Meagan's Tail
A new Universe, a New story!
Intermission of our story
Pixie time!
Will our new Pixie now waits for what the Drows will do with her...life or death?
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Los Angeles
Nathan shakes awake and shoots up to sitting in his slightly damp with fresh sweat bed, his head spinning all around to see where he was, “Ohhh ya I am in that mansion…Darn nightmare, I thought I was still on the train headed to LA!” he sighed recalling the whole trip out west on several trains and that he kind of missed his brother and sister. They might be younger than him, but he still cared about them even if the family turned their backs on Nathan as he changed into a creature of the Fae and was abandoned to the labs of the church for experimentation.
He scanned the room over and found that his recently changed eyes made even a totally dark room easy to see as daylight. Nathan was still getting used to what new things his new body could do, what changes had come over him and knew he had to get used to it all, as he was told that Fae like him lived thousands of years…many thousands of years!
Nathan was about to roll over and try to get back to sleep that had evaded him many nights when he spotted them! And that ‘them’ being three stuffed toys in the room looking at him…staring at him, one an overstuffed Godzilla from the small bookshelf across from his bed. Another one, a white fluffy bear with a huge grin from the TV stand and the last, a strange looking fat bird with a huge beak sitting on a small table by the door.
“Where in the heck did all of you come from?” He questioned the stuffed toys all about the room.
Cass must have heard Nathan speaking and opened the door with caution thinking someone or something was in the room with the new born Fae he was supposed to be protecting, “Are you fine in there Nathan?” he asked, swinging the door open wide with one hand and the other was at the ready on his blade’s hilt.
All the commotion quickly woke both Elli and Tessa, so they both came down or across the hallway to see what was up. Tessa was padding her way down the hallway all wrapped up in her huge rode trying to hide her great looks, or best said INSANE looks as one of the home’s many guards took interest in the sounds from his post at the hall’s end, “Anything wrong my lady?” he asked using her lesser title.
“Nothing here, please go back to your rounds and check the outside for anything that might have woken my guest.” she ordered, he bowed slightly towards her and left without a word as she had ordered him.
Elli was already in the room when Tess finally got to the open door, “What is up?” she asked.
“I was about to ask them myself…so?” she said looking at both Cass and Nathan.
“I just had a nightmare is all,” Nathan said, pulling his covers up a bit.
“I was checking in on him,” Cass said as he took the chance and leaned into Nathan’s bathroom to check it out for intruders. “All clear here.” he said walking back to the door.
“Well if you need something to help you sleep better I can call one of the healers for you Nathan?” Elli suggested.
“No real issues, it will be morning in a few hours and I should try to get some more sleep…but how did those things get in here?” He asked, pointing towards the three plush toys one at a time.
Cass picked up the one nearest the door and looked the strange toy over and felt it was not quite right, “I don’t remember this thing in the room when I left it?” he asked Tessa while showing it to her and almost handing it her way.
“Well Cass they were not in the room when you left, they were down the hallway in my room, BUT I am sure they felt it was better to come into Nathan’s room to watch over him tonight.” Tessa admitted and certainly by her tone she knew them or of them!
“Toys moved?” Nathan questioned.
“These are not toys Nathan, they are creatures of the dark court Fae in disguise and completely harmless to anyone staying here. They only wish to protect us…they love kids and have protected the royal family forever.” she sighed slowly.
“Well maybe we should just toss them back into your room?” Cass asked.
“Won’t help, they feel and heard that Natahn needs protecting and tossing them back into my room will only call more of them, so many that they might fill the darn room by tomorrow. They are that insistent in being involved in a kids and or a royals protection that they never give up.”
Elli had to laugh at the small toy as she took it from Cass’s hand, “I know I am going to be wrong on this very wrong. But this toy will protect Nathan…a plush toy?”
“It will.” Tessa started, “That ‘toy’ is a magically disguised Ghillie and they can be quite mean AND a huge andfull in a fight…even huge Trolls fear these creatures. They love kids and hide in their rooms as toys. These days they seem to love looking like plush toys or dolls like raggedy Ann and Andy.” Tess said as she took the toy from Elli and sat it back down on the table.
Elli now noticed that the bird plush was now sticking its tongue out and it was surely not doing that before, she even noted it was showing TEETH too!
Cass patted the toy, “Nice Ghillie, now you watch over Nathan for us, we are going back to bed.” he said thinking about Trolls, the huge eight foot tall creatures that could rip large trees from the ground and with one swipe kill a lion with ease! Anything that made one of them scared, he instantly respected.
“Well if the things want to sleep in here with me and are that good at protecting people?” Nathan said and got up to grab Godzillia off the bookcase and placed it in his nightstand. “Then they can stay and do their best!” he said and yanked the covers back over himself and rolled back over to get back to sleep…he hoped!
Hours later just after dawn
As the sun just comes up, Lilly Tessa’s pet wyvern anxiously waits for the perfect moment and lets out a very rooster like CROW! Then she bounds off the rock she was perched on to glide silently on her wings down to the tide pools to get a morning swim in and fish for her breakfast.
Tessa rolls over in her bed and shouts at her pet, “Shut it Lilly, TOO DAMN EARLY!” and then rolls back over placing a pillow on her head.
Hammond entered Nathan's room after he knocked lightly, “Are we ready for the new day young sir?” he asked the room before fully entering.
Nathan was just tossing off his covers with a huge yawn, “I don’t know Hammond, so far my life is a mess.”
“It will get better now, you have to understand you just entered the tightest of communities that support ALL of its people like nonother! We are all family under the Goddess Gaea. You will learn or choose to not hear her call and living that way is fine with us all. We Fae all can’t be of the same mold and must listen to the individual.”
Hammond pulled Nathan’s few clothes from the dresser and laid out a pair of underwear in the bath for the teen to get into, “I’ll be leaving you, please call me if you need anything.” and he left the room to the teen.
Down the hallway, both Drow twins sniffed the air, “What is that sister…never smelled that before?” Kyo asked her twin still getting a shower.
Lin punched the shower’s control panel to stop the flow of water and took her own sniff of the air, “Smells like bread to me and it's being fried?” she questioned the idea of frying bread over baking it!
Just getting out of a speedboat that had landed on the soft sand of the home’s beach was Meagan, handmaiden to the queen of the seas and she was greeted by Lilly who was busy fishing for her morning meal. Lilly seemed to love Meagan so much, that the large pet even brought the teen a fish as a form of greeting!
Meagan laughed at the huge Wyvern acting like a big dog, “Well I appreciate it, but I have breakfast waiting girl. So you eat it please.” she asked the mini dragon while scratching behind its left ear and after she found that ‘right’ spot, she smiled to Lily's pleasure, “All done, now let's all get moving. We have lots to get done today!” she said standing up.
Slowly the house woke up and made its way down to the kitchen and its breakfast area, “Hi guys, I am done with the first batch of breakfast and more to come real soon!” Cass said as he worked quickly over a stove covered in pans filled with frying oil and in each large pan were several floating hand sized pieces of bread dough frying away.
“What in the heck is this?” Kyo asked.
“This is breakfast in Maine, my uncle is from there and at one time was VERY human till he changed into one of us Fae. He cooked this for us all the time when we visited. It's a good meal for our kind considering many of us have issues with eating red meats.” he smiled and kept to his task, making sure nothing burned by stabbing each cooking piece with a fork to flip it over and fry the other side. Once it all hit a golden brown he tossed each piece on a paper towel to soak off the extra oil.
“So how do we or are we supposed to eat these the right way…your way?” Tessa questioned as she grabbed a waiting plate and tossed four of the fried bread on her plate.
“Well how I do it and it's the same as my uncle does. Is you take a few of these, toss them on a plate…you got that part so far Tessa. Next you grab a knife and kind of stab at the surface a bit like this…” he showed quickly between batches, “and then cut off a kind of thin slice of butter like this and put it on the bread, covering it a bit, “ he demo-ed, “then wait a sec as the butter melts into the bread…just don’t stab too deep and make holes…cause the butter slips through!”
Lin grabbed a plate before her twin could react and covered it in bread, she did just like Cass said and smiled to the new taste, “Gaea I love this stuff!” she mumbled with a stuffed mouth.
Meagan was next to grab a plate and take her share, “How did you get the dough?” she had to ask, seeing that the unused ‘loaves’ were still sitting on a huge serving plate on his right waiting to be cooked.
“Well I sent Hammond out or was that the staff to find this at the store before you all got up” he said showing a plastic bag with three frozen bread loaves in it, all sitting in a little foam divider and the label read…”Bridgford brand ‘ready-dough’ easy to bake three one pound loaves”
“So you just get that?”
