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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.
Life moves on and she makes a movie to get Fae kind more "Out there" and joins the NYPD as a teen cop!
The Dunwich condo community inside Bill and Jineen’s condo
Rohanna grabs the last of her personal items from on top of her room’s dresser, “I hate moving out my stuff, but this place is a target for that slick lawyer and if he touches Max or my dad’s blade again I WILL CHOP OFF HIS HEAD!” the enraged teen barks her threats.
“Honey, Joey Bear got the Medawihla tribe to fix all of this. We became fully adopted members of the tribe and then they made our condo tribal land. That makes the next search warrant one hundred percent illegal unless a federal judge that has tribal authorization and training signs off…and I have been assured that there is no judge in the whole nation that will sign a search warrant for Medawihla tribal lands. There is none crazy enough to do it!” Jineen pleaded with the teen to leave her stuff in the twin’s shared room.
“We trust you, we trust the tribe…we do NOT trust other humans not to try this sort of invasion of our lives again!” Rehanna spat.
“Yes this all goes with us, because at Whateley we have a whole army that will not let them on campus. But we are leaving a dozen pixies here with orders no human enters this home alive unless you let them in.” Rohanna said checking the bathroom for anything they might leave, but still want to be safe.
“Ahhhh that is a bad idea?” Bill warned.
“So who is going to arrest a pixie?” Rohanna sassed, “There is no way they could even catch one, let alone hold one for any time longer than a few hours!”
Bill tilted his head to the idea, “Good point, who could catch a pixie and who would be that crazy or powerfull…well ones that you don’t already know personally?”
“Honey, you know this is your home and we try to keep it safe?” Jineen explained and hugged Rohanna close.
“We will come back when all this is over…we just can not have our most valued treasures vulnerable to that MAN! If he had damaged Max or dad’s blade? We would have taken months to kill him and done so in such a public way they would HAVE to jail us...if they EVER could!”
“We would have to do it publicly as a warning to all humans…don’t mess with DROW!” Rehanna spat once more.
Rohanna broke Jineen’s hug and nodded to her twin, “We have to get back to Whateley, if you want to see us…see us there for now.” and they both ported away.
As they left Bill’s anger finally cut loose and he smashed a fist through the hallway wall next to him, “I have to get this attorney off the twins or he will test them too far and they will over react.” he warned his wife who nodded back and went hug her man.
Days later
Bill stormed out of a meeting between himself, ARC and the attorney for the sports star that was trying to get the twins not to testify against him in court or at best discredit them!
“Ohhh you best make sure he keeps to the deal of us or ARC suing him and his sports hero…because if he comes to my place again or near the twins. HE will….” Bill shouted at the well dressed attorney who was laughing at him till the ARC attorneys pulled him away.
The lead ARC attorney stared at the high priced fool of a man still laughing at Bill, “He is not grandstanding, Bill has seen his share of death in combat and his warning should be heeded…now the twins on that matter. If you really knew them SIR, you would quit your profession and send them gifts each year you live past this one.”
“Gifts?...For what?” he laughed.
“For them letting you live one more year.” and the ARC attorney walked away without one more word.
A week later at Whateley
Sam walked into the school’s security department after her regular visit to Crystal hall to over watch lunch time of most of the academy and keep the infighting to less than lethal!
She flipped through the watch desk reports of happenings while she was away and the notes of the staff made as they returned from patrols. She was checking one report on an entry on school grounds by a car with an escort, when she noticed someone sitting in her office, “Who is that?” she asked the desk sergeant on duty.
“Ohh Sam, that is Akiko Yamamoto of the Tokyo Yakuza clan. She is the leader or ‘boss’ for this whole section of the east coast, going from Maine down to Virginia. Miss Yamamoto, arrived while you were out and wanted you to read this before you met with her,” he said, sliding her a large sealed envelope…”the envelope has the school’s seal from the board of trustees.” he added in.
“I can see that thank you!” she almost barked as she thought about who this lady was and then had her system link to the deep web to ‘look her up”...in a millisecond she had the info she wanted or dreaded. This woman was the boss of Summer Dillard, the woman that ran the Syndicate operation that kidnapped the twins a few months back…Summer did not live through the meeting to see winter!
An hour later
A well dressed Asian woman sighed as Sam was giving her a second run down of the school's rules and why she was not about to let ANYONE be in a room alone with a student let alone the twins!
