{"id":6911,"date":"2016-05-05T01:36:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T01:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/?p=6911"},"modified":"2018-06-05T05:57:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T05:57:03","slug":"taken-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/taken-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Taken, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As the fight with the Draconians continued, we knew that David now had first hand knowledge that Merida and the twins, Maharet and Mekare, had special powers that persisted through their transition into vampires.\u00a0 This is something that was so unusual, but because this power came from the elements it stayed with them.\u00a0 Of course, finding out that Merida came from Maharet’s mortal line was a shock to us all, most especially Va’lis.\u00a0 My son, because that’s who we both — Marius and I — believe him to be now, has a severe protective nature over Merida.\u00a0 Not only because it was the first he ever turned, but also they kind of grew up together, if you will.\u00a0 Despite their tumultuous relationship, they found a very happy medium and celebrate their family now… especially because of the kids now.\u00a0 As Merida and Armand have expanded their family, it has brought all of us such joy.<\/p>\n

The evening of May 7th we were all celebrating another double year for Saphira.\u00a0 Saphi grows twice as fast now as she is part dragon, so she’s moving along nicely in her development.\u00a0 Marius and I took our happy butts home to Romanus Manor and Cherry took the kids back to Monticello for the night as they were spending the weekend with her and Va’lis. Val decided to stay and chat with Armand and Merida over a bottle or two or six of wine.\u00a0 The laughed and told jokes… the three of them finally got along well enough to really enjoy the night.\u00a0 Val finally decided to mozey on home and Merida decided to walk with him back to Monticello.\u00a0 Armand stayed and like the dutiful husband he had become cleaned up the house and patiently awaited his wife to return for a romantic night alone.\u00a0 So he waited…\u00a0\u00a0And waited…\u00a0 And waited.<\/p>\n

And then when the sun rose, he panicked a bit and took the chance to land himself at Monticello’s doorstep.\u00a0 Cherry was surprised to see him. Va’lis had not come home and thus he thought he had just stayed over at Villa Vizcaya.\u00a0 This clearly had not been the case.\u00a0 Cherry’s worry set in just the same.\u00a0 She made sure that the children didn’t feel their heightened state of alert and she ended up asking Carrie to watch over the kids while Armand and Cherry went to let myself and Marius what was going on.<\/p>\n

I immediately knew something was wrong and woke up to meet Cherry walking through Romanus Manor with Armand in tow…\u00a0 meeting her at the top of my stairs, she at the bottom looking up. “What’s wrong?” I asked, “Merida and Va’lis are missing!” she stated, “What do you mean missing?” Armand chimed in to answer me, “Merida was just supposed to walk with Va’lis back to Monticello, well she never made it back home and Va’lis didn’t make it to Monticello.”\u00a0 I immediately called out to Marius. Marius put things in motion and told Armand to return to his kids and wait there.\u00a0 He complained but Marius commanded him to do so.\u00a0 Nothing could be done about that, Marius was Armand’s maker.<\/p>\n

Forces were mobilizing at this point and within 15 minutes we had the entire Romanus army under Cherry’s command had started the search for Va’lis and Merida.\u00a0 Cherry was dressed to the nine’s, full body armor, both her swords and slid under her breastplate was her two favorite GLOCKS.\u00a0 She was walking towards her nightmare, Ash when Marius stopped her. “Cher… you cannot be involved in this, as I told Armand. This is too close to you.\u00a0 You cannot be objective and we’ve already had shit happen before that almost got a bunch of us killed… these people are not your average vampires… they are ancients!”\u00a0 She looked at him, still putting on her gloves, “You got another thing coming if you are going to bench me.\u00a0 I am the General here!” Marius’ jaw started to square the way it always does when one of his subordinates misbehaves.\u00a0 “I am not benching you, I am ordering you. Stand down.”\u00a0 With that, she back off.\u00a0 She knew she would be in a world of hurt if she didn’t back off…\u00a0 her eyes started to water.\u00a0 I knew this came from a place of grave concern for her husband.\u00a0 “Marius… don’t shut her out, Va’lis is her husband and he is our adopted son.\u00a0 Makes us no different.” I told him as I hopped up on Ichabod. He sighed, because he knew I was right. “Cher…\u00a0 come on, let’s go.” With that Cherry made a sharp turn and jumped onto Ash but her demeanor had changed.\u00a0 Her watery blood tinged eyes told her story.\u00a0 It was good that Marius was leading this effort.<\/p>\n

