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Chapter 7
"I like this girl, her songs have a good beat to them." Artie glanced at the thing called a laptop that the people had provided so I could go to a 'website' called 'Youtube' to look up songs.
"Lady Gaga? She's a mental case she wore a dress made of meat." She said and I got a little ill at the thought.
"Well... I think her music is good and it's not my place to judge ones mental health." I said,"Love is just a history/ they may prove and when your gone/ i'll tell them my religion's you/ when Pontius comes to kill the king upon his throne/ I'm ready for their stones. I find it very poetic."
"Whatever you say you know I'm not one for music. If you wanted that you should have requested my brother." She said,"All I know is if I don't get out of this room soon I'm going to start screaming. And listening to that woman sing isn't helping much use those headphones please." I rolled my eyes at her but plugged them in. I liked using them anyway they made the music much clearer. Artie said that most music wasn't played with instruments anymore but with computers somehow. It sounded wrong to me at first like there wouldn't be any feeling to it but I was wrong about that. It was as alive as it had been in the days of my youth. I typed in the name of my new favorite artist and her song. I found a video for it and clicked on it. The music began and it pulsed like a heartbeat.
I want my innocence back
And if you can't give it to me
I will cut you down
And I will run you through
With the dagger you sharpened
On my body and soul
Before you slit me in two
And then devoured me whole
I want my innocence back
I want my innocence back
I want my innocence back
I want my innocence back
I want my innocence back
I want my innocence back
It was little wonder why this was my favorite song it matched what I wanted perfectly. If only I had the strength to do it. I envyed the feeling she put into it.
I want my innocence back
And if you can't pacify me
I will break your bones
You think I'm bluffing,just try me
I will never forget
The words you used to ensnare me
Till my dieing day
You'll suffer for this, I swear
I want my innocence back
I want my innocence back
I want my innocence back
I want my innocence back
I want my innocence back
I want my innocence back
What gives her such strength? Why can she say this? What does Emilie have that I don't? I want to fight, I want my innocence back!
And I demand
You put my heart back in my hand
And wipe it clean
From the mess you made of me
And I require
You make me from this desire
And when you leave,I better be the innocent
I use to be
Why can't I have it?
I was broken from my thoughts by a knock on the door. The song had ended and I had been staring at the screen for a while now. I shook away my inner thoughts and got up to answer it. It was Liz and Nuala again each with a bag in their hand.
"Hello Penelope." Nuala said.
"Hello Princess and Liz come in." They did and Artie got up from her spot to go to her room. She wasn't exactly warming up to the people around here. Already she had sent three agents to the infirmary and we hadn't even been here for two days! Needless to say she didn't enjoy the company of the Bethmoora Princess or the Fire-starter Elizabeth Sherman, I didn't find them so bad though.
"Hey would you two like to go out to the lake with us." Liz said. Artie stopped dead in her tracks and spun around to face her. I had to fight to keep from laughing and had to cover my mouth to hide my smile. She regarded Liz for a second.
"What are your demands?" She said after a minute. I stifled a giggle at this and she shot me a dirty look.
"Only one: that you wear these bathing suits we got you." Nuala said and held out her bag to me. I took it from her and looked inside quick catching a glimpse of green fabric. Artie took the one Liz held out for her and stared at the pair suspiciously for a long moment.
"You better feel lucky that I can't stand one more minute in this room."She said and went to her room to change. I smiled and went to my room to change. The bathing suit was something new to me since I usually just went in the nude. It consisted of a bra like garment and a pair of underwear in a slightly silky fabric. I might as well have gone in the nude for how little it left the imagination. I walked out of my room to find that Artie was already there and near the point of bouncing up and down to be let outside like a little kid. She stopped when she caught sight of me and her mouth dropped along with Nuala and Liz.
"Um maybe the tops a little too small. It was a little hard to tell since you always wear loose shirts" Liz said after a minute. I looked down at it and did see a fair amount of cleavage.
"Go put on a tank top." Artie said. For a second I imagined my mother when she said that and felt a little pang in my heart. This time during the year was suppose to be spent with her and I gave it up to see the mortal world just to be locked up, I felt incredibly guilty. I brushed it away, what good would feeling sorry for myself at this point. I grabbed a black top to go over the bathing suit and ran back as they were leaving the room.
