39Chapter 1-
"How did I get myself into this.?" Alexa asked to herself. She quickly grabbed her backpack, pressed the red button and jumped. She plunged down the fall of 30 feet and while she was still in the air, she heard it. BOOM. The building blew up, of course she had made sure no one was in the building and that every research and clues they found were in the building. She made a landing on the soft green grass. She remembered the promise she made when she was 13, she had promised herself and her fellow Madrigals that she would infiltrate the Vesper strong hold, and when she got their trust she would destroy all their clues and research. That was 2 years ago. But now that promise was done and she was glad to come back to her normal life, but there was a problem, she had faked her death and changed her appearance. Only a few knew about her plan.
"Well done," a cold voice said from behind Alexa "Not bad for a Lucian." Alexa hate being called a Lucian, but she knew that voice. She turned to find a tall guy with short blond hair, X, she always called him. He was a Vesper boy she… knew.
"How long have you known?" Alexa asked while looking for a way to escape.
"All along." X said smugly, he came closer to her. Normally, that would make her heart beat faster, but not now, she knew better.
"You're lying, otherwise you wouldn't have-" she stopped herself. He had used her, but she had also used him, and he didn't know that. Now after all the backstabbing and lies, she had her payback. "Never mind." she said as she ran, trying to escape.
"You know I can't let you leave." he said as he caught her with his arms. She looked into his green eyes, that's what she hated about him, he was annoyingly smart, not to mention a jerk and of course he was a Vesper, the enemy. But his green eyes made her forget all that and just… forget everything.
"I know." she said as she grabbed her backpack and hit him on the head with it. He fell to the ground. "And by the way I'm only half Lucian." she looked down at him in the green grass and she walked away into the darkness of the woods. She was finally feeling better.
When Amy, Dan and Nellie stepped foot in the New York airport they knew something was wrong. For one no one had tried to kill them... yet. But that might change soon because a group of young teenagers in leather brown and red outfits seemed to be following them. When they reached the baggage claim a girl dressed in a red shirt, a plaid red and black skirt and a light black coat with a long black hair with long red bangs came close and whispered: "You are being followed," as she reached for one of their bags. "Come with me."
Dan didn't know what to do, so he looked at Nellie and Amy, and realized they did know either. Just as they were deciding, one of the teenagers wearing brown grabbed Nellie's arm and pulled her. The girl who had said 'Come with me' did a quick move and grabbed Nellie's other arm and kicked the teenage guy to the floor. Then she ran with Nellie and one of the bags. Amy and Dan grabbed their bags and followed the girl.
"Hammer I got the Ms, You are free to engage, the Vs are close." the girl spoke into a walkie- talkie as they ran.
"Who are you?" Amy asked
"We can talk later, the Vs- I mean the Vespers are here. All you need to know is that you already know me." the girl said so fast, that Dan almost didn't understand her.
"How do you know us?" Dan asked
"No time." she said as she stopped and open an elevator doors. They got in and they saw the teenage Vespers running to the elevator, but a bunch of other buff guys got in the way.
"I'll get you Lucian." said the guy whom the girl had kicked.
"Half Lucian" the girl said angrily. The door of the elevator close as she finished her sentence.
"You're a Lucian?" Nellie asked backing away from the girl.
"I'm only half Lucian and I'm half Madrigal." The replied weakly, just then Dan realized that the girl's arm was bleeding.
"Is your arm okay? And who are you?" Dan asked. As he touched her arm.
"I'll be fine, Dan. And my name is Alexa Cahill, Kabra, depending who you ask." she said
"How do you know his name? What's going on?" Amy asked, just as the elevator doors opened.
"She's your cousin, Amy." the door opened to show Uncle Fiske waiting.
"Cousin?" Amy, Dan and Nellie said at the same time.
"We need to go they won't be far." Their new cousin said.
They got to uncle Fiske's car, Nellie drove and Fiske sat on the passenger's seat "Really Alexa, you just got back last week and you get in trouble?" Fiske asked.
"Sorry, but he was going to hurt Nellie, what was I suppose to do? Let him?" she said while taking care of her arm "Stupid X." she said half whispering hoping no one heard.
But Nellie did "X as the letter or 'ex' as in ex-boyfriend?" Nellie asked.
"um… both." she answered unable to lie, hoping Fiske didn't hear.
"What?" Fiske asked shocked "You, my grandniece, was dating a Vesper and you didn't tell me?""
She leaned close to Fiske but said loud it so everyone could hear "I didn't tell you because you would say I was getting too involved, plus his father is the Vesper leader." Then she smiled, leaned back and crossed her arms, as if she knew something no one else knew. "That's how Dan and Amy got out of Switzerland." she said.
"That was you?" Amy asked, Alexa nodded. After that Dan and Amy sat there thinking, everything was quiet.
Until Dan asked "Why haven't we heard from you?" he had a point.
"Because I've been 'dead' for two years." she put quotation marks on the word dead "At least that's my cover, I've been infiltrating Vesper hot spots." she sighed, "And you don't recognize me because I dyed my hair from copper to black. I just got back a week ago, I've been busy visiting family and friends."
