Thank you all for reviewing, glad you liked it! I thought it would be nice for The Four to have relatives in Circle Daybreak, maybe we can see a different side to some of them…
Anyway thanks again and here is the next chapter. Hope you enjoy!
Xx Jez xx
p.s I am trying to get at new chapter up every weekend we will see how it goes!!
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The Rise of the Darkness
4
"Lizzy are you in there?" Ciara asked, knocking on the en suite bathroom door to Elizabeth's new room. Thierry had had the rooms made up for them all next to each other.
"I'm on the loo!" She shouted back.
"Well hurry up will you? We are going out in five minutes!" Ciara retorted, leaning against the wall next to the door.
Bonita appeared at the door and comes in and gives Ciara a hug.
"Lizzy hurry up, we are all ready and waiting for you!" Bonita says with a smile on her face.
"Ok. Just a minute!" Elizabeth shouted, now getting quite agitated.
A few seconds later Fleta appears and bounces into the room and gives both Ciara and Bonita a big hug.
Fleta turns to the door. "Lizzy everyone is waiting! Hurry up, hurry up, hurry, hurry, hurry up!!!" She says in a high ingenuous voice.
"will you all just SHUT UP! I CAN'T PEE UNDER PRESURE!" Elizabeth yells.
All three of them can't contain there laughter and head downstairs.
Elizabeth appears at the top of the stairs a few moments later. She looks slightly flustered and glares at her three friends when she realises that they are trying to stifle there laughter.
"Relived now are we?" Bonita asks her still grinning.
"Hope there was no more pressure!" Ciara puts in.
"We will have to warn everyone not to do that. we don't want you emerging like a tomato next time nature calls!" Fleta finished.
All three of them start laughing again and Elizabeth gives them the evil eye and goes off to find some condolence in Delos who puts his arm around her and gives her a quizzical look which she just shakes her head at.
"well lets go shall we?" Kestrel said opening the door.
Thierry appeared with Hannah. "So where exactly are you all going and who is going?" he asked.
"James, Poppy, Ash, Mare, Blaise, Quinn, Delos, Maggie, Iliana, Bonita, Ciara, Lizzy, Fleta and me." Kestrel said, "And we are taking The Four shopping and showing them the neighbourhood."
"That sounds like fun. Have a good time." Hannah put in.
"Yes but be careful." Thierry said. He goes up and hugs Fleta, "Take care." He whispers to her.
"Don't worry; I'll be fine it's a big group. And it's only shopping!" she replies hugging him hard.
"Bye!" they all chorus and the all step out into the warm Californian air and head out for some fun.
"So how did you all end up here?" Bonita says trying to start a conversation.
"Well you see most of us found out that the soul mate principle is true and we all sort of changed." James tried to explain.
"So who are soul mates?" Ciara asked. "I know we only met you all last night but is everyone connected some how?"
"Well let's run down the list shall we?" Ash puts in.
Ash and Mary-Lynnette, Eric and Thea, Gillian and David, Quinn and Rashel, Thierry and Hannah, Jez and Morgead, Delos and Maggie, Keller and Galen are all soul mates." James answers, "And Poppy and I are sort of girlfriend and boyfriend."
"Phil is Poppy's brother; Mark is Mary-Lynnette's brother. Rowan, Kestrel and Jade are Ash's sisters and they are all cousins of James. So is Jez and Delos. Thea and Blaise are cousins. Miles is Maggie's brother. Nissa and Winnie are Keller's friends and Iliana is a lost witch." Quinn carries on.
"Who are all the vampires and witches and stuff?" Elizabeth asks.
"James, Poppy, Ash, Rowan, Kestrel, Jade, Quinn, Thierry, Jez, Morgead, Delos and Nissa are the vampires." Mary-Lynnette says. "Though Poppy is half witch and Jez is half human, which adds some confusion."
"Phil, Thea, Blaise, Gillian, Winnie and Iliana are the Witches." Maggie chirps.
"Mare, Mark, Eric, David, Rashel, Hannah and Maggie are the Humans." Ash replies silkily.
"And Miles, Keller and Galen are the shapeshifters. Miles is a made Falcon Shifter, Keller is a Panther and Galen is a leopard." Poppy explains.
"A lot to take in." Elizabeth blurts out.
"yeah."
"Why is Thierry called Lord?" Fleta pipes up.
"He is Lord of the Night World." Delos says simply.
"So what do you girls do for fun?" Blaise asks.
Bonita and Ciara exchange a grin. "Ciara and I, personally just can't help but toy with the minds of men." Bonita smiles.
"Oh. Girls after my own heart!" Blaise replies.
Ciara and Bonita start telling Blaise about the lads in the airport.
"We just go along with them." Fleta answers Maggie's questioning eyes.
They arrived at the Mall and start looking around the shops. After a great laugh and loads of shopping they all head over to the park.
"Wow this is lovely." Elizabeth exclaims.
They all go and sit in a secluded area under a few trees and all carry on laughing and enjoying themselves.
