Shadowsblade a Whateley Tale: Written by Shadowsblade

Created for war and forged in pain, dealing with demons within and without.

This is the story of a man who finds a magic box, one that changes him into a Teenage Drow girl (a dark elf) and he has to deal with the very sudden change. Then handle all the memories of a Drow that was 'made' for a long lost war. This new part of him, has 40,000 years of memories of fighting that war. She has to deal with all that pent up PTSD, her enemy is here, but she loves her. Her old Queen is here and she wants to kill, that Queen ohh so bad!

So far in the story, Rohanna is being sent to a high school for mutants. While in school, she has to learn to keep that temper in check and her vast skills at killing others! She has been attacked in Boston while shopping, by her new lover by accident of fate and by an assassin that nearly kills her.

The last major hurdle in her short new life, is that a science project gone mad! Has made an exact clone of her and linked it mentally to her every thought, it reacts like an extension of her body now.

In this chapter

Rohanna continues her rescue mission and battles the gang of mercs and herself at times

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Friday, August 10, 2007 12:45AM
Large home in the well off section of Tampa

As our group separated back into the cars we drove to this area in.

The Tampa police department arrived at the large home, from a 911 call made by a close neighbor of the home and while the small fire still burned at the bottom of the cater the drone's explosion had made. The first police car into the driveway was very cautious while it drove up the long drive slowly, the driver's partner searched the blackness of the long drive with the car's roof mounted light's bright beam, "Looks clear, but lets wait for back-up in case this is mutant related?" he said in a cautious tone over to his partner driving

And she nodded back, "I agree, no need to get wasted by a mutant having a bad day!" the cop behind the wheel added.

As the cop car crept up the driveway inch by inch, the beam of light off the car's roof finally found the open crater, "Woof that has to be three foot deep at least! I wonder what did that?"

"I don't know and don't want to really know, but we have two other cars behind us now. Lets get out and see what all of this is about?" the driver said.

"I got the AR this time!" the cop in the passenger seat said as he pulled the rifle off its seat mounted rack.

"Fine, I will get the brick buster out of the back!" the other commented as she exited the car to open the trunk and pull out a large shotgun from a rack inside the now open trunk lid.

As the first two offers crept across the yard, another two joined them while last four searched over the large fenced in yard. Just inside the large home's front door, the first officer stopped in his tracks at the sight, "Well we have bodies here, call the homicide squad!"

An hour passed by as the right people were called in and when all was finally set. The first SWAT team entered the home wearing 'clean suits' to keep the evidence inside the home untainted. The team only needed ten minutes when the leader came back outside to the four waiting homicide detectives and the very ready CSI team, "All clear, we have four bodies inside and all of them are in the rear office."

The CSI team entered first, as they used a flying drone to film and scan the room before entering. When the bot came back to 'beep' the job was finished, a CSI tech angrily sighed out slowly, "Well whoever was here, they used a full coverage DNA blocker spray and I bet it covered up all the fingerprints too darn it!"

When the team of four detectives, two men and two women overheard that statement, the lead detective with 'Lance' stenciled on his jacket next to his captain rank, shrugged to his team, "Well that made this mess a lot harder to track down?"

The man next to him wearing a badge with 'Cagney' growled out slowly, "Yep, but we all know we are dealing with pro's or well funded hood now, because that of that level of tech being on their hands proves it!"

Shortly the CSI team cleared the house for entry by the homicide team, while the CSI team went about collecting the last of the evidence and noted what the small team of detectives found as they investigated the home.

One coroner helped a detective roll over one body near the stairs going down into the basement. As he did, he cringed at the sight they both found, "SHIT! who ever chopped this guy's head off...they also cut the shotgun he was holding clean in two...dammmm!" he cringed at the fact.

"Humm looks like arm, shotgun and jacket all in one clean shot...like a razor or a laser would do?" Lance said to his team.

"Well by that line of sight or shot line cap? That guy must have been the one to shoot this old guy over here after the first one laying in the door fired his gun and died for it? But why didn't anyone in the room go for cover?" the girl looking over the older mans body asked as she crouched beside it.

"That hits me as strange too?" Cagney said as he rolled the body he was working onto a black bag to zip up for transport, "But this one here is missing an arm too...and it's an insanely clean chop to cap?"

"Well anyone want to say mutant yet, or lay odds on it?" Lance smiled to his team and everyone in the room shook their head.

A woman with 'Pepper' on her jacket was studying the office table's contents, "Hey this clock is WAY out of place?" she said picking it up in a gloved hand, then flips it over to find to her surprise, "Hey this one is a 'nanny cam'!...We lucked out if it's not erased?"

Lance yells out to the CSI team still in the living room, "Hey Sparks...you got work to do and don't smoke it this time!" he ordered remembering the last time the young kid ended up turning electronic evidence into virtual smoke!

As the kid came over to the desk, Pepper dropped the last of the tables evidence into a box at her feet, "All clean kid, you can work on this and let me get out of the way of the flames first!" she laughed to his pain.

As the kid set up his laptop computer, a lady detective with a simple 'Jessica' tag on her jacket pointed out to her teammates, "Ahh this one that was in the chair, his neck is not just broken...it was snapped like a twig!"

"Well say it somebody....anyone...Bueller...Bueller?" Lance asked in deadpan.

The other detectives laughed at the classic movie reference.

The wizkid finally gets the files on the nanny cam to open and after it plays for several minutes, he whistles slowly at what it shows him, "Woof Cap, this girl...that was recorded on this thing...man talk about a vicious girl! She killed both men in seconds!....Shit wait...make that twin girls?" he said while squinting at the computer's screen in disbelief!

With the kids reaction showing that badly, the whole team stands behind him as he hits the replay a few times for them all to see. All four shake their heads at the sight, but the Captain speaks first, "Well tell me what you see guys?"

"Ohh that is a mutant for sure, but too bad it did not capture who ever must have come in later and offed the one in the chair?" detective Pepper said, as she pointed the man out on the floor again.

"In my opinion cap, those twins know how to fight and then add that nice little teleport they do on top of that!" Jessica gave her opinion next with a quick nod of being impressed.

"Well I would say by the faces and hair...both are from Italy or Greece? Maybe one of the other larger islands in the Med. But the accent is all American, but not quite...it's like both of them speak other languages too?" Cagney added as he listened intently to the whole video once more with a small headset covering both ears, "But both did say that their gang was moving in on this territory...so this is only the start of this mess!"

Lance taps the computer screen a few times to enlarge it and ponders out loud, "I have see at least one of these two somewhere before today...I just can't place it right now?"

"What now Cap?" Cagney asks his boss.

"Well pack it all up and we will wait for the bomb squad to finish off their analysis on that crater in the lawn, but my bet is it's one of those drones we have all seen lately. The new ones, that covers up all DNA evidence on the crime scenes and I have to wonder where the gangs are getting those expensive things from these days?"

As the group packs up the evidence gathered from all across the room so far, into various boxes. Cagney makes a copy of the video for his buddies over at the MCO! He thinks silently, "These twins are too dangerous to be out in public and we need to get rid of them soon...very soon!"

Saturday, August 11, 2007 5:45AM
Dunwich, New Hampshire
Bill and Jineen's Townhouse

The winds was just picking up as the sun peaked out and started to shine on the balcony. Both of us Drow spent the night out here meditating and arguing inside our own head about what might happen next in our attempt to save Alex?

My bunny phone beeped, then vibrated a little next to us and I tapped the screen to accept the call as I peeked one eye it's way, "Well who is this?" I asked the device.

"Meow...guess?" it called at me, as Paige's cartoon icon came to life and the hologram she used winked back at me.

"Hiya, so what do you have for me this morning or what did the cat drag in?" I asked her as we twins stood up to stretch out.

"Well that military guy was VERY hard to find...sheesh I had to hack the pentagon and the CIA to get anything on him!" purred at me a little upset at the effort it took her to get that information.

"Well cat...drag it in already!" I teased back at her as Rehanna left to go grab us both breakfast with a port down to the kitchen below my feet.

"WELLLLL," she dragged out the word for a few seconds, "That guy was an EX army type that left the service to help the CIA kill nice little kids in other lands...and I found a few mutants on that short execution list within the US too...that bastard!" she growled and roared like a lion to me.

"So if I see him, say hello in a bad way to him?" I giggled to her.

"YES you darn Drow...tell him goodnight forever for me!"

"So anything else?" I had to get her mind off that guy fast, as Paige really hates the CIA for what they did to her and others in her family !

"What else did I find?" she said as the hologram grew to full size and she was standing there in a cute 'Tron' movie like suit.

"Yesssss girl...out with it!" I barked at the holo.

"Okay his name is John Manix, trained all the way up to Green beret standards and expert sniper. He is a mutant, with level one regen and level three exemplar...that's all I have on him for now?"

"The gang leader?"

"Ohh him, I found that guy is almost nothing on the net, no digital fingerprint at all! He is one smart or lucky cookie, as he has kept such a low profile there is no record of him in any police files or DMV or passports?"

"So he scrubbed his past that good?" I had to ask as Rehanna showed up with pop tarts in hand, along with two bowls of maple/brown sugar flavored oatmeal for us both.

"Nope...the darn guy just does not have one at all, funny not having a digital paper trail these days?" she explained.

"Anything on the gang itself?" I said as I took a hot bowl and curled up in a chair.

"The gang is new, only a few years old and the local cops have not really noticed it just yet? But the FBI is really interested in them, because of the devisor drugs they sell at such a high profit and the whole network that seems really well thought out on it's organization?" she continued for me.

"Humm and his other lieutenants or?"

"Well there is a note of FBI making an ID's on two other mutants working for this guy...a TK tank style one and one Devisor that makes or cooks his drugs?"

"Thanks I needed that warning, I will be looking out for that TK guy!"

"Yep, just so you know, this guy's power set is very much like Truck's and has all the same vulnerabilities he has?"

"Thanks Paige, I will not get hurt like the first time Truck and me tangled at Whateley." I smiled to the holo of her.

"I know, but knowledge is power!" she purred over to me.

"Well lets see where the PREY went to ground last night!" I said as both of us unfolded the huge street map of Tampa and the surrounding area.

As the map unfolds, I watch as the glowing line that the money traveled on runs across the map and one line ends inside a huge industrial complex of warehouses, the other ends up in a upscale section of town at a small shopping strip? After both end, I scan the phone over the map at both locations, then tell Paige what tracking symbols equal what cars or money that I know of?

"Give me a min on this one Ro?" she bubbles at me, then I hear her yelling at 'Blue' the other techmage of the school and our mutual friend. She barks at him out of my sight, but makes sure to let me overhear the whole exchange, "Blue darn it get on that for me and Ro please?"

"Yes.....Paaagie!" he cries as I laugh at his antics.

Then Paige comes back on the holo off my phone with a shimmer, "Well most of the convoy including the Rolls went into this warehouse," she points it out on the holographic map she makes float in the air for me to see, then points out the other location, "And this one is a restaurant, that I am very sure this gang leader owns."

