TriNymphs - Chapter Ten - Soul Tracker (Disclaimer on my profile)

All the rest of that day Chelsea had nothing to do, she talked idly with Lyssa and her friend Katie, discovering that Katie was also an avid Quidditch fan, and they were both planning to go out for the team the next year, but it wasn't the time to talk about such things. Chelsea was very preoccupied.

The afternoon dragged by and it was eventually dinner, Chelsea couldn't fully appreciate the effect of her first Hogwarts dinner, appearing food and all, as she was planning how to get to Vampiras. She passed that time talking feverishly to her green-haired dorm mate - who was evidently named Eve Saruwatari - and if she had at all listened, she would have learnt that Eve had fled Japan with her wizard father when her mother had learnt who they were and tried to burn them at the stake. And I must say, Eve was most offended that Chelsea took so little interest in her after only knowing her for four hours.

The next day saw Chelsea leaving her new dorm hours before the other girls woke and scouring the staircase for anyone who could see her. It was about four in the morning and no one was thinking of getting up yet, and those who had were at the Quidditch pitch.

So, once she was sure no one could see her, Chelsea portalled into Vampiras living room. "It will be another hour or two until we find her, why'd you get here so early?"

"It was the only time I could without being seen," Chelsea yawned, "any other time and people would have been awake."

"Ahw, is the lil witchy tired?" Dominic asked in his best baby voice and in his five-star fabulous mock-pouting face.

"Yes." Chelsea dramatically collapsed on the couch. Dominic snickered and sat on her stomach, relocating to sitting with her head on his lap when she groaned and pushed him off. "If you're going to sit on me, you need to lose some weight, buddy."

"Shut up and go to sleep." Chelsea glared at him, and he beamed back at her. He didn't find some little kid very scary.

Vampira went back to one of their many offices and continued to track down Alex. She had started in the town of Warneford, where Dumbledore had said the Ministry had last tracked her to. Unfortunately for the Ministry, they didn't have as effective tracking equipment as Vampira and the Count. There were some things that just could not be built in the realm of the living, and this particular tracking device was one of them. Mind you, the Ministry also lacked some information that would have been crucial for finding Alex using that machine.

This machine tracked people by the type of soul they had. There were variations from species, family, birth location, personality, and between muggles and wizards, and etc. So, taking into account the personalities - that were apparently drastically different - (they were like fingerprints, different in for everyone, even triplets) Vampira looked for a soul as close to Chelsea's and Melissa's that she could get, and upon checking who this soul belonged to, found that it was Alex.

A half hour after Vampira found Alex her, Dominic, and Chelsea were heading out to find someone that could help them get to where she was. They would have left earlier, but it took awhile to get Chelsea to wake up. They were headed to a town house across the city to meet an old friend of Vampiras.

This old friend was one of the Pleiades. Tens of hundreds of years ago the Pleiades were seven sisters who were Nymphs. When they died, they were put into the sky as the constellation Pleiades, one of them isn't visible though. They say that one is either Merope, who was shunned for marrying a mortal man, or Electra, mourning the destruction of Troy. Every generation some of the Pleiades are reincarnated, though none of them are born together unless in times of great danger.

This Pleiades was one of the reincarnations of Merope, who had power over the element Earth. Alex was also an Earth Nymph, and just as Fire Nymphs (like Chelsea) are some of the only living things that can portal to hell, there are places only Earth Nymphs can get to as well.

Inside the Earth Pleiades - Aramenta's - house, they were filling her in on the basics of what had happened, then they left. Aramenta made a portal to a place she said only Earth Nymphs, and other Earth elementals could get to.

Vampira had given Aramenta the exact coordinates that she had traced Alex to, so when they walked through the portal they ended up in the room Alex had been in at the time. It was the same room she had first appeared in, circular, lit by torch light. It was actually the Leaf Kings throne room, though Alex hadn't noticed it at the time, Chelsea had rather more time as it was currently empty.

The throne was wicar and made of oak with vines intertwined with the branches, it was tall backed and proud, with emeralds implanted along the top and at the end of both the arms. Aramenta swore quietly. "We're in the throne room, if we're caught in here we're dead meat." she made another portal, "this one leads to a room down the hall, follow me if you don't want to get killed." she hissed, then ran quietly through the portal.

Chelsea looked toward Dominic, who looked doubtful, he had never really trusted her much and this was a little beyond his comfort zone. They both looked toward Vampira who nodded and propelled Chelsea forward, Dominic followed, not wanting to be left behind in such an unknown place.

The room they were in after that had a low ceiling and a receptionist desk, elevator music was playing. The receptionist had a bad perm and glasses that looked like they were from the 70's. "Name," she droned.

"Aramenta Monty" answered Aramenta, as Chelsea suddenly realised why people didn't call her Minty for short.

The receptionist, who was named Isadora if the name plate was to be believed, screeched, "Aramenta!" and ran out from behind the desk to tackle/hug her old friend.

After a few moments of them catching up, and everyone else getting frustrated, save Vampira whose patience was apparently unending. Dominic finally blurted out, "Hello! There is a reason why we're here, remember!" Chelsea, who had wanted to say something, but was slightly creeped out by the receptionist, gave him a grateful look.

Aramenta sighed, "Fine." and rolled her eyes at Dominic, who stuck out his tongue at her. "Izy," she addressed the receptionist, "we're looking for this girls sister, they're two triplets so they look pretty much the same, is she here? Or was she here?"

The receptionist giggled, "she's still here. She's in the backroom with Daniel, you can go see her if you want."

Aramenta looked back to Dominic, "That better?" she asked sarcastically.

"Wonderful."

Isadora led them toward the back room where they saw a guy with shaggy milk brown hair running towards Alex with a wooden sword.