“I understand all of that Everheart, but I have pre-approval of the whole board for this meeting and will assume all the risks of the meeting…consequences damage to myself, my mind or my full death or disappearance. No one including the Leigh Twins will see a day in court or be punished in any way.” she smiled and said in perfect english, that one educated in the hallowed halls of a place like Harvard or Yale might use.
“I get that…but I have to know what you are going to say to them or question them?” Sam demanded.
“That is very personal business just between us.”
“Then tell me this, are you going to ask them to commit a crime? Because I know very well who you are and what you do!”
“I promise you that I will not ask such an evil act out of them.”
“I have checked you out VERY THOROUGHLY and you are a woman of your word…I must ask you not to mention you were in charge of “The Syndicate” operations in New Jersey when they had an issue there a few months back.”
“That is why I am here.”
“You tell them that…you are going to die today and I can not say a word to stop that from happening. You were involved in that mess and the killing of a cop they cared deeply about.”
“That is why I am here…” she said with a sigh.
“Who do you want me to call if this goes the way I am sure it will?”
Akiko handed Sam a simple white envelope, “This is all the information you will need. I died by my own hand if my body is ever found.”
“You are one brave woman…and if they kill you, they will never find the body. But my guess is that you will live and regret this choice.”
“Live?” Akiko asked.
“Well live… as in still alive? But in what shape or form over the next few hundred years, who knows…the twins are powerful mages and know powerful Fae and other beings!” Sam warned that death is not the worst case here for this woman!
Deep down Sam knew that a few of the Twin’s servants or fighters or bonded Fae were people, humans that had crossed the pair in some way and the twins punished them by changing them into nymphs or other Fae. Sam had met a few of them from time to time. It only made sense to come to this conclusion, for a human to vanish in one case and suddenly a few weeks later the twins had a new servant or bonded Fae of some kind of fashion.
“I still request my meeting with them.” Akiko said, but this time she added a slight bow of respect to Sam.
“This letter says I can’t deny you this meeting and even goes farther to mention if you get harmed, all the documents are to vanish afterwards!”
“Well let's start by burning that letter in your hand, then erase the video tapes of my arrival here.” Akiko asked and pushed a decorative ashtray on Sam's desk over her way. That tray was a souvenir of her time way back in the SEAL teams, when she was in Asia stalking a few bad guys for the US. She never used the darn thing, the only use it had was for candy around halloween or Christmas time!
“Go ahead, might as well get that part over and add this letter of where you might want your remains sent to,” she said handing over the letter after memorizing it…as if she could forget anything in her life with being over ninety percent nano-computer after her two “accidents” in the last few years.
Akiko readied herself for this meet, one that might be her last act in life. She could have just walked right into Whateley and spoke to the twins without telling anyone. But it was only proper and polite custom to ask, rather than fully demand…everyone saves face and honor this way.
An hour later
The twins strolled into the security department and walked up to the desk sergeant, “We were told to see Sam about something?” rohanna asked while her twin Rehanna looked at the flier on the bulletin board for a shooting competition this next week.
“Sam will tell ya…in her office.” the desk Sergeant said thumbing over her shoulder towards Sam’s office
Rehanna tapped the flier on the wall, “We should do this one?”
“I’ll sign you both up on the system while you chat with Sam” the sergeant offered and he quickly went to work on his new task for the twins.
“Thanks Daniels, I am sure we are going to love that one!” Rehanna smiled as she had to nearly race after her twin into Sam’s office.
Rohanna stepped in the door of Sam’s office and leaned up on the door jamb, “So what's up Sam?’ she smiled and Rehanna leaned in over her twin’s shoulder, “Sam up what’s So?” she did in jest, like a mirror of speech might show the words printed out in reverse.
Sam did not even look up from her work, “You have a visitor that wants to have a little chat with both of you, they are waiting in interrogation two.”
“Sam?” Rehanna reacts with a tilt of her head, “You are acting real funny?”
“Just meet with the woman in interrogation two please,”
“As you say Sam…only because you asked us to.” Rohanna sighed as she stood up straight.
Both teens walked across the security department over to where the hallway leading to the cells was and the short hall with the interrogation rooms. Rehanna took the lead into the hallways as her twin held the door and noted the control panel on ‘interrogation two’ by pointing her finger at it, “This might be why they wanted us here?” she said tapping the panel and all the lit lights indicating that the room had its jammers on blacking all ways to listen into the room’s occupants via a radio bug and the rest of the lights showed all the rooms privacy systems were on full bore!
