The Immortal Warriors Boxed Set: Books 1-11

by H. T. Night

  “Krull’s lair has been at that location for years. It’s right by the Grapevine near Ojai. I knew you were in distress. I could feel it. Trust me, I didn’t want to go at first. But I looked at Donya, and I knew I owed you. I couldn’t let die that way.”

  “Well, thank you,” I said.

  “Yes, thank you, Atticai,” Lena added.

  Atticai looked at Lena, amused with her thanks. He somehow could get into my head, the way he could when he was Goshi. I needed to be on top of that, because if Atticai could get in my head, God knows Krull could, too. “I’ll keep you informed.”

  I gave Donya a hug and a kiss on the cheek. Then I did something I had never done. I shook Atticai’s bony hand. When we touched there was electricity that went through both of us and we both felt it.

  “Imagine how powerful we’d be if we ever worked together,” I said.

  Atticai nodded his head, and then he smiled at Lena. “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We both have a mission. Let’s remember that.” Atticai kissed Lena goodbye on the cheek. Donya gave each of us a hug and then we were off, back to Victorville.

  Chapter Twenty-nine

  As I flew back, I had to admit I was a tad gun-shy.

  I scoped out my surroundings pretty well. I would never allow myself to be ambushed like that again. When the numbers were that against me, there was no shame in getting the hell out of there.

  When we arrived back, Lena lay down on our bed, completely exhausted from the flight and from seeing Atticai, and I didn’t want to bother her for lovemaking or even for talking. I knew she missed our sons. They were so young. I missed them, but this was no place to raise a family. I would have that luxury soon, but for now, there were things to be done.

  I stepped into the bathroom and slipped off my clothes. I stood in front of the bathroom mirror completely naked. Although my body looked a lot better than it did a month and a half ago, it still looked like I was dragged through the city by a 4x4 truck and hit every rock on the road.

  I had grown out my bangs so my hair would flow along my forehead. I pulled back my hair and looked at the marks that were left by Krull’s crown of spikes that he had driven into my head. Anger began to burn my soul as I looked at my scarred hands and feet. Krull’s barbaric act assured that I would show no mercy when it came to dealing with him and any person who chose to follow him.

  Over the past weeks, I had been putting together my plan in my head. It was a plan that was obviously at the forefront of my thinking because Atticai recognized it quickly and was able to distinguish what it was, from just moments in my presence.

  There was a full moon tomorrow night, and it was time for me to get Tommy on board with my plan. Yomaida, he and I were going to be extremely busy the next three nights. I think it was time to let them in on what I was thinking.

  I jumped in the shower and took a quick one. I dried off and I put on my original clothes, minus the leather jacket, and went downstairs to ask Yomaida and Tommy to meet me in the study.

  A few minutes later, the three of us sat around the large conference table. I was quiet at first. I looked at them both, knowing that it was now or never.

  “All right, captain, to what do we owe the pleasure of this meeting?” Tommy asked.

  I was on one side of the conference table and Tommy and Yomaida were on the other side. “My plan is to do a shark attack on Krull in the next two weeks.”

  “Are you serious?” Tommy asked.

  “He’ll never expect it. He doesn’t think we’re capable of being the aggressor. As far as I see it. After what he did to me, all bets are off in regard to a fair fight.”

  “Do you think we’re ready?” Tommy asked.

  “We will be outnumbered. But if we attack them during the day we can defeat a big chunk of his army.”

  “You are aware that almost ninety percent of your army cannot fight during the day?”

  “Can’t they?” I asked.

  Yomaida looked at me, puzzled, and said, “So you want to have a bird-on-bird war?”

  “No... I want to have a Carni vs. sleeping Mani war. Sion knows that they sleep in the wine cellars at the east end of the property. The wine cellar is rather large, but it’s extremely narrow. It’s made up of several corridors that can only fit about twenty of them per room. The wine cellar is so narrow, that they won’t be able to push forward. Their only choice will be to exit out of the back.”

