Chapter 83 The Three Shadows

"I thought we went deeper into the past,"

Blake is staring at his mother while she looks around them, They were out in the forest near a rocky sidewalk, She looks back at Blake and sees a pair of horses with three shadows walking with them,

"We are," Rhina said

She touched Blake's chin and made him look behind him, he saw what she did. two shadows shined brighter than one, they had a darkness wrapped around them making the light that once shined from him faint and slowly go away,

"This doesn't make sense," Rhina muttered

Rhina went closer trying to get a better look at the shadows in deep concern, She knew that the auras their family had with them the moment they were born but Blake, Rhina watched the dark shadow left behind by the two bright shadows heading into the woods,

"That is familiar," Blake let out

Blake felt an energy with the shadow, the shadow still had light within it, but a voice was talking with him,

"Peter,"

It turned around trying to look for the voice, while Rhina was trying to figure out what Peter was talking about... there has only been one Peter in the family.

"What is this?"

The shadow turned back to the horses who at the time were starting to get frightened by the voice,

"You want more to this life," 

A mist appeared around the shadow making it darker, Blake felt a sting around him with the mist slipping endlessly praise of promises of tomorrow,

"I know you want to take his head, Peter, have the fame... the power to change your life for the better and leave the one who has it all, squandering that power in the pit of history,"

"I know that voice all too well," Blake muttered

Rhina nods and then agrees with him, "It sounds just like your shadow,"

"Yes, it does. It also has its tendencies," Blake said

Blake thought of how it first met the Shadow. How it would try to convince him to take over the mafia and take the light as his own. He listened to it and looked at what happened, he might have some sort of control over the shadow, but when will it turn to its old ways?

The man known as Peter listened intently to these mist whispers, and he started to think. "What would my life be if I could have what he has..."

The shadow looked over at where the other two shadows went, with a spark of envy he had in his thoughts, "I would be able to achieve what he couldn't, to be better of a ruler than he ever was."

"There you go, Peter. all you have to do is take my hand and accept my deal,"

Peter stretched his hand towards the mist but something went to mind, What would Antony think of me? Would he be ashamed of me after this, the mist took his hand and wrapped it around him with Peter welling out in pain,

"Antony!...Im sorry,"

He fell on the ground, knocked out. The mist took over him taking the light away, Blake took a step toward him to find the shadow humming a little tune, and Rhina stood there in frightened. What has this shadow done and why would it choose to Blake, this is not how it's supposed to be. Blake had the energy before he ever got the shadow but now it seemed the shadow was drawn to him somehow,

"Humans have never changed,"

The man once known as Peter sat up, he looked around him finding the horse frighted by him galloping away, he hummed again while getting up, Blake took a closer look at him and saw the shadow taking over his eyes.

"Dum, Dum, Dum,"

He walked past Blake toward the entrance of the forest, Blake turned to him and saw Rhina moving closer to him, She stood by the shadow seeing the shadow look afar off in the forest, and with a snarl,

"They found it haven't they?"

He moves past the trees and is seething inwardly, he knows that they would find that piece of rotten wood in his opinion. Blake was next to Rhina watching the shadow walk to the castle,

"We should follow," Blake said

Blake walks past her following the shadow waiting to see this through, Rhina lets out a sigh and goes after her son with worries circling her mind... she has only gone so far into the past this is all new to her as well.

"I see there were casualties at their hideaway,"

Marcello is with Avalon looking over at the hologram map Salvatore had opened for them, Avalon has seen how they were killed before. It's familiar to her. it was what they had found before in the lab Mórrígan had, Avalon tapped one of the photos they had and saw the examining a woman with her neck twisted and her right hand crushed. 

"This was in Excellence way," Salvatore told them,

He went through the information they had at the time, the car plates, and some casualties were found to be with Maxien, the photos were all they had right now from the police that had gotten there,

"It's not certain that it was human with how they killed them, it was,"

"To perfect for it to be human," Marcello cut him off

Salvatore nods at him Salvatore shifting the evidence to him while Avalon goes through the photos and is in deep thought, "This was on the same route to my home..."

