Battle at the South Pacific Island

The Battle at the South Pacific Island takes place in Bloodbound, Book 3, Chapter 14. It serves as the rising action before the climax and finale of the Bloodbound series.

Prelude
Continuing from Book 3, Chapter 13, Gaius tells Your Character that he knows of a way to kill Rheya. Your Character is hesitant, but he tells her to look into his thoughts and she senses he is telling the truth.

The true origins of the First Vampire
Your Character takes Gaius to The Five of Japan's headquarters. Everyone springs up, drawing their weapons but Your Character tells them Gaius has information. The Evolved takes out a metallic chain and binds his hands together before they decide to listen to what Gaius has to say.

Gaius explains that before Rheya drank from the Tree of Life and Turned into a vampire, she was married to a man named Demetrius and they had a daughter named Iola. Demetrius and Iola knew her true nature but still accepted her. Her daughter wanted Rheya to Turn her, but she refused, not wanting her daughter to deal with the darkness inside. Rheya used to be kind and compassionate, and wanted to rule with a peaceful and just hand. She did not want the people to suffer the same atrocities she suffered under King Kaelisus. However, everything changed when the Sons of Ares killed Demetrius and Iola, protesting Rheya's reign.

She decided to Turn Demetrius but he became the first feral. After Rheya released Demetrius due to his pestilence powers, she lost all of her compassion and conscience and began her dark history. Gaius then explains that after he was freed, he researched where Demetrius is and told the everyone present in the Five's headquarters that Demetrius's blood is the only thing that can defeat Rheya and he is at an island at the South Pacific.

Everyone is shocked and does not believe him including Jax. Jax orders Your Character to read Gaius's mind but he blocks her. Adrian, Kamilah, Lily, and Jax are angry and do not trust Gaius but due to time is not on their side, they have no other choice but to trust Gaius with Henry Zhang cautioning Your Character to be careful around Gaius. The Five also prepares for "The Wake" which is a funeral to bid Takeshi Watanabe farewell. Your Character has a choice through premium to attend with everyone. After Your Character, her friends, and The Five finishes paying their respects to Takeshi Watanabe, Henry Zhang offers Kamilah Sayeed a position in their inner circle but politely declines as she vowed to go where Your Character goes. The Five prepares for battle to protect Japan but Lily warns them that Rheya is not someone they can beat easily as there is still not much information known about her. The Five states that Japan is their home and they will not allow Rheya to do whatever she pleases.

Preparing for the Future
Your Character and her friends board the plane to go to the island where Demetrius is located but not before Kano Yoshimasa speaks with Your Character telepathically wondering if he can convince her to stay. Kano understands that Your Character cannot stay while her friends get hurt sadly bids farewell and hopes he and Your Character will cross paths again.

When the plane arrives at the island coordinates, it comes under attack. The group and Gaius survives but Adrian's pilot begins turning feral. Gaius kills the pilot much to the anger of Your Character and Adrian. Gaius states that it was for the best because if anyone touches a feral blood whether be human or vampire, they would turn feral. The group moves and sets camp where Your Character has a premium choice of playing "Never had I ever". After resting for the night, Your Character gets a nightmarish vision of Rheya forcing Your Character to kill helpless humans in an Opera theatre until she awakens from Kamilah's screams. A spiderferal comes crashing at the group's camp. Your groups battles the spiderferals with Kamilah tying Gaius to a tree. At first, they almost become successful but they become overwhelmed until Jax's sword hits Kamilah's dagger holding Gaius and freeing him. Gaius still tied up, picks Jax's sword and finishes off the remaining spiderferals and saves Your Character's life by throwing Jax's sword at an incoming feral sneaking behind her. Your Character has a choice to thank him or tell him that it still doesn't make everything even.

The true origins of the Bloodkeeper. Hope entrusted to the Future
Your Character, Gaius, Adrian, Kamilah, Lily and Jax makes it to the Tree of Eternal Death. The Tree of Eternal Death's aura affects Gaius, Adrian, Kamilah, Lily, and Jax but not Your Character. She hears a voice asking her to go to it. Your Character being a Bloodkeeper can hear the voice but your friends and Gaius couldn't. When she asks who is calling her, the voice bids her to come and it will tell her. Jax begs Your Character not to go to it but she reassures him. She touches the tree and lands in a psychic plane. In the psychic plane, she meets Demetrius. Demetrius knows what Your Character is and why she is here, and explains the Iola was not killed by the Sons of Ares but was kidnapped by them. The Sons of Ares raised Iola as their own to find out about Rheya's abilities. He also explains that Iola, despite being only human was the First Bloodkeeper as she was able to see her mother's memories after Rheya was Turned into a vampire. Iola lived a natural life, got married, and passed on her Bloodkeeper abilities to the next generations. Your Character being the first Bloodkeeper vampire is shocked and has a hard time believing it. She asks him if either her and/or her friends will still be alive. Demetrius responds that he cannot see that far but sees the same vision Your Character and Kano saw of Your Character at an opera theatre in pain and fury after Rheya made her attack helpless humans. He then gives permission for Your Character to take his blood and do whatever she pleases with it, to cherish her friends and the good moments they had together, and if she sees Rheya again to tell her that Demetrius still loved her.

Demetrius then makes the environment bearable again. Kamilah gives Your Character a dagger to use to coat the weapon with Demetrius's blood and Your Character quietly thanks Demetrius. Due to the plane crash, Adrian then uses a broken yacht and asks Jax, Lily, Kamilah, and Your Character to find some spare parts from the previous crashes to repair the yacht to get out of the island. Your Character under the premium choice decides to spend some time with Adrian, Kamilah, Lily, and Jax to cherish the last moments of what they will have of each other. The yacht was able to be fixed and when they get away from the island Your Character has a choice to talk to Gaius to discuss his fate. If Your Character states that he is wrong then she tells him that the future is always changing but it is up to Gaius to choose what he wants to be and accept both the good parts and the bad parts with him. If Your Character states that he is right then she tells him that one action doesn't clean up a millennia of sins and that he has to face justice for his crimes. She then leaves him alone. Your Character, Adrian, Kamilah, Lily, Jax, and Gaius arrives back at New York and declares that it was time to take back New York for good.