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Chapter 53 THE CHOICE

"I had hoped that we could share my vision and lead our race into a brighter future... together," he said darkly.
"A brighter future?" Katherine said in disbelief, anger overriding the warning her instincts were telling her.
Get out of there, Katherine, the warning seemed to say. Get out of there now..
"What brighter future? The one where you enslave all of mankind? You mean that future? Have you never even heard of The Ten Commandments? The movie where God sends Moses to free al the slaves because slavery is - you know-bad?"
"Katherinet, ye are young -far too young to understand all that is about to take place. I hope that one day we will stand side by side as father and daughter, fightin' for the future of our kind. But know that what I do now, I do for yer sake as much as for the sake of all our kind" Convel said, his voice heavy with regret.
"And what exactly is it that you're going to do ?" Katherine asked, folding her arms and glaring at Convel.
Convel motioned to his left and a flank of lycans emerged from the fog from his left side. He repeated the motion on his right side and another flank appeared on his right side.
Seeing that she was outnumbered, Katherine turned around to leave but lycans began emerging from all around, coming out of the fog like phantoms in some terrifying horror story.
Katherine was soon surrounded by well-trained, fierce-looking lycanthropes.
Aw, crap!
*****
Tyler was driving twice the posted speed limit on the highway to Merytonburg, but he didn't care. He wouldn't be stopping for any police sirens or anything else. He would run down anything in his way to get to Katherine. He had to find her and he didn't care about anything else.
When Tyler had quickly filled Giselle in on what they had found, Giselle-who had failed in being able to contact Katherine due to high levels of stress and anxiety that Katherine was feeling- had paled. She knew the island well.
After she and Tyler had turned Tracy and Ray, and they were on their way off the island Convel had shown himself, asking for another chance with Giselle and claiming that his opinions and views of humans had changed. Tyler and Giselle both knew that the only reason Katherine would have to go to that island would be because Convel had asked her to.
Giselle had quickly told Tyler and Sofia to start calling in the Coven and tell them to meet them at the island. Tyler, Giselle and Sofia would go ahead of them.
They had no time to lose.
Although they had gone in Giselle's royal purple Lamborghini, Tyler had insisted that he drive.
He knew that even though Katherine was Giselle's daughter, she wouldn't go more than five or six miles over the speed limit, and Sofia very well might have crashed the car in the state of anxiety she was in over Katherine. Tyler supposed that he wasn't much better off than his best friend who was currently sobbing in the back seat, wailing over how it was all her fault and how she should've paid more attention. Tyler felt the same way and he could easily say that the only thing keeping him from sharing Sofia's condition was his desire no, his need, his wild, driven, compelling, mind-numbing need to hold Katherine safely in his arms again. Her powers hadn't fully manifested yet, and there was no telling how badly she might be hurt if she had to fight off Convel and his hoard of miscreant lycanthropes.
Tyler felt the same overwhelming guilt that Sofia did as far as not having paid enough attention to Katherine's need to be loved, which could be the only reason she would have to go in search of Convel.
And Tyler did love her -So much.
He couldn't bear the thought that he had never gotten the chance to tell her how he felt, and may not ever if he was too late to save Katherine.
Im coming Katherine. Just hold on. I'm coming for you. 
******
Ohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrap... was all Katherine could think as she saw the lycanthropes surrounding her in their human form. Her heart thudded in her chest and she knew by the cruel smiles on their faces that they could hear it.
Pride stifled fear, and Katherine forced her face into a cold but neutral expression. She slowly turned back around to face Convel.
"So, what? You're just going to off me now So you can take over the world? And what kind of a cliché comic book villain are you anyway?" Katherine asked, allowing her sarcastic nature to take over.
She needed something to keep her head cool if she was going to get out of this still breathing.
Surely by now someone would have noticed that she was missing.
Katherine couldn't tell through all the fog, but she imagined that it was getting near six o'clock, and even Tyler woke up by six-thirty. If Katherine could just buy some time, she was sure that they would be able to figure out where she'd gone and come save her.
Convel winced at her statement as though her words had actually inflicted physical pain.
"Have ye heard nothing I have said? I would sooner take me own life than part a single hair from yer head," he said, sounding decidedly hurt that she would think him capable of harming her.
"Well, it's not my hair I'm particularly worried about right now, Daddy Dearest," Katherine said Scathingly, looking around her for an opening in the circle of lycanthropes surrounding her.
"No harm shall come to ye. I swear it," Convel said, the absolute picture of sincerity.
Katherine scoffed.
"That would be much more comforting if you had more control over your little lap dogs."
At this, Katherine heard fierce, threatening growls from all around her.
Katherine raised an eyebrow at Convel as though to tell him, I told you so. Convel swiped his hand through the air in a silencing motion. The growls ceased immediately.
Perhaps he has a bit more control over them than she thought…
The fog was beginning to clear and the sun was starting to rise, shining directly onto Katherine as it cut through the fog, much as the beam of the lighthouse continued to do as it flashed around and around again.
The lycanthropes shrank back from the sunlight into the fog as much as they could as they didn't seem to like the sunlight.
They're blood-drinking lycanthropes. What a surprise... Katherine thought scathingly.
"Katherinet, I will give ye one more chance to be a dutiful daughter, and join me," Convel said, ignoring the discomfort of his coven. "If ye refuse, I will have no other choice but to put ye into a holding cell until my plans are complete or until ye learn to understand what it is that I am doin'."
"How many times do I have to tell you? I'm not your daughter! Now do me a favor and drop dead" Katherine snapped angrily, rebellion shining like fire in the silver flecks of her now midnight eyes.
Adrenaline pumped through Katherine veins and she could hear her heartbeat speed up until it beat so fast that it became inaudible. Her body was preparing for the fight it sensed coming.
"Ye have yer mother's spirit, Katherine," Convel said, smiling sadly, regret visible in his forest green eyes. "It is a great pity that ye inherited her misplaced sensibilities as well."
And with that, Convel nodded his head to the lycanthropes behind him.
Even behind her Katherine could sense the lycanthropes moving in on her. One lunged for her, taking on his grey-furred wolf form as he attacked. 
Katherine moved to dodge the wolf-creature, and before she realized what was happening she had cleared almost seven feet in half a second, the wolf landing on the ground gracefully.
Did I just Flit? Katherine's eyes widened in shock. Giselle said my powers would be manifesting bit by bit. Are they doing it now?

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    Angel Faith Mojana

    Funny and te story is very touching

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    Loidena Tumlos

    so good

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    very good

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