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

He is saved from the death of his race and planet....to start all over again....but can she survive?
A human high school and being a teenager? Will she remember what was? And grow in power?

This Chapter---dealing with school, work and sudden call to examine a strange find!

We take a break for the madness of Rohanna and join Vantier in her first weeks at school!

I have to tell you this, switching from writing a crazy Drow to a level headed older GOO is not easy!---lol

BIG NOTE for my readers!
In this chapter I am trying something new to show Kyley's learning of English and her missing words.

When she skips a word like this...."I hope ___ see you?" She is leaving out the 'to' by accident and sometimes I will use this as a plot point but not all the time. So remember that when reading that this new way to show her learning the language, it will show up time to time?
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Friday September 15, 5:35 PM
Somewhere above Berlin Germany

As our jet started circling the airport waiting it's turn to land, I folded the flaps closed on the large set of files I was reading, then slid them all into yet another sealed case and that is when Saul stopped by my seat to check on me.

"Miss Barron, here is a nice towel to freshen up with before we land and an extra water bottle for the....I sure...long wait in front of you for your bags?" he smiled to me and placed a plate with two such towels on my tray next to a bottle of cold water.

"Thanks Saul, maybe I will see you___on the flight back___home?"

"Yes Miss," then he moved across the aisle to wake Becky from her slumber. How she slept the whole time during our long flight was beyond me, she was just awake long enough to eat a few things off her plate when dinner came and then right back out she went!

With the information packet laying on my lap, I thought over what I had read during the long flight....I even reread it three times to make sure I missed nothing in either the report or the dozens of accompanying photos.

I had read this file describing the first time the Germans had and encounter or encounters with the vault now in the heart of Berlin, our reason for being sent here.

What ever this object was? It was found by the Hitler's Nazi German army during the early 40's while the Africa corps was under Rommel's command and while under his command they had found a vast buried city out in the vast empty sands south of Tobruk. In that newly re-found city area, laid a what seemed to be walled in, very well protected section of the city and one that seemed to have more guard posts facing in...rather than facing out watching for attacks?

They dug up the lost city during the very earliest of fighting with the British forces at the cost of huge amounts of equipment, men and supplies that might have helped the Nazi's win the battles against the Brits before the Americans had landed on Africa's shores!

Hitler thought that this new find was very important, he believed greatly in supernatural powers and had within his hands many items that PROVED that idea...ancient Sidhe magic items and who knows what else he had acquired, stolen or robbed from all over Europe or the world and the modern age has yet to refind or reclaim them all from where he hid them during the fall of Germany!

Some of those magic items had made or created a few 'super soldiers' for the leader of the Nazis, but at great costs. The cost was a lose of over a hundred fine men or women for every ONE person that was empowered? A high cost, but one cost he was not so regrettably against paying...or his chosen ones paid for him!

Whatever this city or prison was, it was created long before the ancient Egyptians came on the scene and who ever built this place? They used technology in its construction that had only 'just' been recreated or re-found?

Almost a full mile under the city/prison laid a room within a room within yet another stone room and in the center of this 'onion' of protections rested a large metal box over fifty foot square on each side, with one entry door made very much like a vault door is done these days, all sealed up with a combination lock system!

The metal that made up all of the huge box was like nothing they had even seen, the surface was etched with several spell runes in several different languages or types and some of them seem to have added to over the passing years or centuries or millennia since the box was originally made!

That lock only lasted a few days with the supercomputers of the day and a few mentally enhanced mutants working on it's secret combination. When the door was finally wedged open inch by inch, no sooner than the door cleared its hole...the whole team within the chamber died in just seconds. Then add anyone in the few adjoining areas close to that chamber, they aged at a astonishing rate that was comparable to how close they were to that last chamber and the still open door!

A few yards down the hallway, you died within a minute! A hundred feet up in one of the many elevators serving that level, you lasted an hour at best and then fell to the floor looking like you lived a hundred years. Nearer to the surface, you lasted a few days, maybe a few weeks or months and on the surface you lost a dozen years or so off your life! Some of the younger boys in the local work parties, they aged from pre-teens to over thirty in appearance within a few hours and the sudden changes in some cases killed the teen because of extremely fast changes happening to the body!

Lucky for the Germans the vault door was not wedged very well and the doors springs that held the door were intended to hold it shut unless fully 'blocked' open. So over the course of a few hours the door crushed the 'jacking' gear that wedged it open and it slammed shut.

While one team was working on creating a way to remove the metal box for transport back to Germany...a huge construction team of men, a vast army of men plus equipment built a way to transport the box and this team was even larger than the army fighting the Brits currently!

The research team worked on their next try at seeing what lays inside the vault, but on this one last try before ? They used remotely controlled cameras or equipment just after they were sure that they could remotely open the door once again.

The new plan consisted of using every once of Ebidium that Germany could get it's hands on! They coated several panels with the hugely dense metal in hopes it could block whatever energy killed or aged or maybe sucked the life force from humans at such long ranges...testing showed that it worked as planned!

On the day they powered up the hydraulics that wormed the door open, one team worked the equipment. While another waited for it's chance to send in a remote vehicle with one of Germany's great achievements...a TV camera like the one used during some of the 1936 Olympic games a few years ago and this one was COLOR too!

As the door was opened at an slow inch by inch crawl, the lights off a man sized tracked remote vehicle shone it's light into the darkness of the vaults insides and as the little vehicles tracks clanked on the smother stone floor of the chamber surrounding the vault and peered inside.

One of the researchers yelped out when the light of the TV remote showed into the deep black void of the boxes inside, "I see something moving..." then the TV remotes control room was filled with terrible screams, that is when the guard locked the door to the shouts and sounds of death coming from within the control room!

A very cautious and smart researcher cut the TV feed cable with an ax and quarantined the TV control room while the separate team that had remotely opened the vault door...closed it in extreme haste!

Hours after the last of the horrible sounds from within the TV control room had ceased, they opened the door and found the whole staff dead. But not all of the men had died instantly or at another's hands? Half the room simply dropped in their tracks, the rest took their time committing suicide in various gruesome ways.

The leaders of the expedition sent the undeveloped film of what the TV had shown straight to Berlin and to research teams that Hitler had in place. They developed it quickly and when it was finally shown in extreme caution... to a few men and a couple of women that were shown it as a test...they lived! But those tested left the showing room in various mental states, ranging from agitated, to completely insane and a few of them waited just enough time to fool some of the other unexposed researchers with telling the team what they had seen....then they murdered them and themselves at the first given chance!

Hitler might have been curious, but was not a fool...he did not watch the film and had it burnt the next day along with exterminating all who had seen it!

