Chapter 1005 - 1005 Chapter 190- Epilogue 1 (VOLUME 5)
1005 Chapter 190- Epilogue 1 (VOLUME 5)
A very quick note from the author,
Hello everyone, I know that you want to continue the story and all that, but I wanted to give you all a small message first. There will be a handful of epilogues in this book, they will wrap some things up and leave the others open for the next volume. There will be one more volume in this story, but that is all. I am happy that you have all stuck with my story this long, and I thank you all for being there for me.
Oh, and one last thing. These epilogues don’t necessarily come in chronological order. I am sure that you can all figure out the point in time that they happen. Enjoy them, and see you all again in Volume 6!!
** Sentencing The Jaegan**
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After things settled down and we had all moved on from the horrors that had plagued us for so long, it was time to see the perpetrators brought to justice. And by that I mean the Jaegan that had admitted guilt or the ones that refused to change their ways no matter what Juniper was able to do for them.
In the case of those damaged Jaegan, the ones that couldn’t be released from the prison right away, Juniper had made leaps and bounds. They were a lot better than they had been just a few weeks ago. They understood what happened. They understood what was wrong with the actions of their family. And they were out of their cells. They were still being monitored in that apartment that Clovio, Warrick, Armina, and Gustav had stayed in, but they were doing well. I was sure that within another week or so, they would be able to go out into the world and live a relatively normal life. And all of this just went to show me how powerful my best friend was.
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There was more that we needed to do though, and that involved us going to the courthouse. Reece and I had been a part of this case since the beginning, so we weren’t going to miss any of this. We had managed to arrange for a closed trial so that the ‘cultists’ as they had been dubbed by the media, wouldn’t have the attention that they so desperately sought.
In truth, we just didn’t want the humans to hear these people spouting about how we were monsters and other creatures that needed to be exterminated. Everyone in the case was not human. From the arresting officers that took custody of them from us, to the prosecutors and judge.
The Jaegan had already confessed and therefore entered their official pleas of guilty to the court. They still thought that monsters like us would never see the day that they were actually sentenced to jail time. And since they weren’t receptive to it, Juniper hadn’t done anything to change their minds with her power.
I have a feeling that Juniper would have been able to do that, but she wouldn’t have wanted to. She isn’t the type to force that power onto others. Not only that, but forcibly changing someone’s mind is a whole new level of violation that none of us wanted to be a part of. We would let them continue to think the way that they did, it wouldn’t matter when they were sentenced to life in prison.
The Jaegan all stood proudly and confidently as they faced the judge, giving their pleas of guilty with mocking expressions. Claud was in the lead of the group, somehow having been appointed as the most sane or whatever. I don’t know how they nominated him, or if he just took the role upon himself.
“Yes, we admit that we all did as we were accused. I will not claim that I didn’t murder that girl. And I fucked her too. She deserved it. She was a monster. They are all monsters. They aren’t human.” He turned and pointed his cuffed hands at me and Reece. “Look at them. They are disgusting creatures. This one is a dog, and the other is a mongrel that is so mixed with mutant blood that she is an abomination. Her mere existence should be illegal. They should all be killed. And that was what we were doing. We were exterminating the monsters from the world.” He turned back to the judge, expecting him to look pleased and happy that this man was doing such a fine job of community service. That wasn’t the look that greeted him though.
Instead of looking pleased, Judge Frazer just scowled at him. Now I guess that the fact that Louis Frazer was a shifter from Trevor’s bear clan didn’t help Claud’s case. And this man, being a judge and a supernatural being, was the perfect person to sentence these men for their crimes.
“What did you call them?” Louis asked Claud in a low and intimidating voice. Louis was a black bear. A little smaller than Trevor’s breed, but still lethal in the wild. He had dark brown eyes, black hair, and a hell of a scowl. And that scowl was aimed right at the cowardly clan of cultists.
“I called them monsters.” Claud said proudly. “That bitch there is the worst of them all.” He was, of course, pointing at me.
“Queen Trinity, what is it that he is talking about?” Louis asked me. “I know that you are a sweet and fair woman. You rule our kingdom with the utmost care. I can’t even begin to fathom where this man is getting all of these awful thoughts from.”
“Q..Q..Queen Trinity?” Claud paled as he looked at the judge. “You’re one of them?” I truly do believe that Claud and the others thought that people like Reece and I wouldn’t have the ability, the humanity, to have careers like this. They just didn’t see how we would be able to fool the humans into trusting us for so long. “THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! I WANT ANOTHER JUDGE! YOU ARE NOT HUMAN! YOU ARE NOT FIT TO JUDGE ME!”
