Re: The Midnight Moon - The Last Season

[Nickpick]

The Midnight Moon
Episode 1: Unto Man Shall Come…A Great Disaster




-December 13, 2010-


“How about peaches?” Sarah offers David, David stares at the can before he looks at the other can of beans. He grabs the can of peaches and smiles. “Good choice Vampiri” Recently the group has been living in an underground room, it was pretty space-y. with all cement walls, air conditioning, no chairs but there was an hose for water and they used some of their own clothes to mimic a pillow and blanket. And their selection of food was between peaches and beans, once in awhile they’ll get a chicken soup.

“Where’s Nick?” David asked Sarah, Sarah shrugs.

“I thought he was sleeping”

“Scoting the area...i think” Blake randomly says, trying to get a signal on his laptop. Sarah sighs, taking the box of cans and storing them in the ice box with no ice inside. She kicks it under the table and takes a seat on the plastic crate.

“I really hate when they do that, I’m guessing you sent them out there?”

“I need my wifi baby” Sarah rolls her eyes, Andrew comes out from the backroom with nothing but a towel around his waist.

“Whoever set the hose to act like a shower then I kneel before you” Blake stared at Andrew, his perfect body glistening from the water, he swallows a nice amount of spit before looking away. He drinks the juice of the peaches in his can, only thinking of Andrew's body.

“Okay, James is with Nick….Jonathan is…” Sarah looked around, suddenly Jonathan came walking out of the back, clearly still sleeping. Claudia sits on car seat that laid flat on the cold floor, she kept warm and to herself. She looks at Jonathan then looks away.

“Where’s James or Earl Grey? i mean where’s James’ dad?” Sarah said frustrated.

“I’m here” Earl came walking out of the only dark room. “I was only resting"

“Okay, is there anyone I’m missing?” Sarah tries to make clear, David shrugs when he starts eating his peaches. “We have way to many people in this group” Sarah sighs before taking a seat next to Claudia.


-Meanwhile, On Ground-


Nick and Jason hid behind a fallen stone wall, laying on the ground, watching a large group of random people grouped together.

“Followers?” Nick asks.

“Of course” James whispers back suddenly one of them looks in their direction, they quickly hide. The followers eyes were pure red.

“Sh*t, did they see us?” Nick says.

“Look”

“You crazy, you look!”

“Coward” James whispers at Nick but Nick just flips him off. James peeks and the group is walking off in a different direction.

“Okay, let’s go” James and Nick stand up and ran off across the street until they reach the alley, James climbs the trashcan and pulls the ladder down, Nick starts climbing up the ladder until eventually both reach the ceiling when they spot a follower on top, guarding the streets below.

“I got this” James whispers, he runs at the follower and tackles him to the ground, Nick close his eyes and takes a deep breath in, suddenly his palms are glowing as James struggles with the follower, he kicks James off and punches him in the face, James drops to the ground when Nick grabs the followers face and suddenly there a bolt of electricity that knocks the follower out.

“You okay?”

“Let’s get this over with” James places the small antenna on a near by air conditioner, back underground Blake gets a signal on his laptop and smiles.

“You beautiful bastards! Guys! We got wifi!” Everyone starts clapping, Blake crackles his fingers and starts typing on his laptop, Andrew watches him, Blake is in his mode. He walks over to Blake and whispers in his ear. He walks off and Blake smiles. Claudia looks at Sarah, Sarah looks over at Claudia when Claudia nods at Sarah.

“So Blake…can I ask you a question?”

“Shoot”

“Are you gay?” Blake quickly looks at Sarah, Claudia sits at the edge of her seat, Blake looks over at Earl who seems not to care.

“Why would you ask that?”

“You and Andrew are close, like really close. Plus if you are then…it’s cool, your just growing up” Sarah says, Claudia smiles.

“Yeah, Blake…you can trust us, we won’t tell Jonathan or Nick…besides me and Jonathan haven’t been on talking terms” Blake takes a deep breath, rubbing his index finger and his thumb together until he looks at both of them.

“Yes” He exhales, a relief to reveal.

“Have you and the hunter had intercourse?” Blake looks over at Earl, Earl seemed generally interested.

“Why is that any of your concern?”

“That’s a yes” Earl smiles, Sarah and Claudia chuckle.

“This conversation is over” Blake looks back at this laptop with blushing cheeks

“Who says intercourse anymore?” Sarah says, laughing with Claudia. Meanwhile, James and Nick ran back onto the construction site, removed the carpet which revealed a hatch, James opened it and Nick jumped in, James grabbed the carpet and threw it over him and closed the hatch.

“Honey! I’m home!” Nick said walking into the main room, Sarah jumped up and ran to him, wrapping her arms around him.

“I had no idea where you were”

“You were sleeping and I knew you wouldn’t approve but I’ve returned without a scratch”

“Blake, have you found anything?” James asks, looking in Blake’s direction. Blake smiles, staring down at his laptop.

“Besides front row viewing of the apocalypse…I know where Nora is hiding” The group quickly circle around James, staring down at his laptop, each gazed in interest.

“Trinity Corp?” James questions, Blake searches the name up which brings the corporations website up.

“Trinity Corp, where life becomes fantasy”

“Sound like a cheesy movie” Andrew says, Blake nods.

“So why is she staying there?” James zips his coat and walks off.

“It’s where she keeps her followers”

“Where you going?” Nick asked.

“Getting ready for war”

“I’m coming with you” Jonathan says, Claudia looks over.

“Wait…I thought we’re fighting as a group, if we go with only three people then it’ll be like finding Waldo, kindergarten style”

“What?” James says, Nick points over at Blake.

“What I’m saying is we stick to the plan, we distract her while you guys sneak in for the kill attack”

“It’ll be me, James and…”

“Me” Andrew zips his coat up and throws the hood on, Blake looks at Andrew.

“You sure?” Blake says, trying not to give himself away.

“I’m sure”

“Blake, we don’t care…Zelos gave you up, I know your gay, there’s a good chance all the girls know your gay and I’m sure old man Jenkins over there knows as well. So kiss him good luck and let’s move!” Nick blurted out, Blake looked at Nick then at Andrew, Andrew was smiling, surprised like Blake, Blake shrugs and rushes at Andrew and kisses him.

“Good luck”

“I don’t need it, I have you” Andrew says, kissing Blake one last time before him and Jonathan exit through the ladder, James nods at Nick.

“Son” Earl quickly walked up, James didn’t even stare at him in the eyes. “Good luck”

“Yeah” James in a split second was gone, Nick turns toward Earl and pats his shoulder.

“He’ll come around, just give him time”

“Time is something that I don’t have”

“I know, you guys ready?” Blake closed his laptop, everyone looks at Nick and nods. “Let’s end this”


-End Of Part 1-



-Start Of Part 2-


On ground, the dark sky felt as if the world had ended, life felt as if it ended months ago. Buildings barely stood where they use to be. Followers, normal people under Nora’s control roamed the streets, patrolling for her. Nick and the other hid in the alley of some small businesses down town.

“How far are we?”

“It‘s pretty far… come on…we’re almost there”

“Stop!” Nick turns around and standing there is a follower with bright red eyes. A stay at home mom, still wearing her apron. “Your not followers, join and believe”

“She sounds like those people who come up to your door” Sarah says, Nick smiles.

“You guys keep going, I’ll take of this chick”

“Don’t lag” Sarah kisses his cheek and they run off, quietly. The mom walks up toward Nick, Nick steps back as she gets closer.

“I bet you have kids…somewhere. Probably a kid and some teenager in college, probably getting high while this town goes to hell. Anyway I don’t want to kill someone who’s innocent so what I’m going to do is NICK SHOCK ATTACK!” Suddenly an orange bolt of electricity hit’s the mom and she falls unconscious.

“Nick shock attack?” Sarah said, Nick turned around and smiled.

“I thought it was catchy”

“When did we become a cheesy Japanese anime?”

“All I need is the crazy spiky hair” Nick wraps his arms around Sarah and gently kisses her lips. “When this is over…all I want is you”

“Like wise Nick-San” Both chuckle and kiss one last time before running off and joining the group. Nick and Sarah catch up to the group, who stand around on the side walk.

“What the hell? We could be caught by followers”

“Do you see any?” Claudia says, Nick and Sarah look around.

“That’s odd”

“And look…” Blake says. He points to a beat up mini-van. “We could be there within the hour if we use this”

“Fine, everyone in” Everyone gets in, Blake takes a wire from his backpack and connects it to his laptop to the headphone adaptor near the radio then starts typing on his computer when it roars to life. Nick looks over at Blake and smiles.

“Awesome”

“Thanks” Nick closes his door and hit’s the gas, speeding off, down the road. Meanwhile, Nora walked down a long corridor when a follower runs up.

“Sector 8 has gone quiet Nora”

“How about Sector 7 and 9?” Nora stops and looks at the young boy who was under Nora’s control.

“7 went quiet about an hour ago, 9 is still updating us”

“They’re moving, they most likely know where I am…put some shooters together, kill everybody besides James Lionheart”

“Yes Ma’am” The follower runs off. The group travels into tunnel that lead into Trinity Corp, the group of shooters run into the tunnel, lining up all in formation.

“We got company” Sarah says, Nick leans forward, keeping his foot on the gas. “Nick…Nick!, you’ll kill us all” Claudia leans forward.

“Everyone buckle up!” Claudia said, she whispers into Nick’s ear. Everyone quickly buckles up. “NOW!” Claudia yells, Nick hit’s the brake when the followers start shooting, Claudia flies through the window and phases mid-air until she lands on the ground, they starts shooting at her when Nick speeds pass them all and keeps driving, Sarah turns around and sees Claudia fight them all off.

“Ma’am, they broke through…they’re in the building”

“Then let it begin and bring him out, he’ll be needed” Nora says and smiles. Nick and the other walked down the long hallway when a follower turns the corner.

“In the elevator!” Blake says, they quickly get in when Blake pulls out two silver balls from his backpack and throws them down the hall, the silver balls explode, throwing the follower back, knocking them out.

“I wasn’t actually planning on using those” Blake says, almost sad.

“Why?” Sarah asks.

