and he was angrier than all Hell at the thought that the bastard had even laid a finger on her. But the thing that made him even angrier was the simple fact that he hadn't been there to protect her. He had promised her he would protect her and he broke that promise.

"You didn't break your promise Andy," Ashley said, coming up beside him and placing a hand on his shoulder. Andy snarled at the vampire, shrugging off her hand before storming off down the hallway, towards the basement. He opened the basement door and stopped dead. He looked at the door confused. Vixen always locked this door, so why was it unlocked now?

"I unlocked it with magic for you Andy," Kitty said, her soft voice slipping into his mind. Andy looked behind him and caught Kitty's soft brown gaze. She nodded as she led Ashley into the living room, leading him towards the leather couch. "Do what you need to do Andy. We'll stay up here tonight," she said soothingly. Andy shook his head. "Vixen wouldn't want me to drive me out of your room Kitty," he said, his own voice slipping into the teens mind. "She would kick my ass if she knew you and Ash had slept upstairs just because I was in a mood like I am right now. You can come down here. I'll probably just be in her room. I'm going to clean up and then try and find Faith and Manson."

Kitty just nodded before heading into the living room, leaving Andy to himself. Andy continued down the basement stairs and went straight for Vixen's room. Again he found her door unlocked and this time he believed it was the magic of the room, the magic Vixen had created, that was allowing him into Vixen's inner sanctuary. Why he didn't truly know, but at the moment he wasn't about to question it.

Andy went straight into Vixen's bathroom and hopped into the shower, washing away all the dirt and blood that covered his skin that he received from the battle in the Cemetery. As he washed the dirt and blood from his hair and body, Andy thought back on the battle and what had happened.

He remembered seeing Vixen fighting alongside her brother at one point before he had been surrounded and he and Jinxx had begun to rip through the vampires that had tried to surround them. He had lost sight of Vixen for a time after that, and had ended up saving Chris's ass from an ambush when four vampires had jumped out of the nearby trees and tried to dismember him. The next thing he had remembered was hearing someone barking orders and turning in that direction. He hadn't gotten a good look at who it was, or whether he was human or Vampire, but he did remember seeing the gun. He remembered hearing the man saying something to him, but the memory was fuzzy. It was shortly after whatever the man had said to him that Andy had been shot and he had heard Vixen scream his name. He had tried to run to her but as soon as he stood, he had collapsed again, his legs unable to support his weight.

He remembered his vision had started to cloud over and he had figured out that there had to have been something coated on the bullet he had been shot with. Something that was poisonous to wolves. What it was Andy couldn't think of, but the next thing he had known Ashley Costello had been by his side and he had been returned to human form. Ashley had told him that he had indeed been poisoned and the only way to keep the shit, whatever it had been, from reaching his heart as quick as it was, was for her to siphon it from his system. Which meant she had to bite him.

Andy had wanted to resist, but he knew that in the end, it was the only way. And he knew Ashley well. They had been friends since they had met at Warped Tour a few years back and he knew she would never take a person's blood, human or Supernatural, without their permission first. So he had relented and let her do what she had needed to save his life.

That had been when he had heard her screams.

He had heard Vixen shriek in agony and he had immediately tried to go to her but he had still been too weak from the poison. He remembered hearing her cried suddenly being cut off and his mind went to the worst of places at that point in time. The only reason he didn't believe any of it was because he had known, deep down, that none of it was true. That she was still out there somewhere, alive, and not hurt or dying.

But he also knew deep down, that she was being hurt, most likely tortured. And it was all because he hadn't been able to get up and fight the poison coursing through his veins to try and save the woman he loved.

Yes, it was true. Even though he had only known Vixen Sola a few days, he had already fallen for the young woman. He didn't know what it was about her, but Andy found himself drawn to the woman. Maybe it was the way she treated him, like a normal person. Maybe it was her personality. Or maybe it was those stormy blue eyes of hers. They were so entrancing, and every time Andy looked into them he felt himself becoming hypnotized by the grey colour that swirled and blended with the beautiful sky blue colour.

Whatever the reason, or reasons were, Andy did know this one thing; he was in love with Vixen, and he had broken his promise to her when he let Kuza slip away from him and take Vixen.

"You didn't break your promise Andy," Andy jumped at the sound of Ashley's voice and he quickly shut off the water and pulled the curtain back. One of Vixen's black towel's was shoved in his face then and he took it gratefully, wrapping it around his waist before stepping out of the shower. "What are you doing in here Ashley?" Andy asked, raising a brow at the vampire questioningly. Ashley held up a pile of clothes that looked familiar to him and she smiled. "I had Nikki run over to your guys’ hotel rooms and get you all some fresh clothes. Thought you might like to change seeing as you were in the shower and I didn't think you'd want to get back into dirty blood soaked clothes." Andy nodded in thanks and took the clothes from her before walking into the bedroom. Ashley followed behind, laying out on the bed and laying an arm over her eyes to give Andy some semblance of privacy as he changed.

"Like I said, you didn't break your promise Andy. You had been poisoned. It was all a part of Kuza's plan, whatever that plan is. My guess is he's been watching Vixen for a while now, just waiting to make his move while also scouting out new girls for his next set of girls to sell off to his Supernatural clientele." Andy looked over at the red and black haired vampire as she spoke, his eyebrows raising higher and higher with each word. "How the Hell do you know all this?" He asked, pulling up his skinny jeans and buckling his belt. Ashley raised her arm off her eyes and sat up, sighing deeply. "I know because I've been working to take people like Kuza down from the inside for years. I've helped girls who were being sold to their 'Master's' client's. Those girls were beaten, raped, and tortured mentally while they were fed on. It was some of the most disgusting things I had ever seen in my entire existence, and I've seen some pretty bad shit."

Andy stared at Ashley in amazement. Then a memory struck him. A memory of a red and black haired vampire that had helped Vixen while she was trapped in the warehouse Kuza had kept her in. Andy's eyes narrowed as he looked at Ashley. "You helped Vixen escape Kuza all those years ago didn't you?" He asked. Ashley smiled and nodded. "I did. I also helped her to control her magic. My guess is you helped wake her up from one of her night terrors and you saw a memory of me just sitting there talking to her?" Andy nodded, slightly confused at how she knew this. "How did you-"

Ashley tapped her temple. "Telepath. I saw you thinking of it," she explained. Andy nodded, understanding. He quickly put on his black t-shirt with a Batman symbol screen print, and grabbed his black leather jacket off the desk chair. He turned back to Ashley. "So," he started, turning up the collar of his jacket. "When do we start hunting down Kuza?"

Notes

Author's Note:

Okay guy's it's six a.m. over here and I am tired as crazy! But I wanted so bad to work on this! SOOOOO BAD!!!! Hahahaha So now we know a bit about who Ashley is and what she does and we got a glimpse of how Andy's feeling. Next few chapter's we will see planning, Hunting, and more fighting. And maybe even some torture...not too sure yet lol. My brains like majorly scattered right now so I can't really think of anything besides getting this posted and going to bed. Hell my boyfriend and I were on the phone while I was typing this out on my Mom's laptop and he ended up falling asleep on the phone with me (he's still on the phone and still asleep I just can't bring myself to hang up because I know the moment I do he's gonna wake up >.> He's weird like that but hey I love him and all his weirdness lmao xD)

Anyways, I'm off to bed guys! I'll start working on Chapter Seventeen hopefully tomorrow.

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

- Vixen Biersack =^.^=