(A/N) I know this chapter seems kinda small... but I'm saving the really good stuff for Chapter 10! This is kinda just a teaser. lol. Oh! I wanna say thank you so much! dog youkai jane and dragonsketcher85 for some BRILLIANT ideas that made my other ones fly out the window, but also a HUGE thank you to revoLodloV and Someonething94 for your opinions, I really, truly appriceate them and I love hearing from you! Your inputs were amazing, and I hope you'll still send me things you'd like to see.
Disclaimer: I only own Memory, Siren, and Voltaire the Evil Hot Guy (who a lot of people really hate aparently! lol)
Enjoy!
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Memory sat in the library for a long while waiting for Siren to come back and talk to her... to tell her it would all be alright... to tell her they'd think of something and soon they'd be able to go back to school and see Kera and Rose and Srilana and all of their other friends.... But no matter how long she stayed, Siren never came back....
"Memory... are you alright?" Abe asked softly, swimming up to the glass and placing a hand on it.
She looked up at him, placing a smile on her face that anyone around could tell was fake.
"I'm fine, Abe... I'm fine...." She said softly, looking away.
He was quiet for a while as he stared at her, worry clear in his eyes.
"Memory... you aren't fine.... Why don't you just go talk to her?" He asked.
Memory looked down, her hair hiding her face as she shook her head softly.
"No... it's okay.... Sigh will talk to me when she wants... if she wants...." She whispered.
Abe shook his head, but before he could say anything Manning came storming in.
"Okay, where's that little water brat?" He hissed, glaring around the room.
Memory looked up at him, her eyes confused.
"She ran out and into her room... she was angry at me.... Isn't she there?" She asked, her thoughts reeling.
Liz came running into the room panting slightly with Hellboy behind her.
"Siren isn't anywhere in the building; we've checked everywhere." She panted.
Memory shot up and ran for the door, she could vaguely recall Abe calling after her to stop and let someone go with her, but she couldn't stay there, not while her best friend could be in danger. Sliding to a stop outside her room, Memory slowly pushed the door open, waves of fear and worry seeping through her body as if the AC had just been turned on to an arctic level.
Walking in, everything was dead silent.
"Sigh... Sigh are you in here?" She called out.
No answer.
"Sigh, come on! This isn't funny...." She shouted.
Still no answer.
Walking further into the room, Memory looked around until her eyes stopped on the mirror where a large piece of paper sat taped onto the silver glass.
Walking over to it and pulling it off the glass, Memory read the cursive handwriting:
Come to me oh Desiree, if you wish to see your dear friend alive and well, you will come to me.
Come alone... if you do not, the dear Water Charmer will not see the outside world again and will become a Mirror Shadow herself.
Memory shook as she fell to her knees; her eyes filling with tears that she didn't feel begin to fall.
She vaguely recalled bawling it up in her hand and shoving it into her pocket as foot steps were heard in the hall, but soon saw black as she slumped down on the tile of the bathroom floor.
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Hellboy and Abe ran cautiously into Siren's room only to see Memory slumped down on the floor before passing out.
Abe quickly brushed passed Hellboy and dropped to her side.
"I think she's just in shock from Siren..." Abe whispered, looking at Memory's stoic face.
Hellboy bent down to look at her.
"Do you really think Siren left 'cause a what the kid said to that ass?" Hellboy questioned.
Abe looked up at him, "I don't think she left on her own... Siren wouldn't do that to Memory no matter how angry she was."
Hellboy nodded, but something flittering across the mirror caught his eye. Turning, he looked at the mirror with a hard, piercing gaze.
"Hey, Blue... that stuff the Water Kid was sprouting about the Mirror Ghosts or whatever... can they go through any mirror?" He asked, beginning to advance on the bathroom mirror.
Abe stood and stopped him with a hand on his shoulder.
"Wait, Red...." He whispered.
Lifting his hand, Abe pressed his palms against the cool surface and automatically images from an hour ago flashed in front of him; Siren pacing, Voltaire coming into the room and binding her, him walking to the mirror and being sucked into it with Siren in tow.
