Finding Calypso

Stranger

Chapter 27

~Calypso~

I feel my brother throw my limp body on the floor and call the guards in. I can't move an inch, but my beasts fury keeps me aware.

"Take her while I address the guard. Once they realize she is gone they will assume she has escaped" Magnus says to them.

I heard Magnus walk out the door while the two men waited hovering over me for a moment. I wished I could release my beast. Break their bones. Find my brother and demand he take me to Rory, but my body refused me.

I feel one of the men lift me up and his corrupted scent made me sick. I feel him sniff my neck and say

" I bet you will taste sweet."

I tried to move anything in my body, any muscle, any control, but I was lifeless in his arms.

We descended stairs before we exited a door. I can hear the sound of the city echoing, and I know we've entered the car garage. If I don't do something at this very moment, I won't have another chance to get away.

I try again with all my might to move something. When the man drops me to the ground. I didn't feel any muscle in my body move, but somehow I made him release me.

Hot liquid splat across my closed eyes and I can hear gurgling.

I heard another man yell, but it was immediately silenced with the sound of cracking bones.

I feel someone grab me around the waist and begins to run. Car wheels screech, approaching us, echoing through the car garage, and I feel my limp body tossed inside as it speeds away.

I feel my neck pierced only for a second followed by a hiss at the taste of my blood. My beast began to relax, she knew we were safe and let me drift off into a dream.

In my dreams I see my sister sprawled out on a dirty cement floor. Her arms and legs chained. Her skin seared everywhere the chain touched. I ran up to her side, but she remains unconscious. Her breathing is labored and her face baring a scratch that isn't healing.

I looked around us to try and identify anything that may help me find her, but the room was dark and empty. I see a small basement window at the top of the room where I can hear the sound of a city flooding through. I look back down at my sister and try to shake her awake, and her eyes flutter.

"Rory, wake up"

I see her relax at the sound of my voice, and she let her palm open. Inside was a very small piece of crumbled up paper stained in her blood. I unraveled it to see a corner of an old newspaper. Only a few letters are shown, but I didn't have to know what it said. I recognized it all too well, it was the name of our city. San Antonio.

Immediately I feel myself drawn back to my body as I wake up. With this evidence I knew my brother had unintentionally brought her to me. He must always keep her close to make sure she doesn't escape. He obviously doesn't realize he has made a mistake. He underestimates me. I will find her.

I open my eyes. My body still lacks my full control, but I manage to sit up. The chatting of the three girls around me immediately stops.

I blink a few times coming into consciousness. When I see Gretchen. We both latch in for a hug. I was so relieved to not still be in my brother's captivity, and to see Gretchen safe, before me alive. I had feared the worst.

"How did you find me? How did you know they were taking me?" I hear my voice shaking, almost in tears.

I see Octavia in the corner of my eye and I reach my arm out to pull her into our embrace. I wrapped both my arms around their necks so tight. Gretchen begins to answer.

"It was your Gramair. She came back for us. And then we followed her to you. And then James found you and we brought you here" she said this so fast, even I had trouble keeping up.

I pull away to see a girl standing awkwardly beside us trying not to look directly at us to not be rude. She was very pale with straight black hair. Dressed like a young goth kid. I could tell we were in her home as the house was decorated just like her. Her windows completely blacked out, and I smell she is just like them. A vampire.

I peek around the small studio apartment to see if I could find James, but he is not here. I feel a sigh of relief. Not looking forward to our next conversation. Even though I feel completely betrayed by my mate. I would never betray our bond.

"I…" I pause "I have to leave"

"No!" Both Gretchen and Octavia say together. Looking to each other like I'm crazy.

"It's my sister, she is here somewhere and I have to find her" I try to stand up off the bed when I feel my body still weak with what ever I was injected with.

I sit back down.

"Ok in a second I'll leave" I say, trying to play off how I feel as a joke.

"Caly, what do you mean your sister? " Gretchen asks, knowing I have been an only child my whole life.

I look to her realizing just how much has happened.

I begin unloading. I was a little weary to say everything with this stranger listening in, but I don't think they would have brought me here if they didn't trust her. So I go on to tell them of my identity, my sister, my brother, and then of my soulmate. And how my heart was broken because I didn't know if I could trust him, but every second away from him kills me. And how unbelievably betrayed I felt. How I can feel his emotions clawing at my mind every second. And how it's just clouding my thought from what I really need to focus on. Finding my sister!

"I know she's here in the city, and I'm just so close to finding her! " I end with.

"Uh…." Gretchen says "I don't know what to say. Octavia, you take this one" she addresses her girlfriend beside her.

She pauses awkwardly and then says

"Your going to have to come back to me"

They both look at the stranger that sat beside us.

"Me? What do you want me to say?" the stranger said.

And we all laugh trying to break the tension of the seriousness of this information.

Octavia addresses me

"No matter what we will help you"

"Yeah, that's no question." Gretchen agrees.

"I don't expect any of that from you guys" I say honestly.

"I don't want to bring anyone into this. These are dangerous beasts. This is a war" I tell them.

"Yes, one that you're apart of and we won't let you fight it alone" Octavia says, with a confirming glare.

"So what's the plan?" Gretchen asks.

"Well it was to find a witch that could help me amplify my connection with my sister, so I could find her location. But that was when I had the help of the wolf packs. I have no clue where to find one myself, so I was just going to let my heart lead me. If we are so close I'm sure…"

When the stranger finally speaks, cutting me off.

"I know, a witch"

I look back at her weary of anyone's help I don't know. I look to Octavia. Looking for some kind of confirmation that I can trust her. When she says

"I think that's a better idea, then going in blind"

I nod my head to this new stranger and she says

"I'll make a call"

When she leaves, Gretchen asks

"So what are you going to say to James?" she pauses and then says "Now that you have found your soulmate"

"I.. I don't know. I mean I do know I'm bonded, I can't deny it. But….. I care for James deeply and I'm scared to tell him the truth. I'm scared of what he will try to do. Where is he?" I ask.

"After we found you, he was so angry. He was acting insane saying that he knew they hurt you. He couldn't stay in here seeing you like this any longer, so he went outside to watch the area to make sure no one followed us"

Just then the stranger walked back up closing her terribly old flip phone and said

"The witch said she could be here with in the hour. I didn't tell her any other information, so you can keep this private."

I appreciate her being discreet.

"Thank you" I say, with the extra emphasis on the "you" realizing I haven't gotten her name yet.

"Sigrith" she responds.

"Sigrith Helsing".