Now for a little story I cooked up one night in my head, and to fellow author Sleethr, I just borrowed Bree...she kind fit the part best!!!!!

September 4th, 2373
In Transit to Mars

A few months ago the Republic of the Belt and Outer Planets had broken off its alliance with United Earth and decided that some of the bases on Mars belonged to them. So the UE sent one of its newest Cruisers to enforce and keep the peace in the area. Bree was assigned to the freshly Christened vessel as a computer expert by the ship's builder and was for the most part in a non-combatant role while aboard the vessel, even though she as a Sidhe had seen tons of combat over the last Two hundred and fifty plus years of her life serving in both the military and CIA of the long passed into history US of A.

Bree or Brianna Nicole Peters or know as "Whisper" to some to hide her identity was born both a human and male then during her early teen years endured a mutation to what some call Sidhe or the more common human term 'Elves' called mutation in these cases, 'A correction'. Because in their theories or beliefs you should have been born a Sidhe, but nature or Gaea took a break, a rest and continued on with your full birth into a Sidhe at a later time of your life.

She was one of many mutated humans that had become Sidhe over the last two hundred and fifty years, but she was unique even among her race. She was a full blend of bleeding edge human nanotech and Fae, so she not only could interface directly with the ships computers...she was one giant walking computer in no uncertain terms and far more advanced than any system built by humans so far!

Bree's main task for right now was keeping the new ship's computer system ready and testing out all the interconnected systems during this shake down cruise. During most of the time she was hidden away from the crew in amongst the ships main systems behind the main armor belt along the ship's core. The ship itself was built along the lines of a corncob with sections along its armored core and gun turrets or weapon launchers of various types popping along its somewhat smooth surface.

She walked into the main computer bay, then stood there silently evaluating the system's 'health' via the large displays covering all the walls of the room, "Fascinating, missile control four is down again?" she sassed the only person in the room in a very 'Spock' like attitude.

Jody, one of the room's techs shook her head towards the Elf, "You old folks, I'll never get used to these dusty old ass jokes you all have and yours is the worst of them all! With being WELL over Two hundred years OLD!"

"Baby GIRL you are in space, so you must know your history and being a Trekker is a huge part of that!" The Sidhe laughed while taking one of the seats of the control station.

"That Trekkie or Trekker stuff again?" Jody asked while she took note of the long range sensor system suddenly being called into a larger load for the main computer with more requests for data.

"Yes Trekker, I told you to go watch the old TV show Star Trek to understand all of this!" she smiled waving over her self adjusted, self styled uniform that looked more Star Trek issue than UE issue with it blue science division color and gold rank rings on each sleeve, then add the all important Federation of Planets badge on her right breast!

"Darn crazy elves," is all Jody said back.

"That statement is illogical, we elves are Sidhe or Fae and are not 'crazy'...we are all eccentric or peculiar!" Bree gave back with ease and slipped right back into 'Spock' character with a trademark eyebrow raise!

"There you go again!" Jody laughed, but still pointed to the system screens, "We have something out there by the load C&C is calling from sensor data!"

Bree studied the displays that Jody pointed out, "Humm keep an eye on the load, spin up our combat reserves. Ready the main for combat, plus make sure that the fire control system is up and its back-ups too!"

Jody nodded back as she went to work on the task and that is when the speakers mounted all over the room crackled to life along with their headsets, "All hands this is no drill! Ship will be entering combat radius of unknown target. Target is possible Belt raider. This ship will be in combat radius within twenty minutes, nineteen seconds...RED ALERT on all decks, bring ship to battle ready, prepare for vacuum damage! All crew into battle gear!"

With that announcement Bree stood up, "I'll get into armor and then you are next when I am done!"

"Got it!" Jody yelped back in agreement and kept to her suddenly growing work load.

Bree whipped open her personal ready locker that were scattered throughout the ship that held one of her many full suits, then started to strip off her day clothes and pull on parts of the armor made for the vacuum of space in an order that had been drilled into her thorough years of practice.

The elf was done with dressing in less than three minuets, she placed her helmet on a seat back and retook her place next to Jody, "WOW I will never get over how fast you put that shat on!'

"It's shit with an 'I' and not shat with an 'A' Jody and get your gear on!" Bree shot back and waved the girl out of her seat while her hands flew across the control panels and she jacked in her own nano based connection to the system for speed.

As Jody pulled her gear free of its locker the speaker spoke again, "Five minutes, all crew should be in armor or vac suits by now! Division heads check in on your readiness!"

"Damn!' Jody hissed while pulling on her pants and boots, "I am so behind the curve!"

"Fuck them, you had to watch the panel while all the others that should be here are stuck climbing up a few decks from the core." Bree gave back and noted the back-ups were all finally online and ready, "Computer systems and back-ups all ready XO and Guns!" she said while mentally clicking her mike on.

(XO being the second in command of the ship and "guns" is the commander of fire control that aims or controls the ship's many weapon systems)

Jody just barely got back into her seat when the three others on shift showed up at the room's armored door, they took their seats and started to help out. The officer in charge of the center closed the armored door behind the last of his team, then stood behind Bree's seat and leaned down to interrupt her busy work, "Engineer Peters, I need my seat please."

"Jack I am much faster than you with the systems, you can still lead and I will follow..." she warned back.

"Bree get out of my seat and hit the jumper...now!" he barked referring to the rooms many jump seats that kept one safe during an high 'G' operations the ship might make.

"Fine sir," she sighs while pulling her nanites back, disconnecting from the ship's systems and slipped off the seats harness to get up.

As Jack took her old spot, Bree flipped open one of the rooms many jumps seats and set it not to give her anti 'G' force drugs because her Sidhe nano-enhanced body did not need them. By the time any significant 'G' force became a problem for her body, the ship would fall a part and the mostly human crew would have been long turned into mush!

As the ship came closer to the suspected target, the captain feed his radio/laser born requests for the target's ID ship wide, "This is the UE warship Yonatan Netanyahu, please Identify your ship, send us your transit documents and stop all drives to be inspected."
( This UE cruiser class was named after those who rescued others and perished while trying...Yonatan Netanyahu died on the successful rescue of a hijacked airlines passengers, "The Raid on Entebbe" 1976)

"This is the republic of the belt ship Ching Shih, we are blockading Mars. Turn away NOW or be destroyed!" the target replied identifying itself as a Belt Republic navy ship and one of the largest and they named their ships after famous pirates to instill fear or so they thought.

Even before the captain could reply, the Yonatan Netanyahu or 'Yoni' was taking hits from the other ships larger and more ranged arsenal. The solid nickel shots of a gauss cannon rang against the Yoni's armored core after blowing through several of the ships walls or decks.

"Boy when they get closer, we are in for a fight if they are pinging us now!" one of the other techs manning the room worried out about the incoming fire already striking the ship accurately at this long range and still penetrating!

"We have long range weapons too!" Just as Jack spoke the ship lurched a bit and hisses sounded off far away from this very room, "And there they go, the Cap is shooting back and they will have to fend off a dozen Hydra missiles and I bet they don't have great CID cannons like we do!"

(CID Close In Defense...aka high speed gatling cannon, or in some cases high speed spinning mirror lasers. This ship has both. Hydra missiles are multi-warheaded and each one has a dozen plus heads, that can self aim and avoid most CIDs themselves)

As the ship flew onward towards the enemy vessel the small bangs of shells or missiles became huge CLANGS that rang against the armor, then slowly the clangs changed pitch as the armor belt failed in its mission to protect and the shell or missile passed through. Each time that sound came, new sections of the ships system display went red or a compartment was shown in that same red light that told there was vacuum to space and most likely people had died from the impact.

With each sound of impact or just before it, the ship swung all about wildly and the climbing ever higher 'G' Forces played havoc with the crew being able to do its job. The captain was dodging incoming fire as best he could with the large ship, maneuvering about with 'G' forces swing in any direction in the 3D battle space, those 'Gs' might go from a regular earth normal '1' all the way up to a bone crushing '15' plus for several seconds. The armor all the crew wore took most of the brunt, but when that force passed by '20' the suit injected chemicals to help the body fight it...Bree luckily did not need any of that chemical soup and most of the ride so far was just a regular Disneyland 'E' ticket ride to her!

The clangs or slams against the armored section of the ship grew and grew as the two ships closed the distance between them, Bree watched the battle unfold via the room's many displays that cloned the same info being displayed for the ship's captain and the CIC that held 'GUNS' who was fighting the other ship and defending against its many attacks.

Bree knew instantly the battle was changing and not for the better when the far corner of the room was blown away and the room instantly vented to the vacuum of space, "Hey do you want me to go get on those damaged..." Bree was about to ask Jack the commander of this section when his whole head vanished from sight and so did most of the backside of the officer plus his chair to Jack's right.

With Jack beyond dead, Bree swung into action unbuckling her seat and then Jack's belts, then gave his body a gentle lift as the whole ship went to Zero 'G' showing that the engine was dead for now and most of the maneuvering systems with it!

As Bree slid into the chair she yelled at Joan who was in shock at seeing two people in her room, very close people to her life just die in one seconded...one second there, next gone and nothing could help wounds that bad. "Joan mind your panel and get back to work!" Bree barked and finally had to smack Joan's helmet to get her back to the here and now and BACK TO WORK, the tense work of rerouting major systems to get the ship back up and fighting or now surviving!

As both Bree and Joan worked hard the room's speaker crackled to life, "This is the Ching Shih surrender and prepare to be boarded, Yonatan Netanyahu surrender or be destroyed!"

Bree heard that demand from the enemy ship and worked even more feverishly on getting weapons back up any weapons or the defense guns! She took off one of her gloves to bare her skin so that her nanites could flow into the system and help speed up her interface with the ships systems. Her eyes glowed green with light as her nanites went to work. Now with a direct connection, she spotted what systems needed to be bypassed long before Joan limited by being a human and not a walking supercomputer like the Bree!

"GUNS BACK UP AND CID...If I were human I believe my response would be ‘go to hell’. If I were human Cap!" she deadpanned into her mike a line said by Spock in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 1991.

With that information, the ship's captain and guns started firing off most of the ship's still working weapons and with being this close to the other ship...the sudden onslaught ripped it apart. But not before it fired back as best it could and one small hypervelocity shell rammed through the far armored wall in front of Bree and right into Joan's chest sitting next to her.

"Bree...Bree! I ammmmm" Joan cried out.

Bree took a second to look over at how bad Joan was hurt, but said nothing as she made sure that final volley fired from the Yoni had taken the fight out of the Ching Shih and the speaker crackling to life once more with the Ching Shih surrendering, well what was left of the Ching Shih! The immense damage Bree saw on the enemy ship's hull via the Yoni's sensor made it certain in her mind that the fight was over for now anyway.

Calls for needed help sounded out of the speaker now, or the computer panels lit up with requests, Bree added her own to the growing list, "Computer core here, we have two dead and one critically injured, injury is to chest! Need trauma team!"

After calling for help Bree was free to get up out of her seat now and help Joan, now with the ship's damage control center taking over most of the information load of her station and regulating teams to help all over the ship.

Once she floated free of her chair, she slapped the room's self-sealing system into action and the holes in the room's armor filled with self-sealing foam to close off the room from the vacuum of space.

Bree's first act was to unstrap Joan from her chair and float her body up to gain better access to body to farther aid her. After Joan was clear of her seat, Bree saw how bad off her friend was and she gulped at the sight but kept her voice steady and free of worry, "Joan I got ya and let me fit the auto-doc on your wrist and get some medical nanites into ya!"

Joan only smiled back, "I really don't feel anything?"

Bree nodded to the remark, but really knew why. Joan's body had a fist size hole blown all the way through it, right inline with her spine and chest's center. The injury was bad and if aid came quick enough she would live...'if aid came quick enough' sounded through Bree's mind over and over.

Within seconds the auto-doc beeped that it was empty and Bree tapped a new cartridge into it so it might save Joan's life. After she got the medical device refilled, Joan coughed up some blood that quickly filled her helmet in zero 'G' and there was dnager Joan might choke on the fuild. So Bree removed the helmet and placed a breather over Joan's mouth to help her.

"I feel cold...am I dying?" Joan asked weakly.

"Hey...hey the doc is working and the trauma team is coming...none of that talk now!" Bree insisted, but knew the race was on and her side was losing versus death.

"I so wanted to see my kid play with yours or those grandkids of yours...You did say we could get them all together on Mars via the Fae magic gate there..." she cried and the tears just filled in like puddles clinging to her eyes because they could not drain away in the ship's current zero 'G'.

Seeing those tears of Joan's puddle up like this reminded her of something from her teenage years back at her old private school. Bree was on a high orbital flight heading over to Europe with three other close students, they were all riding one of military space enabled dropships for security. One pair was fellow Fae, a set of Dark elf or Drow twins Rohanna and her twin Rehanna Leigh and the other was Kyley Baron who was a GOO or 'old one' to most....or just outright strange on most days.

As the ship passed into orbit and zero 'G' the crew gave the ship a bump to extend the trip a bit so the teens could play around in the weightlessness of orbit. Bree was the first one out of her seat with having done this trip a few times and she called to the others as she was already floating playfully in zero 'G', "Hey you bunch of chickens get to flying!"

The twin's slipped free of their seats next and tried to float as well as Bree did, but it was taking some practice as they really preferred life on a planet and not flying free of nature's sweet embrace inside a human craft so far from 'the earth' as in 'the dirt'...not the planet!

"I know Gaea is up here with us, but none of the other five elements are!" one twin yelped floating past Bree at speed and the elements she was referring to were the base five that all Fae had an affinity towards...Air...Fire...Wood...Water and the most important linking them all, The Earth or the realm of Gaea.

Kyley floated up out of her seat and past the Drow with the ease of someone who had certainly been in space for years, anyone looking at her would notice she knew what little movements could do and did them with practiced ease to fly about the huge cabin like a true professionals would.

"Wow Ky you are real good at this zero 'G' stuff, have you been holding out on us and been flying up here somehow without us knowing?" Bree asked the teen with huge black wings on her back, thinking that somehow the kid might be able to fly even this high!

"Nope...I have not flown up here by___self, but I have flown in space many time__in my past." she gave back in her own way that oddly most of the time told you only part of the answer!

"You had space ships back then!" Bree asked and she could tell the ship's human crew were very interested in the same question.

"Just because we had wings, magic, and gate travel. That does not mean my race did not have space travel or the ships to do so." she smiled back.

"You had space ships back on your old world?" Rohanna asked next.

"We had many things and yes to your next question that I am sure you will ask Bree. Yes we had faster than light, very much faster than light!" Kyley said taking a spot and very strangely standing in mid-air not even moving a nanometer according to Bree's internal range finder system.

"Ohhh we gotta talk about that!" Bree beamed out wanting more info and surly some part of the credit for the rediscovery of that type of high tech!

"We might someday...soon."

Bree sighed out, "Well soon," she started and then did air quotes, "Trademark...Soon with you means sometime in the next day or thousand years!"

"Correct...when you live or exist multi-dimensionally, then in or out or besides existing time...its all relative." the strange GOO teen giggled back.

One of the dropship's crew laughed at the jest not really understanding the teen's reference but laughing at the Einstein-ness of its meaning, "Ohh that was good," he laughed while wiping one of his eyes with a tissue to clear away the excess tears, "God one thing I hate about zero 'G' is my eyes fill with water so fast."

Kyley started to answer the crewman, "Yes that is common..." then drifted off like she was sadly remembering something from her past, "in space angels can't cry."

Rehanna sighed at the statement and agreed with a stereo answer with her twin, "No they can't...angels can't cry in space." both said at the same time via their shared mental link.

"What does that mean?" Bree asked all three of them.

"Pray to Gaea you never have to figure out why..." is all Rohanna gave back to her and all three seemed to get a bit sullen until the crewman told them to retake their seats for the de-orbit burn.

Joan's next words snapped Bree back to the present, "I so wanted to see them play, Tell my sooo....," she nearly whispered in a weakening voice that trailed off to nothing as the light of life went out in her eyes.

Bree tried time after time to get the auto-doc to bring Joan back, but it could not...the damage to her body was too great and death won the race.

Just a minute after Bree had given up and started to sob over Joan's floating body, the trauma team came into the room and the head medic of the team grabbed Joan's body. to make several attempts at reviving her with no luck. He pulled a large black plastic pack from his bag, "Do you or should I..." he asked Bree.

"I will do it," Bree said choking back her tears and taking the pack from his hand.

The team took time to pull Jack's body from his seat and place him into one of the bags that had a control panel on the front that when activated turned the bag into a instant deep freezer. They left right after stowing Jack's body along the far wall and strapping it in place to keep it from being thrown around the room by any high 'G' maneuvers.

Bree did the same with Joan, but took her time to make sure she was good, Bree even took time making sure that her face was clean of blood and her hair was not messy. "I am sorry Joan, but don't you worry about Kenny. I will treat him like the boy was one of mine and protect him with my life...I swear on my true name friend." she cried taking Joan's necklace off and placing it on her own neck to be sure the family treasure made it home and into the right hands without delay.

Once she had rechecked Joan for anything that should be cleaned up or kept by her for safe keeping, Bree floated her into the bag and lined Joan's face up with the bag's small viewing window. Bree zipped the bag shut and activated the sealing and freezing unit that now flashed up Joan's name, rank, and other personal information.

The ship was in shambles and the captain asked via the ships still working address system for all hands not currently assigned to give any free hands to the damage control center. Bree knew the computers were all good and nothing really was damaged that she had not already fixed, so she joined a team to keep busy and keep her mind off what had happened to her best friend of the last year plus.

She thought about what Kyley had said on the dropship so many years ago and then onto what one of the twins said a few years later to her after she had lost one other friend in combat, "There will be a time when you no longer note how old you are with birthdays, but replace that passage of time with the loss of friends."

Hours had passed by and Bree was assigned to help fix the computer stations and controls of the airlock and docking system in the main hanger of the ship. At the time she was there many damage control and salvage parties were coming and going from gutting the Ching Shih for parts before the captain blasted the hulk with a nuke to send a message to the Republic of the Belt and Outer Planets.

"You may have bigger ships in some cases, but the UE had BETTER more high tech ships, all manned with far far better crews!"

Almost two days had passed since the fight and the Yoni had just only got its own drive working within the last hour, most of the ships other repairs would take another week to make the ship ready to move back home to Earth or Lunar orbit repair docks. The UE Navy had already sent another cruiser to cover the Yoni while those repairs were made, but that sister ship was still over three days off and until it got here the Yoni would have to fight any new battles alone.

One of the last shuttles came over from the Ching Shih, then just like all the other times a warning sounded in the bay before the shuttle came in, "Shuttle docking in three minutes, prisoners onboard...security level one throughout the deck!"

The shuttle floated into the deck's air lock and it cycled in air as the shuttle itself was moved via a recently repaired crane into its bay, then its hatch slid open and the prisoners were lead into the dock. Bree's attention was on them and even more so as the captain was there to greet the last batch of prisoners in person.

As the last pack of enemy personal was shoved into the dock from the shuttle, the Gunny in charge of the ship's Marine detachment handed the captain an antique pistol, "His gun sir, he gave it most willingly at the end of my rifle." the gunny grinned evilly.

"Can I come aboard your fine ship captain?" Bree overheard a man dressed in Republic of the Belt and Outer Planets captains garb ask her ship's captain.

Bree knew that man was the captain of the Ching Shih by recognizing his voice from the threat radioed to the Yoni just before the battle began. She stood up from her job repairing the docks air handling computer and was running up on the pack of men before they even knew she was coming!

"You son of a bitch, you killed Joan and I'm gong to fuck you up!" she yelled just before smashing a fist into his face and breaking the enemy captain's nose in one fierce blow, then she kicked both of his legs out from under him with one smooth rotation of her free leg!

The gunny reacted instantly, but was far outclassed by an enraged and well trained Fae that was Bree. She easily ducked his many tries to subdue her and she bodily flung the gunny across the room to show him the error in attacking a Sidhe with her extreme training in hand to hand combat!

"Engineer Peters!" the captain yelled her way as Bree grabbed a handful of the officer's jumpsuit she was very close to killing, "BREEEE!" he yelled once more and finally got her attention while a freehand grabbed even more of the man's jumpsuit to rip the enemy captain free from her own captain's grasp.

"What?" she howled back, "you know he deserves this beating...unless you are giving me permission to LOCK him!" she said and asked if the captain was going to let her 'airlock' the man to the vacuum and cold of space.

"You can't do this, this violates the laws of war and you need to court-martial this woman!" the enemy captain screamed.

Bree's rage filled eyes looked down at the man and punched him again, "ONE, I am not one of his crew and he can't court-martial me!" she punched him again, "TWO, this beating is not against the laws of war because I am a civilian!" then she punched him one last time before dropping him to the deck, "AND THREE, I am a Sidhe, a FAE and no human ever orders us...at best they suggest and we FAE may or may not listen to their HUMAN words!"

The captain sternly gazed at the elf and what she had just done in front of him and in front of his command, "Bree get back to work, I'd normally have you confined to your state room...BUT I need your skills to fix my ship! I will surely see you fired over this mess!"

"Go ahead and try, my company is the only one that makes the computer cores needed for this line of ships and I am only one of ten personnel on the whole planet that can get them up and running...and we are all Sidhe! You can't fire me, heck you can't even get my pay docked." she spat back at the captain and went back to her job at repairing the ship so that she could get off it quicker and far, far away from this mess.

The process of repairing the Yoni took over three weeks to get her ready for a trip back home to the nearest UE repair dock, as the ship flew on its way home an other cruiser kept pace with the much slower vessel to make sure the enemy did not attack it.

Once the Yoni came into the UE Navy section of lunar orbit, she was taken under tow via four of the yards huge tugs and taken right into one of the yard's floating docks. The floating dock sent out dozens of personal in portable maneuvering packs to lock the large vessel into place and set up the extensive dock connections it would need for power and life support needs while it was being overhauled.

The whole process of docking the ship took hours and even longer for Bree in the computer core of the ship as she transferred control from shipboard computers over dockside ones for the ships repair. Then she had to back up all the data in the drives before shutting them all down with the rest of the system core.

Bree was bone tired and emotionally spent from her weeks long ordeal when she finally walked off the Yoni toting her bags and walked into bay looking for direction onward to a port shuttle that would take her over to one of the large navel stations. She instantly spotted Drow twins standing with an utterly beautiful tall blond that had four 'very obvious to any who looked' body guards one well dressed male and one equally dressed female twin to the first, Bree stepped out of the elevator that came from the zero 'G' shuttle docks to the full Earth 'G' rotating section of the mammoth space station.

She dropped her bags on the spot when one of the twins smiled her way, then she ran over to the group and wrapped the closest twin in a deep hug, "You were both right," she cried into the Drow's shoulder.

"Let me take a guess, you finally found out that angels can't cry in space?" Kyley asked softly of the crying technology enhanced Fae.

Bree sniffed back her tears just long enough to ask, "How did you know and how did you both know to come?" she asked both Kyley and the Drow twins. With knowing that in this case the twins were so close, that the pair were very much like one being rather than two separate ones.

Rohanna the more human like of the pair of Drow twins told the fellow Sidhe she was hugging, "Kyley felt your mental cries of pain, of loss and we can to try and help that need and maybe help fill that painful void if we could in anyway."

"Kyley can feel the emotions and tell what is going on with the lives of those she has touched, especially those that have touched hers like you have," Rehanna nodded in agreement.

"Let's leave this place and see how we can help you out with your burden...Let me guess once again? you made a promise to somebody who is not here in life anymore and you might need our help in fulfilling that oath?" Kyley grinned hoping to lighten her friend's burdens some, even a little bit.

"I have to get some personal items to my friend, "Bree started to tear up and she sniffed back all those bad feelings as best she could, "Joan...I have to get her son this necklace and the rings on it that have been in the family for generations,"

"Is that all, I feel it flowing off you. Bree you said something else to Joan didn't you?" Kyley asked knowing what was coming, but she had to hear it to be able to help.

"I promised Joan that her son would be treated as if he was one of my own." Bree said back choking up once more.

"Well then I guess we had all better get ready to accept a new boy into our extended families!" Rehanna and Rohanna said in stereo glee that only twins could do so well.

"I have to ask, does this boy have a father or other family?" Kyley asked gently.

"No, his dad died in an accident while building a base extension on Mars and that is where the boy is now waiting for his mom to come back...I think he does not know his mom is dead right now or if he does, Joan's only sister Angie is there to help I hope?" Bree told them all.

"Hummm I guess we better book passage to Mars or go down to home and catch a port over to Mars?" Rohanna said as her twin was already paging through a computer frame for trips up to Mars or back down to home.

"We have to go home first, I promised that my kids and hers would play on Mars together. You see I promised my name I would do that and just so that you all understand why she wanted this, her Granddad was one of the humans that fought us Fae in the last war. So she really wished to see that her son's generation knew our fellow Fae as friends!" she cried back in sadness and pride for Joan, plus her personal wish.

"Then we all have work to do and plans to make. Let's get going!" Kyley said as one of her personal guards took note of what his leader had said and hefted up Bree's huge bag with amazing ease for what appeared to be a normal human looking female.

The twins took up places next to Bree and the whole group made there way across the station's grav deck towards the elevators going down to the landing docks for earth bound shuttles. Once at the elevator they waited, but while they did a another group came up nearby them...a group of prisoners from the ship that the Yoni had just defeated, they were guarded by a small detachment of marines.

While waiting for the elevator to arrive the prisoners started talking amongst their selves and seemed content to be peaceful prisoners for the time being until one of them notice who else was standing there among the other traveler waiting for the elevator.

One prisoner whispered to one of the ship's officers, "HEY ain't that the pointy eared elf that beat up the cap?"

"That's her..." the officer shouted and most of the captured crew turned to stare at Bree and the group angrily.

Both of Kyley's personal guards stepped forward between the two packs as one of the angry men shouted, "Lets get her...guards or not!" and that man took several quick steps forward only to be greeted by the guard not carrying a bag, who back-handed him instantly before he could even think of defending himself.

The rest of the defeated ship's crew stepped forward as their shipmate's body flew several yards across the huge open space, they thought about continuing to press their attack until Kyley's other guard dropped Bree's bag to the deck and shifted form into a eight foot tall winged warrior fully clad in all silver armor.

She stepped forward giving only one quick order, "Get back from my lady or die!" she said in a firm voice, as her now free hands pulled a man sized axe from nothing.

The crew stopped their advance and stood there pondering what to do, but all that indecision ceased when the other guard shifted forms to the same thing, and he bellowed, "BACK!"

Now faced with two armed and armored warriors, the crew's bravado failed and they fell back under the protection for the marine guards that were calling even more reinforcements for a potential riot or the more outright slaughter that was coming.

Now the marines started to react to the outright show of force on what was their turf and point weapons at Kyley's two guards. With the commotion growing the prisoner were obviously looking at several new avenues of escape.

Kyley stepped forward past her guards, "Gentlemen and ladies of the outer planets... enough calm down before anyone gets hurt," she asked the crew of prisoners.

"Hey this is my detachment and have your people disarm and surrender!' the leader of the guards barked at Kyley.

"ENOUGH!" Kyley shouted while gently waving a hand and all the prisoners fell to the floor as if they were puppets with cut strings. "Now lieutenant, get your OWN personal in hand and under control or I will do the same to them...and you. Then wait for them to wake up in about fifteen minutes," she pointed out the unconscious prisoners, then waved a hand at the now arriving elevator, "we shall be gone by then...ohh and have a nice day!" she smiled evilly, but nicely!

The lieutenant nodded to Kyley fearing the very young girl that just took out over thirty people with the wave of her hand and he went back to ordering his detachment to work at containing the now unconscious prisoners before they woke up.

Kyley's guards shifted forms back to normal humans and one picked up Bree's bag as they all boarded the elevator. Bree giggled at Kyley as the doors closed, "Showing off again?" Bree was mostly laughing at the fact that none of the other waiting passengers boarded the elevator and must have been thinking, "Its safer to wait for the next one!"

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A few years from graduation.....

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

Years pass and the group has fun...chasing prey!

An idea to start the new year with......a little late...whoops!

Note we WILL have a small few parts (to be posted soon) done by a guest author!

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The plane shuddered a bit more violently than normal as it climbed over the vast mountain range just below it. The fierce winds this high up over 'the Stan' normally did this daily and today was very normal run for this particular cargo plane. 'A normal run', save one thing the chief hitching a ride thought to himself. That set of twins across the cargo bay from him and ones being very obviously lead or guided or escorted by a alphabet spook that was sitting next to them chatting away on a secure phone for the whole trip so far like a teenage girl on a Friday night!

Edward thought innerly, as the crewman of the cargo area was chattering away, "Ya its not that bad this trip, one time we had fifty marines in here and ohhh boy it got rough. They all started barfing over the bay and I don't mean that normal stuff...all thin and runny...OHHH no this was that grade A-1 industrial waste thick and chunky PUKE that takes a fire hose to wash off ya!" the younger crewman rattled off the fond memory.

Ed was nearing that age to be called 'an old man' and had seen many spooks during his time in the SEAL's. So now-a-days for the most part, he dearly tried to keep them at arms length, but being a 'team' chief meant he had to 'actually' deal with them all the time now. But this spook, plus his two 'guests' were S.N.A.F.U. or just plain WIERD in capital letters!

Twins...twins, one never saw twins in a combat area let alone assigned to the same place or unit, it was just not done since WW2! Then add the fact both looked to be blond teenage girls or maybe just barely twenty years old at best! One of the very odd pair was seated along the wall of the cargo bay, in one of the fabric chairs mounted along it silently reading a book and the other was laying down on her back, on the cargo deck nested on top of some duffel bags traveling as cargo on this trip. She was playing a video game, all the while tossing peanut M&M's up into the air to her mouth now and then....she never missed or even moved her head to eat each one! That alone was very strange...to never even miss one toss?

The seated one of the strange pair was snapping gum that she was chewing on from time to time while reading, but her style of dress did not say military at all to the casual observer. With her wearing tan cargo shorts, BRIGHT pink hello kitty cross-fit shoes and a black leather jacket with a 'Punisher' hello kitty skull logo painted across the back that he could see the huge logo via her using it much like a blanket right now. The other twin had a little military vibe going with her BDU pants....but in pink camo! Then add the surly expensive cowboy boots on the bottom, a belly 'T' shirt showing off her abs on top and seated on top of her head was a black cavalry Stetson with a little added kitty skull on the front for fun...the chief had to shake his head at seeing that get-up.

One thing was really bugging him about the pair, they had opened up a large bag of mother's cookie parade assortment. You know the bag well, the one that looks like it came from a circus with all kinds of cookies in it, chocolate chip, frosted animal cracker, sugar cookie and double fudge sandwich. Then the twins left the bag on the seat between them and along with their other small personal bags.

What issue that was currently bugging Edward about that bag... the bag was slowly emptying over the last hour of the flight and Edward was VERY sure that he saw neither of them ever actually touch the freaking bag! Because he never let one eye off that bag at all times, yet it was tipped over on the seat and the cookies in the bag slightly scattered on the seat WERE slowly disappearing one or two at a time somehow?

A bright red light on several panels around the cargo bay lit up as a voice spoke, "All passengers to your seats, buckle up we are landing in five minutes..."

Ed buckled up in a seat at the call and he watched the one twin who was laying down get up to take a place in the seat that the cookie bag was in. That is when he noted the bag was nearly empty because she fished out the last five or six cookies left, wolfed them all down and dumped the crumbs into her waiting mouth. Only an hour ago that bag was certainly full, because he watched the sister open the bag's top and she placed it on the seat untouched from then on!

Ed shook his head to the strange thoughts and put most of the situation off to "Mutants being mutants!" and left it at that. The cargo plane whined and creaked as the landing gear came down and locked Then the pilot started a bit of 'juking' around like mad to keep anyone from lining up a shot at the big bird as it tried to land!

