Hi again…I'm sorry it took so long again I've been busy and had a tiny bit of writer's block =P but I think I'm good for now anyway. Okay just a heads up this chapter will be switching from character to character so when you see the … … … know that means it's changed to a different scene somewhere else. Um…that's all later! Please tell me what you think about my story! Enjoy!

Chapter 8

"Hmm, wonder why this place is called Mirrors Brooke?" A young black haired woman asks as she looks at the clear stream beside her, her crystal blue eyes shining and her crimson streaks glowing in the cool blue water. "Maybe it's because of how well the water acts like a mirror?" She ponders as she squats down and picks some water and morphs it into a sphere. "This is fun!" She exclaims as she plays with the water watching it quiver and waver.

"Hmm…maybe I should start going to the town again…" She mumbles playing with the water making smaller orbs of water circle the larger one. "Nah, this is way too much fun, I'll leave in a little bit." She says making the orb form a twisting spiral.

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"How much longer, until we get there?" Tyran groans leaning his head back in the seat.

"I told ya it'll be 'bout and hour maybe less!" Ace snaps glaring at him a moment as she speeds down the dirt road dirt flying behind her.

"That's too long! Can't you make this bucket of bolts go any faster?" He whines closing his eyes. "I bet Bolt could fix it." He grumbles making Ace slam on the brakes and would've sent him flying if he hadn't had his seat belt on. "Ha! I was prepared this time!" He shouts triumphantly when she steps on the gas and he hits his head against the dashboard. "owww…" He whimpers curling up in a ball in his seat.

"Baby." Ace scoffs rolling her eyes and slows down. "I'm sure you've had worse." She says glancing over a Tyran who was holding his head and whimpering. 'What is he two?' She thinks scoffing as she turns and heads towards the deeper part of the woods. She looks around and sees a sign that says Mirrors Brooke 45 kilometers. 'Not much further if I keep going at this speed I'll be there early!' She thinks excitedly speeding up a little.

"Why are you so harsh?" Tyran asks sitting back up and rubbing his head.

"I'm not harsh yer just annoying!" She snaps glaring at him.

"How am I annoying?" He asks in confusion.

"Just, because that's my answer!" She snaps. 'Is that really the best thing I can come up with?' She thinks mentally scolding herself.

"That's not a very good answer." Tyran grumbles slouching in his seat a scowl on his face.

"Yeah, well get over it!" She retorts glaring at the road noticing a brook nearby its water shining in the late afternoon sunshine but the forest beyond was still shrouded in shadows. 'Even now that danged forest is dark…gives me the creeps.' She thinks rubbing one of her arms trying to make the goose bumps go away.

"Still not a good answer…" Tyran grumbles glaring out the window watching the desolate forest zoom by.

"What are you two?" Ace asks glancing at him a moment as they cross an old stone bridge that looked like it'd been there for ages. "Wonder how old this town is, I mean it looks like that bridge's been there forever!" She breathes whistling as they enter the old town that looked abandoned besides the few run-down stores speckled here and there.

"I have absolutely no idea…" Tyran mumbles sitting up and looking out the window watching the few people that were out stare at them with curiosity in their eyes. 'Act like they ain't ever seen visitors before.' He thinks scoffing as he looks at the town noticing some train tracks off to the side. 'Okay maybe they just don't get visitors that often…' Tyran thought looking at the rotten wood that passed for a train platform. 'Okay, very, very few visitors.' He thinks groaning.

"I wasn't askin ya, now was I?" Ace says stopping at the only inn in the entire town which looked just like all the other old forgotten buildings.

"Who were ya askin' then?" Tyran asks watching her get out of the car. 'She's just as confusin' as…as who is it? I know I know who it is but can't place it…" He thinks in deep thought gazing at nothing in particular.

"I wasn't askin' anyone!" She snaps slamming her door shut turning to leave but turns back and glares at Tyran a moment before she opens the door again. "Stay." She orders slamming the door once more and trotting up the steps creaking as her feet touched them.

"Huh?" Tyran asks not hearing what she said but sees her enter the building. "I guess she told me ta stay put." He muses leaning back in the seat for a few moments in deep thought. "But since when have I ever listened ta what people have ta say?" He snickers hopping out of the car to go explore the old desolate town.

