Monday, June 14, 2004

Fifth Step: Into The Dungeon

Gott Mit Uns

Garnett quietly stood at the top of a large tree that loomed over the massive Salong building waiting for her chance to jump into the courtyard and make her way into the castle. Guards lined the walls and doorways but every so offten for about a second there was a break in survalience near the main doors.

"Thats my way in Moro." She mumbled quietly to her wolf and got into a crouching position ready to spring forward into the castle.

"Walk break walk walk break... NOW!" She sprang forward and bolted for the doorway. But not a second after she was saftly inside did a baragge of bullets flew from the sky. The machines had picked up on her movments to late, they took out seven of the guards and everyone else who was left was baffled at what had just happened.

Garnett chuckled to herself, stood up straight and walked through the black and grey halls of Salong. Not a single guard tried or even wanted to stop her advancment. The rumors about Garnetts searing power were not false but were underestimated.

She made her way to the lobby of the castle and waited to be taken to Shelong. Not much later she was greeted and escourted into the large dinning hall where a table was set for two and Shelong, a tall and rather large female with dirty blond hair and green eyes, waited, already seated, for Garnett.

"I see you made it through just fine. I know your problem you filthy vampire. Sit down, we share a common enemy now." Shelong mumbled then munched away at her food until Garnett sat down on the wooden chair.

"One of our best weapons was destroyed last night. Yux was brutally beaten and killed. No marks were left on him other then a bruise covering 90% of his body. I have heard your pets have also been hurt." Shelong said through mouthfuls of chicken and bread. "We are in a state of shock and by the looks of it we may have to team up to defeat our new enemy." Shelong looked at Garnett with a glare of pure hate.

"It seems we may have to team up. But since your best weapon is dead at the moment it would be no benifit for me to team up with you. You have nothing to offer me." Garnett snerred back at Shelong and they glared at each other before Shelong spooke up.

"We may be enemies but its a common foe. We have nothing to offrer you, but I know what you want. Peace between these two houses. Well we shall never sink to that level to have peace with blood sucking rejects of -- " She was cut off by the bullet through her hand on the table and the barrle of Garnett's famed .454 Casull pointed at her head.

"You call us fiflthy? You humans make me sick!" Garnett spat on the floor and glared at Shelong. "You have nothing to offer me... so I will dispose of you. Then while you rot in Hell look around and realize Vampires do not kill our own. But you humans fight for fun!" She snarrled beared her fangs at the stalk scared Shelong and unloaded a whole round into her head.

Not a single guard moved from their spot but just stood there, one peed his pants and fainted, the sight of Garnett's red eyes scared him and kept the others in their place.

Garnett walked out of the castle hoped on her war horse and headed off to find her other foe. Maybe they can choose their words better. Garnett was asstonished that she had actually been able to kill that slug. Some master of the great Salong house. She reloaded her guns and just laughed at the crumbling clan.

Yumkias was her next stop. It was situated in old England. Garnett sighed and stop back home, quietly grabed a pass card and headed for the Miami airport.

She pulled her private pilot out of a game of poker and tossed him into her black little jet.

"Lets get moving! England, find a spot to land and wake me." She smiled and crawled onto the leather couch tossed a blanket over her and slept for the long flight to England.

The plane landed quietly on a private air stip and Garnett got out, greeted by a stong wind and thick fog.

"I hate England." She sighed and looked around for the ride she had organized. A small white Rolls Royce waited for her near the driveway to the air strip. She adjusted her weapons and clothes then walked over to it and hopped in the drivers seat started it up and bloted out of the driveway and onto the quiet foggy streets of the England back country.

OMG Garnett killed someone! Did Shelong deserve to die?! Will Garnett be able to talk with the leader of Yuimkas? Where is Haruo?!
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Saturday, June 12, 2004

Break!
I have decided I am going to take a tiny bit of a break between posting Steps. I posted up a bunch all in a close row and it just burns me out as well as I think many find it hard to keep up.

