Tre finds my bear and then we fly over to my house. There's no wind. I start jumping up and down. "I WANT TO PAINT OUTSIDE."
Tye looks at me. "Ok."
"Why would you say ok to that?"
"Why wouldn't I? And now there won't be paint all over the house."
"And if it rains?"
"We can take the easels inside. Why are you being so difficult?"
"Because he won't help. He refuses to send her for help. All he wants to do is drug her. I'm just pissed." He kisses my head. "I'm going to go make sure the house is clean for all the doctors baby. Why don't you go feed the chickens." I take off for the chickens. "And be careful where you put the bear down."
When I get back from feeding the chickens Tye is standing there with Marcus talking. The servants have my painting stuff set up right beside them.
I run by them and in the house. "TRE'S NOT IN THERE BABYDOLL."
I come back out. "Where did he go?"
"He went to find some stuff for lunch. Just come out here and paint for now. You'll be alright."
Marcus looks at me. "Oh I found you some black canvas. Now you won't have to paint them black if you want a black background."
I grab onto Tye and hide my face. "What do you say babydoll?"
I look at Marcus. "Thank you."
"You're welcome Nadine. I put them over with the white ones."
I run over and look at all the brushes and stuff he brought. There's so many. And so many colors of paint.
I grab a black canvas and put it on the easel. Then I get the bright red paint.
I get a couple sizes of brushes then I paint 2 bright red eyes looking at me. I stare at them for a long time. Then I take the little brush and make sure they are the right shape. No other marks just 2 big red eyes.
Then I start painting another one. This time on a white canvas. I start with the deck of the boat.
Then I go back to the eyes. They're about dry. I put my palms on the eyes and I push them straight off the canvas. So the eyes are still there. But now there is a trail of paint off the page.
I go back to the other other one and draw the ocean. All the big waves. Then the sky with the dark clouds and lightening.
"Come sit down baby. The fish is almost done."
I run over and sit down by Tye. "Am I good?"
"You're a very good girl babydoll." I smile and lay my head on his shoulder.
Tre sits on the other side of me and feeds me a bite.
I sit between them and we all eat fish. I look over and Marcus and Omar are looking at my paintings.
"Whose eyes are those babydoll?"
He'll think I'm losing my mind. I just shrug my shoulders.
Tre kisses my head. "Are they mine?"
"No."
"Tye?"
"No."
"Dipak?"
"No."
"Kane?"
"No."
"Mary, your dad, my dad, Tye's dad?" Tye starts laughing. "Well I didn't want you to feel left out." Then he starts laughing.
"No."
"Marcus?"
"No." I look at Marcus again. He is really nice looking.
"Woman, behave yourself."
"I like his hair and Tye already said I'm being a good girl."
"Well he didn't see the way you were looking at that mans hair. If he did, I don't know if he would say that again."
I look at Tye really fast. He starts laughing. "You're still a good girl."
"Lucky he didn't see." Tre shakes his head a little bit.
I turn and hug Tye as fast as I can. "Oh I love you babydoll."
"I love you too."
"We're going to have to make Tye grow long hair."
"Why me?"
"Well I'm not doing it. And could you really see Dipak with long hair? It already takes him an hour to do his hair. It would end up taking him 5 hours every morning." We all crack up laughing.
I look at Tye. "You're my only hope of long hair. No. I change my mind, neither of you can have long hair."
They both start laughing. "Why can't we have long hair?"
"Other girls will look at you." They both start laughing.
Tre winks at me. "It doesn't matter who looks at us. All that matters is who we are looking at and I'm always looking only at you."
"Me too." Tye kisses my head. "You're mine."
"I'm a good girl."
They both smile at me.
"Yea you are baby."
"Are you done eating?" I nod at Tye. "Ok I'll clean all this up. You go paint some more."
I smile and run back over to the easels and start another one. This one on black. The pirate captains office that night. The desk and maps lit my a oil light. Everything I can remember about the room, I put it all there.
Then I go back to the boat. I paint all that water coming down on me. Like it did that day. It's hard to draw that.
Then I move the eyes and start another one. The pirates attacking that night. They didn't care I was a girl. They were out to kill me. I shouldn't have went over there. I try to draw their faces so mean.
Dipak wraps me up in his arms. "I missed you sweetheart."
I give him the biggest hug. "I love you."
"I love you too. You've been painting a lot." I nod and smile. "You want me to tell you you're a good girl?"
"Yes." I nod at him and wait.
"Well I don't know." He walks me over to the boys at the table. "She wants me to tell her she was good. Did she eat?"
"Yea she ate good and checked out Marcus for awhile."
I give Tre a dirty look.
Tye nods. "We had to have a whole conversation about his hair."
Dipak winks at me. "I can imagine. She does like long hair." He shapeshifts himself into long hair.
I stare at him. "YOURS IS BETTER."
All 3 of them crack up laughing.
"Well now you really are a good girl." I smile and give him a big hug. "So, what is it that good girls get?"
"Hugs, kisses, and cake."