“Abby wanted to use them, she called them ‘Great Balls of Fire” It was quiet until everyone in the elevator starts laughing, suddenly the elevator doors open and two followers have two machine guns aimed at them.

“Well it was fun” Nick says, giving up.

“Nora wants to speak with you” They step out, one follower pushes Nick to walk faster. Meanwhile Claudia is thrown to the ground, gun aimed at her face when the follower is tackled by Jonathan, Jonathan rips the man to pieces, Claudia phases back, fully naked when Jonathan phases back. He breathes heavy when he stands up and looks over at her.

“I heard your thoughts, sorry”

“Thank you” Claudia said, Jonathan nods. She walks up to him and wraps her arms around him, he kisses her head.

“Jonathan, I’m pregnant” Jonathan looks down at Claudia in surprise, Claudia looks up with a worried face.

“What?”

“I’m pregnant” Jonathan smiles and hugs her tightly

“Oh my god Claudia!” She starts crying. “Don’t cry, this is going to be great, I promise I won’t ever spill blood again, I swear”

“No, it’s not that…I love you even when I wasn’t speaking with you, I still loved you”

“I never stopped loving you” She reaches out with a kiss and Jonathan kisses her. Back in the building, Nick and the other stand around when Nora walks in with Zane. There’s a silent shock when they see Zane.

“You bastard, I knew I see your ugly face soon enough” David says, through his teeth, angry.

“Yes and it’s good to finally see yours”

“Yeah and I can’t wait to see yours when I pull your heart for trying to kill me” Nick says.

“Actually Nicholas…” Nora starts, Nick looks over at her. “That was me…and don’t insult me with the word ‘trying’ I knew what I was doing, little did I know of James Lionheart Senior" Earl smiles.

“Nora, you haven’t aged a day”

“You have” Nora says with a smile.

“So what killing me was your revenge for me killing you?”

“Nicholas, I’m not mad that you killed me. Your simply…caught in the middle of my feud…” She looks over at Earl. “With your son”

“James?” Nick says. “What do you want with him?”

“What? Has he not told you about me? Now I feel insulted. James and I go way back, a friendship not even his father knew about”

“What are you talking about?” Earl said.

“James killed my son, your brother Nick” Nick felt his heart skip a beat in shock. “And your brother David” David just stared at Nora with a angry, pissed off look.

“No, I refuse to accept you as my mother, Nick is the only family I need”

“If your trying to hurt me than it’s a failed attempt. You were my least favorite, you were…a bastard child not even Nicolai liked you”

“YOU B*TCH!” David ran at Nora but with a slight flick her left hand, he flies back and hit’s the wall, dropping to the ground.

“I had…an older brother?”

“Yes, he was…a new type of creature. The perfect mix between Changling and Vampire…I knew James' past and his history…I had James train your older brother, so he would be powerful but instead James killed him and ran. For weeks, I looked for my child until your father found him, dead…in a field”

“James wouldn’t do it on purpose” Nick defended his best friend but…he didn’t know if it was the truth. The past played out in Nick’s head. James was known to attack first and ask later.

“YOU DEFEND THAT MONSTER!”

“Your one to speak…you crazy b*tch. So let me get this clear…” David said, getting up from the ground. “Tru Bon is under your control because of something James did to your child?

“Zachary was a beautiful child, he was a god and the influence over Tru Bon? Controlling Tru Bon... was Zane‘s idea”

“I’m sorry but I can’t let you kill James, he may not want to speak to me or even acknowledge my existence but he’s still my son and I shall protect my child” Earl removed his sword from underneath his coat. He held it out, in stance.

“ENOUGH!” James yelled from the other end of the room with Andrew, Jonathan and Claudia by his side. James wasn’t happy, he was actually pretty pissed off. “Nora, I did kill your son but he wasn’t himself, he tried to kill me and I simply was protecting myself. So your revenge is pretty much one sided”

“James…You should of told me” Nick said as James walked up to him.

“What good would of came from it? Nick, all I’ve done is protect you and done what I thought was only best for you”

“I’m an adult, I can protect myself”

“You’ve been nothing but trouble, I’ve attacked you more than once, you’ve been chased by every damn vampire in Tru Bon and werewolf in Texas. I don’t sleep because I lie awake, wondering what new hell you will bring me in the morning. Your no adult, you’re a child” James said, almost out of breath. He tried keeping his emotions back but they consumed him. Nick simply smiled, he scratched the back of his head then looked at James then walked off.

“Where do you think your going?” Nora commanded to know.

“Kill me mother, see if I care” She snapped her fingers when two followers quickly grab Nick by his arms, Nick smiles.

“Now!” Nick yells, his eyes turn orange as his whole body becomes consumed with electricity, a large bursts through both followers far away from him. Jonathan and Claudia phase and quickly tackle her followers around her. David’s eyes go black, his fangs come out as he rushes at Zane. Andrew jerks his wrists out and two stakes come out from his sleeve. Blake presses a button on the strap on his backpack, activating two large blades stabbing out of his backpack, Blake pulls them out and welds them.

“Bring it bitches” Andrew and Blake go back to back as the room filled with followers.

“Kill them all!” James and Earl walked up to Nora, Earl with his sword inches from her face.

“Goodbye Nora” Earl says, Nora smiles.

“Not so soon” She smacks her hands together, sending a large power wave of energy through out the room, throwing everyone in it’s direction back. Nora ran off.. “Kill them!” She demands her followers before stepping onto the ledge of a window and looking back, she jumps. Her followers take all their weapons out and aims it at the group.

“Let’s move it!” Nick yells, everyone gets up and starts to run, the followers start shooting when Sarah’s eyes turn purple, she raises her hands, creating a purple energy wall. The bullet that hit it, only crack the shield.

“MOVE!” Sarah yells, Nick rushes to her side.

“Come on”

“Just go, I’ll hold them off”

“I’m not leaving without you” Nick grabs Sarah, holding her while she keeps the shield intact. They leave when Johns rushes into the room.

“Sorry for begin late” He swings his machine gun around and starts shooting back, Andrew takes the bag off Johns and takes out his cross bow with hand craved arrows. Andrew stares at them, almost salivates.

“My babies!” Andrew loads them up when James walks up.

“We got more company” James says as vampires, in all black enter the large room. Andrew smiles a cocky smile.

“Just in time” Andrew starts shooting his arrows at them, each arrows hit’s a vampire in the heart when suddenly Claudia is shoot in the leg by a follower. She drops to the ground, Jonathan quickly picks her up and rushes out of the room. Earl steps out of the room with Nick and Sarah when Johns looks at Andrew.

“It’s to much, they won’t get far” Andrew knew Johns was right.

“Get out of here, I’ll cover you” Johns kept shooting until he ran out of the room, Blake turns around and sees Andrew isn’t near.

“Andrew?” Blake runs back to the room when he sees a follower coming, he rushes at him and stabs him in the chest, killing him instantly. Blake continued to run to the room when he saw Andrew closes the doors on Blake. Locking it. Blake starting hitting the doors, over and over.

“ANDREW! ANDREW NO!”

“We need to get out of here” James said, walking up to Blake.

“Save him please” James grabs Blake by the arm and starts running, Blake tried to get away but James’ grip was to strong to break. They get outside and back into the car, Nick starts it up and they take off. Andrew smiles as he takes out a thick arrow, within the arrow held all the mixtures for a homemade bomb.

“Blake…this is for you” The vampires and followers rush at him as he shoots the arrow, Blake from within the car looks out the window when Trinity Corp explodes, becoming nothing but a small fire from how far they got. Far from the building, Nora watched. She also saw the group getting away. She smiles before looking away.

“Keep running”

-The Midnight Moon-

[Nickpick]

The Midnight Moon
Episode 2: Revenge Is A Dish…Best Repeated.



-December 16th, 2010-


It was quiet, the whole group has spoken aloud since that night. Blake locked himself away in another room, the group would place a can of food with a bottle of water outside the door, he eats at midnight, Nick heard him, walking around while he tried to sleep. Nick slowly got out of bed without waking Sarah up. He walked out, only wearing a white shirt with jeans, barefooted.

“Blake?” Blake turns around and sees Nick, he focused back on what he was doing. “You okay?” Blake didn’t answer, he just searched through the can of food. “We have enough for the week, you can have more than one if you want”

“Who’s call was it?” Blake asked. Nick knew actually what he was talking about.

“Blake, the blame isn’t on anyone. Andrew knew what he was doing and he saved our asses back there. I know I would easily switch spots with him now that I see the pain your going through”

“You would of survived”

“You don’t know that”

“Was is it me? Was it me that has suffered more than anyone else in this group? First with Abby and now with Andrew”

“Your going to wake everyone up”

“They can kiss my ass, I gave my life to this group and what I’m payback with losing two people that I centered my world on”

“You don’t think we’re suffering? I loved Abby like a sister” Blake scuffs, almost laughing at that statement.

“Yeah right”

“How can you say that Blake? This group is the closest thing to family I’ve ever had”

“How can I say that? She died because of you! Andrew died…because of you. This group centers around you Nick! Who is next to die Nick because of you? Nora is YOUR mother, Nicolai is YOUR father. Shawn is YOUR friend. So how can I say that? I say that because It’s the truth”

“DON’T YOU THINK I DON’T KNOW THAT? Blake, I don’t sleep at night because the guilt of everything around me, keeps me up”
“Guilt? It’s not guilt. It’s fear…” Everyone began to wake up, nobody really making themselves known. They just kept quiet, listening. “Fear of ending everything, fear of facing the future”

“That’s not true”

“It’s true, like it or not. You have the blood of Abby and Andrew on your hands. It’s just a matter of time before everyone around you is dead until your alone” Nick punches Blake across the face. Blake holds his cheek, letting the pain take over. Blake smiles, looking down at his hands to see his blood. “Go back to Sarah, lay next to her warm body. While I go back to my room, alone and broken. All because of you…” Blake walks off, leaving Nick alone, who caught his breath from the adrenaline. James steps out from within the darkness.

“What?”

“Why would you try to speak with him?”

