Sorry for not updating last week.

"Finally." Ixxy said as she looked at the giant portal in the distance. "That took longer than expected." She said, giving her father a blank expression without looking him in the face. "Shows what I get for following your directions…"

"Oh, shut it, ya little…"

"We would have gotten here sooner if you had stopped listening to him and asked someone else for directions." Seda said, folding her arms over her chest as she stared at the two purple elves. "Ehn…" They both replied, lowering their heads into their shoulders and folding their ears back in irritation simultaneously. The paladin woman only smiled and shook her head at them. "What is it with night elves and asking for directions?"

"Other people could get us lost even more so than we already are…" Ixxy muttered. "Possibly get us killed or raped…" Louis also muttered.

"What?" Seda questioned their mutters, giving them an odd stare.

"Anyway…" Ixxy said, sitting up straight again. "Let's just go." She said, lightly nudging Terry with her foot, having the giant spider begin to make its way for the Dark Portal.

"AHHH! !" Came several screams in unison from the background. "Make it stop it! !" Cosmo shrilled, holding onto the wild core hound for dear life; as did the others. "I told you guys that I should be the one driving!" Akazil shouted as the Beast played with the demons wandering around the area.

"And you hang out with these kids?…" Louis said to Ixxy, he and the two females all staring blankly at the sight. "Only because I'm forced to…"

"Where did the undead girl go?" Seda pointed out. Ixxy needn't to look up to know that the undead girl was off trying to maliciously murder innocents. The screams that came not even two seconds later were helpful in pointing that out.

'And these are our heroes, folks… The worlds are doomed.'

"Which is why I believe we should camp over here." Warlord Dar'toon said, lightly scooting the figurines across the map. "Yes, that's a good plan, but what if they come up from the rear?" Relthorn Netherwane said, looking down at the figurines placed on the map. "We've been over this…" The orc growled. "What rear? ! There is no rear in this area!"

"They could fly in from behind!"

"Um, sir?…" The draenei next to the watch commander almost stuttered, his eyes widening in horror at the sight only a short distance away.

"That's what we have guns for!"

"And what if they tunnel their way in from right underneath us!"

"S-Sir…" Sevel said again, looking back at forth between the human and the whatnots going on in the background. "I think we may have a problem." He tried to urge his commander to look away from the table. "A very big one!"

"Then we will stomp the hell out of their faces!"

"And what if they poke out their weapons and claws first? ! Or shoot fire from beneath us? !"

"SIR!"

"WHAT? !" The watch commander and warlord exclaimed in unison, looking to the advisor. Quickly, he just pointed at the problem. The human and orc growled simultaneously then addressed their heads in the direction, their eyes widening in horror at the sight.

"You two girls done fighting over who's prettiest yet?" Ixxy asked, looking down at the two from atop Terry's thorax. "Because we would like to get through… And as a side note; you both lose. I'm the prettiest."

"Wait, isn't that the spider that came through here earlier?" Relthorn queried, looking to Dar'toon. "It most certainly is. But where's the girl from earlier?"

"And do you have a permit for these beasts?"

"Mind ya business." Ixxy replied to both questions with the one answer. "Yeah, she didn't have a permit either. I'm gonna have to write you a ticket! Sevel, write a ticket." The human whispered to his advisor.

"Great, it's Orgrimmar all over again…" Louis muttered, having flashbacks of getting his first ticket at Ixxy's age. "Yes, but there's only one difference." Seda said to comfort her husband.

Just then, the two jolted forward as Ixxy tapped on Terry with her foot, heading for the Dark Portal. Everyone below them screamed and ran around like headless chickens as they tried to get into a safe spot to not be squished.

"Sevel, save me! !" Relthorn squealed, leaping into the big strong arms of his draenei advisor. Sevel sighed but didn't argue with his commander, running off with the man in his arms to hide behind a rock.

"Now it's Orgrimmar all over again." Seda said "comfortingly", patting her husband on the back.