  Tommy smiled and said, “That’s all well and good and the Carni that we have out there are the toughest werewolves I know. That’s the problem. They won’t be werewolves. They will only be men,” Tommy said.

  I stared at Tommy and said, “We’re going to have many advantages. All they are going to have is numbers. They won’t be able to transition if we do this during the sunlight.”

  “Still,” Tommy insisted. “Seven ravens on one Carni in his human form is still an unfair fight. That is what we will be dealing with.”

  “Can I finish?” I stated simply to Tommy. “Quit jumping in.”

  “Sorry.”

  “The rest of us will be there. We will be in our bird forms. But we’re going to have a giant advantage. We are going to have thirty free-thinking, cognitive werewolves fighting against them.”

  Tommy and Yomaida’s faces both lit up. “Are you serious, Josiah?” Tommy asked. “We’re going to train our Carni to be like Yomaida and me?”

  “Yes. We’re going to be busy the next three days. Each of us will have ten Carni under our watch. If we have at least 80 percent success rate, that will give us 24 werewolves that will be so dangerous, that it will only be a matter of time until we eliminate most of Krull’s army. This is going to work.”

  Tommy was quiet. Then he said, “Are you asking the Carni to win your Mani-prophesized war?”

  “No, not the war, just part of the battle. This war is for the betterment of all of us. By standing with us, you are one in our hearts. I’m asking the Carni to win the first battle. The one inside the barracks while they sleep. Don’t forget, I’m a werewolf, too, and I’ll be there with you. I’m not sure how many we’ll get; maybe half of them. We’re going to attack them right when the sun comes out. We’re going to send two waves of Carni into their barracks and push them out. Once they hit daylight, our Mani will team up on them and eliminate them from this earth. We will be getting them on both sides. In and right outside their bunker.”

  “It’s a brilliant idea,” Tommy said. “It will be extremely chaotic inside the bunker. Not to mention extremely dangerous.”

  “I understand that and I would never ask any one of my soldiers to do something that I’m not willing to do myself. That is why I’ll be there in the wine cellars, kicking Krull’s men’s asses with you.”

  “We’re going to do more than just kick their asses,” Tommy said.

  “You better fucking believe it,” I said.

  Tommy then did one of his classic grins and said, “I’m just not looking forward to the next three days. It kicked my ass training Yomaida.”

  “We’re going to go over a way to do a mass training. These men that are still here are as loyal any of my Mani men. They have earned it. Especially after all that has happened. Let’s go outside and tell them the news: They are going to be the point men, and women”—I nodded at Yomaida—“in the battle against Krull.”

  The three of us stood up and left the study.

  Chapter Thirty

  Over the next seventy-two hours, we took on as difficult and emotionally exhausting a task as I had ever done. But, by the time the third night was finished, we were able to give twenty-two Carni the gift of being able to transition at will.

  At the end of the third day, I slipped into bed with Lena and slept for about sixteen hours straight.

  When I woke up, I went and grabbed Sion and went into the kitchen area of the bunker and mapped out our attack against Krull. We wrote pages and pages of notes. Sion had figured out that Krull had been staying in two separate locations.
His lair was in the mountains near Ojai, but that wasn’t where he trained. His army had gotten so gigantic that he had to move to a bigger place. That is why he had taken over Helen’s vineyard. He needed the space.

  It was time to bring Helen in on my plan. She was going to be a giant part of our attack and I needed to make sure she was ready. I stood up from the table and went and grabbed Helen and asked her to meet me and Sion in the main house’s study. The three of us walked into the room, and I had laid the plans I had worked on all morning with Sion along the table. Helen had brought in a mysterious duffel bag with her. I went over each detail of what I wanted her to do, down to the very second.

  “When is this going down?” Helen asked.

  “Just let your men know to be ready at any given moment,” I said.

  Helen stood up and started to walk out of the study, then she stopped at the door. “I think your plan is going to work. As a matter of fact, I know it is.” She then reached into her duffel bag and pulled out a document and handed it to me.