“You’re the last person to be talking to me right now. Back at Trinity Corp, everything you said to me, that wasn’t some act, you actually meant that”

“Yes, it’s how I’ve felt for awhile. You let this blanket of guilt consume you. It’s like hell is your horse, leaving nothing but destruction in it’s path”

“Coming from you Mr. Daddy Issues, that’s a compliment” James tackles Nick in a blur, he pins him against the cement wall, fangs out, eyes black. He presses his arm against Nicks’ neck.

“YOU’RE THE LAST F**KING PERSON TO BE TALKING TO ME ABOUT PARENT ISSUES!” David pulls James off Nick, and stands between them.

“IT ENDS NOW! I’m tried of listening to everyone fighting. We’re a team, we should be sticking together rather than pushing each other way”

“Hopefully we won’t be a team for much longer” Nick says before walking off, David sighs, he looks over at James.

“Did you honestly have to add your two cents in? those two were already fighting”

“Nick’s right about one thing though, the sooner Nora’s dead. The sooner we can end the shameful excuse for a team” James walked off, into the darkness. It was the rise of a brand new day, Blake sat in the middle of his enclosed room. His laptop flashed the low battery message as he had a drawn map on the cement wall. Blake walks from his laptop to the wall and draws a line with the black marker down until he stops at Fort Lazarus. A small town about 25 miles from Tru Bon, it to was infect with Nora’s followers. The group always wondered but they usually found no reason to go there. But Blake had an idea he was pursuing, until he’s laptop shuts off. He sat on his bed, thinking.

“That’s it” He stares off, the plan unfolds in his head, he stands up and places an X on Fort Lazarus. Meanwhile, Nick sat at the end of his bed, fully clothed and clearly upset.

“This is really bringing you down huh?”

“Blake is like a little brother to me, James…ehh I fight with him everyday, I’ll get over him. Blake lost Andrew and I tried to defend myself. I deserve to have my ass handed to me”

“Then go in there and apologize, say your sorry, cry if you have to…fix your friendship before it’s lost” Nick stood up, he kisses Sarah on the cheek and walks off into the main room where everyone looks at him. He stops and looks back at them.
“What?” Nick continues to walk until he reaches Blake’s door. He knocks on it when Blake opens it. He doesn’t even look at Nick in the eye.

“What is it Nick?”

“Can I come in? I’d like to speak with you”

“Last night wasn’t enough? you made it pretty clear with that punch to my face”

“Please…can I just come in?” Blake steps aside, Nick walks past him when Blake turns around and punches him across the face. Dropping Nick on the cold, cement floor. “What the hell was that for?”

“For last night, you stupid bastard”

“Jeez, I came here to say sorry but now…damn it! You have one hell of a punch”

“Andrew taught me” Nick stood up, he checked his hand and saw no blood.

“Listen last night, I was a major douche. I said things I shouldn’t have said. I feel bad, I know this is all my fault and even if this ends in an hour, I’ll still live with the fact that Andrew’s and Abby’s blood is on my hands. I don’t really expect an apology but just know I’m sorry, I’m sorry for what I’ve put you through” Nick is silent, putting his hand on his face.

“Fort Lazarus, Nora is there…If your really sorry, you’ll take me there now”

“Now? Her followers double in the morning”

“After our attack, they’ve tripled at night. Besides, we can’t stay here long…You’ve known that since the attack”

“Yeah, I know…There’s no where we can’t go without someone finding us”

“Her army is still looking for us here, we’ll be save in Fort Lazarus”

“We can’t just get up and go without being seen. We’d have to go In small groups and we’d have to go at night”

“James, Earl and David are the fastest people in the group then it’s Jonathan and Claudia. We pack our things in small amounts and we leave in separate times”

“Sounds like a plan” Nick agrees with Blake, Blake still is serious, letting him know he hasn’t forgiven Nick. “So Fort Lazarus…Why do you want me and you to go?”

“I plan on killing your mother, if we go as a group, we risk getting caught. I’ve prepared something in order to get us through, straight to her” Blake says, grabbing his coat and zipping it up.

“What?”

“A plan”



-Fort Lazarus-


Blake and Andrew traveled in an old pick up truck, down the empty road.

“God, I hope you know what your doing” Nick says while driving with Blake in the front seat with a serious look upon his face.

“I’ve planned this since the night of the attack, play your part and I’ll play mine”

“What if something goes wrong?”

“Then we both die and knowing your mother, it’ll consist of either…vampires ripping us to shreds or her followers will shot us”

“While I’ve been on the end of both sides and I recommend the bullets” Nick says, Blake smiles but quickly hides it.

“When were you shot?” Blake asked, Nick pulls his shirt up, revealing a small scar near his ribs on his right side.

“When I was 9, I had this friend who accidentally shot me. Doctors said I made a miracle recovery and that’s what I believed, I followed the faith while my mother knew the real reason, I was this accident…this Changling”

“Nick, If I’m attacked and unable to kill your mother…will you be able to?” Nick stares at the road, he doesn’t think about it, the answer is simple. He looks over at Blake with a serious face.

“Yes” The enter Fort Lazarus, only to find that everything is normal. People are walking around, running errands and doing normal things.

“Nick, these people…they aren’t followers” Blake says.

“Are you sure she’s here?”

“Positive, I saw her on the street cameras. There’s no way I’m wrong about this…But it doesn’t make sense, when I saw it, it was destroyed and her followers were everywhere”

“Whatever Nora is planning, she has 1,139 people in the middle of it” Meanwhile, James opens the hatch and steps out, he rushes over and hides. Groups of followers patrol the streets.

“James..” Sarah whispered. “Where you going?” She stuck her head out, James signals her to go away.

“Go”

“Where are you going?”

“Nick and Blake, I’m going to Fort Lazarus…”

“Why? He said to stay” James in a flash is back in the hatch, holding Sarah by her arms.

“Something doesn’t feel right. I can’t feel what Nick is doing anymore or see what he sees. It’s like…” James is quiet, Sarah stares at James, waiting for him to finish.

“What?”

“Nick…he broke our connection”

“That’s impossible, I thought sense you’ve tasted his blood and he’s tasted yours, you’ll always connected”

“Yes but I can’t see him, I can’t feel his emotions” James almost began to panic. Sarah hid the smile she felt back, She saw how much Nick meant to him.

“Believe In Nora…Or Die” James and Sarah look up at the same time to see several followers staring down at them.

“Oh crap!” Sarah says, staring at the Followers.

-The Midnight Moon-

[Nickpick]

The Midnight Moon
Episode 3: Fiction

James jumps out of the underground area in a single bound, he lands behind the Followers and lets his claws come out, eyes go black and fangs spike out.

“Believe in Nora or what?” They turn toward James.

“DIE!” They say simultaneously, James smiles, revealing his fangs.

“Yeah, I like that one” He rushes at them, while underground Sarah rushes into the main room.

“THEY FOUND US, WE NEED TO GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!” Like roaches everyone burst into action, as they begin to grab their things.

“Jonathan! James is outside with them” He nods, he kisses Claudia and runs off. Sarah runs into her and Nick’s room and gathers the very little clothes they had. Jonathan and James did their best to fight off the Followers, more and more just kept coming.

“Clear a path for everyone to get out, I’ll stall them!” James say to Jonathan in his wolf form, Jonathan nods and runs through the followers towards the hatch and howls. Claudia looks back and runs up the ladder.

“We’re coming!” Claudia turns around when Sarah and David run up with bags. “We’re coming up!” Claudia yells, Jonathan howls again as he blocks off the hatch entrance. They hurry up the ladder, only to find what looked like an army of Followers coming in every direction.

“WHERE DO WE GO?” Sarah yelled

“Get on Jonathan, David you too” David smiles.

“No thanks, I’ll stay with James. Get the hell outta here!” Jonathan runs off, in the direction of Fort Lazarus. Claudia phases and runs off. David rushes to James’ aid and pushes several Followers out of the way.

“We can’t kill them, they’re only under her control”

“Then we stall them!” David yells, taking one a silver grenade.

“You can touch silver?”

“Yeah, can’t you?” David asks James, James gives him a dirty look while pushing several Followers back. David throws it.

“Run!” David in a flash is gone, James follows. There’s no explosion, just a puff of smoke and the loudest noise that drops everyone to the ground. Holding their ears in pain. James and David catch up with Jonathan, Sarah and Claudia who waited two miles outside of Fort Lazarus.

“What did that grenade do?” James asked.

“It was essentially a flash grenade without the flash and five times the noise”

“Smart” David wasn’t expecting the comment from James. He didn’t know what to say.

“Thanks” It came out awkward, James looks over at Jonathan, who is back in his normal form with Claudia, both clothed.

“Fort Lazarus is just up ahead, Nick and Blake should be to far inside” Suddenly a car drives by, inside normal people who just stare at the group as they drive by.

“Those weren’t followers” Claudia said.

“If Nora is here then wouldn’t it be crawling with followers” Sarah said, James started walking.

“I guess we should go find out” James said, the group starts walking toward Fort Lazarus. Meanwhile, Inside Blake and Nick walk down the sidewalks, people mind their business as they walk by. Nobody attacks or tries to kill them as they walk by.

“I’m not use to people, I keep waiting for someone to jump out” Nick said.

“Let’s just focus” Blake points to the mayor office. “She’s inside there”

“How do you know?”

“Last night, I saw here…” Nick sees Nora marching down the street with several followers, Nick grabs Blake and grabs his hand and together they run into the alley and hide behind a garbage can. Nick breathes heavy as he peeks out and sees Nora just walk by.

“They can’t sense me…us” Nick whispered, Blake said down at his hand, locked with Nick’s. “Sarah’s mental block is working”

“Um Nick” Nick turns toward Blake, Blake continues to stare down at them holding hands, Nick looks down and quickly pulls his hand away.

“Sorry”

“It’s okay, at least we know she’s near”

“Yeah, let’s just sit here for a moment” Sarah climbs over the fence first, trying to not make a suddenly appearance in the town. She drops in an alley behind a corner market. James and David jump one and are over. Earl does the same. Claudia and Jonathan stay on the other side.

“You guys coming?” Sarah whispers through the large stone wall.

“Nora” Jonathan says, Jonathan and Claudia quickly hide behind a large rock.

