Chapter 8

Aster walked briskly trying to catch up to the others, as the three of them were moving quickly somewhere, Aster looked up at the sky noting to himself how clear and calm today, and quiet he could here the waves from the ocean crashing on the shore, which he though was odd, not because you could hear the ocean as the ocean was only a short walk away, but because the busyness of the clan usually drowned it out,

“Rak where the hell are you going”, Aster shouted, causing barak to stop in his tracks,

“I’m going to get a better feel for the situation at hand, and there’s only one place everyone goes to blow off steam in this clan”, Barak said,

“ohh Cetonia’s shop”, Polaris and Levant said In unison,

“oh yeah, theres there, but with the current state of things in there must be a warzone, not to mention Cetonia is a pain in the ass”, Aster said, walking behind the others staring up at the sky,

“no she’s a pain in your ass, all because you wouldn’t marry her daughter”, Levant said, looking back at Aster with a grin on his face,

“please I was in a relationship besides her daughter isn’t my type”, aster said,

“Aster be real with yourself, your type is crazy and cetonia’s daughter is definetly crazy”, Polaris said,

“Would you two shut the hell up, your lucky I’m going with you guys in the first place”, Aster said, his face twisted with anger,

“you’re welcomed to ditch us if you want”. Barak said, eyeing Aster with a grin on his face,

“hah please I have to keep an eye on you three especially when it comes to that place”, Aster said, closing his eyes and dismissing the earlier remarks,

The boys walked down a maze of wodden stairs, the atmosphere quickly shifting from bright and calm to dark and noisy, as a bright light radiating from around the corner lit their way, as they grew closer more and more voices could be heard,

“beat the shit out of him”,

“yeah, he’s backing that filthy priest”,

“shut the fuck up yah heathen”,

The voices shouted over each other until they mixed and couldn’t be discerned from each other, The four boys made their way over to the bar in the back of the room, which seemed way less crowded than they expected, As they sat down, an older woman with short black hair slicked in to a pony tail. Walked up to them from behind the bar, she was tall slender and had a scar on her lip, that would seem like it would distract anyone who talked to her,

“ohh I have’nt seen you four together in a while, well I’m glad to see you three, not the stick in the mud over ther so much, I see him a lot”, The woman said, her voice sounding Rough and wheezy, as though she had smoke stuck in her throat,

“hello to you to Cet”, Aster said, as she slid him a glass with a yellow drink in it,

“Honey rice rum, on the house”, Cet said, sliding three more glasses on the on the bar counter, to the three other boys,

“this doesn’t mean that I’ll date your daughter Cet”, Aster said, downing the shot of liquor in front of him,

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“I never said it should I’ll let her convince you herself”, Cet said pointing over to a dark skinned girl with a very curly afro walking in their direction,

“have fun Ast”, Barak said raing his glass in Aster’s direction,

“so Cet whose fighting in the ring that has everyones attention”, Levant asked,

“your cousin”, Cet answered, taking a short pull from her cigar,

“you have no idea how little that helps, everyone in here is our cousin”, Levant answered,

“stop playing Cet, whose fighting, never know I might want to bet on them”, Barak said, looking her directly in her eyes,

“ugghh you guys were much more fun when you were little and used to sneak inhere instead of just walking in”, Cet complained,

“Darik, is the one in the ring”, she answered,

“oh really”, Barak said, his interest piqued,

“ I haven’t seen him in a while, didn’t know you had an eye for talent Cet”, Barak said, turning around in his seat, trying to peak through the crowd,

“I wasn’t the one who brought him on, it was my daughter, Rabia definetly has an eye for talent, Darik has been the house champ for about a year and a half now’, Cet explained,

“so how is the clan taking the whole power struggle between zaraar and Canaan”, Polaris asked looking at Cet,

“ahh Pol I was wondering when you would talk, actually if you speak at all”, Cet said,

“their taking bout as well as anyone else is, drawing lines in the sand, the occasional skirmish around the village, hell some of Canaan’s guys even burned downa skovol base and blamed it on Zaraar’s guys”, Cet said,

“those idiots are playing with fire”, Levant chimed in,

“you’re one to talk”, Polaris said,

“I’m one to know”, Levant answered,

“anyways I heard some of the guys on both sides talking that this will be rectified by tomorrow”, Cetr said,

“damn how did they know that that’s why were back already”, Levant said, finishing off his drink,

“what are you talking about”, Cet said, listening intently to the next words out of Levant’s mouth, Levant quickly realized that Cet and him weren’t talking about the same thing,

“what are you talking about Cet”, Levant said, trying to dismiss the topic,

“well never mind, what I meant was, that each side will fight it out tomorrow to decide who will lead, that’s why everyone is getting shitfaced today”, Cet said,

“oi Cet whose side is Darik fighting on”, Barak asked tilting his chair and looking at upside down,

“no one’s, Darik is working for the leader of the country”, Cet answered,

“oh shit, nice, by the way where is aster”, Barak answered,

In another room

“you know I don’t like the fact that you hide what we do from the others”, Rabia said,

“that has nothing to do with you and everything to do with the fact that I like having your fangs in my neck”, Aster said, As Rabia straddled him, pushing him slowly down on to the couch,

“besides if you mom found out she would be over come with joy and I don’t want to give her that pleasure”, Aster said,

“hey, it’s my mom that wants you to marry me, right now I’m fine with what we have going on, your blood tastes sublime, ii can taste the power from your blessing running through it”, rabia said, sticking her fangs into Aster neck,

“I’ll never here the end of it from those three if they find out that I sleeping with a vampire, ”, Aster continued,

Rabia slowly released her fangs from Aster’s neck,”hey I’m only a halfie”, Rabia said,

“yes you are my little dhampir”, Aster said, patting Rabia on her head,

The Next Morning

Levant and Barak sat on a Large rock on the outskirts of the village, they satered at the field as the wind swept over it,

“ugh I swear I told those two what time to get here”, Levant said, fuming mad,

“yeah and you two are early”, Polaris said, rubbing the back of his neck,

“I have a hang over, Lets not go to Cetonia’s for a while”, Polaris said,

“I get that pol is hung over we spent the whole night drinking with Darik after he won his fight”, Barak said,

“but you Aster, why are you so tired”, Barak asked,

“and Late”, added Levant,

“I dipped out to go see someone”, Aster said,

“ohh thought you said yesterday you don’t got no lady friends”, Barak said with a grin in his face,

“I never said that”,Aster replied,

“hmm, whats that on you’re neck”, Barak asked,

“I don’t know, but our guest have arrived”, Aster said as he watched two opposing armies marching towards each other,

“right on time”, Levant said, jumping down off of the Large rock,

“right Aster we need to split up these boys before they meet”, Barak said,

“sure thing”, Aster said walking forward into the field,

“when we split up though, I’m dealing with Canaan, I owe him a few punches to the face”, Aster said, stretching his hand upwards and cracking his knuckles,