Monday March 19, 3:00 pm
Poe cottage
Well it's time, after my door gets closed and I run down the hallway to
Poe's front door to port off to Shuster hall for a very stupid MID-MCO
interview. Better known to most students, as 'the grilling!'
Mr. Reilly, had one of his legal personal run me through a whole slue of
laws on this last night and e-mailed me even more on the subject. I
studied that info hard, as I wanted to know all these new laws that
could get me more than jailed, I could end up dead if I did not grab the
upper hand here! Heck, I even took time to print out a full copy of the
laws in question, a whole five hundred pages, plus!
As I hit Poe's entrance to get moving. I spot a new girl already there
moving nervously about the entrance, one I have not met personally yet?
But I have heard of her already. She is a Native American avatar, then
add a real important spirit is in her and one I have encountered at a
distance in my very ancient past.
When I walk up to her, I spot she is guarded at best and jumpy as heck!
She seems to be looking for something? "Hey, do you need any help?" I
ask her at a short distance, to give her it seems much needed space.
The girl studies me quickly, then gives me that same glassy vacant look
I give others, when something in my head is talking to me? She blinks to
me and steps back a little from me, when it seems she comes back to the
more 'now' "My spirits say not to trust you, your kind hunted humans at
one time?"
"Yep I did," I admit to her, like it was a normal job and it was! "that
is what a Drow does, it obeys orders or dies?" I tell her in my own
strange way, I had no choice in the matter.
She blinks at me more, then comes back to me "They tell me, that is
correct. A slave at best?"
"Yes," I almost hiss at her, as my impatience grows.
She just stares at me, then takes that one more step back from me.
"Hey, calm down. I no longer hunt. I made a oath to protect the students
here, so you're safe till you graduate." I grin at her and add a little
giggle to break the ice more.
"Humm I am told you can't lie, so I should believe you?"
"Yep, that's logic for ya. It makes sense! But what do you need? And by
the way, I am Rohanna Leigh?"
"Kayda," she smiles a little to me, "I need an escort to class in
Shuster hall. I was attacked and have to have a student escort. Rosalyn
seems to help me the most?"
"Ohh I bet Roz helps ya! You're her type and how! But I can help you out
with that escort?"
"You can, or should I wait?"
"Your choice, I am already going there and I am the best at getting you
where you need to go unmolested!" I boast to her.
"Really, how?"
"One, I teleport. Then two, I am sure that only a nut would test me
these days! See?" and I show her the 'UV' armband, with a finger under
it "I am even tagged as such...This means...Don't mess with, or if you
do, you're going to regret it! AND I earned it!"
"I am not sure if I should?"
"Well I have to get going, then we are in the same cottage? Trust has to
start somewhere?" I wink at her.
Her eyes glaze over once again and when back she asks me again "Can you
promise me not to hurt me, they asked me to insure it?"
"Sure, I swear not to hurt you intentionally and only if you do not
attack me? Good enough? Because that is the best you can get out of me!"
"Okay, thanks!"
"Well off we go!" and I port her to Shuster hall, with a touch to her
shoulder.
When we land, I find she is very steady and not distressed at all by the
port. Then I point out the room I am going to for her. "If your class is
done in an hour or so? I will be in there or crystal hall for dinner.
Have a nice day?" I smile to her.
She just waves to me and runs that short distance to the class door, as
I watch her back for her.
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For almost an hour, I wait my turn in line with other new students this
term and when I my time comes. An MCO agent comes into the waiting room
and waves over to me to follow him out.
My armor snaps onto my body, so I am ready for this interview and
picture to come.
~"Violet stay hidden, this human does not need to know about you."~ I
warn her for safety.
~"Yes, I will watch over you from across the room and wait for you to
leave or he gets stupid!"~ she warns back to me.
"Have a seat?" he asks me in a friendly tone, but my eyes spot body
language on him that tells me...he does not want to be here around us
mutants at all, I am nearly sure!
"Thanks," I say to him in my best neutral tone of voice, from my time
getting punished by the royals or their lackeys.
"Well I have to start recording all of this for the record. As per MCO
and TSA regs." he states to me, blandly.
Then my way of telling if a person is lying to me, it just screams back
to me!
"Ahh as far as I was told and read? No you don't, I am a minor, then add
this is protected as such and US, plus international rules, they all say
this is a private conversation." I smile at him, a grin of my very
pointy fangs.
"Who told you that, or where did you read it?" he glares at me, in what
seems to be his deepening anger at me questioning him and that badge of
authority he wears.
I pull that bound printout from my storage with a wave, as I state to
him "Mr. Reilly, my guardian told me, via a lawyer of his on retainer."
Then the bound book falls from my hand to land with a thud on the small
table, "Look up page three hundred ten, that covers most of it?"
"This interview is not protected under those laws?"
"Then read the book before you and learn the law? Till then, I say
nothing and ask for my guardian or appointed lawyer to be present?"
"That will not be needed at all, lets start now please?"
"Well thanks for the manners, a little late?" I wink at him, to unravel
him even more, "But thanks, then please turn off the recorder and put it
away? Or I have to leave and we do this with a audience of lawyers later
on?"
He just stares at the tome on his table, shoves it aside, as his other
hand grabs his recorder off the table and drops it in a bag at his feet
"Fine, lets start?"
My hand lands on his 'silence generator' and I am about to flick it on,
when I just have to ask him "Should we use your very limited device or I
use my way instead?"
"What would that be?"
"Magic of course, what else would a true Sidhe use?"
"No, just turn mine on!" he spits at me, "I don't trust magic?"
"Humm too bad, it's real fun!" I give him a cheesy grin as I turn on the
device.
"Well lets start," he asks me, then pulls out a very large file and
drops it between us both, "You have quite the file so far?"
"That's nice, I love reading!"
"Well you won't read this!"
I tap the file, with a finger and it's done. "You meant his one?" My
power to read things goes over the file and it's now in my head,
"Already read most of it? I will get the rest later on," I grin to him
in my strange fang showing way, I did say the truth as my mind is still
going over the files, because they are so messed up and unordered at
best!
"What ever," he waves me off nonchalantly, "But I read here, you're an
elf?" he asks and flips a page forward.
"No, that's wrong. I am a Drow! Not an elf?" I correct him flatly.
"It says here, Elf?"
"It's wrong, you humans seem to say that word in description all the
time? That anything nearly human in size, with pointy ears, is an 'elf'"
I do air quotes gesture to mess with him, "and that is wrong. Elves are
shorter by far and nasty most of the time." I correct him again.
"Okay, I will make a note on that. But onward, you're a WIZ-mage and a
exemplar?"
"Okay if you say so? I don't 'peg' others like you all do?"
"What do you mean by 'you all'....?" he sneers at me.
"Humans." I state to back at him coldly and twist in my chair to find a
better spot to sit.
He glares at me more than angry at my last comment, but keeps on track
"So any family to list on this file?"
I almost growl at him, "I don't have to tell you that information by
law. You have one on file I am sure, as my guardian?"
