Chapter 7

Elijah - Chapter 7

There was no hope for it. She was going to have to do this the old fashion way. Get to the wolf, have him fuck a human, and create her beasts that way. It would be long in coming, but she figured once she had the first one, she'd just have him breed with every female he could corner and that would move it right along. She closed the books she'd found in the lab without understanding a single word written there. Learning to read hadn't been something that she'd thought of until now.

The lab was ruined. Even getting things up and running again wasn't going to work. She had no one to run things for her. The two men that she'd brought here to work for her had told her that they couldn't do what she wanted.

"What do you mean you can't do it? Of course you can. You just mix my DNA with his cum and then we have a monster." The first guy had told her that they needed an egg. One of hers. "I don't have any eggs here. I told you that the power was off and all the eggs that we had here weren't even fit for an omelet, Basil told me. I'm not sure what you want with them anyway, but if it's that important, I can get you a few dozen of them."

"Not a chicken egg, you idiot. An egg from your body. You are a female, right? You do know your own reproductive system, right? Christ woman, we can't use chicken eggs for you to have a child by. Not even a chicken for that matter."

She might not have killed him had he not laughed. And for so long. It had taken her nearly a week to find this fool, and in two minutes, he was dead. Not that his death hadn't been fun, but it was over and she'd had to go and find another guy. The fucking bastards weren't as plentiful as she had thought they would be.

The second guy had told her the same thing. It wouldn't work. And when she'd asked him about the egg, he'd explained it to her. They needed an egg that was produced from her body for the child to grow in. Then they would put it back inside of her and she'd have a child.

"I don't have anything like that." He nodded. "No, I don't. I have nothing in me like a human has. Just magic. The rest of it was useless to me, so I removed it."

"You must have a heart. Everyone has a heart." She told him that the only heart she had in her was the one she'd eaten before going to get him. "I don't understand."

"I ate it. The last man who laughed at me, I killed him, then ate his heart. But this thing with the eggs, there is no other way to make it work?" She handed him the book she'd found in her ruined lab and noticed the horrid look on his face. Good, she thought. She loved the terror of others. "Basil, the other lab guy, he took notes. He said that he made sure that all his findings were right here."

The man had read over the book for several seconds and handed it back to her. "This won't help anyone. It's about you, and his tricking you into paying him to work on a lost cause. He goes on to say how stupid you are as well."

"Read it to me. Tell me what he said." The man took the book back and read three sentences before she snatched it back from him. "There is no way that he was lying to me. I got him everything that he needed. Everything."

"Well, apparently he was selling off some of that too. And so you know, he thought you were going to kill him. My favorite part is where he says that at one point he had you bring him eggs, and that you brought him ones from a chicken. He put them in the incubator and then took the chick home for his children. Are you really that stupid?"

This time her rage was consuming. Not just of the man in front of her but the buildings surrounding the one she'd set up. As she left the wreckage, the place blowing up different areas around it, she took the book and went to her home. It was the only place that calmed her when she was like this.

Helenia walked around her lair. There was so much stuff in the room, furniture that had taken her fancy, jewelry that she'd liked, and even a few things that she still had no idea why she'd bothered with it. But she couldn't part with it. Any of it. The things here calmed her.

Reaching out to her alpha, she wanted him to kill. She might not be able to see him do it, but she could feed off his rage for a few minutes. When nothing touched her, not any part of the alpha, she tried harder. There wasn't anything there. It was as if he'd been killed.

"No. I won't have that. I found him first." Going out into the night, she reached further, far beyond where she thought he'd be. When she found Noah she nearly moved on, but he spoke to her.

Helenia. Causing trouble, are you? I think that, on several occasions, you've been warned to behave. She told him to fuck off. I think not. If you were the only thing...and I do mean thing…left on this earth, I would not touch you. I'd rather meet the sun.

I can do that for you. I have the power of several suns. You just stay where you are and I'll come there to show you. You should have been dead long ago. Noah asked her why. I heard from Dante that you turned me into the Board of Vampires. You do realize that they have no hold over me. I am not a vampire.

No. You're much worse than that. She thanked him. Don't thank me. It wasn't meant as a compliment. I think with what you're doing now, I'll be able to take care of you as I should have done decades ago.

Always such a sore loser, Noah. What is it that you think I've done to you? And I should also point out that Dante is dead. The idiot should have known better than to try and take me in.

I know about the wolf. Helenia felt a finger of something, a feeling that she'd never felt before, touch her. What do you think is going to happen to you when you come here to try and take him?

There will be no trying, Noah. He belongs to me. I have marked him as such. And even if he did put up a fight, I only want one thing from him. And once I have it, I will be the most powerful being in the world. He laughed, and Helenia felt her temper explode in her head. Noah, you aren't strong enough to take me on. You know this. I'm more powerful than you'll ever hope to be.

Do you really think so, Helenia? I don't. I've been around longer than you. And even without the added years, I'm still much smarter than you. Stupid never wins. Haven't you learned that? She started to tell him that he was dead, that she was going to kill him, when he laughed and spoke again. He is no longer yours. I have taken him.

You can't do that. I took him. When he was there for the taking, I killed to have him all for myself. The alpha is mine. He said nothing, but his laughter rang in her head. I'm coming for you both. Tell me what you've done with him. I swear to you, Noah, you have pissed off the wrong being.

She felt his power roar through her head. Even as she fell to the ground, her nose started hemorrhaging something green and vile smelling. Nothing like this had ever happened to her before. Her ears rang loudly until she was sick from it. And as she lay there, she saw him in her mind.

He raped her head and memories. Took her thoughts and plans and ran over them. She knew when he found the night she'd found her alpha and had tried to kill him. Even when she'd had other wolves in her sights and what she'd done to them. Other dreams as well, things that she had accomplished. Even where she lived.

You really are a monster, aren't you? The worst kind too. You don't even kill for any kind of magic. But I will kill you for pleasure. I'm coming for you, Helenia. And when I get there, you will know a power beyond what you think you have. You are nothing. She tried to tell him to fuck off, to make him tremble in his shoes. You are no threat to me and mine. I am the power that you seek.

This time when he hit her mind, she curled into a ball. Her body changed from her fa?ade to herself back and forth, over and over until she burned from it. Her flesh peeled away from her bones, wings were torn from her back. Bones broke in her arms, only to be repaired but mended in the wrong direction. Her fingers bent back toward her wrists, while her feet twisted around until she thought them to fall off. And through it all, Noah laughed, his voice in her head as if he planned to be a part of her.

Come to me, Helenia. Let me kill you on my own ground. She told him no, that she'd kill him first. Even after this, you think it still possible? That you are stronger than me?

I will kill you and take my alpha. He will give me my greatest creations as yet. He laughed again and told her where he was. I'm coming. You'll rue the day that you took what was mine, Noah. See if you don't.

As will you. If you think you can come here to try and harm me, then come to me. Come here and let me kill you. His laughter faded, but the pain in her body was never-ending.

When she thought him gone, she sat up. She hurt and her body was ruined. Touching her fingers to her leg, she cried out at the pain and wondered what he'd done to her. But before she could get up and get herself to safety, he was there again. His power took her under.