"Whoa, what a weird trip…" Mokoki said, holding on tightly to the orc in front of him as he tried to get his eyes to stop spinning. "Am I the only one that saw Doctor Who?" Cosmo asked, pointing at the portal with his thumb.

"No, I think I saw him too." Akazil replied, trying to loosen the tauren's hold around his waist.

"Yes, we all saw Doctor Who. And even Great Father Winter. Now can we all push that aside! ! We have a rescue mission here, dammit!" Ixxy growled, pinching the bridge of her nose as she exhaled a frustrated sigh. "Can't do anything without getting distracted…"

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? !" An orc exclaimed as he and a human ran up to the group. "Is that the same spider from earlier?" The human asked. "Do you have a permit for that!"

Everyone looked to Ixxy to see how she would mouth off at the two, almost scared when she only remained silent, staring blankly at them.

"Um…Ixxy?" Akazil perked up, almost sweating with how nervous he was.

"Orion, write up a ticket. She obviously doesn't have permit."

"Me? Why don't you do it, Duron!"

"Because I already asked you!"

"Ixxy?…" Everyone questioned the purple halfling girl that remained silent.

"You do it, you lazy ass human!"

"Perhaps I should! Last I checked, you orcs couldn't read or write!"

At this comment, both Akazil and Makaza glared daggers at the human. "HEY! WE CAN TOO READ AND WRITE!" Akazil growled at him. "Yeah!" Makaza pitched in. "Granted, mine's not the best, but we can still do it, dammit!"

Before anyone else could make a comment, Terry began walking forward. "Can never do anything without getting distracted…" Ixxy muttered, taking hold of the spider.

"Hey, come back! I still have to write you a permit!" Duron yelled, chasing after the group. "No, I'm doing it!" Orion replied, getting out a pen and paper.

"Louis, if this keeps up, she's gonna spend the next hundred years in prison!" Seda whispered to her husband, looking to Ixxy with concern. "Or worse…have to do community service! !"

"We'll talk with her about it when all of this is over…"

"OH GOD, MY LEG!" One of the soldiers on the battlefield screamed after Terry had accidentally stepped on him.

"You still have to admit it…totally worth it."

"Totally." Ixxy agreed with her father with a smirk.

Ixxy sighed in relief as she hopped off the spider. "Finally." She said, running a hand through her hair. "I thought we'd never get here!" She complained, growling at the thought of all the distractions they had to overcome.

"Would've gotten here sooner if you had just let me murder them all." Dethiam said, leaping from the core hound. She only smile at Ixxy's irritated expression.

"Well…we're here. What do we do now!" Seda squeaked, clinging to her husband when they were both off of Terry. "Ughn, so creepy…" She shuddered, closing her eyes tight.

"We just have to keep our eyes open and our ears perked up."

"I doubt we'll find anything." Louis said, pursing his lips. "As I said before; we've searched her several times and found nothing."

"Then search again." Ixxy replied solemnly, already beginning to walk off. "Search under every tree and rock you find, listen to each sound that blows in the wind. He has to be here."

"Like we haven't done that already! !" The elder rogue growled to the girl's back. "She's already getting on my nerves again…"

"C'mon, Lou, let's just go search over here." Seda said, pointing in the opposite direction of Ixxy. "And all of you just spread out as well." She said to the teens. "But everyone take a partner. Just in case."

All of the teens nodded to the adults as they walked off. "Mak, you and Cosmo can be grouped together."

"What? WHY? !"

"Because I said so."

"Wait, that doesn't mean-" The tauren said, his eyes widening in horror. "You and Dethiam." Replied the orc. "NO!"

"Get over it, you drama queen. If this is bad for either of us, it's me."

"HOW? !"

"You'll slow me down." She said, already a few feet away. Mokoki groaned then quickly went off after her.

"Right… And I'll go with Ixxy. You two better behave. No fighting or distractions." He said to the two teens.

"Nothing can distract me from finding my little Xan Xan!"

"Look, a shiny…" Makaza pointed out, testing the elf. He noted that it put him in pain to not look in the direction he was pointing.

