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"Holden.." Solomon set Holden down on the edge of the bed, sitting next to him. "From now on, just keep your mouth shut about them. Alright?" He sighed looking to Azriel, "How common is it for demons to be able to manipulate Ethereal energy?"

Azriel sighed a bit, "A bit more common than vampires. Most demons aren't able to use it to it's full extent until they hit at least 900 years. And before you ask, Irith can manipulate Ethereal energy and reattach spirits, but unlike Mystic and myself she has to have a full circle." She pinched the bridge of her nose, "I don't know why Acera would want Abraxas back, the poor demon can hardly hope to match an Elder vampire in power..."

Hayden watched Solomon and Holden with a frown, "Things are going to get worse..aren't they.." It was more of a statement than a question.

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Holden nodded to Solomon, he waited until Solomon and Azriel were done talking. "This is my fault isn't it?" He asked looking weakly at Azriel. "Because I had you bring Alicia back and Melody followed Alicia's spirit out. Right?" He asked with a frown.

"It's not your fault Holden." Alicia said rubbing Holden's shoulder. "I'm going to go and get some blood. Do you two want any?" She asked standing up. Alicia disappeared.

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Azriel shook her head, "It's not your fault Holden, it's mine. I should not have attached Melody to the doll, but rather sent her back in the first place. I'm sorry to have gotten you involved."

Solomon nodded, "If you wouldn't mind Alicia." He sighed, looking to Azriel, "Then leave her there. Irith would have no reason to come after you if she were to remain in the Ethereal realm. Right?"

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Holden shook his head in disagreement, "Even if you send Melody back, I don't think that this woman your talking about would leave you alone." He said pausing for a moment. "You and Mystic broke some ancient law bringing us back... Didn't you?" He asked looking to the floor. "And Abraxas wont leave me alone until he takes out Seth and Serus..." He said trailing off. "I'm just a footnote in his plan." He said closing his eyes. "Could it be possible that Abraxas and Irith are working together? Like she distracts you and Mystic, and he takes Seth and Serus out." He said with a frown. Holden sighed, "I'm not afraid of him."

"You should be afraid of me boy." Abraxas said sitting in his chair. "Now what should I do to you this time?" He asked himself. He smiled evilly as he started saying an incantation. He pulled out a knife and cut his wrist. Abraxas' blood floated from his wrist and disappeared.

Suddenly Holden's mouth opened and he saw some blue blood floating in front of him. He quickly covered his mouth with his hands and the blood flew at Holden's hands. The blood made its way through his hands and rested on Holden's tongue.

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Azriel growled, searching the city for Abraxas. "There you are~" Without another word, she disappeared.

Solomon forced Holden onto his back on the bed, putting his hand over Holden's mouth and wrapping this telekinesis around the blood. Abraxas's hold was strong, but he was able to keep it from going down Holden's throat.

Azriel appeared in front of Abraxas and Irith, "So, Irith, what twisted reason did you bring that piece of crap back for?" She pointed to Abraxas with a scowl, "You are perfectly capable of doing all this by yourself."

Irith stood off the wall, narrowing her ice eyes at Azriel, "Well well well, if it isn't Azriel herself...the big bad wolf." She held her knife firm, pointing it at Azriel, "Shall we dance then?"

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Abraxas smiled as Azriel appeared. He kept his incantation going fighting against Solomon. "Your a strong one aren't you Solomon." He said concentrating harder on the spell.

Holden was doing all he could to keep his throat closed.

Alicia appeared holding two bags of bottled blood, "This is the freshest they had." She said looking up. She cursed when she gathered what happened and set the bags down, she quickly ran over to Holden and put her hand on top of Solomon's. She used her TK to aid Solomon, Solomon was holding the blood back but she felt a surge of power from the demon. "Damn it."

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Solomon glanced to Alicia, "Can you hold it by yourself for a few seconds? I need to get Hayden the blood. She's not fully recovered; she can't quite walk yet...and I know it'd be a bad idea to stretch my telekinesis like that." He kept helping her, and would until she was positive she could hold it herself. If she couldn't, Hayden would have to wait.

Azriel drew her sword, pointing it at Irith, "You stand no chance against me Irith, especially not with him at your side." She rushed forward, bringing her sword downward at Irith's shoulder.

Irith grinned, casually stepping to the side. She brought her foot up kicking Azriel hard on the back and sending her to the ground. "I would be more worried about yourself Azriel." She jumped onto Azriel's back as she went to get up, forcing her back to the ground. She put her knife to Azriel's throat, the skull's eyes on the hilt glowing bright blue. "Abraxas isn't the only useless demon around...you're precious Mystic isn't much better. I mean, he couldn't even sense me coming. It's a shame to kill such a handsome demon...you don't get too many like him anymore." She ran her knife along Azriel's neck, cutting it deep, "Oh, don't worry. I made sure he went quickly." Once the length of the blade was on her neck she began to pull it back with a sawing motion.

