New plan; this is going to be the last past- chap (otherwise I'm afraid you'll all get confused later.. ^^)
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Chapter 4: Plans and lives gone wrong

Rassinov's castle, somewhere in Russia, 20 years ago

Zack Moon opened his eyes and moaned. His head hurt.
He was in a dark cold room. It had a little window with bars, and a big iron door.
This room looked a little bit too much like a prison to him.
He tried to open the door but of course it was locked.
"Touchram"
Noting.
That was odd. He tried his other powers but neither one of them worked. His titans were gone to.
He put his hand on the door. He felt some kind of blockade. The room was probably cursed so that between these four walls no magic was possible.
Suddenly he noticed that there was furniture in here to. A bed, sink, toilet, table, chair, lamp. He realized he probably had to stay here for a while.
"Man, this can't be true!" He said frustrated.

"Zack is that you?" a familiar voice said.

"Eathon, buddy, please tell me you're not in the prison next to me."

"I'm afraid I have to disappoint you, I'm stuck to."

"Eathon, man I'm sorry you're stuck here to, just now your wife is pregnant."

"It's not your fault. I chose to solve this mystery with you. I knew the risks."

"Well the Rassinovs are my in- laws, so I feel kind of guilty."

" Doesn't matter. I'm sure we'll get out of here, and I'm sure Catharina and the kids are okay…."
Zack didn't answered.

"Zack?"

"I- I'm not so sure about that Eathon.."

"Don't give up hope."

Catharina…. Is there hope?

He thought back at the day he met Eathon Lambert, and the day he met Catharina Rassinov.
7 years ago, he was in Greece. He had not yet any idea of the existence of the Bloodspiral, but had found a book that spoke of two ancient artifacts, and two legendary titans, two opposites.
One of these artifacts should be found in Greece, and the other one in Russia.
Eathon was in also in Greece, to search for the amulet of will, but he had trouble with some suits. A lot of suits, and Zack, who accidentally passed by, decided to help him. They defeated the suits together.
Eathon wanted to do something in reward. Zack told him about the artifacts he was searching, and Eathon was very interested in this mystery.
First Zack wanted to refuse his offer to help him, but he kind of liked Eathon. He had an optimistic, open- minded attitude and a lot of persistence. Zack accepted his help and together they found the location of the first artifact.
It was an ancient ruin, but unfortunately they couldn't get in. It required magic they just didn't possessed. They were disappointed but decided there was no reason to stay any longer.
Zack went to Russia, in the hope he would have more luck with the second artifact, and Eathon continued his search to the amulet of will.
Because they had became such good friends they decided to hold contact.

In Russia he found, after weeks of searching (why was Russia so damn big?), the location of the second artifact. But to his great surprise the artifact was already gone.
Again disappointed he went to a little village nearby, where he met Catharina.
He fell in love with her immediately. Catharina lived in the big castle near the village, so he decided to stay there for a while so they could spent time together.
They were having dinner together in a little restaurant in the village, when he told her about his failed project. She seemed shocked and told him that her father had found the artifact years ago.
She said something about a family task and a organization called the Bloodspiral. She didn't wanted to explain much about it, but he understood that whatever the Bloodspiral exactly was, it wasn't any good.
Suddenly her father came in. He didn't looked like a nice man. He was furious that she'd told Zack about the Bloodspiral and forbid her to ever have contact with him again. He said that he would lock her in her room for the rest of her life. Catharina begged her father not to do that, but he didn't listened to her and dragged her home.
Zack knew he had to leave, but he didn't. He loved Catharina too much and wanted to save her from her evil, insane family. So he sneaked into the creepy castle and freed Catharina. She told him she loved him to, and that her family wanted to use the artifact to find some legendary titan. It was all part of a secret plan she didn't knew the details of, her father only trusted her brother Sevarin, but the goal was world domination.
They decided that they couldn't let that happen. As a last revenge on her family she stole the artifact and together they fled to Zack's home country Holland.
They protected their house with magical spells to make sure the Bloodspiral would never find them. Then they got married, got two kinds, and although Catharina could only occasionally leave the house, they were perfectly happy.
In his free time Zack kept looking for amulets and mysteries, sometimes with his friend Eathon.
Yesterday they left for a little mission, but this morning the Bloodspiral surprised them with an attack. They fought with all their power but lost the fight.
And now they were here.