"Just keep your eyes open…" Akazil said irritably, then walked off in the direction Ixxy had.

Dethiam laughed manically as she slaughtered innocent critters scampering around the forest. "Ahahaha!"

Mokoki pursed his lips as he followed the undead girl, doing his best to ignore her and look for some sign of Xanna. "We'd probably make a little more progress if you stopped killing things for no reason like a psycho bitch and actually helped me look for some form of clue." He perked up, staring irritably at the girl. 'Ugh, why did I have to get paired with her?…'

"I am looking for clues." The rogue replied like a smartass. "There's nothing in this squirrel or that one or-" She was saying, killing yet another squirrel. "-this one."

"I'm sure that we're not gonna find anything in a freaking squirrel…"

"Me either. Still fun killing them." Cackled the undead girl, pulling out her paddleball as she chased another little critter.

Mokoki sighed. 'I really hope Xanna isn't dead by the time we find her…' He thought, his mind suddenly wandering. 'Or Gizzy…'

"Xan Xan! Xan Xan! !" Cosmo called out at the top of his lungs, leaping from tree branch to tree branch as he peered out across the forest. "Xanna, if you can hear me, say something!" He yelled out louder, his hands at each side of his mouth. He then placed on by his ear, listening as closely as he could for any sound of his beloved friend. "Argh! I don't see her!" He said, ever so anxious to find the girl.

Down below, his two trustworthy and faithful pets were scouting the area as well, diving into any burrows and whatnots they could find, only coming up empty pawed.

"Boss, shouldn't you be doing something like that?" Ezekiel asked, looking up to his master as they walked alongside each other, pointing to the three actually doing something. The orc pondered the thought, tapping his chin as he watched them, giving off a light shrug. "Yeah, I think I should." He said, grabbing his imp.

"H-Hey! What're you doing!"

"Being constructive." The warlock replied, throwing his minion into the nearest tree. "Ahhh! !" He screamed, flapping his arms before splatting onto a branch. "I AM NOT A RAGDOLL, DAMMIT!"

"Shut up and start leapin'!"

"Grr…" The imp growled, throwing a little fireball at his master. "Ya little brat!" He yelled down to him. He then pointed and laughed at him as he tried to stomp out his flaming robes. "Ahaha!"

"You guys, shush!" Cosmo yelled to them. "I hear something…"

"Would it happen to be the sound of me strangling my stupid imp…"

"No, Boss, look!" Ezekiel pointed to the sound Cosmo had been hearing. It was a ghoul stumbling around, looking for something.

"Let's follow it." Cosmo whispered, carefully climbing down the tree. "Maybe it'll lead us to Xanna."

Louis grunted as he flipped over another rock. "Where in the hell could he be hiding!" He growled, kicking at the dirt. "Ugh, I don't see how looking here is gonna make any difference. We've searched here before and found nothing, have we not! Grr, that girl…"

"Your daughter…"

"She's so…so-!"

"Like her parents?" Seda smiled to her husband, walking ahead of him. "When were we ever like that!" He retorted, his face flushed at the statement. The blood elf woman only turned to him, folding her arms across her chest, sticking out her hip, and topping it off with a smirk. "Lou…we're all kids at least once in our lives."

"But-!"

"I know I'm in my one hundred and thirties, but I still remember those days. Granted, you more of the goofier free spirited one, but you still had your moments."

As his wife spoke of the past, Louis' face continued to go from it's normal shade of purple to a light red. "And I remember how you were quite a bitch." He smirked to her. "Even worse than her."

"Oh, come now, I wasn't that bad…"

"You laughed at me when I broke my toe… Which you actually broke."

"Okay, I was bad. But ya see what I mean? All kids are like that. She just needs us to help guide her to make sure it doesn't worsen." The paladin walked up to the rogue, holding him close. "We're finally in their lives, so let's stay strong and help them. I don't want them to end up like El."

"I won't let that happen, Sed. I promise." Louis smiled to his wife, holding her close in return, nuzzling her for a moment before they continued their search.