A few lurches of the plane from one side to the other, a few bumps, wild dips and the plane was rolling over to a loading pad nearby a few waiting helicopters. The plane's crew chief lowered the ramp to the darkness of the night as the large cargo planes tried to never really land or take-off in daylight for safety reasons. Edward grabbed his two large duffels and nodded to the man as he walked down the ramp to the concrete, "Cya on the trip back buddy."

"Hey...where is my ride?" Edward asked handing the ramp loader his deployment paperwork.

The younger man instantly read off the listing on the outside of the large sealed envelope and pointed off towards a old twin bladed Chinook that was spinning up for take off a few hundred yards away, "Your ride is over there Master Chief....good luck!" the man yelled over the din of motors most likely implying Edward flying on something other than a new hovercraft was a bad idea!

Ed was making his way over towards the waiting ride, when he passed by the twins once again and their escort. The escort was still busy on a 'sat phone' talking to who knows whom. But the chief noted as he past by the two girls that they were conversing in something defiantly NOT english and it sounded a lot like the 'Elvin' he had overheard a British elf speak one day a few years ago, one that was temporally attached to his team and one that never told him anything about herself or elves for that matter!

"Two blond human teens speaking Elvin....or what I think is Elvin...strange," his old brain banged away thinking as he walked towards the waiting helicopter ride.

Once at the Chinook, he tossed his bags on the waiting helo's cargo deck, then showed the crew chief his paperwork, "Welcome Master chief...take a seat," the kid crew leader shouted as he pointed to the line of old canvas troop seats lining the crafts walls, "we are waiting for a few more...then we are GO!" the younger man shouted to him once more while giving Edward his papers back.

As Ed waited for the unknown 'others' to come aboard, he put on his heavy body armor and pulled his pistol out from his 'GO' bag, loaded it and holstered it on his chest armor. Next step was his main rifle and checking it out while pointed safely off the helo's ramp away from personal or the helo. Once that was all finished, he slung it dangling down off his front hook-up and waited for the 'go' from the crew chief who was busy loading the last of the small pile of cargo next to the helo's loading ramp.

The crew chief was at his spot at the gunners door up in the front, busily putting on his helmet and armored face shield that was painted up to look very much like 'Jack' from 'the nightmare before Christmas' movie! When that CIA spook from Ed's plane ride in from the 'world' appeared out of no-where at the helo's front door and handed the young sergeant his paperwork.

"Ahhh sir, you want to bring them out into a combat zone.." he thumbed over to the teen blonds, "...they have no body armor or?...Heck I gotta pass this mess by someone..." the spook interrupted the sergeant on the spot..."Those are orders and from the top...so stand aside and show us our seats or call the MP's to get someone to crew this helo who will!" he barked a surly career ending threat over the swirling blades of the helo around them.

Edward from his spot at the helo's rear saw that something was amiss and whatever it was...it was holding up his trip! So he walked deeper into the helo to see about the issue personally, "What's up guys...I gotta appointment with my hairdresser at the FOB....Lets get flying!" he jested.

"Chief read this over for me...I don't see this stuff at all?" the kid asked the older, certainly more experienced in secret matters of the military SEAL.

Edward stepped up to the door taking the paperwork from an outstretched hand and finally noted the spook in the door frame, plus his two girls standing on the ramp. He instantly noted they wore no armor, but the spook had on the best money could buy and a rifle slung across his back, "What's this?" he asked reading the outside sleeve of the sealed documents.

The spook leaned over to Ed to be heard, "You know chief, so tell the kid to board us and lets get going!"

"Mr. CIA...ahh two kids in that area...its not secure at all." Ed had to say or ask somewhat worried for the kids.

"Orders...lets go and THEY are just fine, they can handle themselves!" the spook smiled back knowingly.

"Mutants?" Ed yelled just into the spook's ear over the roar of the helo and got a quick nod back...."You did not hear that from me and let's speed this up!" the spook yelled back.

"Let them on kid, it's all SOP and good to go!" Ed said handing the spook back his packet and went to make room by the ramp area for more passengers by tossing a few of the duffels to the other side of the bay.

Both of the girls bounced up into the door and sat down near Edward with a nod of 'thanks'....Then the spook came next and took a spot next to them in the nearly filled cargo bay. Ed kept standing as he usually did, you have to be alert in 'the Stan' and ready for the shit hitting the fan moments this place pulled on ya!

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FOB Lion Afghanistan

The trip took well over an hour because this FOB (forward operating base) laid far out into the country's interior and mountains away from the main cities of the nation or its larger airbases.

Along the way the helo had to juke or climb up a few times in known areas that fired at any low flying aircraft or easy targets and all that movement made for a bumpy ride at best for any passengers. Edward laughed innerly as he noticed that the two girls loved every minute of the ride like it was a simple roller coaster at Disneyland!

Edward watched as one of the twins leaned over to the spook and barked at him, "We cold have gone our way and been there by now!" and the other twin nodded in agreement along with her sister.

"Can't....what you do is classified..." is all he yelled back to the pair.

"Ruzzo'iso Rivvin!" the one twin not chewing gum barked. (Dumb Human)

With a few more large bumps the helo came in for a dusty landing, the ramp was dropped instantly by the crew chief and a bunch of soldiers ran onto the craft and start tossing off the small pile cargo at high speed...a freshly landed helo makes a great big target with its huge dust cloud, so you don't want to stick around in a shooting back kind of area!

The first man on the helo's cargo ramp pointed at the twins seemingly very confused at the sight, "What gives chief...two girls...here?" he asked Edward and surly knew the SEAL before today by joking tone he was easily taking with the higher ranked man.

"Ask the fucking spook!" he pointed with a tilt of his head to the CIA man while grabbing his own personal gear.

"But chief, they have no body armor or heck clothes?" he said glaring at the twins who did look very sexy to a man that had certainly spent a few months out in the middle of nowhere Afghanistan far, far away from the daily sight of women.

"Ahh keep your mouth shut...you are trapping flies in that thing!" one girl laughed at him as she picked up a backpack and walked past him on the helo's loading ramp.

The spook took the lead seeming to have been on this FOB before or he had seen several maps of it, "I'm going to the OP center, you two please go wait for me in the chow tent...and please stay out of trouble."

"Trouble....WHAT...us get into to trouble?" one twin smiled innocently like a devil making a bargain for a soul!

"We can have anything in there, or should we stick to our own stuff?" one twin asked shoving her sister along with her question.

"Eat what you want to or can and I'll be right back with our room assignments." CIA man said handing both a ID badge on a neck lanyard 'that was strangely picture less', then walking away towards a lightly constructed building surrounded by huge stacked caged boxes of dirt and a mix of sandbags for protection.

"This place is nice....NOT!" on twin yelped as she placed the badge around her neck.

"Well at least its...not a active toxic waste dump?" the other laughed back as she knotted the badge to one of her BDU pant belt loops.

Both of the girls looked over the larger FOB, as most were indeed far smaller for the most part. This one was a more permanent FOB, being mostly surrounded by a wall over twenty foot tall, made of pre-cast concrete that surrounded all of the active base where personal were. Around the helipads like this one, a lesser traveled place was the stacked boxes of dirt and a few sections of concrete wall near entry/exit points for good measure.

Most of the outer fortification were over twenty foot tall of the pre-cast stuff or the boxes stacked about four high with a walkway along most of them or parapet, inside the main base. The more vital buildings had smaller pre-cast walls around them or a stack of the dirt boxes and some just had good old sandbags tossed in.

The base had dozens of armored vehicles arranged inside it, ranging from beat-up hummers to the largest armored trucks or MRAP's (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) used in the county and not a tank in sight both girls noticed!

"Awww no tanks...I so wanted to find a busted up one and see if we could slice it up for fun!" one twin sighed out seemingly disappointed that her expected fun was nowhere to be found.

"I know the feeling Re...I wanted to do that too!" her sister said back while snapping her gum.

"Let's go eat!" Rehanna smiled back as she started to walk off towards the mess hall the spook had pointed out earlier.

Shortly both girls walked into the large prefab building housing a full service mess hall, filled with mostly marines, a few men wearing navy emblemed t-shirts and a few civilians mixed in for good measure. But no local troops at all, strangely not one? AND as the door closed behind them, the room fell utterly silent and one soldier even dropped his fork clattering to his plate as his mouth hanged agape at the sight!

"Never seen a girl?" Rohanna laughed out as she dropped her pack nearby the doors on a empty table and placed her black leather jacket on one of the free chairs back.

Rehanna did the same and noticed one very young marine's gaze was lingering far too long on her abs or chest, "Keep starring at me and I'll pop out your eyes with a spork!" she growled out an intense warning that had promise behind each word.

"Hey be nice..." Rohanna said to her twin calmly.

"Well?" Rohanna questioned the young soldier, "you going to stop or?" she huffed out sounding a little upset now at the kid's continued gazing.

"Mike...stop it now!" barked an older man across the room one who had concluded or was very sure by his past experience, that the twins were mutants or far worse!

"But gunny, teen girls here. In a combat zone?" the kid pointed out the more than strange situation to the older soldier.

"AND...." he questioned back with a resole melting harsh stare, "Maybe you have never worked around girls, but it is the norm back home and have you ever thought they might be something OTHER than normal? Besides the fact they are wearing correct ID badges for being out here with us!"

"Ohhh...mut.." the kid started to answer back.

He never finished the word, the far older sergeant was on him in a split second yanking the smaller marine out of his seat and dragging his body outside, "Looks like we need to work on manners and you need some time making a few nice, square, deep, pits for me AND anyone else who wants the same exercise...keep eyeballing the two ladies and you will dig me one or several out past the wire!" he growled out only once while exiting the building, the room took note and quickly went about eating once again or whatever task they could do not to look in the girls general direction!

"Nice guy..." one twin started.

Rohanna pointed out the rooms mural of what should have been a simple lion, but now was a huge black sea lion painted over the brown cats face and 'SEALion' was added in over its large fierce body, with one flipper holding a fighting knife showing this base was certainly a SEAL base and not a normal run of the mill FOB!

The twins took their time choosing out what to have for an early lunch, then sat down with filled trays nearly overflowing and seeming very much out of the norm for such fit appearing girls like the strange pair.... Most of the room wondered silently as they ate, how could they eat so much and stay so fit and thin?

A still hot and sweating gunny stepped back into the mess hall wiping sweat from his face with a paper towel, he must have been done with chewing that kid out and making sure the younger man was well on his way to digging to china! He spotted the twins sitting very much alone and busy eating, plus chatting like mad in a language he had only heard once...from a brit elf that was attached to his company a few years back.

He sat across the table from the twins with a grunt of age that was catching up with him, "Well girls, so what are WE doing here at our fine base today?" he asked trying to sound pleasant.

Rehanna glared up at him from her plate of Mac and cheese,
"If we told ya?"

"Ohh so you don't know why you are here, the....'guy' or your guide has yet to tell ya," he laughed back trying to dare them into talking.

"We always know THE why, but who cares beyond that..." Rehanna said coldly and that utterly deep cold tone in her voice spooked him and this old Gunny did not spook easily after all he had seen over his career.

"Okay, so maybe we will team up later?" he asked standing up from the table.

Rohanna smiled to him, "We never team up, its better that way...bye now." then she gave him a little wave to show that she was done with his presence and went back to eating.

A short time later the twins CIA guide came flying into the mess hall with several new sealed folders in his arms, "Well girls, we have just a little more time to get over to the 'team house' and sit through their briefing. We need to be there, so that we can catch a ride with them and get you both into action tonight."

"Let's go then," Rohanna said standing up picking up her tray, then dropping the trash and plates on it into the waste or water filled to be cleaned dish bins.

Rehanna did the same, but stopped to grab a few snacks off of a table of them and a few bottled water to go. She placed most of that into her bag and took a small swig of the water before placing it into a pouch on the bag's side.

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Shadowsblade Extras: Ocean's Elvin Written by Shadowsblade

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

Years pass and the group has fun...chasing prey!

An idea to start the new year with......

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Las Vegas!

Jenny made sure for the third time, that her service cart stuffed full of snacks and other food items, plus drinks was all good as the service only elevator traveled up to the huge full floor suite on the casino's top floor. She had quietly taken this job several months ago to garner info on the casino's high rollers and when they might be fit to be taken!

Tonight was the night, the staff was all-a-buzz about the high roller suit tonight! The owner had cleared it of a top named, plus very rich guest and shoved them out the buildings doors when they complained...it was said that that leaving guest had ROARED at the staff..."I will take my business elsewhere!"

The reply from head management at the time..."Please do...these guests have little time to wait and do gamble TEN times what you do!" and that was said to a billionaire!

All of that, plus the huge rumor that the 'buy in' for this private game was TEN MILLION and up, plus all of that COLD HARD CASH or something as untraceable was sitting right in the suite AND not in the casino vaults! Then add those rumors, the owner of the casino was showing up...whoever that was? As no one was sure who actually owned one of Las Vegas's top five casinos, the owner was hidden from public knowledge by layer after layer of shell companies and the manager of the casino floor, he held the state gaming license AND who, how or what of getting all that past the state commission was very strange!

Having a gaming license held by a 'no name' shell company meant, this person had connections and was powerful at the very least! Jenny wanted to see, the what or the who this owner was, she craved after that kind of bankable and marketable info, Jenny craved is so much like life giving air!

The elevator doors finally opened to the top floor and Jenny guided the large cart down the wide hallway towards this floor's only door a few yards away. This hallway was a service only hallway and hidden away from the guest hallway, entrance way and elevator was at the far end of the floor. Jenny gave the cart a small shove, as the hover moto-vator of the large service cart made it effortless, even with the cart being six foot tall, three foot wide and nearly eight long filled with several hundreds pounds of food!

Jenny nodded to the rooms only guard or really 'host', all this guy did was make sure the guests were fed, happily and losing millions in money to the casino! "Hi Jenny, all full with our order?" he asked while taking the cart's contents list from its holder on the side.

"Yes sir..." she grinned warmly.

"It's just James please, anyone working my floor is a teammate." said the gray haired man obviously trained in some Disney resort at one time during his long career, they always did that 'first name only' bit in the amusement parks and branded 'theme' hotels!

"Yes James..." Jenny smiled once more and gave it a bit more 'sugar' to please the man. Because if this job worked out and her accomplices successfully robbed the place...staying on this job might gain her even more money with very little risk! Yes Jenny was that smart, she would not take part in the actual robbery and was protected by several 'cut-out' contacts that did not lead back to her. Plus she had long range plans, she wanted to hide her cash for now, invest it and then in a decade or so, pull it all out and then retire rich at age thirty five when she moved overseas!

James thumbed the last lock to the suite's service area and let Jenny guide the cart past him. Once in the room with the door shut to the hallway, he opened the large fridge and then pulled the carts chiller door open as he started to load the food into it, "Jenny please grab a service of this and this and that..." the well dressed host pointed out what he wanted done, "and take them into the room, set them all out on the bar top nearest the doors for the guests."

"Yes James, I got it!" she bubbled pulling a large covered trays of food from the cart's shelves on the 'hot' side of its cabinet, then placed them on a smaller nicer made service cart and quickly rolled the cart into the suite.

Inside the vast twenty thousand foot plus suite, Jenny noticed that the staff had pulled one of the conversation areas out of the huge living/greeting room and placed a fine card table nearest that wall. Around that large dozen spot table, sat several women, a few appeared to be over or near thirty and a few looked like teens or early twenties...then one looked very much to Jenny like she was sixteen at best AND she was being served from an expensive scotch bottle...one of the hotels most expensive scotch brands even!

The room had nearly a dozen ladies in it, some sitting at the card table, a few eating snacks in the living area and lastly a few watching the huge Holo-TV that was showing a sporting event. That last group was cheering or howling as one NASCAR racing team's car made a move for first place, then made it! Jenny noted the team name in the network scroll at the screen's bottom....Moore racing!

Jenny started to pull out the trays of food and place them on the long bar top when the game hit half-time and the ladies came closer or turned around. That is when she spotted that at least three were elves or dark elves!

Dark elves....Jenny had heard of them, heck most had seen them on TV from a show coming from that tiny island in the Caribbean where the leader, the queen was one and she changed many rich ladies into one of her kind with Gene splicing or DNA manipulation! That is how the queen was changed, rumor was she did it by accident and was at one time a GUY and not a girl!

Jenny was making sure the last tray she put out was all set and the dips for the fries were uncovered and still hot or cold as needed. As she glanced up, she looked right into the sky blue eyes of a tall blonde smiling to her, "Are the meats coming soon?" she asked.

Jenny was taken back by the girl that looked no more than a teen, dressed in a tight leather outfit that showed off her beautiful body, accentuating her every sexy curve! That is when Jenny wanted desperately to be with her, obey her, have her favors! "Ahhh I will get them in the next run to the service room Ma'am..."

"Great...thanks!" the beauty smiled back and turned back to the food to fill a plate for a friend still sitting at the gaming table. The tall blonde sat back in her spot and shared the plate with one of the Dark elves. Then she leaned over to a woman next to her that had all white skin, black hair with a rather nice red stripe down the center hanging 'just' so over her forehead and she giggled as the other girl spoke to her.

That white skinned lady glanced Jenny's way and she was filled instantly with an abundance of LUST, a want, a need to have sex right now. A slap from the blonde on the girl's arm made it all vanish with sudden pop and ended up with the white girl's pouting and veiled whispering back to the blonde's slap.

Jenny left the suite before anything even more strange happened to here and when she closed the doors to the service area, she just had to ask James, "Who are all of these girls...so exotic...strange and down right weird in some cases?" she questioned her boss with a tilt of her head remembering that Lust and that want to be with the blonde.

"They are guests Jenny and some of our guests...JUST like these are not all human...get it?" James told her flatly while pulling a large box from the chiller section of the service cart.

"Mutants?" she squeaked out not having been around so many at one time that she knew of?

"And do you care...their money is green and the tips are BIG....so do you care or not, I have to ask once again?" he asked, but more demanded, like he was telling her that a TIP was gone and she was about to be fired... fired like tossed right out a nearby window!

"Nope, don't bug me and money is money!" she smiled while pulling out the last box from the chiller. "Ahhh James what is this box?" she asked placing it on the cart for now, "I had to wait while they checked it out to me and it came from a safe in the beverage room that I have never seen before today!" Jenny though on to seeing that safe only just today, she had worked here for over a year and in the high rollers area and only saw it today...that was strange.

James flipped open the lid on a well made and exquisitely made wooden box. Inside was a large bright silver tray that he pulled out from the side and a dozen silver cups to match. "This is Elven brandy or Sidhe wine to some and it's called 'the queen's special reserve'...AND she, the queen I am told is only the one who can 'allow' a person buy any amount with her permission, because there is only one maker as of now on the whole planet that hold the patent and recipe for this especially rare brandy!"

"How much?" Jenny pondered out and was dying to know that figure, as James pulled out one of four bottles housed within the box's divided soft leather interior.

"I don't know, the casino owner bought it for the suite and they don't list prices on the invoices. But in any case, if you are called to serve this. PLEASE serve it only in the silver cups, as anything else will ruin the wine and serve it in small batches to at least three guests so as not to waste it...because it evaporates in just an hour after you open the bottle!" he warned her.

Jenny pulled a second bottle from the case to give it a closer look. The finely made bottle looked like hand blown glass, but not quite and seemed to be capped off in a silver metal top with strange writing all over the seals. "Ohh Jenny, if you handle that. Please use gloves, as the contents are a bit too much for humans...a drop on your skin might kill you or make you drunk for days and DO NOT drink it at all!" He warned firmly, "To us humans this simple brandy is poison and will certainly kill you on the spot!"

"Wow, the elves drink this?" she gasped out while quickly placing the bottle back in its cubby hole.

"Yes and I am not kidding. Then add this," he said pulling out the last fine box from the larger one, "this chocolate is for the elves only, please keep it or all of them on the silver tray so as not to mix them up with other candies and replace any uneaten ones back in this box for safe keeping!"

"Do the rest or other guests eat anything else as strange as all of this...that I should know about?" she had to ask!

"Yes......." James trailed off thinking about something he had seen and shook his head of the thoughts, "AND you don't want to know!"

"James?" asked him next with a bit more playfulness hanging on her words, ones that might promise something sexual to come later, "I heard that the buy in was high for this game and in cash?"

James gave into the play like a trout biting a top of the line lure, "Yes, they all did and...." he lowered his voice to a whisper, "the 'buy in' is in the suite...hidden!"

Jenny bubbled at the idea of all that money, here in the suite and ready for the taking as she smiled back at James, "Neat!" she said thinking of her cut of the action and now she had the info needed for the heist...that money was indeed conformed here!

During the next hour, Jenny helped James pass out the new cold food and new hot food that replaced empty spots on the bar top or refilled spots of food that had gone a little cold.

During that time she took several mental notes of the girls in the room.

Jenny noted that all of them wore some of the most expensive and exclusive clothing lines made, some of the dresses or outfits were surely 'one-off's' made for the customer by the designer ONLY...that meant money and lots of it to Jenny!

A big plus was that all of ladies wore very expensive jewelry and the elves seemed to be wearing elven made jewelry...Jenny made a note of that for later, to tell her group not to take that or those. As they were impossible to fence and elves would come for them no matter what! No one, no professional thief or fence in their right mind, messed with elves and their personal, historic and or magical items!

A few of the women or Jenny thought might be young 'girls' by the ages they appeared to be? Some of them definitely stuck in her mind...One was called many times, Kelly or 'Kel' and seemed only to be about eighteen at best even though she was tossing back fine scotch shots while being dealt hands at the poker table and what was strange most of all was her clothes! Or the way or what she wore was chosen...she had a nice dress outfit on, top of the line and the capper was nearly knee high riding boots with color chromed steel capped toes?

Then were the dark elf twins with deep purple skins, one dressed the part of a fine businesswoman, the other was a bit more wild with a leather jacket and its back covered in an evil hello kitty logo, plus many matching patches on her outfit! But the best part, was that Jenny was very sure they were the same Drow that did several fantasy movies a decade or so back?

Whereas as the other two Drow/dark elves had grayish skin, one went for the elegant business lady look and the other for a more 'punky' street vibe that matched the odder twin of the first pair...like they hung out a lot outside of the group at times?

Then came the three older women of the large group, each with refined tastes that showed. One was elegant in her choices. One was obviously VERY rich and more or actuality leaning towards 'male' in her clothing choices and might be one...a guy that is! The last one was a redhead that must be from Scotland by her accent and choice of beverage...she brought and only drank one band and it seemed to be HER brand like she owned it!

The last of the three was elegant in her clothing, but had the 'vib' of watching her back at all times, then add she was marked by strangely all white hair for someone so young or at the most middle aged?

Most of the last pack that seemed to stay together and then hang along with the Drows was a group of regular appearing elves...if elves, or any type of elf was or were 'regular' Jenny thought to herself? But one was green haired, another was darker black, one more was a dark honey blond and the last girl was a fiery red head that seemed at times to lead the group?

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Down nearly one hundred floors in a service area, Jenny was bubbling with excitement at having just left the high roller suite and ducked into a service storage room that she knew was not covered by the casino's very extensive security system and surveillance systems!

Jenny pulled a communicator disk from her sock, then tapped it on and the device came to life in her palm. A bright holo-display in washed out greens and blues hovered in her outstretched hand as she swished it over to her contacts list and tapped the air above one number. This cheap communicator was a 'throw away' model, totality untraceable to most cops or companies and did not have a good display in full color that could fool the human eye at time or even had a holo-reader/scanner, so that the caller could be shown 'live' to whom they called.

The holo buzzed a bit before it fully formed and finally showed a cartoon Elmer Fudd that was an avatar of her contact within the ring of robbers. The small Elmer smiled to her as it spoke, "Well what's the deal?"

"It's a perfect gem, no guards, all girls or women and they are LOADED!" Jenny bubbled out more than excited.

"Any issues or warnings for the boys?" the cartoon asked.

"Yes....some of the girls are elves and I have heard they can be nasty at times. So don't take any of their personal jewelry at all, darn magic or historic items might be mixed in with them and we don't want them after us...regular money being stolen, they will let the human cops or the feds deal with...ELF stuff, they come for ya personally...so I have heard on the streets over the years." Jenny warned the small cartoon hunter.

"Humm elves...sounds good, they are always loaded with money in some form or another! Then add they always have something other than data cash or chips, they want HARD currency in their hands!"

"Ohhh I will mention this, two of the girls are twins that did some acting in a few 'sword and sorcery' movies when I was little, never really watched any of them and they might have skills or know how to fight somewhat because of that role they played? Just saying!" Jenny warned.

"Any other notes, like where the 'buy in' is at inside the suite?" the cartoon asked coldly keeping to business.

"I did not see one...a safe that is, but I am sure the 'buy-in' is there because I was told it was...no safe insight in the main suite? But the money might be in a bedroom or smaller attached suite on the floor. There are six adjoining ones up on the top floor and they bought out the whole floor for the week plus and that costs lots of cash, then add the casino owner is up in the room with them all...I was told, so she, he or what it is, they are loaded for sure!" Jenny fussed over having not seen any money or a safe that the money might be in and that worried her that all cash might really be in the casino's large safe and that James had lied to her!

"Fine,..." the holo nearly hissed out, "In any case, your finders fee is already in your account and you will get your percentage over that amount if we find anything of value over the costs." the cartoon Elmer, reminded Jenny that she might get zero after the basic cost of the caper and that she only got a small 'slice' of the profits at best. The ones who would do the real robbing, they got the bigger cuts and then the 'fixers' who sponsored this heist received the biggest cuts of all!

"Thanks and I'll keep my eyes and ears out for more info!" she smiled

"And we will keep in-touch...plus send you any leads in your area to check out," the cartoon said and then faded in a pop of light.

Jenny closed the communicator, then snapped it in her hands with a soft pop and tossed it into a recycle bin. She would be sent a new one if the 'Fixers' wanted her or she had several 'dead-drops' to send messages via if she had found new targets!

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In cyberspace

The team of thieves has a hacker or what some call a 'slicer' bashing large, but well hidden holes in the large casinos internal security system. She was in the mainframe with only a few seconds of hacking and in that time she had managed to turn off most of the buildings alarms and connections to the local police. Next she placed all of the building's elevators under her control...there was only one flaw...one small hiccup...one of the programs logo page's looked like a Cyberkitty or cat for 'just' a second to the hacker? That worried her a bit....she had seen or heard of that logo somewhere, but where she thought? But back to the job at hand!

"Team two and one...the bit is ready, all clear!" the hacker used her call sign of 'bit' to tell the two teams of thieves waiting down in the parking garage below the casino that all was set and ready for them to move out into the building!

Down over 100 floors below the high roller suite, a set of four large vans disgorged over a dozen well armed men and women with masks that move quickly through the large service parking are and right into the service docks area. The cameras only showed repeating rolled footage of 'all is well' to the security staff up in their sealed room, most of which was really several weeks old!

The expert team overwhelmed to three guards in the area in seconds and a few of the staff with knockout darts or well placed taser shots, then quickly tied them all up in zip ties to be sure of no later issues with them loose after coming too.

Part of the pack of thieves stayed on this level, as the rest loaded quickly into three waiting elevators that the hacker had pre-called to this floor and at the same time she locked out the rest of the banks elevators stopping on this floor as well as each door of the staircases!

Up in the high roller suite, two elevators stopped in the service section of the floor and the last team stopped at its place, right at the main hallway of the long line of connected rooms. The team filed out, then right into each smaller attached suite as they went towards the mains suite's double entry door. They checked and cleared each room in-turn as they made way towards the floor's main suite a the hallways end.

With each smaller suite checked and clear of any guests or issues, the team locked each door with a thick bar to keep it closed from both within and back out into the hallway and that sealed off any chance of escape for any future victims, without them bashing the whole door out of its frame!

When the team regrouped at the suite's main double doors, the leader did a silent count until he waved at one member holding a SWAT team style door ram and he swung one huge hit that blew both doors off their hinges.

Rohanna was just leaving the catering service near the main entry, when both entry doors flew open and hung from shattered hinges and lock mountings. Nearly a dozen men swept into the room aiming battle rifles and shotguns at all of the casino's guests, at the same time a larger group came in both of the suite's service doors and added to the disarray!

The leader being one of the first in the suite aimed his rifle at the confused Drow, "GET on the floor...we are taking everything we want!" the masked man barked his orders!

"Ahhh...Ayla, are they yours?" Rohanna tilted her head towards the armed group and asked her friend, plus the casino's owner as Rohanna steadied a large plate of hot food in her hands.

"NOT MINE!" the multi-billionaire yelled back and seemed to be complying with the man's orders!

"Should we kill them?" both Drow sang in Elvin stereo from different sides of the room, one near the door and the other twin was sitting at the gambling table playing.

Ayla, billionaire tycoon gave his answer in Elvin while cringing, then shook his head back to the Drow, "Please don't, I'll cover the losses today. Its far less trouble than you smearing the whole suite in layers of blood and burnt blasted bodies!"

Yes, Ayla and all the humans in the suite...well beside the criminals knew fluent Elven or Sidhe and knew it well! Ayla, a mutant human knew it well after having spent his formative high school years in a dorm with at least four of the creatures around him everyday and one or more on his school training team all the time he was there! Then Jadis as well, plus Jobe and his Drow DNA experiments knew it because it was a good language to learn and nearly no other humans knew it!

Then there was Kelly, Mel, Kyley and Sara to add in next. Of course they all knew the language and thousands of others by heart...they were minor gods in their own right or GOO, the Great Old Ones...ancient beyond belief!

The Drow smiled back evilly to the older looking human that she had schooled with for years, "But the four 'B's...are fun, Blood, burnt, blasted, DEAD bodies, I added a 'D' in...so shoot me!"

That is when Bree yelped from across the room as a group of robbers coming from the service kitchen waved for her and a few others nearby to move over too and away from the living/meeting area of the suite, "Hey, lets...JUST let-em go ahead and rob us...it will be fun drawing lots on which one of us gets to chase them!"

"I LIKE THAT BREE!" the Drow sang back out to her and the room in Sidhe, then got nods from the group as a whole...then add several evil smiles!

"Ohhhhh fuck that, Let me toss them all out the windows...then we can get back to poker!" Kelly yelled out very much mad as hell in Sidhe, that someone had her or her friends at gunpoint!

Then much older looking Jadis smirked back to the teenage appearing Kelly standing next to her, "Ahhh Kel girl...we are up 100 floors!"

"So..." Kelly instantly sassed back, "AND your point is?" she smiled darkly.

"Well just aim for the pool then?" Kyley said with a laugh.

"A fall of 100 floors and you think a pool landing would help?" Jadis questioned the GOO's logic.

"It can't hurt?" Kyley shrugged back with a smile.

"Well it's on the other side of the building! SO let's just not do that and keep to my suggestion of letting them rob us and we have more fun in trying to catch them, plus get the money back!" Bree or some know as 'Whisper' said as the armed group waved or shoved here and the other women closer to the room's long wall.

"Both of you need to shut up with whatever babble you all were speaking...or I'll shoot you RIGHT in the face with THIS!" one masked man barked as he waved a shotgun in Jadis's face.

"Do you know who I am...who we are...well buddy I....." Jadis started to warn the man, but a loud bark from Bree in Elvin stopped her, "Shut it...you are going to ruin our fun!"

"Shut up or BANG...I will shoot you in the face!" the man very loudly yelled his renewed warning!

"Ohhh no, you are not shooting me in the face....this outfit is a one off Vera Wang, that she alone custom fit to me...shoot Sara in the face...she likes it!" Jadis laughed then 'bumped' into the white skinned GOO next to her.