“Yep, defrost it in the microwave or leave it out overnight. Pull off a small hand sized part, smash it out or pull at its edges till it looks like a large biscuit and fry…add butter…and love!” Cass grinned as he pulled at a lump in his hands till it was ‘palm’ sized and then added it to the others already frying up.
Kyo was already grabbing her next stack, “You think you got enough?” she asked, with six of the things covering every square millimeter of her plate.
“I asked Hammond to get ten of the darn things, I sure hope that thirty loaves is enough for us all!” He laughed as he kept to frying up more for the rest of the group. Especially since it was very well known, that the drow could ‘pack-it-away’ like an NFL linebacker that had been starving for a week!
“Keep it coming!” Kyo laughed, grabbing her third plate full.
“Wow I sure hope that thirty loaves was enough?” Cass said, dropping the next batch in a pan and starting to flip a batch already cooking. He took time out to grab a hot one for himself and cover it in butter. “Hummm that brings back memories!”
An hour later
Kyo lets rip a loud BURRRP of appreciation for the meal while patting her dark skinned belly, “Ohhh you did good and we got a keeper here girls…he can cook and knows how to use a blade too!”
“Thanks!” he smiled, while eating one of his own treats.
“I will clean up sir.” Hammond said, placing some of the used bags and paper towels in the trash.
“Nooope Hammond. Please leave the oil out in the pans for the next meal we have.” Cass mumbled with a mouthful.
“Sir?” he questioned, leaving out a mess was very strange in ‘his’ clean home.
“The crackers, canned clams and eggs I had you or one of the staff fetch along with what I just cooked. That is for lunch or dinner, mattering on when we all get back. We or I will cook up clam-cakes for that meal or as my Uncle called them “New England hotdogs!” he laughed a bit and took yet one more bite.
“We what?” Meagan asked.
“Clam-cakes, you add one sleeve of crushed up saltine crackers to one can of minced clams and two eggs. Then mix it all up in a large bowl, scoop out a palm full, then fry up just like the bread. That would normally serve two people or half of one Drow! We did that all the time to ease up on family meals, when we visited my uncle…less clean up that way, by cooking two meals the same way!”
Lin quipped in, “Yep this boy is marriage material!”
An hour later
A Teen in wonderment exited the SUV limo that had picked him and his new friends up from the queen’s beach mansion, then dropped them all off here at the biggest mall he had ever seen in his life, “Wow” he said in awe of the place, looking at the huge mall, towering over five stories tall of all shopping and laid out from here in mid Santa Monica all the way to the ocean where it turned into a pier going over a thousand foot over the breaking waves. “We don’t have them this big back in Omaha.”
Kyo had to chuckle at the wide eyed teen, “Midwest farm boy…meet city!”
“Hey now I may be from Omaha, but far from a ‘dusty’ or farmhand!” he insisted back to the Drow laughing at his expense.
Lin spun around in the sunlight celebrating as she smiled, “Take it all in kid, you're in LA now and with us along, you are in for the shopping trip of a lifetime!”
Cass pulled Nathan closer to him and whispered in his ear, “We being the only two males along for this trip…we might regret this. Because it’s only us two guys, versus all five of them and I bet they invited even more of their friends to meet us here at the mall. We shall be overwhelmed at times, but we shall win in the end!”
His group of new friends guided Nathan from the mall’s passenger loading and off loading area and right into the mall’s doors. “Ohhh we have got to eat at Mythical, it's the best place in the area for Fae to eat at…the WHOLE menu is catered mostly for Fae!” Meagan bubbled out helping to plan the day.
Elli nodded to the suggestion, “We can do that Meg!”
Cass pointed up to a shop two levels up from the group, “First stop is ‘Organics’ for Natan’s underwear and there we can pick up a few basics he will need, then push on for the rest as we go deeper into the shopping jungle!”
Tessa was more than a bit worried because she had left her protection charm at home as her aunts had requested she do from time to time to ‘practice’ being outside in a crowd without it. She cringed at having to make it through most of the day keeping her thirst for lust emotions and others in check without it…being a teen succubus was hard in a human world full of hormonal teens!
As the group filed up the mall’s escalators, Nathan almost got dizzy, spinning around and around to each new sound or sight and he was in awe of the place filled with hundreds of humans. He noted that the group of mostly elves and drow did not even try or need to hide the fact of who they were…the crowd of humans ‘just didn't care’ and moved past the group of teens like it was was very normal to see teen elves out shopping and burning up their parents' credit cards!
At the group’s first stop, Cass helped Nathan pick out a few dozen underwear, socks, an easy dozen T-shirts and a few hoodies that he wanted to hide his now pointy ears better, Cass said “Hey this is LA and no one is stupid enough to mess with Fae in this city. The humans learned that lesson decades ago!”
“I still look like my human self and the crazy church is still out there looking for me. I prefer to be ready and blend in better with the crowd for now.” the worried teen pointed out his personal mindset right now in making that choice to buy several hoodies in a few assorted colors.
In the next store the group met up with more of Cass and Elli’s friends that Nathan met on his first day in LA and even one of Meagan’s friend's who was a six foot tall near Amazon named Sev, a beautiful girl that took Nathan's very breath away…he was in instant love with her!
“Hey, who is the new guy?” Sev asked her girlfriend Meagan and seemed to be stricken with the love bug too.
“That is Nathan, He is VERY new to being one of the pointy ear crowd and only changed a few weeks ago I was told. Cass and Elli were ordered as his ‘protectors’ by ‘The twins’...I am still figuring out what all that entails?”
A curious Sev leaned in closer to her friend and grinned a bit, “So he is or was declared “protected” by the choppy chop twins at Hekwai?”
“Yes Sev, like I just said.”
“Humm and I have to guess that Elli is the protector and Cass is her ‘called warrior’ by the twin’s very blade he is carrying over his shoulder?” Sev thought out, planning her next move. She wanted in on this and maybe get closer to Nathan!
Cass took his time sliding pants around on the display searching for a size fit for Nathan,” So you have a thirty inch inseam?” he asked again.
“Yes thirty inches, I might do thirty-two if we have a sewing machine?” Natahn said back and joined in looking. He spotted a pair of jeans in black that matched his measurements and pulled them up to get a better look, then saw the shocking price, “Four hundred dollars for JEANS!” he gasped out.
“Well Nathan buddy, those jeans are one hundred percent organic cotton, designer label and in one of the more expensive stores in the mall. THEN add the girls would never let you out of here on the “cheap” per say and burning up an unlimited credit card that the twins gave them to help you, they would certainly consider finding that limit a full blown challenge to their group’s shopping skills!” Cass sassed to the teen and pulled out four other pairs for Nathan to try on for size.
A bit later, Nathan had tried on over a dozen pairs of jeans and only liked five of them for fit. Then the girls found him a few dress slacks to choose from and he only took two of those…he hated dressing up now because doing so reminded him of ‘the church’ too much! And ‘the church’ being the one that tried to kill him and abandoned him!
The next stop for the group was a high end shirt and tops place for both men and women, the girls filed off to search a bit for stuff they might want, BUT kept a wary eye out for items that might go good for Nathan and fit his needs.
At this point Nathan was getting a bit put off by the whole thing, “I don’t know how much longer I can play store dress dummy for y'all?”
“Just take it slow and if you feel overwhelmed by them at all…please tell me and we are shutting this all down for now. If you say that, we all go home and they have to deal with it.“ Cass reassured Nathan, as he was the only other male in this team of shoppers and genuinely on the teen’s side.
“I am good for now, I got this for today and I just feel weird being out like this...in the wide open and all.” Nathan worried out as his eyes kept nervously darting at the exit or anyone entering the store, as if he was checking out each one to see if it was clear or the person was dangerous.
“Don’t worry too much, you have me, Elli and Sev along or watch your back.Then add the Drow girls, Only an insane person or one not informed about Drow would even take on one let alone two of them and lastly we have I am sure no less than ten guards following us from both the Queens detachment and the embassy.” Cass stated for the teen and took note of once again spotting a guard slowly mingling with the mall's crowds just outside the store…they did blend but only so well.
Elli and Sev found a dozen dress shirts for Nathan to try on, they were looking to match his only set of slacks and his best jeans for a mid range good look, or slight dress up when needed. “Nathan, we have some choices for you to try over here.” Elli smiled his way and Nathan felt a bit like prey at the time. Then add, the feeling got a bit worse when Sev lightly nibbled on her lower lip in such a way that he knew she liked him…Nathan might look young, but he was a few years older than he looked and he knew girls!
