Dione was clueless as to what was going on, she had just heard that Angel needed to speak with her and that she had lost her crystal, she was rather miffed about the latter but when she had heard about Bile being in trouble she had decided to teleport Angel in and see what was going on. She wasn't expecting for Angel to arrive with a sword to to have such a look in her eyes that made her look dangerous. The second Angel appeared in her living room Dione had her sit down and calm herself. Angel did so, but reluctantly. Dione's living room was a big one, the ceiling was like that of the rest of Dione's castle, light blue with white clouds drifting around. There was a persian rug in the room, it was mainly dark blue with light blue, white and black designs, sitting on it were two couches. The one Angel was seated on matched the ceiling, it was long and puffy like a cloud and baby blue in color. The couch across from it was it's twin but it was shorter and more puffier. There was a glass table between the couches that stood on gold legs. There were vases and portraits in the room, Angel particularly liked the animal portraits and the statue of a rearing Elephant which was placed near the transparent door. The walls all around were like the walls all throughout Dione's castle, transparent blue. When Dione returned she had Perniceie and Azura with her, Dione had a new crystal in her hands but before she handed it over she insisted that Angel tell what had happened to the other one.
"You know your father has a power to control and change others, right?" Angel started off.
"Yes, Fluidic Power, a side power to his elemental powers." Dione replied. "Also the other which I cannot remember the name of where he can turn others to his side or work them as his puppets which is much worse."
"For the past two weeks he was using Julius to get me and Bile out of Atlas' stronghold, he also had Julius take Selma and Alexis with him to bring Atlas out." Angel started explaining what had happened. "He had Julius took us to the Siwa Oasis then to Fayyum Oasis and then afterwards to the Blue Nile Falls, all the while he was chased by Atlas and Tazir."
"The more I hear about Kuruk the more I hate him." Azura leaned back. "Why was Tazir following, was he a part of it?"
"Really, I don't know." Angel admitted. "Tazir did catch up and he did chase off Julius. He took me and Selma in. The day after he took us in he asked me to show him a few moves which I did, stupid me trusted the bastard and what happens next..." Angel had to calm down for a few seconds before she continued. "he slapped me and his brother, my father and DuruVile showed up."
"Was Julius caught?" Dione asked. "If he was taken over then he won't remember anything, he's innocent and..."
"He was caught," Angel replied. "he's safe, he did tell me what happened, about feeling like a demon had taken over him and being controled, having no control over what happened. Atlas had him move in his palace, think he'll be there for a while. He's pretty messed up."
"He will be for a while, I'll have to contact Atlas and tell him that he and Helen will need to be understanding and comforting to him." Dione sighed. "Taking over one, making a person your puppet, is a dirty trick."
Perniceie stood up and left the room, this made everyone quiet up and wait, when she returned Dione gave her daughter a look which Perniceie nodded her head at. Perniceie had obviously gone to the library and had gotten a book, she sat down beside her mother and started flipping the pages. It took her a while then she stopped turning the pages at near the end of the book then started reading, after a full minute she handed the book over to her mother and pointed at the chapter. Angel craned her neck to see what it was that Perniceie was pointing out but being that the print in the book was small, she couldn't read what had interested Perniceie and Dione. She waited until Dione finished reading, it took a few minutes.
"Thank you Pern," Dione thanked her daughter, Perniceie was commonly called Pern by her family, even Angel called her Pern. "Marionous is the ability to make one your puppet by taking control of one, or more beings mind and emotions. The wielder can change anything, the mind and the way a being thinks, can make one more animalistic, can even turn a trusted being fully over to the enemy to act as an agent. It damages that one person if used for too long, can even make the person that it is used on a vegetable for life."
"Julius just had no idea what was going on, what he had done and had an emotional breakdown." Angel said.
"Yes, it says that will happen too." Dione closed the book. "He's a lucky man."
"What happened after your father, Kuruk and Duru showed up?" Azura asked.
"I was caught, naturally I felt betrayed by Tazir and attacked and hurt him but I was caught." Angel replied.
"And you should feel that!" Perniceie exclaimed. "He is a strange one, asks you to help him learn something, lets you go a few times and then he slaps you and leaves you dry."
"Can you yell any louder, Pern!" Dione exclaimed, her hands were over her ears. "Make me deaf one day, Girl!"
"So-wee." Perniceie rolled her hazel colored eyes.
"They have Bile." Angel said finally.
Dione stood up and walked over, Angel had completely missed seeing a majority of the room. There was a glass table that had accent legs sitting next to the right arm of the smaller couch, there was a twin table directly across from it next to the couch she was sitting on. There was a phonogram with a gold pavilion seated next to a large fireplace that had vines and flowers growing on it, a moving photograph of waves, Dolphins jumped through the ocean at every two-minute intervals. The fireplace didn't have any curtain of mesh over it and the fireplace wasn't lit up. On the walls were photographs of Dione holding Perniceie as a infant and as a toddler, there were also photographs of Perniceie holding Azura as an infant and as a toddler, of Azura holding Helen as an infant and as a toddler and then there was a large photograph of Dione, Perniceie and Azura attending to wedding of Helen and Atlas. She quickly glanced behind her and saw that there were more photographs, of Perniceie and Azura being trained by Dione and then of Dione holding other babies, it took Angel a short while to figure out that Dione had actually held Hannibal, Claudia, Julius and Cleopatra and Calypso soon after they were born. Angel felt poorly that Dione had not any photographs of Bile, or of holding Bile. She made a mental note to allow that to happen when she got Bile back.
"They have Bile?" Dione turned around, she had an angry look on her face that Angel acknowledged.
"Yes, I was tied up and placed by a tree then they, my father, grandfather and great-grandfather, surrounded Tazir." Angel was having a difficult time with explaining this, it still didn't seem real. "Julius cut me free and I was forced to leave without him."
"Why were they surrounding Tazir?" Azura asked.
"I got mad after Bile started crying after he hit his hand up against my father's breast-plate and belted out that Tazir had me for near three weeks." Angel answered.
