Board Thread:Short Stories and Fanfictions/@comment-43589463-20190825003309/@comment-43589463-20191013212627

HERE IT GOES

"I don't know!" Dex's mother yelled again. She looked like she was on the verger of tears for not being able to help her son, and Sophie just couldn't take it anymore.

"Dex, really," she said gently. "It's sweet of you, but I don't think she's lying." When she saw the hurt on Dex's face, she quickly added, "I realy appreciate it. I just think maybe this is okay."

Mrs. Dizznee shot Sophie a thank-you look. She looked like she was about to say something else when a shriek echoed throughout the house. Bex was running down the stairs, followed by Lex, followed by Rex, followed by...

A huge wave of clearly controlled water.

The wave snaked down the spiral staircase, wrapping aroudn Rex and pulling him back. Mrs. Dizznee screamed, yelling, "You don't take my baby!" She froze the wave, and it melted. Over and over again they repeated this, but the wave made progress every time. Then Sophie's Imparter buzzed.

Sophie got a sickening feeling in her stomach as she pulled her Imparter out, and Linh's face appeared on the screen.

She wasn't in trouble.

Or panicked.

Or in any situation that merited calling the Moonlark at a random time...

Linh had a cold look of triumph on her face as she proclaimed, "I got ahold of the Moonlark."

Dex looked over her shoulder and passed out cold on the floor. Mrs. Dizznee was already passed out cold, and the Vackers were upstairs doing other things in a soundproof recording studio.

Keefe was nowhere in sight.

"Hello, Sophie," Linh's uncharacteristicall cold voice said, making Sophie burn inside. How could she betray them? Linh's eyes traveled behind Sophie. "Oh, good, you're at the Dizznees. That means you were there to wittness all the... commotion." Linh smirked. "Why did I take a triplet? Simple: We want something in return."

"You're never going to get it," Sophie spat at the Imparter with Linh's face on it. Biana and Fitz began to calmly come down the stairs, and when they noticed all the broken glass and collapsed Dizznee family members, not to mention Sophie staring at her Imparter red-faced for a reason other than Fitz grabbing her hand, they knew something was wrong.

Linh's icy voice laughed, and Biana and Fitz went rigid. Sophie could tell they knew who was on the end of the line by her voice. "You're so cute when you're angry. Listen. I took a family member of so many Black Swan members so that they would make getting him back top priority - even over rescuing Tam. Oh wait! - Sophie's matchmaking list is already placed above that."

Sophie tried to calm down and forced a convincing laugh. "That's what this is all about, Linh? Seriously, we have a plan, and if you'd stick to it -"

"You're plan wasn't going to do anything!" Linh spat. "Tracking his thoughts was a stupid idea! I had a plan, but no one would listen! And no way I'm teling you now, because the Neverseen are right behind me, counting on me to help their cause. He's right - elves have never been the problem. Humans have. If you would just see the truth -"

"What if I just decided that twins were the only problem in the world?" Fitz said coldly from behind Sophie. "Because they look like each other and confuse everyone. The world would just be so much better without them."

Linh stayed silent, but there was fire in her eyes. After a few moments, her dangerously quiet voice said, "If you just show up, hands in the air, at the cave where we first kidnapped you" - note the we - "ready to learn, then Rex will be safely in your hands by the end of the meeting. Every day you delay, he will be returned with more and more bruises and scrapes. And eventually? All you'll get's a body." The Imparter went dark.