Jack Wilder: Sorcerer's Rising

Developing Plans

Chapter 21

The sand was as beautiful as the day. The families of the round table had come out to the Wilders private island to get away before the next governmental meeting. The gathering was fairly large, but the happiness amongst the group was immeasureable. With Jack and Gabriela celebrating their engagment, and everyone else celebrating the fact that it was finally official, the friends and family of Jack Arcturus Wilder had all gathered under one roof.

The island wasn't very large, maybe two square miles tops, but what made it special was the defenses around the island. It was more than likely the most protected place on the planet, perhaps even more than the family catacombs. This was a last defense or refugee camp for the light faction in times of war. Jack doubted that all the power of the dark magician could not bring those shields down. Apparently every single Lord Wilder and Pendragon added a little something to the defenses, Jack already had a few ideas, but the bottom line was, they were already practically inpenetrable.

This was the first time anyone other than Tiberius and Oliver had been to the island, apparently this was only for the families closest friends, mostly because only people who had been there could plot the island that was not to far off the coast of Hawaii. Tiberius had told Jack this was actually where his father, Charlie, held his bachelor party. Jack could tell there was a story with that sentence, but Tiberius made no moves to tell it to him. However Jack didn't need to hear the stories, he could feel his parents presence within the island. He could feel his ancestors memories, the joys, the tears, the pain, the confusion, the fear, the power. It felt great to Jack, he wondered if his little brother was feeling something similar, but for some reason he chose not to ask.

Over the past five days on the island things had been fairly relaxed. Most of Jack's allies such as the Lovenwoods and McMillions were here as part of the celebrations, but the best thing about the trip was the agreement of now political talks for the first part of the week. Now that Saturday had come though, the adults were getting restless and wanted to appeal to Jack's political side. Jack was already mentally groaning before the meeting in the main cabin even started.

The main cabin was fairly large, large enough to hold most of the parties events, and even held a few bedrooms upstairs. This is where most of the activites took place, except for the outdoor sports and swimming. Jack loved the larged glass cabin, he felt it was unique and magical. Of course it truly was magical, but that wasn't the real magic of it.

The room was seated by the order of power in the room, something Jack was already beginning to find distasteful, “Everyone here knows I do not believe in this whole blood purity crap, please just find a seat and let us begin. The faster we get through here the faster the rest of us can get on with our vacation.”

Most of everyone took to Jack's message, this allowed Gabriela to sit next to him, while Samuel and his current interest Larisa Truman to sit next to him. Soon the room was practically divided into couples which Jack had a feeling would one day dominate the government.

Tiberius rose after everyone was seated, “The elderly lords and ladies have sat back for quite some time allowing you youngsters to take control of the government, we have sat back and watched failures and successes, but that doesn't matter because all of you are learning, and learning quickly. But the time for planning needs to be taken now. We all must work together, we must all be in the know if this is going to work out against the now unrestful dark faction. With Jonathon Treswyler dead, the Treswyler and Vardman family are very up in arms causing a great stir in the midst of our political circles. We are prediciting a coup soon, with Jack being the target.”