"Ha, so you ratted him out on the where was you for near three weeks then." Azura snickered. "Serves him right."
"Which brings to why I asked to come here," Angel sat up straight. "ever since I was taken captive by Tazir I have not been able to teleport. Not anywhere, I fizzle out when I try but I don't go anywhere. In order to get my son back, I need to be able to teleport."
"When you was at his place did he give you anything to eat which looked odd?" Perniceie asked.
"N-... actually there was this mushy stuff which he called Jaiboa."
Dione had had to do a lot to give her daughter an education, not only training her in her magical abilities but also tutoring her herself. She had had to steal books from the academies all over the universe to do this and Perniceie had been a very appreciative young child throughout it all. Perniceie had read each book and had passed each test and quiz with flying colors, she was very intelligent. Perniceie stood up and exited the room, no one said a word or asked her where she was going, Dione knew as did Azura. Azura had been given the same schooling, the same tutoring and training, as her mother by Dione but she had been a bit slow and that was mainly because she was a half-breed, half Vilian and half human due to her mother having relations with a human male. Despite Azura's lack of deeper intelligence on things, Dione loved her to death. Perniceie was gone for all of ten minutes, when she returned she had her wand, a long purple stick that had a gold string around it and a bubble on the tip, a book and a potion.
"Jaiboa is an edible substance that will hinder most magical abilities, mostly teleportation. It's an edible potion, in other words." Perniceie said, she was just opening the book. "What was it made of, what did it look like?"
"Like mashed potatoes with small pieces of Squash, Onion, Celery and a touch of salt in it." Angel replied. "Or, at least that's what Taz told me."
"He lied," Perniceie looked up. "you might feel dizzy after this but you should have full range of your abilities."
Perniceie started saying a long spell which had a lot of Vilian in it that Angel couldn't explain, when she was done she flicked and swung her wand at Angel. At first Angel didn't feel anything then the room started spinning. When she started shaking her head Perniceie handed her the vial that had a light green liquid in it and instructed that she down it fast. Angel took the top off then tossed her head back, the second the potion was down she felt instant relief. Perniceie sat down just as Angel stood up, Angel teleported from her spot just before the couch to behind it. Dione nodded her head and walked over to her.
"Thank you, now that that is done I can go get my son." Angel thanks Perniceie.
"Don't mention it, anytime." Perniceie replied.
"We, not I." Azura stood up. "Don't know about you but I'd like to teach that guy some manners. Kidnapping and forcing you to teach him how to do elemental powers, forcing you to spar with him as a further act of training, feeding you an edible potion just to keep you at his house and under his control then betraying you. He needs to be taught a lesson."
"He'll get one now." Angel replied. "Can you change forms?"
"Negative." Azura looked down.
"Where's your potions room?" Angel looked at Dione. "Graduated with high marks in the potion and spells course, I know a potion which she can drink to change form. Works with my transformation skills."
"The Transformic Copier Potion." Perniceie spoke up before her mother could speak. "Whatever you change to, she will as well."
Dione led Angel down the hall, down a long and dark staircase which spiraled down what felt like a tunnel that had gray bricks on it then down another hallway to a solid brick walled room that had a wooden table full of supplies. A shelf ran the whole length of the room, on it was vials of already made potions, underneath it was a long cabinet full of supplies, Pernicie told her what she was looking for was in the last cabinet near the door. Angel filled a beaker with water then went to the last cabinet and took out what she needed. Salt, urine of a horsefly, fat from a Whale, four wrinkled fingers, a jar of coins and broken glass from a mirror. She added all of this into the beaker then poured it into a tube the potion ran through, she added at the last-minute a touch of sugar. It dripped slowly into a large vial, taking fifteen minutes to fully run through the tube. When the potion was done she capped it with a glass topper then left the room.
"You sure now, this won't be any walks in the park." Angel said as she handed the vial over to Azura.
"Very sure." Azura replied.
"We'll keep a watch on you two, if you need any help we're heading in." Dione said.
"What's the plan?" Azura asked.
"Get Bile," Angel replied. "afterwards, Eshal. I'm tired of being nice to Tazir, if he's going to be betraying might as well start throwing it back. I have done nothing to deserve betrayal, I obviously had him figured completely wrong."
"Evil is as evil is." Dione sighed. "Once you get Bile and Eshal teleport back here."
"Don't drink that yet, Dear." Pernicie said when she saw her daughter fiddling with the glass topper on the potion's vial. "Wait until you get there."
"Where are we going?" Azura asked, she stopped messing with the topper.
In answer Angel went to the fireplace, she had a showing dust, a dried up potion which she had made some time ago, in her hand. She threw the dried up potion at the fireplace, at first nothing happened then the fireplace was hidden by a cloud. TazirVile's ship was just touching down in a location by the Veu de Noiva waterfall in Chapada dos Guimaraes located in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil. When TazirVile's ship touched down it suddenly became invisible, they saw nothing afterwards for about five minutes then TazirVile along with five of his butlers and a maid exited the ship. The butlers started clearing the area while TazirVile stood by, ushering orders. The one maid was getting a large jarful of water from the base of the waterfall. Angel was just about to wave her hand over the image when she saw a butler run out from the cloaked ship, he seemed to of yelled something over at TazirVile and her great-uncle, after his butler yelled at him, suddenly turned and went back to his ship. She dropped the image just as he entered his cloaked ship.
"Wonderful location, gives us a good chance to blend in before we initiate the second part of our plan." Angel said. "You ready?"
"Let's go get Bile." Azura said.
"We'll head in and get Eshal afterwards." Angel said, she grabbed her sword quickly. "You have any weapons? Sword or..."
"I only know magic." Azura looked down shamefully.