So between every step allow 1 week for the next one.

-Garnett
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Tuesday, June 8, 2004

Fourth Step: Out of the Cage
Im slowly picking away at this. Im going to post some now get the rest up later!

Garnett happily made a hearty supper for her returning husbands and served them a big bowl of ramen each. She then sat down across the table from them with a melancholoy face and sighed.

"Arucard, Mathias. I need to know exactly what happened that evening you two were hurt. I know you have not had a lot of time to recoupe, but I need to know now. I plan on going out tomorrow." She asked them picking her words carefully.

"It is best we tell you... It was not Hells Song enemies Salong nor was it The Yumkias organization, but someone new. They were well trained. Only five of them all dressed in black, one of them looked just like you with your Black armor on. That is why we had our guard down." Mathias spoke slowly and left the rest to Arucard.

"They used basic katanas and ninjitsu. It was hard to even get a hit off of them they kept moving and using relpication techniques. Just five of them. They headed straight for your bedroom. Then up to your office. I am not sure if they took anything but they were fast and skilled. After they went through your office they grabbed Haruo before we could get our second wind and were off. They ran off on foot. It was amazing how well trained they were. Have you heard anything on Haruo?" He sighed and just poked at his food.

"I know nothing about Haruo but I plan on getting him back. If they took him they must want something from us. I doubt Haruo is old enough to harness his full abilities and I have a ward on him to stop anyone from extracting his powers. So no worries there. Did they leave anything behind? Anything at all?" Garnett burried her head into her hands and waited for the answers to her horrible questions.

Where was her son? Why him? They easily could have taken Arucard or Mathias, why Haruo? Her only son. Adopted of course due to limitation as a Seraphic Vampire, but she loved him the same.

"Its ok Garnett, we will get him back. Thry let nothing not even a scar on our bodies to identify them. Hopefully we will receive something from them soon. Do you know who they might be Arcuard? Garnett?" Mathias asked and started to put his uneaten food away and clean up the kitchen.

"I dont know a thing, I hope we get Haruo back, he should not have been dragged into this. He is no part vampire, he is harmless. Why would anyone want him?" Arucard huffed and put away his dishes kissed Garnett good night and went to his room to try and get some sleep.

"Mathias? I am going out tonight to try and find him. I need you and Arucard to stay here to hold down the fort. I will take Moro but I want peacefull negotations not another war." she stood up kissed and hugged Mathias tightly with all her love and went up to her room to toss on her battle uniform. Black boots, pants, tank top a heavy and a large black over coat. She put her hair back up into a pony tail and tossed on a pair of black gloves, slung her katana over her back and raced downstairs to Moro who always knew when to be ready.

Mathias went and waved her off as she mounted her large black war horse, Crimson with Moro the great white wolf bounding beside her.

They left in the dead of the night, cloaked by the dead moon and shadowed trees.

Their first stop was a good few days ride away. So they puckered up and ran like the wind towards the Salong headquarters incase they knew anything.

Salong and Hells Song were forever rivals, but the wars grew boring. Garnett had nothing to fear by going and talking with Shelong, the grand master of Salong. Only the older masters of each organization actually fought. Garnett had seen the creation of both organizations, and fought alongside both sides at one time or another. But old feuds die and battles grow weary.

She made her way through the deep forests and over terrain uncrossable by modern means. At day break the large Salong castle loomed in the distance. Her problem was getting in unseen by the machines they employed to kill anything that moves.

Will she make it?! Is she really safe from old battles? Was there actually ramen in that chapter?! Who exactly are Salong?

All this and donuts in the next chapter!!!
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Monday, June 7, 2004

Third Step
The quiet grey and white halls of the Hells Song hospital were all to familar to Garnett as she wandered the lonely halls. She stepped up to a wall with the Hells Song insignia on it and placed her hand on the wall and stood there thinking.

"Lady? Are you ok?" A large man in a white lab coat beckoned to her. She stood up straight and looked at him with tears in her eyes.

