| Final Rage |
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| It has been about a month since Paolo disappeared into the Silver's dark vortex, and still there has been no sign of him nor has there been any sign of the mages. Lower creatures and demons have been found lurking in the shadows, but nothing that was of great importance. The loss was too tragic for Mike, and so he locked up all of his brother's belongings, his athame, the Grimoire, his bedroom. No one was to have access to it until he returned. But Vinny kept in his possession the powerful spell he copied down from the Grimoire during his battle with Mary. He has calmed down, but he too kept a deep grudge and a murderous feeling towards the mages and all of the demon realm. So far, Christina, Matt, and Tom were the only ones who have retained their sanity during this whole time. They practically kept the Tolentine manor up and running. The Four Corners are still held captive by the mages, save Angelus. Carlo the Hunter has disappeared, since his prey, Mary, has been vanquished. But now with Kate switching alliances, Paolo missing, Vinny and Mike angry and dangerous, the Mystics are in a very bad situation. *** Midnight. Tom and Vinny are out patrolling the park. Quiet...Calm...Not a living or unliving soul. They came upon the location where the great battle took place, unknowingly, and suddenly Vinny was overwhelmed by images of that night, premonition after premonition came to him as if he were actually there when it took place. He fell to his knees in tears, gasping for air. He felt the earth tremble and the wind blowing hard against his body. His rage brought him into a heightened state where his powers increased greatly, energy surging through his body, pulsing through his veins. His eyes blackened and he rose levitating slowly above the ground. He let out a terrifying scream, then dropped to the ground with his eyes closed, sighing...sobbing. Tom knelt beside him and lifted his head. "Are you ok Vin? What just happened?" But there was no answer he kept silent as he pulled away from Tom. He then kept walking, he just wanted to get away from that spot. 'This must be where it happened' Tom thought to himself. Both Vinny and Tom then felt another presence among them. They couldn't see it, whatever it was, but they knew it was there. Vinny focused his powers to find its exact location and he looked toward a small dogwood between two gigantic oaks and waved his hand using his power to throw the presence into their line of sight. It turned out to be a ghoul, a lowly servant of a vampire, have more strength than a normal human but quite unintelligent, almost lacking will and humanity. The ghoul grumbled and groaned in pain. He cursed at Vinny and Tom in some archaic language that neither of them recognized. Vinny lifted him and brought him closer to them. "What do you want and why are you following us?" It was no use, he could not understand a word of English, he could not comprehend much of anything. Tom then threatened him with an energy ball, but not even that phased him. |
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| Vinny then approached him more cautiously and looked into his eyes, again it cursed, but Vinny took no heed of it. He tried to gather all the bits and pieces of the images in his mind but all he could come up with is that this was a servant of Mary, now spying on the behalf of the Mages in return he would get more vampiric blood to feed upon. That was the addiction a ghoul had to undergo, once a human drinks vampire blood without being drained of his own blood, vampiric blood becomes its drug. Vinny sent it images instead of words, ordering him to lead them to the lair of the Mages or he would suffer the torture and pain they would inflict upon him. He was then filled with terror, but he refused. Vinny probed his mind further to find the location, but that portion of his memory was magically sealed off and the protective barrier shot at Vinny's mind throwing him about 5 yards back, face first to the ground. The ghoul started to run as fast as he could, so Tom created an energy ball and was about to launch it. "No!" Vinny said, "we can use him, I got more than enough information, but we can follow him to the exact location." "Ok, but shouldn't we call the others and tell them what's going on?" Tom asked. "I mean we should really stick together and work more as a team then just two. It would be more logical and safe." "Ok, so you go and fetch them and I will follow him, when you guys get back to this spot call my cell and I'll give you directions." Vin said as Tom gave him a very skeptical look, "I am totally serious, go hurry, LEAVE!" He threw his hand back and nudged Tom softly with his power and took off pursuing the ghoul. When he finally got to a cave by the beach, which was about 10 miles from the park, his cell phone vibrates. "yea" he answers it. "Where the hell are you?" Christina yells out annoyed at his actions. "I'm at the beach by the bluff, theres a cave and thats where the ghoul went into. That has to be their Lair." Vinny explained. "Don't do anything or go anywhere until we get there, you hear me?!" Christina orders him. He said nothing and hung up. "Damnit, Matt you run ahead to the bluff and make sure Vin stays put until we get there, we'll have to take the car there, I'll drive." Tom, Mike, and Christina all get into the car as quickly as they could and Matt disappeared into the darkness. This entire time, Mike has been anxious to finally get rid of these mages. Hir rage was building up within him and his powers were slowly increasing the more he thought about killing the mages. He even seemed to grow more muscular as his power increased. He is now more powerful than he ever was. He reached into his pocket and pulled something out that he concealed with skill. He gripped it tightly and a mischeivous grin formed on his face. A maniacal laugh rang in his head..."Finally..." |
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