"How does he or how are you sure of that...on the restaurant that is?" I ask wondering if that would be a good spot to gain more information on where Alex might be held at?

"Ohh the paperwork on the warehouse is owned by the same shell company that owns the restaurant...But those are the only two connections. All the rest is on hard copy that I can not read...darn it!" she says more than upset at the fact this guy is very careful at hiding from the law!

"Paige, you have done fine, just fine and without you I could not find a thing on this man." I admit that she can track her prey in ways I can only dream of.

"You know it, us computer geeks rule!" Blue yells out as he intrudes on Paige's holo with a playful hip bump that shoves her a foot across the patio.

"Ohh get out you!" Paige barks at him and zaps him with a cartoon ray gun that resembles the one Marvin the martin might use daily.

"I won't, but Rohanna should hear this one right now!" Blue shouts as he flies back into the holo.

"What is that you goof?" I had to ask him with a cheesy grin.

"I keep a running program that searches for certain things all the time, I change it weekly when I check on it and it popped up a huge hit!" he grinned as his body floated off the holographic ground, like he was playing superman.

"Well out with it moron!" Paige growled as she 'bonked' him on the head with a paw!

"Well this one popped with one strange entry out in Colorado Springs, Colorado...." he stopped to give his statement pretend tension and gained a 'bonk' from Paige because of her impatience!

"Blue...I am waiting and thinking of popping over there to rip your computer apart!" I hissed a warning of things to come.

"Well it was...Dark elf or Drow! It was entered once, just once in a medical opinion on the university internal web for an hour...then quickly erased! Heck even the computer was wiped clean of the sentence, the whole file even! But my program saved a snapshot of the hard drive before it was erased in some haste?"

"Well I would call that strange, but any other data to add to it?"

"Nope, all of the connecting files seem to be on paper only and kept like someone that is trained in hiding? That one online file was a doctor slipping up is my best guess!"

"Please keep watching that one for me, make that one personal just for me?" I sang to him and gave him a little 'girl' like sugar to convince him.

Paige instantly feigned barfing, "Yeech get a room already!"

I laughed at her, then asked on my best sexy husky voice "Yes Paige, get us one will you?"

Blue gulped once and vanished with a Tron like derezzz!

Saturday, August 11, 2007 6:55AM
Dunwich, New Hampshire
Bill and Jineen's Townhouse

When I heard the distinctive sounds of Jineen or Bill making breakfast downstairs, we twins leapt down to see what was 'cooking' in more ways than one!

"Hey you two, go back to your room if you are going to do that here!" I teased the couple as I caught them kissing far too long.

Bill broke his hug with Jineen as she slapped his butt playfully, "Well what is the plan for today?" he asked me taking a seat at the counter.

"The plan is...I am going out alone to a warehouse where almost all the cars from last night ended up at?" I smiled as I grabbed some toast off the plate of them and Rehanna slid the butter over to me.

"Seeing where these guys call home is good, but you going at it alone is something I don't like and besides you might need one of us or all of us to follow them?" Bill told me.

"I'll be fine, besides there are two of me?" we both grinned at him and said in stereo.

Then only Rehanna continued on slowly while I ate my toast, "and I will have that radio card you insisted I have on me?"

"Okay Rohanna, but just sneak in and take a peek? None of that questioning with extreme prejudice please!"

"I can do that, but if I see Alex and I need to act to save him? All bets are off, I will act!" my voice growled a little.

"That is exactly what I expected you to do Rohanna...just be careful is all?" Jineen added as she plated a heap of scrambled eggs for all of us.

Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:15 AM
Tampa area industrial park

Since it was still early, I had hoped that the crew of men that showed up at the counting house last night were still snoozing about or at their personal homes? Before I left for a recon of the place. I had placed a wireless earbud in one ear, so that I could talk to Paige or maybe Bill and family.

Both of us Drow ported to the same building's roof on the far edge of the industrial complex and then started to jump or port from roof to roof to work ourselves slowly into the center where our target stood at. I worked one way around, circling the whole several block large section of the complex and Rehanna did her part on covering the other half.

As I landed on one roof, Paige barked out in my ear...way too loud for me, "Hey too bad you don't have a camera or a video screen in that mask of yours!"

"Shhh turn down the volume darn it girl...down by like ninety percent or more!" I whispered out into the flat mini mike I pasted inside this mask.

"Sorry...all better?" she asked a whisper that no one could hear.

"Yes better, but putting a display inside my mask? It was hard enough learn how to bespell the leather to make it clear!"

"That leather is clear!?...I did not know that?" she gasped at me.

"On one side yes, from the outside no..." I said simply back to her.

"I did not know magic could do that?" Paige pondered to me as I landed on the building roof.

"Maybe you should take a few magic classes and see if you can do it?" I told her.

"Magic and tech blend...not going to happen!" she sassed me.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic...Arthur C Clark!" I quoted to her.

"Fuck you Ro and that studied brain of yours!" she laughed at me.

"Nice, then there is the other side of the equation too?" I quizzed her.

"What is that?" she asked falling for it just like I did in magic class one day.

"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." I said flatly with a giggle, as I looked over the building's edge and into the target building's parking lot.

"Ohhh brother!" she sighed out.

"I am on the roofline of the building to the west and the parking lot is empty?" I asked her.

"Yep it is, they park all the cars inside that huge warehouse and only one has came back out all day by the video feeds I could find out here."

"And what was that one?"

"That one was a Cadillac SUV."

"Did you track that one anywhere?"

"Can't or couldn't! There is a video camera deadzone around here and the GPS factory unit in that SUV was disconnected and it had a covered plate too! But I bet it uncovers once this guy gets far enough from here to need it?" she added.

"This guy knows his stuff, or one of his staff does?"

"I am sure that merc named Manix is the one behind most of these precautions, the boss uses!" she informed me, "he has the background in tradecraft!"

"Humm, well I guess it's time to go on inside and see what we see then?" I said while rechecking my invisibility spells.

As I dropped to the roof of the warehouse, both of us Drow checked for any tech that might warn the men under our feet that we were here! I spotted a nice size vent that would be a good fit for my mental plan and slit the top of it off with a blade, thus making a small hidden door that the Pixies could use with ease.

I kneeled on the top on the roof silently as I talked to Violet and her sister, ~"Little one's, go on inside and find a nice place for me to port too and look around as best you can?"~

Violet gave me a quick nod of her understanding, ~"You got it sis!"~ and she flew into the vent followed closely by her sister.

As both Pixies flew throughout the building, I could see via their eyes that almost no one was even up yet. About half of the building was sectioned off into a bunch sleeping quarters, each one was a small bedroom with no bath and the end of the long hallway had one huge barracks style bathroom for all of the men of the building.

There was one good thing the Pixies both found right now for me! Most of the men were fast asleep and most of their doors shut to the rest of the building. This left the rest of the place easy pickings for us invisible and silent Drow to search! Then add no roving guards, how foolish of them!

The rest of the building was a rather nice set-up, mostly taken up by some car parking and a large office area that was the 'front' for the operation that kept prying eyes from making connections to what was really going on here.

Lilac flew into a section that was surly a drug lab by all the glass beakers and lab equipment all around it. When I saw her flying into the door through her eyes, I reacted instantly, ~"No Lilac...don't go in there! We don't know if something in there might hurt you?"~

~"Okay sis!"~ she said mentally to me, as she only peaked inside the large room for a second to show me the room a little better and there seemed nothing to worry about inside the room for now.

After I warned Lilac off, her sister Violet found what could be called the operations center for the whole building and flew into the room, both unseen plus silent. She perched herself on a shelf overlooking the room and watched the two sleepy men trying to stay awake while they watched over the boring monitors showing them the inside of the building, in addition to the surrounding area around this warehouse.

Lilac continued her scouting mission and found me a great spot to start off my searching from in the building's huge car parking area. This was the best one of the many spots, that they had found for me so far and she waited as we twins ported to her, then we checked the area quickly for threats after we ported.

When I ported into the building, we lost communication with Paige instantly, so I ported back outside while Rehanna watched over the building from the inside. I tapped the earbud to turn it back on since it lost signal, "Paige you there?"

"Ya you just dropped out and the signal was just gone. Usually when you port, it barely misses a beat and keeps the link, but this time...nadda?" she told me.

"What could do that?" I asked the expert in all things techy.

"Humm reach into that vent and see if you find any metal screens covering it for me?" she asked.

I reached in and found nothing, so I had Lilac look for me this time and sure enough she showed me a bass colored screen that covered the vent lower down that both Pixies had busted through to get into the building. Then outside the venting attached on the ceiling just under the roof was even more of the stuff lining it!

I told Paige what was found lower down inside the vent by my Pixie and in the roof. Paige muttered to me next, "Well that makes sense to me, they must have faraday caged the whole building and only have a few or one link to the world that I have not found yet?"

"So what to do now, ohh goddess of the net?" I kidded her.

"Good to hear you praise my omnipotence for once! But pop back to my room and I will give you a NEXT made bug that bores thought that stuff physically and then I can connect via using that!" she suggested to me.

"On my way Paige!" I sang when I ported to her.

After landing in her room at Whateley with ease, Paige opened her eyes to me from her place laying in a nice soft chair that she used for her body, while her mind was in the world of the net, "Hey you!" she grinned at me like that classic nut she really is.

The reason why Paige stayed in Whateley during the summer is many fold, one she has nowhere to really go to outside of the adjacent Medawihla tribal lands where her adoptive family lived and then TWO and the very big one...she was still hunted by many government agencies for her mutant skills in the internet world that she ruled in.

"Hey Paige!" I purred as we hugged a little, "looking a little furry today?" I questioned that she was leaning more than normal over to her Werepanther side today.

"Yep, just felt that way today for some reason?" she shrugged back to me.

"Anything that makes you happy is good, so what is this little magic box of yours?" I ask as I grab a soda from her huge fridge of them. She was one of the few students that had a custom room made only for her and her's was three times the size mine had been!

She bounced over to a shelf of computer parts, boxes, drives, and other hard parts. After a few things fell towards the floor, I caught a few of them? But when she was causing ten things to fall off the shelf at the same time, I can only catch so many of them!

Paige watches as I clean up her little mess and then hands me a small black box, "Just place this right on the roof and it will drill down into the building. Then automatically begin searching for a signal from inside the building."

"Ohh I love this thing, let's get it in place and see what it or you find in the warehouse!"

"Well get going, please be careful?" she warns me knowing that she only has a few friends like me, that understand her so fully.

"I will...cya on the net!" I say as I vanish from her sight.

Back at the warehouse, I placed the small box on the roof, that blended so well with the other vents I doubted anyone would ever spot it and hit a button to turn it on. The small box went about it's job without a single peep, even my great hearing barely picked up it's small motor at work as it drilled through the roof's wood and sveral layers of roofing material!

