An: Another chapter... I really only plan to do three unless I hear more feedback, anyway R&R
Shadow's keep your secrets.
When you die your shadow is still here,
And your secrets are free for the picking.
"Religious fanatics," Sky said as he looked at the gruesome sigh in front of him. Five people were hung in front of him, the whip marks and burns were evident.
Timmy pulled up the sleeve on one of the victims, 'Well at least they did our job for us, they were all branded, with the seal of The Pride."
"Our job isn't to kill these people, we just take them in to make sure that they haven't been plotting against The Pride," Helia pointed out.
Brandon shrugged, "When we do take them in do they ever come back? Of course not we're just slowing killing them off until only the light remains."
"Then the realms can finally be at peace," Riven finished for him.
"After all the trouble they caused they deserved over 100 000 people dead, because they wanted to take control," Brandon said.
Sky glanced at his watch, "She's 45 minutes late, again do you think she's even going to show up?"
"Jade always shows up, eventually. Isn't that right Jade?" Riven said turning to where Jade was sitting in a nearby tree.
Jade glanced up from where she was staring at the ground and shrugged, the sunglasses hiding her odd eyes from the world. "The case is straight forward we pursue these fanatics until they stop, they used forbidden magic to kill these people."
"How do you know? They might not have used magic at all to kill these people," Brandon protested.
Jade shot him a condescending look as she jumped down, "Those whip marks are not normal lashes, they were made with some sort of energy or electrical field, either they got this off the black market, which is full with the Fallen, or they made this themselves."
"The second one is more probable, but it would be impossible detecting them now," Timmy conceded, "We should file a report to watch out for these people back at base."
"He's right, these people are extremely good the place is completely clean no clues nothing," Sky said.
"So we call the coroners to take care of these people and write a report?" Brandon said asking about their game plan.
"Who's going to write the report this time? Sky made me write it last time, and I refuse to write it again."
"I'll write it," Timmy offered.
"Either way it can wait until after lunch, we promised we'd meet the girls remember?" Brandon put in.
"Doesn't really matter anyway they were just the stupider members of the darkness to get caught," Riven said, "If those fanatics hadn't got to them we would have and the end result would have been the same."
There was a chorus of agreement around the group, as they began to leave, Sky stopped and turned to Jade who was still standing their looking at the bodies, "Hey Jade you coming?"
Jade shook her head, "I'll just do a quick sweep I might find something," she said. The guys were slightly nicer to her than the general population so Jade didn't mind going out with them every now and again, just as long as it was just guys, she avoided spending time with her cousin and her friends at all costs.
Sky shrugged and walked off, he barely noticed her eyes most of the time because Jade kept a pair of dark shades on at all times, so he treated her as if she was a regular human being. He hadn't even known until Stella had removed her glasses in public. All he knew was that she was one of the best snipers he had ever seen, and he had seen plenty being a Prince.
They had met at Red Fountain while they had been choosing weapons, while most of the general students were trying out the swords Jade had picked out a sniper rifle within seconds. Sky had asked her about it, he hadn't heard of a female sniper before, actually there weren't many girls at Red Fountain, and she looked at him taking the rifle and pointing it at a small bird in a tree nearly 40 meters away and pulled the trigger. Sky remembered watching the bird fall to the ground dead, "It's the most impersonal weapon that I can get," she had said as she walked away. She hadn't even looked at the bird she had just taken the shot. She was right the person who could pull the trigger faster usually won, whereas in a duel, which could last for hours, it took both skill and a tiny bit of skill and luck to win.
Sky looked back at Jade who was now talking on her cellphone, she was already calling the coroners, he decided to leave it alone, and he couldn't fix a broken family if the two combatants weren't willing to sit in the same room.
Icy they struck again, five people dead, they died the same way as the others.' Jade said gazing at the corpses and placing her hand on the wrist of one of them.
'Where are the idiots?' Icy said referring to her teammates.
'Out for lunch, they won't be back. I'm supposed to be calling the coroners to take the bodies away. The bodies are still fresh, I could probably use that spell your mother taught me to locate the murderers.'
Icy paused on the other side of the line, 'Wait until we arrive, we're doing the translocation spell as we speak, we'll be there in a few seconds.' Icy dropped the phone and looked at her cousins, Darcy and Stormy. "Well it seems as if the twerp has caught on to the scent of our killers, she's itching to try that new spell my mother taught her."
"Her little teammates?" Darcy asked.
"Left to go to lunch," Icy replied.
"Good we can continue to feed her that its truly the Pride that is evil," Stormy said.
"We aren't feeding her anything, we're just opening her eyes, The Pride is evil," Darcy corrected her.
"Lets go ladies, we can't keep the twerp waiting," Icy said as she snapped her fingers as they disappeared and reappeared beside Jade.
Icy turned to the bodies and winced, "They will be honored for their sacrifice," she said solemnly.
"Can I do the spell now?" Jade asked looking at her mentors an eagerness evident in her voice.
Icy shrugged, "Go ahead, the faster we find them the quicker we can kill them."
Jade nodded and transformed into her winx form she could do the spell without being in her winx form, but Icy rarely gave her so much freedom, and she hadn't specified.