"What is it that bad girls get?"
My eyes must get so big because he cracks up laughing. Then the other 2 start laughing.
Tre stands up. "I'm going to go cook that boar."
Dipak winks at me. "Well it's a good thing you're a good girl. I'll just give you hugs and kisses. I don't have any cake."
I smile and sit on his lap straddling him. I lay my head on his shoulder and he wraps me in his arms. I move one of my arms up on his shoulder so I can play with his hair in my fingers.
My eyes get so heavy so fast.
"Looks like she missed you."
"I missed her too. Whose eyes is she drawing? Is it..."
"Tre went through everyone she just kept saying it wasn't them." Dipak nods.
"Are they mine sweetheart?"
I shake my head. "No."
He wraps me up tighter in his arms. "I love you."
"I love you too." I snuggle in and let my eyes close. This hair feels so nice in my fingers.
I feel myself get lifted up. "Should we put her in bed or let her eat? It is late."
I throw my arms up and stretch. Then I open my eyes. Dipak is holding me still. I hug him and snuggle in. "You hungry sweetheart?"
I nod a little bit. "I want boar."
He starts laughing. "Ok."
We sit at our table and he sits me beside him. The other 2 sit on the other side. I snuggle into Dipak. I'm kind of cold.
"Wow, you really are a good girl today sweetheart. I get all kinds of cuddles and hugs. You tell me I have better hair than the sexy hair man. You like the food. I don't know about this. I might have to bring cake tomorrow."
I nod at him as fast as I can.
"Pssh. I'll go get you some cake tonight. I won't even make you wait until tomorrow."
I look at Tye and jump up. "I WANT CAKE."
He starts laughing. "You have to eat first. When we're all done, I'll go get you some cake."
Tre laughs. "Pssh. I'll just tell the servants to go get it now. SERVANT."
"Yes sir."
"Can you go get 4 pieces of cake and 4 milks."
"Of course sir."
Tre looks at Dipak. "It's so nice having them out here."
Dipak nods. "I'm pretty sure they hate it though."
Tye cracks up laughing and nodding. "Yea, he's sent the same one over like 15 times now. All for stupid stuff."
"Paper was not stupid."
"Yea but right when she got back he sent her for a pen."
Dipak looks at him laughing. "You know you can fly there in like 20 seconds right?"
"Why have servants if we're not going to use them."
We all sit around and talk until we finish eating then Tye looks at me. "If you want to paint anymore tonight. You better do it. It's going to be dark in an hour."
I run back over and paint another one back in the cave. I make it just as dark. I put the sword in my chest and the daggers in my hands. The slices everywhere. This time, I add the red eyes looking at me. Then I shadow everything to show how dark it was.
Then I put them small in the pirate captains office. I make it look like they are peeking in a window at me.
Dipak walks over and gives me a hug. He looks at the paintings again. "Are they your brothers eyes sweetheart?"
I start to cry.
He picks me up and I wrap my arms and legs around him. He looks at the boys still at the table. "GET OMAR OUT HERE. AND MARCUS IF HE'S STILL HERE." They both stand up and Dipak carries me in the house.
He sits on the couch with me and wipes my tears. I lay my head on him. I just want to cuddle.
Tye walks in. "Omar, Marcus, and a couple of his doctors are on the way. Whose eyes are they?"
"Her brothers."
"Are you still seeing him babydoll?"
"Sometimes. When I sleep. Or out of the corner of my eye."
"Did you see him while we were on the boat?"
I shake my head. "I feel him sometimes. Like he's there."
"You can sense his presence?"
"I'm a good girl." I hug Dipak and cry.
"That's enough. Just talk to them out there. Then come in and sit with her so I can talk to them." Tye nods and walks out. "You are a good girl sweetheart. You're the best girl." He starts rubbing my back. Then he kisses my head about 10 times. "Is that enough kisses for a good girl?"
"Never enough."
"I should have known." He kisses me a couple more times. "I love you babygirl."
"I love you." I hold him so tight.
I wake up to getting lifted up again. I hear Dipak talking. "Put her in bed and lay in there with her. I don't want her waking up and panicking alone. There's some t-shirts in the dresser. Just put her in one of those to sleep in. She always complains about sleeping in dresses."
I snuggle into Tye's strong arms and he carries me to the bedroom. He stands me up and unhooks the dress. He lets it fall. I start crying.
"What's wrong babydoll?"
"I'm cold and tired."
"Let me get a shirt on you and we can lay down."
I nod and put my arms up. I don't even open my eyes. He laughs for a second then he puts the shirt on me. I wrap my arms back around him. He spins me around. "Go lay down in the bed baby. If you scoot over a little. I'll lay down with you."
I climb in and scoot over. He lays down beside me and he's so warm. I half lay on him and kiss his lips. Then I kiss him again. Then I really start kissing him. "What are you doing babydoll?"
"Good girls get kisses."
He looks at me and one of his eyebrows comes up.
"I FORGOT MY BEAR."