Two minutes after I had set it down, Paige purred into my earbud, "Hey we got something here! I am in and searching over what they have, give me a few girl?"

"Great, I am going back inside the warehouse and see what I can find real world wise, tell me what you find ohhh goddess of the net!"

One quick port later I was searching over the warehouse areas where Rehanna had not yet covered, during my search I found the BMW's and van that was used to empty the counting house. But Rehanna found the one big thing we both mentally cheered...a huge safe in one corner of the building AND I mean HUGE! The darn thing was an easy twenty by twenty all the way to the roof!

"Hey Paige what is in this thing beside money?" Rehanna sub-vocalized in asking her.

"Ohh that just has the cash in it, the bigger guns of the gang and some drugs is my bet?" I can almost see her shrug the answer in my mind.

"You think the leader might store some of his paperwork in there?" I has to ask.

"Maybe, but I bet it's in code or something?"

"Okay is the space inside it, big enough for me to port into?"

"Let me look...." she said and I waited for a minute. Then Paige came back very happy, "Hey while I was looking for any video on the local net of the safe's insides, I found some neat records of the gang's money transactions and that only one car has left here today that must have had our leader in it...the big plus is, that I can track this car because it's so rare!"

"What is it, because maybe I might want to keep it!" I grinned under my mask.

"Ohh you will not want it, it's a russian made piece of crap SUV made to look 'tough' called the "Dartz'!" she laughed in my ear.

"I'll take your word for it! But I thought you spotted a SUV leaving here, a Cadillac?"

"I goofed, that was next door? I told you the video was spotty from the area around here. But that car or SUV defiantly came from here!"

With going into the vault out the question for now and better choices around to check on. We Drow ported out of the building back up to the roof. Once I was sure that all were accounted for, I sat down and pulled out my bunny phone to chat with Paige better.

"Well what is the next stop? I can make out where on the map I have to a point, but a nice GPS location might help me out more Paige?" I ask the phone as I sat on the roof and pulled out a snack for each of us to munch on.

After the holo of a anime cat floated above the bunny phone, Paige smiled to me, "Ro, the next place I would go to is that bar, slash restaurant, slash stripper club? I am still tracing down the SUV via the traffic cams and that takes time to do?"

"Well please ask Blue to help ya?"

"He is on it right now for me or us? But I will keep on it and I am spending sometime on the files I found hidden on the warehouse's hard drives!"

"That sounds like so much fun? But am I going to have problems getting into what sounds like a adult only place?"

"Ohh no! This place caters to the whole spectrum, the bar is separate from the restaurant by a door, plus short wall and the strip club is through yet another door and has a one way mirror that overlooks the restaurant."

"Sounds like an upscale place to me?"

"It is, but they take standby diners and the food sounds real good to me!" the anime cat grinned at me.

"We will see, but it's funny that the gang is paying for my meal!" I sang remembering that we took some of their cash last night.

Paige signed off and since I wanted a nice lunch back at home, we ported back to the townhouse for now.

Saturday, August 11, 2007 12:15 PM
Downtown Tampa, local MCO branch

Captain Lance of the Tampa PD homicide team walked into the MCO office from the basement access door that also lead to the large city parking garage that this office shared with most of the other city or federal services of the area.

He walks a straight pace right up to the office entrance and the person behind the counter that is covered in bullet resistant glass buzzes him in with a simple nod of knowing him. Then strolls down the long hallway at a leisurely pace while saying 'hello' a few times to passerby's that seem to know him well.

With a light shove he opens the last door on the end, with the name Matt Helm on the door. A surprised man stands to greet him, "Lance next time call and we can hit a meal or something?" he laughs like a long time friend, while shaking Lance's hand.

"Naw Matt, I had to come see you quickly, I have a new one for ya to see and this one is a killer!" he says while taking a seat and sliding a memory stick to the man.

A few minutes later, Matt nods at what he has seen on his computer and that was a copy of the clocks footage from the counting house, with the Drow twins shown it covered by their illusionary disguises.

Matt leans back in his office chair as he sighs out, "Well you certainly found a good one, those two are certainly killers. Do you have any line's on them and want me to step into this?"

"No clue on who they are, but I have seen them somewhere and that somewhere was right here in the city and very recently!" Lance said as he took the memory stick off the computer.

"Okay, I'll look into them and do a comparison against the database for you?" Matt said as he leaned forward to make a note on doing just that.

"Cool Matt, just get back to me soon please? I have no real clues on this one, all of it is fresh and the crime scene was cleaned before we got there." Lance said standing back up to leave the office.

"Lance, I am going over to 'Sinker' for a few and I would be happy if you joined me for one?"

"Can't make it Matt, this one is real messy and is taking all my time up. But call me for the next one and have fun tonight!" Lance said as he took Matt's offered hand and left the building.

Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:25PM
Just outside of Downtown Tampa

Both of us back on the streets once again and in our shared disguise of a five foot girl with black hair glanced up at the huge neon sign above the parking lot of the stylish club.
I hoped that just walking up off the street would not look too strange and that teen twins would not stick out too much tonight?

We had chosen a very nice set of clothes to better blend into the upscale crowd of this place, with Rohanna wearing nice pants with a silk top and our skull decorated leather jacket. Rehanna, the Drow part of me had decided to go with almost the same style pants in a darker color kelly green, topped by a men's style button shirt and her denim jacket with skull hello kitty in bright pink on the back.

I stared up at the sign one more time before crossing the lot, "Who would call a upscale strip club and restaurant...Hook, Line and Sinker? That is just stupid!"

Rehanna glared at me as she growled, "Er'griff ruzzo'iso rivvin orn'la doer phor xuil nindel kaas!" (Only dumb humans would come up with that name!)

"None of that, when you fully come out...please talk in english and not Drow. It kinda shows who we are to the humans!" I chastise the Drow part of me.

"What ever, you sure are getting soft as the days go by! Maybe it's time to start training hard again?" Rehanna said while slapping me on the back.

"And you don't call us working on a movie for weeks and doing most of our own stunts for nearly twenty hours a day...hard training?" I shook my head to the Drow's statement.

"You don't have any new or fading scars from it, so no I would not!" she gave me an evil grin as she said it to me.

"I can't take you anywhere!" I laughed out as we came to the door of the restaurant and a man standing at the door opened it for us both.

As we came in, a head waiter asked if we had a reservation? But we said no and he glanced at this reservation sheet. Then nodded to us, "I can seat you twins at a small table that happens to be open right now, is that agreeable?"

We nodded back to him and said in stereo, "Yes that is great."

He started to lead us off to a small table at the far end of the restaurant, along the way I made a mental map of this place's layout. The seating area of the restaurant was separated by a low four foot tall wall from the majority of the dining tables and booths, behind the bar was a huge thirty foot long mirror that separated the bar into two halves one being just bar plus restaurant and the other being the bar plus the high end strip club.

As I scanned over the menu, as a waitress came up and asked us simply, "Are you two ready yet and welcome to the Hook, line and sinker."

"What do you recommend for those who can't eat meat...any meat?"

"Is that both of you?"

"Yes and not by choice." Rehanna said for me.

"Ohh allergies, I get that. But the nachos are good and we have fine stone fired pizza too!" she bubbled off at us both.

"We will take two of each then..." I started.

"...and the fries too!" Rehanna added in her growing more distinct Drow tone of voice.

The waitress smiled as she made notes, then took our menus and pointed over to a large soft drink machine, "That is open to all diners, just serve yourself please?"

I decided to sip the water for now while Rehanna sneaked into the other sections of the building as she pretended to go to the bathroom.

Rehanna slipped into the bathroom unseen, then switched over to her black armor and faded from sight as the invisibility spells woven into the leather did their work. She crept out of the bathroom hallway, then right into the working areas of the restaurant/bar and what she was looking for as her tall from dodged the staff...was an office!

A few yards away from the kitchen area down the rear most hallway, a row of offices came into her view and she made her way quickly down to them. The first few ended up yielding nothing, but the last one was a gold mine of information. Rehanna closed the door slowly as she dropped a spell that would encourage others not to think of entering the room.

Outside in the restaurant, Rohanna made her way to the bathrooms, then once inside she switched to Rehanna's clothes from their shared storage and then fixed up her appearance in a mirror before going back to the table to eat. Doing this trade of clothes would make one twin's disappearance for several minutes seem very normal to the casual viewer!

As Rohanna retook her seat as her twin, Rehanna flipped through the owner's office for papers and found gold. One file had the addresses of four other places, that were owned by the same holding company and we could see if Alex was being held in them! But the best one was a list of what the 'Boss' liked served for dinner each time he came here and that list also had an address at the bottom noted for home deliveries!

With all those places memorized now, Rehanna quickly made her way out of the office and down the maze of hallways back to the restroom. Once inside the safety of a locked stall, she switched back to civi clothes and walked at a casual pace back out into the restaurant.

Rehanna sat in her new spot replacing the missing Rohanna in the eyes of the rest of the restaurant for now, "Ahhh good the food is here!" she said pretending like she did not know the food had been served.

While they ate, the waitress checked in on both of them, "All good for you two?"

"Ohhh fine!" Rehanna smiled as she took some more of the chips off huge plate of nachos and placed them on her's.

"Well if you two want dessert? The ice cream and dessert bar is included with each meal like the ones you have." she added.

"Where is that?" Rohanna asked as she looked around the area, from not seeing that on the way in.

The waitress points towards the bar area over a short wall across the seating area, "It's over there by the bar, just please stay to the desserts area and stay way from the bar...as you are both certainly underage?"

"Thanks, we will try some of the offerings you have later," Rehanna said and kept from agreeing on their age, so that she did not lie!

When I finally finished off the last bit of the cheese pizza, I stood up to go grab some dessert and ice cream was at the top of my mental list. I glanced to the direction the waitress had pointed out, just past the low wall that separated the bar area and the dining seating area. I spotted the long dessert bar and boy that bar had a layout that rivaled the schools!

To start off I grabbed a large bowl, then dropped a warmed brownie at the bottom to start off my creation. Next came some vanilla ice cream, that was topped off by hot fudge and on the very top I added no less than five spoon fills of different candy sprinkles... "Perfect!" I sang as I ambled back to my seat.

Just as I put a yummy spoon full of that goodness into my waiting mouth, a man at the bar spun around on his stool to get a snack was my guess and he blinked in surprise as he saw me in the darkness by the bar, plus the very spotty lighting.

"You how did you get here, did you follow me here!" he roared at me as he picked up the stool and tossed it right at me!

My body spun just out of the way of the flying metal stool, but it just glanced my hand and the bowl of heavenly food smashed into the hard floor! Now I was pissed, that one was perfect and I let him, plus the world know that!

"GAEA DAMN IT, that sundae was perfect! The ice cream was just tasting so...melted just right and the fudge was at that perfect temp...lets not even mention the warm fudge brownie...you asshole!" I screamed at him as I sent swift roundhouse kick his way.