"Hey, hey now. I might have been shot once to the noggin with a fifty cal! But that don't mean I like that feeling any little bit....So if you still want to blast somebody Elmer Fudd, shoot Kyley the tall blonde over there, I am sure she will love the 'new' experience!" Sara purred out like only a demon of lust could and tilted her head towards the tall blonde just yards away.

"Ya...that sounds so cool," the taller blonde giggled, "I have never been shot in the face by one of those. Now I have been shot by arrows or spells, burned, had my head cut off, fell three miles to go splat on the ground, been roasted by dragon's fire, fell into acid once, then lava once, crushed as a mountain fell on me, drowned a few times, hacked up by swords, axes, knives...aww heck just name the blade or blunt weapon and its hit me or tried to kill me!" the blonde bubbled out more than excitedly!

"NO...shoot her somewhere else darn it....her blood is JUST hell to get out of chiffon!" a green haired woman next to the blond barked and rolled her eyes.

"NUMBER FOUR...Just keep them quiet!" the obvious group leader ordered because of the large number '1' on his shoulder pads, then he barked at a few other of the suite's gamblers while shoving his rifle into Rohanna's side to move her along faster, "Now you get over there with them! Number five, six and seven of you nine start bagging our loot and look for a safe. Remember all of you...resistance is futile!" the leader warned the room's guests once again.

"Hey take it easy with that darn thing, it might go off and hurt one of your buddies!" Rohanna growled and took a place in the lineup of women along the room's longest wall.

One woman thief with noticeably the largest bust line out of the female thieves and 'seven' on her shoulder patch nodded to the order. Then 'seven' pulled out a large black bag from a backpack that one of the other men wore that was also busy watching the ladies and she walked up to Rohanna first, "Jewelry NOW!" the thief demanded.

"What my personal stuff...ohh hell and no!" Rohanna barked back to the shorter girl.

"Number seven, leave that one and the rest of the pointy eared elves out of the collection. I don't need their jewels, OR the chance they are magic and VERY traceable because they are!...KEEP moving on to the humans and take it all, miss nothing!" the leader ordered.

Seven nodded and moved on to Jadis with the same order, "Jewels NOW!"

"Ohhh you are going to pay for this...I stole most of that fair and square!" Jadis hissed out while dropping several of her large rings, bracelets and a huge diamond necklace she ripped from her own neck into the black bag.

Number 'seven' moved on to the rest, but skipped over Sara, "Aww you're not taking any of my stuff...I am not an elf like them!" Sara said feeling left out once again just because of her looks alone.

"You have pointy ears like one...now shut it!" the leader warned.

"Now big boy, I can lose those and have 'other' things added in their place!" she purred out as her ears lost their points and her breasts grew in size by leaps and bounds, then started to overflow her top!

"SARA!" Bree warned, "Now none of that and no eating snacks between meals!" the elf chastised the GOO that could eat humans and did so many times in her history!

"Ohhhh POOOO!" Sara pouted out as her dress deflated, "He looks like so much fun! AND besides, I already ate this morning."

"You can fuck him later on if you win the draw to chase them!" Rehanna added in Elvin!

One of the robbers came back into the room and sighed out to his boss, "No safe in here or any of the smaller attached suites number 1, all we found was empty room safes."

"Shut up all of you, no more talking...now you...there." the leader warned again, then pointed his rifle at Ayla, "You seem to be the leader or one of them, where is your buy in for this game?"

"You walked right past it." Ayla shrugged back nonchalantly.

"WHERE!" the leader barked as he lost his coolness.

"The shoe box on the small table by the door....moron, " Ayla said just under his breath that last insulting word.

The boss or leader spun around to that side of the room and noticed the box sitting on the table. He and his group had just walked right on by the large shoe box! he shook his head at the sight, then walked swiftly over to the small decorative glass topped table and flipped the top off a large cardboard 'Goodkind sports shoes'...shoe box there, then tossed about inside the box several dozen small bags. Some were made of leather, some cloth or some silk and a few of them were 'crown royal' bottle bags!, "What is this, all of this stuff is not cash?" he wondered out.

"Each bag is about ten million or more US dollars. So what did you except us to have? All us have that in cash, at what twenty pounds in hundreds per million and that would be over two hundred and twenty pounds per ten million or for each small bag...You should thank us for not having to move a ton of money right now Sheeeeesh!...I do you a favor and this is the thanks I get for saving you on manpower!"

The leader slung his rifle over his back to keep it out of the way and tossed through the box counting out silently. He then worked at untying one small bag, but had to pull a large knife off his chest's combat harness to cut the bag's top loose and a small pile of diamonds filled his hand, "Wow well over two dozen bags in here, that means that each of you girls bet over ten million or more just for today's game? Wow big spenders and thanks for the gift!" he snarked.

"Well not all of us are that rich!" the green haired Gwen sighed out.

"Speak for yourself twerp!" Jadis sneered out.

"Ohhh have not heard that one in two decades bitch!" Gwen barked back.

"Fuck off elf short stack!" Jadis barked to the shorter Gwen.

"OR what...you are going to tell daddy on me?" Gwen sassed back and rubbed it in about Jadis's daddy being a well sought after master villain.

"Ohhhhh you..." Jadis growled as she started to move the girl's way and was shoved back to the wall by one of the armed women of the group.

"Come here six and get out your bag...then the rest of you bitches shut it!" after the man who had said that the team had found nothing, he moved over next to his boss while he pulled out a bag from off his backpack and opened it. Now with an empty bag to fill, the leader tossed the small bags into the black sack making mental notes of the count and as he did, he noted tags on each small bag that were surely the amounts in each one and two initials of the bag's owner he was sure of!

"Okay we got what we came for...now...ladies," he sassed out like he was acting like a gentlemen..."We are leaving, BUT the ALL the doors will be barred shut and have bombs attached with a sensor and timer, each one can be set off remotely or by anyone FUCKING with them....in twenty minutes you can call the cops and the bombs will self disarm in thirty minutes...that I guarantee!...BYE NOW!" he grinned while his team of thieves filed out several doors, then the sounds of something being placed out each freshly closed elevator door could be heard in the room.

"Well now that they are gone, how long do we give them to run!" Nikki asked her friends.

"Well redhead..." Sara sassed over to her blood oath sister, "I'd say a few days, maybe a week?"

"Well let's set some very basic ground rules?" Mel suggested while taking a seat at the card table.

"Ground rules..." Rohanna pondered back, "We or one of us finds them, gets our stuff back and then shhhhick!" the Drow slices at her neck to show what is done finally!

"No you silly DROW, no killing! We do this by draw of the cards, then take turns from there...it's all catch and release, so the next one of us can try for the fun of the CHASE!"

"Well then rules?" Bree asked.

"I suggest a time limit, the first out getting the least...say a week, then the next one gets two and so on! If they get them, make some pic's of all of them, then let them go!"

"With the money?" one red head girl asked in a very heavy Scottish accent.

"YA, Emily! " Ayla grins to the Scott, "that way they have a chance to get away, because without cash they have none versus most of us here?"

"What about help?" Gwen asked knowing that she had government contacts that most of the room did not have.

"Easy, use what you got and if just if you have the same contacts as anyone else...you still can use it or them!" Kyley added in knowing that she had lots, but most of them crossed lines with many others in the room.

"What about use of governments?" Jobe had to ask, because she ruled over one!

"That one is out, no armies or minions doing all your work. you can have contacts work for info, but not do the actual WORK! AKA, you have to get your hands dirty qweeeny!" Gwen grinned meanly to the ruler of a small island nation.

Most of the group nodded back as Kyley spoke, "That's a good rule, but lets add in followers to....because Sara has lots them with her church and so do I in my own ways!"

"Ohh then lets add this...no asking a god or goddess to point them out...like 'Gaea' you two Drow or the elves here." Sara added in with a warm knowing grin.

"I would, heck WE would never do that, as doing so is very un-warrior like and not a true HUNT!...We love to hunt, it's the best part!" Rohanna hissed back and her twin nodded, "why cheat Sara, we already have their scents to track them by and will find them in due time!" Rehanna said while sniffing the room once again.

"I like this and agree!" Bree laughed out.

"All agreed to..."Ayla asked the group and got quick nods all around.

"Well let's draw then, Kelly said while handing the casino's human dealer a fresh unopened deck of cards, that she shuffled quickly then 'fanned' over the felt table top.

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

In this one!

We go off the rails!

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There I was getting home from a long day at work again, once I opened the door going from the garage to my house. I heard the very distinct sound of food already cooking on the stove!

That little program that Nuuan sent out to me in the mail, it was supposed to help me write a little better and faster? But he had goofed and bespelled it a little via his grandmother who was a Wiccan. That little bitty mistake? It had led to several days of abject horror! Nuuan, had wanted to send me a little help via that simple, safe, shinny disk, A way to bring 'life' into my writing, my characters more!

BUT!

He forgot one small thing...a small lesson from his Grandmother who was a REAL Wiccan witch! That the true intent of some spells, are more of what the caster wants or desires and he really 'wanted' me to bring more life into my stories. So what better way for that to happen...but...bring the character TO life and have them there to help the writer along with their story of life!

The program and it's magic...IT brought Rohanna and her twin Rehanna, both changed Drows to life. Then yanked them out of my computer, then dragged both of them into my home! Those first few days with one of them, they were utter madness! With her trying to make me write her story even more, even faster, gain more hits, kudos and reader comments. ALL of which fed into her life, without them she dies! As I lose my interest in writing her!

Rohanna on that very first day even tried to threaten me, but I upped the ante on her! If she killed me, she in turn DIED right there? Well when the logic of that idea dawned on her fully and she gave up on the idea of threats working on me. But she did not give up...not fully, she now keeps my house very clean...military clean! Makes my every meal, does my small in house chores...all so, I have more time to write her stories!

After I had a great meal she cooked for me and I wrote just a little bit, being more than tired after a long week of work...it was bed time?

As I got ready for bed, back in my office, that writing program spun to life in the computer's tray.

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This bed felt very good this morning, way better than most days. So warm, so soft, so comfortable. Then I rolled a little bit to snuggle in the sheets more and 'felt' something strange? Something not normal, something IN the bed with me!

When my eyes opened to the world, all I saw was white. Then the white moved and the face of Rohanna rolled over into my view now and she smiled a fang filled grin my way.

"Rohanna, why are you in my bed?" I asked her softly, not wanting to spook the dangerous Drow laying RIGHT next to me only scant inches away.

"You are not in your BED per say? But your are in mine in Poe cottage, ohh writer of mine?" she grinned evilly my way.

"Ahh that is impossible? That is just a fictional place, one that is made up and only exists inside the made-up world of some writers minds and stories!"

"Yes, but until a few weeks ago. I did not exist inside your world and not REALLY clean your house or cook you dinner last night? So why can't this be real now!" she reasoned with me.

"OHHH FUCK NO!" I shouted and sat up suddenly. Then found my chest bouncing like it should not and looked down at it..."Boobies! I GOT booooobies!" I shouted grabbing at them both.

"Yep!" she grinned my way, "that you do and most girls have them?" she stated the fact sitting up next to me, just as naked as I was now.

Instantly I fell out of bed and found a very cute naked girl looking at me from across the room, I reached for her, she reached out for me with the same arm. She leapt back in shock, as I did the same thing. She smiled when I just did...SHIT! I was looking at myself in the mirror set on the back door of the dorm room!

As I looked myself over even more and faster now! I found that I WAS in a Drow's body and that BODY was Rohanna's body! "I can't be you?" I shouted next.

"That's right, you are not me. You are you and you are in Rehanna! There was plenty of room inside her mind for you and SO, I moved you right on in..." she trailed off thinking for a second, "that computer program Nuuan sent over...it showed me how to do that. Nice thing it is!"

"I can't be you...her...me...THIS!" I shouted at her and pointed at myself.

"Well you are, so get used to it!" she sarcastically said to me, as she pulled me up to my feet.

"Now put this on, we have to get showered up for the day!" she sang out to me, as she handed me a robe to wear and jammed a bath caddy into my other hand.

Rohanna was yanking on her twins arm like mad, as the other posies passed by them in the hallway. One shouted out to the world in fright "What me in a bathroom with teen girls?! That is not decent!"

"Well you are one now!" the other purple skinned twin Drow yelled back at her now and shoved her twin into the showers room, with all the other students watching the madness happening between the two Drows this morning.

That now very confused Drow scanned the room full of naked, semi naked and dressing girls, she was left speechless, along with being frozen in place, in shock from the sight of it all! After the other Drow that was still moving had placed her twin's caddy into a shower, she ripped the robe right off her twin's body and shoved the twin into a shower booth. She turned on the shower's water, the hydroflux and the door was closed quickly.

The door banged a few times from the trapped Drow inside it, then as the system did it's miracle on the inhabitant...it got quiet and the Drow leaned on the door to keep it shut, "A few minutes in that, you will be fixed up and ready for the day...plus you will get the experience of a lifetime!" she laughed evilly now.

Kyley the new GOO kid in Poe this new term, she smiles knowingly at Rohanna leaning up against the showers glass door just now, "So, you brought 'you know who' over? Very nice indeed!"

Rohanna nodded back to her, "Sure did, now we have him!"

A few minutes later, Rohanna is shoving her grinning twin down the hallway back to their room, "That was niceeee!" the first twin nearly drools out.

"I thought you would like that! Now lets get dressed, get fed and get to magic lab class before Circe has a COW again!"

Once Rohanna has helped her twin dress and the hard part was showing the newer Drow how a bra works! Both walk down the hallway towards the door, but are stopped by a vision of Elvin beauty just coming from her room...Fey or Nikki one of the other elves on the floor with the twin Drows.

"Good morning you two!" she bubbles out at both Drows in the hallway.

"You up this morning and without the need of four cups of coffee?" Rohanna wonders out loud to the hallway and the other students passing by.

"Yep, just felt great to get up this morning!" she sings again.

The new Drow being 'me' and me just being a 'guy' a few hours ago?! Was left drooling, right there and then by Nikki's beauty. So I did what any guy would want to do in this case...I hugged her! AND hugged her very close.

Nikki stars down at the Drow hugging her hard, "Ahh Rehanna, I think? I need to get to class and breath too!" she gasps out.

All I can say back to her, as her breasts smush against me is, "SO soft so warm!"

Rohanna yanks her twin off Nikki's chest quickly, "Off you letch! You are worse than Peeper!" but she shouts it out in Drow language to hide her anger with me right now. Strangely that I fully know the Drow language now comes to mind, as she yanks me off down the hallway?

In magic class

Rohanna slides her notebook over to me and I start reading it. Most of the notes are on human style magic, she goes over what we are learning today with me very quickly in Drow. Us talking like we are two totally separate beings now, that gains very strange stars from most of our lab table of fellow Sidhe.

Circe asked the class to come up front into the 'safe' zone and show how we were coming along with our spells. On Rohanna's turn, she had no issue with any spells that had a great background based within Sidhe or Fae magic. But any of her human made spells were a great struggle to even get finished and most did not last too long or were not well crafted.

Rehanna's turn coming up next was far different, she started with the human magic and sped thought it fast and made each spell perfectly! Then she started on her Sidhe based spells...Disaster!

A loud explosion echoed down the hallways of the lower levels of the magic section of Kirby Hall. Thick black smoke billowed down the hallways, as the door to Circe's lab class flew open and several students spilled chocking on the smoke out into the hallway.

Bunches of Hobgoblins spilled running from the room, a miniature Scooby doo dog was running next to a mini Shaggy Hobgoblin. A large batman styled one, swung on a line from the over head lamp and down the hall. One small multi colored one, doff it's top hat to Nikki, as she walked out into the hallway coughing.

One of the very cute new freshman girls from the class, she shrieked out suddenly as she left the room, "Ekkkkk...ewww its humping my leg!" she yelled out in anger and revulsion at the same time. As a hobgoblin did just that to her leg and then a new one ran over to her, then joined in on the fun!

Circe zapped a few of the hobgoblins into nothing, as she stomped her way over to both Drow. Who were now arguing over what had just happened in the lab in a variance of Drow cursing!

"How did you do human magic so well and I can't damn it!" Rohanna asked her twin.

"I am human first I guess, a elf second. The full opposite of you?" I wondered out loud speaking in Drow.

"What was that Miss Leigh! Normally, you do Fae magics fine and have issue with human magics?" Circe questions both of us now, "What has changed, both of you act like there is a whole new brain inside Rehanna now!"

"Circe!" I waved a hand in front of her face, "Clam down, forget what you saw or heard now and go gather the class...then sit and teach it!" I ordered her.

Her eyes glazed over and she repeated to me slowly, "Clam down, forget, class and teach the class." then she walked off and as she touched each student. Their eyes glazed over and they walked in a trance back into the lab class room and then finally closed the door behind themselves.

"How did you do that!" Rohanna asked me in shock of the sight of such power.

"I am a writer, so I can do lots of things!" I boasted to her.

"Well shit! Please tell me where Sara is trapped then!"

"Well she is...She is over in..." I stutter out and suddenly stop!

"SAY IT, SAY IT...PLEASE! Rohanna shouts at me now and starts to cry at me.

"Sara is over in...In...Shit I can't say! Something is stopping me!"

"Then take me there!" she demands and shoves me down the hallway and try as I might. My feet will not move, not even my arms! Nothing moves on my body while that thought is in my mind, when I think to move the other way back to the lab. My feet move freely now.

"Sorry Rohanna, the gods here must limit my powers to do that...somehow?" I shrugged to her and hugged her close to try and comfort her better, "All this will change soon, I have plans for it to change within my mind?" I let her know.

"Sara?" she questioned me.

"Not her exactly, but there are others to help you out in time?" I gave her hope.

~o~O~o~

Lunchtime at Crystal Hall

As we both waited in line the heavenly smell of a slice of bacon grabbed at my nose! My god, having a Drow's senses was so very thrilling, everything was an adventure now! Seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling the flow of magic around me, the sense of nature and my bond with it...everything!

I quickly snatched that bacon strip from the tray and looked it over, "It will make you sick!" Rohanna warned me as I looked that slice of yummy meat over.

"Well there is a trash can right over there, lets try it!" I grinned and experimentally took a nibble. Nothing happened to me and I took a HUGE bite next. AND nothing happened as I swallowed the whole slice now.

"Well, it looks like you get sick and I do not!" I grinned evilly back at her.

Rohanna snatched a strip off the serving tray, then tried a very small bite of her own. Once the bite was chewed and she swallowed it...her stomach rebelled and she spat into the garbage can quickly.

"Hey with gives, you can eat this! But I can not, that is so unfair?"

"Life is not fair and you know it?" I stated back, then leaned over the counter to the cook, "I want a steak, ham and a dozen BBQ beef ribs!" I grinned at him.

~o~O~o~

The whole table watch on in utter amazement, as one Drow sat and ate STEAK! They had never seen either of them eat meat...EVER! And here was the newer twin most thought, eating meat and enjoying it. As she finished up her steak, Rohanna watched on and both of her hands were filled by a very bent out of shape fork and knife held in each hand.

Rohanna had not eaten a bite since sitting down, she just picked up her eating utensils and in her deep, growing anger...she bent them into twisted art pieces.

"I hate you!" she growled out slowly and a slow hiss of rage followed the words.

"Well I am glad too help?" the other grinned back to her.

"Ohhhh you!" Rohanna shouted and tossed the bent knife and fork across the room.

"Sorry, but this tastes soooooo GOOOOODDDD!" the twin still eating said and switched over to the plate of ribs.

As one Drow sat and ate the ribs by the piece, the other watched on in growing rage and suddenly the slight quiet of the table. Was stopped by the loud snapping of a large dinner plate...the unbreakable dinner plate, that was held in Rohanna's hands! She had snapped it from twisting it in her hands, just like the knife and fork had bent.

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After Lunch

"Tell me how you can eat meat!"

"life sucks and it sucks to be you!" the Drow with a 'writer's mind within her head played with her twin and her creation.

"Ohhhhh you...you human!" she shouted back!

"Hey, I want to try porting!" and that one Drow vanished, then popped back up, "Hey that is so neat, that trip was to Tokyo! Ohhh what next!..."

As both Drow walked back to Poe cottage, one vanished nearly every other step and came back grinning "that was neat too!" then vanished again.

On one of the 'ports' Rehanna came back as they crossed over the large Quad and there was Peeper there! His target today was the twins and he wanted good shots to sell to the 'sci fy' magazines or web sites for her up coming part in a blockbuster movie!

Rehanna finished popping in and was standing on the path right in front of the crazy Peeper as he took photo after photo of the Drow already there. She bumped into him and he reached out to see what was blocking his shot...never even bothering to look up from his camera viewfinder.

When his hand reached out, it hit soft warm pliant flesh, nice soft flesh, in a shape that his hands RARLY ever touched! SO he squeezed them, but he crossed the line for sure when he tweaked...nip!

Next thing he knew, all that joy of having touched the 'untouchable' was GONE and now he was flying through the air minus shoes and socks. Traveling over thirty feet through space, with a badly cracked jaw and landed in a pile of pain in the shrubbery!

When Peeper touched what I was sure he should never touch! My arm, my fist, all acted on more instinct then my mind telling them. My arm whipped back, then came up in a long strong fast swig upward to his jaw. The hardness of the blow I gave him, it even shocked me! I wanted to hit him, not break him into little pieces!

I looked down at my feet and found two very new Van's shoes laying there in the place where Peeper's feet left them, farther out two empty white socks lay on the concrete and then there was a large person shaped hole in a HUGE bush, with moaning coming from it.

"Shit...I am sure I hurt him bad!" I admitted to everyone.

~o~O~o~

An hour of screaming later!

Both of us walk out of Shuster Hall with Rohanna yelling at me, "Well now we have punishment detail AGAIN!"

"Well Peeper does too!"

"Yep, Carson gave in to your line of...it could be worse! Squeezing boob is one thing, but tweaking nip is fatal!"

"Well chances are good...I assume that any punishment we get? You will be doing it, as I am counting on not being here to do any!" I warned the Drow staring at me in rage.

"WELL then, see if I do your dishes anymore!" she threatened me.

"So I guess I have to wash my dishes and clothes....ohh well less time to write...your loss?"

"SHU!" she barked back at me in Drow (shit)

~o~O~o~

A short time later, we faded into the Grove as we walked along the schools most forbidden path and the trees themselves seemed to 'lean' into welcoming us here. Rohanna took the lead for the twin Drow, taking the path towards the hot springs and the healing waters that they contained.

"Well here we are!" she grinned and waved a hand to show the inner spring's area to me.

"NEAT"! I squealed in awe of the beauty of the place. Writing about it is one thing, but actually seeing it with a Drow's eyes is a whole life changing experience indeed!

As I looked over the whole beautiful scene before me, Rohanna quickly tossed off her clothes onto a large stump there and a waiting Nymph of such utter beauty, took them all away for cleaning.

After Rohanna stepped into the hot spring waters, she glanced over to me with a wink, "Well get out of those clothes, you are missing the best part of all of this place!"

I did what she asked me to do very quickly and slid into the warm waters joining her. Shortly I was very relaxed and very mellowed form the long day spent in this very strange place inside a story, "Maybe I should stay here awhile and learn to like this place?"

~o~O~o~

Next thing I knew, I was awake back in my own bed!

"Was all that a dream?" I asked myself.

My hand smacked on the night table searching for my phone to see what time it was, when I found the darn thing and then brought it up to my face. IT! told me it was Sunday now and I had lost all of Saturday in bed...or had I?

After I got back up, showered and sipped at my morning hot tea. I plopped into my office chair and fired up the computer. But found it still on and that weird program that Nuuan sent me was in the tray still spinning, plus running on the desk top!

"Well back to writing I guess?" I mumbled out.

"You darn well better get back to work!" came a growl from my hallway and a Drow walked into my office with a plate of fine cooked breakfast!

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Remember readers!

Feed the writer kudos and comments or the Drow does not live? Just like one of those neopets?

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

In this one Another time...to come.

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Another time

As the iris of the door hissed open, Kevin gripped his holo-computer a little tighter in his hand as he noticed that his boss was already waiting in the small meeting room and seemed to have been there for quite sometime by all the clutter already on the meeting table. Then add to this near embarrassment on his part, that Mr. Mifune the VP from the Japan office was sitting next to him and both were going over a holo plan of the new product to be sold on his next business venture for the company off world.

Kevin sighed inwardly, he always gave this job the best effort he could offer it? But his boss always seemed to be one step in front of him and commonly did small acts just like this weekly! It was Kevin's family that took much of his time away from work and not being able to show up early...thirty minutes or more early like his boss here and as it was Kevin was still over ten early for this very meeting! But his best efforts in this case being even this early, would be shown no appreciation by the persons above him.

"Sorry I am late again?" Kevin said sliding into the first available chair across from both men and unfolding his holo-computer out to it's full display size. The only reason Kevin even carried the heavy computer, (one pound) was that both men being much older than him had refused to go full brain or body implant and be able to see his work via the newest tech.

Both men did not even take the time to notice Kevin coming into the room until he spoke up and the older one of the two leaned back in this chair to cross his arms in anger. Where as the other, his boss only stared at him in disgust as he waved away the holo display glowing off the table top.

A scowl covered his boss's face as he watched the younger man quickly take his seat, "I hope you had time to finish up the proposal last night?" he growled to the younger man.

"Yes sir...Mr. Blackthorne. I was able to finish the whole presentation on time and transmitted a copy over to legal for them to check, then add they just beeped me it was fine...sir?" Kevin tried to smile back to the stern man while thinking that his boss had all the time in the world to work long hours like this with all his kids well past being at home and having kids of their own to deal with.

"Good, but lets have Toshirô go over the customs and rituals that the royals have up there one more time. We don't need you angering the wrong person today and have this company barred from off world sales...now do we?" he warned the younger man as Blackthorne spoke and straightened up his impeccable suit, then made sure his double tie was hanging straight.

"Yes sir!" Kevin nearly barked thinking that the whole company was hanging from it's very finger tips on this one deal for new off world sales. Especially in the 24th century, where trying to sell only on the home world was a way for a very fast growing company to die!

Toshirô stood up and while he did. He took off his coat in classic Japanese style to show that work had begun and that the customs of full business attire where left behind. He strode over to the end of the room and waved a hand over the holo display in the floor at the head of the table.

As he cleared his throat, Kevin turned off his implant and tapped his comp back to life for any notes he might make. He thought of the implants he was given taking this job, they had become standard for modern business and beyond. All of the newest brain implants like his showed their information right into the users brain and seemed to be part of your normal vision during the day and sometimes nights!

When the older man began rolling up his sleeves, Kevin noticed for the first time that Toshirô had glowing body tattoos and most of them being artistic in nature with the exception of those few near his wrists that showed a keyboard like layout for work.

As the older man moved the holo display around to show the layout of the city, Kevin thought about how old Toshirô must be to still use data-tats for office work? Was he over eighty or ninety and even being that old, Toshirô was still middle aged for someone living in the sixth upper level of the Los Angeles mega city complex.

Kevin drifted off in thought of the seventh level above him that he was to visit today, that is where the truly rich and powerful lived and worked. He was just below them on level six where you could live to an easy one hundred and fifty! But them...being well over three hundred and still called a teen was the normal these days!

To those who lived among the vast levels below, as you went farther down into the mega city's more older levels. Your life expectantly dropped to terms only seen back in the 22nd century of ninety for most at the best and for a few citizens over one hundred years old at the lowest most harshest level of one. Then steadily rose up once you climbed from one level to the next until you reached the top most...'seventh heaven' most citizens called it.

Almost all of that extra lifetime came from improved genetics, but some of it did indeed come by way of environment and if you could pull yourself up a level? You did live longer because of the better conditions and care the city had to offer for you.

"Well Kevin, this trip is important to all of us here at the firm and we need this sale to go off without a hitch or..." Toshirô warned his underling as he pulled up a map showing the building Kevin was destined to be at by five PM exactly or all of this meeting was off...the persons that ran the place always wanted you on time...or no deals where made!

"But remember this most of all, the Sidhe are not unlike my nations people. They demand respect at all times, you must show it to all and at the least nod down or give a slight bow to those in charge...remember their whole society is based on a monarchy and like most royalty based cultures. They have rituals you must obey and show reverence to at all times my boy!" Toshirô said while waving up a display of the different ways a Sidhe royal could be dressed these days.

The holo now showed after the older man's hand waved, examples of the latest courtly fashions and the markings that all had in common no matter the era. The easiest to notice was swords and the scabbards the blades were sheathed in. Even the upper most members of Sidhe society always had a blade at hand or had at least one guard very near them carrying an extra blade for fighting use by their charge...yes even royals fought their own fights!

"Next thing boy, remember that more guards one has...the higher up the food chain they are!" Toshirô warned and Kevin nodded back, "Yes sir..."

"Now here is a list of common, to very uncommon titles you might hear while up there and all of them are shown in the many languages they use. Sidhe common language being the most used, all the way down to a few almost never used. If you hear or see these..." the man emphasized while he stopped the glowing display on the rarest most ones, "watch yourself Kevin when hearing these...the Sidhe you are talking to at the time is a very important person! The more titles they have, the higher they are within the Sidhe royalty!" the older Japanese man said, as he rolled through the vast list and knew the younger man had that very same list literally inside his head and with audio examples of each one of the thousands shown in rolling holo words Toshirô was waving through.

"Yes sir, but is there anything else not in the regular notes?" Kevin had to ask.

"Yes...there is one. If you see a guards hand or that of a Sidhe move to touch a blade they almost always wear...you might be very close to making a mistake and becoming very dead."

Kevin gulped at that comment, he never thought that the blades the Sidhe always carried being used in that manner! He had concluded that they where just ceremonial in nature? "Mr. Mifune, they would not?"

"They would boy and I have seen it happen once in my short lifespan when they visited my father's company in Japan. One of our armed guards pulled a gun out of his holster as he came off duty to lock it up and was seen as a threat to the Queen visiting us at the time. She was in the hallway walking past as he did that last act, a Sidhe escort cut off his arm before anyone could even react and he bled to death." Mifune said thinking to that sad day and he lowered his head in shame for the act...the act of the human guard for not knowing the customs of guests in the building!

"Sorry..." Kevin added seeing the mans sadness over the subject.

"No need to apologize to me, but I will add one thing not in the notes..." he started.

"Sir?!" Kevin eagerly asked.

"A Sidhe NOT wearing a blade is the most dangerous of them all, especially one that does not have or sees no need for personal guards. So if they are in the room with you alone, they see you as a trusted person or they feel you are no genuine threat...or in their mind a easy kill? But they are always polite and expect the truth at all times...BOY!"

"I understand sir" Kevin added as he mentally went over the list of titles again.

~o~O~o~

4:55 PM Mega-city Los Angeles
7th level or heaven to some

Kevin stepped off the vator tube that had carried him up the nearly five thousand feet from his level of the city up to this one and quickly glanced around the building for the guard station/greeting center of the vast public area. He spotted it only a few yards off from the vator's doors and quickly strode over to it. His new shoes clicked against the very real marble of the floor and then went back to silence as his feet hit the carpet that he surly knew was real cotton!

He knew all of the furnishing in this building was all real, naturally grown and hand made. Because the Sidhe had only the best! Besides their desire to show off...they needed natural furnishings because of their allergic reaction to artificial, man made objects to their skin and he knew that some Sidhe did indeed go barefoot through their daily life via the cultural briefing Mifune gave him a few hours ago.

"I am here for a meeting with a gatekeeper at five?" he told the elf female who was dressed in the finest silk he had ever seen and she was sitting at the center of a large round desk that looked very much like the carved out center of a HUGE tree dozens of feet across. She blinked at him to show that she had indeed noticed him and handed her his paper pass for the event. Yep...real paper! The Elves insisted on all data being on paper at times like this, they did not trust human tech at all and you can't BeSpell a computer he was told!

She lifted his pass off the table and seem to be genuinely kind of revolted by doing so. But she still smiled during the act and checked its authenticity with a wave of her hand that left a sparkle of magic in its wake.