"I'll get your bear." He gets up and walks to the front door. I can still hear him. "HEY DIPAK. BRING ME THE BEAR." Then he comes back. "Here you go."
I take the bear and hug it. Then I cuddle up with Tye and close my eyes.
All night long I see the eyes. I wake up 15 times in 4 hours. One time I see them looking at me through the window in the room. I wake up and look. There's no window there.
Dipak and Tye both jump up every time I scream.
I lay between them and cry. I hold my bear so tight.
"It's ok sweetheart." Dipak looks at Tye. Take off your shirt. "She'll do better with skin contact." The boys take off their shirts and Dipak takes mine back off.
I wiggle around on them for a couple minutes. Then Dipak pushes my head down on his chest. Tye takes my legs and they both rub on me.
The next time I wake up, it's the middle of morning and I'm sleeping on Tye. Dipak's not in here. I roll off him and stretch.
"Good morning Tye."
"Good morning babydoll." He pulls me into his side. "You get enough sleep?"
I nod and jump up. I go for the door. "Stop. You need your shirt baby. I don't know whose all here. Might be people in the sitting room." He gets up and finds it then puts it over my head.
I give him a hug. "Thank you."
Then I go out the door. Tre and Omar are sitting there.
Omar looks at me. "Dipak said you had a bad night?"
I nod at him.
"Well go feed the chickens." I take off running out the door. Marcus is walking up. My t-shirt is long enough. It don't matter.
I just run for the chickens. "Hi Marcus."
He walks out to the chickens behind me. "Where is everyone?"
"They are in the house. I just have to feed the chickens." I feed the chickens and he waits.
"This is a fancy chicken coop."
"Dipak made it so they wouldn't get out. They still get out some times."
He starts laughing. "Yea they are annoying."
We walk back to the house together and he comes in with me. The boys are sitting there talking with Omar. They all look at me.
Tre finally says. "Go take a bath. I'll get your clothes ready."
I go in the bathroom and fill the bath. Then I climb in. It's so warm. I float until Tye comes in 30 minutes later.
"What are you doing?"
"Floating."
"You have to wash." I shake my head.
Tre walks into the doorway. "You have to wash your hair. You can't just float all day."
I sink to the bottom of the bath and lay there. They both go away and I float until I start to get cold. Then I drain the bath and refill it. It's so warm again.
Tye comes in after a couple minutes and feels the water. "Did you refill the bath?"
I smile and nod at him.
"Do I have to come in there and wash your hair?"
"No. I want to float." I go back to floating.
"Babydoll you need to wash."
I shake my head. "Float."
"Good ..."
He says something else but I just sink.
He walks back out and I come back up and sit. Then he comes back in and shuts the door. He takes off his clothes and climbs in with me. I really like looking at him.
He looks at me and puts his eyebrow up again.
"What?"
"Nothing. Come here and let me wash your hair."
I scoot up to him and cuddle all over him. I do love touching him. Then he washes me and my hair.
Then I wash his hair. Then I wash him. I take my time on him. I love touching him. Then I rub the oil all over him. His eyes are so dark. His dick is so hard. I rub up and down on it with the oils.
It takes me a few minutes but I get him to cum for me.
I look at him and smirk. He just looks guilty.
I cuddle up beside him in the bath. "Good girls get cum." I wiggle around a little bit. "I'm cold."
I drain the bath and go to refill it. "No it's time to get out babydoll."
I shake my head no and hit the lever to refill it.
"If my good girl wants kisses, you are going to have to get out."
I look at him. "I want kisses here."
"If I give you kisses will you get out?"
I nod at him.
"Ok come here." I wiggle all the way on him. Then I start kissing him. "You like kissing don't you."
I smile.
He kisses my head, cheeks, lips, then he moves to my neck. He hits my marking spot a couple times and it feels so good. I straddle him and face him. Then he starts kissing my boobs and nipples.
"I love your kisses sir."
He sits me on the side of the bath. Then he kisses down my stomach. "You like these kisses?"
"Yes."
"What about here?" He moves to my inner thighs.
"Yes please."
He trails them right up to my pussy and starts kissing it. "How about these?"
"Tye yes"
I lay back and spread my legs a little more. "I love kissing this baby."
"TYE"
"Good girl. Cum for me." He starts circling my clit with his tongue and sucking on it just a little bit.
"OH TYE" The pressure shoots right through me. "OH GOD YES" I grab onto his arms. There's nothing else to grab on to. "TYE"
He keeps licking and kissing after I'm done. Then he pulls me down into the bath and holds me. "You ok babydoll?"
I snuggle into him and smile. "Those are the best kisses. I'm going to be really really good for you."
I hear him chuckle. "Let's get out babydoll. You need to eat something. It's nearly lunch."
"But I want to float."
He lifts his eyebrows at me.
"Ok I'll get out."
Then he starts laughing.
After we get dried and dressed, we go outside. Tre is outside cooking fish on the fire again. I sit down and Tye starts messing with the vegetables.
Marcus and Omar walk up and sit across from me. "You have fun painting?"
