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!
Upstairs in the main casino
The twins were guided to a large room off to one side of the main casino floor, one that was shut off from the huge gaming area for the rest of the gamblers and had over four dozen poker tables set up with about ten chairs placed at each. Several of the games of the tournament were already running, the guide placed one twin at one table and one across the room to keep other players from even suggesting the twins are cheating…and end up in blood being shed.
One of the event staff set a tray of chips before each twin, the face value was fifty thousand dollars and in the case of the twins it all represented a “donation” to the twins’s favorite kids charity, as minors they could not gamble by law…even if really they were older than anyone in the room, each in their own ways!
As the game played out and hours passed by, it came out that Rehanna was playing against a set of very unreadable players. She could not really tell when they were bluffing. Rohanna on the other hand was facing literal billboard players that almost told her in shouts “I AM BLUFFING!” So she was winning most of the time and was up over four hundred thousand as she forced a few players off the event with them losing all their own chipsl.
Rehanna across the room was down to her last five thousand and an hour later that was all gone. She shook her head at the idea of buying back in, “Not with my money, now if the film donates more I am game” she asked. The guide shrugged back to the drow teen, “that is all I could get funded for either of you?”
The other elves of the group had slow walked into the room and had stood by as Rehanna lost that last hand, “better luck next time Re!” they all cried out as best they could and not get yelled at.
The game played on, but the staff would not let Rehanna anywhere near the table where her twin was playing her own hands to avoid the complaint of possible cheating, not everyone in this game was playing for a charity with donated funds. Most were playing with their own personal money and losing this game meant the whole year might be financially ruined for them.
An hour later the game Rohanna was playing in was ramping up as most of the players at her table had bowed out as they had lost all their ‘buy-in’ and could not buy back in till the next round with a ‘spare’ one hundred and fifty thousand.
Rohanna sitting at her table had the other players beat, since she had over three hundred thousand of the five hundred the table pool contained in total. So she could “buy out” the game to win, but that was not allowed. One player slid the rest of his stack into the game pot on a whim, “all in miss” he said slowly.
Ro eyeballed the man, he was clearly bluffing, but she looked him over once more then glanced down at her two hold cards. She had one of the top ten hands that could be dealt to a person and this guy did not have the other ones by what was showing so far on the table, the odds were impossible for him to win.
“All in too” she said coldly and slid her trays forward into the middle of the table to match his play.
The last player sighed “might as well” and followed up with his more meager stack.
The dealer flopped the last card and Rohanna won with ease, “DARN IT, its those damn eyes of yours, I can’t read the fucking things!” the other player swore as he jumped from this seat in defeat.
“Hey now keep it civil” the other player seated at the table with the smaller stack warned the bigger man, “It's just a game and she won, go for the buy-in later and see you then?”
One more hand and that last player was done at Rohanna’s table, she had killed them all off and won the whole table pot for the next round of the match.
“Break time, all returning players to be ready or bought in two hours from now.” the table’s handler told the players still around.
Rohanna got up and walked over to the group of waiting elves, “Well I move on to the next round. Are you all staying up for the fun or hitting the sheets?”
“We want to hit up a breakfast buffet in the morning while you are out at the Pawn shop doing your thing for the TV show and save the afternoon for the two huge theme parks on the strip we are hitting up.” Gewn said and Fey nodded along with most of the other elves packed in around the twins.
“Yep, one of them has a thirty story drop that hits well over one hundy per hour and then the other is just plain nuts with all the spins it can do!” Tonya added in with glee.
Whisper jumped in next with her favorite “Ohhh and that raft ride one is really cool, one of the longest in the world and the ride takes more than half an hour AND you might even hit the special route that takes even longer and gets wetter!”
“I do have a very special stop for all of us to take late tomorrow…if you are all okay with it?” the guide asked the group about an unplanned stop she had and seemed to be kind of excited about doing it, only if the twins agreed it seems?
“Okay let's have the local guide…do some guiding of all of us towards some fun. We will take it!” Rehanna laughed at the idea, she loved locals that knew the area. They always had the best ideas of what to do and where to eat!
As they spoke some of the game’s sponsors and a casino owner came up behind the pack of kids, one tried to place a cap on Rohanna’s head with an event logo on it. She stopped him and looked the cap over, “Nope I can’t wear human made synthetics, they hurt my skin.” she informed the man, who smiled back and waved over to one of his staff. “Get her and her sister one of our organic cotton hats!”
One of the staff ran over with a stack of hats in his hands and the casino owner started to hand them out to all the kids, “Here ya go kids, cotton, organic cotton. I made sure they are the best, not artificial dyes or colors and pure unused cotton!”
The pack of elves took the offered caps, put them on their heads and posed for a huge group shot with the twins and the group of event runners, “Okay go grab a quick snack, order anything you all want at the event…nothing is off the menu for you all!” the casino owner laughed and one of his staff started to make sure the kids got whatever they wanted!”
