Swept Into The Wind
By chocolateswirl88
Chapter Ten: Karate anyone?
A/N: Chapter ten everybody! Any questions or comments that you have, place them in the review box! Go on, I know you want too...;)
The rolling hills contiued outside the train window as the large locomotive passed rapidly through the many countrysides that ceased to end. The sky changed colors again from the morning orange and pinks to the nightly blue, green, and purples. Riley spent a lot of time reading and scribbling in her notebook whatever came to mind. Ideas for a new painting, a story, poem, play, anything. She often worked out because there was nothing better to do.
Within in two more traveling days the train slowed to a screeching halt at lovely train stop. Grabbing her two bags that she had, Riley got off the train and was thankful to be on solid land. She would have dropped to her knees and kissed the cement, but considering there was a large group of people waiting for their train, she decided against it.
Outside of the station was a large black carriage waiting. A man jumped down from the drivers seat and came to greet her.
"Good evening Miss. Thomas." He bowed low. Riley studdied him. He was a human, obviously a waitor in Draco's house. The light brunette opened the door to the carriage. Up near the front the horses snorted quietly and lightly pawed at the ground, ready to go. Sighing, she reluctantly got into the carriage, much preferring to walk a few dozen miles to give her legs a work out. Riley groaned once her behind came to rest on the extreemy fluffy cushions.
"This ride is going to be hell!" She cried, forgetting she wasn't alone. The carriage driver heard her.
"Why is this, Mademoiselle?" He inclinde. Riley could she the leather ropes held that were attached to the horse. "Surely your ride here was well?"
"Oh it was well alright." She said, pushing on her hands to lift her bottom off the seat. "I sat for WAY too long. How long will it take to get to this palace?"
"Nearly two hours." The driver replied, she could hear the amusement in his voice. "I have never been on a long trip such as yours. Since I was born I have lived here with my first Vampire master. Now that he has been overthrown and Master Draco has taken over, I'm allowed to leave the palace, but not the country. I'd like to see the Americas." Riley smirked.
"It's a lovely country." She assured him, leaning forward and clasping her hands. "I haven't been there in a year or two, but it's always nice to go back. I think if you ask Draco to let you on a little vacation, he'll agree. If not, I'll make him."
"Thank-you Miss. Thomas!" The poor man tried to hide his excitement but he failed himself. Riley couldn't stop herself from smiling.
"Oh it's not a problem whatsoever." Sitting back, she watched as more hills and forrests rolled past. "Oi, enough trees already!" She muttered, letting her head hit the window of the carriage with a small thump. She looked up after nearly an hour, supposing she would see more trees or fields, but instead, a very large house stood. Riley's mouth fell open.
The house was huge. She handn't expected it to be so large when she pictured it. Riley dubed her mind too dense in such things such a sizing buildings. For Draco being a vampire, he had a taste for light colors. It made her thankfull. She couldn't spend two weeks training vampires in a dark enviroment.
Once the carriage stopped infront of the huge double doors, nearly 4 more waitors bustled out from the mansion to help with her two bags that she brought. The youngest of them gave her a quizzical look. She winked, he grinned then winked, and ran back inside. Riley followed slowly, being escorted by her driver, and nearly collapsed as soon as she stepped foot through the huge double doors that would make Hogwarts quiver in fear.
"At least we know Draco lives well." Riley muttered to herself, earning a few amused looks from the waitors and waitresses waiting for her. Before her stood a staircase. A double stair case. They wound around a large fountian of the Vampire crest in the middle. Riley mentally rolled her eyes. She should have known.
"Welcome Riley, to Mongola Manor." Riley raised and eyebrow.
She stood in the center of the large backyard arena. After arriving she immediately demanded to have all her troops ready to begin. Nearly four-thousand vampires stood in long ranks reaching each end of the arena and filling up more than half of it. Each individual was clothed in the same outfit; loose jeans, tight white tshirts with the same symbol tatooed onto each right arm. Riley surveyed them as she walked through each rank. They didn't move. Which pleased her.
"This is no foolery!" She shouted from her spot somewher along the fourteenth rank. "I have not been summoned to train a bunch of amateurs a few sword tricks! You will learn more than what your leader has told you. If you are to fight in this war against Voldemort, then you need to know every skill he does not to shoot down your foes! I do not tolerate any misbehaving! Those who decide to break off and have a good time in the middle of your training run laps untill I tell them to stop! What I do with you is my decision! If I decide you are not able to continue your training, you will be done and will not advance!" She stopped. Her voice rang throughout the stadium. Draco sat in the highest box tower overlooking everything. His hand strayed to his chin, rubbing it thoughtfully. His eyes followed Riley as she spoke, as she moved. He was intrigued. No woman he had met ever showed such commandship, demanding their obedience.
