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All of the Pulathered in the large basement, as Gabriel instructed us on the best way to take down the Guarde and the Originals

“I don’t want to hurt him,” I whined

“Ugh,” Gabriel shoved Jonathon out of the way and stood in front ofon the balls of his feet, he said, “The Guarde are highly trained, they’re skilled fighters, so you all need to knohat you’re doing We do have an advantage in the fact they’ve never had to use these skills before”

“Yeah,” Mason snorted froh to try before”

Gabriel’s s to take this seriously, you can leave young one”

“I’round “I was just saying-”

“What you were saying isn’t important You all need to pay attention,” Gabriel instructed When everyone’s eyes were on hian “Their neck,” he pointed to a spot on his own, “is their weakest point But the Guarde all wears protective armor It covers all of their bodies except for their head”

Joseph stepped forward, his hand raised slightly like a kid in school “Why do they need protective gear? They’re vampire

s, right? Our bodies are protection enough”

“They are va the Originals, they wear a special kind of gear,Alh,” he sly “There’s a weak spot in the are theh to kick that spot, and then you want to remove their head from the rest of their body”

I cringed

Up until now, all the fighting had been done by everyone else, but noas going to have to take part in it as well I didn’t know if I would be able to kill another being so…savagely…the same way I watched my own father die

“I’ to attack you now,” Gabriel warned me “Remember, kick me behind the knee at the soonest opportunity”

I squaredtheme, since I had such little experience Even my brothers had more experience than me, since when they were human, they’d both taken karate froh school

I watched Gabriel closely, waiting for the first sign of a twitching muscle