Chapter 8: Plans
A/n: this is another chapter that I'm going to try to make long and is probably going to end up being short despite my efforts...o well, here's more of the story, enjoy!
Outside was.
"Stanton!" Serena said the word like it was the name of a god. She jumped over to him and embraced him. "I thought the followers captured you? What are you doing here?" "I got away, just for you guys," he said smiling. All of the daughters' mouths fell open. "You escaped?" Catty said, most likely not believing him, she was probably thinking the whole thing was a set up. "Yes," Stanton said solemnly, and his face took on an expression of pain as if he was remembering every detail of what had just happened to him.
"You should stay away from us!" Serena said hurriedly. Stanton looked hurt and confused, Serena caught the look and explained, "This is the first place the followers are going to come looking for you when they figure out you're gone, so the farther from us you are, the safer you are. Stanton then understood. He nodded, what Serena was saying was true, "Okay well when this whole thing has blown over I'll meet up with you guys again." They nodded, and Stanton left the way he had come, and he never got the chance to tell them how he had escaped, it had really been quite simple, the next time he saw them he would tell them the whole story, now wasn't the time. Stanton walked down the street, then sat down on a bench, he knew in his present state he couldn't stay in one place for a long time, especially out in the open. But he had nowhere to go.
Stanton racked his brain for places to go but nothing came up, since he had been with the atrox for so long, he had not made many friends other than them, and now they were his enemy and he was left with only Serena. So he finally got some money and made his way to a hotel. He checked into a suite and collapsed, more worried about Serena than anything else.
Meanwhile..
"Okay so Stanton's free, that's good and bad, we know that he's not being tortured at the moment, but we knew that any minute now we're going to have a gang of followers on our porch," Serena said, summing up their situation, "And I'm worried about Collin," she added, and Jimena nodded her head in agreement. "So what do we do?" Catty asked, voicing the question everyone was thinking. "We have to put our heads together and come up with a plan," Vanessa said, obviously one of the more mature daughters.
"A lot of good that did us earlier," Jimena mumbled. "Well we're just going to have to try, unless you have a better idea?" Serena inquired. Jimena realized that this was the only plan they had so she nodded her head and they started throwing out ideas. None of them all agreed on one idea. "This is hopeless," Catty said at last. All the daughters looked beat. "How about we have a midnight snack to clear our brains," Serena suggested. "Sure!" all the daughters exclaimed, glad for a chance to give their brains a rest, and it really was a midnight snack since it was a quarter after 12:00 a.m.
The girls ate chips and popcorn and peanuts and pigged out and watched some t.v. until they stuffed themselves so much they couldn't get in another bite. "So now that the snackings done I guess we should get back to our problem," Vanessa said, (Always the practical party pooper isn't she? Hehe) The other girls agreed glumly. Serena however could not concentrate, now that she knew that Stanton was safe, and that the followers hadn't shown up yet, she was more worried about Collin, and come to think of it her dad, he never stayed out this late!
Serena suddenly became panicked. What if the atrox has taken my family, just like they took Stanton??? She thought to herself conjuring up a picture of what remained of her family in a cell at the hands of the atrox. "Serena are you alright?" Jimena said nudging her out of her thoughts. "What? Oh yeah I'm fine, why?" "Well you were suddenly pale, and your eyes looked really scary." Jimena said looking at her with a worried expression. "Really, I'm fine," Serena said reassuring them, "Let's go back to our problem," She tried again, but the daughters were all just staring at her as if they had seen a ghost. "Well? Let's get to the real problem," Serena demanded.
So the girls went back to brainstorming. They still came up with nothing. "There's a piece of this puzzle we're missing here," Serena finally said, "The answer is right under our noses, we just need to look." She said trying to get her friends attention. "Yeah, but what?" Vanessa asked. 'I dunno.maybe if we go over all the facts and everything we know it will help," Serena answered . The girls nodded. "So where do we start?" Jimena questioned. "Uh.let's start with the abduction of Stanton and Serena's Cello lesson," Catty suggested, "Okay homegirl tell us what happened again," Jimena said.
Serena nodded and started, "Well Stanton drove me to my lesson and said he'd wait for me because it was dangerous for one of us to be alone, so I went inside and then when I came out there was no Stanton, so I waited and he never came so I started walking to the bus stop when I noticed some scraps of paper on the ground and one of them had my name on it." Serena stopped, realization finally dawned on her. "The papers!" She exclaimed, "The scraps of paper I found may have a clue to this whole mystery!" She cried again. All the daughters suddenly became excited and they made their way over to the dining room table where Serena had laid out the papers.