"I will look that up when I enter in the final card entry. But to move
on." He huffs out at my last words, then adds in, "I see a note on here,
that you carry weapons on your person most of the time?"
"When I need them?" I give him nothing.
"So you use them to attack others?"
I hold back my truthful answer of 'yes' with a question of my own, "Why
is this important? Are you trying to garner evidence to use against me
later, in some legal issues?"
"Why are you evading standard questions?"
"Because you are asking no standard questions and you know it!"
"What makes you even think, that you can tell me how to do my job!"
"Humm that legal stuff I told you and dropped on the table for you to
read?"
"That is not what counts here today, that is a set of guidelines!"
"Well then, drop dead! AND I will let my guardian do this via his end
and go around ya!"
He quickly looks down at his file, to find that sheet that tells him who
that 'guardian' is and then looks up at me with a jolt of his head to
me, after he finds it.
"Yep that's him!" I study his face and can spot that little bit of shock
now covering it, "Then add all that crap, that got the whole Berlin MCO
arrested on top of that! Plus my ARC files and I will still get a MID
card soon enough with out you or this little talk!"
With a huge sigh out at his loss of this battle of wits, he gives into
me "Well we are done here, one last scan and I print your card out."
I was told by the lawyer this was normal and to expect it, even though
ARC has a dozen scans of me on file!
He stands up and waves me to join him at a scanner that looks like a
flimsy metal detector. My skull art covered mask, comes out and covers
my face. As I am allowed to have a mask, to hide my identity from others
and I stand where he wants me to. The scanner does it's 'thing' and I am
done.
"Any other powers to add to this list."
I just stand there and don't answer him. My only defense, till he asks
me to tell the truth!
"I will take that as a no then?"
I just look at him and give him nothing, like I did for all those
centuries.
"Okay, address of record?"
"Same as guardian."
He nods to me and looks at the file to remember it, then puts it in the
computer of his.
"Lastly, codename?"
"Shadowsblade." I say more than proud of it.
Within a few minutes he hands me a card, that I find is correct for me.
Orange, student color, picture of me on front and all the right
information on its back.
With it in my hand, I grin at him, "I hope to never see you again!" and
he better not see me again on a bad day, if he likes his current life!
~"That one would make a fine Nymph of earth maybe?"~ I ask Violet as we
leave the room.
~"Makes sense to me, he is lower than dirt!"~ she giggles to me.
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Monday March 19, 7:10 pm
Poe cottage
All laid out on my bed, in just a tee-shirt and sweats. I am studying my
books on magic class and my hardest subject in my opinion! Most of my
bed is covered by me, the books or loads of snack bags, just full of all
kinds of munchies! I take bites from various bags, as I read and make
notes.
As I study on, a knock is at my door "Come in?" I bark at it and roll
over to see who it is?
Paige opens my door slowly, with something in her hands I can see, "You
decent?" she asks me sheepishly.
"What me? I am in a relationship with a lust demon and you ask that!" I
giggle to her, as I know Sara is right behind her.
Sara pushes the door open and laughs at me "You knew I was there! But
Paige has that computer done as promised...finally!" she glares at
Paige, as she walks in with it "And it's here!"
"Hey don't blame me! I had lots of data to chase down, to keep that
Boston video off the net!" she quips back at Sara and goes to place a
large box on my desk.
"And a good job too! I will reward ya later for that?" Sara purrs sexily
to the Were-panther girl, now taking out equipment from that box and
placing it on my desk.
"Suuuure ya will! But Ro? This is the system I told ya I would do for
you," she says to me and shows me a small lunch box with cables, she is
just starting to connect to it.
"Darn thing looks real small?" I squint at it.
"Yep and bleeding edge tech!" she boasts, while climbing under my desk
to place it and hook it up to my internet fiber line.
"Well now I have something new to learn?" I mumble back at her, while
she is under my desk and I watch on as her tail swishes back and forth
in a agitated mood.
"Hey I will teach ya!" she beams at me from down there.
"Okay?" I say not too sure of it? Then I lose the fight to grab that
tail for fun!
I make a grab for it and give her a gentle tug. Paige instantly reacts
to me doing that with a shriek "Hey lay off the Tail!"
"But they are so much fun to play with?" I whine to her.
She snatches her tail to her side and moves away from my reach "Leave it
alone, then I have to show you this?"
"Go ahead, I am ready to learn?"
She runs down the long list of spec's to what is jammed into that very
small box and what it seems to be to me? Is that, she jammed a
supercomputer into a case ten times too small and gave me a very high
end, thirty two inch flat panel monitor to use it with!
"Humm sounds fun?" I drone out, as she finishes the list.
"Yep...shoot! I forgot a game to play on it in my being pressed by Sara,
to get this computer over to ya tonight!" she glares at Sara for
sometime, as she ponders her next move, "I will ask if anyone around
here has one to barrow?"
Paige is getting up off my floor and the computer is doing a last
diagnostic at her whims via her powers over computers. But as she gets
up, I have to give her something neat from my old times and that is the
only thought in my head now!
"Hey Paige? Before you go and find a game to play on this?" I get up and
go to my set of drawers. To pull out a small hand sized leather bag from
deep within it.
"What's that?" she asks me while standing at my door.
"This?" and I pull out a smaller round ball from the pouch, the size of
a baseball. Then wave it at her.
Sara laughs at it "What is that? A cat nip ball?"
"In a way?"
"Won't work on me! I am not a house cat!"
Sara laughs even hard now and falls back on my bed "Ohh yes you are,
you're even 'box' trained!"
Paige pouts back at me "Hey that is only when I lose control and fully
change!" she warns us.
"But this does work on Were's and I am sure it's the last one on the
planet?" I toss it up into the air and catch it a few times.
"I tried a catnip ball one night, after Sara joked me by tossing one at
me. The darn things are for cats! I am a panther?"
"Ohh but this is a thousand times stronger than that crap!" my hand
gives the bag a hard squeeze to crush the contents a little, thus making
it smell. Then I wave it below her nose and her eyes glaze over to us.
My hand wiggles the small ball back and forth before her face, Paige's
eyes never leave that ball! Then I toss it onto my other bed and watch
her 'pounce' on it!
Sara, just falls over laughing so hard, she has trouble getting enough
breath to make sounds any more, She gasps out nearly silent at me "That
is too funny!"
"It is," I say flatly, as we both watch her pounce and play with that
ball on my other bed.
"Where did you get that?" Sara questions me between fits of laughing at
Paige's antics.
"Ohh I have many strange things like that, remember? I was a leader of
Were's into combat, so I know them well!"
Paige is totally entranced by the ball and it's scent as we talk, she
tosses it up and smacks it around like a large cat would in her play.
"How long does that last" Sara asks me.
"Ohh about an hour, or till she 'OD's' on the scent and falls asleep?"
"But she was showing you that new computer?"
"Yes, but is this not more fun to watch?" I grin back at her.
