Shadowsblade a Whateley Tale: Written by Shadowsblade

Created for war and forged in pain, dealing with demons within and without.

This is the story of a man who finds a magic box, one that changes him into a Teenage Drow girl (a dark elf) and he has to deal with the very sudden change. Then handle all the memories of a Drow that was 'made' for a long lost war. This new part of him, has 40,000 years of memories of fighting that war. She has to deal with all that pent up PTSD, her enemy is here, but she loves her. Her old Queen is here and she wants to kill, that Queen ohh so bad!

So far in the story, Rohanna is being sent to a high school for mutants. While in school, she has to learn to keep that temper in check and her vast skills at killing others! She has been attacked in Boston while shopping, by her new lover by accident of fate and by an assassin that nearly kills her.

The last major hurdle in her short new life, is that a science project gone mad! Has made an exact clone of her and linked it mentally to her every thought, it reacts like an extension of her body now.

Life moves on and she makes a movie to get Fae kind more "Out there" and joins the NYPD as a teen cop!

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Kevin sighed as he laid in his bed, his roommate Bobby Joe was across the room from him. Bobby was totally out having spent a day plus building up a new bike engine for the twins and of course it was one of two he would make. They did not put a deadline on the poor guy, he was just driven to get one project one hundred percent done before moving on to the next one.

He would normally be out with one of the twins training at night, but tonight was a bit of a break after Rehanna busted his arm a few days ago. She gave him the day off to reflect on it…aka she was still mad at him!

In the meantime, he was just waiting to be sure Bobby Joe was sound asleep and then he would get back up and leave the room the best way he knew to be silent…jump out the still open window!

Bobby’s breathing slipped into that REM state as his heart rate dropped and Kevin knew he was out for the night, normally it took a bomb to wake Bobby once he was out for the night! The teen Drow flipped his sheet off his body and then swung his legs over the bed’s edge to slide into his urban camo pants and black sneakers, he topped his outfit off with a black shirt. He was still trying to learn to creep around silently like the twins, but it all took practice and even they admitted it took a few years of daily use to obtain real silence and their movements be untraceable by humans.

He crept over to the room’s window, popped the screen free and stepped out onto the ledge, then closed the screen to keep the bugs out of his room. Then he checked the area around him for any other students, then jumped down the small roof covering the BBQ for the dorm in the building’s student recreation and gathering quad/patio and then ran past the many cameras keeping watch on the area for the security department. He knew the darn things were one hundred percent useless to video a Drow like him when they wanted to remain hidden, that was the gift all Fae had…hiding from the human’s tech right in plain sight.

Once outside the dorm, he ran off towards the Grove, next he crossed the school's jogging track that circled the whole school where he paused in a small clearing just before the Grove and quickly spun up a spell that created a shimmer right next to him. He stopped for the barest second before he stepped into the shimmer and was now standing in Los Angeles at the twins favorite donut shop.

“Great, I am really getting better at making my own teleporting spell shit!” he smiled walking into the doorway of the business where the owner greeted him, “So where are the girls?” the man questioned not seeing the twins along with Kevin.

“Ahhh they're back at school, I am here alone on this run and let's get a dozen of what they like best?” the teen boy asked the owner.

“Yes…” the shop owner said, starting to open a new box and began placing several fine donuts inside with a wax paper covered hand to keep the sticky treats unmarred. When he was finished he added two extra, “those are for you son. I know if I don’t add a few just for you…you will get none!” he laughed as he rang it all up on the till.

Kevin CRINGED at the price shown on the display and since he had never paid for donuts here, so he had no idea how much they really cost…the final charge and damage to his wallet was over sixty dollars! He was in shock…”Man they have expensive taste!” he thought silently!

With the box of sweets in his hands, Kevein walked back into the shop’s parking lot and put the box down a short wall at the parking lot’s edge to free his hands to spin up the porting spell again. He knew he had to practice more often as the twins rarely used hand gestures to create a spell, they only used a hand to aim a spell much like a gun sight. Then add Kyley would chew on him for using a “crutch” she called anything that was not pure magic…think it or think spell…equals create spell…then spell happens in her world. None of her kind needed any wild hand, arm or finger gestures to create or use magic.

Kevin spun his spell up, the air near him shimmered and his mind guided the spell to link to a new location at its new end. The new location was something he had been working on in secret, tracking the twins by this strange link or feeling he got from them…”must be a Drow thing”, he always thought about the strange feeling or connection.