Akazil and Ixxy walked in silence, not even looking at each other as they looked for their pink halfling companion. Eventually, the orc mustered up some courage to break the awkward silence. "So, um…Ixxy…"

"Yeah?"

"Why, uh… Why that name?"

At the odd question, the girl turned around, quirking an eyebrow at the warrior. "Why do you wanna know?"

"Just trying to make conversation…" He muttered, lightly shrugging. The girl stared blankly at him, tempted to roll her eyes. "Xanna, and both worlds, are in trouble…and you're trying to make conversation?"

The orc was taken aback, opening his mouth to reply something only to say nothing. He sighed and continued to mind his business. 'I know we're on a bit of a time limit here, but there's no need to be such a bitch about it…'

Another moment or two of silence passed. How uneasy it made the orc was quite palpable. Without talking, he wouldn't be able to get his mind off of Xanna, what Elros could be doing to her, if she was even still alive or not. 'I seriously doubt she'll come back again…' He thought, almost making himself cry.

Ixxy had noticed how distracted and uneasy the green teen was. She sighed, turning her head back to the log she'd been examining. "Inner Xanna." She said.

"Huh?"

"Ixxy is short for Inner Xanna."

"Inner…Xanna?"

"She was five when she named me. I was just a voice of reason, so I didn't really care. I actually even thought it was quite fitting." She shrugged, turning to see the orc smiling. "What?"

"Nothing." He chuckled. "Just cute."

"Shut up." She growled, her cheeks turning a light pink. "Anything else you'd like to know about?"

"Not if you don't feel like it."

"I don't, but you're unfocused with the silence. So ask away. I'll answer what I feel like."

The orc nodded to the elf with a smile. "Okay." He said, beginning to think of what to ask next. "So…you've always been there? Xanna didn't…make you herself?"

"Nope. Always been there. Never really gave it much thought. Never cared. I didn't have the power to get my own body or take hers. I was fine just being the nagging voice in the back of her mind, helping her figure out what was right and wrong. There were many times when I wished I wasn't there, but those feelings usually washed away quickly. Heh. Should've seen the look on my face when the Spirit Healer told us that we were actually twins that fused together in the womb."

"Why did you wish you could leave?"

Ixxy pursed her lips at the question, moving on from the log. "C'mon, let's go search over this way."

'Pinched a nerve obviously…' Akazil thought, frowning as he followed the girl. "Didn't mean to cross a line."

"It's fine. I said ask away and I'll answer what I feel like and that still stands. Just ask something else."

"Well, um…" The orc was becoming a tad anxious and let his eyes wander, not really paying too much attention to what he was looking at. At least, not until they landed on something on the back of a purple neck. "Did you know that you also had a mark on the back of your neck?"

"What?" Ixxy reached a hand to feel the back of her neck. "I have a mark?"

"Yeah, it's kinda like Xanna's, but it looks like a flame instead of a raindrop."

"Really gonna have to look something up about these…" Ixxy muttered, trying to picture what the mark looked like.

"Did Xanna and Cosmo ever have…a thing?" The orc asked his next question, snapping Ixxy back to reality. "Huh? A thing?"

"Yeah, you know… Did they ever…"

The purple girl stared blankly at the green boy. "…Oh…my…god… You're kidding me, right?"

"Well, you said ask away…"

With a sigh and roll of the eyes, the rogue marched forward again. "Yes and no." She answered. "They were close and like each other, even became as deeply in love as you could at that age, but neither had the courage to admit it."

"Xanna loved Cosmo?…"

"And he loved her. He was the only person ever in Eversong that was nice to her. He would protect her with every fiber of his being."

"Ixxy…you said that I don't know anything about Xanna…that I only fell for a pretty face…"

"Where ya goin' with this?"

Akazil fidgeted with his hands for a moment, then looked to Ixxy with big red pleading eyes. "Will you please tell me everything about her? I wanna be the one she looks to for comfort…I wanna be the one to make her smile…I wanna be the one she loves."