"Yes a lot."
"Do you feel like those eyes are watching you?"
"Yes."
Omar looks at Tre. "You know, I didn't think about it before. But this might have something to do with the magician. He put circles on the beds. I mean, that's a huge invasion of privacy. In a way she was being watched while she was in bed."
Marcus looks at him. "And I know he's been killed. But was that ever proven to Nadine? Did she get to see him dead?"
"No and just no. That's wasn't going to happen. The 3 of us all seen. That was enough."
"Well, maybe not for her. If you wouldn't have seen, would you still question it?" He looks at Tye. "Either of you? And she seen her brother afterwards correct?"
Tye nods.
I nod at him. "I fixed his clothes. I closed his eyes. I said good bye to my baby brother."
"Have you went back at all?"
I shake my head at Marcus.
"Do you want to?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"I want to understand."
"Going back to the spot he was killed will not help you to understand his life."
"I just want to."
He looks at Tre. "Day trip? She's trying to find closure for something."
"Yea that's fine."
"I want to go back to the cave."
Omar looks at me. "Why?"
"I lost something."
"What?"
"I don't know."
Tre looks at Tye. "Go tell Dipak we're taking a day trip to a cave."
Omar looks at Tye. "Tell Dipak or Kane to come. I'll have them conjure me a door when they get there."
"Tell them to give us an hour. We still need to feed her and get her to eat."
I jump up and stomp my feed. "NO. I WANT TO GO TO THE..."
Tye clears his throat and puts his eyebrows up.
"Never mind I'm hungry." I sit back down.
Tre starts laughing. "I don't want to know. Maybe only a half hour though."
Tye smiles and takes off.
Marcus looks at me. "So what do you think you lost?"
"I don't know. Just something is missing. Something isn't right."
"You think you'll figure it out there?"
"I don't know."
Tre looks at me. "What do good girls get?" He seems a little mad.
I smile at him. Then I start laughing. Tye, Dipak, and Kane all land.
Marcus cracks up laughing. "Now I see why she behaves for him."
Dipak looks at him. "What's going on? Behaves for who?"
"Tye."
"Why does she behave for you?"
Tre looks at Dipak. "Ask her what good girls get now."
Dipak looks me and I smile.
Dipak looks at Tye. "Are you fucking serious?" Then Dipak punches him right in the nose. "As messed up as she's acting. You're going to take advantage of her?"
Omar stands up. "Actually. It doesn't hurt anything. They're still mates. As long as she's not forced or coerced there's nothing wrong. To withhold sex from her would probably mess her up though. It would make her feel like she's not loved. Her needs are very basic when she's like this."
I bust out laughing. "I took advantage of him. But he got in my bath. It's his fault."
Tre looks at me. "How in the hell did you take advantage of him?"
"Oil."
All 3 boys bust out laughing.
Dipak nods. "Yea, that'll do it. Sorry I punched you in the face."
"It's fine. I felt guilty as hell afterwards. But she finally got out of the bath. She was in there for almost 3 hours."
Tre nods. "Her record is something like 6 hours."
Dipak cracks up laughing. "She had to stop for dinner then after dinner she just went back to the bath."
I sit there smiling. "I had the servants bringing me fruit and warm water all day."
"You're mom was so pissed that day sweetheart."
"Yes she was. She tried to get daddy to yell at me at dinner. Then he refused."
Tre puts a huge plate of fish down. Then Tye puts a bunch of cleaned peppers beside them.
Tye sits beside me and gets me a plate. "Eat all of it please."
Everyone else starts grabbing food and sitting down.
"Then I'll be a good girl?" I start putting it in my mouth.
Him and Marcus both start laughing.
Omar rolls his eyes. "Well at least she listens to one of you really well now."
Marcus looks at Tye. "She's going to be following you around trying to help with everything."
Tye kisses my head and pulls me closer. "I like help."
I lay my head on his shoulder. He's so sweet.
I eat about half my food and I am stuffed. I turn around and look over by the chickens. "What is that?" My boys all look. I dump the rest of my plate on Dipaks.
"What babydoll?"
"Oh I don't know. It look like a chicken."
They all look at me weird. "That is a chicken coop sweetheart." I nod.
Marcus and Kane both crack up laughing.
Dipak looks at his plate then gives me the side eye look.
I throw my head on Tye. "I'm a good girl."
"Yea you are. You want some more?"
I shake my head really fast. Then they all start laughing again.
Tye looks around. "What?"
Dipak looks at him. "Well if she wants more, she can pick off my plate. I got to much apparently."
Tre figures it out and starts laughing.
We all finish eating after a few more minutes.
Then Omar looks at Dipak and Kane. "One of you summon me a door. I'll just come straight there."
They both nod.
We walk out to the path and off we go.
I land outside the cave and realize I never seen it from this side. It looks so normal.
"You need to say what you are thinking and feeling Nadine." Marcus smiles at me. "It will help."
"I never seen it from here. It looks like a normal cave." He nods at me.
