I don't own any of the characters all of them are the properties of their respective authors. The only ones who aren't are those whose names you don't recognise.
Thank you for any reviews I have/get I try and get back to everyone in some way whether by reviewing your fic or by e-mail. Bear with me for a short while longer as we are almost there. Not knowing Australia at all other than somewhere on the otherside of the world I'll apologise now for any mistakes.
What do people think of Joh Roxton and Ned land in the group? I'd like to do some more fics about the group after this one as they are easy to write. I'd like to know what people think of my current league Mina, Nemo, Skinner, Ned, John Roxton and Tom. I have many more characters that I can use having been through every book I own and finding books set around the same time. Do you think that Ned should stay? I'm thinking that John should leave and only be brought back when he is needed as he needs to go and find dinosaurs at some point.
Anyway I'll get on with the story now and try and get it finnished before I go home for Christmas which is about a week to go.
Please review and let me know what you think of it so far. I will try and introduce the enemy in this part but am tempted to have him in the next story as I don't want this one to be too long.
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Australia ...
Mina and John walked almost silently down the corridor, Skinner was somewhere ahead of them scouting, John looked nervously at Mina from time to time as he couldn't equate the well manered chemist from the Nautilus with the quite frankly scary woman who had killed the two guards
"You do not need to be nervous of me" Mina said quietly
"I'm sorry but I am not used to women drinking blood." John said embarresed that she had caught him staring
"I will not drink yours. I am in control of myself so only need to feed on an infrequent basis." Mina said.
"We can't go any further this way. There's a locked door just ahead." Skinner said returnning.
"Skinner you are a thief, can't you open it?" Mina asked sighing
"I just wanted to check I was allowed to do so before I did anythin' as you are in charge of our section and all." Skinner said
"Just do it ." Mina said sighing. Skinner chuckled and turnned to walk back the way he had come this time Mina and John went with him. The door was just a short way down the corridor and Mina and John prepared to wait while Skinner got the lock open.
"Piece of cake." Skinner said scornfully a few minutes later as the door opened.
"Go down first Skinner we will follow you." Mina said. The three of them set off down the dark stairway only Mina was able to see anything and that wasn't much.
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Elsewhere ...
"Damn." Tom swore as they ran into yet another group of soldiers. This was maybe the fifth group they had found and it was getting very boring to deal with then especially as Tom had been told to not shoot them. Tom was sure that it wasn't going to do his riffle much good to be continuosly used to hit people with. Nemo and Ned weren't having this problem as one was quite content to either cut someone to pieces or to stick a harpoon through someone. Tom had decidedly changed his views about Ned Land as the man was deadly with his chosen weapon in his hand. One of the soldiers went over to one side and hit a button which set an alarm ringing throughout the base.l
"Now you may shoot them, Mr Sawyer." Nemo said. Tom grinned and slung his riffle on his back before drawing his twin pistols and opening fire.
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Mina's group
The alarm suddenly ringing made John jump. They had been walking in almost perfect silence since they had reached the bottom of the stairs and a loud bell suddenly ringing out was unexpected to say the least.
"What have the other three done now?" Mina wondered out loud
"Do you want us to go and find out?" Skinner asked
"No we will continue with our job." Mina said desperately hoping that the others would be alright especially Tom.
"There's another locked door ahead of us." Skinner reported.
"Open it then and see if it is one of our friends." Mina said.
"Righty ho." Skinner said with forced cheerfulness. He worked quickly and soon had this door opened as well
"Let me go first." Mina said. She pushed the door open and walked quickly towards the figure curled up on the bed.
"Who is it?" John asked not being familiar with any of the missing people.
"Henry?" Mina asked, she was fairly certain that it was him due to his familiar feel but she wasn't sure. The figure raised their head slowly. Dr Jekyll's familiar features looked up at them from a face ravaged by grief. His dark brown hair was untidy and was in need of a wash, the skin was pulled tightly over his cheek bones and his red eyes were sunk back in his head. He looked terrible.
"Henry are you alright?" Skinner asked
"She's dead." Henry whispered his voice hoarse.