Rehanna back at our table was putting an order in with the waitress when a great dinner was suddenly ruined by who ever this was? She sighed out, "Awwww fuck and this was going so well!" she quickly pulled from her pocket a bunch of folded bills and handed them to the waitress as she stood up, "Here is a tip for the mess that is going to happen...sorry?" she finally shrugged as she vanished in a port.

My kick sent this unknown man stumbling back a few feet back into the bar rail, just as Rehanna's port end up right beside him and she punched his already bruised face...this guy must have been in a fight already this week and was mistaking me or us for someone else?

He bounced off the bar top with that punch and came up with a gun in his hand that he fired my way, "I'll kill both of you!" he shouted at us.

"Ohh fuck this, I don't need even more dead bodies tonight or this week!" I mumbled out as I ported behind him and the bar, as his bullet 'zinged' into a wall where I was standing.

Rehanna ported off a few yards to give us both distance and stay out of the man's sight for now. I picked up a huge bar mug off the bar and as he spun about searching for me, I smashed the large mug over his head. That hit looked as if it knocked him out cold!

I thought this was over till a huge man picked up a table and sent it flying Rehanna's way. It missed her as she ported away, her port ended up next to him and her foot swung out to kick him in the ribs...but it bounced off!

We had just found that TK mutant that Paige warned us about!

The TK grabbed Rehanna's foot and swung her out across the room, where she landed on her feet in a crouch. I tossed a full glass pitcher right at him as he laughed at me and I smiled at him as it shattered across his TK field, "Well that did not work...like I thought it would ever work! But we gotta go big guy and you can't come along...unless you want to finish this outside?"

He yelled at me, "You will never make it outside!" and he ripped up a whole seating booth, held it over his head and then sent flying it my way.

I ducked the quickly aimed toss with ease as it smashed through the huge mirror behind the bar...I laughed at him loudly, "That looks like about seventy years of bad luck for you big guy...if you live through the next seven minutes!"

With the huge mirror now gone, a man stood up on the other side of the closed off bar or the strip club side of the building and fired a pistol at Rohanna's back. But he missed as Rehanna's keen sight saw the shot coming for her twin or self and Rohanna ported off a few feet to stare at him in anger, "You would shoot a teen girl in the back? You are a monster!" I stated my opinion of the man to him.

"FREEZE...MCO you are under arrest!" he shouted at me and showed us a ID badge holder in his other hand to prove it!

"Yep you're a monster alright! But I don't have the time to kill you off...so bye!" I grinned, as I waved 'bye' his way and vanished in a port along with Rehanna.

Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:35PM
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Tonya checked in on her brother for the third time this evening, he was doing a whole lot better now than last week or heck the last few weeks for that matter! Four long weeks ago both brother and sister had begun to mutate, her at a much faster rate that ended up in mom taking them both to a trusted friend of dad's at the local university hospital.

Their mother had thanked god personally many nights for the fact that he ran his own research section and could hide two teenage patients with ease. But one day, one of his staffers had disobeyed his direct orders and placed part of his diagnosis, plus patient description on the net of the university and hospital.

The friend had spotted the mistake in only two hours, but on the net...that mistake was very much like years in the digital world of today! For the next few weeks the whole family was on alert, but could not move at all. Tonya had gone into burnout that led to her mutating from a very human teen into a elf with perfectly tanned skin, topped off with dark honey blond hair and her now trademark large violet eyes.

This a huge change from her old almost white skin, black brown hair and with smallish brown eyes. Her thin frame filled out with toned muscle, plus she gained a few inches to her new height of Five foot...nine inches. What surprised her most was her now flawless skin, she always had skin issues before...but now...none.

Her quick change had only taken four painful days to finish and almost ended her life a few times along the way if the doctors had not been so skilled at their job. But her brother on the other hand. His mutation was long and torturous, he had been changing for the last four long weeks.

Each week of his change brought a new issue, one week he was deaf as his ears changed. The next, he could hardly move as his skeleton and muscles grew in size and length. The third was most scary for him, he was blind for nearly a week and even now was just getting used to his rooms curtains being open after he regained his sight.

This last week was mostly the body finishing up the whole process, as his skin changed to an even darker purple black and his hair grew all the way down to his knees as it changed to fully pure white. The last four days had been hard on him, as he was still getting used to his new muscles and height just like his sister had too. But his transition came at a price, they had to move back home to avoid anymore prying eyes and that meant no real help at getting him around the house...so he had to lay in bed more while trying to exercise as best he could.

As Kevin showed the same style ears that his sister had, she started to call him a 'dark elf' because of his skin color and the fact it matched somewhat to what was shown in his many video games...not to mention his huge movie poster in his room! The doctor friend of theirs, even mentioned that during one of his visits. That he had taken note of the huge door poster Kevin had of the movie elves or 'DROW' Kevin would yell in correcting her at times and thought that he might be basing his mutation BIT on her as a template!...this happening was not unheard of in the world...rare, yes but it did happen!

Several days latter after the Doctor noticed the Dark elf or Drow like changes, he brought in two files on just that subject! One was a mutation caused by what he called "A mad scientist teenager...run amok!" that went to a private school that made a serum that could change a person into a Drow or kill you trying to!

File number two was most certainly from the Drows shown in the movie poster, but Kevin's change was very far from theirs and his might be the 'baseline' that her race once had, but she was changed by magic or other means since that base was around?

Tonya was interrupted in her daydreaming as a grinding gravel like shout came from her brothers room, "Sis, I need some help with getting some water?" he moaned from his room or the shared bathroom beyond it.

When she heard him moan so loudly, she ran like a rabbit into his room and when she noticed he was not laying in his bed she leapt to the bathroom to help him. She found Kevin standing shakily over the sink trying to get some water, she flipped the light on and he instantly shielded his eyes from the glare. Noticing his pain, she flipped the lights right off!

"No leave them on, I have to get used to them?" he whispered out.

"I know, so did I when I finished this shit!" she almost shouted to his newly sensitive ears and when he cringed at her. She whispered, "Sorry, I forgot that is painful too?"

"It's fine sis, just fill my a cup. My hand is too shaky after working it out today." Kevin asked.

She did as he asked instantly and took the cup back after he emptied it with one huge long gulp, "Need more?" she asked already holding it near the faucet.

"Please?" he said and she grabbed the larger cup she used this week because of her increased thrust from mutations that changed her only weeks ago.

And she filled the larger cup twice more for her brother, then helped steady him on the way back to his bed and laid him down, "Gee I stink!" he noted as she laid a sheet over his body.

"So you noticed that too!" she giggled to him.

"You smell things different too...and what else?" he asked.

"I smell things almost like a dog I'd bet and hear a whole lot better too...then my vision...woof!" she laughed.

"Yep my eyes are strange sis?" he said blinking them for her and they were very much so far. He saw the world far better in the dark than she could and farther too. But nowhere near what the girl in the files did!

She tried hard not to stare at his eyes, it was hard to look at Kevin sometimes...his eyes were so strange! Those all white balls in his head, they looked so dead to her at times, never moving, never straying and his line of sight covered so much more than her's did most of the time.

He noticed that she was uncomfortable talking about his eyes and changed the subject for her sake, "Well I guess I am going to have to take a bath soon?" he whined playfully.

"Yep, you stink more than you usually do!" she played with him like they always did!

"I am not that bad!"

"Well I can tell how bad you stink better now, but we will get you set-up in mom's bath. It has the bigger walk-in shower and we can set you down on the built-in seat it has!" she smiled as best she could.

"I want to exercise more beforehand and get real sweaty first?" he asked.

"We can do that, it's an easy walk for you and after my change, I can lift you up for sure if needed!" she said as her arm flexed a muscle for him like a beach body builder!

As his sister chatted to him, Kevin grabbed two heavy weights off the table and started to exercise with them. His training was less workout for strength, but far more for control. As his joints had changed, along with some of the nerve wiring! The doc had told him of that fact only a few days ago and very soon he would be his regular self again...or mutated self...that is?

Saturday, August 11, 2007 11:55PM
Dunwich, New Hampshire
Bill and Jineen's Townhouse

I sat at my laptop watching the video and reading over the links that Paige had sent me on the drone from the house. The whole thing was very interesting to me and I made a mental note to go shopping there someday very soon!

As I laid out all comfy in my chairs on the deck upstairs, Bill was in his small office talking to Dr. Otto from ARC and the subject was a touchy one at best, "So after seeing video of the issue and reading about the object. Do you think that Rohanna knows anything about it or how we can study it?"

Bill thought about what to say and not offend Otto? What his question was about, was the 'world tree seed' that was recently found by a student from Whateley, a tree that the Sidhe said could restart magic in the world again on a VAST scale and Nikki Reilly or 'Fey' planted the seed out in the Grove nearest the school on the night of July fourth.

Bill had just watched the video of Fey talking to Mrs. Carson about that act and Circe. But her mother 'jumped' on both and killed the subject...right there and then!

"Otto buddy, there is no way I am asking her about this and you...a human going out there to look at the darn thing? That will never happen in our lifetimes...that I am sure of!" Bill said in a friendly enough tone as not to sound put off by the question.

"Thought so, I had to ask for ARC research and directly asking her would have been a bad idea at best?" he laughed.

"Yep, just tell them the facts that out in the Grove, science does not work and humans die unless invited? That might shut them up...besides what is done...is done and we can not change that fact?"

"I agree, but you know the bosses here at ARC. They always want more from everything?" Otto stated, the conversation drifted over to more friendly chatting about the summer and the coming school year for the Drow twins.

Sunday, August 12, 2007 1:50AM
Dunwich, New Hampshire
Bill and Jineen's Townhouse

With some help from Paige, we decoded all the addresses off the accounting paperwork, that I had found in the restaurant's office. She pointed out the best one was a bar in the more seedy side of town was the next best choice for a visit. Because we agreed that the 'boss' would not keep a kidnap victim at his actual home.

This being late at night, heck darn early in the morning! I knew that I would be getting the regulars, bar flies and what I really wanted to hunt this trip...the gang's more stupid members maybe?

With the phone's GPS guidance, then add some suggestions from Bill and Paige. We twins landed in an alley behind the medium size bar and as I searched the area for threats while still invisible, cringed at the scents that this nasty filthy alley wafted my way, "Yeech smells like sewer here!" I nearly vomited out and even the Drow inside Rehanna agreed!

Rehanna wiggled her nose to me, "This is almost as bad as the Bog of Eternal Stench!"

With no one insight for blocks, we twins faded into sight and checked each other out that our illusionary cover was still in place. We still wore the one we made especially for our working in Tampa...the shorter Mediterranean girl with black hair and brown eyes.

Strolling into a dive bar this late at night for twin girls that appeared to be fifteen at best and this being a bar where booze was served, was not the best idea...but you have to start somewhere?

