Cold Blood and Icy Hearts: Tale of Caine Conven (Discontinued)

Volume 2 Chapter 17: The Angel's Plant! Things Have Changed Around Here...

SOMEWHERE IN THE MOUNTAINS

John was walking through the snow as he took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He sensed someone was following him for a while now, and it was clear that they weren't deterred by him going into the ice cold Kabara Mountains. He kept walking, going higher and higher, before being at the peak of the mountain. He turned around and soon saw that it was Beatrixe who was following him. She was clearly very cold and uncomfortable being in this cold area. He sighed before grabbing his jacket and handing it to her, as he summoned his wings and wrapped them around himself.

John: "You shouldn't have come here, Beatrixe. I need to be alone here...I need to think and I most importantly need to figure everything out. Go back to the others and see what they do...I'm going to speak with other angels and see if they can locate Brooke herself."

Beatrixe: "John... we need to talk."

John, confused: "Then, let's talk."

BACK IN KABARA CASTLE

Bunni and the others were standing around, dressed in their demon attire, while Zane paced around the castle's throne room. He seemed to be racking his brain for any sort of a plan. Noelle came close to him, and placed her hand in his as she smiled softly.

Noelle: "My darling... have you figured out any ideas on what we could do about Brooke? How we can snap her out of her mind control, and save her from the clutches of Mangetsu and Akuma?"

Zane: "..."

Noelle: "Zaney, please tell me that you have some sort of idea on how we can do that."

Zane: "Well... I have thought of one. The easiest way to break a demon's mind control, which we call compulsion, is to kill the demon or get them to stop it. But... they won't go down or do it that easily. The only other option is... for us to put Brooke out of her misery. You know what I mean?"

Noelle: "Zane, you don't mean..."

Bunni: "Zane is right, Noelle. Brooke must be miserable down there, even if she can't show up on her face, she must be dying inside knowing that she's missing things up here."

Noelle: "NO! YOU CAN'T KILL BROOKE!"

Noelle yelled at the two of them before everyone fell silent. From the other room, Cascade began crying and Jenny walked out of the back room and sighed.

Jenny: "Your majesties, princess Cascade is awake... I just put her to sleep and she refuses to fall back asleep at all with me. Could you-..."

Zane: "I'll be back soon."

He said quietly before walking into Cascade's bedroom. He laud in the bed with her and she immediately crawled over to where he stayed. Zane smiled and held her close to his chest as he closed his eyes. Cascade stopped crying and slowly closed her own eyes to fall asleep. Zane held her in his arms for a while after she fell asleep, before rolling her onto her stomach and laying her gently in her crib. He walked out of the room and saw that instead of everyone still talking about what to do... they were quiet and looking away from the door.

Zane: "Oh, what the hell? I put my niece to sleep. That's all."

Rosemary: "We just... get surprised when we see you caring for a baby, Zane. We have no idea where you learned to be so... gentle with them."

Carrie: "Yeah... it's weird."

Zane: "Look, we have to find some way to get the both of them back. I'm not losing my sister and my sister in law."

Everyone fell silent as he said that. They looked at Zane and smiled before Noelle hugged him tightly. She slapped him slightly before giggling.

Noelle: "You've never called her your sister in law. It sounds weird, so don't do it again. Especially since it took her getting kidnapped to hear it."