"They think they can get away huh," Sage whispered to himself after he spotted them running into a secret tunnel, They spotted him as well and began to run faster.
Catherine became slower and she was out of breath due to running too much but she couldn't stop because Sage was tirelessly chasing after them.
"I think we should stop she can't keep up anymore," Adam stated after noticing how tired Catherine was.
"We can't keep running anymore, we're only tiring our self and not them, we need to come up with a plan," Ambrose suggested, biting his lips as he tried to come up with a plan.
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Stefan finally woke up, unaware of his environment and he had a sharp, throbbing headache.
His eyes search the area carefully and memories of what happened dawned on him.
"Ahhh... Sage, you're so damn crazy," Rage flowed through him like a lava after recalling what his brother did to him.
He tried getting up but fell back on the ground due to weakness, his migraine was also heavier than before.
"I need to get a prey right now," he said to himself forcing himself up again as he dragged his feet out of the empty palace, he finally spotted a dead werewolf, the blood of the werewolf was still smelled fresh which means it had been killed not to long ago.
He hungrily lunged towards it, piercing it fangs into it neck and drinking all the blood he could get from it so that his strength will come alive than ever.
He cleared his mouth when he was done sucking the prey, spreading out his wings and he dashed into the air to look for the baby and as well get back at Sage.
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As they were trying to come up with a plan, Sage suddenly appeared in front of them with an evil grin on his face.
"Alas, we meet again, this time by brother isn't around for you to display your shenanigans, it's just me," he said in a sly tone and started walking towards them.
"So what's the plan," Adam questioned Ambrose, who couldn't come up with a plan.
"I don't know, we just have to fight," Ambrose said, changing into a Dark grey werewolf and Adam turned into a reddish brown wolf, Sage's fangs and claws were out in readiness as Ambrose and Adam charged towards him.
Ambrose and Adam gave Sage no chance to attack as they both took turn scratching and hitting him which caused Sage to scream in pain, Catherine use this opportunity to check on her baby and also regain herself.
Stefan suddenly showed up, forcefully throwing Ambrose and Adam as they both hit their backs on the trees behind them.
Stefan walked slowly towards Catherine but noticed his brother was running to get to her, he turned and hit him hard on the chest which sent him flying.
" I'll get back at you later," he uttered to Sage before turning back to continue his walk towards Catherine.
"Aahh," Adam charged towards him, folding his hand and was about to punch Stefan.
Stefan dodged his punch with ease, he grabbed Adam's hand and twisted it so hard it made him scream in pain, Stefan then hit him hard on the chest, which sent the warrior flying knocking him into a tree.
Catherine stood up after seeing that Stefan was close to her, she held her baby tightly and prepare herself to fight if need be.
Ambrose and Adam stood up again rushing towards Ambrose and began fighting Stefan again, they were both weak and in pain but they still fought hard to keep Catherine and the baby safe.
Catherine rushed in to join them but stopped when Ambrose said " You need to run Catherine, we'll fight hem off,"
"But I want to help and fight," Catherine stated, worried that Stephan might hurt them.
"You need to protect the baby from them Luna Catherine, it's her they want not us," Ambrose said before helping Adam from not getting punch by Stefan.
Stefan fling Adam so hard, he hit his head on a tree and fainted, Ambrose tried to punch Stefan but he dodged and punched Ambrose so hard he became unconscious, he started running towards Catherine using his vampire eyes to sight her.
Catherine legs accidentally slipped causing her to rolled into a valley, her eyes darted all over her baby and her hands were shaking in fear,
Her mind calmed down and she heave a sigh of relief when she heard her daughter cry.
"Poor thing," she grieved, looking pitifully at her baby who was looking all stressed out, she cuddled and whispered soft words to the baby till she stop crying.
"Come out, I know you're here," Stefan goaded, he could sense something breathing and knew it was Catherine but he didn't know her exact location.
Catherine heard his voice and hurriedly hid between the trees so as to be covered by the their branches that was filled with leaves, she was scared when the baby turned but got back to normal when her baby didn't make a sound, she knew that she have to do something or else Stefan would find her baby.
She carefully unwrapped the baby's blanket and then tore a large pieces of the white inner linen of her dress, wrapping that on the baby and tried to do fake baby wrapped with the original one, just then the baby began to cry causing Stefan to look towards their direction.
Catherine quickly kisses her baby goodbye and ran off to distract Stefan from coming after her baby which worked because Stefan began to chase after her, she ran as fast as her legs could carry her until she was at the end of a cliff, she took a peek under to see an unsteady flow of water and she began to have a second thought of jumping into the water.
"Give the Baby to me," Stefan demanded, stopping on his track after seeing that she was close to falling of, he didn't know why his urge to protect the baby was stronger than the urge to kill.
"Give me the baby," His demand sounded like a plea this time, Catherine felt that if he wasn't an enemy, she would have given her baby to him.
After a long moment of silent, Sage finally showed up, with a sword in his hand.
she had no other option but to jump of the cliff after seeing the way Sage was charging toward her, she didn't want them to notice that she wasn't holding the real baby.
"Why did you do that, I was almost close to getting the baby," Stefan angrily blasted Sage, he felt like punching Sage on the face.
"She and her baby should be probably dead by now, the water under could drown anything living," Sage said with a victorious smirk on his face, flying away so he could brag to his father about how he killed the heiress and her mother.
Stefan should be happy that the baby is dead but he felt sad and guilty, "maybe because she's just a baby," he said to himself but he have done more worse than killing a baby and he never felt guilty.
He shook the thought of his head and flew home with the hope that going home will make him feel less guilty.