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Chapter Three - Pointers

Please vote and comment! And I know that most of you are thinking..."Isn't Antarctica a continent as well?"  

Well...just to fill you guys in, I know its a continent but that's coming in later! :) HAPPY READING!

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"You mean to tell me, that they had...ALL of this and you didn't tell me?" Grace now flabbergasted walked into the room filled with electrical equipment. There were different rows with different gadgets.

Christian looked around, trying to find the one machinery that would help them start off, a computer. Not just any computer, a computer that could tap into birth registries, old and recent articles, this one computer had replicas but only at the headquarters of the other Black Shadows in the six other continents.

"What are you going to look up?" Grace asked, hanging over Christian's shoulder.

"I'm going to look for recent kidnappings, in the last twenty years."

Feeling stupid, Grace cocks her head to one side, "That sounds pretty basic."

"Trust me it isn't. There are some people who do more sick things than us."

"How so?" Grace asks.

"Well...it could be a sex offender or they could just be killing for fun..." Christian told her as his eyes never left the computer screen.

"It's not like we do any better." Grace said.

"But we have a reason...or at least they say we have a reason to kill the people we kill..." Christian snapped back.

Grace whispers from his back, "But they never tell us the reason, do they?"

Christian stops typing, "No."

Grace finishes off by saying the unthinkable. It was wrong to say it out loud but they both knew that Christian was thinking it too. "But we choose to thinks it's right because we never question them."

Grace sat in silence as she waited for Christian to finish his investigation. The mood that she was in before was now vanished and she had nothing left to say because if she had said anymore...she would've been seen as pathetic and Grace was anything but that.

It didn't occur to her that Christian was almost going to break down and tell her to get out and run for her life because if he did then The Three would have killed them both. "I've got it."

"Where? Let me see..."

Christian dragged the screen over and let it expand onto the wall beside them. It also hit Grace she could have be any nationality. She could secretly be Swedish and never know it or she could be a mix like an Asian and Canadian. She could be adopted with two gay Dads or she could have been in a really abusive foster home, that's why they never came to look for her.

Christian narrowed it down by clicking on females that were kidnapped, five different kidnappings. Grace seemed happy and relieved that it was only five cases. Not happy...but happy that it was pointed down for her. There were three kidnappings in African continent and two in Australia.

Christian leaned back onto his chair, "So it's a definite that you're not African."

"I could be African." Grace stated almost sounding offended.

"Grace, look at yourself." Grace looked down to her hands and held back in arguing Christian, "I know you're...coloured but I can tell that you are not African."

Grace didn't have the time of day to argue with him. He was, of course, more experienced than her and he did go on a few assassinations overseas. Yes...every Black Shadow was sort of, in charge, of their continent. They would go from one place to another and kill whoever they had to, to get the job done. "So it looks we're going to Australia?" Grace asked.

"Australia it is." Christian sighed, ending the conversation at that. He began to swing around in his chair going round and round as he waited for Grace to say something else.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't Mr Malice and his little bitch..." a voice called out. It sounded as if it was coming from the computer itself.

Christian abruptly stopped the rocking seat and looked around giving Grace an awkward look. Grace scoffed and clicked onto the camera on the computer. Grace and Christian looked upon the wall and saw to guys staring back at them. Grace had no idea who it was since she never left the South American continent. Was she supposed to be scared or getting ready to fight, she had no clue.

Christian smiled and relaxed his muscles acting as if he had nothing to worry about. "Ethan! How you doing, my friend?"

"I'm good. I'm good. Just having a little break for now but that's coming to an end since The Three told me to help you out with something. So what to you need?"

Muddled, Grace interrupted their chat, "Help? Help us with what?" She knew, The Three sent this, Ethan, and this other bloke to come and help them search for her family. She didn't want them to. She didn't want them thinking that she was puny.

Ignoring what she asked, Christian continued, "And who is this?"

"This?" Ethan pointed at the guy sitting next to him as the nameless guy waved his hand. "This is Jason Moore...from the South American continent..."

Christian stays silent and stares at him for a while. Ethan shakes his head, "It's hard to believe that you haven't met yet. You two practically live next to each other."

Christian smiled and asked the exact same question Grace asked a minute ago, "Help us with what?"

"I don't know...something about finding a family. And I'm guessing that it's her family." Ethan said, sounding as if he had some higher position than her.

Grace burrowed her eyes in anger. She didn't need help for egotistic scumbags nor did she need help with anything. She didn't ask for it and she didn't want it even if this, Ethan Moral knew Christian. "Well we don't need your help. But thanks for asking though..." sounding almost too sarcastic.

Ethan glares down on Grace, "You don't get it do you? The Three sent us here to help you. I don't know why, I don't want to know why."

Christian turns to see Graces hand slowly forming into a fist. He turned back around to ask Ethan another question, "I don't get it, why?"

Puzzled, Ethan looked to Jason then back at Christian, "They didn't tell you?" Christian shook his head, The Three never tell him anything. "The other three are coming to help. Ryan, Sky and Edger are coming." Grace breathed in deeply. All the Black Shadows are coming in to help Grace when she didn't even ask for it. North American, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe assembling together, it's like a match made in hell.