Sasha Wolfhart couldn’t believe her long-time mentor and adopted mother was retiring from performing on stage. Her adopted mother had been her inspiration in learning magic and was following in her footsteps. Sasha could remember the day when Janet Elizabeth Wolfhart a.k.a. Sun Fire the Enchantress had found her abandon by her birth parents in the middle of a ice storm. They had abandon her on the side of the road during an ice storm because they hated the fact that she was transgender. Her parents had tried everything to make her give up wanting to be a girl. They had taken all her toys and forced her to dress as a male. They had even beaten her till she couldn’t sit down and made her stand in a corner for hours on end.

The day Janet had found her and took her in and nursed her back to health was the best day of her life. She had been beaten so badly that she had passed out from the blows to her body. Her parents had dumped her on the side of the road to die during an ice storm. Her birth father had lost his temper and started beaten on her. Even when she called out to stop him, he just kept on beating her. The last thing she remember was feeling his foot hitting the side of her head. She doesn’t remember what happened next, because she had blacked out. Sasha knew she would had died if Janet hadn’t spotted her prone body and stop to help her.

When she had finally woken up. Sasha had found herself in a hospital room hooked up to several machines. There was an IV going into her right arm and several bags hanging next to her. There was a brown teddy bear resting next to her on her left-hand side. She wasn’t dress in a standard hospital gown, but a light peach color night gown. The room itself was decorated so that it could be a kid’s or an adults room.

As Sasha was lying there in bed, a young nurse came walking in. She had a clipboard in her hand. Sasha didn’t know what to make of the nurse.

“Well, good afternoon there little one. My name is Gloria and I’m going to be your nurse during the day time. Your night time nurse is Jennifer and she’ll be looking after you in the evenings. Dr. Wolfhart will be in tomorrow to check in on you. I’m just going to check your vitals and if you’re hungry, I’ll have the cafeteria send up some lunch for you and later some dinner as well.” Gloria goes about checking Sasha.

At first Sasha, hadn’t known what to make of this nurse as he remembers her being very nice and gentle as Gloria went about checking his vitals. She had made him giggle while doing it. When he ate the lunch that had been sent up for him. Gloria stayed and kept him company. The lunch itself was some sort of soup and a sandwich. There was cherry jello and he was given the choice of chocolate milk, normal milk or water to drink. He had chosen chocolate milk.

When he had finished with his lunch and needed to go to the bathroom, Gloria helped him since most of his body was covered in bandages and made getting around ackwards. His biological father had broken four of his ribs and several of his fingers along leaving most of his body and face covered in bruises.

It was the next day when Sasha finally met Dr. Wolfhart. Sasha had been laying quietly just staring out the window near her bed watching some birds fly nearby when she had come in. She had knocked first before walking in. Dr. Wolfhart was a young woman with her long blonde hair tied back in a ponytail. Sasha had notice she had a kind face and bright blue eyes. The first words out of her mouth had been if he wanted to see a magic trick. He had nodded his head yes and watched as three balls of lights had appeared in her hands and she started to juggle them. He watched as the balls of light changed colors as she juggled them. Then he was even more amazed as the balls of light split, so there were six balls of lights instead of three. Then Dr. Wolfhart threw them at him and watched as they circle around his head and then turned into a rainbow color halo above his head.

Sasha remembered giggling and clapping afterwards. After that day, she always came and did some type of magic trick for him and stayed to talk with him as well. They would talk until he was tired or he started crying. When it was time for him to leave Dr. Wolfhart private hospital. She had taken him to her house and told him if he wanted to, he could become her newest daughter. She had pulled a few strings and had Sasha given to her, since her parents no longer wanted her. Janet had tracked her birth parents down and had them thrown in jail for child abuse and abandonment and other charges. Janet had made and threaten them to sign over their paternal rights to her as well. Sasha figures it wasn’t her adopted mother that made the threat, but her adopted father. She could remember the fury she saw on his face when Janet told him what had happen. She knew then that Dr. Janet and her husband would be the family she always wanted.

When Sasha first met her new family, she was surprised. Her new adopted Father was in the military and was a Marine. He was a Lt. Colonel and one of their best special forces officer. Her new older sister was a nurse and was studying medicine to become a doctor like their adopted mother. The twins were the biological children of Janet and her husband Leland Wolfhart. They were geniuses and they weren’t identical twins, but Fraternal twins. Her adopted sister Janius was a partner in a law firm and her twin brother was in the Marines like their father. The next oldest, which was only two years older than herself was an artist and a lesbian. Her life partner owned her own construction business. Her adopted Aunt owned several businesses in the medical and technology field. She also owned several aircraft companies and develop advance weapons and body armor for the soldiers for the government.

Sasha had become her adopted mother stage assistant and started learning her magical tricks so she could follow in her footsteps. Sasha also learned to play the guitar and sing extremely well like all her adopted siblings. Sasha was part of a band called Siren and occasionally, she would add in some of her mother’s or her own magical tricks in their act. Which made them different than most garage bands. They were popular overseas and was starting to gather a following here in the states. Some of the places her adopted mother did her magical acts at would hired them to perform there as well.

The band itself had become popular and played as an opening act for several well establish known bands that were still touring. The band had a few gigs coming up that they were the main headliner for the event. Sasha breathes in deeply as she just looks out over the city from the balcony of her studio apartment. Her mother and father offered to co-sign a mortgage loan for her if she wanted to buy a house or even a townhouse if she wanted one. Sasha’s sister in-law offered to build her a custom house if she ever wanted to settle down in one place.
Her parents had already done a lot for the band by buying their tour bus and building them a studio to practice in. They had their own recording studio with the latest recording equipment and the staff to run it when they were touring. Sasha walks back inside and over towards her guitar and start practicing some scores and pieces she will be playing in the band. They were getting together later tonight to practice for the upcoming gigs in the next few weeks.

As Sasha was practicing her songs and pieces, her cell phone starts ring. She stops and checks the number. It was her sparring partner.

“What’s up Ellen?” Sasha and Ellen have been sparring partners since high school.

“Not much. I was calling you to see if we are still on for tomorrow morning for sparring or did you want to do parkour instead?” Ellen didn’t mind either. Her and Sasha were good together when they were running and sparring.

“Let’s meet for sparring tomorrow morning and if we have time afterwards, we can do some parkouring.” Sasha figures they should have some time after sparring tomorrow to do both.

“Sounds good to me. What are your plans for tonight?” Ellen was thinking they could get together for dinner and drinks maybe.

“Nothing planned other than band practice. Why, you want to get together afterwards for dinner and drinks later?” Sasha wouldn’t mind going out tonight for a little while.

“Sure, when do you get out of practice?” Ellen figure they can get together afterwards.

“We normally practice for two to three hours or so, so no later than eight o’clock.” Sasha figure if they start at four this afternoon, she should be out by eight or seven.

“Sounds like a plan than. See you later.” Ellen hangs up.

Sasha hangs up and goes back to practicing. She continues to practice for a few more hours, before stopping and fixing some lunch and getting her instrument put away and head out for practice.
 
Chapter Two
“Dam, girl check that guy out over there. He is checking you out.” Ellen spotted a guy that had been checking her friend Sasha since they step through the door.

Sasha glances over towards the guy to check him out. He wasn’t too bad looking. He looked to be in his mid-thirties. Then she really starts noticing the hidden things about his body movements. He was an undercover cop. He kept looking past her towards a group of young gentlemen surrounded by several women that were having some sort of party

“He’s more interested in something else.” Sasha figures he had everything under control. If necessary, she’ll help him out if he needs it.
Sasha orders another rum and coke and just sit with her friend Ellen. They talk about odds and ends. Something out of the corner of her eye catches her attention. She looks over towards what got her attention and she wasn’t liking what she was seeing. There were four guys walking in that had bulges under their coats. They were looking around inside the bar like they were looking for someone. She slips her hand into a secret compartment on her purse and palm her Springfield .45 automatic in her hand. The .45 caliber rounds were strong enough to take down any one they hit. Her aunt had given her specialized rounds for her gun.

As Sasha continues to watch the four, it appeared they had spotted their prey and were heading towards them. She notices one guy reaching for his gun.

“Ellen get ready to hit the deck.” Sasha had her gun in her hand.

The first guy she spotted pulled his gun out from under his jacket and was bring it up. Sasha taps off two shots hitting him center chest. She switches target quickly to shoot another guy as he brought his gun out and was looking for where the shots had come from. She puts two rounds into his chest. One of the other two guys left had spotted her and fired at her. His shots missed her, because she had moved in time. Sasha made sure that Ellen was taking cover on the floor before shifting her position to returned fire. She fires at him and hit him twice in the chest like the first two. She heard a double tap from the undercover cop at the last guy. Sasha knew she was going to have to answer some question about firing her gun, but thanks to the special license her Aunt got her. They couldn’t take her gun away or arrest her either.

Sasha walks back over to where her purse is and slips it back into the secret compartment in her purse. She presses a button on her bracelet that stops the jamming signal she had turned on so it blocked the cameras during the gunfight. That way there wouldn’t be any videos of her firing her gun showing up on the internet. Her aunt had warned her about that. Police and paramedics show-up to get everyone's statement and to take the dead bodies away. When the police come over and ask about the gun she had and where it is. Sasha pulls out her wallet and shows the special license she got through her Aunt. As for the gun, she doesn’t give it to them. It is considered experimental and you needed to have permission from the developer of the weapon, which in this case was her Aunt.

Sasha smirks after they run her license and return it to her. She knew what the file was going to say. She had a friend of hers run it once and in big bold letters. It basically said her file was classified and her badge said she was from the Office of Special Investigations. Which meant she answered to her Aunt who answered to the US Associate Attorney General. There was a special arrangement for her aunt with the US Attorney General. Her and Ellen stay till two in the morning answering question and giving their statement of the events. Afterwards, both leave and head home. Sasha follows Ellen to make sure she gets home okay and then head home herself.

As Sasha pulls into the underground parking garage, she notices a person larking around. They were looking at the cars parked there that belong to the residents in the apartment building she lived in. She turned the headlights off on her car and pull it into her assigned parking space.

“What is with criminals tonight.” Sasha slips out of her car quietly and move silently over towards the person considering the cars.

“Looking for something interesting?” Sasha stood a few feet behind him and was ready to protect herself if the person decided to attack her.

The figure turns quickly and notice a petite woman with shoulder length auburn hair standing at least four feet from him. He was ready to strike her with the knife in his hand.

“I wouldn’t do that if I was you.” Sasha had a serious look on her face.

The figure didn’t listen to her and went to strike her.

Sasha snitches the knife from the person’s hand and hits the pressure point in his wrist. That strike numbs and paralyze his hand so it won’t work.

“I warned you.” Sasha had an evil smile on her face. She was flipping the knife and catching it.

He couldn’t believe his knife had been taken out of his hand like that.

“If I strike you two more times, you won’t be able to move.” Sasha was stilling flipping the knife she had taken from him.

The intruder tries to grab his knife back from Sasha with his other hand.

She blocks his grab and then hit the other two nerve clusters and watch as he drops to the ground. She pulls her cell phone out and dial 911 and informed the police about the attacker. She waits for a patrol car to come by and to pick-up the trash.

“You know, you should had stopped while you were ahead. I might had consider letting you go.” The knife had disappeared.

When the police show up. Sasha fills out a statement and makes the knife reappear in her hand.

The car thief couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

After that business was done, she heads up to her studio apartment and put her instrument back on its stand and grabs a bottle water from the frig and start getting ready for bed. Sasha knew she was going to have to get up later to spar with her friend.

As Sasha lays down in her bed. She stares up at the ceiling and wonders what her life would have been like if her adopted mother hadn’t stopped to pick her up that day. Would she had survived and been able to live on her own? Would she had been able to afford the SRS surgery to fix her birth defect. Would her fate had been too died that day beside the road she was left at? All she knew and loved was the fact that it had been her adopted mother’s passion and concern that saved her that day. Her eyes slowly close as she drifts off to sleep.

Adam Ludlum couldn’t believe what he was hearing from his second in command. That the hit he had setup for the owner of Atlas software development had been foiled last night. All four of his hired men were dead. His contact down at the morgue told him their bodies had come in and he had been order to run their dental and DNA through the system.

His second had tried to get a copy of the police report that had been filed, but the detective in charge wouldn’t share it with him. All he knew was a second person had been involved in taking his men down. He told him that all video footage of the incident was blurry and grainy.

Mr. Ludlum was even more disappointed because his bid to buy Transworld Trucking Company had fallen through. A holding company by the name of Wolfhart & Blake holding had beaten his bid. All he knew about the holding company was that its portfolio very in what they brought and owned. The board of the holding company were staff by members of two families. The head of one family was a well-known Doctor and Entertainer. The head of the other family was known in the intelligence community and the pentagon in Washington D.C. and was a well-known Doctor as well. Both heads were sisters and had their fingers in various business venue’s.

