Will's POV

The entire team was sitting in Magnus' office, trying to figure out what to do. John was pacing up and down the length of the room, Magnus had her head in her hands, Nicholae was sitting on the end of the couch and I was staring off into space. Henry had left a while ago to make sure that all the security systems were online…….again. "I'm tired of waiting around" John said, walking up to Magnus. "How are we supposed to get back the blood if we sit and do nothing, what's worse is, we won't be able to find Ashley unless we get moving now!"

"Well, I'm out of ideas, so since Jacky here has such a bright mind why don't we just vault off to god knows where and just magically happen to end up in the exact same spot as Ashley" Nicholae said sarcastically, swinging his legs against the couch. "I may not have a plan but we need to do something" John shouted, annoyed. "The longer we wait the more time she has to teleport to somewhere where we'll never find her! So Nicholae, why don't you just go shove you're sarcastic remarks right up –"

"THAT is quite enough" Magnus said, slapping her hands on the table and standing up to get attention. "We are all just as worried about Ashley as you are John, and you Nicholae, should learn to control yourself better. We all need to calm down and think of a way to help Ashley and just……." She sighed and sat back down. Nicholae leaned back onto the couch and rested his hands behind his head "Couldn't have said it better myself, though I wouldn't take it out on the table. Magnus raised an eyebrow at him. "Well, maybe I would've, but that's beside the point" He put his feet up on the coffee table.

I had an idea, it wasn't a very good one, but it was a lot better than sitting around waiting for other suggestions, amusing as it was to see Nicholae make remarks "Henry was with her when they were captured by the Keval, maybe he knows something" Everyone looked at me, so I spoke up again quickly "What I mean is, did Henry notice anything even remotely different about her when they were rescued? Who knows what they could've done to her while she was there! If Henry can provide us with even a little bit of information………..we might be able to figure out what happened, even if it's just a small part"

Magnus stared at me in amazement, a small smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. "Will, you just gave me an idea" She stood up, going into command mode "Henry told me that while he was at the Keval base, one of the scientists did some experimenting on him to make him bring out his true uhhh…….animal, side." She paused, as if wondering how to continue "Will was absolutely right, we don't know what they did to Ashley, but if it's anything like what they did to Henry, then we might as well suppose that they did the same thing to Ashley, bringing out her true abnormal talents, they may have even made some kind of modifications to her memory somehow"

Nicholae nodded, sitting up again "Yes, that would explain why Ashley did this but I fail to see how this helps us figure out how to get the blood….and Ashley" he added quickly when he say the look Magnus gave him "..back"

Magnus sat down on the couch next to me, looking defeated. "I guess there's only one thing for it." She looked at everyone in the room, meeting each of their eye's in turn "Seeing as, being a teleportor, she probably won't show up on any of our equipment" She looked towards John for confirmation, as if she was unsure of herself. I noticed how open her eyes seemed to be, not literally but like she was trying to push her need out to the world, and she kept turning her frontal body position so that she was facing everyone at any given time. She was desperate, she needed comforting, but I knew Magnus well enough to be able to tell that she wouldn't accept this comfort too openly.

John nodded "Unless we knew an exact location I doubt we will ever be able to find her using only computers and internet and lord knows what other sort of dodgy technology Henry has stuffed away….no offence" I jumped a little, I hadn't realized that Henry had sat down next to me. "None taken" he said.

"Well then" Magnus said, "it would appear that we are going to have to search for Ashley manually. Now that caught everyone's attention. Everyone began talking at the same time, I began to start telling her how crazy and impossible her idea was when John interrupted "Helen you cannot be serious –"

"I am perfectly serious John; you of all people should know that this is the only way we are going to be able to find Ashley"

"While seeing you two lovebirds fighting is, in its own way, satisfying, there seems to be one tiny little flaw-"

"Yeah, like how the hell are you going to manage to find Ashley when she could be anywhere in the world" Henry interrupted Nicholae.

"And likely under the protection and influence of the Keval" I added.

"I've been thinking over the course of the past few days, and such a wide spread organisation like the Keval would need to have more than one base around the world, and a lot of them would have to be big, to constitute all of their research and I assume they have a large variety of members, training facilities, and research laboratories. And most of these are sure to be in secure and most likely deserted areas. And the Keval are used to being able to take what they want when it comes to the abnormal world and so it would only be common sense to suppose that they would choose to have facilities near landmarks or other places of terratological significance." We all stared at her oddly; I was just ever so slightly worried that the toll of the last few hours might have finally taken effect.

"We need to find a list of important mythological places and start from there. Look" Magnus pulled out a world map "I've already started, see there" She pointed to one of the countries "Scotland, seems to be the most likely place at the moment, there are many events and creatures there that would most certainly draw the Keval to have some kind of base there, it would seem reasonable to believe that Ashley might be there too." I started to see that she had a point, while she could be any where in the world, if the Keval really had changed her, they most likely would have put her under their protection in one of their most secure facilities. And judging by the amount of rumours of mythical activity in Scotland in recent years, there was a chance that it could have attracted the Keval's attention.

John nodded "It would appear that as we have no other plan this is going to be our course of action" Magnus smiled "Well then everyone, I suggest we get ready, Nicholae, I need to speak with you"

As I was leaving the room, Henry asked "What do you think he meant by 'dodgy technology'?"

Thankyou to all my friends who are reading this, B, Charlie, littlemissgoth (even though I haven't read it- littlemissgoth) and every other one of my friends who had no idea I was writing this but kept me going anyway.

I know the chapter went a bit fast but I wanted to get the beginning over and done with so that we can get on with the good stuff! Please review and remember, don't be shy, I want to hear all of you comments positive and negative.