Looking deeply into his eyes, seeing how much he truly wanted what he said, Ixxy sighed. "If we're still alive after all this bullshit, I will. But I'll say this now…" She said, grabbing his chin between her finger and thumb, keeping him from looking away. "If you hurt her…I'll hurt you. Understand?"

"Y-… Yes, ma'am."

"Good." She said, releasing her hold. "Now enough talking. We're getting too distracted."

"Ixxy! !" Came a nearby shrill.

"Of course…"

"Ix!" Came Makaza's voice, running alongside the hunter, falling on his face when he tripped over a rock. "Ow…" He groaned as his imp began to laugh at him.

"Ixxy! ! Ixxy, we found it!" Cosmo panted, stopping in front of the girl to catch his breath. "We…we found it!"

"Found what?"

"The entrance!" Makaza answered, leaping back onto his feet. "We saw a ghoul and followed it and it led us to the entrance!"

"It led you to A entrance. Let's go take a look at it and hope that it's the one we want. For all we know, it could lead to a different psychopath's hideout." Ixxy said, folding her arms over her chest. "C'mon, we should get the others first before taking our chances."

"Must you always rain on other people's parade like a sourpuss…" Cosmo asked irritably, he and Makaza staring blankly at her. "Yeah, we're all having some hard times… Can't you just let us have our moment?"

"It's best to destroy your hopes now instead of later. It'd be more crushing to let you find out on your own if it's not the right entrance or not."

"Xan Xan got all the sweet genes, didn't she…"

"Don't make me hit you, you damn fairy."

After regrouping, Cosmo and Makaza led everyone to the secret entrance they followed the ghoul to. "Here." The blood elf said, pointing to a giant boulder. Ixxy looked it over, it looked like all the rest of the rocks in the forest and on the mountain. "We followed the ghoul here, then it crawled underground at this spot. I had Jerry follow and he came back with this…" The hunter pulled out the shiny object he had been keeping in his pocket. Ixxy's eyes widened in horror at it.

"That's Xanna's earring…"

With a worried expression, the young blood elf boy held the object close to his chest. "She has to be in there!"

"Wait…" Seda said, wanting to look at the shiny thing again. "She…she wore my earrings?"

"Wore 'em everywhere she went." Ixxy replied. "Never took the damn things off. Figured you would've noticed at least once during the couple times you encountered her."

"I was so happy to see her, looking only at her face, I never noticed…"

"She always wore them to be closer to you."

"I…I had hoped she would… It was the only thing I had to give her…"

"Seda…" Louis whispered, holding his wife comfortingly. "We'll get her back."

"Not if we keeping breaking down like this, we won't." Ixxy said, looking to the blood elf woman. "If you really wanna get her back, pull yourself together. If Xanna's in there, she's probably scared and alone."

"With Gizzy…" The tauren had to throw in.

"Scared and alone… And she needs us. So just pull yourself together and stay that way until all this is over."

"I'm sorry, I… I just thought she had stopped wearing them if she knew the truth."

Cosmo smiled, placing a comforting hand on the short woman. "My Xan Xan is too sweet. She'll get upset, but she can never hate. Trust me, I know. I abandoned her too."

Seda's lip began to quiver, so she threw her face into her husband's chest to keep herself from crying. "Let's just get a move on, shall we?" The rogue said as he stroked a hand through his wife's hair.

"Alright." The younger elf rogue replied with a nod. "Let's see if we can move this thing." She tapped on the boulder, her attention ever so slowly turning to a few young and strong boys just about a foot away from her. Akazil turned a light shade of pink as his brother and the tauren began to flex their big strong muscles.

"Sure, I'll get it." Dethiam said, walking over to the big rock. She tapped on it once or twice, spit whatever saliva she had into her hands, rubbed them together, then got as tight of a grip as she could on it and began to pull on it. "Ughn! !" She grunted, pulling as hard as she could, her feet slowly sliding beneath her, making a small trail in the dirt.

