Hello all of you! (Mainly at SaphireCatElf of course as I'm not really sure anyone else's still reading this drop)
Sorry again for the long wait! But well, I finally started to study and now my practical training started as well and so my free time has diminished considerably and that's why I had absolutely no time to write. Add to that that my mother is ill and my father was away because of a continuation of his education (hey that rhymed!) I had to do all the shopping (on Saturdays! As I don't have time on workdays anymore, at least not while the shop's are open and here in Germany there are no 24-hour-shop's...) ! So you see, I am absolutely NOT to be blamed. The ones responsible for it are my professors and the bad cold my mother somehow caught herself.
Also this Chapter is really short, just a third of my original chapter-length, but I promise that I'll work to get more of this story typed because the red-string is already in my head and I really just need to write it down. (With the occasional added plot-twists my mind will come up with while my fingers are doing so! promise)
But now I'll end my useless babbling and apologies for the delay to THANK YOU for your wonderful review's! (Yes! PLURAL!)
SaphireCatElf: blush I rock? Wow, that's really...wow. I just dunno what else to say.
Well, I thought as your my most faithful reader it would be fitting to give you a special present of sorts to show you how much I appreciate it that you read on and tell me what you think about it. And as the tenth Chapter was some kind of jubilee for me I thought it would fit. Besides your idea is absolutely brilliant and it moves along with my own so well that I'll definitely use it. I won't tell what else I'm going to make the second mask be able to do (wow, what a sentence!), but it's absolutely going to be fun writing the reactions of the ducks to it's abilities.
blushes again sweet? Oh, my...I'm without words again...hehe...But I hope you'll continue to view it as fun to put up with me!
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Survivor: Tja, dein review wird hier bei zwar nicht aufgeführt werden (hast es mir ja gemailt), aber ich finde es trotzdem angebracht dir dafür zu danken und hier darauf zu antworten. Warum ich das auf Deutsch und nicht auf Englisch mach? Tja, gute Frage. schiefgrins Okay, wechseln wir wieder ins Englische! (Aber nur damit die anderen treuen leser (Elfe zum Bsp.) auch verstehen was hier steht.)
Well, it's hard to explain why I killed Duke's brother Adrian. To be honest I just needed to take away all of his family, for I think it's more likely that he was for one an only child or for the other that the rest of his family is dead. Why I think it's more fitting? Well, I think it suites his character. If you disagree, please inform me! But now I think it's good that you pointed the seemingly missing reason out to me, because I think I'll use it for another plot-twist. eg Not a nice one be sure of it, but hopefully a good one.
The Brotherhood of the Blood will play a really big part in the future and I wanted to introduce it as soon as possible. And as Duke's familiar with the Brotherhood it just fitted perfectly to make him remember something of his past.
Now for the rest of your questions I'll have to watch my tongue, 'cause it wouldn't do to reveal too much.
The builder of the mask and how it came to be on Puckworld (I don't think I implied that it ever was on Puckworld, but your right. It was or will be, I'm not going to tell! But at the moment it's on earth.) are somehow connected to the Shadow and his reasons to help the ducks. Although it answers why he knows his way around the Pond so well. I'm afraid if you really want to get an answer to your questions you'll have to wait until I write the chapters in which these information's are revealed for I really don't want my readers to know everything right away. It wouldn't be as exciting and hopefully captivating if you knew what I'm planning to put into it, so please just be patient and read on, as I'll try to write more soon.
CHAPTER 11:
M: "Tanya, can you detect the mask?" she whispered to her co-pilot, so Dive wouldn't hear, but obviously he did because his sobs and tears just increased.
T: "Not from here. I may be able to with Drake One, but I'm not sure."
M: "Then what about his com-unit?" she wanted to know.
Tanya's hands nearly flew over the keyboard while the screen was bombarding her with different information's, but after two minutes she finally looked up, sadly.
T: "There's just static." She breathed with a quivering voice.
D: "In that case I think we should head back to the Pond. Tanya will get the chance to try Drake One and..."
G: "...We will try to calm our spirits. They may guide us in our search, if they are prepared for it."
D: "Yeah, something like that." He agreed.
M: "Affirmative." She mumbled, changing the course and heading straight to their current home, the Anaheim Pond.
Half an hour later they were running through the Pond, their destination: Drake One and hopefully Wildwing's exact location coordinates.
M: "So, where is he? Tell us already!" she demanded from Tanya, but received no reply.
Tanya was typing frantically, but seemingly without any success. She tried everything she could think of to locate Wildwing, but came out of her quest empty-handed. Sighing she turned around to face the others.
T: "It seems like there is something blocking his signal."
D: "I really hate to ask this, but...what could be able to block off his com-unit and the mask so completely?" he asked with not exactly a little amount of trepidation.
T: "There is not much. For one, I think, a jamming transmitter would be possible, but rather unlikely considering it's in the middle of the mountains."
M: "It's not that unlikely. The military likes to hide itself and their bases after all and they like the seclusion the mountains provide by being a natural barrier." She interrupted reasoning.
T: "Secondly..." she paused for a little moment, risking a worried look at Nosedive, but decided to continue after his encouraging nod. There was determination shining in his eyes and she knew he'd want to know, even if she knew he'd break down again upon hearing it. "Well, a big amount of different rock layers would have the same effect." She finally whispered.
Tanya had been right with her prediction, Nosedive resumed crying and sobbing into Duke's shoulder and seemed inclined to continue like it for the next few days.
They couldn't calm him down for the life of them all and finally Tanya had to decided to give him a sedative just so he would stop hyperventilating.
After that they put him down to sleep and hoped they'd be able to find a way to track down the source for the disruption of the signal.
Tanya worked overtime, throughout the whole night, but again nothing seemed to work. The next thing she tried was to seclude the potential disruptive factors Drake One picked up from the direction of the mountains. She couldn't exclude them all as there were just to many of them, but she could now confirm Mallory's suspicion of a military base located somewhere in the mountains.