Bella:
By now, my heart raced fast against my ribcage. I knew that this would either be the death of me or the beginning of a new alliance, where I would outsmart a bunch of vampires to win whatever war they had created.
"How do we know you were not sent here to spy on us?" the lady sitting asked, and I chuckled, but she snapped her hand, causing my lips to shut, and my throat felt like I was being strangled by an unknown force.
"Got it. No jokes," I said as she loosened her grip on me.
"How could the wolves send me when they do not know what I am?" I asked, and Sue glared at me. Then she walked over to her seat in front, throwing herself on it with one leg hanging by the side.
The other two glanced at her, and she shrugged.
"We are releasing Enzo, and he is my blood. I can choose how to sit," she said in a carefree manner. Then she turned her gaze to me. "The chick has a point. They do not give two shits about her, and according to those two worthless vampires we sent, she works with the Baudelaire witch, and that is how they have been able to keep her hybrid side a secret."
"You really do know everything about me, huh?" I said, and Sue scoffed at me.
The man was about to speak when Sue put up her hand.
"Let me take it from here," she said to him. Then she sat up straight, boring her eyes into me.
"I am speaking to you now because I think I have chosen to trust you as my link. I mean, you didn't allow me to kill myself for whatever reason-maybe to save yourself. I really do not care." Her eyes didn't leave mine as she said this. "But let me warn you, if I suspect foul play, your head will roll like your mother's." When she said this, the other two let out a short laugh, which further stabbed at my chest. But I had to feign happiness because I couldn't lash out at them and get killed myself.
"We will put you to a test, and if you fail, then we will kill you." I nodded at her words at once. Then she proceeded to tell me what it took for me to be trusted in their group.
**
"Ten human bodies?" Hazel screamed, and I slapped a hand across her lips at once.
"Shh... someone can hear you," I said to her, and she nodded her head with fear written across her face. I took a deep breath before I let go of her. Then I began to pace around the room.
"I know it is crazy, but I had to do it. I had to make this pact with them because I was tired of sitting around. It might have been on impulse, but..." I paused, looking at her. "It sounds like I am going crazy, right?"
"Yes!" she echoed, and I sighed, throwing myself on the bed.
"Everything about this is crazy. Not to talk of the fact that you fucking lied to me, Bella. You knew your mother vampire was alive, and you made me find her without telling me what it was for. That wasn't cool, and..."
"And I'm sorry. I am just desperate, Hazel. I need all the help I can get now," I said, getting to my feet again. "Those people are fucking recruiting, okay! One of them was human, and she had no clue what she was doing there, but she knew she just had to serve them."
As I said this, it suddenly hit me.
"I think I know how they could survive," I said at once, and Hazel raised a brow. "Honestly. We have to go to the human world, Haze. I think they all sought refuge there after the war, and then they come back slowly when they want to launch another attack. They are quite smart, and little by little, they keep asserting dominance. It all makes sense now."
She kept looking at me like I was crazy.
"Don't you see?" I asked, and she shook her head. "First the Beta's wife, then the Alpha's wife. My father doesn't have a wife. They have taken down three out of eight, and if you count Sebastian's father, that is the actual Beta gone. These people are crippling the leaders first, and they are slowly succeeding." Her eyes widened as I said this.
"You are right!" she exclaimed. Then she put a hand across her forehead. "I think we need to call Halle." I shook my head when she said this.
"No. She will only tell us to stop making up stupid theories and work. We both know the theories are not stupid, so instead, let us do the work." She glared at me in confusion as I said this. "Let us just play along with the vampires," I added, and she nodded.
"I have a plan to get the human bodies," she said, causing my heart to flicker in excitement.
Hazel made her plan known to me at once, and we got ready to go to the mountains. When we were done preparing, a knock came at our door, and I opened it to see the face of the triplets.
"Hey, guys!" I said in a high-pitched tone. Then I waved my hand behind Hazel, causing her to push our bags into her closet. Then she jumped on her bed, opening a book.
I opened the door and let them in.
"We didn't see you the entire day yesterday. Hazel said you had something to do in town, and you skipped school today, too. Are you okay?" Ryder asked, and I nodded, upholding the smile on my face.
"Okay?" Kai raised a brow, and I turned to him.
"You do not have to worry about me every time. I will always find a way to be okay, yunno. I have been practicing to let out the bad energy within me, and it is working," I tried to sound cheerful to conceal our plans.
"That's great," Finn added. "So... we are going to see a movie, and we were wondering if you would like to go with us?"
"No!" Hazel exclaimed at once, and they all glared at her.
"What Hazel means is that we are going for a walk this evening because we need to clear our heads." Hazel nodded at my words. "Just the both of us, because we have been overly occupied with a lot of things happening, and we need a fun time," I added, hoping they would believe me.
"Okay. Have fun then," Ryder said, planting a kiss on my cheek, and so did the others. Then they left the room.
Both Hazel and I sighed in relief at once. We waited until we were sure they had gone really far.
"We need to leave immediately before they come up with something else," I said to Hazel, and she nodded. Then she pulled out our backpacks from her closet.
We slung them on our backs, then we made our way out of the hostel as fast as we could, boarding a taxi by the gate and heading straight to the mountains. When the taxi stopped, it was about five in the evening.
"According to my calculations, we should get there by six in the evening, and that would be midnight in their world. That is the exact time we need to be there," she said, and I swallowed hard.
We were the supernaturals, but what we were about to do wasn't as easy as she was putting it. A part of it scared me because a corpse was a corpse, whether it belonged to a human or a supernatural. But Hazel tried to convince me it was less scary when it didn't belong to a supernatural. My mind was clouded for a moment that I didn't realize we had gotten deep into the woods until Hazel came to a halt.
She fell to the ground at once, taking a deep breath with her gaze fixed on the sky.
"I hope we are successful after all this," she said, and I laid close to her, trying to catch my breath.
"We have to be," I muttered. Then she sat up shortly.
Reaching for her backpack, she pulled out her spell book, flipping through it until she found the exact spell that we needed. She recited the spell while we sat there, and soon a strong wind swept by, causing a whirlpool that began to suck the leaves around, pulling on the trees too, before a portal opened, and everything stabilized.
"This is it," she said. Then we both got to our feet.
Even though I felt the Moon Goddess hated me, I still muttered a silent prayer to her for success. Then Hazel and I held hands, jumping into the portal...