"Dipak carried me to a carriage I think. It was so bright." I look around and see a path not that far away. "How did I get here?"
"It was some sort of teleporting spell baby. He grabbed you and was gone."
I walk up to the cave entrance. It's got a big rock that's all broken apart outside of it. "I heard something loud and light flooded in."
"I broke the boulder sweetheart." I look at it and nod.
Then I walk in 1 foot at a time. "It's not very big. It doesn't seem to go anywhere. There's nothing in it."
Dipak looks at me. "It was only weapons and the shackles. We took them out."
I lay down in the same spot I was that day when he found me. I look at him. He's the only one in here. "What am I missing?"
"I don't know."
I stand up and feel the sides of the cave around me. "It all feels like just a cave."
He nods at me.
"Do you have the glasses?"
He gives me a weird look and then hands them to me. I put them on and look around. I don't see anything.
I walk behind another big rock and there is a little blue square shape on the wall. It's fairly well hidden.
"Come here please." He walks up to me. "This is all I can find." I hand him the glasses.
He puts them on and looks at it. "Go get Omar for me. We'll see what's behind it."
"Dipak."
"Yes sweetheart?"
"My baby brother wasn't a magician."
"I know baby. Send Omar in."
I walk out of the cave. "OMAR." I hit my knees.
He comes running up. "What?" I point into the cave.
Tre, Tye, Kane, and Marcus run up to me. "What is it babydoll?"
"Who has glasses with them?" I use Tye and get myself stood up.
Tye, Tre, and Kane all put them on. "1 second." I walk back in the cave. "I need glasses for Marcus and me." Dipak hands me his. Omar fumbles in his pockets and hands me his.
I go back out and give a pair to Marcus.
"When I was here last. I would blackout from pain. It seemed like he was gone sometimes. I don't know how long. An hour a minute. I don't know." I wipe the tears off my face. "Search everything. Every rock. Every tree. I don't know where he was going. We have to find it."
"What are we looking for?"
"I don't know Kane. Now go find it."
"Why are we using glasses baby? Your brother wasn't a magician."
"I don't think that was my brother." I wipe more tears off. "Now search everything."
They all take off in different directions. I walk around the entrance. Trying to imagine where he would have went.
Marcus walks up to me. "Keep talking."
I looks around. The boys are searching everything. I look up. It goes up a little bit. I fly up and land on another ledge. "Everyone always assumed my brother was working with a magician because he teleported me out of there."
Marcus nods. "Yea, he had to have been."
We keep walking and looking around more rocks. "But what if that was a magician that shapeshifted into him. I mean, he was in the medical area for a long time. He woke up and was getting sent back to galhurst. He said he came to say good bye to his sister. That's when he teleported me. I don't know who really talked to him after he woke up in the medical area. What if he was taken right out of it?" I kick over a couple rocks. "Say he was taken out and the shapeshifter took his spot pretending to wake up. I never talked to him enough after he woke up to know if it was really my brother."
He nods and kicks a rock over by the base of a tree. "Here. Is this what I'm looking for?"
I walk over. "Yes kind of." I stare a little tiny bit of glowing blue. "Usually there's more." I pick it up and look at it. It's about the size of a key. I lift the glasses up and it's just tree bark.
He does the same. "Well that's different."
"Yea it's been magically manipulated somehow."
We both look at each other and then look up. It's over a 100 foot tall tree. He starts laughing. "Think we can get the glasses on a dragon?"
I can't help but laugh. "I really don't think they'll fit sir."
"Guess we're climbing this thing."
I shake my head. "That's why we have Kane."
He cracks up laughing. "I bet we can do it. Or are you afraid of a little tree?"
"Little?" I look up to the top again.
He laughs. "Come on. Just turn to a dragon before you hit the ground."
"Good advice sir." We get up to the first set of limbs. "Don't forget to look at the limbs too."
He nearly slips and falls. I grab his arm and then just stare at him. "Sorry, I'll be more careful."
I nod.
Half way up the tree. I look down. "You know. Omar is just going to love it if we find something up here."
He cracks up laughing and nearly falls. "Probably try to make Kane conjure him a door."
I start laughing so hard that I almost fall. He grabs onto me. "Be careful."
"You're the one who made me laugh."
"Ok no more talking. Just look."
We both keep climbing. We get almost to the top and Dipak flies up and lands on a branch. "Well you 2 are being thorough. Why are you up here?"
I show him the bark in my pocket. "We found it at the base of the tree. Trying to see where it came off."
"Woman. It's a key made to to look like tree bark."
"The glasses didn't show me a key Dipak."
"Baby the key itself is made to look like tree bark. Just look at it. It's a key. Colored like tree bark."
I look and I'll be damned. It really is a key. "Then why is it blue?"
"The lock and the key were both spelled to only work with each other. Omar can explain it later."
"Ok. What are you doing anyways? What was that blue spot in the cave?"
"The lock woman. I need the key. Omar can not get in without it."
"Then why are you still here? We gave you the key."
"I'm going to make sure you get out of this tree alive woman."