He quickly grabbed the box of goodies off the short wall and made a small step, as he ported he saw where he was about to go. The ending place for his teleport spell was near ARC, in the hills miles from the school and he saw that the twins were not alone. Thus,he did not want to land right there at their feet so he guided the port over to a pack of trees and bushes a dozen yards away that was well hidden from sight of the twins when the spell faded behind him.

Kevin took some tree sap and wiped the box with a little bit to cover its scent of fresh donuts and tried hard to slow his heart plus breathing so the twins would not spot him. He watched on, hidden intently listening for each word the pair said or their guest. The one with the twins was listening intently to a dark haired woman he had never seen in his handful of times up at ARC. The other twin was busy keeping watch towards the huge ARC complex where most likely any threats might come from.

He strained a bit to listen in to what was being said and it made no sense to him. The woman, Keven could only see her back side, was ranting on wildly about her job and not being appreciated. Then she got even more angry about that she had to deal with her new boss and was not promoted. Then she handed one twin a folder and said sternly, “Deal with this like the last one, but not so messy this time DAMN IT!...accident is the key word you two Acccc...EEE...DENT!” she sounded out slowly with intent and anger dripping on the words and slow intentional spelling of "accident".

Both twins said in stereo very flatly to the human woman, “Yes Mistress, your will be done and as ordered.” and they vanished from sight with a port.

Kevin shook his head to the idea, “What human orders the twins and they just do it? Zero back talk, no mouthing off, zero SASS! No way…that is VERY unlike them! They always talk shit to anyone ordering them!”

“What to do now?” he pondered silently for a few minutes, then came to an idea and spun up a new spell.

He popped up in front of Poe cottage, walked up to the door and rang the bell for one of the large cottage’s rooms. He had no passkey to enter the cottage this late at night, so he rang the only room he knew might hold answers…Nikki and Gwen’s room.

A sleepy Gwen’s voice came back on the speaker with a spifiled yawn, “What the fuck do you want at four AM!”

“Gwen I am sorry, but the twins…I got a real important question that only a real friend and Sidhe like you might know” he begged the camera and the small TV screen that showed a very haggard looking Gwen looking back at him.

“Okay come on in, but this better be good or else!” she threatened him with a fist at the camera and then she buzzed him in.

Kevin swung the door open and Mrs Horton’s door peaked open to him, “Here this late and the twins did not get you in?” she questioned the very late visit by the boy.

“I got some…Sidhe questions that Gewn and Nikki might know and I don’t want to ask the twins if you understand?” he smiled and tried to look embarrassed.

Horton nodded to the teen, “Okay I understand that, but try not to wake everyone on the floor?”

“Got it!” he whispered and started hopping up the steps four at a time.

Kevin took no time to arrive at Gwen and Nikki’s door and tapped lightly to enter, a still sleepy Gwen answered the door with a growl, “This had better be good REAL good or I am going to beat you senseless and Nikki will help me!” She let him in and closed the door softly to keep the noise down.

Nikki was still snuggled in her covers, but mostly awake, “Well what is it?” she barked at him without even taking her head off the pillow…he could tell that she was more than mad at him right now.

“I get it but you have to hear me out!” he begged, laying that box of donuts on the room's study table as he took one of the task chairs at Gwen’s desk and rolled it between them. He smiled, “I was going to give them these but you can have them instead.” he said opening the box a bit for them to see the sweet treats.

Gewn peaked inside the box and took one of the treats, then took a bite and her face just went ‘ohhh I am in heaven!’ to the others, “Ohhh I am eating these, but Nikki should not have them as she is starting to ‘GAIN’ an ass!” she jested and got a slipper tossed right at her as Nikki finally got up to grab one for herself.

Kevin signed out slowly, then he described what he had witnessed up by ARC just now and they asked back to him questions…many questions as the pair nibbled their way through the box of sweets.

“She ordered them like they HAD to do as asked?” Gwen asked, “Yes, they flatly obeyed like this was normal” Kevin said.

Gwen shook her head to the madness, “Not the twins I know, they would talk shit to any human really thinking they could order them!”

“So you have never seen the woman before?” Nikki asked next, “Nope, never seen her…ever, this time I only saw her back and heard her voice! I know I have heard that woman’s voice somewhere before, but I want to be sure it's the same person" he said quickly back and worried even more now.

