Hello readers of my fanfiction. Please excuse my late update of this. I have been in the hospital suffering from an A.V.M rupture and I had no access to my computer. So I sincerely apologize for the late update
CHAPTER 5: to the crypt of the fallen Huissturm family knights
(A week after the meeting)
It was a week after Caylis had addressed concern about the angelicus mortis. "everyone I just consulted the eldest adept in the Lux Veritatis and he recommends that we all go to the crypts of Caylis, Luke and then the angelus mortis since Caylis' weapon against the Nephilim was broken in two and buried with her and the other half was buried with Luke. We need the whole artifact to end the angelus mortis for good.
"Can't the periapt shards destroy her, lady Caylis?" the girl Elizabeth asked
" no this Nephilim is much too powerful Elizabeth if my father where still with us he would say the same after all no Lux knight knew more about the angelus mortis than my father and no one can challenge that. My father often told me about a map containing our family's crypts including Caylis and Luke's, Own crypts. It's in my study, please waiting a moment" Caylis said as she dashed up to her study to retrieve the map. Caylis quickly found the map and dashed back down stairs. "Okay, according to my map and notes. It is best if we get the parts of the weapon starting with the piece in Caylis's crypt which is outside of Paris in a lux Veritatis vault that the Limoux family of the lux Veritatis uses as a crypt for knights that have done an important thing for the lux Veritatis." "It is also were the angelus mortis is kept, for reasons I do not know they keep a Nehalem's corpse in one of our crypts. You got to love the Limoux family." Kurtis said
"Kurtis, while I too do not appreciate Antoine Limmox's ways of meddling in our group's business they still out rank us and we must respect them." cylis said with a forlorn tone. "We all will be heading to the crypt except for Kurtis. '"Why!" Kurtis shouted
"Well I need some one to watch Katie, zack, and Clara and since Isolde has spent a month babysitting you I am giving her a break from watching them." Caylis answered.
"I didn't ask her to save me."Kurtis argued
"Well, if she didn't you would be keeping mom and Dad Company in heaven."Caylis sternly replied.
"If dad is anywhere he's burning in hell." Kurtis bitterly responded
"Disrespectful to your arents even as an adult you never changed from being nineteen, older brother"
"And you are still a little miss perfect daughter Caylis." Kurtis retorted
"Well better to bring joy to your parents and relatives than is the disgrace of the family." Caylis snapped at her brother while handing him the infant she had been holding the whole day. "If you need help with her or zack, or Claire you can ask Ophelia if anything happens to any of my children I swear Kurtis you will know what it is like to be at the receiving end of my blade." Caylis warned while raising a weapon that was a semi circle with a purple-black blade that looked to be made of sharpened obsidian. "And I'll be sure to help out with that." Vaughn said as he took a broad sword out of a sheath attached to his belt.
"You know Vaughn, it might be better for you to not give everyone death threats just to ensure the job gets done right, that's Caylis' job." Kurtis said without any concern about the larger man's threat
"Actually, Kurtis I gave him the right to give death threats after all daddy gave mom the right to order some of the group around and Vaughn is my husband, so I should give him the same power over the group as daddy let mother have." Caylis said bursting in to the conversation
"Caylis, you are so soft. You know who his father is and you give him a ton of power over the group." Kurtis said seemingly to get under his sister's skin.
"You know what Kurtis, just shut up before I have Ophelia clip your voice box or leave you to be mauled by a proto in a Strahov strong hold, don't you dare think I won't do it, I swear on dad's grave." Caylis threatened with her chakram like blade quivering in Kurtis's face.
"You wouldn't slice your own brother to ribbons so soon after he came home. Would you?"
"Maybe I would, Kurtis." Caylis coldly answered her older brother while still brandishing her blade.
"Ok, people are we going to go to the crypt or are we all going to stand around flapping our jaws?" the irritated voice of the blonde woman broke any silence.
"Yes, Sandra. Just wait a while our flight isn't going to leave for an hour or so. Therefore josh isn't ready for us. "CAYLIS ANSWERED QUITE CALMLY REGAINING HER COMPOSURE from her clash with Kurtis A FEW MINUTES EARLIER. "That man can't be ready for anything, could explain why he left us after he wasn't prepared for an attack here that lead to Konstantin and Jonathan's death." Sandra replied with her voice dripping poison and anger.
"Sandra I know he couldn't keep my father or your husband from being killed by the cabal a few years ago, but I don't want anyone dwelling on the past or it will cloud your judgment, Sandra. You are my best friend and second in command, I don't want you to hurt yourself by keeping all this anger bottled up inside" she said trying to sooth the angry woman…
"What is she talking about Kurtis?" Lara asked the lux Veritatis next to her.
"Well, Liam is the owner of an airplane at a nearby airport. He used to be one of us, but he quit after he failed to protect my father and Sandra's husband, Jonathan who was my father's second in command. Sandra has always kept a grudge against Liam, blaming him for john's death and my father's death as well, while Caylis never blamed Liam in fact no one but Sandra does." Kurtis explained. "Sandra always needs someone to blame for everything." Kurtis said before Sandra gave him a glare that said 'keep talking about me and I'll seriously mess you up'.
A cell phone ringing broke the sudden science. Caylis reached into her pocket and pulled out her cell phone. "hello, this is Caylis. Oh you're ready for us? Thanks Liam." Caylis said to who ever was on the other line of the phone obviously Liam.
"Listen up, everyone. Liam is ready for us. So move out, Kurtis I changed my mind you're coming with us I'll leave my kids with mom, she's been begging me to let them stay over her place and it's close to the airport, so we won't be delayed.
"Caylis can't you bring them with us?" Vaughn said to her with slight annoyance.
"Vaughn I understand that you don't like leaving the kids alone, but I can't let them get into a bad situation and if the Cabal finds out about them, face it they are as good as dead, the cabal will use children as away to take out their parents or they just kill them since they would grow up to be lux Veritatis knights see my point, Vaughn?" she asked after explaining her reasons for not wanting the children to come.
"Yes. I do, Cay." Vaughn answered. Vaughn then left and came back with the same car that he brought Lara in two days ago. "Okay, everyone pile in!" Vaughn called out once he pulled the car in front of everyone. Caylis went over to the car with the baby and put her in the car seat, before slipping into the front passenger seat. Everyone else slowly began to take seats into the car. Once everyone was in the car "off to the airport and then France!" Vaughn called out.
"Can we all sing "ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, mommy?" the little boy that Lara saw playing next to Vaughn during the meeting suggested.
"No zack, you'll wake up your sister and you, Katie and Claire are only going to grandma's for a few days. You can sing over there. You know I only just got Katie to sleep and your dad get's distracted if she cries when he's driving." Caylis told her son.
"Wait, a second Kurtis, Vaughn and your sister are married?" Lara asked.
"Yes, they much as our father didn't want it to happen." Kurtis answered.
After about ten minutes of driving the car stopped in front of a house and Caylis took her children our of the car and into the house, presumably her mother's house once the children where dropped off Caylis sat back in the car and they drove to the air port which was about five minutes away.
Iguess I'm going to stop here for now. The plane trip is in the next chapter and maybe it will be three more before I finish the story completely.
