Lani asked Fia and Nandin to gather the rest of the Guards into the dinning area. Her and Enya were waiting for them, and saw fire in both Moss and Sir Atticus' eyes. They knew right away they would not be joining them. Arrio was with Riac keeping him busy.
"Who is willing to join?" Corin stood in front of them and waited for them to stand.
"Me." Kai stood tall, staring at Kalila, and she smiled at him.
"Me." Mia stood up. Showing her faded tattoo on her hand.
"Oh, that is right." Enya smiled. "I forgot about that."
Rai motioned them forward, he was standing next to a big table with five chairs. One for each of them, minus Mia. Everything was set up for the tattooing process. Lani walked over and began chanting, her eyes glowed and so did the ink on the table.
"Ready?"She asked Mia, who sat down in front of the dark blue coloring.
"Yes." was all she said.
Her face turned from pink to a deep red as she tried to stop herself from screaming out. Kai looked nervous, but determined. Louis was panicking wanting to help Mia, but Sir Atticus. His sight never left Enya. She was the only one out of the two he could look at and hate. Moss also stared at her with hate, until Ashe squatted in front of him.
"Please. Reconsider." Ashe seemed to be begging him, his eyes hurt, but Moss only looked away.
Mia's tattoo was done, and then Lani turned to Kai. He set in front of him two colors, deep blue and aquamarine.
"Which do you choose?" He asked.
"Wh-what do you mean?" Kai looked at Lani, confused.
"You see... Me and Enya are the captains, or leaders if you prefer, everyone under our command gets a certain color tattoo. Mine is a aquamarine blue, like Corin's." Lani points to the boy. He pulled up is sleeve and revealed it on his left bicep.
"And my sister's is deep blue, like Kalila's." Lani explained and nodded to Kalila. She once again revealed the tattoo on her shoulder.
"Who would you like to be your captain?"
"If I may intervene." George interrupted. "Ma'dam Enya has five, while we are at four. Shouldn't Kai be in our group?"
"While that is an interesting point, we don't want to force people into anything they don't want to." Enya said smiling, to which Moss snorted.
Rai stood suddenly to hit him, but was stopped by Lani. He sat down reluctantly after a nod from Enya.
"Kai, what do you want?" Enya asked.
"To be with Kalila." Kai sighed. "But Miss Lani. I think I would rather have you be my captain. I am sorry but.." He lowered his voice. "Your sister scares me."
"Okay." She giggled a bit.
Moss was ignored, and feeling pissed.
"Hey!" He shouted at Rai, who tried to ignore him. "What is she your girlfriend?" He laughed and saw Rai twitch. "Yeah, yeah she is! So how does it feel?"
"Excuse me?" Rai looked at him filed with hate.
"You know. Being in a relationship with a psycho path?" Moss smiled. "A murderer, a killer, slaughterer, deranged lunatic? Or.. do you like that? Is there some kind of pleasure in know that your girlfriend has destroyed our world."
Rai was being help back by, Corin, George, Nandin, Fia, and even Kai. The one that stopped him though, was Enya. She was blocking Rai's view of Moss. Louis was watching Mia who was in the back next to Kalila, and Sir Atticus' sight found Lani on the other side of Mia.
"Pretty pathetic." Moss continued laughing at Rai. "You are basically under the control of this... this.. unbalanced butch-" He was knocked out by Gilligan as Ashe looked like was going to cry, but murder him.
"I will take him back to his.. chamber." He hissed through gritted teeth. Nandin followed, offering him 'help'.
After they left Rai went to join Riac, and Arrio. George was now Lani's assistant, and helping Kai who was biting his lip. The pain was deep, and not just the actual tattooing process. The charm attached itself to the persons zeil, their soul. It hurt, but the bond it creates can not be removed, once you are marked the only way to get out is a pain as bad as death. Lani explained this during the process, but Kai didn't seem to care.
Once done, both were ordered to bed, Kai now got a much more comfortable room. All who was left was Sir A, Ercan and Louis. Who until then were silent.
"Now what?" Louis asked as Lani.
"You will be feed and put back to your room until-" She was cut off by Arrio, who came running in the room.
"We got a message from Mamma Solon!" He was breathless, and smiling.
"Fia take them back now." Lani asked and ran after Arrio.
"Feed them in their rooms, we are changing course." Enya half smiled and went after her sister.
Everyone in the room seemed happier and excited, especially George.
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Challenging Directions - Book 1 (Completed)
FantasíaThese fun loving sister make time to do what they enjoy. Sing. Dance. Have food fights. And fall in love. Although it can all be a little tricky, especially if you just assassinated the rulers of the Four Kingdoms and the entire Guard is out looking...