He needed to put Atlas software development out of business. He had planned on buying the company when it wasn’t doing very good to use as a front, but now that they had gotten the government contract to develop new tracking software for the government. The owners wouldn’t sell the company now. He had almost gotten them to sell.

Ludlum looks at his second “get me a copy of that report. I want to know who this other person is.”

Jerry hurries out of the room and goes about trying to get a copy of the police report for his boss.

Ludlum watches as his second rushes from his office. Once he is done, he opens a folder sitting on his desk. Inside was a picture of a young petite woman with long straight red hair wearing pink wrap around glasses. The file had been given to him by Joel Busterly, he was one of the minor crime bosses in New York City. Joel wanted this woman located. He didn’t go into detail on who the woman was, but he was offering a lot of money to locate her. Her last known location had been Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, New York, New York.

“Why would Joel want a she-male located?” Ludlum wanted to know what was so special about this person. Considering Joel was offering 250,000 dollars to locate her. He’ll get his people on it right away.

Adam just closes that folder and picks up another folder on his desk. It was a special request from an old client of his. They were looking for a new sex toy/slave. The requirements were as follow: Teenage female (preferred pre-teen, but would take a teen), petite, platinum blonde hair with amber eyes, no junkie or mentally handicap either. The client would pay 70,000 dollars.

A smile forms on Adams face. He had seen the perfect girl that matched this description. He knew the girl was homeless and had been going around collecting cans and doing odd jobs for people. He had seen her just the other day washing cars for a crooked car dealership not far from his house. The girl had caught his attention because the manager of the dealership had her and several other teenage girls out in skimpy bikini’s washing the cars. They had drawn a crowd to the lot. She stood out because of her platinum blonde hair and her petite figure. He picks up a burner phone he keeps in the top desk drawer and dials a guy he knows that specialized in abduction.

The phone is answered after the first two rings “Hello?”

“Hey, I have a job for you and your crew. There’s a teenage girl I need for you to pick-up and take to the house. You don’t have much to worry about with this one, because the girl is homeless. So, it should be easy.” Adam figures it should cost him about 5,000 or so.

“Alright, I’ll do it for 5,000. Send the information the normal way and when do you need this job done?”

“As soon as possible. I have a client that needs this done.” Adam knew he could trust this guy. He had done jobs for him in the past.

“Alright, you’ll have the girl by the end of the day.”

“Thanks.” Adam ends the call and puts the phone away.

He logs on and send an encrypted email to the client saying he has the perfect girl for him and will contact him later with details.

“Well at least one thing will be going my way today.” Adam leans back in his chair and tries to come up with another plan for the software company.

Chapter Four

Rose wakes up sore and tired from working all day yesterday. She had mowed and raked this couples huge yard. So far, she has managed to pay the rent on the room she was renting and buy some groceries to get her through till the end of the month. Put some money on her pre-paid cell phone. There was a rebuilt scooter a guy she knew and trusted had for sale she wanted to buy so she could take more jobs and get around easier. She had taken the bus home late last night after shoveling horse manure after she did some more yard work.

The people near her had complain about the smell, but she didn’t have any other clothes to wear. It wasn’t like she had planned on doing that work. The person that hired her said he only need her help with planting some flowers for his wife. The next thing she knew after they did the flowers, was she was being asked to muck a few stalls out in the barn. She could had said no, but she needed the money if she was going to buy the scooter. So, she had accepted and did the job.

Rose looks at the piece of paper on her make shift desk and notice today she had to be at Wildfire recording studios. She was filling in for Julie today on the janitorial staff. She hops in the shower and takes a nice relaxing shower to help loosen her sore muscles and then rushes out to get dress and make it down in time to the corner to catch the bus she needed to take to get to the studios.
By the time, Rose got to the studios the rest of the janitorial staff had arrived. She rushes up to Hector.

“Hey Hector, I’m filling in for Julie today. She’s at the emergency room with her son. So, I told her I’ll work in her place if it is alright with you.” Rose didn’t want to tell Hector that Julie had taken another job for today. She knew that if Hector knew he would shorten her hours and pay rate. Hector didn’t mind paying someone under the table for filling in. Since, she has done some jobs in the past for him. It shouldn’t be a problem.

“Alright, you can do the bathrooms and the recording booth.” Hector hands her a bucket that had everything she would need.

“Thanks Hector.” Rose rushes to catch the door before it closes. She had seen the band cars outside, so she had to be quiet while they were recording today.

Rose peeks in to see what they were singing today. She loved their music and practice their lyrics at home or while she was working. She stands quietly and listens to them as they sing as a group. Her favorite person was Sasha/Wildfire, because she played an awesome guitar. Her next favorite was the drummer Dusk. She took her name from the Scooby-Doo cartoon and dressed like the character. She was awesome on the drums and fun to be around. Mystic was cool on the electric keyboards and was the prankster in the group, next to Sasha. Jack of Hearts was the bass guitar player. Between him and Sasha there wasn’t anything the two of them couldn’t do. The lead singer Siren, was her name sake and could entice you with her sing.

Rose knew that Siren and Sasha were childhood friends and grew up together. They are best friends and business partners. Jack of Hearts real name is Richard Bachmann he had attended the same private school Sasha and Siren went to. Dusk and Mystic had attended the rival school that Sasha, Jack and Siren had gone to. Sirens real name is Susan Blackstone and Dusk real name is Julia Elizabeth Mackay. Rose knew that Mystic real name is Gregory Allen Green. Their manager Teddy Samuel Peck is friends with Sasha’s older sister.

Rose just listens and enjoys the music. She knew she needed to get the bathrooms cleaned, but she wanted to hear the people she admired sing. Rose just watches as they go through several songs, before leaving to do her job. She knew Hector wouldn’t pay her if she didn’t. Rose finishes up cleaning the bathrooms and helping the other staff with their duties.

Rose went back to see what the band was up to and notice they had stopped for lunch. She knows she shouldn’t, but she goes into the recording room and pick-up Sasha’s guitar. Rose carefully holds it like she had seen Sasha do and string the cords to a song the band had played. It was an older piece that Rose loved and knew the string movements to. She plays it on Sasha’s guitar and sings the song with her eyes closed.

Sasha had come back in to get her car keys. She left them with her guitar case. She stops in her tracks when she notices the teenage girl she had seen around the property with the cleaning crew. She was playing her guitar and singing with her eyes close. Sasha walks over to the recording console and turns the mics on to see how the girl sounded. Sasha recognized the song right away. It was one of their older pieces and had been written by Siren. There was a cool guitar rift in it for her and Jack. The girls voice was amazing and the song sounded better with her sing it, than with Siren.

Sasha takes her phone out of her back pocket, because she had worn jeans today to practice and sends a text to the gang to come in here. Sasha just listens and watches as the girl goes from one song to another song smoothly. Her guitar playing was so-so, but with some practice she could be better.

Siren and the rest of the band comes walking in and notice the teenage girl in the recording booth playing Sasha’s guitar and singing with her eyes close.

“Guys, listen to this.” Sasha turns the sound up so the rest of the band could hear the girl singing.

After a few minutes of listing to an older song of theirs she was singing “she doesn’t sound half bad. Her voice would match up with our voices or mine perfectly.”

Siren liked what she was hearing.

“I say let’s see what she sounds like with you Siren.” Sasha glances over to look at Siren.

“Okay.” Siren heads towards the booth and knocks on it.

Rose stops singing and almost drops the guitar when she heard someone knocking on the recording booth door.

She notices Siren walking in “you know, Wildfire would be highly upset if you dropped her favorite guitar.”

“I’m sorry, I…” Rose was scared and nervous that she had been caught singing and playing Wildfires guitar.

Siren could see that the girl was scared “Relax, you’re not in any trouble. Wildfire doesn’t mind you playing her guitar. Just be careful with it.”

A smile appears on Siren’s face as she walks over and sits down on her stool and looks towards the girl. She could tell that she had been working. Because Siren could smell Ajax and other cleaning chemicals on her. The girl had the most unusual eyes she had ever seen.

“I’m…” Siren never got a chance to finish.

“You’re Siren and the lead singer of the band. You’re also Sasha’s, I meant Wildfires closest friend as well.” Rose was excited that Siren was talking to her and scared as well.

“Yes, Wildfire and I are close, but that’s not why I came in here to talk to you about.” Siren needed to get this girl to relax.

“I know I shouldn’t had touched Wildfires guitar. I promise to never do it again.” Rose takes off the guitar after she gets the shoulder strap off and put it on its stands.

“Well, that’s good to hear. But that’s not the reason I came in here to speak to you. We heard you singing and thought you did a good job. I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind singing with me for a little bit.” Siren smiles at the girl.

“I did?” Rose just looks at Siren to see if she was serious.

“Yes, you did. By the way what is your name?”

“Rose Garland.” Rose couldn’t believe it. Siren wants her to sing with her.

“Well Rose, will you sing with me?” Siren smiles at Rose.

“Yes, ma’am.” Rose just grins and couldn’t believe what was happening.

“Let’s try this song.” Siren sings the next song after the one they had heard her singing to.

Rose starts singing with Siren. For the next twenty minutes, Siren has her singing most of their old songs and one or two of their new songs.

Sasha and the others listen to them and realize that Rose would make a good addition to their band. She may be underage, but they could always work around that.

Roses throat was raw by the time Siren stopped.

“You did pretty good, Rose. Why don’t you come out here and get something to drink? Then you can come and have lunch with us?” Siren stands up and opens the door to let Rose out.

Rose walks out and a bottle of cold water is handed to her by Dusk. She notices the whole band was here and smiling at her. Her cheeks start turning red from their smiles. These people were her idols.

“Oopp’s, she’s gone and done it again. You’ve made another girl blush, Dusk.” Jack looks towards Dusk.

“I did not. It was seeing you standing there with a smile on your face that did it.” Dusk winks at Rose.
Rose just giggles at their banter.

“Alright, let’s let the new girl get use to us.” Sasha looks over at Rose with a friendly smile on her face.

Rose follows the band out of the studio and to their cars.

“Where are we heading for lunch oh, fearless leader?” Jack and Mystic look towards Siren.

Siren looks towards Sasha “O’Kelly’s?”

“Yep, I reserve a table for us.” Sasha looks at Rose

“Is Irish food okay with you?” Sasha didn’t know if Rose liked Irish food or not.

“I don’t mind, but I don’t have any money.” Rose looked down at the ground in embarrassment.

“Don’t worry about that. It’s Siren’s turn to pay.” Sasha just winks at her.

“Get in if you’re going.” Siren gets into her car.

Sasha gets in on the passenger side of Siren’s car after moving her seat forward for Rose to climb in. Once everyone was in their cars, they all head down to O’Kelly’s to grab some lunch.
 

Roy and his second had tracked down the girl Adam had hired them to grab. She was pretty and they figure they wouldn’t have a hard time grabbing her as she came out of the recording studio. She would have had to walk to the nearest bus stop which was around the corner from the studio. They had spotted her running towards the studio this morning and waited patiently for her to come back out. They were surprised when she came out with the band and got into the car with the lead singer and the guitar player from the band.

“Now what?” Craig looks over towards his boss.

“We follow them and then when the chance presents itself, we grab her.” Roy didn’t care how long the job took. As, long as he got her and got paid.

They followed the two cars to O’Kelly’s Irish pub and watched as all the band members and their target went inside the pub. They waited a few minutes before heading into the pub. Roy didn’t want to seem obvious that they were following them. They were seated at a table not too far from the private table set aside for the band.

Roy was looking around to see if he might be able to grab her if she went to the bathroom. But that plan went out the window. There was no way he could grab her while she was in here with the band. He’ll have to wait till she goes home tonight or tomorrow morning.

Roy just watches as the band and their target order their food and have general fun. He could hear some of their conversions, but nothing too clearly. His target seems to be relaxing more around these people and joining in on their antics. He had googled the band and found their website and touring information. Also, personal bios of each band member. The person known as Wildfire, the one his target was sitting next to seemed familiar somehow. He knows there was something about her. He googles her name and several articles and pictures pop-up about her. Wildfire (a.k.a. Sasha Wolfhart) is a member of a rich and famous family. She is the daughter of Janet Elizabeth Wolfhart (a.k.a. Sun Fire the Enchantress) and Lt. Colonel William Holiday Wolfhart She is a stage magician that specializes in illusions and sleight of hand tricks. She has been known to include her magical talents in her bands performances. Rumor also has it that she is a government agent as well, but no agency has been able to verify that fact.

Roy looks towards the short petite woman and wonder how much he could ransom her off for? The girl he was only getting $5,000 for, but the Wolfhart chick he might be able to make a couple of million or so on. He’s going to have to plan this out. Roy and his second sit there and continue to watch the band members and when they leave, he follows them back to the recording studio and sits outside why they go inside and practice some more. By late afternoon they come back out looking tired and split up to go to their own vehicles. The girl he notices goes with Wildfire over to a sleek looking black and gold 1969 Corvette Stingray.

