The Cloud in the Night

by Punk19

Master Vile and his uncle have been fighting a lot and it's making Master Vile's daughter, who just gave birth to her second child and getting over a serious infection afterwards, very annoyed. She heads back to Earth with her children, will Master Vile learn to leave his daughter be or will he continue with his fighting and temper and push her further away from him?

37. Chapter 37

KurukVile, obviously, had been raised around dogs and cats during his youth and turned out to be perfectly fine with his mother having two cats, one her own while the other being her husband's and his father's, and her husband's dog at his residence. The next two days at KurukVile's fortress home went well, everyone got along, there were a few tiffs which were mostly caused from Cyla's moodiness because she was pregnant, usually she lashed out at Ashaklar, Cheshire or Angel, but mostly everyone got along. On the third day of Angel and Lisa's stay at KurukVile and Irka's fortress home DuruVile finished his conquering of the Xeno Object, the original record was five months to conquer a galaxy that had five hundred planets in it, he did it in less than two months. According to Angel's grandfather, his father would be arriving the next morning. DuruVile would be using his son's office to get the paperwork all done so he'd be pretty busy, not to mention he also had his pregnant wife to deal with. Angel was in shock over her grandfather with his horses, on the morning of the fourth day of her being in his residence, Angel personally saw her grandfather off a lovely liver chestnut colored colt that was only a day old with his sword. KurukVile, who had been turned away from the two women, and not knowing that anyone was going to be outside during the offing of the foal, after hearing the gasps and then a whimper, had turned around then had called after Angel to wait and stop as she had turned and taken to her heels, with Lisa nearly clipping her heels in the process. Angel and Lisa both went up to Angel's assigned chamber and hid themselves under the bed, both too morbidly traumatized after the event. Losal, who was with them at the time, quickly sent a message to TazirVile after he had reached the room, the two women had left him behind in their terrified run up to the fourth level in KurukVile's fortress home. Eldass and Homsi, having just returned back from spending a little times with their families, were at a loss for Angel's behavior, or they were until Losal told them what Angel had witnessed.

"Master Tazir would be most displeased!" Eldass exclaimed. "That is not an event for the outside... it's not an event period to be had!"

"How long has she been under the bed?" Homsi asked, clearly concerned and angered nearly to heading out to confront KurukVile himself.

"An hour and a half," Losal replied. "she and the skank both."

"I'm not a fuckin' skank you troll!" Lisa screamed, as of the past few days whenever the Goblins spoke of her they used the term skank in reference of her.

"Whatever," Losal waved Lisa off. "Kuruk hasn't come up either to offer an explanation or an apologee either."

"You expect him to?" Eldass ran his hand through his white hair, messing it up some. "I seriously don't."

"In accordance to the mental health of our Mistress," Homsi said. "I vote we remove her from this residence."

"Agreed," Losal said.

Agr-..."

"My granddaughter goes no where." KurukVile said as he walked into the room.

He had rushed inside the soonest the foal he had just culled had been tended to, the first place he had looked was the nursery then he had had a feeling to come up to the room he had assigned his granddaughter. He was getting particularly tired of how Angel was acting, specifically having the female that his grandfather wanted to have in his assigned chamber cuffed to her wrist and with her at all times and having the Goblins that were his brother's staff remain with her. He was particularly wanting the Goblins to be away, he didn't want them in his residence, he saw them as a nuisance and he really didn't know how his brother dealt with them. They were particularly disobedient and rude towards everyone in his fortress except for Angel and Cheshire. Angel had nothing to worry over, she was safe, so were her son's and she damn well knew that his grandfather wouldn't harm her friend. From what he had been told, the woman had participated in the first act fully. KurukVile walked past the Goblins then knelt down and reached under the bed. When his hand wrapped around Angel's wrist he pulled her out from under the bed. Angel had released Lisa from her cuff after she had gone under the bed an hour and a half ago, she had not the time to hook her friend back up to her and so, when she was pulled out from under the bed, the twin cuff and chain dangled freely for all to see.

"I had a feeling that you three darafyadiisa oo qoyan's were lying when you said she had swallowed the key." KurukVile said, he grabbed the dangling cuff and by saying a spell the cuff around Angel's wrist unlocked. He tossed the cuffs to the side, they bounced off the wall then landed on the floor.

"Dara-what?" Losal growled. "You calling us names, mister, insulting us? We tell you the truth, she swallowed that key."

"Must have used a spell to get it out or retrieved it after relieving herself." Homsi said.

"Silence!" KurukVile exclaimed. "Since the woman is not bound like you claimed she was, she then will be removed from this room."

"No, she remains here!" Angel pushed against her grandfather who yanked her around but kept his hand around her wrist.

"Humos! Splox! Get your asses in here and remove this wench from this room now!" KurukVile shouted.

"No you don't!" Angel started trying to pry her grandfather's hand off of her wrist with her fingers. When she couldn't, and Humos and Splox, a lizard-man with purple scaled skin with a yellow belly and yellow, lizard-like eyes wearing a dark green tuxedo, walked over to the bed she turned around and began yelling at Lisa. "Lisa! Get as far back as you can! Tuck in your arms and legs!"

"You, silence." KurukVile snapped at Angel.

"Fuck you!"