“If you saw her again would you know her or know her by voice?” Gwen reasoned in.

“Yes I will not forget that voice anytime soon.”

“Hummm I will see about getting access to the ARC employee database and see if we can find her on that. BJUT…Can’t do it tonight, I don’t have access from here at school!” Nikki said.

Gwen bubbled up with an idea, “We both know a certain cat…a cyberkitty that can hack anything. She can get access for us tonight!”

Kevin nodded to Gwen, “Sounds like a plan, I don’t really know who that is? But can we go right now and see if she can do this for us?”

“I’ll take you over to see her, but I can’t guarantee she will be there or will do it?” Gwen said getting up, “Now go stand outside while I get something on!” she demanded and Kevin did so instantly.

While waiting in the hallway, a few other of the “Poe” kids came back from night classes and spotting a random Drow male in the hallway was a bit strange considering the twins always ported Kevin straight to their room and then add Kevin was standing by Nikki and Gwen’s door for a change…a strange change!

Gwen exited her room dressed in sweats and sighed slowly, “I hope this goes somewhere…no I really mean I hope this is nothing, because if some silly human has something on the twins to make them blindly obey her? I’ll kill her myself!"

“I would join ya in a second!" Kevin growled.

“You and just about every Fae on campus!” Gwen added and led him down the stairs and over to the Hawthorne cottage basement via its connected tunnel. She stopped at one of the very few rooms on this floor, one room was Sara’s and she was still missing. Another was being used by Eldrich, who for most nights spent her time at the range, or on patrol with the security department or lastly over at the magic annex making something crazy powerful with magic.

This door was the last one and had a cartoon anime cat painted on the door, then add the wall lining the hallway had a dozen cables for fiber optic internet linked into the room and the school beyond…far more than any main frame made for a huge company like Amazon would ever need in one place.

Kevin looked at the door, “I have been here before, so her name is cyberkitty too? No one ever told me that!”

“Yep this is cyberkitty that is her code name!” Then Gwen knocks once and taps a button on the room's intercom/doorbell, she waits for a few moments before the intercom comes alive and “You rang?” comes from it sounding like the Addams family butler ‘Lurch’.

“Paige we need some personal info and really can’t talk about it in the hallway girl!” Gwen spoke out and the door slid open to her, then she entered the room followed by Kevin.

“So what do you need?” a girl that Kevin had rarely seen on campus so far said from her spot curled up on a small love seat eating a bite off a snack cake.

“We need to look into something and this is ONLY between us in this room and Nikki for now.”

“What is that?” She smiled back silently intrigued by the idea of elves and a Drow asking for help.

“Something might be wrong with the twins, we need to look over the employee list from ARC and see who is mixed up in this.” Gwen said.

“Ohhhh Drow stuff and with the only male Drow on the planet involved and the twins…we doing the Thang?” she gave Kevin a knowing wink and got up from her seat.

“No!” an embarrassed Kevin squeaked out and if he could show red skin he would!

“Take it easy DrowY” Paige played with him and tossed two snack cakes for him to nibble on while she took a seat at her control station and laid down in the reclined chair as it hummed up from stand-by.

Paige’s eyes shut and the vast computer system in the room lit up with activity, a disembodied voice of hers sang from the room’s speakers as a cartoon cat version of her appeared in the small holo tank near her chair, “Well where do we start?”

Gwen spoke first, “Woman that works at ARC or for ARC, black hair regular body. Kevin the rest as you saw her?” she asked.

“Ahhh younger than thirty, under five foot eight, medium build, cute but not beautiful at all and dresses like an office person, one that was not upper managment…she did not look like money and ohhhhh she has a boss, a very new one she ranted about. So that alone says she is low level cubicle gerbil of some sort.”

“Looking…but even with just using the local ARC it's a few hundred employees and consultants that fit that description and that is if you only go with her hair color not being a bottle dye job!”

“Cross reference any department that hired or promoted a new head and then cross that info with anyone that has seen the twins even once…maybe add Fae or magic creatures research too?” Gwen reasoned out and added the new parameters to her ongoing search

Paige hummed over the speakers for a few seconds, then a picture came alive in the holo chamber where the cat Paige once stood, “This her?”