Four hours later
Rohanna tugged at the cap on her head, “That is fifty thousand to you miss.” the dealer reminded her and she scanned over the last two men still in this hand and pot, then slid in her stack of five chips. “All in,” she said coldly.
The dealer flopped over the last card and Rohanna won with three aces over two queens. “FUCK!” the man across from her shouted…”it's those damn eyes she has!”
A few dozen hands later, Rohanna pushed a few chips towards the table’s pot, “Raise you ten.”
“Raise twenty,” a man across from her smiles back and adds to the growing pot.
The dealer flops the last card and Rohanna loses to the other man, “Good one,” she grinned over to him.
An hour later, a man shoves the last of his pile at the pot, “Up fifty.” and Rohanna tosses what is left in her meager stack to the pot and all it’s gone. “All in,” she says, pulling that new cap lower down her face to cover up part of her eyes…trying hard to read the man and hope that she can still win with a poor hand.
The next card is flopped by the dealer and Rohanna loses the hand. She is out of the tournament, with being marked as twenty first in the event and the event takes a pause to gather the last twenty players to play the last part of the event. “Well I did my best, I might need to play some more of this back at school to get better at it. I was mostly playing by memory and the rule book on what hand was better…then add, I memorized the odds charts for all hands!”
Just as the table was being cleared up and set for the next and last round. Rohanna stood up as the casino owner came over to her, “Well your spot gains you fifty thousand and since you are a minor we have to donate that in your name…what charity would you like?” he asked with a grin as several people and members of the press took photos of them shaking hands.
“Most of the time we would suggest some organization that benefits us Fae, but after this last month we feel it should all go to the NYPD widows and orphans fund.” Rohanna suggested.
“Fine and I’ll match it out of my pocket. But I have to ask why that charity?” he asked.
“We work or volunteer to help the NYPD as Police reserve officers, our partner Leon Garibaldi was killed in a bomb blast that was most likely meant to kill us.” Rohanna said and then just simply walked away as the owner stood there silently in shock. Then Rehanna stopped to look at Bill, “Let's go grab breakfast at the huge buffet here.” and she turned to catch up to her twin.
After the twins had walked off several yards the owner asked Bill, still standing there next to him, “She is joking I hope?”
“Not one bit, Officer Leon Garibaldi died and his partner was wounded when criminals were trying to murder the twins. The bomb itself was especially made to kill one of their kind. They had just left patrol to go help with teleporting accident victims to an ER and supplies back from all over the nation to save dozens of kids' lives.” he said, starting to follow after the twins.
The casino owner grabbed the shoulder of one of his staff, “Go after them and make sure that anything they want, they get!”
Bill followed the twins to the huge all you could eat buffet in the casino’s lower level, “Now there is a challenge!” Rehanna chuckled while walking in.
The casino staffer that followed them waved to the cashier to let them in and pointed out more private guest tables for the pair, as they certainly stood out and the kids around already knew who they were before the movie had even sold one seat…advertising months in advance, selling cereal boxes and toys paid off in the movie box office!
Before they sat in one of the separated booths hidden from view of most of the buffet, the twins grabbed trays, put two plates on each and piled them high with breakfast goodness. Rohanna stopped and waved to one of the staff on the other side of the large warming tables.
“Could I get say six of the tea cup plates and two sets of little kids silverware?” The staffer grabbed what she asked for and placed them on her tray.
Once all set, the twins grabbed their seats, Rohanna and Rehanna put the small plates on the table before they cut some pancakes off their bigger stacks, then put them on the smaller plates.
The pixies became visible to all and started to dig in by tearing open a syrup packet and pouring the gooey goodness over their smaller plates. They used the smaller forks to scoop up some butter off the chilled dish of it already at the table and dug in with gusto.
“Mmmmm vanilla!” Violet said, taking another bite.
Bill noticed that the pair were sitting and eating silently for the most part, “You still upset at that guy for reminding you about Leon?”
“It's just that I know I had to leave them and go save those kids. I get it was the only choice and in life saving all those kids would outweigh the loss of Leon…BUT that scale never seems to balance in my mind,”
“It never really does”
“I hate it, the scale tips all out of balance and it hurts Leon’s family and me. His wife lost her love and I lost a great friend and then there is this mess.” Rohanna said pulling a small envelope from the either where she stored items like this.
“Where is this from?” he asked before opening it.
“Akiko Yamamoto, that Syndicut leader and she runs the Yakuza in Tokyo”
“The one who was in charge of that New Jersey mess and what happened to Missy?” Bill growled knowing this might be bad, “How did you get this?” he said waving the envelope around that was made of fine paper and had Akiko Yamamoto’s name in gold Japanese language embossing.
“She visited us a week back and just read it…I don’t know what to do with it.” Rehanna said for both, they must have been dwelling off this all week and all night!
Bill read the letter, then flipped through several technical looking pages along with it and then reread it two more times to be sure he had not misunderstood any of it. “Is this true?” he had to ask.
“I had it checked out via one of my best contacts and we even popped over there one night and looked for ourselves. It's all there and seems very real.”