"Ro, just grab the thing and lets get back to getting this computer all
set for ya?"
"Okay, I'll fix this." I state then walk over and snatch the ball from
Paige. She growls a little at me and I then toss the ball again to get
her attention back on it.
While she is fully 'set' on the ball, I grab a foot of her's and slip
off a shoe. She does not seem to mind at all. As that small ball is her
whole world right now.
"Sara, come here please? You might want to learn this too, it may help
you with Paige on some of her more bad days?"
When Sara gets over to me, I pull her hand to me and press one of her
fingers on Paige's foot at the side, near the bottom "Feel that small
spot, the bone and the tendon?"
She nods to me "Yes, what of it?"
"Press it hard, then slide up like this?" I show her the move and help
her to do it.
She does it and Paige, she falls right asleep.
"Neat? But she will be out for hours!"
"Nope, just shake her awake, once I get the ball back into the bag and
she can't smell it inside there!"
Once I get the ball collected and put away. Sara gives Paige a playful
shove and she wakes up mad as heck at me!
Paige jumps across the room and growls in my face "That was not fair! I
should...I should!"
"What? tear up my sheets? Or maybe zap me?" I grin at her, "But I had to
show ya how much fun that ball was?"
"But like that, I was busy showing you that new computer?"
"Hey, we only lost like twenty minutes and you had fun?" I hand the bag
to her, as I smile to her, "Besides the ball is yours, call it a gift!"
"Okay, I give. BUT I would not forgive ya! If that thing was not so much
fun?"
Sara grins at me, her next question, "That foot thing, how long does it
last?"
"A few hours and it will calm Paige down right away."
"What's this?" Paige asks me, more than confused.
"I just showed Sara a way to calm you down when you're agitated. Like
when you change during certain times of the month or year?"
"What, there is something you can do for that? The other Were's never
told me any of this?" she asks me even more confused now.
"Of course they did not know that, only Drow or some Sidhe know this
kind of stuff? The Were's never really needed it that much, back
then...but now?" I question myself, "They might need to relearn it, I
will show you how to do later on!"
"Yep, or I will?" Sara smiled to her, "So Paige, go grab a good game
from? Hummm?" Sara ponders a little and looks so cute when she does,
"Hank has a good collection of games! Go ask him for one?"
Once Paige gets back to my room with a game that Hank gave her in hand,
Hank and a few others flow into my room to see that new computer at
work. Hank smiles at me as Paige loads that game off it's disk "You'll
love this one, It's HellGate London! A new game that you fight demons
in!"
I nod back to him, "Sounds like my old job?"
We all watch on, as Paige plays the first levels of the game on that
huge monitor. She kills off demons in a destroyed London and church
looking buildings with practiced ease. Then the game moves into sewers,
where she just has to jest Sara a little as she plays, "Any on these
demons look like family Sara!"
As Sara squints at the screen and gets closer to see better. I am having
an issue with my fingers. I start rubbing them hard together. They seem
'dirty' to me and I am starting to feel that 'dirt' spreading up my arms
just now, as I watch the game play on more.
Sara leans over the screen and taps a clawed finger on the monitor,
"That one looks like an uncle of mine," she joked, then Paige moves into
a church battle and the gore really flows on the game "Now that one
there looks like my aunt for sure!" Sara points on the screen and laughs
at the game.
I watch on, over the rest of the room, then drift off and stand nearer
to the back by my door. For some reason, I really want to stay closer to
the door and not the game? But that feeling of 'dirty' is really
starting to get bad on my arms now, I am scratching at them and trying
to 'rub' them clean?
After Sara leans back up from looming over Paige, she glances my way and
can see I am not looking good? She gives me a playful bump as she asks
me "You okay?"
"Fine, just fine." I mumble back to her and scratch at my arms even more
harshly.
Paige comes upon a section 'boss' in the game and most of the other kids
in my room howl and root for her to beat it. My eyes never stop watching
the screen, I can't seem to look away for too long! And now my shirt
feels 'dirty' and 'wet' with something? I just have to peel it off me,
so I rush out of the room and down the hallway toward the showers.
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Jade is bouncing down the hallway, looking for 'One-san' or most others
call her Billie! When she is nearly shoved aside by Rohanna, who is
rushing down the hallway going towards the showers.
But what really grabs her attention, is that Rohanna is TEARING her tee-
shirt off in strips and patches off her body. Then she does not even
stop to pick them up, she just leaves the torn pieces all over the
hallway floor? This new act is very strange for Rohanna, who always
cleans up after herself and some others!
Jade, scans the hallway and finds no one to tell what is going on? But
instead of chasing someone down and maybe Rohanna gets hurt! She runs
into the showers she just went into, where she finds the teen Drow under
a shower and she is scrubbing at her skin like mad!
She slowly walks up to Rohanna, who is sitting and leaning against that
shower wall with the shower raining water all over her.
"What is wrong Ro?" she asks, at near whisper so as not spook her more.
The Drow, who is crying like mad looks up to her all wild-eyed "The
Blood...it never comes out? I can never wash it off?" and she goes back
to her harsh scrubbing.
"Ro? There is no blood, not a drop on ya?" Jade shakes her head to the
madness she sees and realizes this is getting bad!
"Can't you see it?" Rohanna asks while shoving her hands to Jade to
examine them closer.
"I don't see any? You know I would never lie to you, just check with
that gift of yours?"
Rohanna searches over Jade's face, but says yet again "The blood never
comes off?" then goes back to washing her arms and hands till the skin
starts to bleed.
Now Jade is really worried, Rohanna can't lie and yet? She is seeing
'blood' that is not there!
Just then, Ayla pokes her head into the showers when she heard a sound
that is not normal at all...crying. "What's up!" Ayla asks the room and
that makes Jade jump in surprise. As she was fixated on watching Rohanna
right then.
"Ayla, go grab someone please? Rohanna is having...an issue!" she says,
but tries not to say a bad word that might be taken a wrong way right
now?
"Got it!" she chirps back and she is gone!
Jade tries to get a little closer to Rohanna and sits under the water
with her, "Rohanna?" she tries to get the Drow's attention on her and
not on her arms "I am here for ya, but you know this is getting me all
wet!" she jokes to her.
The ghostly empty stare she gets back from the Drow, is a bad one and
one that does not show Rohanna even cares that Jade is in the room with
her.
Then she spots Violet, Rohanna's Pixie hovering in the room near both of
them. "Hey Violet, what is wrong with her?"
"I don't know? She shut me out, an hour ago?" the tiny voice tells her
and almost starts crying herself.
Just then, most of the kids fly into the room with Sara at the lead and
Nikki plus Gwen following close behind her.
"What's up Jade?" Sara asks her at a near whisper, as she crawls toward
both of them and is trying to look non-threatening to the Drow. Because
she knows how fast 'good', can turn to 'bad' with her!
"Ro, she is in bad way? She keeps telling me, that there is blood on her
and that it will not come off her, no matter how hard she scrubs at it?"
