One long night.....(Cece)

The violent rain drums against the ceramic roof of the shed, the smell of fresh mud feels my nostrils.... My hair is soaked, my boots are soaked, my black silky dress is soaked! Even Cas Jnr's jacket is soaked.... I'm glad I didn't wear make-up today.

I stare pass the metal fence in front of me, towards the old Shack, An old lady with batwings and her daughter, the silvery blonde woman also with batwings glares right at me, they're smiling, they're amused but I don't see what's so funny about this, this is the 2nd night of this nonsense, the two of them even brought Chairs and snacks today!

"Aunty Esther, Sister Kami.... won't you let me in?" I said whilst pouting, I droop my eyes and quiver my lips, "I'm awfully cold! Mistress Faraday.... that evil witch! She kicked me out of the camp.... I have nowhere to go...."

Kami, the blonde, she laughs at me dispersingly, "You take us for fools?" Kami scoffed, "Faraday.... every Fatedealer worth their socks wants our heads! Do you really think coming here to beg would soften her heads little girl?" She spat.

My face turned hard.

"Listen you-"

VROSSH!

A strong wind knocks me back, I end hitting my body against a nearby tree, The blood rushes to my head as I rise, those two bitches are laughing their asses off.

"Esther You-! "

VROSSH! VROSSH! VROSSH!

Esther launches some more attacks my way, panicking I turn tail and run, I cursed at them as I scramble my way to the woods, towards the camp, Needless to say, Mistress Faraday will not be pleased! I just hope she would go easy on me this time....

Before I know it, I reach the entrance of our camp, Layla is there.... She's a Merwoman, Normally their race wouldn't be found anywhere near here... hehe, anyways thanks to her special gear connected to a mini tank on her back, she's able to supply water to her gills, this palish green woman can walk on land the same as me....

She gawked at me, "Another failure huh? if I didn't know better I'd think... you enjoy the skull taps Mistress gives you!" She laughs in that disgusting gurgling sound again, "Don't look so cross.... Lucky for you the Mistress isn't around for the moment!" she continued.

I breathe a sigh of relief as I rub my right palm over my forehead... to where the skull shaped symbol over my head...

Skull taps, I'm sure you're wondering what that is my dear listener, worry not I'll tell you!

Run back the clock a 4 days ago, Wednesday to be exact, a few hours before I reunited with my Little in our dreams, I was in the training yard, Mistress Faraday wanted us to have an exercise, the objective was simple.... steal a silver apple from a certain tree and boom you pass.... but the catch is, There's a Serpent, Mistress Faraday's Familiar was guarding it, the monster was bigger than when Cas Jnr and I first saw it!

Long story short..... I failed spectacularly! Yes! I did! Hahaha.... Well I'm not to mad since we all did, seriously no one passed that day, even the super strong girls with better abilities Than mine failed. I tried forming an alliance with some of the girls, I even took advantage of the spilled blood on the ground to make new minions, one of them, The centurion even grabbed an apple and.... the Serpent went Ballistic! Thrashed around and beat us to a pulp!

By the time it stopped, Mistress Faraday had ended the exercise.... She was not pleased.... She wanted to make an example of someone, she picked a Mouse girl by random, when I stepped up to call BS she slapped me! I slapped her back of course and beat the crap outta her....

Yes I did! That is what happened, I so did not get my ass whooped by her effortlessly, I so did not get healed up by her so she could whoop my ass some more! I totally did not! That did not happen!

What....? You don't believe me? well to that dear listener I say.....

SCREW YOU!

This is my story! I'll tell it how I please! What are you gonna do, Stop me? Hah! You can't even touch me loser!

Anyways, some time later.... after I passed out from our little brawl and metmy Baby Bro in our dreams, I woke up and noticed this little skull tattoo on my head....

"This is so you learn some manners little girl!" Mistress Faraday spat, in the next moment an intense pain, like a 100 hands smacking against my skull hit me! I writhed on the floor in pain, she demonstrated the power 5 more times before I cried uncle..... Needless to say I've avoided getting on the Mistress' bad side since then.

Anyways, Layla and I make it through the camp and into the head tent, you can't miss it, it's literally the biggest one in the camp, over 30m tall,it also help that it's royal blur in colour. It even smells like blueberries for some reason.

We enter the tent and find.....

"Took you long enough, Cecelia report!" A booming voice, Aksana said, Aksana the Demi-Demon.

What's a Demi-Demon you ask?

Good question! I'll give you a clap and a half!

OK seriously Demi-Demons.... they, Hmmmm, the simplest thing to call them are Chimeras I think..... but even that's wrong.

To break it down, they have a large and diverse gene pool, their ancestors hailed from different tribes, regions and races, The most popular of these ancestors being Centaurs,Bogmen, Lunar Faes and Rangers.... I don't know about the other 2 but Centaurs and Bogmen are pretty Common Pregeinators, they have a Legendary... Sexdrive, Pretty lousy thing to be known for if you ask me.

The Decendants... The ones whose recessive genes blossom are known as Demi-Demons. Their bodies reveal the traits they inherited from their Ancestors.

