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  Finley did not care she jumped in the water and swam as fast as she could. Nothing had ever scared Finley as much as this moment. She had just found out her parents were right and she didn’t want to believe them. But the nightmare was true and she had almost just died. She would be lucky if she survived until her parents came for her. She swam and swam as fast as she could. Her muscles haven’t been worked this hard in a long time, but she pushed them. She was not going to give up. She was going to make it. She would never let her stubbornness hold her back again. Everything she grew up with, she knew was lost. The house was on fire and burning.

  After an hour of swimming she saw the little island. She pulled herself up onto the sand and cried. She realized her Maman and Papa were at home today. They were probably dead and she couldn’t help them. Finley sat there crying for a while and then remembered her mother said there were things here. She needed to hide and find the things her mother told her about. She pulled out her cell phone. Her parents had gotten her a water proof case after she went through five phones. She held onto it waiting for her parents to call her, anyone to call her.

  The three brothers had just arrived and were sharing what was in the kitchen when they felt the girl come through the back door. Scott was the first to react he jumped off the stool he was just sitting on and ran in to the open hallway. He was startled to see that it was not the girl. It was a Dragon though and she looked downright scary. Scott started to pull out his gun, but she was faster and before he knew what happened a knife was in his chest. Scott crumpled to the floor.

  Declan saw his brother fall and he went to catch him before he hit the ground. When he got to the hall he noticed the woman and the knife that was flying at his head. Declan ducked back into the kitchen and looked at his other three brothers. “Not the girl, but this bitch killed Scott.” He whispered. Then all hell broke loose as she came into view in the doorway. She started to grab the knives that were attached to her chest and they went flying before any of the brothers could react. As Declan turned to miss a blade that was flying at him he knocked over a table of candles. They fell to the floor and over to a window immediately catching the drapes on fire. The linen went up in a whoosh and quickly spread to the walls. It was a distraction to the woman and they quickly returned fire with their guns. She ducked out of the way in time and then her pull was gone.

  “We need to get out of her or we are gonna be burned alive.” Declan screamed

  “Split up and bring that bitch down!” Tom yelled

  Chapter 9

  Emery and Kendal

  They had left their island as shortly after they left the house. They shifted in the water and the swim took overnight to get to Ireland. They had quickly found where the water met the forest and went into the forest. They slept for a while and then stated to walk until they saw Dragons. The First to just appear out of nowhere was a Fury, then two Fires and two Pearls. Emery and Kendal both looked at the Fire Dragons with recognition.

  “Cara? Carmine? Is that you?” Kendal asked. Both Fire Dragons shifted after a moment and then flung their naked bodies and Emery and Kendal.

  “EMERY, KENDAL! I am so glad you survived. It is so good to see you.” Carmine bellowed. “Here you need to meet our King and Queen this is Kaiden and Zoe. They are young yes, but they are the best you could ask for.”

  “Nice to meet you.” Emery said with tears in her eyes.

  “Good to meet you too, would you like to join us and be in our Family?” Zoe asked.

  “Oh yes we would. We have a daughter that we will need to go get in a bit, but for now she is safe. She also just found out what she really is and was a little pissed at us so she refused to come.” Emery informed them sadness apparent in her tone.

  “Yes we will get her very soon, for now we need to catch up on everything. But first in order to come through the border you need to swear fealty or you cannot pass.” Carmine informed them.

  Emery and Kendal both took a knee and swore fealty to Kaiden and Zoe. Then they all crossed the border and walked to the house. Kaiden had asked if they wanted to fly, but they informed him that they shifted very often and enjoyed walking. Zoe informed them about the children in the house and the recent attack. She also informed them of the journal and all that was in it along with all the fail safes. This shocked them quite a bit, but they understood.

  Kaiden informed them both that they were a Family her and that they were just in time for training.

  “You are going to fight him?” Emery asked in shock

  “Yes we are, this needs to stop and we all need to be able to protect ourselves from his sons. What we do here is mainly just learning how to defend ourselves. I ask that you are proficient in at least two weapons and then work on your Dragon skills. Ada and Leon, Ada is Aldrich’s sister, but he does not know she is alive. Anyway, she and her mate train in the evening one on one. They just arrived about four days ago and are a little rough in both skills. We also have lunch down here in the valley over there.” Kaiden pointed out the lunch area.

  “You have the choice of joining or watching. We will not force you to fight if that is not what you want to do. But we do require that you learn to protect yourselves.” Zoe stated

  “We will join in this fight. We have a human man that lives in Alaska and near his camp. He watches him for us and alerts us of any movement. We know that his camp is a trap if any Dragon dares to attack.” Kendal stated

  “Yes his daughter Vivi is here and she has informed us of this. We don’t really know how we are going to get him in the open. All we know right now is that we need to get your daughter and then find her mate. Then we need to find the Earth couple. They are the lost ones and the last of us.” Kaiden said

  “Our first and only mission right now is to find them. Let’s train and then we will do our share and tell. It is kind of a thing we have adopted at dinner time when we get new arrivals, but I think today we will do it at lunch.” Zoe stated

  “Sounds good to me” Kendal admitted and they all walked to the training area.