"Got it, anything else you have seen?"
"She seems like a ghost, just not here?"
"I bet she is having a flashback, or something close to that?" Sara
suggests.
"Rohanna, talk to me please?" Sara's soft voice calls to the Drow only
feet away.
When the Drow looks up at Sara's face, from her work at scrubbing her
arms and hands. The Drow's eyes both go instantly red upon seeing her!
Sara mumbles out quickly, back to the room filled with kids "Ohhh SHIT!"
she warns too late.
Then as Sara tries to scoot back a little and maybe that will make
Rohanna less upset? Heavy metal armor flashes allover the Drow's body,
as she grabs Jade by the shirt and tosses her to the corner behind her.
Next, a large blade comes from nowhere and slices towards Sara's body
near her neck!
"GET AWAY BEAST!" the Drow screams at her, more in battle cry than a
warning! "I MUST PORTECT THE CHILD THIS TIME!"
Sara's only save from that swipe, was her vast speed and that saved her
from losing yet another head!
The room watches on silently, as all that happens and then sees that
Drow shove poor Jade back into that corner even harder. Her metal boots
clang against the showers marble surface, trying to gain purchase as she
hisses out once more at Sara "GET AWY FROM THE CHILD, THERE IS NO MEAL
FOR YOU HERE TODAY!"
Sara wisely backs out of the room and down the hallway a few feet, but
as she does that. Chou sees something strange, but it makes sense to
her!
"Sara?" Chou asks her fast "Move down the hallway some more for me?"
"Why?"
"Just do it, darn you!"
Sara moves a few more yards down the hallway, as Chou watches the Drow
and she notes the blade's position all the time.
"Sara, she knows you're there, wall or not. She can see you somehow?"
Chou warns her.
Just then, Billie finds the madness that is going on in the showers and
tries to bust her way past the crowd "Let me save JADE!" she shouts that
the group of teens in her way.
But before she gets there, Jade yells back at her "One-san, I am fine.
Rohanna is just protecting me, from what she feels is dangerous right
now?"
"But...but?" Billie stutters out in the hallway.
"No don't come in here...please? I am fine, she needs some space!"
Sara moves back towards the shower room a few yards and if to prove
Chou's theory. The Drow skitters on the marble floor again as she yells
out again and again "Protect the kids...got to protect the kids!" and
then doubles her efforts at shielding Jade by shoving her back into that
corner even more.
That move gains a 'yip' of surprise from Jade and a grunt of a little
pain. When that is heard, Billie tries to gain access to the room again,
by shoving at the crowd by the door "She's hurting her! Let me in
there!" Billie shouts.
"Billie, Jade she is fine. Just fine!" Hank shouts to her, as he fills
the doorway to keep her out, "Jade is being protected by Rohanna, not
being hurt by her. She sees Sara as a threat of some sort now? You can
understand it, don't ya?"
Chou swaps glances at Sara, then the Drow's blade and for sure they are
connected. That blade points without error, right at Sara and Chou
points it out to the small group once again. "Yep Sara, you moved and
Rohanna 'saw' that, like I said before, wall or not?"
"Makes sense, Drow are made to hunt the GOO and a simple wall of this
cottage can't stop that!" Aunghadhail tells all from Nikki's body.
"Should Sara go outside or something Aung?" Chou questions the old Fae.
"That might calm her down more, I can not be sure? But trying it out is
a sound plan."
"Let's try it?" Hank tells the hallway filled with kids, "It makes sense
to me?"
"I don't want to leave her like this!" Sara shouts back at the group, as
she balls up her fists in anger.
"You really don't have a choice in this Sara?" Paige points out to her,
"I can see that she is fixated on ya and that is bad...please go. I will
stay and keep you in the loop?"
Sara dreads this, not being able to help. But the others are right, her
past that is shared with Rohanna's. It is affecting the Drow now and has
to stop for the time being. So she reluctantly goes out Poe's front
doors and walks toward a bench to sit and wait this out.
As Sara walks out the door, the ones in the shower room watch on as the
Drow makes a swift move. She calls from nowhere, a flat metal square,
then slaps onto the wall and then says something in a magical spell.
Those in the room with sight that can see all things magical, watch on
in surprise as a huge ward spreads all over the walls of Poe and the
runes it leave behind glow in magical fire.
Aunghadhail, knows this spell well and has not done or seen one since
her days. She yells back to the hallway "Warn Sara not to come back into
Poe, until I tell her it is safe to do so? This new ward Rohanna just
added to the building, it will hurt her for sure!"
Now with the ward firmly in place, the Drow seems to relax more and the
sword in her right hand sags toward the floor to bang on it's smooth
surface. Her head leans down just a little and those close enough to
her, can just make out her sigh of relief.
Aunghadhail notices this and thinks it is a good time to act on it, She
helps Nikki mentally with the next steps. Nikki moves closer to her
friend and kneels down to her "Warrior?" she asks calmly, then waits to
be 'seen' and the Drow's head snaps up to her.
"Your duty is fully done, the threat has left this building and all is
safe because of you. Please relent your charge to me and I will promise
to watch over the child, just as you have done?"
The Drow sees the girl before her for what she is, royalty and with
that. She has to obey within her sets of rules that govern her life,
'all is well' as she says? The building is safe, she promised to protect
the young and then said her duty is done fully.
Nikki watches on, as the Drow's sword falls from her hand and clangs on
the floor, then vanishes. Then her metal armor fades away and the Drow
slumped to the wall and passes out.
Jade now has a rather large Drow on top of her, pressing her to the wall
and she tries to push the body off her. Billie sees that it's all over
and rushes the room to move Rohanna off Jade and pick her best friend up
from the wet floor.
Billie shouts at the room filled with Poe kids, in her anger fogged
mind, "Maybe she needs to get sent over to Hawthorne, if Ro is this
dangerous!"
"Billie!" Jade yells back at her, "The other posies did not give up on
you and send you there? So why would you say that! I am not hurt one
little bit, besides she is Sara's friend and Nikki's!"
"Guy's?" Nikki shouts at the group, "Can some of you get her to a bed,
while Gwen and I remove this ward Ro left behind, so that Sara can get
back into the cottage?"
"I got her," Hippolyta the Amazon teen, barks at the kids around her,
"then somebody go grab me one of her towels and we can get her dried
off?"
Ayla runs off and grabs that towel from Ro's room. While 'Hip' gets the
Drow lifted over to one of the benches in the shower room. When Ayla
gets back with the towels, they strip off the wet clothes from Rohanna
and get her all dry. Then 'Hip' carries the Drow back to her room, lays
her on the bed and covers her up.
While that small effort was being done, across the room two Sidhe teens
get a ad-hoc class on Drow style magical wards. While Aunghadhail
removes the metal plate from the wall.
Once removed from the wall, Aunghadhail studies the small hand sized
plate that contained that ward "Nice craftsmanship, this one surly was
not made by Rohanna? I am sure it was made by one of the main royal
mages of my time!"
