Thank you to the people who reviewed my last tow chapters! I hope you guys enjoy this one, as well.
-LBLP
Luna knocked on the door to the room of Seattle Universities' finest Welsh professor, and grinned her smoldering grin; the one with many hidden agendas, and the means to achieve each and every one.
"Hey, Mr. Banning." She said as she grinned at the Professor grading papers.
"Halo, Luna. Sut wyt ti?" The professor grinned back, looking over his papers.
Luna chuckled, "You know I have no clue what that means."
"Ah, but you would if you took my class." The professor said.
"I'll see what I can do," She smiled, "Any luck with those pictures I emailed you?"
"Well, I suppose if I looked at them, I would. Forgive me, though, I've been very busy with finals. They are just as much a pain to grade as they are to take." Mr. Banning put his papers aside to pick up his ancient laptop. He opened his emails, and projected the attached pictures onto his smartboard.
"Chwilio am Aeron, as far as I am concerned," he said while pointing to the red writing,"means 'search for Aeron'"
"And the front?" Luna asked, pushing him to try hard to remember as much as he could from what seemed like a landscape.
"Well," he said while clicking the remote to show Luna the picture of the landscape, "I think this shows the landscaping of what seems to be the river Aeron."
"What's there, Mr. B?" Luna asked, staring intently at the picture, seeing how the river could be found.
"As far as I remember, the river Aeron is a small river in Ceredigion that flows into Cardigan Bay at Aberaeron. It's a very lovely place to be. Lots of sand, lots of food, tourist attractions…"
The professor went on, but Luna's mind was racing over her newfound knowledge.
Search for Aeron. River Aeron: a small river in Ceredigion that flows into Cardigan Bay at Aberaeron. Aberaeron. Wales.
"Your mother was found a week ago, washed up on the shores of Aberaeron Cardigan Bay. Obviously, she was dead."
Quickly, Luna went through everything in her mind she could connect to the area.
She was on the brink of a discovery, something hanging on the tip of her tongue; she was just about to reach a moment of clarity, when she got a phone call.
Groaning, she looked at her phone and cursed whoever it was who interrupted her. Calling: Sanchez, Anton. She narrowed her eyes. Not once had she received a phone call from her father. Why now? Luna clicked a button and sent her father to voicemail. She had better things to do.
"Mr. Banning, does Aeron have any other meanings at all?" Luna asked, pursing her lips and staring intently at her clues.
"Well, for some who name their sons Aeron, it means berry. But it's not the most common name." He looked at Luna, and was suddenly bursting with questions.
"Is there anything else?" Luna pressed, wanting to know as much as she could without having to make too many trips.
"Well, in some stories…" The professor stopped, and furrowed his brow.
"In some stories?" Luna echoed, feeling as if she was about to gain important information.
"In some stories, Aeron is the Welsh god of War. I don't think that's really important, though." Luna brightened up at hearing the professor's words. She had something to investigate now.
"What sparks the interest in the Welsh languages and names?" He said, smiling.
Luna shrugged, "Just a project."
"Too lazy to just surf the internet as most students do?" He questioned.
"You can't trust much on the internet." Luna said gravely. The professor just nodded, and made his way back to his desk.
She walked nearer to the door, seeing as her phone was vibrating once more.
"Thanks Mr. Banning." Luna called while leaving the room. The professor waved back and smiled, going back to his papers.
Luna sighed angrily, and called her voicemail.
"You have one unheard message. First unheard message," The phone beeped and clear voiced gave way to muffles and static sounds. Muffle screams that almost made Luna's blood run cold. Through the static, a strong deep voice spoke.
"Cam un yn gyflawn. Symud i'r lefel nesaf."
And then there was nothing. Luna stared at her phone, and calmly strolled towards her next destination, pretending she didn't just receive a horrifying voice message. She headed to her favorite conspirator.
"Hey, David." Luna said with a small smile on her face. David lit up, and waved her over to his spot where he was examining Luna's clues, because she was far too busy to do such a thing.
"Hey, man, you brought me one hell of a specimen. But I cracked it. Come here." Luna looked around the lab, her head racing because of her message.
"So, I don't know what the letter is doing there, but I do know where this baby and the sand are from." David said, showing Luna to his spot on the microscope.
"You see the particle to the left of the red blotch?" David chatted excitedly.
"No, and this would go a lot faster if you just told me where it's from." Luna said blatantly.
"What a killjoy. Anyways, this glass here is from the Isle of Anglesey, which I'm one hundred percent sure is in North Wales. Your sand here is from the Glassblobbery, at Corwen which is technically in the United Kingdom, but who cares." Luna bit her bottom lip when he said Wales.
"I know that look." David said while carefully putting his samples back into their cases.
"What look?" Luna said back, reviewing everything she had so far.