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"Alma wake up, come on we're here." Leon says shaking a sleeping Alma as Abel tries to wake up Scarlet beside her.

"No…I wanna sleep five more minutes…"Alma groans swatting his hand away.

"Get up! I told you we're here!" He says grabbing her and flinging her over his shoulder.

"AHHH PUT ME DOWN! LEON DO YA HEAR ME I SAID PUT ME DOWN THIS INSTANT!" Alma hollers wide awake, beating him on the back trying to get him to set her down.

"No can do, you didn't wake up when I told you to so no." He says when Alma pulls his hair making him tilt over.

"I SAID PUT ME DOWN!" She demands again yanking his hair making him loose his footing and let go as he falls with a loud THUD!

"owww…" Leon grumbles standing up as Alma smiles sweetly and walks off.

"That's what ya get! Maybe ya oughta think 'bout what ya do before ya do it." She smirks getting off the train with Tres.

"Little brat!" Leon grumbles scowling. "Hey Abel how's waking the other one up coming?" He calls watching as Abel shakes Scarlet again who grumbles and swats his hand away.

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"Wow this town is sure small…" Tyran groans, passing the little town's store for the third time when he hears a train whistle and sees a train pull up to the station. 'Wonder if anyone's getting' off here.' He thinks walking over to the station seeing the doors open up and a few people slowly climb out.

"I SAID PUT ME DOWN!" He hears someone shout from inside and almost instantly after hears a large THUD!

"What the…heck?" He wonders loudly, when he sees Alma waltz out of the train beside the android from earlier. 'What are they doin' here?' He thinks gritting his teeth as he tries to hide in the shadows. 'Wait…if she's here than that means the other annoying brat's here as well!' He realizes scowling feeling his back hit the cool brick building behind him. "This won't do…I gotta tell Ace-Ugh…" Tyran grunts holding his head as a wave of pain and nausea overcome him. 'Curse it…every time I'm near those two I get this feeling…' He scowls as the pain eases. "…I can handle 'em by myself. I just gotta get 'em away from their allies…" He says smirking stealthily stepping out of the shadows.

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"Oh please wake up Scarlet…" Abel whines shaking the sleeping girl once more careful to avoid her legs, when she suddenly bolts up and looks around. "What's the matter Scarlet?" Abel asks concerned.

"ALMA!" She exclaims rushing past Abel nearly knocking him down as she heads outside. "Alma did ya feel that!" She says running over to her cousin eyes darting around scanning the crowd for something. 'It can't be…why would he be here…' She thinks silently panicking.

"Yeah, I felt it…"Alma says walking up to her cousin and pulling her away to a empty corner. "Why would Tyran be here?" She whispers a hint of worry in her voice as she scans the crowd for Tyran.

"Don't know your guess is as good as mine." Scarlet whispers as she glances at the crowd a moment. "But it can't be good." She adds looking at her cousin who nods in agreement.

"I bet Shadow sent 'im to bring us back…We should tell the others, they need to know what they're going to be up against if Tyran really is after us!" Alma silently exclaims casting a worried glance at their little group who are standing by the train.

"…I guess yer right…" Scarlet grumbles scowling. "But we can't let 'em kill him!" She quickly adds.

"I know that!" Alma says noticing some movement by one of the buildings. "Scarlet!" She whispers silently gesturing to the building.

"What…Oh I guess we found 'im." Scarlet says following her cousin's gaze as they see him slide out of the shadows and take off. "We can't let 'im get away!" Scarlet exclaims chasing after him jumping over the crowd.

"Oh dear…" Alma mutters watching Scarlet quickly disappear behind some buildings following Tyran. 'Maybe I should tell the others…' She quickly thinks glancing back at the group before she gives chase as well. "TRES, ABEL, LEON WE GOTTA GO!" She calls over her shoulder as she vanishes behind the same buildings. 'I hope he doesn't do anything stupid…' She thinks as she sees the two jump onto a building and head towards the woods. 'Not good!' She thinks running faster in an attempt to catch up to the two.

