Chapter 30

After much discussion they had a small plan on the matter. It was decided that Kailynn and Sam would try to get closer to Jessica and in turn try to keep her away from the girl who was obviously the middle man or woman in this case. They agreed that sooner than they wanted to they would have to deal with this imposter Caliph, although they hoped that by that time, Arrian had returned.

Arrian... oh how they missed him; Helen more than the others. He had taken to rubbing his hands on her womb before going to sleep each night and she missed that terribly. At night she would hold her womb and tell her child that his or her father would be back soon.

Cindy missed her Sarah terribly, she didn't worry for her well being. She missed her daughter's wholesome innocence. Even though Sarah had seen Arrian kill her kidnappers, she didn't carry the baggage of it. Cindy wondered if it was then that Sarah decided Arrian was her Daddy. After all, Sarah went on about how her friends at school would go on about their Daddies. After Arrian, it was Sarah her carried on about him. She found it endearing when Sarah disappeared from her room at night only to find her snuggled up to Arrian with his arm draped over her protectively.

Cindy shivered at the memory of Sarah's death and revival. She would never ever forget the amount of pain she felt at watching her daughter die before her eyes. Nor would she forget Arrian's willingness to die himself to bring Sarah back. He brought her back, she was his daughter, their daughter... that thought made her feel extremely happy.

Miranda, Sam and Kailynn were the same as the others, but they had one unfulfilled desire, neither of them had been with Arrian in the biblical sense. And they were more than ready, willing or able to complete the task. It just seemed that Arrian never got around to it.

Greg was thinking over what had been said and what their plan was, he was sure that they would not have an easy time trying to bring to light this imposter. However, before that came to pass, Greg realized he had to become more proficient with his powers and that he needed a better understanding of his abilities.

Kailynn excused herself and went to the study where Arrian kept his computer. He had tried to keep separate accounts for them, what with his large collection of adult entertainment footage, he didn't want to let neither Helen or Kailynn see his collections. However, he was surprised when he noticed some files were watched at times when he was not at the computer. He never did figure out it was Kailynn who had broken his password and watched his adult footage.

Kailynn realized he had figured out someone knew his password when she turned the computer on and wasn't prompted to give a password or user account. All the footage was there for anyone's viewing pleasure. But aside from his porn collection the thing that Kailynn found more interesting was Arrian's music collection. He had a wide variety of music; there was jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, soft rock, classical, Spanish music in all types, hip hop, pop and even some techno. As she went from file to file, folder to folder, she began to miss Arrian even more, she remembered times when they played together. She could get away with murder on him and he would smile and let her be. She also remembered times when boys tried to get saucy with her and she had told Arrian; they never bothered her again.

Oh Arrian, when are you coming home? She asked no one.

Kailynn and Sam walked around the quad area of Thoran High in search of Jessica. They found her away from her cheerleader friends, huddled up alone underneath a small tree. While she was beautiful, at that particular moment she looked like she had fought her way through hell.

Kailynn reached to touch her arm and Jessica flinched hard at the soft and brief contact of her fingers.

"What do you want?" She said in a monotone.

Kailynn and Sam looked at each other at her defeated tone, "We want to help you."

"Who says I need help!" She spat out more nervously than angry.

"We know, Jessica."

"You know what?" She yelled.

"Please, don't draw attention to us, we know about you and your family and we want to help you. Things aren't as they seem. Someone has been lying to you and that girl who was speaking with you yesterday."

"Lying?" Jessica whispered.

"Just wait for us here after school and we will help you."

"They are going to... my sister and Mom..." She sobbed.

"Call her, give her our address; tell your mom to get your sister and go there now. My mom and Sam's will keep the safe for now, plus Greg's dad will be there." Kailynn said handing Jessica her cell phone.

Jessica nodded and after dialing the numbers spoke aloud," Mom... Listen..."

Melissa watched from a distance as two girls approached Jessica. She watched in fascination as Jessica went from hopeless to hopeful in nothing flat. She watched as Jessica made a phone call, then one of the other girls made one before all three walked away together.

What was going on?

Mary Walker and her daughter Ann walked up to the door of the address Jessica had given her. She was about to knock when the door open and she was ushered in.

"You must be Jessica's mother and sister. I am Helen Michaels, welcome to our home." Helen said.

"Thank you, I'm Mary, this is Ann. I... we are desperate, that why we're here." Mary said in complete surrender.

Helen led them to the living room where Miranda and Sharon were sitting.

"Kailynn, my daughter and Sam, Miranda's daughter, overheard a conversation between Jessica and another girl yesterday. It caught Kailynn's attention because the girl mentioned Elementals and the Caliph."

"We hate that son of a bitch! But the things he can do... we have no choice... now he wants Ann..."She broke down in sobs, while Ann reached over and hugged her mother.

"We can help you, besides he is portraying himself as something he isn't." Miranda said.

"What do you mean?" asked Ann.

"Kailynn said he called himself the Caliph, well that isn't true. He is not the Caliph. We know the Caliph and he isn't that sadistic bastard."

"How do you know who he is and what kind of person he is?" Mary asked after controlling her emotions.

"He is my son, and he isn't here at the moment."

"But he said... told Jessica... they did unbelievable things!"

"We know, we've seen Arrian do the same things if not more amazing ones." Miranda said.

"You mean the guy that won the martial arts tournament a few weeks ago at Thoran High?" asked Ann.

"Yes, where you there?"

"Jessica took us, we watched as he easily beat everyone except that other guy, with the funny looking sticks." Mary replied.

"That's Greg, his dad will be here in a short while he took Sharon out to get some supplies we need, anyways Greg was made an Elemental by Arrian." Helen said.

"We understand this is daunting and completely insane, but it is, and you need help and he would help you, and so we help you." Miranda said.

Mary couldn't help notice; Miranda's depth of emotions when she spoke about Arrian... Hmmm... there was something going on here...

Melissa was frantic; she couldn't get a hold of Jessica's family. Melissa knew that the Caliph wanted her tonight, and if she couldn't produce them... well it was better not to think of that. To make matters much worse, Jessica was also missing. Melissa managed a heartless chuckle, that crazy bitch was trying to escape from the Elementals.

Wait till she and her family get caught... she'll be sorry then. Melissa thought.