Post by StoryGirl83 on Aug 28, 2010 13:20:34 GMT -5
Chapter Twenty-Three – Accusations and New Plans
and three demons
“It failed,” Steve exclaimed annoyed as he paced around his underworld lair. He’d left the girls with Brianna and Max and come here to sulk over the downfall of his plan while he waited for his next to begin to take shape. There was always another plan. “How could it have failed?”
“I told you it was a bad plan,” his friend, Dathe Renoir, another warlock, announced.
Steve glared at him. “No one asked you. Why are you here anyway?”
“Dam’s daughter is missing,” Dathe announced. “Twelve-year-old girls don’t just go missing.”
“They do when they are half darklighter,” Steve argued. “I’m sure Esther will turn up.”
“I’m not,” Dathe countered. “Further, I am beginning to believe your niece has a hand in this.”
“No,” Steve stated flat out.
“She’s friends with CT Bennett,” Dathe argued. “We know he’s been involved in things like this.”
“We don’t know that,” Steve shook his head. “It’s probably just a spiteful rumor.”
“The underworld doesn’t need rumors, spiteful or otherwise, to go after that guy,” Dathe informed him. “He’s just too powerful and he seems to side with good.”
“Perhaps he seems to,” Steve conceded, “but you haven’t seen him when the Charmed Ones are brought up. He despises them. How can anyone good despise them?”
“I suppose you are ready to welcome him into your family?” Dathe asked sarcastically.
“Hardly,” Steve returned. “He may or may not be on our side, but he’s dangerous, so thankfully that’s not an issue.”
“He took Esther, Steve,” Dathe insisted before he blinked out.
Steve shook his head. “You can enter now.”
What looked like three middle aged businessman entered the room. “Interesting friend you have,” one of them commented.
Steve shrugged. “That is irrelevant here. You read my message?”
The demon nodded. “Sounds like you want to retry a failed plan and leave us to get vanquished for our troubles.”
“I’m not asking you to confront them directly,” Steve argued. “I have a plan, but I need the brothers separated when it happens.”
“You tried to get rid of their orbing,” stated the second demon. “They got it back. You also tried to mess with their memories. That, too, failed. Why should this plan be any different?”
“Maybe it’s not,” Steve admitted, “but if this is the plan that will take them out, we need to follow it through. We need to find out. If we don’t destroy this family, eventually they will destroy this.”
“I suppose you can see the future,” the third demon snorted. “Are you a seer, an oracle?”
Steve ignored the remark. “Will you are least listen to my idea?”
The three demons looked at each other. When they looked back at him, they nodded as one.
Steve sneered at this. “In that case, this is my plan.”