Disappearances and possessions p2

"Hey! Between the time we sent Fake Taci back to Yurei and Jasper, and the time Fernando and Grey came back in, it's been a good few minutes." Garrick said, "It's weird that neither of those three showed-up again, nor tried to contact us in any way!

I get that this is a big house and it's easy to go unnoticed for couple of minutes, but considering that Both Grey and Fernando are found, shouldn't those two have long gone since they've came back to us?" He questioned.

Surprised, Faunus nodded at him, "You are right, now that I think about it...I do not think I have been feeling Jasper for these past few minutes, I just noticed that I can't feel him nearby." Faunus stated.

"You just noticed that? What's the point of your bond then?" Fernando replied with a glare.

"Hey chill Evil twin! I did the same, I didn't notice when Yuri was here earlier.

Mating bonds don't actually have a very wide radius, Jasper could still be here somewhere, like Rickie said it's a big house and it's easy to go unnoticed here!" Jade said while glaring herself at Fernando.

Sighing, "I suppose I have been too distracted to notice...After all, I have been through a lot lately, especially today." Faunus spoke-up in a calm manner.

Jade was surprised, most of them were, they expected Faunus to angrily comeback at his brother, but he didn't seem angry at all.

Faunus's calm words caused Fernando's glares to die down, he sighed as well and replied, "I'm sorry, didn't mean to be rude...You're right, you've been through a lot, I shouldn't judge you." He said.

Once again, the guests couldn't believe their ears, Fernando just apologized, to his twin nonetheless.

Even Garrick was taken aback, he glanced at Ned who seemed satisfied with Fernando's behavior, as Ned shot a reassuring smile towards Fernando who returned it by looking away in embarrassment.

"Btw...That was nice...of you Freddie." Grey said smiling.

Blushing, "Just shut-up!" Fernando replied.

"I still can't understand, even if you two aren't dating and you're just friends with benefits, whatever it is that you got going between you two...I can't understand how it happened." Jade said with a curious frown, "Oh!...Are you talking...about Us, Jade?" Grey asked.

"Yeah, you're a sweet shy and introverted dude, how on earth you're tango dancing with the Evil Twin Freddie?" Jade asked back.

"Tango dancing! I haven't heard that one in a while! I should start writing down ideas like this for my next book!" Matilda mumbled while giggling to herself, "Now I understand why Ned called you a buffoon when we first met in Derora, pumpkin." Socorro joked.

"Jade honey, don't be rude." Ned warned his daughter, "Yeah, mind your business Princess! So what if Grey and are something?

We're not bothering you, are we?" Fernando said glaring again.

"You guys are getting too worked-up, I for an example, I'm happy whatever this is that's going on between you two, is actually happening because it's obviously helping both of you.

I've never dreamed that Grey would even hold someone's hand, let alone take somebody to pound Town!" Henrietta spoke-up.

"MIND YO BUSINESS TOO HENRIETTA!" A red faced Fernando screamed earning a hearty laugh from Henrietta.

A disappointed yet also blushing Grey, shook his head as he mumbled, "This woman is...unbelievable...pound Town, really?...why you even...care if I'm...doing this with...anyone?"

"Of course I care! You never know! Some people had a thing like you two before they fell in love and got married." Henrietta spoke-up again, catching Muriel's attention.

"Oh please, taking a love advice from you would be the same as throwing my brain out of the window Henrietta." Fernando replied before giving her a middle finger.

"To be fair...I'm not marriage...material...I'm quite surprised...You're invested in...my love life...Henrietta." Grey said, "I know because of your sickness you think you don't deserve anything, but that's not a reason to not live life." Henrietta replied.

"Put yourself in...my shoes Henrietta...if you know you're...dying and your...chances of survival...are slim to...none.

Would you be...so eager to...fall in love...and get married... just to leave...that person behind...if you were...to die early?" Grey questioned.

His words caused unexpected silence, and put a sour expression on everybody listening to him.

Untill, "I know this isn't my place to ask, but you are dying?" Kowa spoke-up despite Nashoba hinting at her to stay silent.

"Slowly but yeah...I'm a half-vampire...with a rare...sickness.

Usually Half-vampires...are born normal...and healthy but...every now and...then....there's that unlucky...half-vampire who's...born with a...sickness that only... happens because they're...a half-breed." Grey explained.

"Oh I see...long ago I've dealt with a case of a young man probably around your age, I turned him into a genie after he was dying due to some peculiar illness like yours...much like you, he spent his whole time closed on himself, until a few months before he died, he ended-up falling in love and until that point he didn't care if he died.

But now he had someone he loved and he couldn't bear the idea of leaving his beloved behind, so he tried everything so his health would get better but, still died from his illness nonetheless." Kowa said.

"What happened to...the young man... afterwards?" Grey asked.

"You know what? remembering this story makes me realize that I might've become harsher lately, again this happened sometimes ago probably the 1800s or something...that young man when he became my genie, lost his freedom and couldn't be with the person he loves.

However he knew that if he paid his debt by working hard for me, he can earn his freedom back, he didn't care that it could take him literally decades, his only wish was that he gets to see his beloved one more time in their life together.