Nathan sighed a bit, as he grabbed one shirt off the display near him. A blood red dress shirt with a crazy half samurai-robot face on the back with jeweled eyes. He loved the neo-techy look of the shirt that surely was modeled after a game that had just came out of a cyberpunk LA in the future…a very dark looking city in a game that clashed with what was reality now.
After Nathan locked the door of the rather nice or one should say POSH dressing room that was big enough to rent out to a bachelor! He tried on that one shirt he loved and found it perfect and one hundred percent silk…that meant his new Fae skin did not react badly with it!
The next few he tried on did not hang right off his body and looked too tight on him, the last one he stepped out of the room and spun around a bit for the girls, “Why did you choose this for me?”
“Tight shirts look good sometimes on a guy, we just have to find the right fit for you Nathan.” Sev drooled out eyeing every inch of the teen, she was certainly smitten with him and when Nathan took off one shirt right there and took a new one from her hand…she blushed a bit at his being topless.
“Now this one seems to fit better, still a bit tight, but I like it.” he said pulling yet one more off the rack and trying it on right out on the sales floor and he liked that one too. Nathan handed both off to Sev as he went back into the dressing room, “Those are keepers,”
Sev spun around to see one of the Drow sniffing the air by her, “Ohhh someone is in love…we Drow always can tell by the scent you regular elves give off!” Kyo laughed at Sev as she nonchalantly passed by.
Elli overheard the conversation, “None of that please, give him some time and room to grow first then you all can fight over him, then ravage him in the bedroom!” she said to both Sev and Kyo, in a pretend husky voice and made fun of the well known fact that Drow females were more than a bit rough when making love to anyone!
Sev and Kyo nodded to Elli knowing that they had just been ‘chewed out’ by the teens designated protector and that title meant they had to obey no matter what or risk the Fae council’s deep ire.
As the group filled out of that last store and had all their purchases sent down to be temporarily stored at the mall’s pick-up spot. Elli stopped at a food cart serving hot churros, “Let’s stop for a snack…Nathan have you ever had one of these?” She asked, as she handed the food cart worker cash for a dozen of the sweet treats.
“Nope,” he said, shaking his head, “never even seen one?” Elli handed him one of the foot long sugar covered treats all wrapped in wax paper and he took a bite off the end, “Ohhh I can like this! It's a kind doughnut and cinnamon toast in one!”
Nathan was genuinely starting to relax, he now understood why Cass was so insistent on him being left alone in LA. There were elves and other Fae he had to guess they were Fae by looks alone and not some sort of mutant. But when you see three of the same ‘look’ just varied a bit on three different people over the last hour…they must be Fae! Then add to his happiness, none of the passing humans even care that any mutants or Fae walked around among them at all!
“Next stop shoes, then we eat lunch!” Elli said, pointing out one of the mall’s many shops.
On the way into the shop they all stopped at a window display showing the best and latest shoes out, the girls pointed to a few pairs they loved and Nathan hovered over a pair at the end of the display in its own little case with several pictures from a movie coming out soon all around it. Cass spotted the only pair he wanted and gave Nathan a slight tap to get him moving into the store behind the group of girls already going in for the kill.
Cass steered Nathan over to the sneakers and other sports shoes while the girls dove on the dress shoes they loved! “We should stay over here out of range of any errant high heel that might get tossed. Those things can be dangerous!” he warned with a laugh and was speaking of both the pointy shoes and the girls shopping for them.
“Take a seat and let’s have an expert in shoes fit you…you since you changed, I bet your shoes size changed too?” Cass insisted and patted a place on a bench next to him, then waved to one of the man clerks/salesmen prowling the vast floor looking to make sales and commissions!
The salesman came over very fast after seeing both teens were elves or high paying customers he could tell by one teen was carrying a blade and that blade alone set these teens above most as regular elvish teens did not carry a blade if they were not connected! “What can I do for you two gents, we just got in the air jordan top game edition, all organic and it’s only six hundred a pair!”
“He needs to be sized and I want to see those air force one, Brooklyn's in green please…size ten and ten and a half to size them.” Cass said like an expert.
The salesman grabbed a foot sizer and took Nathan’s size, then again to be sure and wrote it down. He pointed to the vast display of shoes, “Well what is your style sir?” he questioned the puzzled teen that had never this type of service or a selection this big in his whole life.
“I normally just get whatever was on sale Cass, I have no idea?” he asked his new friend.
“Get him the same as mine and some of those new Drow stalkers.” he asked.
“Sir those are reserved only for friends and family because of the movie coming next month and the vast number that want them.” he informed the pair of teens and Nathan looked surely disappointed because he spotted a pair of those shoes on the way in and loved them instantly.
“It's okay Cass there are a dozen others I like too…no need to fuss over those?” he said, not really feeling the words.
Kyo peaked around the nearest corner of a display, surprising the salesman, “Ahhh let him have a pair or offend me and my moms…I am not shitting you boy!” she grinned evilly and then Lin stepped around the same corner admiring her choice in new shoes in one of the nearby mirrors, “I’d listen to my sister!” she warned.
“I will get those right away, I normally check ID’s to a list we have, BUT in this case your faces are enough for me ladies!” he said speeding away, there might be quite the number of Drow now. But it was a very very low numbered population, but most Drow were a bit mean(dangerous!) and testing these two girls to see if the famous movie twins were their actual mothers is something he would rather not do!
The clerk came back with what Cass had asked for and even added a few high end items that had a great commission for him! Nathan took his time trying on each size of the shoes offered and found what shoes best matched his foot size and like it most shoe companies sizes varied in fit between style and sometimes GREATLY!
Nathan puzzled over three pairs, he knew one style was six hundred a pair and the limited edition “drow stalkers” even more so! The poor teen “hemmed and hawed” over the big decision to the point of getting Cass looking his way, “Just get all three pairs and one dress shoe in case the twins ask you to a dinner party or something?”
“But it's so much money?” he fussed back
“AND the Fae has the money Nathan! SO just roll with it?” Cass suggested and just finally waved a hand at the stack of choices before Nathan,”He’ll take them all and get him one of the Krocett and James…Oxfords, not Brogues in his size and in simple black,"
“Yes sir!” the Clerk smiled hopping to it and was off knowing his day just got better money wise!
In short order the clear had Nathan fitted out for a pair of dress shoes that actually came IN a WELL decorated wooden box, with a shining-care kit and had matching shoe trees to help keep them in shape and “stretch” them as needed to fit too!
“I think we are done, ring it all up and dropped off under our spot!” Cass ordered and the clerk did so adding in the girl's few purchases too!
With their shopping done shoe wise now and the group seemed to be very happy with their purchases, Kyo brought up the group’s next stop again “Time to eat and we are eating at The Dancing Dryad overlooking the bay up on the top floor!”
“But don’t they need a reservation or something WAY in advance?” Elli questioned the teen Drow.
“We got our reservation right here!” she says pointing at her face. “and then add Tessa’s Aunt has a standing reservation everyday and every evening on top of this!”
“Yep Auntie is a dark court Queen and they would never turn us away even if she was already there taking that table.” Tessa added in next.
“Ohhh I would guess she is that important.” Elli says with her eyebrows raised.
“Not only important, she is a founding partner in the place too…mostly name dropping for the main owners only. But a full partner still!”
An few minutes later
Cass led Nathan over to the fancy entrance doors of what looked to be the most expensive restaurant Nathan had ever seen in his life, “We are eating here and you don’t need a tuxedo to get in?” He jests at how fancy the place looked by the doors that must cost more than a small home by the use of huge natural wood timbers that looked hand fit and the windows were made of stained glass that would surely fill windows in the Vatican, then add he noted the floor was covered with marble flooring to match all the opulence of the windows!
Nathan pulled one of the thick doors open and waved Cass in, “Show me the way and let's eat I am starving more than a bit now”
“YEP and we can go over a menu while the girls are distracted by that dress store for a few. And let's hope it's a few minutes and not an hour!” he grinned back and his stomach even took that second to growl to each teens laughing at the timing of the sound.
“Sirs, do you have reservations for lunch or wish to make a future one?” the Maitre d’ behind the wait desk asked the pair and Nathan noted the man asking was a very well dressed elf much like he was now.
“No reservation, just need a menu while waiting for the rest of our party.” Cass said and looked over a wine list of the day while they waited.
“I am sorry sir we are all full for the meal, but I can take your reservation for a date about three months from now?” he asked the waiting teens.
“No problem, one of my party has standing reservations.” he smiled back.
“Sir no one has ‘standing reservations’ here.” the Maitre d’ started to say as the girls came in the door and Tessa interrupted him on the spot to his sudden embarrassment, “Well I do and so do they?” she grinned evilly holding the door open for the twin Drow to enter with Elli bringing up the rear.