Rohanna found the door was already unlocked for them, so she waited for her twins and nodded…”Hummm they have it all open for us, so that means she is not locked up as a prisoner or really dangerous to the school.”
Rohanna flipped up the cover on the small “peep” window of the room and found an Asian woman inside pacing a few feet on the far side of the smallish space, “Well she is very well dressed for starters, that is the latest from Takahashi!”....yes the twins follow fashion worldwide, when you only sleep about an hour so in three or four days…means you got tons of free time to read things off the net!
The woman was the only thing in the room besides that four very strong chairs and table made from very fine steel that could take the punishment mutants teens might give it.
Rehanna grabbed the door’s handle and gave it a slow twist and opened it cautiously, “You requested a meeting with us? She asked using most of the door like a shield till she was sure of what or who was in the room and if they were a threat. She spotted the only thing out of place was a small simple wooden box already sitting on the table.
The woman was a bit startled when Rehanna spoke, as the drow had opened that door very quietly. “I am Akiko Yamamoto,” the obvious to anyone that looked Japanese woman said, as she stepped forward and gave a slight bow of respect to the twins.
Innerly Akiko thought this might be her last day and that only the Twins would decide her fate…either accept her heartfelt apology that the ones under her had overstepped their bounds by an INSANE margin…or they would kill her…in a single heartbeat or make her death longer painfully over decades!
Akiko pulled a business card case from inside her jacket pocket and presented the card with respect, “My personal number, call upon me day or night.” she offered and once again she gave a slight bow. This was a tradition to exchange business cards and this one was a very personal one for Akiko to hand to anyone. It did have a number she would answer anytime day or night! The ‘card’ itself was made of finest materials. The core of the card was a thin yet strong core of Mithril, that was then covered in several layers of gold and then finally wrapped in a last layer of engraved gold wood. She had two of the cards made just for the twins to honor them and the cost for the small batch was substantial!
Rohanna was the first twin to step into the room and took the offered card and as she did, her sight noted the extensive tattoos covering both of the woman’s wrists that marked the woman as either a tattoo enthusiast or Yakusza! Rehanna also stepped inside of the room as room was made for her, closing the door behind lastly with a soft click and again the woman presented her with a card that was the same as her twin’s.
Both twins stood between Akiko and the room’s only door, so she started to explain the reason for the meeting, “I am the leader of ALL Syndicut operations on the east coast, from Maine down to Virginia and westward to the Mississippi river. I also lead all the Yakuza of the Kanto region of Japan and a little beyond.”
Rehanna’s head tilted a little bit to that statement just before she spoke and started to side step a bit to give her room to strike, “So you are the leader behind what happened in Jersey?”
“YAAA that little child sex trafficking ring we busted up and turned your underling leading it into a Jackson Pollock painting all over her office!” Rohanna growled in warning.
“I understand your anger,” Akiko said as she stepped back two steps and her back hit the room's far wall…nowhere to go in a room with two enraged Drow, many beings never made it out of this kind of situation alive.
“...Understand…she says,” Rehanna laughed as she thumbed Akiko’s way for her twin.
“Yes we ‘understand’...soon you will understand all the wonders of the universe after your death.” Rohanna warned.
Rehanna shook her head to that idea, “Death…ohhh fuck no…this punishment is going to last decades!”
“If you want to end me…fine I understand the anger behind it. BUT please let me explain first?” Akiko asked the pair.
Rohanna shrugged, “Fine…you are not going anywhere soon…” she smiled and gave ‘air quotes’ when she said “soon”, like it was final!
Rehanna stepped over to one of the room’s chairs on one side of the room and pulled it out from under the room’s only table and she offered it to Akiko, “please sit, rest, take a load off while you tell us a story?” she grinned ear to ear.
Akiko did as the drow asked and watched on as Rehanna took the chair next to it and jammed it under the room’s doorknob, thus making sure it would be VERY hard for anyone to open the door from the outside! Then she took a seat across the table with her twin…the span of the table looked like a continent to Akiko. One side was her living and the other was certain death…the twins!
“So Lucy get to Xplainign!” Rohanna said in a faked Ricky Recardo accent!