“Hey Roy, why don’t we try and get her now. I know a fella that would play big bucks for that Stingray.” Roger couldn’t believe how that stingray looked. It was in perfect condition and had a cool paint job.

“Later, tonight. Doing it right now would be a bad idea.” Roy watches as the car backs up and heads out of the parking lot. The windows in the car were mirror tinted, except for the front windshield so you couldn’t see inside the car.

Roy gives the Stingray some distance before he starts following the car. He notices that they stop at a grocery store and then again at a bank. He makes sure to keep a discreet distance between him and the car, but kept at a distance that he could see the car at.
Roy couldn’t figure out what these women were doing. They stop and did some grocery shopping, then stopped at a bank and now they pull into a gas station. He knew the girl he needed to kidnap right away live in the opposite direction then they were traveling. Maybe, they were heading towards the other woman’s place. This would make his job easier and ambush her. This way he could grab her on the way out. He sat watching her and he notices she walks around her car a few times checking things out.

What Roy didn’t know was Sasha had spotted him following her. She pulled into the gas station on purpose and was using the reflective tint to watch him. A smile appears on her face as she hangs the nozzle up and secure the gas lock. She gets back into the Stingray.

“What to have some fun Rose?” Sasha looks over towards Sasha.

“Yes ma’am.” Rose still had her 5-point racing harness on. When she first got into Sasha’s car, she couldn’t believe it. The car’s dash looked like something out of a space fighter. She could believe the car was equipped with a five-point racing harness.

Sasha takes one more glance towards the gray van that had been following her since they left the studio. Sasha touches the start button and the Stingray roars to life. Originally, this car had been built for her mother by her aunt. It has a lot of special features that only her and her mother knew about. Sasha steps down on the accelerator and the stingray takes off without squealing the tires.

Roy and his second, Roger couldn’t believe what they just saw. That stingray just went from 0-60 in 1.4 seconds. He has never seen or heard of a car that could move like that thing just did from a dead stop. They just watched as Sasha weaves in out of traffic. There was no way they were going to keep up with her now.

“Now how are we going to track her. That car moves to fast for us to keep up?” Roger didn’t know how they were going to find her.

“They have to either come back to the girls place or the studio.” Roy knew he had to pick the girl up. That pick-up was easy money.

“I think the girls place will be the best place to stake out.” Roy knew that was the only place he could count on.

Sasha slows down when they get a good distance from the van. She looks over towards Rose.

“I think it might be a good idea if you stay at my place till we find out what is going on.” Sasha turns into the underground parking lot.

“But, all my stuff is there and why are they following us?” Rose couldn’t think of any reason for them to follow her.

“Who knows, but I think I’ll lure them to a warehouse I store my props at and we can see what they know.” Sasha parks the stingray and turns the engine off.

“Home sweet, home.” Sasha opens her car door and presses the release for Rose as well.

“Come on Rose, we’ll take the elevator up to my floor.” Sasha grabs her guitar from the trunk of the stingray and closes it.

Both her and Rose takes the elevator up to her floor. Rose was looking around as they traveled from the underground parking garage. The building itself was ordinary and had cameras in the elevator and the underground parking garage.

Sasha opens her apartment door and let Rose step through first. Rose is amazed when she stepped into Sasha’s studio apartment. There were posters, a collection of guitars and items Rose knew that Sasha had performed in. She notices a large poster of Sasha when she was younger and another woman standing next to her was hanging on the wall.

“Is this your mother?” Rose looks at the woman dress in a sexy tuxedo with a young Sasha standing next to her.

“Yep, that my mother. It was my first time on a stage performing before a large audience. I was so nervous that night that I did made a few mistakes during the performance. Lucky my mother managed to correct them during the performance. My mother has been my inspiration for everything I have done.” Sasha had slipped her shoes off and was grabbing a drink from the refrigerator.

“Would you like anything, Rose?”

“Do you have any juice?” Rose wouldn’t mind some juice to drink.

“Sure do.” Sasha grabs one of the mango and orange juice bottles.

“Here, I think you’ll like this one.” Sasha hands the juice bottle to Rose.

“Thanks.” Rose looks at the label and smiled. It was two of her favorite fruit mixes.

“So, why don’t you tell me a little about yourself?” Sasha walks over and sits down in her favorite chair.

Rose sits down near Sasha on the sofa.

“Well, there’s not much to tell. I live on my own and I take whatever odd jobs I can to support myself.” Rose didn’t know if she wanted Sasha to know the truth.

Sasha had notice Rose’s facial expression. Her mother had taught her to always watch your audience expressions.

“Rose, whatever is said in here, stays in here. I don’t judge. Let me tell you story. That starts off about thirteen years ago. A little abused boy had been found on the side of the road during an ice storm by a wonderful Doctor. She took him to her private hospital and discover that his parents had beaten him so badly. He was going to spend several weeks in the hospital recovering from the abuse. All because he felt he should had been born a girl. This kind Doctor and her family took this child in and give her a home and a loving family. They didn’t care that, that child would rather wear dresses and make-up and play with dolls, instead of being treated like a boy. That doctor became the hero of that little girl and she wanted to grow-up and be just like her.” Sasha loved her adopted family.

Rose looks at Sasha as she thinks about telling her idol about why she was living on her own. Rose takes a deep breath and looks towards her idol.

“My parents died in a plane crash a few years ago and I was sent to live with my aunt and uncle here in California. At first things were alright, but then my uncle started molesting me. Then one night, when my aunt was working late. He came into my bedroom and…..”Rose breaks down into tears.

Sasha moves quickly and gather Rose up in her arms holding her against her body and cooing to her.

“Sssshhhh, you’re safe now sweetie.” Sasha strokes Roses hair and holds her against her shoulder.

Rose just cries against Sasha’s shoulder. She had wanted to talk with someone for so long about that night. Her body trembles from the memory of what her uncle did to her. She just holds onto Sasha and finally cry herself to sleep in Sasha’s arms.

Sasha gently lay Rose down on the sofa and remove her shoes. She goes to her wardrobe and grab one of her night shirts, pillows and blanket. Sasha manages to undress Rose and slip her nightshirt onto the poor girl and make her comfortable. She’ll have to speak more with Rose about her being raped. If nothing else maybe get her to talk with her mother or her older sister.

Sasha changes out of her clothes and into her night shirt and crawl into bed. Sometime during the night. Sasha feels Rose crawl into her bed and snuggle up against her like a child snuggling up against their mother. Sasha holds her tight against her body as she feels Rose tremble a few times as she slept.

Sasha had woken-up early and was drinking her coffee and reading the news on her tablet. When she notices, Rose waking up.

“Morning sleepy head.”

Rose looks around trying to get her bearings. She remembered crying herself to sleep after telling Sasha what happened to her, but she couldn’t figure out how she had gotten into Sasha’s bed.

“Morning.”

Rose stumbles out of Sasha’s bed and notice she was wearing a nightshirt that came down to her ankles. It was just a plain purple nightshirt.

She walks over to the kitchen area and sits down in a chair on Sasha’s right hand side.

“Not a morning person I take it?”

Sasha gets up and grabs a juice glass out of the cabinet and set it down in front of Rose. She fills it up with the same juice she gave Rose last night and sets a small bowl of fruit out for her.

“Eat.” Sasha points to the small bowl of fruit.

Sasha puts a fork on the table for her as she sits back down in her seat.

Rose takes a bite of a mango piece and chews it while watching Sasha.

Sasha goes back to reading her tablet while watching out of the side of her eyes at Rose to make sure she ate the small bowl of fruit.

“Sasha, what am I going to wear? The clothes I wore yesterday smell like cleaning fluids.”

Rose takes a sip of the juice.

“Don’t worry about it. Dusk is bringing over some outfits she wants you to try on since you’re going to be in the band now. She brought you
fresh clean underwear and a new bra. I sent your measures over to her last night. So, everything should fit properly. Dusk has some new shoes for you to try on and wear when you are performing and for everyday use.”

Sasha refills her coffee cup.

“Do you drink coffee?”

“Yes ma’am.”

Sasha gets up and grabs a coffee mug that has bumble bees flying around on it.

“I figure you might like this one, considering it fits your name.” A playful smile appears on her face.

Rose got the joke. Since her name was Rose and bumble bees pollinate flowers, especially roses.

“Here’s the coffee and there is cream and sugar.” Sasha points to the two containers in the middle of the table.

“Here’s a spoon to stir with.” Sasha places a spoon down next to the coffee mug.

“Thank you.”

Rose makes her coffee and adds cream and sugar to it. She watches as Sasha sits back down in her chair. She notices that Sasha was still wearing her nightshirt.

The two of them sits in silence. Sasha reading her tablet and Rose eating the small bowl of fruit and drink her coffee occasionally. When Sasha was finish reading the news article she had been paying interested in. She puts her tablet down and looks over at Rose.

“Rose, for you to be able to tour and perform with us. We would either need permission from your guardian or one of us would have to become your guardian and give permission. Also, you need to be in school and have the school’s permission to perform. Now you’re lucky that Jack of Hearts has a Studio teachers license. The other way around this is for you to take the GED and pass it. Now the way I see it, is that the best solution to this problem is for one of us to be your guardian. Me, Siren and Dusk have volunteer to do this for you. Who you want to stay with will be your choice.”

Sasha was watching Rose to see if maybe she was moving too fast for the poor girl. She had seen what rape can do to some women and how it made them feel they deserve it or were asking for it. Sasha knew that rape was a means to control and dominate someone. The problem is, it had come from someone that Rose had trusted. That trust had been broken and had scarred her. Now was the question could she trust someone like that again.

Rose so wanted to sing with her idols and wouldn’t mind being the adopted daughter of one, but was she ready to give up her new-found freedom and would the state her aunt and uncle lived in agree to let her go?

“I would like to do as you said, but I can’t afford a lawyer or anything to fight my aunt and uncle.”

Rose was ready to cry. It was taking everything she had to hold the tears back.

“Come mere Rose.”

Sasha holds her arms out for her.

Rose walks over and climbs onto Sasha’s lap. She feels Sasha’s arms wrap around her body and hold her.

“You let me worry about your aunt and uncle. One of my older sisters is a very good lawyer. They won’t know what is happening to them by the time she gets done with them.” Sasha strokes Roses hair and hold her against her body as if she had been her baby.

“Let the party start!” Dusk walks in with her hands filled and pulling a clothes rack behind her.

She was dress all in gothic attire today.

Rose nearly jumps off Sasha’s lap when she heard Dusk’s voice.

“I knew I shouldn’t had given you my spare key to my place.”

Sasha had a playful smile on her face as she continues to hold Rose on her lap.

“Ah, isn’t this cute. Mommy holding her baby.”

Rose’s cheeks turn beet red as she buries her face against Sasha’s shoulder.

Both Sasha and Dusk bust out laughing. Sasha places a kiss on Rose forehead and rub her back.

“Come on Rose. You’re going to be teased by us sooner or later. Just remember if we didn’t like you, we wouldn’t tease you. Now come on and get off mommies lap and let’s see how you look in some of these outfits.”

Sasha sticks out her tongue towards Dusk. She release Rose so she can get down and try on some of the outfits Dusk brought with her.

“Well, we have your stage look now. It goes well with Sirens look. Now we need to come up with a name for you.”

Dusk and Sasha were standing before Rose looking at the look Dusk had created for Rose when she performs on stage with the band and next to Siren.

“Let’s see. We could play on her name like Thorny Rose, Silver Rose, bumble Rose…” Dusk had a mischievous look on her face when she says that.

“or Irish Rose, Wild Rose, Fire Rose?” Sasha walks around Rose and stares at the costume/stage clothes and Rose’s platinum blonde hair and amber eyes.

“Clio?”

Dusk turns towards Sasha and then back towards Rose. She looks hard at Rose and the costume.

“You know Sasha, that might work. She might not play an instrument, but it fits her.”

Dusk walks around Rose one more time and stops next to Sasha.

Rose looks at the women with a puzzled look on her face “what’s Clio?”

“Not a what, but a who. Clio is from Greek mythology and is known as a muse of history or in a few mythological accounts, the muse of lyre playing. That’s why we said you don’t play an instrument, but still her name suits you. She was also one of Apollo’s 9 muses and we all know he is the Greek God of healing, music and so own. Clio and Siren, it fits. Where Sasha’s stage name Wildfire describes her wildness and her pyro tendencies burning out of control. My stage name Dusk describe the eve of night and day which a lot of our music borders on several genres of style and sound. Your stage name also goes with Sirens name, because well she’s name after a Greek mythological creature as well.”

Dusk watches Rose as she thinks about what she just said. She knew her studies in Greek mythology would come in handy one day.

“It does fit her.”

