Shadowsblade a Whateley Tale: Written by Shadowsblade
Created for war and forged in pain, dealing with demons within and
without.
To all my readers, thanks for your posts. I do read each one and some
of the ones posted recently, they added to my ideas on where to go in
long term plot ideas! So keep posting and thinking out there!
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Sunday, June 10 5:45 AM
Poe cottage, my room
As the rising sun had began to light up the room, I kissed Roz goodbye
for the summer. "Cya in a few months lover?" I had to ask her.
"You sure will, but know I will play the field of new Poesies next
year!" she sang back.
"But you know...that you will always come back to me?"
"That is for sure now, you know how to keep me happy!" Roz smiled at me
and quickly ran from my room.
When I started to pull all the bedding off my futon, that is when my
smiling twin ported into the room with just having left Rascal in the
Grove and he promised to try to come see us during our summer in New
Zealand.
After the bedding was off the Futon, we twins undressed quickly and got
showered up for a very busy day! In the bathroom, I took my time saying
'bye' to everyone there and tried not to cry myself.
When the cleaning was all done, we got dressed in the most comfortable
clothes I could wear for the trip, just nice looking workout pants and
a nice t-shirt on top, jackets were laid aside for just in case it was
cold.
One of me that most had started to call Rohanna by her chewing gun most
of the time, she gathered the washing for the last time here, then
hurried it all downstairs to get done and the other me, Rehanna that
seemed to act more military like most of the time. She packed a
overnight bag of each of me. With the washing machine running, Bill
called me and said that he would be over in about forty minutes. that
gave me enough time to finish up the wash and put it away for the
summer in my storage box downstairs in the basement.
Down in the basement, both of us Drow took out the wash from the
devisor combo washer/dryer and with two of us working in unison the
sheets folded up quickly, then were put away in a nice storage bag for
the summer inside my rooms storage box.
As I hopped up stairs, I heard the squeal of Gwen greeting her dad and
I passed by them, I warmly greeted him, "Hello Mr. Wylann nice to see
you before I go?"
"Hi Rohanna." he said back short and to the point, he knew there was
only one of me and not twins!
"I would love to chat, but I have packing to finish before my ride
shows up!" I grinned.
"Rohanna, would you like me to check out your visas, passport and MCO
card to be sure they don't mess with you?" he asked and I am sure he
was worried for me. And very worried that anyone getting on my bad side
was taking a risk!
"Sure, sir if you have the time?"
"Well while Gwen gets her last bag packed, let me check those papers of
yours out?"
"If you think it's a good idea?" I pondered back to him, "I am sure the
studio and ARC gave me the correct items?"
"I want to be sure, all I need to hear or see is the TV news showing
you carving up JFK!" he chuckled at me as I lead him back to my room
and Gwen waved at me as she went to gather her things.
After I entered my room, I pulled all the documents from my bag and
handed them to Mr. Wylann, "That is all I have, passports, MCO card,
visa to work in New Zealand and my teleporter permits for the trip, New
York to LA, then Australia. But I have to fly to New Zealand." I
questioned the need for such a small hop in a jet?
"That nation is a bit behind the times still, they will catch up sooner
or later?" he shook his head to me and looked over each document in
turn.
Mr. Wylann took a seat at my desk and pulled a few loose papers from
his briefcase, "Let me fill out a few forms and sign them for you now?
If I fill them out them right here and right now, then sign the file as
a supervisor I can get you through that MCO a hell of a lot faster at
JFK!"
"Ohhh thanks, you don't have too...really?"
"I do, Gwen likes you Rohanna and being a fellow Sidhe? I have to do
that for your happiness and Gwen's happiness. If you got hurt and I
could have fixed it, or stopped it before it happened? Gwen would be
crushed, then forever angry with me and I don't need that grief!" he
laughed at me, as I packed my last bag.
Sunday, June 10 8:35 AM
Poe cottage, my room
My ears picked up the distinct sound of Bill and Jineen's voices as Mr.
Wylann handed me my documents, plus a few new ones, "There you go, that
should keep them form being stupid to a point. But call me if they go
off the rails and I will be right over!" he winked at me, as Bill and
Jineen entered my open door.
"How are you doing Wylann?" Bill asked as he shook Gwen's father's hand
in greeting.
"All is fine with me and your are taking the twins for the summer?" he
inquired.
"Yep sure are, we got stuck babysitting!" Bill quipped and I stuck out
my tongues at all of them as Bill glanced our way.
"Thank god I have only the one right now!" Miles put his both of his
hands together in prayer pretending it would make a difference!
"Yep, I only have to deal with this set when the need comes up and that
'need' comes up far too much!" Bill laughed back.
"Well I have to get Gwen moving, or she will stay here for hours!"
Miles said as he left the room for the hallway.
Jineen smiled at me, "All set?"
"Yep, Mr. Wylann set up all my documents of the trip and pre-signed
them all," I had to question the whole process he just did, I have not
traveled as a Mutant, elf or a Drow yet!
"Great Miles knows his stuff and MCO reg's. I will thank him later for
all of that. But let's get going!" Jineen told me, then grabbed my
coats from my bed as I shouldered the backpacks I was bring as
overnight bags.
Sunday, June 10 9:55 AM
ARC
The drive up was uneventful and we did not see the ghost of Aunghadhail
on the way up like the last time Bill was complaining about...I did not
drive this time. As we pulled up into the parking lot, Jineen was
laughing at my appraisal of Bill's driving skills, "Darn Bill you drive
slower than any grandparent I ever met...sheeesh!"
"I rather make the trip safe, than never get there!" he warned me.
"Bill sell the Mustang...it's wasted on you!" I said as I patted his
back slowly.
Now Jineen was having a laughing fit that ended in her coughing like
mad, till she pulled a water bottle from her bag and took a few slow
sips.
"Shush both of you...heck all three of you!" Bill glared in my
direction, then the Pixies laughed at him and he huffed out next, "Fine
all five of you!"
After we walked into the main ARC complex, Dr. Otto greeted us, "Hi
Rohanna and Rehanna, I hope all is good?"
"Great sir, just love to get this trip over with!"
"Well I have to ask...." he started and I interrupted him, then stuck
out twin bared arms at him, "Well take some blood, do a very quick scan
and let's get moving!"
Otto laughed at me doing that, "Am I that easy to read?"
"Nope, the ones above you always want more, so I expect it now?" I
explained.
"Well we do have the time, the dropship is not here yet and you're
hitching a ride on one that is going to the UK for the day." he smiled
to me and waved a hand to the elevators going down into the complex.
"Dropship?" I growled not really liking the idea.
"Sorry but the MCO has a rule about no porting into JFK the first time,
you have to go old school via a small Drop ship we have. But the next
time, the rules will let you through JFK for good...Unless it's closed
for a reason?" Otto told me, as he keyed the elevator door open to the
labs level.
