*R-18 Violence*
We all seemed to be holding our breaths as we slowly opened the door that made a very slight sound as it opened.
When we heard the screams and cries of people downstairs though.... We knew that any sound we made could not be heard down there right now.
We all slowly made our way down, Turk pulled the locking bolt out of the door and smiled pocketing it. That was a little odd but it was Turk, he had his reason for that I'm sure. Down the stairs we found a few dead bodies belonging to young women and I can't help but shake my head.
Death shouldn't come easy to this man.... I look at Turk and he nods to me.
I whisper, "Temple?" and he nods back smiling. We don't have much room before we have to turn and probably see the poor girls he's been holding here and torturing that are still alive. Using my lens I check the scene and see sure enough, twelve.
Twelve girls. All looking underage and scared. I let the others see and we each snap two back to the houses guest house. I quickly snap the last one left before she makes any noise and I have to sit down suddenly.
I've drained myself doing that. Turk hands me a small blue bottle and I drink the contents, grimacing as I swallow. I hand the empty bottle back and Turk smiles at me placing it back in his pocket and holds up two fingers.
Of course, leave it to Turk to charge me two bottles for one.
I nod accepting his compensation and he grins wider.
I slowly get back up and start to feel better. The others are starting to make their way around the corner and I catch back up easily, Turk bringing up the rear.
As one of the team is scoping out around the corner, I notice the screams are getting weaker. We've got to move faster. I show my urgency to my team members and we move a bit quicker.
The basement has a very easy design like a nautilus shell. There were no rooms and the large outer ring wound down into the next ring, slightly sloping making the end of the basement 3 stories deep into the Earth and it opened up into a two thousand square foot room. We needed to get down there and soon if we would have any hope of saving who ever was down there.
The hall from here had no more corners to be able to scope any great length and had to really keep our ears peeled for sounds and our eyes open for cameras. We had only seen the ones outside and none so far inside. That didn't mean that there would be none that could warn them of our approach ahead of time. Surprise was our desire to have the upper hand.
Of course we did have Turk and back up on stand by if we needed it.
We walked around and around, even knowing there was only one hallway, the way it felt going down the sloped way made me feel lost and dizzy.
Shaking my head, in an attempt at clearing the feeling and I am stopped by Turk grabbing my shoulder. He stops the others and motions for the mission to stop and we leave, now. The others shake their heads no and I'm having to agree, we need to finish this.
Turk frustrated looks up and seems to be trying to calm himself down before drawing something peculiar on the carpet with his claw like nail. I stare at it trying to make it out when one of our team members looks up at him wide eyed and disappears.
"Turk? What's wrong?" I whisper as low as I can.
"Dark magic. We need to go or we could all die." Turks gruff voice echoes out and down the hall. Our eyes widen and we all freeze. Soon the feeling starts to worsen and Turk grabs me and snaps us back up to the ground floor. He's gasping and I realize so am I. I can't seem to get enough air in my lungs at first but shortly it doesn't matter as the doors are busted open from the outside.
We're greeted by thirty heavily armed guards all pointing their weapons at us.
"Shit." Turk mutters still holding me and I make a split second decision to snap us both out of here, even though I don't think I've absorbed enough of the blood to be able to do it.
I snap us up to the third floor landing as bullets erupted on where we were just moments ago. Turk and I are still holding on to each other and make out way to the room I came in the house with. I get us out of the roof and I snap us to the tree I first showed up on the property. I don't know if my other teams members are still alive or not. We can see the front door with all the guards standing in and around the door way making their way in looking around for us. We hear some shouting and I swear a male Fae walks by I have never seen before, who bears a strong resemblance to Thietian.
Turks tenses up gripping my arm at the sight of the Fairy making me gasp in pain. The Fairy stops and Turk snaps us away before the Fae can even turn his head. We're back at the house and Turk is cursing a string of obscenities.
One of members the one who originally disappeared was there but the other two were not.
"Turk?! What the hell was that? What happened?" I asked trying to calm Turk down.
John rushes over asking what was going on as well.
"We need to talk to Thietian! Right now!" Turk was angry and was demanding to see Prince Thietian immediately? I knew it had to be serious seeing the way he was and gave John a questioning look.
A few seconds later Thietian came walking out of the main house oblivious to what was going on.