Had it not been for Baruk, Bile, Lhaklar, Tarav, Salasari and Ladira being in his residence he'd of let Angel off with a vocal warning for her usage of the word she had used but since they were and he was already in a bad mood, he reared his arm back and slapped Angel hard across the face. Homsi's jaw dropped when he saw his mistress falling flat on her back, the back of her head slammed back against the floor hard. Eldass ran forward, fully intending to put himself between his mistress and her grandfather when KurukVile turned on him. KurukVile grabbed the Goblin by the neck, heaved him up then body slammed him to the floor. When Losal ran in to assist Angel he received a fierce punch in the face then a kick in the groin which sent him flying back against the wall. Humos and Splox reached under the bed as far as they could, Lisa had done as Angel had told her, she was tucked in good and in the way back right in the center underneath the bed, neither of the men could get her. Seeing as the situation as it was, two disobedient Goblins having been disciplined, his granddaughter having been disciplined and a woman underneath the bed that wasn't meant to be in the room, KurukVile yelled. He ran over to the bed, fully intending to flip it over and retrieve the woman underneath of it himself, when his grandfather rushed in. ShaamVile grabbed his grandson by the back of his black and gold tunic then ripped him back.

"Enough!" ShaamVile roared. "I've already told you, Kuruk. Lisa will come around on her own. This is not the way."

"If you're not wanting her now then I'll throw her in the dungeon." KurukVile exclaimed.

"No, she'll remain in here with Angel." ShaamVile said.

"That woman is stalling progress..."

"You just made progress stop with your actions towards Angel." ShaamVile replied. "How do you expect for her to get an understanding of us all with your previous actions towards her?"

"Using one of the worst words in the book and then struggling against me, going against my orders, ordering my staff around... I will not take disrespect from anyone and that includes her!" KurukVile exclaimed.

ShaamVile and KurukVile got into a vocal fight which lasted a full five minutes before both men backed down, Angel's grandfather and his two staff left the room quickly with ShaamVile following after he had looked down at Angel, sighed then shook his head. With the men out of the room Angel crawled over to Eldass, he was still on his back and was listing his head from side to side. Homsi teleported to Moas, got a few bags of ice then returned back to KurukVile's fortress home. He helped Losal to one of the chairs then gave him a bag of ice which the Goblin snatched then shoved between his legs. He shook his head when Homsi tried to hand him another for the side of his face, his nose was sideways, it was bleeding out his yellowish colored blood. Lisa peered out from under the bed once then started rocking back and forth, this was all too much for her. First; seeing KurukVile kill a young, just started in life foal and then this. She felt like crying and she would have hadn't Angel or the Goblins of been in the room. She was trying to be strong for her friend and as for the Goblins, she didn't want to give them any initiative to begin calling her a cry baby. Being called a skank was bad enough, she thought.

"Homsi, help me get him onto the bed please." Angel said when Eldass refused to get up. Homsi walked over and was about to assist her when Eldass grabbed the sleeve of his brown tuxedo jacket and Angel's wrist.

"Give me a few seconds, Mistress." he said. "It's been a while since I've had any such activity down on me."

"Glad to see that your back's not broken," Angel said after Eldass had grabbed her. She ran her hand through his hair which made him turn his head sideways, away from her. "you alright over there, Losal?"

"I'll be fine." Losal strained.

"We'll be fine, Mistress." Homsi said. "You alright? Took a dandy of a slap."

"I've taken much worse in my years." Angel replied, she got what Homsi was saying when he had said that they'd be fine. He meant to say, we're men, regardless of age we are men and don't need a female fussing over us.

With Angel now known to not of swallowed the key, ShaamVile began making advances on Lisa whenever he passed by her in the hallways, depending on if one of the children that were in the fortress weren't in the area, that was. He acted as if what he was doing was fun and pleasant, but in reality it was terrifying Lisa and it was annoying Angel to pieces. ShaamVile slapped Lisa on the ass twice, grabbed her up in a hug three times, ran his hand down her front and made purring sounds whenever he was near her. After the episode of her grandfather culling the foal, Angel was reminded of what he had said when he had first arrived on Earth after discovering that he had grandchildren. He had said something about giving his approval of Rita and Rito which had struck a nerve with her father, he'd not let him so much as a foot near them for a while and that went double for her. They had thought that she was a slave girl at first, her grandfather had grabbed her up and had threatened her father that if he didn't calm down he was going to sever her head from her neck. After she had teleported after he had handed her over to his wife she had yelled it out that she was no slave girl, that she was the granddaughter that Irka and her husband had heard about and that had started their joining with their formerly disowned son to assist in capturing her. On the way to the nursery to check on her son's, Angel and Lisa stopped dead in their tracks. ShaamVile stood directly in front of them, he had one hands lay flat against the wall while he was running his right hand through a female, goat-like woman's long, brown hair. The female, goat-like maid, dressed in a black dress with a white apron on the front, looked very uncomfortable. Homsi, when he saw it, tapped Angel on her hand to get her going again. Angel and Lisa went into the nursery quickly while Homsi waited just outside the door. Angel came to a heart-stopping halt when she saw that her grandfather had both Baruk and Bile in his arms.

"Not a very attentive mother, Angel." KurukVile said when he saw Angel. "Irka, Takke, Kokan and I have been in here much more than you."

"I've been in here plenty." Angel replied.

"Really, when?" KurukVile stood up, he walked over and handed Angel Bile then went back and sat down in the rocking chair he had just gotten up from. "I've been in this room four times this morning and have seen you only twice."