“This means he, that Leon left part of himself behind thinking he might get hurt or dead and wanted his wife to have the choice of kids or not to have kids.” Bill has to sigh.
“Yep he left a plan “B” at the sperm bank and even had some DNA samples made up for past that…in case they needed to ID a body or blood one day.”
Bill shook his head at the idea and then thought it might be a good choice for him to do the same with ARC for his Jineen, “I kind of get why he did it…the NYPD is not exactly a safe job. It's like my past as a Corpsman, but in my day I had no wife to leave behind.”
“So should I tell her or not?”
Bill knew the twins were asking, no begging for a way out of the choice and Bill knew what he would want if he was Leon, “Tell her and then you…heck all of us support her and the kids if she has them!”
“I hope she wants to have kids, I would love to be an aunt or something?” she smiled.
“Humm the best educated, trained and most protected kids on the planet!"
An hour later
The twins had just cleaned off set of plates number two, when the rest of the teens led by Jineen showed up and started to raid the whole buffet. Eight hungry teens, most of them fae, save one human ‘Missy’ took to the rows of mouth watering food by storm. The Buffet might be in trouble of running out of food for the rest of the guests if the pack of teens stayed too long!
Rohanna had to smile as the kids took the booths next to her’s, “You all slept in?” she kidded the group of noisy teens.
“Yaaa we did…you know that Fey needs at least ten hours of sleep to keep looking good!” Gwen joked back as Fey tossed a slice of toast at her in jested retaliation.
“So who won last night?” Kevin asked, hoping his girl had come in a winner or at least finished in top slots!
“I came in twenty third, and Rehanna came in…what forty eighth?” Rohanna grinned as Rehanna shot eye daggers her way.
“Well it was your first competition, you got years to get better and learn this game of Texas hold-em better?” Kevin suggested as he ate his waffles.
“Yep if they let us mutants or fae gamble, these humans always think we are cheating somehow?” Brianna said, “In my case if I wanted to steal from a casino, I would hack its main frame in say ten minutes and have them send my money to offshore accounts while I lounged about poolside in Barbados!”
“Let's not mention giving their staff a whammy charm and have them walk out of the vault with a ton of cash to load up into my waiting Rolls!” Fey laughed.
“Well I’d love to plot how to bust this place out, but we got a TV shoot to get to and a seller to disappoint!” Rehanna said standing up from the booth.
“Disappoint?” Rascal asked.
“Yep he think he as some Fae or Elvin swords that was worth a lot, but we will give him the bad news”
“Tell us before you go?” Sanctuary asked.
“Nope watch the show and watch as his heart breaks…MUHAHHAHA!” Rohanna cackles evilly.
Both twins stepped away as Jineen finished up her plate and took over watching the pair from Bill who needed to get some rest. The pack of teens could handle themselves inside a theme park and no one would really mess with them considering the theme park was connected to a casino…plus its huge security staff!
Jineen took her bunny phone out and was about to ring their guide, but she called first and informed them a SUV limo would meet them at the VIP pick up area out front. “Finally got someone that is competent, that one guide we had assigned to us in Australia…the first one was a total failure…so bad I had to fire him on day three!”
“You are not ever going to let that one go, I know that goofball got us lost but he was young and his cell phone GPS really messed up?”
“When you are guiding clients like you and are working for the movie, a movie of that scale…you memorize those maps the night before, print shit out and have at least three back up phones or tablets!” she barked, then giggled in embarrassment “I am still mad?”
“Yep REDHEAD!” Rohanna laughed back as Jineen gave her back the stare of death with a small smile.
The SUV dropped the three women off at the pawn shop that was a bustling hive of activity, part madness was fans shopping or pretending to shop while watching a TV show filming being set up and then bigger part was the TV show’s crew itself setting up lights all over and three cameras on small tripods or zero ‘G’ shoulder mounts.
In Rohanna’s human past…a TV show being ‘filmed’ in a space this small, usually meant only one camera would get utilized at a time and then they would swing around to grab “reaction” shots of who was speaking or spoken too in a later series of shots. Back then one TV camera was the size of a coffee table and took a rolling tripod the size of a round dining table to move around. Now all of that was so small you could hold most of it in one hand and the tripod was nearly nothing and allowed one to swing a camera all over with ease and still be level, plus smooth and shake free!
The pawn store’s staff and TV show stars were busy with the Item’s seller and his part of introducing this wares…the three blades that he claimed were all Elvin made and the best in human hands! Certainly worth millions at auction! After he was finished they brought in Castor Troy the historical "expert' from the local university…”the wild grin of knowledge" to give his own evaluation on the three blades, he of course agreed with the seller on all parts…the twins snickered a little bit at his wild claims of “Extensive knowledge” of Fae items and antiquities!
Castor had said, that the engraved blade… it “Belonged To a long past royal bloodline, a high queen most likely!” He even took time to put each blade inside a very complex analysis device that showed how pure the blade was and what metals it was made of, “Pure Mithril!” he said, pulling the most ornate blade from the scanner.