Akiko started to explain or ask why she should be forgiven by the pair and why ‘The Syndicate’ should not be held responsible for the acts of a few rough players in New Jersey. “I have seen that all involved in leading or planning or finally majorly profiting in the Jersey child sex ring and sex slave ring are very dead,” she started.
“We already saw to Summer’s demise.” Rehanna stated.
“More like painted a room with her!” Rohanna boasted with ease and that did not bode well with Akiko as the pair admitting to a major crime like murder…said her odds of leaving the room alive were very low!
“In any case they are all gone and nothing like what they do or did, is what ‘The Syndicut’ approves of. We see crimes of that matter or evil…they might be money makers, BUT the attention they create or attention they pull in towards our other operations is far worse and loses money in the end for us…so we ban anything like them fully!”
“Well that takes care of the persons leading the place for the most part, but what about the kids you hurt?” Rehanna asked.
“We are helping all the kids you released and reuniting them with family or taking care of them with the help of the state or local authorities.”
“And the ones that got sold?”
“We are trying.”
“Get on your phone and TRY FUCKING HARDER! I want you to find every one of them, rescue them, buy them back and help them for life!” Rohanna made her demands heard with a shout of anger.
“I can’t do that task dead…now can I?”
“You are Yakusza…make it your last order and bound your underlings by honor to fully obey it!” Rehanna smiled knowing the way of the crime family…honor was the top most linchpin of the whole operation, without it…it would have crumbled a hundred years ago plus!
“I will do as you demand, after I plead my case and before you both render your verdicts on my life.” she nodded.
“Well are you going on, or are these your last words?” Rehanna smiled her question to the lady.
“I have a bit more to offer,” she started
“Better be good, because I have yet to hear anything that is going to save your life so far?” Rohanna said in anger.
“Your friend Officer Garibaldi…” She started, but did not get to finish the rest of the sentence before Rohanna kicked out against the table with both of her strong legs, which sent the steel table sliding across the floor at high speed towards Akiko. The table smashed into Akiko’s body with enough force to slide her backwards into the wall, where the table smashed into her once again as Rehanna finished shoving it towards her till it pinned her body to the wall. The whole act had broken several of her ribs badly.
Rohanna jumped on top of the table in one smooth motion and pulled one of her blades from nothing, “Say his name again and I ram you through right now!” she barked and cried at the same time while shoving the blade at Akiko’s heart…you could hear the deep grief shaking in her voice.
“Sorry?” she gasped back at the twin clearly in pain, “I will never say that name as long as I live!”
Rohanna sighed as she stepped off the table, “Go on and keep to your word and promise!”
“I have made sure all the people that ordered his death are gone.” Akiko croaked in agony as she shoved the table back off her midsection, before she wrapped an arm around her waist in pain from the impact and broken ribs.
Rehanna smashed a fist on the table, the act of anger dented the table a bit, “We should have been given that pleasure of ending their lives or finding a suitable punishment…not you!”
“I am sorry, I just thought I would save you the trouble. Just know their end was not a quick one. I do have video tape of each one if you want it right here,” she said sliding a memory stick across the table.
“We will look at this later.” Rohanna said pocketing the small item quickly.
“And there best not be any surprises in that stick, because the person that will look at it for us will find them and then…queue up that bad kind of music you’d hear in a horror picture and bad ending for you and lots of people around you!” Rehanna warned!
“On my honor there is only video on that stick, but I will also add we will help or support your lost freind’s family for their lives.” she offered.
“He only had his young wife, they were planning on a huge family and already had a huge home ready for all those children” Rohanna choked up, “But you killed him before he could have any kids…you ended his bloodline!”
That is when Akiko pulled an envelope from under that small handmade wooden box she had on the table, “Please read this after I have left or after you punish me, it's good news about your friend and please…wait till after you choose my fate.I do not want what is inside there affecting my fate for the good or bad.” she asked.
“Fine and go on?” Rehanna huffed as she spun the envelope around and around the table like it was a fidget toy…she was growing very impatient by the second, she wanted to end this mess and maybe end Akiko right now.
“I have this last item to offer, one that is demanded on my honor and by the Yakuza oaths I swore to almost from my birth.” she said and started to open the wooden box’s lid on the table.
Rohanna stopped her hand from pulling the lid off the top of the box, “I bet there is a very nice knife inside that box…you do know it will not kill either one of us before you lose that cute head of yours?” the angry drow teen asked and told at the same time.