Kevin looked at the woman’s face in the display for not even a second before he shouted angrily, “Yes that is the bitch…WHO IS SHE and WHAT IS SHE DOING! This is the second time I have seen or heard her deal with the twins like this!” he demanded and his eyes glowed deep blood red

“Humm Ellena Blackwood again?” Pagie says suprised…”age 29, deary is about to expire in the human dating market this year,” Paige giggle at the the fact Ellena was hitting the BIG THREE ‘O’ this year “She works in the research department and does translations of books and other things that ARC finds. AND has a specialty in Fae languages and the languages of Sidhe, or elves!”

“Anything else?” Gwen asked, studying the vast list of info Paige was showing on her wall of screens.

“She knows some Fae history and loves the old Queen parts of that vast history like Aunghadhail and Nikki.”

“What were the cross overs with the twins and add in anyone else here at Whateley?”

“Well she had one and only one…one on one with them over going over some translations on books and that was it. STRANGE no notes or audio recordings in the system for that in person meeting and that is not normal for her or the department? Maybe the twins told her not to dig or get hurt?”

“Any others?"

“She made several normal requests for Fae books and tomes from Homestake and ARC and even the tribal vaults…the ones Kyley was working on. Half were denied on the spot by Kyley with an added note to block Ellena from further access to that section. ARC did so for the most part and put anything Kyley translated or touched so high up in clearance, that Ellena would have to climb VERY high in ARC to ever see any of them and still might not!”

“Let’s ask Kyley for more?” Kevin asked, thinking back the last time the pair talked about Blackwood might be messing with the twins.

“Ohhh you are going to ask a GOO a question? Got a few loose souls to make a trade with her for that info?” Gwen shook her head to the idea, “Besides, do you want her to know all about this plain human telling the twins what to do too?”

“We have to find out why they are even listening to this woman let alone obeying her!?” he begged.

“Well you will have to trade Kyley with something, as any GOO like her might not be evil per say. But they do have limits on human interactions without asking a price in return.”

“I am blank on what to offer?” Gwen said flatly.

“I could get daddy involved and have them meet? He might have something he feels is nothing to him personally and that she feels has great value to herself or her growing clan so to speak?”

“Would have to be an introduction, because if he knocked on her room’s door or her condo’s door? She would split him in half with that huge axe of hers, she does not like Gothmog’s family at all!” Gwen warned flatly.

“Daddy?” Kevin questioned just catching up to the conversation.

“Yes Godfather so to speak…via Sara. Ya see Sara and Paige are REAL close friends...REAL CLOSE and ya see Sara is a GOO, a real one hundred percent real GOO, but a good GOO and Gothmog is Sara’s real dad.” Gwen gave and got Kevin very basically all caught up for now.

“Let me dig a bit more before we start calling GOO’s…Gods and other monsters in on this?” Paige said and went back to digging up the ARC main frame, one act that she should not be doing!

Both Gwen and Kevin left Paige’s room and went back to Gwen’s room in Poe cottage. After walking her back to her room, Kevin left a sleepy Gwen for the rest of the night and ran back to the Grove to practice a bit before sun up. When he was practicing his moves and trying to sharpen his skills, he felt the Grove was a bit ‘off’, the spirits of the Grove seemed on edge tonight.

Days passed

Kevin flowed from class to class with the thoughts of what might be wrong with his girl in the back of his mind each day. They stayed in the depths of his thoughts, but came up every time he was near the twins. He did not see anything wrong with them but he felt something was wrong deep down…it was this little, no tiny nagging ‘hint’ at best of something amiss.

The worst part of this passing week for Kevin is those nightmares of being trapped or in prison invaded his dreams each night and seem to be growing worse each day of the ongoing week. Last night’s nightmare was a very bad one, he felt the lingering dread of that one even this afternoon…several hours later. He could not escape the feeling he had just killed a woman, an innocent one in his dream from last night.

It all weighed on him most of the day and at lunch he grabbed a spot on the lower level near the cafeteria's waterfall and pond. He loved this spot because it was a slice of what the Grove would offer and then add Kyley’s guest Tessa and her pet ‘dragon’ or wyvern Lily were kind of entertaining to watch while eating a meal...like a free show!

Lily was normally in Tessa’s room most of the day or when she was out, she would be very hard to spot with her being nearly invisible. At lunch the wyvern would meet Tessa here and eat a stack of fish by the edge of the many pools and splash around a lot for fun.