When the bodies of the dead from the African location were examined, it was found that those who had died instantly, did so because of fright or their brain shutting the body down because it could not handle what it has seen...a quick, but in this case best death. They did not suffer like the rest of their fellows that went slowly insane viewing the movie later?

It took several more months, thousands of men's lives and cost Hitler winning over Africa...but he had his box, his prize and it was now under the heart of Berlin being researched. That box was one of many dark projects the Nazis had going on during the war!

All paperwork about this box was lost and so was paperwork about several other dark projects the Nazis had running...but this one dangerous item was found once again by accident. A constriction crew had found one of the many tunnels leading off a sealed off basement of one of the capital's Nazi buildings that was flattened by the intense bombing of the city in 1944-45.

Then followed the maze to the bottom thousands of feet below the city's heart and the warnings covering most walls in several languages....incase someone other than a German found the sealed off area.

This research team had lucked out, because the last team had left a copy of each and everyone of their notes on what they had done so far in vast sealed filing cabinets. Most likely as a warning to those who would take over the dangerous projects!

As I read over their part of my packet of information, I could literally 'read between the lines' and knew what was coming. This new modern group thought and thought wrong that Seventy fives years of using more advanced technology and dealing with Mythos or Class 'X' over the decades had given them the upper hand in dealing with this puzzle. So they went forward with using new age robots to open the vault door on the cube's side, then used what they thought were several insulating layers of communication equipment that should block or stop what they theorized happened to the last team.

So they thought and thought wrong that the wiring had communicated what had killed the last team right into their control room. So this group used a new combination of wireless, fiber-optics and other means to move that video signal to the new control room.

It failed...they all died in the exact same fashion as the other German researchers did decades ago!

Now they called upon me so I could go in and see what lays inside that metal cube for them. Our original intentions were to travel to the Vatican in a few months from now and see a few items they wanted me to check out for them. But this new find drove ARC, plus HPARC then add a few international organizations to call upon my services right now and not wait those few months....I would have preferred to wait until I had a few more months at Whateley to settle in? As this 'object' or 'find' could have been sealed back up, as it had waited for the last seven decades without any issues?

After I used the second towel to freshen up, Saul quickly took the whole plate off my tray and put my serving table away for me. I placed the files folder into one of my locking packs, then made sure the mechanical lock, as well as the magic lock was active and working.

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Friday September 15, 5:35 PM
Berlin Germany airport final approach

I felt the huge jet line it's way up with the runway with a few gentle tilts of it's wings and when the landing gear bumped down I knew that this long trip was nearly over. Right out of my window I could just make out the airport the pilot was lining up on and the old city far below us.

"See Ky this is not that bad?" Becky said to me.

"Humm maybe?" I worried on.

"Admit it, this is not bad?" she encouraged me.

I was about to agree with her as the plane's wheels touched the ground, when they did we bounced up suddenly with the hard contact of runway and a sudden wind change that even I felt INSIDE the jet.

"Ohhh FUCK THIS...the pilot could not feel that wind change....I did and I am IN the darn JET!" I yelped out as we slowed down.

"Hey give the person flying us a chance, they have not flown as much as you have?" she defended the pilot.

"All this technology and yet they can't fix that little thing?" I asked Becky more than upset.

"Well they are trying?" Becky shrugged to me as the plane rolled towards it's gate and she stood up, stretched out then started grabbing her bags.

Since we were in 1st class, we exited the plane first! Our section had it's own door and boarding ramp that lead onto this new terminals 1st class lounges that each airline had. Waiting for us there was a young girl that seemed to be about twenty-five was my best guess at her age and no older...someone so young to greet us....strange?

She was dressed rather plainly, like one that had not been paid very much during her short working life yet and still had student debt or was job interning still? Her smile I found was genuine and rather nice, she had that energy flowing off of her body that the young only really had and you felt it across the room.

She waved over to us, even though she had a nice printed sign with our names on it that would have gained our attention sooner or later, "Over here please...Miss Barron and Miss Dahlgren, I am your guide for Berlin." She eagerly bubbled our way, while waving to us and quickly hung up her phone.

"So where to for our bags?" Becky asked first getting right down to business.

"We should go fetch them ourselves, it's far faster than waiting for the service here to bring them up to the lounge or to where our car waits for us?" she said.

Becky waved her hand at the girl ...."Well lead the way?"

"Thanks, the name is Anna and you are my first set of guests on this assignment...that I helped at the airport anyway?"

"Why did they send us someone so young?" Becky asked and I felt she was worried that this kid could not handle it all.

"With our little setback last week, there was no one left or most of the staff up and quit instantly!" she told us and I could feel that even she was upset, worried...then surly frightened by it all.

"Those that already left...they might be the wisest ones in the bunch!" I said flatly to the point.

"Miss Barron...you think that this situation is that bad?" Anna said and glanced my way as she led our way.

"Yes...they called me in to see this object or thing, so it's that bad." I told her.

"Ahhh no one told me what you are or do?" she asked me.

"Might be better that you don't know Anna?" Becky said for me and ended that line of questioning for now.

Anna sighed at that answer as she lead us over to the short German immigration lines and the ones set aside for mutants. She claimed us a spot at the front of one with the wave of what seemed to be a special pass hanging around her neck and pointed to a agent waiting just for us two.

After the man was done checking our papers and making sure that we were indeed 'WE'...he pointed to a baggage claim area across the large terminal, "that is the carousel for your pre-cleared bags and have a nice day ladies." he said in German because Becky had spoke to him in it during our whole conversation.

When we walked away from the agents desk, Anna yelped out to us, "I'll grab a cart and call the drivers to come wait for us?"

Becky led me through the extremely crazy crowds between us and our baggage carousel. The place was insane with everyone running or rushing while pulling or pushing one of the large carts that Anna went to grab for our bags.

I spotted Anna running back over to us while pushing one of the larger carts and she was on her phone yet again, "Yep should have the bags in a few, be out front and waiting for us!" then she hung up.

As the Carousel started up, Becky turned away from me to watch over it for our bags and Anna was busy making one more call to our hotel she said. That is when I felt that first sliver off emotion off someone nearby us...someone bent on killing themselves, so full of hate, malice and want of destruction it made me sick!

"Becky...something is wrong?" I said to her as I started to tug on her arm.

"What love?" she questioned me as the sound of the machines drowned me out a bit.

Then I felt two more people that had nearly that same self destructive, hell bent emotion and that was dripping off a man just passing us three. I slowly met his eyes, his mine and he knew....that I knew of his plans...I felt it!

He scurried right past us into a large crowd, that is when I yanked Becky off her feet towards my safe embrace and put my back instinctively towards that man.

Some say that when a dangerous or life changing event happens, that time seems to slow down for them. That is caused by a revved up human brain being feed tons of adrenaline. In my case that is what I see all the time, but even slower and thousands of times slower. That is how fast my mind works, it sees the world in fragments of seconds that seem like they take years to me sometimes.

