Challenging Directions - Book 1 (Completed)

Chapter 9 - Snooping Sisters

Before they could see anything good Kai and Ercan got pulled down by Rai.

"Hey!" Kai argued trying to get set free.

"No can do. Sir Atticus wants us back over there, something about the mission and catching the girls up later." Rai responds. "Or do you want him back here to find you guys peeping on the ladies?" He says with a evil smile.

"Let's go" Ercan and Kai nearly shouted at the same time, as George laughed. They all were walking back to the others in the hot spring and laughing about the looks on the two boys faces.

"Good, now that you boys are back we can begin our discussion." Sir Atticus said. "Now that we no longer have the element of surprise, we need a new strategy.." He sighs. "Any suggestions?"

"Well for starters we need to find them." Moss states grumpily. "Then we can discuss their deaths.... Oh I mean how we will of course capture them and take them to prison." He laughs nervously while smiling and scratching his head.

"Ahem. Right, well nice input Moss. What about something less killie?" Riac asks. "Like maybe knocking them out? Knock out gas or something?"

"Oh that is a good idea!" Ercan said enthusiastically. "We could draw on their faces!"

"Oh my, he is more of a kid than me.." Arrio mumbles. "We should look into nearby towns as possible hiding places for them. It is unlikely they would show up at a town where the train's next stop would have been." He says trying to sound mature.

"Yes that is a very good idea kiddo!" Rai says messing up his hair. "We should also look into other known member's of The Exalter Advanced. We should be prepared."

"Good. These are all great ideas... and they are coming from people not on my team... I know I trained you guys better than this." Sir Atticus says glaring at his students.

"Sorry, sir. What about the other members in the Exalter Advance? What if there are members we don't know about?" Kai responds.

"That is why you never let your guard down." Louis said eyeing the other team.

"What are their motives?" Ashe spoke up. "They looked like they were around our age, why would they assassinate the Master Quad?"

"Why doesn't matter. The fact is they killed them and need to be punished. Kai is right there is more, same goes for what Louis said.. I however do not like his insinuations. Louis we will have to talk in private later." Sir Atticus responded. "Now that we have a base for a plan we must talk to the ladies they might be able to help as well." He said and they each split into groups again.

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"Hey sis, why do you think our boys are being so helpful in trying to capture us?" Lani asks eyeing Rai jokingly.

"Hahah, Riac started it maybe we should be watching him." Enya laughs.

"Oh. My. Goodness. Did you see his abs!!" Lani says fanning herself. "That Sir Atticus might be older but damn that body is fine!"

"HAhaha! Yes, you do have a thing for older guys. I am more interested in that little redhead over there!" Enya says eyeballing Moss.

"Yeah too bad he wants you dead!" Lani says teasing her sister.

"Hey! Right back at you, sister!" She says giving Lani a push a little too hard. Soon Lani was falling off of the rock the sisters were laying on. Thankfully Lani had enough time to float, sadly Enya jumped after her recklessly. Thankfully they both landed on their feet, sadly the commotion was noticed.

"Crap. Why does this always happen?" Lani asks climbing a tree after her sister. Soon footsteps were coming and the sisters could not climb any further, they could only hope they would not be noticed.

"What do you think the noise was?" The lilac haired boy asked walking up with Sir Atticus, Ashe, Moss, and Rai.

"Whatever it was it seems to have gone away." Moss says stretching. "Man that hot spring made me sleepy. Let's go Ercan." He yawned which triggered a yawn for Enya.

Which led to Rai discovering them and smiling, because they were all naked. The only one who was covered was Rai and that was because of his shoulder tattoo. Other than that they were NAKED!

FULL. BLOWN. NAKED. And to make matters worse the the sisters could see everything. But they couldn't stop staring, which made Rai smile even more.

"Well we should be moving." Rai says coughing to hide his smile. "No need to freeze." He says slapping Ercan and Moss on the back as they walked away. Sir Atticus followed, Ashe did as well but not before he looked up at them and smiled He was also covered but not by clothes by a shadow.

After a few minutes the sisters climbed down to embarrassed to talk about what just happened. On their way back to Fia and Nandin, they were absolutely silent. Upon arrival they only spoke of the 'plan' the boys have made.

"How did your mission go Fia?" Lani asked hoping to stop the blush from appearing as she thought of the naked men.

"From what I could tell it was good, Mistress. Mia left with Kalila to go talk." Fia replied. "Mistress what is the matter your face is all red."

"I told you to stop calling me that. Nothing happened, there was just so many naked men...." She mutters to herself. "I mean some of the men there had vivid details for our deaths.." Lani said trying to take focus off her and on to their enemy.

"Yeah, they really don't like us. Everyone except that Ashe. Nandin I want a report on him." Enya says keeping trying to keep her mind of the sight she bore witness to. "Rai has no shame." She said failing.

"Yes ma'am." Nandin responded not hearing that last thing. As he left Fia turned to the two red faced girls.

"Okay, I know something is up. Lady Enya I can not pry into my Mistress' life but may I please know what happened back there that has you both looking like naughty school girls?" Fia says candidly.

"We almost got caught." Enya responded. "It was my fault this time. We were messing around and I pushed her off the rock. I followed to make sure she was okay. But.." Enya paused for a minute trying to regain her composure. "But they came to investigate the noise." She went on to tell Fia everything that had happened, after a few more pauses. "So there you have it."

"Oh. Oh, my." Fia responded flustered. "You two get all the fun." She started laughing. "So you think this Ashe knew this whole time? Why wouldn't he tell?" Fia was full of questions, but after seeing the looks on her Captains' faces she decided they could wait. "For now though we should go to bed and rest. Nandin will have a report on him tomorrow then we can decide what to do." The girls agreed and they all went to bed.