Chapter Seven: Finding the Fire
"So what did you find Trick?" Bo asked as she was still adjusting herself and walking towards Kenzi at the bar, with Tamsin walking slowly behind her looking down at the floor absolutely mortified what the Blood King had just witnessed her doing to his granddaughter.
Kenzi noticed how Tamsin was completely embarrassed and decided to refrain from the jokes until later when she could have Alex there to laugh her ass off beside her.
Trick cleared his throat and shook his head, obviously still in shock seeing the succubus and the valkyrie all over each other on his pool table, "well an Ember can only achieve blue flames at the prime of their powers. Many powerful Embers could never even achieve this state. The blue part of the fire is the hottest, so for an Ember to be able to do what Alex did it's.. it's remarkable, especially with her young age. However since it has only happened to one other Ember there isn't much written about the power that comes with the increase in strength. All that was said about the blue flames was that it takes an unimaginable amount of anger, pain, and full on rage to produce… So when Alex saw Lauren and began having her flash backs from the dark fae prision…"
Trick finished as Tamsin finally spoke up, "it caused her to unlock a whole new side of aggression that burned into her and pretty much exploded.."
"Right," Trick said as he was looking down at the pages in his book again "the only other Ember who could do that became so filled with rage and hate that she became one of the most feared fae in history… people called her unstoppable, evil.. they said that she caused entire empires to burn with just the flash of her eyes… Tamsin.. you don't think that Alex has.." Trick stopped looking at the valkyrie and seeing the pain and worry in her eyes. Kenzi and Bo looked over too and instantly felt the fear Tamsin was experiencing.
"No Trick, Alex has a good heart. She's a strong kid, she was raised right.." Bo said as she grabbed Tamsin's hand and held it in her own.
"Yeah Trickster, Alex is blowing off some steam.. she's not gonna burn the who state to the ground…" She chuckled nervously hoping that everything was alright with Alex.
"You said you might know where she is..?" Tamsin asked in a low voice, they could all see she was in deep thought about her sister.
"Yes, I did some reading about Ember's who go to 'blow off steam' and many of them find places like junk yards where they go and melt down the cars, that way they can sling their fire around and not kill anyone, but those were all light Embers.." you could hear the hesitation in his voice to say that as he just kept his eyes locked on Tamsin.
"Light or dark Alex is a good person, she's not gonna go on an anger rampage and kill people Trick, she's upset, hurt, scared… and she has a right to be, but she isn't a psycho angered killer" Bo said in a calm voice.
"I didn't mean to imply she wasn't, I'm sorry Tamsin…" He said sincerely "I hope we find her fast, she seems like a great kid, and she's definitely a powerful fae.. guess she takes after her sister" he concluded with a smile that made Tamsin smirk and nod her head.
"So fire crotch is somewhere in a junk yard…? Any ideas where the hell we should start? Aren't there a freaking million?" Kenzi said as she waited for Tamsin and Bo to say something "Tam Tam do you have any idea where she might run off to?"
"No.." Tamsin said, then after her pause she had a slight grin "BUT I think I know someone who could give us an idea which direction she is headed…"
"What? Who?" Bo and Kenzi said as they looked at Trick who was just as lost as they were.
"Well hello my little whorecake and my darling little human fashonista" Vex said as he walked into the Dal with the world's biggest grin. "And what do I owe the pleasure of being summoned to this… fine… establishment?" He plopped down at the booth with Kenzi.
Tamsin looked at him and said "Alex turned in to a freaking blue fire torch Vex.. she took off in a rage and we can't find her…"
Vex's entire attitude changed. He went from joking and smiling while annoying Bo and Kenzi to absolute serious "what…" he said with a look on his face of sheer horror.
"When did this happen? What the bloody hell even happened to make her that mad?" he said with his tone in great concern.
"She ran in to the doctor who tortured her when she was locked up…" Kenzi said as she looked towards Bo.
"Are you freakin' kiddin' me…" Vex said with anger forming in his eyes. Kenzi and Bo had never seen this side of Vex.. He was always such a little asshole with constant diva attitude and sarcasm.. they had never seen him look so.. heartbroken…
"Who the hell was it?" He asked as his whole body tensed up. All three of the girls looked around at one another unsure of what to say until Bo finally spoke up.. "It was Lauren, she had been hiding it from us all, she walked in to the Dal to talk to Dyson and Alex saw her and bull rushed her outside and was ready to kill her…"
"LAUREN! YOUR LAUREN?! That dirty freakin' sick bastard! I'll make her rip out her own eyes out! I swear if I see her I will do things that would make Jack the Ripper cringe!" Vex shouted as he stood up and slammed his hands against the wall in anger.
