Chapter 8

We all got up and left the room, Ash wrapped his arms around M'Lye and kissed her. I didn't make noises this time, I watched out of the corner of my eye, because secretly....... I wanted to be loved like that too.

We finally got to Theirry's office. It was huge!! You could fit elephants in there!!

"I see you finally made it. Good. Why don't you sit down?" Theirry said, in his cool voice. He was older than he looked, that was for sure. We all sat down. Ash was in the middle.

"What can we do for you, Sir?" Ash said, he looked calm, but something was off.

"Well I have a mission for you."

Ash looked eager. "All three of us? When?"

Lord Theirry looked at me out of the corner of his eye. "Well, you see, I don't know if I should send Debris or not. No offense, but she just got here and even though I would love to, I don't know if I can trust her." I didn't take it as an offense, but what was he talking about a mission and stuff?

"There is no need to worry about her, Lord Theirry. Meet my long lost twin sister," Ash said happily.

Theirry's mouth dropped open. "You're serious?" He turned to M'Lye.

"He's telling the truth, Sir." M'Lye smiled.

"Why must everyone turn to Mare? Can't they believe me?" Ash pouted. We all shook our heads no.

"Oh, you should be talking, sister," Ash said sarcastically when he saw me shake my head. Again we both stuck out our tongues, both our eyes turned blue.

"Well nice to meet you, and that's great you can go on the mission."

"Wait" I said before anyone could continue. "What do you mean mission? Are we spies? Or is the world going to end?" I said sarcastically even though I really did want to know.

"The world is going to end." Ash said.

"Ash I was being serious."

"Yea I know, I am too."

"THE WORLDS GOING TO END?!"

"You looked shocked?"

I hissed at him, "Well hell yea I am!"

M'Lye spoke up, "Why don't you sit down and we tell you about it?"

I sat down and they told me about it.

I sat with my mouth dropped open. I only had one thought in my mind, we are all going to die. We are all going to die.

"So we go on missions, hopefully to stop this."

"I have no training for what you just told me you do."

"Fighting dragons? Yea whatever. You little miss 'I hunt my own kind' have experience in that. What else do you want to know?" Ash said.

"True. And watch your mouth with the 'little miss' or you will be the next on my list."

"Oooh and I'm scared of my little sister."

"Little?! I'm older than you, I was born first."

"You have....."

"Enough! Hello, mission!!" M'Lye shouted.

"Sorry." We both whispered and put on sorry faces with green eyes.

"Okay so sit down so I can explain the mission." Theirry said, we all took seats.

"We are having guests here in a week. These aren't any guests its a VERY important shapeshifter group, called the Shadow Eyes. There are eight of them. Some are from different parts of the world, like Europe and Asia and South America, but they all have common names, they might have changed them, and they all speak English. We need to sign a treaty with them, they are as important as Galen's family. If we can have them on our side we will have a better chance at going against the the Council. Or Hunter and the people he is gathering."

Sharp pain sliced through the side of my head, I held in my urge to yelp. I wasn't as bad as the other times I felt the pain, not nearly as bad, but what had set it off? I made sure not to move to show anyone I was in pain. I opened my eyes, I didn't realize I closed them. Ash was looking at me, his eyes asked one question, 'Are you okay?'. I nodded, I should have know, even if the other two didn't notice, he would. He smiled and turned his head back to Theirry.

"So where do we play in?"

"You job is to protect them."

"Body guards?! We are going to be body guards?!" Ash didn't look happy about this.

"Yes, I am sorry, but if this job doesn't get done and something happens to the Shadow Eyes, we may not be able to fight against the Council. Then guess what might happen to us?" Theirry made a cut noise and pretended to slit his throat. "Or you of all people know other ways the Council sentences us to death so......."

"Stop." It wasn't loud or angry like, but Ash said it with enough emotion to make someone stop. He had his eyes closed and was breathing deeply. M'Lye started playing with her fingers, Theirry looked like he wished he had never said anything.

After a few seconds Ash opened his eyes again, they were gray "When will they be here? And can you tell us about them so we know who we are protecting? Wait will anyone else be working with us?"

Theirry looked shaken, "Yes, Morgead and Quinn." Ash smirked at this. "They will be here on Tuesday, you will pick them up at the airport."

"Kay, and about them?"

"There are eight. Seth is the leader, he shapeshifts into a fox, but when he shifts he is almost the size of a wolf. The others are, Nick, Tyler, Zack, Conner, Khile, Lowan, and Nathan. Zack is from South America, so he might throw you off with Spanglish at times. Conner is Korean but grew up in the states, so he can't speak Korean fluently. Last from another part of the world is Nick, he is German, and can speak it fluently. Everyone else is from here."

"What about their animals, you only told us Seth's?" I asked curiously. Hummm, I liked the name Seth, the S felt good on the tip of my tongue.

"Oh of course. Nick is a grizzly bear. Tyler is a hawk. Zack is a anaconda. Conner is a elephant. Nathan is a mountain lion. Lowan is a coyote. Khile is a alligator."

"Well thats a combination." Ash and I said together.

"You and Mary-Lynnette should train Debris a bit. Enough for the job and other jobs to come. You all are dismissed."

We all got up and made our way to the exit. Right as we were passing though Theirry said, "Oh and stop by the 1st floor living room, there is someone in there for you two, well three."

Ash looked very confused but left quietly, M'Lye and I followed. When we all came out and started towards where Ash was leading he spoke up "Who do you think is in there?"

M'Lye just shrugged her shoulders, she looked confused also. After walking for 20 minutes we got to the living room doors, the room I met everyone in yesterday.

Ash opened the doors, light flooded into the dimly lit hall way. In the living room were four people, a boy and three girls. The boy looked like a younger M'Lye but the girls looked nothing alike, well I couldn't see the third girl she was turned around. The shortest girl who had silvery blond hair started running our way, yelling "Ash!!"

Ash caught the girl and hugged her tight. When they pulled away I could tell Ash looked happy. I turned and saw M'Lye hugging the boy, she turned back to Ash. He was still partly holding the girl, "Jade? What are you doing here?"

"We missed you." She replied happily.

"Speak for yourself" the other girl with yellow eyes said coming closer.

"Thanks Kestrel." Ash replied. Wait..... Jade? Kestrel? These were my sisters, my blood related sisters!! Happiness washed over me, that meant that girl other there wiping her eyes was.......... my face paled, all blood from this morning running out of it.

"Ash...." I choked out. He turned to me, when he saw my face he realized. He quickly let go of Jade and rushed towards me..... but someone spoke my name.

"D..... Debris?" It was the other girl with cinnamon hair and eyes. As soon as she spoke the words two things happened, I went to look at her and pain shot over my whole body. When I saw her the pain increased by 70 percent. I felt like I was going to die, I started screaming bloody murder. I clutched my head, it felt like it was going to fall off. Ash picked me up and ran down the hall with me, I knew it was him because his touch cooled my burning skin, like it was numbing the pain of the piercing needles. I could feel my hot tears fall down my burning face, I couldn't hear myself but I knew I was screaming. Ash talked to me, I couldn't tell what he said but he talked to me, his smooth voice wrapping around my mind. I waited and waited, but the pain never stopped.