Blood Secrets: Tales of the Children of the Moon

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Vegas and Kuza On The Move

~ Tuesday, July 27th, 2010; Three Weeks Later ~

Ravyn sat in her new tattoo chair, working on her third customer of the day, when she heard the bell above the front door jingle and Kitty greet the new customer. "Hey Terry! Long time no see, how's things at home?" She heard her friend ask the guy. Ravyn looked up from her design that she was tattooing as Vixen walked past her room and went into the lobby. "How can we help you today Terry?" She heard Vixen ask. "Actually I'm here to see Ravyn guys, sorry. I just heard some news that she needs to hear," Terry told them. That's when Ravyn realized it was Terry Adkins, the Campus Supervisor that had been her informant at Enochs. "How about we take a bit of a break?" She asked her client, who nodded. "Thanks, I really need to stretch. Sitting in this chair for so long has made my legs fall asleep!" He client said laughing. Ravyn laughed too and agreed then left the room and headed for the lobby.

Once she reached the lobby she saw not only Terry, but the other Campus Supervisor, Dave Caldwell there as well and the two seemed to be arguing. Ravyn rolled her eyes. "Dave! Terry!" She yelled at them. Both men stopped dead and turned to look at her. "Ravyn!" Dave said, coming over and giving her a side hug. Terry did the same. "Look at you girlie! Your all grown up and looking beautiful!" Dave said, a smile showing under his grey-white mustache. Ravyn smiled. "Okay I know that's a lie guys. I'm fat and pregnant. I don't look nor do I feel beautiful- OW!" Ravyn yelled, glaring at Vixen who had slapped her upside the head. "Take the compliment woman," she scolded. "It's the truth." Ravyn rolled her eyes and turned back to Dave and Terry. "So I'm guessing you guys aren't here for a social visit?" She asked. Both men looked away, embarrassed. "Unfortunately not hun," Terry said. "Is there some place we can talk? In private I mean?" He asked. Ravyn nodded and waved, telling them to follow her, which they did.

Ravyn led the two men outside to the back room that everyone used as a smoking area. She looked shocked when she saw Angel there as well. "Hey Babe!" She exclaimed, hugging him. "I thought you were in Hayward with Dad?" She asked, speaking of Angel's father William or "Bill" as he liked to go by. Angel shook his head. "I was gonna leave in about an hour or so, Dad called me and said he was at the bingo hall with Angela," he explained, speaking of the Charity Bingo Hall- Foothill Square Bingo- where Bill worked, as well as Angela, Bill's fiancee. Ravyn smirked. "Let me guess, Angela's winning big time?" She asked. Angel nodded. "He told me he'd be home in an hour or two so I thought I'd kill time here and check on you," he said, finishing his explanation. Ravyn nodded again, then turned to the Shape-Shifter's. "So what did you and Dave need to talk to me about Terr?" She asked Terry as she pulled out a cigarette from her pack that she carried in her back pocket. Dave and Terry looked at her questioningly. "Should you be smoking that?" Dave asked. Ravyn sighed and quickly explained to them about the three layered barrier that surrounded the twins because of her Supernatural heritage. "So with that said, I can smoke cigarettes, weed, drink, hell I could even do Coke-not that I ever have or WILL, mind you- and nothing could hurt the twins." She finished explaining. Dave and Terry both "Ohhhhhh"'d at her before they sat down across from her and Angel. Terry pulled out a cigarette pack of his own, making Ravyn raise a brow. "You smoke?" She asked. Terry nodded. "Huh. Honestly I thought Dave was the smoker," she said, chuckling. Dave shook his head. "I quit two years ago. Patches and gum," he said, lifting up his shirt sleeve to show her the patch he wore on his shoulder. Ravyn nodded. "So why are you two here if it's not to get tattoo's?" She asked, lighting her cigarette.

"Unfortunately we're not," Dave said as he pulled out a pack of Nicorete gum and popped a piece in his mouth. Terry blew his drag of smoke out, away from Ravyn (he was still cautious even though she had explained the barrier story to them; that and it was just impolite to blow smoke in someone's face), and then spoke. "We've gotten some news from the Underground." Ravyn sat ramrod straight in her seat, her eyes wide. "What have you heard?" Angel. Ravyn glared at the two men. "What the HELL were you two thinking going into the Underground? Do you realize how DANGEROUS that could be for you two? If you were ever found out you could have been KILLED! Then what would I tell Maria, Ashley, Kelly, and Brandy?" She scolded, speaking of Dave's wife Maria and their daughter Ashley, as well Terry's wife Kelly and their daughter Brandy. She knew both women and both kid's well, having met them multiple times in the past when their wives and little girl's had come visit Dave and Terry and they had been near by. Dave and Terry had first introduced them to the four girls two years back, in Ravyn's Sophomore year, shortly after she, Angel, Dragon, and FoeNyx had started the Dragon's Den. The very same group that- Ravyn and the others had heard- Kitty, Taylor, and Katerina had kept going after the four had graduated.