"So Rohanna carried it around all this time? And it's made to keep GOO's
out of a building?" Gwen asks the queen.
"Yes child, "she smiles to Gwen, "like most of her possessions, it is
that ancient and very powerful indeed. But only toward those of Mythos
or their minions." she then hands the plate over to Gwen, "give this to
Rohanna, then let us tell Sara it's safe to come back in and care for
her."
Sara had been given the word by Hank that the ward that Rohanna placed
on the cottage was now gone, she sped into the building and to Ro's
room. Where she found the Drow laying on her bed and she was passed out.
From what she was not sure, but it seemed she was not dreaming yet? As
her body did not even twitch one bit, like it usually did when she slept
and the nightmares came for her.
"Ohh Ro?" she asks the still form on the bed, as she rubs the Drow's
back, "What brought this on?"
Just from the door was a voice that had a clue to that, "She said
something about blood? Then that she could not wash it off, it never
came off?" Jade tells her from her leaning in the door and looking in on
her friends.
As Gwen enters the room, she smiles at Sara and starts to sit across the
room as she ass a clue, "Then add to what Jade just said? Ro, said 'must
protect the children or child?' Many times over?"
"Well that makes this a nearly sure case of that PTSD she has, coming
fully to ahead tonight? I just have to figure out, what action or thing
was around her that started it?" She sighs to Gwen.
Gwen goes to show that metal plate to Sara, but as it gets within a few
feet of her. Sara reels back from it with a shriek, "Ekkk what is that
darn thing girl, it makes me sick to be near it!"
Gwen backs off and studies the plate as Nikki walks into the room "That
Sara, my friend. It is a magical ward to keep Mythos out of a building.
One that Aung tells me, you should never touch, if you want to keep that
hand?" she giggles to her.
"I'll take her word on that!"
"Yes, you should. But how is she?"
"Sleeping I think, but she is so still? She is not moving an inch and
that is far from normal for her?"
Nikki goes to lay a hand on Rohanna's back for a second, then
Aunghadhail speaks up as she sits on the bedside, "That must be her Geas
at work, it took far too much time to start working on her? It should
have kept her from going that far in to that 'PTSD', the humans call bad
memories?"
Sara glares at the Queen, as she growls out, "Is this all because of the
bloody command book, or that binding and Geas crap yet again Aung?"
"No, that should have stopped this? But this maybe a memory that is so
bad, that when it came upon her, there was no stopping it?" she
questions what happened, with a shake of her head.
"Well, I am staying tonight with her, both of you should go now? As I am
going into her head and trying to help out with fixing this?"
"That should work Sara and when you get time seek me out? We have to
talk over things that have happened of late?" the queen asks, as she
stands and walks to the door. Then at the door, Nikki takes control back
over her body, "Sara, take care. There might be some bad things in there
tonight, that got all dragged up by this?"
"I will."
Once both of them are gone, Sara yanks out that meditation mat from
under the bed and sits on it near the sleeping Rohanna. Sara fades off
into her dream state and finds that small link she has made with
Rohanna's mind.
This time instead of the academy's door being there as usual and it
waiting for her to knock on it. She finds a vast forest of giant trees,
that go on for miles and miles. Sara wanders those vast woods for what
seems hours, till she comes on a small castle keep and it's very deep
moat.
At the bridge over to the keep, she spots a full size Violet with wings
still on her, and she is waiting and sulking there under a sign written
in Drow maybe?
"Violet!" she shouts at the Pixie, "What are you doing here?"
"I am waiting to get in? Rohanna locked me out of her mind when Paige
was playing that game and I have not felt or heard one thought from her
since?"
"So you two are linked now somehow?"
"Yes, we bonded. Why she let you in this far, I don't know? It took me
hours to get here!"
"Me too! That might be her testing us both, to see if we would keep
going or give up?"
"Maybe?" she cries a little harder to her now.
"Your not sure, haven't you been here before now?"
"Yes, even deeper! But once this started, a wall went up and I got
shoved out and blocked!"
As they both speak of what has happened, the bridge lowers and a large
elf dressed in bright metal armor shimmers from nothing into their view.
"You, Violet. You can come in now, but be warned your oath is the same
here!"
When Violet hears that, she happily runs across the bridge.
"Hey shinny dude? Can I come in too?" Sara winks at the elf warrior.
The armored elf studies Sara for what seems hours, then speaks slowly
"You can come in, but you can be ordered out at anytime by the lord
knight or the mage? To stay past that order can bring death!"
"You got it, obey the rules or die. Simple black or white...like Aung
said."
The Elf waves them both in, once across the bridge and inside the walls.
Sara notices the troops all around her are training, some are being
taught and others are teaching...nearly all of them are Rohanna clones
of various ages? The others, Sara is sure that they represent key
persons in her long life.
Sara has seen this in others minds, representations of their memories
acting out the parts of that memory...like a play or movie part.
On far off platform, Violet spots someone standing there? Who seems to
be leading this large group. As she gets closer to see better, Violet
finds that person standing there, is 'A' Rohanna that she is sure now is
the real one...not a clone one! She rushes over as fast as her wings
will carry her, when she finally gets there. Violet wraps the Drow in a
deep loving hug.
"Why did you lock me out?" she asks.
A glassy eyed Drow stares back at her and tells her in cold monotone
"Violet, go train with those who fight with staves...now." and the Drow
turns back to her work, watching the training as it plays on.
"What?" she questions Rohanna, very surprised at the non-existent
greeting.
Then as she asks that question, a Elvin knight ports into view and with
an old Elvin mage standing beside him "Pixie?...remember your oath and
go now!" the knight orders her.
All Violet can do is nod to the lord of this place and fly off to
practice as she was told.
Sara watches what just happened and runs over to talk to what she also
thinks is the real Rohanna among all the clones of her. "Ro!" she shouts
up at the Drow standing on the platform, "What happened, talk to me!"
"Sara?" The Drow said, as it looked down at her and then recognized her
with a smile starting. Then with a tap to her shoulder from the knights
blade, that look of recognition and joy fades from her face, "Please let
me do my job, I have students to tend too!"
"Rohanna, Darn it! Look at me!" she shouts up at her again, but does not
get any attention from the Drow at all.
Sara runs around to the platforms stairs and leaps up them. At the top,
her path to Rohanna is blocked by the knight and the mage. Both stand in
her way, faceless Elves behind a helmet or mages facemask watch her
every move.
"Get out of my way!" she shouts at both of them.
"We rule here and we rule her! You have no dealings with her now!" the
knight tells her coldly.
Then the mage speaks it's turn "Leave or stay, your choice GOO! You are
only here because of a very small oath and with it's near nonexistence,
you have no power or say here."
Sara sees instantly what both of them are, one is the oath she took in
life...the knight. The other...it's that damned BOOK! The one that holds
Rohanna back!
"I get it now, if I can fight my way past both of you? I win her freedom
back!"
