Csoh: PRELUDE! NO!
Prelude:What?
Csoh: Um... ACHERON, NO!
Holly: At this point I think she just wants to yell...
Csoh: Yep!
A/N: Just in case you're confused this is before One Silent Night...
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Chapter 10:
Prelude felt like he'd been smacked in the face. "You want me to what?" Acheron headed towards the door.
"You need to stay out of this."
"NO!" Acheron paused near the door. A tick worked in his jaw as he turned around towards Prelude. Prelude felt like attacking the man.
"Hieronymus. She isn't-"
"You need a new line. I know and I love her for who she is. Not because of anything else."
"How do you expect to help. You're only a human now. You can't even get to Kalosis. Yet still you think you have a shot."
"Are you saying that you doubt me?" Those mercury eyes stared at him hard.
"I doubt you entirely." Prelude stood up and punched Acheron. Right in the jaw. The dark-hunter didn't even blink. A force pulled him to the man's hand, he started to choke Hieronymus.
"I won't fail Holly. You can't stop me from trying. I don't care if I die anymore. I won't return to isolation."
To his surprise, Acheron let him go and pulled him to his feet. Prelude felt blood in his mouth, his throat was going to be sore. Acheron's phone rang. He pulled it out and answered. Prelude cleaned up his face as Acheron hung up.
"They have Holly at their meeting hall." Prelude frowned.
"Aren't you coming to help?" Acheron turned to face him.
"I can't come, but my daughter can." Prelude nearly wet himself.
"I THOUGHT DARK HUNTERS COULDN'T HAVE KIDS!"
"They can't. I never said I was a dark-hunter, did I." Now that he mentioned it-
"I'm not taking your little kid with me to a daimon fest. I'll have to keep covering her back and with Holly in deep shit, I don't need anymore to protect."
"You better be talking about yourself." A tall blond walked into the room. Following her was the former dark-hunter Sin. Sin was probably the worst of the dark-hunters. He had never fought against the daimons and he had even killed human...according to the dark-hunter website. He seemed less holding onto the blond woman. She was holding a baby in her arms.
"Oh wonderful, I'm sure all the daimons will love an infant to fight." Sin looked ready to kill Prelude for his sarcasm.
"I'm going with you not my baby." The woman placed the infant in Sin's arms and nodded towards her father.
"Katra, she's held at the meeting hall."
"Wonderful. I get get another relative and where does she want to meet? Why not the daimon hall. I'm sure Stryker and the others are just being completely courteous." She grabbed Prelude's hand and he found them in the hallway of what looked to be a palace. She let go as he thought of something.
"So Acheron is related to Holly?" Katra nodded.
"Yep. I wouldn't think about it too much. Our family has one of the most bizarre lineages of any family." He nodded. It seemed like Holly had more and more relatives with each day. Katra started toward a pair of double doors and he followed silently, keeping an eye on their surroundings.
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Holly came awake on a comfortable bed. Comfortable being an understatement. She rolled over and enjoyed the softness until she remembered what had happened before she went to sleep.
"My apologies for the death of the dark-hunter." She looked up to find Stryker sitting nearby. His eyes watching her carefully and taking in every move she made. She nodded as her throat tightened at the loss.
"How did I get here?" He stood up to look like a giant.
"I brought you." Well he had some superiority complex going on.
Awesome girl. Doesn't the day just keep getting better. Why don't you ask him to disembowel and impale you just for laughs. By the way he was eying you you could probably get raped too.
She tossed the voice aside and took in her surroundings. The room was... well it was a sweet suite. The room had gold trim to the crimson painted walls. The furniture was all cherry wood by the looks of it and a nice large plasma screen was place right in front of the bed. Yeah, he was either rich or his mom was.
"Where are we?" He smirked for a split second before looking stoic again.
"I brought you to Kalosis." Yelling came from outside the room and she heard him being called. "I apologize again, but since you need to stay protected until those powers of yours develop, I would appreciate you staying in this room." He turned and walked out. A lock clicked behind him as the doors to leave were locked.
Appreciate my butt, more like 'hey slave stay here 'til I need you'.
