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  “Where do we need to go?” Nick asked as he started the car back up.

  “Ohio. To the Serpent Mound.”

  “I do not like the sound of that place,” Mike practically whined from the back seat.

  I spent the next half hour explaining to my friends what I’d seen in my vision. They seemed leery over the fact that I’d seen two unknown men. For reasons I couldn’t fathom, I tried to soothe my friends and insisted that they were actually helping us in my vision. But why I was trying to talk my friends into the idea of the strangers was completely lost to me.

  “Two new guys, huh?” Kimmie asked from behind me. She seemed pretty intrigued by the idea.

  “Yeah. Maybe one of us will actually get some, finally,” I joked.

  We spent the next few days crammed into the car as we traveled to Ohio to find the Serpent Mound. Thankfully, Aidan wasn’t a fussy baby and traveled extremely well. At such a young age he was already accustomed to life on the road. The vibrations of the car actually seemed to soothe him, and he’d only cry when the vehicle stopped moving.

  Finally, after almost four days on the road and three nights sleeping in different hotels, we arrived in Peebles, Ohio. Of course it was late at night when we pulled up, not wanting to draw any attention to ourselves with tourists. Nick parked the car amongst the trees and we all climbed out as quietly as we could. Well, all of us except Josh, who volunteered to stay back at the hotel with Aidan.

  We didn’t bother with flashlights since the boys had excellent sight, thanks to the strengthening of their abilities, and because of my vision I knew I exactly where to go. We needed to get to the head of the snake. The scroll we were looking for was right at the mouth, practically buried inside the brush.

  We didn’t dawdle, we ran as fast as we could to the head of the effigy mound. Even with as fast as we were moving, the trail was so long it took some time to navigate. The path, luckily, was concrete and level, so it was easy to maneuver, and we made it to the head with no incident.

  I blindly reached inside a small opening that seemed as if it was dug into the mound and rifled around for the scroll. Finally, my hand brushed against something soft and I tightened my grip around it, then pulled it free. I held it up for my friends to see and we raced back to our car. We’d already decided in the hotel room that we wouldn’t look at it without Josh present. That just wasn’t fair to him. He was part of the group, too.

  The drive back to the hotel seemed to take ages since we were all anxious to see what the scroll said. When we finally made it back, we entered the room to see Josh reclined on the bed with Aidan sleeping soundly on his chest. He raised his finger to his plump lips as if silencing us, and we crept quietly into the room. Nick walked over and leaned down to place a kiss on Josh’s forehead and then reached down to grab his son. I watched as Nick placed Aidan gently down in the portable bassinet, that now went with us everywhere, and he tucked his son in for the night.

  “Okay, what does it say?” Josh asked quietly as we got situated on the beds. It was where we always seemed to have group meetings.

  I looked down at the weathered paper of the scroll and slowly unknotted a thin piece of rope that was tied around it. I took a deep breath, unrolled it and let out a startled gasp.

  “It’s blank,” I said and had to stop myself from yelling in anger.

  “What? No way!” Everyone in the room seemed to quietly protest at the same time.

  “Here, let me see that,” Kimberly said and reached over to grab the paper.

  Suddenly the paper in my hand felt like it was warming up. My fingertips started to burn, and I quickly dropped it from my grasp. We all watched in amazement as golden letters started to appear on the page. And that was when an entirely new prophecy started to spell out right before our very eyes.

  Kimmie gasped and stared down at the page she was holding. The surprise in her eyes reflected from the glow of the paper. “Oh, shit.”

  Here we go again.

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  The End of Fated Heroes: The Consequence of Destiny Book 1

  Stay tuned for Dark Saviors: The Consequence of Destiny Book 2

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  Acknowledgements

  There are so many people I need to thank in this section, and I’m not even sure where to begin. First and foremost, I need to thank the three people who helped inspire this book. One crazy dream about them, followed by a funny conversation and loads of encouragement, led to this adventure. Thank you so much, you three. Without you, this book wouldn’t even exist.

  I also need to send a special shout out to Michele. Thank you so much for guiding me through this entire process, and for taking time out of your own busy day to help me edit this book. I appreciate you and I am so thankful that I am able to call you my friend. Even though I have said it numerous times, I will say it once again: Without you, this book would not even be published. Your constant encouragement and patience has been amazing and I love you dearly.

  Stephanie, I am so, so glad I met you and am able to call you my friend. Your contagiously happy outlook on life has truly been a Godsend and I love our daily conversations.

  To Courtney, thank you, thank you, thank you! Thanks to your editing expertise, you were able to turn something that was a complete grammatical mess into something that hopefully everyone can enjoy. I appreciate you and your hard work and I thoroughly enjoyed working with you. And you were right, you’re not scary at all 

  To everyone who Beta read this book, thank you so much for taking your time to do so, even when it was still in the editing process. Your kind words and encouragement meant more to me than I’ll ever be able to express with words. I truly appreciate you.

  To everyone else, thank you so much for taking a chance on this book and I hope you enjoy reading it.

  About the Author:

  Brittany was born in Enterprise, Alabama and moved to a small town in Indiana. During her free time she loves to read amazing books, watch mindless television, and spend time with family and loved ones. When not doing any of those fun things, she works at a hospital as a switchboard operator.