"Yes Kenji I am doing well. Do you know where they are keeping Mathias?" She meekly asked him as she straightend out her jacket and put her hands in her pockets.

"No I do not know, He is most likely down in the sublevels of ICU. Near the LCL tanks. Would you like me to walk you there? You do not look good at all." He stepped towards her a bit and held out his large hand.

She shrugged and walked away. "I will find them. Thank you Kenji, You have work to do, do not bother with me." She gave him a faint smile and started trodding down the halls towards the elevator to the sublevels.

She quietly entered the elevator and headed downstiars. She wandered about the maze of a basement until she found herself at the massive black titanium doors leading to the ICU sublevel.

"How troublesome..." She murrmured to herself and swipped her pass card, did a fingerprint check and was put through the regular metal dectors and such. "Such protection, Hells Song sure treasures their weapons."

She meandered through the doors and into a large well furnished room with several hallways leading everywhere and nowhere. She plunked herself down on a nice comfy chair and quietly waited.

"M'Lady? Are you here to see Mathias and Arucard?" I'ambi asked her in his large booming voice that just echoed through out the empty halls.

"Yes, I would like to see Mathias first. Are they doing ok?" Garnett asked him scared of the answers that might echo back at her.

"They are fine, Acutally Arucard is down traning right now, and Mathias is busy doing paper work like always." He chuckled and quickly turned on his heel and walked down the main hallway. His lab coat gently sailing behind him. Garnett followed with a small smile on her face.

They soon entered a large room with bamboo flooring and beautiful weapons hung on the walls, Arucard and Mathias were going at each other laughing. I'ambi smiled and closed the door after leaving Garnett to her husbands.

"Mathias! Arucard! Your supposed to be sick in bed! Not jumping about!" She jested at them like a mother. They both stopped and bow to her still laughing and smiling.

"We are much better now Mother!" Mathias poked at her.

"Did ya bring us anything to eat?!!?" Arucard run up to her picked her up and slung her over his shoulder.

"No, I didnt bring you anything to eat, but I did bring you a ride home. he house is back in order from the charade someone tried pulling." She huffed and jumped out of Arucards grasp and hugged them both tightly.

Mathias and Arucard picked up their things, checked out and headed back home with Garnett. They chatted and talked on the ride home. Everyone was back to normal, so Garnett decided not to bring up the subject of what actually happened, but maybe later...

And thus ends the next step. Its pretty short.. and pretty dull. But hey it cant be action death and sex all the time.

What did happen that night? Why are Mathias and Arucard (pronouced "Alucard") acting like nothing happened. What car are they driving!? Whos driving!!!!

All this and ramen in the next chapter!
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Friday, June 4, 2004

Fine I'll write more!
Since I have a few adoring fans I guess I am going to be forced to continue writing. Don't expect updates very often, but expect semi long ones. *ahem* And so her trek continues...

Garnett quietly wandered around the back courtyards of the temple she resided in. She quietly picked at flowers and trees making a small wreath for Moro, her guardian white tiger. Mathias was keenly watching her movments from the upper balconies whilest Arucard trained and sparred in the forest.

"Garnett!" Mathias bellowed out down to her. "Garnett, you need to head out to the Lake Side Military Academy. They want you down there asap!"

"Yes yes I know. I am going to take the Hummer down there. Please have one of the 'coms get it ready for me please." She started to make her way back into the temple and to her room where she could take a quick shower and get changed into her uniform.

"M'Lady?" One of the 'coms asked for her quietly from outside her bedroom door.

"Yes? You may enter. What is it?" Garnett was quickly unchanging and running some water for a shower when the smaller 'com entered.

"M'Lady? I brought your uniform. I shal just put it on the bed. Do you require any assistance?" The persacom smiled and placed her clothes on the bed.

"No that is ok Kate. You may leave. Thank you." The persacom left with a bow and Garnett quickly had a shower and got changed into her black uniform and a set of blck high heels, tossed on her white lab coat and proped her small glasses on top of her head and started down stairs.