She found a picture of the house with the police looking over the bag, there was a shadow of a man in the window staring down at them, the next picture he was gone, leaving the rest of the photos unseen.

"Marcello, what do you think of looking into this, I already had the mayor ask up to look into this, however, we still have our people in the infirmary," Salvatore said

"I will go there alone if need be Sal, this was important to them and I could see why." 

He saw the bags full of stolen money,

"This is how they start to rebuild,"

"I have Damien on a mission with Ally while Luke looks over the crystal you had, i have no one else," 

"I can go,"

They turned to Avalon who moved the photo of the man in the picture in front of them,

Salvatore started to oppose her,

"Avalon can't let you do that, you still have,"

"Sal, there is no one else that can go with him," Avalon cut him off

Marcelo looked at the picture, seeing what Avalon saw, the man in the window.

"I'm still saying no, Avalon. With fainting making the crystal, I won't let you go," Salvatore said

"Sal, I don't believe there is a choice in this,"

Marcello shows him the picture and Salvatore looks it over, he doesn't think much of it, passes it back to Marcello,

"That could be a part of the police," Salvatore said

"It's not," Avalon told him,

"Then what would it be?"

"You remember the old Mafia before and after they made clones,"

"This might be,"

"A clone yeah... possibly the one that I

fought," She muttered

Salvatore looked at Avalon and saw that she wasn't going to listen to him, He then said, "You aren't going to listen to me for this are you?"

"Yes, I would have found a way there myself, Sal," Avalon told him,

"Marcello could you..."

"Boss, if she is right... I will want a magical woman on my side rather than not have her there. I know it's risky but the nurse you sent told her she's fine," Marcello said 

"But you're still going to..." Avalon said 

"Be with you every step of the way," Marcello cut her off,

Salvatore looked at the two of them. he knew that Marcello would watch her, but he still had an off feeling about this. He had this before, but he didn't think it would come back this quickly, Marcello looked back at him with Avalon next to him,

"Go I will warn the main room," Salvatore told them, 

Marcello puts his hand on Avalon's shoulder saying, "Meet me at the lobby," 

He left the two of them, Avalon turned to Salvatore with a slight smile, "Is my office still in the same place?"

"Yes it is but the weapons have been moved," Salvatore said

He went to his desk and pressed a password on the keyboard, ten, seven, twenty four twenty-three, one, twenty-six, the wall moved behind him revealing a wall that held her dagger and the sword that was with her as well.

"I kept them here,"

Avalon walked up to her weapons and touched the daggers, seeing them glow… like they were waiting for her to return. They disappeared from their site, scaring Salvatore,

"Where have they gone!"

"Sal, it will be fine,"

"How could you say that,"

"Because," She pointed at her side where the dagger appeared again, Salvatore looked stunned before asking the orange-haired woman,

"How are you... you know what that shouldn't surprise me,"

"It really shouldn't by now," Avalon said

She looked back at the sword and reached her hand out for it wanting to see if she could move it, Salvatore watched The sword glow with the tattoos of Avalon appearing on it. disappeared and reappeared in her hand glowing the same glow the daggers, the tattoos glow green before they went away,

"That worked," Avalon muttered

She placed it on her other side while Salvatore stood there with Wonder, he hadn't seen this before. Then again, who hasn't? A woman able to make her weapon appear and disappear,

"it is only told in myths," Salvatore thought

Avalon thought she had all her weapons but the only weapons she didn't see were the silver butter knives she had used before, Avalon felt a heat in her hand remembering the weapon, and looked at it,

"Calm down, I have not forgotten," 

The knives appeared on her right caff, Avalon looked at her weapons before looking at Salvatore,

"You need to get the main headquarters ready," Avalon told him,

Salvatore stares at her, in deep thought.

"Yeah I will get there, you should go meet with Marcello," 

"I will,"

Avalon went past Salvatore now at the door but Salvatore stopped her for a moment,

"Avalon," 

She glanced behind her at him, 

"Please watch yourself," 

She smiles at him, "I got it, boss,"