Dione left the living room for a few minutes, when she returned she had a long purple bladed sword that had a gold and silver handle. She handed it to Azura and told her to watch Angel and match her move for move. Azura promised that she would, she tied the sword to her belt which was black and had spikes on it. When she was equipped Angel stepped beside her, they in Dione's living room for a few seconds then teleported out, Azura had a sparkle effect to her teleporting. Master Vile and his family's camp was right near the Bahariya Oasis and when they appeared they did so behind a cluster of bushes. There was no one outside of the camp, the camp was silent and still and that put Angel on alert. She tuned her ears in as much as she could then slowly walked around the cluster of bushes and ran to a group of trees, Azura followed right behind her.
Irka had waited for this day for months now and now that it was here she was nearly in tears. Her husband had teleported in and had ran into their ship calling for her, Dara Dara and Triskull to come quick. He had no told them a thing, they had all been asking what was wrong and why he was taking them to Vile's ship, it seemed odd that her in-laws, Duru and his wife, Cyla, were also running from their ship. The second that she had entered the dining room of her firstborn child and son's ship she stopped dead in her tracks, a wide smile had crossed over her face and she had nearly started crying. As was custom in their family, the immediate family got to hold and interact with a newborn first, her beloved Kuruk had explained that although it had gone a bit out of custom due to his father holding the baby before he, she understood fully. Kuruk, after all, could not have held the baby while at the same time hold onto and keep control of their granddaughter, Angel. The custom was now in full swing, Vile was holding and rocking the baby who was just as quiet as could be, he spoke to him in Vilian then he gave him a kiss before handing him over to Rita. Rita, being inexperienced with handling babies, stayed close to her father when she was handed the baby. When it was Rito's turn everyone grew a bit nervous and she believed it rubbed off on Rito as he held the baby for only a few minutes before handing him over. She waited semi-patiently as her beloved husband was given his turn. Like Vile, he rocked the baby and spoke to him in Vilian, even giving him a kiss. When she was handed the baby she was very excited, he looked just like she dreamed he would look!
The baby had inherited a lot of his father's side of the family, like Vile, her sweet Kuruk and her father-in-law, Duru and her youngest son, Triskull, he had the classic family ears. They were as long as his shoulders and were dark green with light green Tiger-like stripes. Like her father-in-law, husband and son his head and body were divided in colors, the left side of the baby's head and body was dark yellow and the right side was dark green. His left shoulder was skeletal in form as was his left elbow on down to his wrist and his knees. When the baby opened his eyes she saw that they were yellow-green and that they glowed, his pupils were black. She rocked the baby for a few seconds then she handed him back to Vile.
"You and Angel did well for your first," Irka said gently. "you two should be very proud of yourselves."
"I am, and I am sure Angel is as well." Master Vile said to his mother.
Dara Dara and Triskull held the baby for a few minutes then handed him back, DuruVile held the baby for a few minutes until the baby started crying then he handed him back to Master Vile, there was a small vocal fight between the two men, mainly on the baby being small and Duru thinking that he was weak, Irka didn't think the baby was weak, but he was small to her. She had done a quick measuring while she had been holding her grandson and she had noticed that the baby was just barely seventeen inches long, right small but he did have good weight on him. He was a rather chunky monkey, to her at least. Cyla held him next, she joked that she was going to steal him and run away which got everyone laughing. When the baby was handed back to Master Vile everyone slowly exited the dining room and went down the hall, they followed KurukVile as he left the ship and started going towards his own. Irka and he had a gift for the baby, something they had been waiting for almost five months to give to their third grandchild, but first grandchild they would be able to see be raised up.
"Wait here," KurukVile said. "Irka, my love, stay here. I'll be back."
"Okay Muscles." Irka teased her husband.
Angel saw her baby, she had seen then all exit the ship in a straight, orderly, line and stop near the center of the camp. The sun above was blazing down and she was terrified that Bile would get burned by the sun. She moved slowly from the tree line to just behind DuruVile's ship, when Azura bumped into her she looked back and signaled for her to remain silent. Her grandfather, KurukVile, had left and she wanted him to return before she signaled for the fight to start. Azura was a very powerful being, despite her slowness to understand this in training she was extremely powerful and deadly. Angel whispered back that she was going to transform into a snake and slither in, she told Azura to not drink the potion after she transformed. Azura said she'd wait until Angel had retrieved the baby before she started attacking and Angel nodded her head. Angel and Azura didn't have to wait long for KurukVile to exit his ship, he came out pushing a black baby carriage which had snakeheads hanging down from it. The second Angel saw the baby carriage she growled deep, the thing was revolting to her and she would not see any child of hers, by her father or any other man, being placed in it. She transformed into a long green snake and started slithering forward, she hid herself in the shadow of the baby carriage as it was pushed along then she slithered to right beside her father's black shoe.
"It is perfect!" Master Vile said, he accepted the gift for his and Angel's son at once. "Thank you."
"It fits him wonderfully!" Cyla nodded her head, she leaned up against her husband and brought her hand up to his chest. "He'll love them snakes."
"What's his name?" Triskull asked. "You never told us what he was named."
"Yes, what name did Angel pick for him?" Dara Dara pushed her brother for an answer. "Is it a good one?"
"She named him Bile." Master Vile replied. "Bile Vile."
"What a wonderful name!" Cyla exclaimed. "See, she did come around once he was born."
"He's a chunky monkey," Irka said. "she feeds him well."
"I still say he's a bit small for his age, Kuruk was bigger than he was when he was his age." DuruVile spoke up. "More active as well."
"When he gets to know us better he will become more active." Master Vile said, he started lowering the baby into the carriage. "Let's give it a try shall we, Son."