"Who's dead ?" John asked.
"Zu." Jekyll whispered before starting to sob once more.
"Oh God no." Skinner said and judging from the dent that suddenly appeared on Henry's bed he had sat down.
"I am sorry for appearing heartless but how do you know?" Mina asked. Henry reached inside his clothes and produced a silver band with a blood stainned jewel on it.
"Her engagement ring." Skinner said recognising it from when Henry and Zu had announced their engagement just a few weeks earlier.
"That doesn't mean she is dead." Mina said gently.
"They had no reason to lie. I couldn't tell them what they wanted and I was never going to." Henry said grasping desperately for self control.
"What did they want?" John asked
"They wanted me to give them the means to make more of my formulae. Will I never be clear of that blasted thing?" Jekyll said slwoly starting to uncurl from the ball he had been in.
"Come we need to get moving. We need to find Zu and Aronax." Mina said deciding that keeping Jekyll busy was the best way to deal with his melancholy. She hoped that Zu was alive as despite significant advances being made Henry was still emotionally unstable and the death of his wife could well plunge him over the edge.
"Let us just hope they are alive." John muttered low enough that only Mina heard him
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Tom burst through a door closely followed by Ned with Nemo bringing up the rear.
"Do all your rescue attempts go as well as this?" Ned inquired while examining a graze on his left arm where a bullet had clipped him.
"None of our plans ever work that well." Tom replied. He was reloading his guns while he had a chance to as he was getting low on bullets.
"They do." Nemo protested running through the various escapades that the league had been involved in through his head
"Since when?" Tom demanded.
"I don't think that now is a good idea for you to be having this talk." Ned said looking round. They were in an office with no obvious way out. They were trapped.
"Damn." Tom swore
"Tom Sawyer, Captain Nemo, Ned Land if you come out now I promise that I will not kill you." a voice called from outside
"Why should we trust you?" Nemo demanded
"You can either stay there and die or come out and some of you may live."
"What do we do?" Ned asked
"We're going to have to go out." Nemo said after exchanging a look with Tom.
Nemo led the two younger men out of the office they were in to find that they were surrounded by soldiers
"It is nice that you have decided to be reasonable. many people like yourself find themselves getting ideas about death and glory charges which is remarkably stupid considering that they are surrounded by people with significantly better weaponry than they wield." A man said stepping forward. He was in his early fifties with the tidiness of dress and appearance that was usually found among the upper class in particular those who had spent some time in the army.
"May I have your name sir?" Nemo inquired
"Certainly I am Colonel Moran. You may have heard of me."
"I have." Tom said " You were sent to Australia a few years back after attempting to kill Sherlock Holmes, you were one of Moriartys gang then I believe. You were supposed to be hung but someone pulled a few strings and you were just deported."
"Quite correct. What a clever American you seem to have found. Quite surprising considering that it is rare for one of them to have an original idea" Moran said (BEFORE ANYONE SHOUTS AT ME THIS IS NOT MY VIEW !!!)
"Why did you kidnap my daughter and her husband ?" Nemo demanded
"The black haired girl was your daughter?" Moran said seemingly surprised
"Yes."
"Then you will be upset to hear that I had her put to death somedays back. She was injured in Paris and as such was a nusance. Jekyll was not going to tell us anything so we had no further use for her." Moran said
"Dead?" Nemo couldn't believe it. She couldn't be dead. Moran was lying Zu was around somewhere and it was just a matter of time before she'd be there launching herself into a fight without thinking of the consequences.
"Yes. She was on her knees begging for my men not to kill her." Moran said with a smile seeing the pain he was inflicting on the previously emotionless Indian.
"Now that is a lie. Zu would never beg for anything in her life. She would kick your ass if she heard you say that." Tom said his american accent becoming more pronounced as he became angry..
"You cannot be sure of that can you?" Moran said pleased at the amount of pain he was inflicting on two of the men standing in front of him
"I can be. I know my daughter and she would never beg. She never has done and never will." Nemo said
"Keep believing that I'm sure the belief will help you." Moran said "Now where are the rest of your friends let's get you all together so that I do not have to explain things quite so many times."
