NO, no way, not gonna happen, hellâs gonna freeze over before he gets Riley back!!!!! Harmony raged to herself while pacing like a caged tiger. âHow the fuck could this have happened Marcus!!? You swore to me that Riley would be safe here; that I had nothing to worry about! Is this what you call nothing!!!
âHarmony try and calm down weâre going to find him; Warren will never lay another finger on Riley.â Jason said as he and Melody walked up behind their sister watching her angrily pace behind a man trying to keep busy at the multitude of computers he was working at.
âWeâll rescue him before the oni that you married gets to him.â Melody echoed her brotherâs statement while boring a hole through the man at the computers. âMarcus, you are aware that according to Bushido the only way for you to redeem yourself from a failure of this magnitude is to fall upon your sword.â
âOkay you guys might follow that Bushido crap but I donât and damn it I seemed to have forgotten my sword!â The man sarcastically replied without looking behind him. Which was a good thing because had he bothered to turn around, he would have seen Melody pulling one of the many stilettosâ that she always kept hidden on her out of the left arm sheath.
âOh, I wouldnât worry about that too much Marcus as I just happen to have something on hand and I would strongly, strongly recommend that you never make fun of our beliefs again if I were you!â She hissed placing the dagger underneath his chin with the tip near the carotid artery.
âMelody, let him goâ¦he can still redeem himself by finding out exactly who the hell these guys are that Warren hired. Thereâs no chance theyâre local; they were too good for that.â Jason sighed placing his hand upon Melodyâs and with a firm but gentle grip pulled the dagger away. âAlthough Iâm inclined to agree with her recommendation about not insulting our beliefs again.â He released his grip and with one stern look from him Melody reluctantly tucked the dagger back up into her left arm sheath.
âWell now that thatâs over can we please get back to saving my son from his murderous bastard of a father?! Marcus activate the locators I doubt they can find and disable them all.â Harmony ordered stopping her pacing and glaring at her siblings. âMarcus activate the locators nowâ¦what the hell are you doing?!!â
âOh, cool it geez Iâm bringing up the security feed to see if there is something anything we can use to ID who these guys are! I activated the locators already, but the kidnappers have done precisely what you said they couldnâtâ¦somehow, theyâve disabled them! Now either theyâve found all of them or theyâve got him within some sort of electromagnetic field which is disrupting the signals!!â Marcus cried as he quickly put his hands to his neck to feel if he was bleeding anywhere. Okay Iâm starting to think that my bosses are just a bit insane! After a few more tense moments of nothing but Marcusâs fingers flying over the keyboard he suddenly jumped up out of his chair turning it over. The video of the group that had abducted Riley was being replayed on all the monitors. Every member of the group showed high skill levels in several forms of martial arts...there were many in the group who seemed to be reveling in the fight!
âMarcus hold on a second; freeze it now!!!! All right go back a few frames, stop; I want you to focus on this one closest to the elevator. His eyes I need to see his eyes!!!â Harmony ordered looking as though she had seen a ghost.
âYeah, Harm not a problem; all right now letâs see thatâs frame 20 section b 19, alpha sector 120 grid 227B five no ten seconds in Iâd say alright now here we are and lets just enlarge and enhanceâ¦turn down the brightness a little and increase the sharpness just a touch; weâll just enhance it again and boom there you are.â Marcus stated while he worked his magic on the computer. All the monitors went dark then one flickered and the image of a manâs head hidden save for his eyes appeared. Harmony, Jason and Melody stared at the screen, their eyes becoming the size of dinner plates.
âJ-J-J-Jason, M-M-M-Melody do you guys see what I see?!â She could hardly get the sentence outâ¦her rage and grief dripped like bile off her every syllable.
âYESSSS Harmony; it fucking figures Warren would find and send them to do his dirty work.â Jasonâs fury could be felt all throughout the room.
âI-i-i-it cannot be!!!!!! After all these years will we never be free of him, o-o-of them?!â Melody screeched losing her composure for just a moment oblivious to the stares that she was now receiving from her siblings. She was the one who was always in control, the quiet one everyone called her. So, this sudden outburst from her was shocking.
âSo, whatâs the big deal the guy has blue eyes whatâs so weird about thatâ¦seems to me he ainât the only one who has blue eyes?!â Marcus snapped ungluing himself from the monitors.
âHIS eyes arenât blue theyâre purple!!!!! No one on this planet has purple eyes itâs a scientific impossibility!!!â Harmony couldnât finish her statement the pain was just too much. Even after all these years she was still haunted by those eyes! No matter how hard she tried when she closed her eyes and tried to have good dreams about her parents Harmony still saw those eyesâ¦the eyes of the murderous son of a bitch that had so cruelly and viciously murdered first her father who had not been begging for his life but for the lives of her mother, herself, and her siblings before he launched his suicide attack; then her mother had been killed as she futilely tried to avenge her husband. It was as though her father knew that he was going to die and he wanted to see them for the last time. âAssemble all strike teams, I want everyone looking for them now!!!!!!!â Meanwhile in a rundown abandoned apartment building just one of many on the lower east side of Manhattan; two groupâs one consisting of twelve people and the other of thirteen teleported inside. Alright everyone in teams of two spread outâ¦I want to be sure this place is still empty! A man mentally ordered while the only sound that could be heard was the flurry of scurrying feet as teams of two spread out into the darkness to ensure that they were indeed alone in this apartment building. While some were checking out the ground floor units the others were moving up to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th floors also making sure that these were clear!