But the fun or best times of my life....seem to only last seconds and the worst like this...last forever!

That man glanced back at me over his shoulder as he mashed a thumb down on a button leading to a wire, that lead to his overfilled luggage cart. He smiled at me, his grin was a mean viscous one that told me he wanted me and mine dead for some unknown but to him reason within his dark mind...yes in that split second I invaded his mind against the rules I was being taught at Whateley and read that dark mind of his, but could not stop him I had lost most of that power over those not bid to me.

In my far past I would have stopped him with nary a glance, fixed his dark mental issues and been done before he even noticed that I was there!

The bags on his cart exploded into viscous flame and thousands of flying bits of jagged sharp metal. He was the first to be claimed by the blast of fire, then a family next to him, then two cops running his way that spotted him too late and lastly a group of teens going back to college somewhere I noted by age and the school logo-ed bags they carried?

As the fireball of the blast enveloped yet one more innocent passenger, I turned away from the sight not wanting to watch them as I felt them go. My clothes vanished in a flash as my broad wings came out to start wrapping Becky in their safe cocoon like embrace and at the same time my ever present arm bracelet that covered most of my lower right arm started to act.

The bracelet was flowing into a deep black mercury like second skin that started to cover my body, but the blast threw a chunk of jagged steel that struck the middle of my lower back just before my armor flowed over that patch of skin to protect it.

By now in those few passing milliseconds, Becky was fully covered by my huge wings and protected from the fire, blast waves and flying bits of molten shrapnel. I felt into Becky's mind, finding that she was not even aware yet what was happening just outside of my safe wings to the rest of the terminal and the outside world both of around us.

I felt the sharp pain of that large still hot chunk of steel now stuck in my back and some of my blood starting to seep from the wound as the flames for the blast passed by us, then was instantly followed by the last waves of the blast itself. Then as the blast finished passing us both, it was followed by two more blasts that started farther away and that meant I had to feel even more people in pain or worse...die.

Large chunks of metal, concrete and who knows what else struck against my armored back and I felt each one...'those would surely leave bruises that might take a little time to heal?' I thought inwardly.

"What was that Ky?" Becky mumbled to me from the safe cocoon of my wings.

"That was three men blowing themselves up with bombs, why I don't know or even understand....I felt the one nearest us and he saw me...he knew I had found him out annnnd," I trailed off thinking about what he had done, those who had died and the injured or dying laying all around us.

I lifted my head off of the top of my wings and the very tightly wrapped Becky underneath them to see that most of the huge terminal was in shambles around us. The roof had three large holes in it, several of the support columns were blasted away and the rooms furniture was tossed all over the place, in some places it was bashed into the very walls.

The dead or what was left of some was strewn everywhere around us, the wounded screamed in pain or anguish and the dying laid waiting their turn to enter whatever awaits them after this life. Right next to us both was laying Anna...still living, but not for long. Most of the poor girl was nearly cut in half.

Becky fell from my arms, but my hand never let her's go...because I wanted to make sure she was within my reach at all times from now ON!

Becky leaned over then sat down on her knees to help Anna, "Ohh girl what happened to you?" she asked and tried to find a place on her battered body to start helping Anna.

"I was....phone...escort?" is all Anna mumbled out, her mind just a jumbled mass of pain and confusion.

I knelt down at her side and touched her chest to see what if anything could be done. My healing powers found nothing could be done by me, all I could do was take the pain away and give her some peace, plus a clear mind to what was coming to her....end.

~"Becky...I can't do anything, she will die very soon."~ is all I could say mentally.

"NOTHING!" Becky barked at me as she gave me a hard shove.

"Nothing, she is not one of mine or one us. That limits me and what my powers can or can not do...you know that?" I whispered out.

After Anna's eyes cleared long enough to notice what seemed to be the angel of death leaning over her. My black armor and wings gave most that impression I was sure, "Whoo or what are youuuu?" Anna asked me as she coughed up some blood...I tapped the side of her head, then via that small touch I told her what I was...all of it.

"Neat...I finally got to meet someone, a being that old...neat!" she said thinking about how she had gone into the study antiquities to learn what ancient people had done in their daily lives so long ago and right in front of her was one of them!

"Couldn't she swear to you and save..." Becky asked for me, for Anna.

"No the 'one' she is part of waits even now for her...I can't" I said and looked over the room, then into the many dimensions all around us and now seeing the 'ones' who were linked to the dying or dead, those beings or agents of beings already claiming them or waiting to claim them in this case with Anna...I smiled to that being waiting for Anna and it nodded back it's gratitude at both my stopping her pain, plus being so willing to help her.

"Welllll then tell my....." and that is when Anna told us a list of who in her life, or family to talk to about what she wanted them to know...her goodbyes.

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Outside of the air terminal

Joseph and his partner in protection services rolled up to the passenger loading area in the company SUV, a virtual tank heavy with armor and they waited for Anna to walk out with the company's two guests from America.

"You should have gone in with her!" Bennie said from the passenger seat.

"Anna said that she could handle it and it should be a fast trip through baggage claim?" Joseph started to smile back, but never finished that smile. Because the SUV was shook by a set of three huge explosions coming from inside the terminal. The glass windows shattered spraying the street in glass, as people flew out of the newly made holes...bodies hurled by the blast waves landed on the wide sidewalk and street. Then fire enveloped the openings for a short time before the waves of gas coming from fire extinguishers stopped the coming blaze.

"Shit I should have gone in with her and had you stay out here?" Joseph growled out as he leapt from the drivers seat.

Joseph ran into the heavily damaged terminal with Bennie his partner today hot on his heels, Bennie yanked a cell phone from his pocket and spun in a few fast circles as he watched the phones display, then pointed off in a direction deeper into the terminal, "Anna is that way and maybe the other two are with her?"

Bennie lead the way across the rubble chocked floor using his phone and the signal it was gathering from Anna's phone as a guide. A few hundred feet into the terminal, that is when Joseph spotted what appeared to be an black winged angel keeling down by a very still and hurt Anna.

I was so deeply involved in Anna's last seconds that my senses did not even pick up a man that had came up behind us both and yanked on Becky's shoulder while yelling something to her, "We have to gg...."

He never did finish that sentence,

Joseph had just touched the shoulder of one of the two girls who he was surely here to transport and protect. As he yanked at that shoulder to get her attention, the angel in armor kneeling next to her reacted and shoved him with ease several feet away. Then grew in size and now stood over him with a huge AX ready to cleave him in two!

My mind saw him as a threat and acted on instinct alone...pure rage brought on because of the painful emotions flowing all around me like huge waves in a swollen river. My hand swatted his away while I stood up and my form grew to that of a huge nearly eight foot tall black armored angel of vengeance in his mind.