Bonita and Ciara notice a group of humans heading towards them. There are six lads and two girls. They stop at one of the benches and two of the lads sit down and the two girls sit on top of them and start to kiss.
The other four lads wander over and start throwing a ball around. They notice the group and Ciara and Bonita who are closest and little Fleta quite isolated. The lads nod at each other and throw the ball straight at Ciara.
"Heads!" they shout and Ciara whirls around and catches the ball.
"Wow"
"Cool"
"Excellent"
They all whoop and head over, and Ciara gets up "These are mine." She whispers and saunters over to them the ball in her hand.
"And she's off." Elizabeth sighs.
"Work it hunny!" Bonita calls.
"Who lost their ball?" Ciara asks seductively.
One of them walks right up and towers over her. He is tall with short ruffled, blonde hair and warm brown eyes. He has a slightly tanned complexion and on a tight white top which shows of his great body. "That would be me." He also has an Irish accent.
"Hold out your hand…" he does and she places the ball in it very carefully. Then she turns her head up and followed by her dark eyes.
"And he's hooked." Blaise says looking impressed.
"Ha! Girl works fast." Ash says also looking impressed.
Quinn glares.
James goes and sits next to Bonita and puts his arm around her. "Is my sister ok?"
"Yeah. And are you glad it isn't your sister up there?" she asks.
"Oh yeah." He replies.
"So what's your name?" he asks. the ball still in his hand and Ciara's hand is still on top of it.
"Ciara. And you are?" she replies.
I'm William, also known as, Will, Willie and Billy." He says smiling. "So who are you here with?"
"Just some friends." Ciara replies.
"Oh nice. Do you fancy coming and having some fun with me?" he asks grinning.
"It all depends on what kind of fun you had in mind." She replies enticingly.
"Whatever kind of fun you like." He says putting his hand on her bum getting near to the hemline of her short denim skirt.
Quinn's eyes widen as he saw that jerk's slimy hand on his sister's bum. He jumped up and faster than lightning he pulled Ciara away from him and was squaring up to him.
"You touch my sister again and I will kill you!"
"Hay back of will you." He replied, "Maybe she wanted me to."
"I don't think so."
"Whatever. She was clearly interested in me, weren't you babe?" he asks tuning to Ciara.
"I don't think so you were all over her and putting her into that situation."
"Whatever. Come on babe let's go and have some real fun." He says pulling Ciara over around the waist.
"Let go of her!" Quinn said threateningly.
"Make me!" he replied pulling Ciara in closer and rubbing his face into her hair and groping her.
"Quinn no!" Ciara exclaimed "and you get off!" she said.
"Why babe aren't you enjoying yourself?"
"No now get off!"
"You will learn to like it!"
"ok that's it." Ciara elbowed him in the stomach with great force, stood on his foot with her heal, punched him in the nose with her fist and then in the groin.
Quinn quickly jumped in and starting laying into him and beating him up. The others ran over to see what was happening. James and Ash were pulling Quinn off the lad and the other three lads were crowding around helping a beat up William up. And non of them seemed to notice the two lads and girls who were making out on the bench, disappear behind the tree and come up behind Fleta and knock her out and carry her away.
William and the other lads ran away. "And if you ever come near my sister again you will not be as lucky!" Quinn yelled. He turned to Ciara and took her in his arms.
They all started heading back, Quinn with his arm around Ciara protectively. If any man even looked at her, Quinn would glare at them.
Bonita and James were holding hands and Elizabeth was holding on to Delos.
"Hey, where is Fleta?" Iliana asked.
Everyone stopped and turned and looked at each other.
Ciara, Elizabeth and Bonita broke away from everyone and sprinted back to the park. They were closely followed by everyone else.
They split up and started looking for things, clues, anything.
"Everyone over here!" Mary-Lynnette called.
Everyone rushed over and in her hand she held Fleta's bag.
"over here quick." Ash called. Everyone went over to the tree he was at and they saw a small wooden bat with blood on it.
"Oh my god!" Bonita exclaimed.
"Put it in a plastic bag…with out touching it… we will take it back and get Thierry to get someone to look at it." Poppy said coolly.
Ciara was leaning on Quinn like she was going to faint and Kestrel was comforting a weeping Elizabeth and James was holding a shocked Bonita.
They arrived back at Circle Daybreak HQ and rushed in.
"What's all the commotion about?" Hannah asked.
"We need Thierry." Mary-Lynnette breathed.
"I'm here. what's going on?" He asked at the top of the stairs.
"Fleta's been kidnapped." She said shakily.
"WHAT!" Thierry exclaimed and leapt down the stairs.
"We think some lads knocked her out at the park." Delos informed him.
"But why didn't anyone notice!" he bellowed.
"oh its complicated." James started.
"But she's my sister!" Thierry interrupted he sound absolutely devastated.
"QUIET!" Hannah shouted and everyone was silent and turned to her. "Now lets just all calm down and figure out what we are going to do."