Disclaimer: I own nothing, except a few select characters. I love Fablehaven, but sadly Brandon Mull stole the idea out of my head. Just kidding. Enjoy…
They arrived at the mansion and Seth was basically bouncing in his seat. There were five of them in the limo Warren, Vanessa, Bracken, Kendra, and Seth. After the Zzyzx battle both sets of Seth's grandparents had retired from being knights and his parents decided not to become knights. Seth was relieved that once Trask become the Captain there were no more robes or masks just them. Seth walked beside Vanessa and Warren with Kendra and Bracken walking behind them. Kendra seemed nervous, probably because no one but her family knew she was pregnant and she didn't want anyone to look down on her. Seth knew they wouldn't nobody would look down on the killer of the Demon King, or the Fairy Prince's fiancée but that didn't mean Kendra wasn't nervous.
The group walked to the main ballroom which was already filled with a variety of people, most everyone looked happy. A lot more people seemed happier with the Ethiopian gone, hidden away.
Once they walked in Warren gave Vanessa a kiss on the cheek and pulled Seth aside.
"Your grandfather told you about your assignment right?"
"Yea, he did." Seth answered. Warren nodded and pulled Seth out of the ballroom. Warren led him to stand outside a door and then stopped.
"Inside you will meet your Lieutenant and fellow knights going on the mission, Trask will probably be in there too. They will give you your assignment and all the information about it and then you will be free for the rest of the evening, okay?"
"Okay." With that Warren headed back towards the ballroom leaving Seth by himself. Seth turned to face the door and reached up to grip the handle; he turned it and pushed open the door.
Inside there were five people; Trask sitting behind a desk, his lieutenant Robert Bell, a man about Warren's age, and a girl that looked to be about fifteen.
"Ah, Seth please come in." Trask said in his deep voice motioning Seth inside the office. Seth stepped forward and closed the door behind him. "Now that we are all here we can get started with the assignment. Wait first let's introduce ourselves, and tell a little something about ourselves. I'll start, my name is Trask I am Captain of the Knights of the Dawn and my favorite treat is peanut butter chip cookies." Next was Robert.
"Hello, my name is Robert Bell and I have come face to face with a vampire 7 different times." Next came the man Seth didn't know.
"My name is Jacob Videl and I have been to three of the secret dragon preserves." The man had shaggy brown hair, piecing blue eyes, and a worn face. Next was the young girl.
"Hi, my name is Tanya Evans and I am a viviblix."
"What?" Seth exclaimed and made the girl jump. He couldn't believe that someone who looked so innocent and so beautiful could be a viviblix. Like Seth thought the girl looked to no older than fifteen, she had dark red hair with strawberry blonde highlights, her complexion was fair, her entire aura rang out perfect, and finally her eyes were a magnificent green that reminded Seth of the leaves on a rose bush with a golden ring around them.
"Yes," The girl, Tanya said. "I am, do you have a problem with that?"
"No. It just kind of caught me off guard sorry." Seth apologized worried that he offended the girl, she just brushed him off. "Well my name is Seth Sorenson and-"
"What?" Tanya asked now gushing over Seth. "You're Seth Sorenson?"
"Yea that's what I just said." Seth replied kind of flattered by the girl's admiration, but he decided to play it cool.
"Oh my goodness, I can't believe I am actually meeting you I mean-"
"Tanya, that's enough for now we need to talk about the mission." Trask said quieting her.
"Oh, right. Sorry." Tanya resumed her calm, collected state.
"Well as I was saying, I'm Seth Sorenson and I am the wielder of the Vasilis."
"Wow, impressive," Jacob said admirably. Then Trask gave him a look, but went on to explain the mission.
"Well we have been made aware that the Ethiopian and Mr. Lich had hideouts other than the Living Mirage, and for the past few months we have been looking for these places. Now we believe we have found one." Trask paused to look at the reactions of the three, Seth was absorbing anything Trask said, Tanya was in a daze, and Jacob was nodding with an approving look and eyes closed. "Well your job is to go to this place and check it out to see if there is anything, or anyone there that we should take into custody. Understand?"
"Yes," Jacob said looking somewhat eager to go on this mission.
"Yea," Seth said excitedly not believing how cool the mission sounded. They all then looked at Tanya who was still in a daze, "Tanya?" Seth muttered as he poked her in the side.
"What? Oh yes, of course." She said as she pulled out of her daze. "Thanks," She mouthed to Seth.
"Well you may go enjoy the festivities come back here afterwards and we will go into more detail." Trask said in a dismissive tone. The three of them walked out of the room and back towards the ballroom. Jacob walked by himself at a quick pace in front of the other two but Tanya and Seth just kind of meandered in the direction of the ballroom while talking.
'So you're Seth Sorenson? I can't believe I am meeting you." Tanya said in complete awe.
"Yea, and you can just call me Seth. Okay?" Seth said flattered, but was wondering what was up with this girl.
"Okay," The girl said all but sighing, "Is your sister here, I would die if I could meet her."
"Yea, she's here I'll introduce you later," Seth said slightly downcast by the change in her admiration.
"Is it true you made a bargain with the Singing Sisters to get Vasilis?"
"Yea, I promised them I would do them one deed within a year's time of obtaining Vasilis. And I did, with a little help from Bracken."
"Bracken?" Tanya asked slightly confused.
"Yea, Kendra's fiancée." Seth said.
"Oh, what did you have to do?"
"I'm not allowed to tell, top secret." Seth said in a slightly joking tone.
"Oh, okay. So are you excited for the mission?"
"Yea, I can't believe I am actually getting called on a mission."
"Haven't you been called on one before? I mean you went to Wyrmroost didn't you?"
"How did you know about Wyrmroost? It was secret like all the other missions are."
"Oh well when you know somebody who went pretty well you find out a lot about missions." Tanya said, blushing slightly.
"Who do, or did, you know who went to Wyrmroost?" Seth asked in confusion.
"Trask," Tanya said quietly as if it were a secret.
"How well do you know him?" Seth asked.
"Pretty well, on account that he's my stepdad."
"What? Trask is your stepdad?"
"Yea," Tanya said again blushing.
"He is so awesome so you must know about like all the missions he's been called on."
"Most, some are even too secret for me to know about." And with that they had gotten to the doors to the ballroom which were standing wide open.
"So do you want to meet Kendra now?" Seth asked Tanya.