"What…just happened?" A stunned Leon asks as he watches Alma quickly follow the two.

"I believe Alma and Scarlet are chasing someone…" Abel replies blinking trying to register what happened.

"We have to go after them!" Leon says about to run off when he trips over the luggage and falls on his face. "OWW!" He hollers rubbing his face. "I bet they set those bags there on purpose!" He continues as he stands back up and brushes himself off.

"I don't think so…besides Leon shouldn't we be more concerned with who they're chasing and follow them!" Abel says quickly noticing two figures on top of a building jump off towards the woods and a third behind them and quickly gaining.

"Positive, sensors indicate they are chasing Tyran from the structure where we were being held the other day." Tres says in his monotone voice.

"Okay…that's not good…Tres you should follow them me and Leon will follow you but we should look around town and see if we can find any clues as to why he's here or if he's with anyone." Abel says picking up the luggage as Tres nods and follows the three figures into the forest.

"WHAT?" Leon demands trying to follow but Abel drags him. "Abel! Let me go!" He shouts struggling but Abel shakes his head calmly.

"We should see what we can find out. I'm sure they can handle themselves besides you said it yourself Leon they're powerful and Tres can handle himself so we shouldn't worry that much." Abel says as Leon sighs but stops struggling and nods in agreement.

"I guess you have a point…" He says picking up the others bags and walking off the train station carefully avoiding the people. "I guess we should hurry up and find out all we can then we go after them." He calmly says as Abel nods and follows.

"I believe the hotel we will be staying is right over here." Abel says quickly passing Leon as they see an old building that has a sign MIRRORS BROOKE INN crookedly hanging the front with a little black car in front of the building. "I guess this is it…" He says as the two walk inside and pass a young woman who is heading outside. 'Odd…' Abel thinks shivering as she passes them. 'She does not look like she's from around here. Could she be working for Tyran?' He thinks but quickly disregards it seeing as how she hadn't attacked them or even glanced at them.

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'It's those two priests from the pictures!' Ace thinks as she walks sees them enter the building and silently panics. 'I'll just ignore them not even glance at them.' She calmly thinks walking past the two not even glancing in their direction and heads out the door. "I'll just tell Tyran they got here earlier than I expected…" She grumbles as she walks towards her car noticing Tyran isn't in it. "…I can't believe it he left!" Ace shouts making everyone passing by stare at her with odd expressions. 'This isn't good…maybe I should try to find him…' She thinks when she remembers the two targets inside the inn. 'Or…I could toy with these two until he comes back.' She plots smiling softly. "I like that I'll go with that plan!" She softly exclaims as she goes to explore the town.

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"What's wrong Abel?" Leon asks as they reach their rooms and set the luggage down.

"I'm not sure but that young girl did not look like she was from around here…" He replies as Leon nods and scoffs.

"Yeah but you really think she's working with Tyran?" Leon questions eyebrow raised in curiosity.

"Perhaps but she did not attack us or acknowledge us so I could be wrong…" Abel says looking around the fairly furnished room that had two queen beds, a coffee table, and a night stand by each bed with a lamp on each one.

"Yeesh, the place looks better on the inside than the outside." Leon says whistling as he sits in one of the chairs by the coffee table.

"It certainly does…we should go look around town." Abel says walking out of the room with Leon right behind him.

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'This is going better than I had hoped it would.' Tyran thinks smirking as he flies by another tree and passes a brook. "HA! You two can run as fast as you can but you slow pokes will never catch me!" Tyran taunts making a sharp turn towards the brook.

"I finally caught up to ya!" Alma cheers running alongside Scarlet who scoffs and speeds up. 'That's just wrong…' Alma thinks scowling as she speeds up to catch Scarlet once more.

"We don't have time to fool around! He's getting away!" Scarlet orders as she tries to catch up to Tyran who just speeds up more just out of her reach.

"…Scarlet we won't be able to catch him…Tyran's the fastest of us all ya know that." Alma calmly states as she avoids some fallen trees and notices the brook suddenly get narrower like it was drying up. 'But this is the direction the water comes from…it shouldn't be getting narrower unless…an outside force is swallowing the water!' She thinks silently gasping as the brook gets more and more narrow.