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Elsewhere ...
"There ain't anyone in here" Skinner said having looked round the locked door to find a room identical to the one they had taken Jekyll from.
"I can smell blood in here. Not recent but from within the last week or so." Mina said
"Does that mean you want to have a look in there?" Skinner asked
"Yes so move." Mina almost growled.
"Sheesh you don't have to get so grumpy." Skinner moaned as he got out of her way.
"Do what you are told then." Mina replied as she crossed to the bed. Skinner decided to follow her into the room and with John and Henry behind him followed the vampire further into the room.
"Is it bad?" Henry asked his voice almost back to normal now. Skinner was proud of the doctor as he had pushed all his emotions and worries deep down and was trying to be helpful rather than a dependant.
"Part of the bed has blood on it. There is not a lot but it looks as though someone was bleeding quite badly and it leaked through a bandage." Mina said not wanting to tell the doctor that she thought it was Zu's blood.
"The person must have been bleeding quite severely for this amount to have leaked through." Henry commented before he realised what he had said and who had been hurt.
"We'll find her, don't worry Henry." Skinner said placing a hand on his friends shoulder.
"If what I've heard about your wife is true then I am sure that she'll be fine." John told Dr Jekyll who gave him a rather watery grin in responce.
"Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner, John Roxton and Henry Jekyll, I have your friends captive and unless you wish to see any more of your little group killed I would suggest that you return to the entrance to this compound where I will be waiting for you. If you think that you can get away then I must inform you that you have half an hour to get here before I kill the American." A voice said
"Where did that come from ?" Skinner demanded
"Those black boxes on the wall that we have been seeing all the way along." Mina said
"Well what do we do?" John asked
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A few more bits to go then I'll finish this one. I'll try and put up the third part of the series up when I get home.
Apologies to any americans who may have been insulted by what I said they are not my views.
Colonel Moran is from 'The Empty House' by Arthur Conan Doyle which I would suggest you read if you want more of a background than Tom gave.
Please review and let me know what you think.
Thank you for any reviews I have/get I try and get back to everyone in some way whether by reviewing your fic or by e-mail. Bear with me for a short while longer as we are almost there. Not knowing Australia at all other than somewhere on the otherside of the world I'll apologise now for any mistakes.
What do people think of Joh Roxton and Ned land in the group? I'd like to do some more fics about the group after this one as they are easy to write. I'd like to know what people think of my current league Mina, Nemo, Skinner, Ned, John Roxton and Tom. I have many more characters that I can use having been through every book I own and finding books set around the same time. Do you think that Ned should stay? I'm thinking that John should leave and only be brought back when he is needed as he needs to go and find dinosaurs at some point.
Anyway I'll get on with the story now and try and get it finnished before I go home for Christmas which is about a week to go.
Please review and let me know what you think of it so far. I will try and introduce the enemy in this part but am tempted to have him in the next story as I don't want this one to be too long.
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Australia ...
Mina and John walked almost silently down the corridor, Skinner was somewhere ahead of them scouting, John looked nervously at Mina from time to time as he couldn't equate the well manered chemist from the Nautilus with the quite frankly scary woman who had killed the two guards
"You do not need to be nervous of me" Mina said quietly
"I'm sorry but I am not used to women drinking blood." John said embarresed that she had caught him staring
"I will not drink yours. I am in control of myself so only need to feed on an infrequent basis." Mina said.
"We can't go any further this way. There's a locked door just ahead." Skinner said returnning.
"Skinner you are a thief, can't you open it?" Mina asked sighing
"I just wanted to check I was allowed to do so before I did anythin' as you are in charge of our section and all." Skinner said
"Just do it ." Mina said sighing. Skinner chuckled and turnned to walk back the way he had come this time Mina and John went with him. The door was just a short way down the corridor and Mina and John prepared to wait while Skinner got the lock open.
"Piece of cake." Skinner said scornfully a few minutes later as the door opened.