Angel sprang up, changing form all the while into a Tigress. Master Vile was completely taken aback and he tried to pull the baby out of the way but Angel grabbed him by his diaper and tore off. DuruVile and KurukVile both started firing fire blasts at Angel and Irka started sending sonic blasts at her, Angel's tail was burned at the tip but that was all. Just as she was out of the way Azura started firing her energy blasts. She struck DuruVile in the chest and sent him flying back, he landed on Master Vile's ship hard. KurukVile tried to fling a white lightning bolt at her which Azura ducked to avoid, she sent a pink energy bolt at KurukVile which struck him in the stomach, he howled in pain and dropped to the sand. Azura struck him with a green and red energy strand then left him be, he was badly injured. Master Vile flung his breast-plate off of him and ran forward, Cyla was throwing atomic blasts and Irka was firing off large sonic bombs, one of which sent Azura flying back. Three green energy bolts, a red energy blast and a sonic stream struck her, she started bleeding on her side, the side of her head was bleeding badly from when a sonic punch had hit her. With a yell, Azura shoved her arm forward and sent from each of her fingers a white energy bolt. Rita and Rito shrieked in pain when it struck them, Irka and Cyla barely dodged their intended bolts and Master Vile was struck in the chest. He dropped in mid run and slid along the sand. DuruVile recovered and ran forward, he started sending fire tornadoes, lightning tornadoes and sand blasts at Azura, all of which struck her and sent her flying. Azura sent several powerful energy blasts and streams at DuruVile, he made a fire shield around himself just before each struck him. He leaped up into the air and started twirling, he shot at Azura like a comet and when he struck her she flew into a palm tree's trunk hard. Angel changed form and went to her grandmother's side, she made an orange shield around then she started swinging her one free arm, Bile was nestled safely in the other, around. She started sending sand and air pikes flying through the shield at a furious pace, DuruVile deflected many with a flaming spear then ran forward. Angel pulled her arm back at an angle then shot it forward, an orange lightning bolt shot out of the shield and struck her great-grandfather in the chest, she held her arm there for a few seconds then flung it forward, DuruVile flew back into his camp, he bounced twice before coming to a stop near his firstborn son. Triskull and Dara Dara started attacking the shield, they were driven back each time they touched the shield, Angel handed Azura her baby then ran out of the shield.
"I'll make you two into toothpicks!" Angel exclaimed.
Angel swung her sword and Dara Dara screamed, Angel had caught her unprepared and had cut into her legs. Angel swung her sword again and caught her aunt in the side then again on her arm. After Dara Dara fell Angel turned her attention to Triskull who had just withdrawn his sword. Dara Dara started cheering for her brother who was giving all he could in the fight against her niece the second she saw Angel walk towards him. Angel twirled around, keeping the sword close to her and catching Triskull's own dark blue bladed sword with the full gold handle that had two rubies on the guards each time. She leaped above her uncle and swung, when he met her sword she started swinging like made, she drove him back against the shield then back into his camp. She made her sword become enveloped in flames and started putting an oomph to her swings, she swung like a ballerina but she swung her sword like a heavy-weight boxer. Triskull was completely surprised by her swings and felt her sword dig into his flesh several times. When Angel had him pinned against DuruVile's ship she curled her lips back into a snarl and dropped her sword, she changed form into a Velociraptor and leaped forward. She dug her sickle claws into his thighs and chomped her teeth down on his shoulders and chest. With a ripping tear she pulled her head back, Triskull dropped to his stomach, a large chunk of his shoulder had been torn off, his green colored blood spurted out from his injured shoulder, chest and thighs quickly.
Angel took two steps after finishing her uncle off then turned and faced her grandmother who was rushing at her. Angel dodged the sonic and atomic blasts and streams which where thrown at her then leaped high. She landed behind Irka and turn quickly, she grabbed Irka's light blue crystalized hair then pulled back. Irka was pulled off of her feet and slid across the sand for a few seconds shrieking in fright. Angel released her grandmother after she had dragged her a few feet then she pounced on her, transforming all the while into a Tiger. She grabbed Irka on the ribs and started swinging her from side to side. When she released her grandmother it was only because she was being attacked by Cyla. She charged over and leaped up at her great-grandmother quickly. Her jaws clamped around Cyla's arm and she pulled back hard. Cyla was pulled from her feet, the second she was on the ground Angel started shredding her arm to pieces.
Angel saw that DuruVile had gotten up to his elbows and she walked over. He swung his fist at her then tried to grab her, she swiped her claws at him, they caught against his chest. He was breathing hard, his eyes were full of deep anger and they were still full of fight. With a roar she lunged forward and grabbed him by the ear. He shrieked as she bit down hard, he shrieked even more when she started pulling to the left and right. When she released her great-grandfather's ear he shoved her back. She laughed and came back, she changed back to her true form and got on one knee. She looked him deep in the eyes, his glowing green eyes with the yellow pupils glared hotly into her emerald-green eyes with the golden-yellow ring around the black pupils.
"You'd better tell that betraying secondborn of yours to watch out!" Angel said angrily to her great-grandfather. "Because I'm coming for him next. You fucked with the wrong mother, pal."
"I'll keep that in mind," DuruVile said angrily at her. "this won't be the last we meet, young lady. You caught us off guard this time, next time you won't be so lucky."
Angel walked off, she stopped only long enough to retrieve her sword then continued on, when she got back to Azura she turned around. Cyla was running to her husband, Irka was crawling over to Triskull frantically. Dara Dara was pulling herself back, Rita and Rito were on their knees shaking their heads. Master Vile and KurukVile were still lying in the sand, both were breathing, and both were badly injured. DuruVile slid himself back and started shaking his firstborn, Angel heard him calling out to his son, asking if he was alright. Angel nodded her head, she had come to make a point and she had made it. Just as she entered the orange shield that Azura was still in with her son her father and grandfather's servants ran out from their employers ships and started going from one fallen being to the next. She and Azura teleported to Dione's castle just as Irka started screaming in terror after she reached her youngest son, who had moved to lying on his side, and had taken in his injuries.
Azura collapsed the second she was back in her great-grandmother's castle, Perniceie ran to her and helped her to her feet then helped her to her bedroom chamber. Angel followed for a short distance then Dione grabbed her arm and told her to leave Perniceie be with her daughter, Angel nodded her head and followed Dione down the hallway. Dione led Angel to the medical room and instructed Angel to place Bile on the table so she could check him. The medical room didn't have much in it, there was a row of cabinets around the room, a table that had a white surface, the floor was blue marble and the ceiling was dark blue, dark gray clouds floated around on it. Dione checked Bile's temperature, which was slightly high, then checked his heart beat. Angel became very concerned when she was told that Bile's heart was beating a bit faster than usual. Dione took a sample of blood from him and tested it, the test came down saying that he was dehydrated. While Dione went to get some medicine for her baby Angel changed his diaper, she found that he had a bad case of diarrhea. After she changed his diaper she held him and turned to Dione, she pulled back at once when she saw that her great-great grandmother had a set of syringes with her.