When both of us wandered into the bar's front door, the bartender behind his cruddy wooden bar or what used to be a rather nice bar decades ago shouted at both of us in a sternly voice of a jersey guy, "Hey you two, get out right now! Both of you are underage to even look in here...let alone drink in here?"

I walked up to the bar right in front of him uncaring about his warning and Rehanna covered my back as I walked forward, "Hey I am new here and looking for who runs this section of town?"

"Get out kid, we don't need any babies here!" he shouted once more.

I place two hundred in our recently acquired bills from the counting house on the wet grimy bar top and slide them over to the barkeep, "Hey we just want to know who to call boss and say hello to...and ask if it's okay if we 'work' in this area for awhile?" I smiled to him as pleasantly as I could muster in this situation.

"What kind of work girlie? You a hooker or something, because if you are...I am buying!" a very unkempt older man said as he grabbed Rehanna's shoulder.

She smiled at him and patted his hand a few times then grabbed it, "I think I am too young and FAR too clean for the likes of you...besides...you can't afford me!" she shouted as her fingers started to crush his hand!

The man whined out as he instantly crumbled to the floor held in her fierce grip, "Let me go...let me go...please...please...sorry...sorry!"

Rehanna let go as she told him, "Just keep your claws off me and have some manners next time!" she warned the crumpled human heap on the floor.

The bartender's eyes now were wide with surprise as he spoke, "So we are more than we look like...you might be able to find work around here?" he said knowing talented 'muscle' when he saw it.

"Just call that a deposit on a finders fee, if this city pays out for us both and here is a 'C' note for your boy to get a few pain pills." I said leafing another bill off the stack from my pocket and handed it over to him.

"Well that might help, but I would need more up front to give you the bosses address?" he tried to grin at me, but failed miserably with his tobacco stained teeth.

"I already know where he lives," I then recited the address to him that I had found in the strip club office and noticed him perk up a little...it was the right one for sure with that reaction! "I just need a name besides 'Da boss' and a good introduction?" I continued on saying with an inner smile, we had hit pay dirt!

"Well since you know where he lives at or really hangs his hat these days? He is Nathan Jessep and I will say that you seem cool so far?" he winked at me, that wink indicated to me a price and leafed off a few more large bills from my stack.

Just as I slid him the bills and he was writing me a short note to introduce me to the gang leader I hoped? A large man exited the back hallway that certainly lead to the restrooms and he angrily glared at me as he realized who I was.

Rehanna saw him first and sighed out in Drow her now trademark cussing, "Aww Shu!"
(Aww Shit!)

"Those are the two little bitches that busted up the HOOK last night!" he shouted and pulled a length of pipe from the wall to use as a club on us for sure!

As he came at me swinging, a sword fell into my left hand as I called it and swung to meet his swing, then cut his improvised pipe weapon in-half! "Really a pipe, you can do better than that!" I chastised him as the freshly cut piece rattled to the old wooden floor.

You are not escaping this time bitch!" he said while spear chucking the leftover part of the pipe my way and I ducked it with ease, "Lock the doors!" he shouted after the toss.

"Did I use the door the last time I left you in the dust asshole?" Rehanna asked as she tossed a full pitcher of beer his way and the glass shattered all over his TK shield...but the beer got him wet! That was good, very good indeed and that meant our knockout powders could get too the guys skin and end this quick!

Violet and Lilac buzzed all round his head trying to find that right spot in his TK shield to get a spear into and distract him for me at the same time. As they flew crazily about, his arm lashed out blindly, but still connected brutally with Violet and sent her small body flying into a brick wall that she tumbled off of very hurt and hit the floor very still!

I was mad now, beyond that I was vengeful! I ported to Violets side, then picked her still body in my hands...she still lived. But Rehanna on the other hand was merciless! She lashed out at the TK's knee, knowing that the joints on a TK tank were weak there and sliced the leg clean off at that joint with her sword.

He fell against the bar top to steady his loss of half a leg, plus howling in pain like an animal and that is when he must have lost concentration on his TK shield...untrained TK's do that...I learned that fact in class!

With his only protection gone, he was easy prey to a crazed Drow bent on vengeance and Rehanna sliced his belly wide open and his guts spilled out onto the floor in a sick wet plop that made most to the customers run for the door instantly when they saw it.

He screamed at the now frightened group of men, who just seconds ago seemed to be the toughest in the city and now most were crying like children to leave the bar! "Help me guys, she is killing me!"

"You got that right human, we kill those that hurt us!" Rehanna said coldly as I cradled the badly wounded Violet in my arms.

The barkeep was trying to leap over the bar now and join the men or what was now a scared rabble trying for the front door. As the barkeep cleared the bar, Rehanna continued her attack on the TK gangster and chopped off the arm the at the wrist, that the TK man was using to hold himself up after losing most of his leg. Instantly he started screaming even louder now, "Help, she is murdering me!" and fell to the floor, his severed hand was still holding a brass rail just over his head.

I checked on Violet, as I found her leg broken. Rehanna finished chopping off his leg in trade. Her arm was broken, so now the rest of his arm was severed too with the next hack! Violet groaned in pain up to me, so Rehanna poured whiskey over the man to make his open wounds burn like fire with the alcohol of the booze! And when I thought to go to the grove and get Violet healed, Rehanna finished the man off with a stab to the head.

In their combined haste to exit the bar, the rabble of men could not get the three locks on the door open, not even the man who just locked them thinking he was trapping us Drow inside here! They were all piled up at the door scrambling to unlock it, each one messing up the others work at just opening one lock...to relock it!

Rehanna spun on them, now covered in dripping red blood and wanting more vengeance for hurting Violet, but me as the calmer human part of us Drow stopped her wrath, "Let's go and tell this boss of yours we are coming for him!" I growled out and we both vanished to the grove.

Saturday, August 12, 2007 10:35AM
Colorado Springs, Colorado

With both of her children upstairs, Joannie sat at the small desk she had in the living room. She sighed out heavily thinking of her children upstairs, both Kevin and Tonya had changed into what most humans would call elves over the last month. Her daughter changed very fast and her son was just finishing up with his change, then add he was still getting used to the whole process of what happened to him too!

But Joannie had two changed kids, one could hide her differences with ease and the other could hide nothing without the help of extreme make-up to hide his vastly different skin color! Joannie, she was alone now, no husband to help, the idea of calling family was out and the asking the government was certainly out of the question! Because who knows what they might want...her dead...the kids...all of them because of Peter's CIA job!

At the desk, she had laid out her writing materials and she had just finished a long letter to the only hope she thought she had right now. She sealed it up, then added a message on the outside that only the person it was meant for should open it and that person was that Assassin that she confided in the night her husband was killed by the CIA.

Inside the long letter was one address of the many dead drops she had and this one was one she never used because she wanted it only for this contact. She wrote out one more letter explaining what she could to the place where the letter would be sent too and the three strange symbols the assassin gave her were added on each part...all sealed she dropped it into her purse to mail out later.

When she dropped that letter into her purse, she spotted that one cell phone rattling around in the bottom still sealed in it's own plastic bag and that one had the only number to that very same assassin... Joannie thought about using it right now and hoped that girl would answer to save her kids, but she left that as the 'last resort' for her to take!

Sunday, August 12, 2007 2:50PM
Dunwich, New Hampshire
Bill and Jineen's Townhouse

For hours last night, the Matron healed up my Violet in the warm water spring of the Grove. First we had to get her hurt body out of the armor she wore, so I activated that growth spell and all three of us, Lilac and us Drow. We slowly worked her limbs out of the armor, or opened up the seams magically to add us. From there the Matron and her helpers took over.

Most of that time we waited for Violet to heal up, I spent keeping my Drow part from raging out of control or the other Pixies...the man was dead and not coming back! He was punished and punished well by us, so it was over and done!

Now Violet sat happily at full size for us Drow and humans at the dining table eating her fill of chocolate chip pancakes that Bill insisted on making. He was upset that she got hurt and surely knew that who ever did that act was gone forever by now?

Bill asked from the kitchen and the large cooktop he manned for us, "Want another stack 'V'?" he asked my Pixie.

She instantly nodded yes, but took time swallowing that last bite she was working on in one large gulp, "Yes please!" she sang more than happy at her treat.

I was happy that she was feeling better now, as we ate with her and our group...in our shared mind we Drow plotted! With some convincing on my Drow's part, we decided to stop this silly hunting for Alex plan. Because this leader might be moving him each night or even more!

So what the plan was for now? We are going full crazy and attack the 'boss' at his own home, if we capture him? He will tell us where Alex is right there, if we don't find Alex? We still have the boss to trade for Alex! Then if he runs, we force his hand and he will pull back is our bet to the warehouse that is reinforced in his mind and that is where we have him!

It's a insane crazy plan, but we don't have the numbers to cover the whole city and by now the cops are getting wise that something is going on with this gang with last nights event at the bar or the strip club the other night.

Sunday, August 12, 2007 8:50PM
Tampa Florida,
the well off section of the city

Well this was it, I had my strategy laid out in my head. Either capture the leader and hold him to get Alex back. Or he escapes and will go hide back at the warehouse where I am sure he feels safest! I was very sure that when he 'falls back' he will have Alex brought to him for use as a bargaining chip.

Both of us Drow stood on hidden branches of the tallest trees we could find on either side of the large mansion, since this area was old money...we had several choices. I watched the grounds through Two sets of eyes and via both Pixies doing short flyovers of the property.

What we found was a heightened state of alert all over the grounds, last night fun at the bar had set them on guard and on edge. Prey being 'on edge' was good, they get sloppy fast! All you have to do is 'tease' them a little and they will always over react and that is when you have them. A panicking animal is far easier to chase for the kill, as it is not thinking...it is reacting!

So let's start this off slow and build up to a crescendo shall we! First step, have the Pixies set off each alarm on the walls they can! As Violet and Lilac do their fun task, the whole area comes alive with flashing lights and a few blaring horns. The guards run all over thinking the world has come to an end, but can't find anyone to shoot at...pure keystone cops comedy...I almost fall out of my tree laughing!

Friday, August 12, 2007 9:50PM

We let them run around for a full hour, then they calm down and now part TWO! I ported right behind one guard and knocked him out. Then ported him, plus me back up to my perch to wait till they noticed him missing and it only took them ten minutes...not to shabby for humans?

Now with act two of the comedy in full swing, I waited twenty full minutes till they hit a 'lull' in the action. Next I ported the body up into the darkness over the home a hundred feet up and dropped him onto the empty lawn...the sound of his body hitting the ground was like music to my ears...that nice 'crunch' he made as he slammed into the soft grass.

Now they reacted like crazed squirrels running allover the grounds looking, searching, listening for an enemy or anything to take vengeance on for this act! After about twenty more minutes, they took his body off the lawn and did not even call the cops? How strange that was, they guy was still alive...messed up real bad...but kicking or screaming that is!