Abe blinked a few times before he glanced at Hellboy.
"They're called Mirror Shadows... and I do believe our dear friend Voltaire is being used by one.... And they took Siren." Abe sighed, looking back at the mirror.
"That son of a bitch," Hellboy spat, punching the mirror with his stone hand making it shatter.
Abe backed away quickly so as not to get nicked by any of the offending glass.
Turning, he picked Memory up gently in his arms, cradling her head close to his chest and carried her out of the room.
Watching him leave, Hellboy smirked and began to follow him out.
Johann and Liz were sitting in the library when they came back in... they both jumped up when they saw Memory being held in Abe's arms.
"What happened?" Liz asked hurriedly.
Johann put a hand on Liz's shoulder to calm her.
"I am sure it iz nozing, Liz, just stay calm." He said softly to her.
"Voltaire took Siren... it seems she was right about the Mirror Shadow... one got to Voltaire and he kidnapped her." Abe explained, setting Memory down gently on the couch.
"So much for it being nothing, Johann." Liz muttered softly, walking over to the couch and dropping down next to the Desiree and began to feel her forehead.
"She should be alright...." Abe said softly.
Nodding, Liz stood and the three got to work on thinking up ideas on how to track Siren.
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Memory woke slowly, the lights from the tank dancing across her vision. Even with the onslaught of desires bombarding her waking moments, she couldn't help but feel upset... even nauseated at the thought that the one desire she didn't feel was the one she wanted to feel most of all.
"Siren..." She whimpered, closing her eyes as soft tears trailed themselves down her face.
The note that had been left on the mirror caused Memory to stop and think on that for a few moments.
'I could go and Siren would be safe... but I don't wanna leave Abe and the others....' Memory thought desperately to herself.
Abe's desire washed over her then and she remembered.
'I'm being selfish... I need to go to Siren. I only wanted to stay because I have feelings for Abe... but he loves that princess.... I shouldn't stop him from her... it'd be too much to bear.' She concluded.
Sitting up, she glanced around the tank and the room looking for anyone, she then felt around for anyone's desires and, feeling none close by, took her crystal off from around her neck and went to the desk by the bookshelf. Sitting down, she quickly wrote a letter to Abe, but stopped short as she looked at her crystal.
"Gram... I hope you were right about these...." She whispered quietly to the white stone.
Setting it down gently on the desk in front of her, she placed her hands over her heart and, as if on their own accord, her hands lifted and a white and silver sphere came out. Smiling a sad smile, she focused her energy and the sphere was absorbed into the crystal.
Going back to her letter, she wrote a lengthy explanation and stood. Taking the letter and crystal over to the couch where she had just previously vacated, she sat them down where she knew everyone would find it.
She then stood up straight and looked at her reflection in the tank.
"I have no way of getting out of here without alerting someone... and the note didn't say how I was supposed to get to you.... But I have a hunch whoever is in the mirrors can hear me... and I'm ready." She said, walking closely up to the reflective glass.
When nothing happened right away, Memory closed her eyes with a heavy sigh and placed her forehead against the cool glass.
Reaching into her pocket, she turned to put her back on the glass as she read over the crumpled up message again.
"How am I supposed to get to you if you never told me how... I'm ready." She whispered.
Suddenly, she could feel cold tendrils seep over her skin; vine-like black shapes wrapped themselves around her body dragging her into the glass. Dropping the note, she tried to pull away out of panic, but it was too late, the shadows pulled her in and no trace of her being in the library was left except her letter to Abe, her crystal, and the note that she had just dropped.
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(A/N) Oh my... Memory actually gave herself up so she could save Siren! Now that's one determinded friend.... But what was in that note Mem left for Abe...? And why exactly did she leave her crystal with that sphere in it? Hm... well, all I can say is Chapter 10 should be a really good (and long) chapter!
I'll update soon, guys... but I may wanna make you all wait a little bit... only cuz Voltaire got to me and is kinda making me.... lol. *evil laughter*
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