The girls tried and tried to piece the papers together right, but it never worked out right, they always made a mistake, something didn't fit. "Maybe you forgot some pieces," Catty said, giving up after two hours of nonstop paper unscrambling. It was 2:00 in the morning and all the daughters were drifting off to sleep. "We'd better do this in the morning," Serena said unsuccessfully trying to stifle a yawn. "Our brains are no good when they're not working, we'll try again tomorrow, maybe we can even go to talk to Maggie." Serena told the daughters, and they all nodded their agreement, so they set out their sleeping bags and fell asleep. (For those of you who don't know who Maggie is she is the daughters mentor in using their gifts.)
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Stanton lay on his bed, unable to fall asleep. He looked at his clock. He groaned, it was 2:47 in the morning! He was unbelievably tired, yet something in him wouldn't let him sleep. "Maybe it's warning," he thought to himself. "Maybe my bodies trying to tell me something bad will happen if I fall asleep.Nah who ever heard of a body danger clock?" He said chuckling to himself as if the whole idea was just plain crazy.
He tossed and turned in his covers, but was able to find no rest. So finally giving up he turned on his light and picked up his book. "I wonder if Serena got the note I left for her," he mused to himself. "I hope so," he said, continuing his conversation with no one in particular. He was flipping through his book of myths and he came across the legend of Selene, The moon goddess. It said she had 50 children, before Endymion was sentenced to eternal sleep. "Wow" he thought, then he remembered something, Serena and the other daughters of the moon, were Selene's daughters! Did that mean there were 50 daughters of the moon?
"There could not be 50 daughters of the Moon," Stanton said to himself, "Although it would help out in the war with the atrox." Then Stanton suddenly felt sleep overcome him just as he was finding something he thought of importance in the book, he fainted. He woke up and did not remember anything of last night, besides that he couldn't sleep, but he could have sworn his eyes didn't hurt this much from not sleeping. Stanton noticed that some things in his room were different, "Maybe the maids came in and cleaned while I was sleeping," he thought to himself, feeling a little spooked.
*~*~*
The daughters made their way across the L.A. streets to Maggie's apartment. They were given no trouble and made their way there quickly, having the feeling that they were being watched. They buzzed Maggie, "Ah, I see you need council, come in my dears," and the doors opened.
A/n: please review and tell me what you think of the story, am I ruining the story? Am I making it better? Please tell me your thoughts, but keep in mind that I'm new at this! And I have serious writers block, and I have a feeling by forcing myself to write during a writers block period I just ruined the story.well please r/r and suggestions are more than welcome! Darn writers block! And I'm not getting many reviews, unless I start getting some reviews I'm going to assume you don't like this story and stop writing it! So please for the stories sake, if you read this story, review it!
~Moonfairy1016
A/n: this is another chapter that I'm going to try to make long and is probably going to end up being short despite my efforts...o well, here's more of the story, enjoy!
Outside was.
"Stanton!" Serena said the word like it was the name of a god. She jumped over to him and embraced him. "I thought the followers captured you? What are you doing here?" "I got away, just for you guys," he said smiling. All of the daughters' mouths fell open. "You escaped?" Catty said, most likely not believing him, she was probably thinking the whole thing was a set up. "Yes," Stanton said solemnly, and his face took on an expression of pain as if he was remembering every detail of what had just happened to him.
"You should stay away from us!" Serena said hurriedly. Stanton looked hurt and confused, Serena caught the look and explained, "This is the first place the followers are going to come looking for you when they figure out you're gone, so the farther from us you are, the safer you are. Stanton then understood. He nodded, what Serena was saying was true, "Okay well when this whole thing has blown over I'll meet up with you guys again." They nodded, and Stanton left the way he had come, and he never got the chance to tell them how he had escaped, it had really been quite simple, the next time he saw them he would tell them the whole story, now wasn't the time. Stanton walked down the street, then sat down on a bench, he knew in his present state he couldn't stay in one place for a long time, especially out in the open. But he had nowhere to go.
Stanton racked his brain for places to go but nothing came up, since he had been with the atrox for so long, he had not made many friends other than them, and now they were his enemy and he was left with only Serena. So he finally got some money and made his way to a hotel. He checked into a suite and collapsed, more worried about Serena than anything else.
Meanwhile..
"Okay so Stanton's free, that's good and bad, we know that he's not being tortured at the moment, but we knew that any minute now we're going to have a gang of followers on our porch," Serena said, summing up their situation, "And I'm worried about Collin," she added, and Jimena nodded her head in agreement. "So what do we do?" Catty asked, voicing the question everyone was thinking. "We have to put our heads together and come up with a plan," Vanessa said, obviously one of the more mature daughters.
"A lot of good that did us earlier," Jimena mumbled. "Well we're just going to have to try, unless you have a better idea?" Serena inquired. Jimena realized that this was the only plan they had so she nodded her head and they started throwing out ideas. None of them all agreed on one idea. "This is hopeless," Catty said at last. All the daughters looked beat. "How about we have a midnight snack to clear our brains," Serena suggested. "Sure!" all the daughters exclaimed, glad for a chance to give their brains a rest, and it really was a midnight snack since it was a quarter after 12:00 a.m.