"What are those?" Angel asked, she was concerned.
"Inoculants," Dione answered. "you're milk is doing well but he still needs to be inoculated."
"He has diarrhea." Angel said.
"What color?" Dione asked, she looked up sharply.
"Green." Angel answered.
"Caused by lack of food," Dione nodded her head. "Is he solely on breast milk?"
"Yes,"
"You need to start him on some soft foods," Dione said. "breast milk is good to give him, but he's... how old is he now?"
"Three months, two weeks and eight days." Angel replied.
"He needs to be started on soft foods now." Dione said. "He's a bit stunted, but after some mushy food and a good nights rest he will be fine. Bet it feels like forever ago since you gave birth."
"It does," Angel said.
Bile wasn't very happy about being poked with the needles, Angel had to hold onto him tight as he started wiggling around after the first shot was given. Angel had never been given her inoculations when she was a baby, when she had been born an infant had to rely fully on its immune system and its parents to survive. In 1796 the first inoculant was for Small Pox and it took just under a hundred years before more were made, Cholera in 1879, Rabies in 1885, Tetanus in 1890, Typhoid fever in 1896 and Bubonic plague in 1897 all followed. The ones that were mainly given out were DTaP, a combination of Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis, Hib, the innoculant for Haemophilus influenza type b, PCV, which was Pneumococcal disease, Polio and Rotavirus along with Hepatitus A and B, Measels, Mumps and Rubella and Varicella, or better known as Chicken Pox. All of these were very important for the health of a baby and Angel didn't mind at all that Dione was giving her son the inoculants, she was glad actually. It meant her son would be more healthy. In total, Dione had five syringes with her, Bile cried and tried to wiggle out of her arms every time Dione inoculated him.
"I'm glad to see you're still a squirmy monkey!" Angel snickered.
"He'll be grumpy for a short while but he'll be fine." Dione said.
"Dione," Angel shifted her son in her arms gently.
"Yes,"
"How long did it take Pern and Azura to go from infant to toddler?" Angel asked.
"Best prepare yourself for a long stay of baby duty," Dione answered. "Azura matured a little faster than her mother due to her being a hybrid, but it still took her fifty years before getting the appearance of a toddler. Pern, now she took a hundred."
"Is it the magic that slows the growth?" Angel asked. "Or is it something else?"
"I never really asked that myself, so I can't really answer that." Dione sighed.
Azura's injuries were pretty bad, she had a hole in her side which Perniceie patched up and a gash on the side of her head, her ribs were badly cracked and she was terribly tired. There was no way that she could assist Angel in going to visit TazirVile and teach him a lesson on who to not betray. Dione, before Angel could ask, said she couldn't go, she was worried about her granddaughter and wanted to stick around to help her, Perniceie said the same which left Angel as the sole person going to visit her great-uncle. She teleported back to Atlas' stronghold and took him to his bedroom chamber, she placed him in his baby crib slowly then went to see Atlas. She was careful when she entered his bedroom chamber, she saw that he was resting with Selma layed across his chest, when he saw her he motioned for her to come forward. Angel sat down beside Atlas and started running her hand through his hair, he laughed lightly and pulled his head away after she had messed his hair up a bit.
"I'm heading to Brazil," Angel said in a whisper. "can you take care of Bile until I get back?"
"He bahk?" Atlas asked, he gently moved Selma off of him. "Yeh stee heh, yeh no go anywheh."
"Yes, Bile's back." Angel replied. "He's dehydrated and has diarrhea, needs some mushy food now in his diet." Angel then stood up. "I'll be back in an hour"
"Yeh stee heh!" Atlas grabbed her arm. "I no like yeh goin' to dat place, yeh stee heh!"
"Atlas, I will be back." Angel shook his hand off of her then walked off. "I promise, an hour, no more."
Atlas got up from his bed and followed Angel out of his bedroom chamber, he insisted that she not go anywhere, he even threatened he was going to lock her up in his bedroom if she left the palace. Angel didn't listen, she walked on, when she got to just outside of the palace Atlas charged at her and grabbed her up. He carried her back in and pushed her up against the wall. Angel struggled for a few seconds then she wrapped her arms around Atlas' body. Atlas hugged her back and kissed her neck a few times, Angel felt that funny feeling again. She felt like she didn't want to leave Atlas, his hug was so full of love and comfort and he gave her such a comforting feeling that she near caved and went back to her room. After a few minutes she wriggled out of his arms and stood before him, he looked at her for a short while then sighed.
"I's skeerd I lose yeh agin, Angel." Atlas admitted.
"You won't, I'll be back before you know it." Angel replied. "Where's Hannibal?"
"I no no." Atlas said. "Why?"
"You're needed here to take care of Selma, I'd like for Hannibal to come with me."
Atlas took to his heels and was gone for a few minutes, when he returned his had his oldest son with him. There was a new light in his eyes, like he had won a small battle. Hannibal had his sword with him, he was wearing a white robe, a thin belt was around his waist, hanging from the belt was his sword and a knife. Along with the robe, Hannibal was also wearing a dark blue wool-like jacket and a pair of light brown sandals. When they got to Angel Hannibal placed his hand on her shoulder, she saw the glint of gold around his wrist. She also noticed that he had a broad blue beaded necklace around his neck, it ran all the way down to the top of his chest. The beads on the necklace were teal and aqua.
"Yeh wahtch her good!" Atlas said sternly to his son, he pointed at Angel once then dropped his hand. "No take yeh ees off of her!"
"I won't, pop." Hannibal bowed respectfully.
