Page 4 of Forging Bonds: Part One

"Guys!" I yell as I take a detour to the front door instead of heading into the kitchen like I had planned.

"What's up?" River asks immediately the moment that I step foot outside of the front door.

"Those zombie soldiers that we fought and then watched melt in the clearing, I bet they are the same supernaturals that fought in the war that the blue fucker started in Trieneliea, or at least he's made more, but that's what he originally used," I say.

Chapter Two

Neith

"Shit, I think you're probably right. I mean, we had absolutely no idea that they were zombies until they melted and shit," Ransom says, pulling a disgusted face and no doubt thinking about the melting that happened.

"To be honest, it would make more sense to me that he used those for the majority of his army because I have no idea what he could possibly say that would make people think that his plan was sane," Griff replies.

"Exactly, that's what I thought. Also, the blue fucker is the guy that HID is working with, right?" I ask. I decide to explain, "We know that they are givingsupernaturals to someone, wouldn't it make sense that they were giving them to the person that is making the hybrids, which is the blue fucker?"

"Or there is someone else on the board who is experimenting or something on supernaturals, a human someone maybe?" Raiden adds with a deep frown.

"Shit," I curse.

"Is it bad that I kind of hope that it is the blue fucker and not some unknown threat that we now have to deal with as well?" Reed asks.

Van shakes his head, "Nope, I agree. One is better than two, especially in this situation where if we are dealing with someone human as well, it's going to get really complicated trying to bring them to justice. Especially since HID are involved, they will do everything in their power to protect that person."

"They would rather start a war between supernaturals and humans, and tensions are already terse between the two groups as it is," River replies.

"Some humans will never trust supernaturals, and some supes don't help that by being responsible for some of the deaths," Doc explains. "They're also starting to use supernatural kill M.Os as a way to cover up human kills."

"They are?" I ask with a deep frown, I don't like the idea of that at all. It's bad enough as it is at the moment. If humans start killing and then somehow making it look like supernaturals have done it, then there is no doubt in my mind that tensions will spill over, and we will end up in a war. I also have no doubt that the humans have been working on things to incapacitate supernaturals.

It would be the smart thing to do. It wouldn't be wise just to take it on faith that a race that is stronger than they are won't attack. No one ever knows what the future may hold, so it just makes sense to prepare.

Doc nods, answering my question, "You know that case that I got called to the other day?"

I frown slightly, "Do you mean the one that you got called to when I told you guys about the voices?"

Ransom interrupts, "Wasn't that a vampire kill or something?"

Doc nods, "Sort of. There was a murder in vamp territory, but they knew immediately that it wasn't a vamp kill. When I went to look and then did my thing, it turned out that it was made to try and look like a vampire kill, but it was very definitely not done by a vampire. There were knife wounds underneath where the throat had been ripped out, and by that, I mean that although the neck was all torn up, the artery was sliced. It was a very poor attempt at making something look like a vampire kill. Most people know that's not how vampires feed."

"That's really not good," River says with a frown.

"No, it's not. Especially since even if we do prove that it isn't a supernatural that caused it. The word is going to spread, and I can guarantee that since humans are predominately in charge of the news outlets, they will only report that there has been another kill by a supernatural, they won't then report that it has been disproven," Raiden points out.

"We need to make sure that we don't allow any news outlets near any of our cases. Even more so now. I think that Ty is going to send out a bulletin soon to all active agents to warn them to be extra vigilant," Doc explains.

"That's smart, and I don't think any of the agents will have a problem with telling the media where to go," Van agrees with a chuckle. "Half of the time they do more harm than good." He looks at me, "Are you ready to go?"

I shake my head, "No, I still need to go and say goodbye to Ethel."

"I thought you just did that?" River asks with a slight frown.

"I got distracted and came to tell you about my zombie army theory, I didn't actually make it to the kitchen," I explain.

"Ah, okay. That makes more sense," River replies, and that's one of the things I love about him, my weird ramblings and side quests really do make sense to him.

"Griff was telling us about you wanting to buy the house," Van starts, for once derailing the conversation himself instead of me having to do it.

It's nice to share the burden and responsibility of derailing conversations, I think sarcastically. I almost snort out loud at my ridiculous thoughts.

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