The show’s director took a break while they re-set the shots for the twin’s turn at evaluating the blades. At the same time part of the crew went outside to get “the test” ready the twins asked for, it consisted of being out in the parking lot and a concrete tire stop out there.
When all was done, the seller wrapped his blades back up his protective cloths and was ready for the shot establishing shot of the twins “arriving” at the shop. The twins filed in the shop’s main door to the outside and drifted in pretending to look over some of the stuff up for sale, “So Mick we were told you have some elvin blades for us to look over and see if they are real or even worth anything?” Rohanna asked with a smile, taking note of the show’s comic relief, a tall skinny kid that was standing there right next to Mick…Audie or "Huckleberry" named after the cartoon hound. The kid had the one of the DUMBEST looks on his face, the light bulb might be on inside that vapid head BUT it never lit up even a single brain cell!
The seller, Jackson Poulk unrolled his blades and set them out for the twins to look over. And once again they took turns like the last time. Yesterday when they looked the blades over, to study each one in turn and studied them very close…to the point over even tasting the crud coating the surface of the worst looking blade.
For the last test they both pulled out a blade of their own and tapped the spine of the blade to the spine of theirs. Two rang out like musical bells that made both twins faces sour to the sound, the worst one rang out like rebar hitting a steel beam...”CLANG!” they kind of seemed to like that one better for some reason.
Rohanna put the last and worst looking blade back down on the display case, “Well there is one real one here, the other two are junk and not worth more than melt weight for the little Mithril they contain.” she informed the pawn shop owner.
“I knew it, the one with the engraving is the real one and best!” boasted the blade’s owner. “What of the other two?” he had to ask in defeat.
“Not actually…that ornate one is the WORST of the three and most fake of the bunch” Rehanna smiled in such an evil way, like a cat that just ate the canary!
“What, you must be wrong?” the man suggested the pair had made a vast mistake.
“NOPE!” Rohanna said, shaking her head, this engraving is wrong,most of the parts are backwards and some even written like in a mirror or even up-sidedown! Parts are not even Elvin and are Pix or even just old human runes that mean nothing, just the humans trying to copy the magic runes the Fae used each day.
“You have to be wrong?” He suggested again that the pair were mistaken.
Then Troy spoke up, “That blade is Mithril, I tested it with my analyzer and it showed pure Mithril! Humans don’t make stuff like this all the time to fool people at auction?”
“Your scanner sucks ass, it can not see past the thin coating of mithril on the two fake blades.”
“Well then how do you test for pure Mithril then?” he asked and demanded.
“Like this!” Rehanna said, grabbing all three blades to walk outside into the parking lot, where she placed them on the blacktop near the concrete parking stops the pair had asked the crew to get and make TV ready with a fresh coat of paint and the “Pawn Palace” logo. There were three of them waiting for use.
“What are you going to do with my blades?” the man demanded of the teen.
“Prove once and for all they are real or very fake?”
“They are real!” he boasted.
“Then they should be able to chop this human made concrete with ease and not be marred or bent…or they are fakes. Your choice, I test them my way or we walk and you get ZERO real proof the blades are real, backed by REAL elves!?” she asked, hunkering down and yanking the scabbard off the most ornate blade.
“Fine then…test them” he sighed.
Rehanna laughed, “Ohhh this will be fun!” and swung the ornate blade high over her head, then came down with surprising speed and force. The blade struck the concrete with a BANG and bent both in length and warped the blade along its edge badly. The block was cut deeply but not all the way through!
“See now you ruined it and the concrete failed!”
“You call this ‘failed’...watch this!” she said pulling one of her own blades from the dark either and swung down on the block…the blade but it like butter. One part of the concrete curb stop rolled over as the other sat there like it was untouched…the cut was SO CLEAN you could barely tell it was ever touched if you placed the block back together and that is just what Rohanna did as her twin went over to the next block with the second blade to test.
Rohanna showed all the cut concrete and the twin’s blade after Rehanna tossed it her way, “See this blade took me a month of hard work at night, worked on or created during only full moons to forge correctly, over six of your human months in total passed. THAT is elvin or Fae craftsmanship!” She boasted to the camera and stars of the show, “I have seen many blades in my time and only a few are made better than this is.”
The next blade failed even worse…it broke under the extreme test and Rehanna stood up to show all its core, “See only a thin coat of Mithril, like it was dipped in molten Mithril then forged a bit more before being made into a blade. I’d bet the center core is a hunk of meteorite or star metal or maybe made by some long lost human steelmaking process, that was only refound very recently by you all?”
The man looked over that blade and held up the now bent ornate one, “And this one?” he questioned.
“It has a bit more Mithril in it or coating it, with a core of meteor metal I’d bet…when a blade composed of Mithril and steel hits another blade it sings like a bell, because of the metals harmonizing inside. Mithril, PURE good Mithril does not make a sound if it strikes another good PURE Mithril blade…it's SILENT or everyone would know that you are fighting and come running to kill you! We elves rather love our silence when we kill.”