I give him a dirty look and jump.
I fall 50 feet before I turn to my dragon. Then I land by the base of the tree.
He lands right beside me. "Funny. I don't know what bad girls get. But that's what you're getting." He turns to a dragon and flies to the entrance of the cave.
Me and Marcus both start laughing again.
We walk along the cliff a bit more and Tre lands beside us with a jar. "I found a spot on a tree. I opened it and it had a jar of blood in it."
I nod at him. "Tre you're lead. I found a blue spot on the cave wall. Omar and Dipak are trying to figure out how to open it. Marcus found a key at the bottom of that tree over there. Dipak came and took it. Said he needed it to open the blue spot on the wall." I nod. "Now you know everything I know."
"Ok baby." He kisses my head and flies off to the boys.
I look at Marcus. "He'll do better than I will."
"Not sure how we could do better. Just searching everything."
"Just watch."
He smiles at me. "Ok."
20 minutes later. The kings guard is all here with glasses on as well as Dracul and Gunner.
"Told you so."
He looks around and laughs.
-Boom-
We both fall on our asses.
He grabs ahold of me and wraps me in his arms. "LAND RIGHT OVER THERE BY THAT TREE ON THE GROUND."
"BUT."
"NOW."
I turn to a dragon and fly down to the ground.
He lands right beside me. "Whatever the hell that was shook the whole damn cliff. Watch for falling rock." He grabs my arm and pulls me towards the cave entrance.
"MARCUS."
"We're all in danger of this thing coming down. That was a big explosion. Keep your eyes open."
I let him drag me around. I feel for the bonds with my boys and they are all fine.
Then we get to the cave entrance and it's caved in.
I stare at it for a second. "DIPAK."
My see red.
I run up and grab a rock. I throw it at the tree line.
Kane and Tye are running at me. I see Tre coming at me from the other way. Marcus's eyes go red and he starts throwing the rocks away from it.
I go up on top of it. The part that is still stable and start grabbing rocks from there and throwing them. The boys are all throwing from the bottom.
The rocks all fall a little bit and I look at it. I can climb in. I throw a couple more rocks and slide my little ass right through them. I end up in the black cave. "DIPAK. OMAR."
"Over here sweetheart. We're alright. It was just the entrance that came down."
I run over to him and grab on him. I spin him around and look at him. He's really ok.
Omar is just staring at me. "The dragon took over."
"We thought you were dead." I hug Dipak so tight I hear a bone break.
"We're fine sweetheart. Well we were. Who has healing power?"
"Me, Tye, and Kane."
"Nice to know."
Tre comes running in the cave. "YOUR ASS IS MINE." He points right at me. He's got red eyes. "DRAGON OR NOT, I AM BEATING YOUR ASS."
What happens next is so fast. He sits down on a rock and pulls me over his knee. Then starts spanking me hard with dragon strength. Over and over. He is not lying. He is beating my ass.
"CLIMBING INTO A CAVE THAT IS COMING DOWN?"
He spanks me harder.
"DON'T YOU EVER DO THIS AGAIN. MOVE YOUR HANDS NOW."
I start sobbing and trying to get up. I get my hand out of his way though.
He just holds me down and keeps spanking. "DO YOU KNOW HOW EASY THIS COULD HAVE CAME DOWN? TO CLIMB IN LIKE THAT. YOU COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED."
"STOP" I keep crying. I start kicking my feet.
"ARE YOU GOING TO THINK NEXT TIME?"
"YES"
He spanks me about 10 more times. Then he puts me on my feet. I stand there crying with red eyes.
Tye walks in finally and stares at me. Omar and Dipak are both staring at us too.
Tre stands up. I try to hug him.
He grabs my arm and spins me. Then he spanks me again. "NO HUGS. YOU GO SIT OUTSIDE AND THINK ABOUT IT." I start sobbing. He spanks me again. "NOW."
I run out crying and sit by a tree.
I lay down on the ground and cry. That really hurt. I just wanted to make sure my mate was ok. He didn't have to spank me. I wipe my face off and heal my butt. That really hurt. Then I release the power.
I open my eyes and look around. I'm under a tree. I remember the cave coming down and screaming for Dipak. I look at the entrance and it's all open now. I run in. "DIPAK."
"Over here sweetheart."
I run to him and give him the biggest hug. "I was so scared when I seen the rocks. What happened? Why was I under a tree? Did I pass out?"
Tye smiles at me. "Your dragon broke in the cave. Tre beat her ass and sent her outside."
I look at them all. "I don't think that's how that works."
"Well it is now sweetheart."
"Tre?"
"Sorry baby, I was really mad. You're ok though." He comes over and gives me a hug.
"You're mad at me?"
"No baby. I'm not mad at you or your dragon. She just made a bad choice. Hopefully next time she'll think first before she runs into something like a collapsing cave."
"Tre..."
"Yea baby?"
"You spanked a dragon?"
All of them bust out laughing.
Tre nods. "Yes baby. I didn't even think about it. I was just so mad when she ran in here. I beat her ass and sent her outside."
