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“Why are you asking so many questions?”
    “One more question,” I said. “Why would any Carni ever fight a Mani in a one on one fight?”
    “Oh, they do when it’s a full moon.”
    I looked up in the sky. It was a half moon. Why the hell would the bartender want to fight me if he knew I was a Mani and would be stronger? He must have thought, he could easily take me. I was still getting zero respect. I guessed being anointed the ‘Chosen One’ didn’t mean I was looked at as a bad ass.
    “What’s going on Josiah? Why are you asking so many questions about the Carni?”
    “Tommy disappeared from the hospital, so I’m thinking he is still alive. If he is, I need to find him.”
    “He is alive, Josiah.”
    I nearly fell to the ground. “What? He is? How do you know?”
    “Some have seen him.”
    “Where is he?”
    “No one knows where he stays, but he is definitely still alive.”
    I had a growing excitement spreading through my body. If anyone could tell me how to defeat a Carni, it would be Tommy. The problem was I had no idea where he was staying either. He was obviously hiding out for his safety.
    Lena could see my wheels turning in my head. “What is it Josiah? What’s going on?”
    “I have a scheduled fight tonight with a Carni.”
    Lena’s mouth literally opened and her eyes stared at me hard.  After a second of glaring she asked, “Where?”
    “Some Ranch in Anaheim Hills.”
    “You’re joking?”
    “I wish I was. I hadn’t even been out in public for an hour and one of those assholes picked a fight with me. Why would he fight me? It’s not a full moon.”
    “Because Carni are arrogant, Josiah. It is why Tommy fought Atticai and got his ass kicked. Carni’s think they run the show. To them, we are just Gothic freaks who worship the devil.
    “We don’t worship the devil, do we?”
    “Of course not. But that is what the Carni has reduced us to in their heads. They can’t explain how we are a more advanced race, so they just say our abilities are given to us from the Underworld.”
    “Gothic freaks or not,” I said, “no one picks a fight with someone they know can kick their ass.”
    “That’s the thing, Josiah. They don’t think you can kick their ass. It’s like they have a jock mentality. They can’t accept that the outcast freak-show can kick the captain of the football team’s ass.” Lena got up off the ground and sat next to me on the couch. “You know if you fight him, you cannot use any of your vampire powers as long as he’s not a werewolf?”
    “Vampire powers? I don’t have any vampire powers.”
    “You don’t know it, but you do. At this point, the only thing you need to worry about is not turning into the eagle. That will freak them out and they will probably think you’re Satan himself. If that happens it could get real ugly.”
    “Nice,” I said sarcastically.  “I don’t even know how to fully control it. What if it happens by accident?”
    “Don’t let it, Josiah. You have powers and abilities that no Mani before you has ever had or ever will again.  No one knows exactly what you’re capable of.  You probably have every gift that has ever been bestowed on the Mani and ones we still don’t know about.  So fight the guy straight up.  Don’t do anything out of the ordinary.”
    “Let me ask you this,” I said. “Can I bite him?”
    “Yes, because trust me that’s what he’ll try to do to you. You can fight him anyway you want, you just can’t use what they call “magic.”
    “They seem to think I’m going to bring a sea of Mani with me to the ranch for back up.”
    “You can’t show up there alone. Because they don’t always play fair.  They do have a strict rule of only fighting one on one. So you won’t have to worry about being jumped as long as you don’t use any of your special Mani abilities.”
    “Do I have to go? I have nothing to prove to those guys.”
    “Did one specific Carni challenge