  Training had started a little later than normal, but in the few short weeks they had mastered it. Alex’s team decided that they would stay for share and tell and then would leave afterwards. They had also gotten with Jaco and had him ordering them a boat. He was told to look for something fast and safe. Jaco had assured them he knew what they needed and knew a local place to get it.

  At lunch they all shared their stories which took a couple hours. Both Emery and Kendal were shocked at some of the stories and had not fully grasped the reality of everything. Kendal shared their story as soon as the last one was shared.

  “As you all know now we were in a Sect with Carmine and Cara. It was a pretty relaxed Sect and we had all heard the rumors of the killing. We went underground with them for a while and then one day we left. It’s not that we wanted to leave you all Carmine. When we were out we felt one near us. Only it was a full-blood and we thought maybe it was one of ours. When we got close we saw that is was a stranger. We quickly took to the water and watched from there. We managed to follow for a while, but eventually we lost track of him. We stayed in the ocean and just traveled for a couple years until one day we felt a half-blood on a ship. We followed that ship all the way to Alaska and we able to locate his camp. For a year we watched him, but we knew we couldn’t do anything.” Kendal told them

  “While we were in Alaska we found out we were pregnant. I was happy and scared all at the same time. We knew we had to leave and so we headed back to the one home we knew. We found a small island about a hundred miles from France. It was completely deserted so we made our home there. The night I went into labor something went wrong. Kendal shifter and dragged me to the mainland. We knew of a doctor that lived close so we went to his house. We bribed him that night. We told him everything and he was able to fix me. As soon as Finley came out and I was fixed we felt them. Kendal and I left our little fish with this doctor and we led the half-bloods away. We took them all the w
ay to Austria. We set the Doctor and his wife up in a very nice safe house that was close to the water. Finely has had a good life, spoiled rotten and stubborn, but a good life. She has never wanted for anything, we made sure of that. Once we found out she was sneaking out of the house to go shopping in Paris we hired some bodyguards.”

  “They now watch her day and night and live on the grounds. We have managed to keep her safe and have always led any half-bloods we feel away from her. We have explained the bare minimum to her over the years and last night we told her everything. She was not happy, but she is safe.” Emery stated wiping a tear from her eye.

  “Alex and her team will bring her here and then we will go find her mate. She knows about him right?” Carmine asked

  “Yes she knows there is someone meant for her, but like I said she is stubborn and well doesn’t want her Dragon to wake. She doesn’t want to turn.” Emery started to cry.

  “Oh she will, the moment she lays eyes on him.” Justine joked

  “I hope you are right. Now tell me about these new abilities you all have. I want to see if what I believe about Finley is correct.” Kendal stated

  “Well Alex here can block the pull. With the help of Zach she can cover up to six people. If Zach and Zoe help she can cover more than twenty at over a ten mile radius. Christian can feel the intent of people bad intent will cause him extreme pain. Vivi can tell if someone is telling the truth, like Christian a lie will cause her pain. Zach can feel emotions and beware he is blunt about it when he gives his advice. When Zoe plays the guitar, well so far she has located Donny there through Jaco, and last night through little Maggie we were able to locate the rest that are alive. Donny can create fire, he is not turned yet either, but most Fire can only create fire in Dragon form. Little Ben here speaks to animals and they speak back. We are unsure if it is all animals or just dogs. Lastly we have little Abby who can see auras we think. She sees bubbles around everyone so I am guessing that is what it is. So far those are the only ones we have figured out. We know it is in the last born of the races so Justine and Gabe won’t get one. I don’t know mine yet and neither do Halina or Tia and John. What is it you think Finley can do?” Kaiden asked

  “The weather” Emery and Kendal both say

  “That is a unique one. Why is it that you think that?” Zoe asks

  “Well when she is happy it is always sunny. If you piss her off the weather quickly turns into a storm. I don’t think she is aware of it though.” Emery stated

  “That is something we will have to help her with then. Like with Alex she can only really control it on herself and Donny. With the help of Zach or me she can push it out. Maybe with one of us she will learn to control it.” Zoe says

  “That sounds like something I would like to see. So can you tell us about the land here and how it works?” Emery asks

  “Well the land is protected by a spell we recently added to it and now it is protected even more. You remember how we just appeared and you had not felt a pull until we did?” Emery and Kendal nod. “That is the added magic we put to it, before a Dragon could feel the pull and see through it, now they cannot. We have hired a trusted builder and his men. They have completed the main house and there are now suites for each of the seven races. There are twelve rooms down either side of the hall which are for anyone who wants them. The main room has all the amenities of a large home and is open to all. Hugh and his men are working on homes for all of the survivors he is making ten homes for each race. Right now everyone is happy where they are so the priority is the half-blood condos. As they now are able to have mates we all saw that they were the priority here. The suite in the main house is for Finley and her mate, but there are three other bedrooms, so it will be up to you and here if you stay in the suite or a room downstairs. Right now eight of the rooms are taken. We are hoping that Maggie was wrong and that those rooms will be filled.” Kaiden explained

  “May we see this map?” Kendal asked

  “Of course, Jaco has been working very hard at making it into a world map. We only had a map of Europe so he measured that out and had been filling in the blanks all to size so that her dots fit in the right spots.” Zoe explained as Jaco was running towards them.