Instead of helping, everyone simply took the time to watch the amusing sight, waiting for the girl's arms to pop off. After a few seconds, they did.

"Grr…" Dethiam growled, taking her arms back. "Okay…I can play hardball…" She said to the rock, taking out her daggers. She then leaped into the air at the boulder, everything nearby being covered in dust and pebbles.

Everyone coughed, waving the dust away with their arms, growling and narrowing their eyes at the undead girl.

"Viola." The green haired walking corpse said, displaying the hole she had made, very proud of it.

"After this is over, I'm taking away your dagger privileges…" Ixxy said, staring blankly at the undead girl. She simply shrugged and gave her the daggers right there, then pulled out her paddleball. "Of course…"

"Should we spread out?" Seda whispered as everyone peeked their head around the one corner. Just as Ixxy was about to give out orders, Louis began to stomp his way down the hall. "I don't care what y'all do. I'm gonna go find Elros and get back my daughter."

"No, you idiot!" The other and apparently less important daughter quietly shouted to him, grabbing him by his ponytail and pulling him back behind the corner. "We should stick together. We all saw the undead army Elros had in Stormwind and that's only maybe less than one/tenth of it. He could have way more here, so we all need to stick together for the time being. Not storming off without a clue like an idiot."

"But it'll take longer to find her if we stick together!" The purple man growled. "I know, but this is just what we're gonna have to do for the time being." The purple girl replied, looking him dead in his dark yellow eyes with her light green ones. "Do you wanna lose her again? Because if you lose her this time, I promise, you won't get her back."

"Fine." He growled again, ever so tempted to teach the girl some manners. 'And I thought we were finally starting to make a connection…'

"So, what? We're just gonna stay huddled up together searching each and every door like the Scooby Doo gang?" Makaza asked.

Everyone only stared at the boy.

"What?"

"I don't hear anything behind this one either." Seda whispered, her ear pressed to another door.

"Nothin' here." Louis reported.

"Yet another cupcake with no cream filling…" Cosmo said pitifully.

"Ixxy, this is taking forever." Akazil said to the halfling girl. "Yeah, we really should split up. It'd go faster." Makaza chipped in. She responded to neither of them, standing there in silence, her eyes shut tight. "Ixxy?" They both questioned.

'Ixxy!' The voices of the two boys had turned into that of Xanna's, images of her flashing through her mind. 'Ixxy!' She kept saying over and over, screaming it. 'Help! Help me!' She screamed, her body covered in huge gashes, her blood all over the ground, and Elros standing over her, laughing. 'IXXY!'

"IXXY!" The boys yelled into the girl's ears again. At this, her eyes snapped open, her forehead was suddenly covered in sweat and she was panting. She looked so worn out and terrified, she had to lean against a wall to regain her composure.

"Ixxy!' Makaza exclaimed, rushing to her side, holding her close. "Are you okay?"

She still only remained silent, shutting her eyes tight again as the girl's voice rang in her ears. 'Ixxy, where are you! IXXY! ! You're never there when I need you!'

"Shut up!" The girl scream, covering her ears, banging her head against the wall to get the voice out. "Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!"

"Ixxy, snap out of it!" Makaza yelled to her, lightly shaking her.

'It's your fault I'm here!'

"It's not my fault!" Ixxy continued to ignore everything around, screaming at the voice in her mind. "It's not my fault! It's not! I didn't know what to do! I was a voice in her head!" She groaned and whimpered in distress. "I was a voice in her head…and I still wasn't there when she needed me… I just hid myself away in the dark because I was so scared… I couldn't stand to see her cry…"

'Thanks to you, this place will be my tomb.'

All the years of anguish began to build up inside Ixxy again, destroying her in the harshest manner, breaking what will she had left. "I'm sorry…" She whimpered, clenching her head tightly as she slid down to the floor. "I was just a voice…and still a little girl… I didn't know what to do…"

'You left me to die…'

"Xanna…"

Just then, Ixxy felt a hand go right across her face, forcing her to snap her eyes open again. "Aren't you the one that said we need to keep ourselves together until all this is over?" Seda said solemnly to the girl, keeping a firm grip on her shoulders. She looked up into her green eyes with her own, feeling almost comfortable in them. "Yeah…" She replied, trying to regain her cool. She took in a deep breath, helped herself up, then let it out. "Mittens," She said, looking to the lioness. "can you catch my scent again?"