Azriel tensed as she felt the knife dig into her flesh. As she felt the knife hit the vertebrae of her neck, her power flared. She released a massive amount of telekinetic energy, forcing Irith to crash into the wall behind them and knocking Abraxas from his chair and into a small crater in the floor. She put her left hand to her throat, forcing her power to focus on her neck. Within seconds, it was healed and she was standing up, her eyes a dark orange now. "Your first mistake...was accepting this job." She jumped at Irith, punning her to the wall with her right hand as her left grabbed her knife putting it to Irith's throat, "Before I kill you, I need you to answer a few questions for me."

Irith flew backwards, crashing into the wall. The original impact of the attack broke a few ribs and cracked her skull, but nothing a few seconds of focusing couldn't heal. By the time Azriel came over, she was perfectly fine. She laughed as Azriel put the knife to her throat, "My dear, you know you can't kill me." She threw Azriel back with a blast of power, jumping forward and pinning her to the ground. She crouched on Azriel's chest, her claw like toenails scratching her armor a bit as she grinned.

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Alicia nodded to Solomon and put her free hand on Holden's throat. She moved her hand so Solomon could move. Sweat was pouring from her forehead, she was using a lot of power to help Holden.

Abraxas flew back and slammed into a crater on the floor. He lost his concentration and the spell broke. "Damn it, it looks like my plan is going to start ahead of schedule." He said as he disappeared.

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Solomon hurried over to Hayden, opening two bottles and handing them to her, "I trust you can handle that part yourself?"

She nodded, taking a few drinks, "Serus has been helping me a lot. You worry about Holden."

Solomon nodded, "Good girl." He hurried back to Holden, sensing the spell break. He pulled the blood from Holden's mouth, throwing it out the window. "Holden..you alright?"

Azriel knocked Irith off with a blase of telekinesis, standing up the moment Irith was off of her. She narrowed her eyes, "You have no reason to stay here, the doll is gone. Your job is done."

Irith narrowed her eyes, "Now, what fun would that be? I come all this way and my job is done so quickly? I at least deserve a little vacation after doing so well...and killing you and those stupid vampires seems like a wonderful way to spend it. Now, you should probably hurry back to Mystic...he isn't doing so well right now." With that, she vanished.

Azriel growled loudly as she disappeared, "Bitch.." She teleported back to her house, walking over to Mystic, "You're a marvelous actor you know."

Mystic looked over, pulling his arm to allow the joint back into the socket, "Why thank you. It wasn't really hard to fool her." He smiled a bit as the various cuts on his person healed, "Although, she did do a good number on me..." He sighed, cracking his neck as it reset, "She left in the nick of time, I was almsot forced to heal before she left. That would've been bad. Now I can work in peace."

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Alicia fell to the ground when the blood was gone from Holden's mouth. She was breathing heavily.

Holden sat up, "I'm fine. I'm just sick of that fucking demon." He said with a sigh. He turned to look at Alicia, "Are you ok?" He asked scrambling to Alicia's side.

"I'm fine, I haven't been able to store up my power." She said leaning on her elbows. Her skin was very pale.

Holden placed his hand on Alicia's forehead, she was colder then normal. He kneeled down and grabbed the knife from his ankle and put it to his wrist. "Here is a little fresh blood to help you." He said sliding the blade across his wrist with a wince. He put it to her mouth, "Drink, now." Holden demanded.

"Holden no. You need your strength." Alicia said grabbing Holden's wrist and healing it. "Bottled will be fine." She said letting go of Holden's fully healed wrist.

Holden growled, "Fine." He said slightly annoyed. He wrapped her arm around his neck and helped her to her feet. He walked her over to the chair that was a few feet away. He gently sat her down, he grabbed his back and cracked it. "Damn your heavy." He said with a smile as he walked over to the bags. He grabbed two bottles of blood and opened one of the bottles and handed it to Alicia.

"Hey are you saying I'm fat?" Alicia asked grabbing the bottle and chugging it.

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Solomon sighed, "Holden you need to stop cutting your wrist every time one of us needs blood. We've been through worse circumstances, we can handle ourselves." He sat down next to Hayden, stealing the bottle she had and drinking the last few drops of blood, "You owe me Hayden."

Hayden pouted, "Doesn't mean you can be a crab ass towards everyone and steal my blood." She took the empty bottle back and smacked him upside the head with it.

Solomon rubbed the back of his head, "Well that stupid girl is causing me nothing but trouble again." He looked to Holden, "I'm sorry..either way, we'll let Azriel and Mystic handle this.it's their problem."

