We followed Mephesto as we listened to him ramble on about what this was, what that was, and so on and so forth. This floor had noticeable more people puttering around working on something than the others, which is exactly what we had planned on. With a final look between the five of us we parted on our ways to carry out our parts in this daring rescue.
Kenny's P.O.V
I looked to Luna one last time before Kyle and I slowly split off. I knew we would get out of here in one piece, but still had a sliver of worry about Luna's safety. Sure she can hold her own, that I don't doubt, but what I was worried about was these people finding out she's a vampire and using this special scroll on her. All my life I've been the hero to my sister and now it's time for me to be the hero for the girl I love. Something I never thought would happen considering the type of family I come from. Then again my parents may get drunk and yell, but all in all have been decent even if we can't afford much.
I approached one of the people in lab coats. "Excuse me." I stopped them in their route to who knows where.
"Yes, what do you want boy. I am kinda busy." The man rudely waved a hand in annoyance from being stopped.
"Actually, I was curious if you worked for the special organization I heard was working here." I lowered my voice to a whisper. "The one that hunts for those not like us."
"How do you know about us?" The lab coat guy narrowed his eyes at me in suspicion.
"Let's just say my uh.. brother here and I lost our parents to the same type of creatures you are looking for. We want in, to avenge our parents." I lied through my teeth, hoping the man bought my on the spot story.
The scrutinizing look the man had fell on before he moved it to Kyle, "So you say your parents are dead because of immortals. What kind and when?"
"We were very young, too young to know what happened till later in life. We still don't know exactly what kind killed them." I pushed aside any nerves that surfaced. I needed this to be as believable as possible if we all were going to get out of here unharmed.
"What are your names?" The man's look softened slightly, signaling to me he was buying my lie. "Having a couple of members as young as you two could benefit us. Some immortals, especially younger and more naive ones, are more likely to make friends with younger people."
Shit names… Didn't think about that. We can't give our real names. I took the first two names I could think of off the top of my head after scolding myself for not being at least more prepared. Then again, this whole skit was kinda unprepared.
"I'm James and my brother is Liam." I shot out two names randomly hoping at this point Kyle has caught on to the fake story.
"So you want to join the Immortal Hunters huh boys?" The man now had visually no suspicion left on his face as we both nodded to answer his question. "Then follow me, I'll show you what we strive to accomplish. Just know you are sworn to secrecy, we all are in this organization. I'm Zack, and I'm going out on a lim taking in new members like this. Lucky for you two I'm pretty high ranked here and you two have hit a soft spot, especially since you are younger like I said." He introduced himself as he led us away from the others and stopped to open a sliding door.
"Luna, we got him to take us. Don't worry we got this, its your turn now." I fell back and whispered under my breath so I knew it was only audible to her.
The door slid open and we followed Zack down the hallway it led to. "We think we finally have found a breakthrough in our research. For many years and generations even. Most of our members are family members of prior members." He paused to turn and face us. "New members come from outside every so often, but that's all beside the point. We have been trying to experiment with the blood of different types of immortals, but the catch is these creatures are hard to find. They look like us, act like us, and live among us even. To our knowledge there are four different immortal species that are real, but we always keep an open mind on trying to find more."
"Sir, if you don't mind me asking what are the species you have found?" Kyle asked. At first I was skeptical of asking such questions, thinking it would raise red flags, but on the flip side seeming interested could also benefit us greatly.
"Glad you asked… Liam was it." Zack smiled with pride as he got to spout off the information to what he thought was new recruits. "Zombies, nasty blood that was so foul we couldn't stand to study it, are the very first immortal being we discovered. Pixies and nymphs are the next two, and before you ask no they are not the same, but their blood dissipated after being out of their body for so long. Turning into dust for pixies and various elemental items for nymphs." He turned and led us down a few doors before stopping in front of a large window that showed the view of the room on the other side. A room that had a person standing at the door. The room where Luna's parents were said to be kept.