"What? Why?" Cosmo questioned. "We already tried that and it didn't work."

"That's because Xanna wasn't in Stormwind. But she is here. So Mittens should have two trails…" She turned her attention back to the hunter's pet. "So, can you?"

With a nod, Mittens took a step forward to the elf girl, sniffing her up in down, making sure to inhale her scent deeply. Once sure she had it, she placed her nose to the ground, staying there for a moment. "Meow…" She said, her eyes widened in shock. She then lifted her head and pointed it in the direction they needed to go.

"Told ya." Ixxy said with a smirk.

Everyone ran down the hallways that seems to ever end.

"Damn, does El really need this big of a mountain mansion? I mean, who the hell is he tryin' to show off?" Louis panted as he ran alongside his wife. "Do you seriously need an answer to that, old man?" Ixxy asked sincerely, ever so slightly turning her head back to see the elder elf. "No…" He growled.

Ixxy let out a light laugh as everyone continued to run, turning down several more hallways then skidding to a halt at two giant doors. "Whoa…" Makaza said. "Nice…" Mokoki agreed, taking pictures with his cell phone.

"She's in here?" Ixxy asked, looking down to Mittens. The lioness nodded in reply, nudging her head eagerly at the doors. Taking in a deep breath, the girl looked forward, placing her arms out in front of her, pushing the doors open with ease.

Behind the doors was a huge rather nice looking throne room of a sort. Taking barely a second to admire the décor, Ixxy let her eyes wander to the elf in the center of the room, sitting in his chair reading a book.

"It's rude to barge in without knocking, you know." Elros said, keeping his eyes in the book. "No matter, I will let it slide."

"Where's Xanna, you bastard!" Louis screamed to the man, pulling out his daggers.

"Good to see you too, Louis." The blood elf replied, putting away his book, looking up to the group of people. "I'm glad to see that you all were able to follow my ghoul to one of the entrances."

"You planned that?" Cosmo asked.

"Of course I did. I have Xanna now, so I might as well get rid of you nuisances and continue on with my work. If I don't get rid of you now, all you'll do is keep pestering me and if I hadn't have my little ghoul here-" He said, patting the ghoul that had appeared from behind his chair. "-lead you to an entrance, you would have never found me." He smiled to them all. "So, yes, best to get this all out of the way now. Oh, but before we start, I would like for you to meet my two best helpers." He turned his head to the two dark hooded figures to the right side of the room. "Mokoki, I believe you know this one very well… Or, maybe you don't." He chuckled as he watched the tauren's distressed expression of seeing his troll friend.

"Gizzy!" Mokoki cried, running out to his friend. "No!" Ixxy told him, grabbing him by the tail. "Let me go!" He tugged harshly to get free, looking to his blue friend, almost wanting to cry at how empty and broken he looked. "Gizzy, it's me! It's your best friend! Speak to me, man!"

"My only friend…is my master." Gishezpak replied, making his way for Elros' side.

"Gizzy! !"

"We'll get him back." Louis said to the young boy. "But right now, our biggest concern is my daughter. Please just step down for now."

"Oh, yes, you're all here to see Xanna, aren't you?" Elros said, leaning back in his chair, crossing one leg of the other to get comfortable.

"What have you done with her!" Seda took her turn to snap at the freak.

"All I've done…is be there for her when she needs me. Isn't that right, my queen?"

"Yes." Came from the other hooded figure. Slowly, she got off her knee to stand up straight and pulled back her hood. "He has been there for me when I need him." Xanna said, making her way for Elros' other side, her real loved ones staring to her in absolute horror.

I, personally, think that Dethiam feels a tad bit at home being back at Elros' place. Lol.