“She won’t detect you, those marks I cut into your body will keep your thoughts to yourself”

“Jon, what’s she doing?”

“Leaving” Jonathan watched Nora walk down the road until they start running. “I think they reported our location to them. She’s probably going to our hideout”

“Okay, just over” James said, Jonathan and Claudia quickly jump over and join the group.

“Now what?” Sarah said, James looks at Sarah.

“I haven’t been in the right state of mind Sarah, I know you probably haven’t noticed but I haven’t thanked you at all. Nora would have found us if it wasn’t for your marks you placed on us. I thank you, deeply” Everyone was quiet, James was thanking Sarah now and they weren’t use to it.

“Your welcome James”
“Well then, Let’s go find Nick and Blake” Everyone walk off through the alley, Nick stands up and looks over at Blake.

“Hey, follow me” Blake follows Nick through the back door of a restaurant, they travel through the kitchen until they reach the tables. They take a seat and look around, slightly paranoid.

“So what do we do now? Nora is gone” Blake said, whispering.

“Well I’m not sticking around when these people go all Crazies on us”

“Crazies?”

“It’s a movie, never mind…we need to find”

“James..” Blake said, looking out the window.

“Right, we need to find the group” Blake point at the group walking by.

“No, it’s the group” Blake rushes out, Nick looks and sees them and hurries out.

“What the hell are you guys doing here?” Sarah ran up to Nick and hugged him.

“The Followers found us, Nora is most likely looking at our temporary home in Tru Bon”

“She is, we saw her leave” Blake said. Sarah releases Nick.

“What do we do? We’re in the open”

“ These people aren’t followers, they seem to be…normal” Nick said.

“Where’s your dad James?” Blake says.

“He’s not like me or David, he can’t go out in the daylight. He’s in a storage room in a local market. We told him we’d return at sundown”

“Let’s head back to him, we need to hide out for awhile” They all walk off. Meanwhile, Back in Tru Bon. Nora jumps down into the underground room. To see it’s a mess, A follower walks up to her.

“Where have they gone?” The follower pointed to Blake’s room. Nora looks over and walks straight into his room. To see the enlarged map. Drawn with a black marker upon the wall with Fort Lazarus circled with writing next to it.

“If your reading this Nora then your followers have given you the location of where my friends are, if your reading this then you’ve either caught my friends or they’ve escaped but that doesn’t matter. What matters now is that we’re in Fort Lazarus and I will be waiting for you. Your pet Zane killed Abby and you’ve killed the love of my life. So leave Nick and the rest out of this…I will be the one to kill you…Don’t leave me waiting”

Blake’s name was written under the message, Nora smiles, she turns to one of her followers.

“Call the Apostles, Tell them they’re in Lazarus and to find them and kill them. I’m going to Seattle…”

“But…What’s in Seattle?”

“Are you questioning me?” Nora stopped and walked back, The Follower stood straight, almost saluting her.

“No, ma’am! Just curious”

“Curiosity killed the cat” She gentle touches his face then scratches it. “Be a good cat and do as I say” Nora walks off. Meanwhile back in Fort Lazarus. Two Followers stand guard inside the Mayor’s office. Deep underground is a prison. When a walkie goes off…

“Release the apostles. Nora’s command. She says ‘they’re’ in Fort Lazarus”

“Copy that” One Followers nods at the other, he hit’s the switch and the cell doors begin to open, all that is heard from within is laughing.


-The Midnight Moon-

[Nickpick]

The Midnight Moon
Episode 4: Unequal Dreams

-2018-

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” We wished only to be free of our problems then, we wished for life to be normal then but it only got worse before it got better. But back then I wish I knew what Blake wanted because maybe this world today…would’ve been different”


-December 17th, 2010-


“Okay guys, we need to find somewhere to hide out when Nora returns. I think we should split up and find somewhere to go. Blake, you come with me…”

“No, I’ll look alone…I’ll search near the mayor’s office. It’s most likely Nora’s hotspot and I bet it’s the only spot with wifi. Besides, I have thinking to do” Nick nods and looks over at Sarah.

“Sarah, Claudia…we need water and food. Maybe you two can ask around?” They nod and agree. “James, Jonathan, you two are the ones with major speed. Find us somewhere safe and quiet, Me and David are gonna snoop around, pick up some information. We’ll meet at the market place to get Earl…”

“Why do we call him Earl again?” James asked, almost bothered.

“Because having two James’ around can be confusing. Besides he prefers it…We‘ll meet at the market when the sky goes orange. Let‘s do it!” Everyone splits up in different directions. David sides with Nick…

“You know something, don’t you…You got that look in your eye” David says to Nick, putting his hands into his pockets.

“I got an idea”

“Sweet, We bringing hell?” David referred to James and Nick’s argument from earlier. Nick smiles and looks at David.

“Of course”





-Seattle-



The Church doors fly open, Nora stands at the entrance as King Raj smiles with his fist against his cheek, he sits up and starts clapping.

“If it isn’t the woman who started the revolution. I must say…you’ve done what others are yet to accomplish”

“I didn’t come for a thank you, I came to let you know I’ve released the apostles. It’s one step toward victory”

“I’m glad you’re my side, Nora…Vampire, Changling relationship is important in this day and age. A new army is important as well”

“I guess you’d like an apology from me for killing yours” Nora asks, Raj stands and starts walking toward her.

“Apology? No…Zelos is dead am I correct?” Nora almost laughs.

“Do you wish to die?”

“Easy…In several days, the eclipse will happen and I cannot risk losing my crown”

“About that” Suddenly a fist pierces right through King Raj, Raj stares down at the fist that held his heart. Zane stood behind him. “I don’t plan on saving vampires nor do I plan on helping King Maximum because in the end….it’s everyone that I hate”

“Your crown has fallen” Zane pulls his arm out, King Raj drops to the floor and dies. “If I crush his heart, he’ll explode” Nora just stares at Zane.

“Don’t for one second think I’m on your side. You’ve failed in keeping track of the group, you’ve lost your connection to David. You’ve becoming more of a problem then ally…watch yourself Zane or I’ll have to step in” Nora walks off, Zane stares down at the heart and crushes it.


Meanwhile


Sarah and Claudia walk down the side walk.

“Ask the old man” Claudia says, Sarah walks up to an old man walking toward them.

“Excuse me, do you know where we can get some water? Several of the markets seem to be…oddly out of stock”

“Oh yes. The mayor sought best if we cut the water supply and just drink from the lake”

“Where can we find the lake?” Claudia asked.

“It’s about a mile up and keep going until your out of the city and you’ll see the lake, it’s bright and beautiful…you won’t miss it”

“Also…This mayor of yours. Does he have a name?” Sarah asked, the old man smiles.

“Oh it’s not a man, it’s a woman. Her name is Nora” Sarah looks at Claudia, Claudia walks off.

“Thank you” Sarah catches up with Claudia.

“How is it these people know nothing of the pain going on in Tru Bon? It’s like they’re blind…Nora’s controlling them but they’re not followers” Claudia said aloud, Sarah catches up to her pace.

“Perhaps it’s something in the water. Maybe some kind of drug”

“I was thinking the same thing, I guess we have no choice then to head to the lake” Sarah nods and they walks off. Meanwhile, Blake sneaks into the Mayor’s office through the back window. He places his laptop on the desk and keeps the window open…in case of a fast exit. He walks to the door and gently locks it. He looks around and sees photos of older men in suits, some shaking hands with important people in the world. It was the real governor of Fort Lazarus. Blake walks back to his laptop and takes the USB adapter and plugs it into his laptop, it picks up wifi. Blake smiles…

“Wifi is the one thing these bastards can’t take away from me” Blake starts using the single from the wifi to transmit all data that has been sent to this area. Blake continues to search through it when he hit’s the mother load. He stares at the computer in shock, as tears weld up in his eyes.

“Oh my god…” Suddenly the doorknob begins to twist, Blake wipes the tears and closes his laptop when the doors bursts open. The follower steps inside only to see it’s empty.

“Why was this door locked?” Blake was under the desk, holding his laptop against his chest. Meanwhile, Nick and David walked up to a local mechanic. He enters the store where a young man, almost 25 or 30. Tall and lengthy with straight brown hair, wearing a white jacket with a red muscle shirt underneath and nice jeans.

“Hi, you work here?” Nick asked, The young man smiles.

“I do, mate. How can I help ya”

“Your English, wasn’t expecting that”

“Yeah, most people don’t expect an English men to be in the middle of some small hick town. So like I said Nicholas, how can I help ya?” Nick caught his name, David put his hands behind his hand and let his claws come out.

“You know my name?” Nick asks.

“Of course I do, the infamous Nicholas Vampiri and the sidekick, David Vampiri. You’ve made yourself legendary amongst the half breeds like myself”

“Who are you?”

“Name Ronny, I’m more like you Nick and less like David…actually more like David and less like you. I’m a mix between Vampire and Changling DNA. But I don’t require blood…I’m like a successful you!” He points at David.

“You’re a half breed? Like us?”

“Correct, I must admit. I thought I was going to be sent to kill your little girl friend and wolf-y girl. Glad I got you two” David keeps his mouth shut and lets his fangs come out but keeps his eyes normal.

“What’s going on?”

“Well it’s pretty simple, I and two others…that I know of. Were sent to kill your little group, we work for Nora and well we’re powered, like you wankers. We’re the apostles…” David’s eyes go black, he claws at Ronny but Ronny is gone, just gone. “Over here” They turn around and Ronny is standing behind them. He punches James across the face which sends him flying back into the next room.

“I have Super speed mate, it’s going to take more than a single claw to the face to stop me”

“The others? What abilities do they have?” Ronnie thinks about it, looking away.

“Well if I’m correct, James and Jonathan are about to meet Riza Bo. A Russian with nothing but brute force. And your little girl friend and wolf girl are gonna meet…Lady Death. Nasty burger she is…she’s smart, uses your fighting against you but also she has a powerful scream” Nick quickly gets pissed and tries to shock Ronny with his electricity but Ronny is already gone. Nick turns around but he’s not behind him. Nick turns around again and Ronny’s standing there, laughing. “You thought I was going to be behind you, that’s classic”

“So your under Nora’s payroll which means she created you…abominations” Ronny touches his chest.