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Holden looked at Solomon, "This is the only way I can help." He said with a frown. "And that damn Abraxas keeps fucking with me and I'm getting sick of it." He said crossing his arms.

"Is that anyway to treat someone, who has spared your life?" Abraxas said as he appeared with someone standing behind him. "No you three you just stay there." He said as he wrapped Alicia, Hayden, and Solomon with TK so they couldn't move. He blew the knife out of Holden's hand, "Now Holden, I have a gift for you." He said with an evil smile. "I'm going to make your dreams come true. I am going to get you turned." He said locking Holden in place with TK. "Go ahead Abby." Abraxas said with an evil smile.

"You son of a.." Holden said walking towards Abraxas. He tried to move but found himself stuck in place. His eyes go wide when he saw the female. "I-..it can't be..." Holden said trailing off.

"So you noticed it, good boy." Abraxas said.

"Hello father. Long time no see." The girl said as her eyes turned black. "How do you like my look? I am fifteen now." She said spinning. "Now back to business." The girl said as she got up to Holden. "Rax, get him on his knees please." The girl said pointing.

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Solomon sighed, making no move to break free. He was sick of all this crap already. The world hated him and strove to make him miserable by using Holden.

Irith soon appeared, grabbing Abraxas's horn with one hand, and the girl's hair with the other. "Excuse me Abraxas, but what the hell are you doing?" She threw him to the ground, pulling the girl over and holding the girl's chin, examining her, "You are really an idiot...you don't go making vampires when you aim to kill them." She threw the girl aside into the wall, her ice eyes narrowing at Abraxas, "Just leave these stupid creatures alone. Your quarrel is with Seth and Serus..use what little brain you have and focus on them. Jeez, it's like I'm babysitting a two year old..I should've just let you rot in Midway." She rolled her eyes, looking over to the girl, "You thought dying hurt the first time.." She pulled her knife from it's sheath.

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Holden was forced to his knees, he sighed, "Just kill me already." He said hanging his head in exhaustion.

Abraxas grunted when he slammed into the floor, "These creatures are my ticket to Seth and Serus." He said standing up. He smoothed out his clothes.

The girls eyes got wide, and looked over to Holden. "Daddy, please don't let them hurt me." She said running over to Holden and hugging him.

Holden sat limp in the hug with the child who claimed to be Abby. He saw the knife just a few inches away from him. He wrapped his arm around the girl as he picked up the knife. "Your not supposed to be here." He said moving the knife so it was just behind her heart.

"No daddy." She said feeling the knife on her back. Tears were running down her face.

"Your not my daughter." Holden said as he jammed the knife into the girls back and sending it through her heart. Killing the girl instantly. He looked up at Abraxas as he threw the girl to the side. "You are an idiot. You try to use my past against me? If you wanted to manipulate me, you should have used my sister Amanda." Holden said very angry.

"Well, that is interesting. Goodbye kiddo." Abraxas said disappearing and letting his TK holds go.

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Irith peered over to Holden as Abraxas disappeared, "Don't give him any stupid ideas, boy. I've got enough damage control because of him." She walked over to Abby, crouching down and pulling the knife from her back, standing and throwing it at Holden. The blade lodged itself into the hardwood floor until the hilt forced it to stop, "Next time I see the doll near you, I won't let the Idiot toy with you...you'll be talking to me next time." With that, she disappeared, standing next to Abraxas now, "You really don't understand hostages, do you? If you want to get to Seth and Serus, take out Jaelynn. She's sitting in the Antinori manor as we speak..."

Solomon hurried over to Holden, kneeling next to him, "Holden..."

Hayden jumped off the bed, teleporting mid leap to Seth and Serus, "Umm..I think you two have a problem..."

Serus looked up from her desk, "What now Hayden?"

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Holden flinched as the knife lodged into the floor. He looked to Solomon with exhausted eyes, "I...I wasn't wrong in killing her... Was I..?" He asked with a frown. "M-..my Abby wouldn't of acted like that. E-..even if she was a vampire." He said looking to the body. He crawled over to the girls body and turned her over. He looked into her dead blue eyes, "Y-..you weren't her." He said closing the girls eyes. He noticed a white gold necklace around the girls neck, he gently pulled it from under her dress. His mouth dropped open slightly as he held the white gold locket of the necklace in his hand. He pulled it off of her neck, and he looked at Solomon. He opened the locket as he fell to his butt, "This picture was taken before she died. She asked me to include Amanda in this picture. She always felt bad that she got my all of my attention, and Amanda got none." Holden said clenching the necklace to his chest.

"I was just going to." Abraxas said disappearing.

"Please don't tell me it has to do with the demons." Seth asked slightly annoyed.