I think we all had trouble keeping up with Arties' pace as she all but ran to get outside. It was a wonder she didn't get lost as she made it to the back door which lead to a porch with a swing on it and some lawn furniture. It opened out to a beautiful grassy field surrounded by tall evergreens and a few weeping willows. Next to the porch someone had made a very pretty garden with rose bushes, lilies, gardenias, and several other flowers mixed along side healing and magical herbs, no doubt this was Nualas' work. To bad it wasn't the season for most of the plants it would look absolutely lovely out here in spring with everything blooming. The lake was beyond the field, it was a dark clean blue and looked inviting in the slight heat of the sun. I felt Artie stiffen next to me when she saw several agents there playing in the water or sun bathing.
"Σκέψη μου μύριζε ένα τέχνασμα." Thought I smelt a trick.
"Έλα έξω είμαστε τώρα. Μην αφήνετε κανέναν να καταστρέψει για να τις αγνοήσει απλά." Come on we're outside now. Don't let anyone ruin it for you just ignore them.
"I plan to do just that." She said in english. I felt an air of silence rest on the area and it uneased me. Artie picked up on it and her eyes hardened.
"Μπορείτε να μειώσετε την ομορφιά σας." Can you cut down on your beauty.Oh right I was on the outside now the plants and trees would act as makeup to a human girl and intensify my natural looks. The same would happen if anyone caught sight of Artie in the moonlight. I glanced at Nuala and Liz and saw similar looks of shock on there faces. A simple smile from me seemed to knock them out of it.
"Δύναμή μου κόβεται Δεν νομίζω ότι μπορώ να αλλάξω το πώς φαίνομαι." My power is cut off I don't think I can change how I look.I saw her flinch as she realized that. I would have to be careful I guess.
"Hey have either of you ever played water volleyball?" Liz said as she snapped out of it and held up a medium sized white ball. I shook my head no and Artie said she had. We walked to the water and waited for Liz to set up the net. I felt the eyes of the agents on Artie and me but I pretended they didn't exist. The other members of the team that captured us were absent.
"Hey Liz you need any help?" An agent I had never seen before helped her set up the net. He had slightly curled blonde hair and bright blue eyes. His build was strong and reminded me of Arties' twin brother."You ladies mind if I join in?"
"Naw of course not Trent." Liz said,"Hey girls come over I have someone for you to meet."
"Girls this is Trent Anders he's one of the field agents. Trent this is Artie and Penelope."
"Ya I've heard about you two gave the strike team a run for their money." He said with a smile,"Good thing can't let them get to cocky." Liz hit him in the arm.
"Whatever man leave the trash talk for the game." She said,"Come on let show him who's boss around here." Liz ran into the water where Nuala already was with the ball.
"It really is good to meet you two all kidding aside." Trent said.
"Uh ya thanks." Artie said,"We gonna play are what, mortal boy?" He raised his eyebrow and laughed.
"We're gonna play. Beat you there." He took off at a run and Artie gave him a slight head-start.
"Hmm men." She said and ran after him quickly over taking him and beating him to the net. I smiled at her finally warming up to someone even though she was planning to beat them badly. Trent looked shocked at her speed and looked back at me. I just shrugged my shoulders in a 'it's just how she is' sort of way. He seemed to get what I was trying to convey. I grabbed the bottom of my top and pulled it off and set it on the ground next to the towels we brought. I looked back to the water and saw all the guys staring at me. To late I realized the revealing fit of the top. Trent was wide eyed and his mouth hung open as he was looking at me.
...Which was probably why he didn't see the ball that Artie had served fly straight at his head. Got to love protective older sisters.
"Ok the girls have them in the lake all we have to do is formally introduce ourselves and play nice. Nuada." Why did that vapor in the tin can always have to point me out.
"Yes I have it." I snapped at him. I was incredibly annoyed and frustrated. Not only were we giving the bare minimum of security, we provided one the means to listen to that hideous noise the humans call music, dance around the other ones whims even though she has already put three of the humans in the care of a healer, and the crowning achievement in less than a week they are allowed outside. What is wrong with these people? Now I am forced to converse with the other human agents instead of training and the absolute worse insult is that they have stuck me in these stupid human swim trunks! The babble of children gained my attention to another concern. Anung Un Rama and the Fire-starters twins were coming out too. Something about presenting him as less threatening to me it just offered a chance for Artie to slit their throats. And of course the fish-man would come. He already irritated me enough and now I would have to pretend I didn't want to beat the life out of him and everyone within a 20 yard radius.
"Well lets get this over with." The human Librarian said and he gained a slight bit of favor, not enough to save him from before mentioned beating of everyone within a 20 yard radius. We walked outside to find an interesting sight, a game of what the humans called volleyball. Nuala and Liz with the two unknowns on one side and a group of human males on the other side looking rather beaten. It was Arties turn to serve she threw the ball up and gave it what looked like a light pat but it sent it flying to the other side of the net at a great speed and none of them could get to it before it hit the water with a great splash.