“OHHH sorry Miss De Fay!” he said changing his tune on the spot, then he noted the drow twins coming in the door next, “and you will be eating with the Leighs too?” he asked, thinking of a table size to meet the party’s needs and where to seat the now larger than normal group!
“Yes and these two gents are in my party as well and note this is Nathan’s first time dining here, so we must make an impression on him!” Tessa nearly ordered the man or older elf in this case!
Shortly the Maitre d’ had the party of teens seated at a window table overlooking the surf six stories below and the pier next to the mall, “This view is nice!” Nathan said never having really seen the Pacific ocean till he arrived in LA.
Cass leaned over as Nathan started to open his menu, “Nathan pick anything you want and note the menu’s first section is Fae dishes free of red meats, that most Fae can’t eat or don’t like the taste of and the next section is more human style affair with meats. I’d suggest you pick a human sampler tray to try and see if you still like any of those more human items?”
“Okay, I’ll do that!” he said, picking a sample tray that had a small slider burger, a slice of meat pizza and a few other items to try out.
Tessa was seated next to Nathan because she could stand meat dishes better than the Drow twins across the table and Cass was to his right. She noticeably relaxed in here behind the restaurant's magical shields that filtered all the raw emotions of the city and humans in the mall. This restaurant was a ‘sanctuary’ of sorts and a known place of relative safety for all Fae.
The whole group of teens chats over their meal and Nathan finds that he still loves hamburgers with bacon on them, but only in small sizes. Much more than a few bites and they seem to lose their taste. The pepperoni pizza or all meat pizza is a total no to his changed palate.
Worst off it seems at first during his meal, Nathan seems to have lost his love of a good chili…a sad change to his mind and a deep loss to him at first, as his dad made great chili. But that might be for the better, as dad abandoned him and not the other way around…this was his new life being a Fae and the old human family had to be left behind fully!
The only one at the table really enjoying any kind of red meat was Tessa, as she was just tearing into a double stacked bacon cheeseburger and a small serving of pork riblets on the side.
Nathan noticed it with a smile, “A bit hungry are we? I thought for a second you might be going all wolf on us?’ he jested to the girl.
“Well one I am not an elf or Sidhe like you all, I am far different and unless I get some meat in my belly, I might get hungry in other not so nice ways!” she admitted to her near shame of needing lust emotions to survive.
A short time later Nathan was scraping a plate of the last of a key lime pie he was eating, “Wow this is the best we should get one or a dozen to go?” he jokingly asked.
“Done…” Kyo said with a smile and tapped the passing waiter on the shoulder, “Could we get four of those pies sent over to our place and three each of the rest of the deserts?”
“Slices miss?” he asked to be clear.
“Nope the whole pie in each flavor and add in some topping assortments too!” she said and he nodded back, “Will be done right now, added to your bill and they should be at your home by five PM at the latest.”
“Nice,” Nathan smiled at the thought of a nice treat later on tonight, “so what is next?” he asked the table.
Tessa pushed back her plate and sighed a bit, “Well you have one item I know is on my list…a suit and a good one.”
“Why dress up, it's only school and stuff?” he questioned the idea of a full blown suit and tie, “I am not important or something like that?”
“You are Nathan,” Elli said getting a bit closer to him and Kyo tossed a privacy spell on the table at her wink. “You were made a Fae, a Sidhe by human science and sooner or later you will see some sort of elder council on that matter and you NEED to look presentable at that time.”
“FUCK ME!” he huffed back.
Fast forward a few weeks later, back to when John first came to the Fae embassy in LA.
With John the newly minted Pixie made by human science, finally ending his debrief and the twins seeming to get their endless list of questions asked of him. Rania, the twins' personal secretary at the embassy started asking her long list of questions to better understand certain parts he had told. She walked John slowly through this process, so that all of these ideas and memories, recollections of his were noted in a way others not present could understand his menaing…elder Fae would be reading this and they might not understand a human’s point of view.
Rania lastly asked and confirmed the spelling of each name and linked them all to incoming notes that the twin’s main internet hound or wolf had hunted out on each one. “Excuse me Jabress, I need some time to go over all of this information that John gave us and make you a full report, then link all the new information that the Kitty just dragged in off the net.
“Fine Rania, but wait one second I have a letter that I need sent out via courier,” Rehanna told the secretary as the Drow’s twin was busy handwriting one out on special paper that the embassy only used in very certain or extreme cases, paper that was magically forgery proof and she finished it up by adding a personal seal to the flap of the envelope. Then Rehanna took the envelope from her twin’s hand and added her personal seal along with it. Each small seal with a near twin just like the pair themselves, except one was based on very old seals from the Drow and one was a very modern take on the same, very much just like the pair themselves!
Rehanna handed Rania the envelope and for the first time she read who or what this office letter was going to by the large crest on the envelope face, “Einior Caercilcarn en'Esselda?” she asked, “Mankoi sen Jabress?” she questioned going so high up in the Fae leadership…so high in fact that each faction of both dark and light royal court was represented! (Elder council of the first elves–why them Jabress)
“Don’t question us and you know darn well this is too important for just us to rule on.” Rohanna barked a bit at her, “Now go and have that sent by the fastest method under our most trusted double guard!”
“My Jabress…” she said bowing slightly and then turning to leave very quickly from the room via a magical teleport she made with a short hand gesture.
John stayed in the room with the twins still giving testimony and answering questions or giving theories as the time passed by. He or now she was even given a small meal to appease that huge appetite she had gained for sweets!
It was not even four hours later that no less than six of the elder guards showed up to the embassy's magical porting room and requested time with the twins. The pair had no choice in admitting them or not…these were the armed guards of their bosses and the guards asking to see them was just being polite over just barging into their office!
“Show them in,” Rehanna said with an agreeing nod from her twin.
The group quite literally marched into the room as one, each dressed in armor resenting their faction or family. That faction being light Fae or Dark or several different types or Races of Fae themselves, not all the guards were Sidhe/elves!
The leader came forward and placed a foot sized ring of stone rimmed in Mithril on the table before the pair and tapped it alive or awake. It came alive with a flurry of sigils all over its polished surface and a pure magically created form flowed out of its top, a half scale person showed up and spoke. The figure might be magic, but it looked so real even with it being only a shadow in its appearance hiding who was really there…the council rarely showed who was really seated in any position on it to anyone outside themselves!
“You are ordered by the full council to come immediately to our presence, with this ‘creature’ ’” it spat out the word like a curse while looking straight at John, “and any other witness that can be admitted to this assembly as per OUR set rules. Bring any documents to show what has been said or found and you do know not to bring humans or their technology here?” it asks or really reminds the pair.
“Do you understand?” the guards leader asked in the councils stead.
“Fully, we can be ready in a very short time,”
“You have an hour, we will wait outside and gather who you may. We are your escort with this creature among you,” and the leader rejoined the rest, turned and left.
“Well this day is going just great…” Rohanna said and Rania signed, “I got a whole lot of work to get done my Jaberess, may I leave to furnish these requests?”
“Yes!...get going, you have to ask?” Rehanna said a bit mad that simple etiquette was needed when the council made a demand like this!
John was still standing on the far edge of one of the tiwn’s large desk and pointed right at the stone, “That thing could see me, I could tell that it saw me! What did it say?” he asked, having never heard the language the magical apparition spoke just now.
“It said or demanded we come to see the council and yes it saw you and DAMN IT…IT STILL SEES YOU AND SO DO THEY RIGHT NOW!” Rohanna shouted, trying to warn the new fae that magic items like this are not always “off” and can tell their owners many things!
“Who are they? This council?” the badly uninformed Pix asked.
“They as in THEY the leadership…the top most leaders of all of us Fae, you thrice damned lab reject!” Rehanna shouted next.
“Is this bad?” John had to ask now, growing very worried about all of this.
“You think or thought we might be mad at you…they, the full council can end everything you are or were with a single word.” Rehanna warned firmly that the elders did not mess around.
“SHIT! I am so fucked!”
“Understatement of the century that one!” Lilac smiled, “And now we might be rid of you in a day or by the end of day and not have to deal with you anymore?” Violet added in evilly.
An hour later
John sighed out of fear more than boredom, she was scared out of her skin. Mostly because even the twins were cautious about appearing before a full council, even they had reason to fear this meeting it seems. They had taken this time to leave the room and get dressed in much finer business suits, the twins made her feel VERY under dressed in these ill fitting doll clothes she now had, that all came from a kids store and were meant for toys not people!
Of all the Fae walking towards the magical port, the twins lead the front, their small staff next and then came John, who was being held in the open flat palm of the guards leader and even she was standing on a silk square to keep her stench off the guards armored gauntlet. So the guard said as she was told to stand on the cloth. And lastly, at each side of the one guard bearing John was yet one more guard with one more trailing behind the rest.