She quietly got into the waiting Hummer and started it up, heading down the driveway and out the massive gates of the temple onto the busy back streets and highways of Flordia.

Not but two hours later she pulled up to a set of absolutly massive metal gates, handed her teachers pass to the guard and no later was she admittied into the Lake Side Military Academy of Acedemic Studies for the Gifted. She pulled into her reserved parking space grabed her book bag and walked up into the Earth Sciences sector of the campus and into her large and wonderfully decorated lecture hall where she taught all her classes.

She huffed and put her book bag down on her neatly arranged desk and started to get the lesson plan for the day ready for her grade ten biology students.

"Hello Lady Lenoia!" A chipper and very early student called to Garnett as she entered the classroom and took her spot at the front of the room. "What are we going to study today? Are we going to disect a frog? Or a cow brain today? Are we taking notes?"

"One questions at a time..." Garnett slid her glasses back into her face and looked at the student. "Relena. We will be taking notes today, I do not have much more planned but I will make an annoucement to the class about upcoming events." Garnett smiled at the student and started to upload her notes into the digital whiteboard as other students slowly made their way into the their first class of the day.

"Ahem! Students please have a seat and get out your note taking books we will begin taking notes after a few annoucments." Garnett mentioned to the class as the rustled throuh thier book bags for everything from penclis to laptops. "We will be discecting a turtle and a bird in the up coming weeks, from now on I ask you wear something other then your uniform to classes as to keep it clean. Today it is strict notes so please be ready to take notes based upon what appears on the board and what I tell--" She got interupted by three late students who were not only late but not in uniform and did not carry thier book bags. "Aaron, Tyler and Brad. Care to explain yourselves in detention hall today and tomorrow. You will be writing several essasy for me about why you are not in uniform and why you are late. I will also talk with your trainers about extra work for interupting my class. Brad this is your last warning. Please take your seats and bring out your notebooks!"

Other then three late students the day was quiet and uneventful. Classed passed quicky and tests went well for a Monday. Garnett ate her lunch with some enthusiastic students, then headed home after she had makred all the work and tests that were passed in that day.

When she got home she was greated by several Hells Song's ambulances and firetrucks pulled up infront of her house. She climbed out of her car which was now parked ont he dirveway and started running toward her house. She was quickly stopped by a S-nin who explained what had happened in a somber voice.

"We received a call from your persacoms explaning something had gone wrong with Arucard. We came here as fast as we could and found your office and bedroom ransacked as well as your son Haruo kidnapped. We have no information yet on what happened but we are working on it. Mathias has been transported to the Hells Song regional hospital and is undergoing minor treatment for a cuncussion and a broken arm. Arucard is undergoing major sugery for several lacerations to his head and legs, he is presently in a coma. Both are in no serious danger at the moment but we are starting to investiage your sons dissapearance." He quickly spewed out.

Garnett fell to her knees and quietly sobbed for a few minuets then stood back up. "am I allowed into my own house?" She meekly asked.

"Yes, we have sectioned off several areas, you will not be allowed there, please take it easy. We have just imported a sniper and X-nin team in to watch over you. If there is anything you need feel free to ask, all your persacoms have been taken in for questioning." He bowed and quickly walked away. It was always hard to tell what the Nin's were thinking because of the masks they wore.

Garnett continued inside and took a long hot bath then quickly got changed into some comfortable clothes and went into her den to quietly read a book. She soon fell asleep on the chair, then was carried by one of the X-nin's back to her bed where she quielty slept off some of her worries.

OMG What happens next?! Where did her son go?! Why did they take her son and hurt Mathias and Arucard! Who did this?!

All this and more in the next chapter. That took a while to write. Im leaving you all hangig just so I can tease you.

omg That was a relativly boring day in the life of Garnett. Get up, go to school teach come home to chaos!!! O.o what happens next!!!
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