"Wow nice arm." Red said. All the better to strangle us with. She looked up at him and her eyes fixed on the children in his arms. I clenched my teeth and cursed that they had taken away my weapons.
"Oh come on and met my kids girls." Liz said. Were these people absolutely stupid? The woman was going to gut their children and they were going to let her do it. Fine if they wanted to act like imbeciles that was up to them but I would protect my sister. Artie came forward at a very slow pace and I prepared myself for a fight.
"Ok this is my little princess Gabrielle and my big boy Trevor."S he stopped a short distance away from Liz and just stared blankly. I allowed my muscles to tense up for a fight but concealed it to look like a casual move. Liz picked up the girl and held her out for Artie.
"Here." She said and I was ready for the worst. But she just stared some more.
"What do I do with it?" She said...Wait what? Evidently I wasn't the only one with this thought.
"What do you mean?" Liz asked. She repeated her question.
"Forgive her she's a warrior first and foremost." My head turned in the direction of the voice and I cursed myself for forgetting the other one. Shock crossed my face and I had trouble schooling my features back to a neutral state. Her eyes sparkled in amusement and her hair had darken to black in the water and was tied back with a rubber band and the style suited her face shape Her bathing suit was to small in the top, she was much to...ample in her chest area. Her body was thin but in good shape. She walked with renewed grace towards us and seemed to glow with ethereal beauty. The smile that was on her face was one of mischief and amusement. Hellboy must have said something that I didn't hear because Liz smacked him. I steeled myself remembering she was dangerous even more so now.
"Children scare her." She said.
"Nothing scares me." Artie hissed at her and took the child from Liz,"See." The child began to babble nonsense words and she stared at it.
"What language was that?"
"Baby talk." Penelope said and laughed. The sound was like silver bells. And I had to shake my head to clear the traitorous thoughts away. She was the enemy and needed to be treated as such. Artie snarled at her and held the baby out to her.
"It's in your realm you hold it." That thing about realms again what was that about? And wasn't she in mine and Nuala's realm? She rolled her eyes and took the child.
"I fear for your future children." She said,"That is if you ever have any and I recommend you don't." The argument went back and forth for a while as everyone got settled. They switched to their strange language several time during the conversation. I didn't even have an idea what it could be I've never heard any fey language that was close to it. The half-demon twins were placed on a towel next to Penelope and she talked to them in her language when they became fussy and it usually calmed them down. Controlling them probably and no one thought to stop her absolutely unbelievable. I swear I could just reach over to her and...
"It is a nice day isn't it Brother?" Nuala pulled me from dark thoughts.
"What do you want." She sighed at me.
"You should give Penelope a chance. She hasn't done anything wrong in fact she's been very kind and I believe she's keeping Artie from slaying us all."
"I'm sure she has." I said sarcastically,"We should really just let them go because they present no harm to us." I would have said more but she cut me off.
"For me. Can you try for me." I gave out a frustrated sigh and raked my fingers through my hair.
"Fine have it your way but don't say I didn't warn you." She smiled and thanked me before getting up and joining Penelope with the twins. I stared daggers at her."Burst into the flames of hell you came from."
"You're almost right Your Highness." My head snapped around to see Artie standing behind me. We regarded each other for a moment.
"I'm going to get right to the point I don't like you or any of your friends."
"They are not my friends."
"Fine acquaintances whatever floats your boat." She said in an exasperated tone,"And I know you're all just faking this so we can get that out of the way too."
"It was not my idea and I'd happily slit your throat if they'd let me."
"And I would do the same if not for my half-sister." That caused me to pause for a second. It gave credit to Nuala's previous statement but she could well be lying.
"And it's for her I make this deal with you."Artie continued,"You take care of your sister and I shall take care of mine. I will cause no harm to her if you don't attack but if you do well."S he let the sentence hang and held out her hand,"Do we have and agreement?" I looked her in the eye searching for any lies and I found none but that meant next to nothing to me. In the end what harm could it do I could easily go back on my word anyway. I took her hand and shook it.
"The second you break it you and your half-sister will die by my blade." She scoffed at me.
"You know little of my people Prince Nuada Silverlance of Bethmoora do not worry about me breaking a promise I have more honor than you give me credit for just make sure you don't." She turned and walked over to the game that had just started up again. I was stunned at her words. No one had ever talked to me like that did she have no sense of hierarchy? But if she tells the truth Nuala will be safe at least for now. A glance in her direction showed that Artie had made her way over to where Liz and my sister were. As she sat down she looked me dead in the eye. The message was clear.
Don't break your promise.
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