“How could you say such awful words. But yes, that’s true”

“Only thing that doesn’t make sense…why are you being so honest?”

“Will seeing as how I’m going to kill you both, I don’t see why the truth shouldn’t been known. I’m being…respectful” Suddenly James launches himself at Ronny, tackling him on the floor but he’s not underneath him when they hit the floor. Ronny kicks James while he’s on the floor. Nick removes his gun from the small of his back and his pants and starts shooting at Ronny. Meanwhile, Jonathan and James walked up to a series of new homes being built. It was about a mile away from Fort Lazarus. Some houses were completed, others barely skeletons.

“This might work for a short period” Jonathan points out.

“We should check them out before we go back to Nick”

“James, can I tell you something? The others don’t know yet…mainly because she hasn’t been showing”

“Claudia is pregnant” Jonathan doubles takes at James. James smiles..

“How did you know?”

“I can smell it on her, I can hear it when I’m near her. Two heartbeats, it’s beautiful” Jonathan smiles, the excitement grows in his chest.

“She’s not the only one who’s preg…” Suddenly there’s a large explosion that sends two skeletons tumbling down. From within the smoke, steps out a large built man. Wearing a metal chest plated, with large metal gloves. He wears black jeans and normal black shoes.

“This shall be…” James started.

“Interesting” Jonathan finished.

“Riza Bo, at your service” He spoke with his thick Russian accent. “Your Jonathan and James. Damn, that must mean that Ronnie got the leader and his brother”

“Who are you?”

“I’m one of Nora’s Apostles. Created to end the race of the vampires”

“Created? So you’re a half breed” James says.

“No, I was created with Vampire and Werewolf DNA and successfully created me…I’d be happy if I were you, it was either me or that annoying little bastard. He talks way to much”

“Like you are now?” Jonathan said. “James, you get the stones ready, I’ll bring goliath down” Jonathan started running toward Riza Bo. He jumps and phases mid-jump and lands on his paws and starts running even faster at him. Riza Bo smiles, he tights his gloves and takes stance when Jonathan launches at him, Riza throws a punched, timed perfectly when James rushes toward Riza and tackles him, who causes Riza to lose his punch, Jonathan to bite down on Riza’s neck and tries his best to rip deep into Riza’s neck. Riza grab throws James off him and grips Jonathan and throws him off. Jonathan growls at Riza as him and James take stance suddenly Riza Bo starts running toward them. Meanwhile, Sarah and Claudia arrive at the lake. It’s large, probably about two Olympic pool sizes.

“Wow…It’s beautiful” Sarah notes, Claudia steps toward the lake and looks down at her own reflection.

“Beautiful but fake”

“What do you mean?” Sarah stepped forward, Claudia turns toward her.

“I’ve ran threw Fort Lazarus, and around it several times and never have I seen this lake”

“Smart for an animal” Sarah and Claudia turn around and see a tall, model like shape with red/orange hair and beautiful with brown eyes woman standing with her hands on her hips.

“Who are you?” Claudia asked.

“They call me Lady Death, I’m an Apostle”

“She’s has the same scent as Nora” Claudia says.

“Correct wolf” Lady Death begins to walk toward them.

“I’m currently employed by that short, black haired b*tch but as soon as I report to her that you two have met a horrific death then my leash shall be released”

“Listen b*tch, your starting to annoy me”

“Did you call me…b*tch?” Lady Death takes stance, she starts screaming sending powerful waves that threw Sarah and Claudia back, inches away from the lake. Lady Death begins to walk toward them with a smile upon her face. “One Changling with the strength of road kill and one wolf who’s all bark. I should of had the vampire and dog. At least that would have been a challenge”

“ENOUGH!” Claudia screams as she jumps up and phases into a wolf. She starts running at an incredible speed, she bounces off the ground once Lady Death starts screaming, throwing powerful waves at Claudia. Sarah jumps up and runs out of the way from the powerful waves of Lady Death’s screams. Claudia runs at Lady Death and swipes at her with her paws with long claws, Lady Death jumps back and back flips, kicking Claudia in the face.

“My abilities are much greater than being some dog” Sarah’s eyes go purple, her hands begin to glow and the water from the lake begins to bowl, steam begin to dance off the surface.

“Yeah, check out mine!” Suddenly the water began to rise, Lady Death smiles.

“Hmph” Lady Death begins to run at Sarah when Sarah throws her fist into the air, water flies at Lady Death, shaped as spikes. Lady Death jumps toward them and barely dodges them. Sarah throws her fist toward the floor and water begins travel through the dirt and starts to spike up from the ground, Lady Death dodges them with a sudden haste when she uppercuts Sarah back into the water. Suddenly Lady Death is tackled by Claudia, they roll around until they roll into the lake, Claudia and Lady Death struggle underwater when Lady Death smiles, she holds a knife in Claudia’s chest. Claudia releases Lady Death, Lady Death swims to the top when she sees Sarah holding a gun aimed at her. She begins to shoot when Lady Death starts screaming and the waves throw the bullets in different directions. The waves blasts Sarah away as the gun goes flying away. Lady Death jumps out of the water and runs at Sarah, Sarah gets up and throws a punch at Lady Death but she blocks it with an open palm and punches Sarah in the chest then pushes her back. Claudia struggles for air underwater when Jonathan hears her thoughts, his eyes widen when Riza Bo throws a punch at him, He flies back into some pile of wood. He forms back into human and holds his chest.

“JAMES! CLAUDIA’S IN TROUBLE!”

“Go! I got this!” Jonathan phases back and runs off into Claudia’s direction. James eyes the sky, the sun slowly began to go down. Almost time for his father to step out into the darkness.

“Come on vamp-y, let’s do this!” Riza Boy said, James smiles then rushes at Riza. Meanwhile, Nick is thrown against the ground hard and kicked in the face by Ronny. She scratches his cheek while looking down at Nick with a smile.

“I’m no doctor but you should be bleedin”

“Like wise!” Nick’s eyes go orange, he touches Ronny’s leg and sends bolt of electricity through his body. Dropping him to the ground, David walks up, carrying an axe.

“Goodbye mate” He raises the axe and with all his strength, he swings it down, chopping Ronnie’s head, clean off.

“I’m going to find Sarah, chop this bastards heart in half before he heals” Nick says to David, David stares at a beheaded Ronnie and simply nods. Nick steps back then runs off. Meanwhile, James is thrown onto the ground, hitting the fine dirt.

“Oh come on and they said you were the strong one” James stood and ran at him all in a quick, blurred moment when Riza Bo simply swings his weapon and hits James, throwing him into a pile of wood. “Killing you will be not a proud moment, it’s like killing a small puppy”

“Excuse me” Riza Bo looked away from James and looked where James once laid, standing there was Earl Grey (James’ dad) James weakly looked at the sky, it was dark enough for Vampires to come out, James smirks as he rests for a brief moment. “Mind if you stop, he’s my son”

“And you are?”

“James Lionheart, Yes I know his name is James as well I named him after myself, you see back in my day, I had quiet the big ego. So you may call me Earl Grey. It’s my favorite tea, which James…Later on, we shall have a cup and talk” James doesn’t reply.

“Little tea man, I don’t care what your name is…If you want your ass kicked then” Suddenly Earl is standing in front of Riza, He quickly knees him in the chest, breaking through his armor. Earl throws him on the floor.

“I’m older, I’m stronger” He winks at Riza as Riza throws himself up and lands on his knees. Earl is gone, James is gone as well.

“Where did you go little tea man?”

“I hate tea” Riza looks to his side when Nick stands there with the gun to Riza’s head, he pulls the trigger, killing Riza Bo. Nick looks over at Earl who held a weak and beaten James. “Will he be okay?”

“Yes, It’ll be a moment before he can walk, move on ahead without us” Nick nods, he shots Riza Bo in the heart, he smiles when he looks at Earl “Just to be safe” Nick runs off. Deep within the city, Blake sat on top of the Mayor’s office. He reads the files he copied onto the memory card, on his computer.

“Is it a good read?” Blake looks away from his laptop to see Nora standing not to far from him.

“Your creating abominations…What Vampires, Werewolves and Changlings aren’t enough for this f**ked up world? You have to go off and create more”

“You do realize what will happen when the Eclipse comes? All the vampires will be erased from mankind, from the world. It doesn’t matter where you live or your time zone. The earth, same sky…Vampires will be fried and all that’ll remain are dogs and us…I’m just evening it out” Blake shuts his laptop off and places back into his backpack then stands up.

“I’m going to kill you and I will enjoy every moment of it”

“Avenging your little boyfriend’s death? How noble of you but what do you get from killing me? You’ll still be alone, empty within. On the edge of death, staring into the blackness that has consumed your life. But I’m afraid this isn’t where it ends, only where it begins” Nora runs at Blake, Blake jerks his wrist when a blade comes out from under his sleeve but Nora ducks under it and elbows his back, she turns around and throws him on the floor. Stepping on his back.

“AWWWW!” Blake screams in pain

“Why avenge someone who isn’t even dead?” Blake’s eyes widen, did she mean what she said? The question lingered in his head. Was Andrew alive? “Why protect an abomination? Nicholas is no savior yet you look up to him as if he was a god”

“Nick…is the only good that has come from the likes of you!”

“Likes of me? Nicholas is anything like me. You honestly believe Nick is a Changling? He’s no changling, He is something new, something this world is yet to understand. Something the history books will never understand”

“What about David? Is he this new creature?”

“David is…a bastard. Plain and simple, he’s a third born and we all know that the first born is the special one” Nora kicks Blake, he flies back and crashes into an Air Conditioner. She begins to walk toward him, one step at a time. “Your death shall not be today but I will need you none the less. Deliver a message to Nicholas for me. Enough games day of the eclipse…We will settle it then” Blake is badly beat, he stays conscious enough to hear the message before blacking out.

-The Midnight Moon-

[Nickpick]

The Midnight Moon
Episode 5: True Bonds

Lady Death is thrown against the wall by Jonathan, Claudia forms back into human and grabs Lady Death’s neck.

