Chapter 19

I’d finally gotten everything put away when, a few hours later when my friend showed up. At first I hadn’t noticed him as I had been working on something special for tomorrow. “I don’t know what you said or did to Wilhelmina but I have to say I most definitely approve!” Seeing the startled look on his face I could only chuckle and imagine his reaction to her when she got home.

“I can’t take all the credit for that. Some, but not all, I had a visitor, and your wife interfered,” I told my friend.

“A visitor? Hell must have been someone awful high in the ranks to shake her like that,” he replied.

I just shrugged, “I guess it was Evelyn Timmings, a very old friend and savior of mine, though she’d never admit it.”

“Y ... you mean Lady Evelyn Timmings?” I just nodded. It was at that point that my friend started to laugh I mean REALLY laugh, so hard in fact he almost fell off his feet. “Ah! What I would have given to have seen that! I had no idea that you were friends with Jonathon’s mother.”

A small smile crossed my lips, remembering all that Jonathon’s family had done for me. Then, I remembered all the piddling little things I had done for them. Shaking my head, I had to figure out a way to ultimately pay Jonathon back for his many years of friendship, a friendship that, at times, had been the only one I had. Sighing that if I lived through Cedric’s attacks at the moment, I was only half as far as I felt I needed to be; I needed to do my exercises soon. Sighing, I knew I was going to have to push harder if I was going to get there as soon as I could. Nodding to the elder right before he left, I finished my work and flashed out to my apartment.

I didn’t really know what to expect from Cloe when I got there I was still stinging from all the memories that had flooded back into my mind. I was sure that Cloe wasn’t all that well either after all almost two centuries of wanton revenge wasn’t an easy thing to just turn off. I stopped short of the building and sighed when I felt at least ten magical beings outside of it. Growling I erected a shield and strode directly toward them.

Growling, I quietly advised them, “I suggest that if the ten of you wish to live, you leave now. You don’t know who or what you are dealing with, and if you want to die, fine, stay by all means, though I guarantee that your death will be extremely painful.”

Two of the creatures took one look at me and my red glowing eyes and left immediately, hmmm not as stupid as I thought. Two more saw the intense look on my face and shook their heads and left a minute later.

Smiling an almost wicked smile, I pointed at the rest, “Well, I guess that most of you are just too stupid to live fine.”

Three advanced on me and froze in their tracks, smiling at the last three I waited; one shook his head and flashed out. The last two made motions with their hands and slowly advanced on me. Ah! So these weren’t complete idiots. Waving a hand at them, one gasped and froze, and the last now looked unsure as I spread my hands to let him know it was still up to him. Nodding toward me, he turned and left. I thought I needed to find him later and learn his counter to my freeze spell. He was the first since Jonathon to actually repel it. I waited for a minute, and then the council appeared; I explained, then walked to the first three and smacked them all in the head. All three blinked and looked around, confused.

“You three will be free to leave in a few minutes after we have increased your mental defense,” the council leader told them. All three had wide eyes and just shook their heads vigorously. The last two were still trying to get loose, obviously scared shitless. “Now then, your last two, although no actual attack took place on an agent of the council, there are still repercussions. Unfortunately, the three that could temporarily remove your powers are unreachable at the moment, though I am sure that one will find you soon. I suggest you hide somewhere you won’t be found easily. Though I know for a fact one of them WILL find you, others won’t if you are well hidden. You’re lucky. Had you actually attacked him, you’d be dead now, or have you not noticed the level of his power?”

All five of the men’s eyes grew huge when they felt the level of my power. It was at that moment that one of the first three started to convulse. “Ha! Finally, this weakling’s mind has succumbed. Hello, you little bitch!” The man said as he looked at me. “I see that almost all of the council is different. Good, a new council, a new source of nourishment!” Walking up to Cloe, he stopped, “Umm, this one is going to be delicious!”

Narrowing her eyes, Cloe spat at him, “Don’t think I am that weak, little dick!”

The voice laughed, “Umm, um, so spirited! Yes, I am going to enjoy eating your power and your life,” then he turned back to me, “though not as much as I will you!” The man raised his hand and started to fire at me with increasing power. I was bouncing all of them off with ease. I thought maybe he wasn’t as far as I thought. “Ah! Very good Ty, Ty! This ought to be fun, as nine levels feel very, very good! It won’t help you, asshole, not at all, just like our father. I will take all of your power also, and then I will pay this world back for the scorn and pain it put me through!”