clan when the potions hit.
“ We can do this. There are only ten left, now we outnumber them,” Elijah encourages. “Keep it up, great job. Isaac behind you!” Another one snuck in from the bushes, and the shifters do a quick sweep to see if they can find more.
Vampire to vampire we are outnumbered, but we have help off to the side if things get out of hand. Growls roar through the area like wild animals, as we go head to head with the monstrous vampires that threaten our way of peace.
Isaac, is having a good fight, but is matched well. When he sees a chance he takes his fight mate down to the ground, jumps up and Eliza hits the Cerberus fighter with a stun potion. Isaac jumps on top, staking him with a broken tree branch. The shifters come in and begin to destroy the fighter, ripping his head off, followed by all his limbs. Isaac turns his attention to another fighter that begins to attack. Muay Thai style, he begins using all his kick boxing moves, with stealth Isaac moves punching and kicking. For a brief moment as I watch him I remember how he described the difference between Muay Thai and other martial arts such as Taekwondo, ‘we break bones not boards;’ I chuckle at the memory as I return my thoughts to the fight.
We’re all still linked telepathically, and Elijah is struggling; his opponent is strong, he must be the leader. He needs our help; Isaac prepares all of us, and he shakes things up a little. Isaac causes a small earth quake, just enough to take the Cerberus off their guard. The ground begins to tremble, we take our stances and prepare. The grounds movement increases, the Cerberus appear confused…and we attack. They are completely unprepared, caught off guard as we hoped. Instantly we take out another five, leaving four Cerberus remaining. Alexander interjects their thoughts; Elijah is battling the second in command. We now see that, they had all been protecting whom we believed to be the leader. But we now have the numbers to win.
The Cerberus members continue to protect their leader, looking for a way for him to escape. We need to ensure his demise, to ensure the safety of Wenham residents; more importantly for me, that Nathanial and his family remain safe. The shifters close in the perimeter as we fight, and The Magnificent Ones close the perimeter even more, fighting within the crystal circle the witches created to trap the Cerberus. As soon as we take a few more Cerberus out, the wolves can destroy them, and Ebony along with her sisters can repeat the spell to entrap the remaining fighters and the leader in the circle with us. This will leave them no escape, and lead them to their impending demise. The shifters dive in to the center so they can help destroy the Cerberus.
Two more down, and the shifters are taking care of them; the spell is cast and now we are trapped with the leader and one last fighter. Constance and Florence are injured, Florence has a broken leg and Constance has a tree branch embedded in her abdomen. I tend to them as the boys and Matilda continue to fight. Florence’s fracture appears to be a compound fracture of the femur bone, and Constance appears to be doing alright. She tells me to tend to Florence first; she is positive no internal organs have been damaged. I can’t believe how lucky she is, a little higher and we would have lost yet another family member we love. My healing of their injuries is complete in seconds. Because they are vampires and can self-heal, my extra healing just helps to speed the process.
Once their healing is complete all four of us girls take on the one remaining fighter, and with all of us he is quite easy to defeat. The boys are involved in battle with the leader; he is a good fighter, but with Cato’s help he no longer possesses his extra powers. Cato is able to render his powers useless, but his strength, we can’t take away. Alexander is being tossed into the crystal shield like a rag doll. Elijah jumps the leader from behind,
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