Kevin was taking his time eating, while studying his math class notes and enjoying Lily splashing around the pools under the waterfalls when Paige sat down next to him and placed a magic charm on the table. She activated it with a swipe of her finger and now anything said or shown within a ten foot bubble would be blurry or silent to outsiders.

He waited till she was done, then checked the room again for the twins, “Looks clear and let me guess this is about the twins?” he asked with a sigh of defeat.

“Yes, Blackwood's boss was found this morning dead from ‘natural causes’.” she air quoted the last two words with her fingers, “And it looks like Blackwood would get a promotion of some sort from this. The next part is we all wait to find out who gets the department seat and I bet all my allowance for this month that they end up dead via “natural” causes” too!”

“You think the twins?” he had to ask.

“Yes, after what you said to me and then add the same week a person in Ellena’s way to climb the top goes suddenly…very dead! And then add, the twins to quote a Bond villiain…"I am a professor of forensic medicine. Believe me, Mr. Bond, I could shoot you from Stuttgart and still create the proper effect."...when Bond said that shooting him from across a room would look like a murder versus a natural death or a suicide!”

“Ohhh man we gotta be sure, very sure it was them and then add I have no idea who or how to talk to anyone about this without them going to jail,” Kevin said kind of wide-eyed knowing that the twins might be in real trouble now.

“I am going for us all hunting around the edges for more info first and see if others outside of our close group can help,” Paige thought.

“Who?”

“There is only one person that knows how Drow work, knows Blackwood and can affect her without getting hurt. The Twins can fight but…” Paige started and Kevin had to interrupt, “I hope you are not thinking of her.” he asked.

“Yes Kyley, she knows way more than she can ever tell us and can run along the edges and change or help the twins somehow…I know she can!” Paige felt something special for the twins, because they were with Sara before she pulled a disappearing act and Paige knew for a fact Sara would be demanding that she help them anyway she could!

The feeling of defeat was washing over Kevin, he had no idea how to help and was not sure of what to do or if he should even do anything for that matter. Helping might hurt more than not helping in this case and without more information he could not make a sane choice.

“I am going to have daddy set up a meeting with Kyley on this and maybe if they chat all friendly like that might help somehow?” Paige said getting up and pocketing the small secrecy charm.

Paige left Crystal Hall and made a beeline for the nearest tunnel’s entrance and almost ran back towards her cottage at Hawthorne. Many of the students saw her coming down the main tunnel and made room for her, most kids knew Paige did not run unless something was up and moved out of her way least be on her list…Paige was known school wide for holding a grudge!

She entered Hawthorne’s basement and right down one of the hallways to where Sara’s room “should” be, the door appeared to her (note Sara’s room jumped as it ‘felt’ between the basement of Poe or Hawthorn at will) she found the door opened to her and walked inside to face the far wall, “Gothmog, dad…I need or someone we care for might need help”

The wall lost its solid form as it wavered into a dimensional gate and a well dressed man stepped through it to give Paige a hug, “What is the matter my little kitten?” he asked.

Paige went on for nearly an hour updating Gothmog on what might be happening with the Drow twins, he listened intently and was intrigued by the matter. He nodded his agreement to Paige’s idea that he and Kyley have a talk over the matter and maybe find common ground to help the pair of Drow.

“Well I am going to send an invitation to have tea with Kyley tomorrow and meet her at the fixer quad in front of your coffee shop. I am sure she will show up and chat with me out of pure curiosity!”

“No selling souls for profit and nothing traded to send the school to a new dimension?" she laughed in jest.

“Souls in trade, I am not sure if Kyley even bargains in them? Then who knows…she might have some very rare ones she wants to let go cheap?” he laughed.

That afternoon

Kyley was busy with her dimensional gate class and making sure all the math the team had come up with “added up” and would not send the traveler into some strange dimension or bend them into a pretzel! Each part of transporting a person or large cargo had to be done in steps, as the longer the range or bigger the object…equaled more power and a higher chance of failure.

A student tapped a button at the room’s door to get a green light that the room was clear and that anyone could enter. This was a needed caution because some of the math Kyley and her class or team used was considered class ‘X’ and could harm a regular human’s mind and possibly body by just seeing it.

The student entered the class and most did not even notice them because of the messenger vest they wore. It was normal for a messenger to enter a class mid lesson to pass along a message from the Academy's staff or other needs.

Kyley was mid way through checking a long math equation when a student “ahhhhummed” next to her to get noticed and she barely glanced over to find a girl standing there staring at her, “Yes can I help you?” Kyley asked, not even taking her eyes off the white board while she worked.