Sasha had been thinking about what Dusk had said and she had to agree with her friend that Rose’s new stage name fit her.

“You know we are going to have to do a press conference announcing our new singer and have new photos taken.” Dusk looks towards Sasha when she says that.

“Well, that’s Teddy’s department. He handles all the business deals and press releases, after me and Siren approves them. I can make an appointment with Barbara to come and do the pictures for us. She’s been bugging me and Siren for new band pictures.”

Rose had been standing quietly listening to Dusk and Sasha talking. She knew Teddy because he was their manager, but she didn’t know who Barbara was.

“How has your new Gothic store been doing since she did the pictures for you?”

Sasha remembered Dusk hiring Barbara to do shots of the store for her advertisement and for the website.

“Business is booming. I might be able to open a second store at the strip mall down at Conley and Burks Ave. There’s a space there that is bigger than my original store.”

Dusk loved the money she was making. Having the band endorse her business was helping a lot.

“Good, you know Siren will love to hear that. Now, getting back to business.”

Sasha looks towards Rose/Clio.

“We’re going to have to setup some practice time for you with Siren. She will help make your voice stronger so you can sing longer and in harmony with hers and then with all of us.”

Rose couldn’t believe everything that was happening to her. Since yesterday, her life has started changing.

“Are we still practicing tonight?”

Dusk wanted to know, because she might have a date later.

“Yep, we have practice all this week and most of the day on Saturday. Since we are adding Rose to the group we need to bring her up to speed with us for the benefit we are playing next weekend.”

After that, Sasha had a performance of her own she had to put on in Georgia.

“Well, I have to go and meet with my manager and construction guy for the other store. I’ll see you tonight.”
Dusk hugs Rose and Sasha.

“Rose, I’m going to help Dusk. Go ahead and take a shower and change into some normal clothes.”

“Okay, Sasha.”

Rose grabs some of her new clothes and set them aside as she goes and take a shower while Sasha is helping Dusk.

Sasha helps Dusk take everything brought with her back down to her van.

“Hey, Dusk. Have Jack of Hearts meet me at my storage warehouse in about two hours. I’m going to need his help setting a trap.”

Dusk looks at her friend with a puzzled look on her face.

“Why are you setting a trap?”

Sasha tells Dusk everything that happened yesterday.

“Do you need any more help?”

“Nope. I think between me and Richard we can handle everything. After all, were the masters of practical jokes.”

A real evil look appears on Sasha face. As she starts laughing Evilly….

“And you guys say I’m weird.”

"But we still love you."

Dusk just shakes her head.

“Have fun.”

Sasha watches as Dusk drives off and then heads back up to her apartment. She hears the shower going in the bathroom. Sasha starts cleaning up the breakfast dishes while Rose takes a shower.

Richard had met Sasha at her storage warehouse and they built a gauntlet of traps and illusions to have fun with the kidnappers they were going to lure here. That had taken most of the morning and by lunch time they were hungry. Sasha and Rose rode with Richard so they couldn’t be seen by the kidnappers. Sasha wanted them to come to the studio so she could put part of her plan into action.

Between her and Richard they had come up with some nasty pranks to pull against these men. They had cruised by Roses place and while she slipped inside to gather a few things. Richard and Sasha had gotten close to the van without being seen and set some electromagnets on the van doors strong enough to keep them from opening. They did that to the sliding door using a metal weld epoxy to keep the sliding door and back doors from opening.

Sasha with Richards help had attach a bottle containing the worse stink gas she had gotten her hands on. The smell was so strong it was guarantee to make a person vomit. The bottle had a mixture of an itching chemical and sulfur smoke. There was no way they could survive the itching chemical. Even with clothes on the chemicals soak through to the skin. Both bottle could be activated by a remote along with the electromagnets.

Sasha had set one of her pyrotechnics devices on their gas tank and could active that with a remote as well. When they get to the recording studio for practice. Everyone gathers in the control room as Sasha turns the outside cameras on to record their entertainment.

Roy and Roger had been following the teenage girl they had sent to kidnap most of the morning. When she arrived at the recording studios, they figure they could get her there when she came out to go home. While sitting outside in the van waiting on the girl, Roy starts making faces as his nose started picking up an awful smell.

“What did you eat man.” Roy starts coughing because of the smell and trying to open the windows on the van, but they weren’t moving.

“What do you mean what did I eat. I thought it was you passing this bad smell.” The stench inside the van started getting bad. Roger tried rolling his window down, but nothing was happening.

He tries to open the van doors and they wouldn’t budge. He tries pushing against the doors hard, but they just wouldn’t open. Both men try covering their mouth and noses with their shirt, but it wasn’t helping. Their eyes were watering. The next thing they know the van is filling up with yellow Sulphur smoke and the smell of rotten eggs added to the smell. They also start to begin itching as whatever is mixed with the yellow smoke fill the van.

Everyone was watching on the security monitors as the men in the van were trying desperately to escape the van.

“Do you think they have had enough?” Sasha looks towards Richard.

“Remember we want them to follow us to the storage warehouse. So, let’s get that plan going.” Richard was grabbing his keys.

“Siren, take Rose with you. I need for you to watch her.” Sasha hugs Rose.

“I’m ready Sasha and Richard.” Dusk comes walking out of the ladies’ bathroom looking like Rose.

“I didn’t want to put you in danger, So I asked Dusk to help us.” Sasha looks towards Rose.

“Be careful mom.” Rose hugs Sasha. She had already decided to become Sasha’s daughter.

“Let the party begin.” All three rush out to Richards vehicle and get inside it.

They stop in front of the van. Sasha turns the devices off so the doors will open and the stink and itch containers will stop spraying in the van.

Roy and Roger notice the doors could be opened and that the smoke wasn’t coming into the van any more. As they open the doors a blue
Suv stops in front of them and they notice their target was inside. The vehicle sat there for a few minutes and then drive off. Roy and Roger get back into their van which still stunk and had smoke lingering around inside. They follow the blue suv to a storage warehouse. They were going to grab her inside the place. They watched as the woman they were thinking about kidnapping, a man that was with them and they knew was a band member and the girl herself walk into the storage warehouse. They wait a few minutes before going into the building.

Just as they walk in, the door behind them seal with a set of security bars. The room goes dark that they are in and smoke starts blowing in.

Strobe lights start flashing on and off.

“BEWARE THOSE WHO ENTER HERE!” as a wall of flames shoot-up in front of them.

“What is this place? A fun house?” Roger was staring at the wall of flames in front of him. He could feel the heat from them.

“Are you having fun?” Sasha’s voice echoes around the room.

“Just give us the girl and we’ll leave you along.” Roy was starting to get pissed about this.

“Sure, you can have her, if you can catch her.” The wall of flames disappears and standing in a hallway was Rose.

She waves at them and starts running further into the hallway. Roy and Roger give chase down the hallway. Halfway down a boxing glove pops out of the wall and hits Roger right in the face. Two clouds of smoke appear in front of them and Sasha is standing right in front of them dress in her magician’s outfit.

In a sexy voice “Oh, I was so glad you boys could join me today for this entertainment.”

A jet of flames leave her right hand.

Roy tries dodging out of the way, but some of his hair and his eyebrows get burned off.

Sasha starts skipping down the hallway singing “one, two, buckle my shoe, three, four knock at the door.”

A wooden door swings down from the ceiling and smacks Roger right in the face.

Sasha stops and turns around and in a childish voice “op’s I guess you found my door.”

“Now what was the rest of that rhythm?” Sasha stands there tapping her right foot thinking.

“Oh ya, five, six; pick up sticks.” Sasha kneels and picks up two wooden rods off the floor.

“Seven, eight lay them straight.” Sasha charges towards them swing her wooden rods. She connects with Roy’s head and knocks him out.
She comes back around and ducks as Roger tries to hit her. She smacks his head real hard with the wooden rod and knocks him out.

“I broke my playmates.” Sasha starts pouting.

Jack of Hearts and Dusk come out dressed in their stage costumes.

“So, what do you want to do with them now?” Jack looks at the two men.

“I want to go fishing. How about you guys?” Sasha had an evil look on her face.

“Remind me to never piss you off. You’re dangerous.” Dusk just looks at Sasha like she is crazy.

Sasha wraps her arms around her friends “we’re off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz!”

The three of them walk down the hallway to get the push cart to help move both men. Once they are loaded on the cart. The three of them take the men to main finally. Dusk and Sasha puts one guy on a dunk tank that Sasha has used and escaped from. The other guy is stripped naked and put into a model that will fill up with concrete sealing the guy inside, but leaving his face visible.

“Wakey-wakey”

Dusk sprays the two men with a pump action super soaker in the face.

Roy and Roger wake-up and notice they are bound. Roy is sitting on a dunk tank broad and Roger is inside a playing card mold.

“Now, if you’re wondering why you are sitting over a dunk tank, it’s simple. That’s one of my tricks. Now I have a bucket of live electric eels I use in the act that I normally have up there while I’m bound inside the tank and I need to get out before someone manages to hit the target. If not, well I become fish food. Instead of setting you up that way, I’m going to wait and see you dunk and pour my babies into the tank with you.” Sasha holds up the jar she has the eels in.

She sets them down on a table nearby.

“Now for you bad guy number 2. I love watching The Batman cartoons and the joker did something interesting by turning people into playing cards. So, I thought why not make it an escape act as well. Well, I can’t have you escaping so I have rigged it that every time you lie to me, it fills with concrete. The more it fills, the more you become encase inside the concrete. Now we are going to play twenty questions and for every wrong answer I am going to administer the punishment. Wait a minute I screwed up, it’s going to be me and my friends. You see we hate kidnappers and well you just happen to be our plaything right now.”

Sasha stands next to Jack and Dusk “So who wants to ask the first question?”

Roy looks over at Roger who was encased in a form with only his face visible for the jack of spades. Their mouths were still able to be used.

“Don’t tell them anything.” Roy wasn’t going to talk.

A buzzing sound could be heard “that’s a wrong answer. So, I think I’ll try my luck first.”

Sasha walks up to the throwing line and picks up one of the softballs and throws it at the target. She misses the target.

“Rats!” She walks back over to her friends.

Roy looks smug at her losing.

Sasha notices the look “oh, were not done yet. Dusk, I do believe it’s your go.”

Dusk walks up to the playing card one and throws the ball and misses.

“YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL.” Roger was yelling at Dusk.

“I am a girl stupid.” Dusk had missed on purpose.

“Jack, your turn.” Sasha just smiles.

Jack walks up and picks up his softball and looks at which target he wanted to hit first. He chooses Roger’s since he taunted Dusk. Jack steps up and throws and hits the target and the concrete starts flowing out to fill the form.

“Op’s it looks like you are going to become a statue. Sorry!”

Sasha hands another ball to Jack of Hearts.

“Jack, can I add my electric eels to the dunk tank please?” Sasha is standing in front of him giving him her puppy dog eyes and pouting.

“Didn’t you rig the doors to fall down and trap him in?”

“Yes, but my eels haven’t shocked any one lately.”

Jack stands there and pretends he is thinking about her request.

“Okay, you can add your eels to the tank.” An evil smile appears on Jack’s face.

“Oh boy, I get to feed my eels.” Sasha skips over towards the tanks with her eels in her hands.

Roy looks at them. He knows he better cooperate or he was fish food.

“Wait! I’ll talk. Just don’t let those eels get me.” Roy was white as a ghost.

“Phew, my eels don’t get to eat.”

Sasha looks up at Roy “start talking. I mean everything you are involve in. Who hired you and where were supposed to take her?”

“Roy spills his guts. He tells him the name of the person that hired him and how to get in touch with him. He tells them that house is a sex slave den for clients and who is involved. The entry code to the house and that Rose was going to be sold to a person for Seventy thousand dollars because of her uniqueness.”

“Well, now what to do with you two.” Sasha wouldn’t mind killing them, but that wasn’t her way.

Sasha pulls out her cell and dial a number.

“Hi Aunt Janet. I have a problem I need your help with. I have two nasty bad guys that need to disappear. Can you send your retrieve team here and get them please?”

“Yep, there here at my storage warehouse. Okay, thanks auntie.” Sasha end the call and put her cell phone back in her hidden pocket on her costume.

“You guys are in trouble now. My aunt is sending her special people and you are going to disappear.”

Dusk and Jack look at them and shake their heads. They have heard stories about what Sasha’s aunt does to bad guys.

“Come one guys, we need to get back to practice.” Sasha walks off.

Sasha couldn’t help to think there was more going on here. They had left the warehouse with the men still tied up waiting for Sasha’s aunt to send her team in. They had met her aunt a few times and knew she was a dangerous person.

Dusk and Jack had met Sasha’s mother and father and knew for a fact that both were dangerous. They had watched them spar against each other and saw how deadly the two were. They knew Sasha father was Special Forces and an instructor, but they couldn’t believe
Sasha’s mother. She was just as deadly as her husband.

