Chapter Fifteen
Angel's POV
"Alice, can you catch Leah the next time she makes a lap and tell her that I think she's going to wear herself out?" I asked, half asleep from Alice's late night strategy meeting last night.
We were officially the last group still out searching for Arian and Will, but I knew that even if we turned up empty, the search wouldn't end until both boys were brought home safely.
From what I gathered from Serenity's mind two months ago, the new School building was high-tech, heavily guarded, and also had the properties to make it invisible…so, basically, impossible to find. Even the getaway van had disappeared into thin air, though we did find Gremlin's body on the highway. He was a sad slab of road kill, but it was vital that Serenity confirm his identify, so we had to listen to her crying over his death for a whole day while we gathered supplies for our search and rescue teams.
Suddenly, Alice and human Leah appeared in my line of sight and I fluttered down from the tree I had been laying in while also scouting the area. Nothing but trees for twenty miles in any direction.
"Okay, so what's the game plan?" Leah asked, standing next to me and inhaling slightly. I guess the vampire scent was starting to get to her.
"Well, we know that we can't see it, and because of the boys' genealogy, Alice can't see them, but there has to be a way. I can feel that they're close." I said, playing with a strand of grass. I looked up at Leah who was still standing. "How is Seth holding up?"
Leah rolled her eyes. "He's acting like a lost puppy, sleeping in your bed and wallowing in his inability to be near you."
I frowned. I didn't like it that the searching parties split up couples. I missed my wolf terribly right now. It had been two months without physical contact and I knew it was crushing him more than it was upsetting me. "Don't be hard on him. You know you'd be doing the same thing if Embry wasn't always phased when you were."
"Enough of your arguing." Alice spoke up quietly. "I think I know a way around our disabilities."
"And how is that, oh psychiness?" Leah said with a tad bit too much sarcasm.
"Well, like Angel said. I can't see the boys…" Alice said with a huge grin.
"Yeah, we know." Leah grunted. "That doesn't exactly help us."
"I've been trying to 'not' see areas where we're headed, and there's this one town that disappears up in Canada." Alice explained. "I think its worth checking out."
"But don't like wolves and halfbreeds disappear from your vision too?" I asked. "It could just be one of Nauhel's sisters."
"It could…or it could not be." Alice said with another grin. "Please, please, just let us stop there on our way back. We're already the last ones still out looking."
I read her thoughts and decided that it was worth a try. "Okay. I'm in."
Leah sighed. "Can we just do it quickly, since its obvious that its two against one. I wanna get home soon if its alright with you guys."
"Oh, thank you, thank you." Alice, always energetic, said with a jump in the air. "On to Thanatos!"
"You mean, the Greek god of death?" Leah complained. "Doesn't that sound suspicious to anyone else!"
I shrugged. "I was born at a place called Death Valley."
With one last complaint from Leah, we took off to Thanatos, Canada.
I knew something was up the moment, I set foot in the little town. Leah and Alice were running beneath me the entire hour it took to get there while I flew overhead to get the gist of the landscape. Let me tell you, there wasn't much to see. Other than the occasional house, tree, or car, there wasn't anything even remotely interesting about the trip to Thanatos.
"I'm not seeing anything that could double as a kidnapper's hideout." Leah said, pulling her sundress down from just phasing back. She found it easier to tie a raggedy dress to her leg than jeans and a t-shirt.
"Oh, wait! Look that's it!"
"Really, where?" I asked, then scanned her mind for the building that wasn't there. "Very funny, Leah."
"What? I'm just so bored…" Leah complained again.
"Shh…I need to focus…or un-focus." Alice corrected herself as she shushed Leah and closed her eyes for added effect.
Ten minutes later, Alice opened her eyes with a start and I gasped upon reading her thoughts. She immediately whipped out her small silver phone and hit speed dial one, Edward Cullen.
"Leah, call Jacob. We're gonna need the whole team here." I whispered as I pulled out my phone to call Max. This was what we'd been waiting for…
AN: I made up the city Thanatos, Canada; just so you know. I just like the translation to "death."
