5-The Mask Is Revealed
"And what if she shows up in Scarlatina?" Drake asked, quite worried that they did not have an emergency plan for such a thing as this.
"Then we'll have to..." The Queen replied, her eyes slowly turning to the side as she didn't want to face the two teenagers in front of her at that exact moment.
"If she shows up in Scarlatina, "Carmen continued, "then our only option will be to stop her." No one was as confident about it as Carmen made it sound.
"And how do you propose we do that?"
Arianna knew this was going to be a challenge. It always was a challenge when it came to murderers in Scarlatina. The whole town was like a magnet for crime. There was always one thing or another happening and she was always the one who had to deal with it because of her authority. Carmen's coronation was not coming soon enough to her.
"You've taken down Heather and Celia enough times-"
"QUIT WHILST YOUR AHEAD, CARMEN!" The assassin quickly snapped, knowing where she was going with that part of the conversation.
The four were gathered around the dining table, Drake, Carmen and Celia sat as Arianna refused to do so. She simply stood, her hands pressed flat on wooden table as she leaned in very slightly to look at her daughter and son-in-law in front of her.
Carmen rolled her eyes, shrugging off Celia's outburst. It was a usual thing for Celia to feel the need to interrupt her.
"What I mean is, you and Aunt Courtney and Uncle Duncan have and everyone else can take down another killer." Carmen told her mother, honestly thinking that they could. "You've done it before."
"It's not that easy..." Arianna sighed, knowing what her daughter was trying to get at.
The problem was that she wasn't exactly as young as she used to be anymore. Courtney and Duncan may still have been, along with a few others, but all of their fighting days were over. Long gone, a lot like most of their youth.
"See what you've started now, Drake?" Celia muttered, liking the fact that she was able to point the finger at someone other than herself for once.
"Celia, SHUT UP!" Carmen yelled before turning back to her mother. "Like I was saying, do it or I will!"
Arianna raised her eyebrow at her daughter. Carmen thought it was going to be easy, but it was far from it. She had only been a small child before and then needed rescuing along with everyone else. They had now grown up in the past ten years, but they were still not as strong as they thought they were.
The Queen and her generation had it a lot harder. Most of their families had either not cared (Example being Trent), not been alive (Example being Gwen) or not able to keep up with it all (Example being Taylor). Carmen and her generation had, had a very cushy life. Their parents were all still around (and even Jen still had Duncan and Courtney), able to fight all their battles for them. They didn't understand what it was like.
"Fine." Arianna finally replied. "If you think it's so easy, go catch this person yourself." Without another word, Arianna turned on her heel and left the room.
Drake turned accusingly to face his wife. Carmen's big mouth had really gotten them into trouble this time. But Carmen was not ready to back down before she had even begun; she wanted her time to shine. This was her turn to prove that she could do something right for once. This was Carmen's chance to show her parents that she was ready to take on responsibility.
"Now what are we going to do?" Drake asked. "She's not even in Scarlatina!"
"Yet." Celia quickly added. The two of them turned to face her, finding Celia's face to be blanked over. She knew that this criminal was going to be coming to Scarlatina, she was planning on it.
"What are you talking about?" Carmen asked, not sure if Celia was putting it on or not.
"The killer." Celia's face turned back to normal, looking straight at the two of them now. "She's been here before." Carmen was starting to worry already. "She'll be back." Celia had no reason to lie about it, which was why Carmen now believed she had bitten off more than she could chew.
"You know this because...?" Drake tried to encourage Celia to answer, but she didn't give him the answer he wanted.
"TURN THE TV ON!" Celia quickly snapped.
The three got to their feet at the same time, rushing into the room next door, the only room that contained a TV. Celia dived on the floor in front of the machine whilst the two lovers settled themselves on the sofa, knowing Celia had some-what idea of what she was going to do.
"In other news." The reporter on the Growlen news channel spoke.
Clearly the channel hadn't been changed since the previous day as Carmen had been watching it intensively whenever she could for the past twenty-four hours, wanting to know more on the attacks and murders.
"Another building in down town Nishnaville was blown up earlier today." Carmen gasped, edging forward to hear more. "Thirty workers at the Bleeper factory were injured and an unknown amount is being presumed dead."
Carmen was having a hard time understanding this. Nishnaville was not too far from Scarlatina, around a twenty-minute car journey from the Palace itself. And why had the attacker chosen the Bleeper factory? The only thing they could have been hoping for was to cut off any more bleepers produced in the Growlen world, but Carmen had no idea why that would have been of importance to anyone. Most people already had Bleepers, so there was no way it would have cut off the communication system.