  “What is this?” I asked.

  “It’s a deed,” she answered.

  “A deed to what?”

  “A deed to two giant islands in the Atlantic. They are extremely discreet and they stand side by side.”

  “Two islands? Where in the Atlantic?”

  “Just south of Australia.”

  I looked at Helen, somewhat confused. “Why are you giving me this?”

  “I’m giving these islands to all of us. If we prevail, this is the place that you and I have seen in our dreams. This is the place where we can finally see an end to the bloodshed, pain and terror. When all is said and done, I hope it will be your decision to have Mani who want to live in peace to move there.”

  “I own these two islands?” I looked down and saw my name typed in on the documents.

  “Yes, you do.” Helen smiled at me with a warm smile.

  “I can’t accept this.”

  “You have no choice. I was told by the Triat to do this act in one of my dreams. As far as I see it, these two pieces of land have always been yours. I was just lucky enough to have the financial means to buy them. And now they’re yours to do with as you see fit, for all of us.” Helen gave me a hug and then left the study. I sat there in awe, staring at Sion.

  “It takes a lot to make me feel this way.”

  “What feeling is that?” Sion asked.

  “Gratitude for material things.”

  “What? You never wanted a Ferrari when you were a kid?” Sion asked.

  “I was more of a Porsche man myself. But... an island? Are you kidding me?”

  I patted Sion on the back and congratulated him for a job well done. His role in the military aspect to all of this was about to come to an end. I wasn’t quite ready to tell him just yet. I left the room by myself and went upstairs and shared the news with Lena.

  Lena was more shocked than I was, but she quickly saw the value in the land. “So, when we’re married, they will be mine too?” Lena asked, teasing.

  “They are yours now,” I said. “We don’t need a ceremony for that.”

  I met with Sion night and day during the week following the full moon. Sion’s ability to find information was out of this world. Literally, they were of a supernatural nature. He and I pieced together the perfect plan to give us the highest probability of success. I swore, the kid was a genius. That word got thrown around a lot, but Sion was the real McCoy.

  Chapter Thirty-one

  We were inside 24 hours for my plan to go into effect.

  I had one small problem. Only Sion and I knew of the entire plan. I purposely kept the information from the others to give Krull as little chance to infiltrate my crew and get information.

  Before I was to tell the others, I needed to run the entire plan by Helen. She had been given insight into the prophecy far beyond the time I had been a Mani. It was time to see what she thought.

  Helen met me in the study at 8:00 p.m., Thursday night. From this point on, I was on a strict schedule designed by Sion.

  I shut the door as Helen entered the study. I had her sit right next to me and I calmly began speaking to her. “You think we’re ready?” I asked.

  “The time is now, isn’t it, Josiah?” Helen said.

  “As far as I’m concerned, it is. But before I carry out the attack, I need to know a couple of things. If we attack Krull first, do you believe that is inside the will of the Triat?”

  “Neither you nor I know their will a hundred percent, Josiah,” Helen responded. “We can only lead with our hearts.”

  “Then tell me this. In your visions and in your dreams, if we attack them before they get to us, will it meet the expectations of the prophecy?”

  “What you need to understand is this: Krull doesn’t believe the prophecy,” Helen said plainly. “Therefore, he’ll never attack us unless he wants to recruit us. He doesn’t want us. He wants the world.”

  “I understand that. I have been pussy-footing around, fighting other fights because I thought he would attack us first. I was waiting for a sign. I realize now if I continue to wait, he’ll be able to keep recruiting vampires and it will be impossible to ever defeat him. After he captured me and did the things he did to me, it made me realize that he doesn’t take the prophecy seriously. If he thought, for one second, that I was the reason why he wouldn’t succeed in his world domination, then there is no way he would have just tortured me. He was trying to break me, to have me join his side. If he knew the significance of who I truly am, he would have just killed me.”

  “None of this is so black and white, Josiah. We are given visions and truths, and it is up to us to interpret them and follow our hearts. I believe you’re doing that.”

