Silvana quickly came over and used her magic as best as she could to try to help.
"I'm sorry," She said, stepping back "My magic isn't helping at all."
"Lexi, I can try something," Nick said, bending down next to me "But there is a pretty big consequence."
"Do whatever you need to do! We cannot loose him, we just can't!" I sobbed.
Even though he wold end up regretting this, Nick leaned over and prepared to do something he vowed he would never do again. But at the last minute he stopped, the scent was not right.
"I can't do it, his blood has already been compromised, they were already in the process of changing him," Nick said, unsure of how this would turn out.
Within minutes Colton died and I began crying uncontrollably as I laid over his cold body. Everyone tried to pull me away but I wouldn't budge. I was not ready to say goodbye yet.
Suddenly Coltons hand twitched and then slowly closed around mine. As he began coughing, trying to breath, I sat straight up in shock. After catching his breath he tried his hardest to talk but couldn't get any words out.
"Why...why can't he talk?" I asked, still trying to stop crying.
As Colton opened his mouth Nick and I looked to see what was wrong and gasped with fear. Ricardo had mutilated Colton by having his tongue removed.
"They use to do this in the old days as a form of punishment for not cooperating," Silvana explained "But the vampire blood should have healed it."
Silvana then tried to use her magic again but, like before, it would not work.
"This is some very dark magic and he is not immortal either, I am so sorry," Silvana said, "I don't...I don't know how long he has."
"I'm so sorry babe...I will...we will," I stammered, as Colton looked at me, nodding his head once and giving me a small kiss.
"Guys, I am really sorry, but we need to figure out how we are going to get out of here. We need to go now before the Guardians get here. We will be punished if they see us among this...this massacre," Nick said.
Up until now Ando had not said anything to anyone, he just sat back. He was trying to hide something but didn't want anyone to start worrying over him again. Not wanting to make their situation worse than it already was.
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Over the next few hours we slowly made our way to a different abandoned house in the slums, in the opposite direction we had originally came from. It was time to figure out how we were finally going to leave the Underworld. We needed to hurry to because we could faintly hear the Hellhounds, which meant the Anubis and Guardians would be at the Coven house very soon.
"Now, I need you guys to understand something, something I didn't get to explain before we entered the Demon Gate," Nick said, after we formed our escape plan. "As you know we have been here, in the Underworld, for four days. But time here is different than time in the mortal world. In the four days we have been here, a whole year has gone past n the mortal world."
"One year?! We have been gone for a year? What about school and work?" Mika asked, wondering how this absence would seem to the neighbors.
"All of that has already been taken care of, we will talk about it in detail after we get out of here," Silvana answered, Nick nodded in agreement.
"Alright, we know what our plan is, so lets all get changed. We have to leave within minutes," Nick said, standing up.
All of us changed into black clothes again, duplicates of the others but clean, and we left our creepy contacts in. We continued our long journey to a different gate, called the Orphs Gate, hiding and sneaking in and out of the shadows along the way. We all threw random potions around to distract any Anubis we came across. We managed to stay away from the Guardians, that were headed to the Coven house, and our helpful Hellhound was keeping all the other Hellhounds away from us.
Silvana used her powers to get us across the blood river to the portal. As soon as we came through the portal, Silvana stunned the gate keeper, in order for us to go out the gate to the mortal world. The second we were outside the gate we ran for our cars (that Silvana had summoned to this area) and sped through the desert land for over two hours. We finally stopped at a small, run down grocery store to stretch and change back into our normal everyday clothes. It was hard to relax after everything we had been through and all of us were still paranoid. Constantly looking around to make sure we weren't being followed.
Ando was the first one to quickly change but then hurried back towards the car. Before he got back to our car Colton and I stopped him.
"Hunny, we have missed you so much!" I said, as we cried and hugged him "We love you!"
Ando returned the feelings before asking to go back to the car. Little did we know he wasn't only tired but in severe pain.
"Silvana! Why didn't you tell us?" I shouted, stepping up to her, wanting to slap her," How could I have possibly trusted you?!"
"Lexi, I am really very sorry. I have been under that spell for so many centuries that I forgot who I was before. I have been here for your family all this time and I never meant to hurt any of you. When we stepped into the Coven house all of my memories of who I was came flying back. At that some time my connection with Ricardo was instantly restored. I am..." Silvana answered.
Before I could respond we heard a loud gasp come from Mira and Mika started yelling for help. We all ran over to Mikas car to see what was going on. Ando was propped up against the car, paler than normal, very weak, and his lips were tinted blue.
"Mum, dad," Ando began, trying so hard to keep breathing "I am so sorry, I should have listened, I should have known better. How could I have been so stupid?
"Oh hunny, no no. We really do understand, even though we weren't happy about it. I loathe Ricardo for all he has done but you needed to do this, you needed to find out everything for yourself," I said, crying once again, before looking to Nick. "What is happening to him?"
"I'm not sure, let me see him," Nick said, bending down to Ando. He began looking over Ando and then came across the huge gashes on his torso and cuts on his upper arms. "Oh Ando, why didn't you say anything earlier?"
"How did this happen?" I said, looking at Andos nasty wounds in disgust.
"These are werewolf bites and cuts, it must have happened during the fight. You all need to prepare yourselves, he is going to end up dying and very soon. There is nothing Silvana and I can do." Nick said, looking down with tears in his eyes.
We all crowded around Ando, talking to him and hugging him.
"I am sorry everyone, I screwed up big time. I love you all....so much," Ando said, wincing in pain before closing his eyes.
Ando stopped breathing then and we all began crying like crazy. After everything we had been through to save Ando, we lost him once again, for good.
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