Bill shook his head at the silliness of that rule, "That is piss-ant
stupid, but leave it to government to F-things up as usual!"
Dr. Otto lead us all off to the labs a few levels below ground and that
process started as normal. The tech gathered blood samples, a few x-
rays of both of us and a quick CAT scan was made last.
Dr. Otto nodded at what he saw in the window overlooking the room where
I was being tested and took a few quick notes in his file of me.
Bill noticed what he was doing and had to ask the Dr. what that note
was for, "Doc, why the notes, I don't see anything out of the norm with
them?"
"They are normal, but Bill I see the twins less often than you do and I
see several changes between them. They are developing separate
personalities."
"What?"
"Look at this way and see what I see, you are around them all the time
and the small changes go unnoticed."
"Okay Doc, go on?"
"One of the twins is dressed more human like, a teenage girl and chews
gum as noted. The other chose workout pants more like a soldier would
wear, pockets, baggy and tough fabric. Then their shoes, one is in
sneakers, the other is wearing hiking boots all laced up tight. The
more teen one is accepting what is going on in the room during testing,
the other is watching every move my techs make like a hawk and sits on
the edge of her seat at the ready to leap!"
Bill watched the twins through the window and after a few minutes he
mentally noted the changes that Dr. Otto must have noticed in the
Drows, "I never saw that before till now just now when you pointed it
out to me?"
Jineen overheard their conversation and had to jump in with her
opinion, "Honey, Otto...The twins do have two souls in a way. One is
Jack a human that changed to Rohanna, then I am sure Rehanna is
becoming that Drow that was called Shadowsblade during her life. But I
would not worry too much, I think both will be separate beings in
time...but both of them grew from the same new starting place. So given
that, we will not gain a crazed Drow out of the equation?" she smiled
at the glass of the window, then over to Bill. Jineen had seen lots of
things stranger than this over her long life, but she knew at heart all
was fine with both twins.
Later on
We were done with the short tests and were now being taken up high into
the mountain to a landing pad near the top via a huge cargo elevator
that could swallow a full size semi! Otto stood by the elevators panel
and entered in his personal code ad ID when the security system called
for them. At the top floor the door opened to us and showed a mountain
with a enormous hangar door that went straight up, then one more that
gave a straight shot over the hidden valley behind the mountains.
Inside the hangar sat nearly a dozen dropships, some were huge and made
for dropping large powered armor or cargo. The smaller others, were
troop only models and the one I had flown on back to Whateley from the
disaster in Boston. The rest of the aircraft, was made up of a mix of
military helicopters and a few small to large private styled jets.
Otto pointed at one smaller dropship just being spun around to face
back outside, on the loading platform nearest the hangar doors, "That
one is yours, it just landed and has to offload some routine cargo here
first, then you can board."
As they offloaded that cargo I just had to watch the whole process, I
found it very interesting to say the least and then the crew loaded a
few large metal boxes into the small cargo bay. I had to guess that ARC
never wastes a trip with this thing!
Once the loading was done, plus the refueling. The crew chief walked
slowly over to us while she yelled at her two people on her working
crew to recheck that the cargo was safely held down, "Well I guess you
four are my ride alongs?" she asked us while wiping dirt off her hands
with a cleaning cloth.
Otto spoke up for us, "These are them, please keep them safe for me! As
they are worth more to ARC than your cargo, plus the ship itself!" he
warned her.
"Got it sir, but I need you folks onboard and let's get you seated?"
she asked us and lead the way back into the ship.
The seating area on this dropship was far smaller than the one I was on
before, but she fit all of us into the small space and raised the ramp,
"Okay who has done this before?"
We all raised our hands to the question, "Good so I don't have to worry
about up-chucking this trip?" she chuckled and asked us.
We all shook our heads to that one, "Well this ship is the smallest,
but the fastest one made. The exit is up!" she pointed, "When or if
there is trouble, this passenger section seals, ejects and out you go!
So keep in your seats till we land again."
The cockpit was in front of us behind a small wall, but we could see it
through a porthole in the door, the ship rolled down to the launching
pad and the launcher grabbed the ship by several hard points. Then it
FIRED and off we flew at nearly the speed of sound over the vacant
valley behind ARC!
The pilot quickly pulled us up to cruising height, then turned the
aircraft towards New York. We Drow looked out the window as the crew
chief informed us, We are not going Mach on this trip, too many civvies
below that get mad at ARC. But after we drop you all off, we go full
speed to the UK!"
It was not long at all before the tall skyline of NYC came into view, I
had seen it many times over the years. But not lately and they had
added more than a few very tall buildings in that time!
The pilot came on over the PA system, "Coming into land, keep your arms
and head in the boat!" he joked.
Bill laughed back to him, "We need a bigger boat!"
I had to laugh at the line, I knew it well and that was one film joke I
knew by heart, as it came out before this all happened to me!
The pilot made only one short loop around JFK airport before landing on
a pad next to the main terminal, then he barked over the PA to us, "Get
the freeloaders off and have a safe trip!" he laughed at us, as the
ramp lowered.
Us Drow quickly donned our illusion charms before even getting out of
the seats and once up, we hurriedly grabbed our backpacks to run off
the opened ramp. The crew chief waved at us and raised her ramp. Then
the ship lifted straight up as soon as the main doors closed behind us.
Sunday, June 10 10:45 AM
JFK air terminal.
As I looked around, I found this section of JFK was very new to me and
must be a section made for the rich 'jet-set' crowd. The outside was
split between helipads like we just used and small loading area for the
larger private jets.
Once Jineen lead us to the main concourse, we knew where to go! Or I
should think, she did? As Jineen had done this route many times before
on trips for ARC Business, with that recent knowledge Jineen led all of
us to the customs area for mutants and rich folk!
Jineen smiled to me and asked for my documents, "Get all of that out
and be very ready for stupid questions!" she nearly giggled to us.
We all moved into the short line, even Bill and Jineen who I am sure
are listed as humans? As I am very sure no one but us knows what Jineen
is, or that she gave all that up for Bill's love!
A few shuffles forward in line and I was next, or I should say
'we'...as we twins do everything together! We smile to the TSA agent
and his MCO buddy, "Hi sirs, we are here to go to Australia via the
teleporting room," we question them in stereo to unhinge them a just
little!
The stone faced, unsmiling man takes our set of papers from our
outstretched hands in turn, "So mutants right?" he said not too much
unlike a robot.
"Yes." I parroted back at him just like him, but I left off a 'beep'
that I mentally put at the end!
"Name..."
"Shadowsblade...or blades" my twin finishes.
"Guardian?"
"That lovely couple over there," I point to Bill and Jineen still
standing in line.