Hum two parts of the play done, yet no one readied a car to get 'bossman' out of the danger zone? Strange these guards are, very strange indeed or stupid?

Friday, August 12, 2007 10:50PM

Well time for part three then? So this time, we take our time and select one guard that is very much alone...a huge mistake! I port next to him silently, "Hey buddy...have a light?" I asked hidden behind my skull face mask.

He spins around like a moron would totally unready for action, "Hey we can't smoke here on duty...it wil..."

"Will what?" I ask as hit him in the guts and pop them open under his skin. He falls to the ground in pain, but I stun his muscles so he makes no more sounds, "Ohh you mean give you away...but being alone on patrol is far worse. Too bad you will not live to learn that harsh lesson!" I growl as I toss the dying man over my shoulder.

Rehanna ports to my side and pins a simple note to the man's chest, "Ho ho ho I have a machine gun...yippy ki yay mother fucker...We are taking over, give us Alex as the first payment and you might live through the night!"

She took the guards machine gun off his side, a rather nice G36, plus a few magazines for good measure and sprays the window and side of the home with suppressed fire. Not totally silent like in the movies, but nicer to the neighbors than not having a suppressor! When she is done, I hurl the body through the blasted open window and port away giggling like mad!

The body nearly lands on a couch in the large living room, that is laid out around a nice entertainment center. A pack of guards enters the room cautiously and finds nothing else wrong. The leader of all the mercenary men 'Manix' enters just after his men clear the room, he evaluates the situation while reading the note pinned on the body and smiles, "Well who ever this is, they have a sense of humor and like good action movies!"

Manix leaves the room as his boots crunch on the broken glass and hands his boss the note, "I told you to have the windows replaced with bullet resistant ones, but...NO...you said...too costly. Maybe next time you will listen to me...if you have a next time that is?" he sarcastically adds.

"Well maybe if you were a better guard then!" he barks back.

"Okay...I'll quit...if you want me too and leave you twisting in the wind? Is that what you want!" he smiles.

"No, so what are my options then?" the boss asks from the safety of the hallway, not daring to enter the room and expose himself to the possibility of gunfire.

"Humm...Run? Or toss a million bucks on the lawn with a job offer? Or get this Alex here and now, then hope they forgive you as they take over your operation?" he lists the options by finger counts right to the man's face.

"Get the escape tunnel ready and have Alex moved to the warehouse, it's far safer there!" he orders Manix as the boss leaves toward a door leading down to the basement.

"That warehouse might be safer and have a few more men inside it...but who ever this is, knocked out one trained man unseen by the rest of the nearly twenty here. THEN killed one after she, he or it or them blasted the side of your house up with one of our own guns! So are you sure that is a good idea?" he huffed out more than angry at the man.

"Lets just leave here and let who ever this maybe waste their time fighting the men here and the cops after we call them?"

"Well a somewhat thought out plan...that's a change? Did not see that one coming at all!" the sarcasm keep flowing on each word, as Manix points to his men to go back outside on patrol.

Since the whole area around the home had gone quiet and the only thing that seemed to be moving was a few guards all paired up this time...they are learning! I nodded towards the packs of armed men roving the grounds now in groups of no less than two or three!

So let's take this up a notch and see what happens to the place? I feel more than mischievous tonight, so I set Lilac up in a large shrub with one of my better shield giving her cover, then tie the G36 onto the branches so it fires all over the yard and then show her how to reload the weapon. She will pop to full size, as she fires the gun and leaves it firing via a small spell after the magazine change!

We Drow port to different windows along the second story, what I want to do is enter while the chaos that Lilac will be releasing is going on outside and see if I can find this boss right now. I want to get him while being unseen in my Drow style armor that's for sure!

I give the home one quick spell, so that I will know the layout of it even before I enter the house. Doing this on a Sidhe home would get me nothing but trouble, but on a human home...I might as well be handed the blue prints! humans do not know how to keep secrets from magic at all!

Since I am not sure what alarms the windows have, I check them with magic and see the electrical flow down the wires on each window frame. One more spell keep that from being an issue for hours. ~"Lilac fire away girl, rock and roll time!"~ I mentally sing to her.

~"Ohh fun!"~ she mentally says to me, as she starts laying waste to the side of the home.

Suddenly a large bush at the far edge of the homes lawn nearest the corner wall, lights up with automatic gunfire and bullets land all over that side of the expensive home. they smash windows, blast the bricks off the face of the homes lower walls and tear holes into the walls. Then stop for a second and restart, thus showing the well trained men that someone is behind the gun for real!

Inside the Bush a full size Lilac is grinning like mad at the fun this human made weapon is giving her! She loves the feel of it, the bright flame as it licks off the barrel, the kick of each burst of rounds as they fire off and she loves the smell of the burnt gunpowder the most!

As Lilac reloads the gun with a fresh magazine, the guards rush towards her hiding place a few dozen yards and start firing at the bush wildly. The bullets pang off the shield I left her and she smiles at the men, "I have a surprise for you!" and she checks the spell I left and makes it start. Now the gun fires on it's own, in controlled short two or three round bursts as she flies up to us already entering the home.

With all of us inside the home, the Pixies fly off to quickly scout the home out for Alex or this Boss guy. We Drow enter from two different windows and hurry in our combined checking of the home.

We quickly find nothing on the top floor and now run to the stairs going to the main level. Right at the top of the stairs I find one guard talking into his mike about the gunfire in the yard. Then he changes tune in his voice as they say the gun was a distraction. I tap him on the shoulder to get him to spin around and he does at the ready. But not near as fast as a Drow is!

When he faces me in a low crouch, I rip the gun out of his hands and toss it to Rehanna who smiles at him through her mask, "This is going to hurt...sorry?" she apologizes to him as I rip the safety pins off all the grenades on his vest, a few flash bang, a few real grenades and a couple of nasty thermite ones!

He looks down at what I just did and whimpers out one single word, "NO!" as I shove him down the stairs.

"I always wanted to do that after I saw it in a movie and here I am doing it!"

"Yep you do-ed it!" Rehanna laughs at me as the man falls down the stairs and explodes at the bottom.

The dramatic explosion sends that man all over the main entry room in parts, the stair case vanishes in a wall of flames and the floor now has a very large hole in it and shows that there is concrete under the main floor? That detail is very strange for a home this old and shows that it has been altered like the last one.

~"Well that proves my magic is not getting old, this place has a hidden basement like the last one and I bet that tunnel I felt is the one he is using right now to run from us!"~ I mentally think to myself and the Pixies!

With a raging very bright fire now burning in the center of the home and no way short of a ton of dirt to put it out...thermite is like that, it burns like the sun till it has no air! So with that distraction going on, we leap down to the main floor and find that closet going down to the basement.

I rip the door off it's hinges because it's locked and behind the door is a very thick steel one. Rehanna still has the gun and grins at me, "Well?"

"Go ahead have fun, but it won't work?" I say to the Drow.

I step aside while she fires, and nothing. The door is dented a bit now and still locked. Now out comes my key, a very sharp sword and since this door is only a little thick. The regular steel cuts like butter, when I carve out a hole and we find the door was mostly fire-resistant mix and wrapped in some thin steel on the covering...cheap but enough to stop a cop!

When the cut part of the door bounces down the stairs to the basement, a set of guards was waiting for us at the bottom and one of them fires up at us both. Rehanna smiles to me and I wave an invite to her, "Go ahead have fun, you like that gun don't ya?" I referred to the Drow who had never really fired one, where as the human me had fired many in his human life for fun.

Rehanna flips the magazine over because of the 'banana clip' was linking two of them together and rips a long burst down the hole at the men. Who find themselves in a bad spot, high powered rifle rounds in a concrete box that they were inside of, those two things they are not a good mix and hiding does not help that at all!

The G36 had fifty round magazines clipped together and after one long burst that emptied the gun. We now had one very dead man with a head shot and one wounded one that instantly gave up to us, as I opened the door up with a yank on the bolt holding it.

Rehanna smiled to me, "We are keeping this, I like it!"

"Fine by me, you have to feed and care for it though?" I said like it was a dog or some new pet she just found.

The guard looked at us walked down the stairs and I hit him with a dose of powder that would wipe his memory of the whole day if not week! With that done, instead of killing him...hey I liked him...he was just doing a job?

I spotted the escape tunnel right off, but it was already collapsed in to keep us from following the Boss, I sighed at the sight, "Ohh well, now for plan 'B' I guess?"

Rehanna pointed out something to me and I saw it at the same time she did. I paced over to the far end of the room and just stared at what she found or us found that is. A large room vault that had its walls covered with display after tactful display, of very expensive historic exotic guns that would make even John Wayne cry at the sight.

"Ohh that is not right, no guy this evil should have all this and if the cops find it? The chances of all that ending up as scrap in a melt down is sad!" I almost cried.

Well we Drow did our civic duty...we stole most of whole room. You can do that when the cops are upstairs fighting the bad guys and a nice fire is raging, then add we have magical storage!

Saturday, August 13, 2007 6:50AM
Dunwich, New Hampshire
Bill and Jineen's Townhouse

Both of us Drow were going over last night's five finger purchases when Bill entered our room after asking to come in, "So what happened last night, good or bad?" he asked entering the room and then stopped mid sentence, spotting the floor covered in antique revolvers and pistols, plus a few rifles tossed in for good measure.

"All went fine last night Bill, sorry we did not find Alex? But we are very sure of where he will be sometime today?"

"How is that and how did you get that information?" he pointed at the floor.

"Ohh we scared the gang boss to death last night and we are sure he is holed up in a warehouse that we already checked in secret!" Rehanna sang over to Bill as she checked a nice peacemaker out for scratches.

"Ahh the guns?" he asked as he picked up a fine Winchester lever action from 1860.

"We liberated them all from their communist oppressor last night." I said putting the last touch of oil on a war issue Thompson and letting the action slide closed.

"Let me guess, the bad guy owned all this stuff?"

"Yeeeeip, That he did!" we sang out in stereo.

"Is this all of them?" he was just dying to ask.

"Nope the best stuff has it's own cases and those we checked out last night" I informed him.

"Do I really want to know what was in that collection?" he shook his head to me.

"Nope, but you can borrow them anytime and take one if you want too?" I offered to him as the family he really was to me now.

"Thanks, but I am sure human cops will not like it at all?" he sighed out.

"So shoot them in the Grove or somewhere up at ARC...who is going to tell them if you do?" I asked.

He tilted an eyebrow to me, "You got a point there, who would tell the cops?"

"Yep no one...so why did you come up to my room Bill?" I had to offer.
"That was mostly already answered as I can in, So breakfast is ready for all of us and lets go down to talk over what you are planning next with Jineen then?" he offered.

Down stairs we all ate as I ran over my plans for tonight with both of them, Jineen listened to us Drow intently and Bill wondered out loud more than a few times what he could do to help. I had nothing for him, he would just get in the way of any fights that started and get hurt or dead. So he was to wait close by and have a distraction ready if needed to get the guards off us or the cops if there was that need.

