Underworld: Awakening Page #3

against the prudence of their elders.

Their calls for violent action

carried the day.

The result?

The Werewolves are nearly extinct.

Is that what you wish for us, extinction?

Yet you bring

her offspring into our home.

Do you honestly

believe the humans

will allow her to remain free?

They will hunt her down at any expense.

Then we can help protect them.

THOMAS:
Protect them?

They leave tonight.

DAVID:

This isn't

prudence.

This is cowardice, plain and simple.

How dare you?

How dare you

do so little?

I dreamt of the day we would meet.

Like a silly little girl.

You're as cold as one already dead.

Yesterday

I was with your father.

He was only a little further away

from me than you are now.

I went to sleep.

And when I awoke the next day,

I learned that, overnight,

12 years had passed.

And instead of the only man

I've ever loved,

there stood a girl with his eyes.

My heart is not cold.

It's broken.

I'm so sorry.

What is it?

[RUMBLING]

They're here.

Stay here. Wait for me.

No, take me with you.

Please.

I won't let anyone hurt you. I promise.

Lock the door.

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Everybody to the shelter. Now!

[ALL CHATTERING]

DAVID:

No!

Prepare the armory.

Do as I say! Go, 90!

Pay heed to me!

No! We stand and we fight.

[VAMPIRES SHOUTING

INDISTINCTLY]

No! Have you no sense?

Stop this now!

We lived safely for years and you

brought humans into this coven.

They want the girl.

They'll stop at nothing to get her.

This day was bound to come,

with or without us.

Let's move!

Munitions, let's go! Everyone!

Are you mad?

We have no more than a handful

of fighters. We will be annihilated!

And what's your plan, Father?

Let's go! Now!

Where are you going?

To get her away from here.

He's right. I shouldn't have come.

He doesn't understand.

The humans will follow us out.

Hold them off till then.

They're only here for her.

She's more powerful than any of us.

They fear the day she discovers it.

I have to get her out of here.

[RUMBLING]

[GROWLING]

LYCan!

[SCREAMS]

Silver ammunition!

Now!

Defend the second

rotunda!

Move! Move!

[LYCANS GROWLING]

[VAMPIRES GRUNTING]

[POUNDING ON DOOR]

SELENE:

Open the door!

Let's go.

[LYCAN GROWLS]

[GRUNTING]

[GROWLING]

[SCREAMS]

Move! Move!

[LYCAN ROARING]

We need to go.

[GRUNTING]

[SCREAMS]

[GUNSHOT]

[ROARING IN DISTANCE]

DAVID:

What the hell was that?

[VAMPIRES SCREAMING]

Take her somewhere safe.

No.

Take her. Go.

[GROWLING]

[FOOTSTEPS THUDDING]

[FOOTSTEPS THUDDING

AND LYCAN GROWLING]

[FOOTSTEPS THUDDING]

[LYCAN SCREAMS]

[GROWLING]

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[GRUNTS]

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[SELENE GRUNTING]

Where is she?

They took her.

THOMAS:

They accepted her.

As a gift from me.

[EVE PANTING]

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Do you know what you've done?

Do you have any idea?

THOMAS:

What would you have had me do?

Fight to the last to protect the

very one who brought this upon us?

We're defeated.

Our coven is destroyed.

My son

is dead.

Because of you.

Why?

Because he helped that

child of yours.

If they kill her, so be it.

Your son died because

he was fighting for all of you.

Because he knew that running

is not survival.

Those were Lycans.

Not extinct.

More powerful than ever.

That thing was more than twice

the size of any Lycan I've seen.

They risked

showing themselves after more than

a decade in hiding because of her.

And you handed her over to them.

She is the last

direct descendant of Alexander Corvinus.

The only hybrid child

that has ever existed.

Whatever it is the Lycans want from her,

your son knew it was worth dying for.

What are you doing?

[VAMPIRES MURMURING]

[GASPS]

David.

[DAVID'S HEART BEATING]

[]

SELENE:

A force of two dozen Lycans

attacked and destroyed

one of our covens last night.

You're not surprised.

You knew the Lycans were not extinct.

How?

Just a feeling.

I'm not good with feelings.

I want to know how.

This is not the place for this.

And you're not gonna kill me.

Really?

No.

Because you wouldn't need

a f***ing gun to do it.

SEBASTIAN:

A few years ago,

the government declared

"mission accomplished" on Lycans.

The feds announced that

we were to only focus

on your kind now.

Three months ago,

a friend of mine sent me this.

It arrived two days after he was found

hanging from his own ceiling fan.

Two hundred suspected Lycan captures.

Every case was investigated.

Every blood test came back negative.

My friend began to wonder:

Were they all false leads or was

someone trying to protect the Lycans?

Helping them replenish their packs,

letting them regroup.

What about your own department?

They have my daughter.

All I care about is getting her back.

If you're protecting someone, I don't care.

I'm not after them. I just want her.

No.

Even if there are others in my department,

they wouldn't have the authority.

This goes much higher.

I believe, all the way to the top.

Or to the bottom.

SEBASTIAN:

What do you mean?

Who administers the tests?

LANE:
We're a bit short on time, so

if you please, take a look at these.

This schedule takes you

from the moment we adjourn

through to the final manufacture

of the vaccine.

If we stick to this plan, inoculations

should begin within three months.

Any questions, now's the time.

After today's surgery, there will be

no communication between us

until we meet again

in the inoculation center.

MAN:

Doctor, in terms

of your test subject,

he continues to demonstrate

immunity to silver?

Absolutely.

And additional inoculations,

administered only as a precaution,

triggered side effects we never imagined.

Vast increases

in strength, muscle mass,

self-healing,

stamina.

You said she was essential to our research.

Yes, and will continue to be.

LIDA:
How?

By vivisecting her?

You weren't meant to have that.

LIDA:

I cared for this little girl

all these years,

and you expect me to sit by

Harvest its genetic material?

While you...

I expect nothing from you.

I hired you to look after it,

and for the most part,

you did an excellent job

Saving the lives of thousands.

What are you talking about?

An entire species saved from extinction.

[DOOR OPENS]

Jacob.

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[LIDA GRUNTING]

[GROWLS]

[GASPS]

After today, you won't have to

wait so long between injections.

Are you sure she's ready?

Estrogen levels high,

intervals between menses holding steady.

It's come of age.

Everything's worked out just as we'd hoped.

You're the first proof of it.

I'm proud of you, son.

Now that it's with us again,

we'll have all the genetic material

we need, ready for cloning.

Enough to produce

an endless supply of vaccine.

Imagine.

Our species immune to silver.

No more hiding.

Every Lycan under our command

as powerful as you are.

I've even begun injecting myself.

I only wish Mother were here to see it.

Your mother chose to remain human.

She abandoned us.

Remember that.

Of course, Father.

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SEBASTIAN:

Look,

if you're right about Antigen, who knows

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