"I prefer to tend to my children in private, thank you." Angel said as she went over to the crib to see Lhaklar.

"You need to get use to having others around when you tend them," KurukVile said. "look at your grandmother, for example. She's fairing well. Take after experience, Angel."

Angel said not a thing else, her grandfather rambled on and on about how she should be acting as a mother. How she should feed, dress, play and should be wary of others, he had given Lisa a glaring look soon after saying that then he went quiet. Bile rolled over three times while Angel was trying to change his diaper then he grabbed her hair and tugged on it. Lisa, who had her back pressed up against Angel's, looked back only once when Angel sighed. After Angel changed Bile's diaper she changed Lhaklar's. Her secondborn was very fussy and wouldn't stay still a second. He swung himself back and forth, tried to roll over then tossed his arms and legs up. Finally, after a full three minutes, Angel had his diaper changed. With that done, she placed him in the crib with his brother. Bile looked up at her, smiled then rolled over. He lifted his head slightly and looked out at KurukVile who, when he saw Bile on his stomach, stood up sharply.

"He can suffocate that way!" her grandfather exclaimed. "What are you doing, Girl? Flipping him over then leaving him that way?"

"I did not flip him over, he rolled over himself." Angel said back.

"Nonesense! He's too young to roll over." KurukVile said, he placed Baruk in his crib, Tarav was sleeping soundly, then he walked over to the crib that had Bile and Lhaklar in it. "I catch you doing that again," he said after he had picked Bile up and placed him on his back. "I will have you barred from this room. Bile is my grandson, he might not mean much to yuh-..."

"He means the world to me!" Angel snapped.

"Then prove it!" KurukVile pushed Angel slightly. "Flipping your child over then leaving that child to suf-..." he looked down and saw Bile roll himself over onto his stomach. KurukVile pulled his head back, lowered his eyelid then looked at Angel. "He's nearly a year and nine months, right?"

"Yes," Angel hissed back, she reached down and picked Bile up.

"My pardons, Angel for snapping. It's the protectiveness in me that came out." KurukVile apologized, he reached his hand back and scratched the back of his head. "Baruk's not due to roll over for another five years, Bile's a bit ahead of schedule."

"Lhaklar's trying to roll over himself." Angel said. "Swings himself back and forth like crazy then goes to his side."

Irka near had a heart attack when she saw Angel and her husband simply standing at the table while Lhaklar swung himself back and forth. He looked like a few week old puppy, swinging back and forth with his arms and legs sticking straight out, KurukVile chuckled when he saw this then, when Lhaklar rolled over to his left side and remained there, blinking his eyes in confusion then began fussing he laughed out loud. Irka, not know what was going on, rushed over and picked Lhaklar up. She glared at Angel, then she glared at her husband, before taking Lhaklar to his crib. Irka's reason for coming into the nursery was to spend time with her infant, she had been busy for most of that morning after breakfast working out in the gym inside her and her husband's house and was sporting dark purple wrist bands and a dark purple headband. Just as she was putting Lhaklar in the crib he shared with his brother, Bile rolled over. She stayed standing over the crib that Angel's son's shared and watched as Lhaklar swung back and forth then rolled over to his side.

"Well, it's you and your father's genes that are making Bile roll over sooner than usual," Irka said shortly after Lhaklar had rolled himself halfway over and she had placed him on his back. "not sure what's going on with Lhaklar though. With his father's genes, he shouldn't be doing that at all."

"They've both got strong genes in them," Angel said in her son's defense.

"Honey, I'll be honest with you. Tazir isn't what you'd call a good gened man." Irka said as she went over to pick her son up. "He's weak, in comparison to your father and grandfather. For him to be your dominant is absurd."

"He is not weak." Angel said, Homsi had turned slightly having heard his employer insulted. "Tazir happens to be a very strong man."

"He's pulled a good sheet over your head, dear." Irka said as she sat down in the rocking chair, her husband walked over and stood by her side. "Believe me, he's very weak and sick."

"My employer happens to be in great shape!" Homsi exclaimed.

"Tazir happens to be in tip-top form, how dare you." Angel snapped.

"Angel, one day you'll find out that." Irka said. "You can leave now, you'll wake the babies with your high voiced talking."

"You started it by waltzing in here starting your ch-..."

"This is my nursery, I can come in, go out and say whatever I wish." Irka said sternly. "The same with the house, you're a guest. You and you're son's as well as everyone else in my house. Out of everyone, you, that woman you are friends with and them Goblins are the most disrespectful. Leave, now."

"Go on Girl!" KurukVile growled when Angel remained in the room, his fiery red eyes clearly showed his annoyance. "Take the wench and the Goblin with you on the way out."

Angel had to calm Homsi down once she was outside of the nursery, seeing as he was the most trusted of TazirVile's Goblin staff, she went back in to get her son's then led everyone down to the living room that had another room connected to it which Angel had a mind to look into but, at the moment with the way things were, she decided to remain in the living room with her friend, her son's and Homsi. Angel plopped Lhaklar into the Goblins arms then sat down on the couch across from him. Angel was wondering if TazirVile trusted Eldass as much as he did with Homsi, surely the older Goblin had been working for him for longer. Both seemed to know TazirVile well and held him very well in regard and defended against him when he was insulted. Lisa was thinking that the Goblin was weird, first he had said that Angel was ever lovely and then he had said loudly that his employer was in great shape. Lisa was starting to wonder if the Goblin didn't have some sort of thing for both Angel and TazirVile, she had no idea that it was just his high respect for Angel and TazirVile and his extreme loyalty between the two that was making him speak in such favor of the them. Homsi looked at Angel in shock then started rocking Lhaklar.

