Worlds Collide

Chapter 2: Chasing a Mystery

“My Lord, I looked and traced everything back and nothing has turned up. Your mystery lady remains a mystery. The credit card was from someone completely different. Signatures, rental car, everything came up empty other than her scent from the swath of cloth you brought that has her DNA on it. We are still waiting for the results from that, and I specifically told them you wanted it to be rushed. The lab should be calling us any minute now.” Zachariah Chance said with conviction. He looked at his friend, his King, and wanted to be able to give him something. He had not ever seen his King - Clouse Agesander so …. So put out by a woman before. No woman had ever sparked this much activity and it was sad to see him in a fog and chasing a woman like a dream.

Clouse looked at his friend with desperation in his eyes. He was dumbfounded that he had absolutely nothing to go on. Before he had left the Inn he had obtained all of the information he thought was hers, but it was a fake credit card, name, number, and address. It had taken some of his best IT guys to figure out that his mystery woman was just that. She apparently went through a lot of trouble to keep herself anonymous. Now his right-hand man was telling him the same things as his IT guys. He exhaled in frustration. Right before he was about to start breaking things the phone on his desk rang. It was the lab. He answered it via speakerphone and took a seat to brace himself for the news.

“Yea.”

“Your Majesty, we do have news, but we aren’t sure what to make of it. It would appear that the DNA results came back with a match, but the information is sealed and encrypted in the Mariam Web. There isn’t any way for us to get the information you wanted. We already tried and so did our IT department. Our very best hackers tried, but when they did everything went up in smoke. The damages to replace all hardware and software are going to take a lot of time, effort, and money to get it back to what it was. This woman must be of great importance to have this happen.” The voice on the phone said with curiosity.

“Indeed. Thanks” Clouse’s eyes looked like they were calming down a little bit.

“You’re welcome, my king. If we do discover anything we will notify you or Zachariah immediately.” The phone disconnected.

“Of course she has to be someone of great importance to go through great lengths to remain a mystery!” Clouse said sarcastically and waving his arm around. He was now in deep thought. “Hmmmm….” Clouse sat up with his chin resting in his hand and elbow propped up on the desk. He looked up to find Zach just staring at him. “Yes?”

“Well, based off of what we ‘don’t’ know, we actually know a lot now Clouse. We know that whoever she is, is of great importance in the paranormal world. You told me she was able to take all of you, so I’m assuming she is a shifter of some sort. We can’t track her in any way, shape, or form. I mean, I don’t think it’s too farfetched to assume she may even be royalty which is why we keep hitting a wall at every turn. Not to mention servers being fried. Sealed information. Miriam Web.” Zach was pacing back and forth shaking his finger at every point. Clouse watched his friend with credulity. Zach turned to Clouse. “Did you c*m inside of her?”

“Well DUUUH! Of course, I did. We f****d each other’s brains out for probably a couple of days straight. I came everywhere on her and in her.” Clouse rolled his eyes while slamming his hand down onto his desk and getting up. He strode over to Zach. “What’s your point? Do you think I got her pregnant? Do you realize the odds of that happening with a vampire and unknown shifter?” He searched Zach’s eyes looking for….something other than what his friend was suggesting.

“Look, all I’m saying is that you meet a mystery woman, never exchange names, have s*x with her to the point it sounds like you were mating with her, we can’t find out who she is at all, our lab got a match, but can’t get the info because it is sealed and encrypted to the point of destroying their IT department, their own hackers can’t even get in and they were able to play with the very best in the world and not get caught, and she could possibly be pregnant with your offspring. That makes her a high priority to you, us, and every other paranormal out there. If she is and is found by someone or something else then she is collateral damage as well as the baby. Her being used that way will no doubt send you over the edge and make Vlad the Impaler look like a child compared to what you could do to humans and paranormals alike.” Zach rubbed his face with his hand. Putting all of this together was earth-shattering for his friend and him. This very well could be the future Blood Queen with a pregnant hybrid that would undoubtedly make her and the unborn baby the biggest target in the world. It could also mean the very destruction of the world if they ever got hurt. He knew Clouse had never felt this way about anyone or anything. He sighed and turned to look at Clouse with eyes narrowed. “We have to find her. Now. Do I have your permission to scramble a team together?”

“Yes, and I will also be searching for her too. She smelled of Plumeria and Jasmine flowers. Get a sketch artist so I can describe her so you know what she looks like. She has to be tropical so let’s search the lands and islands all around the equator first. There are a few storms beginning. I saw it on the news. They are due to hit within the next 48 hours. Let’s travel then and it’ll look less suspicious to any other paranormals. It’ll look like we are just reaping the area to feed. Let’s start in Mexico and work our way around in opposite directions. We’ll meet up here no later than next month. Let’s get our burner phones and set up our emails to communicate. Something will have to turn up. Something has to. I won’t stop until I find her.” Clouse was walking down the hall of his mansion to his room while talking to Zach. They stopped in front of his chambers. “Meet me downstairs in my main office to get our things before we go.”

It was less than twenty minutes and Zach was waiting for Clouse. They got everything ready and called in a special team to give them all of the pertinent information they needed to search for the mystery woman. The team consisted of three other vampires that were highly trusted to not use this information to turn on them and give something of use. The sketch artist also came in at that time and within minutes there she was again in a picture. After going over all of the information given except for the possible pregnancy everyone dispersed and was now on the hunt.