1AN: Hi all, New chapter. Fun fun!
Disclaimer: this is...what? The twentyith something chapter? I don't own it already!
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It was an exciting trip. Not.
We had to stop for five bathroom breaks. And let me tell you, it's not easy finding a bush big enough for a girl to do her business behind. Especially when you've got a pervert vampire trying to "Check up on you". If I'd had a flamethrower, or a lighter, a MATCH even-I would've singed his wandering claws sooooo badly! Of course Raine was to busy fawning over Raz to be much help...okay, so I'm being a little bitter, if it were Kain who was injured, I'd probably be a little useless too.
But I digress.
Termogent forest.
Smelly, dark, dank, depressing...Perfect place for Vampires.
Except for one little problem.
"Run!" Raine and I were left behind as the vampires sprinted into the mansion. And not a moment to soon, the thunder rumbled once more, and the dark clouds that had been following us unleashed a deluge. I pushed myself up from where Faustus had dropped me before he'd 'Jumped' to the door.
For a moment we both just stood there.
"Well. This feels familiar." I blinked, she was right, this felt eerily like...
"You mean we were here when we first showed up?" She shrugged, undoing her braid.
"I'm not saying we were right here, but nearby maybe?" I nodded mussing my own hair to let the water wash away the mud and soot and god only knows what else.
"Probably. Damn, thats kinda creepy." Then I noticed something else. Our clothes were still dry. Thinking about it, which took much longer than it should have, I realized that the rest of me was actually clean.
"Raine, I think Bianca might be alive." It took her a moment to remember who I was talking about.
"You mean the mage Alexis told us put spells on the clothes?" I nodded.
"I mean, 'cause the spells are still working, that mean's she's probably alive right? Which means that the others might be alive to!" It was a nice thought.
"But where are they then?" See? Thats why Raine is the brains, and I am the Random trivia container.
"Uh..."
"If you two are done dawdling." Vorador's voice was like ice cubes...with bugs in 'em. Yeah, that bad. His mansion was slightly better. Lush carpets, rich tapestries and gorgeous statues...that had glowing eyes.
"Hey, Vorador, these thing's aren't going to attack us are they?" His smile was surprisingly shark-like.
"Only if you try to go somewhere you shouldn't."
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We arrived in the middle of a rather heated debate.
"As the Guardian of Balance, Kain should be our first priority." Leave it to Janos to be thinking of the pillars.
"But the sarafan are gathering their army in Meridian, we should build up our own forces." It was a good idea, which was odd coming from Faustus.
"Only if we want them to know we have informants among them!" Leave it to Zephon to be as confrontational as possible.
"I say we should wait and see what happens." Markus, always so...cautious.
"While they have Lord Kain captive?!" Magnus brought up a good point. If the Sarafan did indeed have Kain, the results could be disastrous
"We have NO evidence that Lord Kain is in their hands. For now we should wait, and watch."
"You doubt me? I SAW the Sarafan take him!" I hate to say it, but Raziel wasn't looking to good. He was kinda yellow and splotchy, but he was sitting up on his own, which indicated at least some amount of healing had taken place.
"I do not doubt your eyes so much as your conviction. There are many mercenary groups who would not hesitate to trap one of our kind. We cannot proceed until we have all the facts." As much as I hated to agree with Vorador he was right. Rushing in without looking at the situation from all sides was just as stupid as trying to sneak past a hungry vampire on your period...not that I'd know anything about THAT right? Eh heh...Then...I had a plan, a stupid plan, a really dumb ass almost suicidal plan, but a plan nonetheless.
"But if the Sarafan WERE holding him, where do you suppose they'd keep him?"
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Yeah let's not go over what happened after that. It was loud, confrontational and rather accusatory and ended up with me being locked in a library on the second floor. Which believe it or not was where I'd wanted to be. It was the library that looked out to Avernus Cathedral, and I had a hunch that the Sarafan would have taken him there.
After all Mortanius had been Mobius's pawn in the beginning, he wouldn't expect the betrayal. Raine, being the fantastically smart woman that she is had caught on immediately and had yelled through the door that if I left that room and there were dire consequences, she would NOT be responsible. Now to anyone else it would have been an angry friend not making sense. But to a geeky twisted girl like me it was her way of saying 'Be Safe'.
Vampires as a species are arrogant creatures. They'd locked me in a second floor room, but left the windows open. Why? Because I'm human. I can garuntee you they'd have locked them if I were a vampire. So, using all of my courage and quite a bit of hutzpah that I didn't have, I jumped out the window.
On to a tree.
Of course the distance between the forest and the cathedral looks pretty small on a map, but off the map, it's a hella difficult walk. But hey, I was determined, and I knew vaguely where I was going.
Hey! It was enough for Prince Charming yeah?
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AN: I know I promised more but College is killing me. Along with this smog induced cold. So please, I beg patience, and reviews. The next chapter is one sixth of the way done. Again thanks to ASR.
