Liberation of New York City

The Liberation of New York City takes place in Bloodbound, Book 3, Chapters 15 and 16, after your character and her friends return to New York City to stop Rheya Apostolous.

Taking Back The City
Your Character, Adrian Raines, Lily Spencer, Kamilah Sayeed, Jax Matsuo, and Gaius Augustine arrive at New York, Nikhil if you saved him in the Massacre at The Bacchanalia arrives and drives them to a safehouse. He explains that everyone, both humans and vampires are under Rheya's thrall and only he and several of Clan Matsuo members that he managed to find and save are in hiding. Nikhil states that at the Opera theatre, Rheya is going to make her appearance.

Once arrived at the safehouse, Kamilah makes a plan of having Gaius pretend he has captured Your Character and her friends to Rheya and the group ambushes her for Your Character to kill Rheya. It is not much of a plan but Your Character can give a rallying speech of how history has caused too much pain and blood. She can either remind them to remember everything they or to remember the people they loved and lost (Marcel Lafayette, Elias Morales, Liv Denara, Griff Saunderson, and Takeshi Watanabe). Your Character is determined to free New York City once and for all.

RHEYA APOSTOLOUS! YOU HAD FAILED THIS CITY!
Your group including Gaius Augustine follows with the plan. However, Rheya realizes that it is a trap and injures Gaius. Kamilah tries to combat Rheya with her daggers but is defeated. Adrian tries to attack her next but she backhands him. Lily and Jax try to attack using their respectful weapons but she deflects both their attacks with ease. Your Character uses her psychic powers taught by Kano Yoshimasa to stun her and try to defeat her but Vlad defends Rheya.

The dagger ends up in Rheya's possession. As she is about to finish Your Character, Jax or Lily takes the hit for her. Your Character, Adrian, and Kamilah mourn the loss of Jax or Lily. Jax uses his final breath to encourage the group to defeat Rheya and when everything is done, fight for those who couldn't fight for themselves. Jax then takes the stake from Kamilah stating that "he didn't want anyone else to be burdened to kill him." Jax commits suicide and dies in Your Character's arms. If it was Lily Spencer, she states that she was glad to live her life on the wild side and having many adventures together. Lily tells Your Character to live her life fullest and later she tells Kamilah that "she is ready" before Kamilah stakes her in the heart. Your Character grows furious and releases the same power Adrian released in the Upstate New York Showdown and vows that Rheya must die to your friends' discomfort.

The Truth and The Choices We Make
Your Character charges at Rheya's vampire security guards. She has the choice to either kill or incapacitate them. If she chooses to incapacitate them, she tells her friends that was her extent of her mercy and that they will recover eventually. She eventually meets Vlad Tepes and combats him. She uses her telekinesis to stop the blades from attacking her and hurls it back at him. Vlad begs for his life where Your Character again has a choice to either kill him or spare him. If you spare him, you punch his face and earn the compliment from Kamilah stating that "she never liked him."

Just as she is about to confront Rheya, Serafine Dupont freezes your friends in place and prepares a psychic blast on you. You have a premium choice to convince her to make her an ally or let her die. If you choose the premium, you tell Serafine the truth about Rheya. Serafine is shocked and stunned. She lets your friends go and is comforted. Serafine promises she will help her real friends in any way possible. Your Character confronts Rheya but Rheya holds Lula Jacobs as a hostage. Gaius distracts her by freeing Lula and Your Character summons Rheya to her psychic plane and fights her there when she tries to puppet your friends again.

Your Character tells Rheya that Iola didn't die by the Son of Ares hands but was kidnapped. Rheya is stunned. Your Character showed Rheya the memory when the Sons of Ares attacked, Demetrius was wounded trying to save Iola and Iola was taken away by the Sons of Ares. Rheya allowed her anger blind her in thinking Iola was burned to death by the Sons of Ares. Your Character then shows Rheya that Iola grew old, married a merchant named Ajax, and had a daughter named Minerva. The village that Rheya brainwashed Gaius to attack alongside with Rheya was where Iola lived. Rheya killed Iola. Rheya is stunned and she is in tears that she was responsible for the death of her own daughter. She loses the will the fight. Your Character has a choice to instantly kill her or states that Rheya didn't have to die. Nevertheless, Rheya will be killed by Your Character. Your Character kills her by absorbing her essence.

Your Character becomes darker and scary-like. She thinks with her powers, she can bring back Jax or Lily back to life. But, when she uses her powers to make flowers grow on the opera stage, the flowers wither and die immediately. She becomes sad and bitter and makes her crave more power much to your friends' concern. She begs Lily or Jax to be her right hand and together they can make all the wrongs right again in the world. She even states and appeals to Kamilah that she can bring her twin brother back to life again. Finally, she looks at Adrian and tells him that with her, she can help Adrian give the peaceful world that he had dreamed of. Lily or Jax, Kamilah, and Adrian are shocked, dismayed, and refuse her. Though they had gone through many pains in their lives, they became good people by looking at the future and finding true friends and a true home. Your Love Interest begs Your Character to come to her senses and she slowly does. The group leaves the Opera theatre.

We Say Good-bye...Sort of
Your Character, Adrian, Kamilah, and either Lily or Jax (Depends on your choices) pay their respects to Lily or Jax at the Cavern. She turns to Gaius and decides to choose Gaius's punishment. Adrian and Kamilah speaks up that Gaius did help them find Demetrius on the South Pacific Island to obtain his blood to be used against Rheya. Lily or Jax also speaks up stating that Gaius did save Lula's life when she was held hostage. Your Character can choose to let him leave or kill him. If she chooses to kill him, Gaius genuinely smiles at her and is able to rest in peace knowing that despite 3000 years of blood and pain, he is redeemed. If she lets him go, he decides to travel abroad as a good person.

Your Character, Adrian, Lily, and Kamilah hold a conference explaining the mysterious circumstances about Rheya. Finally, you and your friends show their true natures as vampires. After many years of discrimination, the vampires are able to live amongst humans in peace and harmony after so long. Your Character finally embraces who she is and keeps her promise to Jax or Lily who died protecting you with her friends and Love Interest at her side.