I shake my head. "I don't think you're supposed to do that."
"She could have got you killed. I would do it again."
-Dragon you here?-
-Yes-
-Did he spank you?-
-Yes-
-Are you ok?-
-I have more respect for him than I do the others now. I made a rash decision that could have cost us. He pointed it out to me. Rather harshly though.-
I nod and look at Tre. He puts his eyebrows up at me.
"Next time she makes a bad decision, she hopes you won't point it out quite so harshly."
He smiles and gives me a hug. "If it could get you hurt. I will beat her ass 10 times worse."
I smile at him. "But I'm still a good girl?"
"Yes, you're still my good girl."
I snuggle him. "So what's going on in here now? Was this whole area even here before?"
Dipak looks at me. "No. When we opened the box, it blew the entrance apart but this whole area opened."
"Did you find anything here?"
Omar looks at me. "Yes, but nothing I can make sense of. I've summoned the herd. Hopefully they can help us out."
"Did anyone find anything else outside?"
"Blood and hair. It's all going to have to be analyzed baby. We're not sure."
"What are you thinking sweetheart?"
"My brother was taken from our medical area by a magician. He's still out here somewhere."
"Babydoll, he didn't turn to sand. He just died. You seen him."
"What if he was shapeshifted Tye?" I look at Dipak. "What if you killed the magician and not him? Did he fly as a dragon?"
Dipak shakes his head. "We'll keep looking baby. But right now, it doesn't look like that. We will have everything analyzed though. We will look as long as it takes. I promise you that."
Omar looks at me. "So if he's not dead. Are you afraid of him?"
"Yes." I turn and see a rock. It's a black rock. All the other rocks are white. I put the glasses on and nothing turns blue.
Marcus walks up beside me. "What do you see?"
"A black rock."
He nods. Then he walks over and moves it. There's a little lever under it. We both stare at it and Omar walks over. "It's not magical. It will do something though."
My boys and Kane come over. They all look at it but don't say anything. I reach over and pull it. The wall in front of us moves. It's opens like the hidden entrance's in the bookshelves.
Dipak walks up to it and pushes it all the way open. We all stop moving completely. We are looking at a room with vampires hung from the ceiling by chains. They look dead. Like they haven't eaten in months. None of them are moving. Their naked. There skin looks all sunken in and like leather.
Dracul and Gunner walk up to us and look in too. They just stop moving.
I walk in slowly and look around more.
"Say it out loud princess."
"There's 10 bodies suspended from the ceiling. All appear deceased. Like they starved to death. Their skin is so sunken in. I can see all their ribs. None of them are wearing clothes." I touch one of their feet. "Skin feels like leather. Some have other injuries. I can see the skin ripped apart on some of them. One is missing a leg. It looks like it was removed below the knee before death. It was not regenerated."
"There's boxes over here."
"Don't touch them Tye. He rigged the entire entrance to come down with that box and key. He can do a lot of damage with boxes." I walk towards the back wall slowly. Tye nods at Omar.
"There's 1, shackled to the back wall. This one seems different. More taken care of. This one is a female." I look around. "The only female. Can one of you go get me some blood please? She shows no external injuries. She appears to have starved to death like the others. Her skin is like leather as well. Also sunken in and I can see her skeleton through it."
"This one is different princess."
I walk over to Marcus and look at one of the male bodies. "This doesn't seem correct."
"Why?"
"Look at the wall. It's like he suspended himself. Like he climbed the wall and did this himself." I look around a bit. "I imagine his clothes will be close. He shows no external injuries. Although he does appear to have starved. His skin is like leather and sunken in. I can see his skeleton through it." I look between him and girl a couple times. "I wonder if he could..."
I stare at him a minute.
Gunner looks at me. "What?"
"The cave shook."
He nods.
"Like a warning we were approaching."
Gunner's eyes go white. We all just stare at him. Then they go back to normal. He looks at Dipak and nods. Then he grabs my arm.
Dipak looks around. "Well if someone was here, and that was a warning, they are gone now. Get the guards in here to get these bodies down and outside. We'll see if any of them absorb blood. Then we'll go from there."
Suddenly I'm outside the cave.
Gunner is still holding my arm. I look at him.
"You are correct it was a warning. It is possible a magician hung himself up and also that he did something to that girl to make them look like the others."
"THEY DON'T KNOW." I take off running for the cave again. I run right into an invisible wall and fall on my ass. "GUNNER LET ME IN THERE."
He shakes his head. "They do know. They are handling it. They will bring the bodies out soon."
I run away from him and hit another invisible wall. "I COMMAND YOU LET ME IN THERE."
He shakes his head again.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO? YOU CAN'T TELL ME NO!"
"Yes I can."
"AAAAAHHHHHH!"
He nods at me. "Look."
I look over and the guards are bringing them out. They lay them in a line on the grass. The boys all come next. Tre has blood and tries them all 1 at a time. From what I can see, 2 of the men and the female all absorb blood. The ones who are dead, get put into a carriage.