"Thank you, Mistress." Homsi said. "After Eshal was born, and my master and former mistress held her, I was given the honor of holding her. Thank you."

"You're welcome." Angel said. "Where is Eshal, by the way?"

"Miss. Eshal is on Moas being tended by the maids, My Mistress." Homsi replied. "We are on orders to have her remain there until Master Tazir returns. She misses you terribly."

"I miss her." Angel leaned back, Bile was asleep in her arms.

"She wants a sister pretty badly," Homsi said.

"Yeeeeeaaaah, until my father removes his curse from me I'm unable to do that." Homsi looked up at her sharply then he went back to rocking and gently bouncing Lhaklar.

"If I may, My Mistress, what curse was put upon you?"

"Where I lose any further offspring by Tazir," Angel said, she then started saying some of the curse. It wasn't much liked for used curses to be spoken, it was very feared. "will see red from now on. Forever trying and forever losing."

"I know of only one curse that has them passages in it," Homsi said, he had attended Pronghorn Academy of Sorcery and Magic before Staffer's Academy and knew of many curses, spells, charms and potions, the one that Angel had said of was called the Non-Birth curse, where a woman was to only have miscarriages and never produce a living child and, like all curses, it could only be lifted by the one that set the curse down on the woman. "does Master Tazir know this?"

"Yes, my father said it over the phone to him soon after Lhaklar was born." Angel replied.

"He'll get that brute of a man to get it lifted." Homsi said.

Angel went and took Lhaklar from Homsi then placed Bile in his arms, when she sat down she began taking the room in. There were four couches in the room, the one she and Lisa were seated on sat back to back with the behind it as did the one that Homsi was on. All four couches were dark brown velor and had brown and cream furs draped over the backs and cushions. A stone fireplace stood between the second and third couch, it wasn't lit and had a plethora of framed photographs of Irka, KurukVile, Master Vile, Dara Dara and Triskull running along the mantle shelf. The one that stood out most was of her grandparents in wedding attire, both looked fresh out of the alter and were extremely happy, her grandfather wore a black tuxedo which looked outrageous on him while Irka looked equally outrageous in her black and white wedding dress. The photographs of her father, Dara Dara and Triskull were of them as they were young, either as babies, young children or teenagers. A thick, brown walnut coffee table sat between the couches that Angel, Lisa and Homsi were on, there were matching coffee tables placed in front of the first and fourth couches as well. There was a large, 100" television set placed across from the fireplace with two boxes underneath of it, a large cabinet was beside it that's doors had been removed and replaced with glass. There were videos and books in the shelf. Beside the cabinet was a phonograph and record player, the records were arranged in order in the small cabinet beside the phonograph and record player. The walls were a cream color, the floor was dark brown and had been recently waxed and the ceiling was cream-colored and had dark brown beams going across it. A brown, accent-legged table and matching chairs were off to one side that had a newspaper on it. There were two chandeliers in the room, both looked like wagon wheels and had white candles that were lit running along the circle. Angel leaned back against the couch she was on, she was contemplating telling Homsi the unsatisfactory news of her father, after he and TazirVile got through with their court case on Brol, would be coming to stay at her grandparents place along with TazirVile when Rita, Rito and Dara Dara walked into the room.

"Strange, unrelated male holding a baby!" Dara Dara exclaimed loudly.

"How come he gets to hold my brother and not I?" Rita had her hands on her hips. "He's not even related, he means nothing to Bile."

"Possibly because I trust him more." Angel replied, Rita huffed then walked off.

"My father will have your hide for saying that!" Dara Dara sniffed, she went off after Rita.

"Not to mention, so will pop when he gets here." Rito said.

"What!" Homsi looked up sharply. "Mistress, he's not coming here, is he?"

"Unfortunately, Homsi, yeah." Angel nodded her head miserably. "Best eat up what you can now of what energy is given off because once he gets here there's going to be quite a lot of fighting going on. Best you tell Losal and Eldass so they'll be prepared, Homsi."

"I will, don't you worry." Homsi stood up, walked around the coffee table then handed Angel her firstborn before heading upstairs.

"Suppose before the Mountain of Muscle gets down here to bust my chops we should head up to our chamber as well." Angel said as she stood up.

"Yeah you run off!" Rito yelled at Angel's back. "In the next few days you'll be running more and I'll be laughing my fool head off at you when you do."

Eldass and Losal were not in any way happy about Master Vile's arrival soon after his and their employer's court case on Brol was finished, both Goblins went off to a corner of the room and sat quietly. Angel had her son's with her, she had decided to bring them upstairs after Homsi had found out through her half-brother's blurting that her father would be arriving soon after his court case. On the way up, both she and Lisa had seen ShaamVile, again, making a maid feel uncomfortable. Lisa couldn't be sure but she thought she heard ShaamVile say to the maid that if she felt a need to give him a knock, Angel was fully certain that her great-great grandfather had said that and more. After a few hours, Homsi, Losal and Eldass sat down in their chairs, took out their video players and began watching the movies that they had. Eldass had told her that each had gone into the shields on Earth to a place called Blockbuster and had made off with four videos each, naturally neither Goblin knew what movie they had and had to watch it before they knew what it was all about. In all, Eldass had told her, they had gone into the shields five times and had taken four videos in each snatching which meant that each Goblin had twenty movies each. Angel left the chamber only once and that was to return her son's to the nursery, when she returned to her assigned chamber she saw Eldass taking the disc out of Titanic which starred Leonardo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet. Eldass had fully recovered from being body slammed that morning, his back where he had been whipped hurt him horribly but he managed fine. Both he and Losal were fine.