“Yes there Tanto in this box and it's so I can perform, Yubitsume ("finger shortening") to return at least part of my honor or face?” She told Rohanna with a look of determination on her face, she needed to do this act…it was her honor at stake before she died by their hands, to deny this act told her, that she was one hundred percent worthless to them…honorless forever!
Rohanna lifted her hand and then sliced a finger across Akiko’s left arm just below her elbow, “I think a little finger is not going to cut it as an apology in this case, perhaps most of your arm might be better?” she suggested with an evil grin and a nod.
With a port, Rehanna appeared standing next to the seated Akiko and placed her sharp blade to her throat, “I think chopping off your head would be best?” she suggested and Akiko’s breathing made her neck swell against the blade just enough for the action to start slicing her. Blood started to flow in drops, then as her neck pressed the insanely sharp blade with each breath. A small river of blood flowed along the blade and down her neck.
“Your choice, my life and honor are in your hands Rehanna.” Akiko said, trying not to make the growing cut in her neck worse…for now anyway!
“Let’s hear her out,” Rohanna suggested.
“Fine, let's be gentle with humans…in my day she would be dead…all the Syndicate leadership and most of the Yakuza leadership in Japan by the next full moon!” Rehanna barked her threats as she retook her seat across the table!
Well it was all laid out before Akiko now, she had to make this apology count or the twins would tear right through most of the Syndicate's leadership before they could appease them or even think to stop them!
Akiko slipped off the lid of the box and pulled out the white handled Tanto and placed it to one side as she pulled the rest of the box’s contents. She unfolded a large white silk square on the table, a smaller square of the same silk, then tore two long strips off the smaller square and started to tie them around her ‘pinky’ finger and ‘ring’ finger as low as they would go. She pulled the strips insanely tight till they made tourniquets!
Normally one would sacrifice a single knuckle or segment of a finger to regain your honor or as punishment and in the worst case, two on the same finger. Akiko was planning to sacrifice two knuckles of two of her fingers to appease the twins. She had gone through all of her life in the Yakuza without ever having to do this act of regaining one’s honor…thirty one years!
“I hope this act regains my honor and your forgiveness Leigh…Sans.” Akiko said as she sliced off her pinky and moved the blade over to the next finger to slice off the next one in such a smooth motion it looked natural. The action was as if she had practiced the act many times, she did not waver or even whimper as she cut off her own fingers. She wrapped her hand in silk and then folded the now cut off digits in the larger cloth, then slid them over to the twins as an offering.
“I want to let her go for now.” Rohanna mentally told her twin.
“Why? She deserves death and you know it!”
“She might do more good living, in helping to find those missing kids than her underlings might do with her dead…her honor is at stake.”
“Fine she lives…for now!” Rehanna barked mentally.
Rohanna shook her head, “Now just get out of here, keep your promise to find those girls and boys you enslaved and we best see some results by week’s end. Remember spending YOUR money on fixing this had better NOT have a limit? Because fixing that mess is the only way your leaders will all see the coming years!” she threatened and stood up to open the door for Akiko’s escape from the room!
“Yes Leigh san, I will and may your lives be long and joyful.” she offered before going out of the room and down the hallway, Once outside of the holding room and interrogation area, she was spotted by Sam.
“What happened in there and why is your hand all bloody…did they hurt you?” Sam asked.
“No the Leigh sans did not harm me, I did this to regain my honor and as I said before this was all my choice…they did not force me to this act…I swear on my children's lives. I must go!” she said quickly leaving the security department as fast as she could muster with broken ribs to save some face and personal honor.
The twins sighed in unison before leaving the interrogation room, Rehanna stared at her twin, “She best do as she promised or I am going to be mad at you for being so easy on her!”
“Akiko will keep her promises and help those kids…I know it's a gamble. But the bet is, my personal bet is she does better alive than dead.” she reasoned to her twin and Rehanna just growled back, “She better do just that and better, because I am thinking of several ways to make her life hell for decades!”
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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
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Comments
my personal bet is she does better alive than dead.
she better!
If you noticed that Rehanna
If you noticed that Rehanna is getting a bit meaner and cares less and less for humans in general and Rohanna has to keep her in check at times.
But yep she better do as she said or the punishment might carry over hundreds of years of servitude to a set of mad Drow
Proud member of the Whateley Academy Drow clan/collective