  I felt good that Helen and I were on the same page. I proceeded to tell her the plan. When I was done explaining how it was going to play out, I asked, “What about you? What is your ultimate role, Helen?”

  Helen looked at me, stone-faced, and said, “When all of this is over, we will both have fulfilled our destiny.”

  I nodded my head and began to get extremely pumped up as if I was about to have an MMA fight. Helen, on the other hand, didn’t seem as pumped as me. She looked solemn and stoic. To each their own, I guess.

  After I met with Helen, I had Sion come into the study and meet with me. My crew was now at 700 Mani and Carni. We had 670 vampires and 30 werewolves with eight of those werewolves not at full transition ability. They were, however, badass soldiers and that was going to come in handy. We needed every capable man and woman for this fight.

  Sion figured out that Krull’s army was over 2,500 Mani strong. That left 1,800 vampires unaccounted for throughout the world. For whatever reason, they decided to leave this fight for the rest of us.

  I explained to Sion that his skills were best served if he was left behind. He seemed relieved when I told him that he wasn’t going to have to fight. I had a much bigger job for him. He was going to swap places with Wyatt. I had grown incredibly fond of Sion. He was my little sidekick. I was Batman and he was my Robin. Actually, he was more like Alfred. You get the analogy. What I did know is that he wasn’t a good physical soldier, but his contribution to this cause had almost been as valuable as mine. I let him know that. I thanked him and gave him a hug.

  “You are going to take care of my family,” I said. “To me, that is greater than this fight.”

  “It is my honor, Josiah. I won’t let you down.”

  I told Sion he would be leaving soon and to get packed. I went into my bedroom and Lena was sitting on her bed with tears dripping from her eyes. I had told her earlier in the evening that Sion would be taking her back to Amsterdam. I entered the room slowly and sat next to her. “You ready to go?” I said. I put my arm around her and pulled her close to me.

  Lena tried to look me in the eye, but couldn’t. Finally, she said, “Josiah?”

  “Yeah, babe.”

  “Will you live?”

  “Huh?”


  “Will you die in this battle? You must know if you survive the battle. In your dreams and visions, you must have seen what is to happen. Do you live?”

  I looked at Lena and held my breath. I let out the air and said, “I don’t know?”

  Lena grabbed my face and stared me right in the eyes. “Don’t you fucking lie to me, I need to know right now. I can’t be told later on. Is this how it ends for you? Do you die for the cause?”

  “Lena, I honestly don’t know. All I know is that I prepared my men to the best of my ability. I know I have been given a plan. I truly believe the Triat has guided me, thus far. They knew where I needed help, and that is why they sent Sion to me. All I can do is follow my heart.”

  “I want to go,” Lena said. “With you.”

  “There is not a chance in hell that is going to happen,” I said.

  Lena then began to grow hysterical. “If your life ends on that battlefield, I have to be there. I have to see you before you disappear forever. You need to hear me out! As long as I live, I’ll never forgive you if you don’t return to me!” This was as raw and candid as Lena had ever been to me. I appreciated her honesty, but there was no way in hell that she was going to be anywhere near that battlefield.

  I took Lena’s hand and entwined my fingers with hers and said simply, “You have my word. This vampire love story does not end here.”

  Lena stared at me. She didn’t know what else to say. She knew there wasn’t any chance I’d let her fight with us. Finally, she quietly said, “Okay.”

  I was right up in her face, so she could see me. “Lena, you need to look me in the eye.” She wanted to look away, but her love for me kept her focused in. “This is the final stretch. I know it. Please trust me. I promise that I will come back for you.”

  I held her in my arms tightly. I squeezed her for dear life. We sat there and held one another for a brief moment. When we were done, I said to her, “It is time for you to go with Sion. I can’t take you there this time. Krull might be following me and he’ll know that you left and could send people to follow you. I want you and Sion to take nothing but your passports and tickets. You two need to fly out of here.”