"This training will be hard!" She shouted again, starring at each vampire in the face as she walked past them. "You will hurt! But you will not bleed! Your skill with nearly every weapon unknown to Voldemort could defeat the old bastard in seconds if it were not up to Harry Potter and the prophecy! Will you fufil your duty to this war! Or will you quit and watch from the sidelines!"
"We shall fight!" Every vampire of the four thousand cried. Riley nodded. That was the answer she wanted to hear.
"Good good." Riley muttered, wandering down nearly ten more ranks. "Realx!" she called, and in thankfull sigh all the vampires shook their heads and stretched. "I'm not going to be a war driller. This was a bit of practise for me, for what I have to do later this year. But what I said was correct so take heed, and caution. I'm not the one to piss off on a regular basis." One of the vampires near her chuckled, causing Riley to quirk and eyebrow. 'I really need to stop doing that…my eyebrow is going to end up staying that way..'
"My mom used to say that." He grinned. And Riley admitted that he was one fine looking vampire. "So my brothers and sisters and I decided to test her out, see if she did anything."
"Not a smart thing to do." Riley was grinning, her arms crossed over her chest as she leaned back a bit, almost like there was an imaginary wall right there.
"Indeed." He agreed. "She got her revenge, that's for sure." Riley was curious.
"And what was this…revenge?"
"Placed a sex-change spell us…all 8 of us. It lasted for nearly a month before it wore off. I had never seen that woman laugh so much in her life." Riley snorted, remembering the spell well, she used it on Wanda once when she found out she tried to get into her diary. "You've used it too." The vampire stated, he looked amused, and really fine. Riley had to inwardly punish herself.
"On my step mother." She replied, a grin spreading on her lips. "Tried to get into my diary, to find secrets to my home. My dad was bewildered, and avoided her like the plague for weeks. Wanda begged him for sex, but he locked himself in brother's room for a good while. I don't think I've seen the sextupletts laugh so hard in my life." By now, several more vampires were laughing. Riley forgot she had used sonorous to make her voice heard. She shrugged off, no biggy. "Alright, you first stage of training is muggle karate. It may seem useless, but we don't know who Voldemort has as allies. If he got the Hokun team in Japan, we could be in trouble."
With a flick of her index finger, a large screen appeared before the Vampires. Almost instantly a small tutorial over 'human to human combat' began to play. Riley didn't really like the video for most of its' contents, but it did give a few good tips. She stepped over to the side of the arena and watched the video as well. A pair of fighters stood on the screen. One dressed in all black, one in all white. Only to express who was playing the bad guy in the film.
They fought with vigorous fire, purposly missing the vital organs of their oponent. Swift kicks, sharp arm movements, everything. Suddenly, the two figures popped out of the screen, still fighting. Riley's eyes widened as she looked from screen to the pair that just appeared into the arena.
"That wasn't supposed to happen." She said finally, earning strange looks from the vampires. Riley had compleately forgotten the sonorous spell she cast on her vocal chords. "Oops." By now, the fighters had spotted here and both came hurtling towards her. Riley could easily adjust to her new surroundings.
Both fighters attempted to knock her off her feet, thinking she couldn't tell what was going on. Oh contrarywise! Riley jumped, bring her knees to her chest and spreading her arms. She landed, her arms ready for kicking karate ass.
"Nice try ladies." She smirked. Dodging a kick to the head, Riley tripped the fighter dressed in black and focused on the white fighter. Usually the warriors dressed in white were the bigger threat. She had experience. Visiting Magic Japan you had to take risks. She was right, the white fighter was the more vicious of the two that popped out of her movie screen.
The vampires had stepped back quite a bit to give Riley enough room. In a flash a strange green light covered the whole mass of vampires. She had put up a faerie shield spell for their protection and not to get involved with very little experience. The black fighter saw the spell and ran towards it, compleately unaware of what it was.
At the very moment he came in contact with it, he crashed into the spherical shape with a loud thud and was sent flailing all arms and legs to the very gates of the arena. Riley snorted as she doged another blow to the stomach. She stepped back suddenly.
"No more fooling around." Her voice was low and threatening. The white clad fighter charged at her. Riley planted her foot into his gut, grabbed the front of his shirt and flung him across the stadium to join his friend, knocking both of them out cold. She dusted her hair. Draco sat with his mouth open up in his presbox. Quickly, Riley took off the spell, allowing the vampires free movement once again. "That my blood-drinking friends, is a real karate combat fight." Everyone burst into applause, even Draco. "Now, break off into partners. I'll need a brave man or woman to work with me up here." The fine looking vampire she spoke with early flung himself at her, a smirk of triumph on his face. She chuckled. "Right, now then, with my slight and unexpected demonstration, you need to examine where your enemy is heading. Not all of them will go to the feet. They'll want to play with you before they try to defeat you. It's not always easy to tell where they're going. What may seem like the legs could very well be the crotch."