“I have a message for ya!” She grinned and went to hand Kyley a small envelope and once she saw that Kyley was not really interested in taking the message, she placed it on the whiteboard tray.

“Thanks, I would have taken that…but once one is in the flow of math like this its best not to interrupt" she explained while the student ran off from the room to deliver even more messages.

Kyley finally hit a point where she could stop in the equation and picked up the message envelope. She gave the side of the envelope a slight slice with a sharp fingernail and opened it to read that it was a meeting request from Gothmog, Sara’s father. He wanted a neutral meeting with her tomorrow in Fixers quad in front of the coffee shop and he would pay for the beverages and snacks.

“I wonder what he could want?” she thought.

The next Morning before most of Kyley’s classes started for the day

Kyley was already in the ‘Fixer Quad’ where the ‘wheeler and dealer’ students that run the individual cottages would meet up and trade favors with or for other students…this was the most neutral ground on campus and no one fought here or would even think to ease drop or listen in less gain the ire of the whole school.

Her sitting here in Fixers quad was a very strange sight, she never drank coffee or tea, did not really eat anything except for ‘the taste’ or the experience at trying something new and never seemed to care about what was going on around her. Kyley was not one of the campus ‘players’ or ‘movers and shakers’ she kept herself to the side and let life revolve around her or the ones she cared for.

Kyley took note of a tall man in an impeccable white suit heading towards the quad, to her eyes he stuck out like a blow torch, but to the humans around him…none of them even noticed that he was even there walking among them. He was followed closely by two women and one very large man dressed in black. The women should have gained attention from every male on the campus and some of the females with their utter beauty…truly unearthly beauty! But no one even noted their passing through the crowds of teens.

The man spotted Kyley or she was very sure ‘felt’ her presence and waved a greeting to her as he strolled on in her direction, “I am glad you accepted my request for a meeting…and do you prefer Kyley, Barron or Vantier?” asked, taking a seat across from her at the table.

She nodded to him, “Kyley is fine,” she said and mentally connected with her love, Becky at the same time, “Listen in my love and guide me if need be.”

“Yes dear, I am in my office at ARC and have the whole system at my finger tips!” Kyley heard mentally back from Becky and was given a mental hug.

“So the reason for my little meeting is…there might be something going on with the Drow twins, the Leighs.” he said and waved a finger to one of the women that had followed him. She went to the coffee stand and tapped the data pad there. The barista read the order and must have noted who was ordering or a large tip was waiting and jumped to fill the order. As the barista girl filled the order, she skipped several other students already waiting in line and for their orders and they got a little mad…but one FIRM bark of anger from her and they shut up!

“I know the twins, they live in the same cottage as I do but what does this news have to do with me? They are not part of my extended family or under my protection.” Kyley wondered what he was on to or asking from her.

“Lets chat in something less easy for the humans to figure out because I am sure at least one of them is listening to us somehow?” Gothmog said slipping into an ancient language no human would ever understand, “Ohh and call me Tony for now.”

“Fine,” Kyley said in ancient language.

“But to get to the meat of our conversation,” he said as his three staff members placed a tray of very small coffee and tea samplers, with a large tray of cut up sweets.

“Lets,” Ky smiled, taking a small glass of tea and sipping it and then taking a few sweets to try out.

“I offer all this information for free, I wish to help them and you might be the key to the matter,” ‘Tony’ said and took a large coffee of his own as he laid out the rules that this was not a transaction or trade, just informative for both GOO…no souls for trade, no valuables to trade.

“I will try to help as best I can.”

“Well there seems to be a human, one that works for ARC…ordering the twins around like she owns them.”

“Really, a simple human ordering the twins…Strange and intriguing! But not the first time I had heard of this, last time it was not a positive and now it's confirmed?" Kyley said and finished off her tea, then took another tea cup off the warming tray.

“Yes, it seems to be the same person and strange indeed! That pair does not even like their true friends ordering them around. So some random human that has no connection to them that I can find…doing so is very strange!”

“Who is this human?” Kyley asked and was digging for the name to be sure it's the same one.

“Her name is ‘Ellena Blackwood’ and she seems to work in ARC’s translation department for ancient human languages and a specialist in the languages of the Fae.”