"But this species, the one we have most recently found some specimens of are by far the most suitable for our work." He clapped his hands and a light came on, illuminating the room on the other side of the large window to reveal Luna's parents. "Vampires! Their silver immortal blood is perfect for us to study, and so far results have been grand!" Zack smiled at us as we tried to hide our shock and disgust at how these people were treating Luna's parents.
Guess it's time for the second stage of our part of the plan. I thought to myself as this Zack guy turned back to the window and kept talking about her parents as if they were objects. I glanced at Kyle and tilted my head, slightly nodding it in the direction of the person standing guard signaling the best I could that we needed to now focus on getting in that room while there was minimal people around us. Okay Kenny you got this. All that time being Mysterion shouldn't go to waste, time to pull those skills back out. I smirked to myself as I silently moved to stand beside the guy standing guard of the door and Kyle moved to stand behind Zack.
I held up a hand behind my back counting down from three, both of us taking action as soon as the last finger went down.
Luna's P.O.V
I heard Kenny's voice reach my ears as Kyle and him were lead away with one of the lab coat workers. I let out a sigh as I slightly quickened my pace to catch up to Stan and tugging on his arm to pull him further from Mephesto.
"Stan, Kenny and Kyle got one of the Immortal Hunter people to accept them in. They had to spin a tale and are using fake names. That's all I could gather though before they went through that door over there." I jerked my head in the direction of the door. "Looks like I need to intrude upon Mephesto's mind again."
I made my way to Cartman, repeating what I did with Stan to get him to fall back a bit.
"Ey! No need to be so handsy, a simple 'Eric come with me' would do." He shook my hand off his shoulder as I shushed him.
"Hey fatass don't be a dumbass as well cuz you can only be one or the other at a given time and you're always a fatass." I hissed through clenched teeth to keep my volume low. "Now please listen."
"Ugh fine, what do you need me to do." He whispered the best he could, being quiet not his strong suit. Luckily that was a good thing for what I needed him to do next.
"After I get Mephesto's attention again I need you to cause a distraction for the few people that are fiddlfucking around us long enough for me to get him to help us out with the cameras." I looked him dead in the eyes. "Can you do that? As soon as Mephesto looks at me you need to cause a distraction only big enough for the people on this floor. I don't need long. Timing is everything right now so we can move on."
"Geez, I got it. Do something crazy but not too crazy." Cartman rolled his eyes as I smiled a grateful smile at him.
"I knew you could handle this task." I patted his shoulder which he pulled away from annoyed. I chuckled to myself before focusing my mind to control Mephesto the second he glances my way.
"Sir," I addressed Mephesto as I casually walked up to him, "I must say your tour is very insightful."
"Why thank you young la-" His sentence stopped as he once again was put in a trance by my gaze the second he turned to me. Within that second Cartman had also sprung into action just as he promised.
"Oh, wow you'll never believe what I saw!" He sarcastically, but enthusiastically said to Stan loud enough to get the attention of the few people puttering around. "I saw the most amazing thing before I came in to do the tour but I wasn't sure if you would believe me or not Stan, but I just have to tell you."
"Oh, well what was this amazing thing you saw?" Stan asked, playing along.
"Well at first I thought I was going crazy, but the longer I looked the more I realized I was really seeing it. A person, who looks no different from you and me but was floating in the air almost like magic talking to the plants." Cartman pretended not to notice the eavesdropping scientists that stopped their work to listen in. "In the woods before the gate, she was sitting there talking to the trees as if they could hear her and she was floating next to one."
"That is weird, but I'm sure it was nothing dude. We can check if she's there when we leave so you can prove your not crazy but I doubt there will be anything there." Stan shrugged and nonchalantly watched as the scientists whispered among themselves before they began to leave the area.
"Nice job, but try not to sound so obvious next time." I spoke without breaking eye contact with Mephesto. "Also how did you know about Nymphs?"
"I sometimes read books okay. It just sounded like something these idiots would believe and I mean if you're something that was only thought to be a myth then who knows what other shit is out there." He crosses his arms as I flicked him off. If I had more time I would have thought of some smart ass remark to reply with, but time was not on our side right now.
