Meanwhile in the demonic realm
"My lord your sister is overdue coming home." An red imp with bat like wings said as he bowed in front of a man with short white hair and copper eyes.
"How long is she over due imp?" The man asked turning his copper eyes giving of an unnatural glow.
"A week my lord." The imp replied.
"Crystal you silly girl lost track of time again. Your dismissed imp." He said.
"Yes my lord Lucius." The imp said before disappearing
With a sigh Lucius headed to his room to get a charm that will allow him to blend in with the mortals in the mortal realm where only other supernatural creatures could see his true form.
"I can't have a group of love struck females following me around last time that happened I was hunted for years." He said heading for the portal that would take him to the mortal realm.
Once Lucius passed into the mortal realm he went about searching for his sister. Using a small amount of power the same way a bat uses echolocation. He waited for a few minutes before he sent out another pulse of power.
"That's strange I can't seem to find her is it possible I have arrived in the wrong city?" He thought as he walked through the city looking for another portal that would take him to a different city. He was just about to turn down a street where he felt the power of a portal when he got a interesting ping from the pulse of power that he had been sending out in hopes of finding his sister.
Making a mental note of where the portal was he followed the ping back to the source and what he found surprised him.
"A vampiric Prince here? How interesting." He thought as he walked up to a man holding a lavender colored backpack with a fox keychain.
"Well well if it isn't the exiled Prince Ari oh how the mighty have fallen." Lucius said with a smirk.
"Lucius next in line for the right hand of the King of hell, to what do I owe the displeasure." Ari asked as he put the backpack over his shoulder he locked eyes with Lucius. "If you don't mind I'm rather busy so if you could please move out of my way." He growled as he shouldered passed him.
Ari walked back to the house they only lived about three blocks from each other.
"Why are you following me?" Ari asked turning around to find Lucius standing behind him.
"I'm curious about what would cause the youngest Prince in the vampiric line to fall so far from grace?" Lucius said with a smirk. But before Ari could answer he found himself wrapped in a tight hug.
"It's about time you got home she has been driving me crazy" Robin said as he kissed Ari's cheek.
The sound of roaring laughter caught both of their attention. They turned to see Lucius holding his sides laughing tears at the corner of his eyes.
"The great and powerful Ari banished and disowned for a Sidhe and a common one at that!" He managed to get out between laughs.
"Banished? Ari what does he mean by that you said we were going on a vacation to spend time with each other." Robin said as he took a step back from Ari looking like a kicked puppy. "Did you lie to me?" He said as tears threatened to fall.
"No Robin I didn't lie to you I thought you would happy not knowing that I was banished for loving you. I didn't want you to feel guilty." Ari said as he reached out his hand reaching for Robin. Before anyone could move the sound of a slap rang out.
"Who the hell are you?" Keru said as her hand was grabbed by Lucius.
"I will let that one slide seeing as though you don't know who I am but that is your one and only free pass." Lucius growled as he tightened his grip on her hand with each word, causing her to begin to whimper in pain.
"Let her go Lucius I swear if you hurt her." Ari started, the sound of a feral growl escaped from deep in his throat.
"You'll what? You hold no power anymore." Lucius said as he squeezed Keru hand tight enough to make her yelp.
"Ari what is he talking about?" Keru asked the pain showing in her voice.
"He hasn't told you has he?" Lucius said with a grin "poor little fox so many secrets." He all but purred releasing her hand causing her to stumble back. "To answer your question I am Prince Lucius next in line to the right hand of the devil himself, but enough about that I want to hire you to find my sister. I will pay you a handsome sum for your help." He said with a smile.
The three of them looked at each other, even though he had not said it the tone of his voice carried a threat. Leaving them two choices they either take the job and get paid or he would do something nasty to them.
"What does she look like?" Keru said in a soft voice cradling her hand.
"That's more like it, now are we going to go inside and lay out the terms of our arrangement." Lucius said. After about two minutes they finally went inside.
"Keru let me look at your hand please." Ari said as he retrieved a first aid kit from the bedroom.
Without saying another word to anyone he silently wrapped Keru's hand. Nothing was broken but a couple of her fingers had been dislocated.
"Now shall we get down to business, I'm offering you $100,000 to find my sister." Lucius said.
Keru who had at some point gotten herself something to drink, started to cough as she choked on her drink.
"That's more money then I make in a year!" Keru managed to get out.
"That is of course you find my sister alive if you find her dead then you will only get $50,000" he continued as if Keru did not speak at all.
"Are we under a deadline because you do know we have other cases to work on as well?" Ari said once again making eye contact with Lucius.
"I would not want to get in the way of your other cases I just highly advise you get your priorities straight. Well you can find me at the Palace hotel." Lucius said as he got up and walked out of the house leaving behind three shocked faces.