“I am fit to judge you, young man.” Louis snapped at him. “I was elected by my peers, human and nonhuman alike. They gave me the authority. And now I will hand down your punishments.”
I watched as Louis shifted the papers on his desk and began to tally the number of dead. With the vampires that were still missing and presumed dead, those having not been tallied properly until everything had settled down, the total was now at one hundred and seventeen dead. These people, while either directly or indirectly, were all responsible for those deaths.
I could tell that Louis was calculating just how many years he was going to sentence these people to prison for. I couldn’t wait to hear what he had to say to them.
“In the case of the State of Colorado against the Jaegan Cultists,” Louis spoke in a loud and clear voice, “I hereby sentence each of you to life imprisonment for each of the one hundred and seventeen cases of first-degree murder. For the crime of rape, I hereby sentence Claud Jaegan to life in prison. Each of you will serve no less than two thousand nine hundred and twenty-five years in prison. Except for you, Mr. Claud. You will serve an added twenty-five years. Each and every one of you will die behind bars for the crimes against humanity.”
“THEY WEREN’T HUMAN!” Claud screeched after hearing the verdict. “THEY HAD NO HUMANITY!”
“They had more than you.” I rose to my feet and glared at him. “Unlike you, they never slaughtered anyone just for the hell of it. Now, enjoy the prison that you’re going to. It’s brand new and top of the line.” I winked at him and saw him pale before he left. I knew that this was over. Finally, we would be able to put the Jaegan behind us. Those that were left with us, they didn’t use that name anymore. They weren’t Jaegan, they had been reborn.
Reece and I left the courthouse and were bombarded by the media. I usually tried to stay away from them, since it was hard to hide how young I was compared to my age. The same with Reece. Not only that, but we didn’t want to get the media hounding the kids. They had nothing to do with this.
“Mr. Gray. Mrs. Gray. Can we have a word?” Several reporters called out to us in quick succession.
“Trinity! Trinity! Over here! Tell us why you attended the hearing?”
“Reece! Reece! What role did you play in all of this?” They were still belting their questions toward us, and I knew that Reece and I were going to need to answer a few of them.
“My husband and I funded a private investigative group that helped to track down and capture the men and women that were responsible for these heinous crimes.” I gave them an answer that I had prepared in advance.
“Isn’t it true that you went along to all of the murder sites as well, Mrs. Gray? Why were you so personally involved?”
“Wouldn’t you want to put an end to the fear and panic that was spreading around the world?” I looked at the man and was nearly blinded by the light of the camera next to him. “I have children of my own. I want them to live in a world that is safe. And those men and women were travelling all over the world. They even made their way here. They were intending to murder people in our own city.”
“Do you think that they only targeted Colorado because you were chasing after them? Would they have stayed out of North America if you hadn’t provoked them?” An angry female voice spoke from the back of the crowd. “Don’t you think that your reckless actions are what led to this happening?”
“I like to think that these people coming to the United States showed how desperate they really were. We were closing in on them. They had nowhere left to hide, so they went to the only place that they felt was safe. I feel sorry for the victims that died in California, and the victims that were nearly killed here, but if it hadn’t been them that were targeted, then it would have been someone else in the world. Lives would still have been lost.” Reece tried to sate the reporter’s question with that answer, but she had another.
“Isn’t it true, Mrs. Gray, that you were in too many places during your stay in Europe and Asia? I have reports that say that you were in England and then Australia in the span of an hour.”
“Ha ha ha.” I laughed and acted like this was ridiculous. “That is impossible. Clearly, someone is misremembering the dates that we were in their location. It was a bit of a whirlwind trip though, so I don’t blame them for getting it wrong.”
“How do you explain the lack of a flight log for your private plane then? It flew to Wales, that was true, but from what I was told, no one was actually on board that aircraft aside from the pilot.”
“I am sure that people just missed us. When we don’t want to be hounded by the media, we are quite well versed in evading them.” I gave the woman a look that told her that she was only permitted to speak to me because I was letting her. It was a reminder not to push her luck with someone that was so wealthy and influential.
There were a few more questions after that, but it was clear that, after my warning, they weren’t as into the whole ambush as they were before. I think that they were feeling a little awkward at the fact that they had ‘cornered us’, or so they thought that they had.
I felt a little uneasy though. Some of these reporters were digging a little too deep for my liking.