"I don't care! We can't lose him!" Scarlet shouts glaring at Alma completely oblivious to the brook as Tyran speeds up again.

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"Hmm…I think I've stayed here to long…but oh well I'm having fun!" Evangeline says standing up and looking at her wonderful creation a large watery spinning spiral that took up most of the brooks water. "That took up quite a bit of water…maybe I should make it a little smaller…" She says frowning slightly but motions with her hand and the some water goes through the spiral back into the brook making it rush.

"There that's better!" She chirps as smaller orbs form around the swirling water. "Let's see here…" She says smiling as the swirl shifts into a watery tree with a bird hovering above it.

"WATCH OUT!" Tyran shouts barely dodging her and smashing through the water tree and into a real tree.

"HOLY SHOOT!" Scarlet shouts skidding on some water and landing in the brook as Alma smacks into Evangeline.

"Owww…I'm sorry! Are ya okay? I didn't mean ta smack into ya." Alma says getting up and dusting herself off and helping Evangeline up as well.

"I'm alright! Thanks for asking!" She says noticing Tyran's body twitching on the ground in front of the tree groaning. "ARE YOU OKAY?" She asks walking over to him and poking him in the face.

"…owww…no I'm not okay…." He groans swatting her hand away and getting back up his joints popping as he staggers up.

"Well…I'm sorry my name's Evangeline though ya could call me Eva!" She chirps shaking his hand a broad smile on her face. "It's nice ta meetcha! What's yer name?" She asks as Tyran stares at her in confusion.

"Tyran…" He skeptically says narrowing his eyes at her. 'Who is this chick?' He thinks watching as she nods and laughs.

"That sounds like Tyrant!" She says laughing her blue eyes shining.

"So I've been told…" He says raising an eyebrow when he notices Scarlet clamber out of the brook and shake off the water glaring at him.

"TYRAN, WHAT'RE YA THINKIN' BETTER YET WHY'RE YA HERE?" Scarlet demands shaking some more water off.

"LIKE I'D TELL YOU!" He shouts glaring at her.

"…Yer name's Evangeline right?" Alma asks calmly ignoring the other two glaring at each other. "Sorry I just kind a heard it from when you were talkin' ta Tyran…" She says as Evangeline nods and smiles.

"Ya, it's alright! I'm glad I don't have to repeat myself!" Evangeline says laughing as she walks over to Alma and shakes her hand. "So you three know each other?" She asks glancing back a Tyran who is in shock and staring at them.

"NO!" Tyran and Scarlet shout in unison. "LIKE I'D KNOW THAT JERK/TYRANT!" They continue as they glare at each other.

"Sort of…" Alma says nervously as Tyran shakes his head and glares at the two of them.

'I can't believe this. First I find these two, then I smack into that tree and this weird chick starts talking to me and now Alma acts like she's not a traitor!' He inwardly screams taking a step forward when Alma grabs Eva's hand and runs off.

"LATER TYRAN!" She hollers from over her shoulder as she speeds off in opposite direction of the way they came.

"WHAT? GET BACK HERE!" Tyran shouts about to chase after them when Scarlet tackles him to the ground her hand glowing an eerie purple color. "What're ya doin' get yer hands off me!" He shouts as she holds her glowing hand in front of his face. 'Don't let it be what I think it is!' He thinks panicking struggling to free himself when Scarlet smirks.

"You remember what this technique is, don't you Tyran." Scarlet says as her hand glows an even darker almost black purple.

"no…" Tyran weakly says as his struggling becomes less and less frantic. 'Dang it I knew it!' He thinks as Scarlet's smirk becomes an evil grin.

"To bad, next time think before ya run away." She coolly says as her hand becomes solid black. "Terrore carceris…" She says as her hand flashes black and Tyran's body goes limp as he loses conscious, his pale green eyes completely devoid of any light. "I'm sorry Ty but ya left me no choice…" She says as she picks him up and chases after Alma. 'We'll find a way to help you…I swear.' Scarlet thinks glancing down at Tyran as she speeds through the trees.