So, here's the next installment of Dark Randomness. Keep in mind that even I don't reply to the reviews I get, I appreciate them VERY MUCH! Thanks to everyone who bothered to review, and keep them coming!
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Iris and Rin both burst out in laughter as Savannah came back through the hallway, her hair flying in different directions and dragging poor Gregori behind her using the leash. The leather was wound tightly around his neck and he sighed at the humiliation of it all.
"Savannah, I'm fine," he said, tugging at the rough material, "I'm back to normal...can you release me now? This is a fine way to boost my reputation of the Dark One." Savannah turned round and looked up at him.
"You were almost about to kill him Gregori," she scolded, "you know you shouldn't have done that." Rin and Iris kept laughing because the sight was so funny. Savannah, a good foot or so shorter than Gregori, was waving a finger at him and reprimanding him, whereas Gregori was looking ashamed of himself, being chastised by someone so much shorter than him.
Behind them, Julian's head popped out of the bathroom door, "is it safe to come out now?" Savannah nodded and tightened her hold on the leash as Gregori snarled at Julian. Julian whimpered slightly and took hesitant steps forward.
"Don't worry, Gregori won't hurt you, right Gregori?" Savannah said, giving Gregori a stern look. Gregori growled and watched Julian with molten silver eyes as he walked past and hastily headed home and put up anti-Gregori safeguards in case the hunter decided to come after him IN THE NIGHT!
Several days later the Carpathians once again gathered in the meeting room and waited for something. They didn't really know what they were waiting for. Savannah wasn't there; Rin and Iris weren't there. It just seemed all too silent. Dayan tapped the table in impatience.
"Something needs to happen," he said, "where are those three?"
"They're upstairs," Aidan answered, "doing something or another. Not bothering us for once." All of a sudden a shout of "VAMPIRE!!!!!!" was heard and Gregori instinctively knew that voice to be Savannah's. All the Carpathians leaped to the door and rushed like a crazy paparazzi mob up the stairs, Gregori in the lead. They burst in the door where the three girls were and looked around wildly, to find the three of them playing a video game...a vampire hunting video game. Everyone sweat dropped.
"Take that vampire!" Savannah cried, "your mama wears army boots!" Everyone sweat dropped again.
"Oh hi everyone!" Iris called to them, "wanna play? It's really fun!"
"Let's go..." Mikhail sighed and the Carpathians walked back down the stairs. As they filed back into the meeting room, they noticed something was missing.
"Where are Julian and Jacques?" Shea asked. She and Desari looked around but couldn't find their lifemates anywhere. Everyone headed back up the stairs and opened to door again to find Julian staring at the TV screen, intently into destroying a vampire while Jacques, Savannah, Iris, and Rin stood behind him, cheering him on.
"Yeah Julian, that's it!" Rin cried, "keep going!" If Carpathians could do the anime fall, everyone would have done so at that point.
"This IS fun!" Jacques said to the rest of the Carpathians at the doorway, "you should try it! It brings a whole new look to killing the undead!"
"Those two are absolutely hopeless..." Aidan and Mikhail sighed at the same time, "I can't believe I'm related to him..."
"Left Julian!" Savannah cried, "to the left! No, your other left! Aren't you supposed to be an experienced vampire hunter? Geez! At least get your directions right!"
"Why don't we leave them to their game playing," Sara suggested, "and get back to the meeting. Evidently they're not interested..." There were murmurs of assent as everyone walked back down to the meeting room.
"So..." Mikhail began, "I want to speak to all of you about a certain issue concerning Rin and Iris." Suddenly a pigeon flew right into the window of the meeting room and hit the glass with a loud splat. Everyone glanced at the bird, which, dazed, was flying away.
"That was REALLY random..." Barack commented casually.
"Never liked pigeons anyway..." Dayan added.
"Right well..." Mikhail continued, "those two are-" Suddenly he stopped, and everyone's attention was focused on his cup of blood that was slowly moving, by itself, across the table. It glided a full foot across the surface before coming to a stop. Mikhail raised an intrigued eyebrow, "okay, who used telekinesis?" All the Carpathians looked at each other, knowing no one would be so disrespectful as to lie to their prince. He may have been a nincompoop sometimes, but he WAS the prince...
"Are you meaning to tell me that my cup moved on its own?" Mikhail asked.
"I suggest that you don't drink from it, Mikhail," Gregori said, "cups of blood are not known to move by themselves."
"I think I know that..." Mikhail agreed, "but like I was saying, those two are females without lifemates. Every female unclaimed is a risk to vampires."
"I don't really think those three are at risk of vampire attacks," Aidan said, "considering what they did to the last one..."
"Nevertheless," Mikhail replied, "those two should find their lifemates soon. Not only will they be in danger of vampires, but the males out there will continue to suffer without them."
"I think the males out there would suffer more with them..." Nicolae commented with a grin, "those two are evil..." There were quiet murmurs of agreement, which were silenced with a glare from Mikhail.
"What you say is true Mikhail..." Falcon said, "females are cherished. Every couple is a gift to our race. They should find their lifemates soon, so what do you suggest we do?"
Mikhail sighed, "I suggest we send those two to Canada to see if they can find them there." Everyone stared at him.
