The Stars Align
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"Honestly I don't know, she didn't say how she just said it needed to be done. Nakita wasn't having that happen." Nicole gave him a half smile to reassure him this wasn't going to happening again.
"Okay, so most everything has a place in our story somehow. The only things out of place is this letter that appears to be origninally from your Mother" Ace pointed to Nicole "Talking to Uncle about raising the child and giving him a key. That fits no where. What also does not seem to fit is the photo graph of a sitting council or judges."
"I think they are in there to throw us off or MaryBeth and Edward had every intention of delivering Nicole to Uncle but never made it there. What if the jewlery was the key the letter talks about?" Josh was almost thinking out loud.
"I think the council is the last thing we are going to deal with so it's just not fitting because it's the last peice." Mark concluded.
"Our most important key is this picture and drawing that matches. We need to find that place." Nicole said. She pulled the two together to compare them again. "Is there anyting to suggest where this might be?" With no significant landmarks it was tough to pin point it.
"This picture has a landmark, Big Ben. Maybe it's close to there." Josh pointed out.
"Hey, that's my Grandmother and My Grandfather on my mom's side. I never realized that. I thought it was just my parents but taking a closer look at him that is definately my grandparents." Nicole pointed out. This was revelation because that picture was mostly ignored.
"I am going to input the picutres." Taking the picture of the man on the bridge and input into an Google Earth search in and around the Big Ben landmark." Handley took the pictures to scan them into the computer.
"How long will that take to get back?" Josh asked.
"Could be a few minuets or a few hours. It depends on the computer and where it starts." Handley answered as he started scanning the photos in.
Nicole looked at Josh "Can we go for a run. Think about all this?"
"That sounds like a fantastic idea."
He walked toward the door.
They stood at the edge of the meadow stretching Nicole smiled to herself and looked over at him. "Its time you met Nakita." Nicole closed her eyes and quieted herself, it was way easier this time knowing what to expect.
Josh watched her shift to her Lycan, she grew taller and the hair on her skin turned to a dense short fur, her eyes grew bigger and her hair shifted to short ears on the top of her head. His heart was beating wildly and Trenton was going crazy to come out. He let him come to the surface and shifted as well.
Trenton was a tall wolf but with Nakita standing on her back legs she was taller. She reached out and touched his fur and it was silky smooth under fingers. They looked at each other and her dark sultry eyes couldn't help but be sexy.
Her voice echoed in his mind "Are you ready?" In Russian and he understood it perfectly. She took off like lightening and he chased after her giving a howel as he did so. They hit the tree line and she didn't slow down. They were laughing and teasing each other when suddenly a smaller white wolf raced around them and then a greyish wolf came zooming past. It was Mark and Rhonda. They started to play tag like as they ran around the woods. Learning how each other moved.
Rhonda caughted it out of the corner of her eye, a huge black wolf and a smaller black one. She went running up to him and zommed around them and they pretended to try and catch her. It was Alpha Giest and Sabrina joining in on the tag game.
The six of them raced around the woods and the meadow until they were tired.
The sun was setting as they all laid around in the meadow. Trenton looked over at Nakita and he just stared at her. She let him look for a while and then she rolled toward him and looked back at him. "You are staring at me." She said with heavy Russian accent.
"I know. You are just so beautiful." He crawled over and licked her face. She acted super grossed out. Laughing out loud. It was music to his ears.
"The computer is done." Giest stood up and shifted back into his human form. He started heading back toward the house.
Everyone followed suit as they walked toward the house. It was nice to get out and run around like a group. Rhonda and Mark were holding hands and Nicole and Josh were walking behind them. Nicole watched them looking at each other and she was so happy for them.
Marks phone was ringing when they walked back into the conference room. "Hey Mom." He answered totally relaxed after being outside. "Ho...ho...holding on...slow down mom. I am going to put you on speaker." He set the phone down and they could hear a panic sounding mom on the other end of the line. "Okay."
"I am sorry but I just remembered that the full moon eclipse is something I needed to tell you about." She took a deep breath and calmed herself. "During the full moon eclipse is when our barrier is the weakest and when the evil wolves might make a move to take over the world again. That is in 2 weeks from now."
"How do you think they will try to take over the world?" Giest was curious more than anything.
"Well, many of them are already here but they have a barrier around them and they can only go certain places and deal with certain people unless the other person breaks the barrier on their own. However the full moon eclipse gives them a chance to break the barrier on themselves and then they are free to roam the earth doing terrible things. They feed on people." She finished.
"Okay, thanks Mom. You are the best." Mark hung up the phone and looked over at Josh and Nicole.
All three of them said "Wolfgang Heights."
"What is Wolfgang Height?" Rhonda asked and Ace tossed the picture in her direction. She picked it up and looked at it. It meant nothing to her.
Sabrina took the picture and looked at for a moment. "This was where your parents really knew they were in trouble. They had fled from there with just you. We had made arrangements over the phone to meet at the train station in St. Louis and I could take you into hiding. Rhonda was the same age and we could easily hide you as her twin sister." She set the picutre down. "I do believe that is near the portal I came home on isn't it?" She looked at Josh and Nicole and they agreed with her.
"Is this where we need to start?" Hadley asked.
Everyone was quiet for moment and then Nakita spoke in her broken Russina accent "No, it is where we need to finish." She looked around and grabbed the pictures of the man on the bridge and the hand drawn picture of the same bridge. "This is where we start. Find this, find the enterance to the Lycan Kingdom."
Ace and Hadley just looked at her with slack jaws. Josh gave a growl and they looked away. "Well good thing the computer just found where this is." Ace paused. "It's in small town in northern Maine in the middle of nowhere called Haskville, the river is the Crow River."
"Excellent. We leave tomorrow morning. I will have 3 cars ready for tomorrow." Giest stood up. "It's time to eat dinner. Homemade pizza."
"Oh I love homemade pizza." Sabrina said.
"Well I can't wait to try it then." Nicole smiled and they gathered all thier stuff up and headed for dinner.
The Lycan Kingdom
"I see you are getting your strength back somehow." Miriam the Lycan Queen said sarcastically to MaryBeth as she sat on the edge of her bed in her cell. It seemed like she just liked to come down here to tease her. "Well we will just have to change that." With an evil laugh.
Marybeth sat on the edge of her bed and watched what used to be her mother walk away. She knew she wasn't her mother anymore, something had gotten into her. Her Lycan had tried to tell her long ago and it's a moment she regretted ever since. She would give anything to talk to her Lycan now. They had been separated chemically ever since that fateful day at the train station.
MaryBeth ran her fingers through her short aburn hair making it spike up a bit. She had felt something from or through Edward. It had been a very long time since she had felt anything from him. She knew he wasn't dead because then she would not be sitting here at this moment. It made her ache for him. Most of the time she was numb to being away from him but this was different feeling.
She stood up and looked in the mirror and then a thought occured to her. Maybe Katrina found him somehow.
Miriam and all her goons told her how they had killed her baby. Not just once but over and over again. Tears welled up in her eyes at just the thought of her daughter being alive. If it was true that she was alive she could wake up Edward. She would need him to escape this place. Her heart beat picked up its pace at just the thought of seeing him.
She turned away from the mirror and pushed away these thoughts. They were too hopeful, to far fetched for it to ever happen.
She got down on the floor and started her workout routine that she did 4 times a day. Nothing else to do in this tiny cell.
As she took the push up position she heard an old familiar voice. "She is coming." Just at that moment her cell door opened and she was pulled out by a couple of guards and taken down the hallway to a room she knew all to well.
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