For Aksana, she has the Eyes of a Triclops, the horns of a Minatour, the tail of a scorpion, the snake hair of a gorgon, the chocolate skin and ears of a dark elf, the spots of a leopard beast, the lower half of a horse....though instead of the standard calves of a horse, it's that of a ostrich instead..... Freaky everytime I see it! She wore a brown leather tank top as well as those dumbest triclops sunglasses that become a fad on earth for some reason, This lady stood a good 3m tall, Needless to say she towered over me.

"Very well..." I give Aksana the rundown, about being pushed back by Esther after fruitlessly waiting in the rain for hours, about how the metal fence still turns things into metal once they touch it and about how it's such a waste of time not storming the place already!

"Silence Cecelia!" Aksana spat, her tone was venomous and cold, I was shivering already because of the cold, but now.... that look in her eyes, those pale green eyes sent chills down my spine, I force a smile, as much as Aksana despised insolence, she despised weakness even more, I've learnt that the hard way.

"I.... only meant to voice my reasons.... Mistress Aksana..." I muttered, "The Dasher girls have made their defiance clear, they've been doing so for weeks now, the introduction of me into this case does nothing if we do not develop further by-"

Aksana interrupts me,"Making a show of force, yes I know." She snarled, that Glare.... I understand why Mistress Faraday isn't here.... Her and Aksana are technically equals but.... Aksana scares her, scares all of us, I don't even blame Layla for blending into the corner like that, I envy her even.... I don't want to do this!

"It's.... not that easy...." Aksana muttered, "Mistress....?" I asked.

Aksana regards me for a moment.... "You're shivering, Layla get her the blanket over there," She commanded, Layla deftly carries out the commands, "Make us some spiced wine too, it's bloody cold in here...." She continued, Layla left to the other side of the tent at once.

"Girl...." Aksana sneered, I snuggled up to my blanket, forcing myself to maintain eye contact with this woman.... "Do you know why you're here?" She asked, I shake my head, She gives me a sinister chuckle before continuing, "Faraday.... she's taken a liking to you, you know that right?"

I clasped my right hand over my chest and widen my eyes in shock.... well I'm not really shocked, Mistress Faraday is a Telepath, who knows what's she's seen In my little dome that's interested her, probably Veil splitter or the fact I'm from another world.

"Don't play coy.... it's disgusting!" She spat, "I don't not know why, perhaps because you're a noble? Though I've never heard of House Grimes.... either way she likes you, You want to know a secret?" I reluctantly nod my head.

"I like you too... yes, don't look so shocked, you've got spunk, I like that, you're scared of me like the others but you've not looked away from my eyes for one moment, you've got heart but.... you're still quite stupid girl," She explained.

The blood rushes to my head for a moment but immediately dies away after Aksana scowls at me, I don't know what type of face I'm making but Aksana clearly finds it amusing enough for a chuckle.

"Listen girl.... no one, and I mean no one wants to brute force this as much as I do.... wants to heart them as much as I do.... they slew quite a number of my friends when they escaped their sentencing, but...." She explained before staring at the ceiling, even from this angle I could see her multitude of emotions.

"You know of the Faes' Sweetheart?" She asked, I shook my head.

"Most people know it as The Rainbow garden," She explained, I stand upright and perk up my ears, "You mean the forest that always teleports?" I asked, she nods her head.

"Rumour has it that Gallahan's Legacy, the terrorist group that's been hindering the Camen coalition's expansion has not only found it but set up base there.... I'm told you've encountered their members there before, by accident?" she asked, I nodded my head.

"It's believed the Dasher girls are associated with them, they might even be privy to some information on how to predict the garden's migration pattern," She explained.

"That.... still doesn't explain why we haven't brute forced them," I said, Aksana nods her head.

"Gallahan's Legacy.... they're infamous for committing suicide when cornered, they'd rather die than accept judgement, the fact we were able to capture them before means either we were lucky or they got Careless, if we storm their little Shack.... we might lose any hope of gathering this Intel..." Aksana explained.

I close my eyes and picture my Baby brother's dumb face, well.... it's my face too, and it is a pretty face at that! This garden.... Eureka suggested I go there within 2 years, does that mean it would teleport to where Cas Jnr is during that time? is that how we reunite? I hope so! I.... never realized how much I missed my brother, I have to find the Rainbow garden no matter what!

"I have a proposal Mistress..." I muttered, she perks up her ears, "I'm Listening,"

"Brute force won't cut it.... neither is this abandoned orphan sthick we're doing.... so, give me Aliza and Bebe, I'll keep the Dasher girls busy as usual while they sneak around!"

She scoffed, "You think we haven't tried something like that? that was literally our first move!" She shouted, I shiver a bit at her annoyed tone but press on.

"I know that.... they had wards that protected them from sneak attacks.... but I have an idea, I know how to bypass that!" I said, Aksana arches an eyebrow, Layla just got back with a kettle and a couple of cups, she pours the contents of the kettle and Hands them over to the both of us...

"Delicious...." I muttered as the wine touched my lips, Aksana nodded her head as she took a swig before directing Layla to bring over some seats.

"Sit,"

"Thank you Mistress..."

"This idea of yours.... what is it?"

I'll have to thank you when we see again Baby Bro,

I hit the jackpot when we did that little switcheroo!

"This!" I yelled, a million bugs fly outta my back, to the horror of Layla and amusement of Aksana.