Dark Mortals

☆♡Masquerades☆♡

The sweet smell of a batch of freshly baked cookies filled the house, eventually making its way to Esmeralda.

Her mouth watered in anticipation.

Esmeralda finished her homework mostly with the help of Ray through video chat, although she didn't require his help in literature. Her literature was fantastic.

Esmeralda looked away from her movie to see her mother placing the cookies on a plate. Her eyes brightened seeing her favorite cookies.

Chocolate chip cookies.

Estella carried the plate of cookies to Esmeralda and placed it in front of her.

"Thanks mama. I love you."

"I love you too tinker bell."

Estella and Aldric always called her by that nickname and Esme loved it.

Esmeralda carefully picked one cookie and popped it in her mouth. It was not hot enough to burn her mouth.

"Mama," Esmeralda began, her mouth filled with the big cookie. "Raiden and I will come to the headquarters at 7:45. What about you? Will you go now?"

She just wanted to hear a 'no' from her mother's mouth. She was tired of it all and just wanted it to end.

"Yes. I should go now. Your father won't be home by ten. Their transformers, hopefully, would be stolen by then. You and Ray don't have to worry about the transformers. If you can steal them then fine, but if you can't then that's good. At least he will know that we tried." Estella said the last sentence with disgust.

Of course, she despised that old, stinky idiot. Even if they would steal the transformers, they wouldn't tell him about it. He would take away all the five transformers that way.

Esmeralda hated him too and she would hate to have any resemblance with him.

Esmeralda gave her mother a small smile on her cheek as she kissed her forehead. Esmeralda went back to her movie. It was getting more and more interesting with each passing minute.

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The bell rang and Esmeralda's heart skipped a beat.

What if it was her father? She knew that it was too soon for him to return, but still, what if?

Her heavy and nervous breathing calmed down when she heard her best friend's voice.

''Esme, it's me, Raiden. Open the door.''

She popped the last piece of cookie in her mouth and ran to get the door.

''Hey Raiden.'' she greeted him.

''Hey doll.'' he greeted back.

He walked inside and plopped on the couch, looking too dull and uninterested in the idea of dealing with the Immortals.

But Esmeralda grew impatient. If they had to convince him that they were trying then they would have to do it.

She walked towards him and patted his shoulder.

"Come on Ray. I know it's too much to take. But we gotta stick together till we gather more information about him. It's time. We gotta go."

"Ugh. Coming. Ju- hold on. We need to transform first." he got up from the couch and then motioned towards their transformers.

They pressed their pendants and their transformers recognizing their fingerprints got activated.

Their transformers emitted light creating streaks of light around them. The streaks of light moved around them in a circular motion, creating an entire lightshow around them.