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TheArtistNextDoor- Thank you so much! I'm glad you are liking the story! It means so much! And no, I have never read the Sisters Grimmlin. I got Puck off of the show Glee. Buut should I read them? :) P.S. I thought your pun was awesome
SharkSaver- Thank you so much! The Grimm is unknown for now, and will stay that way. Muahaha.
Guest- No, Mina is not the Grimm as there is no Grimm curse. In this story a Grimm is more of a job than a person, if that makes sense. Hopefully this chapter will explain some things and eliminate confusion! And you can definitely count on those ships being a thing.
Evx- Yes the Grimm is bad. And yes, Meague has entered the building. I can hear the angels singing. Lol.
Here's chapter 7!
"A what?" I asked. What happened was all a blur to me. I couldn't process the last few minutes because I was too confused.
"A Grimm.. A Fae hunter." Dinah said again.
"A Fae hunter? What do you mean?"
"I think it's pretty self explanatory." Annalora scoffed. I scowled at her in return. "That was the first time I had ever ran into one. I almost thought they were a myth."
"I guess not." Ever shrugged. She sighed deeply. "I'm sure Mei and Constance know about this."
Dawn nodded. "We are so dead." We drove home slowly and took a few stops trying to stall the lecture we were about to get.
Dinah pulled into the driveway of our mansion. All of us girls braced ourselves for the death sentence we had ahead of us.
We walked into the house to see Mei and Constance hushly talking to a random person. Well, not so random. It was the bartender from earlier. His red hair was a mess. Strands were going in every direction. The was a freshly cut wound on his left rib cage that stood out against his almost clear, iridescent skin.
We tried to sneak into the house, but Mei must have heard us. "Stop. Right. There." Shaylee let out an eep.
"Before you yell at us, I'm 18 so I had every right to be there.." Ever started.
"I'm not mad." Mei said. I think we were all in shock. I was expecting a harsh lecture or maybe even something worse. "Come here. We need to talk."
We made our way to the dining room and sat down at the table.
"What's going on?" Dinah finally gained the courage to ask.
"The Grimm's, they have found us." The bartender replied. There's more of them?
"How?" Shaylee slumped in her chair.
"We are afraid a Grimm has been following one of us." Constance said. "Arden, care to explain?"
"I saw him at the bar," Arden began. "Most of the time, nobody, even a Grimm, would dare going so close to an abandoned building. But this one, he just seemed so sure he knew what he was walking into. He was looking for someone. I could tell because if he wasn't, there would have been many fatalities."
"Well, what did he look like?" Dinah asked
"He was tall, super tall, wore all black, and had a full beard." My heart dropped. It couldn't be, could it? Was the person at the bar the same man that broke into my house? "I couldn't see his face, but by the way he moved around the bar, I could tell he was mad. Fortunately, no one was too injured."
"What about you?" I asked. Arden looked down at the gash on his side and put his hands over it. Within seconds, it disappeared.
"I'm fine, see?" He smiled a sad smile. I gave him a concerned look. "He tried to hurt my friend. I got in the middle of it, and in the end, I was the one who had to pay the price. But I'm fine. Honest." There was a long pause.
"I'm confused." Shaylee started.
"Of course you are." Annalora said while rolling her eyes.
Shaylee glared at Annalora and continued. "We have a glamour over the building, over us. Only Fae can hear the music and see the club. How could the guy know that that building was full of Fae?"
Arden sighed. "In normal situations, the glamour helps, greatly. We can blend in and people will treat us like we are them. But the system is no where near perfect. There are many loopholes, and any trained expert knows what they are." He held up a pair of glasses that look like the 3-D ones you get at the movies. "These for example. I found them on the floor after the Grimm left. They can break through the two dimensions and reveal your true self. When I put these on, I can see right through you."
He proceeded to put them on, and I instinctively covered my body. Arden started laughing at me, his skin sparkling. "I can't actually see through you. I can just see what your Fae-self looks like. By the way, you are a very beautiful siren." He said wiggling his eyebrows at me.
What was that supposed to mean? Do I have a glamour? "Can I see those for a second?" He handed me the glasses. I put them on, and he was right. They cut to the Fae planes, or whatever they call it. I looked at Annalora, but she looks relatively the same. Just a little rosier. When I turned towards Shaylee, though, she looked like the blue part of a flame. Just a glowing light.
"These things actually work." This is so weird and cool at the same time. I walked over to a mirror to see what I look like.
"You can just drop your glamour, Idiot." Annalora muttered.
"I don't know if I even have one. I've looked like this all my life."
"Maybe you were born with it." Constance said encouragingly.
When I looked at myself in the mirror, I gasped. I looked the same but different. My hair is longer and curlier. It also has golden highlights in it. My eyes resemble my hair as they are golden brown as well. My skin is paler. I look down at my hands. They're sparkling! I have golden specks embedded in my skin. "Woah." escaped from my lips.
"What?" Shaylee asked.
"It's nothing." I said trying to hide my smile. This was a time to be serious. "Why are you here?" I walked over to Arden and gave him the glasses.