Angel led Hannibal out of the palace, she looked back only once to see that Atlas had turned and was heading back to his bedroom chamber. Hannibal was quiet for a few seconds then when they had gone past a set of market buildings he grabbed her and pulled her to the side. He reached into his jacket and took out a knife which was rather pretty. The blade had a groove in the center and was a light yellow, the handle was blue and gold striped, in the center of the handle was the Eye of Horus. Angel took the knife carefully and slid it into her pocket, the handle stuck out prominently. After she placed the knife in her pocket she grabbed Hannibal's arm and teleported. They appeared behind a very lust and overgrown part of jungle a few steps away from TazirVile's ship. Angel allowed for Hannibal to get control of himself, he was breathing hard and was leaning heavily against a tree. While Hannibal was getting control of himself Angel pushed a branch out of the way and looked out, she stared out in disbelief. There were five or six butlers and three maids out in TazirVile's camp, right dead in the center of her great-uncle's camp was a woman that she guessed was either related to her great-uncle or someone he was dating, she wasn't sure. She dug into her pants pocket and took out the vial of Transmorphic Copier potion.
"See how there are small animals running around in their camp?" Angel asked Hannibal.
"Yes,"
"Drink this," Angel handed Hannibal the vial. "it's a transmorphic potion, whatever form I change into, you will as well. We can both enter the ship and get Eshal."
"I'm not comfortable drinking that." Hannibal said, he remembered well the potion he had to drink when he reached thirty years of age, not the best of tasting stuff.
"I'm not comfortable leaving you here." Angel said. "Come on, it'll taste bad but it had no effects to it."
Hannibal took the potion slowly, he fiddled with the glass topper then yanked it off and down the potion in one clean swallow. He coughed and gagged after it was down, when he handed the vial back to Angel she simply grabbed it and tossed it behind them. Right before his eyes she transformed into a Golden lion Tamarin with very fiery red hair, he felt himself changing instantly and when he raised his hands he saw that they were not his own, they were of the animal that Angel had transformed into. He looked at Angel and nodded his head, he followed her into the camp slowly. None of the butlers, the maids or the strange being in the center of the camp noticed their march or even batted an eyelash at them walking through. When Angel reached the ship she looked back once then went in, Hannibal followed behind her.
This was utterly embarrassing! He had teleported back to his ship after his father had ordered him to do so and had medicated himself the best he could, the medical table had done all that it could to heal the wound to his thigh but it had stopped in mid-stitch forcing him to finish fixing himself up. The wound on his chest from where he great-niece had used a water sword on him was smarting him badly, he had applied the best medication he had on his ship to the wound and although it had closed up he was still experiencing some pains. He had not any intention of returning to Egypt, to the camp his father was in, as soon as he had medicated and fixed himself up he had moved his ship to the Veu de Noiva waterfall in Chapada dos Guimaraes, he had done some looking up of South America the past few weeks and liked the place a lot, the second he had touched his ship down near the falls he had put up the force field. He had clicked off his communicator and had tossed it and his locator on his dresser. All throughout him medicating his wounds and moving his ship he was experiencing a fit of both shame and anger. He had not meant for Angel or her son to be caught, he had intended to wake up and teleport the woman to the gray-haired man named Atlas then come back and retrieve Angel and her son before Angel even noticed that the woman named Selma was gone, he had not intended on being found by his father, brother and nephew. When he had woke up he had gone off for a quick bath, as he always did after he woke up only this time very needed due to his having a nocturnal emission sometime during the night, and during so he had not been paying attention to what was going on behind him. When he turned after finishing his bath he had found Angel up and about, she had just entered the water and was swimming around like one of the aquatic animals that the humans called a Dolphin, her movements had intrigued him and he had watched, at least until she had noticed him and started throwing water at him.
That had been fun, he had thrown water back at her then had started imitating her as she started sending water bullets and ice bullets at him. He had grabbed his underpants and slid them on then had gone to her and asked if she could teach him how to do them moves, which she had said she'd gladly do. He felt anger towards himself for not keeping his guard up when he had left his family's camp two weeks ago, his brother had walked up to him and he had thought he'd felt him slap his ass but he had not checked. He had gone by his business without even checking to see if anything was on him that was a tracking device. His anger carried over to his father and nephew for this deception, a man needed time to himself and for him he was plain staying away from his family because he was disgusted by all of them. He had not meant to slap Angel and make her attack him, he had seen his nephew appear first and had panicked, his hand had gotten a mind of its own and he had slapped his great-niece hard. He forgave her for the attack, he'd of done the same thing if something like that had happened to him, and he also forgave her for ratting him out on keeping her captive in his house. He had had to act fast on that one to keep her silent on his secret, he didn't want it out in the open. His panicking mind had caused a lot of trouble, his great-niece attacking and injuring him and then her ratting him out. He put full blame on his family, things were doing well before they had come into the picture that morning which seemed already so long ago but was only eight aways behind him.
The embarrassing part wasn't having her defend him, take up and distract his father from attacking him while he had been down. The embarrassing part had come later, after he had set his ship down and instructed his staff to start clearing the area he had been called into his ship by one of his butlers who had stayed inside. His mother, for the past few weeks, had really been trying to get in contact with him and this time she was serious, he had gotten to the phone just as the last ring had come through. He had apologized for being so scarce, he did like talking with his mother and telling her the happenings of his life, and he had explained that his reason for being so scarce was because he was extremely busy, of which he was. His mother had stayed quiet throughout his blabbering and then, after he had finished talking, she had started in, she had given him no warning or any chance to explain himself, she had just given him a piece of her mind.
"Tazzy, I've been trying to get in contact with you for a month now and each time you have not answered." his mother had said. "I am very concerned for you, especially since that father of yours is back in the picture."
"Things have been fine between me and dad." he had lied. "Getting along like we should."
"You don't lie very well, honey." his mother had said. "Has your father been hurting you? If he has you better tell me. I'm your mother, I need to know."
"No Mother." he had answered nervously. "Besides the slap on the back of the shoulders and head, he hasn't touched me."
