(Da, da, da- doom like sound- The moment that you've all been waiting for is at hand.)
The night pressed at them from all sides, Nicias moved forward slowly taking care to not make a sound. Oliza lagged behind, stifling laughter.
"What?" Nicias demanded angrily in a low whisper, "What is so funny?"
"I'm sorry…" Oliza murmured then laughed again, "You just look so ridiculous!"
"What? Oh yeah," he looked down at his flagrant appearance and chuckled lowly. He was wearing an over sized shirt silk shirt in the serpiente style and furry cream colored slacks. His wings protruded from under the bottom of his shirt, (he had been having trouble changing easily from his demi-form to not having wings due to the sudden coming out of his magic) and he was barefoot.
Oliza stifled yet another giggle, "See what I mean?"
"Yeah, yeah," Nicias conceded, "but try and be quiet, we don't want to be discovered." And on they pressed in search of Zane and Danica.
Meanwhile… Out in a country grove, eight shadows flickered stealthily between trees. Off in the distance, a fire was burning, black smoke billowing up into the night sky; it was Aubrey's house.
The eight figures stopped momentarily and turned back to the scene of the fire burning and the shouts of angry falcons. One of the figures swore loudly, issuing a string of curse words that would make the devil cringe; it was Aubrey.
"Aubrey, calm down!" Kristopher hissed, gesturing wildly toward the scene, "They will hear us." He was referring to the gaudy falcons in the distance that were busy swooping and diving at the high-rising flames in search of their charge, as he rushed forward to console the distraught Aubrey. The rest of the group stepped forward and in the pale glow from the fire off in the distance, their faces were visible: Nikolas, Nissa, Jessica, Zane, Danica, and Turquoise all exchanged glances.
Aubrey spun on his heel and stomped toward them still cursing wildly under his breath, he glared at Nikolas for a moment as he shoved past them, calling vehemently over his shoulder, "Come on and you better be able to keep up, because we're picking up pace." And he disappeared into a thicket of trees. Nikolas and Kristopher exchanged dark looks then started after him; the others reluctantly followed.
"Where are we going exactly?" Nissa asked Nikolas who merely shrugged in return. Nissa stared after Aubrey who was plowing ahead of the group, murderously shoving branches aside, "Can we trust him then?" Nissa hissed, "If he won't even tell you where we are going?" Nikolas shrugged again.
"We're going to find allies," Kristopher muttered, "I don't know who yet, but we are. We can't exactly take on a whole army with only the eight of us."
Nissa stared at him, "Yeah I know, but why all the secrecy?"
Kristopher was about to answer, when Aubrey let out a grunt from up ahead and a crash was heard.
(Nicias and Oliza cont.)
Nicias shoved through a thicket of branches out onto an open path and stopped. Oliza ran into him and murmured something that sounded like a curse word, "Shhhhh," he hissed, "I hear voices."
Oliza started but then stopped, "You used magic on me didn't you."
Nicias nodded jerkily and shushed her again. The voices were drawing nearer and by the sounds of the feet rustling over the leafy ground their were at least six maybe more. Nicias grabbed Oliza's arm and dragged her behind a tree just as a man rounded the bend. Nicias could not see his face very well, but he could tell their were more people to come.
A wave of panic rushed over him as the man squinted in his direction and plowed toward his and Oliza's hiding place, Nicias turned to Oliza and told her to keep quiet.
"But Nicias…" Oliza began, but an arm snaked forward draping its fingers around her jaws. Nicias did not think, he grabbed the arm and yanked, the man that it belonged to grunted as he was pulled face first into the tree. Nicias let the arm go and the man fell backwards hitting the ground with a loud thump.
He peered around the tree at the man who was now lying on the ground cradling his head and moaning loudly, Nicias instantly recognized him as a vampire and stepped out from behind the tree drawing his dagger as he went. He leaned over the man dagger poised and ready to strike when a rock hit him in the side of the head and someone yelled. He turned to where the voice had come from shaking his head groggily and wincing from the pain.
"Nicias, drop that knife right now." It was Zane.
Hahaha, I left you off again, pretty soon I'm going to change the name of this section so don't be surprised if you look for an update and there is something there under a different name.