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Chapter 4

New Discoveries

Stiffening, Sheen gazed into Romola's swirling pupils, calculating her expression and attitude, "You have been looking for me?"

"Yes," replied Romola with an equally cool glance.

Remaining silent for a few moments, Sheen closed his eyes and thought back to his dream, and to when Nereus spoke to him. 'My mind is in such a whirlwind..' Keeping his eyes closed he whispered, "Before we do anything else, I need to see to my brother..Excuse me a moment."

Romola winced as she looked towards the man Sheen had called Sasha. "He seems to be hurt badly... you didn't have to do that you know..." she whispered.

Sheen walked over to his brother and knelt beside him, closing his eyes for a second then turning his gaze on Romola, "He was hurting you, I did have to do that. No one, I repeat no one, has the right to fucking hurt anyone unless it is in self-defense," he growled. Sheen then proceeded to heal his brother, and a brilliant blue glow appeared around his hands as he did so. "Come, let us go back to my house and we can talk more, he'll be fine, but he'll be angry with me and with you in my presence I would prefer him to stay unconscious."

Romola watched, fascinated as Sheen worked on Sasha, "Fair enough, let us go."

Sheen and Romola then began walking back towards Jää`tin, the main city of Vesi`Taar.

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Walking in silence, Sheen began brewing when he saw Romola tearing up and crying silently. Little did he realize that his necklace was glowing and his eyes had begun to take on a black shade. Romola chanced a glance towards him and stopped, dead in her tracks.

"S-Sheen?" She whispered faintly. Half afraid of some repercussion.

"WHAT!?" He yelled at her, his eyes completely black now and the water in the creek beside him had begun to rise.

Widening her eyes Romola backed away slowly, pointing towards the water, her own eyes a vibrant, swirling blue-green. "Uh-uhm...the.. Water...and.. Your necklace.."

Sheen turned around and when he noticed this he was stunned, never before had his anger caused this to happen. "Is this what Nereus was talking about? And the Erinyes?"

Sheen then turned back to Romola, in doing so he noticed that her own necklace was glowing and there was a vine creeping up behind her, in a menacing stance, almost.. Protective of her.

"What do you mean, what did Nereus and the Erinyes tell you? Sheen, I'm scared what's going on?" The normally calm and collected Romola began hyperventilating, the vine, seemed to catch on to Romola's fear and grew even more, and reached toward Sheen. Romola, noticing this, sat down on the ground, hard.

Gently backing away, and sitting on the ground so as to show the vine it meant no harm, Sheen queried Romola, "Do you think you can call off your vine? I think it wants to eat me."

Taking a deep breath Romola replied, "I think we both need to calm down."

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Both of them closed their eyes, and began the age old ritual of meditation, slowly calming their selves down. When they opened their eyes they were both calm again, gazing into each other's eyes they each felt a shiver run down their spine. Romola's eyes had reverted back to a soft swirling blue and Sheen's back to his brilliant blue shade.

Sheen stood up and walked over to Romola, extending her hand out to her, "I never asked if you were okay physically... how stupid of me."

Allowing him to help her up, Romola replied, "Yes, I'm fine, just a few bruises, nothing more than visiting a rose garden would inflict." She giggled softly and began walking slowly.

Jogging a bit to catch up Sheen gave that famous Cooper roguish smile, "I also never realized just how beautiful your eyes are." He winked at her playfully.

Blushing, Romola turned her gaze to Sheen, realizing her mistake as butterflies appeared in her stomach, she quickly looked away. "I.. I think we have more important things to do than flirt. We need to get a move on and discuss the situation." She took off walking faster and when she came to a fork in the road she took the right one.

He stood there staring blankly for a bit, then let out a quiet chuckle. "Hey beautiful!" He called, "You're going the wrong way, it's the left branch, not the right.."

Romola stiffened, once again making the mistake of looking into his gorgeous blue pupils, blushing and quickly trotting to the other direction, 'This... is going to be a long.. Long summer...' she muttered under her breath.

-A/N- Sorry it was so short, felt like a good stopping point, Chapter 5 coming up as soon as possible.