"You will harm no more!" I shouted as my reawakened senses noted a gun on the man and one more on his partner...then add a lack of a uniform telling me that they were police.

Becky stood up quickly and assessed the situation instantly. Ky was in full blown warrior mode and looked to be in the act of chopping a man in two that she had just shoved to the floor. But Becky noticed a plastic badge hanging from the mans jacket and a matching one on the other man standing there in shock at the sight before him.

"Wait love...they are the escorts that came with Anna and are here to help us!" she yelled out reaching up to hold still the seven plus foot tall warrior's arm and keep it from dropping the blade across the prone man.

"Fine...but I have work to do now." I said as my body shrunk down from that larger size and my senses felt out to who was hurt near me that I could help.

When those senses found a person nearby us, I started to walk over to them and found a ten year old girl with a badly broken leg laying against one of the sets of chairs tossed by the explosion. Both of her parents and older brother were trying to help her by holding the damaged leg still, plus staunch the bleeding with a rag.

As I knelt down to help the young girl all she could say was, "Mom an angel is helping me?" because that is the only thing her young mind could make of my present looks

"Not an angel young one, just a friend that can help you," I said moving to touch her leg and the father slapped my hand aside...."You might hurt her!" he growled out to me.

"Sir...Kyley has healing powers that will help your daughter, please let her help?" Becky asked the man then gasped as she finally noticed the jagged piece of steel plate sticking out of my back..."Ky you're hurt!"

"Yes, but let me work on this little one first?" I said and the father let me touch the girls leg. My power flowed into the broken leg quickly, then numbed her pain as it set the badly broken bone and sealed up the torn open skin.

"Ky let me get a dressing for that wound?" Becky cried as she noticed my slivery blood seeping out across my armor.

"No...just yank the metal out and I will heal up just fine love." I said flatly keeping my mind on healing the child and not myself right now.

Becky nodded unseen by me, then tried to pull at the hunk of sharp metal and found it still very hot from the blast. But it was just cool enough to touch, so she yanked at it with one hand and when it would not budge she added both her hands, still finding the metal would not move.

"Ahhh it will not come out?" she said as Joseph and Bennie finally got their senses back enough to come over to help or pull their charges away from this growing mess.

"We have to go Miss Dahlgren...please get Miss Baron to come with us...this place is still dangerous, not only could the building fall...but more bombers might be here or bombs!" he insisted as he pulled at her arm to get her up and going!

"Help with this!" she said still holding onto the jagged metal still wedged in Kyley's back.

"I can just rip that out...it will do more damage!" Joseph warned as he noted the seven inch long and at least five inch wide chunk of metal stuck in the girl with wings back.

"No she will be fine, I have seen far worse done to her...she has regenerative powers that can heal this up nicely after we take the metal out?" Becky informed the escort.

Joseph nodded as he knelt down to get a better grip on the offending metal and tugged at it a few times, then used two hands, "It's wedged in there good!" he said, then noted the girl he was working on wincing a bit with pain.

"Just yank it out!" I demanded as my hands worked at finished healing the young girls leg.

"Yep, on it!" he said back pulling a gerber multi-tool from his pock and snapping out the pliers with a quick flick of his wrist.

Joseph maneuvered the tool to get a good bite on the metal and yanked it out at his verbal count of three! It slid free of the girl's back dripping silver blood that sparked like fireworks as it dripped onto the ground and he stared at the chunk for a few seconds before tossing it away.

"All done now....lets get out of here it's far too dangerous to stay!" he insisted yet again as he stood up grabbing a few of their bags off the floor, then the winged girl rose up and looked, plus felt a hand over the now closing wound on her back just as her armor vanished for but a second over that spot.

"No we stay I have work to do!" I barked at his ordering me yet again and walked over to a young college age man who was desperately trying to keep his guts from falling out of a long torn wound going across his belly.

Joseph watched as 'angel girl' labeled in his mind now knelt down beside the badly wounded man, then her hands started working on the wounds and both of them glowed as they passed over the man's belly leaving a newly healed path of reddened skin in their wake. Joseph pulled at Becky once more know that this terminal was a bad place to stay in, "We have to go...this is not safe or a good idea being out in public like this?" he said then pointed to a person filming all of this with a cell phone as a few of many to come first responders entered the fray.

When my powers had healed the man as best they could for now, I nodded down to him, "All done now, please go to the hospital to check__my work...But you should___fine with a week of rest and no straining yourself please?" I said to the youngster as I stood back up.

Becky saw that the company sent escort was right in their opinion to leave and yanked hard on my arm again, "We have to go Ky!" she demanded as she shouldered her bag and one of mine.

"No we stay!" I said while searching for my next person to heal.

Joseph gabbed onto my arm very hard this time as he yanked even harder at me and yelled at me over the dim of the first responders that came help, "WE HAVE TO GO...this is a dangerous place right now, more bombs might be here or the whole building might fall on us!"

"No my kind does not run from danger or a fight, I must help those needing my healing powers..." I said back to him and tried to break his grasp a little.

"We need to go!" he insisted once more.

"I must stay...my race fights back the darkness. We stand between the light and the dark fighting it all the time and keep it at bay or fix the damage it creates. My race enters the dark places your gods fear to go and we do so willingly! When those gods of yours look into the darkness, they find us defending the light and doing our work!" I bark at him, finally yanking free of his grasp.

Then Becky grabbed my arm to stop me one more time, her doing it again meant I just had to listen to her and could not ignore her, as she was 'my one' right now and forever.

"Ky stop we have to go! I know you feel that insatiable need to help, but we are in danger...I am in danger, both of these escorts Joseph and Bennie are in danger and we have to go with them right now!" she demanded from me and I could feel by our link that she was not going to budge one inch.

~"Remember Ky...love, I guide you here in this new world and I am correct with my choice to leave. We have to for the better!"~ she mentally said to me and that was it...I gave into her warning and left the terminal.

Becky had to keep a very firm grip on my arm leading me towards the doors and the waiting SUV. As we moved through the remains of the terminal, I could feel that emotional tugging on me from all the injured around me that needed my help. Their pain from pondering their or a loved ones coming death or anguish at the thoughts of permanent life changing injury called to me and it hurt my very being to the core to keep moving away from its call.

As we walked through the wreckage nearer what was left of the building's front, a man passed by our small group asking for anyone's help with his wife that was leaning against him and having immense trouble with her breathing. I could see the blood bubbling off her mouth and knew it was an injury to one or both of her lungs.

"Becky let us stop to help her, we are at the very doors to exit and the SUV is only a few yards away?" I pleaded with her.