"Turk? What's the meaning of this? What has happened? Where are the other three I assigned to this?" Thietian retains a princely aura although you can see his shock and concern mingled in with it.
Turk looks at Thietian and growls menacingly, "Damn it, did you know your brother was there?! Did you know that DARK MAGIC was being used?" Turks makes a few steps advancing towards Thietian.
"WHAT?! NO!" Thietian went pale and eyes wide with shock. He looked at me and Turk, then at our other team member.
"Which brother?" Thietian asked looking at Turk.
"Bavarthos. (Ba-var-thos)" Turk grunts taking a seat right where he stood.
"Bavarthos? That ....." His voice trailed off, " Dark magic...." He seemed to be thinking out loud to himself suddenly as he began to pace back and forth in place. He stops and ask me, "The others?"
I shrug and shake my head and he takes a shaky seat on the cold ground.
"Can some one please tell me what the fuck is going on?" I look between the two waiting for an answer. Looking around I also notice the girls we saved are not here.
"What happened to all the girls that we went here?" I look at John now.
"Come on Thietian, Turk, Mary. Let's go inside and talk." John herds us inside after helping Thietian to his feet.
Once inside the guest house I ask my questions again, this time directly looking at Thietian first.
"What is going on Thietian?" I cross my arms in front of my chest waiting slightly annoyed.
Why did we lose half of our team?
What was the feeling I had in that basement?
Dark Magic?
Bavarthos?
Where are the girls?
These questions still were running through my head when Turk spoke up.
"Sin, Bavarthos is Thietian's eldest brother, he's been missing even longer than the Queen but only because he's exiled from the Fairy Courts for supposedly using Dark Magic on the King." He looked to Thietian who was still looking off lost in thought before continuing.
"The fact that Bavarthos was there using dark magic ... It's not good. What you felt down there was dark magic that was taking place. It would have absorbed our lives and used the energy to complete whatever spell he was attempting to complete." He sighed.
"I knew I felt something was off when we stepped down into that basement but I didn't know it was dark magic until the drain came over us. We are lucky we got out." He took a seat himself looking shaken as well.
John takes my hand in his and holds it tightly. I grip his back as well and ask again about the girls.
"We sent them to the holding complex. There are doctors there, we can help them get treated for their injuries both physical and mental ones. Hopefully, the ones we took from the labs will see what being a slave will actually mean when they see these girls." John tells me.
"NO. I don't want those girls put on show as an example." I am shocked over the audacity to use these girls for our own purposes in that manner.
"Mary, we wouldn't do it without them consenting to it first. We only asked them right now to go rest and let the doctors treat them." He reassures me.
"So what do we do now?" My other surviving team member, Tirnik, asks us.
Thietian stands finally, "Go rest for now, I have to go and inform some our brothers and sisters of our shared losses. Also all other missions are put on hold after tonight until further notice."
He places his hand on Tirnik's shoulder and respectfully looks him in the eyes, "Thank you Tirnik for your loyalty and for risking your life again tonight for our cause."
Tirnik stands stoically and nods in response, "It is my honor and duty to support you Prince Thietian. Our Queen couldn't have asked for a better son who is as loyal to her as you are. When she is restored as the true ruler, any and all deaths will not be considered meaningless. Even though they may feel that way now."
"Thank you Tirnik." Thietian says again dropping his hand from his shoulder.
"I'll be back shortly." Thietian disappears without saying anything more.
Tirnik nods and leaves heading for the bathroom. Turk stands and stretches, pulling me in a big Oni hug.
"Thank you Sin, I may have got us out of the basement, but you got us back here alive. Let's go have a bottle shall we?" Turk releases me and I nod trying to catch my breath from the strength of his hug.
"You still owe me two bottles too remember." Turk adds as John and I start to head to the kitchen for the blue bottles.
I roll my eyes from behind him, "How could I forget?"
Turk ever the shrewd business man when he's expecting payment.
John looks at us both and I notice he's very confused at the moment.
"John what's the matter?" I ask curious.
"I'm confused about something. Why is there a vacuum and a carpet cleaner suddenly in the main house?"
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'oh.'
"Heh.. um.. I snapped them here after we had a close encounter earlier. I felt we had bonded on a more intimate level and couldn't leave them behind." I hurry to the kitchen and busy myself making the glasses of drinks and grabbing the blue bottles for Turk.
"Do.. What?" Even Turk looks confused.