"Well this seems in order...sir?" she smiled back and waved to a armed elf covered in leather armor standing near the desk. That one guard was one among a dozen standing at their posts within the huge lobby.

"Thank you" he said back, taking the pass from her hand and noting the male elf making his way over from the obvious Sidhe 'only' side of the greeting area and over to the common or 'human' side of the room.

"Come with me sir" the male elf breathed with not even a hint of emotion on his words and that is when Kevin noticed that the elf's armor had the royal crest on the left breast. That small ornate golden sigil reminded Kevin that this huge building was not only the Sidhe-human business center of the west coast and most of American continent. But also their embassy to us humans for this whole side of the world.

The stand off attitude of both elves Kevin knew was caused by the whole race not fully trusting humans for the most part and that mistrust was well earned he had read in more than a few history text books durning his school days. First was the ancient misdeed done during the 'Sundering' that almost shattered the world and time itself. Then add the short civil war that happened nearly two hundred years ago...to most Sidhe...that was last week in their eyes!

That civil war was started by a past, long dead president to or was the United States? Kevin thought to himself and that man wanted control of the elves, plus their vast magical powers! But the nation quickly lost that short fight, you can't stop elves armed with magic, not ones that can appear anywhere they want to...not with human technology anyway!

The escort waved Kevin forward as he lead the way. As they walked along the long beautify wood covered hallways, the elf stayed completely silent. Kevin noted the large statues that lined the hallways and the even larger ones positioned at every hallway junction, he was once told in old stories his mom, that they could come to life and fight for the Sidhe, that was only one example of magic that he personally knew of?

The guard finally stopped at a large set of doors guarded by six more armored elves on each side and plus the two that opened the large doors at their approach. That hit Kevin as strange, none of them said a word to each other? But still knew what was needed or coming!

Just behind the doors was a marble room with at least a dozen sigil lined circles covering the floor and each one was glowing from the deeply etched metal symbols of magic.

"May I ask what this is for, I thought I was seeing a GateKeeper in a office right here?" he had to ask now and more than a little terrified by this place.

"Sir... our GateKeepers do not wait for audiences with humans here at the embassy, as they are far too important for that. So you are going to meet with the GateKeeper in the main city...our capitol." the elf said flatly to the human standing next to him.

"The capitol? But no human or should I say humans rarely go there!" Kevin nearly squeaked back to his escort.

"Well that is where you are going, or there will be no meeting today...or ever human?" he told Kevin rather coldly.

"Okay? I'll go, I am sure this is an honor for me to go there?" Kevin questioned the guard.

"It is, please follow me?" he asked and walked over to the center most circle, then pointed down at the smooth floor just inside the center most circle and the ONLY one of the dozens here with what seemed to be the most sigils, then lined with inset gems on top of that, "Stand at the center please sir."

"Okay" Kevin said as he went about doing exactly as told, "What now?" he asked from within the golden ring on the floor.

"Don't move and please don't open your bag during transit...it would be seen badly by us and please make yourself ready to greet the Obok Jabbress Ilharess who called you to see her!" the escort smiled as the glow of the sigils grew brighter till they were blinding Kevin.

"WHO!" Kevin shouted in surprise thinking about the titles that he was to be vary of and this person or man or lady had THREE of them! He had instantly forgot that the escort had said 'lady' in describing the person from his sudden fright!

Kevin only had enough time to hear his shout and blink once towards the escort before the magic glow within the circle overpowered his eyesight, then his senses all scrambled.

The Elf escort chuckled as the human that he lead here vanished and then shook his head in thought. "Hope this meeting goes well for you human...the Jabbress does not like humans that much."

The glow dimmed as Kevin's sight came back to him and his balance was totally shot as his returning vision now showed a whole new room was all around him. He wavered for a second as a female elf took hold of his shoulder to steady him. She only mumbled one word as his senses came back..."Weaklien," (weakling)

Kevin had to be guided by the female elf over to a short wooden bench on the room's edge, she took that time while he was still gathering his sense to wave over another girl who brought several cool glasses of water for him to drink that seemed to help.

"Thanks that water helped me a lot and what was that...if I can ask?" Kevin asked just after slowly taking one more long drink then placing the glass back on the tray the new girl held and she quickly walked away with her task now done.

"If you are asking about our water? It is from the healing springs near the royal court. And if you are asking about what the room did? That was a magic based teleport from Los Angeles to our Sidhe capitol Alqualondë, then add to that...this is the Sovereignty's Ministry of extra courtly affairs, or our outside business park to some and where any dealings with the human world are done...sir?" she smiled to the man who was just now standing up.

"So I drank magic healing water and this is the Elvin capitol?" he almost squeaked again.

"No...never Elvin...always Sidhe. You will go much farther in dealing with the crown using the right term for my or our race," she nearly hissed back at him, but kept her composure.

"Yes...very sorry ma'am I just forgot in all the excitement is all. Please forgive my mistake?" Kevin asked and quickly scanned the room to see where he was.

This new room was much larger that the one he just left by about five times, then add there seemed to be magical gates actually built into the walls of this very room and as Kevin stood dumbfounded at never seeing a gate actually work. A Sidhe walked right up to a large silver circle on one of the walls, one that had gold sigils all over it's surface, then a large gem at each of the four points of the compass glowed as he walked towards it and a shimmering wall of water opened over the normal stone wall. Then the elf strode right in...and was gone. The gems slowly lost their inner glow and the simmering water ceased in a swirl of light.

Kevin quickly counted the gates and found that this room had twenty four of them! It was amazing for a city to even have one connected to the vast mostly unknown to humans network of them, let alone over twenty.

"Nice place!" he finally uttered out to her, hoping that she was ready to take him off to the next part of today's meeting.

"It is a nice place and I have called it home since birth, but for now please follow me over to the security desk where we will check you in, then have an escort assigned for you and this meeting." she said and pointed towards the rooms only door. That is when Kevin noted the young girl's flowing dress and it's silken sleeves.

Walking through the large ornate gold double doors, Kevin became aware of that the guards to this room were dressed in full metal armor and one of the door's set of four guards kept an eye on him...the guards eyes never left the new human.

Once past the huge gold doors of the teleport room, Kevin found it was connected to one large and very long wood panel lined hallway that had various stone statues lining its path that finished up its path at a large desk that held ten elves very busy with their individual tasks. The desk itself was very much like the one in LA, but this one was done in a fully finished and polished wood, where as the one back in LA was still covered for the most part in tree bark. This was the first time that Kevin even noticed that these elves did indeed use computers built right into this desk's smooth top.

The escort asked for his meeting letter and Kevin handed it over from inside his jacket, she quickly handed it to the girl on the other side of the desk. This new Elvin girl gave him the once-over, then checked his pass against a paper log on her desktop...paper being used once again stuck Kevin as unusual, but when dealing with the Sidhe or Fae races unusual was the norm from a human's point of view!

The greeting desk attendant gave him a cute but very curt smile before she spoke, "You are expected and the Obok Jabbress Ilharess of human affairs and I will call an escort from here on for you..." then she turned back to the first girl escort he had after his teleport, "Mylaerla I have it from here and thanks!"

"I will be going now, have a good day Kevin..." Mylaerla smiled over to Kevin.

"Nice name, it sings and is you to a 'T' Mylaerla. Thank you for your time." he nodded back and she just grinned back to him and gave a short giggle, then she leaned over the smooth wood top of the desk and whispered back down to the to the desk girl as "Amin rath sina er, ten' y' Edan ro naa cute! Quel re Talanashta!" Kevin over heard it all, after both giggled a little to one another. Mylaerla smiled to him once more and left going towards her place in the teleport chamber.

"What did Mylaerla say just now and what made her laugh so cutely?" Kevin eagerly asked the Elven girl behind the reception desk.

Since Sidhe rarely lie or exaggerate, Talanashta told him flatly and started to laugh, "She said... I would bed this one, for a human he is cute! Good day...and Talanashta is my name. Plus she is right...you are cute!"

Kevin went instantly red from embarrassment and tugged at his collar, "AHhhh I like her too?" is all he could utter out.

"I'll tell her and maybe she will give you a call after her work day is over?" then Talanashta grinned evilly at him, "Or maybe I will!"

"Ahhh...ahhh Talanashta I would like that very much?" he stuttered out.

"Well I will copy your number down and think about it, then give Mylaerla a copy too! Maybe you can date us both?" Talanashta said and her evil grin grew as she spoke!

Kevin thought about what he had once read about the Sidhe, the whole race thought that having sex with humans was fun and a way to relax without messy long term connections being made. That memory made him a more than little nervous and eager too!

"I can think of a few spots to take both of you...or one?" he corrected himself.

"So can I!" she added back.

Kevin's wait was short for his new escort and very unexpected. The escort that finally showed up was made up of eight male Sidhe, being lead by a ninth who was female and dressed in very ornate leather armor, that had a beautiful sword scabbard hanging from her belt. Then add the strange part...her whole head and face was covered by a scary ornate mask.

"I was tasked to escort you to a meeting with the Jabbress of inter human affairs, please follow me and stay close, do not wander or stop..." the mysterious elfin girl instructed and warned Kevin, who nodded back in agreement.

The leader quickly turned to walk away and Kevin had to nearly run to keep up with her longer strides, the rest of the eight man group took up three to each of his sides and two trailing to his rear. He was totally surrounded and the thoughts to even wander off or stop ended there, no matter how interesting the sights might be?

She lead the whole party down the large hallway leading from the greeting centers desk, then towards a staircase so amazing it took Kevin's breath away. The staircase was an immense tree that had spiraling branches that made up the steps to go up, each one several yards across to the handrail growing out of the very stone wall made out of vines that were as firm in his hands as cut stone.

It seemed to him, that each of the stairs treads was a solid slab of ornate gold and each one must have been very thick because they did not flex under his feet or sound like thin metal to his shoes stomping upward on each one?

As the party climbed up into the building via the tree of stairs, the walls changed from the marble like stone of the lower level to a more natural seeming stone that one might find along a river bank...totally smooth with only a ripple now and then to break the glass like surface.

Once up few more floors and finally at the top. The stairs ended at a hallway lined with stained glass much like a church would have and instead of the normal religious depictions? This glass showed what might be Sidhe history lessons...that is what Kevin concluded by the scenes of royal court life in and around the Sidhe capitol he was now visiting.

It took only a few dozen yards of walking for Kevin to notice that this was no hallway, but a very large bridge to another building! One bridge that surly kept visiting humans off the streets of the capitol and business dealing with them hidden from the day to day sight of the Fae citizens.

The next building they came to from the bridge was a tall spiraling one, that had no center and one could look over the ornate stone railing all the way down ten floors that Kevin took time to count. As the party came close enough to the rail for him to see all the way down to the building lobby full of Elves going about their separate business.

A few spirals up the building's ramped halls, the leader stopped at a large dark wood office door that had a person's name carved into it in Elvin and one other language that Kevin had no idea was.

She pushed open the double doors for him and leaned in to check if anyone was there... to find that there was no one currently in the very large office, "This is the office for your meeting, it seems the Jabbress is still out at her last meeting...I have to apologize for her delay, but please enter and make yourself comfortable for now."

"Thanks...but who am I meeting with again?" Kevin had to ask very sure that he was never even given a name?

"She will introduce herself...that is her way and her mannerisms." is all the leader explained as she closed the doors to the room and left Kevin very much alone.

"Humm?" Kevin thought, "She left me alone with this person...I wonder why and will they come back to stand by as guards when this lady comes in for our meeting?"

Kevin did know a few Sidhe common mannerisms and one of them was a guest taking keen interest in one's office decorations. Those decorations showed to others what had happened along the owners long life and what they felt was important to them. The closer an object was to the desk or desk's vision line...the more important it personally was to the owner.

As he studied the room, Kevin noted that this room was made or decorated for the use of two, because the room had two equal size ornate desks with a center conversation area of chairs and two sofas and chairs surrounding a large conversation table.

The one item that instantly grabbed Kevin's attention was beautiful twin swords housed within a glass case just under the room's only window. Only one window for a room this large was strange, but the window was fifteen feet of finely made stained glass showing a darkly dressed female with long white hair pulling a sword to defend her queen sitting next to her in royal court.

The swords housed within the glass case were unsheathed and resting just below a small set of sliver metal crowns, that Kevin was sure was Mithril or some other magical metal the Sidhe were very good at crafting. Laying on both sides of the crowns, were ornate sets of pointed ear covers made for Elvin females or in some occasions males wore them too.

Across the long bottom of the case, was row after row of small awards and military style ribbons to wear on uniforms. The last row of them seemed to be made up exclusively of human given awards from several nations.

Kevin drifted all around the office as he waited, he might be impatient at times like this. But discovering more about his meeting contact was at hand and her life was very long and very interesting to him to say the least!

Several minutes of time passed and Kevin found he was at the bookcase nearest the fine wood desk that appeared to be from England and very ancient. The shelf he was studying held three pictures, the largest one was in a silver frame and showed all humans dressed in desert camo while in a middle eastern nation at the turn of the 20th century he was sure. The other two showed dark skinned Sidhe amongst a group of men with the distinct look of special forces and the last was the same two Sidhe, now a little older appearing with a huge company of men posing in a makeshift fort of some sort.

As Kevin studied the pictures closer to find out whom he was meeting with today, that is when a small hidden door flew open to the room and a very dark skinned elf entered the room in a flurry "Very Sorry Mr. Varney. I was kept over my scheduled time by the last emissary for Japan, because the ambassador wanted a better deal for transporting his nations products off world. But please be seated or study my belongings farther...while I finish up this stack of paperwork." she said quickly taking a seat behind one of the huge desks.

That is when Kevin smiled back and realized this was a Drow...a very rare sight even with the upswing of Sidhe population over the last two hundred years. "I am fine ma'am..."He said not knowing this lady's name just yet, "I am very interested in these photos right here...I was told by my great grand-father, that one of my ancestors fought in the first desert wars of the 20th century and is this you in photo?" he asked pointing at the first one.

The hidden door swung open once again, but this time a twin to the Drow already in the room strode quickly pushing a cart with a tray on top holding a full tea service for what seemed to be at least four? "That is both of us and that middle picture is indeed your ancestor on the groups far right side...the one wearing the Florida Marlins baseball cap." as she said while busy setting the tray down, then she smiled brightly to him while showing those very same very pointy teeth that Drow were known for.

"How...how can you be sure this was or is him?" he stuttered out very surprised at the Drow's statement.

With both ladies being Drow, Kevin inwardly knew why he was left alone with them! Drow have always been know as the Sidhe's best fighters and Kevin was an untrained human, that meant 'easy prey' like Toshirô had said in the meet this morning!

The one twin sitting at the desk answered as she closed the file in front of her, "He gave us both that copy. Beside we both made a promise to watch over his descendants, his kin over the years and this is your chance...we only help one person per generation with what is now five hundred and sixty two direct descendants of his out and about now and over a thousand related humans above that number."

"Yes, with each passing decade the number grows and we have to choose somehow don't we sister?" the one said pouring out cups of tea at the conversation table in the center of the room surrounded by chairs and two sofas.

"So this is him," Kevin pointed at the person the Drow had just indicated, "I sadly don't even know his name?" Kevin admitted to his growing shame.

"Hummmm..." the one twin still at her desk growled and almost hissed out from her disappointment.

"Well that is to be expected with most humans in general not caring much beyond those they personally know? But his name was William Varney...just like your last name or Bill to his close friends. and in that photo he was a Corpsman for the US marines."

"A what?" Kevin asked showing his ignorance on military history as he took a seat on one of the sofas near the new one of the twins that had showed up.

"A corpsman...that is a medic that the navy assigns to the marines under it's command. Then he became a nurse after that, then finally a full doctor with a specialty in mutants and of course Sidhe because of us two!" the one pouring tea giggled out obviously remembering something personal.

"Nice... I did not know all of that family history?" he admitted leaning over to the twin now offering him a cup of golden tea, then she took one over to her sister's desk and set it down as that one was finishing up her stacks of paperwork.

"Can I ask your names, we have not been introduced yet?" he asked of both.

"Ohh sorry we were just so preoccupied with the last meeting and then seeing you...because we tend to stay way from the Varney family unless there is a great need not too?"

"But I am Rohanna Leigh." said the one at the desk still working, only glancing up to say her introduction and right back down to her work.

And I am Rehanna...the younger one by a few months?" she laughed out, as she found the strange look now covering Kevin's face too funny to keep the laugh in check.

"Younger by months, for twins?" he had to ask now fully puzzled by the two and the statement.

Rohanna sitting at the desk closed the last file in the stack, then slid it into a holder and twisted the cap back on her fountain pen, "Yes a few months, but that is a long story for another time. For now let's talk about your company's need of gate time for fulfilling trade contracts off world and with the worlds that come under our Sidhe or other Fae protections...shall we?"

"Yes we would like to offer our companies products to those off world...because we have outgrown the earth's need for them and then add we think that those people might need them?" he hoped that his words of explanation sounded good to the twins.

"That might work out, as your conglomerate offers many products and service to even list...from clothes to trash reclaimers to food and a few home style goods too? But your biggest hurdle will be the large issue with your payment. Because most off world people don't use cash...they trade or use something like gold that might or might not have any value here on earth?" Rohanna said slowly strolling over to the table and taking time out to sip at her tea from time to time.

"I am sure that we can work that out on a case by case basis?" he assured the twins.

"I am sure you can or will, but one thing you will not do is start manufacturing on any world that we of the Sidhe royals connect you with. We will not allow humans to spoil them or make near worker slaves of the population." Rehanna warned Kevin and she saw the twin sister nod along with the terms.

"Humm no off world manufacturing limits us greatly, but I am sure we can accommodate that?" he offered back.

"Not 'can'...it's you will!" Rehanna warned again with a sound of finality in her voice, this was not an issue to be dealt away it sounded to Kevin at this time and would not change he was very sure of.

"Okay we can do that, but I will need a list of the terms to be met with before we can agree on our part?" Kevin said but inwardly knew that any terms the Sidhe had, needed to met or the company would die financially within a decade or less.

Rehanna glanced at the door and nearly instantly that girl who lead his escort party in opened the door and strode in carrying a file, that she dropped on the table then opened to Kevin.

"Thank you Eilat, but please loose the head cover...we have a guest today that is nearly family in a way." Rohanna insisted to the girl.

"Yes elder matron," she said pulling off the mask from her face and head. Her long white hair fell to her shoulders and beyond, to the small of her back nearly to her knees. Kevin noted her face right then, this girl was a Drow too and looked like a family relation to the two twins as well.

"Good girl Eilat, now be off on your tasks. We will be meeting for the next few hours or so?" Rehanna told the younger Drow.

"Yes elder matron," she said with a slight bow and quickly let the room.

After Eilat was gone and the doors closed behind her. Rohanna sighed out, "Ahhh youth, I was like that once always having to show I was the warrior all the time. But she will grow past that time, just like her sisters did."

"Is she... Eilat related to you?" Kevin had to pry.

"Yes, granddaughter of our first born daughters and quite the firecracker too! She is vying for a spot on the Queens personal guard and knows that being related to us brings a hurdle to that effort." Rehanna grinned with pride.

"How so?" he asked and then placed his empty cup back on the table, that Rehanna quickly took to refilling with that heavenly tasting golden tea.

"We are both named...The protector of the Queens honor and her throne. And with that we serve the current elected Queen or the first one as needed and have trained most of the military guard of the royal capitol." Rehanna stated.

When he heard that, Kevin made a connection to the white medallion hanging on the wall under glass. He had just passed it by as nothing and now it stuck him as what it really was! "So that panel of plaster that bears the seal of the president of the past United States, you're the Drows that pulled that down from the White house oval office?" he stated the one fact he did know about Sidhe history.

Rehanna giggled back instantly, "That it is and we are them. Plus we cut out the seal on the carpet and used it as a bath mat for a decade, but now it hangs back in our home. Cleaned up a bit...."

"So you killed the president too?" he had to ask.

"No, we did not!" Rehanna hissed.

"That fact has become very confused over the last dozen passing decades, we did not hurt him. He was long gone by the time we took over the house and the senate, plus congress did a one day impeachment of him and hung him on the capitol steps. That man over stepped his bounds in trying to make an army of human mutant kind, as well as us Sidhe...that was his mistake thinking we Fae would yield to a 'draft' from a human run government." Rohanna added to the retort.

"Sorry, I had just forgotten the details." Kevin admitted to both.

"Humans doomed to repeat past mistakes via short memories." Rehanna hissed nearly silently.

Kevin sipped at his fresh tea and had to ask about it, "What brand is this tea, I love it!"

"It's a blend from our grove and the water is from the healing springs there too. That is why you love it, this tea is healing you from the inside out and reinvigorating you." Rehanna told him.

"If you want some to take home with you? We can do that and have some of the water put in a silver jar for you to retain its magic a little longer?" Rohanna offered with a smile.

"That would be great and this tea heals you?"

"Yes, if you drank it daily and had cancer or some other disease? You would find a few months later, you would not have that disease anymore or very likely never again." Rehanna boasted for Sidhe form of using magic for healing.

"Humm interesting, but can you please tell me more about Bill...my ancestor?" he begged.

"Bill was a great friend, he and his wife Jineen were always there for us during and after our change to what you see here today." Rohanna started to explain.

"You were not born Drow?" he asked.

"Mutated via magic is the closest explanation and that was from a normal human." Rehanna said next.

"But none the less, he was there for us and we now watch over his heirs from time to time like we said." Rohanna smiled.

"And you might not know this small fact...your first name was most likely handed down from Bill's first born boy and he was named after one of my husbands...the first true Drow one." Rehanna added in.

"My grandmother said something about that, but never said the whole history behind that name. But you have more than one husband...both of you?" he asked when both nodded in turn.

"Yes, a few have been human during our early lives and then we have a few Sidhe or Drow because if you live as long as we do...seeing the same person all that time gets very boring!" Rohanna laughed back to Kevin and Rehanna giggled a bit at the thoughts running through her head at the moment.

Kevin smiled back, then picked up the files that were left for him and started to really read over the long lists of terms on the potential contracts, then found one that he would like to see changed a little for his company's sake, "This one term that the Sidhe royals get a two percent of all my company's sales as a 'royalty'...might be too much? I would easily agree to a better one percent."

"Well Kevin with the percentage plan, your company gets unlimited gate use. Or we Sidhe can take a lower percentage and you pay per gate use? One way or the other, we will collect something for the Sidhe communities time for providing you with gate access." Rehanna informed.

"I see now. Can we sub-rent to other companies under that full percentage plan?" he had to ask seeing that even gaining access might be like old De Beers giving one jeweler a 'Sight Holder' to sell their diamonds a hundred years back! No matter what, you gained the product or service at cost and made money off others who did not have that very same access...Kevin knew that off world gate access was severely limited to say the least!

"The fee would double, but you could sell off excess gate time from your allotment?"

From there on the three spent several hours going over each detail of the contract and negotiating on some. But most of the terms were set in stone by the Sidhe royals. They ran one of the few off world gate accesses that was not government run and knew it!

With all the details now set and the paperwork started to grant his company gate access. Kevin stood up to shake both twins hands, "This deal has been great and I loved the history you told me about my own family too!"

Rehanna stood up to grasp his hand and added to her small list of demands, "What you should do from here, is give all of your current family a shot at entering your company on this new ground floor before it takes off. Doing that for us twins will pass even more favors onto our family in repayment for what Bill did for us over the years long past."

"I can do that for you both." Kevin nodded to the twins and shook Rohanna's hand as she guided him back to her office door.

"And give some thanks at your ancestors gave in Arlington...Washington D.C." Rohanna added next and handed him a card with the plot number and how to find it. Kevin nodded back to them both, "I will this weekend with my family...and thanks."

"We will see you again, when you pass through here once and awhile during your business trips off world. Because some of the gates are only accessed right here in the capital city and Eilat will give you some of our tea to take home, plus a silver lined water container." she added and opened the door for him.

Just outside of the door the nine elves were already waiting for him to come out of the office, Eilat took a wooden box from one of her men and handed the large package to Kevin, "This is your tea set and herbs to make several blends. That water container will work it's magic only on fresh rain water that has not touched the ground or human made objects. Just leave it out during a good storm and it should refill nicely, then the container will infuse the water with magic for your brews and contact us via 'E' for more herbs sir..." ('E' is current slang for e-mail or e-video)

"Thanks, this was an unexpected...a gift?" he said while examining the finely made box closer.

"My Matron asked me to grant you this set and we should go now." Eilat barely grinned and started walking the group back towards the teleport room.

Back in the huge office, Rehanna cleaned up the tea service while Rohanna made some final notes on the contract that they had agreed to for the Sidhe royals, "He was nice, far better than the one we bailed out thirty years ago from his gambling debts." she said closing the files and dropping the stack into a small box.

"He was and he will go far...I saw some of Bill in him and Kevin the first son the couple had." Rehanna commented as she placed the tea service back on its cart.

"Yes, but this time I felt no magic on this one from Jineen's linage or anything Fae what so ever? I found that a little strange, most of the Varney family so far has some hint of that Fae family lineage form Jineen, but this one human was a full null." Rohanna said while pondering her past 'feelings' while Kevin was still in the room with them.

"Well the first Kevin did go far and became a good ambassador over time. Maybe this one will do as good off world with other Fae races?" Rehanna hoped out loud.

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Remember readers!

Feed the writer kudos and comments or the Drow does not live? Just like one of those neopets?

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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NOW POSTED, we have a small part done by a guest author!

A few years from graduation.....

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

Years pass and the group has fun...chasing prey!

An idea to start the new year with......a little late...whoops!

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Just inside the large SEAL team house, Edward was playing 'catch-up' on tonight's assignment that was a 'rush' job involving a rescue of a team of downed pilots, plus one VERY important passenger and that passengers name was left off the team's info so far...that worried Edward right now. What was his team getting into and working for who, to save whom!

Most of the FOB's two SEAL teams shuffled, walked or lastly ran into the team house meeting room and took a treasured spot sitting in one of the many recliners or laid out on a couch waiting for Edward or 'the chief' of the main team to call the meeting.

Ed flipped on all the monitors covering the room's front wall, then laid out today's briefing packets for the team to give out, "Joey, grab that and pass them around...Remember guys...that does not leave the room unless you like 'IS' spies trying to kill us!" the older man warned.

An older man strolled into the room from a door marked 'communications-control', then up to the front. his name tag read "Churnside' and the rank was shown as an 'eagle' or in the navy...a full captain.

"We ready Ed?" the man asked setting a hot coffee mug down on the desk and clicking several of the computers keys to get the machine up and running.

"Yes cap, they are here and we might be waiting for a company spook I read in the brief?" Edward told and asked...he himself not being sure of tonight's actions.

"Yep one spook and two operatives that are hitching a ride with us. They will jump out at a place they choose and we keep going to our designated landing site." the cap offered while pulling up the data he needed on the room's large displays.

"I think I was with them on the ride in and Dan, they are a bit strange." Edward shrugged to the older officer.

"How so?" he asked pulling out a file on the 'tag-a-longs and starting to read it over.

"Well they are twins, girls and I think elves in disguise Dan."

"Humm every time I deal with Fae creatures, I have regretted it in someway. Mutants I get, but the Fae do not even 'think' like us humans do and some of them think we humans should be pets at best!"

"I never got that vibe off that one Brit elf, Dan..."

"Well I have worked with a few of them Ed and that Brit, she is a younger one. The older ones don't like humans at all...for what I have seen." Dan said slowly as he finally found the papers he wanted and read that nearly no info was given in them on the two and the CIA was running this part of the OP, so he had to ask the spook when they all finally came in.

Dan tapped a dimmer knob to darken the rooms lights as he started the briefing, "Well team, this is going to be a hot one. We are tasked with entering the valley tonight, landing at the far end of it and humping into a ambush spot covering a village that should have several prisoners held in it. Two being our pilots and one unlisted, unnamed civiy of some to extreme importance."

When Dan changed the display to a map overlay, that is when the room's door swung open and one man held the door open for what seemed to be two teen girls. Once in the room the man introduced himself, "Good day SEALs, I am Derek Flint and I am very sure that a you all know I work for the company. These two ladies are assigned with me for another task and we, or they are hitching a ride with all of you to their target that happens to be on the way to yours. But please go on Dan...Captain Dan." he smiled and pointed out the girls who had taken places sitting at each end of a couch in the last row of the room and left Derek all to his own standing next to them.

"Greetings ladies and I am sure you are capable of what the company has in store for you? As I'd hate to have to rescue you too!" Captain Dan laughed and asked his question at the same time.

"We got this..."
Rohanna smiled.

"What?...I might chip a nail tonight...oohh poo!"
Rehanna pouted, then smiled evilly.

Captain Dan smiled back as he went over the mission notes and pointed out the area where the twins might be dropped off at. That is when Mr. Flint interrupted him, "We or they will choose when to drop in or where to be dropped off at and will tell the air crew once we are on the way...secrets you know."

"Humm well that was the only spot on the way to our drop and unless you want one past that point there is no spot for a hovership this big to land and I don't recommend 'roping in' or a para-drop?....FAR too risky for you and or the bird!" Dan questioned the three.

"We got it...that fact I am sure of and that is all you need to know for now anyway."
Rohanna grinned knowingly to the SEAL captain.

"Like my sis says...we got this and that's all you need to know,"
Rehanna smiled once more.

"Okay, but onward." Captain Dan points out a red arrows part across the screen with a laser pointer, "This path over-fly's part of the village, but there is no real good landing spot to drop our team at and like I already said roping down is a bad idea in that close to the target village. Now the village itself, we do know it has at least one hundred seasoned fighters and nearly five times that in nearby areas that can be in a pitched battle within an hour. So lets not stick around for a long fight or even get seen team!"

"So a fast in and faster out cap?" one man asked after taking a sip of his coke.

"Yep, but lets keep the personal in the village to a min or max of one small team and the rest of us in back-up positions to cover an escape..." he suggested and knew most of his team was already thinking that way!

"So? Are we sure that the target or targets are in that one larger house Dan?" Edward asked for the room.

"That is the word so far and might change at any moment. So stand-by for updates right up until we are in contact with the enemy or have our targets in hand and are on our way back to home..." Dan answered, "but updates are coming in by the minute and you all can see the feed on your portable frames."

Edward nodded as he and a few others in the room pulled a large pen shaped device from pockets or behind ears and gave them a 'flick' to open them from the 'pen' like shape to a squared frame or info pad that was filled by a glowing holo-display showing mission updates.

"Got it cap, they all match what's on the board and nothing new so far..." Dan trailed off studying the small display and even stretching it out bigger for a better look at what it showed him. 'eyes getting old and retirement is close..." he thought silently.

Rohanna was studying her own display as Dan spoke and made a hand motion tossing her display at the one on the room's wall. she spoke up as the display changed to what she had just sent it, "Actually here is the latest...Most of the village's armed fighters are moving out to the west, to engage a company of Airborne at their FOB as planed."

"As planed? None of that is in my notes!" Dan barked.

"Well us ladies have to keep a few secrets from you men
or how can we keep our reps as miracle workers?"
Rehanna laughed.

"So what is making them move out and attack the FOB, as the air force will bomb the crap out of anything in the open?" Edward asked.

"One of our team hackers planted the idea on their net and they went for it like morons." Rohanna shrugged to the room who was suddenly staring her way. "they think the air force is off being busy elsewhere and will not be a threat to their attack at all...all fake news to them! Just like GNN!" she laughed.
(Goodkind news network...think CNN)

"Well then," captain Dan started, "This mission seems to be a go and I will update all of you on any changes. Wheels up in about four hours or two after sundown...dismissed!" he barked and the room quickly broke up into small groups, each one reviewing its own part into tonight's action.