They could see where Sasha got her unique fighting style from. Sasha’s mother uses deception and trickery in a fight. Plus, with her knowledge of medicine she knows just where to hit you to either kill you or paralyze you.

“Jack, let’s go to this house those two jerks were supposed to take Rose too. I want to know what it is.”

“Are you sure Sasha? Don’t you think we should call….”

Jack never got a chance to finish his sentence once Sasha looked at him. He saw the pissed off look on her face and knew this wasn’t something that was up to debate. Richard knew once Sasha was in one of her moods you either did three things. Do as she say, run away, or shut-up. He had seen Sasha take down wrestler size men armed with guns and other types of weapon without batting an eye.

“You’re the boss.” Jack puts the address into his Gps unit and follow the direction to the house.

The house itself was in a upper class neighborhood.

“Park over there Jack.’ Sasha points to a place where Jack could see the house, but wouldn’t be spotted.

Sasha opens the passenger side door “you and Dusk stay here. If I’m not back in fifteen minutes. Call Detective Lucas Strange and have him bring his people here to this address. “

“Just be careful Sasha. Siren would kill us if you don’t come back.” Richard and Dusk watch as Sasha does her disappearing act they had seen a few times once she is in the shadows.

Sasha moves quickly and quietly around the back of the house. She could see several cars parked behind the house. Sasha reaches into a pouch on her costume and toss down under the wheels her specially made exploding jacks. When a vehicle roll over them, they set off the explosive charge and blow the tires off the rims. She moves closer to the house and notice there was a camera pointed at the back door.
She looks around till she finds the window to the bathroom. She checks it and finds it locked. Sasha pulls out her glass cutter and cut the glass out of the window frame. She peeks inside and notice no one was in there. She lifts herself up and inside the bathroom. She could hear that someone was watching television and the volume was loud. Sasha moves quietly and spot several men in what could only be the living room watching the football game.

Sasha palms a few balls about the size of golf balls and toss them into the room so they won’t be notice. She had press the button on all of them to let them go off in ten seconds. She moves quickly throughout the rest of the first floor. She finds nothing out of the ordinary.
She heads upstairs to the second floor and finds several rooms locked. She also hears some grunting noise coming from two rooms. In one room, she spots a guy having oral sex with a teenage boy. The man was middle age and was holding the boys head against his crotch tightly. The boy look like he was ready to pass out before the guy pull back the boy’s head so he could get some air. Her blood was boiling seeing this. Sasha takes out her blowgun hits him with one of her knockout darts. She watches as the man falls backwards on the bed.

Sasha puts her finger to her lips when the boy looks at her.

“Get dress. You’re getting out of here.” Sasha shuts the door to the room quietly and moves onto the other room.

She finds an overweight man raping a brown hair ten-year-old girl. Sasha rushes over and pulls the man off the girl.

The man was startled when he was pulled off the young girl. When he turns to face his attacker, he notices a small petite woman with golden auburn hair wearing an outfit that hugged her body and had flames dancing on it facing him and she looked pissed.

“How dare you!”

He never got a chance to finish what he was saying before Sasha slammed her fist into his mouth. She was pissed off so she put all her anger into that punch. She uses the point of her boots and slams them into his groin as hard as she could and rapture his scrotum. Sasha wasn’t done. She grabs his penis and testicles with one of her trick balls in her hand that could burst into flames and ignites it. She burns them off while in her hands. She was beyond pissed and the holographic flames on her costume was getting brighter from her mood.

The man she was holding passes out from the pain being done to his manhood. Sasha release her hold and looks at her glove. It was blackened and little pieces of flesh sticking to it. She reaches down on the rug and wipe her glove against it to clean it off. Sasha pulls her cell phone out and dials Richard as she walks over to the young girl still lying on the bed with blood between her legs.

“Richard call the paramedics and get them here fast. Also, Detective Lucas and tell him to bring men he can trust. He’s not going to like what he sees. Also, bring your first aid kit up here to the second-floor room. You’ll know which one by the smell of roasted nuts.” Sasha hangs up and goes to the bathroom to get some towels and wet cloths to use to help stop the bleeding on the girl.

Richard makes the calls he was asked to make and grabs the first aid kit form under the passenger seat he keeps in the van. Him and Dusk rush towards the house and find the door lock. Richard uses one of the explosive golf balls Sasha gave him and blow the lock. He kicks the door in and finds several men knocked out. Richard could smell the lingering odor of one of Sasha’s knockout gas balls.

“Hold your breath Dusk.” Richard moves carefully and finds the stairs and rushes upstairs.

Him and Dusk could smell brunt flesh in the air. He walks into one bedroom that had the door open and see’s Sasha holding a ten-year-old girl in her arms and a little boy holding onto her for protection.

Sasha looks up when she notices Jack and Dusk.

“There’s a few rooms with the door locked. I don’t know where the keys are. So, use these to blow the door knobs off.” Sasha gives Richard some of her exploding golf balls.

Dusk walks over to hold the little boy in her arms. He shies away from her and holds tighter to Sasha.

Sasha looks down at the boy “you can trust her. She’s my friend.”

The little boy looks at the strangely dress woman and wraps his arms around her and buries his face against her stomach and cries. Sasha notices the tattoo on his back and the girls back. She takes a picture of it and send it to her aunt to identify. While she was waiting on a response from her aunt, all them could hear sirens. Jack was making sure the girls and boys he let out of the locked rooms were okay. Dusk had the little boy in her arms and was comforting him while Sasha had the ten-year-old girl in her arms.

A few minutes later Sasha’s aunt returns her text informing her that these kids were branded by a Russian mafia group known for human trafficking. Her aunt also said that most likely these kids could have come from over-seas or from right here in the states. Her aunt informed her she was sending a team of medical experts to her location and not to let the police remove these kids.

Sasha looks at the little girl in her hands. She was younger then one of her sisters that had been trafficked by a group of Mexicans her mother had stopped. Dusk looks at Sasha with tears in her eyes.

“I’m keeping this little boy. I want him to feel safe and protected.”

Sasha could see the little boy holding tight to Dusk. She knew he wasn’t going to let go from her.

“I’ll see what I can do. I think I’m going to keep this little girl as well. I’m sending a text to my mother right now asking her to fly out here. Do you want your parents to come as well?”

“Yes, ask your mother if she could fly them out here please.”

“Okay, I’m letting Siren and the rest of the band know what is going on. They might want to come out here.” Sasha sends the different texts out.

Detective Lucas and several polices cars and ambulances show-up at the address he was given by the dispatcher. He had brought along men from his unit he personally knew and trusted.

When he walks in, he notices several large men passed out on the sofa and recliner. He could still smell some sort of gas in the air. He knew it had to be one of Sasha’s.

“Careful men. There’s still some knockout gas in the air.”

“Sasha, where are you?” Detective Lucas was looking for Sasha.

“She’s up here Detective.” Jack yells downstairs to him.

Lucas and several of his men walk upstairs and notice three band members of the group Siren surrounded by several young girls and a few boys. He also notices the smell of brunt flesh in the air.

“Why is there a smell of brunt flesh in the air?” He was following the smell with his nose to the room Sasha was sitting on the bed with a little girl in her arms.

“Because I fired his balls.” Sasha was still pissed.

The detective saw the body of one of the city council members lying on the floor with blood coming out of his mouth with his teeth missing and wisp of smoke coming from his groin area. Dusk was standing nearby with the little boy still in her arms. Jack of Hearts was keeping the other children calm by doing a magic trick for them.

Detective Lucas looks at Sasha and could tell she was pissed and was protecting the little girl in her arms.

“Why don’t you start at the beginning and tell me what happened.” Detective Lucas gets his notebook out while the other police officers secure the area and guarded the children to keep them safe.

The rest of the band and the medical team Sasha’s aunt was sending arrived a few hours later. Sasha receives a message from her mother informing her that she, Sasha’s father and Dusk’s parents were on their way and should arrive within the next four hours.

Sasha paces back and forth as she waited for her mother to get done talking with the doctor that had examine the little girl she had rescued. All the children that had been freed by her, Dusk and Jack were being seen or treated by the doctors that her aunt had sent. Siren had taken Rose back to her place for the night. Her adopted sister Janius had come with their mother to handle the legal problems that she knew were going to pop-up especially with the City Council member she had seriously injured. She had wanted him to die, but he didn’t.

The men she had knocked out didn’t want to cooperate with the police. So, her Aunt sent one of her people in and he was getting everything all of them knew. The person she set in didn’t play games and told them up front they weren’t get out of jail or plea deals. When they told, him they didn’t fear him, but their employer more. He said one name in a strange language and they had turned white from just him mentioning that name. After that, they talked and answer all his question. She had asked her mom what he said and she said she didn’t want to know. She had a sad look on her face when she answered her.

Dusk was nervous as well about her boy. His parents had sold him to the human traffickers to pay off their debt to them. The boy was from Austria and the girl was born in England her father had given her to them because they cleared his gambling debts. The two India girls in the group of girls had been passed from one human trafficking groups to another. They were given as payments to the Russian group. The rest of the girls had been tricked or taken against their will.

They knew where other children and women had been taken and describe it to the police. Sasha’s aunt said she would handle the problem and called in several of her people to go and secure those children and women. She told her people to send a message to the human traffickers and their backers that their time was coming to an end.

“You know sis, if you don’t stop pacing back and forth. You will wear a run into the floor.” Janius had watched her little sister pace back and forth like a caged animal. She knew her sister was worried about the girl she had rescued. Their parents were talking with their aunt and the head of the security force sent to protect the girls. They were going to fly the girls to the California property her aunt owns and let them recover there and either find their birth parents or find trusting parents for them.

There was one T-boy among the girls and she had been raped the most because the traffickers were trying to get her to accept the fact she was girl, not a boy. His parents had thrown him out of the house when they found out that he wanted to be himself instead of a girl. That’s how they got him and the traffickers had passed him around as a freebee. They were afraid that he may have HIV. He might be adopted by Sasha’s parents since her mother is a license doctor.

Sasha sat down next to her sister and leaned against her and fell asleep.

“Sasha, wake-up pumpkin.”

Leland had finish talking with his sister-in-law and his wife. He had come out of the room they had been talking in to get his daughter. Because the little girl was asking for her. He saw his youngest leaning against her sister sound asleep.

Sasha looks up at her father with blurry eyes.

“You look tired pumpkin.” He had a smile on his face.

“Sorry daddy. Sorry Janius for fallen asleep against you.”

“It’s okay sis. You were tired and I didn’t mind.” Janius hugs her little sister.

Sasha gets up and follows her father into the room where the little girl she had rescued was.

“Hey sweetie. Have they been nice to you?” Sasha could see shad a lollipop in her mouth.

The girl just hugs her and cries.

“Sshhh, everything going to be okay.” Sasha rubs her back to calm her down.

Sasha mother Janet was standing to one side and watching as her youngest held onto the little girl.

“When do we get to meet our other granddaughter?” Janet had a smile on her face.

“Soon mom. I promise. You and dad will meet her. She’s with Siren right now. There’s a guy after her.”

Sasha was stopped by her mother holding up her hand.

“We know sweetie and you need to back off from this guy. He got connections with the CIA and Homeland security. He’s even got a couple of congressmen and judges in his back pocket. He is well connected and anything you could possibly get him on he will have thrown out or escape from it.”

Janet hated saying that to her daughter, but she was protected of her children and she didn’t want to see her youngest get hurt by this guy.

“I’m not backing off mom. That jerk is the reason we found out about these girls. He wanted Rose taken to that same house and he had planned on selling her to a pervert as his personal sex toy for $70,000 dollars. I’m not backing off. I’m going to fry his ass like I did that council member.” Sasha holds the little girl close to her.

Janet could see that her daughter meant every word she said.

Leland had a smile on his face.

“Do you know who you sound like right now, Sasha?” Leland looks at his daughter.

“I know, she sounds like me when I was hunting scum bags down like she is doing now.” Janet didn’t want to see her youngest hurt. She’s got two babies now to think of.

Janet walks over and put her arm arounds Sasha and the little girl “just be careful sweet heart. You have this young lady to think of and Rose as well. Jack told me what you were planning on so she could join the band.”

“Besides sis, I’m too young to be a mother. Do you really want me to raise this one and Rose?” Janius had come over and lifted the little girl out of Sasha’s arms.

“I don’t know, it could be our oldest brother.” Sasha smiles when she thinks about her sister’s twin. He was a lot like their father.

“Right. He’s as bad as dad here.”

“Hey, I think I did pretty good raising three girls.” He looks at Janius. She took after him in personality, but had her mothers and aunts looks.

“What is going to happen to that one t-boy among the girls?”

“You mean your new brother?” Janet had been quiet watching her husband and daughters.

“You’re going to adopt him mom?”