"Mephesto, I want you to go turn off all security cameras and tell me the codes for the doors in this place. Also you will forget you ever saw us and tell anyone that asks that the cameras are down because of technical issues, but only if asked will you even mention them being down." I snapped my fingers once again.
"The code I use is 27737." Was all he said as he turned away as if we were not even there. He entered a room beside the elevator and closed the door behind him, leaving us alone for the time being.
"He should be turning off the cameras as I speak." I turned to Stan and Cartman with a smirk, proud of the fact that I actually had a chance to show off my skills to them.
"Seems like it, look." Stan agreed as he pointed to one of the cameras as the blinking red record light blinked once more and then stopped. "That was really fast, that one room must have had some camera access."
"Well thanks for the insight captain obvious." Cartman sassed as he headed towards the door Kenny and Kyle were lead though.
"Cartman, no we can't go in that one right away dumb ass. That would be suspicious especially since they couldn't have gotten far." I rushed in front of him to block his path.
He rolled his eyes and groaned as he turned back around. "Fine, eenie meenie miney…" He picked a random door and approached it, punching in the code Mephesto has given us. "This one."
The door slid open to reveal a room that was void of people, but contained a shit ton of different weapons and in the corner of the room was a clear box with a lock on it that contained a scroll.
"Nice job fat ass you coulda got us caught. What if this room had been full of people or some shit!" I angrily fussed.
"But it didn't now did it. Now shut up and just look around, this room is obviously important. You're welcome." Cartman replied as he crossed his arms.
"I hate to agree with him, but Cartman is right Luna. This room looks important and I'm sure you think so too." Stan shrugged as he entered the room, examining a shelf of guns and ammo.
"This room is important yes," I began as I walked in behind Stan, heading straights for the locked box in the back corner. "This is it. This is the scroll they used to bless the bullet that hurt my parents. This scroll was supposed to be locked up where no human could get it." I touched the box, confused as to how they managed to find it before a thought crossed my mind. "No… One of my kind wouldn't dare turn against their own…." My eyes widened as I turned towards the two boys. ""We need to take this scroll and make as much of this ammo useless as possible. Now." I sternly said as I began crunching the pieces of metal under my foot, not daring to try to crush it in my hands in case the spell was cast on it to avoid potentially hurting myself.
Stan and Cartman followed suit, finding their own ways to make each bullet or weapon virtually useless until there was only the matter of getting the scroll out of the box to deal with.
"Guys, I think I can…" I began only to be cut off from a searing pain in my side that dropped me to my knees.
"Oh, how nice to see you again Luna." A deep velvety voice reached my ears, sending a shiver down my spine. "Oh excuse my manners, you may not remember me. I'm Braxton. You were still a newborn when I met you, but your parents. Oh I've known them for decades. Used to be such close friends until they tried to tell me my ways of life were wrong and a disgrace to my kind." Braxton laughed and evil laugh before turning his attention to Stan and Cartman. "Oh how cute, you brought playthings. Well, I guess since you did bring them they can just be your snack in your comfy little holding cell." He glared at the two boys who stood by me unmoving.
I tried to move, only to fall back down from pain. Stan and Cartman kneeling beside me and placing a hand on each side of my back. Braxton had used a blessed bullet to immobilize me, but not hearing or even smelling him approach was not like me at all.
"Wondering how I snuck up on you aren't you dearie?" He mocked, sensing my shock and anger filled gaze I shot at him from my place on the floor. "That is also thanks to that scroll there. The one you will not be getting by the way." He let out another evil laugh as he approached me and grabbed me by my hair. "Time for you to take a little nap." Was the last thing I heard him say before he threw me down on the ground hard and everything around me went black.
Sorry for the kinda delayed update to those of you reading my story. I've been working a lot lately :( so sorry if this chapter is a little short and/or rushed, but don't worry the story is going to be coming to a close in a couple chapters and they will be longer! :D Thank you to all my readers!