Zack walked to the window and stared to the moon. He and Catherina always had a strong bound.
He concentrated himself and tried to feel her energy, her life power, but he felt nothing.

What happened?

Moon family's house, at that moment

Sevarin Rassinov was standing in the living room of his dead sister.
He was absorbed by thought, and in a very bad mood.

The day hadn't passed by the way he hoped.
It had started good dough, they had decoyed Catharina's husband and that other guy. And although the two men had offered a lot more resistance than he had expected, he and his minions defeated them, and brought them to the castle.
But now everything had gone wrong.

One of the minions he had send out to capture the kids came in the room.

"Sir… good news and bad news"

Rassinov maintained in silence.

"Ehm… sir… the good news is… we've got the boy."

Rassinov looked at him with an incomprehensible look.
"And the girl?"

The minion looked at his shoes, he didn't dared to look Rassinov in the eyes.
"Well… we have searched everywhere, but we really can't find her. She has disappeared."

Rassinov's eyes flushed red.
He felt his blood pressure increase to a dangerous high level.
Dangerous for the minion of course.
"What!You idiots, haven't I told you the girl was the most important! She's the last descendent of the Bloodspiral, the youngest Rassinov family member, without her it's impossible to fulfill the task!"

All color disappeared from the minions face.
"Sir, I'm sorry, we didn't knew she was that important. Shall- shall we go search for her again?"

Rassinov sighted. He felt himself getting a bit calmer again.
This was no disaster. Without the artifact -damn you Catharina!- they could do nothing anyway. Yes, they had to concentrate on finding the artifact first. The girl had to turn up again somewhere eventually.
But of course it could do no harm if they searched for her a bit longer.
"Hmm… go look for her again but be back before sunrise. Than destroy the evidence. Burn the house and my sisters body, make it look like an accident."

The minion looked relieved.
"Yes sir. Thank you for your clemency."

But Rassinov wasn't listening any more. He was thinking about the artifact.
Where could she have hidden it?

A few hours later, in the woods

The reason nobody could find Zhalia was that she had hidden herself in a hollow tree.
She was scared but also very tired, and fell asleep almost immediately.

Next morning she had no idea where she was or where she should go to. She was all alone.

She called for her mom and dad, then for Zane, but nobody answered.

She walked for hours and hours, maybe even days, mayby weeks.. .she had no sense off time whatsoever.
She survived by drinking rainwater and eating wild breams or little red berries.
They were very sour and she didn't liked them.
She felt so weak, she could barely stand on her legs any more.

Suddenly she saw.. a road. Small cars and big cars, with people in it.
She stood there for a while, till' suddenly a truck stopped. A big, scary, hairy man stepped out.
''Hey little miss what are you doing here all alone?"

She didn't knew what to answer.

"Are you lost? Where are your parents? They left without you?"

She nodded although she didn't really understood what he was saying. After all she was only three years old.

"You live in Rotterdam?"

She nodded again.

He looked a bit confused, like he didn't really knew what to do next.

"You know what? Step in, I'll bring you to the city, I have to go that way anyway. I must deliver something at the port. You hungry? I've got cookies!"

20 minutes and lots of cookies later they arrived at border between the port and the houses.

He opened her door and let her out, and she quickly ran away.

"Hey! Where are you going?"

He scratched his head. He actually wanted to bring her to the police station.
Ah well, she probably knows where to go…

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Sorry everybody for this extremely long chapter XD
I hope it didn't bored you but I had to give so many details. I like to have a integrant story.
Let me know what you thought of it. ^^