Heku: Book 1 of the Heku Series by T.M. Nielsen

Author:T.M. Nielsen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Vampires, ancient war, vampire book, vampire war, paranormal drama, vampire legend, sanguinarians, ancient species, vampire fiction, paranormal fantasy, paranormal books, vampire cult, vampire fantasy, vampire series, heku
ISBN: 9781453760314
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2010-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10 - Beginning

The feel of hands grabbing her out of bed forced a short scream, but a hand quickly covered her mouth.

“Quiet, Em.” It was Kyle and he was already running with her in his arms, down an unlit stairway.

The frantic way he moved scared her. She thought back briefly to the past two weeks she’d spent mostly in bed, and couldn’t wrap her mind around what the problem was. Her coughing had stopped a few days ago and she’d even managed to go out onto the balcony for a while the previous evening.

In the darkness, there were hurried voices and she realized they weren’t alone.

“We don’t know yet, just get her down there,” a female voice said, inhumanly fast.

“Which direction?” Kyle hissed at the other woman.

“East, they have to come through the city to get here,” she answered.

Emily was too frightened to speak, too afraid to ask the questions that were on her mind. Her eyes furiously tried to adjust to the darkness, but failed.

The descent ended and they were all running through what felt like a damp tunnel. She realized that at the speed the heku ran, they had to be hundreds of feet below the ground now and the panic swelled further.

Kyle finally put her down and gently led her to a chair, where she sat and curled up, wrapping her arms tightly around her legs. Someone put a blanket over her shoulders and she shivered at how cold it was.

“Do we dare?” a strange man said.

“We should be ok down here,” the woman replied.

“No,” Kyle hissed, and nothing else was said about it.

“What’s going on?” Emily finally managed to ask, and she could feel eyes on her, though she was unable to see anything in the blackness.

She felt someone sit beside her and take her hand, it was Kyle, “Don’t worry, Emily, ok? Things are under control.”

“Then tell me! I’m already worrying.”

He sighed, “The Island is under attack.”

“What? By whom?” she gasped.

“Other…” he paused, “Heku.”

“Another coven is attacking?”

“Not exactly.”

“Is it Ulrich?” Her mind was trying to wrap around it.

“No”

Emily just shook her head, “Then who is it? Who would want to attack?”

“Our world is as riddled with wars and hatred as yours. Chevalier has made a lot of enemies in his years, and grudges aren’t easily forgotten. We are ok, though. This coven is ready to fight.” She could feel him sit up taller.

Emily stood up, “Then I should fight with them.”

Kyle’s smile seeped into his voice, “They fight with teeth, Em. You can’t fight against that as a mortal.”

“I can too! I’m stronger than you think.” She tried to find her way to the door in the dark, but all she could feel were the wet, cold stone walls.

Cool hands took her arm and led her back to the chair, “Nevertheless, we have orders to stay down here with you.”

“Oh great, just what I bet you all wanted to do while your city is under attack, protect the human,” she yelled at them, and was infuriated when the three heku with her chuckled.

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