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Hours later as the SEAL teams went about getting ready for their mission tonight. The twins strolled through the FOB watching men fill belts of ammo and top off huge magazines for their personal rifles. Several did test firing to be sure that the 'aim' of the weapon in question had not drifted while not in use.

Rohanna noticed one of the marines manning the parapet or walking ledge of the wall facing the local village checking his watch, "Five minutes till sunset Sam!" he laughed over to his buddy taking cover behind a thick plate of steel covering his machinegun position.

"Three years, every night and unless we are out in that hajji town...he shoots!" the other laughed back.

"No one has ever found him or will." one marine said as he took a place at a night-vision unit that overlooked that area off the FOB.

"Ya sure it's a HE and not a she?" Rohanna laughed at the group.

"What...a chick shoot here...the head hajji's will not allow that mess!" one barked down to her.

"Yep hard to shoot a sniper rifle in a burka!" the one behind the gun laughed, but kept watching over his area over the tall wall.

Rehanna licked at an incredibly huge ice cream cone she had then interjected between quick licks, "Hey a chick can out shoot guys, we do it all the time!"

Rohanna nodded as she climbed the ladder, then Rehanna gulped down her cone in several huge bites then quickly followed her sister up. But quickly stopped at the top rung shaking her head, "BRAIN FREEZE!" she cried out, rubbing her head in pain now.

"I told you not to have five of them that fast!" Rohanna laughed once again at Rehanna's expense.

"But they had the best flavors?" Rehanna cried back,
as she stood up on the thin walkway running the length of this section of the wall.

"But did you have to try them all in one sitting?" Rohanna questioned the Drow's ability to reason sanely at times.

"But they tasted so yummy!" Rehanna smiled.

"So what are we looking for?" Rohanna asked while scanning the far away village to the north of the FOB.

"Well sunset Sam takes a pot shot at us at exactly sunset each night for the last three years and he... him or 'she'..." the marine gave in as Rehanna glowered his way, "THEY seem to miss on purpose or really sucks at their aim. We have tried to find them or who they are many times, but never do."

"One minute!" the marine manning the gun barked.

"Well you have it all now and maybe you can spot him or HER!" the marine cringed from a feigned slap and went back to his night-vision station.

"Miss...you better duck down to be safe?" one marine suggested.

"I got this...." Rohanna said as she put out her flat palm towards the village and a faint glow surrounded it as her shield spell came into being.

"What is that?" he asked barley being able to see the glow in the darkness and only it being a little dark show it was even there to his eyes.

"That is magic and it does this!" Rohanna said as a bullet PANGED! off the shield.

"Got him...second building to the left of the huge tree,
third window from the bottom of the green trimmed hut or home.
" Rehanna smiled in the growing darkness of sunset.

"We can't see him...can't shoot him. Those are the rules of engagement." the marine grumbled as he adjusted his night vision on the spot Rehanna had pointed out.

"Does that stop me, he did shoot at us and might have hit us if not for my shield?" Rohanna questioned.

"Nope...Marine rules don't apply...ONE you are not a marine or in the US military as far as I know?" he said back.

"Fine then, lets play. AS he wanted too and fired at me or us girls first!
AND you are right...it's a guy who shot at us just now."
Rehanna said and gave the marine his small victory at guessing the sniper's sex!

That is when it seemed to the three marines around Rehanna pulled a bow out of nowhere! Her rock steady arms then leveled it at the village and an arrow appeared in her hand nocked, then drew the string back in one long perfect practiced motion.

"Ahh that is not going to make it that far." the marine gunner said, "this 'Ma duce' of mine has trouble making it that far little miss."

Rehanna looses the arrow, it seeks out its target at blinding speed and flies of out of sight into the darkness growing around the village. The marines look at each other in confusion till one speaks from his gun mount, "Hey that actually looked like it made it?" he questions what he just saw and a woman's scream fills the growing night.

"Yep...she got him!" Rohanna smiles and leaps down off the walkway.

"Cya guys...night!" Rehanna grins and jumps down after her twin.

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An hour later or so in the still night.

Half the small dusty room was suddenly filled with a silent explosion of red smoke. Dissipating almost as quickly as the red cloud appeared, leaving two figures a man and a smaller woman standing where none had been before. Large white ruffles of a shirt stood prominently out of the blue velvet regency coat the man wore. An ornate wired basket hilt of a rapier stuck out from the gentleman’s waist holding the left side of his coat open. The black trousers, only reaching a few inches past his knees, and white stockings gave the impression of someone that had dressed to appear at a medieval reenactment rather than the dark dirty room the two appeared in.

Even in the dark room the soft features of the woman’s face spoke of one with few years, making her appear to be no more than a teenager. Her long dark hair pulled back into a low ponytail similar to her male associate’s although much longer, reaching past the small of her back. Her clothing also the dramatically opposite of the gentleman’s. Hot pink camouflage cargo pants, tucked into mat black combat boots adorned her lower half, while a skintight black tank top with the words in bold white lettering, ‘I’m going to Hell is so many different Religions.’

The unlikely pair stood completely still, only their eyes and heads moving as the two took in the dusty room. An old rectangular table stood in the center of the room, the color of its Formica top, so heavily worn and scratched, as to be undeterminable. To their left a window, more of an opening in the adobe like walls as it appeared to have never had any framing or glass ever installed, lay partially covered by two pieces of tattered cloth hanging over the opening, a small gap between the two hanging scraps of cloth allowing in what failing light to be had after sunset.

An overturned chair lay on the floor on the opposite side of the table from the window. Behind that, pinned to the wall by a large arrow, a man dressed in the sand color robes predominate in the Middle Eastern countries. The scope atop an older bolt action rifle pinned to his head, the arrow penetrating through the scope through the man’s right eye, held the rifle and dead man fast to the wall.

Stepping over to the dead man before kneeling down. “Mademoiselle the arrow appears to be of Elvin origin,” The costumed man spoke while reaching up to grasp the arrow.

Seeing her finely dressed associate strain against the arrow, attempting to pull it from the wall, “Leave it, we’re only here for one thing.” The girl stepped forward toward the dead man a wide bladed short sword appearing out of thin air in her hand.

“Foutre de moi!” The well-dressed man gasped, falling on his rear. His eyes glued to the sword she now held. “Knowing you would summon it, and having it waved in my face are duex different things.”

Drawing the tip across the dead man’s cheek creating a small thin cut, black tendrils of smoke rose up out of the cut flowing from the cut toward the ancient sword the girl had used to make the incision. As magic, the tendrils disappeared once they touched the bladed weapon.

Looking down where the man still sat on the floor, “Gillies you’ve felt the touch of Krisi. She can do no more to you than she already has.”

“That, Mademoiselle, is an experience, even after all these centuries, I will never forget, nor wish to ever repeat,” Reaching up and rubbing his chest over his heart with one hand as if remembering an old injury. “Your predecessor had a much more direct approach.”

“I know, not all of her memories are lost, we have managed to recover some of them.” Directing her attention at the arrow she continued, “And she agrees with my method of taking out only the dark part of the soul when we can.” Running her fingertip across the raven black feathers of the arrows fletching, “I’ve seen this type of arrow before.”

“Elvin, I am sure of this,” Gilles stated.

“True but the shaft, it’s of a wood that doesn’t exist,” She mused, “Not enchanted either, but strong as Mithril.”

“You know of this Elf that created this milady?”

Looking over her shoulder at the window, she leaned over resting the side of her face against the arrow shaft as she did. Pointing at the window, “This was fired from the top of the wall on that army base out there.”

Bringing himself to his feet, Gilles walked over and pulled the tattered curtain aside, “Mademoiselle you can’t be serious, that fort is more than a league away. Who could possibly fire an arrow from that far?”

Looking over at her companion as she stood, “The question is not who, but why is she here?”

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A few years from graduation.....

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

Years pass and the group has fun...chasing prey!

An idea to start the new year with......a little late...whoops!

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Still on that same night, long before the village discovered the body.

Later that night, just a little past midnight one of the base's many hoverships spooled up its engines warming them up for the coming night mission, even with all the thrust the individual engines put out they really made no real sound and add to that the anti-gravity drive at the heart of the ship, the ships really did not need much to get off the ground and keep flying!

While the hovership's maintenance and gunnery crew was busy with checking out their own gun positions and the many ship armaments, plus defensive weapon counter measures. The SEALs boarded the large ship via its rear drop ramp and took places along the walls of the bay on seat benches running along its full length.

The ones on board were the twin drop dead gorgeous girls, plus the last of the team as the ramp lifted and then the bay sealed up with a hiss of air. Both twins still had on their street clothes, strangely minus all the gear, body armor, guns and who knows what that the SEALs would need for this operation!

"Sir?" one the crew started to question his team lead as the ramp locked up.

"All good kid, all up to spec..." the older Edward winked back knowingly after having heard of twins act up on the camp's lookout wall and the possible end of a sniper that was a daily nuisance. Ed knew both of them must be mutants or he suspected personally, Fae of some sort or lastly Elves.

The younger bay gunner shrugged back as he tapped his com on, "All good cap, lift off ready back here." he sang and the ship started to lift straight up for a few thousand feet till it blended into the night sky above the FOB and no one would know what direction it flew off in because the hoverships all landed pointing the same way and took off the same way! Thus hiding the intent of their mission or direction to a casual watcher!

With the gravity drive on, the ship flew off at great speed, but for the most part the passengers did not even notice the change. The twins sat down in a free section of seats with the 'CIA' spook nestled between them.

He pulled out a folder and flipped to a group of photos, "Here is the crew and our one important passenger and why he is import to the CIA is not your concern ladies."

"You did confirm that they are still alive, so that this mission has a valid reason for us going. Because we don't do assassinations for you or the CIA." Rehanna growled a warning to the man, who smiled back, "I checked and its all good."

"Good, it had better be. You should know we can tell when you humans lie to us and since you are not lying right now...all and ANY blame for lying to us falls right on your boss's head." Rohanna added a stern warning next.

The trip went on smoothly, none of the bumps the older cargo plane did on the way into 'the stan'. All because the anit-grav drive did its job and smoothed out most of any jolts to the craft, crew or cargo. One gunner that was overlooking the rear of the craft from his spot nearest the rear cargo ramp tapped the side of his visored helmet, then barked at the bay, "First drop point coming up...get ready!"

Both twins stood up to the chief Edward's surprise and smiled in unison, "Well it's been fun, but time to go and boys...remember to be a good distraction for us down there while we work!"

"Distraction?...I thought 'they' were 'OUR' distraction CHIEF!" one SEAL barked out to the bay and got a few nods from his teammates.

"Who told you that...this CIA guy," Rohanna thumbed over her shoulder, "....hate to tell ya KID...he lied to ya!" one twin smiled as her back pack vanished from sight into a small dim black cloud that came from nowhere at the wave of her hand and the other twin tossed her bag into the same 'nothing' with a practiced motion of having done it a million times!

Then her outfit changed with a shimmer into the blackest leather any of the men had ever seen, the smooth black leather of the suit had little darkish silver threads sewn all throughout it's surface in magical patterns and the most shocking to the SEALs...was her face. Her smooth tanned skin was replaced by a smoky purple gray, her eyes shifted from a bright blue, over to a strange all pupil less white, then her long blond hair faded into a stark white and her warm smile was replaced with a evil grin filled with pointy fangs.

"SHIT....Elves?" one SEAL barked his question to his teammate, who was busy fishing out a 'ten' note to give to his buddy next over...obviously loosing a bet.

"HAAAA...Drows and don't you forget it!" the other laughed out as she herself changed to match her twin.

"Lower the ramp kid, we are jumping off!" the first twin barked at the rear most gunner and he shook his head to the idea...."Parachutes?" he had to ask not seeing any!

"Never needed them before and if we did...after we jump we will not be complaining, now will we?" she questioned the man with simple logic and hit the ramp lowering switch for him to open the cargo bay onto the gloomy night's howling winds.

The second twin looked out past the edge of the ramp and a little out front of the craft as it flew along high up in the night sky, "IN about two minutes or so?" she suggested as the other pulled a skull emblazoned cover over her whole head and her insanely long hair vanished away to nothing to the SEAL's surprise.

"Got it sis and bye guys!" she shouted over the cold howling winds to her twin and dove in a comedic fashion off the ramp into the blackness.

"Ohh shoot she jumped...I better go get her!.....BYE!" the other yelped out, covered her head in the same way as her sister and fell over backwards into the dark night.

Edward slapped the ramp's closing button as he shook his head, "Darn crazy elves...nothing changes about them, they are all nuts in some way or another!"

"You worked with other elves before chief?" one SEAL asked from his seat.

"Yep my team worked with a Brit once, plus one other that was attached that had cyber-powers of some sort and she was even worse, then add to all of that... that ELF was one of us SEALs too!"

"Well tell us all about it?" another egged the far older man on.

"You darn well know better than to ask about secret shit!" Edward instantly barked back, while glancing his eyes over to the CIA spook still in the cargo area.

"Well I had to try, maybe next time you'll slip?" one smiled back to him knowing he'd hear all about it over a beer real soon...out of ear shot of the CIA spook!

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Falling through the cold dark air and the howling night winds

Both Drow twins fell, until one spots the point that they need or want to land at for this mission and smile innerly to themselves as no humans are even near the place they had aimed for from the village only laying a dozen or so hundred feet below them and that fall was diminishing quickly to end up at hard earth if the Drow did not do something fast! Around the fortified village was a few camp fires lighting up small zones from the utter night, where a man or two huddled against the cold night air and a little deeper into the wood from the village's cleared edges lay a few forward lookouts that might have been hidden to 'human' eyes...but never a set of Fae or a Drow eyes!

At just a hundred feet or so off of landing on the hard earth, both Drow started porting about the area far and wide to take in the whole layout of the village and its small shielded valley that hid most of the place from the surrounding country. The twins made mental notes to one another of the village's layout that matched the maps and photographs they had been given. Then they both noted where lookouts and guards were posted in the area....finding not too many, meant the planed distraction had worked!

That distraction also meant that the SEAL's were in for a night of trouble, but the plan included two well armed gunships and a few guided bombing runs to add to the show that the SEALs would be in the middle of...'they should love the fireworks' Rohanna thought innerly to herself and Rehanna added a mental chuckle to the thoughts.

Rohanna landed with a port, hunkered down next to a short wall nearest the main house of the village. Rehanna choose a spot a bit farther out next to one of the villages wells and stepped right into the shadows growing off it away from a nearby campfire that two men dressed in some ad hoc civilian garb and the rest was surly captured military affair. Both men were more preoccupied with the cold and staying warm than really doing their job guarding the village that a child could sneak past them with ease!

"Kyon'nehr!" Rehanna hissed out silently.
(sloppy!)

"Told ya this would be easy, a bunch of untrained hillbillies versus us Drow...you worry too much!" Rohanna sang inside Rehanna's head.

"You know better...sister of mine. We Drow must always be the best we can be or fail and die." the older in someways Drow warned back. "Now lets stay to our task and get this 'human' favor over with!" she spat now.

Rohanna nodded back mentally as she flipped her lithe body over the short wall into the home's small garden and checked the area out for any hidden warning devises. The most advanced alarms technology could muster were mere child's play to a Drow who was one with nature and had Gaea's blessing all their long lives, as most of the devices depended on one of the five natural elements tripping the electronics and the 'elements' would never do that to a Drow...or the Goddess Gaea would get very mad at them!

But the first one of many traps that the Drow's eyes spotted was rather simple trip-line to Rohanna, one that lead over to a flare trap mounted on the wall...that flare was another case all together! She stepped over the wire, while noting the pressure plate of a landmine sitting right next to it and then stepped past a few pop-up mines know as 'bouncing betty's' to most soldiers in America. The whole garden was laced with them and most likely a well laid out trap all to its own, all laid out to lure one into a false sense that a garden would be free of such traps!

Rehanna was having a much easier time with her side of the large home, she slipped right past the village guards and after checking around first with her very sensitive ears, she ported right into the home's high walled off compound. Once inside the compound, she instantly searched over the area for any threats and found none at this time of night, only a few oil fueled lanterns tried to brighten the area from the dark night that was only lit by stars far above.

Rohanna scaled the high wall with a well thought out leap and landed where she knew it was safe beforehand, having seen that spot through her twin's Rehanna's eyes. She crept across the compound towards the few windows of the larger home and peered in from the window's edges to keep from being spotted by happenstance by those inside.

Both Drow took their time checking out each of the home's windows in turn, then came to the conclusion that the home was more of a base for tribal leadership than home for a family and that was a wise choice considering that the air force might drop a J-DAM on the place at anytime!

With the recon of the home's windows, both Drow had only spotted one guard and that worried them, there should be more plus the leader was known to stay inside this home as any attacks happened to help change or make new plans as the situation on the battlefield changed with the winds of happenstance and the fog of war.

So Rehanna took the lead and ported right in front of the man standing by an inner doorway with only a pistol stuck in his belt as his only weapon. The sudden appearance as if by magic shocked the older man as Rehanna made short work of his consciousness with a incredibly fast blow to his temple with her finger...and the man stood there like a statue with the blow and she lowered his body to the floor, then rolled it over to the wall.

"That should take care of him and OHH'BOY, he will have a headache in the morning!" she innerly giggled out.

Both sisters listened intently at the door for any clue to what was going on inside and discovered nothing was making sound, "You think it's safe?" Rohanna mentally asked.

"Well I do, but the door has a huge crack at the bottom, lets send in the pixies to check out the room first?" she asked back.

But before the twins could agree on the plan, Lilac and Violet flew down at the small crack, then slipped under the door with a happy shout of, "On it!" in mental stereo!

A few seconds later, the pixies gave their Drow sisters in life a view of the room.

The room had three men arrange across the whole room and nothing else to find.
One man sat in a chair at a radio set seeming to wait for the box to crackle to life with what was going on in the battlefield far away and one older man paced the room. A last one sat on the floor with a rifle across his lap, but not at the ready for a fight because he was busy eating.

A mental plan formed between all four and was quickly agreed too!

The pixies shot out at the man with the gun and knocked him unconscious with twin jabs of drug coated spears. As that happened, both Drow ported into the room, one jabbed out a quick hand to stun the older man and the other mashed a thumb hard to the radio operators neck to silence him.

"Well that worked, but I don't see or hear any prisoners or anyone else?" Rohanna warned of the main reason, one of the many reasons to be here was a now a very possible failure!

Rehanna quickly sniffed at the air of the room, "I smell blood and it's coming from behind that door. I am sure before that room is small by the home's layout, plus had no windows on the outer walls and those little set of facts that would make it a perfect cell."

Rohanna opened the door that Rehanna had nodded to and found it a bit bigger than they thought, but not by much in reality.

The hidden room had two chairs at its center with bodies tied up in them, the floor was covered in a small lake of blood and a video camera was aimed at the whole ghastly scene of course! Rohanna checked on the closest body first for any signs of life, no matter how small they were she knew of ways or people that could help. But to her sadness, the men, both of them had been dead for a long time and not only hours, but several days.

Across the room was the third dead man the Drow twins sought laying wrapped in a tarp, his body was in even worse shape, as he had been tortured for days before loosing his head and that last body was the important civilian that the CIA wanted, PLUS the main reason why the twins had taken on this task!

Both Drow started to slowly, carefully search the room for clues and other important documents that might make all this heap of death worth it. Rehanna spotted a laptop right away, she opened it and tapped on the last opened file... a recording of the leader of the armed resistance and sometimes terrorist leader chatting it up AND chatting it up very lively with a US negotiator.

The negotiator in the video was person the twins had meet just a day back and she had told them to rescue the hostages, then 'a big plus' in her words... take back a packet of secret documents from the hostage takers. Now with the video playing, the date showing in one corner of the playing video and the shown meeting actually mentioning the three already dead men and the possible return of their bodies. The twins knew for sure that the CIA, the US government had lied to them both and used 'cutouts' to keep their gift or curse dealing with lying from doing it's job!

Rohanna thought to herself silently about the situation at hand, 'This mission, all of this mess, we were dragged into was not about a simple rescue of trapped men...but more about a silly overvaluing of secret papers over that of the real lives of these men and the lives of us Drow twins along with them'...A deep searing anger now rose within both twins, until it became a burning rage.

Rohanna quickly went about her work pulling body bags from her storage, then placed the dead men into them as best she could and take them home to their families. While Rehanna tore the room quietly apart searching for those wanted papers, then add any enemy papers or plans or secrets. She ripped the computer's hard drives right out of their cases and made sure to leave nothing important behind!

Now with all the dead prisoners in bags, Rohanna placed them in safe storage for the trip home and started checking out the still unconscious men in the room. She found the one that was busy eating on the mat as the twins attacked the room, a very familure face off her short list indeed!

Ro lifted the man's head up for her twin to see, "IS this?"

"Ohhhh shit...it is!" Rehanna almost gasped back.

"Well now we have a prize, a real CHIT in the game and somebody owes us!" Rohanna smiled back evilly as she tossed the man over her shoulder like a sack.

"Let's get out of here, set-up a drop of the hard drives to Cyberkitty and have her go over all of them BEFORE we turn them in, plus have her check over all the documents for later use." Rehanna suggested while giving the room one last glance over to be sure that nothing important was being left behind.

"Yep, they lied to us and now we play these cards as WE care too!" Rohanna spat to the floor.

Several miles away

Rohanna ported amongst the dense woods along with her sister, Rehanna nearly instantly pulled out a small satellite dish from the either along with a small folding computer 'frame' and most called it a 'Frame' Because all it appeared to be was an empty picture 'frame' until the computer built into it came to life. Rohanna, her hand flipped the small device with practiced ease and it snapped open to a rather large glowing display. As the small computer came to life, she tapped on icon of a smiling cartoon cat and started to talking to it.

"Well girl are ya there?" she asked the frame and the desktop being shown now.

The small screen shimmered and a 3D cartoon cat head appeared, "You bet and I have been waiting with baited breath...SO!" the disembodied cybermutant demanded to know how the mission went.

"They lied, this was not a rescue. BUT a Intel gathering mission and recovery of those doc's. So lets go over them all and see what they were hiding." the Drow sassed out to the cartoon, "Then if you can go over the drives we got too please!" Rohanna growled at first them eased into asking the toon cat nicely.

"Hook them up...I'd love to go over it all to Fuck over the CIA bastards...Are we selling any of it?" the cartoon cat had to ask, knowing fully well that most of this fresh Intel was valuable to someone out there in the world wide net and all you had to do was post a small sample to earn the money!

"We might, but that maters on if we can play them off on the CIA or higher right now. But make copies because we can sell them later. Once the CIA lied to us, they opened the door for us to lie too!" Rehanna barked out, as she hooked up the drives one at a time and received a green flash indication as each drive was copied up into the net then on to Cyberkitty!

The cartoon cat purred out in pleasure at her finds "OOOHHHH yummmyyy stuff there, lots of info on the CIA and most of it was ALL theirs at one point. But this one drive got stolen and this now dead guy was sent out to bargain for its return with data that the terrorists wanted!"

"So they were going to sellout who knows who...just to get this back and most likely get others killed while doing it?" Rehanna asked.

The toon cat spun to face the twin asking the question with a 'zing' of animation and hissed a bit at giving it, "Ohhh not only is this Intel valuable to those planning an attack or attacks, it has info on lots of people to make it far easier to kidnap them via and some of them happen to be mutants we know...you know the RICH ones!"

"Paige, tell those we know that they might be in danger and give them all the relevant parts as proof and keep who we know, or deal with safe please. Then get ready to sell the rest, the parts that DO not endanger anyone on the open market and only of course to the highest bidder or one bidder that may have something we all want or need."

"I'm on it and you do know we can 'trade' it all back to the Feds for a few big favors?" the toon smiled and tilted her head waiting for the answer.

"Fine, separate out the parts that you are sure are what our friends in the FED might want and we Drow can deal out to each one from there personally." Rohanna said quickly.

"Ohh it gurrrrl and I'm off to wheel and deal!" the cat toon winked and vanished with a 'POP"!

With Paige now gone, Rehanna started putting away the disk captured drives and the satellite uplink while checking to be sure nothing was left behind, "You think that we should check in and see if those SEAL's are okay and not in real deep trouble?"

Rohanna nodded back agreeing, "Yes, we should and just because they did not ask to be made into bait for us two," then she took a sealed bag out of her either storage and zipped its seal open to let a handheld radio slide into her waiting hand.

"Alligator, this is candy cane..." Rohanna said to the small box with a cringe and her sister glared at her hissing, "REALLY...I hate that they gave us that call sign!"

Rohanna lifted on the transmit button waiting for a reply, "Well it was that or Spock or even worse Kebler!"

"I'd take SPOCK any day over 'candy cane' Sheeesh!" Rehanna huffed out and crossed her arms at the idea of Christmas elves as a code name!

On the other end the radio signal a SEAL in charge of communications for his large team was hiding behind a large rock and fallen tree as he was busily flipping over a small sheet of notes he had just snatched out of his cargo parts pocket, "What the FUCK is 'candy cane'?" he barked over the gun fire and explosions falling around him.

Edward tapped the man's note pad as he took a break from firing, "Its the twins off the hovership on the way in you moron...you should have memorized it!" he barked and fired his rifle once more back at the group that was starting to surround them all.

"How was I supposed to know that they'd call us!" he shrugged back.

"Well....goofball, ask them what is up and if they want any help...SOL!" Ed quipped back while taking another shot back at the enemy.

"Candy cane, this is Alligator...if you need your 'stripes' pulled out of a fire? We are SOL and in need of help ourselves! As captain Hook is after us in a bad way and wants his fucking clock back!" the man sassed back at the radio and did not care if DC overheard anything! His team was in the fire and if they came out of this whole...who cared?

"What happened to your Puff?" Rohanna asked thinking about the two gunships the team should have had covering it and a few ground attack aircraft on top of that!

"WELL...." the radio operator sassed, "One puff could not fly and the other got its tail singed by a rocket, so it went home. The rest just ran out of ammo, not to mention the rockets keeping them at altitude!"

"Okay...So you all need help and we candy canes are here to offer it. So tell us what is hammering you and we will take care of it!" Rohanna offered the radio and the men on the other end.

"Humm..." Edward said and tapped his gun mounted system, thus linking its advanced optics to the team's computer system and the radio the team used. Now he aimed it at the hillside overlooking his teams area and the one giving the fighters their height advantage in this fight for lives.

Edward's gun sight feed information down the link of what the hillside looked like, its elevation to the inch and where on the world it was. As he did that, he tapped each spot he wanted to hi-light, ones that had a leader hiding behind a tree or mortars that were blasting them all to death slowly. Then add to all that mess, was the fact that the sun was about to rise and that daylight would expose the SEALs to all, then end their advantage of having thermal and night optics on their weapons who pierced the dark nights that they fought in ohh so well!

Rohanna read over the reams of information the computer 'frame' feed to her and she blinked to the screen, "Is that all...easy, incoming Drow prepare for battle!" she giggled out to the radio and shut the 'frame' closed with a flick of her wrist, then quickly put it away along with the radio.

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Shadowsblade a Christmas Tale: Written by Shadowsblade

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

A Christmas vacation and a world of toy deliveries saved

In this chapter

Christmas

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December 24th,
3:20 in the afternoon

Far from Whateley, in upper state Vermont at a large Ski resort.

All the teen girls are gathered around the fireplace after finishing off a very large lunch that the Leigh twins had arranged for the group, along with providing this rather nice ski chalet. Most of this was short vacation from school was provided by the producers of the twins last motion picture as a bonus for making personal appearances at conventions to 'sell' the movie and the other girls were invited for their combined helping out with the large crowds of children!

Rohanna was just taking a place on the large leather sectional couch, as the two sugar hyper kids roared right over the top of the couches back. One used the tall back as a take off pad and flapped his feathery wings hard to fly up to the next level of the four story near mansion of a log cabin. The little girl hot on his heels, took off on her bat like leathery wings from the floor and landed with her clawed feet gaining purchase on the thick wooden rail on the balcony overlooking the living room below.

"Get back here Tim, you are not getting away from me so easy!" Tessa shouted at the boy who was about her same size with the wings of a hawk on his back.

"Tessa...no claw marks on the wood in here please? I know the whole cabin is made of logs, but don't treat them as if they are outside...please?" the tall blonde teen with black feathered wings of her own said sitting in a spot next to the Drow and placed a large plate of warm cookies on the coffee table that she brought from the kitchen with her.

"Yes auntie Kyley, but I have to catch this hellion first!" Tessa squealed out and she ran after the boy up the stairs farther.

"Says the near demon chasing the angel?" Becky says with a laugh, as she sat down next to her love and cuddled up closer trying to get warm as she noticed the falling snow outside the large picture windows of the room.

"Hey you two, get down here and try to stay still. AND if you do I will tell you a Santa story!" a shorter girl with Mediterranean looks and matching long black hair said as she took a spot in one of the large leather recliners across the table from the couch.

Becky laughed at the teen just taking a seat, "Santa is not real, tall tales again Kelly?"

"SANTA is not real, then how can you humans worship nothing for over a month like you all do then?" Kyley questioned the idea of paying homage to nothing like it was a GOD!

Becky gulped a little....whoops the cat was out of the bag and her love knew it. She had been telling the very GOO like being she called her love, that Santa did exist for several weeks trying to make this first Christmas fun for them all, Kyley, Tessa, and the newly added Tim before he grew up fast past this time in his new life as one of Kyley's Hawklords!

"Haaa Becky got found out!" Kevin said as he plopped into a large love seat, then his Drow twin love fell right next to him and gave him being the new Drow around the campus a warm hug.

As she hugged the Drow male next to her, Rehanna spoke up from her nuzzling one of his ears, "Santa is real and so are the Christmas elves you humans call them. The only friendly and nice elves I might add!"

Right then a crash sounded out through the whole room from upstairs....then came twin "Sorry" from two kids now in trouble up there.

"Well there goes the damages deposit...but who cares?" Said a now laughing Rohanna.

Becky growled out to the kids upstairs, "Keep it up and no presents under the tree tomorrow as Santa will not show up for bad kids!" she warned the two youngest in the house.

"Becky, you say one second he does exist then the next not...then change your mind, to he does exist? Is this Santa god or spirit real or not?" Kyley asked confused again at what humans say or do at times.

"REAL" both Drow twins sing out.

"Fake, fake, fake!" Kelly laughs out.

Tonya the other new elf or Sidhe in the house finally comes out of the kitchen after her turn at cleaning up, "Well real or not...Kevin believed in him for years, while I did not. I saw mom and dad wrapping 'Santa' gifts one night when I was four and that killed it for me?" she admitted laughing as she flopped into the last seat in the matching recliner next to Kelly's chair.

"Still say he is real!" Rohanna says and her twin nods along with her words.

"Well prove it then?" Kelly says pulling a wallet out of her pocket, "then, I bet you a 'gold' on it!" she add in a bet, the only one the two long lived beings gave credence to...'Gold's' as they all called them, were personally labeled favor 'chits' they traded amongst each other once and awhile. Even Kyley and a few others of Whatley and the outside world were using them now.

"And how do I prove it to you?" the Drow pondered back.

"That is up to the Drow...you are supposed to be very crafty creatures for Sidhe...or not?" Kelly grinned evilly back to the twin.

"So would you settle for a Christmas elf or a reindeer or us kidnapping Santa himself on Christmas eve?" Rehanna the twin sister questioned the small teen goddess of fate or one of the many that are?

"Hummm an elf would be good, but dressing one up will not do? So you tell me then, what would be proof?" the dark haired teen said as she kicked up the foot rest on the recliner.

With the giggling of the kids going nuts upstairs, both Twins stood quickly up and said in unison, "So this is a challenge I guess, well we got ya covered then and will be back with some sorta proof in a few hours!"

After both Drow ported away, Kevin stared at Kelly more than angry, "She had better be back soon...OR I will be REAL mad with you Kelly!"