Rehanna took the last blade and swung down with it on the last concrete parking stop and the blade made zero sound as it struck and sliced the concrete like butter. The gritty grime that covered the blade fell away in large crumbles and Rehanna flicked it all off to show a shiny glint now shown to all, “Now that is an elven blade, not the best I have seen BUT still very much elvin made. I would say a regular soldier’s blade handed down and lost or given to or stolen by humans thousands of years ago.”
The teen drow stood up, dusting herself and hands off, then gave the blade back to the owner, “I would give you about say two hundred thou for that blade, just to make sure its back in elvin hands…the hands it should be in.”
“I bet I could get more at auction?” the man gave back.
“You might? But my offer is firm, now and only valid till we leave Vegas in two days.” Rohanna said.
“Do you have that amount in ready cash?” Mick the pawn shop owner had to ask.
“I got paid for my…” Rehanna glared her way and Rohanna corrected herself “our parts in the movie already, We will be due our back end percentage and then add we have no real bills day to day.”
“Okay I will consider the offers, but what about these?” the blade’s owner asked, holding up the pair of damaged blades.
“We could try to fix them for five thou each and there is a risk it will not work. But if it does work you have two blades you can sell as high end recreations.” Rehanna shrugged.
“Yep and after we are done fixing them, you can even kind of claim “elvin made” Rohanna gave with finger quotes at the end.
Mick looked over the blades again and had to wonder aloud, “Why is the real blade’s handle so ordinary and the blade not covered in runes or engraved?”
“The original handle must have fallen off with age and use, Then…why engrave a sword made for a private in an army of tens of thousands of foot soldiers. Doing so would be like gold leafing an “M” one rifle during world war two.” Rehanna reasoned back, taking one of the bent blades from the owner and looking it over, figuring out how to fix it. “If we try to fix this, we make zero promise it will work and we might make it worse.”
“We could buy those off ya for a few thousand and we melt them down for our own personal uses.” Rohanna offered. Knowing that it's easier to purify Mithril once you have some to MAKE pure, versus making it from scratch!
“I’ll think it over, but I think your offer for the real blade is a bit low?” He said fishing for more money since the other good looking blades were a bust or shown as fakes now.
“Hey I am always looking for a bargain!” Rohanna laughed back.
Mick jumped in next, “I’ll bid up to three hundred thou for all three,”
“What do you two think?” the owner asked the pair of teens.
“Us?…we have no idea what silly humans will pay for a blade. You all put insane values on things we feel are common to us Fae.” Rohanna smiled back as she started to walk off, “You all cut your deals, sell your wares. We are off to find our friends and have fun!” she gave lastly before walking out the door of the pawn shop.
Once outside, Rohanna shooed the guide the movie provided away, put on her illusion of the blond cheerleader and looked to Jineen, “ready to get going we are porting.” and Jineen nodded back in agreement just before all three vanished in a port.
Outside ‘Camelot’ the castle themed Casio
Jineen checked her bunny phone to show where the pack of teens were at in the HUGE theme park in the rear most section of the casino’s vast tract of land. Putting all the kiddy rides and fun in the REAR. Made the parents walk through the maze of a casino to even find the theme park’s entry and thus maybe drop a few “C” notes off along the way gambling!
“Of course” she huffed, sounding tired.”They are all the way in the back!”
“Why walk when we can POOF!” Rehanna laughed and tapped Jineen’s hand as she ported the both of them back there to the park’s entrance. The twins had taken time out to memorize all the key hotspots the group might hit up while here in Lost Wages and so Rehanna didn't need to look the spot up before she ported away.
Rohanna shook her head to the act, “Jineen likes to be told we are porting her first!” she mumbled before she ported away herself.
When Rohanna appeared Jineen was standing there giving her twin “dagger eyes”...”How many times have I told you to warn a lady before doing that…You forgot I am a bit magical too and that kind of messes with me a bit?”
“Whoops?” Rehanna fake smiled.
Rohanna shook her head as she pulled out the passes the casino had given them all and handed them over to the woman manning the ticket booth. When she was done, she handed the still mad Jineen her ticket, “Here ya go and you could shove my twin into the huge lake inside the park for fun?” she suggested and walked into the turnstile line to enter the park.
The girl who took Rohanna’s ticket handed her back a plastic band for unlimited rides in the park and a “meal” pass for them to eat for free on…the best part! Once inside Ro studied the map board and tapped out a message to the group of fellow Fae already inside the park…”Where in the fuck of this place are you all?” she sent
Rohanna’s phone beeped a message back, “We are near the dragon coaster, at the wizard cafe getting our fourth snack of sweet N sour chips and cheese!” The message had five happy faces eating!
A few seconds later she showed Rehanna and Jineen the message, “I guess we go there and eat?”
Jineen pointed out the monorail that went into the rear of the park and had a stop very nearby where the rest of the kids said they were at, “But lets port?” Rehanna asked.