"A Drow that never had any freedom in life!" the mage laughs at her
wildly, "NO Drow has tasted freedom...ever! My spells have never failed
to act. To either hold one to their path or kill them from straying too
far from it!"
"Well that changes today!" Sara shouts out at both and she gets ready
for a fight.
"I hope that you have time?"
"What?" Sara questions that statement promptly!
"Time my dear GOO, you don't have it on your side and I do!" the mage
states to her yet again.
Then a gallows forms under Rohanna, with a wave of the mages hand and
the knight goes to stand guard at its stairs. The mage 'pops' up to the
higher platform and drops the noose around Rohanna's neck. The Drow does
not even struggle, all she does is glance at Sara with eyes that just
say to her...save me? Or runaway!
"Ohh I will get to you both, before you can kill her!"
"Too late, that death starts now. We always hold the line till death!"
the knight says to Sara in cold words.
Right then, Rohanna drops through the platform and starts to choke at
the ropes end.
"Leave now and she lives! Or fight us as she dies and maybe you can win
before she dies!" the knight makes it's challenge known to her.
Sara leaps at the knight and is met by it's blade with ease. The blade
slices her side badly and the wound flows out her black blood.
"If that is your best, this Drow dies today!" the knight shouts at her,
as she reels back in pain.
Sara can see Rohanna dancing at that ropes end...gasping, but is this
real or not? No time to chance it, she has to act and these spells, plus
Geas are far too strong for now!
"I am going, let her go!"
"Leave and we free her. Or wait and she dies!"
"I am going...I am going!" she shouts back at both and fades away back
to the real world.
When Sara's eye snap open to Rohanna's room, she can hear the Drow
thrashing around in her bed gasping for breath! She leaps to her feet
and can see that Ro, has both hands on her neck desperately trying to
tear a rope away from it, that is not really there!
Sara screams down at the Drow, hoping the spell inside her listens to
her plea, "I left...leave her alone! I am out here...gone...let her
live!"
Rohanna gasps out once more, then rolls off the bed to the hard floor
and seems to wake up fully now.
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"What was that!" I gasp out at Sara, who I find suddenly in my room and
all the others strangely gone?
Sara hugs me close, so very close. Like she almost lost me? "I tried to
help you and you're right. The book's spells that bind you are too
tough, I will have to get help...help from somewhere? ANYWHERE!"
"That dream was you? You were really there, it was not me dreaming of
old times?"
"No, I went into your head and tried to help out with why you went
crazy?" she looks into my eyes slowly, "and why you crawled into the
showers to wash blood off you?" she asks me and tells me what happened
to me at the same time.
Then that nightmare gone mad, fills my mind again and I shove her away
from me a little. So I can look over my hands and arms. I find no blood
on them this time, unlike most of the times this nightmare struck me in
the past. That dream was so bad, it took days or an order to make them
vanish from my head!
But the memories of why 'that' nightmare, they fill my head and with
them coming back. I scramble to my bed and cower in it's corner near the
window...that safe window to outside, us Drows always hated enclosed
spaces, the forest is where we belong!
As I curl up even more into a tighter ball, Sara rushes over to my side,
"Hey it's all safe here, are you okay?"
"The blood, this time it's all gone?" I ask her, while look at every
inch of both of my outstretched arms.
"It was never there? Where do you think it comes from?" she asks me in a
soft voice, while slowly trying to sit next to me.
"The kids, I walked through a lake of their blood." I say back to her,
without any emotion hanging on any of my words.
"What kids? Please tell me and maybe this one burden I might be able to
take from you, when you share it with me?"
"We were guarding a bunch of children, waiting till we could get them
all away from the coming battle. Just waiting for a mage to make a safe
gate to use? Then one of the royals, he told us to go out and save
someone he knew. All the Drow, we knew, just knew it was a trap to get
us away from that temple." I stop and think of all those children, the
young faces, the faces that trusted us and that they depended on us for
protection!
"Please keep going?"
"We left, orders you know and can't refuse that!" I bark, "Well we got
to where this 'one' person was to meet us and nothing at all. Like I
said...trap!" I start sobbing to her.
"Ro, go on if ya can?"
"Okay...Then we ran back as fast as we could! I could not port, it was
not safe for that. The...others" I look down from her as I almost stop
and stare at my sheets, "They blocked that."
"Other's?" she questions me.
"Do you want me to say it?" my eyes ask her not too?
"I understand...the GOO, like me?"
I nod to her, yes..."But, we ran back and found that royal gone. He had
fled with his few guards, he could have held out till we got back! But
he ran instead, to save his own life and we made sure he paid for that
cowardice later!" I growl at her now.
"I bet, that law of saving kids seems to be the top one of your kind?"
"It is! There is none higher, I can pass by any oath for it, as I choose
to!"
Sara places that small statement in her mind, never cross that line with
Rohanna around or death will come fast to anyone who violates it, is her
bet!
As I think of the next thing to come in this memory or nightmare! I stay
really silent.
Sara smiles again to me, as she softly encourages me to go on, "So I
guess you stopped and this is the real bad part?"
"Yes it is...We entered that temple and found all the children, we had
left behind...dead. They painted the walls and ceiling with them. The
stone floor was covered in several deep inches of their blood. We went
nuts for hours and tried to find them to no avail. Then we all came back
to the temple, to bury the dead correctly and that is why I was covered
in blood...their blood...it never washes out!" And I rub my hands again,
thinking of that feeling and this time I don't see any blood on me? But
I know deep down, it's still there!
"So your Geas pulled at you and sealed you off from that memory. At
least till you could deal with it? That is why Violet said that she got
shut out, you had no choice in the matter?"
I glance up to Violet sitting in her usual spot, she is waiting for me
to say it "Yes, it did. Sorry my Violet! I could not stop that?" I
apologize to her.
"I know...I can see that now. At the time, I did not understand what I
was seeing. But next time, please tell me and we as a TEAM will deal
with it!" she almost schools me on the subject. All I could do was nod
back to her my agreement.
"Well, it's all over lets rest and go to class tomorrow?" Sara suggests
to me.
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Tuesday March 20, 5:10 am
Poe cottage
When morning comes, I wake to a very mad Sara and she is pacing my room
back and forth cursing all the time in old languages. Most of what she
says I know the translation, so I know what she is saying now
"Why are you mad at Aung?" I ask her on one of her rounds around my
room, as she passes by my bed.
"You told Aunghadhail that witch, to tell me about what Caitlin is to
you and why you went nuts that first day meeting her? So I am mad now!"
she growls out at me.
"Now you understand just a little more, of why I hate her so much!"
"Yes I do, but lets get ready for class?" she suggests to me, but this
time there is no real smile from her?
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Across the nation at that same time
A boy pulls a small laptop from a hiding place, then inserts a memory
stick in it, he had pulled from yet another hiding spot and starts
looking at it's files yet again.
This laptop is the one, his dad showed him one day and it was to be
taken by him 'just in case' in any disaster! This small laptop, was what
his dad called a...'rock'...it had no internet connection and could only
read data, never write it! Then add to that, the case on the small
laptop was so strong, you could bash it on ground and not damage it.