Holly got up and listened to find out what all the commotion was about. Unfortunately all the sound was cut off. Sighing heavily she headed over to the television and turned it on. She started to scroll until she found The Twilight Zone showing on a channel. Ironic. She set the remote aside and settled onto the the plush blood red couch to watch the episode.
Time seemed to be elongated as she felt her thoughts drift to Hieronymus. She could still smell his scent on her shirt. She felt tears threaten to fall as she sat there. Finally she turned the show over to a jazz concert playing. That didn't help at all. If anything she started to cry even harder.
Wonderful.
She turned off the TV and searched around the room. In a desk in the corner she found what she was looking for. Scissors! She headed to the door and picked the lock open.
Thank you brother Leopold! Finally your lessons come in useful.
She quietly headed into the hallway and stayed in the shadows. She needed to either find Apollymi or get to a safe place. She turned the corner and nearly wet herself.
A group of Charonte demons were lounging in the hallway. A couple of them were watching her intently. Oh goodness.
Turning around, Holly all but sprinted back to her room. Slamming the door behind her, she leaned against the door panting. What in the world had she gotten herself into now?! A knock came on the door behind her, she stood up and opened it to find a handsome blond guy standing outside the door.
"Can I help you?" He smiled and shook his head.
"Stryker told me that I should bring you something to eat." She looked behind him to find a cart with food on it. She shook her head.
"I'm not hungry right now, but I would like to use a phone. I need to call into work." The guy rolled his eyes.
"We already took the liberty of calling in for you."
Liar! She stopped herself from calling out his lie. "Did you? That was very kind of you, but I highly doubt that you told them that they needed to move the particle isolator from storage unit one to storage unit four or else it will leak and cause a radiation problem throughout New Orleans." She was lying, but he had too.
The look on his face was priceless as he got out a phone and handed it to her. "Make it quick." She turned away from him and started to pace as she dialed. The phone was picked up on the first ring.
"Wrong number."
"Hi there. I had some friends tell you that I wouldn't be around for a while," she walked casually into the bathroom. "Okay dad, who's Stryker?"
"He's the leader of the daimons. Why?"
"Cause he kinda picked me up and I have no idea where I am right now." Savitar cursed so foully that Holly nearly dropped the phone.
"How did he get to you. Apollymi had you with her!" If she had thought the Charonte demons were scary, it was nothing compared to the way he sounded right now.
"Oh goody. Mr. Happy is on the line. I missed you something fierce-"
"Shut up and answer me." He was seriously pissed.
"Doesn't matter. That's not going to help me right now. I called for solutions not shouting. If I wanted to be yelled at I would have beaten up Stryker." A aggravated sigh came from the other end of the line.
"They shouldn't mess with you for a few more hours. Sit tight and I'll get you."
"Fun. Nothing says love like daddy picking you up from your friend's house."
"Don't do anything stupid." He hung up and Holly erased the memory on the phone before walking out of the bathroom and returning the phone to the blond guy. He looked at her oddly for a minute before putting it away. He had a plate of food out for her and placed it on the end table before leaving the room. The locked clicked into place.
Again.
Holly reclined onto the couch and looked at the clock. The day was just getting better and better...not. She turned the television on and turned to the QVC. This at least wouldn't remind her of anything.
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Prelude and Katra were almost at the end of the hallway when Stryker came walking out of the door at the end. He looked furiously at Katra before turning his attention to him. He looked shocked as he looked at Prelude for a minute before smirking.
"Her powers are already working to a point that she stop the damned from dying." Prelude heard doors open as other daimons came into the room. Katra grinned as she looked at the company.
"Apollymi wants to see Holly so I figured you would rather have me come and get her instead of her." Stryker gave a cold glare towards her.
"She does not. Besides, Holly has decided that she likes it here." Prelude scoffed.
"She wouldn't stay with the likes of you or anyone here." Stryker looked at him with a look of boredom.
"She really likes it with us, she has even taken up residence in my personal room." Katra shivered at the image.
"Somehow I doubt someone related to me would want to be anywhere near where you call your room." Stryker glowered at Katra. Prelude had had enough talking.