"Okay, we will process them next and see. But for now because this says
weapons on it. We have to x-ray you."
"I decline that treatment on religious means."
"What religion is that?"
"Sidhe...we don't like human tech," and that was true, I really did not
anymore...unless it was a car or bike!
"A what again." he asked and raised an eyebrow my way.
"You humans call us elves or creatures of the Fae."
"Humm well step over to the holding area for me to frisk you over." he
looked me over from head to toe and I could see his eyes hover over my
chest far too long to be comfortable!
'Gaea, if this was outside, his balls would be in this mouth after I
kicked them to there!' I said mentally to myself!
I shook my head back to him 'no'. "Then I'm sorry sir, but as a minor,
I must decline to allow you to do that. However; per regulation A.23-1,
I am willing to allow a female agent to perform the requested pat
down," I recited the book from memory.
The agent seemed put off by the more than quick answer, but Jineen
walking up to the window next to mine stopped him from acting like a
moron, "Honey is there an issue, should I call the studio's lawyers and
ARC's?"
When the man and his buddy heard that question, both looked like
someone had hit them in the head with a solid gold brick! "Ahhh miss
just pass through the mag-scanner. But since you list Mage as a power,
we need your wand to store in a locked box for the trip?"
"Wand?...No Fae uses a wand for magic...We ARE magic! We Fae are not
from a Hogwarts movie!" I told the moron.
"That is not what I was told?"
"Well this Sidhe does not need a crutch to weave spells, I am...we are
not stupid," we both finished.
"Okay...okay!" he gave up, just as Jineen stared at him and pulled out
her cell phone to call a lawyer I'd bet! "just pass through the scanner
and get over to the teleport room...please?"
We twins nodded back and smiled in our victory, "Thanks sir, bye now?"
we stereo Drow said as we walked past the scanner, that did not beep.
But why would it? All my weapons were in storage anyway!
Our whole party made it past the inspection station and stood in the
very, very short line for the teleportation room in the VIP area. The
room was decorated in a very nice art deco style that was the look of
the empire state building.
Within a minute or so, our party was next, "Where are you going to?"
the agent asked as Jineen handed him our travel documents.
"LA, then Hawaii and finally Sydney Australia." she told him.
"Is your porter already here, or are they still coming?"
"She is here, the twins are the porters for our group."
He looked me over, then asked, "First time in LA?"
"Nope, but first time landing at the teleporter station?" I asked kind
of worried.
"That's normal, we have that issue all the time. So we just tell them
that you are incoming and if you hit the mark, that is great. If not,
no foul!" he smiled back to us Drow.
"I need the exact direction and distance to the foot, for this to
work...please?" I asked him.
He handed me a sheet of paper with all that I needed for this whole
trip all the way to Australia! "Thanks, this is perfect!" I beamed back
at him and he waved us over to the standby area.
The area was divided up by simple, coming and going. A warning sound of
a train arriving at the station sounded when a port was incoming from
somewhere. Then stopped when party arrived and the area was clear.
I read the numbers that he gave me quickly and used my 'bunny phone' to
find what I needed know. But as the next person waved to us to walk
over to where a very rich looking bunch of men just vanished from at
the sound of a set of beeps. She pointed out the lit dial on the floor
showing direction and distant to the inch!
"Your coordinates and wait for the beep to go!"
"Ohh that helps me out a lot!" and I grabbed Bill, plus Jineen. "Are
you both ready?"
I received a return nod from them both and when the beep counted down,
then a green light...we four vanished!
Sunday, June 10 8:45 AM
Los Angeles international air terminal
When LA came into my vision as we all moved through my port, I guided
us that few feet I was off right to the rooms center. When we 'popped'
back into the real world, I almost laughed at how the room was
decorated!
The room looked like the Star Trek Teleporting room and it even had the
sound of 'beaming' when in use! It was too funny, I had to hold back
asking the host if any red shirts died today!
The agent/host pointed us over to a waiting area, "If you need to rest?
Or you can leave right now in the next chamber?"
"Thanks, I am just fine. So let's keep going then!" I told the agent
and kind of asked Bill, plus Jineen.
Bill just picked up his small bag, as he smiled at me, "When I barf, we
stop and till then this marine carries on!" and he trooped over to the
next short waiting line.
The next stop was Honolulu Hawaii, on that one landing I was a little
off. But still fine! That room was decorated like a island village and
had island drums for a warning sound.
Monday, June 11 1:45 AM
Sydney Australia Air terminal
The next leg of the trip was Sidney Australia, that one was real easy
for some reason? I nailed it perfect to the inch and that place was
decorated in a modern style with some fine paintings of the surrounding
area on the walls.
A reason behind doing this all in three parts, I had insisted on it
this way. So that the MCO and others thought I had limits, but after
Sara had fixed the twin minds issue in me. Porting across the whole
world was no issue to me and I could do it with dozens in tow!
After we walked out of the Teleporting area, Jineen stopped me, "You
need any rest or something to eat dear?"
"I am fine, I don't need rest. But we Drow are always hungry!" I smiled
to her.
"Yep, I can vouch for that. Rohanna eats more than a marine squad can
in one sitting!" Bill laughed.
"Well that is good....we will get a few snacks on the flight, but
welcome to...tomorrow!" Jineen laughed at me and adjusted her phone
with a quick tap. My 'bunny phone' knew where in the world it was, made
that adjustment automatically and displayed home time for my use!
Next came the most dreaded part of this trip, the flight from Australia
to New Zealand! That was me stuck in a metal tube for nearly two
useless hours, even with the fact that our jet was supersonic! What a
mess, I could do this short hop in seconds and with Bill's car on my
back too!
To get to that flight, we had to worm our way from this first class
area and over into the regular flights area. Then found our gate, get
all set with seat and wait for the plane to take off!
I whined over to Bill sitting across the aisle from us twins, "This is
taking Foooorrrever! I could do this the easy way, but some silly
rules!"
"Just wait Ro, once we get airborne maybe you should just take a nap?
That will make this seem faster!" he reasoned back to me and took a sip
of his soda the stewardess had brought us all.
"Bad idea Bill, do you want a Drow that has nightmares almost every
time she sleeps, taking a nap on a jet?"
"You're right...well just relax and read something then? And try to
remember this, you could be stuck back in coach...cramped in like
sardines!"
"Thanks, but that does not help Bill. I hate being inside or involved
in things that I can't control. It's just all that time I spent 'not'
in control that kills me?"
"Well what about when I drove today?" he had to ask.
"Besides you being grandma slow, I knew when it was ending and I trust
you. The pilots of this sky born greyhound bus...I don't know them!"
"I get it, but it's only a few hours and just sit tight. Play a game on
your laptop, watch a movie or something...Heck watch two!"