"Shaam's really pushing himself on my grandfather's maids." Angel said.

"Again?" Lisa asked.

"Doubt it if he actually gets one in his room, my grandfather's not the nicest of employers and does have his staff work hard." Angel said. "Not to mention, I don't think my grandfather would allow it."

"He's a creep!" Lisa sniffed. "Where's that cuff, I'd like it back around your wrist."

"Good question, have no idea." Angel replied. "My grandfather vamoosed with it, I think."

"Blast, alright then I'll tie my wrist to yours."

"That'll make things difficult in the bathroom." Angel said, Homsi looked up, over his video player at her then went back to watching his movie.

"Well, what do you suggest my dear friend?" Lisa demanded to know, she pulled a string out from her dress, tied it around her wrist then tied it around Angel's. "There, nice and safe."

"I'm going to kick your ass if you request of me spit swapping in the shower." Angel rolled her eyes, Eldass, Losal and Homsi all looked over their video players, all of their eyes were wide with shock.

"I bet you've never swapped spit with a woman in your life." Lisa said, she mainly said this because of the Goblins expressions, which she thought were priceless.

"I am not heading into my former sex-life with you." Angel replied, she cut the string then undid it from around her wrist.

"Thanks for the confirmation." Lisa snickered. "Woman lover."

"It was only a one time occurrence and I was heavily drunk and on drugs at the time." Angel said in her defense. Losal's mouth dropped in shock, Homsi and Eldass just shook their heads then went back to their movies, which they had paused after Lisa had said something about female spit swapping.

"I bet otherwise."

"Things one wouldn't normally do happened in the late seventies to late eighties, my friend." Angel said.

"True." Lisa nodded her head. "That is true, my father came off the turnpike with a man who was dressed as a woman once, he was drunk."

KurukVile left them be, although he was told that Angel had handed Bile and Lhaklar over to Homsi he said nothing on it. The rest of the morning was pleasant, Angel and Lisa walked around for a short while, exercising. Eldass followed behind them, he had watched Titanic for only a short while before taking it out of his video player, Angel guessed he was planning on watching it later on as he had placed it on the top of his pile. Before she had left the room, leading the small trio down the hallway, she had glanced at his pile of twenty videos. He had a good selection, besides Titanic he had Jurassic Park, a 1993 film starring Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, Richard Attenborough, Martin Ferrero, Lisa Dern and Bob Fleck which was about an island full of cloned dinosaurs which are thought to be controlled but really are not, Super Mario Bros, another film made in 1993 that starred Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper and Samantha Mathis which was based off of the games made in the 1980's, Coneheads, another 1993 film which stallion Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin with Michelle Burke co-starring which was about two aliens that had been scouting the planet Earth in preparation of an invasion and got stuck for sixteen years, among others. Angel had seen only one film on Homsi's pile, the others had been turned so the spines couldn't be seen. She didn't think that Homsi would much like that one, it was a film called Conan the Barbarian, a film made in 1982 that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, with James Earl Jones, Sandahl Bergman, Ben Davidson, Gerry Lopez, Mako, William Smith and Max von Sydow co-starring. Angel saw Homsi as being one of them men who preferred a good, classy film to one that had violence and nudity in it. Just as Angel, Lisa and Eldass reached the second floor they all came to a stop. Angel told Lisa and Eldass to stay where they were then carefully made her way down the hallway. She returned a few seconds later, shook her head then decided to head down the other length of the hallway towards a second stairwell that would take them to the pool area.

"What's going on?" Lisa asked Angel.

"Not the best of ideas to go down that side of the hallway at the time being, my friend." Angel replied.

"How come?"

"You don't need to know." Angel replied.

"Something bad?" Lisa asked.

"Shaam," Angel said then went quiet.

"What about him?" Lisa pulled Angel to a stop, Eldass shook his head in despair. "What's wrong?"

"You're a scientist?" Eldass cocked his eye at Lisa. "Not very smart, if you are that is."

"I am a scientist, yes." Lisa looked down at the Goblin. "Oxford University."

"Then you should know what's going on down the hall." Eldass said.

"How can I know when I didn't go down the hall with her and am not being told of what's going on?"

"Must have been a flunk-out when you went to that educational system."

"I was not!" Lisa exclaimed. "Graduated with good marks."

"Good? Good is not efficient enough." Eldass said. "Excellent is best."

"Thanks dad."

"I'd be wearing a sack over my head and be afraid to be out in public if I sired a skank such as you."

"With a face like the one you've got, I'd be afraid period to be out in public."

"I happen to be one handsome Goblin." Eldass' eyes were growing bright with anger now. "Just because you're modest, on the ugly scale, don't mean you have a right in insulting me or my looks."

"You must have been dropped on your head when you was a baby, you're as ugly as sin."

"Lisa, Eldass, that is enough." Angel sighed.