"You're investigating something," David said, leaning closer to her, "and I want in." Luna shooed him away and waved her hand in front of her face.
"I'm doing nothing of the sort. I was just wondering if Glassblobbery was actually a word."
"It is." David assured.
"Thanks for your help; I don't know how I could ever repay you." Luna said while gathering up her belongings.
"Movie tonight at eight? I haven't seen the Avengers yet, and I'm dying to see it." David said.
"No, David. I'd rather not." Luna said, tucking her hair behind her ears as she stood awkwardly while rejecting David for the millionth time.
"By the way, do you know anyone who could separate audio sounds from static and things like that?" Luna asked, changing the topic.
"Yeah, me, but unless you go to dinner with me, nothing's getting done." David said shrugging her shoulders. Luna sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Eight on the dot," Luna sighed, "and don't you dare be late."
David smiled, "You won't regret it."
"No, but you will." Luna said while walking from the complex to her bus.
While on the bus, she rook out her notebook and wrote down her notes for the day.
Search for Aeron equals the Aeron river, or possibly a man named Berry. Also the God of War. The sand is from the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales/ UK. The Glass is from the Glassblobbery at Corwen, which is also in North Wales/UK. Review phone message after rendezvous with David.
Luna sighed. She had too much to do. Too much to figure out. And all this valuable time would be wasted because of some guy and his abilities that she did not possess herself.
This would be so much easier if I knew more, Luna thought to herself. She lost herself in thought, and once again failed to notice the men in black shadowing her.
Luna sighed as she dug through her wardrobe for something semi-acceptable for something such as a… a… gathering. She couldn't bring herself to call it a date. Because that would imply that you go out with someone you had some kind of romantic feeling for, and you took one step closer to being in some kind of relationship. This troubled Luna. Being how she was, she didn't think it wise to have any attachments. It would slow her down, because when in a relationship you have to compromise.
And compromise wasn't in Luna's specialty when it came to her work. It was either her way, or the highway, and many people would say.
She picked up what she saw as a simple shirt, which wasn't too dressy, but not too casual. She looked at herself in the mirror with it, and she decided against it because of the ruffles. She took off the garment and frowned at it; she never bought such a thing.
After a good twenty minutes finding she liked nothing she owned, she gave up on the prospect of looking nice and decided to do something more productive.
She hooked up her phone to her laptop, and downloaded the message she got, making sure to save it in a private folder with a password.
She listened to it over and over again, seeing what else she could find out from the message. She only got two things: This was taken in a warehouse, and the man screaming was probably her father.
Once more, she laid out her clues, wondering what could be happening. The one thing that made sense was the message 'Chwilio am Aeron'. But there were so many meanings. Search for Berry, search for the God of War, search for the River Aeron.
Maybe there's a place where all of them meet? Luna quickly opened up her google chrome browser and typed in all kinds of things. Only one search came up that caught her eye.
BERRY EVANS, 25, ARRESTED FROM CARDIGAN BAY WHILE ILLEGALLY SELLING ARTWORK.
Luna clicked on the title to see what she could learn. She hit the jackpot. The article was in Welsh, but she was able to click on a feature to translate it into English.
Berry Evans, starving artist, was arrested after illegally selling his statues of the God Aeron, and disturbing the peace. Berry was pushing his art on others, claiming that if they did not buy the statue, they would all be violently murdered. Police arrived...
Luna saved the article, and opened up a feature she illegally downloaded into her computer years ago. In this locator, it tracked down people, things, pets, anything. It had proved useful, so she kept it around. She typed in: Berry Evans, Wales.
The search engine said it would take three hours, and Luna huffed at how long this ridiculous feat took. Then she remembered, it would take her much longer by herself.
Just then, a certain Mr Jacob Black strolled into her room, and stared at the clothing materials all over the place.
"Oh my god, it looks like a tornado hit this place." He said while stepping over various peices of clothing. Luna checked her clock, and saw that it was six fifty. She bit her bottom lip, and tried her best to figure out how to get out of this being a two man group.
"What happened to this place?" Jacob said, picking up a few things and placing them on Luna's bed, seeing as how it was impossible to step over them.
"Oh, I was invited to a... a... rendezvous." And I thought I would look at least a little bit nice for it, but I gave up." Luna said, while spinning around in her chair.
"David asked you out again?" Jacob said, picking up more things.
"Yeah." Luna sighed, watching her roommate decide on just putting her clothes away.
"I guess he just doesn't know when to stop, but he has guts. It must be hard to ask you out and get rejected so many times. Maybe you should humor him a little," Jacob said, while folding a pair of her pajama pants which somehow get caught up in the mess.
"Humor him? I'll do no such thing. That would be putting him under false pretenses. It's enough that I agreed to take out some time from my day to accompany him to such a thing." Luna said, giving her signature, 'bitch-you-cray' face to Jacob Black, which was usually the only receiver of the face.