"I can do that!" I beamed back and turned on both laptops, then quickly
found a movie for each of me, that I had not seen yet!
Monday, June 11 5:20 AM
Auckland New Zealand
The plane landed right on time, then we met a movie staffer that had
our bags already clamed, then loaded for us and a helicopter waiting on
a pad for the trip way out in the countryside where the filming
location was at. A nearly one hour long hop across most of the
countryside, way out to where no one lived was the main location for
filming.
We would be on a tight schedule for the next two weeks doing all the
outdoors shots needed and at night I would port over to Australia with
special permission to film on what set shots we could do with actors
not needed on New Zealand or I might port all of us needed personal for
the shot! Then our group gets a five day break for Bill and Jineen's
wedding, then right back at it on soundstages till school starts!
That permission for me to teleport was only gained from the government,
because this film was dropping millions locally into the economy. But
just like NYC/JFK I had to 'touch the base first' and do so in person!
Then from there on, we were set to port as needed till the films end.
From there on after the film was over, if I came back, I would have to
fly or do it all illegally!
As we landed my illusion charm was pockets for the time being, that
surprised the pilot of the helicopter more than a little and then our
guide we had for the time being...she expected it I had to guess,
because she did not even bat an eye at me! As all of us left the ad
hock landing pad, the staffer or 'PA' to the industry at large, took
care of our bags.
As we entered the camp, the PA, she pointed out the crafty(AKA food!),
the main office trailer section for the producers, plus the director
and then our area where Art was surly staying at too!
We were all put up in large personal trailers inside the center of
large base camp, each trailer had attendants for what ever we needed.
Because we could not waste time for doing laundry or cooking! The day
shift of my schedule was Bill's mostly, because he was agile and could
keep up with the shooting outside in the hills, the river rapids, or
the forest where the shots were planed for!
Jineen had the night shift, she would port over with me and keep an eye
on me incase I got mad or had issues with morons. I was not really
worried about that for the most part, As I knew Art would keep the area
'moron free' and no one messed with a man with his rep in Hollywood!
As the sun came up fully, I was shown my trailer and found that it was
a very nice one! This model had full size bunk beds in back, full bath,
with shower and a great big seating area in the front. The missing part
was the kitchen, all I had was the fridge and a microwave to save space
for me...the user!
When our group spilt up to go to our separate trailers, Bill and Jineen
basically said they would sleep a bit, then wake up for lunch and try
to start adjusting to the new time that was over twelve hours different
from our normal time. I on the other hand could care less, Drow need
little sleep at best!
With them gone, then after getting a little washed up after the long
trip. I laid out in one of the large chairs in the trailer's living
area and flipped on the TV to see what local madness they showed. At
eight in the morning, there was not much to see on the local satellite
feed that we got and the cable TV part, those channels I knew too well
from school!
Since watching the TV was not even close to entertaining me, I hopped
outside and looked around. The base camp laid out all around me was a
familure thing from my long past human days as a crewmember and I
started to walk around as my normal Drow self instead of the illusion
human 'cheerleader' one...might as well use this time to get the crew
used to seeing the Drow me right now and not later!
At this time in the morning the crafty was still cooking breakfast and
with that lovely aroma to guide me, that is where we twins headed too!
We were about to get a plate when Art spotted us and waved us both over
to him.
"Well you made it, so you like this set-up so far?" he asked me.
"Yes, the trailer is fine and all the newer equipment that has come out
over the years! I did not see much of this while we were filming in
LA?"
"That time of the year is slow at that studio, with vacation on and the
new style of TV with all the short seasons that almost overlap
sometimes?"
"Okay, I just remember the old ways we did it."
"Yes they made more sense, but this new style of filming gets more new
ideas out there faster, that live on season after season, or die a
horrible short death! Besides, the net will change all of this soon and
we will have dozens of new ways to feed movies and TV shows out to the
unwashed masses."
"Ohh I hope this film does not want to be a TV show someday soon, I
don't think I could take all of the shooting this far from home all the
time?"
"It might, but the producers will adjust it to fit the lead actors
wants and needs for the most part! But do you want to go eat in your
trailer or here?" he smiled at me.
"Here with the crew and outside is fine with me. I was just cooped up
on a jet and hated every second of the trip!" I said and waved my arms
to the wide open wilderness around us. All of that nature was right
near this camp, all that was even near us was one small farm and lots
of sheep!
Art followed me into the crafty line, were I grabbed a tray for each
twin like normal and filled several plates with food for each. Then we
sat at a large table, inside a tent that was a little separated from
the crew's area. Then with nearly none of the crew still eating, we had
the area to ourselves and the only sounds besides small work parties
was the 'baaaing' of sheep.
With that sound hanging over everything, I just had to say it, "Hey Art
why do Scots wear kilts!"
He smiled at me knowing that old joke, "Because zippers scare sheep
away!"
Monday, July 2 6:20 AM
Auckland New Zealand
Well the last three weeks of filming had run at a pace that made even
me tired, this was like being in combat for me once again and that made
me kind of happy? All the stress of dealing with the daily messes that
Whateley offered up at me, they all faded away and work replaced them
quickly.
During my days on set, we did all the soaring outdoors shots that
showed the wilderness of the small continent, the mountains where my
evil characters chased the heroes ceaselessly. Then we shot a few days
in the snow filled valleys where being a Drow really showed to the
movie viewer and the crew? As us assassin twins chased their prey, one
shot showed my very feet never sinking into the deep snow and I seemed
to almost 'hover' over it all.
The whole crew was more than pissed off at me, even the director was
angry at me watching me over the days! Because I did not sink into the
snow just like them, plus I was never wet, or cold from the snow or the
weather. Then to top it all off, I only gave my 'natural' spells that
mimicked that innate Drow power, to Bill or Art while I was on set.
One of the vast action shots we did, was partly filmed from a
helicopter and it was one of best shots we did during the whole month!
That shot was of us twins following the 'good guys' into a river filled
with rapids and I did all my own stunt work on those shots, loved every
second of that washing machine of fun!
Bill and Jineen were both a little taken back by some of my more
dangerous antics and chewed me out for them several times, even Art
joined in with his anger towards me, 'You know better, both of us have
watched good stunt players get killed and I do not want to see you go
that way too!' was what he growled at me, I apologized if I scared him.
A few days of that work included a huge fight scene, of all of us
running through one of the forests, where I showed what two Drow can
really do when we cut lose in a fight! I pulled all my hits on the
stunt players of course so the whole fight was bloodless. But later on,
the FX CGI guys will add in the blood and gore I should have made! That
was fun those three days, lots of me shooting arrows for the camera and
nice leaping shots of sword play on both sides to go around!
Then for the nights when we did not need a shot in the darkness to show
the hero party I chased trying to move faster during the night, or us
twins surprising them from the shadows and stealing away an unwary foe!
