Chronicles of Araxx - Forever Broken

Back in Gray’s flat, Adz, Jay and Gray sat on the living room couches.

“What are we going to do now?” Adz asked. “This might have been our only chance to get her. Now that she knows what we look like, she’s not going to trust us.”

“She might,” Gray said. “We helped her get away from the werewolves. Strange that the vampires were there too. Since when do vampires and werewolves work together?”

“It’s strange alright,” Jay agreed. “But I agree, we’ve blown it with the Hemplesworth girl.”

Gray looked at him confused, but Adz shared the same expression as Jay. “You guys are blaming me, aren’t you?” Gray accused. “That’s it, turn against the warlock.” He got up from his seat and turned his back on his brother and Jay.

“It’s not like that,” Adz argued. “None of us knew about her fear of fire. It wasn’t something we were told, and we should have been. But I think that might have frightened her more than the vampire did.”

“Hold up,” Jay said, sounding shocked.

“What’s up?” Gray and Adz asked at the same time.

“How much does she know about the supernatural?”

“What do you mean?” Adz questioned. “She was captive with werewolves most of her life. She must know everything about them.” He paused. “Why do you ask that?”

It clicked in Gray’s head, and he answered the question, “She looked shocked.” He stated, “At the mention of vampire, and warlock she looked shocked, and like she’d never heard of one before. If she knew about werewolves, then she would know about everything else too. She must not know what we, I mean, I am, and the others.”

They all thought about it for a moment, then Jay brought up another topic. “I know it’s a little off topic, and shoot me down if I’m wrong, but do you think we need to tell Simons about this?”

“Are you joking!?” Adz practically choked on the water he was drinking. “We cannot call him. You know he wanted to take us off this mission. We are already in a heap of trouble.”

“Like what?” Gray asked. “I thought you were fully fledged members of the Araxx, wouldn’t they just send backup?”

“You didn’t tell him we were trainees?” Jay asked.

“I didn’t really have time.” Adz backtracked, “Everything happened so fast and I didn’t really say we were qualified.”

“No, but I thought you were. Anyway, what’s the worst that could happen if you called them?” Gray pushed.

“Where do I start.” Adz sighed. “To start with, they would for sure come and get us. We would get the worst telling off ever. God that sounds childish, but it wouldn’t just be a ‘you were bad, don’t do it again’ kinda telling off. We would not be trusted to go on any missions, like every again. And seeing as this is our first mission, I don’t want to risk that. I don’t know what I’d do without the Araxx. The next thing that would happen would be that they capture you, Gray.” Adz looked at his brother. “They would take one look at you and know instantly you’re a warlock. They wouldn’t even get to know you or ask you who you were. They’d automatically assume you were a threat, and hold you in a prison, question you and assume you were working for some kind of evil organisation.”

“Evil organisation?”

“I don’t know, it’s something I’ve heard the older ones talk about. Something called Druids of the Night. I don’t know if it is anything, but they think everyone with magical abilities is one of these druids. The next thing they would do is take over the mission themselves.”

“That wouldn’t be so bad,” Jay said. The others looked at him, shocked. “Don’t look at me like that, guys. You can’t tell me you don’t think it would be easier to hand this whole thing over to them and let them deal with it. We are way out of our depth here.”

“That’s true,” Gray agreed.

“Come on, guys. Think of how good it will feel if we nail this mission. Not to mention the fact that if Gray helps, he might be accepted into the Araxx too. Wouldn’t that be cool?” Adz was getting excited.

“I guess, but then we have a lot of work to do,” Gray agreed. He was sceptical about whether the Araxx would ever let him into their institution. He was a warlock, after all, and warlocks didn’t have a good standing with the Araxx, even Gray knew that.

It had been such a long time since Gray had seen his brother, and he was thankful for the time with him, even though he knew the chances were it would be short-lived.

They then went on to talk about how they were going to find Annaleah Hemplesworth.

They agreed she would be hard to find. Now that the werewolves were after her, and she knew they were, she would most likely go into hiding. They could use the mini drones to find her, but still, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. They also had no idea whether she would even stay in London, or whether she had other friends in the city who would hide her.

For all they knew, the werewolves had already found her, and they were looking for something that was no longer there.