After a few minutes of silence the car stopped and Fiske said "We're here."
When Alexa opened the car door Amy saw a glass building on grass so green it looked like someone dyed it. When they reached the glass building Fiske stopped and said "I'll come back later, Nellie please follow me."
"Okay." Nellie said and followed Fiske to the parked car.
"Where are we?" Dan asked Alexa while he looking at the glass walls
"We are in the my favorite hide out, the place where we make branch alliances, today where meeting with our youth group." she replied as she opened the glass doors. They walked in a marble hall until they reached a big red door, inside there were a bunch of kids. As they walked in the room Amy recognized a few faces: Jonah, Hamilton, Sinead, Ian and Natalie. And there were other faces she didn't recognized.
"Welcome, Cahill children" Alexa announced "I'm happy to see you all here, most of you know why you are here, you are one of the most powerful Cahill kids from every branch; Lucians, Madrigals, Tomas, Ekats and Janus." she stopped and smiled.
"Some of our parents don't realize what's going to happen, the Vespers are rising and we Cahills need to stick together, and if our parents won't do anything we need to unite." she looked around and a boy wearing a red sweater had high hand up. "Yes, James?"
"Didn't you destroy the Vesper strong hold?" The boy named James said with a British accent.
"She did, but only there clues and research." A dark skinned girl with a laptop answered.
"Yes, thank you Elena. But that doesn't mean they will stop, they'll come for us." Alexa said looking out the window. Dan couldn't help but wonder what happened when she was with the Vespers, what she saw and what she learned.
"Any way," Alexa said as her eyes retrieved from the window to the kids in the stand. "Amy, Dan you know some of my... Friends." she said looking around the room for Ian, Natalie and Sinead.
"And some of us you never meet, but we've been watching" said a girl with wavy black hair leaving her seat to the front of the audience to greet them. "I'm Selene, Lucian and one of your cousin's best friend." she hold out her hand to Dan, and Dan shock it.
"That's Elena with the laptop, Ekats." Selene said sighing and whispered the last part "The blond girl next to Hammer- I mean Hamilton is Anna." she pointed at a girl with brown eyes that looked like a model that could beat you up. Amy wondered why she called Hamilton a Hammer, that was the second time someone called him that.
"And there some clowns over there." Selena pointed at a group of boys that were sitting in the back, Ian, that boy named James, Jonah and two other guys.
"Thank you, Selene." she said eying her to get back to her seat "We're going to be here for a week, trying to find a solution to our… Vesper problem, We have the whole building to ourselves, so the bedrooms and everything else. Including the secret rooms." The room filled with murmurs.
"So we're staying here for a week?" Dan asked, but he was really thinking about the secret rooms.
"Yes, you'll have to share a room with someone, you'll be able to research and you'll have a someone to help you. This is also a way to make the branches bond with each other." Alexa answered looking around the room hoping no one heard her.
"So, that's why Fiske asked us to come to New York?" Amy asked.
"One of the reasons." Alexa answered, "But it's time I show everyone their room."
Amy and Alexa were walking to their room when they heard a voice. "You were 'dead' for two years," The voice sounded sweet "And you don't bother to call?"
The voice came from a boy that looked like Alexa's age with short brown hair and light green eyes, he was hearing a green T-shirt and jeans. Alexa ran to hug him, they looked at each other's eyes, then they looked at Amy.
"This is my cousin Amy, Amy this is Luca." Alexa introduced.
"Nice to meet you." He said to Amy, then turned to Alexa "We'll catch up later." he said and walked down the hall way.
"What was that?" Amy asked
"Well, let's just say you and Ian weren't the only ones to have something on the clue hunt." Alexa said she watched Amy's face turn red.
"What do you mean?" Amy asked, Alexa was a half Lucian, but still a Lucian. She could tell Amy was knew exactly what she meant.
"Let's just say I had spies everywhere and Ian tells me everything, he is my cousin. He tells me things, specially about you." Alexa said "But, don't worry you aren't alone when it come to romance on the hunt."
"How?" Amy asked, she didn't know many Cahills, especially not kids.
"Um… let me think of the best example…. You know my friend Elena?" She asked, Amy nodded "She has her on and off relationship with Jonah, but they-"
Amy cut her off "Wait, Jonah, Jonah Wizard. Is dating an Ekat?" Amy asked, shocked.
"Dates, betrays, kiss, they like to mix it up, but is usually in that order." Alexa said "And there are others, James and Selene, Sinead and Hamilton… and many more." Alexa could have kept going for days.
"But Ian doesn't like me, he just pretended to." Amy said sadly.
"Oh please, if you just saw the number of e-mails he sent me of you." Alexa said, just then her eyes got wide , she had an idea. "Why don't I show you how much he likes you?" Alexa ran down the black marble hall, until she reached her room, Room 3. She opened her bag and inside was her laptop. She booted it up and scanned for Ian's e-mail. She would have to decode them for Amy of course, but it was all here.
A/N: This chapter was edited, super thanks to MagicCahill.
Sincerly,
LM