"We're taking her now." Stryker didn't even blink at the venom in Prelude's voice. He started to attack when a daimon came running in and started to whisper into Stryker's ear. Whatever the guy said, it wasn't good.
"And you let her?!" He knocked the guy to the ground and turned to leave.
"Holly causing problems?" Stryker turned.
"I can't fight you here, but you should leave." The other daimons guarded his leave and blocked them from continuing down the hall. Katra grabbed his arm and he found himself in another hallway. This one empty. He turned on Katra and looked at her with nothing but hatred in his eyes.
"Her powers are coming from nearby. You should feel them too." He leaned back and felt a pressure coming from the area to their left.
"You should go home."
"Not likely. You're only human. You can't fight the daimons alone. Especially not this many." He headed toward the pressure with Katra. They stopped as they saw Stryker walking toward a set of doors. He unlocked them and entered. They listened quietly.
Holly looked up as she saw Stryker enter.
"Morning...Afternoon...You know you can't really tell in here can you." He didn't look happy.
"Who did you call just a few minutes ago." She motioned toward the television.
"You know I just adore that lamp! It's for a limited time only you know. I had to act now. It's a good thing I did too. They just ran out." He didn't look amused.
"You're lying." She feigned a look of shock.
"OH MY! Who in the world would lie. That would be like keeping someone locked up so that they could use the person for their own personal agenda." She stood up and walked straight up to the daimon leader. "Of course no one would ever do something that cruel would they." He frowned down at her angrily.
"Your friends I already forced to leave. You won't be having anymore calls either." He turned and she felt his smugness as he started to leave. She decided to test him.
"SO YOU KNOW THAT I CALLED MY BOYFRIEND APOLLO?!" He looked like she had smacked him. She felt his shock and anger as he turned and pulled her against the couch.
"What did you say?" She grinned happily at him.
"You heard me. He's very upset about this. He said that he was going to get his sister's little helpers to come and get me out. He said that she could never say no to him." Stryker looked sick. He turned and walked out the door. Locking it behind him, she heard his hurried footsteps as he rushed to prepare for the "guests".
That was fun. Obviously, he really hates Apollo.
She rubbed her neck from where he had nearly choke him and turned to lay on the bed for a while. The door clicked open as she looked up to nearly crap herself.
Prelude was shocked as he heard Holly yell. Katra snickered under him. They waited until Stryker nearly ran out of the room and towards his daimons. Katra started to head for the room when she paused to find him not moving.
"C'mon let's go."
"She's with Apollo?" Katra rolled her eyes.
"Trust me when I say no. The guy has a god complex that is second only to his father's. Besides, he has been trying to put the moves on Athena for a few weeks now. The guy is pathetic." Prelude moved forward, but he felt the doubt inside him.
As they opened the door, he saw Holly walking towards a large bed. She turned and stared at him. She looked like she was seeing a ghost.
"Prelude?" He ran forward and gathered her into his arms. He held her so tight that he wouldn't have been surprised if she had started to complain. She returned the embrace with as much eagerness. It was so easy for him to believe she loved him as much as he loved her. He wanted to desperately.
Holly felt the emotions rushing through Hieronymus as they embraced. She never wanted to let him go. Not now, not ever. The woman he was with cleared her throat as she separated them.
"I know we all want to just have the warm and fuzzies, but you know, we kinda should wait until Mr. Wants-to-be-badass is out of our hair." Holly nodded and they almost reached Katra when Stryker rushed in with his daimons. They surrounded them and Holly felt her powers surging more. She tightened her grip on Prelude and kissed him.
Prelude tried to pull back, but Holly held him against her. He felt something in her kiss that filled him with power. His whole being warmed until Holly pulled away. She lifted herself to his ear. "Please don't tell anyone I gave you most of my powers. We can't let them use them." Stryker pulled her away and trusted her to the others. Katra grabbed his arm and the room disappeared and he found himself at another place.
"DAD!" Acheron stood up from where he had been talking with Tory.
"What happened?" Katra looked ill.
"Holly went with Stryker." Acheron cursed loudly and Prelude found himself transported to his house. He had been tossed aside.
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