"Yes, My Mistress." Eldass bowed deeply.

Angel figured that with everything going on at that particular time, that it was best to just head to one room, stay in it for a short while then head back up to her assigned chamber. She picked the room that was adjacent to the living room and went straight for it. Eldass followed beside her while Lisa walked behind them. Eldass, while walking beside Angel, took out his cellular phone and checked to see if there were any messages on it then he handed it up to Angel. He had been told that Angel wasn't very familiar with their technology by Homsi and wanted Angel to know what a cellular phone was. His phone was white with a small screen, the keyboard took up much of the phone which was four inches long by four inches wide. Angel looked at it, nodded her head then handed it back. Eldass placed it back in the inside jacket pocket of his tuxedo jacket then reached back for his wallet. He took out two photographs from his wallet, which Angel noticed was distressed black leather with light brown stitching going along the sides and had quite a lot of cash and cards inside. He handed the photographs up to her, they were of his wife, Aboshi, and of his children. She saw Zshon at once, he looked like his mother quite a lot except that his mother was shorter, about four-foot, three inches tall, and had long, light blonde hair.

"Pardons, Eldass, but I only know one of your children and that is Zshon." Angel said, she knelt down by the Goblin.

"This one here," Eldass pointed at the Goblin that was standing next to him which was the Goblin who had jumped out at her before she had been captured. "he's my oldest. Daosi's his name."

Eldass, she remembered had told her once that he had nine children with his wife. Zshon looked like his mother the most while the one named Daosi looked like his father. Molwuff, Yhozah and Saplina looked like their mother but they had their father's eyes. Mekaia and Faalia were twin daughter's and looked identical to their father except for the hair which they had inherited from their mother. Devlor and Seiqo were young, they stood barely two feet tall, one had light green skin while the other had light blue skin and both looked like a combination of their parents. The two new ones, Malmeen and Bamaia, had dark blue skin and light blue eyes and looked to have fluffy, red hair on their heads. Eldass, when he had wanted the photographs back, said that he loved his family greatly and that it was an honor to have four of his offspring working alongside him. As it turned out, Daosi, Yhozah and Mekaia all worked for TazirVile alongside their father and older brother, Zshon.

"I had red hair before I dyed it." Eldass said after he had placed the photographs back into his wallet.

"Like mine?" Angel asked.

"No, more dull, a coppery red." Eldass replied. "My wife went crazy when she saw it."

"Didn't like it?"

"She loved it," Eldass winked.

"How long you been working for Tazir?"

"Oooooh... came up in the first set of Goblins and I was a youngster then. About four thousand and thirty, I do believe. I'm a hundred and thirteen thousand, three hundred and ten years old... a hundred and nine thousand, two hundred and eighty years."

"Don't you think it's about time for retirement?" Lisa leaned against the wall, Eldass looked over at her slowly, scowled then turned back to facing Angel.

"Age is only a number, I'm forever so I needn't think of such a disgraceful term." Eldass said. "Besides Homsi, I'm second trusted of Master Tazir's staff."

"I was wondering about that earlier." Angel said, she had glared at Lisa when she had said the word retirement. "Do you live in Tazir's mansion or elsewhere?"

"My wife and I have a house in the next district over," Eldass replied. "been living there for thousands of years and we love it. Big enough for twenty."

"For tweh-..."

A loud banging sound rang throughout the hallway that they were on that made Angel jump, Lisa snickered then she jumped when a screeching bell sounded off. Eldass remained still, the first thing that ran through his head was that with the knocking and then the bell being rang, someone was at the front door. He had seen how his employer's brother treated his staff and he did not like it one bit. TazirVile treated his staff well, he rarely got on them or ordered them around, they had all received very impressive educations and used it well. Eldass had seen KurukVile kicking his staff in the rear several times and from the sounds of it, KurukVile had given say for his grandfather to have his fun with the maids which, to him, was a disgrace. He felt great anger for that, if KurukVile had been his employer instead of his brother he'd of walked off a long time ago and he'd not of let his daughter work for him. TazirVile, he was a man and like so, he did like looking at women but he did so respectfully and never in his career had he seen his employer act in any disagreeable fashion with one of his female staff. The screeching bell stopped after two rounds and they heard the door being opened by one of the staff in the fortress.

"Sorry," Angel was shaken up, she was leaning against the wall with her hand on her chest. "jus... sorry."

"You alright, Mistress?" Eldass asked.

"Yes, perfectly fine." Angel replied. "I was away at Pronghorn when the doorbell was invented on Earth, eighteen seventeen was when it was invented and boy when I returned to Earth-..."

"Let me guess, you had a heart attack and needed a good pillow to hold against your chest?" Lisa snickered.

"Why must you interrupt my Mistress?" Eldass snapped at Lisa. "That is most rude!"

"No, that was the train." Angel said, she stood up having regained her composure. "Wasn't looking where I was going, was walking right beside the tracks which I thought was just a really long ladder then a train went by, clipped my shoulder, sent me swinging to a ditch where I just stared up into the sky thinking what the hell was that."

"Was your shoulder harmed, Mistress?" Eldass asked, clearly alarmed and concerned.

"Dislocated, had I not of tripped and fell face down in the middle of the tracks a week later I'd not be here today." Angel replied.

"How about a plane?" Lisa asked with a smug smile on her face.

"I have never and will never fly one of the death-metal fly traps!" Angel exclaimed.

