Chapter 1
The nights of Dionne
lit up with the neon lights from its clubs and casinos. Corruption lined the street like icing on a
cake. The police, the military, and the
royal family were just sprinkles on the top. Aikido rode through the city of sin, in the
back of Aysa’s limo. The Mihos limos
were sent out to personally escort Aikido and others to the meeting for the
civil organization called the Last Forces for Freedom. They had to fight because no one else would. Since the time of Aikido’s grandfather, the
clans that fought for the rights of the commoners had long been extinct. She longed for the times of old, where she
could be happy with her daughter. The
driver parked in front of an old abandoned building. He opened the door for her, and she slid from
her seat. She used her cane to pull her
heavy aging body from the cab. The
driver promptly bowed, and returned to the driver’s seat of the car. She stopped in front of the door of the
boarded up and decaying abandoned building.
“What’s the password?” Said a
muffled voice from behind the door.
“There was no
password.” Aikido stomped her cane down.
“D––. That’s what Aysa said too.” Pluto said.
He looked around, and waved for her to come on. The decaying boarded door spun around, like a
revolving door to let her in. The
dilapidated exterior of the house vastly differed from the sleek modernized interior. Officials raced around inside; they talked on
phones, and rushed papers from office to office, running up and down
floors. “This is the central base that
we all use.” Pluto said to Aikido.
“Good idea to
place it in the abandoned house.”
“Yeah, Aysa’s
idea…” Pluto said.
“I would think
no less of her ideas. They are always
brilliant.” Aikido followed Pluto into
an elevator. He pressed the button, and
they shot up to the next floor. The doors
slid open on people wandering around with maps and documents. “Did you discover anything?” Aikido asked Pluto.
“Yes, that’s why
we need those outfits you brought.” He
replied. “You can get off here; I have
to greet Dawn and Knight at the door.
Just go to the end of the hall, and you should hear Aysa through the
door. You can’t miss her.” He pointed pass her, as the doors closed
shut.
She meandered to
the end of the hall, looking around at the people and the paintings. The sound of Aysa complaining to a client over
the phone could be heard along the whole hallway. Aikido searched for a handle, or a lever to
open the door with. Aysa saw her
struggle and stood up from the table.
She pressed a button to allow Aikido entrance into the room all this without
skipping a beat while complaining to the party on the opposite end of the
phone. The doors slid open, and Aikido
walked through looking around at the others in the room. “Thanks.”
Aikido said and Aysa nodded still with the phone on her ear. “I guess I’m not use to all this new
technology.” She said to herself.
“Fine... I’ll
take care of it... don’t worry about where I am right now!” She clicked off the phone and tossed it to the
floor. “That man, I swear. He’d be complaining about his stocks even if
the world came to an end.”
“Bad trading…?” Aikido asked motioning to the chair around an
oval table.
“My crazy ex-husband
thinks it’s a good idea to invest in companies that have just opened,
regardless of whether they do well or not!
Some do well, and there’s a big payoff.
A lot of our assets are still tied in together so we have to make sure
there are enough funds in our shared accounts to purchase stock. But it always seems to be my responsibility
to sell stock that doesn’t do well. Not
only is he getting on my nerves, but he’s using my money to do all this. I could care less what he does with his own
money!” Aysa ready to pull her hair out,
slumped down at the table. She wiped her
face, and leaned on her finger. “I bet
he’s caused ever wrinkle on my face and white in my hair.” She frowned at her
reflection in the table. “He drives me
crazy.”
“At least you
have someone to drive you anywhere...”
Aikido said to herself.
“Sorry about
that... I just have outburst when it comes to him. Syria was the only reason we got along, you
know.”
“Kind of like
China and I… we got a long better when Lynx came along...”
“Yes... I hope
you enjoyed the ride over here, I only thought it best. I didn’t trust giving anyone the address;
they could lose it or give it away to the enemy if threatened. At least I’m sure that none of you go
anywhere else before or after you leave here.
It helps to exclude that suspicion.”
“It’s afterward
that you have to worry about.”
“You are
stranded here, in an abandoned building.
My butler has that covered as well.” They heard voices drifting down the hall
towards the room. They watched through
the glass walls as Pluto traveled down the hall between Dawn and Knight.
“I just can’t
believe I didn’t tell you a password...”
Pluto said standing outside the door trying to figure out how to get
in. Dawn walked up and pressed a button
springing the doors open. “Oh… thanks…”
“There was a
password?” Dawn asked him. Everyone shook their head, and Dawn turned to
Knight and shrugged.
“Why did you
think you forgot it?” Aikido instigated.
“Sort
of...” Knight said.
“Afraid you’d
get it mixed up with another password?”
Aikido hinted at the password used between the royal guards.
“No, of course
not…” Pluto stepped in. “We are all together on this...”
“Don’t be so
confident.” Aikido glared at Pluto then
to Dawn. “Under this tyrant we call a
queen, if we straddle the fence it will only lead to the fall of the whole
Dionne Galaxy. I don’t care what your
relation to her is. We need a full
allegiance between all of us here.
Agreed?”
“I concur.” Pluto said looking at Aysa.
“Agreed…” Aysa slammed her phone down looking at
Knight.
“I...
agree...” Knight eyed Dawn and they all
waited.
“... Yes...” He managed to say. “We’ve all agreed, now can we start?”
“Not everyone,
just yet.” They heard a soft voice from
behind the door.
Who came through the door? A surprise and blast from the past. Find out who in Volume 11 of the Elemental Angels Series.
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