“Don’t even think of fluttering off my hand or acting out or even making a single sound I don’t like…I will end you!” The leader warned her full intent to harm or even kill John if the guard felt she acted badly in any way.
“I understand,” the lab made pix bowed back.
“That was your last sound…till one of the council asks you and ONLY YOU a question. I would wait till someone says your very name to even think!” she warned again.
The guard walked John through the magical port and they all appeared right in the middle of a semi dark room. The softly lighted half they were standing in was appointed with what looked to be hand sawed wooden plank floors with spell etched metal inlays and there seemed to be a pattern of stone tiles along the far edge of the room at the walls that John could barely make out and they certainly did have some sort of major spellcraft floating above them in a line that must be a shield for the room!
John could instantly tell the twins were not expecting this sight, they must usually arrive elsewhere and walk into this room or this room was used very sparingly…them seeing it meant something deep to the pair.
Rohanna had to sigh at the sight of the main council chambers, she and her twin rarely came into this foreboding room. As the council itself more than looked down on the pair of Drow because of their background of starting off as humans once, that had changed into or in some theories back into Drow.
Outside of the dark court itself and its queens, the pair of Drow were looked down on sometimes and they personally felt that the word “tool” applied to them in some cases. They, the twins dealt with humans and the human world in general so that some of the more ancient members of the council did not have to ‘dirty’ their hands with encounters of that sort…not to mention the pair got rid of several ‘issues’ for the council. That service of ‘ending things’ or “forever ending an ‘issue’” being their main task over the passing decades.
“One day we will sit at that table,“ Rehanna said to her twin mentally, “whether they want it or not.”
“Or take one of those seats for our own PERIOD!” Rohanna thought back, “Be its last user, be still warm and willing or very cold and dead!”
The twins looked over the room and counted the chairs arranged around the main table, they came up with fifteen total. That made this meeting one that only the eldest council was hearing.
The quorum of the center most three seats at the head of the large table, was made up of the royals. One light court side of the vast table, the other one dark and seated in the center and at the center seat, one elected elder non-royal that was a tie breaker only if needed. The royals were mostly the ‘queens of their personal ‘court’ and each side, ‘light or dark’ had several ‘queens’ or eldest matrons as top most leaders.
The rest of the seats were made of six of each court and not all of them were elves or Sidhe, some were Nymphs, or Pixies and in this case one of the dozen was a Drow. The Drow eldest came from one of the oldest and most respected families the pair knew and she did not personally like or favor the pair.
This right here was the highest one could get in Fae leadership, the ‘elf buck’ stopped right here and these few held life or death for one appearing before them in their hands…or votes. A ‘thumbs down’ here in this room meant a quick end! An end that no one outside of this very room would even know about.
Yes there were other councils, one for each faction, one for each race and then the ones for both light and dark courts. The biggest one was made of Fae that had aged to at least two hundred and fifty. That group elected an elder council that was made of those Fae aged to one thousand at least, those then recommended and elected those sitting right here.
A female voice sang out from the seats deep in the shadows of the semi-circle table, “Bring this creature before us and place ‘it’ on the pedestal guards…make sure it is secure!”
The guard’s leader gave the voice a quick nod, then took a step forward and placed John on a three foot or so tall stone pedestal before the huge table, “Stay here within that ring of runes or they will kill you and only speak when you are requested and ASKED to speak.” the guard said firmly and John was about to say “yes” but as her mouth opened up to speak, the stare of death John got back silenced her instantly!
“We have read your package on this matter over, Sword mistress and ambassador Leigh,” the voice said from the shadows and referred to both twins by family name and used both of their personnel titles, “we elders have to ask, does this creature have any connection to the death blossom street drug the humans are making?”
(Death blossom-a new street drug created by human science that takes any fae and slowly via its death makes a drug that when taken, can drastically increase a human magic user's powers to epic levels and even grant non-magic using humans that power for a short time. The twins have been investigating its creation in and around the LA region for quite some time now and have VERY few leads to work off of. As the lab is very mobile and hard to track down until the ones running one make a mistake or move on to a new location and the bodies they leave behind are found!)
“We have no idea, there seems to be no connection right now? But I would have to guess that there is a strong one somewhere in the mix of it all, as all of these experiments seem on their surface linked somehow back to the same people making that drug or doing this,” she pointed to John… “to humans in hopes to make the drug out of them somehow?” Rohanna told the assembled body.
“Have you asked this question of the creature?” another shadow asked.
“No I or we have not. We were questioning this being only just today and have assembled a large package of its testimony so far and sent all our findings off to this council as fast as we thought was best.”
“Huummm,” a new shadow asked, “So do you know ‘creature’?” the shadow nearly spat the word “creature” when referring to John, “what Death blossom is or how it’s made?”
John pointed at herself and gulped, “Me you asked me?”
“YES!” the shadow shouted in anger, “Who or WHAT else would I ask that question?”
“I have no idea what death blossom is, but my past employers were experimenting on many things dealing with fae, magic and other programs that I had no direct dealings with or knowledge.” John answered back very quickly, her voice growing with fear in each word said.
“Well if ‘IT’ does not know more than what is already written down in the twin’s reports…then lets destroy this abomination to all things pixie!” a new shadow growled in anger and one could tell it was a much smaller being by the tone and sound…most likely a pix themselves!
“Elders, we feel that in the future this creature or its name is John. They might be able to form leads on who is behind these acts or make those connections as time passes or we gather more information based on what John has to say. Besides we have another idea what ‘It’ can do while we use them fully and they repay the damage they have done to that young Sidhe who sought refuge in my embassy only weeks back.” Rohanna suggested.
“What would that be?” the leader asked for the group.
“A one way binding of the souls to only benefit the new Sidhe,” Rehanna grinned and John instantly knew this was bad…very bad for her!
“Do you know this ‘John’s’ true name for the binding?” one elder questioned.
“Yes we do and when she was a human, he gave blood willingly at that time…to save his very life when HE led the invasion of MY embassy!” Rehanna said, pulling out the vial of blood and a small scrap of paper that John instantly recognized as the one she had written her old name on!
There was a small but short gasp from one elder before they spoke, “This is a very stupid creature…I will vote we keep them alive and do the binding. BUT it needs a new name, as ‘John’” the voice almost spat “is something I will not say over and over during this meeting and other meetings in the future. Besides, IT needs a more fitting name!?”
“Might we suggest Sofilein for a new name? As it fits and has the right meaning in this case?” Rohanna asked the group.
“It fits and I like it!” one shadow said, “I vote yes.” and the shadow seemed to wave its hand over one of the many stones sitting before its place and the runes covering it glowed in magic light. The rest of the council followed one by one, yet one growled as it made its vote, “I agree reluctantly, but still request this “creature’s” death!” Rohanna nodded that elders' way, knowing that one dissenting voice was certainly a Pixie and a very angry, very deeply offended pixie!
The leader spoke up next, “We all agree...It is done, this creature shall be known by Sofilein and recorded as such till its death or we agree to change its name once again.”
“What does that name mean?” John asked in a whisper.
“It means in your case…trash or garbage looking or searching for redemption that looks forward to being elevated to being called pond scum!” Lilac barked.
John or now Sofilein stood silently on the council’s pedestal, She knew that speaking up right now was certainly the worst idea in her short life and she thought about the name, “So I am now known as literal trash to every other fae out there. I gotta make some sort of move to improve my position or I am dead meat!”
“Since that is now behind us all. I put forth to this council of elders that the Leighs keep interrogating this Sofilein farther and that in three moons time, they are to present her before us again and see if any new information was developed. At that time we will vote on continuing Sofilein from there on.” the leader suggested.
Rohanna nodded to the shadow, “I agree, with one suggestion. That Sofilein be bound as we suggested to the young Sidhe she was pursuing and thus protect him as best she can until she has nothing more to give?”
“I forward the motion of the Drow twins!” a new shadow spoke out, even Sofilein could tell the twins knew that voice personally by their knowing grins and facial expressions.
“Who among our kind is best at bindings of this type?” one shadow asked the assembled.
“In my personal opinion the best…they are not Fae. But one that has full knowledge of the darkness and fights it with their existence.” another suggested.
“Her, not her? She may know and fight darkness BUT bespelling a fae like this and as we ask?” a worried voice from the shadows spoke out.
“If you are suggesting ‘V’ I can call her here and she should be here with us within an hour or so?” Rohanna smiled back and her twin slowly nodded knowingly,
That ‘nod’ frightened Sofilein very deeply and she shivered at the sight, “these Drow do not have my best interest in mind at all and them agreeing on something is bad very bad!” she thought.