"What...boy...was she giving you a special Christmas present?" she grinned to the teen.

"YES....and you had better not mess that up!" he warned again.

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North pole....top of the world.

Both Drow pop back into existence and look every direction they can...'south' and that old joke hovered in their shared minds. "Everything is SOUTH of here no matter the direction you walk in!"

As Rehanna scanned the area around them, she spotted it first. A small slip in the dimension of the world hiding a doorway to another, one that only popped up on certain days or times of the solar year as the sun, moon and earth, plus many stars spun around each other in the madness that is the universe at large.

Both twins nodded to one another and walked off towards the rift, then right through it into the small dimension that was hidden inside! Within this small universe unto itself was the world that held the realm of father Christmas or Pere Noel, Dun Che Lao Ren (“Christmas Old Man”), Weihnachtsmann (“Christmas Man”)Hoteiosho (a god or priest who bears gifts) among dozens if not hundreds and he does not show up all over the world on one night. Each nation has it's own day or time they use, with their own named legend and only in the last few decades has the 'Santa' legend from the US taken over for the most part.

As the Drow walked into the small world unto it's own, they noted that most of the decorations were Christmas based or themed with winter months for the most part. But right now the place seemed to follow the US version of Santa legend and it must change as the days pass and as the legend changes this place in turn to appear nearer to the holiday coming up?

Rohanna could make out some of the fading of other nation's 'Santa' stylings, as the US legend style resemblance took them over, "I wonder if the Easter bunny has the same issues!" she laughed out.

As both Drow crept up the long street of half sized homes that must certainly be home to the smaller stature elves of here, one of the elves stepped out of his home and jingled his keys as he locked his door. Then as he turned away from his house, he spotted the two VERY tall to him Drow standing in the middle of the small cobblestone paved street.

"What are you doing here, your delivery is not due for hours and coming here to demand more presents Rehanna and Rohanna is not allowed!" the little elf shouted at both Drow by NAME!

"You speak Drow?" Rehanna asked.

"And why not, or how could I read all the letters of kids from all over this world and others?" he stated with pride.

"Hummm makes sense to me?" Rohanna added next.

"But none of that nonsense...what are you two Drow doing here?" he asked again more than mad at the intrusion on his nice town by the twin Drows.

"We came here on a bet?" Rehanna started.

Rohanna said next nodding to her twin. "...if we can we need proof to show a human or two that this place and Santa do really exist. We know they do, so it was easy to come here for us?"

"Well you can not get proof, you should know that is not allowed?" the smaller elf huffed out in anger.

"Well we don't!" both Drow said in unison.

"Okay, but for now follow me and lets go see the big man about all of this mess!" the elf said as he walked away and up the street towards larger buildings at the center of town.

"All right, but what is your name?" Rohanna asked trying to remain polite like she has to be.

"Me?" he asked back over his shoulder and saw both Drow nod back, "Well I am Alabaster Snowball, the only elf on staff at the North Pole with two university degrees and both are from Cambridge! Besides I am in charge of the 'naughty or nice list' these long years...I am training a replacement...want a job?" he asked the two Drow that shook their heads in reply instantly!

"No thanks, too much responsibility for us right now!" Rohanna nearly shouted back to him.

Shortly the small elf lead them into a huge barn or in this case ARK! One that housed every creature you could think of, because Santa's sleigh was not only pulled by reindeers! In some worlds, it was sled dogs, cats, fish, birds or bugs or lastly people carrying a sedan chair!

Alabaster walked over to a large man that strangely was growing fatter by the second as Christmas eve night came closer, "Santa what's wrong?" he asked using the name that fit the being best right now.

"Well my friends," he started glancing and smiling the Drow's way too! "The reindeer are acting strange...almost sickly tonight, we might have to call this one night off for the first time in a millennium!"

Alabaster walked over to a much taller blond haired elf that had bells interwoven in his long braided hair. The bells jingled as he helped move one the large deer back into it's stall...Dancer was the name above the stall, carved in the wooden plaque and the reindeer almost looked drunk to the Drow as the deer stumbled about backing into his place in the row of his fellow deer.

"Wunorse Openslae! What is the matter with your DEER tonight, we have to get the presents out or be buried alive in toys! You know better than I do, the machines making them never stop and can't be ever stopped! That is the curse of this place...deliver toys over and over or drown in them!" the smaller elf shouted up at the much taller one.

Rohanna thought those words over...'this place has to keep delivering toys or the world floods over with them! How funny!" she thought to her twin who stifled a short laugh at the idea of a 'toy making curse!'

"This is not a funny matter Drow!" a fairy said as it buzzed in Rehanna's face and Lilac reacted instantly to shoo her away...with pointy spear in hand!

"Sugarplum Mary, none of that!" Santa warned the small flying ball of anger, "they are guests and maybe you should offer the fellow Pixies a sweet, while the Drow twins try to help us all out?"

"As you ask Santa...I am Sugarplum Mary, a sugar plum fairy and I run all the sweets services of the pole!" she said proudly, then whipped out a plate of mint cookies for the two Pixies from nowhere and placed them on a small table for the two of them to eat!

"Can we?" Violet asked before even thinking to take the sweet offer.

"Go ahead you two...have at it!" Rehanna said with a smile and both Pixies buzzed over to the waiting treat, then started to eat the small cookies that were made in their size!

Santa grinned his greeting to the Drow, "I am glad you showed up, I hope you can help us out with this issue?"

"We don't know deer, but magical creatures we certainly do?" Rehanna said.

Wunorse Openslae barked instantly as the Drow walked protectively over nearer to HIS deer, "Ohhh no...I am not having Drow touch my deer, they are not magical components to ground up for spells or making weapons!" he shouted at the fact that most Drow were know for killing off creatures for spell 'bits' over the millennia.

"Hey we only do that when ordered to by others, so unless you want us to do that...we will not!" Rohanna growled at the blond elf now blocking her path.

"FINE, but I don't know what two Drow are going to know about a LIVING reindeer?" he mocked the twin Sidhe.

"Well one thing I can see?" Rehanna said petting the Dancer's side and head, "He is out of it...like drugged or drunk?"

"Do these deer use magical essence for flight or do they use something else?" Rohanna asked looking Prancer over in the next stall.

"Yes they do use essence, just like you Sidhe do....why?" Openslae asked wondering what the two were up to.

"Give me a second to call on one of my Grove mates and have her come here so she can check on something?" Rehanna said now and started to walk out of the huge barn.

Sometime later the twin walked back in with the Matron of the Grove at her side and the Matron bowed to the large man in red fur, "Santa...was it you called this being Rehanna mistress, protector of the Grove?"

"Yes, Santa or Saint nick among many of the humans, or us Sidhe...we called him the 'blessed gift elf' and other names over the age of the queens." the tall Drow said waving over to the man in red fur with white trimmings.

"Ahhh a Nymph, you better get busy and help us out here...before the Misses hears one of your kind is here and keeps me from my warm bed thinking I was playing around on her!" he started to belly laugh like his true legendary self.

After being given some quiet time to examine each of the reindeer in turn, the Matron nods back to Rehanna as she walks back over to the anxiously waiting group, "You are correct in your first assessment Protector of the Grove, this deer is feeling the change in the flow of essence in the world. Because they only see it once a year, for but one day or night and with the changes in the Ley lines because of the World Trees planting...it shocked them a bit and made them 'drunk' on the extra essence flow of this world?" she laughed a little.

"So how long Miss till my deer are better?" Wunorse Openslae asked the Nymph.

"Well not for a month and you will have to expose the whole herd to the world at least weekly from here on out to keep them balanced with the Ley lines new flow these days, as it grows stronger and moor powerful?" she advised the blonde elf in charge of their care.

"WELL rusty jingle bells!" Alabaster Snowball tried to curse, but failed?

"What are we going to do tonight then, we have to deliver the presents or the flow will over run us all?" Santa asked the group.

"Use some other creature that flies?" Rohanna suggested.

"We can not, only ones made or born for this day can do the task. All the others need the whole year to rest from the last trip they completed." Santa sighed out in defeat.

"I know a creature that can do it and all we need for fuel is some of Sugarplum Mary's sugary treats!" Rohanna said with a smile of discovery.

"AND what would that be?" Alabaster Snowball sasses the taller teen.

"Pixies!" Rohanna sings out.

"We don't have nearly enough!" Santa admits.

"Well Violet, do we have that many?" she asked the tiny Pixie on her shoulder eating a small cookie.

Violet wipes the messy chocolate mint off her small face from eating, "I have 374 sisters, brothers and cousins in my family clan alone and there are at least thirty more just like that in the Grove!"

"Well let me think..." says Wunorse Openslae, as he steps up, then measures Violet's weight and size while she is sitting on the Drows shoulder and has her lift up a few things from the barn while flying.

"300 would do it!" the blonde elf gives his appraisal of the odds.

A far older Christmas elf that just hobbled into the barn or Ark adds in with his idea next to the whole plan, "I know Pixies and they are smart, fast and nearly impossible for children to spot. So have a few hundred or more fly along in the sleigh's wake and deliver presents as you go Santa. they can do the easier jobs, the single children or what there is and Alabaster Snowball can guide them as you go a long in tonight's flight with his staff of 'Naughty or nice list elves'..."

"Great idea Shinny Upatree! No wonder you are the oldest and smartest of my elves!" Santa laughs once more and shakes his belly in a now trademark way.

With both violet and Lilacs help, we gathered the Pixies of the Grove and asked for the help of a few others along the way and with a major Grove in every well populated city. We had a virtual Fae army to back up Santa on this task of his tonight!

I found out that Santa's sleigh rides in a slowed or sped up time bubble much like the Grove can do at times. This is so he can speed up to cross area's of nearly nothing and slow down to a crawl in the dense cities of the humans.

Inside the bubble he could blast over thousands of miles in a second, then slow down to make minutes seem like days when he need the time. As the Pixies on the first leg among many were readied and fueled up by tons of mint chocolate cookies. The Christmas elf leaders divided up the clans of pixies to deliver packages in certain cities to speed up Santa's trip this night.

As that time came nearer! Santa shouted out to all the very proud Pixies chosen to pull his sleigh via very thin magic ropes each one held, "On Violet and lilac...Cein and Nyx...Onward..."

Rohanna interrupts the spirit of Christmases shout, "Ahhh Santa we don't really have all night for you to do the whole mouseketeer roll call for over 300 Pixies tonight and at each house's roof? Now do we?" she smiled to the older man or near god of Christmas.

"You are right, so off we go!" he shouted and was off.

The Sleigh took off instantly because it weighed nothing while it's magical field was in use and was going up quickly into the night's sky. A black blob of the sleigh, with a fat man at the reins and all lead by a blur of tiny wings, with a dark fuzzy patch of a thousand or so Pixies following right behind in it's magical twinkling wake.

All of that sight vanished at insane speed from the twin Drow's view, the old elf patted the closer Drow on her back, "You can go next year maybe, he just did not have the room for you both tonight...there will be thousands of other runs over the long years...that I am sure of deary!" Shinny Upatree the oldest of Christmas elves said to the two teens.

As the sleigh flew on its long night, the Pixies were fed mint cookies at each step that had enough time and those too tired to fly on? They were changed out with fresh volunteers at each large city! The many other clans worked in instant harmony with the 'List' elves and flew presents off in every direction at each new city...never making a mistake or missing a home!

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What seemed like a few hours to the waiting Drows, was all night to the rest of the world!

The sleigh came in for a landing at what seemed to be a dawn of light across the small village at the top of the world and behind it the gate to the world began closing for one more year. Santa jumped out of his sleigh with a bound of energy, "Well this night was rescued by the smallest of Fae and I will tell Gaea about this in my own ways. Your Pixie army of friends Rohanna and Rehanna did very well, almost well enough to replace reindeer on the next trip!" he boasted for the thousands of the small Fae who helped tonight all over the world.

Violet and Lilac flew very tried looking paths to their chosen Drow and fell into their waiting outstretched hands, Violet spoke for both of them, "We made it all night thanks to our armor's magic and spells....but I don't want to see another mint cookie for at least a month!" she said and fell instantly asleep.

Lilac nodded to her sisters words and gave a few well timed thumbs up...until Violet mentioned mint cookies! That is when Lilac almost barfed! Then she fell asleep too.

"Well we should get going Santa, good luck with next year and call us if you need us!" Rohanna said as she walked off towards the still open gate back home.

"I will" Santa said then smiled over to the twins, "I have an eye on you two and rewards will come eventually with time?" he gave both of them.

The villagers wave bye to the two Drow as they vanished from their sight.

Back in the real world, only a few hours had passed by even though in both twins mind the day had changed. The magic of that place had moved past them and changed them. But the world was still the same one they had left and they ported home without even noticing it all.

Once both appeared in the living room, all the kids gathered around them and a few older beings.

"Well did you find Santa or not?" Kelly asked the Drow.

"Nope we did not find him at all or see anything up at the north pole...both Drow LIED strangely and knew it instantly! But lied all the same and there was nothing stopping them or causing them pain or to correct the utter lie they just said?

"Well hand it over then!" Kelly insisted to the twins and she was given a gold coin with the twins personal symbol on it's back.

"Hey why are the Pixie asleep Rohanna?" Tessa asked seeing the two of them asleep in the Drow's hands and as they laid them on soft pillows for the night.

"They did lots of flying for us up there on the north pole." Rehanna admitted to the small girl Succubus.

Tessa sniffed at them as they lay slumbering on the pillow Rohanna had for them everywhere they went, "They smell REAL minty for some reason?"

Rehanna and Rohanna laughed like twin maniacs at hearing those words come from the child near her Pixies, "That they do!" they howled in funny unison.

Soon enough, late night came and the little kids were tucked into bed as the older teens gathered hidden presents from hiding places all over the large home. They were all quickly placed under the dozen foot tall tree with care, in hopes that a man would soon be there!

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Later that night after they all went to bed.

Kelly heard a creak of a floorboard in her room and instantly her blade came out, "Who is there!" she whispered into the darkness.

A large man in a red fur suit came into the light suddenly and her sword vanished because there was no threat in the room any longer, "You know who Kelly!" the red shadow said.

"No way...Rohanna said you did not exist...she admitted it darn it and paid off on the bet!" Kelly reasoned to the shadow that became more and more solid as it came closer to her bed.

"Well you know how magic is...maybe? And the Drow had to lie to keep the magic alive!" Santa said as he sat on the end of her large bed.

"Well I guess I have to give that coin back and give her one of mine then?" Kelly asked the man.

"Or end up on the Naughty list for a few millennia?" he warned Kelly of the only outcome for this night if she did not give in to his decision!

"Fine...you win, Christmas has to go on!" she smiled to him and Santa stood up, then vanished with a burst of twinkles and snow.

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That morning.

Kyley awoke to find a very collectible 'Pez' candy dispensers under her pillow and several more of them under the tree. Becky did not recall buying them nor did anyone else? The last present unwrapped with Santa's name on it, contained one of Kyley's missing sets of armor for Tim to use!

Becky found her special present right after Kyley opened her's and inside the box was a block of silver metal. That Kyley tried to warn her, "Don't touch it!"
But it was too late, the metal flowed over Becky's fingers, onto her hand, up her arm and all over her body while forming the same armor Kyley had, but in shinny silver instead of Kyley's all black armor.

Kyley examined the armor and found a crest on the chest right where one should be, "This was my mom's! I have to guess it's your now and I am very sure she would like you to have it?" she smiled.

"How do I get out of this stuff?" Becky questioned suddenly sacred someone might need a can opener!

"Think bracelet and it will?" Kyley said simply, while showing off her's and Becky did just that. When she thought of that same style that Kyley had, the metal flowed into the same jewelry, on the same arm!

Kevin found a gift under the tree, a matching set of Drow armor much like Rohanna or her twin made long years ago and it was crafted to match him exactly. Then the last surprise, a blade to match! The twins had no idea how that got there?

Kelly finds her 'from Santa' present and shakes the box first...."It's not big enough to be the hot pink steel toed boots I wanted"

But inside the Box, she finds a leather sheath that holds a 18 inch overall long knife with a 12 inch drop point bowie design blade and the very thin wavy lines of light of alternating light and dark metals show it is made of Damascus steel? The handle has a brass pommel, as she examines the blade closer to find the makers mark near the guard...it's her's and her Grandfather's!

Kelly remembers making the blade with him at her grandfathers forge and then she lost in one of her many battles in her military time...there is no way it can be here...it was lost for good?

What Rohanna and Rehanna found in their shared box was a simple letter addressed to them written in old Drow and that was something they never spoke in or wrote!
"Freedom is, letting someone you love tell you to tear off your own chains!"
That was all it said.

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Miles away that morning

Jobe awoke in his large family home or city block of royal housing and went to unwrap her presents of the year. Strangely, each and every box with her name on it was filled with a lump of black coal and the last had a small hand written note that vanished after she read it in a cloud of snow, along with wisp of peppermint smell...."Please be better to the Drow you copied....or no more presents for you.........Signed Santa"

At a small home near ARC, Ellena Blackwood unwraps her presents from family and friends. She would have normally been with family this day, but her research into the twin Drows was too important to her and the plans on using them to her advantage.

She unwrapped the first package and found a large lump of utter black dirty coal in the box nestled in wrapping paper...the note read one word..."Don't!"

She hastily unwrapped the next one..."DO!"

Then the next one revealed..."IT!"

And the next..."Or you WILL be sorry forever!...Santa and others!" the signature, the symbols used instead of names after Santa's name...all vanished in BLACK acrid smoke that smelled like death!

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Sammie's story an incident of magic and Fae

I am adding this character in to flesh out my stories with more characters I can control fully and not barrow too many of others laying around the Whateley school

Lets see how you all like it and PLEASE PLEASE comment or I don't know what to do next or if you even like this plot?

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Los Angeles

Solberg family home in the far Northwest section of the San Fernando Valley, near the 118 freeway and the Santa Susanna pass.

The home was a much older dwelling on a very large lot, a home that was original to the area when it was first developed from an orange grove orchard in the late 1940’s. Most of the rest of the homes in the area were situated on much smaller lots that were split up decades ago by developers.

Sammi was the only teen or kid living in this house, she loved growing up here and was looking forward to starting her first year of high school at the private school her dad Scott paid for. Well kind of paid for, her mom Sharron paid for most of it. Mom was VERY rich when her parents finally divorced and her dad Scott made out like a bandit in the settlement. His part was this house fully paid off, Sammie’s school paid for through any college she went to and alimony too!

The divorce pained Sammi at the time, but soon enough Sammi saw what mom was doing to dad. Mom had a business that was doing very well when the two of them met and had Sammi a year later. At the time of the wedding mom had the existing business separated in a prenuptial agreement as she had it long before the marriage, dad agreed to the terms with ease…it was her’s by any standard!

But as the years passed by, mom took more and more ‘family’ money to keep the business afloat and by ‘family’ money in her mind…that meant dad’s money from work! Then after a windfall at mom’s biz, all because her idea of a company was worth tens of million to a bigger business she sold out and started sleeping out on dad! Next mom got the idea to divorce and trade Sammie’s dad in for a new more pliant, hot sexier model husband.

Scott did not take the idea of Sharron skipping off with some ‘BroHAM’ dude from the local gym laying down and since he did the family's taxes every year…that meant he kept all the receipts! Those receipts showed that he for several years contributed to the company even existing and thus was owed a large part of it! The fight was bitter, but a judge read all the documents, called the bluff mom was playing and settled the case. Scott would never be an instant millionaire, but he could be one if he invested his pay and alimony right over the coming years!

Sammi saw how mom had done dad ‘dirty’ and played the court case like she was the victim, but Sammie figured it all out when mom didn't even want half custody of her and was happy with visiting rights or vacation weekends when mom was not busy off skiing in europe or laying on some beach somewhere or lastly trying to impress other rich people at parties!

She did not hate mom, but she did not put up with her lies one little bit and made sure that mom knew it! For right now Sammie was happy to be here, at home with a loving dad and making sure all of her clothes and other school needs were all set for opening day in less than two weeks. Yes her school did start later than most, but made up for it with less vacation time and longer class days. That intensive program the school used was one of the best in the state!

For right now Sammi was busy with her list for school, she made these all the time for most tasks at hand and it was kind of the ADHD she got from her dad acting out! In most kids ADHD made them a bit off the wall hyper, in her case it made her be very very thorough in all tasks to nearly being obsessed about it!

The teen was inside her huge walk-in closet, the same one that only a few months back had become an importu landing pad to twin Drow…yes those Drow! She was checking off her list of underwear needs, what was new, what was old and finally what might be needed in a few weeks as Sammi’s sizes had changed and the old stuff was growing a little tight!

She slid the underwear drawer closed, then opened her shorts and old worn out pants drawer. You know the ‘let's toss this on for the day cause we don’t care!’. Sammi flipped through the stack of freshly cleaned shorts and then counted off the older sweatpants or ragged jeans that still fitted her. That is when she heard a soft light humm at the back of the closet towards the floor.

Wolfy, her German shepard was watching her from the bedroom’s short hall to the bathroom when the hum started up. His head popped up from him laying there just watching her work to one of being curious at the hum, then on to him tilting his head at the sound in confusion like most dogs do.

The hum grew louder as Sammi pulled a stack of her old pants off the item humming, she saw that it was that golden box she found in the backyard a few years back. It was buried when she found it digging and playing, it took all she had to get it into her radio flyer wagon and inside the house. The box was just that heavy!

She had mostly forgotten about the box until the twins landed and one of them must have touched it and left a glowing handprint behind in the metal, along with the box now being covered in even brighter glowing runes! Sammi used to lay beside the box on some nights after the twins left, tracing the runes out on its smooth surface with a finger wondering as she did each one in turn what the rune stood for or meant to those who knew magic?

The glow of the runes faded over the next month and she did not mention the darn thing to anyone in hopes maybe the twins might want it someday? She knew deep down that if anyone in authority ever saw the box they'd take it and lock it up for years if not centuries and what good would that do it just laying there getting dusty!

The box’s hum grew louder as she got closer to uncover it fully, that is when Wolfy bolted having somewhere much safer to be suddenly!

“Coward!” is all Sammie could sigh at the sight, “Darn dog is part cat…all Fraidy cat!”

She being a very curious girl all her life and even more curious and add a huge helping of bravado to the mix as Sammi became a teen, she bent down to touch the golden bronze metal box and it glowed even more as she touched it, then stroked its utterly smooth surface.

“What got you all fired up and glowly tonight?” she asked the box knowing or expecting no answer to come from the mass of metal.

As her hand passed over the box a few more times she noticed that the runes glowed in patterns and many of them faded in the dead center of its oblong surface. The box was very much like a huge shoe box in its shape 32 inch long by 16 inch wide and 16 inches high. Sammi smoothed her hands over it again, left then right and as her right hand made its third pass. It left an area in the center where none of the runes glowed anymore…in the shape of her hand with fingers stretched wide out!

“Why’d you do that?” she questioned, “You must really want me to touch you there again?”

The box only glowed back as the hands outline stood out even more now by all the runes glowing in a steadily growing pace, “Well I guess you are daring me and I never turn down a dare!” she laughed.

Sammi then jammed her hand on the top inside the hand print, the box glowed even brighter and hummed even louder, so loud she thought it might get her dad’s attention! “Ohhh I’d better stop and you shut up or dad will find ya and take you away or have you sent away!” she told the box.

She tried to pull her hand away and it was as if it was glued to the box or now part of it!

“HEY NOW LET GO OF ME!” Sammi struggled as she barked at the glowing metal box.

The box did not heed her words or her demands or let her go, it instead sent wave after wave of glowing light into her hand and then up her arm. It was bright enough that Sammie would swear later on that she could actually see each bone in her hand and arm clearly!

To an outside viewer of the process happening to Sammi, her whole arm glowed like daylight, then the waves passed through her whole body so much that it gave an impression that she was the source of all the light. Her eyes even glowed like fire as the first waves passed through her head…then it all stopped as suddenly as it began!

The box’s force let go of Sammi and she slumped to the floor winded by the whole encounter she just had. “What was that you darn thing!” she said as she gave the box a kick with her shoe!

The box only glowed lightly and started to fade as if it was powering down, its job finished for now.

Sammi stood up from what had just happened to her and felt more than a bit woozy and tired. She started to sweat profusely all over her body, “God I am hot…so hot!” she sighed and started pulling off her sweat top, then the light t-shirt she had wonder that. “So tired…why am I so..” she asked herself just now, noting that the sweat on her body was much closer to a slime now!

The slime might have gained more attention from the teen if she had not been so bone tired and weary. Sammi yawned as she stumbled towards her bed taking off her house sweats and underwear. She kicked off each shoe in turn as she fell onto the bed. The sweat was no longer sweat or even slime now…it was a VERY thick body wide goo that dripped off her body.

“Ahhh sleep,” she sighed out sounding so very tired and she fell asleep curled up in a small ball on her bed, she did not even pull up the sheets because she was still too warm for them.

Outside the Solberg home the full moon shone bright as day and in a clear sky free of light pollution a star gazer would be watching as no less than seven stars aligned perfectly with that bright full moon in the dark sky above.

The next day just barely past noon

Scott stopped at his daughter’s door and laughed to it as he called out, “Time to wake up sleepyhead, we got things to do and places to be at. John’s game day bar-b-que is starting soon!” he said referring to his close neighbor that was having a small get together.

He opened the door when he got or heard no response and we met with a sight that shocked him to the core, “What the heck is happening to my baby!” he shouted to the world.

On Sammi’s bed was his girl, his baby Scott assumed. What should be the form of a small teen girl was now covering most of a queen sized bed! It had to be his daughter. There was no other choice in the matter…this blob on the bed HAD TO BE HER!

The mass on the bed was gooey for the most part and had an inner glow, a pulsating glow that went in waves from head to foot. Scott dared to touch parts of the mass, some were very slimy but that slime did not simply brush away at all and some parts were as hard as stone…those hard parts were growing. The whole mass was slowly growing harder and harder as he watched!

Scott FREAKED OUT, “Who do I call?” she shouted, “The cops…” he shook his head to the idea, “What are they going to do…arrest it!”

He thought again,“Maybe call the fire department?” and what, have them squirt water on it to free his baby?

Call the MCO (Mutant Commission Office) and have them come over and fix this? “And have them take Sammie away as a prized lab rat!” He realized that calling in the ‘experts’ was a bad idea even in California where mutants had many, many more rights than most of the nation combined!

Scott tried to think and keep his growing panic at bay, “Who to call, WHO TO CALL!?” the shouted to the room and the world

He was just about to give in as he pulled out his phone, he took time to go over this ever growing list of contacts Family, friends, Sammie’s friends, their parents, the soccer club, the Karate team. That is when one contact stood out among them all and the long note he had placed beside it.

‘Bill Varney, ex-marine. Drow twins/elves and then Pvt school/east’ as a note to where they or he was from and the stand out note of all ‘ARC’ and he knew that stood for REAL experts in everything mutant and magic “Arkham Research Consortium”

Scott hit dial and the phone rang, someone answered in a few rings. “Scott?” the voice asked.

“Bill…Bill it's Sammi, my Sammi I need help!” Scott panicked out.

“What Scott, tell me or call the cops or the fir…” Bill started, then was cut off by Scott hitting the phone’s video button and flipping to the rear facing camera…”This is what…Sammi is inside that!”

Bill looked closely at the small screen on his phone as Scott thousands of miles away panned over what had become of this teen daughter. “You are the only one I thought I could call and trust!”

“When did all this happen?” Bill asked while gathering mental notes.

“Must have been late last night…I guess?” Scott gave back flipping the camera back to his face.

“So did anything happen that would lead you to even in the slightest belief caused this?” Bill asked.

“You mean, besides two dark elves landing in my kids closet a few months back!” Scott barked!

“Yes Scott I get it, but the twins can’t do this to your daughter…to Sammi. They are not magic users of that kind of power or skill. They only blast stuff, not change things or people or fix things or people!” Bill reasoned back.

“Then who do you know that can help us…me…HER!” Scott cried thinking he might be losing his only kid!

“The twins do know lots of stuff about everything, magic or fae…but this? It might be well beyond what they do know and that is what I am leaning towards, that they will not know this. Then add this has been a bad few weeks for them…” Bill started and Scott jumped on him before he could even finish.

“And like our week looks like it's going to be a good thing right now!”

“Calm down, I have one other person that should know about this and she knows a million times more than the twins will ever learn! I’ll go get her on this, give me half an hour to go talk with her!”

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Sammie's story an incident of magic and Fae

I am adding this character in to flesh out my stories with more characters I can control fully and not barrow too many of others laying around the Whateley school

Lets see how you all like it and PLEASE PLEASE comment or I don't know what to do next or if you even like this plot?

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Bill hung up on Scott for now, then innerly hoped the dad would calm down a bit, not go off the handle and call in who knows bad people while he was desperate for help. He took a few extra seconds to sync up his larger tablet with his phone and download Scott’s video of his daughter or what might be his daughter?

“Honey I got to run down the block to the Barron’s place and talk to Kyley about something. If I am not back, don't tell the twins anything about where I went if they get back early from their ride.” he asked his wife Jineen while making a beeline for the front door.

Bill was in luck and both of the twins were gone when Scott called or they would be over there in LA within a hot nano-second trying to help out in any way possible and right now they did not need even more grief on their plates!

Happy that the twins were not here to worry about something they had little control over, He ran down his row of upscale condos, then down the street that looped over to the rest of the huge complex of condos towards the room that Kyley and her girl Becky lived in.

As he was about to run down their walkway to the front of their condo, when he heard the distinctful slam of the pair’s garage door closing…it sounded very much like a vault door closing. Because it was nearly a vault door, with it being made of several inches of thick composite armor and huge locking bolts that cammed into the garage walls!

Many people wanted access to Kyley, any access and some even wanted to hurt or kill her because of what she was. She was a ‘GOO' or a ‘Great Old One’ in many ways she was and in many ways she definitely was not. Why she might be in danger was some thought, all of the GOO were 100% evil beings, devils or demons here to harm humankind or end the world itself!

Upon hearing that large door thud, Bill instantly changed direction to make sure he was not running right on past them leaving to go somewhere and might not be back for hours or days! On his new path, he ran up the driveway towards both women who had just finished backing up in their car and Becky was driving mostly because Kyley had not taken up driving and had no plans at this time or for years if you talked to her. She’d rather take to her own wings and just fly to where she wanted to, but flying around like that was frowned upon. That being a mutant or person with powers showing off in sight of the public in general!

As he ran up on the car turning down the driveway, Becky thought for a brief second that he might be a new attacker and pondered running Bill right over as a defensive move…then she recognized him and rolled down her armored window on the BMW that ARC had issued for her use.

“What’s up Bill? She asked, “Is there something wrong to have you all running around like a mad man?” Becky asked while Kyley was in the passenger seat listening intently waiting for his reply.

“I need…well someone I know needs help on this and I think Kyley is the only one that might even know what this is?” Bill said, pulling up the video in question on his tablet and showing it to the pair of girls.

Kyley leaned over Becky to watch the video and nodded at it, “Can you give that___me Bill?”

Bill handed the tablet over as Becky corrected her love, “Honey that is ‘Give that TO me bill’ You left off the TO again love”

Kyley corrected herself at a mumble while watching the video, “This bed is a very good looking toy Bill and I don’t see anything really wrong. I’d say ‘greats or is that gratz’ to his child growing up.” she said while trying to hand the tablet back.

“Its Gratz hon” Becky said, making sure that Kyley was sure of the right term to use in this case.

“AHHH that bed is not a toy bed, it's a human sized queen bed with a blob on top that used to be a human girl inside it!” Bill corrected the teen or what looked to be a teen to most that even looked her way.

