Fairies or Foes

Chapter 9

The more time that passed, the more unnerved the guild members felt. The brat Alice had hired did his job, but Sara had gone missing. The other members had observed that Sara was late, and Alice would have their heads if they didn't at least check on her, so they sent Jax to go pick her up. When he reached her apartment however, she was nowhere to be seen, and there was no evidence that anyone had entered or left the apartment since last night.

The remaining sane members of the Moonlight Court (just Jax really) spent the rest of the day mulling over their missing leadership. Alice had chosen the worst time for a 'pleasure run.'

Their leader was gone, and their second-in-command was missing.

But at least they only needed to worry about what to do once Alice got back, because there was no way they were going to live once she heard what happened.

Jax sat at a table anxiously biting his nails, and glaring at the lower guild members as they scurried around the guild hall.This was not good.They had to figure out what to do on their own. It felt weird, making decisions for the guild. Alice and Sara had always done that.

At exactly 10:00 that night, Alice returned from her outing.

At exactly 10:10, the guildhall had three standing rooms left and 8 people were dead.

Alice was certain she knew what happened.

Shadow Melody had taken her.

But she had no bloody clue where Shadow Melody was.

They had the upper hand, at least until Alice knew where they were.

They may think they had all the cards in their hand, but if her dragon nose caught one whiff of those bastards' scent, not even all the tricks and leverage in the world could protect them from the angry dragon slayer.

Meanwhile, Sara was analyzing the Shadows' battle plan. It was stupid, to say the least. She knew her guild's strengths and weaknesses, and in terms of intelligence and pure strength, Moonlight Insomniacs had the upper hand. However, Alice might get reckless as these idiots had Sara. Well, maybe that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. The only thing a reckless and angry Alice meant for her enemies was painful and destructive death. Sara was just worried that it might mean death for her friend as well. The small girl sighed and leaned back. They had untied her, after Sina's reassurance that Sara only knew how to use her chalice's magic and nothing more.

It was only partially true. Sara resisted the urge to reach for the items she had carefully hidden away. They hadn't taken her cloak, as they thought it was useless to take it from her. So what if it regenerated her magic? She had no magic to use. It wasn't a mistake on their part, not in the slightest. Their mistake was not searching her for other items. Sina assumed all Sara had was her chalice. Sara was just biding her time, waiting for the chance to have a clean and badass escape. Honestly, she was frightened without Alice. However, her plan should be flawless. Emphasis: should. She was unsure of Ren's magic, but aside from that, she had gathered bits and pieces on everyone else's.

Sina had illusion magic, Hinso had some strange magic that allowed him to summon things he deemed 'cute,' Drenedis had a type of body enhancement magic, and Crisna could summon plants. That's why Crisna sometimes referred to things in their scientific name. She was simply being annoying and obnoxious. As time wore on, she became more unsure of her plan. What if Ren could sense magic, or nullify it in some way?

Eventually, she resigned herself to just waiting until Alice came for her, and the day of the planned attack rolled around.

There had been no word of any activities from Moonlight Insomniac, and Sara was proud of them. They were laying low, planning carefully. Well, as careful as they could be without Sara to put a cap on all the crazy.