Chapter 2
Me: Hey guys, it is REALLY muggy today and i am highly irritable
Fang: You said it
Me: SHUT IT FANG!
Fang: got it
Me: anyway, i thought i'd upload today anyway
Fang: for some weird reason, she's HAPPY her inbox is overflowing
Me: Yep!
Fang: anyway, if i were you guys, id read before she got mad
Me: *glares*
"Four months?" Mother did not sound happy. Chris and I were sent back to our room but I coated us in fog and he extended his anti-shield so it would work on me. "Aro you know I get separation anxiety" Chis and I rolled our eyes, we were 50 and mother still treated us like children.
"Isabella dear, they're 50 years old, not five" This is why we loved Aro; he respected us and treated us the way we wanted.
"In the vampire world, they are five" Mother countered, we may be young in the castle but mother wasn't that much older.
"That makes you six then, you need to let go, they aren't Alec. Alec is gone, he isn't coming home" Mother went silent. Father was a touchy topic, especially with her.
"I know he isn't coming back, that doesn't mean I don't miss him Aro" Mother sounded like she would cry if she could. I pulled my fog back, not wanting to hear any more.
"Aro will get her out of this castle soon enough, back to the letters" Chris sat on the window seat with me, leaning his back against the wall opposite the one I was already leaning on.
"I don't understand what Father means. There is no hall where the guards are hung" I was deep in thought.
"The letter said high guards, as in the elites" Chis was on the right track.
"We have searched every inch of this castle and I've never seen such a hall" Chris looked back at his knees.
"We haven't seen the hall behind the throne room, mother said it was off limits" Chis smiled. It was time to go lurking. Chris and I snuck past Chelsea and Heidi who were talking down the hall and took the stairs up to the throne room. We lay on the top step, just out of view, waiting to make sure the coast was clear. I enveloped Chris in my fog and he nodded, mother and Aro were still arguing. We bolted to the other side of the room to where we found a hidden door when we were younger. I pressed on the button on the wall behind a painting beside the patch of wall that opened up. Chris and I slipped into the hallway behind the wall and pulled the leaver to close the wall. I could hear the throne room doors opening and smiled.
"That was close" Chris and I turned on our heels and ran down the hall. The halls lead to another hidden door to get out to the passage behind the throne room. I found the switch on the wall and the door swung open to reveal another hallway, this one was better lit and much more open though. Chris stepped out into the hall and turned to the right.
"Oi, Chris, come here" Chris was calling me with his hand. I stood next to him and faced the wall he was looking at. I saw pictures of my uncles and aunts; the elite guard. "The hall where all high guards hang" I nodded, it made sense.
"What came next?" I wasn't sure of the wording since it sounded like old English, but Chris was a lover of poetry and would recall it easily.
"Beneath the frames of Jane and Felix you will find the key" Chris smiled. I walked toward the frames and found that Felix and Jane's photos were vertically in line. There was no key. Chris and I looked behind all of the photos and found nothing. I sat down against the wall underneath Felix and Jane's photos and leaned on the wall.
"Chris sit-" I fell backwards, "up" I got back to my feet and looked back at where I was sitting. The stone had sunk. The stone was the key. "Chris, your fog is spreading again" I looked down and sure enough there was fog pooling around our ankles. I moved to retract it but Chris grabbed my arm and told me to wait.
"Mother and Aro are looking for us, we have to go" We pulled the wall closed and bolted back down the hallway into the throne room foyer. Mother was standing there and turned around when she heard the wall opening.
"Were you two snooping behind the throne room again? I told you, you weren't supposed to go there" Mother was mad. Chris and I bowed our heads in apology. "Whatever, I have to leave tonight; your grandfather won't take no for an answer" Chris and I had to smother our laughter, Aro had cracked her.
"Where are you going?" I was honestly curious, we may have asked Aro to send her off, but we didn't specify where.
"Aro is sending Dimitri home, he'll be here in an hour, then we're off to Antarctica to dispatch some vampiric activity that's drawing too much attention" Mother was frowning as she spoke. Why are they worried about the Antarctic's? They never get seen and they rarely feed, when they do feed they don't feed on the scientists, they come to the more populated lands. The Antarctic Vampires are usually nomads as well.
"How long will you be gone?" Chris was smart, we can't let it slip we know how long mother will be gone for if mother doesn't tell us herself.
"Between four and six months" Chris and I frowned to keep up formalities. I was grateful Aro gave us more time; that room looked very big.
"You had better go get ready" I smiled, trying to cheer mother up a little. Mother gave a weak smile in return and ran off to her room.
"Chris, we need to talk to mother again before she leaves; we need to find out what dad's favourite book is" Christopher whispered into my ear, we didn't want Aro overhearing anything of our mission from Father.
"If we can slip it into a conversation then we'll ask, if we can't then I know how else we can find it" I had done this before; looked for a particular book I knew someone would have read a lot. You simply look at the book's spines and see which one is the most worn, that will most likely be the book you're looking for. It isn't too difficult. Then again there were a lot of books in that room.
"I trust you on this one brother" Chris walked off, probably to hunt down the cook. Before we could start looking for the book, we still had to make sure mother leaves as planned.
Me: hope you liked it
Fang: because there wont be an update for a few days
Me: yeah i need to write a few more to keep on top of the story
Fang: then once we get about a quarter through, we'll update daily!
Me: hang in there guys
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