On those nights, we filmed back over in Australia on it's gold coast,
where most of the major studio labels has set up shop by building huge
sound stages to take advantage of the tax rebates and other incentives
that they chased after nowadays!
One of the giant sound stages we used held the 'Queens castle' set,
that one had the Queen's 'throne' room in it, One that I had helped
design with my first hand knowledge of more than one and the rest of
the stage had a vast maze of hallways that were redressed to play parts
of several other castles or manors appearing in the film. Some of them,
I was shown in the first parts of the movie trailer assassinating my
targets while fighting in them.
The other stages were set-up for 'Green screen' work, where we could do
dangerous stunts and have backgrounds built, then added later in post
via CGI. These stages is where I did most of my close-up fights at with
the rest of the stunt team.
But right now, those first three weeks were all behind us and we were
taking a much needed break to attend Bill and Jineen's wedding! No jet
for us this time, the studio bribed, threatened or outright kidnapped
someone to get me a permit to travel where and when needed by me
porting to or from the USA! That would come in handy over the next
several months, as I wanted to stay on the 'legal' side of my powers as
long as I could!
After my backpack was all cinched up, I leapt outside my trailer and
went to go bang on the happy couples trailer, "Hey let's go you two,
you have plenty of time for that AFTER the wedding!" I barked at them
with a little laugh.
Bill suddenly opened the door on the trailer and tossed his bag at me,
"Catch!" he yelled.
I caught the bag one handed and dropped it to the ground, "Well lets
get moving! I have places to be today or is that yesterday?" I joked
about the USA being behind us here by a day!
Bill walked down the few steps slowly and stared at me, "Darn elves,
always chipper and awake so early in the morning!"
"What? Today I let you sleep in for over an extra hour and usually we
are on set by five!" I scolded him.
Jineen was now standing in the doorway and dropped her bag into Bills
waiting hands. she was mothering a large hot cup of coffee, "Shut it
both of you, this is far too early for me!" she whined the fact that
for the most part over the last three weeks, she had taken the night
shift watching over me on set.
"Okay honey, you will be back home soon and your friends from work have
your dress all set, plus my uniform that I am sure of!" Bill told the
soon to be wife the facts, this wedding was fully planed out and both
of their co-workers up at ARC had kept a steady eye on the whole mess
while they both over looked me on set.
"Well are both of you ready for this?" I had to ask while they both
picked up their bags to get ready.
When both nodded to me and Jineen took a sip of her coffee to wake
herself more. I touched their shoulders, then one second later all four
of us were standing in the living room of their home.
Sunday, July 1 2:20 PM
Berlin New Hampshire
"All done, welcome to yesterday at two PM!" I sang and rushed up stairs
to open a few windows for airing out the house that was vacant for over
three weeks! The air of the home hung musty and still, even with the
help of the AC blowing on from time to time from a in-home computer
setting.
Up in what was the guest room and my room for the most part. I found
Jineen's dress laid out on my bed, plus Bill's Tuxedo. I yelped down to
Jineen, "Your girlfriends have been here, your dress is all laid out on
my bed, ready to wear!"
She instantly came up to my room, slammed the door shut and stripped
off her outfit, "Got to test it to be sure it still fits! Three weeks
of that great studio chow can change a lady!"
"You are lying Jineen...shame on you? Creatures like you don't gain
weight you know it and so do I!" I smiled knowingly to her.
She slid into the dress quickly, I zipped her up and she spun in front
of the mirror of my room, "How does it look Rohanna!"
"Just as it should, fairytale like and it fits your personal style!"
Great! "But your are sure," she pouted to me, "That you do not want to
wear a bridesmaid dress that is matching all the others in my party?"
"Naw I am fine, besides I want to wear my dress armor and get some good
memories attached to that for a change. Maybe someday I will wear that
armor to classmates weddings, when that happens sometime in the
future?"
Tuesday, July 3 6:20 PM
Just outside of Boston
Reverend Roberts had been hidden safely away in this warehouse since
his hired assassin had failed to kill the Drow protecting Sara or so he
thought Sara was his prey? But his master, a massive horror that was
part Sidhe, part GOO was really after 'the Queen to come' or Nikki
Reilly and that Drow, plus Sara was protecting the child Queen from his
wrath and victory!
The Reverend had to hide in this dilapidated wreck of a warehouse
because after trying to kill or turn the Assassin to serve his new
master, he failed in both and the Syndicate that he had used to hire
the human mutant now sought his death. That large criminal
organization, protected it's members zealously from the type of
retaliation that he had tried to do after the mutants failure!
Reverend Roberts shuffled from his planning table that was covered in
several layers of strewn papers. All of the mess held insane plan after
plan, that had failed or was never attempted. He reread the last report
one of his changed minions had left him.
The report read off inside his Mythos corrupted mind, the twin Drows
had returned to the Whateley area for a wedding of a human that they
knew. One of the Sidhe close to the twins, Gwen Wylann was staying at
the same home. The child Queen, Nikki Reilly was staying for some
unknown reason at the Whateley campus. The others that protected the
child Queen, they were nowhere close, but the schools campus was no
soft target!
Angry at his own failures, Reverend Roberts tossed the small stack of
photos across the room and that is when he felt it. That deep call from
inside his now corrupted soul that even now showed on his body by
changing his looks from the 'Reverend' to that of a tentacled horror
that lashed out with it's clawed limbs all around him.
What was once a man, Roberts heard that voice inside his head, that
evil voice that could drive a normal person insane from one whisper!
'Reverend Roberts, I order you to gather all of your forces and go to
the woods near Whateley!' the voice demanded of him.
'What is your bidding master, the task?' Roberts had to ask.
'The child Queen has the seed, seed of our destruction. If she plants
that World tree seed in the Grove nearest the school, our doom is
spelled out!' the horror growled out mentally from across the nation to
it's lackey.
'I obey and will do as ordered!' the horror that once was Roberts
thought, then acted to gather a large force of his corrupted men and
use Mythos magic to create a porthole to their named target.
Tuesday, July 3 6:20 PM
Berlin, New Hampshire-Bill's house
Just under two days ago, I had ported my way down to Florida and
gathered up Bill's family. My porting them all saved the cash strapped
family from having to buy airline tickets for such a short to trip just
to come and see his wedding. I even gave Gwen a short ride over to
Bill's house from her's to sleep in my room for those few days.
Bill's father Paul was the head of the family and a real piece of work!
That man's job was the funniest thing I had ever seen, he was an
outside IT consultant and webpage builder for a crazy car dealer group
that was based in the Tampa/St Petersburg area. The ads he showed me
are just plain nuts in the combined showmanship and zaniness!