“No, let's see this place and have fun?” Jineen suggested in her motherly way. She won out on the spot so the three of them hopped on the train and rode it around the huge theme park. The twins saw what Jineen meant and enjoyed the trip by watching all the people having fun! The best part of the trip was a dark tunnel that was all set up to recreate a huge underground caverns like Carlsbad Caverns had and a mine where it showed medieval mining going on, then the last part a huge weapons forge powered by a captured dragon and its fiery breath.
“Hummm dragon fire forged weapons? Might have to try that one as Lily back at school grows up…might be fun to try that with her dragon breath in a few decades!” Rehanna suggested to Rohanna’s quick nodding in agreement.
We rounded a corner after being dropped off by the train and found Fey smiling as she shoved chips covered in melted cheese into her mouth at a surprising rate…”WOW you really WOOF food down when the rest of the school is nowhere in sight girl”
“No I don’t” she barked back and the air crackled with magic.
“Calm down Fey before you mess up and fry something?” I reasoned back and then played with her “Hey Gewn, how many of those has she had?”
“Four and that is one more than me AND I was hungry!” the green haired elf of the best acid trip hallucination spells laughed.
Fey stood there filling the air with sparks only us Fae or magic users could see, “Well I best try some of these chips that sang a siren's song so sweet they made Fey give up on her diet?”
That is when she saw the jest and caved in laughing, “Damn Drow always testing me!”
“And you failed…got to keep that anger and rage in check girl or it will eat you just like it did her,” and Fey knew I was speaking about Aunghadhail, the now gone spirit or ghost that inhabited her body only last year.
Fey looked at me with a sad face, she knew what I meant and that I only meant good for her and the harsh words, plus the memory of a lost Aung still hurt. But she still needed to learn that lesson the old Aung had never learned how not to become a queen bitch that hurt thousands and this was one of those more harsh lessons.
“I’ll buy the first one for ya!” Fey finally beamed to us twins and walked us over to start the order at the nearby window.
“Says the girl that knows for damn sure that we all eat for free today…big spender!” Rohanna laughed following the red head teen.
A short time later, us twins were tossing our fifth serving of the ‘sweet and sour chips and cheese into a trash can, “Man I am sure happy we got the recipe for that and vendors list for the food goods to buy off one of the cook staff and sent it over to Whateley for the cafeteria! The whole school is going to love that stuff!”
We all came around the next corner and found a new display from the huge wax museum in downtown Lost Wages was there “visiting” and was showing off a small copy of their latest show…a display of my movie ‘Lord of Thrones’!
The display was of Westly Seagal in his hero garb with sword out and defending the main heroine Lynda Coter and her larger than life…boobs from all comers or gropers. God that corset she was made to wear, it made a damn shelf out of her boobs and she was very proud of the pair, so much so she insured them for a million…EACH!
The crowd looking over the two statues was huge and seemed to slow as each rollercoaster train for the “dragon's back” ride dumped off a new load of guests right into the store showing the exhibit and the toys from the movie. In turn most of them would pose with the statues for selfies or in packs with their family.
We all looked the exhibit over and Fey noted a picture on the wall, “Hey!” she pointed at the main picture covering the wall, “you all are in it too!”
“Thank god we are in disguise, with this stuff here would get mobbed us elves by the kids!” I pointed out that all of us were hidden, by either our own long hair covering our trademark ears or illusion charms for us three Drow.
Sammi being from LA had spent lots of her time around the Hollywood or hollyWIERD area, the headquarters for movies and an evil idea formed in her brain, “Hey you two?” she said tapping Rehanna’s shoulder, “Don’t you have a set of that armor you wore in the movie in your personal storage in the either?”
“Yaaaa?” Rehanna said slowly knowing this or admitting that she had the armor was a bad idea…that feeling was hanging in the air right now like a curse ready to pop!
“Don’t you see it?” she asked with a wide grin…an EVIL grin.
“See what?” Rohanna chimed in puzzled too!
“You get out those sets of armor, wear them and then stand there like a statue in a pose fighting Westly till the fans show up annnnnd then…BOOM surprise them!”
Jineen shook her head to that on the spot, “More like HEART ATTACK them…Drows are not exactly teddy bears to humans. It's like genetics that they should fear them!” she warned.
“Nawww we get the staffer over there in on this and have them hold up the next batch a bit till the twins get all staged. Then when one of the fans steps in for a selfie they jump scare them!” Fey laughed knowing this would be good!
“I don’t know guys, I really rather have enjoyed this trip with just us all.” Rohanna gave and seemed to be genuinely “hemming and hawing” over this idea….she didn't like it
“Me too, I’d rather not be mobbed the rest of the time we spend in this park by a pack of humans and us Fae just have some fun while we still can. Fame and or the spotlight we’ll have aimed right on us very soon might or will take this kind of fun away.” Rehanna sighed…and having the twins agree on something was a rare event.