Even the memory stick was hardened to damage, then it was 'read' only,
no data could be put on it or erased from it.
As the computer warms up and loads it's programs. He thinks back to
nearly a month ago, that terrible night, when his mom woke him and his
sister. To tell them both, as she hugged them close, that...dad was
dead...and mom then lied to them both. He was very sure of this, Mom
told them both...'your father committed suicide' and that was that!
Then the rush of cops all night, doing their thing, asking questions
over and over. When they left, mom had them pack as fast as they could
and they left the house. She found a good hotel to stay at and paid for
the room with one of the many dead end credit cards dad had. From there,
she arranged the house to be sold and she rented this townhouse they now
lived in Colorado, over two thousand miles from their old home!
The day to day life, mom had them in now was basic. No going out without
her, no phones without her there, keep your bags packed incase we have
to go! Heck all three of them, kept one bag packed in the car no matter
where they went!
Mom only used the 'burn' cell phones, his dad had packed in his 'run'
box and the rest of that box had the 'other' needs in it. Money, way
over two hundred k! In cash and gold. Several debit-credit cards, under
dozens of names, that held who knows how much money? Papers that ID'ed
the whole family, under what he could see when mom opened that box, at
least ten different names! Then a list of contacts, that could be
depended on and he plus his sister, were given a copy of that list. A
very short list indeed!
But what troubled him most, was that sealed letter she gave them both,
in it was a copy of a sheet of paper that she always had on her. On it
was three hand drawn symbols and the next page was a address and phone
number. She told them both, if it all goes nuts and mom is gone. Call
the number or write a letter with this on it and hope!...help might come
to them? What 'help?' that was coming, she never said that part?
Now the computer was up and running and he opened that file that so
intrigued him. He had found this file, along with others on this one
memory stick. His dad had others in that 'stash'...most were records of
money going back and forth. One was instructions on what certain files
were what...from his dad, in case he was not there and who or what might
want them as a bargaining chip!
But this one, covered his dads last real assignments. It had grabbed his
attention in a strange way and he found once he read them, looked at the
pictures in them. He was obsessed with that very last file in a strange
way!
Both files were on Elves! The first one was a kid that got changed into
a elf, that had the power to control computers and that was cool! She
was cute and pretty looking! But not his type in many ways? She
disappeared and was thought to have been hidden in a school in the
north-east?
The next file, was the one he obsessed on, she was a Drow and tall, very
tall for an elf at six foot! Her face just grabbed him, like he had seen
it somewhere long ago? He pondered on that thought many times...where
did he meet her, he was sure that he had met her somewhere!
Her face was lovely, But her body was to die for! She had a fit body and
skin of a strange, but beautiful to him purple-black color. The voice
she had, it snatched him in it's melody and held him in it's sway! Even
when she spoke in her own ancient language, he thought he was sure, he
knew what she just said and ment on some level, but the words...they
passed by him on a higher level?
He leaned toward the screen and hit the play button on the video files.
From there on, he was in a deep trance of watching her! Her cute laugh
when she fought in some sim, her talking to others, her moves...the way
her body moved! God he wanted to meet her sooo bad!
As he hit that play button for the tenth time today and that file ran
on. His mom opened his door suddenly...she was supposed to be shopping
with his sister for hours! He glanced at the clock when he spun to her,
indeed two hours plus had passed since they left and he missed it all
and now mom was mad at him for missing chores!
His mom yelled at him "You did not clean the kitchen or the living
room!" Then she suddenly stopped yelling and ran to over him when she
saw the computer. She stanched it from his hands, as he laid on the bed
and yelled once more at him.
"Where did you get this!?" she barked at him.
"Dad told me to grab this" he gulped out, "If he died suddenly?"
His mom looked over the files and a very shocked look comes over her
face when she sees that last one "Are there any others!"
"Just these mom, most are just files and one is from dad on who or what
they might be bargained for?"
"Why would your father give you this instead of me?"
"One mom, you can't run a computer to save your life?" she nods back to
him, that's a fact...she can't! "The other he told me, there was a
chance that both of you would be dead and both of us kids would be on
our own?" he shrugs to her.
His mom, then opens that file he paused and watches the whole thing. She
knows this girl by the voice and now she can by her body moves too! Each
one of her moves, smooth and with purpose, no wasted motion. She was
there that night her husband died, then she helped save her and the
kids! The last video of the training fight in some sim, it was the last
clue. As the girl that was shown in it, she wore that same 'skull face'
mask on her head as the one that night!
Then she struggles for sometime getting the other files to open and
finds most of it medical files. The others are opinions on what powers
this elf might have and that is one long list of powers and skills! One
grabs her attention and she shows the screen to her son very mad "So is
this why you look at this...all the nude pic's of her!"
"No maww I look at the videos of her, her talking and moving when she
fights. They just grab me hard is all?" he whines to her, but she can
tell he is saying the truth this time!
"So you are infatuated by her?"
"I guess?" he says more than embarrassed, but then perks up to her, "I
would love to meet her!" he beams back her happy as heck.
She sits down next to her son and gives him a hug of death.
"I have something to tell you and you have to promise me not to tell
your sister this?"
"What, is this that bad?"
"I am sure your know by now, as you're too smart to fool for long and so
is your sister. That your dad did not kill himself, his job did! His
work followed him home that night, after he was fired from the CIA."
"Yes mom, I got that easy. But the agency killed him?"
"Yes, he embarrassed them one to many times with failure, so they had to
shut him up forever."
"That had to be...because of her," he opened a file to the first elf,
"She can make a computer do anything! Then the other one with powers
just like her, dad lost track of months ago, she could make them do
anything like magic! Her mutant power was just that!" the boy realized
that in both cases, a nation would kill to keep that, or kill to keep
that power over all computers from others.
"I am sure you are right, you and your father are one in the same. You
both can think outside of the box and do it so well!" She started to cry
thinking of the place he left them in...deadly trouble!
"Mom it will get better!" he tells her, knowing it must...somehow?
"But that night, when 'they' came for your dad. She came too, she was
there for his hunting that other elf and I am sure that other mutant
too! She wanted him dead, but the CIA interrupted her and they did the
deed instead...she watched them," his mom stops almost crying, "She
watched them make your dad kill himself!"
"Ohh man she did, that is bad?" he thinks she could have saved dad, but
dad did do this to himself and when he failed, it got him killed.
"She is not all bad? The men that came night, they wanted to kill us
all, but she stopped them and killed them all in horrible ways. She has
a rule, one she told me...you never hurt kids!"
"So she saved us?"
"Yes she did, she saved us and cleaned up the mess. That letter I gave
both of you?"
"The sealed one with the weird writing in it?"
"That's the one," his mom nods to him, "it was from her. I begged her to
help us get away, but she does not have the resources to do that. But
she gave me one last chance, if all failed us?" then her head slumps, to
stare at the floor in her stress of telling the boy all this and then
she thinks of that last warning the girl gave her!
