Page 279 of The Cruelest Undead

“Oh, well, look who is here. The dead vampyre who got killed because he was slow, stupid, and incompetent.”

Death appeared beside him.

Good guess on his skill,he said into their minds.Only, that’s going to piss him off and he’s got the relics.

Mathew heard him, and he raged.

He actually screamed.

“You sound like a girl, Matty-boy. No wonder you couldn’t protect Jolie.”

Uh, you’re too good at this. I said make him mad, not homicidal.

Semantics.

When Mathew raised his hands, the grounds opened even more, and so many bodies appeared. They clawed their way out of the ground, and began moving toward them.

Death made swords appear, and he glanced back at everyone.

“Head shots as in remove them. Silver for the vampyres,” he added, making guns appear too.

It looked as if they were about to get bloody.

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, the dead began rushing them. They had no choice but to protect themselves.

The chanting began, and Marie was being used like a weapon herself.

They felt the explosion, as it blew them backward. The spell was protecting Mathew.

Bullshit.

He needed to die.

They didn’t stay down long, and the family got back up, and began working their way toward the other vampyre.There was thePOP, POP, POPof gunfire, as Seth and Tommy took down vampyres that were coming for them.

They hated to do it, but it was survival of the fittest.

All around them, it was a horrible scene.

With their swords, they cut through the zombies that were rising and trying to tear their flesh from their bodies.

They fell all around them, but with each one they killed, more were brought back.

Marie Laveau was weaving one hell of a spell.

Rinnon knew the truth.

They needed to slow down the reanimation of the dead, and that meant their secret weapon.

“Kiera! Now!”

As she stepped out from the shadows, Kiera began chanting, showing herself for the first time.

Only, it was a language that she shouldn’t know.

The second the words floated across the space, Rinnon and Death spun, and that’s when Death felt it.

He knew they had a far bigger problem than Mathew playing games.

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