AN: Okay… I put various stuff into this chapter…. I hope you like it…
Chapter 28:
The next morning everybody woke up early. They only eat a very fast breakfast which was toast with Nutella (AN: Nutella…. Nut-nugat-creame… So yummy…). The atmosphere was not really the best because the scene from yesterday wasn't forgotten yet. Chrono and Rosette tried hardly to explain to Azmaria that they weren't doing anything which had something to do with adult themes. Unfortunately it didn't work and Azmaria still grinned at them.
"We didn't do anything! Really!!" Chrono protested again and hit the table with his fist.
"Of caaaaaaaaaaauuuuuse you didn't." The albino laughed, making her long hair fall into her face.
"Oh God… This is so embarrassing." Rosette banged her head onto the table. "Arguing with twelve years old about this sort of topic…"
The conversation about that took more than one more hour, but finally they gave it up. Now two more important questions had to be answered. At first how did they come to San Francisco and second where could they stay over night when they were there?
"Hey, Sathella Harvenheit lives there. I know her and perhaps I could ask her." The blonde suggested.
"Okay, can you call her? In this time we can talk about the transport." Chrono proposed.
"Alright then." The girl dialled the number and waited until the tut-tut stopped and someone picked up. Finally a male voice greeted her.
"Harvenheit Concern for Jewellery and Antiques, hello?" The voice sounded old, Rosette guessed that it was the butler.
"Yeah hello. Here speaks Rosette Christopher. I'd like to talk to Sathella." She asked politely.
"As you wish, please wait a moment." A little crack was heard and suddenly female voice spoke.
"Hello? What can I do for you?" Sathella said in her strong German accent.
"Hi, Sathella. It's me, Rosette. I would like to ask you favour." Actually Rosette didn't really like her but in this case she was the only person in San Francisco who could help them.
"What da ya want?" The woman asked surprised.
"Well, a man named Aion kidnapped my brother Joshua. We've received a message that he's in San Francisco. Could we come to your place for a while so we can look for him?"
"WHAT? You're coming to here? NOW? But there are demons everywhere!! Where are you anyways?" She shouted into the phone.
"At the moment father and Sharon are at home in Clemrich and we're in Denver…"
"WHAT?! Do your parents even know where you are? And who is "we"?"
"Ehm… actually they don't know… But please don't tell them!! And "we" means Chrono and I…"
"So you're running away with your boyfriend?"
"HELL NO! He isn't my boyfriend!! Anyways we come to our place, okay? Yeah? Bye!"
"But -!" Before Sathella was able to start arguing Rosette had hung up.
Meanwhile Chrono and Azmaria had found the perfect transport. – A helicopter. Yeah right, a helicopter. Mr Hendric had really earned a lot of money, so he could buy that….
"Wow!!" Rosette stunned as Azmaria led her to the starting point.
"Chrono stood already next to it with some luggage. "Great, isn't it? Your and my stuff is already here. We can start as soon as everything is in the helicopter."
"Uhm,… can I… could I perhaps come with you? I don't want to stay here alone…" Azzy shyly asked.
"Well, I don't know… it can be dangerous…" The boy guessed.
"I can take care of myself!! I won't be in your way!! Please!!" She repeated the 'please' part some more times and the two teenagers gave up. She could come with them if she really wanted to.
Azmaria hurried up into her room which was in the highest storey to get her stuff. The room looked a little bit childish and in some shelves were some dolls or teddies. Actually it was supposed to be redecorated this year because she was older now and didn't need all the stuff anymore. On her bed was a big pale pink bag in which she had put her stuff yesterday evening. Suddenly the girl could feel a soft summer breath coming from one of the two windows.
"I thought that I've closed it… I can't even remember that I opened it." She mumbled to herself and walked towards the window. Then she looked outside. From this point she was able to see some parts of the roof and the huge garden behind the house. At the moment the roses into it looked wonderful. All of a sudden the face of a man appeared in front of her. He was tall and had a lot of muscles.
"AHHH!" The albino screamed and backed up quickly away. But she landed directly in the arms of a woman with short hair. The woman hugged her tightly with the words "Such a cute kid!! Kitty likes you!! – Don't scare the poor thing like this, Vide! – Did he scare you, did he? Oh, I wanna hug!!" She chirped with a shrill annoying voice.
How were these people? What did they do in Azmaria's room? What did they want from her?! She had asked, but at the moment the kid wasn't able to speak because she nearly choked on the woman's hug.
"Sheda! Let her go! Don't you see that her face is all blue?!" The man called Vide climbed through the window. Immediately Sheda let the girl go who sunk heavily breathing onto her knees.
"What… do… you… want… ?" She asked puffed.
"Aion want you to be part of the ceremony and the Oratorio." Sheda said in her sing-sang. Were these cat ears and a tail? Okay, these people were weird.
"But – but you can't come into my room! I don't even know who you are!" Azmaria stuttered unable to do something else. She knew she should scream but her voice didn't want to.
"Oh yeah, we can. And you're going with us." Sheda said and gave Vide a signal. He easily lifted Azmaria up and held her in his arms in a way she couldn't free herself.
"NO!! LET ME GO!! LET ME GO!! HELP!! HELP!! CHRONO! ROSETTE! ANYONE!! AHHHHHHHHH!!" She began to scream as loud as she could.
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"Did you hear that?" Chrono stopped in his movement and listened carefully.
"Hear what?" Rosette stopped putting the suitcases into the helicopter as well.
"Pst! It sounded like Azmaria is screaming."
"Why should she scream?"
"PST!!"
A quiet sound of a voice was heard. It really came from the direction Azmaria had gone to. Quickly the teenagers ran upstairs to look why she was screaming. Azmaria wasn't the kind of child who screamed for everything or only because she was kidding. If she screamed it had to be serious.
They arrived at her room and slammed the door open. A soft breath came from the window and the curtains were fluttering in the wind. But here was no trace of Azmaria. Only a letter lay was pinned on the wall. Chrono took it and began to read. It said:
Dear Mary Magdalene, dear brother,
I'm still awaiting you in San Francisco. I would be very pleased if you would come soon; the right time arrives soon. I want you to be part of the ceremony and the Oratorio. Your little friends Joshua and Azmaria have already joined our little party. I'm sure you'll join us, too. Sooner or later; I would prefer sooner.
See ya
Aion
"He kidnapped Azmaria!!" Rosette stared on the letter. At first her brother and now the little girl! What role did they play in the whole situation? It had to have a special reason why Aion had chosen both. What was he planning now?
"We've to hurry up. Let's go. Immediately." Chrono pulled on Rosette's arm and they ran back to the helicopter.
AN: So…. That was chapter 28 (I've never really thought that I would write so much XD) So… Please comment…