Janet was Bill's mother, she was that standard stay at home mother that
one only saw on TV shows these days. When I ported into their backyard,
she had warm brownies waiting for me and already knew that the Pixies
loved them!
The last of Bill's family pack was Alex, he was about fourteen nearly
same age as us Poe kids and seemed to be quite the trouble magnet of
late! The boy was getting into trouble even more and more now that his
dad was spending more and more time at home coming up to his retirement
in a few years. Alex had been caught out one night, when he was
arrested with local gang thugs doing very stupid things!
Right now dinner was over, so the whole bunch of us were sitting around
the living room while Bill's parents thoroughly embarrassed him over
and over to his soon to be wife and us three kids!
"So there was poor Bill at age three standing there covered head to toe
in the flour that he had pulled off the counter, the mixing bowl was
dented by the fall and I was very mad at him for thinking that I was
done making brownies so fast!" his mother laughed.
"Yep Janet was mad alright, but she calmed down by the time I got home
from work and with a little banging in the garage I fixed the bowl for
her, so that the Mixmaster worked fine." his father added in.
"Dad...mom...why did you have to do all this to me tonight!" Bill
whined on embarrassed.
"Your wife has to know the man she is marrying son, beside your mother
has been mentally planning out this night for decades!" his father
chuckled.
"Okay what other messes did he do?" Gwen egged on the conversation in
hopes that there was more 'juicy' stories to hear.
"Ohh...Ohh I have one honey!" His dad almost shouted for his turn,
"remember that trip to Disney world!"
Bill's mom instantly started laughing, Bill just groaned in pain and
anguish As she laughed back! "Yes that day was a mess from the start,
but by the end it was just fine!"
"What!" Gwen giggled and even Alex leaned in maybe not hearing this one
story before.
"Well Bill showed us how much a marine corpsman he was going to be at
early age! While we crossed the lake in front of the main park to get
to the main gates, he was goofing off and just as one of crewmen yelled
at him...he fell out of the boat and right into that messy lake!" that
is when Paul started to gasp out for air, as he was laughing so hard.
"Ohhh Paul, that was a bad one! At the time I was scared that he might
drown, but all you could do was laugh at the poor boy while the boat
turned back to get him out of the water."
"He looked like a drowned rat as the crew pulled him back aboard the
boat, his long hair all wet and his clothes soaked. But lucky for him
it was a sunny day, so he did not take too long to dry out and by lunch
the only thing that you would notice about Bill being wet...was his
squishing shoes all day!" his dad nearly roared.
The parents kept on telling stories like that for hours, some Bill was
fond of and others he wished would be forgotten! Bill's brother wanted
to talk about the school we Sidhe went to and what we did there. But
this was Bill and Jineen's night, they were getting married tomorrow
and this was all for them to get know the 'feel' of the new family.
Poor Jineen she had a time with Bills mother fawning over the story
that she was orphaned at an early age and had no family! But she had to
keep to some story, as telling the parents that she was a mythical
creature was certainly out!
At almost Ten at night, Bill's parents wanted to call it a night so
everyone would get some rest for tomorrow and they all started to get
ready to leave. They offered to Alex that he could stay with us elves,
but the fact that he would be around three teen girls that had no
attraction to him? Alex decided to leave for the night with his parents
for the nearby hotel.
After they left, we girls helped Jineen clean up the mess of the night,
dinner, snacks and what cups laid all about the living room. Bill made
sure that the wedding was all set for tomorrow, with a few phone calls
to his buddies and some to Jineen's coworkers that were showing up as
Bridesmaids.
When the whole house was clean again, us Sidhe gathered a whole mess of
snacks and ran ourselves up to what was called my room for now. For a
few hours we sat and watched TV a little and chatted like mad about
each one of ours summers so far.
When nearly eleven came, I felt a little 'chill' ripple through me and
that was followed within a second by the call coming form the Grove...a
call I have not felt since before the sundering and it sacred me to my
very bones.
I looked quickly over to Violet and Lilac who both had jumped to their
feet while reaching for a weapon, "You felt that too little ones!" I
asked with stereo voices that sounded very surprised and upset!
"Yes we did!" Violet said as Lilac nodded to me and her sister in turn.
"What Ro?" Gwen asked me as us twins stood up, "I did not feel
anything?"
"Something is very wrong in the Grove, I have to go." I said as my
armor popped onto both bodies.
"You want my help, I can come or maybe Bill can get ARC?" Gwen asked
and you could see the worry etched on her face.
I felt that tingle again and the call became a 'roar'...a roar that
said 'Come now!' as it crept across my mind, that feeling was one that
I never liked. It always meant to me, that worse just became well past
bad and all the way into being insane! The Grove was under attack and
most of the schoolmates that might help me or the Grove, they were gone
for the summer.
"I have to go Gwen, I'll be back?" is all I said before I vanished from
sight and even I doubted that sentence, as my mind ended it like a
question.
Gwen just stood there not knowing what to do? Should she go tell Bill,
call her dad, call the other Sidhe...What? Rohanna had vanished, saying
something was calling for her from the Grove and in Gwen's mind that
could only be a very bad thing!
But Gwen came to a conclusion and ran down stairs as fast as she could,
but stopped just before she made the last landing at the living room.
'Even if I tell Bill, what can he do? No human can go out into the
Grove without help. ARC can't help us or Ro. What should I do?' she
silently worried on.
That is when Jineen spotted Gwen standing on the last step of the
landing, just out of sight of the living area but not the kitchen where
Jineen was going to. "Gwen honey what's the mater?" she asked the
silent elf that looked very worried.
"Ro went to the Grove, it called to her. She said something was very
wrong, what do we do?" Gwen said as she started to cry a little.
"Honey, you can go. But Bill and me? There is no way we can get out
into the Grove, it does not like humans at all."
"But I can not make portholes like Nikki does, or TP like Ro and
driving there will take an hour at best?" Gwen worried on.
"Or we can wait here for her and be ready for any needs she has?"
Jineen gave the teen some hope.
"But ready for what?"
"Whatever she needs dear, that might be healing or gathering her more
help?" Jineen asked.
That is when Gwen had an idea and called Nikki's phone. But the phone
rang and rang, then went to message box. That 'leave a message at the
tone' statement, made Gwen sad, it meant to her... that Nikki was
missing too and that could not be good!
Gwen then ran down a mental list of her close friends that could
venture out into the Grove and she came up with a solution...Rascal!
His mom makes portholes very fast, she could get us or a team over to
there in minutes not hours!
The green haired teen made that call and started a ball rolling!
Tuesday, July 3 11:10 PM
The Grove
When I popped into the Grove, I found myself surrounded by every
creature there and they were gearing up for a fight! Normally when I
come here to the Groves near center, this spring has no one in it, but
this time...the area was filled with Nymphs and many, many others.