"Vex! Calm down! We can't have you flying off the handle!" Tamsin shouted as she watched him continuing to hit the wall with his fists.. Bo and Kenzi couldn't say a word, Vex always treated his hands like they were gold and now he was using all his strength to smash the wall in at the Dal.
"VEX!" Tamsin yelled again as she grabbed his shoulder and spun him around so he was looking at her "Vex.. Alex needs you.. I need you…" she said as her voice became shaky. He looked at her with tears in his eyes.
"Alright, what's the plan…" He said as he starred right into Tamsin's eyes.
"Where would she have gone Vex? Trick said a lot of Ember's go to junk yards or places like that where they can let off their rage and not hurt anyone." Bo said standing and waiting for a response.
"I… I don't know…" Vex stammered as he was obviously still emotional about where Alex was and what had happened.
"Come on Vex, you can do this, just give us anything.. name a place so we can go and check it out.. I know you care about her but you have to think…" Kenzi said as she walked over and hugged the emotional mesmer.
"There was an old car dump site about two hours up the road.. Alex and I would go there sometimes because it had a great view of the mountains.. if we had a shitty week or just wanted to piss off we'd go there and beat the hell out of the cars with a baseball bat or somethin'… we could check there…"
"Okay…" Tamsin said with a smile as she grabbed Vex's hand "let's go. Tell me how to get there, I'll drive alright? We'll get her okay?"
"Alright.. let's go.. God only knows what that hot head has gotten into by now. You know the little witch, you don't keep an eye on her and shit goes up in flames" he chuckled as he looked around at the three girls surrounding him with smiles. They grabbed their stuff and headed out of the door.
"Trick.." Tamsin said as she looked the Blood King in the eyes "thank you.."
"Anytime Tamsin" he said with a smile
"And uh.. s-s-sorry about the pool table.." She said quickly and began to rush out the door with the others. His smile faded and he just rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"Guess I'll be disinfecting THAT while you all are away"
They were in the road and driving east. The car was quiet and tense as they all had different thoughts racing through their minds. The silence was broken when Tamsin looked over to the passengers seat and saw Vex crying as he looked out the window whimpering.
"Dude are you freaking crying?" Tamsin said with a less than empathetic tone.
Kenzi raised her eye brows and looked at Bo, Bo gently smacked Tamsin for being harsh to the mesmer.
"Oh bullocks just leave me alone Tamsin.. you know your sister makes me into some little bitch" he said as he had a small smile cross his face. He turned around and looked at Kenzi and Bo and said "tell anyone about that and I'll make you jump off a bloody skyscraper" they both just kinda nodded and smirked.
"So Vex.. You and Alex.. Ya'll were serious huh?" Kenzi asked as Bo glared over at her. Kenzi shrugged and mouthed WHAT! to Bo.
"Yeah darling we were. I loved her more than anything, hell, what am I sayin'… I still love that crazy little flamer" He said with sincerity. But it made all three of the girls flash back to Bo saying how she thought Vex was gay and they all had to fight to control their laughter.
"I wanted to marry that girl. Me? Vex.. the last mesmer.. wanted to marry an Ember.. Tamsin's bloody sister.. oh God that woulda made you my damn sister in law!" He said as he shook his head. Bo couldn't help but let out a giggle as she thought about that.
"Watch it sucubuss" Tamsin playfully said as she glared at Bo.
"No in all seriousness though that girl is something special I'll tell ya. She can piss me off magically faster than anyone or anything else in the planet yet I look at her and can't help but feel happy. She's a bloody pain in the ass over half the time, always tryin' to do the right thing and be adventurous.. I swear it's like we will fight and argue and then we make up and low an behold two seconds later she's right back to doin' somethin' else to get my blood boilin'… but at the end of the day I know it's her crazy blonde ass I want beside me… I dunno… just love" They all were kinda shocked at the sincerity in his voice.
"I can see that those traits run in the family" Bo said with a smile flashing to Tamsin. The Valkyrie knew Bo was thinking about there as Vex spoke. It made her happy to know she was on Bo's mind.