“Bye b*tch!” She snaps her neck and throws her on the floor, Nick walks up and shoots her in the heart.

“Sarah?” Sarah comes running up to Nick, wrapping her arms around her. “You okay?”

“I’m fine, are you okay?”

“Fine, we need to go find Blake. I’m going into town, you go with Jonathan and Claudia to go get Earl Grey and James”

“I’ll come with you”

“No, I can’t risk someone attacking with Jonathan and Claudia, you’ll at least be able to escape faster” She nods to Nick. “I’ll be right back” Nick kisses Sarah then runs off.

“Are you feeling alright?” Jonathan asked Claudia, feeling her chest, as the wound spit out blood, Jonathan quickly held her wound.

“We need to get you to a hospital”

“It’s okay, feel…” She moved his arm near her bully button when Jonathan felt a kick. “He’s still kickin”

“Well we still need to clean you up” Jonathan carried Claudia as they left to find James and Earl with Sarah, following behind. Nick runs down the road, only to walk closer to the Mayor’s office near City Hall.

“Come on Sarah, Where are you?” Nick says to himself when he stops, he simply stands there and stares forward, he feels something in the pit of his stomach. He looks around when he sees the Mayor’s office.

“Blake?” He runs toward it, on top Blake was still unconscious from Nora’s attack. Nick bursts through the roof doors and sees Blake laying unconscious on the air conditioner. He runs to him and pulls him body into his arms. “BLAKE! What happened?! BLAKE!” Nick yelled when Blake opened his eyes.

“Nicho…las”

“What? Blake, who did this?”

“Nora” He whispers before closing he’s eyes again.

“Stay with me…hear me? Stay with you me you gay bastard!” Moments passed and Blake laid on the hospital bed, tubes connected to his chest, some down his throat in order for him to breath as Nick watched him, thinking. Sarah walked up to the door when she saw Nick holding Blake’s hand. “Its my fault your in here, I know that. It’s my fault Andrew’s gone. It’s all my fault…Blake, my friends are the best thing to ever happen to my life. I found friendship, love…I found a family in these people. Your like a brother to me…I love you, I really do”

“Nick” Nick turns around and sees Sarah standing there. “You need to rest before the chaos starts again” Nick nods as he looks back at Blake and releases his hold and stands up.

“How’s Claudia?” Nick asked.

“She’ll be fine, The baby is fine as well. Go find somewhere to rest for a couple hours, I’ll wake you up if anything happens okay?” Nick nods, kisses Sarah on the cheek then walking off. Nick sees Jonathan sitting in the waiting room, signing some papers.

“Heard Claudia is doing alright?”

“Yeah, How’s Blake?”

“Doc says he’ll wake up any moment now. Sarah is with him now…I’m going to find somewhere to close my eyes for a moment okay?”

“Yeah” Jonathan resumes writing the forums while Nick walks into a Rest-Room and sees a bed for doctors to nap while their off call. He closes the door and walks over to the bed and lays down on it. He stares out the open window at the bright night sky when his eyelids become heavy, causing him to finally fall asleep. James and Earl were on the roof of the hospital, scouting in case of Followers or Nora.

“What happened back at the building site…I’d like you not to mention it to anyone else” James says aloud, not looking at Earl.

“Of course” James is quiet. “May I ask you a question?”

“What?”

“Why do you despise me so much?”

“You tired to kill my mother then you tried to kill me, despise is kind word for what I feel…I’ve only been nice to you because you’ve helped me a moment ago”

“Would the truth make you forgive me for my actions?”

“Highly doubtful” James said, Earl looked down.

“The truth is, Your mother and I…We were in love, I mean we were vampires who loved each other instead of lusted after each other, I was a Doctor of sorts, I was usually sent to sick homes and paid a wealthy amount to turn the sick to vampires. One day The King of Italy requested me, while I was away your mother took another lover. I didn’t know this while I was away…”

“You could read her thoughts or see what she was doing?”

“Your mother and I trusted each other, why was that even needed? she cared for you while she was away. I returned about three months later, I missed her deeply, When I returned I find them together, in my home…I wanted to go crazy, I wanted to let who I really was out….but I didn’t. I simply moved and one night, I took you with me. We tried to work things out but…it never worked. I had rightful terms to keep you, she begged for you so we let you choose” James stared at the streets with tears in his eyes.

“I chose you” He says to the realization

“No, you chose her…You believe you chose me but you chose her…I went crazy, she left me and now you would leave me. I let the worse of me take control and before I knew it, I was gone. I tried to kill your mother, I admit that but I never tried to hurt you, I would never hurt you. You spent years hating me that you’ve created this false memory. Hate me because I’m a bastard, hate me because I made a mistake and went after your mother but don’t hate me as your father, because I would never hurt you”


“What happened to her? Where is she?”

“I don’t know, last I heard she was in Japan but that was 10 years ago” Earl reaches into his pocket and pulls out some and hands it to James, James turns around and looks down, It’s a photo of Earl, James’ Mother and James before he stopped aging “I love you James, I’ll always love you”

“I love…Thanks” Earl pats James walk then walks off to his scouting spot. Back inside Sarah walks into the Rest-Room when Nick looks over at her.

“Blake’s awake, they told me to leave for a moment” Nick pats the bed, she closes the door and locks it. She crawls onto the bed, Nick wraps his right arm around her, keeping her close.

“Can I ask you a question?”

“Anything”

“Where is your father in all this chaos?”

“He died a couple months back, he was a real son of a b*tch though so it doesn’t bother me”

“Do you ever wish your mother turned out…less angry?” Nick chuckles.

“Every day, I wish my father didn’t try to kill me and my brother, I wish I never came into my friend’s lives, I wished vampires never existed. There’s a lot of stuff I wish but in the end…we live”

“What’s the end for us?” Sarah asked in the still of the darkness, with only the night sky lighting the room.

“What do you mean?” Nick asked with eyes closed.

“When this is over, when the eclipse has come and gone. What happens to me and you?”

“I’ve already planned that out”

“Really?”

“Yeah, Sarah…You don’t realize how important you are to me, how much I need you to keep me grounded when it all becomes to much for me. When I’m with you, I feel…flames again” A tear strolls down Sarah’s face as she turns around and stares into Nick’s eyes.

“I love you” She kisses Nick then rests her forehead against his chest, both closing their eyes. Jonathan walks into Claudia’s room where she put some new (stolen) jeans on. Wearing only a bra with a man’s flannel shirt over it. She looks over at Jonathan, Jonathan chuckles.

“Excuse me Sir, have you seen my beautiful girlfriend? She was laying there a moment ago” She throws a small pillow at him.

“Shut up”

“So how you feeling?” He says, taking a seat, she sits down as well.

“I’m okay, you?”

“Worried”

“Don’t say about me please” Claudia begged, sighing as well.

“Claudia, as long as we’re together, I’ll always worry about you. I mean, that’s apart of being in love. You worry, stress, get turned on, get angry at, be silly with. Love includes those…” She kisses him on his forehead.

“Benjamin”

“What?” Jonathan asked, looking at her.

“I want our Son’s name to be Benjamin, I want him to be named after your father” Jonathan smiles, he kisses her lips.

“That’s perfect” Jonathan leans his head on her shoulder as they stare out the window, at the beautiful night sky. Meanwhile, Blake lays in his hospital bed, looking tired, almost weak. He stares at the vast of his universe, feeling his universe crashing in front of him. Flashes of Andrew come to him, as tears run down his face. He sighs, his breath shaky as the fear comes of him. He sits up and reaches over to the chairs with his things on it. He grabs his bag and takes his pocket knife out. He opens it and stares down at the blade…He pulls off the wires on his chest, quickly the computers set off a quiet alarm within the room. Blake stumbles into the bathroom, he closes the door behind him and locking it.

“Is everything all…” The nurse said, walking in. “Mr. Blake?” The nurse said. Blake leans against the cold teal wall, he takes the knife and cuts each wrist, eyes closed the whole time. He had some medication still in him that made the cutting less painful, the blood begins to pour on the floor as Blake begins to slide from the wall to the floor. “Mr. Blake, are you in the bathroom?”

“Go…away” Blake manages to say as the blood ran down his arms, Blake let his whole life flash before his eyes. He sees Abby and smiles, He sees Andrew and smiles more, followed by a exhale, shaky but he ignored the fear. He lets his body go numb, his thoughts become nothing but blackness, He smiles die, he lets a tear drop that hits his cheek.

-The Midnight Moon-

[Nickpick]

The Midnight Moon
Episode 6: Wild World

“Nick, wake up” Nick opens his eyes and yawns.

“What time is it Sarah?” Nick looked over at her, only to see another woman. Brown hair, brown eyes with mocha colored skin.

“Sarah?” The woman said, Nick questioned the name.

“Sarah? What would make me say that?” She rolls her eyes, playfully with a smile.

“Must have been a good dream” He smiles as he brushes her hair over her left ear.

“Nope, it was nothing but black again”

“Another one? Damn…my husband doesn’t dream of anything. At least I know your not having sexy wet dreams” The girl said, laughing as Nick rolled his eyes.

“Yeah, That’s right because I’m 13 and I have wet dreams” Nick sarcastically said, She picks the covers up and looks inside.

“How do you explain that?” She said, Nick smiles, cocky.

“Still excited from last night, Helena…We just got back from our vacation two nights ago, We are yet to return home and if it’s my fault, I have a boner than so be it. I’ll take the punishment…There is a punishment isn’t there?” Nick said, she smiles as she gets out of bed, taking the blankets with her to cover her naked body. Nick quickly grabs a pillow and hides his exposed self.

“Get dressed, we have a 8 hour drive back home because you suggested we drive home instead of fly”

“It’ll be fun, I’ve always wanted to travel by car plus no crying babies, no waiting in lines or anything, just open streets and fresh air” He gets out of bed and walks up to her, kissing her lips.

“Start the shower, I’ll be in there in a moment” Helena said, Nick throws the pillow on the bed and runs into the bathroom, completely naked. She chuckles, running her hand through her hair as she drops the blankets and walks naked into the bathroom, closing the doors behind her. Moments later, Nick slams his trunk close as Helena takes a sip from her ice coffee as she looks around.