"Oh come on now..." Lisa back slapped Angel's stomach, Eldass lunged at her then placed himself between her and Angel. "Seriously now, they're not that bad."

"United Airlines Flight two thirty-two," Angel said. "a hundred and eleven fatalities, a hundred and seventy-two injured."

"So,"

"LOT Flight Seven," Angel went on. "mechanical failure, all eighty-seven on board died. Japan Airlines Flight one hundred and twenty-three, out of five hundred and nine only four survived."

"Okay, okay. I get it." Lisa sighed, she had been born in 1971 and knew not a thing about plane crashes. She was only trying to calm Angel down and all she had done was make her slightly nervous. "Should I start calling you my grandmother now?"

"More like, great-great-great grandmother." Angel said, she then began chuckling.

"I'll just call you Old One."

"No you don't!" Eldass exclaimed. "Mistress, you are forever young and lovely, you should never have such ill words used in your favor or presence."

"It's alright, Eldass. She's just joking." Angel said.

He had been scheduled to come in the next morning but he had found himself so damn excited that sleep in his own bed in his own house not coming. He had packed then had teleported over to his son's place, he had been told that everyone was there after Angel and her son's had been brought in, he was thrilled that it was all over. Angel and her son's had been captured and brought in, they were in fine shape and that meant one thing: everyone could head back into their lives. His son had arranged for everyone to live in his home for a sort of understanding session with Angel, a sort of getting-to-know thing which he was looking forward to being a part of. The second he was inside the residence he headed upstairs to level two then went straight for his and his wife's assigned room where he knew his wife was awaiting him. He had stopped when he had heard the bell being rung once then had gone on, he figured it was one of either two that were missing in the residence. Possibly his son or his grandson coming over after the court case which he still had heard not a thing on. When DuruVile opened the door to his and his wife's chamber he walked in, placed his suitcases down then walked over to his wife. He kissed her several times then looked down at her stomach.

"Not much longer before you see your son, My Love." Cyla said, she grabbed her husbands hand and placed it on her stomach. "A few more weeks."

"I feel like leaping all over the place, Cylie." DuruVile said. "You look well."

"I am now that you're back." Cyla caressed the side of her husband's face. "Your father is across the hall and the babies are also on this level."

"Where's Angel?"

"Up on level four," Cyla replied. "Duru, she's been causing trouble. Has given orders to three Goblins to remain by her side, she tends to her children less than Kuruk, Irka, Takke and Kokan and there's a female she is protecting and won't let out of her sights a minute."

"That'll stop now," DuruVile said, when Brakol and Tuclo came up to him he knelt down and began petting them. "been a good watch dog, Brak ya ol' hound?"

"Sleeps at the end of the bed, walks wherever I go." Cyla said. "And you know how Tuclo is."

"Always wary and always hungry." DuruVile and Cyla said together.

It wasn't just DuruVile that had arrived to take up temporary residence in KurukVile and Irka's fortress home. Just as DuruVile had entered the residence his father's uncle and his family arrived. ShaamVile had walked into his grandson's office, where his grandson was busy getting things ready for his father who, when he returned, he was sure would get to work with getting all the laws, regulations and rules in order on his newly conquered galaxy. The two men had had a pleasant conversation which had turned serious when ShaamVile had said something about his uncle. TrobrencusVile was his father's younger brother and the only sibling of his father to of survived the dreaded Shlock's Plague along with him and his young son, by being an uncle to ShaamVile, he was related to the Surfeit's, and Rita, Rito, Angel and Bile, in the residence. KurukVile, who had never seen the man, had said for his grandfather to phone the man up and get his keister to his place quick. TrobrencusVile, his wife, Bahne Botzol, and their children, DazassVile, DananVile, TrivitVile and two youngsters who were six hundred and three and four hundred and fifteen years old named BohirVile and FleebeVile were all given rooms on the third level. KurukVile ordered his staff to bring his family, sans Angel, to the living room where introductions were made. DuruVile and his son hit it off well with TrobrencusVile as did everyone else after a short while of quiet. Angel, Lisa and Eldass had gone up to level five where Cheshire, Ashaklar and their family's assigned chambers were. Cheshire, when he saw Angel, gestured for her to follow him. He led her into his and his wife's assigned chamber, Lisa and Eldass were allowed entrance but they were to remain quiet.

"Thought I'd give you a warning that there's two new arrivals here." Cheshire said to Angel. "Duru just arrived and one I've not heard of before. A Trobrencus, he and his family arrived right after Duru did."

"Thanks for the warning, I was hoping instead that you'd say Tazir was the second arrival." Angel replied.

"You know of his relation to you? We don't." Cheshire looked at Angel seriously, he blinked his eyes twice then kept them open. His entire body composure spelled his concern over the situation.

"Shaam's uncle."

"They just keep coming in droves," Cheshire looked up and sighed. "I do apologize for this. When you was captured I had full intentions of taking you to my place."

"I'd feel much better if I was at your place." Angel replied. "It wouldn't offend you if I said that I felt more," Angel searched for the word, all she could come up with was comfortable and that was what she used. "comfortable around you guys than with them."

"Understandable, we feel the same way with you." Cheshire said. "I did my best to get your grandfather to let you come with us to our place but he'd hear none of it. He threatened us and is currently keeping us very under surveillance."

"You know what's going on with Shaam and the maids in this place?"