One thing I had not seen in Jineen before now. Became apparent during our talking over my plans for tonight and as I finished up with getting everyone up to speed. She sighed to me, "Now I can see and feel why Bill is so worried when you have to act out and hurt or kill others. I can see it bothers you in more than a few ways?"

"Jineen...please?" I mumbled out eating my eggs again to hide my reluctance to talk about the subject.

"She is right and I hate to bring it up again?" Bill said softly to me.

"Well so do I, but that is the hand the world dealt to me and please tell me when that changes?" I barked back at both now.

"Just try honey, it bothers you. Anyone can see it when you start mentally going over what you did the last two nights?"

"I try, I could have done worse the last two nights...but I held her back and in check!" I shout at Rehanna and slap her side to show that I am in-charge.

She just stares at me, warning me mentally that 'in-charge' is just for now? "Whol nin dos ph'wun flas'tlu'gu'ane...gajak nindel xal thir'ku!"
(For now you are in charge...later that may change!")

"In english Drow...we have no secrets at the family table!" I warn her of the traditions she should know better than I do!

Rehanna goes full Drow on me in her anger and want for vengeance, "Sooner or later human part of me, you will learn that Geas part of us that asks for blood always wins...I fought that bond for forty thousand years and lost each time!...You will learn very soon or give up like I finally did!" she yells at me, leaves the table and runs back up stairs. where she slams the door to our shared room.

Bill clears his throat a little, "Remind me to never mention this subject again honey...it's too painful and that is very obvious to me now?" he asks his wife.

"She is just lashing out, like I used too? Rehanna, that Drow part only sees this as a lull for us between wars or enslavement or some kind...at someone else's wishes. She always says that to me when we mentally talk at night...sometimes."

"I get it as best I can, we will try not to let that happen...or let it happen again?" Jineen says as she pets my hand from across the table.

"I got to go and calm myself a little bit." I said standing up from the table.

After Rohanna left the room, Bill pulled something that Nikki gave him before summer started and tapped it on. Nikki had given Bill one of her privacy charms incase he might need it and it's Sidhe based magic was something that would not alert Rohanna too quickly that it was on...it would blend into the wards already on the home.

"You worried for her too honey?" he asked as he helped clear the table with his wife.

"Yes, you will have to watch her closely, very closely for any changes dear."

"I do that all the time."

"Do it better, because if anyone ever got their hands on how to control her, she would hide that from us very well. Spells that ancient, are very smart in their own way and those trapped by them...usually give up all hope of being ever free of them and Rehanna or that Drow did just that a long time ago." she warned him.

Upstairs, I pulled out that cursed book for the first time in weeks and I am sure the last time we did pull it out was for Sara to see and maybe sign, thus being able to command us. Sara got mad at us for even suggesting it and refused the question. I reread each page again for the hundredth time.

"The answers are not in that thing, they never were and no Drow has ever found a clue on being free from it!" Rehanna warned me as she took a place on the balcony and sat down.

"You forget, I am not a Drow!" I told her that simple fact that this part of us was not fully Drow and never would be!

"That fact will not change anything, that book always wins and always will!" she cursed and spit at me.

Sunday, August 12, 2007 10:20PM
Dunwich, New Hampshire
Bill and Jineen's Townhouse

We twins made ourselves ready for tonight's planned rescue and hoped this would all work out with getting Alex back to his family. Once again we decided on the Mediterranean teen girl looks to cover our normal stand out good looks!

After we checked our invisibility spells were working fine, we ported to the roof of the warehouse and unlike last time we found the roof had a guard...more than one! Then on the streets below and the lot surrounding the building, even more guards walked in set patrols. Even though the parking lot was empty, the now on lights shown over it in nearly daylight.

Since the illusion spells did not work well with our normal armor, we had on regular street clothes and had to creep across the gravel roof without the aid of our bespelled shoes. It took sometime to get to the vent and the black box we left behind last time.

"Well Paige, is this thing working or not?" I sub-vocalized into a mike.

"It was the last time I checked hours ago, but now the whole area is covered by some radio signal jammer and only that Bunny phone is blasting through the crap!" she growled her displeasure to me.

"So what oh goddess of the electron?" I sassed her.

"Well what the dandelion eater Drow can do is place the bunny phone on top of the NEXT tap box and connect it via the input cable. Doing that should get me back into their systems?" she played with me and used a age old insult while doing it!

I did as asked while Rehanna kept watch on the two men standing on the far side of the building and them sticking to one place was very lucky for us. The phone silently do it's job and connected into the network at Paige's command.

"Got you covered, I can't control the cameras at all. So we have to wait for the control room personnel to move them or they will notice instantly that I am doing it!" she warned me.

I placed some gravel onto the black phone case to make it less obvious to a passerby, "Anything else in there Paige?" I asked as I check on my work.

"I am a little blind in there till you act, they have the computers very well firewalled and getting past that might set it all off...I am not sure this time and don't want to chance it for Alex's sake?" she informed me.

"It's okay, I will take your advice and wait on anything you can do to help me, till the fire starts...when I do start it!" I had to grin, this place is getting burned down in my plans.

"Just be warned I am getting some strange signals inside the building, all of them are very weird and I am having trouble figuring them out?" she warned us even more.

"Got it girl!" I sang as I open the small door I cut in a vent for the Pixies to use entering the building for a scout.

I gave the Pixies a few minutes to get the new 'lay of the land' and get back to me and very quickly Violet told me mentally, ~"Sister, I have a good spot for both of you to port to, just between a row of cars and the area is dark. The building has roving guards that are sloppy, but still there?"~ she told me and looked over the top of a car's hood to show me the man walking at slow pace across the area. As she watched him for me, I saw through Violet's eyes that the man was not paying attention and sloppy at best doing his job.

We both ported after that lone man passed by the row of cars, instantly Rehanna slid off into the shadows searching for Alex and so did I. Rehanna took the path going out to the offices again and I took my place searching the barracks rooms.

Rehanna found trouble first, a guard blocked her path and was not moving around, thin one man was at his station. And that station was in the way to the most of the office area! So she did what Rehanna the Drow normally would do in this case, she ported right behind him as he took a step from his normal leaning against the wall and quietly snapped his neck!

I knew she would do it, but stopping her was something that had changed in us over the months and almost stopped her from doing the deed, "Rehanna, please lets try not to have a huge body count this time? It draws unwanted attention from cops and the FUCKING MCO!" I chastised the Drow in our shared mind.

"Humans are our prey, but you are correct and we Drow must bend to the new laws of humans...for now!" she said coldly to me inside our mind, as she ported the dead body back to the rows of car and placed him in one of the black seats laying across the seats.

I on the other hand found a man asleep in his bed as I checked the room and knocked him out for hours, then added a quick jab of a drug coated needle to make sure! With hi out for days, I checked the next five rooms in silence and found nothing or no one there. The last three had sleeping men in them and I did the same to each.

The last room's occupant was very much awake working on his laptop while laying in bed, as I crept up behind him. He turned around and stared right at me, "What are you..." he started to say. But never finished as Violet hit him with a drug covered spear right in the neck. He slumped over on the bed and will sleep for days and that I am very sure of.

~"Good job small one, you get a cookie when we get back home!"~ I told her mentally.

~I want one too!"~ Lilac mentally shouted to me knowing my cookies were pizza sized at the smallest when I rewarded them with one!

~"I want one too!"~ Rehanna mentally giggled at me.

~"We will share one!"~ I yelped out mentally back at her.

Rehanna started to check that office cubicle farm section of the large building and found nothing. She had to actively doge a few cameras, but they were easy to do! the cameras each had a infrared lamp on them that showed the cameras exact viewing field and Paige helped to via Rehanna telling her what room she was entering.

As I exited that barracks section of the warehouse, I spotted a teen girl creeping across the room and right now her back was to me. But she moved like a professional very silently across the concrete floor and she was dressed in urban camo, plus leather boots.

"What are you doing here?" I whispered to her, knowing that her creeping around just like me? That meant she did not belong here either!

She spun around to me at the ready for fighting, but stood very still just like me. We both stared at each other for several tense seconds, I thought I was looking right into a mirror or at Rehanna!

This girl as a teen just like my new illusion, she was five-three, had long black hair and those Mediterranean features I choose at random! We were so close to being twins or now triplets it was uncanny!

~"Rehanna, you are in the office area and not trying to test me!"~ I asked my other part.

~"Ahh no, AND that is not me I see in your eyes!"~ she warned me back.

~"Should we leave now?"~ I had to ask the Drow for her opinion on this subject.

~"Never we are not done yet and we don't leave till we find Alex or kill everyone here asking where he is!"~ she barked mentally at me.

~"Well we are about to get a little noisy I am sure!"~ I mentally sighed out.

~"SHU!"~ she cussed back at me.
(SHIT!)

The near twin of us Drow blinked at me a few times, then walked over to me, "You’re coming with me!" Then the girl reached towards me.

"Not going to happen tonight girl!" I said as she tried to grab my hand. She moved very fast and managed to grasp it even after I moved away. Her grip was very strong as I broke it and I made a grab for her throat.

She vanished in a cloud of smoke from my grasping hand, then popped back up behind me! Violet shouted inside my head ~"She is behind you!"~ and I took that warning to heart and ported away a few feet.

"Nice moves for a teen!" I complemented her, "But you are far out of your league kid!" I warned her.

The girl grinned at me, “I don’t know, I’m pretty good at league play even bowled a couple three-hundred games in the past.”

I noticed as she bounced up on her toes and moved to make a kick...that kick started across the room and ended up right next to me! Where she almost struck me with it, but I dodged out of the way and ported a few feet behind her, then made a sweep at her legs.

She vanished in smoke again before my leg connected with her foot and she ended up across the room just like before. I nodded to her, "Nice moves, but it will not be enough to catch me!"

"Are you sure about that?" the grin on her face widening. Then she wound up a kick as she vanished in smoke, I saw what was coming and ported away across the room. Her boot smashed in the side of one of the BMW's...With a huge crunch of mental, that I was just standing by not a split second ago.

"Now that will get someone's attention fast...doing that was just silly!" I chastised her.

A hundred yards away, the boss watches the start of our fight on his bank of monitors and nods to Manix, "Go handle them and finish this shit!"

"Are you sure?" the merc asked his boss, unsure if that this was a good idea.

"Get them both and be done with it!" he ordered once more and the Merc left the room with all but two of his men.

The teen vanished again, then one more time fast as I port away, but this time she lucks out and connects her kick to my side. That blow hurt, but was not a solid hit and that is when I knew for sure that vanishing in smoke was not her only power.

My body moved out of the way and I rolled to the floor where I was laying right behind a kids toy tank with a camera for a turret. I mentally complemented to the great idea, using a kids toy to patrol a dark room and use the infrared camera to light it up as you go... just brilliant!

