Something Uncovered. 9

In a farmhouse on the outskirts of Zagar, Jayce, Graym Pelic and Kalin riding Cutter came to ground. They where here to find any evidence of where the villager had gone.
" Do you know where we are?" Jayce asked Kalin.
"Yes." He said. " My house is over that way. I know the people that live here."
They all began to look around. It looked like they were eatting dinner when someone came in. The door had been knocked down and the table over turned.
" Look over here." Graym called to them. " I found blood."
Jayce and the others came over to see. They found a trail going from the table out the door.
" How many people lived here?" Jayce asked Kalin.
" Five." He told them. " Caleb his wife and there children. Two girls and a little boy."
" They have been taken." Cutter said. He had a look of horror on his face.
" How do you know?" Graym asked.
" The room reeks of fear." He said. "I can follow them."
" Do it."
Cutter reached down and touched the blood. Then he blow on the blood drop on his hand and an image appeared in the room. It was the family eating dinner. Suddenly the door burst open and several strange men came in. They were vampires.
" Oh no." Pelic said.
One vampire rushed over and grabbed Caleb and hit him in the face. His nose burst and blood splatter him. Then he bite the man and the family screamed. The rest of them dragged the family away. Jayce and his men follow them out and into the woods. The family was dragged screamming back to a house on a cliff. There Jayce knew what he would find in the house.
"Pelic, send in shadowbeast." He said. " See how many are in there."
Pelic opened his cloak and released one of his beast. It streak into the house and was back in a flash. It dived back into his cloak as he closed it.
" There are about fifty in there." He said. " All sleeping and hiding from the sun."
Jayce turned to Kalin and walked him toward the cliff. They sat and watch the surf for a minute.
" Zager is dead." He said. " We'll go and find out if any ones alive, but I doubt it."
" I can find the live ones with my magic." Kalin told him tearfully.
" Good." He said. " Take Cutter and save the live ones. We'll take care of the vampires. Cutter, Help him."
Cutter shifted to dragon and Kalin climbed on his back and they took off. Graym and Pelic walked over to Jayce to talk.
" How do you want to do this?" Graym asked.
" We take off and let the shadowbeast and sunbirds take care of them." Jayce said.
" Good idea." Pelic agreed.
" Come on."
Jayce and Graym spread there wings and they all took off onto the skies. Graym called out for his beast and Pelic opened his cloak. Jayce called out to the sunbirds. They sent them to every house and cave and hiding place to hunt them down. They weren't going to leave until the land was clear and all of the vampire were dead.
[Jandar, Rage. I think we have a big vampire problem.]Jayce sent out. [ This Muerte is real.]
[I'm coming home after I see Valkar.] Rage's deep thoughts rang in their mind. [ Jandar, you, Azeal and Athene meet me in Yadessa. Jayce, I want you back home when your done in Zagar.]
[ As you wish Sire.]

Two days flight away from Yadessa, There is a small town. In this town theres a very old temple. Its the temple of some old unknown deity in the middle of town. Most peple don't go there any more, some use it for good luck. Long ago it was a very important place. At sometime everybody in town would pay there respects there. But whoever the god was, they fell out of favor and was lost. Today Muerte found the temple as Baron Valkar had directed her. He told her that under the floor she would find the pages she was looking for. Muerte thought hard on how she could get the temple out of the way and get under the floor. A simple spell of levitation may work. Muerte stood in front of the building and began to concentrate in her spell. The foundation started to shake. Birds took flight from the rafters and dirt and leaves fell. But she couldn't move the stone building. This angered her. She should be able to move mountains. Once she could with the twitch of a finger. But the binding kept her weak. She wanted her powers back. To be feared again as the goddess that was her right. If she couldn't move the temple, then she would direct the river through the town to do her bidding. Muerte in her anger cast her spell at the river and it rolled over the banks and crashed through the town. Homes and shops were swept away. People ran dragging children and whatever they thought to grab as they heard the sound of destruction on its way. But for most, it was to late. They were caught in the path of the flood and killed.
On the banks of the river Muerte laughed and watched the temple being crushed and swept down the street. The destruction of the people meant nothing to her, just more dead cattle. She hope the pages were protected by some kind of containment spell, thats all that matter to her. She walked down to the site probing for magic. She figured whoever hide the pages magic would show itself once the building was gone. There in the hole that was the temple, she saw a glow. Muerte smiled as she spelled the pages out of their underground tomb. She looked through them and saw something that gave her pause. A evil look spread over her face. She found a spell she could use definatly.

Walking out of her room and headed down the hall. She was on her way to meet Jandar to fly back to Yadessa. Athere was dreaded going back there. She didn't mind seeing King Valkar, but Yadessa didn't have many good memories for her. The death of her mother, the abuse she received from her banished father, not to mention her uncle. She forgave him and loved him, but wasn't sure how she felt. Making her way down the stairs, she saw two men coming up toward her. The taller man stopped and stared at her. There was something about them both that gave her a strange comforting feeling. She wondered who they were. They watched her walk down the stairs and into Jandars study. Sitting in the study with Jandar was Azeal, Valkar's ward. She and Azeal hadn't know each other until they came to live in New Keanna. Since then being the only two from Yadessa, and the only vampires, they had come to know each other better.
" Come in Athene." Jandar told her." We'll be leaving soon."
"Jandar, who are those to strange men I just past?" She asked
" Aramis and Jack?" He motioned her to a seat. " They're two new friend that came on recently. Why do you ask?"
" I dont know." She sat down next to Azeal. " Theres something about them."
" Something good or bad?" Azeal asked. " Cause if its bad, we should'nt leave them here."
"I don't feel anything bad from them" She told them. "More like familar."
" Deja vu?"
" No." She said. "Like family I havn't seen in years and I've missed."
" Strange." Azeal frowned.
" No, I've felt power from them." Jandar said. " Great power from them both."
" And that doesnt frighten you?" Azeal asked.
" Blaze likes them." Jandar told them. " Rage and I have learned to trust Blazes instincts on people a long time ago. It's almost like his very own magic. Maybe it even is magic. Anyway, Blaze will be here, and Cutter and Jayce are on there way."
"Theres something else." Athene had the most serious look on her face. Jandar knew this might be trouble.
"Go on."
" Baron Valkar has been risen from his grave." She said.
Azeal jumped up in shock. Being a Yadessian, he knew of the Barons horrors.
" What?? How do you know this??"
" He came to me as a spirit." She told them. " He wants our help"
"Athene." Azeal turned to her. " He was a very dangerous vampire. He was our beginning. You can't trust him."
" Calm down Azeal." Jandar told his little brother." We'll see what this is about when we get there. But if hes a spirit, we better take Mags with us. Lets go. I'll have Shine meet us out front."