“Hey all they are right, times for having fun like this with fans of the movie will come with the twins being scheduled for TV shows and a few SyFy and comic book conventions. They will have fun with you all there?” Jineen smiled and pointed out the next ride, "Let's grab a train off the coaster and fill it with just us?” she suggested something fun for them all to do instead.
Jineen led the pack of nine teens into the line for ‘Vanquish the Dragon’ roller coaster that boasted a two hundred foot first drop into an underground tunnel, then followed up with two three-sixty loops and a final triple corkscrew!
The group boarded the coaster as a pack and took up most of the train. Fey and Gwen grabbed the first car and would look forward to having one crazy ride! The twins piled into a center car with Kevin and Tony sitting beside them. Kevin wanted that ‘boyfriend’ time with Rehanna!
Fey screamed when the train left the station, “I am gonna die!” and Gwen just laughed at her terror. Gwen was one of the kids that “free ran” or did parkour off of tall buildings for fun! Her idea of fun was tumbling off a building twenty feet and skittering off into the night over the rooftops!
The first drop was eye watering with speed and the dark tunnel at the end scared most of the riders, most of the Fae could see the pit beyond the darkness and were not as frightened as the humans on the ride.
Missy loved the ride as she sat next to Whisper. She loved the adrenaline feeling and found even though her heart should be beating like a machine gun, it was not and she rather loved the calm feeling she had during the ride…she was hooked on excitement!
The teens all laughed as the train came back into the station, Fey’s hair was a red mess, Gwen was laughing like a maniac at the sight. Missy wanted to ride again, she loved that rush she just got. Whisper wanted to hack the systems to make the darn thing go faster and ride again!
Kevin was trying to help Rehanna out of the car when they started to exit, he extended a hand to help her out of the car and got slapped away “I am not sick or a child or so old I can not walk…MALE!” she spat at him. He had forgotten one thing…never show weakness as a Drow and Rehanna felt a bit insulted at being coddled. Manners are one thing, but Drow females really don’t see it that way in a case like this and holding a door is one thing. But holding a hand out like he was doing was an insult…he had much to learn about his own kind!
Jineen did not really want to ride that coaster again and asked the group out of breath, “How about something a bit slower…like the haunted forest boat ride?”
Rohanna shrugged back, “Fine by me…gives us a chance to grab one more huge snack and eat while riding!”
Most of the rest of the day of fun went like this, the teens gathering for rides, eating till they were stuffed and repeating till the sunset and it was time to head back to the hotel. Poor Bill and Jineen were spent, regular humans could never keep up with mutantant and Fae teens…then add sweets for that extra boost!
Two nights later
Kevin was wandering outside of Poe, looking for Kyley because he kind of needed her help and advice on things Drow. He knew if she was not in her room and not in Lille the schools dragon, the two of them had taken up the late evenings to play ‘wizard's chess’ a game where you had to cast complex spells to make a piece move on the board and then add the extra compilation that the rules magically changed every few moves!
He knew they loved a spot not far from Poe cottage just past the hot tub cave on the edge of the picnic area where a concrete chess table and two benches sat and sure enough he spotted them sitting there playing. To a human it was just two girls playing chess, but to his Fae eyes a magical light-aura or glow lit up the area and waves of magic pooled off the chess board dripping back into the earth with each play they made.
Kevin sat down on the bench next to Kyley, “I kind of need your help and a bit of guidance,” he said, cradling his left arm and winching a bit in pain.
“So what do you need?” she said back, making a small fire spell to empower the next mover of her pawn on the board.
Lillie studied the board as her clear move vanished as the rules changed for the game, now all the rooks could move like queens and taking both rooks ended the game and she smiled as a spell for making sand enabled her new empowered rook to move, “There…” she smiled again in triumph, “If the rules don’t change again I’ll have you in six moves!”
“Hummm” Kyley said while studying the board.
“Can you help me?” he had to ask again and she sat silently studying the board.
“Did you hear me Ky?” Kevin had to ask the girl.
“Ohhh I did…now I am thinking about my next move and waiting for you to say something I can help with?” she said resting her chin on her left arm and fist, just then a timer magically popped into existence over the board and counted down that only five minutes remained for her to move. “Great, now we have a timer?” she sighed as the rules changed yet again!
“Well I was kind of hanging out with Rehanna in their room and..” he started and Lilie interrupted him mid sentence, “Alone?” she asked with a knowing wink.
“Yes alone.”
“Neat, Drow boy is standing up to home plate and might get on base?” she joked back in her German accent.
“Well…I…her…we…SHIT she broke my arm, then I got mad and shouted at her and I asked why. Then she tossed me out of the room…like TOSSSSSED me across the hallway and our hallways are not that narrow inside Poe!”
Lille just laughed at the thought of the teen flying several feet and Kyley giggled as she cast an invisibility spell to finally move one of her pawns to capture a rook, But the rules changed again and now all pawns moved like queens. The rest of the rules jumped back to normal chess.
“Our Male Drow has no idea how his own kind even interacts, does he?” Lille said, pondering her next move.