"Joseph get the SUV started up, then pull it over here while Ky helps this woman and her kid out?" she ordered and he nodded back while Bernie watched the growing crowd around us three for threats.

We laid her down on a bench that was used while waiting for the bus to come and I ripped her top away from her wounds. Under the bloody cloth I discovered three holes in her chest and I reached through the skin at the first one' site and pulled out a metal tube that had pierced her. The next one yielded up a large ball bearing and the last a very large bent nail.

After I dropped that last piece of metal that I took from the woman's chest into Becky's waiting hands, Becky shook her head to it all, "That must be from the bomb itself, that guy must have packed some of them around it!" she told me while still shaking her head at the madness of it all.

"Humm...that man was indeed DARK!" I warned back as my hand closed the wound and healed it over.

The husband was watching my every move and not really believing what he saw, "What are you?" he finally muttered to me.

"Me? I am complicated to say the least!" I smiled my now trademark jest to him and Becky laughed at it.

"Thanks you saved her?" he said and helped his girl to sit back up from the bench, then hugged her fiercely.

"Yes, but still go to the hospital. As I might have missed something in there?" I told him and he nodded back his understanding while taking the woman towards the arriving ambulances.

A passing woman must have noticed us and held her barely walking teen son out to me by his shoulders, "Can you help him, the glass hit his face and chest...The medic only bandaged him up and shoved us this way out towards the ambulances!"

I did as she asked even though Bennie was tugging at my arm hard to get me moving, I spun the loose bandages off the teens head and moved my hands and fingers across his badly wounded face. I instantly found that his eyes were very badly damaged and he might be blind for good.

But I reached in deep into the wounds, pulled the small bits of glass out of them and then flung the bits off my hands to the ground in bloody wet clumps. With all of the foreign matter now gone, I pressed my power and part of my 'light' into healing him. It took far more of my energy than I thought it would and that exertion made me very weary.

I had done it, his eyes were fixed! But full healing might take a few more weeks, so I wrapped his head back up with some bandages that Joseph brought from the SUV's aid kit while he was again demanding that we leave right now for our safety.

"Take him to a hospital so they can check my work out. But I am sure that he is not fully healed up and will need a few more weeks before you let those eyes see any light?" I told his mother and she pulled the teen off towards the now setting up triage site.

Becky tossed all the overnight bags she had grabbed of ours into the back of the SUV, then said while pulling me in back seats with her, "Love it's time to lose the armor and get going!" and as I sat down in the seat, my armor vanished. Then I sighed out slowly as I stared out the window next to me, "I hate leaving them, I could help save so many!"

"I know, but we have to get going it's just not safe my love?" she worried for me and was feeling that emotional depression of failing to help others roll off of me I am sure.

What I did not know at the time, was that teen I had just healed up. Well I went a little too far and not only fixed his eyes. But cleared up his skin condition, straightened his overbite, fixed four tooth cavities and replaced the one tooth he had knocked out last year...whoops!

When we pulled away from the damaged terminal all I could do was stare out the window at the medics running into the building thinking 'I should be with them, I could save far more of the injured than they ever could!' But happenstance kept me from doing my race's creed in life.

As the SUV passed out of the loading zone and onto the main airport access road, a bomb blast came from the parking garage in the center of the airport terminal ring of buildings. The flash filled the SUV with light and shook it a little off the road as the smoke started billowing out of the concrete structure.

"See I told you...more bombs...thank God we left!" Joseph said to all of us in the SUV.

"Is this normal for here?" Becky asked and was worrying at the same time that maybe they should leave for home?

"No not in Berlin, but when it does happen and happens this big...there are several parts to the plot!" Joseph said as he swung the SUV towards the city center.

"Should we take them to the hotel or the agency office?" Bennie asked as he glanced out the windows searching for threats.

"The hotel is safe, but the office is a fort...I say office?" Joseph asked both Bennie and glanced in the rearview mirror asking Becky too!

Becky listened to both men's suggestions then turned to me staring out the window, "Ky what do you say?"

"Don't really care...my place was back there." is all I mumble.

Becky hears me and makes the decision for all of us instantly, "To the hotel, we are done for the day!"

~o~O~o~

Friday September 15, 7:35 PM
Berlin Germany

The staff at the hotel checked us in rather quickly...very quickly! It must have been all four of us covered in dust, dirt, dried blood and other nasty things not worth mentioning.

As Joseph lead the way up to our room, Becky noticed two VERY armed guards standing at our door as we walked up and me on the other hand could care less. If I did not feel that anyone was alarmed, neither was I for right now.

"These two or two others that will tell you when they change out will be at your doors all the time you are here in Berlin with us, the security department of ARC made it so after the attack at the airport and I will be going to get your bags for you as fast as I can."

"Got it." she said back.

He then picked at Becky's shirt, "As for this, drop it all into this bag and the hotel will wash them or send for new ones if you say so on a note?" he added next and handed her a bag off the kitchenette/bar counter near the door.

"I think all of this can be cleaned, even Ky's stuff is not that bad?" she said as Joseph showed her the room before he left and I am sure was checking it out at the same time for dangers, just incase!

"Well the staff butler or hostess will be right over to get those clothes and leave you with some extra towels, plus soaps. I have to get going, so stay safe!" he smiled and closed the door.

After the door closed and Joseph was gone, Becky turned to see me gazing out the window towards the still smoking airport area, "Ky please get out of the those clothes and we can take a shower to get cleaned up...haaa baby?"

"Yes..." I sighed slowly and started walking towards the main bedroom of the two there in the suite.

Once in the room I kicked off my shoes, then I started stripping off the messy clothes. The jeans came off after I pulled them free of the dried blood that made them cling to my skin, the nice t-shirt pulled off easily because I had pulled it free a few times on the ride over to this hotel, but I found my blood might have stained the back badly...my blood is hard to clean after I found out over the last few months! I sighed to it all, "I might have to use magic to clean this, but for now lets see what they can do?"

I was just about to lay them out on a table when the door knocked and Becky answered it to let the hostess in, "Hi Miss I am here for your clothes and maybe a dinner order?" she asked.

For some reason I was in a bad mood right now and being pressed to get thing done so fast right now angered me! So I balled up the clothed and tossed them out into the living area, "There all done...now leave us alone!" I shouted in a voice that told most creatures with a brain to obey me, move away or die!

Becky shook her head at my outburst, but she understood it better than any human on the planet right now and she picked up my clothes off the floor, then took off her own top so it could join the rest of the growing pile.

"Please excuse her, she is mad about leaving wounded people behind...as she is good with healing others...But let me get out of these jeans and then I can bring you out the whole mess in one bag?"

"Yes...fine Miss?" the hostess said and dared to budge one inch from the limited safety of being near the exit doors of the suite.