Kyley pondered the name for a second while Becky searched all of ARC’s database for a connection. Kyley already knew the connection by the name alone, this was the second time she had encountered that name and the twins in the same thought. That woman had requested several tomes that Kyley was working on, she wanted translations and access. Kyley shut her down on the spot because she was certainly looking for something that would get her into trouble…with either the twins or the Shide or Fae would end her life for even looking!

“Dear cross reference her requests with what I denied her and find out if those books left storage…do it now!” she ordered Becky mentally and Becky could feel that Kyley was upset. Whatever this woman had done might be dangerous!

“Is this bad?” Becky questioned as her searches in the system worked and she waited for them to get back.

“Bad…she might have taken or read books that are true class ‘X’ and twisted her mind and maybe those around her!”

“Found it,” Becky exclaimed mentally to Kyley “none of the books you banned from her left ARC or Homestake or the Whateley deep library and only you have access right now to the vaults for the Medawihla tribe. But her department head died last night of natural causes…so says the coroner's preliminary report.”

“I was just told by one of mine that Blackwood’s boss died only last night…looks natural for now.” Kyley said, taking a few more sweets off the tray to taste.

“Interesting, I heard that also…an ‘interested’ party observed that Blackwood handed the twins a file the other night, ranted about being denied a promotion and the next day her boss ended up dead…by natural causes?” Gothmog questioned the idea of this even being a coincidence, a death and what seemed to be a human ordering the twins around.

“There might be a chance that Blackwood found something to use as leverage on the twins?” Kyley asked, but already knew that a human girl Versus two pissed off Drow was always going to end up in a VERY dead human and two Drow not caring!

Gothmog shook his head at the idea, “You know as well as I do, those two would kill her on the spot and if she withheld or collected any information to use against them? They would get where and what that information was out of her by force or torture, or use one of their own contacts to peel her mind open like an onion and find out that way!”

“I am very sure they would, but what does this have to do with me?” Kyley had to ask, “they are not one of mine or bidden to me in any way, nor do I owe them a favor of any level. The twins just happen to live in my cottage”

“I thought you might have a clue on how or why they are listening and taking orders from a human?” Gothmog said while taking a last sip of his cappuccino to finish it off.

“I don’t but I will send you a message if I hear or see anything that might help…for free of course. But Blackwood’s name has crossed my path more than once and connected to the twins,” Kyley let it be known and smiled as she stood up to start leaving, “I have places to be, goodday.”

“Goodday” Gothmog said and nodded her way.

Kyley walked off the quad as she mentally spoke to Becky, “Love, call me a transport from ARC, I need to go check that the vaults for the Medawihla tribe are still secure and the books Blackwood requested are still there!”

An hour later

Kyley swings her legs out of the back seat of the armored SUV that ARC sent over, Becky steps out of the other side and smiles to her love, “Well that was a fun ride!”

“You know you did not need to come with me?” Kyley smiled back shouldering her magically protected and warded book bag where she kept all the class ‘X’ books she was translating at the time.

“Of course I had to come, besides the ride had to come from ARC and us getting time alone during the long ride was great!” she smiled back

The tall teen headed into the tribal’s main building and that is when Eloise the tribal chief spotted her, “Kyley, miss Barron. I did not know you were in today…going down to the vaults?” she asked while giving a toy back to one of the many young kids she was watching over in the tribe's kindergarten class.

“Hi, Eloise” Kyley said greeting the older woman and shaking her hand, “I am here to put a few books away, drop off my pack of notes for your eyes only and pick up a few tomes to traslate…and maybe check on a few things I was pondering on”

“Okay hunnn, but when you are done drop on by and take a pie off my hands. I just baked a few for the weekend party and you should try one of my cherry ones or one of my chocolate cheese cakes!” the older woman smiled.

“We sure will and I bet Becky will take one of the cheese cakes for herself!” I had to laugh at my girl’s addiction to chocolates!

“I will have them ready…so you will be how long?” she had to ask.

“I am sure at least an hour,” I said, opening the door to the stairs going into the basement.

“Can she go down there with you safely and is she?” the tribal leader asked.

“Becky is safe with me, she is part of me and thus protected and if you are asking about my oath to the tribe to protect your knowledge here. It binds her as well to keep your secrets.”

“Fine, see you soon and you might stay for dinner? We are having a big pot luck tonight!” She boasted for the tribe and genuinely seemed to want us to attend.

I felt a wave of “best agree with her, I am hungry!" come off Becky who was smiling my way, “We will certainly show up after I am done down there with my many chores in the vaults.”