"Go down first Skinner we will follow you." Mina said. The three of them set off down the dark stairway only Mina was able to see anything and that wasn't much.
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Elsewhere ...
"Damn." Tom swore as they ran into yet another group of soldiers. This was maybe the fifth group they had found and it was getting very boring to deal with then especially as Tom had been told to not shoot them. Tom was sure that it wasn't going to do his riffle much good to be continuosly used to hit people with. Nemo and Ned weren't having this problem as one was quite content to either cut someone to pieces or to stick a harpoon through someone. Tom had decidedly changed his views about Ned Land as the man was deadly with his chosen weapon in his hand. One of the soldiers went over to one side and hit a button which set an alarm ringing throughout the base.l
"Now you may shoot them, Mr Sawyer." Nemo said. Tom grinned and slung his riffle on his back before drawing his twin pistols and opening fire.
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Mina's group
The alarm suddenly ringing made John jump. They had been walking in almost perfect silence since they had reached the bottom of the stairs and a loud bell suddenly ringing out was unexpected to say the least.
"What have the other three done now?" Mina wondered out loud
"Do you want us to go and find out?" Skinner asked
"No we will continue with our job." Mina said desperately hoping that the others would be alright especially Tom.
"There's another locked door ahead of us." Skinner reported.
"Open it then and see if it is one of our friends." Mina said.
"Righty ho." Skinner said with forced cheerfulness. He worked quickly and soon had this door opened as well
"Let me go first." Mina said. She pushed the door open and walked quickly towards the figure curled up on the bed.
"Who is it?" John asked not being familiar with any of the missing people.
"Henry?" Mina asked, she was fairly certain that it was him due to his familiar feel but she wasn't sure. The figure raised their head slowly. Dr Jekyll's familiar features looked up at them from a face ravaged by grief. His dark brown hair was untidy and was in need of a wash, the skin was pulled tightly over his cheek bones and his red eyes were sunk back in his head. He looked terrible.
"Henry are you alright?" Skinner asked
"She's dead." Henry whispered his voice hoarse.
"Who's dead ?" John asked.
"Zu." Jekyll whispered before starting to sob once more.
"Oh God no." Skinner said and judging from the dent that suddenly appeared on Henry's bed he had sat down.
"I am sorry for appearing heartless but how do you know?" Mina asked. Henry reached inside his clothes and produced a silver band with a blood stainned jewel on it.
"Her engagement ring." Skinner said recognising it from when Henry and Zu had announced their engagement just a few weeks earlier.
"That doesn't mean she is dead." Mina said gently.
"They had no reason to lie. I couldn't tell them what they wanted and I was never going to." Henry said grasping desperately for self control.
"What did they want?" John asked
"They wanted me to give them the means to make more of my formulae. Will I never be clear of that blasted thing?" Jekyll said slwoly starting to uncurl from the ball he had been in.
"Come we need to get moving. We need to find Zu and Aronax." Mina said deciding that keeping Jekyll busy was the best way to deal with his melancholy. She hoped that Zu was alive as despite significant advances being made Henry was still emotionally unstable and the death of his wife could well plunge him over the edge.
"Let us just hope they are alive." John muttered low enough that only Mina heard him
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Tom burst through a door closely followed by Ned with Nemo bringing up the rear.
"Do all your rescue attempts go as well as this?" Ned inquired while examining a graze on his left arm where a bullet had clipped him.
"None of our plans ever work that well." Tom replied. He was reloading his guns while he had a chance to as he was getting low on bullets.
"They do." Nemo protested running through the various escapades that the league had been involved in through his head
"Since when?" Tom demanded.
"I don't think that now is a good idea for you to be having this talk." Ned said looking round. They were in an office with no obvious way out. They were trapped.
"Damn." Tom swore
"Tom Sawyer, Captain Nemo, Ned Land if you come out now I promise that I will not kill you." a voice called from outside
"Why should we trust you?" Nemo demanded
"You can either stay there and die or come out and some of you may live."
"What do we do?" Ned asked
"We're going to have to go out." Nemo said after exchanging a look with Tom.