Then I see one of the men's arms move. Just a little but it did move. "DIPAK HE MOVED. DIPAK!" He won't even look at me.
"GUNNER HE MOVED. WHY WON'T THEY LOOK AT ME?"
"They can't see or hear you."
"WHAT? HE MOVED. THEY ARE IN DANGER."
"Tell him on feather."
I give him a funny look and connect the feathers. They both connect back to me.
"I can sense you here baby."
"You can't see or hear me. I have to use this."
"Ok what do you see sweetheart."
"The man closest to Tre is moving when no one looks at him." Then I see the female's foot flinch. "The girls foot just flinched as well."
Both boys nod. Then they grab Kane and walk over closer to me. Dipak steps into my wall then he just bounces back. He gives it a weird look and lifts his hand.
"It's my wall Dipak."
He nods for a second and looks at Kane.
"We need to take the" He points to his arms. "Off. At exactly the same time." Tre and Kane nod. Kane says something but I can't hear it. "Yea on 3." Then they all go and take a sword off a guard. "You're going to count us sweetie."
Tre stands by the female. Kane and Dipak stand by the males. Their arms are touching. All 3 of them have 2 swords.
"1..2..3"
1 of the men and the female both look like they scream out in pain. Every single person looks at them. Those 2 are loaded into another carriage after their legs are removed. Dracul leaves with them.
I look at Gunner. "The last one. Is he a magician?"
"I don't know."
"Well he hasn't moved and he didn't flinch when his arms were removed. I do believe he was tortured and starved. He has to be royal to still absorb blood."
Dipak is standing over him looking at him. I see him nod. "He has prior injures. Deep sword wounds to both of his sides. They appear to be old and just never healed at all. 2 of his fingers were removed. He has slices on his feet."
"I had slices on my feet and I lost a finger."
"It would take a long time to starve a royal into this condition. This is not something that could happen over a few days or even weeks."
"Ask Omar if he is a magician."
Dipak nods. "OMAR. COME HERE."
Omar walks up to him.
"Is he a magician?"
Omar says a whole bunch of stuff and I can't hear a word of it.
"Ok so he could be?" Omar nods. "But if he is then he's not very good? You can't sense his powers correct?" Omar nods again. Then he says some more stuff. "Ok so I will just go with he's not a magician. Or if he is, he doesn't know about it and never practiced anything." Omar nods. Then walks away.
Dipak shrugs his shoulders. Tre starts laughing at him from over by the cave entrance.
Then Tye looks at Tre weird. They are both standing together. I think Tye can't figure out why Tre's laughing. Tye is asking something. Tre shows him the feather. Then he just nods.
Tre says. "Yea, that sounds good. We'll just go with that Dipak."
Then Dipak starts laughing and shrugs his shoulders again. "Any ideas on what to do with this one?"
"We have to heal him Dipak. He could have been tortured for a long time. He may just be a victim. A royal one at that."
"Or he could be the bad guy baby."
"We'll never know if we don't heal him and ask."
"You can't really ask the bad guy who the bad guy is."
"No but you 2 are smart enough to get the real answer out. And we really can't leave him like this. He looks horrible. And Omar said something to me a long time ago about pulling power from royals or dragons. Does he have a dragon?"
"If he does, it's very very weak. I'm not sensing it at all."
Tre shakes his head and looks at Tye. "If he's a royal, he would have a dragon. It's really rare for a royal to be born without one. Check for the mark on his neck. Maybe it's suppressed somehow."
Tye says something back to him.
"Tye said that black rope looking thing can be anywhere. It doesn't have to be his neck."
Dipak nods and starts looking all over the man.
"Can I come out of this yet boys?"
Tre looks at Dipak. Dipak looks at him and nods. Gunner grabs my arm.
"Yea you can back baby."
Gunner lets my arm go. "You are free."
I look at them and Tye and Tre both look at me and smile. I run to them.
"Gunner held me hostage again."
Tre looks at him. "Was she good?"
"Yes she was good."
I nod at the boys really fast.
Then I look around. "Where next?"
Dipak walks over. "From here you want to the Yanin castle medical area."
"Baby we still have a lot going on here."
Tye points. "And there's a half dead guy over there."
"Well he can come too."
Dipak smiles at me. "It's fine. The herd is here anyways. OMAR."
Omar walks over.
"We're going to go. Can you...?"
"Yea I'll have the magicians search and analyze every single thing."
Dipak nods. "Gunner you and the guards with us. We'll probably end up going to the little abandoned house later."
Omar walks away. "I'll probably see you there."
I give Tre a hug. "Will you fly me?"
"Yes baby."
I start jumping up and down. Then I jump on his back and throw my arms around him. He grabs my legs and holds me there. Marcus and Gunner both stare at me weird.
Dipak looks at everyone. "Land in front of the Yanin castle. We'll just walk the path I carried her." He looks at me. "We're not going to knock out their window again though."
I nod at him. "I didn't even know I knocked out a window."
They all laugh for a second and we all take off.