Kenzi just kinda smiled at everything and taking in this new side of Vex. "Vex.. how did you find out Alex was being held prisoner?" she asked. Although no one else mustered up the courage to ask the emotional man the question.. they all wanted to know his answer.
"I went in to have a chat with Evony and I arrived a smidge early to over hear her talking on the phone about an Ember she had in the cells that was more powerful than any other one and she had the strongest bloodline in any dark fae family. Evony started talking about you Tams and saying how you're power is something she is going to need on her side and how you an the succubus are destined for some big shit and all and I knew Alex was here so I tried to talk to the old bitch into letting her go but she said she knew my past with Alex and wasn't gonna play dark fae matchmaker or some shit. So I started searchin' round the basement looking for Alex. Found her one night. Some doctor had given her some medicine that locked up her powers and was letting the guards beat the hell outta her. One of the guys…" Vex all of a sudden got chocked up and tears began to fall as he struggled to finish what he was saying "one of those bastards pulled her hair back and tried to kiss her… she bit his lip and rolled on her back kicking him off.. the other guards quickly grabbed her and held her down and the guy said that she was a nasty little bitch and he was gonna treat her like such.." Everyone in the car felt their hearts stop as they listened to Vex speak through his tears… "he said he was gonna treat her like the dirty whore she was.. the other guards laughed and held her down and he started to walk closer to her.. that's when I fuckin lost it.. I went in there and had two of the guards shoot the others who were holding her.. then shoot themselves in the face.. the guy who was threatening to rape her.. I made him.. well lets just say he took the term 'jerk off' to new fuckin extremes. I grabbed her.. she was bloodied and bruised with marks on her wrist from where they had her tied up.. I grabbed her and we got the hell outta there. But not before my little dab of blonde hot sauce sent the whole building up into flames" Vex said as the last part made him laugh "I swear Tamsin if I would have known she was there I would have gotten her out sooner.." He said looking at Tamsin who had tears rolling down her face. She didn't say anything but reached over and held his hand and squeezed as she simply nodded at him.
"You saved her Vex, as soon as you could.. You saved her and that's what matters" Bo said as she put a hand on Vex's shoulder.
"Thanks succulette.. I knew I always liked you and the little goth beauty for a reason.. Tamsin, make a left… We're here" He said as we approached a junk yard with an unforgettable view of the mountains. By this point it was sun set and the colors of the sky light up. As they all four quickly hopped out of the car and ran to the edge of the hill to look down they all stopped dead in their tracks as they saw Alex in the bottom, her body covered in a bright blue flames, throwing burning fire balls at empty trashed cars all around her.
Tamsin looked relieved to see Alex but was also mind blown at the amount of power she was seeing from her baby sister.. Vex had his eyes wide open and his jaw dropped.. Kenzi and Bo sat there unable to speak.
With every throw of the fire ball they heard Alex screaming in anger.. Cars were blowing up left and right. The amount of fire around the junk yard was unreal. There was such anger.. such pain in each and every scream.
"This girl is on fire…" Kenzi said while they stood there watching, the other three looked at her astonished that she could say something like that at a time like this "what? I'm sorry.. tension makes me nervous.
"We've got to stop her.. she's controlled enough to keep it to just the junk yard but these fires are starting to get out of control" Tamsin said with slight panic.
"Vex can't you do your mind control make people's body do what you want thing on her and get her to stop?" Kenzi asked as Bo and Tamsin looked over at him
"ARE YOU OUTTA YOUR BLOODY MIND?! If I did my little mesmer trick on her and made her do anything she would literally roast my ass like a freakin pig cooking over an open flame! Trust me.. I tried it once to be funny and she knocked out two of my teeth AND set my gorgeous hair on fire! I'm not doing that when she's a freaking nuclear blue bomb!"
"I think I know a way to calm her down.. but I'm gonna need you guys there beside me to help me with this.. I know Alex.. I think i know how we can calm her enough to make her stop.. but it's gonna require possibly getting set on fire or worse.. dying.. SO, who's in?" Tamsin said as she looked at the other three.. They all had the same look of oh-shit on their faces but without thinking twice they all nodded.
"Alright Tam Tam, what's this plan to cool off hot head without hopefully becoming charcoal?" Kenzi asked as they prepared to find a way to get to Alex and stop her from engulfing everything around them in flames.
