(Valkyrie Cain and Dexter Vex love story)The Descendants

Ellion and Alice's Talk

He stepped closer to the cell and heard Alice's sobs and pleas under her breath.

"Oh, please, please just leave me alone moths. I promise I won't hurt you, just please fly away." She repeated variations of this like a broken record but her eyes widened with embarrassment when she saw him standing there. It was quite an odd scene to behold.

"What are you doing here?" she snapped, throwing up her protective barriers and wiping her face dry, but she still tried to cover her ears with her hair.

"Are you okay?" he asked her. She was about to reply like she usually would with sarcasm but she thought this would be a perfect opportunity. Her mentor had told her to make him fall in love with her to gain their trust, so that was what she was going to do. The first step is making the other person feel guilty until they forgive you for what you've done.

"Why should I even talk to you? You claim you are the good guys but you think it's right to throw us down here? Fair enough, we aided assault on a 'Sanctuary agent', but to be fair you were going to arrest us before that anyway. And you didn't even put us in a proper jail. You put us in a torture chamber that no one has been taken to in years, no matter how terrible their crime. I saw the blood on the floor when those Cleaver guys brought us down here. Whose was it? Someone just like us, no doubt." she sobbed.

"It was Stephanie's. She was Valkyrie's reflection but she evolved into a person. She was killed there fourteen years ago by Darquesse. They couldn't get the blood out. I'm so sorry that you're down here. You're right. What we're doing is selfish. China's hiding you down here so that no one knows about you. She doesn't want anyone to worry about the end of the world. Last time that happened everything erupted into chaos and it led to another war between Sanctuaries all around the world. Almost every country has its own Sanctuary, some of the larger ones have more. The Sanctuaries rule the magic community." Ellion truly sounded upset for her. She felt slightly guilty about what she was doing but her glee that it was working was too powerful and the guilt was shifted aside.

"So why is it such a big deal with us? Why would the fact that we existed be such a problem to this war coming up?" Alice asked, sounding fed up that she was involved in something she had no clue in but was actually digging for information. If she could find out what legends they were talking about, she and Vivi could find out what they were.

"There have been visions lately. Not many people know about them, only special personnel, so you can't tell anyone what I'm telling you. These visions have been of an evil being called the Unnamed, and he takes over the world and destroys it all after a huge battle right here in Roarhaven. But in the vision, it shows you and Vivi fighting against Skulduggery and Valkyrie. So you were on the evil side-" Ellion told her and she frowned.

"Why does that mean Vivi and I are evil? That could just mean that Skulduggery and Valkyrie are on the opposite side." She suggested and it was Ellion's turn to frown.

"Valkyrie and Skulduggery would never do that, they've been fighting against the Faceless Ones for the most part of their lives."

"No, Skulduggery and Valkyrie might not. But Darquesse would. And did it actually show Skulduggery going up against Vivi and I? Or did it just show him with Valkyrie? Because that could just mean that Skulduggery was trying to help us against Darquesse." Alice shrugged, pouncing on the occasion to gain more of their trust and start up a new collection of distrust for her sister. Ellion's face went pale.

"But Darquesse is dead. We killed her fourteen years ago." He shook his head. This couldn't be true.

"Oh, okay then. Well if you actually killed her and saw her die than okay." Alice held her hands up in defeat.