“Are you sure of this?” Kyley asked once again as she replayed the video and looked for something to judge size better within the pic and spotted a quarter sitting on the nightstand, she zoomed in to see the coin clearer and sure enough it appeared real and very much human sized!

“So do you know what this is and can you help her…help this kid?” Bill had to ask and try to speed this up for Sammi’s sake.

“Where is this happening? I have to see this in person to judge if I can even help or just let it run its set course?” Kyley stated to Bill very much like a teacher would to students.

“So you know what this is then?” he had to ask again wanting to get a faster answer for the worried father.

“I have to see it in person to be sure, until then I will say or do nothing to help or hinder the family.” Kyley insisted flatly as she handed the tablet back to Bill.

“Okay okay, so can you go see this today…now maybe?”

“Yes, if Becky agrees we don’t have other important plans.”

“Love, I think this kid’s life is way more important than us shopping or having an early dinner out!” Becky warned Kyley.

“I have to be sure, remember you don’t always tell me everything and I find out at the last minute sometimes what is going on in my life!” the teen said obviously rubbing salt into a wound or an old fight between the two!

“Fine then Becky get up to ARC, I’ll call ahead and have you booked for a gate to LA and have your emergency ‘go bags’ standing by for the trip…now GIT!” Bill ordered and Becky just nodded while the window rolled up and she floored the car to the end of the driveway, then made a side sliding drift turn down the street.

Bill shook his head to the act, the tire smoke and the speed. “She must have taken lessons from the twins!”

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Fifteen minutes later.

Bill had ran back to his condo, then upstairs to the master bedroom where he shut the door to be private and then pulled out a small gem from the nightstand. The gem was a gift from the twins so that Bill and Jinneen could have more private moments that a married couple would have and not have the insanely sensitive ears of a pair of Drow listening in or the both of them with pillows over their heads going “LALALAALLAI hear NOTHINGGGG!” in a sergeant Shultz voice!

With the room all set for prying ears or eyes, Bill called Scott back, “Scott I got my expert all lined up and I just want to make sure of your address again before they leave from here.”

Scott gave his address again even though it had not changed since the last encounter they had, but Bill was making sure of everything and that is what a trained Ex-corpsman and trauma nurse like him did when lives were on the line…they made sure work of each and every step!

When Bill was sure that Scott was holding it all together still, he added in needed important information, “Now Scott please write this down… the person I am sending to help you is Kyley Barron and Becky Dahlgrean. Becky is a woman, human about Twenty five-ish and is Kyley’s guardian. Now Kyley is a WHOLE new kettle of fish, she might look like a teen-aged human BUT she is several hundred of thousands of years old if not several million! AND I am not joking, I will not explain all about her…But go look up ‘GOO’“ he spelled out to Scott for better clarity ”or Great Old Ones and you will get a better idea of what she is.”

Scott wrote down each important item and shook his head, “What am I getting into!” he thought slinky just before he asked, “Can this Kyley help my Sammi?” he pleaded.

“If she can’t or does not know what can…then no one I personally knows can and I have access to the best minds in the world with a phone call. Kyley is the best I can do!” Bill insisted.

“How long will this take…them getting here to us in California?”

“I’d say an hour or so? Most of the travel time is them driving up to ARC to catch a ride to LA and then once in LA drive down to your place from the ARC facility in the Santa Clarita valley.”

“Can they go faster?” Scott worried out.

“Not that I can tell Scott, there is no landing area for a hovership or helicopter near your home that we can use without the police being involved and making it really messy, then the MCO might get involved as it is their job to?” Bill warned that what was planned right now, was the best option they all had for now to remain secret and out of the eyes of the authorities.

“Okay I don’t want MCO involved just yet and I am sure you would agree?”

“Yes, but let me get some of your information over to Becky so they know where to go!...bye” Bill said not really wanting to cut Scott off, but he had too.

Bill got up and yelled down stairs to his wife, “Honey get up here please?” He asked having an idea!

Jineen ran upstairs as fast as she could when Bill yelped, because his voice that tone of “Something bad happened”

When Jineen got to the master bedroom she was a bit more than excited, “Well Honey, what disaster has befallen us now?” she worried out.

“Jin you remember Scott and his little girl Sammi out in LA that the twins dropped in on a few months back?” Bill asked.

“Sure, I remember them both. That Sammi sure is a nice kid and Art hooked her up with some fine movie stuff for helping out that night.”

“Well it seems that Sammi is in trouble and is covered or trapped inside some kind of strange thing…” he said and showed his wife the video that Scott took.

Jineen was shocked at what she saw on the tablet, “I have never seen such a thing happen to anyone and I have lived a very long time. So do we call the twins?”

“No I called Kyley in on this over stacking even more crazy on the twins minds right now and she is headed out there right now with Becky…Ohh I gotta call them to give them Scott’s address and make sure they are all set with gating from ARC.”

“Well get on that!”

“Ohh honey,” Bill said handing Jineen his cell phone, “Call Scott back and have him search the house for anything that might have caused this mess…It will get his mind off his kid for a few and help settle him down a bit I hope?”

While Jineen called Scott back, Bill made his own call to Becky on his tablet. The call connected almost instantly and Bill could tell they were just entering ARC’s inner drive by the sounds of the gate shutting and the car still making sounds, “Hey Bill we just got here and I will skip parking and just leave the car at the main entry…call them and tell them to move it?”

“Will do and I just sent you the address in LA with contact info for Scott. Did you call ahead for a gate time and set up a ride in LA?” Bill had to ask and if she said no he could call in up at ARC while they walked in.

“All done and I set up one high priority so they are waiting just for us. It's nice to have tons of pull with the higher ups!” Becky beamed that the ARC bosses listened to her every word and jumped on any request she made in Kyley’s name.

Kyley laughed at hearing her love talk about being important, “It's good to be queen or king or emperor!”

“Yep it's good to be queen!” Bill agreed with both ladies.

Kyley took the phone from Becky’s hand as she grabbed a bag from her car’s trunk, “Tell me Bill, how do you know this family out in LA…It___strange you know a regular human that far away?”

Becky heard that verbal mistake, “Seems…love…seems!” She corrected Kyley!

“Well we met the Solberg family a few months back when the twins teleported into Sammi’s closet when they had a mental bump and Sammi is a teen girl about fourteen or fifteen years old, her dad is Scott.” Bill started to explain.

“Why did Rohanna and Rehanna go there, ____ out to Los Angeles?” Ky asked next.

“Way out….love” Beck added before Bill could speak, “Well it's the same home that Rohanna grew up in when she was human…a human man.” Bill gave finally.

“This home is where Rohanna grew up?” Ky had to ask again.

“Yes it's a fact, his or her old human part grew up inside that home years before her or his change into a Drow.”

“How long ago did this happen...The last time Rohanna or her old self was there?”

“Ohh the late 1960’s after her parents died in a car wreck.”

“So Rohanna changed when?” Ky had to ask because none of this was making sense and she had not really ever asked the twins about their personal history…she just accepted them as is! Though she did know for sure they were older than they looked and that some very very powerful magics were used in changing them or her into Drow!”

Bill gave his best a quickest history on the pair without letting too much information go free, “The human part vanished back in December 1976 and then popped back up suddenly, still a human in early 2007. Then changed over a day or so into a Drow and you know that the Rehanna half came later?”

“Okay, so a human was not around for three decades and then suddenly popped back up? Was he over fifty when the change to Drow happened?” she had to ask, wondering how much magic was involved!

“When ‘he’ popped back up, he was not a day older that we could tell, then he changed within hours to the Drow you know now.”

“OHHHHH this is very complicated!” Kyley said and a creature as old and knowledgeable as her being confused was telling!

“You are telling me!” Bill tried to laugh, but knew this was no joking matter!

“So the same house years apart has two rather interesting things happen to those that lived or are living there?” Kyley said, but was more stating a fact.

“Could it be all connected?” Bill wondered out.

“Might be, BUT it____early to tell”

Becky interrupted, “It's way early….” she said correcting Ky, “and Bill we gotta go, our gate to LA is charged up and ready for us. We'll call you once we are en route!” and she hung up.

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While Bill was going over details with Kyley and Becky

Jineen called Scott and quickly introduced herself to the man again to be sure that he indeed remembered her. Jin had found in her many years alive that people tended to forget even the simplest facts when in stressful situations like this!

“So Scott I can overhear what Bill is dealing with for you and your daughter and I can tell you that help is in the way. The best we can find right now in the whole world in my opinion!”

Scott sighed over the phone, “Good…so this woman or ‘being’ is coming to over here in LA soon?”

“Yep, both of them are on their way and Kyley may look like a teenager, but she knows far more than us simple humans could ever know or learn in our short lives.”

“I’ll have to ask why or what she is later…a longer, more complete explanation. Right now I can’t even think straight with my Sammi looking like this!” Scott added in and Jineen could tell the poor father was close to panicking.

Jineen had to change the subject and get Scott’s raging mind off his kid, “Scott while help is on the way let's do a simple check of your house and see if what caused all this is in the house? I bet you’d spot something out of place long before Kyley might…so let's start by you looking around Sammi’s room for anything strange?”

“Okay” Scott said reluctantly, but Jineen kept on him and led him through Sammi’s room as he started to search. She had seen the layout of the home and Sammi’s room while they were there to get the twins back, so she knew the place more than basically.

“Now Scott I’d start around Sammi’s bed real quick, but take care not to touch the bed till Kyley gets there and can judge if that is a good idea or not?” she suggested and he reluctantly agreed to the plan.

Scott looked all around his child's bed that was on one far side of her room and found nothing out of place or the norm, then he got on his hands and knees to take a look under the bed…a small peak.

“Baby I am so sorry, but daddy has friends coming that will fix this!” he said almost crying as he did look under the bed via using a lightsaber toy Sammi had. He poked it under the bed’s dust skirt from a distance and saw nothing but her storage boxes and a few candy wrappers she must have hidden or let slip down there.

Next he went through all the drawers in her dresser and made sure to thoroughly check under each pile of clothes. He trusted his daughter, so invading her privacy dwelled on him some. Twelve drawers searched and nothing strange or out of place. Scott did find her little ‘personal box’ most kids have, he peeked inside and only saw a diary, her pics of friends or fun times and a few things she saved as memories!

“Well on to Sammi’s closet next,” he told Jineen on his phone, then went to open the small room’s door and found the room filled with a soft pulsing glow. “WHAT THE HECK?” he barked at the sight.

“WHAT! Scott what?” Jineen shouted at the line, hoping it was not bad and the father was now in danger too!

“There is a glowing golden or brass or bronze colored metallic box on Sammi’s closet floor and it's glowing on and off!” Scott said as he stepped towards the glowing object.

“DO NOT EVEN GET NEAR IT SCOTT!” she warned the father at a shout!

“Well what should I do then?” he had to ask, watching as the strange thing glowed on softly.

“Tell me what it looks like, size or anything else?”

“It is golden or brass metal covered in symbols or some might call them runes?” he more than kind of asked Jineen who might know?

“Yes magic users usually call them runes over using the description of symbols” Jin gave and she should know the subject well. She was a magic user at one time and gave that all up for Bill, her husband and love in life.

“Okay, and going on the darn thing is a little less than three foot long by one and half and one an half foot tall.”

“Huuum, so it's one by half by half then?” she asked and wondered.

“It seems so?”

“That measurement has some magic connotations…It's a representation of perfect math and sometimes math is used in spells as a basis for magic or in place of runes.” she said yet wondered out at the same time!

“What does that mean then?” Scott had to ask as he was getting very frustrated!

“It’s like the ‘2001 space odyssey monolith’ perfect in all measurements and this one is just a bit different in size but might be along the same idea.”

“What fucking ever, I just want my Sammi back all fine and this thing gone!” he barked at the phone in frustration.

“I get it Scott, let’s just take a break and you go get a soda or something to calm down and try to stay sane for Sammi…she will need you to be as calm as possible.”

Scott gave in with a sigh, “You’re right I have to stay calm and sane for Sammi,” and he headed into the home’s kitchen, grabbed a coke from the fridge that he poured over some ice in a glass, then he pulled a bottle of whiskey from a high up cabinet and added a small slash to the drink.

He took a sip, “Ahhh that is what daddy needed!”

While Scoot took that needed drink and break from worrying about Sammi’s fate for just a bare second

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Outside the home while Scott tried to relax

Five black SUVs rolled up in front of the home and anyone could tell these were not your normal ‘soccer mom’ SUVs buy the fact they were a bit longer, stretched in the middle for more room in the back passenger area and the way they shined as if just polished…the sure sign of each SUV being very well taken care of!

The pack of SUVs pulled up the street much like the secret service would do protecting the president, they somewhat parked loosely with wheels pointing out back out into the street with the SUV at each end ready to block off the whole street if need arose to!

Each SUV but one off loaded no less than five people that took to checking out the area around them, a pack of four broke off and walked up to the home while four others opened the middle SUV’s door for two women to exit, well really one blond woman and one utterly beautiful blond teen girl.

“Kyley love, please wait for the team to make sure it's safe,” the older one of the pair warned.

“Them protect me?” the teen questioned as she spun around for a brief second, “More like___protect them!” she laughed and kept walking.

“Like ‘I’ protect them…my love,” the older one said and waved to the team to spread out and make one more check of the street.

“I…I…I…when will ‘I’ ever get this language right!” the teen growled at herself more than the women that just had corrected her.

Kyley knocked on the home’s door and Scott came to the door at a run to answer it. He was a bit taken back that most of his lawn and the street was now covered by the ‘ear piece mafia’ of bodyguards. His mind raced, “this kid must be some kind of important!”

“Hi I am Kyley and you must be Scott then?” the beautiful teen he found at the door asked and a huge male bodyguard standing by her side eyeballed Scott from top to bottom making sure he was not a threat.

“Yes I am Scott, so you are here to help?” he had to question even after being warned that this teen was far more than she looked and she looked like an angel!

The older blond was just now getting to the door and waved to Scott, “We are here to save the day…we hope!” and she walked right past the still stunned Scott as he let her pass-by into his home, then let Kyley in as well. The huge guard was last with a buddy female that moved so fast it looked like she could run a marathon in an hour tops even with stopping for a meal! The big guy closed the door softly, but did not let the door latch in case he wanted or needed back outside quickly!

“Scott, can we see your daughter or what you think your daughter is?” Kyley smiled, lighting up the room instantly with her presence.

“This way, “Scott said as he waved for her to follow him and the other woman was right behind introducing herself as they walked, “Scott, I am Becky and I look after Kyley… the guards are here just because it was faster to use ARC resources to get to you here in LA and ARC protects its bigger investments like Kyley.”

Scott entered the room first but waited just inside the door for both ladies to pass him, Kyley tilted her head in puzzlement at the sight of Sammi encased laying on her bed. Becky seeing and feeling her love puzzled was certainly not the norm at all.

“So?” Becky was the first to ask.

Kyley slipped into using her race’s language that Becky knew by heart, the only human in the world that did! “Ahhh this is very strange indeed. I have only ever seen this happen with Fae and the biggest ones of those were only about this big!” she said while measuring out about a foot between her outstretched hands.

“Becky was taken back by that information, “Really?”

“Yessss…really. I have not seen this in ages and here on your planet since your flow of essence is still low until that World tree planted by Whateley grows up a bit more. This does not happen to the Fae of this world. They just get older like humans do, going from a young child, to teen, to finally adult. This right here is what an old age or older world Fae would look like changing from a child to a teenager!” Kyley told Becky, but kept Scott wondering what they were saying about his kid as they stuck to a strange language he did not know!

“WHAT!” Scott finally broke and shouted at the pair, “WHAT about my girl are you both talking about!”

Becky took Scott’s arm and guided him just outside the room’s door, “Scott please give us a few here to fully figure out what has happened and we talk in Kyley’s native language so that she does not have issues with skipping words or meanings by accident. You see, as smart as she is, she has a bit of trouble with English and many other earth languages as well.”

“She is not from earth?” he asked, shocked that she was not!

“Nope her planet was very far away and is gone now…obliterated. But she goes on living here with us and helps us silly humans as best she can. I can get into more of this with you later please.” Becky asked as she walked back over to Kyley that was leaning over the bed and the strange mound on top of it.

Kyley leaned closer and even dared to touch the mound. She ‘tapped’ on it a few times with a fingernail and even gave it a few pokes. “Yep she is coming along nicely inside there, the outer caprice is all hard now and in a few days or a week we get to see what she becomes?” Kyley said in her native language.

“What is that?” Becky asked, taking a few notes on her tablet that she just pulled from her large messenger bag.

“Not too sure, she might end up as some kind of elf or sidhe or some other large Fae. But this caprice says fairy or pixie all over it to me. It's just that the size is WAY off!” Kyley said while taking a slow walk around the bed to see it from all angles that she could.

“You said it should be about a foot long at best?”

“Yes, that is normal for the smaller Fae that change or ‘grow up’ or transition like this via what could be called a cocoon. Much like you present butterflies do.”

Becky made quick notes and made some ready for ARC, they would want in on this and would help the family out to further the company’s research. Unless Kyley stopped them and she had that power. ARC would not want to go around her wanting to keep this more personal for the family! ARC did not want to anger Kyley and lose harvest knowledge as it was a very valuable resource!

“Let me see” Kyley started as she waved a hand to open her personal magical storage and pulled out a small crystal jar. “I think you are powered from over here?” she said as she switched her own personal vision to see the small ley lines of magic flowing across the room and into the closet right through the wall.

When Scott saw that Kyley was headed that way, he checked to see where the guard was and noted that he was far enough away, “I found a strange golden or bronze metallic box in there and it's all glowy with runes all over it!” he said at a low whisper as he walked past them, then opened the closet door and pointed towards the pulsing glow.

“Thanks Scott I have it from here, please back out of the room again.” Kyley said confidently, while instilling in Scott that she did indeed know something and was not the simple teen that she appeared to be at all!

“Yes here we are,” Kyely said to the box, “You must be the cause and I have seen your bigger brothers in the vault under the Medawihla tribal village!”

“What boxes are those Kyley, I never saw notes on them for ARC while you worked on translating the library down there for the tribe and ARC?” Becky asked in their personal language.

“And you will never see me make notes on them, both boxes are in the deep vault that no human can ever go into and not die or go raving insane then die a few days later. There are a few things we must both keep from the humans around us and those boxes up at the tribe or this is one right here is one of them.”

“All forgotten my love, but let me guess they have some connection to the box that Rohanna was found with and that she reclaimed as her own. This smaller box looks every much like pictures I have seen of her’s,”

“Yes, I do see a connection with this one’s runes and shape or measurements just being smaller for the only real difference that anyone would note first.”

“With Rohanna growing up right in this home until she or he was eighteen, that is one big connection…love!”

“It is!” Keyley gave as she opened the small jar in her hand and sprinkled a small pich of it over it, then tossed the rest of the dust into the air of the closet and watched as it too glowed in synchronization with the box as it showed several lines going to the box as it floated along unseen air currents or something else!

Becky knew what that dust was flowing in instantly by sharing vision with her life mate Kyley, “So the magic or essence of the area is flowing into that box and being amplified greatly and sent over to Sammi to change her or feed the change?”

“You are learning!” Kyley smiled, “all my time teaching you magic is not wasted then!”

“Yes I am, but I still have to master pulling a rabbit from a top hat!” she giggled as loudly as she dared to with Scott only a few yards away, she did not want to upset the father with humor right now.

“No rabbits, but you can put this away for me and don’t break it like you did the bottle last time,” Kyley quipped as her hand extended with the small.

Becky bowed a bit as she took the small jar from Kyley’s hand, “Yes ohh great teacher!” and then she made several jesters in the air that had glowing traces from her fingertips and a shadowy hole opened in the air much like Kyley had to done to obtain the jar. Becky then put the jar in the hole and waved it closed. Any good magic user could tell that Becky needed far more gestures to do the same thing as Kyley did that only needed one wave of her hand to really reach for the jar!

“Keep trying, that spell was horrible and almost closed on your arm. You would have lost it to my storage space and that is not good. Then add sooner or later I will get you creating magic with your thoughts alone and none of that hand waving, finger wiggling crutches stuff other humans need!”

Kyley walked out in the home’s hallway and spoke to the anxiously waiting father, “Scott from what I see Sammi will be just fine…changed into a creature of the Fae. But she will be better in most ways than her human self was.”

“Can’t you stop this with…magic!” he nearly shouted.

“It would hurt her and anything I did to stop this would come at the cost of ending her life, the life she had in many ways.”

“What is that?” Scott had to ask.

“This is drastic and only she can agree to it…she would be bound to me forever and basically she is mine…very much like a slave.”

“You can do that?” Scott puzzled out and now was a bit leery of the teen.

“I am not human and far past what you would call mortal.” is all Kyley said.

“Can you take me instead!” he spat out.

“I could, but why? She is going to be better in so many ways. So many ways that she will be better, it might take hours to tell them all to you…she will live longer, be in better health and who knows beyond that!”

Scott pondered what Kyley just said and leapt to a quick conclusion as a thought popped into his head, “Did those damn twins have anything to do with this!” he shouted at Kyley.

“No they did not do this, what changed them and Sammi might come from the same place as both lived here. Whoever lived here Sammi or the twins had or has good odds they would have changed in some way. I think this place, this home might be some kind of nexus for this kind of thing to happen? I am not sure and it might take me years if not decades to find out one way or another?” Kyley explained what she was pondering herself!

“I still think those fucking elves did this!” Scott raged on not really understanding what was going on. He was just frustrated, scared for his kid and lashing out wildly at anything.

Kyley let slip her power of projecting emotions and let off waves of calm toward the angry father as she spoke, “Scott you have to know the elves, Sidhe like I do and any one of them would rather chop off an arm or leg before hurting a kid. And if they ever willingly killed one, they would be instantly ostracized by all others of their race and many other races forever if not hunted down and killed for the crime.” she explained even farther. (note Kyley had to add ‘Willingly’ to her description because it was known by the race as a whole, that many of their kind were indeed FORCED to do heinous acts by the royals!)

Scott sighed as he calmed down, “So what do we do now?”

“We wait till she is done changing and see what her new life has given her and help her from there.”

“How long again?” he asked once more.

“A few days maybe a week at best I think, but if you want to I will stay here and watch over her with you.” Kyley said and Becky nodded along with her, “Yes we can wait with you, watch her as you rest and just so you know Kyley does not really need to sleep. She can stay up for days, weeks, months straight if need be and she is the best I know of to help your daughter.”

Scott gave in, “Then we wait…want some coffee?” he offered, waving the pair towards his kitchen.

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Sammie's story an incident of magic and Fae

I am adding this character in to flesh out my stories with more characters I can control fully and not barrow too many of others laying around the Whateley school

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Inside Scott’s kitchen, the group of three came up with a short plan.

“No…I insist that I will be staying here and watch over Sammi inside her room Becky.” Ky smiled while sipping her coco slowly.

“But love, we can stay at a real nice hotel and ARC is getting a condo set up that is only a mile away. In an emergency you could fly over in less than a minute!” Becky sighed out slowly, not really wanting to sleep on the couch for days or a few weeks!

“I want to be here for her and if you want to sleep in the hotel or condo place. It is fine,__ will be like a normal week when___at school?” Kyley insisted once more and Becky knew that she was not going to change her mind via the tone of her voice, plus the wave of “Shut IT” she just felt over their personal connection!

“Okay I’ll get the hotel set up for me and make sure that is all set if you ever need it?” Becky sighed sipping away at her coffee as she tapped away on her tablet and firmed up plans, then made sure that the people at Whateley and ARC were kept up to date on Kyley’s ever evolving plans for the most part not to be in class or doing research for a week it seems.

Scott rinsed out his “Best dad ever!” coffee mug and thought about it. Sammi gave it to him last Christmas and would she ever have another fun day with him again? That thought weighed on him heavily and Kyley felt it instantly....”Scott I can sense your feelings, It__one of my powers and believe me Sammi will be better and soon.”

Becky was going to correct Kyley on her speech but felt that this was not the time to say anything like correcting a simple mistake in what word to use and when. So she just tapped away on her tablet while the two of them talked about Sammi and how Ky was sure that the teen would be fine and in her mind ‘improved’ in many ways! Becky understood that and actually wanted that in life and that reason is why she joined with Kyley forever…to be a larger part in the life of the whole world and beyond!

After they chatted for several minutes and Kyley had soothed the poor father’s nerves, he grabbed a chair from the dining table, “This is about all we got offer for you to sit on in Sammi’s room while you wait.”

“Ohh I don’t need that, I can just sit on the floor cross legged like when I meditate back home or___ kneel too.” Ky grinned back as if sitting on a floor for days was nothing and it was to her!

“How about I get you some of our pillows or I fold up one of my large comforters for you to sit on?” Scott offered not wanting a girl to not feel welcome and cared for inside his home. He could not have a teen girl treated badly in his place! Little did he understand that for Kyley to sit in one spot motionless for a few years was very normal to her!

“Its okay Scott, I got an idea.” she said to him then tapped Becky on the shoulder an act she did for Scott’s benefit only because Becky already knew what she was going to ask via their shared mental connection.

“Yessss love?” she smiled back knowing what was coming.

“Can you go get one of those meditation mats like the twins have in their room while I stay here for Sammi and Scott?”

“Sure can love, BUT now that we have lackeys and GOfers working for us. I’ll send them to go fetch that pad instead of me going and stay here to help both of you with Sammi!” Becky said while walking out the door and grabbing one of the team's two administration people and she ordered the man to go get an item she sent to his tablet, “CHOP CHOP!” she barked at the man before he ran off to a waiting SUV of the group.

While the lackey was gone, Kyley helped Scott clean up and straighten up Sammi’s room for her to have a good deal of space to sit in and wait for Sammi’s change to finish. While she helped, Scott found it strange that Ky had grabbed a towel rack from the bathroom and sat it in Sammi’s room in the corner just a few feet from the bed. But he said nothing after hitting his maximum for ‘strange’ today!

As the day progressed on, the meditation mat arrived with its ‘knight errant’ lackey handing it off to Becky who dropped it on Sammi’s bedroom floor right where Kyley had asked for it to be. Scott wanted to whip up a small dinner for everyone, but Becky calmly waved that idea off as she had the security team order food for everyone while they set up two RV’s for their use, one parked on the street and the other one in the home’s rather large driveway.

Even with the Rv’s close at hand Scott did notice that at least one guard kept a direct eye on Kyley at all times and they still posted two in the front of the house and two in the backyard or walking around the home.

“Boy they sure do keep an eye on you. Are you in that much danger?” he had to ask, as he wondered what or who he had let into his home.

“They worry far too much!” Kyley said while grabbing a very small slice of pizza and adding four more in different flavors. Scott had noted that trend with the teen, she didn't eat that much for a girl this old and size with her pushing an easy six foot!

“They are here because they feel that Kyley is valuable and needs protecting. She does tons of work for ARC and others all over the world…the foremost expert in ancient dead languages of the Fae among others! Then add an expert in STRANGE…booga booga!” Becky laughed as she made weird faces and gestures to match the “booggga…boogga!”

“Okay, I just have to wonder again about the dangers?” he worried.

“I would not Scott. One, almost no one knows we are here even with SEAL team six following us around” she grinned meaning the guards “and Two, the list of people or things dumb enough to take on Kyley and the guards in the open can be counted on one hand with fingers left over!” Becky reasoned to the father as she grabbed a handful of fries from a large box of them and plopped the pile onto her plate.

Scott nodded his head in agreement as he helped an assistant clean up some of the pizza boxes and put some random leftover slices all into one box that he placed into his fridge, “I am going to go get showered up after I check in on Sammi.” he sighed leaving the room.

An hour later Scott felt better with a fresh hot shower behind him and wanted to check on how Sammi was doing, plus what Kyley was up too? When he stopped at Sammi’s doorway, his jaw hit the floor at the sight of Kyley already sitting on the meditation mat only dressed in a crop top tee and shorts that were WAY too short!

Scott had to react on the spot and asked Kyley in a voice that only a father can use, “Do you dress like this all the time?”

“At school going to bed, yes.” she flatly stated back, “and at home going to bed I wear nothing and for the most part of the day while in the house…nothing.”

“You can’t wear that around me…the guards?” he stated, a bit embarrassed that his thoughts were wondering!

“Scott I can feel that wave of…you know coming from you and this is only a shell to me.” Kyley said, waving a hand over herself, “I have taken many forms during a very long life and this should not bother you…because it does not bother me.”

“Ahh I prefer you to be fully dressed for the guards sake and mine when…not sleeping?” he wondered about the idea of Kyley ‘sleeping’ when he was told she did not!

“Very well Scott this is your home and tomorrow I will wear my sweats to ‘bed’ as you instruct…is that fine?” she asked and Scott nodded back, “Thanks and good night. I might…heck will check on Sammi a few times tonight.

“I would expect no less from a great father like you Scott…night.” Ky said and closed her eyes to show others she was meditating. But in reality she really did not use ‘eyes’ her form did not need them, she only really had them and a human form to better blend in with…humans!

Hours later well into the night

Scott wrestled in bed with his sheets unable to sleep and decided to make a round trip of the house while he got some ice water from the fridge and went to the bathroom to toss some water on his face.

The still worried father put a wet cloth to his face and wiped at the grim he had from sweating over his kid Sammi, he put it on a towel rack to dry and grabbed his huge water mug to go down the hallway to fill it. As he passed by Sammi’s room he leaned in to check on his girl and as he did he was shocked to find an absolutely HUGE all black hawk perched on the towel rack that Kyley had put in the room.

Scott just stared at the large bird of prey and it stared back at him not even blinking once! It would tilt its head to him once and a while, then go back to looking over the room as if guarding it and those inside it from harm.

“If this was any other day I would freak out” he sighed, “but not tonight!”

Giving up to the madness of the day, Scott made his way to the kitchen and started getting his water. Becky stirred on the couch from her sleeping, she had wanted to stay at least the first night to make sure all was good. She leaned up onto the back of the couch and studied Scott filling his glass, “Just so you know Scott, that large hawk is ‘Night’ and belongs to Ky and is part of her. They usually separate at night or when the can to ‘rest’ is the best term and let Night have some fun out.”

“How did you know I saw the bird?” Scott had to ask.

“Kyley and I are connected and thus me with Night. So I ‘saw’ you look into the room via her sight.”

Scott just shakes his head at the continued strangeness, “Well that's new and kind of makes sense when you compare it to the rest of the week so far.”

“It will get better Scott,”

Are you so very sure it will?” he had to ask, having doubts it would.

“All I can say is Scott, have hope and all will be well. If Ky thought that Sammi would not be okay, she would have told you…it would have hurt her to tell you…but she would have said something. You have my word on that!”

Nine days later

Scott strolled down his home’s hallway and waited for Becky to exit the hall’s bathroom. She was in early, just before dawn just like everyday that they had been here. But Scott found that this day was far different than the rest as he entered the kitchen and spotted Kyley sitting at the dining table with that large golden box in front of her.

The box itself was not glowing anymore and Ky was studying it closely while making small notes in a large book he had seen her with over the last few days. One thing did stand out to him, Ky had the box on a rune covered cloth right now and she used it to slide or spin the box around from time to time.

“So why did you move that ‘thing’?” he spat at the box and not her.

“It seems it has done its job and powered down last night at solar midnight on the dot and so happens to be the same time the moon set too. So I touched it…it didn't really like it…but it's not connected to Sammi anymore!”

Becky had to bubble in as she watched Ky at work, “So did you find anything my love?”

“Well it had been upside down all this time and the top has a rather nice crest for the Royal family of the Pix on the top…nice and dead center!” she said pointing it out.

Scott had to squint at that box, looking for that mark and only found it when Ky put a pencil up to point it out directly, “Why is it so small and why is it important?”

“Well it means the royal family had some dealings with the box’s making or at least approved it being made. Hard to tell what might have really happened with all the passing of time and nothing being really recorded from back then. Least nothing I have found!”