We left Eloise to go back to watch over the kids and we went down to the basement and the dead end hallway that was decorated by tribal masks that were for sure over one hundred years old. The whole hallway was lined with them. I stopped at the end of the hallway and I flipped a hidden switch behind one, then entered the door it commanded to open.

Once inside, I closed the door and checked it to be sure it was locked. “Now stick to the paths with the edges of Mithril runes, don’t wander past those lines my love, unless I tell you to…death haunts these vaults.” I had to warn her again, I know she knew the rules. But it's best to remind humans now and then about the dangers of dealing with my kind and other ancients!

I dropped my empty book bag on the nearest warded study table, then took out the tomes I was done translating from my bag. I placed them inside a newer book case that I emptied on one of my first trips up here. I filled shelves by what category the book was and closed the door. On the shelf’s glass cover I added a written note of what the book’s subject was for later use, a more detailed synopsis was added via the number on the same card and all one had to do was look that ID number up on the library's system or my much longer file of paper notes.

My next and the most important part of my visit was comparing my mental list of all the books that Blackwood had requested and I had denied being loaned out to her. As I went over that list I found almost each one missing and in its place was another book that had very similar covers and colors, so that at a distance it would not look out of place. But when opened, it was very clear to my instant and perfect recall, that book was not put on the shelf by my hands!

“Becky, can you check off the missing books off that list of books that Blackwood requested?" I asked and sent Becky a mental list of the missing tomes. It did not look good, the list was far longer than I liked and some of the missing tomes certainly had traps bound right into the very book’s pages or hidden amongst the text!

“This is bad, I might have to bring it up at a meeting?” I questioned Becky mentally and asked her opinion on the matter.

“I would say yes and no at the same time. Anyone that stole them brought any mess they create upon themselves.”

I could tell Becky was drifting more and more to one of my kind with each passing day, she did not think of herself as even human, it seemed and more like ‘US vs THEM’ now and us staying neutral for the most part.

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Shadowsblade here.

This story in a joint venture with a group of fan fic authors, so far this group is made up of Nuuan, then Branek and finally myself. We all got together and after a jumpy start decided to make a group of stories that all take place within the Whateley fanfic universe.

To have an idea about the main protagonist this story's will develop
around here is a short introduction.

Angels Peril a Whateley Tale: Written by Branek
Tormented by the past, Angel is struggling between light and dark.

Melvin a Whateley Tale: Written by Branek
They say old soldiers never die, Melvin is about to learn that the hard
way.

The Way of the Dragon a Whateley Tale: Written by Branek
Born for eternity but vulnerable like a child, dragons shouldn't leave
their nest.

Every Rose has it Thorns a Whateley Tale: Written by Nuaan
Watch what you say around rose, could give you more trouble than you ever
asked for.
This one is coming soon, bug him for it! lol

Kelly a Whateley Tale: Written by Nuaan
Struggling with fate, Kelly has to deal with love and loss.

Shadowsblade a Whateley Tale: Written by Shadowsblade
Created for war and forged in pain, dealing with demons within and
without.

Vantier a Whateley Tale :Written by Shadowsblade
Ancient and Powerful Vantier awakens in a foreign world, struggling to
find her place in it.

You might ask yourself what is the Whateley Universe? To make it short,
here is a abstract straight out off the wiki.

Whateley is a Prep School for different teens. VERY different ones. Where else could a kid go to a school that has a resident demon living in the furnace? Or meet magic users, mutants of every imaginable kind, get trained in how to handle some rather odd abilities, and worry about
flunking Freshman English? Come visit Whateley Academy, nestled in the
lovely hills of New Hampshire. Just down the road from a town named
Dunwich... (Mythos jokes purely intentional).
This is the Whateley Academy Universe, a shared universe with over a dozen authors and more than a hundred stories (and counting). The stories range in size from vignettes to novels. It's a Mutant High scenario with both a strong transgender theme and a slightly watered down Cthulhu Mythos theme.

It's also very much a work in progress.'
If you want further information you will find them on.

http://crystalhall.wikia.com/wiki/Whateley_Academy_Wiki

or

http://whateleyacademy.net/

But I have to thank, Both Branek and Nuuan for their vast input and the ability they both have to 'bounce' off ideas and improve them!

To all my readers who have e-mailed me and given support--THANKS!

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