  “Boat is ready, cost a ton, but well worth it. It is now down in the cove and I made sure it was up to par.” Jaco announced proudly.

  “Great, is the map all done too? Emery and Kendal would like to see it.” Zoe asked

  “Sure is, right this way.” Jaco said turning so that they followed him.

  When they walked back in the house to look at the map they found Maggie alone in the playroom. She had the markers back in hand and a lot of them were at her feet on the floor. She looked up at them as they walked in the room and said "UH OH!" then she started to cry and point to the single blue dot that was no longer in France where it was the night before, now the dot was in the middle of the water.

  There were also more dots to the map. As Zoe looked closer she saw that most were only half dots, only one side of them were colored in and they were all over the map. The orange dot was close to the water where the original blue dot was located. Kendal looked closely at the map and then looked at the little girl with fear in his eyes.

  "Honey, what happened to this dot?"

  "Swim swim." She sobbed and then looked back to the map and pointed to three half dots, "Bad" then she pointed to the orange dot and said "Help." Then she started to cry some more. Kaiden picked her up into his arms and hugged her.

  Emery and Kendal looked at each other and bolted out the door. Carmine was just walking in the front door when Emery and Kendal came barreling into him.

  "Where's the fire?" he asked

  "Finley! Oh god she is in the water we need to go to her now!"

  "The team is about to leave, you can hitch a ride. They just started loading it up. The location you gave us is only about sixteen hours away, but that boat will get you there in half the time." Carmine had just finished explaining as Emery pushed past him and ran with Kendal right on her heals.

  Chapter 10

  Etana

  Etana was born and raised in Israel. She belonged to a very private Sect there and her soul mate had found her when she was twenty one. He had decided to leave his Sect and join hers. They were never lucky enough to have children but that never mattered to them. They had just enjoyed each other and spent their time with the Sect. After fifty years of bliss with her soul mate rumors had started to pour in from all over the world. One night, twenty two years ago her whole world was shattered.

  She was away on one of her missions to gather more sheep from the mountains. She was the one that was best at this job so she went there about twice a year. Her mate was the best fighter her King had seen in decades and so her mate was always required to stay at the Sect. When she was far into the mountain she felt something snap inside her and then she could no longer feel her mate.

  When she managed to get close to the camp she felt them, strange pulls that she never felt, and the pulls of her Sect were all missing. She hid herself far enough away that she could not feel any of them, but she could see them. There were at least twenty men and she was not trained enough to take on twenty men. She watched them with their guns and their fire. They shot down all the animals and set fire to all the homes. Etana could see all the ash and the flowers that grew inside them. Once she saw the men leave she ran to the home that was hers. She saw her mate’s ash, but she knew she could not mourn him that night. She grabbed all of his weapons and anything else she could carry, but the weapons were her priority.

  She spent ten years in the mountains training herself with his weapons. She started with his knives. He had already started to train her with them so she knew how to hold them. She just needed to learn to become one with them. Once she had mastered his throwing knives she moved on to his whip. The whip took a lot longer to master because she kept catching herself with the end of it. It took her another three years to get her body into the shape she
thought she needed it.

  After thirteen years of training herself in the mountain, she joined the Israel army. There she learned all kinds of hand to hand maneuvers and how to use a gun. She did her mandatory time of two years in the army and then set out on her own. She wanted to hunt them all down and protect any Dragon that was left alive. She had heard in those rumors that the killing was everywhere and not just her Sect.

  She hunted the men down as they had hunted her mate down. She was on a revenge mission and they were the ones that were going to pay. Etana had only the money she earned while she served in the army so she traveled on foot everywhere. She had only ever run into the men when she went to large cities. So far she had only killed six of them. They were becoming harder and harder to find and it had been twenty two years since she had felt another full-blood. So when she arrived in this little seaside town in France she was curious. It was at a school that she saw the full-blood. It was a young girl no more that seventeen and Etana could tell that this girl had not found her mate yet.

  She watched the girl for a moment and then saw that the girl was headed toward her. It caught her off guard and she was not sure what she should say to her.

  “Hi” the girl greeted

  “Hello little one, do you know what I am?” Etana asked. She saw how young the girl was and was unsure if the girl knew the truth.

  “My real parents told me last night, but you are the first other person I have felt and I didn’t believe them.” The girl said to her and then it had clicked in Etana’s mind. This girl’s parents were near.