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âHold it youâre not going anywhere!â A girl who could not have been more than four years old cried as a violet force field suddenly appeared in front of a five-year-old boy who suddenly broke away from the group and started to run towards the nearest exit. When the force field appeared suddenly in front of him, he slammed into it like a car into a brick wall! While the field dissipated, she and three other girls who were identical to her rushed over and surrounded him assuming combat stances as he slowly stood up. âI wouldnât try that again if I were you!â
âOh yeah well Iâd tell you what you can do with your advice but my mommy doesnât like it when I swear.â The boy responded as he dropped into his own combat stance. Twin balls of reddish-orange energy suddenly appeared in his hands which he hurled with lightning speed at two of the girlsâ¦one of whom conjured a concrete pillar surrounded by an indigo aura that shot up right in front of her, which the energy ball hit shattering it and the other vanishing into a cloud of mist. The one who vanished reappeared as the other two reacted with lightning speed! One thrust out her right hand and let loose a beam of fire while her sister mimicked her but instead of fire, she let loose a violet beam of electrical energy. Regrettably neither of these had any affect as they were absorbed by a reddish-orange barrier. âYou arenât the only ones with powers!!â
Whatâs going on down there?!! Someone talk to me right now!!! Shadow called out mentally as everyone in the building had heard the girl cry out.
The boy tried to escape; Rose and her sisters are trying to contain him as we speak!! You were right Shadow he has powers and clearly isna afraid to being using them!! Lucinda telepathically responded to her husbandâs request. Willow, Summer, Hunter, Orion, Blade, Thunder go and help your cousins!!
Yes mother; oh boy weâre finally getting some action!!! Hunter replied to his mother and then thought to himself as the six of them rushed over to assist their cousins. HEY, save some of him for us!!! The mental call was heard by Rose and her sisters; none of them responded as their focus was on the enemy in front of them!
âWhatâs wrong the four of you canât take me by yourselves?! Yous have to gang up on me some more?!â Riley shouted as he saw the other children rushing up.
âThatâs okay Iâm not afraid Iâll take yous all on!!! He flung his hands out and started to spin around as twin reddish-orange energy beams shot forth from his hands. The children reacted with their enhanced vampyric speed and easily dodged the beams.
âIs that all youâve got?! Because youâre going to have to do a lot better if you want to being beating us!!â Daisy shouted as indigo energy rings shot forth from her hands straight down into the ground; suddenly several huge pieces of concrete surrounded with an indigo aura shot up and flew straight at the boy! But before a single one could smash him into a toothpaste like consistency all of the concrete pieces were frozen suspended in midair surrounded by a garnet electrical aura!! This aura then gently set the pieces back upon the ground a mere inch from the boysâ foot.
âYouâre getting a wee bit too carried away hun; we dunna want to being killing him we only want to restrain him alright?â Lucinda said sweetly as she walked up behind Daisy.
âOh, come on Iâm just getting warmed up! I donât get to show off my full potential very often!!â Riley shouted as he returned to his combat stance. They would not get the chance to attack again as he beat them to it! He leaped seven feet straight up into the air and flew over Rose, Daisy, Lilly, Hunter and Bladesâ heads! As he hit the ground, he tucked himself into a ball and rolled springing up a few inches from Violet. Thrusting his left arm out a beam of
reddish-orange shot out nailing the girl right in the chest. She went down like a sack of potatoes and a strange sickeningly perverse smile flashed across Rileyâs face.
âViolet, Violet get up please to be getting up!!! Y-y-y-youâre gonna be paying for that!!!!!!â Rose shrieked as she waited with bated breath for her sister to stir, moan or simply do something that would let them know that she was alive!!!! No one is being doing that to one of my sisters and gets away with it!!!! She initiated a series of perfect cartwheels and back flips landing in front of him and right next to Violetsâ prone body. Answer me sis, moan cry do something!!!
âUuuhh was anyone to be getting the license plate number of the truck that was just being running me over?â Violet moaned as she finally stirred. As she slowly stood up, she noted the look of utter shock on Rileyâs face which caused her to smile. âThat was a nice shotâ¦now allow me to being showing you mine!â Disappearing into a cloud of mist that quickly dissipated and giggling evilly; Riley struggled to remain calm but he was desperately trying to find her without any luck.
âHey s-s-s-stop playing hide and seek a-a-a-and f-f-f-fight fair!â Riley called out struggling to keep his panic in check but his efforts were futile for Violet had rematerialized behind him. She tapped him on the shoulder and as he slowly turned around, she threw a hard-right jab straight to his nose.
âYou were the one who wanted to be being letting looseâ¦well you should be being careful what you ask for!â Was Violetâs response as she watched blood gush from the boyâs nose. Suddenly the boy dropped to a knee grabbing his nose while Violet casually licked the blood from her fingers.
âEeewww thatâs disgustingâ¦Mommy told me it was wrong to hit girls but since yous started it I donât think Iâll be in trouble!â Riley said rising to his feet and removing his hands from his face; to reveal that his nose had already healed.
âThatâs not possible unless; y-you are for to being the same as us?!!â Violet shrieked in disbelief. Immediately her sisters and cousins appeared next to her and they all just stared at the boy.
âI have no idea what youâre talking about but stop staring at me and fight!â Riley responded as he returned to a combat stance. Alas he wouldnât get a chance to do anything as a crimson plasma forcefield enveloped him as the rest of the group appeared behind the girls. He realized there was no point in continuing the fight and he dropped to the ground with his hands raised. âAlright, alright I give up; I wonât try an escape.â
âNow thatâs for to be being a smart idea; now stand up boy.â Reign said as the rest of the group approached, the boy stood up and one of the older boys slowly approached him. He passed through the plasma forcefield and grabbed the boy by the arm and roughly pulled him