I ported up to my feet, then tossed the toy tank to the girl and she caught it, "You're on candid camera!" I shouted out, no sense hiding now! The whole building knew something was going on in here by now?

The small tank's camera whined as it's motors swivel the turret right into her face and I could see the infrared light covering her face and I am sure the person on the other end just got a great look at her too!

"Say cheese!" I laughed at her.

"Damnit" the teen yelled out, as she tossed the toy at my head and it smashed into a wall behind me as I dodged it with ease.

On the other side of the building, Rehanna was dodging group after group of armed men heading towards the garage section of the warehouse, ~"Well now that you did not kill her quietly, you now have a dozen well armed men heading your way...have fun with that!"~ Rehanna reminded me of my mistake in being too kind and not killing this teen or knocking her out on sight!

My twin readied herself for a coming fight, but I upped the ante by pulling a sword from my storage, "You might want to run now, because they are alerted and coming here because of you! AND I don't need to be fighting them along with you at the same time!"

The twin looked towards the sound of several boots running our way, "Run now while you have the chance!" I ordered her and ported to make a swing at her with my blade.

She vanished in smoke as my blade sliced the air where she was standing besides the BMW she smashed in.

My blade sliced right through the cars fender, then the tire and rim, ending up driven right into the concrete of the floor. I yanked the blade free in one smooth motion and started to swing at her again.

She vanished again in a puff of smoke, but I ported right to her and swung again. This time she blocked the sharp edge of my sword with one of her own and the teen seemed a little surprised that it had showed up in her hand.

She reversed her edge on my and shoved me back like a well trained expert, "Good one, you been practicing or something?" laughed at her.

"You're not bad yourself" she laughed at me as she swung again, I ported away...then right back at her and she blocked the move! A very good block too I was impressed, this girl was a challenge.

Right then a man stepped out of the hallway at us both and fired his M4 rifle our way. We both vanished, she across the room behind a car. But I ended up behind that lone man and rammed my blade through him, "One more death they might blame on you!" I told her coldly as the man slid off my blade to the floor very dead.

Across the building, Rehanna heard that bosses voice and kicked the door of his office right open. He was pretty much alone after having sent his best men off to fight Rohanna. the only two guards left swung rifles Rehanna's way, but never made it. Rehanna severed one's head in one clean slice, the other she hit in the chest with two fingers and the man went stiff as a board as the bones of his skeleton started to shatter.

He raised a pistol to Rehanna, but she ported right behind him and his chair. He was surprised at the move and tried to stand as she wrapped an arm around his neck and squeezed tight, "Where is Alex human or I snap your neck like a toothpick!"

"You won't kill me without the boy and I am not talking! My men will back and they will kill you...you fucking mutant bitch!" he growled at her.

Rehanna smiled unseen by the man as she pinched his muscles in his back. The boss tried to scream, but his air was cut off by her arm and his voice was strangely silent too!

"Feel that, it will get WAAAY worse long before they get here. Tell me and the pain ends now!" she warned of more torture to come.

The Boss points at a door exiting the far wall, so Rehanna lets up just a little on the man's neck, "There...there...he is in there!" he gasps.

"Any traps?" she asks while staring at his face to tell if he lies to her

"None...no!" he gasps again and he just lied to her!

"You are lying and I can tell human! Want more pain, well okay then...let's crank this up a notch or two!" and Rehanna slices off one of his fingers with a blade, then jams the blade into his hand and the armrest of the chair he sits in.

He screams for a second then shouts out, "The bookcase next to the door, fourth shelf up, fifth book over from the left. Pull it out and the explosives are off!" he cries out.

Rehanna can tell he is not lying now and stuns his nerves so she can check if Alex is in the room. She pulls out the book the boss told her too and opens the door. Inside she finds Alex tried up and very groggy from drugs to keep him docile.

Rehanna cuts his bindings as she whispers gently into his ear, "Alex I am taking you home, this nightmare is over I promise you that!" once done she ports him home to his parents place.

Monday, August 13, 2007 12:20AM
Tampa Florida Varney family home

Rehanna ports right to Alex's room and lays him on his own bed for the first time in weeks, "We are home kid, let me get your mom!" she says exiting the room.

The master bedroom door is almost ripped off it's hinges by the over eager Drow, "Janet your son is here, Alex is safe and needs you to help him while I go fix...something?" she trailed off as she ported off before the still waking couple could utter a single word.

Back at the warehouse

the boss is trying to free himself when the disguised Drow appears out of nowhere. Rehanna stalks over to him as she 'tisks' at him, "Humm trying to run before I repay your kindness at taking such good care of Alex for all this time?" she says so coldly the man knows what is coming.

"Hey it was only business, I would have never hurt the kid?" he lied again and dug his grave a whole foot deeper in doing so.

"You forgot already?" she shakes her head at the man, "I can see when you are lying!" and she kicks his leg and shatters it.

All the boss can do is gasp in pain, "No please don't?" he whines up to her.

"Lilac, because he ordered your sister hurt you have the honor of this one?" she offers the invisible Pixie buzzing around her head searching for other threats.

~"Gladly!"~ she laughs as she becomes visible once more, she takes out a small bottle from her pouch and coats a cloth she found inside on her spear, then reseals the bottle.

Lilac flies down to the man's leg and stabs him in the ankle once. Then cleans the cloth off on his pants leg, "That should do it!" she shouts over him just starting to scream from the growing pain.

Rehanna watches as the man's leg bloats up like a balloon and turns a very dark black that creeps slowly us his body inch by inch, "You used that stuff?" and the Pixie nods to her, "Well I better leave a note so the humans know don't touch then?"

The Drow writes a note in block text to hide her handwriting and tells the reader not to touch what is left of the now dying man. Then to use clean water on the mess after four days of letting the poison reaction cease fully, then afterwards they can scrape his GOO into a steel container that is airtight and store safely for a year before touching...to clean this mess up!

Rehanna vanishes with a port home.

Back out in the warehouse

Rohanna is still fighting the girl that followed the twin Drow here somehow? They both seem equally matched so far and only stopped their personal battle to kill two guards that were silly enough to enter the fray!

I hear the sound of a whole bunch of boots right around the hallway corner and it distracts me enough that this girl grabs my illusion necklace. When she rips it free of my neck as the chain breaks and her doing that show she is strong...I used Mithril...thin but still stronger than steel!

As the chain snaps I now know that Rehanna has done our job and Alex is safe, then add the Boss is dying in his office as a bonus!

With my illusion now gone she gasps at me, "What are you?" as she now sees a six foot tall Drow standing there and not the five foot, three near twin of herself.

"Humm I am complicated and since what I came here to retrieve is mine once again. Then add my other issues are solved for now, I have to sadly go before we finish this duel. Perhaps we can finish some other day, but for now I bid you good morning and good luck!" I grin as I pull my blade up to my face in a salute and bowed to her.

The girl can see what is about to happen, "Stay here and fight me you pointy eared star trek reject!" she shouts her objections as the Drow vanishes from her sight and does not come back.

Monday, August 13, 2007 12:40AM
Tampa Florida Varney family home

The Drow twins port back to the kitchen of the Varney home and when they pop up, Janet Bill's mom is there cooking something for the resting Alex and making coffee for her or her husband Paul.

"Ohh hi Rohanna and Rehanna...you startled me!" she says jumping a little in shock at the sudden appearance of both teens.

"Sorry, but how is Alex he looked okay to me and did you want me to get my healer down here for his care?" I had to ask.

"Ohh that would be great Ro, please do call one of your friends? It would put my mind to rest that he is well." she smiled to me and started some hot tea boiling for my known wants.

I nodded to her and left the room to the guest bathroom, where I called the healing Matron for the Grove to me and she came at my call that family needed help instantly. As we exited the bathroom, Janet handed me two cups of tea and the Matron following me nodded to her, "Good morning, mother of sir Bill."

Janet did an instant spit take of that line of her coffee, "What did you call Bill?"

"Sir of course, we must respect those that help the Guardians of the Grove...human that they maybe?" the matron sounded a little put off by the fact.

"It's fine ma'am, some of the Groves older spirits find humans kind of distasteful because of ancient deeds done?" I tried to explain why the Matron said that 'in' that way?

"I can understand...but go help Alex please Ro?" she asked me.

"Well will." the Matron said for me and stepped past me surely finding her way by Alex's aura was giving of that feeling of 'need' that she would home in on.

A few hours later and Alex was resting in his bed healed by the best I could offer to him. Bill's parents told me to go home and rest myself. At their combined insistence, I left with the Matron for the solitude that the Grove offered us Drow after a battle.

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Shadowsblade here.

This story in a joint venture with a group of fan fic authors, so far this group is made up of Nuuan, then Branek and finally myself. We all got together and after a jumpy start decided to make a group of stories that all take place within the Whateley fanfic universe.

To have an idea about the main protagonist this story's will develop
around here is a short introduction.

Angels Peril a Whateley Tale: Written by Branek
Tormented by the past, Angel is struggling between light and dark.

Melvin a Whateley Tale: Written by Branek
They say old soldiers never die, Melvin is about to learn that the hard
way.

The Way of the Dragon a Whateley Tale: Written by Branek
Born for eternity but vulnerable like a child, dragons shouldn't leave
their nest.

Every Rose has it Thorns a Whateley Tale: Written by Nuaan
Watch what you say around rose, could give you more trouble than you ever
asked for.
This one is coming soon, bug him for it! lol

Kelly a Whateley Tale: Written by Nuaan
Struggling with fate, Kelly has to deal with love and loss.

Shadowsblade a Whateley Tale: Written by Shadowsblade
Created for war and forged in pain, dealing with demons within and
without.

Vantier a Whateley Tale :Written by Shadowsblade
Ancient and Powerful Vantier awakens in a foreign world, struggling to
find her place in it.

You might ask yourself what is the Whateley Universe? To make it short,
here is a abstract straight out off the wiki.

Whateley is a Prep School for different teens. VERY different ones. Where else could a kid go to a school that has a resident demon living in the furnace? Or meet magic users, mutants of every imaginable kind, get trained in how to handle some rather odd abilities, and worry about
flunking Freshman English? Come visit Whateley Academy, nestled in the
lovely hills of New Hampshire. Just down the road from a town named
Dunwich... (Mythos jokes purely intentional).
This is the Whateley Academy Universe, a shared universe with over a dozen authors and more than a hundred stories (and counting). The stories range in size from vignettes to novels. It's a Mutant High scenario with both a strong transgender theme and a slightly watered down Cthulhu Mythos theme.

It's also very much a work in progress.'
If you want further information you will find them on.

http://crystalhall.wikia.com/wiki/Whateley_Academy_Wiki

or

http://whateleyacademy.net/

But I have to thank, Both Branek and Nuuan for their vast input and the ability they both have to 'bounce' off ideas and improve them!

To all my readers who have e-mailed me and given support--THANKS!

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