“To be sure. You are speaking of Mrs Barron?” the head of the council asked the group.
The leader’s voting stone lit up, then all the rest lit one by one in the same color and runes. “So we agree then, I will go contact her and contact the teen in question to have them both here as soon as possible.” Rehanna said and started to leave the room and after she left the far side of the room went from shadows to full black.
“Well now we have a plan of what to do with you and you are not going to like it.” the guards leader said as she stuck her hand out to Sofilein still standing on the pedestal, “Now get on my hand,” she ordered.
“What now?” Sofilein asked, hoping on.
“We wait and you shut up!” she warned and turned to leave out a shimmering circle of magical light and back into the Fae embassy in Los Angeles.
Once there Sofilein watched as one twin used a very ornate gem the size of the Drow’s fist to communicate with a person and the magic looked very much like a 3D hologram would, it was crazy how lifelike it looked. The other picked up a phone off her desk and made a call, then hung up that one and made another, “Yes bring him here and fast…dressed to appear before an elder council and make sure you are all presentable in your personal finest.” she instructed someone on the line.
Across the huge city of LA at the beach mansion of one of the dark court queens.
Elli flipped her personal “Frame” shut with a quick slap to her hand, “Okay everyone we all gotta get dressed up in our best for a meeting with the council! Get your finest out and dress up or they will take a huge shit on us and then our parents will beat us all to pulps!”
“What council, specifically?” Tessa asked very curious how far up the Fae leadership ladder this mess was heading.
“The elder one and they want Nathan there too, so I am betting on one of the top two or the full council with royals?” Elli said back worried if Nathan was mentally ready for such an important group.
“The top most council?!” Tessa said back more than kind of shocked that all of this mess with Nathan’s showing up was so important that even the royals like her aunts were taking notice!
Elli nodded to the teen succubus, “Yes I know its bad and kind of cool scary at that the same time,” then she headed upstairs to get Nathan who was video gaming with Cass in his room.
Upstairs Elii knocked on Nathan’s door, “Can I come in guys we have an issue” she said and waited for a bark at the door, “Come on in just us ‘Call of war’ guys playing video games in here!” Cass jested as she came in.
“What’s up girl?” he asked, noticing the look on her ‘serious’ face after she came in, then cussed just as quick as Nathan blasted his avatar to bits with a rocket on the huge screen!
“We all and Nathan have to appear before the council of elders and royals…right now. As IN… soon as we get there. So help him get all ready and make sure you are too…we are all going!” she ordered and left the room as fast as she had come in.
“What is going on?” Nathan has to ask since most of the conversation went right over his head.
“Well Nat, we are basically going to appear before what could be called the senate and presidents of the Fae world...our basic UN. The top most leaders of our kind are going to ask you some questions and some of those questions will be coming from royals who are thousands of years old. Just remember to tell the truth as you know or understand it and remember that they are very serious people or creatures.” Cass said as he worked on pulling Nathan’s suit from the room’s walk-in closet, the space might be bare when compared to Cass’s own closet. But Nathan was quickly adding clothes with each trip he made and the girls added many of their own choices over the last few weeks!
“Is this a good thing or bad?” Nathan asked, while choosing a tie to match the suit from the whopping three he now owned. A personal record for the teen never having even owned one tie before he changed into a Sidhe and he was eighteen when he changed, he certainly had the time or years to get a proper suit. But it never came up and he might have got one for his high school graduation if mom and dad could afford one?
“It is what it is, they want to see you for their own various reasons and thus you are going. You really don’t have a choice in the matter.” Cass said pointedly.
“What if I don’t and choose to run?” Nathan asked, now getting a bit scared.
“You JUST don’t, cause they will find you and then add it will be worse just like in the human world. You run from the cops, equals…you get punished.” Cass said, opening the door to leave and get ready for the meeting himself, “Please be here when I get back.” he sighed a warning or request before leaving the room.
Shortly downstairs in the mansion’s entry
Kyo was busy making sure Nathan’s tie was straight while chastising Elli “You mean you never helped your dad or brothers with a tie…ever?”
“Nope, mom always did that stuff or my older sister. “ she shrugged back innocently.
“Really?” she shook her head, “I did this for my dad all the time and a dozen of the boys I went to school with till they got the hang of doing it themselves!”
“Well let's all get together for a port spell to the embassy and then from there someone else will guide us.” Tessa said to the group as she walked down the stairs dressed in a business suit.
Lin, one of the twin drow teens, was starting to weave a spell when the mansion’s door flew open to show a winded Meagan, “Did I miss them?” She asked the room closing the door and then noticed them all, “Ohhh I guess not! I was told to meet you all there, but one of my aunt’s boats got me here as I dressed below and I ran up from the beach in hopes to meet ya.”
Lin restarted her spell as Cass noticed a very nice pin on Meagan’s top, “What’s that?” he asked very curious about something so expensive looking that had an aura of magic just dripping off it!
“A brooch my GGma gave me to tell other royals in this council just who I am.” she grinned ear to ear and she seemed to be very proud of wearing it!
“That’s really nice Meg, but we gots to get going or else!” Kyo warned and punched her twin in the shoulder, “WELL get to spellifying chick!”
“Drop dead!” Lin warned her twin as she spun the teleport spell back up and a disk of light appeared across the room when she was finished, “Well there we go!” she smiled, stepping through it.
Once on the other side of the magical gateway, Nathan found that this room seemed to be made for teleporting or magical gates or ports like the one he had come through and there were at least a dozen guards securing this room. These guards were dressed in the same style that he was now quickly finding out was the standard for embassy troops or guards.
“This way please, we have a room standing by for your use while waiting for the Jabress and your meeting.” one well dressed lady that seemed to be the room’s guide or their own personal guide said to the group and waved an arm showing the direction she wished them to go.
The large party of teens walked into one of the embassy's many waiting areas, this one was set up to look more like a large human style living area that even had space for kids to play around in by the child themed carpet covering one corner that had a layout of a city printed on it to play on. The teen twins were very surprised to see their four younger siblings, a pair of twin girls and a pair of twin boys already there with their dad Keighvin. The set of four much younger twins seemed to be close in age, with the boys looking to be a year older at about five and the girls four.
The teen Drow nodded to him as they spoke in stereo, “Keighvin sir, glad to see you.”
He gave them a quick nod, but kept a wary eye on his pack of four much younger Drow playing in the room. A drow parent had to keep a wary eye on their kids at all times , they could get out of hand quickly at young ages and learned how to do spells or pick locks by age five or so! “Girls glad to see you.” he smiled making sure the kids were in sight.
“Are you going to this meeting too?” Kyo asked, noticing that he was not at all dressed for this type of meeting with a council of such a high rank.
“No, I have the kids to look after…We did have other plans for today. But sadly all of this embassy mess came up.” he said, tossing one of the kids a toy they had tossed his way playfully. But the twins did not press him on what the meeting was for, because they knew that the Liegh’s would tell them all in time.
“Who is he?” Cass asked Tessa and Elli plus Meagan leaned in to hear the explanation.
“That is Keighvin the Leigh twins only husband that is a true Drow and the human one, that one of the twins was married to got assassinated a few years ago…he was a rising star politician and Senator at the time. He might have become president or VP someday.” she explained.
“Oh that sounds bad…really bad, I didn't know that.” Cass said.
“Few did know the full truth that they were mates, most only saw the actress she was and thought the Drow part she played was something temporary and that she played Drow parts with make-up. Keighvin here is the real father of the kids around us for the most part and is not Kyo’s or Lin’s dad at all. To get into and understand that whole family story would take a few hours, so I’ll tell you that very long one later. As that is VERY complex and I don’t have a chalkboard or my finger puppets with me!” she giggled.
It seemed to be a wait, so Cass sat down with Nathan and one of the many books in the room on Fae and Sidhe, going over it page by page to show him the race he had joined. It was all an impromptu class for him and even Meagan was listening in to learn…she had lots to catch up on, even more than Nathan did!
Around the room the teen Drows played with their siblings in a monster vs hunter game they seemed to play all the time. The older twins being the ‘monsters’ that must be hunted and slayed!
The wait was a bit longer than Cass thought it should have been and was even saying so to Nathan and Meagan sitting around him as the door finally opened and Both Drow came into the room. They both shouted in stereo at the six running amok children “Kids…silence and sit down!” and even the teens took notice, acting instantly to grab a seat as fast as one ever did!
Kyo picked up one of the twin boys and gave him his toy as she sat him down by Keighvin. “Ohhh shit!” she breathed out almost silently and then went to sit down by Cass.