“Yep, he tested positive for HIV. It was done on purpose from what I found out from your aunt. So, all the men that raped her have been infected. The rest of the girls are okay. Some have some minor STD’s that we can cure, but it’s going to take time. Let’s go ahead and get some food and sleep.”

Janius looks at the little girl in her arms “now I get someone to spoil and give back.”

Janius tickles the little girl and carries her out to the suv her family came in from the airport. They all load in an head towards the hotel they were staying at while in town.

Jerry couldn’t believe what he had just been informed about. The two stash houses were all the women and children they had let the Russian mob used was raided. The first one had been found by that nosey entertainer Wild Fire and her band. The second one had been raided by a special security force that worked for Black Dog Security. The Security firm itself was owned by another company that was classified. His government contacts couldn’t get him the information.

Jerry didn’t want to tell Mister Ludlum that the girl he had hired Roy and Roger to kidnap was no longer available. Wild Fire had made sure of that. She was protected by the lead singer Siren. Siren’s place had an eight-foot fence that surrounded the property and an Iron Gate that trespassers were unable to enter without the code or her permission.

Jerry heads towards his boss’s office to inform him about the situation. He stops just outside Mr. Ludlum’s office door and knocked.

“Enter.” Jerry walks in and notice his boss was looking out a window over the courtyard.

“I have some bad news, Mr. Ludlum.” Jerry was standing on the other side of his desk.

“Let me guess, Sasha Wolfhart has managed to derail my plans for the girl and the stash houses we lent the Russians have been raided.”
Adam turns around to face Jerry.

“Yes sir, how did you know?” Jerry knew Mr. Ludlum had contacts all over.

“My informant at the police department called and informed me. They managed to get one of the Russians to talk.” Adam wasn’t happy and had arranged to have that Russian killed while in prison.

The problem was the prisoner had been transferred to a privately-owned prison company. He was being held there instead of the city jail. The other problem he had was Ms. Wolfhart as well. He knew sooner or later she was going to come after him. It didn’t matter because he had a get out of jail free card and there wasn’t anything she could do to him. He heard what she did to that City Council member and wonder what else she could or would do.

“Jerry, call Task and have his security team come and fortified security here.” Adam was going to have a trap in place to capture her or make it so she couldn’t do anything to him.

“Yes sir. Is there anything else you would like me to do?”

“No, that will be all today Jerry. Tell Task I’ll double his fee if he can get here today if possible.” Adam was going to make sure he was protected.

“Yes, sir and sir are you really going to face off against that woman?” Jerry was curious.

“I’m not worried about Ms. Wolfhart, Jerry. There’s nothing she can get me on or do to me beside physically assaulting me and if she does that. I can have her arrested for assault. No, this will be a game that Ms. Wolfhart can’t do anything about.”

“You could go after the people she values most.” Jerry had a list of them in his desk.

“That would draw her aunt in and I don’t want to do that. She has too many connections and could make what we do come to light and we don’t want that. No, this needs to be played as quiet as possible and kept between her and us. There’s a time and place for everything and right now the this isn’t the time. Just make that call for me.”

“Yes, sir.” Jerry leaves Adam’s office and heads back to his desk to make the phone calls.

Wildfire had gone back to her parent’s hotel room after picking up rose so she could meet her mother and father. She couldn’t believe the look on Rose’s face when she came face to face with her mother. She had seen the posters in her place with her mother and her. Jack, Dusk and her father had gone with boxes to where Rose lived. They packed up Rose’s place and took her things back to her place. She was going to turn her second bedroom into Rose’s room. Siren had set-up a room for Rose at her place as well. That way when Rose stayed over there she felt comfortable and had her own room.

Her Aunt had given her everything she could find out about Adam Ludlum, which wasn’t his real name. His real name was Richard Cosby and he was listed as being dead. Adam Ludlum was his current identity and was listed in the CIA database. The thing was, why was he operating here on American soil and what was his connections to the Russian traffickers? She was still pissed at what they found. The little girl was being spoiled by her sister and mother. Her new brother was adjusting to his new life and will learn how to deal with his HIV. Her aunt wanted to test a new treatment on her brother. Her mother wanted to wait till her new brother is adjusted to his new life.

Sasha was loading up her secret pocket and compartments on her costume so they were loaded with her tricks balls and such. She checks the mini-tanks that house her special effects flame shooters. The tanks held enough fuel for two big burst or a fifteen-minute burn like she did the City Council’s nuts. The special lining in her gloves kept her hands from getting burned.

Sasha leans back as she hears giggling sounds coming from her little girl. Her father was tickling her little girl and just having fun like he did when she was little. Her parents were enjoying spoiling her new children and their new grandchildren. Her sister was enjoying her role as the cool aunt to her girls. Her mom had informed her that there will be nights where her little girl will wakeup screaming from the rape she was force to experience. She had the same problem with her older sister who had been in the same situation as her little girl and if she needed to. She should call her sister and have her come down and help her with her daughter.

Dusk’s little boy was enjoying his new family and was getting as much attention as her own girls were getting from their grandparents. Dusk’s parents were thrilled when they learned that Dusk was becoming a mother to the boy. As for the rest of the kids and women that had been free. They were being taken to a farm house out in California that her aunt owned and they were going to be recovering out there. A medical team will be looking after them and helping them recover. Those that have family, her aunt will see if they wanted them to come back.

Sasha goes and take a shower while her children enjoy their new family.

Sasha munches on a piece of apple slice. She had managed to track down where Mr. Ludlum was holding up at. She had seen two black government style Suv pull up outside of the place and eight guys dress in black body armor carrying government issue M16A4 and MP4 heading inside the place. She uses the special binoculars that her aunt loaned her. They allowed her to see through walls and pin point how many people were in the room.

She had switched out her normal performing costume for the custom-made body armor her aunt had given her. It looked like something off the television show Shield, but form fitting and capable of stopping up to a .50 caliber sniper round, the 7.62×54mmR and the 7.62x39 used by the AK47. Any armor-piercing rounds that hit the suit shatter on impact, but leave one hell of a bruise on the body. She didn’t want to get hit by any. She had equipped this new suit with her normal load out of tricks and gadgets. Including her flame projectors in her gloves.

Sasha checks her mother’s fully automatic .50 caliber Desert Eagle’s her aunt had made a long time ago for her mother. Normal guns weren’t loaded out with special rounds capable of going through a six-inch center block wall. Both these guns not only could go through the wall, but pound the crap out of a person.

Her mother and father had the girls and were keeping them safe. Sasha continues to watch and once night falls, she would make her appearance. Sasha eats another apple slice and keeps watching from across the street. She has already planned how she was going to attack the place. She had her corvette parked a safe distance away and hid it so no one would disturb it. Sasha tried using a laser mic system on the windows, but he must be using some sort of jamming system. She fired her dart gun that contained a mic dart, but all she got back was white noise. She could listen in on their radio frequencies. They were using a scramble channel, but her aunt had given her a lot of nice equipment. It was nice having an aunt that did military research into advance weapons, vehicles and equipment. Her aunt told her she could keep the body armor since it was custom made just for her. Her aunt was going to update the bands costumes with a set of new ones that provide similar protection.

Adam had a funny feeling that someone was watching him, but he didn’t see anything from across the street, which is where they would be. He knew that was the perfect place to observe him. His reinforcements had arrived sooner than he had expected. He had them spread out inside the building and checking in every thirty minutes. Adam watches as the sun goes down and if he was going to strike, this would be the time to do it.

“Everyone be alert. Some time tonight we are going to have a visitor.” Adam checks his gun and make sure it is loaded. He had the building wired to explode should his heart stops.

Sasha keeps waiting and when night finally falls. She continues to wait. She was going to strike around midnight. The timer she set on the gas canister to fill the building with knockout gas will go off at midnight. The knockout gas was her personal formula. It was the same fast acting formula she uses in her exploding gas pellets.

At midnight, the knockout gas starts flowing through the vent system. The men hadn’t come prepared for a gas attack. They started dropping like flies as the building filled with the gas. Sasha waits to give the gas time to do its job before swing across the street onto the top of the building she needed to go into. She presses a button on her wrist bracelet to turn the gas canisters off.

Sasha seals her helmet and enter the building from the roof access with her guns drawn. She starts going floor by floor securing the unconscious body guards. She makes her way down to Mr. Adam Ludlum’s office and smiles beneath her helmet. She doesn’t play fair which is something he should had realized about her. She notices he has some sort of heart monitor attached to his heart. Sasha takes a picture of it and sends the image to her aunt to see if she knew of a way to deactivate it.

“Coward.” Sasha moves his sleeping body out of the way and sit down at his desk and start going through his computer files.
She makes sure she copies everything he has on his system and then looks around for any portable drives he may be hiding or carrying with him. She finds a few drives and his laptop. Sasha leans back in his chair and wonders where she would hide books if she wanted to keep things off the computer system. Since her specialty was deception and concealment. She knew what to look for.

Sasha walks over to where she was thinking a wall safe would be and bingo. Her guess was right on the money. It had a bio metric lock system. She smiles to herself under her helmet and drag Adams unconscious body over to the safe and use him to open the safe up. As she opens the safe there were the books and a shit load of money inside.

Sasha searches around for a garbage bag to put everything in the safe in it. While she was cleaning out the safe, her phone beeps. Sasha looks and notice it was a text message from her aunt with instructions. Sasha follows her aunt’s instructions to disable the monitor and turn it to her advantage.

Sasha looks down at Adam’s body “what am I going to do with you Mr. Ludlum. I would really like to kill you right here and right now.”
Sasha just stares at his body. She knew he was going to be knocked out for a couple of hours. Sasha dials Jacks number “Jack, I need for you to go and pick-up my corvette at this street address. Be careful I have the car hidden.”

“Where do you want me to take it?”

“Keep it at your place for the night. I’ll pick it up later.”

“Okay. Is your security code still the same?”

“Yep. I’ll change it later. Just take the car back to your place and I’ll call you later to come and pick me up from where I am.”

“Alright, be careful.”

“I will.” Sasha hangs up.

Sasha drags Adam’s body downstairs to the suv his security force showed up in and unlocks it. She had found their keys when she searched their bodies. Sasha did take pictures of their faces and sent them to her detective friend. She tosses Adam into the suv and climbs in herself and takes him to the storage unit her and Jack had set-up earlier for their fun with the kidnappers.

Sasha looks at Mr. Ludlum as he hung on her knife throwing board. He was still knocked out from her knocked out gas. She had gone back to her storage warehouse, except this time she was using one of her specialty rooms. This room would only allow her to open or close it. It was reinforced and could withstand a tank driving into it. She wasn’t in a hurry to wake the sick fucker up. She did put one of her shock collars around his neck so if he didn’t answer her right, it shocked him. The voltage was controlled by her. She knew how it felt, because she had used it herself in a performance she did.

She was going through Mr. Ludlum’s laptop and was finding all sorts of things on there. Business deals that he had planned, locations of weapon caches and bank accounts for CIA slash funds and the banks they were stored in as well. The portable hard drives contained black mail material he could use against certain Senators and congressmen, not to mention footages he got of the President and wife. Those would raise a ruckus among some people. There were some images of important Judges and city managers that enjoyed the younger children for entertainment purposes.

Sasha had to control her temper because right now just from seeing those Pictures. She wanted to go and kill those men. Some of them were rape scene carried out by these men’s and others were little boys forced to perform in front of the camera and made to play with themselves and use words they probably didn’t know the meaning too.

Sasha gets up and walks over towards one of the walls in the room and punch it. The glove she had on absorb the punch, but it still stung. There were a copy of snuff videos among his stuff that showed people actually killing men, women and children for entertainment after they had done all sorts of sexual things to them. Some being mutilated for fun and others out of pure perversion. Sasha had a hard time keeping her stomach contents down when she came across several showing boys having their manhood’s burned off.

Sasha stands up and looks over towards Mr. Ludlum’s unconscious body just hanging there. She could feel the fire inside her wanting to spring forth and burn him. Only a few people knew she was pyrokinetic. She used to use it a lot when she was younger, but she accidentally burned her mother one time and after that she stopped. Now, she only uses it to make her flame acts more entertaining. Tonight however, she was willing to make an exception to that rule and burn Mr. Ludlum’s body right here, right now.

She had to get out of this room before she does something she’ll regret. She gathers all the evidence she has so far and place it into a special design safe. This safe was of her own design and the combination locking mechanism was based off an ancient Chinese design. So, unless you were good with puzzles, you weren’t getting into this safe.

She walks outside to get some fresh air, before she set something on fire by accident. Sasha couldn’t get those images out of her head. Every time she thought about them, it would make her want to throw-up. How could people be so cruel to children and others like that?
She reaches into her pocket and bring out one of her many exploding trick fireballs and ignite it. It burns in her hands and she just adds her anger to the flame and watches as the fireball got bigger and bigger from her adding her anger towards it. She could feel the heat from it as it warmed her cheeks and her armor. She watched the flames with a hypnotic fascination as they dance and swirl. Oh, how she would love to toss this at Mr. Ludlum and see how he felt as it burned his skin and charred his body. She was so tempted to do just that right now while he was out of it. She watches as the flames slowly died off as it burned the last of the fuel it needed to sustain itself. She could coach it to burn a little longer, but without the needed fuel, it couldn’t sustain itself for long.

