can a good girl be a hero

the plan

"I presume that you have a plan?" I asked as we dragged the suitcases down the drive way.

Once we came around a bend I saw a black range rover waiting for us.

"I have," she told me.

"That's why I locked myself in my office back at the palace. I was arranging all this,"

"You work quickly I take it,"

"I do,"

We stopped just behind the jeep and she pulled out a set of keys. She unlocked the car and opened up the trunk. We stacked the suitcases into the back and she slammed it closed. We both climbed in, she got behind the wheel obviously. We belted up and she started the engine.

"So what is this plan?" I asked.

At usual vampire speed she took off like a bullet. I grabbed the edge of my seat from shock, but after a moment I relaxed.

"Where to begin?" She asked herself.

"I don't know who took the girls, but I know how to find out. That big swirling hole in the sky that you saw was a portal. All portals are fixed in one place, like the one's we use. But there is one exception. Only one person in all the realms uses a mobile portal. The grim reaper. They use it to go collect souls. That's the portal you saw. The Grim reaper gets stronger with the more souls they collect, but they can't just take anyone they want. The person must be scheduled to die. They can kill though, they just can't collect the soul. They can kind of rent out their portal, but who ever wants it must offer up tribute. Preferably a mass murder, so they can collect a large amount of souls to get strong. There was a massacre not too long ago in the mermaid realm, so I'm guessing that was what it was for," she said.

"So how do we find the girls?"

"Well first we have to find out who took them,"

"And we do that how,"

"We'll have to find out off the grim reaper, who used their portal," she explained.

"So that's where we're going. To ask the grim reaper?"

She gave a little laugh at my statement and grinned.

"Oh, we won't be just asking. We'll have to force it out. The grim reaper hates us vampires. A born vampire is born dead, but we keep our souls and the turned vampires also die before transforming, but they keep their souls too. The grim reaper can't collect them to get stronger. We're the one creature they can't get their filthy hands on and it drives them nuts,"

"So how do we force it out?"

"The grim reaper fell in love with a human. We'll kidnap him and the grim reaper will have to tell us,"

"Him? Is the grim reaper gay?" I asked

"Nope. The grim reaper is a woman," She said.

"I see. So where are we actually going?" I asked

As I asked that question, Red began to slow down and turn a corner.

"To where grim lives. Rome,"

 I could see lights behind the trees. When we had come around the corner I saw a run way and a station with several watch towers. We drove up to a big wire gate and stopped at a check point. Soldiers stood and saluted as one opened the gate and we drove in. We parked in a reserved space and the gate was closed once again.  A soldier opened my door and an other opened Red's. We climbed out and I went to stand beside Red, who was speaking to what seemed to be a general.

"I assume everything is ready now?" She said, as more of  rhetorical question.

"Of course. Your plane is in the station, set to go," The older man answered, as he signalled to a private.

The young soldier nodded and rushed off into the big grey building, with a big grey gate that took over the whole wall that lead out onto the run way. He rushed in through a side door and moments later, with big grey door began to slowly lift up. Inside were all different kinds of planes. One small jet black plane came gliding out. It stopped a few meters from us and someone from the inside opened the door for us, as an other pushed portable steps up to it, for us to climb up.

From behind I could hear the trunk slam shut, as soldiers rushed off to the big wear house of station as they called it with our suitcases.

"I want no one, not even my husband, though I doubt he'll ask, to know that we were here," She ordered and began to approach the plane.

I followed and the closer I got, the more I noticed the strange cylinders under the plane.

"Red? our bags?" I asked.

"I'll explain that in a moment . First things first. It's vital to our success of finding the girls that we move fast and in secret. We don't have a moment to spare, but we must be discrete. To ensure that we get to Italy as soon as possible, unnoticed, we'll have to go to extreme measures. Given such short notice I had to prepare this, this is the best option. We will be sneaking across the Atlantic in this war plane, which will be flying going into battle. We will be picked up by an other plane and then taken to Italy. I chose a war plane, because no one would expect us to be it in. Right now, everyone believes we're asleep in the hostile, but by the time they realise we're gone we'll be in Italy. No one other than the pilot, who will be taking us directly to Italy and the man I just spoke to know where we're going. The less people know the better. Our bags will be dropped off tomorrow morning so when we land, we'll just have what we're wearing now. Don't worry, I have money. We'll be staying in a hotel and I have a car waiting for us when we land. No one is expecting us in Italy so we're on our own over there," She told me.

"Why doesn't this plane drop us off?"

"This plane has been scheduled to fly into battle for the past week and we have a very strict traffic system for our planes. If one thing is out of place, it could cost us the battle. We're just hitching a ride,"

I took a deep breath and followed her as she approached the plane.