"So if I came over to where you are at and checked you out I'd find not a thing amiss?" his mother had said, he had started looking all around at that moment, completely nervous. "Not a bruise, scar or scratch on that body of yours."
His stammering had caused her to hang up the phone, she had teleported to the center of his camp with his younger sister, Qeeta, soon after demanding where he was. He had done quite a bit of swallowing and loosening of the collar of his shirt before exiting his ship, when he his mother had seen him she had ran up and pushed him back into his ship. She had asked him again if there was any marks on him from his father and he had told her that there was no marks on his body at all, a big fat lie. She hadn't believed him and had dragged him to his bedroom chamber on his ship, once inside she had started pulling at him clothes, he had tried to keep out of her reach but she was insistent. A mother's worry can make a woman physically stronger, that was the saying and when she had pinned him against the baseboard of his bed that had proven true. She had ripped his jacket and shirt off then had seen the bruises on his stomach, he had rubbed make-up over the bruises on his face after she had hung up the phone and when the make-up smudged she noticed, she wiped all the make-up off of him and then pulled him to the side. One look was all it took for her to push away from him.
"I don't know who's more of an idiot, that father of yours or you." she said to him in utter disbelief. "Him for hurting you the way he is or you for allowing it to happen."
"I'm not allowing it to happen, I do fight some." TazirVile had lied, in truth he had not raised a finger to defend himself.
"You lie!" his mother had exclaimed. "If you did you wouldn't be like this! You are a walking scar factory, Tazzy! Just one look at your back and arms is enough to convince anyone that you've been throughly messed up!"
"I'm a survivor, that's what my scars show." TazirVile had yelled out. "My scars show that I live and not all of them are by my father, some are from battle and others are from..."
"A majority are though, Son!" his mother had turned and given him such a look he had sat on his bed. "I bet your legs are just as bad as your back and arms."
"M-m-maybe a new scar here and there." TazirVile had admitted, there was no getting around his mother, she knew when he lied.
His mother sat down slowly beside him, he felt her poke at him with her fingers and he let her, he had a gray flexible wrap-around bandage around his chest which she was interested about. Before he could stop her, she started unwrapping the bandage from around his chest. She peered at the new scars and the new wounds he had received from his father's whip, sword and knife, when she looked at his front and saw the slashing wounds he had gotten from Angel and the one long wound he had gotten from his father's whip that was just starting to heal. She looked at the hot poker wounds then turned away, the hot poker wounds were right bad still and they were still badly bruised. She asked him to stand up and he did, he let her examine his lower body, there weren't many new wounds on his legs, there was the thigh injury but that wasn't from his father.
"I fought a lot for you to be sent to schools where you would get the best education outside of being evil, I'm very disappointed in you for allowing this to happen to you still." his mother had said. "Why are you still allowing that brute to be around you? There's no shame in staying away from him, he shows you no love at all. Or respect for that matter."
"He's my father." he had answered quickly.
"So what!" his mother had exclaimed. "When that girl came by my house and told me that you was still being badly treated by that horrid man I nearly didn't believe her, I'm glad I did and I do wish I would have come sooner."
"What girl?" he had asked, suddenly alarmed.
He had gone and put on a slate gray tuxedo, a light gray vest with gray ties and a white shirt and had changed his shoes to match the suit all the while listening to his mother tell him how his great-niece had gone to her house on Zeta Ren to ask her about him and how his father had been when he had been a child. He was very alarmed by this, if not for his strange feelings of connectiveness to his great-niece he would have felt offended that she had gone to his mother for such information. When he had finished redressing himself he sat beside his mother, she had stopped gone quiet, his shirt was over her lap and she was running her fingers over the faint blood trails in it.
"It's not just me that's concerned for you, sweetheart." his mother suddenly said. "My part of the family is, your sister is, your neighbor, Gloar, and obviously so is that girl. We're all very concerned about you."
"Or at least she was, after what just happened..."
He had told her everything, how he had captured her and kept her captive him his house for near three weeks, had asked her to train him in his newly acquired elemental powers, he lit the palm of his hand on fire to show his mother what he was saying was true, he told her how he had sparred with her and how she had escaped and come back to Earth, the chase through the desert in Egypt and how she had injured his brother and where his father had threatened to break his ribs if he didn't continue chasing her. He stopped momentarily to take a sip of water then went on to telling his mother about what had happened over the past two weeks, of him following his great-niece who had been shoved around by a man who his brother had used Marionous on to make him take his great-niece, and another woman, to a location where she'd be vulnerable so she could be captured and how he had chased the man off the night before and had taken both his great-niece and the woman in. He told her about his nocturnal emission, about how connected he felt to his great-niece and how whenever she had pains they'd go away when he touched her and then he told his mother about how she had even had the pains around him.
"I'll get to the part that confuses you in a bit," his mother said after he had finished talking. "you said your brother used his Marionous power to control a man to bring your great-niece out in the open and an innocent woman as well?"
"Yes," he replied.
"Kuruk was always one to use boldness and not think of the consequences of his actions." his mother sighed. "uses brawn over brain, and he raised his own children to be that way. I know, his son wouldn't be the way he is with his conquerings if his father didn't raise him that way. And, sadly, he wouldn't have raised his children that way if he, himself, had not been raised that way."
"Vile didn't raise his kids like that though." he had said, it was true, Rita and Rito had been allowed to be children for a while before their father had started up on their evil education and even though both had their issues, his nephew never beat them. He chided them from time to time and he did demand respect, but he never struck them.
"That's because Vile was smart, he didn't want his children to go through what he did. I will give him that, he cares and loves his children, he was never one to create then terrorize." his mother had said.
"I don't think Kuruk terrorized his children, he does seem to love and care for all three of them." he had said. "He was tough on them, but I don't think he terrorized them."
"Maybe not, I know he didn't let them have a chance to experience a childhood. Just like your father did with you. A child needs to have time to him or herself, a child needs to run around and play. Get cuts, scrapes and bruises, cry a little, get in trouble, get into hobbies and have fun. Not just be made then hop right into education and training." his mother had said.
