Blood Secrets: Tales of the Children of the Moon

Chapter Forty: Leaving

Seven cars flew into the parking lot of the hotel Ravyn and Angel were staying at in Hayward, each one of them parking perfectly in the open seven spaces in the lot, right next to one another, right next to Angel and Ravyn's truck. Each of the doors on both passenger and driver's sides opened and the passengers got out. The first to get out were Faith and Manson, piling out of her mustang. Jarreth and Sandra came out of the second mustang that matched Faith's. Vixen, Andy, Ashley, Kitty and Ghost piled out of Vixen's Jeep. Jake, Jinxx, CC, and Taylor piled out of one of the two large black SUV's. Chris, Ricky, Angelo, Ryan and Balz piled out of the second SUV. And finally, Dragon and FoeNyx got out of Dragon's Charger. Every one of them ran up the staircase as fast as they could and went to the hotel room Angel and Ravyn were staying at.

Vixen banged on the door with her fist as she panted heavily. She had had a large anxiety attack when Angel had called her and told her what had happened and then told her to come up to Hayward as fast as she could, that something even worse than his father and his father's fiancee dying had happened. She had immediately informed everyone in the house, calling Dragon and FoeNyx as everyone had suited up and grabbed almost every weapon that was in the two Hunters home, piling into their cars and driving as fast as they could up to the hotel. She was still worried about what could have happened that made Angel say it was worse than what had happened to his Dad, as she waited for the door of the hotel room to open. She didn't have to wait long.

The door was wrenched open and a large, black leather handled Bowie knife, with a blood stained blade, came flying towards her and the others. Everyone ducked quickly and looked inside the room to see Ravyn standing at the other end of the room, a second Bowie knife, this one also coated in blood, in her palm and raised like she was about to throw it. She stopped short when she saw Vixen and the others.

"Vix?" Ravyn asked, not retreating from her defensive stance. Vixen nodded. "It's me honey, I promise. Me, Manson, Faith, Jerr, Sandra, FoeNyx and Dragon. Andy, Chris and the others are here too," Vixen quickly explained as Angel appeared from behind the door and looked outside from side to side, as if he were making sure no enemies were there or around them. After a moment he nodded and waved everyone inside, closing and locking the door behind him. Jarreth ran over to Ravyn and pulled her into a tight hug. "Thank God your okay," he whispered, kissing her forehead. "What happened?" Sandra asked, also hugging the young girl. Ravyn broke into sobs as she walked over to the large bed in the middle of the room, collapsing on top of it. "He took them," she cried. "That Bastard MURDERED Bill and Angela and somehow got his blood covered claws into them and TOOK THEM!" She screamed out the last bit, covering her face with her hands and sobbing. Jarreth and Sandra came to sit beside her and both of them enveloped her in a comforting hug. "Who honey?" Sandra asked. Her and Jarreth's blood ran cold, as did everyone Else's, when Ravyn answered her. "Kat and Sorcha!"

"Oh my God..." Sandra whispered, fear filling her all the way to her soul. She looked up at Jarreth, who stared back at her with fear and rage in his eyes. "I'm going to kill him," Jarreth whispered, the rage evident in his tone. Ravyn just shook her head, still sobbing. "What am I going to do? I can't live with myself if they got hurt," she whimpered. Angel came over to the bed and took Jarreth's place when he got up, beginning to pace around the room, thinking.

And it stayed like that for the next three hours, Ravyn finally passing out from exhaustion around midnight. Once that had happened everyone went, in pairs of two (six in MIW's case, and five in BVB's), and went down to the manager's office of the hotel and checked in for the next couple of days. Days they knew would be spent planning what to with the situation they were now placed in.

~ Three Days Later, Midnight ~

Ravyn laid in bed, wide awake and not able to sleep once again. She shifted in bed and felt Angel shift to accommodate her, still sleeping fitfully. She sighed as she thought of what she was about to do. It was crazy, insane even, and it could end in her own death if she didn't do it right. But she had to try.

Slowly and as silently as she could, Ravyn slipped out of bed, propping Angel's arm up- the arm that had once been around her belly protectively- with a set of pillows from her side of the bed. Angel shifted once more and tightened his arm around the pillows, not waking up once. Ravyn sighed in relief as she saw that he wasn't going to wake up. She turned away from her fiancee and went to the small closet where, instead of clothes, Ravyn and the others had stashed their weapons. She picked up all her knives and strapped them to her body, strapping two pocket knives in the sheaths on her ankles, hiding them once she was done, under the faded blue jeans she pulled on. She pulled on a stretchy black halter top and strapped more weapons on her custom made Hunters belt. She grabbed the two nine mm. guns she owned and placed one of them in the back of her jeans, hiding it with her shirt, the other going into its holster on her belt. Then she looked down at the bottom of the closet, seeing the one weapon she had coveted since the day Vixen had demonstrated it.

Vixen's Death Dealer bow, with a quiver filled with at least two of each specially made arrows inside. She looked towards the door and sighed. "Sorry V, but I need to borrow your bow for a time," she whispered as she strapped the quiver over her shoulder and picked up the bow, leaning it against the dresser as she grabbed her jacket from the closet and pulled it on, stowing away some of her knives in the jacket's specially, custom made, slots. She went back over to the dresser and picked up the pen that sat on the top, next to the small pad of paper. She quickly wrote down the address of the letter that she had received the day before, and then wrote a quick note to Angel, placing it atop the nightstand on her side of the bed. She picked up the bow and walked towards the door, opening it as silently as possible.

Ravyn turned and looked back at Angel's sleeping form one last time. Tears filled her eyes. "I'm sorry Angel," she whispered, wiping her eyes. "I promise to return to you, alive. But I have to do this on my own," and with those words said, she left the room, closing the door as silently as she had opened it, and went down the stairs quietly, getting in the truck and putting the bow in quiver in the passenger seat. She looked up at the hotel room door one last time before sighing and turning over the engine, pulling out of the parking lot and driving to the exit, stepping on the gas and peeling out from the exit as soon as she saw a gap in the cars coming.

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Notes

Author's Note:

So where do you think Ravyn is going in such a hurry? Is she leaving Angel and the others forever, not being able to deal with what had happened? Or is she leaving to fight Vegas on her own, this way she won't put any of the ones she cares about in danger? I don't even know the answer yet and I'm the writer! Haha. Guess we'll just have to see in the next chapter wont we? Or WILL we? We'll see - evil laughter -

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

- Kyrie Kerr