Right away I spotted the matron of the spring and ran over to her,
"What is going on Matron, I felt the call. But I don't know why?"
"There are several Mythos corrupted humans using gate spells to come to
the forest that surround this Grove, their numbers have grown from a
few to well over two dozen and there is one that leads them all. He is
very corrupted and powerful, a few of our denizens have already fallen
to his first attacks!" she told us twins and looked very worried at the
same time.
"Matron, gather the Bane-Sidhe as our last line of defense, as they can
not mix with others and not kill us. Then tell all those who can attack
at longer ranges, to gather with my bidden nymphs, they will lead them
just behind those who join beside me for closer, more personal combat."
I ordered her
The Matron bowed to me, "As the guardian commands, we all obey in
defense of our home!"
The denizens of the Grove quickly moved into the groups I had asked for
with a purpose, they gathered into large parties that were commanded by
elders and the ones that could not fight, they readied themselves to
heal those that could.
As a few Nymphs gathered around me, most of the element of fire based
ones, ones that cold shift to stone and be unhurt by nearly everything!
I gave the ranged fighters their standing orders, "Wait for us to
contact the enemy and attack from longer ranges and if these are mythos
corrupted humans? Do not engage physically unless you are protected."
The Pixies fell for the most part into the ranged group, so I asked
Violet and Lilac what they wanted to do, "My little ones, do you want
to stay by your families side?"
"NO we fight with you, as always!" Violet yelled at me and her sister
nodded to me.
Lilac barked next at me, "You will fight with us!" she boasted, "our
older sisters have contact with us, so you can order the ranged
fighters that way!"
"Good, proud to stand with both you and have your sisters lead their
teams into the trees to await the first strike!"
When I noted that everyone had a place and knew what to do. We Drow
faded into the darkness surrounding the Grove with the pulling of our
leather masks over our faces and added invisibility spells on top of
that to hide us from prying eyes.
Violet flew ahead of my leaping silently from tree to tree searching
for who was invading our land! As the full moon's light shown down on
us, I felt a little better. That full moon gave some of my fellow
fighters quite a boost within it's light!
I stopped my progress on a branch to listen to the woods around me and
to ask the trees where are targets coming from. That is when I spotted
Nikki bouncing into the woods from the school grounds, running towards
the Grove and I felt it then, I my eyes opened wide as they spotted
what was cradled in her arms!
A world tree seed!
A seed that would restore the 'Wood' to the world and with it us
creatures of the Fae would have magic in abounds! That meant to me,
that many fellow Sidhe would be born soon, very soon to my idea of
time...to a human, that was a few hundred years. But to me, that was
tomorrow!
Excitedly I told the Pixies in my mind, 'Tell your kin what I just saw,
we are not just fighting for ourselves tonight, we fight for all the
FAE!'
As I got a cheer in my mind as reply, that is when I spotted four
corrupted men moving as fast as they could towards Nikki! I reacted on
instincts and my bows came out instantly, then arrows shot silently
towards them. Two of the men vanished in magical blasts, the other two
were severely injured.
'To the fight!' My mind yelled, as we Drow fell on the last two.
The first one I hit died instantly as my sword chopped of it's head,
the second one took longer...as he ran! But chasing him down just added
to my fun! When we Drow caught up to him, we rammed a sword through his
back and that one died too! But that last one, he lead me back towards
the main part of his party, they spotted us killing one of their
numbers and started to shoot all kinds of guns my teams way!
One off the water nymphs next to me took a full magazine from a sub-
machine gun, she shrugged it off instantly! The bullets just passed
right through her and made neat little slashes that looked so cool!
When the corrupted human's gun ran dry, a Fire element Nymph roasted
him alive with lava she tossed at his chest, he fell to the ground
screaming then just sizzled from there on silently after he died.
The rest of the of the corrupted party, shot more and more guns our
way. I stood behind my armors shield and waited till they reloaded. But
as I spotted some reloading, one of them deep within the center of the
pack let lose a Levin bolt my way and when that bolt met my shield...it
was shattered into nothing by it's magic.
As I fell back behind a tree, I screamed out tot he woods around me,
"They are using Mythos magic, be careful!"
Mythos magic was very different from what us Sidhe use, it gives
untrained mages vast powers, but corrupts the mind and drives the user
mad with power! Then add one big thing, that style of magic can be made
or be tuned to kill us Sidhe or Fae! Who ever was tossing spells my
way, they had done just that!
But my call came too late, one of the Fire nymphs took a hit to the
head and her now headless statue like body fell over, then shattered
into small pieces.
"This is bad, everyone hide and attack from there!" I shouted an order,
that we should use our skills of blending into the forest and make them
have to find each one of us!
When I saw that my team was doing what I asked of them, I stood out
from behind a tree that I was using for cover and quickly loosed two
arrows, that hit their targets killing both targets that used to be
men instantly with magical fire.
One of the men attacking us must have spotted me with some kind of
mythos magic aiding him and he sent a grenade round my way. The round
landed near me and blasted me clear the trees cover. I ported instantly
away before the next grenade stuck right where I was laying.
The leader of the men, waved his arm and a porthole formed at it's
passing. When the doorway to who knows where fully opened, at least
fifty more corrupted, armed men ran out of the standing circle of
darkness and some of their numbers are...WERES!
"Ohh great, this is not going to fit into my schedule at all! I have to
get up early for Bill's wedding!" joked to myself.
With all those new targets, my fellow Fae launched magic bolt, after
magic bolt into the attackers group and several of them fell to the
onslaught. That is when that leader waved his hand again and more men
fell out of the porthole he just created.
Both of us Drow started porting all over the forest, cutting down as
many as we could with our blades, but somewhere along the fight that
leader must have spotted me and he tossed a very familure spell on the
area!
That spell was the same one I felt in Boston when Sara, Gwen, Donna and
finally ME were attacked by those four heavily armed men! This must be
the one that tried to kill Sara and me, he sent those men to their
deaths. Now I wanted his death as repayment very much!
When that spell was finished casting, the whole effected area made my
ports slow down to nearly nothing in their speed, it felt like walking
in MUD now!
That was bad, my ports being messed up and now came worse. The next
spell he tossed landed on his men and now they were speed up to at
least double! I had seen that spell a few times in the past, it worked
well. But it had a very high cost to use and one I never wanted to pay,
it killed who ever it was aimed at by burning them out! Better fighters
for a short time, at the cost of their lives.
One of the corrupted put that boost spell to use and ran up on one of
my water nymphs. When he got close enough, he hugged her and spread his
vile mythos corruption into her. What was once a lovely body she had,
turned into blackened ooze and she lost that connection to the water
element.
One of her cousins of Fire, saw that the nymph was finished and helped
her die as quickly as she could for mercy's sake. The fierily body of
the nymph reached out and turned the corrupted fellow Fae into steam
instantly and freed her from that corruption with death.
