His Blue Moon Princess
His Sunshine Baby Chapter 106

I can't believe it. I keep watching it over and over, but it's the same. The video in black and white, despite the poor quality, clearly shows Chris and Iris talking, for a long time, before he opens her cell's door, and they both flee out of the camera's range. I nervously bite my lip, annoyed. Why the f**k would you do that, Chris? Why? Why now? My anger is so palpable, everyone is keeping a safe zone of a few steps away from me.

"How come no one was able to f*****g track them?" I growl.

"I sent people Elena, but they crossed the border right away, we had just noticed they were gone. By the time the clinic told me, and I told the patrol, they were already way ahead of us. I did send some people after them, but you don't want anyone stepping outside our territory, so..."

I sigh.

Our protective measures are made so that no one would get caught and killed outside of the protective barrier, but I didn't think anyone would be crazy enough to actually go past it and run away! I don't understand what could have happened. My cousins' whereabouts are unknown, and I hate it. I can see why Iris would escape and leave, but Chris? Did she persuade him? Despite him finally agreeing to talk with her, I didn't felt their relation improved much. Why would he follow her? He was reluctant to go and see her again, but still went. So what happened?

"Do we send people after them?" Asks Levi, the only non-alpha not terrorized by my fulming aura at the moment.

"No. I stand by my words, no one goes out."

We don't need more people getting killed by venturing outside. It may look like everything is peaceful, but I'm pretty sure some damn blood-suckers are just waiting for our kind to step outside of Sylviana's protective barrier.

Next to me, Liam, who came along, takes out his phone with a frown, and lets Sylviana know about the events in a few sentences. When he hangs up, he looks annoyed.

"Yeah, no good at all. She can't do anything about people leaving, and more worrying, her barrier keeps vampires and witches from crossing over. Werewolves are free to go in and out, though. And she did feel your cousins run outside a few minutes ago." He scratches his head, looking at the screen.

"Sorry Elena, but... your cousins are on their own."

Which means they could get killed any minute! I take a deep breath. If they are not too far yet, I still have a chance to mind-link them...

Chris? Chris! Iris!

I can feel both of them. It's faint, but I definitely feel my cousins, in their wolves form, far away from me. However, either they can't hear me or won't listen, they both don't respond at all, no matter how much I try to call them. I keep forcing it, to the point I'm really growling, and other people in the room have to look down.

Then, I lose all contact. I can't feel them anymore. Either they are now really too far, or...

"Elena?" Asks Liam, visibly worried.

"I need to talk to Nora and Damian," I growl. "Nate, too."

He nods and follows me outside of the building. We hurry. This is no good, and we need to sort this mess out quickly.

"Elena! What do we do?" Asks Levi, coming out the doors behind us.

"Nothing!"

I climb behind Liam on his bike, and we ride out of the White Moon territory. Why do I have such a bad feeling about this? Something's definitely wrong. Not just my cousin's sudden departure, but my werewolf instincts are going crazy. Suddenly, Liam stops the bike, in the middle of several buildings, on the side of a large crossroads, taking off his helmet.

"Liam, what's wrong?"

"You don't smell it?" He asks.

Smell? I... Holy crap, he's right. I didn't notice because I had the helmet on, but the air reeks of blood! We both get off his bike, looking for the scent's origin. The smell is so strong, it's horrible and even worse to imagine what it is coming from. We keep looking around until I have enough. I try to replace any nearby wolves to reach out to. We can't possibly be the only ones smelling that.

White Luna! Several voices answer.

Do you smell that? It's the river!

The river...? The river runs from the north into our territory, crossing Silver City in the west to go down to the sea. I turn around and run towards the former Sea Moon Wolves' territory, close to the seafront. Liam's right behind me, keeping up with my speed until we get there, neither of us bothers to shapeshift, we are fast enough, and unsure about the situation, too. We finally stop, and Moon Goddess, the smell is even worse there. Both Liam and I cover our noses in the same movement.

"Moon Goddess mother... Oh, that's so bad..." Gasps Liam.

No kidding. It's worse than bad, that's... A dozen werewolves and humans are just like us, staring in utter shock and disgust at the river, just a couple of feet beneath our level.

The water turned red and dark. So thick and red... The smell of blood covers any other smell, even that of the sea nearby, and it's reeking. Even worse, we quickly spot corpses floating by, down the stream. Someone pukes on the other side of the river, not making it any better. I can't blame them, it's the most horrifying scene I've ever seen in my life. How many dead bodies does it take to fill a river with that amount of blood?

Liam and I both look up the river upstream, but it's definitely coming from the North...

"I... I think that's one nasty warning," mutters Liam, as shocked as I am.

"Grab them!" I yell to the men present.

