Ch. 5

Lovers Found

Drake woke up strapped to a bit table in the middle of a glass room, he recognized that he was in the Sanctuary based on the smell in the room. As he looked through the glass, he could tell the people outside could see him but he couldn't see them. Drake used his well developed sight to peer through the glass and he thought to himself, if only they knew I could hear them and see them. There was Will, Dr. Magnus, Henry, and Nicola Tesla. He despised that man, he was rude and made him furious and he was extremely glad he was not a vampire anymore.

Tesla said, "I really despise this man, he claimed to me once that he was the father of my race."

Will said, "Not your raise anymore, all you have is your magnetic power."

Tesla glared at him and Dr. Magnus said, "It could very well be that he was around when the vampires ruled Egypt, but Kate will not tell me what he was telling her before we got there."

Henry said, "Maybe he has some sort of mind control power that we haven't seen."

Tesla said, "Certainly not, I've seen all his powers. He has the ability to create fire from the palm of his hand, electricity from touching his finger tips together, the teleportation you have seen, immortality; he is fast, and very strong. So in other words, we could very well classify Drake Lionheart a god among men."

Magnus said, "He is certainly not a god." As she looked at Drake and saw he was smiling and turned the intercom on and asked, "What's so fun?"

Drake said, "The fact that you are arguing about me, and have no clue what I am or who I am. However, this is by far the most amusing day I've had, and Darkness is already in caporal form so I don't have anywhere to be."

Will asked, "Who do you know?"

Drake smiled and closed his eyes and say, "When you figure out who I am, without the use of Kate Freelander, then I will tell. Until then I am going to take a little nap." If it was one thing he liked to do before allying himself with anybody was to test their willingness to get to the truth and how far they are willing to go to get to the truth. Bigfoot walked in and Magnus said, "Keep an eye on our guest." Big foot just grunted and sat in a chair and read a book.

Meanwhile, across town Darkness was in search of old Cabal safe houses. Ever since John Druitt killed them they had all been abandoned. He walked down the streets and stopped by a window that was portraying his reflection, and the scar was very unnerving to some people and he liked it that way. However, for him it was constant reminder of how Drake and he were eternally bound. He then looked into the window and saw a black leather trench coat and then he replicated it on his own body and said, "That's better, it is no cape but it will do."

Then he turned down the alley and touched a couple of bricks and a door opened and he smiled and entered into the darkness. He loved the darkness, he felt right at home with it and just like he felt right at home with the fact that there was going to be evil all through the world. He activated the generator and all the little gadgets and computers switched on and he sat down at the big computer. On the screen it said enter the password. Darkness said, "I don't need no fucking password."

Fingers on the keypad as if he was going to type something, but his fingers turned to black liquid, and began to ooze into the computer system, hacking its way into every inch of the former Cabal organization. After a few minutes his hands returned to normal and the computer screen lit up and it read WELCOME DARKNESS. He began to laugh as he worked through the system and found contacts of former Cabal workers and people that he felt were willing to create an abnormal army for him.

Back at Sanctuary, Kate was sitting in Magnus's office.

Magnus asked, "Kate please, we need you to help us try to figure out who is?"

Kate said, "No, I don't remember."

Henry said, "See mind control."

Kate said, "Are you stupid, it is not mind control it's probably some sort of drug."

Will replied, "There was no drugs in your system, are you working for him?"

Kate just sat there.

Tesla said, "I should have seen it. That bistro where you found her, the pictures that you took of the area. If you look here the people in the window were about to shoot you till, they saw his hand raise which means the drug took a while to act in his system and those people are working for him."

Kate just sat there.

Henry began to scan the crest on the window as Magnus said, "Well at least we know there were human, so why work with him?"

Kate said, "Maybe he saved their lives once and now they are repaying him by helping him."

Magnus said, "It's a theory or he is forcing them. But the question remains what is he doing?"