Dave and Terry leaned back away from Ravyn as she scolded them. "Damn," Dave said. "I sear your worse then our wives when you get angry," Terry finished for Dave. Ravyn caught herself before she glared at them again. She sighed and took a drag off her cigarette instead. "I'm sorry, it's just hormones," she explained as she blew out the smoke. "So, since you DID go into the Underground of our Supernatural world, what did you find out?" She asked them as she ashed her cigarette and handed one of the two ash trays to Terry, who took it gladly and ashed his own cigarette. "We'd been infiltrating the Underground since you left school, hoping that we could still be of help if you needed it," Dave explained. Terry nodded. "And we've seemed to gain the trust of quite a few of the wolves, vamps and shifter's down there so it wasn't too hard to squeeze some info out of the lesser one's. The Higher Up's seemed to like to gossip a lot as well so we've gotten quite a bit of info for you, although I believe you'll want to hear the major news first."

Terry once again nodded before he spoke. "We heard recently that Mike Kuza, the guy from that band some of the other goth kids at the school liked to listen to, is on the move and is out for blood when it comes to your friend Vixen and her pack of misfits," he explained, taking another drag. Ravyn froze when she heard Kuza's name. She had figured Kuza would be out for blood after what Vixen and the others had done to him a year ago, and told the two of them so, going into a quick explaination when they asked what had happened. Both of them nodded after she explained the situation Vixen had been in and the fight that had ensued. "I figured it had been pretty bad by the way the others spoke about it. They talked about it like it was some big tragedy had happened, saying that a lot of vamps and wolves, and a couple shifter's even died that day. That true?" Dave asked.

"It is," Everyone turned and saw Vixen standing in the doorway, a cigarette of her own in her hand, and placing her pack back in her back pocket with the other. She lit up her cigarette as she spoke. "Most of Kuza's little clients were killed that day thanks to Ashley, Ronnie, TJ, Andy, Chris and the others. But we didn't come out of it completely unscathed that day either. Everyone who fought got some new battle scars from the fights with Kuza's shadow demons, and a girl who had been captured along with me, Annabelle McIntyre, ended up having to be changed into a Vampire by Ronnie just so he could save her life. The only good thing that came out of it was Ronnie and Anna turned out to be mates. The bad part? Vegas got away from me thanks to Franccessca, the little Siren Slut. Kuza made it out unscathed thanks to her too. I still want to rip him to little pieces. Rip off that rapist's fucking dick off too. I want to rip it off, cook it up with a sauce made from his blood, and force feed it to the bastard as he bleeds to death. All for what he did to me both when I was seventeen, and for last year as well."

Angel, Terry, and Dave all slowly cupped themselves in fear as they heard what Vixen wanted to do to Kuza's manly parts and Ravyn's eyes widened in shock. And she thought that SHE was twisted and Sadistic! Man was she wrong. Just from what Vixen said, Ravyn could tell that Vixen was in a class all her own when it came to being twisted and sadistic. "Damn girl," Ravyn whispered. "You got one MAJOR mean streak in you!" Vixen nodded and ashed her cigarette. "Damn straight," she replied and then looked at Dave and Terry. "So Michael's out for blood is he? He's probably got plans to try and capture me again and torture me for everything that happened that night as well. Not that he'll ever be able to get a hold of me again. Devin, Chris, Ricky, Josh, and Ryan would never let it happen. Those guys' friendship with Michael ended the day they found out what he did to me three years ago. That and Andy would rather die than let me be touched like that by anyone ever again," Vixen added at the end, taking another drag off her cigarette.

"Sounds like you've got a shit ton of bodyguards there Vixen," Dave commented. Vixen nodded. "So what's the other big news you have for us?" She asked the two men. Terry sighed and looked at Ravyn. "Vegas is also on the move again. Word in the Underground is that he's put a bounty out on you, hoping to capture and torture you until you agree to do what he wants with the High Council's. Apparently your supposed to be on the Wolf's High Council and the Ambassador for the Vampire's and Shifter's as well as the wolves on the other councils?" He ended the last bit as a question, wondering if that information was true. Ravyn sighed but nodded. "I am. I took over for my Dad after he was killed, became his successor of sorts. I was supposed to take his chair when I turned eighteen, and this was all after he retired from the council's and shit. He died because Vegas and his bloody pack broke into my Dad's place one night and tried to force him to return to the council and do what Vegas wanted him to do on it. He tried to use me and Kat as leverage that night. Vegas and his pack were also the one's who killed my mother, Aurabella." Dave and Terry's eyes widened at the name. "Aurabella McLeod?" They asked together. Ravyn nodded. "Shit," Terry whispered. Him and Dave had heard stories of Aurabella years ago from their families and they knew that they didn't want to get on her bad side. If anyone who DID get on the Hunter's bad side, it was said that that person never lived long enough to tell their tale of what happened. The only one she HAD left alive, even after he had gotten on her bad side, was Keith Garrison, and that was only because he had been Ravyn's father. "We had no idea SHE was YOUR mother," Dave whispered. Ravyn nodded again, ashing her cigarette once more. "I'm sure you've heard stories about my Mom," she whispered, looking down at the ground, sorrow filling her tone as she put out her cigarette and pulled out another, lighting it up and taking a drag. Both Dave and Terry nodded.