Cass had to chuckle to her under his breath, “Even you perked up and listened to your mom! Not the rebellious teen are ya?”
“You would listen and obey your mom too, IF she tossed VERY sharp daggers your way each time you did not heed them...and they don’t do that, ‘missing you by an inch’ every time. Sometimes they WILL nail ya!” she growled back that in Drow homes, moms and or the eldest female rules in not so kind or gentle ways. A Drow’s home, were a warrior’s home most of all.
“Glad to see my oldest still listening to me over what they do in chats or face doohickey!” one said and then pointed at Tessa, “You should know better than this, we do not hide ourselves going before royal councils, any councils with auras, glamors or magic that hide our true selves. Go back home and change into your best and show that you are a proud Kynlif that does not sulk around disguised as a human. We are not human here and will not ever be human here!”
“Yes Mistress,” Tessa said meekly and vanished with a magical teleport.
After Tessa left Nathan just had to ask, “What is a Kynlif?”
“You’ll see very soon and don’t be shocked at what you see, Tessa is still the same no matter what she looks like versus how she acts. Just like any other Fae or human you meet, Actions, deeds not words or looks matter.” Cass said and went on to help keep the younger Drow kids entertained.
Nathan watched the kids play as the twin Drow embassy leaders seemed to take a string of endless calls and talked to magical apparitions of people from crystals or a highly carved stone that looked at a distance much like a cutting edge 3D video or hologram would look like. He noticed that when they talked, even with them only being yards away he could not hear any part of what was said…magic at work once again he thought silently.
It was not too long before another Fae creature made an entrance to the room and this one was very new to Nathan. This new Fae was clearly a female by its garb, a form fitting leather armor outfit head to toe with a silk togo styled top layered over the underlying leather armor. She stood nearly six feet tall with large bat wings, her hands ended in claws and her feet were large raptor like feet with claws on the ends.
Her body showed utter beauty in form and motion, the only strange to a human parts were the wings, feet and hands. She had the body of a swimsuit model nonetheless! When Nathan finally saw her beautiful face he knew it instantly…it was Tessa!
As she came closer all Nathan could say was “Tessa?” as his mind questioned what he saw.
“Yes this is the real me Nathan, we call ourselves Kynlif and others call us E’draqvar. But humans call us succubus or drinkers of sex and lust.” she said, trying hard to smile and hoped that Nathan would not be revolted. Tessa genuinely liked Nathan in more than one way…he was growing on her.
One of the Drow noticed that Tessa was back and walked over to greet her, “Well that is much better now!” she grinned.
“I really didn't want to do this now, Jabress Rohanna. I wanted to show all of this.” she waved a hand slowly over her form, “What I really was or looked like to Nathan more slowly?” she sighed back timidly.
The other twin joined in on the conversation when she walked up, “Well it's best to rip the scab off and show your true self. We all had to hide far too long and me or us even more so…they, the humans have to get used to us now. As we are truly versus what they like to see. Remember we won that right decades ago and if they back down from their words, we will fight again and not in court!” she said gruffly and with a growing anger lingering on her harsh words.
“Hey Tessa, I love the real you!” You’re really cute and rocking the Disney “Gargoyles” cartoon look in a far better way than they ever could!” he smiled looking Tessa over again and even she could feel him starting to really “lust” after her and that feeling made her more than happy. It showed that she or her normal self was not scary or revolting to him in the least!
“Nice since we are all here now. Rania, could you go get our new little creature and we all move to the gate room so we can all leave for the council chambers.” she asked her personal assistant who nodded and exited the room and came back only seconds later with a large pack of guards behind her.
The leader of the group of new guards had a small fairy in the palm of her outstretched hand. Nathan took note that these guards had a more formal air about them and the style of their armor said “important” to anyone that looked at them by the very ornate style of etching each one had.
“Nathan meet Sofilein or John Chuck, this small creature befell the same pack of human scientists that helped with your change into one of us proud Sidhe…but in his or her case she ended up as this pitiful mess of a cross of human mad science gone wrong and Fae magic it seems…YEEECH!” Rehanna growled and nearly retched at the sight of Sofilein.
“Really?” Nathan questioned the sight of the small fairy and the statement that Rehanna had made.
“Yes and the church that made both of you sent HIM when he was still very much human chasing after you. This is the same man you saw right here in our embassy lobby the day you came to us seeking refuge…the same one who was leading those cops and that rent-a-cape, that I or we sent packing back to his masters in disgrace. A showing of outright failure so bad, that they did this to him or now her!” Rohanna came up and into the conversation with her arms crossed in the small of her back and the grin across her face was just huge, showing her genuine amusement at what had happened to John.
“So THIS thing wanted to catch me and send me back to those monsters to be further experimented on? To make me into a guinea pig, then very dead as my body was sliced up and or made into lab samples on glass slides!” Nathan growled now even madder than he had ever been since his change. So mad his eyes glowed a bright purple, as all the magic users in the room could feel the flow of magic essence of the room flowing towards him… very dangerously towards him.
“Calm down Nathan I can feel you pulling magical essence from the area and you are not trained to even control even a small part of that flow…yet!” Rehanna demanded of the teen and noted his potential as a very skilled and powerful mage someday with years of training.
“I am?” He questioned what he was doing, that thought alone broke away his mental fog of anger and what he was doing very much by instinct alone.
“We will have to work very quickly on your training this week, even before you go to the Hekawi academy and I might even introduce you to a great teacher today if she shows up as the council asked.” Rohanna told the teen her plans for his magical education and training.
Cass heard that last part and had to wonder over to Elli, “Who does not show up when the top of our Fae councils calls upon them?”
“Whoever that is…I am not going to tell them that they are wrong. When they have that much pull or are that scary even to our Fae royals!” she said back thinking of a short list of who it can even be and came up empty!
“It is time, the council recalls us,” one of the guards stated after they pocketed a small rune covered rock they had been talking to for the last few minutes.
Once again the whole group of Fae all joined up, then walked to the teleporting room and left for the council chambers. Same as last time John, now renamed to “Sofilein” , found themselves in the council room with what seemed to be the exact same group as before, sitting in the far side of the room hidden by deep shadows or even magic.
The head guard placed Sofilein on her perch on the room’s pedital before the council table, “Stay silent as before or die” she warned her once again and Sofilein or John nodded back that she understood the threat and indeed took it very seriously!.
“So Rehanna, did you contact Mrs Barron or not?” a shadow at the table’s head asked.
“We did and she will be here shortly.” one of the Drow said back with a nod of respect to the group.
And as if on cue, a black tear in the fabric of reality made its presence known in the corner of the room and a tall blonde woman stepped out of it followed by a huge black hawk that swooped out and landed on the council table. The hawk studied the room and gave one of the guards that dared to step forward towards it the stare of certain death and he wisely stepped back to his place guarding the room at its edge.
“Greetings Mrs Barron, we are honored by your presence and willingness to take our invite. I have to say our rules are that any guests show themselves at an embassy to be ported here.” the lead shadow said in greeting.
“The invite was surprising…and to your rule or suggestion on teleports…That is YOUR rule and not mine. Don’t like how I arrived, then don’t invite me again?” she said, giving voice to her displeasure at being even told what to do by literal children to her real age versus what age she appeared to be.
“I or we asked you to be here Ky,“ Rohanna said, surly knowing the being personally, one being that seemed to scare even the elder council and its powerful royals.
“So what are my two crazy Drow going to ask me to do or get involved in this time?” she asked with a wicked playful grin.
“We would like you to do a one way benifit binding of this Pix to this Sidhe boy here,” Rehanna said standing behind Nathan and pointing out Sofilein standing on the room’s only pedestal.
The somewhat surprised look on Mrs Barron’s face tells Sofilein all she needs to know as the blonde asks her next question, “So does this Pixie know what this binding entails, what they are offering and are they giving this benifit for free to the Sidhe boy?”
All of those questions worry Sofilein greatly, whatever this “binding” spell was? It was not good for her at all!
“No, this Pixie has not been informed…But it doesn't matter. As we know her true name and have her own freely given blood for the spell’s creation and base.”
Mrs Barron shook her head to the answer, “What a stupid pixie or one that certainly owes a huge life debt to the boy Sidhe?”
“Both.” is all Rehanna smiled back with a wicked chuckle.
“Shall we start then, or do you wish to do this elsewhere?” Ky asked the twins and not the council.
“Ohhh we are doing this now and before the council. We have their approval and up most, it's a form of punishment for this being.” Rohanna said next as she gave Sofilein an evil stare that would scare anyone.
“Then if the council wants this spell now and to take place here…I will temporarily require my full possession and control over a small patch of ground here.” Ky asked and took a place a few feet away, “This spot would be fine…in a ten foot circle from where I stand in its center.”