Henry said, "Bingo, It belongs to the Lionheart family a Romanian royalty in 1666. The line ended with Prince Vladimir Lionheart."

Magnus said, "No, my father told me once about that family they were very influential and claimed to have conquered beasts, which my father assumed were abnormals. In one report there was mention of a traveler that came to their door, the story goes was that he was tormented by spirits of his past. The family nursed him back to health and a Priest was claimed to have saved his life, by exorcising the spirits. After that the family took him in and he became a brother to Prince Vladimir, however no mention of his name, but he went by Draco."

Tesla was searching through a book he found in the library and said, "Here is a portrait of the whole family." As they looked, there was Drake with longer hair and a beard, but there was no mistaking his eyes.

Magnus said, "Now we know that he is much old than we had originally thought. Now we can go tell him we have solved who he is."

Drake lay asleep in the nice tight confined space that Magnus and the others had put him in. He enjoyed his naps, a good time to look back on one's life. Then he could hear footsteps, and then Magnus said, "Drake we know who you are."

Drake opened his eyes and smiled and said, "Oh really, now, I doubt you only know half the truth that your father had gathered."

Magnus tried to hide the shock at how he knew, but her heart beat gave it away, and said, "I don't know what you're talking about. You come from a Romanian family called the Lionheart's but you were not related by blood you were a traveler possessed by an evil spirit. I assume was Darkness."

Drake made a buzzer noise and said, "I'm sorry Doctor Magnus but that is the wrong answer care to play again?" He smiled.

Magnus slammed on the glass and said, "I do not have time for you games innocent people will die if you do not tell me the truth."

Drake answered, "Innocent people are already dead Doctor Magnus. However the story you just told me is partially right. Try to piece together the rest."

Magnus said, "You are a cheeky bastard."

Drake said in a mocking tone, "Yes your right." As they walked away, Kate stayed behind and let the Big Guy go do something. Drake smiled and used a blade hidden in up his sleeve to cut the straps that bound him.

While Magnus and the others were in the library, looking up more about ancient Romanian Drake was walking freely in his cell. Kate asked, "So what are you really?"

Drake smiled and began to walk up the wall and said, "I'm am the perfect abnormal. All their strengths none of their weaknesses, you met Big Bertha right."

Kate said, "Yes and it almost killed Will."

Drake said, "That is not her actual body. Consider for once that all the myths and legends are true, there are gods and goddesses, and legendary monsters and heroes."

Kate replied, "So are you telling me that you are some sort of god?"

Drake said, "I don't remember, all I remember is that I was five in Egypt when a ruthless warlord found me and trained me to be the perfect solider. At age ten I found out I had the ability to produce fire from my hands. Age 12 I could shout electricity from my finger tips, and then at 15 I found out I could run faster than mortal men and had superhuman strength. Then at age 20 I found out I was immortal."

Kate looked at him and stepped closer to the glass watching him walk up the wall and hang upside down on the ceiling and she said, "So you don't know who your real family is?"

Drake said, "The only real family I have is Karen who's dead, and the Lionheart's who are also dead. Then there is my son Marcus and daughter Lorelei, to which I haven't seen since they banished me from Egypt. Besides the people that I protect and work with me, I am all alone."

Kate looked away and realized that until she joined up with the Sanctuary network she was all alone. Drake smiled and said, "Just like you, I can tell by your expressions that until you met them you worked alone, besides family that you help by sending money to."

Kate said, "You can tell that by just looking at my face?"

Drake said, "And the fact that I have people I have placed over here in Old City to watch the Sanctuary network."

He jumped down off the ceiling and teleported from behind the glass so that he was inches from Kate and she said, "How can you do that, without even setting off alarms."

Drake smiled and said, "It's easy, the EM shield is electromagnetic power, it picks up normal teleportation, while I use flames to teleport me without harm to me or others I take with me. Let me show you." He grabbed her and teleported her away again, but this time to a place where they could be more intimate.