"I agree with you there, that's why I am the way I am with Eshal." he had said. "Did I ever tell you that Cyla, when she moved in, really got on my daughter for leaving her toys on the floor and not making her bed?"
"Eshal is a toddler, she has that right to leave her toys lying about and to not make her bed." his mother had said. "She won't understand any of the picking up of her toys or making her bed or eating her greens or even not having a tantrum because she isn't getting sweets until she's around five or six hundred years old."
"That's what I said." he had nodded his head. "Cyla, though, claimed I was spoiling her and raising her wrong."
"Are you?" his mother had asked him.
"Hell no!" he had exclaimed.
Angel and Hannibal slowly made their way down the hallway that had purple rugs, light brown walls and bats hanging lifelessly in picture frames. TazirVile, Angel thought, must be real found of bats because even in his mansion he had framed lifeless bats hanging on his walls. She shuddered at the thought of what horrors the bats went through in their final hour of life, she felt for them. They went down the hallway looking inside each and every door that they passed, looking for Eshal. When Angel came to the room that's door was slightly ajar she peeked in slowly, the door opened on its own and she saw her great-uncle sitting on his bed with his mother, Ashaklar seated right beside him. When the door opened a little Ashaklar had looked up, she was now getting up from the bed and walking over, Angel leaped up and grabbed the bar just above her that had a burgundy banner with the design of fangs on it, Hannibal leaped and caught the bar just before Ashaklar opened the door and looked out. Angel thought that Ashaklar would go back in and close the door behind her, she didn't, she turned and went back into the room without closing the door.
"Now, I'll help you on this other issue you are facing with your niece." Ashaklar's voice reached Angel's ears. "You says she had experienced that pains near you and that when you touch her they go away?"
"Yes," TazirVile's voiced carried over.
"Is she still showing the pains for her father?" Ashaklar asked.
"Yes,"
"Well then it's very obvious that she is also your mate." Ashaklar said.
"Can't be, that's impossible!" TazirVile exclaimed, Angel could tell he was in denial. "She's my nephew's mate, not mine."
"She's experiencing the pains for both you and her father, her pains have gone away when both of you touch her, you have experienced night dreams. It's obvious, honey, she's your mate." Ashaklar said.
"Then how do I explain the way I feel about her?" TazirVile asked, Angel was now really tuning in. "I feel... such a connection to her, I feel so intrigued by her... I don't know, I just feel drawn in by her."
"You two have so much in common, that's one reason." Ashaklar said to her son. "The other is because you're falling in love with her, it's natural. Perfectly natural."
"I don't think I can share her with my nephew." TazirVile sighed. "I don't even think I believe she's my mate."
"Well, if you still have your doubts then why not go to the Temple and ask the Universal Gods yourself what's going on." Ashaklar said. "They'll answer any questions you have."
"I-I'll think it over." TazirVile said. "You staying for a while or are you heading out?"
"I think I and Qeeta will stay for supper." Ashaklar said. "You make sure to stay in contact, no more of this hard to get in contact with young man."
Angel quickly leaped over to the other side of the door frame, Hannibal followed, he was still clumsy in the form he was in, he didn't land on his feet and his tail slapped against the door frame. Angel poked him in the shoulder then turned and ran off, she continued her search for Eshal, Hannibal got to his feet fast and followed. When Angel turned around a corner she grabbed Hannibal and threw him to the wall, she looked around the corner and saw that no one had followed them, Ashaklar and TazirVile were still talking in TazirVile's bedroom chamber, she pulled back around the corner and released Hannibal. Hannibal had a light sandy blond coat and deep brown eyes, the hair around his head looked like a Lion's mane and it was thick, so thick it almost made him look like he had both an afro and a beard at the same time.
"Don't you just love how one can misunderstand kindness?" Angel asked Hannibal. "Help him learn elemental powers and bam, he gets all heart soft."
"Your father's side of the family is a weird one." Hannibal replied, he sat down and scratched behind his ear with his hind leg. "Can we get this done please, I feel bugs on me."
"Yuck! Lets go."
They found Eshal's bedroom chamber on the ship, it was five doors down on the hallway that they had turned on. Eshal's bedroom was like the typical bedroom chamber of a little girl, she had a single bed with a spiral head and baseboard painted pink lavender, the blanket on the bed was checkered pink and purple while the sheets were plain purple. She had five pillows, one small pillow, two throw pillows and two normal sized pillows, on the bed, all with purple floral pillow cases. There was a deep purple dresser off to one side of the bed with a bedside table on it of flowers, a China Doll was right beside the lamp, and there was a large oval mirror in the room that had gold and purple leaves around on the frame. A toy chest bulging with toys sat at the end of the bed, there were normal and alien-looking dolls sitting on the toy chest that had dresses on them. Eshal was sleeping soundly in her bed, she never noticed when Angel changed to her true form or when Hannibal resumed his true form, she went on sleeping. Angel gently pulled the blanket and sheets back and picked Eshal up, she grabbed two of the little girls dolls then turned and nodded her head. Hannibal walked up to her and grabbed her arm, she teleported them out of TazirVile's ship back to Atlas' stronghold in the Crystal Mountains. Once there Angel carried Eshal, who was still sleeping, into Atlas' palace.
"Don't worry, the potion is now voided out." Angel said when she saw Hannibal check himself out in a the mirror in her room. "Can only be activated after the transformer, that's me, changes into something she, or he, isn't and doesn't go back to his or her true, birth, form. Now that I've changed back to my true form, you've resumed yours."
"That's good." Hannibal said in relief. "And no more biting insects on me, they were driving me crazy."
"Don't you mean bananas Monkey-Boy?" Angel snickered.
"So, now what?" Hannibal asked.
"Now we wait, I'll return Eshal in a few days." Angel replied. "She'll stay in my chamber until then." Angel handed Hannibal his knife when she stopped in front of her bedroom chamber's door. "Thank you."
"Don't mention it."