"This photo still was taken from the scene of the crime by a passerby as the building went up in flames."
A picture flashed onto the screen on a large, once mostly glass-windowed building was shown. Most people could instantly recognize it as the Bleeper factory as it was the tallest building in the whole of Growlen. However, all of the windows had been smashed and flames were erupting from every corner possible. Thick, black smoke was being emitted into the air and it was quite hard to see.
"PAUSE!" Celia called out and the television did as she said. "Zoom into there." She pointed her finger to the almost corner and the TV complied, zooming into the picture, making it even blurrier, but still able to pick certain features out.
"How did you make it do that?" Drake asked, half-amazed, and half-scared at what he had just witnessed Celia do. He turned to Carmen, but she didn't seem as surprised as he was.
"She's a telekontric." Carmen explained to her bemused husband.
Carmen knew that, that was the truth because she knew Celia quite well. Always being in the news and what-not, always being hunted down for another murder of someone. You can learn a lot about people like that.
"You mean a telekinesis." Drake corrected her.
"No...Well, a telekontric is sort of like a telekinesis." Carmen tried to think of a way of explaining it. "A telekontric is someone who can give demands to simple household appliances, only if they are electrical, though, and they will obey their every command."
"SHUT UP!" Celia finally barked at the two of them, needing their attention on something which was a lot more important that what a telekontric was. "Look at the screen..."
The three of them all brought their eyes up at the same time. Carmen gasped once more. She quickly got off the sofa and crawled as fast as she could over to Celia, so she could see the screen a lot better.
"OH MY SCRALTINAN GODS!" She screamed. "Is that-!"
A/N: CLIFFHANGER! MEH HEH HEH!
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I am soo glad to leave it there...I KNOW WHO IT IS! Do you?
LOL! TAKE A GUESS! I wanna see who ya'll think it is...hehehe! This'll be good...LOL!
Also! A little bit ago, I was waiting for my brother to get out of the bathroom so I could use it and a sudden thought came to me...
If all the couples had kids, who would they take after? (I mean vampire, werewolf and power wise...)
(Tigfer/Tigen) Jen and Tiger? (Werewolf or...There is no word for Jen's power is there?)
(Scalise) Anna and Scott? (Fairy or Werewolf)
(Thomallas) Thomas and Dallas? (Vampire or... I don't believe I had told you about Dallas'...Powers, shall we say, yet...DON'T WORRY! I'll come to that...)
(Cake) Carmen and Drake? (Neither actually has powers...Have you noticed that one yet? I only just did...)
Uh...I'm outta couples...GRRR! I should probably have more...LOL!
Though I do have KlaineLuneville for the couple names ;) LOL! She came up with them WAY long ago and I have been waiting since then to use them at some point...LOL!
YAY!
OMG! Have you ever had a flashback that did not belong to you? I DID! It belonged to Nigel Black (You know...Court's dad in this series...). It was REALLY weird...I wasn't even daudreaming or anything, but it just hit me like a memory that should have been mine...But wasn't...Know what I mean?
I've had a weird and unproductive day...I spent around three or four hours on Status shuffle on Facebook...I went for a walk to help me lose weight, came home and scoffed as much sugar-filled shtuff as I could...Counter-productive day...
I also think I have ADD...Or ADHD...One or the other because I CANNOT keep focus on ANYTHING! I have a very short attention span and...IT'S PISSING ME OFF! I mean it...This is why I never update early anymore...It takes me the whole freakin' day just to write it because I keep moving onto other things! GRRR!
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I'm gonna give you all nicknames based off your usernames now...Just for the fun of it...Or just tell you what my brain calls you because your user names are Sooooooo long...Like...Mostly more than three letters...That is like...A LOT! My brain can't process that much all at once...
Thank you to;
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(You know...These days, all of ya'll tell me if I make a spelling mistake in my titles...Since I just went all the way back to the beginning...Right the way back to the very first chapter of GO EVER! No one told me back then that I spelt Return with an e...Returen...HAHAHA!)
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YAY! I LOVE YOU ALL!
YAY! My cat finally moved from my feet and now I can go pee!
...You didn't wanna know that...
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OMG! I didn't listen to ANY music whilst writing this...I think that may be a new record...I MEAN IT! I ALWAYS listen to music when I write...NO!
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Love, ChloeRhiannonX