“Where are we going through again?”

“Ummm Zebel to Fort Lazarus to Tru Bon then straight on to New Orleans”

“Tru Bon? Don’t you mean Tru City?”

“Yeah…” Nick looks away, thinking almost worried he made the mistake. “What’s been up with me today? What the hell is Tru Bon?”

“Your just tired, if we took a plane, you could have had more sleep” She says, getting into the car. Nick gets in as well.

“Maybe, ready?”

“Aye aye Captain” Nick smiles, starting the car up and taking off. The drive was a fun, quiet one. Neither turned the radio on, they talked. Mostly about the wedding, guests who made fools of themselves then the honeymoon. They reached Fort Lazarus around 4:00PM.

“What did your mother say before we left to our honeymoon?”

“My mom? Oh right she said ‘To cherish every moment before i wake up’ Don’t ask me what she meant because I’ve been thinking about that back at the hotel”

“Wake up? Maybe because everything happening to you…”

“To us..” Nick quickly adds in.

“To us is a dream, it’s perfect so she said wake up because…”

“It’s a dream? My mother would say something like that. She’s been very spiritual since my father passed away”

“He was there baby, he was smiling at you the entire time” She says, rubbing his hand that held the stirring wheel.

“Yeah I know” Nick didn’t tell Helena of his dislike for his father, the drinker, the abusive bastard that ruined his childhood. Nick looks over at the local hospital, he gets déjà vu, staring at the hospital.

“What is it Nick?”

“Nothing, déjà vu I guess” Nick shakes the feeling off, concerning him with these recent thoughts.

“Oh” Is all Helena said, they continued to drive when they left Fort Lazarus and made their way to Tru City. “Did the couple in the next room annoy you as much as they annoyed me”

“It was painful wasn’t it? They were so loud…and passionate”

“Compared to us, we made love like mice, it was quiet and dirty” Helena starts laughing, Nick smiles when Helena notices Nick’s lack of a response to her joke. “You okay?”

“It’s nothing, just weird day so far”

“What? Like you mixing my name with a girl named Sarah? Or confusing Tru City for Tru Bon? Or was it the déjà vu?”

“You’ve been keeping track?” Nick smiles, she nods.

“Your just tired, let’s drop it”

“I don’t feel tired though”

“Wake up from your delusion, Nick, you’ve been doing a lot…your restless. When we get home I want you to rest” Nick was quiet…he kept the whole ride from Fort Lazarus, Tru City. The drive by the ‘Welcome To Tru City’ sign. Suddenly the car begins to shake as they enter the small city. Nick pulls over to the side of the road and shuts the engine off.

“Let me check it out” Nick gets out of the car and quickly, he’s hit with the cold, almost familiar wind of Tru City. He ignores it and checks the tires, two had blown out. Helena rolls the window down.

“What is it?”

“Two tires popped”

“How?”

“Not sure…Kids maybe?”

“Think there’s a mechanic near?”

“Not sure, stay here I’ll go walk into town and check” Nick said, zipping his coat up.

“Hell no, they always say that in the movies and I’m usually first to die, I’m coming with…plus, I grew up with nothing but boys, I know how to bargain with mech heads” She gets out, Nick reaches into the car, takes the keys and locks the car up before walking with Helena into Tru City. “How about you call my parents so they know what happened, I’ll go find the nearest mechanic”

“Yeah sure” Nick gives Helena a quick kiss on the cheek then walks off down the road. It doesn’t take Nick long when he stumbles upon Cluckin Good-Time. He stares at the building, bright mix of white and orange. He sees the specials painted on the window. “Terrible name” He says to himself, pushing through the front doors, he sees the clerk, facing the cooks, talking and joking with them.

“Well it’s not like anyone reads his stories anyway…” The clerk says, the voice was almost familiar to Nick.

“Excuse me” The clerk turns around, revealing an all to familiar face. It was Shawn.

“Yes, how can I help you?”

“Umm” His face gave Nick déjà vu again. Almost like sudden flash of memories came rushing through Nick’s head. “Do I know you?”

“I'm sorry, I’m bad with faces”

“Right, Ummm my battery is dead on my phone. I was hoping, you might have a phone I could use”

“Yeah, sure…There’s a phone just by the restroom, go right and straight down you’ll see them” He explained, Nick nods.

“Thanks” Nick walks off, spotting the payphones near the restrooms. He takes out spare change from his pocket, grabs the phone off the hook when he sees it’s broken. He hangs up and walks back to the clerk. “It’s broken”

“Damn I forgot, there’s a phone in the hotel across the street”

“Yeah thanks” Nick left the building, running into a blond woman walking in and dropping all her important documents.

“Oh great”

“I’m sorry” Nick gets down and starts picking up the documents only, he looks her in the eyes and it’s Sarah.

“Thanks”

“It’s fine really, I should been watching where I was going”

“Same here” Sarah grabs the papers, touching him gently, giving him a short shock of memories, nothing longer than a split second. It through Nick off, he looked away.

“Is everything…okay?”

“Yeah I’m sorry but…have we…met?” Sarah and him stare at each other.

“I don’t think so, you don’t look familiar”

“Oh well I’m still sorry” Nick smiles “I should be going”

“It’s no problem really” Nick nods once and Sarah walks off, Nick looks at her a moment before walking off. Nick rushes over to hotel and walks inside, straight up to the man, who cleaned some keys on the counter.

“Hi, I’d like to use your phone please, my phone battery is dead and my car is acting…up” The man without breaking his look on Nick, grabs the phone and hands it over to Nick. Nick takes the phone and turns around and dials the number.

“Hello?”

“Jim, It’s Nick, listen we ran into a little car trouble and we’ll be down…” Suddenly the line goes dead, Nick looks at the phone, he turns around toward the man at the counter and he held his cord that lead into the wall in his fist. “What the hell was that for?”

“I didn’t know it was a long distances call. It’s policy”

“I’d like to speak to the manager”

“One moment” The man stands up and walks to the back, opening an office door. “Sir, A man is requesting to see you” The man steps aside and stepping out of the office is a 15 year old kid. Dirty blond hair with brown eyes and a smile across his face. He wore a white button down with black kakis. It was Blake.

“Can I help you?”

“You gotta be kidding me? You’re the manager of this whole place?”

“My parents owned it, they passed away and gave it to me. So can we move this along? What seems to be the problem?”

“I asked this man to let me use his phone and when I made the call, it ripped the damn wire out of the wall. Now from being slightly over dramatic, I’m kinda pissed off”

“I’m sorry sir. He should of warned you. Here, you may use my phone to make your call” Blake takes his phone out from his pocket and hands it over to Nick. Nick takes the phone when a quick flash of Blake crying at Abby‘s funeral flashes before his eyes than vanishes. “I’ll be waiting right here when your finished”

“Yeah thanks” Nick walked down the hall and opened the phone, he is quickly greeted by a picture of Blake and Andrew kissing. Nick is slightly caught off guard and makes a gross face. He dials the number and puts the phone to his ear when he sees Abby walks down the hall holding David’s hand. Talking amongst themselves. Nick looks at the phone and it says disconnected. “Come on Jim, answer the damn phone” Nick closes the phone and leans against the wall. He sighs. The next moment he is leaving the hotel and sees Helena walking down the street, both smile as they approach each other.

“Aww do I know you?” Helena says, Nick shakes his head in disagreement.

“Nope but you got sexy written all over you” They embrace each other and hug. “Any lucky with the car?”

“They got it in the shop and it’ll be fixed by morning”

“So we’re staying the night here huh? How fun!”

“Let’s get a place before sunset” They walk off, back toward the direction of the hotel. Nick stops when he sees the full view of the hotel. Helena looks at Nick. “Something wrong?”

“Umm” It was the hotel, it looked so familiar to Nick. Two stories an almost abandoned feeling to it but that wasn’t this hotel. It was fixed up and nice. “It’s nothing, just a thought”

“Oh” The night moved in and Nick laid restless in bed with Helena, her under the blanket and comfy. Nick tossed and turned until he finally stood up and walked to the window and stares out it.

“What’s wrong with this place?” He whispers to himself. He looks back at Helena and sighs. “I need a drink” He grabs his jeans and puts them on and slips his shoes on, no socks or even tied. He quietly leaves the room and walks down the hall with his hands in his pockets. He sees the same man at the counter and sighs to himself when he leaves the hotel and stands outside in the cold weather. When he hears a window shatter. He walks down the sidewalk and peeks into the parking lot from behind the hotel. When he sees a guy trying to break into a car. “Do I attempt at stopping him, get my ass kicked and possibly risking dying or do I go back to sleep and pretend I never saw this?” He says to himself. “Damn it!” He rushes over to the thief and grabs him by his coat and throws him down on the floor. The thief grabs Nick’s leg and pulls it toward him, forcing Nick to fall. The thief gets on Nick and starts punching his face when Nick uses his knees to throw the thief over him. Nick gets up in a single jump, he questions how he did that but ignores it when he goes to the thief and kicks him in the ribs, the man yells in pain when Nick reaches down and pulls the hoodie down, revealing Zane. All the memories come flashing before him, like a bad headache. He drops to his knees as he snaps out of it, shaking his head and Zane is gone. He stands up, shock across his face. He gets up and rushes back to the Hotel entrance. He runs straight to his room, forcing the door to slam against the wall. “HELENA!” She’s not in bed but the bathroom light is illuminating from behind the door. Like slow motion, he ran to the door, it was locked, he kicked it open only to find Helena on the floor, her neck ripped over and blood everywhere. The shock drops him to his knees but once his knees hit the ground….He wakes up. He’s in the hospital bed with Sarah sleeping on his chest. He’s breathing heavy causing her to toss and turn around.

“Sleep..” She mumbles.

“It…was a dream” He accepts the realization, relived and smiling but he soon remembers the reality that he is facing.

-The Midnight Moon-

[Nickpick]

(Okay, so if your reading this than welcome me back to writing. I hope you enjoy this fresh new episode of Midnight Moon. I’m going to put my blood, sweat and tears into this episode and I want you to sit back, take your shoes off, maybe throw on some epic trailer music and enjoy Midnight Moon)

The Midnight Moon
Episode 7: Death Becomes Him


“Nick….Nick…” The voices seemed far away but Nick still managed to hear them. He drew himself toward the calling . “NICK!” He opened his eyes and saw Sarah staring down at him.