With both spells working in the attackers favor, we Fae had to go on
the defensive. I barked out to the Fire nymphs near me, "Burn the
forest ground cover now!"
They hesitated when I gave my order, but I made it known that my wish
was going to happen if they liked it or not. I launched a dozen arrows
with fire spells wrapped around them into the undergrowth and that
started a wall of fire that might slow the attackers for a few minutes.
But that plan quickly fell apart, too quickly! The corrupted Weres just
jumped up into the trees and right over my defense line! One Were fell
onto the nymph by my side and tore her apart before I get a Mithril
blade into the fight and kill him.
As that Were fell, four more attacked us twins and we were too busy to
see the attackers run into our group. When they passed by that line of
fire, they started to tear my teammates apart. The Weres would break
the ones they could handle from our lines and the men with guns would
shoot or use grenades on the rest.
One fire nymph was cut off from those who she helped with her burning
embrace or flinging fire, out into the open where the men blasted her
to death with a large grenade or something else?
The new men that came form the porthole are starting to fire volleys my
way and I noticed that these are not normal bullets. These are just
like the ones from the attack in Boston, cold iron core, wrapped in a
very thin jacket of Orichalcum and some were grenades on top of that!
These bullets smashed my shields down after a few dozen hits, I was
wasting my essence on trying to keep a shield up far too much! I saw
that we were taking far too many loses to win this, I knew what we had
to change and that was the leader dying by my hand!
As the battle line of fighting shifted, I moved towards the monster
silently in the trees far above his head and when the moment was
right...we twin Drow attacked him.
I fell out of the tree right at him, one of me slashed at him with a
sword and the other blasted away with the best Levin blots I had in my
spell book. But he took the hits and kept coming right back at me!
The creature that used to be a man at one time, lashed out at me with a
barbed tentacle that when it hit my leather armor and when the blow
landed, it slashed it clean through to my skin underneath! That was not
good, so I switched up tactics and changed one body over to my hard
metal armor...my best!
When the monster struck that armor, he burned a little form the
contact. But nowhere near as much as I thought he should! Both of us
twins hit this beast with our best, one would hide or use the best
armored one as a shield to attack then fall back and drop shield spell
on the other while she took her turn in trying to kill this monster.
This was a bad fight, we were almost a complete match, two Drows vs.
him and now his followers were starting to fire their guns onto my twin
backs. The fight was getting worse, my side was starting to lose and so
was I. Dodging all the incoming shots, meant that once and awhile the
leader...that monster landed a good shot at me!
My blades cut him badly, but he healed up so quickly and was using his
own men to get at me. Spells worked on the beast, but just like the
blades...he healed up very fast and if I did hurt him bad? He would
lash out just like a mythos would, by taking the life-force of an
underling and recharge or heal himself fully. I needed a weapon that
countered that healing and I only knew of one that was like that!
The same one that could kill me instantly, but I gave it to Gwen to
keep safety it from me and she was not here or it. I had to go get it
before my side lost this battle even more. So I hit my twin with the
best shield spell I had and yelled to the Fae to land more of their
attacks on this monster right now. But before I could port, he struck
my leg and wrapped a tentacle around it. I cut if off with a few
slashes of my sword, but he had hurt me bad with that one and now I had
a gash across my back, one leg hurt, plus my hand that held that
tentacle still while I cut it!
But I had to move and move now! My power to port reached out to where I
had to go and since I had a connection to it...my port worked
instantly! That port end up on the balcony just outside of the
guestroom, inside the room both Gwen, Jineen and Rascal plus his mother
jumped in fright as my still bloody hand slapped loudly against the
sliding glass door.
Gwen and Jineen both rushed over to open the door, Rascal was trying to
keep his mother from running from the room in fright, "What the hell
happened to you Ro!" Jineen and Gwen shouted in stereo just like us
Drow do!
"We are fighting something a little bad Jineen?"
"NO fucking shit girl, get your butt inside!" she demanded.
"Bad idea Jineen, you don't want my blood all over your carpet and I am
real sure you don't want blood from a human who was corrupted by a
mythos...on that nice carpet at all?"
"What in the hell are you fighting?"
"I can't say, but Gwen I need that blade I gave you and I need it right
now?" I asked her with a feigned smile.
"Ro that thing is back at my home and inside my room!"
"Okay, wait till I wash off? We have to go get it right now." I said
and limped a few feet over to a water hose coiled up on the balcony.
As I turned the hose, then washed some of the 'crud' off me. Rascal
finally calmed his mother down, then came over to me and dropped a
spell on me to help cleanse me of that black gooey mess.
I hit myself with a 'dry' spell to finish off my cleaning, then grabbed
Gwen's hand, "We are going now!" and I ported straight to her room on
the far west coast.
This landing was a little rocky and she landed on her bed. But she was
on her feet instantly, then got on her belly to yank a large box from
under her bed and fetched that blade of mine from inside it. I just had
to comment on where such a valuable and dangerous blade was stored,
"Gwen that blade is just under your bed, in a box and right next to
your stuffed teddy bear?"
"Hey that bear is important to me, just like your dog Max is to you?"
she growled at me and handed me the box.
"Gwen please open it too, or it's useless to me?"
"Ohh ya that's right the darn thing is sealed to all but me!" Gwen
beamed at me and fingered the latch to open it. When that was done and
the blade filled my hand, we ported back to Bill's.
After I ported back to the balcony, Bill was there now and he was mad
at me, anyone could tell! As I dropped the open box that the blade was
stored in onto my bed, he started to yell at me, "Ro what is all this,
where did you go and what messed you up?" he barked at me.
"The fight that needs to be done, the Grove and something that would
kill you by just glancing at it...anything else Bill?" I had to sass
back to him, as I answered each question in turn and I winced as the
pain was growing in my leg again.
Gwen saw my wincing and dropped a spell that Rhia taught her on my
wounds. That small spell did it's work well and the pain lessened as I
healed!
"Well I am telling you not to go back then, this is far too dangerous?"
he said and Jineen stood by him nodding to me.
"I have to, I have no choice in this and it's either do this tonight,
fight...or the rebirth of the Sidhe will never happen...ever!" I gasped
out as I felt a massive blow strike my other twin.
"What can be that important Ro? Let me gather some of the ARC guys and
we fight with you!" he offered.
"Not enough time, I have to go right now or we lose this fight Bill?" I
told him and readied myself for the fight.
"I am coming with you my Rohanna!" Rascal said to me and came over to
stand beside me.
"Rascal, this is no sim, we have a very good chance of dying in this
fight and the ones we are fighting with don't do the prisoner thing at
all!" I said to him growing upset at thoughts of him being hurt.
Then Gwen walked over to