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Song I listened to for this chapter: In The End by Linkin Park

Previously:

Eric turns and looks over his shoulder, casually remarking to him, “My maker, of course.”

Now:

Roman blinks, thinking through all that Eric had said and then asks, “You came to the Earth?” It is all unbelievable, but that one stuck out in his head.

Leaning against the desk, Warlow tosses his toy higher, “Of all the things, he finally picks up on that?  No, not how you think Godric didn’t die, nor that you are the High King.  Nope, he focuses on the fact you said you came to Earth.  Wonder why the Sanguinistas got such a foothold?” The last is said sarcastically.

Covering her mouth, Sookie tries to hide the laughter, but she cannot.  This is the reason that Warlow is where he is in the council, even in light of who he is to the two of them.  His mouth would get him in so much trouble if he weren’t one of the most powerful beings in the realms.  But he does see to the heart of the matter in a way others don’t.

As well as saying it out loud so there is no doubt what anyone is thinking.

Eric just stops and looks over his shoulder to Warlow, lifting that eyebrow of his.  But he decides to answer Roman, “Yes.  We came to Earth from the planet that really is the Homeworld for all of us, to find my Maker.” He does not expect Godric is here on Earth.  What he does expect to do is start the ball rolling and hope that whoever has him is interested in what happens on Earth.

Or at least create a distraction until his allies have a chance to find Godric.

Roman just stares at him. “Homeworld?  Earth is not where we are from?” He cannot comprehend what Northman is telling him.  Has the Ancient lost his mind with the death of his beloved Maker?  He is making no sense, and frankly, it sounds too fantastic for him to even think of.

Reading his mind, Sookie sighs, “Look, it is quite easy.  There are millions if not more planets out there.  Have you ever wondered why all the beings on Earth resemble each other, no matter the race?  It is because we are all one.  We were what people called Fae, originally.  The humans, the weres, vampires and so on.  There are other worlds, and at the beginning, the Fae, our ancestors, had come here with their allies.  Their allies are the ones that live on in the fantasy of the world.”  At the same time, she is keeping a stream of information going to Warlow and Eric for them to be aware of what Roman is thinking of.  They had figured he could be their guinea pig so to speak.

Shaking his head, Roman tells her, “No, the book says-“ This is madness!!

“The book is a bunch of lies made up by someone who wanted no one to remember that we were all one once.  I would know since the bitch was my fucked up Maker.” Warlow is growling the end, a darkness descending upon him on the words. The more he learned and frankly is still learning, the more he wanted to revive the bitch for all the mess she had left.  And she hadn’t even known the truth!  First Vampire his fucking lily white ass!

Shaking his head at Warlow and his thoughts, Eric decided to explain to Roman while he thinks of his next step.  It will be one that will topple Roman from his lofty perch, so giving him this explanation is the least Eric can do.  Plus he will love watching the vampire fall apart.

“This is why we have been secluded so that we could understand it all.  And the world needs to be prepared.  In fact, I suspect that if things are not fixed soon to the levels deemed acceptable, that our allies will come and be here to make sure that our rule is safe.  They have waited for eons for this time to come.”

He then looks over at the doorway as the two individuals come back. “Is it done?” He knows it is, and he had mourned when his sister was killed.  Thankfully she had been one of the first to make sure she suffered less not knowing what was coming.

The two nod at him then fade back to their positions. They watch the Royals in front of them, their oaths to keep them safe overruling any ideas they may have had.

Nodding his head, Eric thinks over the next moves. Making sure that the chess pieces make as much sense to him now as they did when they were planning.  When everything is where he thought it should be, he announces, “I hereby dismantle the Authority.  It was a joke to begin with.  You had no more authority than I did as Sheriff.  It was all an illusion.  Russell would have shown this if I hadn’t sent the assassins to take care of him, along with Sophie-Ann and the rest of the so-called royalty of the United States.” He moves back to being behind his Lover, wanting to make sure that Roman won’t lash out at her for some unknown reason.  The thoughts he has right now are not making sense.

Roman gets up to contest not only the announcement but Northman’s right to do so.  However, Warlow just lifts an eyebrow, “He is older than you and he was more powerful before I took him.  Now he is as powerful if not more powerful than I.  You are just upset cause he basically made you nothing.” He wonders if Roman is even still worried about the Early Russian artifact Warlow still plays with.  It’s priceless and Warlow had been wondering how old it really is.

He is bored, basically.  Too bad no one would take him up on his bets about how this will go over.  He could have made a killing.  Sighing, he starts to go through the worlds in his head that he has already visited and which ones might hold Godric.  And hopefully, Niall.  He would really like to end the fucker who has messed up so much.

Sighing, already tired of dealing with this close-minded fool, Sookie commiserates with him, “I get it, no one wants to be removed from power, but seriously.  What do you think is going to happen with only a few people left in the Authority?  We even made the choice to kill Eric’s sister because none of the warnings nor anything that we told her worked.  So there is you and I think 3 others that survived the purge.  What were you going to do with those few left?” She shrugs her shoulders, then feels Eric’s hands lie upon them, calming her.