After 6 hours, there was no trace in Sosaria of them both.\u00a0 It was like they simply vanished.\u00a0 Our family’s concern was that the Draconians had once again attempted to take Merida, for they desperately seek to leverage her powers for their own benefits and that Va’lis had likely interfered and they both had gotten caught.\u00a0 \u00a0We didn’t think they’d come back to Sosaria at all, after we nearly destroyed the majority of their armies.\u00a0 We came back to Romanus Manor, summoned all the Elders and headed to Trinsic Hold in Felucca.\u00a0 It was time to formulate a real plan, one that would summon us all to Earth.<\/p>\n

Louis, Lestat, Armand, Bianca, Amroth, Cherry, Marius, and I were joined by Maharet, Mekare, and Khayman.\u00a0 Flanked on our sides were Flavius and his Praetorians.\u00a0 I told Flavius to take a seat next to Cherry.\u00a0 Our Legion Commanders continued the search throughout Sosaria as we strategized our next move.<\/p>\n

Just as we had ironed out a plan to scour both Sosaria and Earth, Commander Spy burst into the Council Room to tell us they found Va’lis. Armand immediately stood up, “And Merida?” Lucius shook his head, her scent had been traced to the portal that the Draconis has established and that’s where it had stopped.\u00a0 Armand lost it.\u00a0 It took both Marius and Amroth to pin him down. I told Lucius to meet me outside.\u00a0 I went with him to where they were keeping Va’lis…\u00a0 he had been badly hurt.\u00a0 I felt it.<\/p>\n

When I walked in, I couldn’t help but gasp,\u00a0 “Unchain him!”\u00a0 Lucius replied, “I am afraid I cannot ma’am, if we do that he will force himself onto us to escape to run after Mrs. Romanus.”\u00a0 A slight whisper came out of Va’lis’ mouth, “at least you know…” I couldn’t help but to sigh.\u00a0 *sighs*<\/p>\n

“Va’lis what the hell happened?”\u00a0 I said as I bit into my wrist and offered it to him.\u00a0 He rejected me. “You will let me go, first or I will bleed out here!”\u00a0 He was so badly hurt, but he still knew how to manipulate my love for him. “Va’lis you cannot go after Merida on your own, you know that.\u00a0 David and his clan are thousands of years old and… ”\u00a0 He cut me off, “If you do not, I will not accept your blood and you will bury me… again.”\u00a0 His eyes were dark, I knew the anger in him had taken over.\u00a0 “Twice now… twice they’ve taken her… and twice you’ve failed to protect her. Now unchain me.” He demanded. “If I do, will you take my blood to heal?”\u00a0 My eyes met his searching for a sliver of the Va’lis I had known…\u00a0 just then Cherry burst into the room.\u00a0 She threw herself at him, but his steely dark eyes remained unchanged.\u00a0 Cherry also took to her wrist, and I stopped her.\u00a0 “He won’t take it unless we unchain him.”,\u00a0 I said to her. “Then what are you waiting for?\u00a0 He’s badly hurt!!!”, she replied. “If we do, what do you think he will do?” I asked… “I will go with him. I will stand by his side, now unchain him Pandora!” She demanded.\u00a0 I looked to Lucius and nodded once.\u00a0 He and three of his legionnaires came in the room, they proceeded to unchain him.<\/p>\n

As the last of his chains came off, he suddenly and abruptly attacked Cherry for her blood.\u00a0 I pulled him off of her, held him up by his throat.\u00a0 Cherry screamed, “NO! Let him go… he can have my blood!” And so I did… and she offered herself to him as a slave to a master.\u00a0 I couldn’t watch.\u00a0 I think she really believed he would let her go with him, but in an instant she fell to the floor and vanished.\u00a0 He had taken so much of her blood, I had to replenish her myself.\u00a0 She then sat in a corner and puller her knees to her chest and started to sob.\u00a0 I wrapped my arms around her, “It’s not him.\u00a0 He’s scared, anguished, and pained,” I told her.\u00a0 “But I would move mountains for him.” she whimpered. I told her that while he knew that, he also couldn’t bare to think that the two people he loved the most would be in such danger.\u00a0 That he in his detachment was trying best he knew to protecting her.\u00a0 But I wondered if that was really true for a few minutes.\u00a0 I concluded that it was.<\/p>\n

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