A shadowed voice called from the council’s lead spot “You have permission to use that spot as needed for this spell and only this spell, ending today at midnight. Any other intentions on use are not given.”
Kyley minutely shook her head to the answer, “Ohhh that must be one of the royals and I would bet on one of the dark court sisters!” She thought silently that many others would have not mentioned even limiting her spell and left it open to her call on a time limit…a very bad idea!
“Now I need two blades to be donated for the task, one for the Sidhe’s blood and one for the Pixie’s blood and her blade shall have both on it…from the form she has now and the human one from then!” KY demanded as her huge ax appeared from nowhere and she slammed it pommel into the stone floor. Kyley spoke a few words no one here understood and a string of runes formed on the floor glowing with magical power in a circle with three smaller circles across it…one centered and two slightly smaller ones across from it in a straight line.
Rehanna knew this request for spell components was coming and took two small daggers from her magical storage with a wave of her hand, “Here,” she said, offering the two small blades whose only purpose was use in magical spells.
Kyley took the set and examined them closely, “Nice workmanship and purity, they shall work fine and bind this spell very well with their sacrifice.”
“Never leave home without some!” Rehanna laughed.
“WE all know the next steps well, we need blood on one blade form the boy and both sides of the other must be smeared with her blood, both old and new,” Kyley said as she started to push her own magical essence into both blades and then spun up a new spell that covered each blade in a new set of runes to match the set already glowing on the floor.
When Kyley was finished with her step, she handed the blades back to Rehanna who took the pair with a silk cloth over using her own bare hands that might spoil the spell at work and she stepped over towards Sofilein “Time to get that blood!” she grinned evilly.
“I might get you a small drop?” Sofilen offered in a shaky voice.
“We are going to need a bit more than a drop for this spell,“ Kyley said, knowing that more was better and a small drop was not going to work at all. In fact the donation required might even put the small fae near death…but when making a binding spell like this “eggs must be cracked” and some might die in the process.
“I really don’t have that much!” Sofilen cried out as Rehanna got closer and the guard near her saw what was coming and snatched her off the pedestal in a gauntleted hand…the female guard held her firm.
“This might hurt a bit…just for a second till you pass out from the pain or…blood loss. The Healer will help you after I am done…and we see if you live through the process?” Rehanna promised and that “promise” felt very slim and meaningless to Sofilen right now.
Sofilen tried to flap her wings with every ounce of strength her body had and she freed herself by shredding the guards gauntlet in the process. That action had the guard screaming in pain as she spun away from the flapping like mad buzzsaw…”Kill it!” she ordered!
“NO!” a shout sounded in the room like a thunder clap that deafened some and Sofilen found her body in a new vise-like grip that felt like a god had her in their very hand she personally thought. And that assumption was right, a “god” did have her contained. As Kyley was the one trapping her and Kyley is very close to being a god on a small level, Ky had used her mental strength to grab and trap Sofilen before she could get herself killed by the room full of now very angry guards.
Being trapped and surly about to be bled dry no matter how she personally felt or complained and resisted was a sure thing. So…Sofilen suddenly grew in size like she did days before when she struggled getting out of the lab.
Kyley felt the “POP” of Sofilen growing and spun her way from her busy work of spinning up the binding spell, “Well that is new and something I have only seen one other time.”
“SHIT I am big again!” Sofilen cried out in surprise then looked down at the small fact that growing big suddenly had torn her doll clothes into a few tastters that fell to the floor, “OHH FUCK I AM NAKED!”
“That you are,” Rehanna said, grabbing one of her hands and slicing the blade against it till fresh blood flowed and she obtained the “donation” the twin knew was needed for the spell.
No sooner was Rehanna done, when Sofilen shrank back down to her more normal size, “Shoot I gotta work on controlling that!”
“I would make that a top priority in your life and I might be able to help with that?” Kyley said still busy with her spell crafting, but her mind could do several dozen complex tasks at the same time with ease.
Rohanna went over to Nathan as her twin was busy obtaining blood from Sofilen, “Nathan we need just a bit of your blood, but before you even nod or say yes…repeat my words exactly!” she ordered and Nathan stood there silently, not budging an inch, “I give my blood willingly for this one binding spell with no exchange as payment or other bindings or release of my mind, body or soul in any way.”
Nathan repeated the words that Rohanan gave him exactly and she drew his blood with a quick slice of the blade and handed it over to Kyley who shoved into one of the circle’s centers, “You stand across from the Pix in the other circle where Your blooded blade rests,” she asked both and Nathan did as asked. BUT Sofilen was not too sure of moving till a guard pulled a blade and gave her little choice in the matter.
Rehanna, done with her part, pulled out the blood vial that ‘John the human’ had given and now dripped it along the other side of the same blade that ‘Sofilen the Pixe’ had just “gave” her blood less than willingly on both parts. She then handed the blade to Kyley along with the hand written note that had John’s old name, that the twins had demanded from him weeks ago, “We give this ‘true name’ for this binding only and no other binding or spell, we Drow still own this being via his and her true name and relinquish nothing to you!” she ordered.
“Understood and who will pay the debt to balance the scales for me to cast this binding?” Kyley asked as she rammed the bloodied blade from Sofilen into the circle at Nathan's feet and paused before starting her next step at crafting this spell . A price had to be paid to the caster in spells of this nature and she was one to always collect no matter what!
“Hummm then your payment will be, Sofilen is bound to you after her death. You can choose what to do with her body, essence or being at that time…just know I hope she lives quite awhile!” Rehanna smiled.
“WHAT!?” Sofilen cried out in shock at that last statement, “she owns me?”
Rohanna chuckled a bit, “Only after you die...till then you will help Nathan here. We told you once already that you owed a debt and this is how you prove yourself to us Fae and redeem your old human life with a sacrifice as the lab grown Pixie you now are,”
“Done…the bargain is made. Now Sofilen stand in the circle across from Nathan,” Ky ordered and the new pixie had no other choice than to obey, even if she wanted to. The magic now flowing at Kyley’s will would have made her or broken her will or body till she did as told!
Kyley started up her spell and the circle under both Nathan and Sofilen glowed like fire to anyone around even humans that did not have the “sight” to see magical essence or spells. Kyley mentally wove the spell that most casters or creators of spells used the “handicap” in her opinion of words or hand gestures.
The circle under Sofilen glowed at a brighter pulse till a beam of spellfire lept from her chest and right into Nathan’s and as the fire “flowed” over to the teen boy, each “pulse” seemed to weaken her noticeably to the point it was starting to hurt!
“I don’t feel good” she said somewhat weakly,
“Well don’t die on us and cheat me out of using you to your full measure!” Rohanna demanded.
Nathan on the other hand, smiled “I feel great for the first time in weeks!”
The spell kept pulsing for several minutes till the pulse hit a quick crescendo and its light died suddenly. That near POP of spellfire is when Sofilen fell over…she fainted from all her lifeforce leaving her body to go heal up Nathan from his change to a Fae. She laid there till Rehanna strode over and nudged her small body with the pointed toe of one of her designer high heels.
“Get up right now or I ram this heel right through what is left of you!” she barked in warning.
Sofilen levered her body up and shakily stood up and looked up to Rohanna hovering over her, “What was all that?” her weakened voice asked the Drow.
“That was a binding spell,“ Rohanna spoke and looked over to Nathan to involve him in her statement too “And it binds you to Nathan and you to him BUT in a one way street fashion so to speak.”
“What?” the new Pixie asked, finally standing up.
“One way…as in he gets hurt and you feel it and your life force goes to heal him up till you are fully spent and die.” she said and swung out a fist and rammed it into Nathan’s side so hard you could hear his ribs break. Nathan only grimaced in pain for a brief second till Sofilen cried out in horrible pain as her own ribs broke on their own and she felt even worse…as if death warmed over could get worse!
Nathan felt over his ribs and found none broke…”What?” he questioned, “I know they broke and felt it for a second.” he asked puzzled at the feat.
“Well she healed you and took your pain at the same time…Now if I shot you in the face. You would feel that and it might take a few minutes till you healed and she died in your place...but LIVE you would!” Rehanna laughed out to Sofilen’s shock.
“I heal him and I die?”
“Now you are getting it…so guard his life well as YOUR’S DEPENDS ON IT!” Kyley warned, “and I will be seeing you someday soon or maybe not if you do your job well?” She said studying the small Fae.
Sofilen could feel Kyley’s eye bore right through her body and then she looked over to Nathan, “Hummm interesting, VERY interesting. I will have to take note of this and see if…” the tall blond said before winking out of existence.
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binding spell
well, that's one way to ensure she protects him.