"Our families told us stories, hell they told our girl's stories of Aurabella as well when they were really young. We heard she was one of the greatest Hunters in the whole world and that she was to be feared and respected, even if she killed Supernaturals. A lot of people had mad respect for your Mom and many were sad and mourned her when they heard she had been killed. We never knew who had beaten her in battle and killed her though. You said Vegas and his pack had done it?" Dave asked. Ravyn nodded again. "Yeah, he killed them just days before I had returned from summer break with my Dad. I came home to find them dead. I should have figured that something was wrong when they hadn't picked me up from the airport and hadn't answered their phone's when I called them. I just figured they were either at work or on their way to pick me up. I still thought that they were just at work and had forgotten what time my plane was supposed to come in the day I returned and were going to be late picking me up. I ended up calling one of my friends and had them pick me up. I called home and both their phone's that day to tell them my friend and her Mom had picked me up and not to worry about picking me up themselves and that I would be home soon. I still wish that I had listened to my instincts. I had felt like something was wrong at home the day they were killed, when I was still with my Dad, but blew it off. I blew my instincts off the day I came back too, thinking they were just late or forgot the time I got in like I said. I should have listened to my instincts then. I would have come home earlier if I had. I could have tried to save them," Ravyn whispered, her eyes glazed over with sadness. Dave and Terry gave her sympathetic looks. "We're sorry Ravyn. We wish we could do something to help," Terry said, patting her knee comfortingly. Ravyn just shrugged. "Nothing you could or can do now. She's dead and buried, just like my Dad. Nothing we can do about it," she said, her face going expressionless.

"So what else can you tell us?" She asked after a few moments of silence. Dave and Terry continued to explain everything they had heard, but it was mostly just small stuff, not nearly as important as what they had been told about Vegas, his pack, and Kuza. Once the two men had relayed everything they could think of that they had heard, Dave and Terry left the shop and Ravyn made her way back to her tattoo room. Vixen stopped her before she went into the room. "You gonna be okay?" She asked. "You can go home if you want, I won't hold it against you honey," she added. Ravyn shook her head. "I'll be fine. I may head off with Angel to Hayward after I'm done with Kenneth's tattoo but I'm not sure yet. You gonna be okay if I do that?" She asked the other British girl.

Vixen nodded. "Of course I will. You just be careful if you DO decide to go, okay?" She said. Ravyn nodded and returned to her room, plastering a fake smile on her face as she saw Kenneth sitting back in his chair. "Sorry about that Ken. They were a couple of old friends I knew from school and they had heard I was working here now and wanted to see if I would do a tattoo for them some time," she said, lying through her teeth. But Kenneth didn't need to know that. Kenneth smiled and shrugged. "It's fine. It gave me time to call my wife and let her know I was okay and that I would be home soon and shit," he said, shrugging again. Ravyn laughed and shook her head. "You think she's gonna like the present you got for her?" She asked, motioning to the tattoo she was doing of his wife's name in a banner that two birds were holding up in their beaks, the date of the day and year they had gotten married underneath her name.

Kenneth laughed. "God I hope so! I don't want to have gone through all this pain for nothing!" He chuckled. Ravyn shook her head as she picked up her machine. "Oh stop being such a baby, it's not that bad. You try getting a full back piece and then come tell me about the pain of getting a tattoo!" She said, laughing as she got back to work on the tattoo. The whole time she couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen to someone she cared about. And soon...

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Notes

Author's Note:

So, Kuza and Raymond Vegas are on the move. If Dave and Terry hadn't shown up with the info they had, do you think they would have heard about it? Or do you think they would have gone on not knowing until something big happened? Who knows!

Next chapter will be up soon (I hope). I gotta stop for a bit and stretch and shit. Sitting here on my parents couch and writing for hours at a time puts major strain on my back and its been screaming in pain at me for hours now.

Also, Bill and Angela is really my fiancee's dad (Bill Wood is his name) and Angela is Jon's-Angel's- Dad's fiancee. Thought I'd let them make an appearance in the story, even if it was a small bit part. May be bigger next chapter though, idk yet.

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

- Kyrie Kerr