Usually it takes so long for my genies to earn their complete freedom, but in this case I... freed him too early...his beloved was about to get married few years after his death, and he was devastated...I usually don't bend the rules for anyone but for this specific genie, he was just..." Kowa stopped talking, her eyes glimmered for second.

"Just what?" Fernando asked, "Nevermind, it's a pointless story." Kowa replied.

Nashoba glanced at Kowa, he could see her aura turning darker and it made him frown.

Suddenly, "Psst! Thorn." Muriel whispered, "What?" Thorn whispered back.

"Can I ask you for a favor?"

"Sure baby?"

"I need you to get me something!"

"You want me to leave, like right now?!"

"Yes! I shall text you the address, it is very important for me, however I just remembered I have something else to do, so I will see if they do not need Coco here and take her to take care of that something."

Puzzled, "I don't understand! What's that something you're taking about?" Thorn asked rather loudly.

Hearing it, "What's the matter you two?" Ned asked.

"Neddie! I was thinking since you said you do not necessarily need my help, I thought I should go do a couple of things I happened to remember.

I shall be taking Coco with me if possible, and Thorn will have to leave too." Muriel explained.

"You want Coco to go with you?" Matilda spoke-up, "Muriel, I wasn't aware you had plans for today." Socorro stated.

"I just happened to remember, it is nothing too serious, I hope you would not mind taking Coco with me, Matilda?" Muriel said.

"It's Socorro's choice, if she wants to go, she can go." Matilda replied.

"Then I'll have to excuse myself, Pumpkin, I'll be back once I'm done helping Muriel, okay?" Socorro said and when Matilda nodded, she gave her a quick kiss on the cheek.

"How sweet! Well we must hurry-up now! We do not have time to waste!" Muriel said happily.

"Take care of yourselves, make sure to contact me if anything happens!" Ned said.

"Sure thing Half-cousin!" Muriel replied giggling before he started dragging a still confused Thorn with him, Socorro followed them closely behind.

When they left, "That was suspicious." Jade stated, "It is also none of our business." Lady Orange spoke-up, "Maybe I should leave too after all." She added.

"I was hoping you continue being silent." Jade replied, "Unfortunately with how insane things are getting, that is quite impossible...Do let me know when you find poor Kimberly, I honestly stayed this far just for her sake." Lady Orange said.

"You're leaving already?! But what about me!" Kowa protested, "You could leave too, after all You are not supposed to be meddling with these people or their matters, Business owners and most importantly 'Queens' should not be wasting their time on trivial pursuit." Lady Orange replied.

"Trivial my ass you bitch!" Fernando said earning a deep glare from Orange Lady.

"Feel free to go, we'll contact you if anything changes." Ned replied, "Very well then, goodbye everyone.

Goodbye Ko!" Lady Orange said before she hugged Kowa momentarily then headed outside the room.

"I still cannot feel Jasper, I wonder where he could be, do you think they took Fake Tacito somewhere?" Faunus spoke-up.

"Since it could potentially be Edward, Maybe he figured it out and wanted to get revenge again?" Fernando said.

"My brother isn't the type to get Revenge, but considering that his personality has changed a lot recently, that isn't really out of the possible anymore.

Although I really doubt it because if this is really Edward pretending to be someone else again, he's inhabiting Taci's body this time...no way my brother would hurt Taci." Jade replied.

"I know this is a weird question but I've noticed you Valentinos seem to really care about Taci, I mean I understand Thorn would do, he's his father, Yurei is his mate and Muriel is pretty much the Angel mother who adopted him, and Garrick is his closest friend.

But What about You three?" Fernando asked.

"Now isn't the time to ask such questions, we need to find Jasper and Yurei and the imposter." Ned replied.

"Fau, Try calling Jasper, or texting him." Garrick suggested, "Maybe I should call him instead?" Ned wondered, "I will do it Mother." Faunus replied picking his phone but he quickly let out a confused, "Huh?"

"What's wrong?" Nashoba asked, "I just noticed that Jasper have left me a message, I missed it because I had my phone on silent, I did so when I went to my house earlier after being Angry at that Orange Harlot." Faunus said making Fernando hold back a chuckle.

"Btw Kowa, are you sure you can't do anything to help?" Nashoba asked, the tall Giant girl was now sitting on the floor.

"Uncle, I've already told you...beyond Dealing with Rapunzel, anything else is outside my jurisdiction." Kowa explained.

"Are you sure you're not refusing to help just because you don't want to?" Nashoba asked with a slight frown.

Sweating, "It's complicated, Yuri shouldn't also be doing much either, it's against any magical business ethics to interfere with problem outside the business using the Powers you gain from that business." Kowa replied.

"No wonder Yuri is desperate to leave the business, it's a prison sentence." Garrick said, "I can't imagine how difficult it must've been." Matilda replied.

"For the long period of time I've known Yuri in, I could tell they were never happy being Jihi...I'm not sure how they ended-up working a job they've obviously hated, it's not like Yuri really explained why... But it isn't really far fetched that they were forced to work this job." Ned stated.

"Unfortunately, worrying about Yuri has to wait momentarily... Jasper's text says he's back at the hotel." Faunus spoke-up.

"At the what now?!" Garrick said surprised.