She was lucky people didn’t believe in pyrokinesis. If they did she would be in trouble. Look at what the movie Carrie and Firestarter did to scare people into believe that abilities like hers was a fake or dangerous. Only a few people believe the stuff that comes out of the New Age books on the subject or the Edgar Casey foundation in Virginia Beach, Va.

She stays outside for a few more minutes trying to center herself before going back in to deal with Mr. Adam Ludlum. She hears a low buzzing sound and looks around from where the sound was coming from and as she looks up she notices a shape hovering over her building. She pulls her gun out and gives that object a short burst from her mother’s modified Desert Eagle. It vibrates her arm as three .50 caliber rounds leave the gun and strike the black object.

It tumbles to earth and lands on her roof. Sasha walks back inside after locking the door and heads to where the roof access is and climbs up the ladder there to see what she shot down. As she exists onto the roof, she notices a smoking drone laying upside down with a hole through the middle of it from the .50 caliber rounds.

Sasha picks the black drone up to examine it and notice it had no markings what so ever on it. The technology inside of it was broken, but not something you would buy at Toy r’ Us toy store or order off the internet. Someone was operating this thing and it was meant to scout ahead for them. That meant Mr. Ludlum had friends coming to rescue his sorry ass.

Just as Sasha started moving, a bullet hit right where she had been standing. Another bullet hits right behind her right ankle. A sniper was taking pot shots at her. She tosses down a bunch of smoke pellets to fill the area around her as she hides inside the dense smoke making her way towards the roof access opening. She felt several bullets hit her left calf, but it bounced off the armor. However, she did feel the kinetic energy from the impact and it numbed her leg.

“I really need to talk to my aunt about better kinetic energy protection from bullets hitting the body armor.” She closes the roof access door cover as she drops down instead of climbing down.

“Ow! That hurts.” Sasha had twisted her ankle some when she landed. It was because of her numbed leg that she didn’t land right.

She takes a side corridor that they used when they brought Roy and Roger here to the storage unit to play with them. She heads towards the makeshift control room and actives all the special effects trap they hadn’t used, but set-up any way. She heard an explosion as the front door of the storage unit was blown open. She could see what happened from one of the camera that was still working.

Just as three of the guys dress in military style gear stepped where she had place the strips for the fire wall, she ignites them and watch as the fire wall flames cling to their uniform and burns. She notices on another camera as they made their way down the corridor where the glove fist was and the door that had swung down was. One of them steps on the trigger device and one guy is punched right in the side of the face. His buddy steps on the other trigger and the door swings down and smacks two more people.

Down on another corridor, a guy triggers the stink sprayers and another one triggers the oil sprayers, making it hard to stand up. Sasha laughs as she watches people slip and slide down the corridor and hit the section of the floor where she rigged the sticky sprayers to spray a fast acting glue and have feathers fall on them. She hears an explosion and the ceiling where she came down had been blown opened. She quickly activates the fog machines and strobe lights in that area of the building. So far, she had them tied up with her traps, but knew that wouldn’t last long.

She sneaks out of the makeshift control room and starts taking a more active role in capturing these men. She spots one guy and shots him in the leg and arm. She moves onto another fellow and does the same thing. She wanted answers from these guys and dead men don’t talk.

One guy surprises her and manages to jump her. He was trying to get a hold of her, but he was covered in the oil she had used. Her body armor prevented him from getting a good hold on her.

“Today, just ain’t your day.” Sasha slams her elbow into his face mask and flips him over her back onto the floor. She pulls her other Desert Eagle and shots him in both legs and his dominate arm.

She moves onto another fellow and does the same thing. She had picked up her dropped gun. The guys she had gotten with the fog and strobe lights were hanging trapped in a net she had rigged.

“Just hang around fellow, maybe I’ll let you down or maybe I’ll feed you to these guys.” She pulls a fake tile and activates a trap playing hungry alligators snapping away with sound and all.

She starts handcuffing the people and bring them to the same room Adam was still tied up in. She drags one poor guy over and secure his wrist better as she hoists him up before his men and strip him of his clothes, armor and hoist him higher off the ground.

She takes a bottle of seizer water and sprays him with it, while pressing the trigger on a cattle prodder.

“Okay, I know you men are all tough soldiers and a little girl like me don’t scare you. However, what you don’t know about me is I can be very vicious when I want to be.” Sasha takes the cattle prodder and touch it on the man hanging private area and triggers it.
She holds it for a little while before stopping. The man had done the twenty-thousand-dollar jig for her while she had the trigger pressed.

“Now, the next time I touch him, it will be in his ass. I want to know who you are and how did you find my place?” She slowly edged the cattle prodder to the guys ass.

“No one?” as she looks at all of them.

“Oh, well!” She pulls the trigger and watches as he lets go of his bowels.

“Time to move on to the next one, I guess.” Sasha lowers the unconscious man to the floor and picks her next victim and repeats the process.

By the time she was going to hoist the third one up, he started talking. Telling her about the tracking chip in Adams body and how that lead them to here. She touches him any way with the cattle prodder and after wards calls the police to come and get these creeps.

Sasha looks at Adam Ludlum as he hung on her knife throwing board. All the men that have been sent to rescue him were secured and strip of any weapons or items they could use to escape. She had locked them in one of her storage rooms till she made the call to Detective Lucas Strange to come and get them.

“Now, let’s see what you know Mr. Ludlum”

Sasha presses a green button on the remote to activate the shock collar around Adam’s neck.

Adam jerks awake when he feels the electrical charge from the collar. He looks around trying to figure out where the hell he was. He notices he was in some sort of room strap to a board by leather straps. He doesn’t see any one, but he does know someone is watching him.

“Good afternoon Mr. Ludlum. I hope you had a good nap.”

Adam turns his head towards the sounds of the voice. He didn’t know the voice, but he figures he does know who that voice belonged to. As he is looking in the direction from which the voice came from. He feels a tapping on his shoulder from behind.

“I’m not there Mr. Adam.” Sasha comes walking around from behind him and looks directly at him.

“Ms. Wolfhart, it is so nice to meet you in person. I have to admit I never thought we would meet like this though.”

“Well Mister Ludlum or should I say Mr. Richard Cosby with the Central Intelligence of dumbasses. We could had meet under better circumstances. I would figure you of all people would had understand the message I was I sending about KIDNAPPING a certain young teenage girl.”

“I have no idea about what you are talking about MS. Wolfhart.”

“It’s Wildfire and you do know.” Sasha presses the button and upping the electrical charge.

Mr. Ludlum’s body shakes mildly as electricity passes through out his body. He stops after a few seconds.

An evil smile appears on Sasha’s face as she stands in front of him.

“Now, do you want to tell the truth or should I increase the charge?”

“Ms. Wolfhart I have no idea about what you are talking about and even if I did. I wouldn’t tell you anything. There’s nothing you can do to me,
that would make me talk.”

“You think so Mr. Ludlum? Because I have other means then this to make you talk and they are not very pleasant.”

Sasha presses the green button again with the charge upped one.

Mr. Ludlum dances around like a puppet on strings.

Sasha releases the button and looks at Mr. Ludlum again and in a sweet voice “do you want to tell me the clients name that wanted my Rose
and your Russian contact?”

Adam looks at Sasha and notice she had the look of a predator on her face and in her eyes.

“Well, I guess were going to be here all night.”

He smiles at her because he knows there is nothing she can do to make him talk.

Sasha presses the green button again and set the charge half way up and hold it longer.

She knows he is right because most government agents like him are trained for interrogation. However, she knows how to do things
government agencies can’t train you for. She releases the switch and strike a nerve cluster on the back of his neck.

Adam stops shaking and then loses feeling below his neck. He can’t feel his arms or legs.

“What did you do to me?”

“I disrupted the nerve impulses from your head to the rest of your body. You see, my mother is a Doctor and she taught me all the different
nerve clusters on the human body. I also know eight different styles of Martial Arts. So, do I use the next touch to kill you or just leave you like
you are?”

Sasha taps her chin as if she is thinking.

“You are in over your head.”

“Maybe, but I really don’t care. Because if you want war Mr. Ludlum. I can guarantee the people backing me will rain down fire upon you and
the agency before they can do anything against them.”

“Who do you think you are Ms. Wolfhart?”

“Who do I think I am Mr. Ludlum? Who the hell do you think you are selling children and women into the sex trade? These are human being
that don’t deserve to be treated this way.”

“Why should it matter to you Ms. Wolfhart? You come from a rich and powerful family.”

“My family hasn’t always been rich and powerful. They earned every bit of what they have by playing by the rules. My mother especially
worked very hard for her medical degree and her entertainment success. So, tell me again. Why do you feel children and women need to be used as sex objects?”

Sasha leans in close, but not close enough for Mr. Ludlum to bite her.

Mr. Ludlum stares at her and could tell she was ready to kill him. There was rage in her eyes and the way she was controlling herself. He knew sooner or later she was going to lose control and make him suffer.

“I think you need to step back Ms. Wolfhart. You’re about to lose it.”

“If I lose it Mr. Ludlum, you’ll end up with roasted nuts.”

Sasha steps back and walks into the darkness.

Mr. Ludlum notice a fireball appearing in the darkness and growing bigger. It had started off as the size of a volleyball and was growing. The next thing he knows, it is coming towards him and hits right next to his head. He notices another one appearing and it starts growing like last time. This one hits just above his head.

Sasha comes walking out with another fireball in her hand and it was growing. She stands directly in front of him with it sitting on her gloved hand.

“I can’t miss at this range Mr. Ludlum. Do you still refuse to cooperate with me?”

Ludlum could see flames dancing in her eyes.

“1,2,3” Sasha slams the fireball into his groin area.

Since he couldn’t react to the fireball burning through his pants because of Sasha paralyzing him. He hangs there and smells his flesh burning.

“STOP IT! I’ll talk.”

Sasha snaps her fingers and the fire comes back to her hand.

She inhales “ah, roasted nuts.”

“Now talk.”

Adam bites down on his back tooth and passes out from whatever it was.

“YOU FUCKING, COWARD!”

The flame still in Sasha’s hand shoots up like a flame thrower from her anger.

Sasha was pissed that Adam took his life. She walks over and checks his neck to see if he was completely dead. She didn’t smell anything form his mouth. Sasha steps back and calls her mother.

“Hi mom. Can you come down here to my storage unit and look at one of my prisoners please?”

“Why do I need to come down Sasha?”

“Because before I could get any answers from him. He bit down on a false tooth in his mouth and passed out. The thing is, I don’t smell anything coming from his mouth. I’m not getting a pulse, but it’s strange that I don’t smell anything.”

“Alright, I’ll be down in a few minutes.”

“Thanks mom.”

Sasha disconnects the phone call and starts turning off her traps, so her mother doesn’t get hurt. She checks the speed cuffs on the prisoners and makes sure all of them are secure. About twenty minutes later, Sasha’s mother comes walking in with a black doctor’s bag. She goes over and starts checking Adam over. She notices the burn to the leg instead of the groin area that she knows her doctor wanted to do to him. After a few minutes of checking Adam over. She puts her medical instruments away.

“He’s not dead sweetie, but there’s no way I can revive him with what I have on hand. Also, I don’t know what he took, so it could be dangerous.”

“So, your saying that the jerk is still alive, but there’s nothing I can do?”

“Afraid not sweetheart.”

Janet walks over and holds her daughter. She could feel her babies anger for being cheated like this. She knew there was only a few drugs that can fake being dead. Which one he used, she had no idea. The universal antidote she developed wouldn’t work on this.

“Go ahead and call the police and have these men taken away sweetie.”

“I’ll go ahead and leave this mess to you sweetie.” Janet hugs her daughter one more time before leaving.

“Thanks mom.”

“You’re welcome.” Janet just smiles and drives off.

Sasha takes her cell phone out and calls Detective Lucas to come and pick-up everyone. She so much wants to kill Adam for what he did, but she won’t do anything to an unarmed or unconscious enemy. Well maybe nothing harmful that is. She superglues a set of devil horns to his forehead and write on his back PLEASE ENTER FROM REAR with an arrow going down to his anal opening. She knew the ink she used, should stick around for a while.

Sasha had told detective Lucas about who she had in custody and was going to give him half the information she had retrieved. She had made copies for them. She was keeping the originals just in case something happened to the evidence.

The police show up and Sasha helps them load the pricks into a prisoner transport van and gives them the destroyed drone she shot out of the sky. She yawns from being so tired as she gives her statement to detective Lucas. Once he has her statement and the police leave her storage unit. She puts call into her aunts repair them and setup a time and for them to come out and repair her unit. She won’t be using this unit for a while now. Luckily, all her new stage props and items were over at her other unit. By the time she leaves her ruined unit, she heads towards Sirens places.