"You guys are in danger. I have reasons to believe the Grimm is after one of you. I'm not sure who, though. Quite frankly, it doesn't matter because they are ruthless and will kill whoever they get their hands on."
"Exactly, so we are going to establish some rules." Mei started. A couple of the girls groaned. "No leaving the house without permission nor without a buddy."
"Are we five?" Annalora said rolling her eyes. That girl needs to learn some respect.
"No, Annalora. I just don't want to see any of my girls dead." Mei paused. "Curfew, 7 o'clock."
"You're kidding!" Ever chimed in. No one seems happy about these rules, but I'm fine with them. I'm not trying to get confronted by someone who wants to kill me.
"No boys."
"Good luck with that, Annalora." Dinah muttered to Dawn. They both started laughing and I silently chuckled with them. Until I realized that meant no Nix. No Teague. Now, I'm disappointed.
"That seems like a silly rule." Shaylee agrued. She's in the same situation as Ever and me. She had just hit it off with Puck.
"Grimm's are most commonly male. They can't be trusted." Arden got an offended look on his face.
"Way to generalize the whole male population. They are usually human as well." Arden said putting more emphasis on human.
"True. That rule is a bit ridiculous, Mei. I need you girls to promise me you will be careful." Constance said. We all nodded in agreement. "Great. Off to bed. It's late." Arden said his goodbyes and told us he'd be back tomorrow night to check in. I stayed back while the other girls went to their bedrooms.
"What's up, Mina?" Constance said. Mei got a concerned look on her face.
"I have a few questions."
"We may have answers." I took a deep breath. Where do I start?
"So I'm Fae…"
"Yes?"
"That means at least one of my parents were, too?" Was that a question or a statement? I'm not sure.
"Your mother, yes. Well, was." My heart started racing. I mean, I knew that it had to be her, but that just proved that she's lied to me the last 17 years of my life.
"How did she get here?"
"She was exiled from the Fae plane when she was 18. She was a royal and next to be crowned Queen of the Ocean."
"A very important role in the Fae world, may I add." Constance interjected.
"Yes, Sara was being forced to marry a boy she didn't love, so she fled. Once they found her, they banished her for being a disgrace to her family. She found this place and we taught her everything she knew."
"Okay…" I finally let out. "And she was a siren?"
"Mhhmmm."
"With the call and lure?" Constance and Mei nodded simultaneously. "And my dad?"
"That's another story." Mei said, her face turning cold.
"Will you tell me?"
"Mina, Are you coming?" Ever yelled from out bedroom.
"In a few. So, will you?"
Mei took a deep breath. "I don't kno—"
Constance grabbed on to Mei's arm to stop her. "She needs to know."
"I need to know what?"
"Your father. He was a Grimm." Mei started. What?
"He hunted Fae, just like any other Grimm, but one day he met your mother. They were both in their early 20s. He found her, and being the naive newbie your father was, he fell in love."
"When Sara found out he was a Grimm, the first thing she did was come to us. She cried for weeks knowing full well she couldn't be with him. He, at this point, didn't know her true identity. For days, your mother begged us to help, and finally we came up with a solution." Mei took a long break contemplating whether or not she should keep telling the story.
Constance took sight of this and continued. "It was dangerous, and we didn't know if it would work, but it's what your mom wanted."
"What did you do?" I could feel my eyes beginning to fill with tears. I knew where this was going.
"We took away her powers. She asked us to make sure her children didn't gain any, but that is nearly impossible to do." Constance had to stop for a moment. "When you were a child, your father was having a house party celebrating your mothers second pregnancy. We were invited, but we couldn't go. Mainly because your dad invited his friends as well." I understood. They would be in a house with people that knew everything the is to know about Fae.
"Your mother called us in the middle of the party. You chose that day to display signs of being Fae. In fact, you always have without ever realizing it." Mei chuckled slightly. Except it wasn't funny. "Your father found out that night that his wife, his daughter, and possibly his new born son were of the "enemies" kind. As did his co-workers."
"But his love never ended. He took you guys and moved within days of being exposed. He knew his friends would take the first chance they get in killing you. The Grimm's got angry at your fathers betrayal and hunted him like they would hunt you. This explains why you moved so often."
"Then one day, after dropping you off from school, the Grimm's found your dad." No. They couldn't have.
"There was so many of them, Mina. All so angry." Constance began to cry. "They killed him." Oh my gosh I'm going to puke.
I broke down in tears. The person I am is what caused my father to get killed. I now understood why my mom hated me for being Fae. "It's all my fault."
"No, Sweetie, it's not. It's just the way the cards were dealt."
I cried a little more. That didn't help one bit. No, I didn't get to choose to be Fae. But in the end, if I wasn't, my dad would be alive and I wouldn't be put in this situation. Once my sobs turned to hiccups, I decided to go to bed. As I was walking to my room, I turned to Constance and Mei.
"One more thing. I think the Grimm is after me." And without looking back, I went to my room and fell asleep.
How was this chapter? Hopefully this helped explain some confusing things! What do you guys think of how I tied things together. Be expecting more Meague in the future.
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