“So this being here instead of sitting in Sammi’s closet means?” he had to ask.

“Well the box seems to have done its job and is not sending magical essence or spells at Sammi any more. So its part of this job is done and she is just…humm…finishing up or cooking thoroughly might be a good term to use?” Kyley puzzled on what to call this part of Sammi’s transformation.

The expression on Scott’s face seemed to brighten, “So Sammi is done and she will be back to me soon?”

“She was always here with you Scott, but she will be fine and in a few days she will be back in your arms I am pretty sure…as sure as I can be on matters of magic.”

“So not sure…but kind of sure?” he had to ask back.

“With magic one did not make, create, weave or influence you never know what extra spells got weaved into the original mix at the end and what they might do and when they might do it. BUT from what I see Sammi is done transforming and we all await for her to wake up? Is that the best term…wake up or come back?” She asked Becky for her opinion on the matter.

“I'd say ‘wake up’ is a good term.”

“Not soon enough for me,” is all Scott could muster in his sigh of defeat.

“Scott I understand what you are going through,”

“Really?”

“Scott I have had many children and sadly outlived them all…” is all Kyley gave before going back to her work at making short notes and taking a few pics of Sammi’s ongoing change for ARC.

Two days later

Scott was standing in Sammi’s room watching Kyley’s every move as she took a small sample of the cocoon that was wrapping up his daughter Sammi. Ky had produced a large box that looked like an ancient kit Indiana Jones might use if he was an archaeologist and a wizard! The case seemed to be a sample taking and test kit of some sort to Scott and right now Ky was busy poking at the shell encasing his girl with a small knife or pick?

Kyley’s sharp pick took a sample that must have been smaller than a grain of sand and placed it in a vial that she quickly added what looked to be several chemicals to the layman Scott. Lastly she surely tossed a small bit magic at it too…he could tell by the glow it gave off after she waved hand under it like a bunsen burner.

When she seemed finished, she studied it closely for several tense minutes as she made a quick note in a journal for ARC, then cleaned out the vial with some water she had in the kit and let it air dry in a holder for other vials already inside the old large box.

“WELL!?” Scott asked dying to know more!

“I would say later today, tonight and as far as I can be…good?” she said and looked at Becky for help.

“Certain…my love…the word is certain.” Becky gave back.

“Yes, be certain…later today, tonight or certain..ly tomorrow.” Kyley smiled and hoped she was right. She had to guess at some of her tests, because a Pix this big she had never heard of let alone seen!

Just before the sun rose

Scott walked past Sammi’s room while heading to the kitchen for some much needed coffee and noticed that Kyley was standing up instead of her normal sitting cross-legged on the meditation mat. “What’s going on?” he asked.

“It's got a crack in it!” She beamed back at him and she pointed at a part of the shell encasing his girl

“I don’t see anything?” he whispered as he squinted and was leaning closer to the mass.

“Ohhh it's there for sure…it's only 0.00758924 of a millimeter. BUT it's there!”

Scott had to mentally ‘blink’ at Kyley not understanding that in her mind she HAD to be precise and she counted or mentally measured or noted EVERYTHING that passed close enough! Her mind would count clouds in the sky, what the temp was, the dampness of the air and why? She would count the stripes of paint EACH time Becky drove them everywhere and she remembered each road not only by its ‘name sign’ but the strip count going down it!...this was the ever working mind of a GOO…any GOO!

“How much longer?” Scott asked, trying not to shout, to scream as his patience was being tested by what was going on with his baby!

“I have no idea, this change is FAR different than any I have EVER seen and is unique!”

Hours later

The cracks in the cocoon covering Sammi grew and as they did Kyley told the guards, her staff to get her several sample storage boxes. And when they arrived, she lined each one in the cleanest silk that Becky or any of the staff had ever seen…Ky did not want any of the now falling away cocoon contaminated by human touch or corrupted by magic and silk was that perfect cloth that blocked magic or filtered it clean for the most part. So she and only she took each part away in her gloved up hands and placed them in the waiting boxes as they loosened and finally fell away off Sammi’s emerging body still laying face down on the bed.

For the next few hours Kyley took away piece after piece of the cocoon as Scott stood by wanting to help, more like yearning to help in any way he could. When Sammi’s body was finally free Ky stood well back smiling, “Well Scott this is your time to shine, go and pick your girl up…hug her close!”

Scott had to grin back as he leapt forward “Thanks!” and he leaned down to his daughter and found that she now had wings on her back, much like a butterfly or dragonfly might have. So he scooped up her lower body first and rolled it up into a curled ball, BUT kept her higher back free and uncovered to let her new wings flop or hang free. Sammi was a bit slippery, all covered in fast drying goop, but looked just fine and healthy!

Sammi’s eyes only fluttered open for a second, “Daddy?” she asked sleepily before her eyes closed again, Scott only shushed her, “Sleep baby, just a little longer I think.”

The first thing that he noticed about Sammi beside her change into a Fae with wings was her face. She had pointy ears now and slightly glowing eyes that changed color several times. And most striking was her whole face…it was not Sammi’s now ‘old’ face at all, no resemblance to her old self…a whole new face was there, one he would still love no matter what!

Scott was worried for only a second about this new look shocking his baby, but the care that Sammi might need right now took precedence in his mind for the present.

What do I do with her now?” Scott asked as Kyley stepped closer to examine Sammi a little better.

Ky looked the teen over for some time, checking out Sammi’s new body, then she gently touched her new wings and checked them over very very closely one section at a time. “Well Scott her wings need to dry up and harden. Most Pix wings I have seen in my time are hard as steel and have a sharp enough edge to cut flesh or even bone!”

“She might cut me?”

“Not right now and besides she has to learn to use these wings in that way. It's not easy to swish a wing like a sword with it being on your backside and you can’t see any attacks you make while doing it…take my word for it, it's a skill that takes years to master!”

“So what do we do?” he had to ask again.

“Well, let's go to your master bedroom and that huge shower you have in there to rinse her body off and get all that cocoon goop off of both of you.”

Scott nodded in agreement as he led the group of all girls into his bedroom and the bath beyond it. He was about to turn on the shower when Kyley stopped him, “Not with that, with this.” she said pointing at a large glass water bottle that one would have found on a water cooler decades ago before plastic became the norm.

“What is in that?” he had to ask

“Pure spring water from a grove that only creatures of magic use or live in. It's the only thing I would use to wash her off right now…using human water might hurt her a bit when she is this vulnerable and fresh from a great change like this!” she said placing a hand on the bottle to magically heat it up and started to use a metal spray showerhead and hose to clean the family of two off.

While that was going on, Becky moved quickly and with another woman's help they took all the sheets off the bed and laid down new bedding of silk on the lowest layer and new cotton sheets above that and made sure all of it would not just ‘strip’ or fall off the bed, the very first time a kid rolled across it.

Once both were all clean Kyley used some magic to dry them both off and led Scott back out to his bed, “Lay her down here for now and face down…ONLY until those wings dry better and harden up more.” she instructed and the father followed her words to the letter.

“Now what?” he asked, standing back up.

Becky walked past him with a comfortable chair, “You're her father, now you wait right here and be with her till she wakes up fully.”

“Sammi needs a bit more rest and then food right after she wakes up.” Kyley said while placing a large dish of fruits and sweets right on Scott’s night stand.

“What are those?” he had to ask, as he had never seen such bright and good smelling fruits ever!

“Fruits of the same grove the water came from, you can try some. But I suggest that she eat all of those when she wakes up. BUT most of all do not let her roll over onto her back and spoil those wings!” Ky warned sternly.

“Why, I have to ask?”

“So those wings firm up right the first time…the Pix actually put their young in trees hanging or cradled by their arms. The trees actually help and hold the kids until they can bear the weight themselves. It's how magical nature works out in Groves, the trees protect the Pix and the Pix protects the trees from danger.”

Right then Becky walked into the bedroom with yet one more try of food, part was for Scott…a nice PBJ sandwich and the rest was a glass pitch full of juice, plus one glass with a bunch of paper straws laying next to it “Food for you and something for her to sip on if she wakes up.”

“Thanks love,” Kyley said checking over the tray, “and Scott the juice is from the same fruits I already have cut up for you…Remember no other water from the tap or anything other than what is on the trays already! I do not want any human made creations messing with her or maybe poisoning her while she is this vulnerable!” She warned again.

“Its that bad?” he had to ask

“For all Fae creatures, that is a flat yeasss. They can’t wear clothes made of artificial fabric or sit on plastic seats directly on their skin or walk barefoot on human carpets made of synthetics! It burns the skin and if left too long will leave permanent damage unless cared for correctly!”

“So I have to get all new carpets?” Scott spat out while mentally adding up the costs!

“Yes or Sammi has to wear slippers at home all the time.” Kyley gave back, but Becky jumped in and let in some light, “You should have very nice hardwood flooring right under this carpet layer Scott, this home is older and most had full hardwood floors back when this was built.”

“Okay that might help,” he said as Sammi woke just for a second and mumbled for a drink. Scott acted instantly, grabbed the glass, dropped a straw into it and bent it so his girl could drink. She only took a few sips and was right back out.

“We will leave you two alone…it's best that the flow of my magic and being does not affect Sammi just yet, so if you need anything I’ll send in Becky to help you out or one of the goFers!” Ky smiled as she left the room.

Once back in the kitchen and alone, Ky shook her head to what she saw and still sees “That Sammi is going to be one powerful Pix when she finally gets trained or taps into her magic. The flow of essence heading into her is like a river!”

“Is that good or bad?” Becky asked.

“Who knows and it all matters on Sammi, if she takes the time to learn and grow her new powers correctly.”

Several days pass

While those days passed by, Scott never leaves his girl’s side unless Kyley or Becky is in the room to tend to every need she has. That is how it went for those few days until Sammi was rested enough to get up and fend for herself for the most part.

Days later a now better Sammi sits in front of her make-up mirror looking over her face for the thousandth time these last few days, “I still can’t get over how much I changed!” she smiles at her new reflection.

“I still can’t get over seeing a GIGANTIC five foot tall PIX!” Ky grins like a crazy person from Sammi’s doorway, “AND for me to say that is a WHOLE lot considering how long I have lived!”

“Yessss yesss you keep saying that all the other pix are only about twelve inches or less tall and that I must be something VERY new or strange!” Sammie shouts back at the still laughing Kyley.

Becky has to shake her head to the exchange as it happens for the hundredth time, “You have to understand that Kyley has only ever seen a Pix about this big Sammi” Becky giggles as she holds her hands out measuring off ‘a foot’ like she is holding a fish! ”and that you stick out like a fifty foot tall Sammi might walking down the street right now!”

“Fine, fine…but when do I start learning to fly?” Sammi demands.

“You can go jump off the roof right now, that is how I learned!” Kyley shrugged as Scott walked past in the hallway ....”OHHHHH No you are not going to do that!” he barked at his teen as only a dad could.

“She has to learn somehow and I think it's best she starts while we are still here so I can fix busted this or broken that?” Kyley said in the child’s defense and was trying to help as best she knew.

The past life of her kind was not gentle on the young, you learned to fly much like a human learned to walk…you fell A LOT! Next came running and jumping for humans, then add falling out of trees as they played. But to a being with wings the falls lasted a bit longer!

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Sammie's story an incident of magic and Fae...this is the final chapter in her introduction!

I am adding this character in to flesh out my stories with more characters I can control fully and not barrow too many of others laying around the Whateley school

Lets see how you all like it and PLEASE PLEASE comment or I don't know what to do next or if you even like this plot?

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A few hours later

Scott was taking a very needed cat nap in his living room lazy-boy lounge chair, he woke to the sound of a cry from Sammi and then spotted his girl zing past the window overlooking the backyard of their home…’zing by’ as in FALL!

He cringed at the huge THUD his teen made as she slammed into the backyard’s grass and he leapt to his feet instantly, “Coming honey!” he cried as he ran to the sliding glass door.

Scott nearly ripped the glass door from its track getting outside and looked down to see his girl getting up slowly from her fall, “What the heck happened!” he asked Sammi.

“I was learning to fly DAD…I gotta do it someday! I got wings now…YA KNOW!” she shouted back at him while dusting herself off.

“You almost made fifteen seconds that time!” Scott heard from above him and looked up to find Kyley hovering on her own huge black wings.

“You are encouraging her to do this? Then add you have wings too!” he asked?

“Yes, I have wings too AND YES I am encouraging her to learn to fly and I told you days ago I learned how to fly by jumping off things?” Kyley said as she landed beside Sammi.

“I thought that was a metaphor for walking and not jumping off roofs!” Scott barked, trying hard not to shout and get the neighbors full attention on the strange gathering in his backyard of a winged angel and Fae!

“Scott…please, your Sammi has wings now and needs to learn how to fly just like she learned from you how to walk. I can show her how to fly and fly better than you can teach her? Becky and I can not stay here for months waiting for you to finally give in and let me teach her. So Sammi TOLD me she wanted to do this…learn how to fly right now, so we began while you slept.”

Scott saw this coming for the last few days and there was no way he could really stop it…so he caved into reason. “Fine, teach Sammi to fly BUT do it as safely as you can Kyley!” he demanded.

“I will try, but safe or unsafe is all up to her. Sammi needs to learn her own boundaries, I can’t show her those. Mine or my bar is a bit higher as I have been flying for…a long time!” Ky laughed at even thinking how long ago she learned to fly herself!

For the next day Scott had to cringe almost on the hour as he watched Sammi learn to fly and fail, she would smack into the ground trying one daring step at a time to learn. Her body hit the ground with such regularity you could almost set a clock by it…but she was learning!

Sammi took each step under Kyley’s very watchful eye and she failed here and there. Scott tried to tell Kyley to save Sammi faster or better. BUT the teacher that Ky was overruled all the complaints with a very simple question, “Scott did you run the eight minute mile at age two…no you did not, you fell, tripped, tumbled hundreds of times if not thousands of times? Sammi has to learn by taking each hit to her pride and get back up!”

A day and a half later, Kyley had taken the teen up to the Santa Suzanna pass to the cliffs and tall rock formations.

“Why all the way up here Ky? I might, WE might get spotted by other people!” Sammi worried.

“They will not see us, I put a spell over both of us and regular humans will ‘see’ us but not mentally ‘see’ us…they will not notice us and just ‘think’ it's normal.” Ky gave as she pointed up to the top of a huge rock formation that must be over one hundred feet up, “Go fly from up there!” she ordered the teen.

“The winds are crazy today, I might not make it?”

“That is why I choose this place…the winds are strong and you have to learn to fly in them, around them and with or against them sooner or later!”

Even before Sammi did as Kyley said, she took mental note of the magic, the spell that Ky had weaved to hide them both from notice. She saw how simple it was, yet deeply complex at the same time…a whisper of a voice in her head guided her on how it was made, but for now it was just beyond her newly formed skills. This was not the first time the whisper had guided her, it had guided her learning to fly and a few times when she saw Kyley making spells!

But for now Sammi took to scrambling up the huge pile of boulders heading towards the top most one and she spotted the BIGGEST all black hawk she had ever seen in her life…and that included all her hours, no years on the the net too!

“What the heck is that thing!” she shouted back down to Kyley as the huge bird stared right at her.

“That is my companion Night, she is here to help and will catch you if you fall,” is all Ky said back and Sammi thought silently right back, ‘Yep and rip one of my arms or new wings off with those SHARP claws!’

“Is that such a good idea?” Sammi asked while she started her climbing anew.

“You’ll be fine and Night is the best life guard you could ever hope for! She is a bird and was born to fly after all!”

“Sureeeee Surreee!” Sammi shouted back sarcastically!

Soon enough Sammi was at the very top of the hill, ‘well as best she could do without climbing gear’ and looked back down at Kyley far below, “Well now what?”

“Jump off…fly!”

“Ohhh so simple…jump…fall..splat…die!”

“Night says to me…you are a Pix and not a chicken? That was more a question from her to you, than a statement!”

Sammi eyeballed the hawk, “Shut up you!” and the bird shrieked back, unfolded its huge wings into the gusts of wind and without a single flap was airborne gliding on the winds off the peak.

“WELL…FLY!” Ky shouted once again.

Sammi sighed, “Well here goes, this certainly is not gliding off the garage!” and she leapt off the rock, taking to wing. For some time she flapped about and glided with ease…then the winds gusted up well past the strong twenty miles per hour and into the crazy sixties that it can get up here in the area of the pass…and it gets even past one hundred on bad days!

The teen started to tumble in the air and fall. That is when Night took action and dove at the now falling and flailing Sammi. Sammi saw what was coming, a huge bird grabbing her arm or leg with sharp talons and she cringed her eyes shut at the coming pain…that never came!

Sammi popped one eye open then another as she was being lifted by her leg upside down! She found nothing grabbing her, yet she floated back down towards the ground at a gentle pace, “You never told me that Night was a TeleKinetic!”

“Why would I?” Kyley laughed to the teen.

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Two days later in the Solberg home

Sammi was being given a warm hug by Kyley and then one by Becky as they all stood on the home’s large front porch. Scott did not give any ‘hugs’ as he did not want to be so forward, but shook Kyley’s hand instead, “Thanks for all your help, spending over two weeks here was something you really didn't need to do. If you ever need anything…call me.” he offered.

Becky laughed at the offer, “Now you have done it Scott, you owe a GOO a favor and this old one collects on them all...sooner or later!”

“I’m okay with that, she helped my girl and that favor needs repaying!” Scott insisted even as Kyley shook her head to the idea, “Scott you don’t owe me anything, it was great to get out of Whateley for a little bit and see part of Los Angeles!”

“Well in that case, both of you will be coming back out to stay a bit more and this time I will show you the city where I grew up in!” Scott grinned ear to ear!

“We can do that!” Becky said, stepping into one of the waiting SUV’s that came to pick up Kyley’s group or entourage!

Kyley stopped from closing her door on the pair, “Remember you can go to your school just fine, the magic of the Fae will make almost every human see you unchanged from the last time they saw you…that magic is in their genetics and hides their children from normal humans.”

“We will think about Sammi going back to school here, but I am more set on her going to school with you and learning so much more about her new self there…With all the other Pix in the area to learn from!” Scott said as Kyley closed her door and the small train of SUV’s pulled away to the family waving ‘bye’ to them all.

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Two weeks later

Sammi was arriving at Whateley, she wanted to get all settled a month or so before the holidays set in and the winter break happening. Why delay starting her schooling here when she could just jump right in!

There she was standing in front of Shuster hall, the main campus administration building as a man took her many bags and loaded them onto a huge golf type cart to take over to new room or home for now at Melville cottage, ‘wherever that was?’ she thought.

Melville was described in the school’s literature “as the best and ‘higher end’ for rich folks student housing”. Sammie’s dad almost wanted to be sure to house her in another cottage so as not to spoil her! But the scholarship she was here on, almost demanded that anyone using the funds ‘only get the best’ ‘unless there were other needs to be met for safe housing of the student’ (whatever that meant?” she thought again!) and that scholarship was the “Fae and magical creature” scholarship.

The best part of the scholarship was all the free money she could blow and DID blow on new clothes to fit her new body…well kind of fit? Sammi only grew about an inch and filled out a bit closer to a womanly shape!

Sammi watched as her last bag was loaded and the man retook his seat at the wheel, “Well Miss, just go on up there to the main doors and show the lady or kid at the desk your entry papers and they will get you started. All of this will be in your room by the time you are done…have fun!” he laughed while he drove off deeper into the huge campus.

She nodded to the man as he left and started up the stairs of the old building, once inside Sammi spotted what must be the main desk or greeting desk for the school, “Hi, I am here for my first day and here is my packet.” she said, fishing out one packet of many she had in her large messenger bag slung over her shoulder,,,she had to get one because she could no longer use backpacks…wings got in the way you know!

The teen girl that was sitting closest to Sammi took the packet and read the outside information label and knew the codes for what was what by heart after having done the job for three years now as a student job. The code on the file’s outside told her that this kid was attending under the ‘Fae scholarship’ program and had many extras added to her scholarship over what most students had offered…but most of all the Fae scholarship notice puzzled her because the kid looked like a normal human!

“You don’t look like a Fae?” she questioned Sammi.

“I am,” Sammi smiled back.

The teen behind the desk touched a large stone that glowed to Sammi’s eyes with runes floating off its surface, “OHHHH you are,” she said after the stone dispelled the glamor that hid what Sammi truly was away, “and…what are you?” the girl behind the desk asked more than surprised…yet puzzled at finally seeing what Sammi was! A five foot Fae with wings of all things!

“I am a Pixie,” she said back.

“But Pixies are only about a foot tall at best…I should know I have seen several!” the desk girl said, referring to her own personal experience of living in Poe cottage, home of the Drow twins and two crazy pix and whatever random pix of ‘the grove’ that might show up for movie nights to fight over sugary snacks!

“Well I am told by the best expert in the world that I am a Pixie…an abnormally LARGE one, But still a pixie!” Sammi bubbled insistently.

“Okay,” the girl said back, as she opened the packet and flipped through the pages. “Well you have basic mutant tests already done in LA…those will have to be redone here…You already picked your classes or had them picked for you…all set on that…you already talked to Mrs Carson the academy headmistress..so you don’t have to go through that pain again..BUT you have to drop this form off at her secretary, Mrs Eclair. ‘WHOOPS’ I mean Mrs Clair!...to be one hundred percent enrolled with us here.” when she was all done, she handed back the packet minus a few select pages and put the one Sammi needed to hand in to Mrs Clair right on top, “See you around,”

“Ahhhh…is there a map of this place?” Sammi had to ask since she forgot her’s at home and right now seems to be having a huge brain fart even though Fae never forget!

The girl snickers at her, “Here have this and I get it…you're nervous, away from home for the first time and this is strange…Well hang on GiRRRL this is a mutant and magic high school and it gets even STRANGER! Now git!” she laughed while pointing up the staircase and passed her a map of the campus.

Sammi giggled back and went the way of the girl’s pointed finger…up stairs!

Whateley Academy Shuster hall, second floor

Sammi walked down the short hallway towards the office at the end and the double doors that covered what must be the Headmistress’s own office beyond them. She stopped at the office’s largest desk, “I am here to hand in my start paperwork…is this the right place?” she asked.

“Give me those honey,” the young woman with a head of auburn hair sitting behind the desk smiled at her.

She started reading over the paperwork as Sammi waited for her next step.

Outside the office in the hallway

The Drow twins popped into existence and shrugged to their shared task. Each time they worked for the NYPD, Carson insisted that she personally see their daily report that they handed into the NYPD at the end of each watch…each and every time no matter what happened, be it exciting or boring as all heck. The pair could hand out parking tickets all day or watch kids in school crosswalks, BUT each time, for each day under the NYPD Carson wanted to see ‘with her own eyes’ those daily reports!

The pair comes around the corner into Carson’s outer office and spots a five foot tall PIXIE of all things and they instantly recognize it!

“WHAT THE FUCK!!” Rohanna shouts as Rehanna shouts in stereo “VEL’BOL L’VITH!!”

Sammi spins around to see who is shouting and smiles at the pair, “Heya Rohanna and Rehanna good to see ya again!”

“Who the fuck are you?” Rohanna asks as Rehanna instantly checks the area for threats!

“It's me Sammi from LA…you know…you both landed in my closet a few months back?”

“Sammi is a human…you are a giant PIX!”

“Well I changed!” she grinned.

“WHAT?”

“Changed…you know I found this golden bo….” Sammi never finished that word before Rohanna’s eyes glowed BRIGHT Red as she growled like a bear and then she grabbed Sammi by the shoulders…next all three vanished from sight!

Sammi suddenly found herself someplace else on campus and since her Fae sense of direction was still developing she had no idea where she was at…she only could grasp that she was still in the same state and general area of Whately where she was last at!

“Why did you teleport us all the way out here?” She asked looking around and finding mostly gardens around her and small groves of fruit trees…then add one hot house of some sort for growing plants.

“Sammi NEVER mention that golden box…your box, any FUCKING box around any humans EVER! They will want to see it and study it, then ask about mine too and that is not a good idea…!” Rohanna said, shouting at her!

“I get it, keep stuff a secret!” she sassed back like a little kid would and with more ‘jest’ in her voice than seriousness that the twins wanted just now.

“Darn right because if they ever think that your box or mine can make humans into Fae or Drow like me…we will be lab rats or VERY DEAD! Is that clear enough for you to stop joking around?”

“Yessss ma’am” A now more timid Sammi says, as she knows that she crossed a line with the pair and they are right about humans wanting to experiment on mutants or Fae. She had sadly heard of such things happening in her ‘mutant education’ class that California ran for all high school students along the lines of a sex ed class that all students took at one time or another before they could graduate.

“Now tell me WHY THE FUCK you look exactly like my Misty!” Rehanna shouted at Sammi and the teen could only back away shaking her head to that rage, “I don’t know a ‘Misty’ all I know is that I changed and once and awhile I hear like a whisper in my head that tells or shows me how to do things…but its not like a person speaking…more like a feeling guiding me or my actions?”

“So you don’t hear HER or know what she was?” Rehanna said almost crying and even Rohanna was trying not to ball from the deep sadness gripping both Drow.

They thought back to the time of Misty being Shadowblade’s Pixie companion, she fought with them for a few short decades before she was killed. She was the most powerful Pix the Drow had ever known and her sudden death was hard to take and even harder when Shadow found out that Misty knew a way to make her own armor harder and very much stronger but did not have to time away from fighting at Shadow’s side to do the task…it would have saved her life if she had…simple time!

Misty’s last words rang like a bell from the past in both Drow’s shared mind “Take me home” then she died in Shadow’s arms, it took several years for Shadow to take Misty’s torn body back home to her family and home Grove. After she left Misty with them, it was decades before she could even think of having another Pix as a life partner even with dozens volunteering each time she stopped at a Grove…the best Pix followed her for that time in secret, to be sure she did not need their help!

Rehanna gripped the vial of Misty’s blood that hung around her neck, it was gathered from Misty’s torn asunder armor when she had Catlin repaired the set as a favor before the Drow gave that armor to Lilac for her own. Catlin used Misty’s notes to fix the armor’s past issues and lack of full protection, so that one more Pix might not have to die for Shadowsblade in combat.

Rohanna sniffed back her tears when she realized something strange…very strange! “We have been talking all this time in Drow! Who taught you that language OUR language Sammi!” she demanded to know.

“I don’t know, I just can…like I do other things now that I could not before?” she explained to the pair.

“Fine for now we'll figure all of that out later. So who told you to come here to Whateley? Because this is not the most well known of schools for mutants and besides, your Fae glamor should have hidden you from most of the humans out there that would even care!” Rohanna asked while Rehanna nodded in agreement to every word.

“Ohh Kyley helped me out! She came right away when they called for an expert from ARC and she came out to see me all wrapped up in my cocoon and helped me afterwards with everything…then told me I could come here!’ Sammi grinned to the pair

“Ohhhhhhhh Kyley…should have fucking known it was the GOO!”

Both twins storm off from the still confused Sammi, their eyes like red pools of glowing fire and both vanish out of sight with a port “Was it something I said?” Sammi mumbles to no one and wonders where on the enormous campus she was now!

Sammi tossed up her arms in defeat, “Where the hell am I?” she asked no one while looking around at all the plants and nursery around her. So she started walking figuring that she would find a map of the area or road or marked path. The map she had with her had two marked nurseries or gardens and she could be at either one right now!

She walked around the area till she spotted a black haired girl making vines grow with her mutant powers, “Hey I so lost and where the heck am I?”

The raven haired girl giggled at Sammi, “My you are a bit big to be a Pixie, what have they been feeding you or using as fertilizer!”

“You can see me for what I am?” Sammi asked, puzzled that a human that was not dripping with magic could even tell that she was Fae!

“Let's just say I have been blessed by the local Grove and the Fae that live there…what can I say…they love me!”

“The twins left me here, you know the Leigh Twins?”

“Yes I know them VERY well,” the girl said in a husky voice that oozed with sex now, “But if you want the main campus it's that way.” she said pointing off over the trees hiding most of the campus from view unless one looked very hard.

“Thanks and what’s your name?”

“Its Black Rose or Rosalyn Dekkard I am in Poe cottage or the same cottage with the twins,”

“Okay then I will see you soon I guess?” Sammi said while walking off waving bye.

Back at Schuster Hall-main administration building for the academy

Mrs Clair leaps from her chair right after the three Fae vanish and knocks on the assistant headmistress door, “Mrs Hartford…Amanda the twins just vanished with the new student Sammi Solberg the new Fae.”

Amanda opens her door and comes out a bit more calm than Elane is right now, “So they ported away?”

“Yes ma’am they did and the Twins seemed to be super mad for some reason?”

“The twins are always mad for some reason, we just all have to cope with it. As we all know their history was not a pleasant one by any measure and we have to help as best we can. I knew that might be coming by Miss Barron’s notes on Sammi. She more than mentioned the Twins would be more than upset in some way about Sammi’s change into a five foot tall Pixie considering that the Pixie and the Twins are almost one in the same. So have the guards and staff be aware to be looking for all three and we wait.”

Back at Poe Cottage

The twins pop back into the world inside Poe cottage right in front of Kyley’s door and one knocks…more like POUNDS on the door!

Kyley wonders only for a brief second who that could be and why they are being so rude! KK eyeballs the door, “Who the fuck is that!” she shouts back at it.

“KK it's the drow twins, could you please let them in and let us have a few? I am very sure of why they are here and why they are so very angry!” Kyley said as she felt waves of unbridled rage flow from the closed door. “I knew this was coming and now I get to know why I felt what I did about someone I was helping while I was gone for those whole two weeks last month,”

“Ohhhhh that someone, you told me about her and that she might be coming here. So she has a connection to the ‘Cuisinart’ twins?” KK said almost snickering at one of the many nick-names of the pair…Choopy chop, Ginsu, Shredder (after the ninja turtles villain), wood chippers just to name a few that sprang into her mind. “I should have guessed that there would be a connection between a five foot tall Pixie popping out of nowhere and those two!”

KK opened the door and both twins calmed down for a second to remain civil and have manners! “Sorry for the banging KK, but can we have a word with Kyley…goddess of ‘I should have said something weeks ago’!”

“Yep you sure can, Ky already told me to get scarce for a few and let you three or is it two or a million talk for a bit.” KK referred to a ‘million’ because Kyley certainly has at least a million parts of herself scattered all over the multiverse.

KK left the room smiling, “Ohh I wish I could stay, this is going to be good!”

The pair of Drow waited for the door to click closed before they shouted in stereo, “Did you know!”

“I could see that there is, would, or could be a connection between you three,” Kyley said emotionlessly, not letting the twins' rage feed into her and thus make her angry too! Because she was an empath and felt other’s emotions and fed onto them and thus could send them back even stronger if she let such things get out of hand.

“Why did you not tell us?”

“Not my place to interfere in your world and you know it,”

“WELL, You should have said something to us both before she came here…prepared us for.” Rehanna chokes up with deep sadness even saying it, “For her to come here.”

“Sammi had to make her own choice to come here or not. So I left it up to her and left you both in the dark until I knew for sure she was coming to Whateley and I just found out myself today…right now.”

The twins smile comically to Night knowing she is more than just a pet before they speak more, “You should have said something you damn GOO!”

“I can tell only now that Sammi resembles someone from your deep dark past…someone close and now gone.” Kyley sighs to the pair, “I can tell that Sammi looking as she does wounds you both deeply…an old wound that never healed and I understand that kind of pain all too well. But what you can both do, is help her along with her new life and see to it…that this one does not end like that one you knew from your past did and if you both need help or need to talk over this…I am there for you.”

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Shadowsblade here.

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!

this warning is for our story stealers off site, not the BC family of readers we all know and love!

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including
photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods,
without the prior written permission of the Author, except in the case of
brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other
noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.