“No he does not, but he was a human last year and only became a Drow a few months back.” Kyley said as she finally felt the boy’s badly broken arm and started using a spell and her powers to repair the break.
Kevin pulled his arm back, “Is this going to cost me something in trade?” he had to ask knowing that the goddess or godling that she was rarely did things for free!
“This child” she almost scolded him, “…please, now if you lost the whole arm you might owe me a pizza! This is for free.” she smiled once again taking the arm in hand and starting to repair the damage.
“Why did she break my arm? He asked both and Lillie made her move capturing a knight.
Lille laughed at the boy, “You don’t know really?...you REALLY don’t know?” she laughed, making fun of his pain and lack of knowledge.
“Like I said before, he was human only a few months ago and you yourself were not a Dragon last year. I am the only one sitting at this table that is now as what they were born.” Kyley said in Kevin’s defense.
“Touché touché! All true, but should I tell him or you?” she smiled like a cat that had a mouse trapped.
“You do it, I have this chess move to look over and his arm to heal.” Ky said, tossing a healing spell on the arm and looking over the board to make a move, she tossed a water spell to move her queen in striking distance over Lille’s king.
“Well Kevin, you have to know your kind…Drow are not exactly cute and cuddly when they…you know. They do not like weakness, they can not stand it and that rule of life especially applies to females, they DO NOT like or look for WEAK mates.”
“I kind of heard of that being the deal with us Drow, but she broke my damn arm!”
Kyley laughed, a big almost belly laugh, “That means she likes ya Kevin, she REALLY likes ya!”
“What the fuck!?” He questioned the thought of busting an arm means ‘I love you’ in Drow.
“If she did not like ya she would not even hurt you, she would treat you like a soft child, weak and not worth ever being treated like a true Drow…a REAL WARRIOR!” she smiled, finishing up on healing his arm.
“So what should I have done?” he had to ask, flexing and testing out his arm to see if it was all good.
Lille took over, “Well what you should have done, was sucked up the pain, not even a tiny whimper and let her take control from there. She might try to heal you as best she can and then you are heading towards first base my boy.” she patted his back like congratulating him, “Next the REAL fun begins as she kind of tests your limits for stress and or pain or both and sees if you are warrior material and thus worth even dating.”
“So if she stabs me in the guts and opens me up like a potato?”
“Ohhh you would be rounding third base and heading home with that kind of test on the first date…she would REALLY REALLY like ya! But I don’t think Rehanna will go that far?” Lillie said and moved her rook with an air spell that blew a small Tornado across the board to move her piece…then the rules changed again and the rook became a twin king.
“What should I do next?”
“Not complain about tonight and maybe show her that you are learning to fight a bit better in the Fae combat class they both teach?” Kyley suggested.
“I am trying, but it's all so hard.” he complained.
“Life is hard for humans, life for a Fae is even harder, then Drow life was the worst at times. You have to show them that you are ready for that hard life before they trust you with their lives, they have to trust and count on you to win…or.” Kyley warned, “I know this is rough, but so is being an adult of any sort and you will be just that in a few short years Kevin.”
“Can you help train me a bit?”
“Ohhh no, the ways I would train you and the skills I would show you. The twins will know instantly you are training with an outsider and get more than mad at you and me too! Now magic class I can help you with!” Kyley offered to Kevin and hoped to give him some help.
“I might do the magic, but one other thing is been bugging me.” he asked
“Well out with it!” Kyley smiled as she moves her new King and took Lillie’s king in the sudden attack, “Six moves you said?” she quipped to the dragon girl.
“Scheiße!” Lillie cried out in anger (SHIT!)
“What I am asking is I see all the other elves or Fae have a power of some sort, some are based on one of the five elements like my sister is fire. Then Sanctuary is healing, and the twins can port real well. I so far, can’t seem to do anything!” he complained.
“Just give it time, you should not be in a rush…you are going to live thousands of years child.” Kyley said, trying to comfort the teen.
“I am not a child.” Kevin started and then realized who or what he was talking to again, “Sorry I forgot.”
“Just come on by now and then and we will teach you magic as best we can.” Lillie offered as she spun up an illusion spell to move her bishop to protect her queen.
The rules changed again just before Kyley’s move, her pawn changed into a queen and was just two squares away from Lillie’s queen. Kyley smiled as she made the winning move, “Well I win, the rules change made it far too easy, but good game!”
“I’ll be going, cya both later in class.” Kevin said standing up.
“Just take it day by day and if Rehanna breaks your leg? Consider it a good thing and she really loves ya! And if you need to talk to someone, my room is the place to come…the door is always open, just knock first," Kyley said as the teen walked off into the darkness.
“That Drow is going to really feel some real deep pain soon, I can tell even without empathy like you got Ky that Rehanna loves that boy and loves him hard. She has been keeping it all in check for weeks!” Lillie laughed out loud.
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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
But I have to thank, Both Branek and Nuuan for their vast input and the ability they both have to 'bounce' off ideas and improve them!
To all my readers who have e-mailed me and given support--THANKS!
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