Humans and werewolves look at me as if I was crazy, but as soon as they see me extend my arm towards the river, start obeying.

"Why are we getting them, exactly?" Asks Liam, helping me pull the closest body we could grab out of the river.

"We need to know where they came from," I say. "And to make sure if they..."

I get my answer before I can finish my question. Liam, too, as a disgusted face on. The poor man we grabbed and rolled over has his neck open wide, the flesh ripped open.

"If they were killed by vampires?" Sighs Liam. "Yeah, guess they were..."

"That can't be good," I growl.

I stand up, trying to look and think about what to do next, but I'm really clueless at that point. The men keep pulling the bodies out of the water, despite being grossed out by their state. Are those bloodsuckers toying with us? Or getting ready for battle? Liam takes out his phone once again, calling Sylviana, but I need to get this across the quickest way possible.

Damian, Nora, Nate, we just... found human corpses in the river.

What? Humans?

Yeah, a lot... I mean we found... five, no six bodies so far, but judging by the amount of blood, there's at least four or five times that. It reeks, it's horrible. The river turned red... Moon Goddess...

Your cousins flee Silver City, and now corpses in the river? says Nate. That's a lot for one day.

I know, it's not good, really not good.

I'm coming, says Damian.

Liam, what is Sylviana saying? Asks Nora.

She's just as shocked. Blood in the river is not good for the water witch, so actually, the vampires might have done this without her consent...

What? I thought she controlled them?

Yeah, well, maybe she needs to work on her taming thing...

I can't believe he stills manages to come up with some sarcasm in such a situation... We pull three more bodies out of the water by the time Sylviana and Damian arrive on the scene. The witch is absolutely horrified. "Where is Estelle?" I ask.

"I left her with Nora," explains Sylviana. "By the Mother Earth, those poor people..."

She sits next to the closest corpse, checking their injuries. The blood that immediately stains her hands and dress doesn't seem to worry her one bit. She keeps frowning and patting them here and there for a while. "Sylviana?" Asks Liam, making a disgusted face about whatever she is doing.

"Definitely a vampire attack..." she says. "They didn't completely empty them of their blood, though, which is odd considering the size of those bite marks... It's like they were in a rage, not hungry."

"Is this some sort of warning?" I ask.

She stays silent for a while, looking at the red river with an indecipherable look in her eyes.

"I think... She might be losing control over them. If they had attacked to feed themselves, they wouldn't have made such a mess of it. And if they had wanted to scare us, they wouldn't have left the bodies intact either." "Nice thought of them," growled Liam, disgusted.

"What do you mean, losing control over them?"

"Maybe those vampires aren't willing to help her as the previous one did..."

"You're saying she's... forcing them?"

Sylviana sighs and gets up.

"A mind-control spell on so many vampires isn't realistic, but... water witches are good at illusions. If she's controlling them in some sort of way, after all this time, maybe she has difficulties controlling how they hunt too... I'm not sure." "Wait, illusions? How come you never told us about this?" Asks Liam.

"I didn't think she was powerful enough for that. Each type of witch has their own set of skills, that evolve depending on their own crafts, and I have never heard of a water witch attaining such a level. But I might need to reconsider now..." "Can you do something about it?"

I'm now worried. I don't remember hearing about any illusions while we were fighting, five years ago! Did that damn witch improve so much? If we have to add this...

Sylviana doesn't seem worried, though.

"She won't be able to use it on us. Controlling the vampires must take everything she has already, if they are uncooperative. I'm sure she won't be able to use illusions again, not on our people."

"What's your top skill?" Asks Liam, curious.

Sylviana chuckles.

"That's a secret for now."

"What was that, then?" I ask. "They just... attacked those humans without reason?"

"They might have lost control, or she might have told them to feed without really measuring the mess they'd made..."

I'm not sure calling it a mess is the appropriate language. This is a f*****g s*******r. Damian and I exchange a look, disgusted as more bodies appear upstream. Crap, I don't want to spend my evening pulling damn bodies out of the river.

"I'll go upstream", I sigh. "If more bodies show up, I'd rather not have them go all the way down Silver City and freak everyone out. And the more we gather, the better idea we'll have of how many vampires are in her army."

"Good luck with that," replies Liam. "It's just so... gross, I am not pulling another one of..."

"Liam, you're staying with Sylviana and you help her check the bodies," Growls Damian. "What!"

But another growl of his older brother has him finally shutting up, and nodding despite his obvious disgust.

Luna, with caught a woman in the river!

I know, just get the body out of...

No, this one is alive!

They left one alive? I relay the information immediately to the Black brothers, including Nate who just arrived at the scene, and they are all as surprised as I am.

