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Chapter Six - Gadgets N' Gizmos

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“Oh stay the hell away from me, girl! I don’t want you near me.” Ethan mocked in a sadistic tone.

Grace walks around the kitchen island and made her way towards the stainless steel fridge. “You scared I’m gonna hurt you, princess?” She smiles, forcefully jerking the door open, grabbing a bottle of grapefruit juice.

“No…cause this time I’m ready. When you attack me, I’ll be ready.” Ethan declares, while finishing the last of his cereal.

Amused by Ethan’s driven motivation, Grace remindes him. “Ethan. Let me remind you that Iam the first female Black Shadow. The Three put me under more training than they’ll ever put you. Let me guarantee you that I am faster. Stronger. Tactical. Hell, even more…appealing to a person’s eye.” And with a crack of her newly opened bottle of juice, Grace slid past Ethan’s slouched back and walks to the back of the house.

Edger valued open scenery; it was the only thing that helped him reflect. Edger was in fact from Sweden but was raised in a top-secret location in America because of The Three’s suspicions. Eventually, when Edger was of age, they returned him to his homeland and gave him excessive house, in which he would slowly deteriorate in.

Edger was alone. Alone in a country where we knew no one but the headquarters of The Three. Somehow Edger had really taken appreciation in this outing with the other Black Shadows...after all; he finally had a few people who had something common with him.

“May I join you?” Grace politely askes as she wraps a duvet over Edger’s exposed shoulders.

“Sure.” He smiles, accepting the duvet still focusing back onto the sunset. “It’s beautiful isn’t it?”

“Pardon?” Grace asks, wondering what he was staring at.

“Everything. Look around you. One day this world will perish and we won’t have anything to look at but the fiery pits of hell.” Edger blurts out with his tiring voice.

Grace stares at Edger’s sudden explosion. With his hands still around the duvet to protect him from the frosty breezes, he turns his head to see Grace’s reaction.

“I’m just busting your balls.” Edger teases.

“Oh…” Grace laughs.

Edger takes the duvet off his shoulders and places them around Grace’s shoulders. “It would’ve been rude of me to sit here with it when you don’t have any.”

Grace chuckles, “But I gave this to you first. Remember?”

“Well-” Edger was quickly interrupted by Christian’s flamboyant yawning.

“Good morning! Did anyone have a good sleep?”

Christian slowly joins Edger and Grace on the patio. Christian receives Edger by nodding at him and slightly kissing Grace on the forehead.

“Um…what are you doing?” Grace whispers through her compelling smile.

“Kissing your forehead and telling you to go and get ready. We’re going out.”

“Whatever you say Christian….”

Christian smiles, “You too Edgar. Sky wants to show us something.”

Rummage through her wardrobe, Grace finds the one outfit she feels most comfortable in. Black skinny jeans, a loose white tank top with her trusty jet black leather jacket. Not noticing Christian’s shadow she walks into the kitchen waiting for the others.

As Christian watches her body turn into a shadow, he soundlessly slips into her room and places a ceramic kitten sculpture with an embedded camera. Though he felt regret in doing this, he had to obey The Three. They would be watching her every move and she wouldn’t know it. Christian breathed in…hoping Grace would eventually figure it out and destroy it but who knows?

Christian was last to get to the kitchen. Everyone there was either talking or staring off into distance. “FINALLY! Where have you been?” Sky asks.

Opening his mouth, Sky jumps in and tells him not to answer the question. With his authority voice in action, Sky orders them to form a circle around him. Throwing each of them a ring with the Black Shadows emblem engraved on it.

“What’s this for?” Ryan asks, catching the ring in an instant.

Sky smirks through his ogling at Grace, “A key.”

“A key for what?” wondering while sliding the band down her ring finger.

“A key to my beloved crypt.” Sky quickly calls, leading them to the back of the house to the pool.

“You have a crypt? AWESOME!” Ethan bellows as he runs up to walk with Sky.

And at that instant, Sky stops and turns around, carefully eyeing each of them to see if they were paying attention because he wasn’t going to repeat this again. Grace carefully looks at Christian’s ring and then to Jason’s then back to her ring. They were all the same. The emblem with a rug or cloth cloaking the number three.

“Do you see this?” Sky asks, strong patting the artificial hedge stone. There were bumps, and marks everywhere. It almost looks realistic.

“What about it?” Jason questions, still observing the ring.

Licking his dry lips, Sky grins and takes off his ring with precaution. “Watch.” With his index finger and thumb holding the band, Sky places the ring into a small unnoticeable mark that Grace hadn’t seen before. With a full twist to the left and a push into the stone, a loud thud is heard by all of the Black Shadows. Every head turns around, slowly acknowledging the moving pool. The pool had parted four ways gradually revealing a stairway leading down to Sky’s “crypt”.

Taking his ring out of the rock, Sky leads the pack down into what was absolutely opposite of a crypt. Grace, now wide-eyed turns her whole body around to take everything in.

“Bro, this is definitely not…” Ethan breathlessly began.

“A crypt.” Grace finishes as she walkes to the first, wall filled with her favourite weapon. Hunting knives.

“Well…it isn’t a crypt but this is definitely a vault. The Three had it made for a rainy day, such as this one. The rings that I’ve given you open the vault. There are two exits: one just above the pool and the other deep into the labyrinth. Now gentleman. Lady…please enjoy my gadgets as a gift.