Nemo led the two younger men out of the office they were in to find that they were surrounded by soldiers
"It is nice that you have decided to be reasonable. many people like yourself find themselves getting ideas about death and glory charges which is remarkably stupid considering that they are surrounded by people with significantly better weaponry than they wield." A man said stepping forward. He was in his early fifties with the tidiness of dress and appearance that was usually found among the upper class in particular those who had spent some time in the army.
"May I have your name sir?" Nemo inquired
"Certainly I am Colonel Moran. You may have heard of me."
"I have." Tom said " You were sent to Australia a few years back after attempting to kill Sherlock Holmes, you were one of Moriartys gang then I believe. You were supposed to be hung but someone pulled a few strings and you were just deported."
"Quite correct. What a clever American you seem to have found. Quite surprising considering that it is rare for one of them to have an original idea" Moran said (BEFORE ANYONE SHOUTS AT ME THIS IS NOT MY VIEW !!!)
"Why did you kidnap my daughter and her husband ?" Nemo demanded
"The black haired girl was your daughter?" Moran said seemingly surprised
"Yes."
"Then you will be upset to hear that I had her put to death somedays back. She was injured in Paris and as such was a nusance. Jekyll was not going to tell us anything so we had no further use for her." Moran said
"Dead?" Nemo couldn't believe it. She couldn't be dead. Moran was lying Zu was around somewhere and it was just a matter of time before she'd be there launching herself into a fight without thinking of the consequences.
"Yes. She was on her knees begging for my men not to kill her." Moran said with a smile seeing the pain he was inflicting on the previously emotionless Indian.
"Now that is a lie. Zu would never beg for anything in her life. She would kick your ass if she heard you say that." Tom said his american accent becoming more pronounced as he became angry..
"You cannot be sure of that can you?" Moran said pleased at the amount of pain he was inflicting on two of the men standing in front of him
"I can be. I know my daughter and she would never beg. She never has done and never will." Nemo said
"Keep believing that I'm sure the belief will help you." Moran said "Now where are the rest of your friends let's get you all together so that I do not have to explain things quite so many times."
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Elsewhere ...
"There ain't anyone in here" Skinner said having looked round the locked door to find a room identical to the one they had taken Jekyll from.
"I can smell blood in here. Not recent but from within the last week or so." Mina said
"Does that mean you want to have a look in there?" Skinner asked
"Yes so move." Mina almost growled.
"Sheesh you don't have to get so grumpy." Skinner moaned as he got out of her way.
"Do what you are told then." Mina replied as she crossed to the bed. Skinner decided to follow her into the room and with John and Henry behind him followed the vampire further into the room.
"Is it bad?" Henry asked his voice almost back to normal now. Skinner was proud of the doctor as he had pushed all his emotions and worries deep down and was trying to be helpful rather than a dependant.
"Part of the bed has blood on it. There is not a lot but it looks as though someone was bleeding quite badly and it leaked through a bandage." Mina said not wanting to tell the doctor that she thought it was Zu's blood.
"The person must have been bleeding quite severely for this amount to have leaked through." Henry commented before he realised what he had said and who had been hurt.
"We'll find her, don't worry Henry." Skinner said placing a hand on his friends shoulder.
"If what I've heard about your wife is true then I am sure that she'll be fine." John told Dr Jekyll who gave him a rather watery grin in responce.
"Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner, John Roxton and Henry Jekyll, I have your friends captive and unless you wish to see any more of your little group killed I would suggest that you return to the entrance to this compound where I will be waiting for you. If you think that you can get away then I must inform you that you have half an hour to get here before I kill the American." A voice said
"Where did that come from ?" Skinner demanded
"Those black boxes on the wall that we have been seeing all the way along." Mina said
"Well what do we do?" John asked
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A few more bits to go then I'll finish this one. I'll try and put up the third part of the series up when I get home.
Apologies to any americans who may have been insulted by what I said they are not my views.
Colonel Moran is from 'The Empty House' by Arthur Conan Doyle which I would suggest you read if you want more of a background than Tom gave.
Please review and let me know what you think.