"Go," says Damian. "I'll coordinate with Lysandra to see if anything happened on their territory."

I nod, and both Nate and I turn back, taking his car to go back to the North territory. What crazy day is that!

"How's your day going, my Sunshine?" He sighs in the car.

"I did not expect to replace dead humans on the river, or to be faced with my cousins' little escapade," I growl.

Moreover, I'm ruining his car with my pants and shoes covered in blood and water, and my hands are no better. I'm in no mood to joke, either, and everyone is shocked by my appearance when I arrive back to the former White Moon territory. My best friend shakes his head, seeing me arrive in front of the White Moon Clinic, as per the informations I got meanwhile.

"You look like..."

"Please, Danny," I sigh, "Not today. You found one alive, you say?"

"Yeah," he says as we keep walking, "we took her to the ER right away, she was bleeding a lot, and having trouble breathing. A middle-aged female, human. She was still conscious when we took her here."

He guides us inside the Clinic, to the room where a woman, sobbing loudly and visibly terrorized, is cornered on one end of the bed. She's still soaked despite the hospital gown they put her in, and very, very thin. She looks sicks, her eyes too big for her face and her dark hair is a mess.

"Leave me alone, you dogs!" She yells at the closest nurse, which happens to be Daniel's mom, Abigail.

"Who are you," I ask her, holding her wrist as she's about to hit.

"Let me go! Let me go, I don't want to be near those dogs!!"

"Dogs?" I repeat, confused.

What the heck is wrong with that woman? Now that I notice it, she's only glaring, and apparently afraid, of the werewolves present. One of our nurses is human, and the only one she lets approach.

"You hate... werewolves?" I ask.

"You're just talking dogs! I hate you! Let me go back to my master!"

"Your master... You're a vampire's property?" I suddenly realize, shocked.

"I only belong to my master! He's my everything!"

She keeps screaming, and it's so annoying, I have a hard time not slapping her. Nathaniel has to intervene to help the nurses put her under the shackles, while I step back, letting them handle it while I think. Daniel and I exchange a look, shocked.

I had heard that vampires keep some humans like pets, so they can toy with them and most importantly, feed on them. To those humans, from what I had heard previously, the blood-sucking thing is addicting, almost turning them in some creepy junkies... Now that I look at it, that woman has numerous bite marks on her neck and shoulders. The other bodies had their throats too damaged and ripped open to make a difference, but...

"What happened?" I ask her, once they had her shackled to her bed.

"I am not answering a filthy dog! You bit..."

Nathaniel is about to jump at her, but I hold his arm, and step forward, staring at that woman, and, without thinking, using all of my Alpha aura. There is something strange happening with my wolf, too. She's... I don't know, it's like some warm halo around her presence, different from my usual feeling. I don't have the luxury to study that now, though.

"Answer me!" I growl furiously.

Suddenly, the look in that woman's eyes changes, from anger to fear. She looks at me like I'm some monster, a terrifying monster. She stutters a bit, shivering.

"I... My... master... attacked us..."

"Why? What happened?"

"The Master... he wasn't feeding... he was hungry... A lot of vampires were hungry... And the woman in the black dress was waiting..."

"The woman in the black dress?"

"Y... Yes. She came to the masters a while ago, and... she did something to them... They don't like her... But they have to listen... So they didn't feed, for a very long time, longer than they usually wait... And then, she told them to eat, and they attacked us... But it wasn't normal, they didn't control themselves... They killed... killed a lot of us." "How did you make it? What about the bodies in the river?"

"We ran, because the woman in the dark dress, she said to kill us all. So... Our masters tried not to, but they still attacked... They were hungry, it wasn't their fault..."

Moon Goddess, I'm going to get sick if I listen to more of their sick vampire s**t. Daniel is a bit green, too, but Nathaniel steps next to me.

"How many vampires are there? Why do they listen to the Witch?"

"She made them drink something... I'm not sure, but... The... The woman said she would give them a City, with new humans to eat... But our masters loved us, they loved us, they didn't want to change. So the woman got mad, and she gave them this strange water to drink... After that, they couldn't disobey her, they became crazy... They didn't want to attack us... Oh, my poor master..."

Sylviana was right. The vampires aren't doing this by their own will, she found a way to control them somehow. Moon Goddess, this is sickening enough as it is... Did she tell them to get rid of their humans so they would have no choice but to attack us? To get the ones in Silver City?

"How many? How many vampires are out there?" Asked Nathaniel, angry.

The woman suddenly spits in his direction.

"Thousands! Thousands of our masters will gather and attack you! And get rid of you, dirty dogs! My master will come and replace me!"

Okay, that's enough.

I raise my hand to have that crazy b***h shut the f**k up.