Predetermined

Chapter 14 - Think Geography

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The slayers were cautious as they crossed over the threshold of the school. They noticed the vampire waiting for them. Vlad looked the odd one out dressed in his formal vampire gear. Jonno had never known Vlad to wear it by choice before, he looked as if he were preparing himself for some kind of battle.

Jonno and Mina had a clear idea of why they'd been summoned by Vlad.

"What took so long?" Vlad snarled at them, looking at the sky it was well into the afternoon.

Jonno shook his head at Vlad, they'd got there as fast as they could. Contrary to popular belief they didn't sit around doing nothing all day. Slayers had paperwork too. "What's the rush?"

"The Nobles just attacked me and my family!" Vlad snapped at Jonno, Jonno knew the gravity of that action. "They took Erin."

Mina spoke, it wasn't what Vlad wanted to hear but there were no laws against one of their actions. "They can take her as she's their daughter."

"What about trying to slay me?" Vlad asked, his eyebrows rising in anger. "They took Erin then dropped a UV bomb," He saw the look on Jonno's face, "And there's no way you can drop on accidentally after all they have grips all around them." That's what the black lines on the grenades were – grips.

Jonno rubbed his forehead, he never expected them to pull a stunt like this. He'd never met the Nobles personally but he knew how much they upheld the law. The fact they had ignored the truce was worrying.

"You know Erin doesn't want her license back, she's not a slayer anymore. They've broken your laws and almost broken the truce." Vlad sighed, his voice lowering, "You know I don't want anyone drained but if it were the Council here you know I wouldn't have been able to hold off their demand for retaliation."

Jonno nodded he understood perfectly and he was grateful that Vlad wasn't prepared to retaliate. It showed how much Vlad actually cared for Erin, he cared about her more than retaliating.

"Do you know what they want to do to her?"

Vlad nodded, they'd practically told him. "They are sending her back to one of the Academies." Vlad told him, "Its part of getting her licence back." Judging by the slayers expressions they still hadn't worked out who it was allowing Erin to have her license back but that wasn't important at the moment.

"You don't even know when they're sending her there..."

"Considering it's Saturday I'm willing to bet that they'll send her Monday morning." Vlad snapped at them, he wasn't as ignorant as they seemed to think he was.

Jonno shook his head, "Do you know how many academies there are?" He asked Vlad; he needed a reason to single one out. If he even visited the wrong academy word would get back to the Nobles and they'd yank her out of the academy as fast as they could. Anyway he doubted Erin would even be enrolled under her real name.

"Five." Everyone in the room announced. Jonno looked at them shocked.

"We've known about the slayer training academies for the last two hundred years." Bertrand told him, they knew they existed they just didn't know where.

The slayers had their sources of information; they supposed the vampires must have theirs.

"Did Erin give you anything that might help?" He asked, he knew Erin often wrote letters and especially of the ones she'd written to Vlad when she'd returned to the Guild, although they didn't find out about those until after the whole Sethius incident.