"Well..." she replied "Well nothing... keep your voice down to nothing above a whisper. Who is that girl you came with? Oh no, you didn't tell her anything did you?" his was becoming deeper and softer with every word his look told her he was extremely troubled over this specific bit of information.

"Her name is Sapphire, and she was kind enough to show me to this place. Of course she wondered why I was here and all, so I had to explain about that crazy stwirg who was "mind comming" me or whatever. You people are so weird, can't you just__"

"YOU FOOL!" He exclaimed, "You could ruin everything we have worked for, EVERYTHING!!!"

Eris, sick of stupid lectures from stupid adults, zoned out the loser and he continued to ramble on for several minutes.

::Sigh:: "Are you done yet?" She answered with a yawn.

His face turned a deeper shade of red and he looked ready to explode.

Realizing what she had done, Eris quickly apologized, "Please, tell me what is going on anyways?"

"No, ok, No, pills! WEEEE" He exclaimed wildly.

"Um, what?" She asked deciding whether to laugh or run away screaming.

"Sorry about that, I have turrets, I forgot my pills today." He apologized profusely and began again.

"Well, I was watching you....one day...and you were crying...and I realized, that I loved you. Eris, I have known you for many years, when your brother came to this town, he told me all about you, that was of course, before his soul was harvested by the evil Lordess Sappho."

"But, what, I__" Eris was speechless.

"No, do not speak," He said quietly, "I have been watching you for 2 years, and I've decided that you are my true soul mate, but before we can get marred__"

"Yo, hold up, marred? What is that?" She asked disgustedly

"Oh, excuse me, I meant married." He replied

"HOLD UP TIMES TWO! Since when did I say I was marrying you?" She asked, appalled.

"Well, that is why I said before we get married, we have a mission to complete, we must save your brother from the Lordess Sappho (dun dun dun) I'm sure on this mission you will come to love me, and we will surely get married when it is through."

"Maybe you should just stop your insane psychotic lusting for me for one minute and explain who the hell you are and where my brother is and why exactly and what exactly I am supposed to do on this 'mission' of yours."

"I am Vitron, your brother has been taken by the very person you came here with, you should not have told her PARLAY damn to the depths sorry turrets... any way you said her name was Sapphire? Well that doesn't sound at all like Lordess of the death and darkness Sappho does it? She has disguised herself, even though you probably ruined our chances of saving your brother I still love you, because this could work to our advantage. You can find where she is staying, you can_ BUBBLES_ sorry... help to find your brother. She took his soul, not this city, while it is enchanting it doesn't take souls. She took him and many others like him, she enchanted them and is trapping them away somewhere, you could find out where, but you must not let her find out you know what she doesn't think you know that you really in all actually do know but she doesn't want you to know that she knows and you have to trick her into showing us."

Eris still in total shock that her one friend could be an old witch her very enemy that took her brother's soul and trapped him somewhere could. She knew it had to be done even if she did have to save her brother through a strange man who was obsessed with her and the very person who did this to her brother. "Fine, but what if she figures us out? Are we to be left at her mercy? I would do anything for my brother to make my parents happy again, but what if_"

"No more with the 'what ifs', life is taking chances and being who you make yourself. If you question everything you do you will convince yourself not to do it, then you will end up where you were this morning_ crying, feeling sorry for yourself because you have no friends because you are to scared to take a chance with anything or anyone. Just do it and make sure she doesn't figure it out"

"Well, well" thought 'Sapphire' "they have me figured out, well lets see how smart they are when I lead them right to a trap."

What Vitron didn't know is that Sappho (Sapphire) could read lips better than anyone and that he and Eris were about to be sucked into a web of lies and trickery unlike anything they had ever known before.

What Eris was thinking was that she was perfectly fine this morning sitting and just crying, unhappy, but still fine and if she knew what was going to happen to her she never would have agreed to go to help her brother. She was lost in her thoughts as usual when Vitron yelled, "I AVAS" his turrets seemed to be going for the pirate sayings, it would be very annoying to have him watching her and looking at her like she was the only person that mattered in his life. If he continued looking at her like that she would slap him.

They got up and walked out, she didn't realize she had been in there for such a long time it was pitch black, except for the moon which appeared to be extremely close to the ground and very bright. Not that she minded, she was after all, away from home with two people whom she had no trust in and had to stay with them and trust them.

"You can stay with me, my father owns a small tavern not far from the city." Sapphire said.

They agreed and left, as they walked Sappho started to hum a rather enchanting song. She was soon singing with a beautiful voice:

Fair river! in thy bright, clear flow

Of crystal, wandering water,

Thou art an emblem of the glow

Of beauty-the unhidden heart-

The playful maziness of art

In old Alberto's Daughter;

But when within thy wave she looks-

Which glistens then, and trembles-

Why, then, the prettiest of brooks

Her worshipper resembles;

For in his heart, as in thy stream,

Her image deeply lies-

His heart which trembles at the beam

Of her soul-searching eyes.

Eris guess that Vitron had popped a few of his turrets pills because he was silent. The further they walked the more they looked like zombies.

"Good" thought Sappho, "my song is working now they will be easy to convince."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ AN:: LaLaLaLaLa... wasn't me... ^evil cliffy^