“Sarah, what…what happened?” He sat up and rubbed his eyes, thoroughly until he opened his eyes until the blackness was gone and her face was in focus. Her face revealed loss of sleep and sadness. He quickly read that upon her face and he got worried. “What is it?”

“It’s Blake” He rushed out of the bed, leaving Sarah behind and hurried out of the room, the noisy hospital seemed silent as Jonathan and Claudia watched Nick hurry to Blake’s room. Nick grabs the door and hurries in where two nurses make Blake comfortable on his bed. His arms bandaged and him with spots of blood.

“What happened?” One nurse walked out, Nick walked up to her, his question still lingering.

“He attempted suicide but we managed to save him in time. He’ll be given a blood transfusion when the trauma his body has taken calms down. He’s weak, very weak and rest is good for him”

“I want to give him my blood” Nick said, certain of what he wanted to do.

“We don’t know if you have the same blood type. We have blood ready for him, please go home and rest. We’ll contact you if there’s any development” The nurse calmly said, Nick stepped back and looked over at Blake than turned around and walked off.


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Nora sat in a beautiful garden, west of the city. She sips her tea with her guards close but still giving her privacy. She gently places her cup down when one of her guards walks up with her cell phone open.

“It’s the King Of Spain” She takes the phone and places it to her ear.

“Hello Antonio, It’s been a long time” Antonio was a medium built man, long flowing hair, always baring his hairy chest and mocha colored pale skin.

“Nora, my beautiful creature, how are you?” His accent was barely understandable. Several of his maids and people who worked for him, pampered him.

“Just peachy, yourself?”

“I’m fantastic. This war between Florida and Seattle has treated me beautifully. Is you the one who made all the people in Tru Bon disappear?”

“Yes and No” Nora replied.

“Whoever done that is a alma bella”

“How can I help you Antonio?” She knew Antonio well enough to know if you didn’t get straight to business, he would talk and talk.

“Yes down to the business. As you well know there’s a war between Florida and Seattle. Changlings vs. Vampires. As my mother would say ‘Blanco y negro no se mezclan’ Black and White don’t mix Nora.”

Nora thought about it for a second than replied. “Yes they do” Antonio felt offended.

“Are you criticizing my mother, Nora? Am I to start a war with you? Monstruo piensa que ella puede hablar malo de mi madre. No hay verguenza!”

“I was not criticizing your mother, please continue” Nora so bluntly said

“Yes well it’s rumored that you might have had a hand in the start of this war. Is this true?” Antonio asked, shooing away his maids.

“Antonio, I assure you I had no hand in this war. One of my men worked for The King of Florida but has since been killed.” Antonio listened to Nora, not knowing to believe her or not.

“You wouldn’t lie to me Nora would you? Cause I love you darling. If this rumor breaks out, your looking at hundreds and thousands of vampires will one thought in mind. Kill Nora”

“I did not start this war”

“Good, I hear Raj is dead and yet a war rages on. Is there a way to end this?” Antonio asked.

“I thought it was doing wonders for you Antonio?”

“It is but I want this war to be over with. Violence is something we shouldn’t be broadcasting to these people” Antonio said, Nora knowing he was right. She sighs.

“I have an idea but it requires your assistance” Nora said, taking a sip of her tea.

“Do tell” Antonio said, Nora smiles.

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Nick sits out in the hospital garden, the cold wind not bothering him. He stares out into the distances, when Sarah places her hand on her shoulder.

“I am suppose to protect him and I couldn’t even stop him” Sarah took a seat next to him. She grabbed his hand and tried to stay warm.

“Love, Blake is just upset. He lost his sister and now he lost a good friend. He’s in a dark place and he sought an escape. He wasn’t looking for help, he was looking for an end”

“Doesn’t mean I can’t save him? What happens when he wakes up? He tries it again? Sarah, how long are we gonna be targeted until we are all die? Nora isn’t gonna stop. She made her move and now it’s my turn. I can’t simply sit by and let my friends get picked off, one by one. I simply cannot let that happen” She saw he was very serious. She stared deep into his eyes and saw the sadness he held back.

“What are you planning?” Nick stared at her, thinking when he looked back at the dimming sunset. The wind getting cold by the minute.

“I’m going to go talk to my mother, alone”

“No, out of the question. It’s to dangerous” Sarah said, she stood when Nick pulled her down by the hand that held hers.

“I wasn’t asking. I’m going to talk to her alone, I will not risk anyone in this team anymore. I started this, I end this”

“What if you die?” Sarah said, a single tear rolling down her face. Nick wipes it and smiles. He brings her in for a hug and whispers.

“I love your faith in me” Both laugh as the sky finally turns dark.


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Blake opened his eyes, his head pounding from the recent amount of blood just giving to him. The meds made him dizzy and slow. Past events rushing through his mind faster than the blood through his veins.

“Welcome to the land of the living” Blake looked at the direction of the voice. And saw Nick sitting his a chair. Slouched over with a dull look on his face. Tired, restless from recent events. “How do you feel?”

“Like needles are running through my veins”

“It’s a small price to pay for life”

“Not right now Nick. Another time” Blake says, clearly not ready to face the reality of what he’s done.

“Another time? When you successfully kill yourself and leave us?”

“You don’t understand Nick” Blake calmly said. Nick was getting pissed off.

“I don’t understand? Let me guess, You miss the ones you love. You feel like you’ve failed them and now there’s nothing left. No life, no love…nothing. So you want to end your life, end all the sh*t you’ve been through and just find your peace” As he spoke, Blake had tears in his eyes. Nick stood up and went to the door. He looked down and sighs quietly. “This team needs you”

“Nora told me, She’s tired of the games, she plains to kill us all on the Eclipse”

“We’ll deal with her, together” A tear rolls down Blake’s face. Down his nose and onto the bed. Nick opens the door and leaves.

“Why avenge someone who isn’t even dead?” Nora’s voice echoed deep in his head. Nick stepped out into the hall and took a deep breath. Sarah walks up.

“How’d it go?”

“Rough”

“Sit love, tell me” Nick shook his head.

“I’ve been sitting all day, I just don’t…” Suddenly the nurse station phone goes off, interrupting Nick. Nick noticed not a single doctor or nurse. Not a visitor or patient was seen in the usually busy hall way. Sarah caught on to Nick’s suspicions. She began to look around when suddenly Nick grabs the phone and holds it up.

“Don’t..” Sarah says in a whisper.

“Hello” Nick says, putting the phone to his ear.

“Hello Nicholas. It’s your mother”

“Oh right, the bitch”

“Now now, this that any way to speak to your mother?” Eva says, standing on a tall building, staring down while the cold wind blows her coat like some cape of a superhero.

“It’s wrong to a real mother but to you, it’s the least I can do…strike that, the least I can do is cutting off your damn head”

“I’m on the hospital roof, if you wish to talk…I’ll be waiting” The line goes dead. Nick drops the phone and walks off.

“Where are you going?” Sarah says.

“Stay with Blake, if anyone opens that door, blast them”

The ceiling door opens and standing there is Nick with his hands in his pockets. Nora turns around and smiles.

“You know Shakespeare once told your father “Everyone has a secret that will lead to their death” Yet I know yours and here you stand, alive” Eva said.

“Your point?”

“In time, you’ll see my point” Nora steps off the ledge and onto the soil of the roof. “I’m sorry about Blake, I didn’t mean to bruise him up to bad. But I assume he gained enough strength to give you my warning?” Nick stared at Nora, a burning hate he hid in his eyes, they stared at Nora as if he was trying to read her mind. A seriousness that could break a silence.

“Yeah. He told me”

“Nicholas, The eclipse is coming and all your little vampy friends will die. All will die, besides one. James. He’ll die by my hands” The idea made her smile.

“Oh right, cause he killed my ‘brother’ A story your yet to prove to me. Like the lie I’m something different. Or the lie that you ever cared about me. Nora, your nothing but lies, Just like Nicolai. It’s sad when the only people I should cherish, that I should love are liars and both attempted to kill me. Shrinks would have a field day with me”

“I never lied about loving you” Nora’s smiled faded, she seemed genuine but Nick smiled, almost laughed.

“Lie”

“I’m not asking for your belief, you know I still cherish you as my son. We’re Changlings, I know there’s love still within you for me, as well as you feeling my love for you. You feel it everyday with the blonde downstairs. As for your brother, Zachary…I loved him because he was my first. He didn’t look like his father nor his brother. He was beautiful, perfect and I would raise him to be King above all Kings. But James took that hope, that belief in a better future away from me. Vampires stepped into this world, thinking it belonged to them. I’m just showing them, they…were…wrong. King Maximum is planning a full out war within Tru Bon and he has asked me to join and I’ve agreed. The day of the Eclipse, Not only will you have a war on your hands, you will have Kings, Vampires, Changlings and much more coming your way. I can end it, I can make your troubles disappear. I can simply disappear from your life forever and restore Fort Lazarus and True Bond to it’s original, disgusting, southern self…All you have to do is bring me James” Nick saw her, he saw the same fire, the same rage he had within his eyes, in hers. Everything she said, was true. He knew it, he felt it deep within him. “Think about it…The death, the blood that would be on your hands. You feel guilty enough about Abigail and Andrew. It’s a matter of time before its David than the wolves than the vampires than the human and finally Sarah”

“You leave…her name out of your mouth or I’ll rip it off” Nora reaches into her coat and pulls out a sword.

“Let’s see what you can do” Nick crackles his knuckles as he rushes her with his fists. She swings her sword at him. He pulls back and dodges it, he swings and punches her in the face . She’s disoriented.

"How's this for a secret” He pulls out a small dagger and stabs her in the chest. “Now leave me alone” He pushes her back, tripping over the ledge and falling. Nick looks over the edge but she’s gone, no where in sight. “That was for Blake, you bitch!” He steps back, fixes his coat and walks back to the doors leading back into the hospital.

-The Midnight Moon-