Jade's winx form was a black halter top which revealed her two tattoos, and a mini skirt which was also black. Jade also wore two gloves, in which only two fingers were uncovered; the middle and ring finger, her knee-high boots had a streak of gold running down the sides.
"Hurry up," Icy snapped and Jade shot her one of her rare grins as she took a seat in a cross legged position, near the bodies and touched the ground where their shadows were, Jade murmured a few words under her breath and the five shadows separated from the circular blob, and stood up as if they were regular people. Jade's eyes had begun to glow black as the spell completed.
"Ask them where they went," Stormy ordered, but Jade ignored her.
"She can't hear you, her minds on a different plane of reality right now," Darcy said.
The shadow's suddenly disappeared and there was absolute silence for a minute before Jade broke the spell off, "Found them, they're in the old abandoned factory with three members of the Fallen, possibly children," Jade said getting up as the shadows returned to the circular blob underneath the dead bodies.
"And to think the specialists who pride themselves on being the good guys went to go have lunch, they brag about how they do justice in the world while such injustices done to our kind. Look at you, they treated you differently simply because of your eyes. Your own mother hates your guts, your father thinks that spoiling you is really love, your brothers pretend they don't know you, and yet you still pretend that they are right. A war is brewing again, and it's about time you chose whose side you'll be on, because you can't stand on the line like you've been doing now. Now lets go I want to personally see these people die for their crimes, Jade do the translocation spell if you please," Icy said.
Jade clapped her hands together and the group disappeared, and reappeared in the abandoned factory. "There only children," Jade said in a strained whisper not seeing the small smile on Icy's face, the idiots were making this too easy. They were only children of three or four, quite possibly the offspring of the group that had been hung on the tree in the park
"Then save them, they're children they don't deserve this. Kill them, they don't deserve to live for their crimes, its retribution they can't be saved. Don't let them fool you Jade not everyone can be saved," Darcy whispered into her ear.
Jade gazed at the scene below her and closed her eyes as she tried to block out the child's screaming as the men whipped him. They were right, but then again they were always right.
Sky groaned as his cell phone went off, as everyone at the table looked at him, he glanced at his caller ID, Jade. 'What do you want Jade, you just ruined a perfectly good moment.'
"Jade," Stella hissed, "She's always ruining things, tell her to go away," she told Sky who ignored her.
'If you weren't having sex then I'm not sorry, the fanatics have been found, it looks like The Fallen have gotten to them first, the place is littered with bodies, no survivors, it looks like they've been wiped out.'
'Cause of death?'
'Broken necks and some of them have been frozen solid, I've already called the main department they'll be taking care of this one, I just thought I ought to let you know,' Jade said looking around her. She had lost control again and let her anger blind her, and they had been at the receiving end of it, but Darcy was right, even if Jade did end up taking them in they never would have changed. They would only have been given a chance to join the special police force.
'Are you okay though? Did you see any of them?'
'Who The fallen, no…I'm only assuming it's them because I think they're the only group that would benefit from their death.'
'Good job Jade you want us to come over?'
'Don't give them a reason to hate me more, finish your dates I'll be fine if they come back,' Jade said as she snapped the phone shut, and turned to the Trix, "You might want to leave now Sky might decide to come anyway, and I've already called the main department so please go, I'll see you tomorrow."
Icy frowned slightly, "Drop your winx twerp, you never rush us out of here what's wrong?"
"Nothing, it's just Sky might translocate here and I'm still not ready and I still need to get home tonight it's the twins birthday and I haven't gotten them their gift yet," Jade said shaking her head in a nervous way, as she dropped back to her regular clothes.
"Whatever we must begin getting ready for the upcoming war, ladies." With a snap of her fingers the three were gone leaving Jade alone in a room filled with corpses. Stormy had already translocated the children to a safe spot. Jade sighed Icy was right, which for her was a fact of life. She did only have one choice, and she still didn't know why she whose side she'd stand on.
"Oh my god, they did all this?" Jade wheeled around and nearly slipped on the blood that had accumulated around her feet, a pistol at the ready.
Upon seeing who it was Jade holstered the gun, she was right Sky had translocated to the factory. "That must have been a really boring date," she commented to herself.
"Did you call the religious leaders?" Bloom asked knowing fully well that Jade hadn't.
"No your God frightens me so I refuse, you guys can do it I'm going home," Jade said bluntly brushing past her cousin, and leaving them in the factory.
"See I told you that Jade's one of them, she refuses to worship any of the Gods."
"Jade's a sociopath, she has little if any empathy for others, at least that's what the rumors say."
"See she's a menace to society, she's even killed people before hasn't she? After all her mental state can be called into question." Tecna pointed out.
Riven rolled his eyes, it wasn't a surprise that Jade refused to be in the same room with them for more than 5 seconds. "She's saved our lives on more than one occasion. And all snipers have to learn how to detach their emotions," Riven snapped at them.
"And if she goes rogue?" Musa asked her boyfriend.
"Jade won't she's a proud member of the Pride," Helia jumped in.
«But could you blame her if she switched sides? » Sky thought bitterly, as he smiled at Bloom.
Bloom shivered slightly, she didn't hate her cousin as many people believed. Like Jade herself she was indifferent to her actions, as long as they didn't effect her, but her dreams lately…it was if she could see into the future. Maybe she could see into the future, it was possible after all even she had powers that were hidden from most of the world.