The girls ate chips and popcorn and peanuts and pigged out and watched some t.v. until they stuffed themselves so much they couldn't get in another bite. "So now that the snackings done I guess we should get back to our problem," Vanessa said, (Always the practical party pooper isn't she? Hehe) The other girls agreed glumly. Serena however could not concentrate, now that she knew that Stanton was safe, and that the followers hadn't shown up yet, she was more worried about Collin, and come to think of it her dad, he never stayed out this late!
Serena suddenly became panicked. What if the atrox has taken my family, just like they took Stanton??? She thought to herself conjuring up a picture of what remained of her family in a cell at the hands of the atrox. "Serena are you alright?" Jimena said nudging her out of her thoughts. "What? Oh yeah I'm fine, why?" "Well you were suddenly pale, and your eyes looked really scary." Jimena said looking at her with a worried expression. "Really, I'm fine," Serena said reassuring them, "Let's go back to our problem," She tried again, but the daughters were all just staring at her as if they had seen a ghost. "Well? Let's get to the real problem," Serena demanded.
So the girls went back to brainstorming. They still came up with nothing. "There's a piece of this puzzle we're missing here," Serena finally said, "The answer is right under our noses, we just need to look." She said trying to get her friends attention. "Yeah, but what?" Vanessa asked. 'I dunno.maybe if we go over all the facts and everything we know it will help," Serena answered . The girls nodded. "So where do we start?" Jimena questioned. "Uh.let's start with the abduction of Stanton and Serena's Cello lesson," Catty suggested, "Okay homegirl tell us what happened again," Jimena said.
Serena nodded and started, "Well Stanton drove me to my lesson and said he'd wait for me because it was dangerous for one of us to be alone, so I went inside and then when I came out there was no Stanton, so I waited and he never came so I started walking to the bus stop when I noticed some scraps of paper on the ground and one of them had my name on it." Serena stopped, realization finally dawned on her. "The papers!" She exclaimed, "The scraps of paper I found may have a clue to this whole mystery!" She cried again. All the daughters suddenly became excited and they made their way over to the dining room table where Serena had laid out the papers.
The girls tried and tried to piece the papers together right, but it never worked out right, they always made a mistake, something didn't fit. "Maybe you forgot some pieces," Catty said, giving up after two hours of nonstop paper unscrambling. It was 2:00 in the morning and all the daughters were drifting off to sleep. "We'd better do this in the morning," Serena said unsuccessfully trying to stifle a yawn. "Our brains are no good when they're not working, we'll try again tomorrow, maybe we can even go to talk to Maggie." Serena told the daughters, and they all nodded their agreement, so they set out their sleeping bags and fell asleep. (For those of you who don't know who Maggie is she is the daughters mentor in using their gifts.)
*~*~*
Stanton lay on his bed, unable to fall asleep. He looked at his clock. He groaned, it was 2:47 in the morning! He was unbelievably tired, yet something in him wouldn't let him sleep. "Maybe it's warning," he thought to himself. "Maybe my bodies trying to tell me something bad will happen if I fall asleep.Nah who ever heard of a body danger clock?" He said chuckling to himself as if the whole idea was just plain crazy.
He tossed and turned in his covers, but was able to find no rest. So finally giving up he turned on his light and picked up his book. "I wonder if Serena got the note I left for her," he mused to himself. "I hope so," he said, continuing his conversation with no one in particular. He was flipping through his book of myths and he came across the legend of Selene, The moon goddess. It said she had 50 children, before Endymion was sentenced to eternal sleep. "Wow" he thought, then he remembered something, Serena and the other daughters of the moon, were Selene's daughters! Did that mean there were 50 daughters of the moon?
"There could not be 50 daughters of the Moon," Stanton said to himself, "Although it would help out in the war with the atrox." Then Stanton suddenly felt sleep overcome him just as he was finding something he thought of importance in the book, he fainted. He woke up and did not remember anything of last night, besides that he couldn't sleep, but he could have sworn his eyes didn't hurt this much from not sleeping. Stanton noticed that some things in his room were different, "Maybe the maids came in and cleaned while I was sleeping," he thought to himself, feeling a little spooked.
*~*~*
The daughters made their way across the L.A. streets to Maggie's apartment. They were given no trouble and made their way there quickly, having the feeling that they were being watched. They buzzed Maggie, "Ah, I see you need council, come in my dears," and the doors opened.
A/n: please review and tell me what you think of the story, am I ruining the story? Am I making it better? Please tell me your thoughts, but keep in mind that I'm new at this! And I have serious writers block, and I have a feeling by forcing myself to write during a writers block period I just ruined the story.well please r/r and suggestions are more than welcome! Darn writers block! And I'm not getting many reviews, unless I start getting some reviews I'm going to assume you don't like this story and stop writing it! So please for the stories sake, if you read this story, review it!
~Moonfairy1016