"Well, at least dress nicely. You're in jeans, and a huge T-shirt that's really plain." Jacob said, while taking it upon himself to pick out an outfit for her, "Here, wear this." He threw the green dress towards her. She looked at it, a scrunched her nose up.
"I said I would go with him, not look like a clown." Luna remarked.
"You won't look like a clown, you'll look like a normal woman. Who knows, maybe you'll have an ounce of feminine charm when you're wearing something normal," Jacob said while fishing for a nice pair of shoes.
"But... this... this is a short dress, and I haven't shaved my legs." Luna said, trying to find a loophole.
"You don't need to, you got that laser hair removal thing last month, and you don't need to get it again for another six months." Jacob said, emerging from the closet with a pair of semi-heels. Luna's eyes widened.
"No. Never." She said, getting up out of her chair and getting ready fro a battle.
"Yes. This is going to happen." Jacob said, narrowing his eyes, and slowly moving towards Luna.
"You'll never take me alive." Luna hissed at Jacob, and she slowly inching closer to her open door. Her eyes darted for an opening, and so did Jacob's. She sprinted towards it and Jacob lunged for her, grabbing her by the waist, and pulling her away from the door.
Luna kicked and fought, digging her nails into his skin, but it was to no avail.
"Let me go you fiend! Monster!" Luna screamed while trying her best to wriggle out of his grip.
"Get into the dress and shoes, and I'll let you go." He said, with a smug smiled on his face.
"I can't do that while you're holding me prisoner." Luna pointed out, still trying to wriggle out of his grip.
"Not with that attitude you can't." He replied back. Luna raised her eyebrows, and despite the fact that Jacob couldn't see the expression, he knew he just set himself up for disaster.
"Oh, so it's your goal to see me naked, despite the fact that you have a girlfriend. And may I remind you, yesterday you ejaculated all over my two thousand dollar couch. Which, by the way, you will have to buy me a new one if you don't let me go this instant." At first Jacob didn't flinch, and Luna kept wriggling to the best of her ability.
"I will evict your ass faster than you can say cheese wiz." Luna hissed in a dangerously low tone. Jacob widened his eyes, and slowly released Luna, while backing up as fast as he could to remove himself from possible harm.
She cleared her throat, and straightened out her clothes, while picking up the dress Jacob had thrown at her.
"I will put this on," Luna said, dangling the distasteful garb—or at least it was in her eyes— in front of her face, "If you bring your girlfriend to this thing and make this a group gathering."
Jacob smiled a playful grin, "You mean a double date." Jacob teased.
"I will slay you where you stand." Luna noted, walking slowly into the bathroom to get her clothes on.
Jacob called his newest beau, and set up the date. He smiled to himself that Luna was finally going to get out of the house, even if he had to chaperone her. Something was better than nothing. Finally, he decided on texting Luna's pursuer and pitching him a better idea than a movie.
If Jacob knew anything about Luna, it was that movies both bore and annoy her. With their inconsistencies, and predictability, and plot holes. In about ten minutes, he answered back with a simple text. 'but I dunno how to dance.'
Jacob smiled, 'she'll teach you.' He texted back. And soon after he got a text, 'what do I wear?' Jacob furrowed his brow in thought. 'business clothes, or a tux if you have one. No jeans. No T-shirts.'
Jacob texted his date, Debra, while waiting for David's reply, 'Make sure you look good (;' He smiled when he got an immediate reply, 'Should I wear a dress, or nothing?' He looked around to see if Luna was out yet, but she wasn't. 'Both. A dress when we're there, and nothing when we're at your house.'
He finally got a reply from David, 'kay.' Jacob deleted the messaged, just in case Luna got a hold of his phone. He then got a reply from Debra, 'love the sound of that.'
Jacob looked at the clock, and it said seven thirty, "Are you done in there, woman?" He celled out.
"I've been done for twenty minutes. But I look ridiculous. I'm not going." Luna called out.
"Yes you are!" Jacob called, walking towards the bathroom door and turning the knob.
"No don't come in here! I look terrible. This is a disaster. I swear to god, Jacob I will kill you if you take one more step into this vicinity." Luna threatened. Jacob just chuckled, and moved into his room and got dressed quickly.
"Well, I'll just meet you there, then." Jacob called into the bathroom, "but first, give me my cologne."
He heard Luna shuffling around the bathroom, then, she opened the door a small crack, and placed the cologne on the floor. She quick;y shut the door, before Jacob could try anything. He chuckled and shook his head. He put on a little cologne, and he exited the house.
This should be interesting, Jacob said while starting his car and driving to pick up his lover for the night, Very very interesting.
(A/N): Next chapter, THE DATE *DUN DUN DUN* as well as other activities. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.