"Mom, there is something else about this? I can tell your holding back
something more?"
"Yes, there is more." she says to him way to simply for it 'not' to
matter!
"MOM!" he shouts at her, "Please tell me?" he shoots to standing up and
gazes down at her. As what ever this is...it is starting to scare him!
"That girl came back after the cops came, she snuck in somehow? She told
me that the men wanted you and your sister dead...because you have a
very high chance of mutating? So they being H1 types, wanted you dead
and me...to clean the plate so to speak?"
The boy just has to fall back onto his bed, to sit and think this over
"I might be a mutant, Someday?"
"Maybe? No mater what happens, I will still love ya!" she then grabs him
and hugs him so hard he can't breath well, but he does not stop his mom
from that love he feels now.
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Thursday, March 22 7:05 am
Poe cottage
All night, heck most of it? I had done my learning time with Aunghadhail
and I even learned a few new spells during tonight! When I ported to my
room, I knew I might be late to class. So I undressed fast as I could,
grabbed my stuff and off to the showers!
Hours later, I just finished up on of my martial arts classes and was
headed toward today's magic class with all the other Sidhe! This was the
one class I truly loved being in, all of us Sidhe, all in the same class
and in the same group!
For the last few hours, all of us were busy 'arguing' or deciding what
to do as a group project? A spell scroll, my choice! A potion, Gwen's
want! Or a enchanted magic item, but each one of us has to turn one in
and I am banned from that choice. This was Bree and Rhia's choice, as
they wanted a invisibility charm of some sort? Belphoebe, she did not
care one way or the other what we did, as long as she was included!
Well since I seemed to be on the side of a losing choice, on what we
were going to do as a project and I could not do that choice as a team
or personal project. As making a enchanted item was 'out' for me, as I
did them so quick! I decided to get up and ask Mrs. Grimes or Belle, who
was filling in for an absent Nikki. What in the heck I should do?
I snatch our long list of what to do, off the lab table and glare at
Gwen as she sits perched on her stool "All your fault, you just have to
be strange...all of you!"
Gwen giggles at me her answer "Not my fault, I wanted the potion
option?"
"Well talk to them?" I point at the far end of the table, with Rhia
sitting beside a leaning Bree, who both stick tongues at me in protest.
"Traako!" I bark out at the room in anger. (shit!)
"What did she say?" Belphoebe asks the rest of the now giggling girls
table.
"She said Belph...One of the first words you learn in Elvin from Ro?"
Gwen smiles to her.
"What?" she squints back at Gwen.
"Ca-ca or shit!" she laughs back to her, "You will learn to cuss in
Elvin, long before anything else at this table?"
My head shakes at what Gwen said, she is right I have to 'cuss' a little
less these days?
As I cross that room with my list, a pain hits me deep in the chest! My
very soul is being attacked I can feel it, it feels like part of me is
being shoved out and shredded whole!
The pain is worse than that blade was, this pain makes that sword and
the burning it did to me feel like a pin prick and it drives right
through me!
I falter on my next step and as I fall down to one knee, my heavy armor
flashes on to my body as a trained reaction to attacks this bad.
One of my blades comes to my hand, I stab it into the floor with a loud
bang and use the hilt to steady myself from falling, by using it like a
cane. That sound of that blade hitting the floor so hard, it drew most
of the class to look right at me.
Gaea, the pain! It's so bad! I gasp out and nearly scream from it and my
eyes are filled with tears from the enormous growing pain. My very
spirit is crying from it and being torn to shreds!
With the next second, my mind knows why I am hurting...Aunghadhail the
old Queen just died her final death...she is gone now!
"NO!" I gasp out in pain and shock, "Not that!"
As I gasp those few words, I hear Gwen fall from her stool with a squeak
of pain and hit the floor with a even more painful moan. She starts
wailing to the world like I have never seen her cry, then thank Gaea she
passes out.
Then Rhia falls to her side and is almost in the same pain. When I spot
Bree still standing, but she is gasping for breath and she seems to be
better off than the rest of us.
Belphoebe spins her head all about looking for an attacker of some sort?
And seems not even affected in the least.
I grasp onto that new thought for a short second, we are affected today
in our pain by how much the Queen is or was part of our lives. Gwen is a
direct relative in her way and is in the most pain. I am next, then
Rhia. Bree being totally new, is the least affected here anyway?
Mrs. Grimes sees us all fall in someway or another? She starts running
over to me, as she asks me sternly, "What happened Rohanna?"
My body spun from her questions, as in my anger I cursed at her very
existence and I left that sword of mine stuck into the floor as a marker
of my anger, "Sevir udossa tlu xsa'us rivvil! Udossa Sidhe inbal vharc
ulu morfeth yallt!"
(Leave us be damned human! Us Sidhe have vengeance to make today!)
With a huge push of my will. I get back up to standing and spun back to
the lab table of my group "Bree grab Rhia, I got Gwen!" I order the only
other Sidhe not laying on the floor right now.
"What was that? Bree asks me, as she goes to help Rhia.
"You know deep down what that was, she is dead...So lets get moving!"
Bree nods back at my order and helps Rhia to stand.
"Belphoebe?" I ask the artificial Drow at our table.
"Yes Ro, what's going on!"
"Did you feel anything just now?"
She shakes her head at me "No I did not? What happened to all of you?"
"Something happened to Nikki, we felt it. But if you come with us, it
could be bad or good for you? But we are going NOW! So choose now, you
have no connection to this and can make a choice with no guilt?"
"I'll stay, that is best. As Nikki and Aung hate me to say the least."
"They do, but I invite you to come as the Sidhe you are now?"
"No I will stay here, it's best?"
"Fine," I tell her and grab a now still Gwen from the floor. She is
unconscious but alive.
As I lay her on the table, I glace at Rhia who is in better shape and
being steadied by Bree "Rhia? Please call the others on your phone now.
We all meet at Poe in five minutes!" I bark an order at her, she nods
back to me, a cell phone comes out and she starts working on it.
"Rohanna! What is going on?" Mrs. Grimes questions me again with a
shout.
I just stare at her with growing red eyes of pain to come to those who
block my path. Then I hug all the Girls at the table into a group and
port to Poe. Once we are there, I place Gwen on the couch in the sunroom
and check on her.
"The others are on their way Ro?" Rhia tells me, as she grabs a seat.
"Thanks, now to get Sara!" and I reach out to her mind ~"Sara? Where are
you? I can feel that pain of yours!"~
~"Nikki she is hurting...Aunghadhail dead!"~ is all Sara gives me, but
that was enough I know she is in the class room that is next to mine.
When I port to the room, I find several students trying to help her and
one is Beltane. Who glares at me, as I shove her aside "What gives Ro!"
Beltane shouts back at me.
"Go way leave us now!" I bark back to her.
The teacher in the room, Circe glares at me from her desk, as she shouts
at the class while on the phone "Leave her alone till medial gets her?"
I don't even g