Sasha punches in her gate code and pull up the long drive way towards Sirens mansion. She misses this place, but both her and Siren agreed it would be better for their relationship to have separate places because of how public Wildfire was. Siren liked having some privacy in her life. Sasha parks the Suv in front of the second garage door, because she didn’t have her remote to open the door.

Sasha makes her way into the house and up to hers and Sirens bedroom. She notices Siren just lying there sound asleep. Sasha moves quietly into the bathroom and strip out of her body armor and undergarments. She notices the bruises on her body where she got hit and the kinetic energy had travel through the armor. She really needs to talk with her aunt about the armor. She steps into the shower and takes a nice hot one to relax some of her muscles and make her feel better.

When Sasha is done taking a shower she walks over towards the bed and gently get under the covers and curl up next to Susan. She misses sleeping with Susan. Sasha feels Susan’s lips on her own as Susan kisses her. Sasha just wraps her arms around Susan’s as she lays half off and half on her own body.

When Rose wakes up in the morning and peeks into Sirens room. Siren said she could always come into her bedroom. She notices Sasha and Siren curled up together. Rose walks over and curls up next to Sasha. The little girl that Sasha had claimed as her own was with Sasha’s parents.

Sasha felt Rose curled up next to her and Susan spooned against her back.

“Is everything okay sweetie?”

“Yes ma’am. I just wanted to lay next to you. You haven’t been around for the past few days.”

“I’m sorry sweetie, but I was dealing with bad guys and finally they are in jail.”

“Sasha are you and Susan married?”

“Yes, we are Rose. We keep our marriage secret because Susan values her privacy and I’m opened about my life to a certain degree. The
band members know we are married, but when we travel we try to keep it secret so reporters and such don’t find out. That’s why the band is owned by both of us as a partnership. Does it bother you that you’ll have two mothers, instead of a mother and father?”

“No ma’am. I think it’s nice that I’ll have two mothers.”

“I will tell you a little secret, Susan is very controlling.”

“Only with you am I controlling. You enjoy being controlled by me.”

“I know.” Sasha turns her head to kiss Susan.

Rose just watches the two of them kiss.

“When did the two of you meet?”

“Back when we were in school. Sasha hadn’t had her operation yet.”

Rose looks at Sasha ‘you use to be a boy?”

“Yes and no Rose. Physically, I was born as a boy. However, mentally and emotionally I was a girl. My body during its development took the
wrong path. So, I was a girl born with a boy’s body. Your Aunt performed the operation when I came of age. My birth parents tried to kill me because I refused to dress and act as a boy. I was rescued by my adopted mother and raised as a normal girl. Susan and I met when we were in high school the both of us are bi-sexual, but we love each other a lot. So we got married. Now, we have two adorable daughters now”

Sasha tickles Rose. Which causes Rose to giggle and squirm against Sasha’s body.

Siren reaches over Sasha’s body and tickles Rose as well. Rose giggles and squirms against Sasha.

Soon it turns into a tickle sport between Siren, Sasha and Rose.

A few days after Sasha arrested Adam Ludlum. She and Susan; were outside enjoying breakfast on the back patio. When her cellphone starts to ring. She checks the number and notice it was Detective Lucas Strange.

“Thumper’s brothel, we got the best women in the state.”

“Funny Sasha. I hope you’re still in a good mood after I give you the bed news.”

“What’s the bad news?”

“Remember Adam Ludlum and his men?”

“Ya, I remember that jackass and his men.”

“Well, you’re not going to like what I have to say.”

“Don’t tell me he got bailed out?”

“He didn’t get bailed out. All the charges you and the city were going to charge him with were dropped.”

“WHAT! I never agreed to do that.”

“I know, but the city attorney was told to let him and his men go. A black van came out and took Mr. Adam Ludlum and his men last night.”

Sasha was fuming and wanted to kill someone right now. That creep was getting away with what they had done to all those women and children.

“How about the Russians? Were they let go?”

“No. They are still here in the jail. The other prisoners want to get their hands on them.”

“Let them. After what they did to those women and children.”

“You know I can’t Sasha. As much as I agree with you. I can’t put them in general population. Don’t you think about breaking in and putting
them in general population either. The chief of police is still mad about you breaking into the prison last time.”

A smile comes to her face when she remembers that day. She needed some information and they were refusing her request to talk to one of the prisoners. So, she broke in and got the information she needed. There wasn’t a jail or prison she couldn’t break in or out of.

“Thanks for calling me Lucas.” Sasha hangs up.

Susan notice the look on Sasha’s face.

“Bad news sweetie?”

“Ya, Adam Ludlum and his men were released from custody and all the charges were dropped against them. Including the ones, I filed
against him.”

“There’s more going on then you know sweetie. Someone high up is looking after him. Come mere.”

Susan scoots back so Sasha could sit on her lap and wrap her arms around her body. She gives Sasha a kiss while holding her against her body.

“Why don’t we go back upstairs and you let me make love to you till you’re feeling better? Because, right now I know you want to kill someone.”

Sasha gaze into Susan’s gray eyes “you know me to well.”

Sasha leans down and passionately kiss Susan. She loved this woman very much. The two of them stop kissing and head inside the house.
They make their way upstairs to the bedroom. Susan and Sasha start taking their night clothes off and embrace each other as they start kissing and exploring each other’s bodies. They make love to each other most of the morning. Later as they laid in bed with Sasha snuggled up against Susan’s body. The alarm on Sasha’s cellphone go off reminding them that they had afternoon band practice. Sasha and Susan take a shower together and get dress afterwards. They had evening practice and Sasha still had to stop and pick-up her corvette.

“Is Rose going to be at practice this evening?”

Susan was driving Sasha over to Jack’s house to pick-up her corvette.

“Yep, mom is dropping her off. Her and dad have been spoiling their grandchildren. Mom has been wanting to take Rose shopping and to
the spa. She also took Gracie with her. Gracie had to get twelve stitches because of that city council member raping her. Mom has been looking after her.”

“You know, you should spend some time with her.”

“I am. Mom is bringing her with Rose to practice so she can come home with us. Oh, my mom said we didn’t fool her. She knew me and you were married and is disappointed that we never told her.”

“I know. She pulled me aside and chewed my ear off. Still, we need to keep it this way because you’re to well-known and your enemies would use me against you. I know sooner or later our relationship is going to come out, but until then.”

“I know, let’s keep everything secret. How about our children?”

“I’ll make sure that they have my last name instead of yours. That way we can keep them safe.”

Sasha just sighs and watch as houses in Jacks’ neighborhood go by. As they approach Jack’s place. Susan pulls into the drive way right next to Sasha’s corvette.

“Here you go sweetie. I’ll see you at practice.”

Susan leans over and kiss Sasha before she gets out.

Sasha smiles and watch as Susan backs out and drives away. As Sasha watches Susan drive, away. She hears a low buzzing noise approaching her. She looks around to see where the noise is coming from and notice a drone coming directly towards her. She didn’t have her guns with her or any of her gear.

The drone starts firing at her.

She ducks beside the corvette as the bullets bounce off the skin of the car.

“Dam it! I just had the car detailed.”

Sasha could hear the drone coming back around for another run against her. She gets into the corvette and start the engine up. She hears the corvette get hit again from bullets on the driver side.

“Now, let’s see who is controlling you.”

She locks onto the signal going to the drone. She backs the corvette out of the driveway and drives towards the signal location. She follows it until she notices the drone coming directly towards her in a suicide run. Sasha steps down on the pedal and the corvette closes the distance so the drone will miss it. She heard the explosion behind her.

Directly in front of her was a black van where the signal was coming from. She arms the hydraulic ram mounted into the front of the corvette and rams the front end of the van. The five-point harness holds her in place as the corvette smashes the radiator, and engine into the cabin area of the van. She backs the corvette up and releases the harness as she grabs the mini-Uzi from the storage unit under the passenger seat along with the two spare magazines for the mini-Uzi. She opens the driver side door and steps out of the corvette.

“Alright, out of the van now with your hands up!”

She had the mini-Uzi aimed right at them. Four guys step out of the van.

“Who sent you and who are you?”

“You know who sent us Ms. Wolfhart.”

“You know I should just shoot you and get it over with. However, I’m in a good mood. You tell Mr. Ludlum that I will hunt him down and I will
make him pay for what he did.”

She shots each of them in their leg and get back into her corvette. She does a U-turn and head towards the studio for practice. The corvette was driving fine, but she should give her aunt the car to go over. It has only done two ramming jobs since it has been built.

She arrives at the studio and heads inside.

Mystic looks at her “you’re late.”

“I ran into some trouble.”

“Mom!”

Rose runs up to Sasha and hugs her. Gracie comes walking behind Rose carefully and hugs Sasha was well.
Sasha carefully picks Gracie up off the floor.

“Did grandma and grandpa treat you good?”

Gracie shakes her head yes. She liked her new grandparents, aunts and uncles.

“You ready to hear mom and your sister sing?”

She nods her heads yes.

Sasha places a kiss on her cheek.

“Looks like you’ll have some company.”

Sasha spotted the twin India girls and the boy Dusk adopted.

Mystic walks over towards the twin girls “I saw the girls and felt I could help them.”

“Thank you. Well, let’s go ahead and practice. We have a performance in a few days.”

Sasha carries her little girl into the studio and let them sit and listen to the group.

Rose was nervous as she rode on the tour bus. They were approaching the concert hall that they were going to be performing at tonight.
This would be her first time singing in front of a large crowd outside the practice studio.

Mystic looks over towards Rose and just smile.

“First time performance jitters?”

“Yes.” Rose barely squeaked out.

“Come here, Rose.” Siren was holding her hands out for her.

Rose walks over to Siren and was embraced by her.

“You’ll do fine, sweetheart. Just imagine everyone in their underwear or wearing goofy costumes.”

Sasha starts laughing at that suggestions.

Siren gives her a dirty look.

“I’m sorry Siren.” Sasha walks over towards Rose.

“Sweetie, if you have to. Just close your eyes and sing. If nothing else, grandma and grandpa are going to be in the crowd along with your new sister. Concentrate on them and sing directly to them or sing to Siren here.”

Sasha puts her hand on Siren’s shoulder.

Rose just hugs her mothers and take a deep breathe. When they arrive at the concert hall. Rose stays close to Siren, while Wildfire does her traditional display of showing off announcing their arrival. Their instruments and other gear was already set-up on stage. Siren helps Rose change into her costume, while everyone else changes into theirs.

“Alright, let’s go and put on a show.”

Everyone walks out on stage and over to their instruments or positions.

“You ready, Wildfire?”

“Ready and waiting.” Sasha had her finger on the activation button on her guitar, ready to set off the special effects.

“Mystic, ready?”

Mystic gives that mischief smile of his to Sasha. Just as the lights come up. Wildfire strikes the first cord and a smoke cloud starts to form blocking the view of the band. As the music builds from the guitars being played by Jack of Hearts and Wildfire in addition to Mystic keyboard playing adds to the suspense. A giant fire bird starts forming from the cloud raising up from the smoke. Jacks of Hearts and Wildfire let the cords they are playing explode and the bird expands its fiery wings and explodes exposing the band as they jump right into the song. Rose and Siren’s voice match one another and the crowd goes wild as they start singing along with the band.

They build the excitement with songs from either their older stuff, which Rose knew by heart and from their new stuff that she has been practicing. She watches Siren for her cues and changes. Sasha smiles to herself as she watches her oldest daughter enjoy herself on stage.
She watches as Rose dances with Siren and the two of them grab the audience attention. Sasha tosses some of her special effects magic around Rose and Siren. The effects added to their dance and it drives the audience wild. Mystic adds a little of his special effects touches to the two of them as well.

The noise from the crowd just gets louder as Siren and Rose steal the show. The group continues to play and finally end the performance with one last hit of their song that had been remastered. Smoke raises up and engulf the stage and all of them exit from the stage. Wildfire makes the smoke explode like she did at the beginning of the concert.

When they were all back stage.

“Mom!” Gracie comes walking up and throws herself at her mother.

Sasha catches her and gazes into her youngest daughter’s eyes.

“Did you enjoy the concert sweetie?”

“You and the band were fantastic, mom.”

Tears were sliding down Sasha’s cheeks when she hears the word mom from her youngest. Something she thought she would never experience, has finally been given to her. She hugs Gracie closer to her sweat covered body. She looks over towards Rose and notice she was being held by Siren as well. The two of them looked at each other with a knowing look in their eyes and smile.

“Sasha, this came for you.”

One of the security personnel hands Sasha a postcard from Bermuda that read.

“Next time Mr. Ludlum, you won’t live to walk away ever.”

As Sasha, the band and Gracie attend the after party.