23 Chapter Twenty-Three

[P.O.V. Adriana Braxton]

"What happens to the guardian?" Joel asks.

"Nobody knows," Kat says. 'Why does this story sound so familiar?' I have never heard this story, but yet it is somehow familiar.

"Adri, someone is coming!" Raina warns me. The girls and I look at each other, giving each other all the same look. Blocking our mate bonds just in case it was out Mates. We have also disguise our scents with our mate cologne before coming down here.

We hide under an old antique desk on the platform. Covering us completely from being seen. Being really quiet and waiting patiently to see who was coming.

There was a small slit between the desktop and back. Enough room I can peek out of. Looking through this small slit, the left side wall of the room. A small secret door slides open in the wall. Coming through the door was Gilo, Milo, Tyler, and Joseph. They stop in front of the secret door. Lost in their own conversation standing there. Like they were waiting for someone else. Watching for a few seconds, my heart dropped.

They were waiting for someone else; it was Zyston, walking out with his elder brother Vincent. 'What the fuck is going on?'

Zyston walks to a picture next to this secret door, taking it down. Sliding back a small piece of the wall, a keypad locking system. Was behind that piece of wall Zyston typing a couple of numbers in the numbers shown on the keypad. The secret door closed, sliding back that piece of the wall and hanging the picture back up. They all leave the conference room. The girls and I get out from under the table.

"Can't believe there hiding things from us!" Kat says furiously.

"What do you think is in there?" Joel asks.

"I don't know, but we're going to find out. What do you say?" Asking the girls. All of us agree on the same thing we go straight to where the keypad is hidden.

"Dammit! I don't remember the numbers." Cursing out loud. Kat pushes me to the side and types the number in. Joel and I just gave her the what-the-fuck look.

"What? It Zyston and I birthday," Kat says.

The secret door opens; we all just stared down in it. Creepy stairs and walls that look like something out of the old castle. From stone walls and stairs with unlighted torches hanging on the walls.

We walk in, and the door closes behind us, making it pitch dark. Waiting for a few seconds, the torches magically light up. If I didn't say I wasn't scared, I would be lying. My heart is beating so hard it about to explode. Staying close to each other, we all continue down the stairs. At the end of the stairs was some room.

The whole room was made out of the same stone the stairway was made of. Along the wall's was huge bookcase's going to the ceiling. Filled with books and scrolls with candles dripping on the wood. The only thing that wasn't a bookcase was a corner wooden table and shelves with many computers on it showing different parts of the property. Old maps and antique rugs hung on the walls. A huge gorgeous wooden table sat in the middle of the room. With a huge hologram map in the middle of it and filling cabinet's underneath. On the other side of the table was an old wooden door with a small iron bar window.

It looks like something you would find in an old castle with an upgrade of the future. Completely speechless is what I am right now, with so many questions in my head.

I don't know how long we have been down here. In the time that we have been down here, we have found mountains of information. From what I have learned is all the attacks are not unexpected. It's the start of war coming not only to this town but all the other towns. Also, learn how a God or Goddess rules in each town. Meaning other supernatural creatures live in those towns. There even files on different alliances Zyston has made. All their emails and text messages and there even a recorder to playback the phone calls. Files on every pack member and every person in the alliances.

There a file filled with pictures of notes and things sent with the notes. Some were threatening the pack while others targeted certain people. I even saw the one that threatens me, along with what was inside the box. Reports came back on the teeth and eyes. Stating that they belonged to some of our pack members that have gone missing.

Katrina even explained who this Alexander Parr is. About how he attacked Vincent first mate and child. Katrina and Zyston faking his wife and unborn child's death. How they got her to safety where her other children lived. To how Alexander brought on the first small war between Witch Hunter's and Supernaturals. The Supernatural won the small battle and almost wiped out the whole Witch Hunter's people. And now how he is back to finish what he started all those years ago.

My head feels like it spinning with all the information I have learned. My emotions are so scramble I don't even know what to feel besides confusion. 'Is this the war the Moon Goddess warned me about in that basement month's ago? Why couldn't Zyston tell me?' My head is just rushing with questions.

While looking at all this stuff, the old wooden door with the small iron bar window. Felt like there something behind it that was calling my name. Begging and screaming at me to go downstairs.

Katrina and Jolene deep in their own conversation. Feeling like I was being hypnotized to the door. Placing my hand on the handle opening it quickly, a small cold gust of wind came through. Another stairway made of stone was behind the door. It was darker and scarier than I could feel the goosebumps crawl up my neck with Kat and Joel's voices echoing in the background. Telling me not to go down the stairs, walking through the doorway, the door slams behind me. Breaking the hypnotizing feeling looking back.

"Kat?... Joel?... what's happening?" Saying panicky.

"I don't know, Adri, stay calm. We'll get you out," Kat says, trying to reassure me.

Katrina and Jolene shake on the door with me trying to unlock it and break it down. A big gust of wind comes up the stairs, making me panic with the evil you can feel in it. "Get me out of here!" Yelling with fear. They told me to try to stay calm a heard a voice.

"Adriana.." Male voices whispers. Looking back down the stairs, the voice repeats. "Adriana.."

My body once again feeling like it was hypnotizing and no control, going down the stairs. Kat and Joel were screaming for me to come back. Even if I wanted to, I just couldn't even with how scared I was.

Getting closer to the stairs' end, I could smell blood, piss, shit, puke, and even salt. Just the smell made my stomach upset; the only thing keeping me from puking. Was because I use to be in a room that smelt similar to this a few months ago.

Stepping down off the last step walking into another stone room. This room was a lot bigger and a whole new level of a heart-racing scare: only Torches and Candle's lite the room up.

Cells with iron bars as the doors and a huge stone wall to split them apart. Lined the whole walls of this room. Each cell had some sick and different torturing device. Almost every cell held a prisoner and those prisoners. We're either strapped, chained, or even tied to the device. The prisoner that caught my attention was lying on a steel table, not in a cell, but in the middle of the room. Lying there completely naked and strapped down with leather straps.

Most of his body was covered in blood, cuts, bruises, and some places looked like his skin was ripped or carved off. Salt was packed into these wounds. Could tell he's been down here awhile. His blonde hair was ratty and matted. His white skin was pale, and he looked scrawny.

Walking closer to him from the corner of his ashen green eyes, he looks at me. Giving me an evil, sinister smile just lightly chuckling.

"Oh, sweetheart, you just made the job a whole lot easier." The man says with a scratchy voice. Giving me bad cold chills running down my spine. It was his voice that I heard before I came down here. 'What did I just walk into?'