Becky joined me quickly and winked at me to toss her my undies as I entered the bathroom, then she stripped off her clothes and they joined mine already in the bag.

"Let me give these to the hostess and she can leave us for now...honey?" she said and asked for my approval.

"Yes...that would be nice?" I sighed as I started the water to warm up in the huge shower.

Becky nodded back unseen by me as she walked back out to the living area and found that the hostess girl had no budged one inch from her safe spot since Becky had left the room, 'My Ky's 'mean' voice certainly frightens some?' she thought silently.

"Here we are, I hope all of that mess comes out and if not, please buy something that is close to them?" she asked.

"Yes Miss, should I send for dinner too?" the hostess almost mumbled out.

"How about sending in some American home style food, you know pizza, burgers, fries and some snacks that keep...we might be up all night and send in some nice desserts too?" Becky smiled to the girl hoping she might calm down a little from Ky's barking at her.

"Yes Miss will do?" she almost stuttered out.

"Hey sorry about her barking at you like that, today has been a real mess and she did not really mean it all towards you...she just needs sometime to calm down is all?" she tried to explain to the hostess as she took the bag and turned to leave.

"Anything else Miss?' she asked at the door.

"Ohh ya...beer for me please?"

"The fridge in the kitchenette has several nice local selections...this is Germany!" the hostess finally smiled and closed the door behind her.

Becky nodded to the girl, then walked over to the fridge and opened the door. The hostess was right about this being Germany, Becky was greeted by a nice selection of sodas, plus cold snacks and several brands of local beer!

Becky pulled out one she liked the look of, quickly took off the top and then tipped it up just as fast, "Ohh that is nice, I might like Germany after all of this mess today!"

She dropped the now empty bottle into the trash and grabbed two more, "Maybe Ky will like one and if not... then more for me!"

When Becky strolled back into the bedroom, where she heard the shower was on and left the two bottles resting on the table for later. When she entered the bath, she found the whole shower streaming water on Kyley with a dozen shower heads and her winged mate was leaning against the far wall with wings already out resting herself it seemed.

Becky dropped her robe on the hook near the door, then walked into the shower and let the warm water wash off the first layers of dirt and dried blood off her body.

"I am sorry I was angry with you my love, but all that pain I felt from others hurt so much...You were right we have to leave for safety, but it hurt so much?" I cried to her a my face rose to her's in the warm falling water of the shower.

"I know, I know. You had to fight that draw, that pull that wants you, makes you want to help others in pain or danger and I feel for you, plus feel with you...love." she said to me and started to hug my back.

"What makes them do that...be so dark?" I had to ask.

"I am sure in this case, it was religious reasons love. They don't like or get along with others thoughts on what to or whom to worship at times...it's rare, but they are around?" Becky answered as best she could.

"Ahhh and that is why we banned that in our own way at home...others passing on what they thought was right. We ruled that only you, the single person should make that choice and not be lead on copying the thoughts of others, or madmen!" I told her and moved closer to her.

"A little restrictive love?" she wondered about it to me.

"Once you see a third of your race kill itself off fighting one another because of the mad thoughts of their emperor held under it's sway...your ideas change rapidly! I lost children to that fight, he made them fight each other to prove worth to some God he had found and that all happened while I was away from home keeping the peace for him and IN his name." I told her and she could feel that emotional pain rolling out of me.

"Don't dwell on that, it's done and gone...live for the now love, us...live for us and that future we are building together." she consoled me.

~o~O~o~

Friday September 15, 9:55 PM
Berlin Germany

After we had both showered off, then rested some by laying on the bed still and wrapped in each others arms. Becky strolled out to living area sipping at one of her beers and noticed that a large warming cart of food had been left by the kitchenette bar.

A note was hung on a small stand on the table 'Cold snacks and dessert in the fridge...ring if you need more?'

Becky whipped the large top off of one the dozen plates and found chili cheese fries under it. Not only that, they were the huge wedge cut style she loved!

She giggled at the sight of the inviting plate of food, "Ohh they know what I love." as she then added thousand island dressing to the top of the stack of still hot fries.

Becky quickly used a large serving spoon to drop a heap of that goodness onto a small plate, then added a few small cheeseburgers that she found under yet another warmer cover and hummed a song to herself as she took a seat to watch TV.

She flopped on to the large couch as the huge TV hanging on the wall warmed up, the first thing it showed was a fast run lead in to the night's news..."After the continuing report about the huge bombing plot at the Berlin airport, now with the wounded reaching over one hundred in numbers and killed forty six...We will air our exclusive footage of the angel that healed a few of the victims then disappeared...mutant or godly sent?...Film to come!" then the TV showed one fuzzy still shot of a deep black armor wearing winged angel leaning down over a badly wounded little girl.

"OHHHHH SHIT! This is not good!" Becky nearly shouted at the TV set.

I felt something was wrong with Becky so I quickly walked out into the living room while wrapping a long robe around my body like Becky has to insist I do!

"What is the matter love, I felt that you are bothered by something?" I asked her just as I was noticing the cart of warm food and starting to lift each cover off to see what wonders it held!

"Look...LOOK...LOOK!" Becky more than excitedly pointed a finger at the TV several times over and mumbled back at me past the chunk of burger in her mouth.

When I stared at the set, it showed me a very broken up video of someone in deep black armor with wings...a very FEMALE person! Bent over helping to heal a girls wounds and the text running below the video said 'Black winged angel helps wounded to live at airport!"

"Well is that good or not?" I had to ask her, because I had no real idea if this was?

"No that is not good." her head shook back to me.

They replayed the video once more as a person was waiting to talk in their little squared bubble in the corner of the screen, I just had to say something about the video, "Hey that is not my good side!" I said as all the video was now only showing my butt!

"Honey that is one of your best parts in my mind!" Becky told me in a husky voice while giving me a lopsided grin back at me, then added a little saucy wink to that.

"What do we do now?" I asked as took a burger and a few slices of pizza off the cart and dropped them on a plate.

"I'll call Twain and see what he wants to do about all of this mess or not mess? As he is our boss in a way!"

Then a lady I instantly recognized as the mother of the boy I had helped, she was still covered in dried bloody clothes and seemed to be sitting on a hospital gurney having her arm treated for a nasty cut.

"She healed my boy, she gave him is eyes back and much, much more! I will thank her always and if anyone wants to do her harm...and I see it!" she growled a warning at the reporter's camera while shaking a fist in the air implying the warning towards the MCO I'd safely bet!

The TV reporter on scene took it from there, "And I am told that the angel in this case not only completely restored the teen boy's eyes from the mangled flesh they were, but gave the boy 20/20 vision, that he never had and replaced a missing tooth he had just lost playing football!...Now back to you in the studio!"

