After Keda woke up she decided to see how the day's plans were going. She headed down the corridor walking by the quarters of her friends. She could sense the presence's of everyone except for Simin, which meant he was else where in the house.
Expanding the range of her power she found out that Simin was up and in the computer room. Setting off in the direction of the computer room she missed Keth stick his head out of his room and watch her leave.
"Simin you should seriously get some sleep," Keda said entering the room. Simin turned around to face Keda. "I thought you were the one supposed to be resting? Isn't that why I got stuck doing this."
Keda smiled at her friend. "I'm up now so why don't you go get some rest."
"No, it's okay. I just took one of my energizing potions so I'm fine."
"If you say so," Keda said sitting down in an armchair near the computer. Simin turned back to the screen and continued working."
They sat there for some time before Keda got bored and decided to go make some coffee. She left the room and went to the kitchen. She got what she needed and started to make the coffee. Keth entered the room then. He hide himself from Keda's senses hoping to surprise her.
"Good morning Keth," Keda said smiling but not bothering to turn around.
"How did you know?" he questioned suspiciously.
"I could sense the air moving. Since everyone else is either in their rooms or in the computer room I guessed it was you. Also the sense of your presence going missing gave you away."
"Whatever."
The coffee machine beeped and she poured herself a cup. "Tell me Keth, what is it that you want?"
"I…I wanted to apologize for what I said. I was out of line and I'm sorry."
Keda turned around to face him. She held her cup of coffee and tapped her nails against it. She looked at him with her expression blank, leaving him to guess what she was feeling and thinking a technique she picked up from Sesshoumaru. "It's nice that you apologized but we both know you didn't mean a word of it. I prefer people who are truthful so forgive me if I don't accept your apology."
Keth just stood there taken back while Keda continued. "Now Keth since we are on the topic of you I want to make it clear that the only reason you're still alive is that I made a promise to Safara saying that I wouldn't kill you when you're with her. But the moment you fall out of her graces and trust me this will happen, I will bring you down."
Keth regained his self and said, "Is that a threat?"
"No, more like a warning," she said sipping her coffee and walking past him.
"Keda," Keth said turning around, "You're sounding a lot like a demon."
Keda stopped. "I am half demon." She turned around quickly her eyes changing to red. "It's kind of hard to hide it sometimes." Keda's eyes returned to purple and she finished leaving the kitchen.
Keth stared after her furiously. He wanted to yell, to break something, to kill her most of all but he didn't want Keda to see that she got the best of him. He took a deep breath and tried to calm down. When he was calm he left the kitchen and returned to the quarters he shared with Safara.
Everyone stood in the computer room around the computer and Simin. He set up a presentation for everyone to see.
"Si, I don't think you have to tell us what our home realm is like," Tonio said between yawns.
"You haven't been there in thirty years. Things could have changed," Keda told them, "And I'm pretty sure the place and the people where we are going are going to be new to you."
"Fun," Tonio complained. Ana smiled and patted him on the back.
"Get on with your presentation, Si," added Safara also yawning.
Simin sat down in the chair in front of the computer. He started clicking away until the screen he wanted came up. "Okay so we're going here because a friend of Keda's asked for help," before Simin could continue he was interrupted by Keth. "How come we didn't know we were going for some friend of yours? Also who's the friend?"
Safara rolled her eyes at Keth and thought this is going to be a long day. At the same time Keda and practically everyone else in the room thought the same thing. Keda turned to Keth to answer his questions. "My friend is named Vincent Roth. He's special in ways like you and me…"
"So he's a demon!" interrupted Keth again. Oh for the love of God, Keth: Safara moaned under her breath.
"Not really," Keda said ignoring the way he said demon. "He's not a demon and he's not human."
"Then what is he?" questioned Tonio.
"Is he like us," Cynde asked sounding eager at the chance of meeting another being like them.
"Not exactly. Well he was," Keda said pausing, "It's complicated."
"What do you mean he was?" Safara said joining in on the conversation. "It's complicated," Keda answered again.
"Just tell us," Keth said annoyed. Safara held up a hand to restrain Keth from blurting out other things.
"I thought I would wait to tell you until you met him," she stopped when Cynde asked why. "You're just going to over react when I tell, especially Keth."
Everyone in the room except for Simin started to think Keda was setting them up fro something. "It's not really that bad Keda. I don't think it's that bad. Your notes make him seem okay and from what you told me this morning I think its going to be cool to meet a…" Simin stopped when Keda shot him a sharp glare.
"Okay now I really want to know who this guy is!" Cynde asked excited.
"Yah, so do I," added Tonio sounding more concerned then his sister in law.
Simin shrugged his shoulders as if to tell Keda to do what she felt was best. "Fine, fine, fine! I'll tell you. But I'm going with or without you guys."
"Okay," said Safara staring at her friend suspectingly. She would still go even if Keda's friend turned out to be the devil; she knew Keda would never bring them, well maybe Keth, to a place where they would be harmed on purpose. She trusted Keda with her life.
"Well," started Keda. "He was like you a human with a gift, power whatever you want to call it. He was…um changed."
"Just tell us already!" Keth blurted out.
'I was getting to it!"
"Then go ahead."
Keda frowned at Keth, wishing she could smack him in the head for his rudeness. "He's a vampire." Like she expected everyone got quiet, except fro Simin who continued typing, louder then he was before or so it seemed.
Someone was bound to say something any moment and it would probably be Keth cursing. One, two, three, four; counted Keda in her head. Five.
"A vampire! You mean like Dracula vampire," asked Tonio surprised. Keda nodded; damn I was wrong she thought.
"You want us, blood banks to help a vampire. You could be sending us to be his food!!" yelled Keth.
"First off I don't like your tone and secondly Vincent doesn't feed off of humans so don't worry about that. I would be very happy to Keth, to introduce you to a vampire who doesn't live like Vincent."
"Keda," warned Safara.
"He's asking for it!"
"Calm down both of you," Ana said turning to both Keda and Keth in turn.
"Okay, okay," Keda said putting up a hand in surrender. "I need to know who's going so we can move on with this briefing."
"You already know I'm going," Simin added.
Keda nodded thanks to Simin and looked around the room at the others. After a few minutes of quiet Safara said she was going, causing Keth to frown even more. Ana followed Safara and said she would go too. Tonio said he would go to protect Ana and Cynde said she would go for Simin, leaving Keth.
Everyone could tell that he wouldn't go so they left it at that. They turned away from him and back to looking at the computer. Simin went on to tell them that they were probably dealing with a demon who was impersonating a vampire and thus causing problems for Vincent and his kind.
"Okay, so stop the demon. Sounds easy enough," stated Tonio. Simin shook his head, no. "It's not that easy. From the information Keda got no one knows where it is or if there is more then one demon."
"We're going hunting then. This is going to be fun!!" Tonio exclaimed reaching for the sword he had sheathed on his back. "I can see if my sword is fixed."
"If need be, sure," said Keda.
"Well then, let's get this show on the road!" Tonio cried cheerfully.