Disclaimer: none of this is mine. Tortallians are Tamora Pierces, CSI's and Cold case detectives are Jerry Bruckheimer, and The SVU detectives belong to Dick Wolf. Though I wouldn't mind owning some of the characters. Lol.
An hour later, every one had been situated in rooms. Because the only rooms available were two suites, the men and women were each assigned one, much to Grissiom, Warrick, and Nick's dismay. The other guys soon would share this dismay though, on account of being stuck in the same rooms as Greg. And of course, men just cant get along, which was obvious when Eric made the comment "Sara's pretty hot", which caused Nick to flash a deadly glare at him. And that erupted into accusations from Eric that Nick wasn't dating her, and that developed into a fight. Men. Grissom didn't hear any of this, on account of he had fainted from the shock of no latex gloves. Warrick and Scotty were just watching the fight with amusement, Greg was grilling Speed about Calleigh, and Elliot watched Nick and Eric fight for a while before walking off muttering something about how he was glad he was married and didn't have to deal with that kind of thing.
Meanwhile, in the Next room, the women, along with Alanna and Daine, who had joined the Americans in their rooms, were bonding over something they all had in common: the ability to kick men's asses.
"You have got to teach me how to use that thing!" exclaimed Calleigh to Alanna.
"Yeah! We need it to put Greg in his place at the lab!" laughed Catherine. The woman dissolved into laughter.
"Can you just imagine the look on a suspects face if we faced him with a sword?" gasped Olivia, a little out of breath from laughing so hard.
"Humph, the cases we sometimes solve are so old the murder weapon could be a sword!" Lilly giggled.
"So, what do you guys do, I mean, you say crime solving and detective work. What exactly does it mean?" Daine was very interested in these strangers.
"Well, me, Cath, and Calleigh are Crime scene investigators. Meaning we get called after a crime, like a murder or something, has been committed. We look for clues to solve the case. Like fingerprints and hairs and stuff. We call it evidence."
"I'm a detective. I go after the bad guy based on the CSI's clues. I also get the suspect and ask them questions." Added Yelina.
"I'm also a detective, except I go after people who commit sex crimes, like rapes, and crimes against children."
"And I am a detective, like Yelina and Olivia. Only I solve cases that were closed earlier due to lack of leads. I reopen them and solve them"
Daine and Alanna stood mystified as Lilly concluded.
"What do y'all do?" asked Calleigh, in her southern drawl.
"I'm a lady knight. The first and only, well, accept Kel but she's not a knight yet, she's still in training. I'm also a pretty powerful mage and healer."
"Um, Alanna, what's a mage?" Yelina asked.
"Its like a wizard, we can do magic and stuff like that."
"Yeah" agreed Daine, "but I'm a different type of mage. Meaning I can shape shift into animals, talk to them, and hear them talk back, and heal them with my magic."
"Yeah right. I'm sorry but I just cannot believe that. Its just not scientific" exclaimed Sara.
Daine and Alanna smirked at each other. Suddenly Daine's clothing fell. All the woman, except for Alanna, shrieked as right before their eyes, Daine became one of her favorite shapes, a wolf. To confuse them more, Daine then changed her wolf mouth human and grinned. "That convince you? Now, Alanna, wanna show them a bit of your magic while I change back?"
Alanna laughed. "Of course!" she winked at Daine and looked at the women. She called her purple magic and casted a bright light.
The Criminalist and detectives were, to say the least dumbfounded. They looked at Daine, who was going behind a screen to transform.
"She isn't clothed when she shifts back to human shape," Alanna told the group, who stood with their jaws dropped.
While this was going on, in the men's rooms, Grissom had just woken up. The other guys were all to preoccupied notice Grissom was walking out the door! And he was still crazy.
"I must find some kind of clue to this. I have to!" Grissiom kept thinking this to himself as he wondered out side. His wonderings took him to the stables; putting him in Clouds stall.
"Hey, want to go see the stables?" suggested Daine, eager to show off the animals."
"Ok"
"Sure"
"Sounds good"
"Will they bite?"
The group agreed, talking all at once. So down to the stables they went. But when they were walking down the barn aisles, they heard a large commotion, coming from Clouds stall. They quickly followed Daine to the small mares stall. There, they found the shaggy grey pony was hold Grissom by the shirt up in the air and was shaking him.
"Cloud? What are you doing?" Daine yelled both aloud and in mind speech.
"This strange man was poking around and touching me. I didn't like it so I stopped him."
A/N: well, there's chapter 3! I hope you liked it! Please tell me what you think by dropping me a review! I love to hear from you guys. Flames are allowed, as long as they are INTELLIGENT! So, please review. Tell me what you think.
Also, Cloud is Daines pony mare, which has a major attitude. She is very smart. Just so you know. Now, don't just sit there, REVIEW!
Emily