"Whoops...over did that one I have to guess, that need to be methodical must have been whispering in my ear?" I shrugged then smiled to Becky as she intensely stared at me...just saying slowly .."Why did you over do it on the healing?"

"It happens love, sometimes I get pulled into healing them as best I can and overexert myself doing so?" I told her.

"Okay, but no doing that again. I remember how weak you became suddenly after that and if you kept going...I don't want to think of you being hurt?" she told me and warned in her own way.

"Fine, I can try?"

"Well for now let me call Twain up and we can see what he says about all of this?" Becky huffed as she stood up and pulled her phone from her still dust covered backpack.

As I laid on the couch eating my food, she took several minutes talking the issue over with Twain as she paced all over the suite and for the most part did not seem upset by what he said on the issue...at least that is what I felt form her via our connection?

The wild scenes playing on the TV showed the destruction of the airport from security cameras, then the teams of first responders showing up to triage the wounded or dead. The hurt or dying people is what grabbed me most...I should have been there!

But that idea was dashed by the fact that a bomb squad had indeed found more of the insidious devises in the terminal that did not go off and they worked fast to keep them from going off it was told by the TV announcer.

Becky and Joseph were very right, we were all in danger and had to leave as fast as we could! That made me feel a little better, just a little at best?

Then the TV started replaying the footage of the blasts actually FROM inside the terminal and in one you could just make out the man with the luggage cart running, the two cops right on him and just barely showed me just starting my move to cover up Becky...then BOOM! The video shook and most of the image vanished in smoke, thank the elder gods that smoke covered me up and did not show me!

When the footage of the bombing being shown started to be re-run, Becky walked back into the living area after her stroll on to the balcony to talk with Twain, "Well Twain said that this will not be an issue at all, as most of the footage does not show your face in any form and that footage that does is so messed up that no one could ID you?"

"Okay that sounds good or does it?" I asked not understanding what the media does for humans.

"Yes that is good news, but he asked if we still want to do this thing with the found object or not...all your choice...he said. " she asked and took a place laying next to me on the long couch.

"I see no issues in doing what we came here for, but is there any chance I could help the wounded heal better?" I had to ask.

"None, he does not want to expose you anymore to this. Because there seems to be a religious back story growing on this...like a real angel had showed up to help the injured or something?"

"That is bad, that is something I don't need and that is someone praising me like a demigod or some other strange idea!" I warned her.

"Well we will wait and see? I can't see the media really paying up on the real life angel bit when mutants are around and the GNN is already going with that you are a mutant, then down playing any good that you really did!"

"From what I have seen anything named or involving Goodkind is bad for mutants in general, they seem to have a want to kill off or eliminate all of them and I know for fact that is a bad idea?"

"What dear, what fact or facts are those?" she asked me while grabbing a fresh plate of food to eat.

"Humm call it more feeling than hard facts, but my feelings have never let me down in the past and this one tells me there will be a need for mutants. Something that big, a sudden evolution of a whole species does not happen by chance and when you add the facts that so many have suddenly 'popped up' to that!"

"I kinda get it dear?" she said tilting her head in thought to me.

"Think of it as balance...something bad or good acted and the balance changed, so mutants came out for the better or worse?" I told her fully knowing how difficult it could be to wrap one's thoughts around that idea! Only my kind, us Mythos see the strange as normal?

"Well let me call Twain back and tell them we will go see this 'object' and have them pick us up at eight AM?"

"Eight AM is fine love, we can eat a little snack here for breakfast and then go there?" I said back, agreeing with her plans so far.

~o~O~o~

Friday September 15, 10:50 PM
Berlin Germany, area hospital

"So ma'am you said the mutant in question healed your son and are you sure, really sure that the mutant did not harm him...as they can do that...take over his mind or body!" a man wearing blue jacket covered with MCO logos and simple two piece suite asked the lady who had a injured teen son still being checked out by a doctor across the room.

"Listen you jack-booted NAZI! I know what you MCO agents are playing at and in this case...all that 'angel' did...was save my son's sight!" she barked at him and flicked at the MCO badge clipped to his cheap jacket.

"Are you sure ma'am, we can never be sure?" his partner said.

When a man across the triage room, that was trying to calm his very young daughter down heard that last statement from the MCO agent, he finally blew and ran towards the offending agent.

"Get out of here, that girl saved my kids leg and that teens sight...then add that woman's LIFE!" he barked in the agents face as he pointed at each victim saved in turn, then started shoving the man back with each new step.

The police in the room made no move to stop the young father and he kept shoving the agent across the room till he was nearly out the door, that is when the police intervened and escorted the MCO from the triage area at more than one doctor's howling instance!

~o~O~o~

Saturday September 16, 9:15 AM
Berlin Germany

We had awoke to the SUV already at the hotel and the guards already for us to leave with them as escort. The three SUV motorcade left the downtown area for a large very new office tower only a mile or so from the downtown area. Next to this newer building was a construction site with a building was already going up, with groups of laborers at work all over the site and next to that was a construction site where vast digging had taken place for the foundations I'd bet, but right now seemed to be totally halted and empty of any laborers.

Next the SUV slipped into the underground parking ramp going under the new building's far side, at the same time the two escorts stopped while we continued down several more levels and ramps leading deep under the building. At the bottom, they unloaded us all out of the last SUV and into a long hallway that lead off from under the building towards the construction site that had halted all work.

As we walked a new guide joined our small party from a side door, then began explaining the situation to us, "Good day Miss Baron, we are very glad you could come soon and help us out here?" the new woman asked me.

I stayed silent as Becky spoke for me, "We hope that we can help you after yesterday and loosing Anna...she was very nice."

"Anna told us most of your staff already left the find's site?" I had to ask next.

"After so many died, so very suddenly and unexplained. They felt it was better to leave, then to risk even more death?" she told me.

"Humm, they might have been the smart ones, but in my opinion they got scared away far too easily? Leaving a whole city behind that was in danger to fend for itself? Seems that Anna was the dedicated and brave one of the group, I hope you give her credit for DOING YOUR JOB!" I barked to her over my shoulder as our party was lead on deeper into tunnels that appeared to be several decades older than the new construction we had started in and my clue was the several color changes of the concrete or pipes above our heads.

"We will miss Anna and she will be given her doctorate posthumously by the university." she told me next.

"Humm least that can be done and her family?" Becky said next.

"We have told them about her loss and will cover the cost of the funeral, plus all of her schooling debts are paid for by the company."

"I want to see and speak with the family, because we were the last she spoke to." I informed the guide in a firm voice that told her...'no' was not an answer for me right now on the subject.

"I will make sure that is done. But do you need any information on the find?"

"Has anything happened since we were handed the report back in the US?" Becky asked.