Blinking in complete shock, Roman asks, “Only four of us in the entire Authority?”  His mind supplies the sheer numbers that are in the building tonight let alone in the whole of Authority.  All dead?  What of those that were not here?  Are they dead also?

Leaning forward, Sookie asks him, “Do you know what the prophecies that the great betrayer (as Warlow calls her) gave were about?  They were about you failing, and what that failure would do and eventually the calamities that would overtake the vampires.  They would have been infected with a plague made from Hep D.  It would kill most of you off.  Wonder who hated Vamps so much to help humans make a virus? What governmental employees you have pissed off with your superiority complex?  And guess who — at the end of it all we would have been left to deal with — had the cure?  Sarah Newlin.” She stares at the man, remembering the visions of what could have happened.  It had broken her heart to see all the death, all because these vampires said one thing and yet believed otherwise.

Though to be fair, it was the death of the man in front of her that had started the deaths.  His failure to control his people, to stop his own death, had destroyed his race.  All because he thought he had been untouchable.  And that no one would betray him.

Just staring at them as his brain is running in overtime, Roman is trying to understand.  Finally, he asks, “Then how are you going to stop this future from happening or even control the vampires in the United States?” If this is to be the future that they are using to eliminate the one they are talking about, he will help.  And plan to take back power when they are shown to be insane.

Reading his mind, Warlow cracks up.  “How are they going to stop it all?  That is why we are here. To prevent this mistake from becoming worse.  Your idea was excellent, but the execution of it was faulty.  We are here to reign in the vampires and to force them as well as the rest of the world onto a path that will save more lives.”  Then he stops and shrugs. “Well, we are here now more to find Godric, which is a very valid reason.  I even want to find him.  But I suspect that with all the shit that has happened since his so-called death that there are other reasons that he had to be removed.  And I doubt that the so-called end of the world will come as a result of it.”  He looks gleeful for someone who is predicting the end of all, Roman thinks.

Standing behind his lover, Eric quits the debate and informs Roman in a curt voice, “It is done.  You are no longer Guardian.  You didn’t fulfill the position, and it should never have been given to you.  However, we both believe in the ideas you had.  Just not how you left others to implement them.  Because of this, you are now just an advisor.  Now, before our allies become uneasy and send more than the assassins to help, we need to get to work.” His mind is already busy with the next moves, trusting Sookie and Warlow to take care of matters here if they need to do more.

Romans eyes dart over to the two different yet similar beings standing there, who wiped out hundreds in the Authority within a 5 minute (if that) span. He swallows remembering them killing Russell, and finally after clearing his throat, “What do you want me to do?” He will bide his time for now.

The next few weeks are busy as they overhaul the Monarchy set up for the United States.  Often the two Assassins are sent out to remove troublesome royalty who thought they are more than they truly are.  Also, the Magister is taught a lesson in the difference between justice and sadistic fun.

Needless to say, he understood his limits much better after that lesson at Warlow’s hands.  He is also much more respectful to Eric and Sookie, especially after he witnessed Eric and Warlow spar one day. Eric is the one who obviously would have won if it had been an actual fight.

It is not easy by any stretch of the imagination. They are challenged and often have people trying to kill them.  They take care of a few. Then in the middle of a talk show, Sookie is the one who takes out 5 vampires at once with one of her sunlight bursts. Eric is in the middle of the group and then appears from the ashes unharmed. That finally gave a clue that they are not easy targets and stops a lot of the attempts.

However, it also raises questions about how Eric was able to withstand the sunlight.  He and Sookie made no secret of the fact that he has changed and for the Supes, they had already made the announcement of the truth and the changes it had made in both of them. The proof brings it to the point where the vampires and the rest of the Supernaturals who are watching the drama happen begin to listen to the information that they had been given.

Finally, it is brought up in a meeting with the Supes of the world.  Sookie just reiterates the same information as they had informed Roman.  The most telling question being how it is that they all looked alike? Especially when no other creatures on Earth actually look like them. Including the monkeys and apes.  She pointed out that they also don’t fit the world they live also.  Maybe they came with them?  She brings up other ideas, and then she and Eric left the room, leaving Warlow in charge as the room explodes with the idea of it all.

He had a lot of fun that day and thanked them many times.

And during all this, they are still looking for the being that they came back to Earth to retrieve all while trying to buy time for the rest of their subjects who came to Earth to wake up the populace to the reality of their world and the wars that had haunted them all these years.  The information that they are finding thanks the to AI inside their Database is pointing out some intriguing and worrying facts.

Humanity and the rest of the inhabitants of Earth are about to get a rude wake-up call if Godric isn’t soon found for things are getting more complicated.

Final count: 2,278

Fairfarren~