Chapter 26: Growth Spurt

  They made it back to the safe house after the long night they just had, they hated that they had to fight their fellow duskers but they really didn’t have a choice in the matter, if they didn’t they were as good as dead. Walking into the safe house the mood was a somber one, everyone else was hold up in the living room, no one was really talking, the TV was playing some talk show where the audience were competing for a prize.

  “You guys finally made it back, how did everything go?” Elle asked, she turned off the TV so they could talk.

  “Not as smooth as we hoped it would, we got into a fight with some enforcers that didn’t end well.” Daniel replied.

  “They ambushed us, and we had to fight them off and unfortunately two of them didn’t survive the fight and the other two are going to be fine to a certain degree.” Said Mycal.

  “What does that mean?” Asked Roberto.

  “I shattered one of their spines, we heal fast and from most things, but it’s going to be awhile before he ever walks again, that’s even if he is going to be able to walk.”

  “Well you guys did what you had to do, we knew there were going to be more casualties, we can’t pretend like we didn’t.” Sean said as he paced in a small area of the living room.

  “How did the recruiting go?” Lamar asked Elle.

  “Not so good, we were able to get a few duskers on our side but not enough for what we are planning to do, I do have another plan though.”

  “What’s that?”

  “We can ask some of the other supers for help, if we get enough of them to agree we could win this fight.” Elle suggested

  “You’re joking right, there is no way that we are going to be able to get the other supernatural beings to rally together and go up against my father. He is the king for a reason.”

  “Roberto is right Elle, what makes you think they will even help us?” Lamar chimed in.

  “You got the werewolves to help.” Crystal joined in on the conversation.

  “I was able to ger certain werewolves to help, but I don’t want to go down that road again, it’s too messy.” Lamar said breaking eye contact, looking down at his watch like he had somewhere to go.

  “Bro we are already in a mess, and we can use all the help we can get.” Mycal said.

  “You of all people want me to reach out to him.” Lamar said with a surprised tone.

  “Look I’d be the first to admit that I don’t like your little friend, but the fact is we can use his help.”

  “Okay I’ll ask him to get involved again, but after what happened before I don’t expect him to say yes,” Lamar paused as a thought popped into his head.

  “What is it?” Elle asked noticing his facial expression.

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  “When Chris and I got ambushed at the park we got help from the McKinneys, they can be a big help in this fight, and besides that they are well respected in the duskers community, so maybe with them on our side we can sway some of the people that told Elle and Sean no.”

  “It’s a plan for sure, but the other supernatural beings is going to be hard to convince, my father has made it his mission for any and everything to fear him, he is the king vampire of this city. No one wants to go against the king.” Roberto said, he moved over towards Crystal who was sitting on the couch rocking little Roberto. He sat down beside her, all he wanted to do was protect his family, to make sure they have a safe future, he just didn’t think the plan was going to work.

  “I know your scared man, so am I, hell we all are, but we don’t have a choice anymore. We are pretty much being hunted by both sides now. If we pull this off, no when we pull this off, we can really start making some changes.” Lamar was trying to give the room hope, which was starting to work.

  “What about the humans?’ Daniel said.

  “What about them?” Elle asked.

  “We were spotted, I know you guys haven’t forgotten about the news report.” Daniel said pointing at the television.

  “No, but Serenity took care of that, she scrubbed it from the internet.”

  “Once something hit’s the internet no matter how much you try it’s truly never gone.” Little Roberto cooed and giggled as his mother played with his foot, the sound was like a sweet melodic sound that made the room at ease.

  “Daniel I know you’re worried, but you have to just trust that Serenity is good at what she does and that is one less thing we have to worry about, this is going to be a hard fight and I need you focused on it. You’re one of the best in your class and I know you’ll do everything you can do to protect everyone in this room.” Lamar looked around at all the faces in the room, old friends mixed in with new friends. “I’m not na?ve about the battle ahead. I also know I’m going to stop holding back my power.”

  “Nah, will figure it out without you outing yourself.” Mycal interjected.

  “I don’t understand, why would it be bad if he uses his full power.” Crystal’s dad asked who was just sitting in the corner silent up to this point.

  “I’m not a typical dusker, as you know being once married to a dusker, that there are four different classes. Well there is a fifth class, there really isn’t a name for the class I’m in.”

  “We just been calling him an Uber mage?” Sean said.

  “I’m all the classes basically.” Lamar decided to leave out what he learned on his and Elle’s little road trip, it was already complicated enough, and he honestly didn’t quite understand what all it meant that his father was an angel. So it was better to keep it simple.

  “So what about little Roberto, what class will he be?” Crystal’s father asked.

  “Honestly none of us are sure, this is the first that we ever heard of a dusker and a vampire having a baby.”

  “You’re saying the thousands of years it has been duskers and vampires and this is the first you’ve ever heard of two of them getting together and making a baby, there is no way that that’s the case.”

  Lamar knew he was right, take him for an example. There had to be other mixed breed supernatural beings out there, but right now that was a bridge they were going to have to cross later they already had to much on their plate as it was and adding another thing was going to make things even harder.

  “Once this is over we’ll look into it, but right now we need to focus on what we have going on, I don’t think any of us want to see anything happen to that little boy.” Lamar said looking in the new parent’s direction.

  They spent the rest of the evening and most of the night making a plan, Lamar worked on upgrading their weapons and some potions that could prove to be very useful, he worked until the morning. When he was finally satisfied on what he created he decided to get a few hours asleep. They were going to be meeting with Chris and the other supernatural’s. As Lamar rested his head on the table he was working, a scream cut through the air like a siren springing him to his feet and running in the direction of the scream. It was coming from the room Roberto and Crystal were in. The rest of the guys were awaking by the scream as well.

  Elle had already beat them to the door and was going in when they made it there, the door flung open, the group was in disbelief. Crystal was holding a toddler wrapped in a sheet as Roberto sat on the bed stone faced and silent. Little Roberto went from a few days old to 2 years old overnight.