"We lost one more researcher late last night, he thought it was safe to view a tape of what the camera that was sent into the box? But he was found dead and all the machines in the room burnt out via an overload of some sort!" she said while shaking her head.

"So this section is from the original building or bunker?" Becky asked while looking at all the walls covered in German and some Nazi symbols or propaganda.

"Yes most of this was started in 1935 because of the 1936 Olympic games, then when the 'find' or 'box' was discovered in Africa they expanded all tunnels and waiting bunkers vastly! We found the whole section still sealed, a still sealed un touched control room that they used with all the bodies still in their seats or where they went mad." she shivered at the thoughts.

"And your control room, where is it?" Becky asked.

"Just around the next corner, but we sealed it all up for now and only sent in a few automated robots to take photos. All of them showed the room was filled with the dead, no one survived in there too long it seems?" she almost cried to us, she must have lost several friends or almost perished herself!

"Well lets keep that room sealed, along with the original one and the room the man died in last night please?" I told her of my wants for now.

"Done, ohhhh and I forgot...My name is Mia and I am here for your every need?" she smiled as we stopped at an intersection of several hallways and I noted one of the war era paintings on the wall behind her was very strange.

"Thanks Mia, but that painting behind you?" I pointed behind her, "Was that done before or after the box came here?" I asked farther as I walked closer to study it!

She walked over to the paintings far right lower corner and put a flashlight up to the wall, "This one was done at least two months after the box was placed far below us and was being painted while it was in transit down there I am sure...why do you ask?"

"The subject is very strange, even for the Nazi themes I have seen?"

"Well it is men and women with wings in the style that 'the party' of the time used on the wings of the Nazi eagle?" Mia said standing up and started examining the whole painting closer now.

~"What are you thinking love?"~ Becky asked me mentally.

~"Not sure yet, but this is strange to be here and I hope it has nothing to do with one of my kind or the others I know of that have wings like mine?"~ I mentally shrugged back to her.

~"Others, what others?"~ she quizzed me.

~"Long story and it might take years to tell?"~ I admitted that this was complicated at best!

"Miss Baron did you want to start right away today or study the find more or the files on it?" Mia asked as she pulled out a note pad to write on.

"I would like to start right now, best to get this done and see what we need from there? But has any leakage of any sort been read off your find lately?"

"None has been detected since the Nazis covered the whole find in Ebidium when it arrived here, only when the chamber door being opened going into the find causes issues...deaths or illness?" Mia almost gulped at the thoughts!

"Good, good! So set it all up for me to go down there as soon as possible then?"

"We can do that, it will or should be ready within two hours or so?" Mia said while taking a note and readying a small radio from her pocket.

"That will be fine." I told her and Mia walked away as she started calling others of her team on the radio to get them moving.

~o~O~o~

Saturday September 16, 12:15 PM
Berlin Germany, deep under a construction site

Here I stood in a elevator that was slowly going down several hundred feet into the earth, passing through yards upon yards of reinforced concrete and past several sliding vault doors that could seal off this shaft and the 'object' or 'find' far below me. This trip 'down' was going to take several minutes at best because of the slow pace this elevator traveled.

As the elevator dropped into the darkness, I thought it might be time to armor up incase this went badly and my clothes vanished as my bracelet flowed it's black metal over my body to replace them. The way down was only lit by one bulb that was feed by a shielded battery and a back-up that was a very bright chem-lite stuck next to it, I was told that chem-lite would last for a full day at least.

When I left the last level that humans could be on in relative safely, Becky waved to me and I could feel how apprehensive she was about me doing this job via our link, I closed that last link of ours as Becky vanished out of my sight above me.

The elevator settled at the bottom level with a small bang , then hissed as the gas that lowered it all flowed out into a holding tank for the return trip back up. I was told that to isolate the system, one air system fed to lower the elevator platform, while charging the other to raise the elevator to the top floor and the line could be cut simply and quickly via numerous way to help seal off this last floor.

Darkness filled that last floor, even though I did not need light to see I thought it best to crack a few of the chem-lites and toss them across the empty dustless floor towards the waiting 'find' or box. The chem-lites worked well and chased the darkness back with ease.

The box itself was well over twenty feet tall, so much so that the rest of its side vanished into the darkness above my head. It was nearly a perfect square with a large metal covered windowless room attached to its nearest side to me. This was the room that the original Nazi researchers built and covered with Ebidium, the most dense metal they had one hand in this world so far and it could withstand great stresses, magic and could keep out the best, most powerful of teleporters!

That one room served like an airlock that kept all of that life sucking darkness within the box or the safety of that last room and that is the last place where anyone had ever touched this box and lived.

The door to the entry lock was unlocked and easily opened, because if you came this far...you belonged here and if what ever in the box had escaped the vault like door on the box's side...it was loose and a simple human made lock would not slow it that much at all?

Just before I turned the last simple latch holding the door closed, I mentally commanded my armor to form its helmet and then opened the door. Even though my helm covered my full head with no visible eye slits, I could see perfectly in the inky blackness behind the door and on a whim I tossed a few more chem-lites into the large room to fill it with some light.

I closed the door behind myself, relocked the simple lock and crept across the room to find the vault door was shut and locked? Funny no one mentioned the vault door locks itself automatically, or gave me the way to enter? But soon enough I found all of that moot, because right next to the large door was the whole opening procedure laid out on a message style board and written in German and english too!

But after I looked the locking devices over, I found them child's play! My own youngest kids could solve this in a second with the reward of a cookie to spur them on to be faster! A few dials moved or rotated, a pin pilled here, a button pressed there and a lever lifted or shoved down and the door banged to its open position.

I maybe very strong, but this was one heavy door and I needed the help of the hydraulic drivers bolted to the floor next to it...to even budge it! The door swung open on four huge hidden pivots and slid away from the thick opening that did indeed look like a vault door with its stair stepped sides!

Once the door had been opened far enough for me to slip past it, my hand hit the button to turn off the hydraulics power for now. Next I set the simple clock timer that worked the door opener, then set the huge door's lock in place with a pin I was sure the humans that had worked on this lock had never noticed, so now the door was locked open!

With the door's hydraulic openers set to reopen in two hours, so it would open once more if I was alive or not? I entered the box and the door closed slowly behind me.

Once the door was fully closed, I cracked a few more chem-lites to fill the room within in white light...that is when I noticed something moving!

~o~O~o~

~o~O~o~
Shadowsblade here.

This is my newest 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. This one here is my second one and hopefully its a good one.

But remember all. I am not leaving Shadowsblade behind! I will start writing her soon!

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.

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 deamons within and the
out.

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

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

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

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

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

or

http://whateleyacademy.net/

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

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

Please feel free, to add a review to this story and others. As those kind words are 'cookies' that keeps that muse well fed on the 'sometimes' long breaks between stories!

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