"Yeah, actually I do." Cheshire turned around and walked off a ways before stopping and turning around. "Your grandfather gave Shaam permission to do as he pleased with them."

Cheshire and Ashaklar's chamber was modestly built and furnished, they had definitely been given the short end of the stick. A bed with a tall head board had white and cream sheets on it, a blue blanket was folded down with another blue blanket on top of it. There were two pillows on the bed, both encased in cream-colored pillow cases that had nothing on the surface. Two white oak bed side tables were sitting on either side of the bed, one had a white clock on it while the other had a plain white vase on it that had three withered roses in it. Two brown and gold dressers that sat on accent legs on the right side of the room while a long dresser sat off on the left side which matched them. There was a 40" television in the room, a white oak coffee table that sat on accent legs and a brown carpet ran from the doorway to under the bed while the rest of the floor was bare and dark gray stone. The walls were two-tone, light blue on the top with dark blue on the bottom, and the ceiling above was light blue. There were lanterns mounted on the walls that cast out an orange light, other than the lanterns there were no other lights in the room. Ashaklar was seated on the bed, the room was only intended for them, their children, who unlike the others, Rita, Rito, Takke and Tula for example who had been given their own, separate chambers, had been given one large room down the hall. Cheshire fiddled with his goggled monocle once, he took it off, cleaned it with a blue cloth then slipped it back on.

"How's your eye?" Angel asked.

"Got quite a lot of sandy particles and dust in it which required a lot of drops but it's well now, thank you for asking." Cheshire replied.

"Since Shaam's been given free rein, so to speak, with the maids think you can send my friend here back to Earth?"

"I'm sorry to say but no." Cheshire said, he walked over and placed his hand on Angel's shoulder. Angel looked down at his hand then back up at him, he stood a good eight inches over her. "We don't wish to be kicked out of here, we're being particularly careful and that means we're not using magic or teleporting."

"You put a pair of cuffs on us when you led us from the ship, you have an extra pair?" Angel asked. "The pair we were using was snatched away this morning."

"I'm afraid not," Cheshire replied. "best thing is to keep your friend close, like your doing. I don't know much of your friend except that Shaam said he had his fill of her, that it was fun then he went quiet afterwards."

"Womanizer!" Lisa exclaimed.

"I thought I said silence from you before you entered this room?" Cheshire glared over at Lisa, due to his eyes being a shiny, copper color, Lisa didn't notice that he was glaring at her.

Angel, Lisa and Eldass stayed in the room for a short while longer then left, Angel led the group down to their level, stopped then seeing as there was a strange male in the residence and her two son's were unguarded she herded Lisa into the chamber that she was assigned, told her to tuck in tight under the bed and wait for her to return then she went down to the second level. Homsi took Eldass' place, Eldass went over and began watching a movie on his device. Angel was again saddened by the fact that she was leading the three Goblins around, they seemed to be rather bored and not to mention uncomfortable. Angel went down to level three, Homsi pulled her to a stop when he dropped his cellular phone. Angel reached down and grabbed it before he could retrieve it then handed it back, Homsi had been checking his messages and that was what got her to kneel down by him. He held the phone to the side, letting her watch as he checked his messages. He was about to snap the top down on his phone when Angel placed her hand on his shoulder.

"When these things say read on the message, that means the message was read right?" Angel asked.

"Yes, Mistress." Homsi replied.

"Who'd you send them last two messages to?"

"My Mistress, this cellular I use only in emergencies and only for work." Homsi said. "Master Tazir."

"There's a r-e-a-d beside them." Angel said, Homsi looked at the two messages closely then chuckled.

"I'll be, he has read them." Homsi laughed.

"That mean he has connection?"

"No, sadly it just means he knows what's going on." Homsi replied. "It shouldn't be but a day or so more before he arrives here."

"Do the courts normally take this long to reach a decision?"

"No, typically it takes only a few days, at most four." Homsi said.

"What was he going to the courts for anyways?"

"He had two court cases," Homsi replied. "Vile sent in a citation for his removal from Moas and for his assets and monies to be frozen and absorbed into his own accounts and his second case was on you and your son's. He filed the one for you and your son's first, that's probably what's keeping him so long."

Homsi waited outside the nursery while Angel checked and tended on her son's. She noticed that it was just her son's in the room, Baruk and Tarav were not in their crib. Angel changed Lhaklar's diaper, fed him and burped him then went and began doing the same for Bile. Just as Bile latched on Homsi gave a low growl and became stiffened. Angel stood up from the rocking chair just as he lunged forward, he disappeared then reappeared, still acting in his strange behavior. With the way Homsi was acting, Angel believed that her father had arrived in his father's residence and had just entered the hallway. This scared her to death and she stood up, Bile finished nursing, she burped him then she held him close all the while walking over to the crib that had Lhaklar in it. Just as she reached the crib Homsi disappeared. There was the sound of flesh meeting flesh, someone went oomph then Homsi flew across the door opening. Angel was about to go see what was going on outside the nursery when three beings entered the room. Her grandfather and great-grandfather she knew, the man behind them was new and he terrified her on sight. She froze in place for only a second then began trembling, ShaamVile walked into the room after his son and grandson and the unknown man. He took one look at Angel then laughed lightly.

"How nice, was hoping that he'd see you along with your son's in this room." he said. "Angel, this is my uncle, Trobrencus."