"I am guessing you mean only to send those two..." Gregori ventured.
"But of course," Mikhail assured, "it would be pointless to put Savannah in unnecessary danger. And I know Gregori, that you would not last long without her, as irritating as she is..." he added with a grin.
Gregori sighed, "as much as I hate to admit it...that is true..."
"You realize that Savannah will be very reluctant to leave Iris and Rin for a good two months or so that they will be in Canada," Lucian said.
"Yes, but that cannot be helped," Mikhail said, "she will have to deal for the time being..."
"So...let's go break it to them then," Aidan said, standing up. Mikhail took the Canada plane tickets out of his pocket and the Carpathians ventured up the stairs once more.
"What?" Savannah gasped, not certain she had heard right.
"You know what we said, ma cherie," Gregori replied.
"You can't just leave me here!" Savannah burst into tears, "not without Iris and Rin! They can't just go to Canada without me! I can't be left here alone without them! Just let me go with them, please!" Gregori stepped forward and wrapped his arms around her, not able to stand her crying.
"Shh...you will be fine," he assured her, "you know I cannot let you go with them unless I come along. I cannot live without you Savannah..." he said it softly so no one else would hear.
"Then come along with me," Savannah offered, "I don't want to stay here by myself!"
"I have my duties to the prince, mon amour," Gregori replied, "I cannot just leave." Savannah sniffed and turned to face her two best friends.
"I can't believe you're leaving me, to find your lifemates!" she cried.
"The plane leaves soon," Mikhail said, "take your tickets, pack, and let's go." Hurriedly the two packed clothing, necessities, and other random stuff and they set of for the airport. They got there just in time. The airplane was just about to set off. Iris and Rin rushed on board and waved goodbye to everyone as the plane lifted off. Watching the plane take off, the rest of the Carpathians headed back.
"Well, I feel sorry for Savannah," Iris said as they sat down, "I feel bad for leaving her, but I think we really should find our lifemates."
"Too bad she couldn't come along with us..." Rin agreed solemnly, "she has no one to deal with Gregori with her. Let's just hurry up, find our lifemates, and head back."
"Until we reach Canada then..." Iris said as she clicked open her suitcase, "I'm going to listen to some music." She gasped as she looked down and mist came floating out of her suitcase. The mist settled in the aisle and slowly materialized into Savannah's form.
"Man, stowing away in suitcases is thirsty work..." she sighed as she stretched, "tiring too...I'm cramped."
"You stowed away in my suitcase...?" Iris asked, unable to believe it for a second,
"Well duh, you thought I'd actually put up with being stuck back there with those bozos? No way man," Savannah replied, "I'm coming to party too."
"But Gregori..." Rin began.
"Good enough punishment for him to order me around," Savannah said nonchalantly, "and who need you guys to find your lifemates anyway? Let's have some real fun." Using her mind, Savannah re-routed the plane for the Bahamas.
Back in the Carpathian Mountains, Gregori was freaking out.
"Savannah!!!!" he shouted, rummaging through the house and darting outside into the night to crash and topple the forest to the ground if he had to in order to find her, "Savannah where are you!?" He cursed roughly in every language he knew.
"Savannah if you don't come out right now!" he was too upset to finish the sentence. Where could she have possibly gone? They had all made sure she was perfectly safe and that she didn't try anything funny at the airport.
"Mikhail, Savannah's gone!" he announced as he burst into the house of his father-in-law.
Mikhail's eyes widened as he sent out a frantic call to every Carpathian within range. Within several moments every Carpathian was organized into groups to search for the prince's renegade daughter.
"I can't believe she would just disappear like this," Gregori said. He wasn't one normally to lose his mind. In fact, he was known for his cool and calm demeanor, it was just this once, for Savannah, that he was losing his mind.
"Calm down Gregori, she couldn't have gone far," Mikhail assured the freaking out second in command. Suddenly his cell phone rang and as he picked it up, he saw that he was sent a voice picture of the three girls at the beach, wearing sun glasses sitting under the shade of a dark umbrella, waving.
"It's really nice weather here," Savannah told him via the phone, "tell Gregori not to freak out, though I think by now it's too late. We should be back in a few weeks, we're gonna enjoy the Bahamas for a little while longer."
Mikhail sighed, "you two had better-" but he was interrupted as Gregori snatched the phone from out of his hand.
"Savannah, get back here this instant!" he shouted, "I am NOT happy with you! I want you back here NOW!"
Savannah rolled her eyes, "tsk tsk, such temper Gregori. Calm down, I'll be fine. Enjoy your few free weeks without me to bother you. I'll be back before you know it."
"No Savannah!" Gregori called through the phone, "do not! Come back here now! You will obey me in this!" But Savannah had cut off connection via the phone and was currently over in the Bahamas laughing her head off. She knew that the instant she got back there would be plenty of harsh scolding to put up with, but for now, she reveled in the glory of her freedom.
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All right, for all you people who are planning to review for this story, I want to ask a favor. In the review, can you think of all the Carpathian males you can and put what instrument should they play and why? I know it's kind of random, but I might include a chapter where they get to mess around with instruments or something, and I want to know what instrument you guys think they should play. Just something for fun, I'll take all suggestions in consideration!