Free The Guardian by J.L McFadden

think it is time to come clean,” he exclaimed as he
was rolling his thumb along his finger tip.

    You could see the fear in Drakus’ eyes, with
the capillaries giving way to the stress, the veins on his face
showed signs of being ready to rupture. It was clear as Adela had
her death grip on his throat that he was no match for the vampire
that was showing signs of ancient strength. His arms become limp
and his legs just dangled helplessly in the air. “ I WARNED YOU
DRAKUS, NEVER TO BETRAY ME!” Her voice was even more demonic
sounding then before with it harmonizing with its self as if four
were speaking,” DID YOU NOT THINK THAT I HAD NOT ALREADY CAUGHT
ONTO YOU BETRAYING OUR COVEN?!” You could see bits and pieces of
stone was still coming loose and falling down around Drakus, his
usual black suit was now covered in dust fragments from the stone
wall that Adela was impelling him through. His head began to shake;
you could hear his spine starting to crush under the power of
Adela’s hand. Seeing such a small dainty woman with such power is
awe inspiring to anyone. She was glaring at him eye to eye when all
the sudden you heard snap, it was his spin popping from all the
pressure. She dropped him to the ground backed up a half step and
with all her force brought her knee up, showing out of her long
dress through the slit and slamming into his skull launching it
down the hallway leaving his body to lay cold and alone on the
floor.

    She stood there for a moment trying to
regain control of herself as she had processed what she had just
done. “My lady, are you alright,” asked her good friend Vitaliy as
he approached her. She put out her hand motioning for him to stop
replying, “Looks like I have some changes going on,” she looked up
at her close friend and continued, “I think we need to keep this a
secret from the others. If the elder ancients hear that I am now
showing signs they will kill us all and I am still centuries away
from being as strong as one of them.” He friend clasping his mouth
with his hand contemplating what would happen stated, “Of course
mam, I shall tell the others that we have caught a spy and that
this section of the castle is off limits to all.” She signaled for
him to go on his way. As soon as he was out of ear shot she tumbled
to the grown in disbelief of what just happened. Not just the
sudden appearance of power, but how she had no control over herself
and she did not like this at all. It dawned on her that as soon as
John was able to she needed to start training with him to let him
understand how strong a young ancient was, so that he would be more
prepared for the original ancients when they came. She was still
convinced that he stood a better chance than she.

    Vitaliy went down and gathered the coven
into the main hall and began to explain the treachery that had just
occurred,” My coven, we have all been betrayed by the rat, sneak,
and not lastly the snake, Drakus; our fair lady and faithful leader
caught him in an act of espionage this early evening.” He paused
for a moment to look out upon the flock and gauge the temperature
of the crowd and started back with,” My brethren and sisters we
have been betrayed, deceived, and forsaken by one if not more in
our coven. I full you not when I tell you how dangerous this could
be for our family here. If one of the other covens have placed a
spy within our community, that means we must be some sort of threat
to another coven; this means we are already in a war that we had no
prior notice to.” Vitaliy clenched his fists together at his side
and cracked his neck by turning it as far right as he could,” I
know all of you are too young to know what a war between covens is
like. In these wars an entire coven is always wiped out. If anyone
is left it is those used for sexual trophy pieces and usually they
do not get to live much longer than their novelty to the
captor.”

    The entire coven was at disbelief when they
heard this,