Secret Rendezvous

Part 9: Taken

"Did you know? That he's been here this whole time?" she said as she swung her arm softly in Lan's direction. But this time it wasn't Lan that was standing by Rune. No…

It was the demon lord, Nadil.

Rune clung to his arm and entwined their fingers together, hidden away from the rest of the crowd. He buried his face in the cloth of his lover's. The demon squeezed his hand a little for reassurance.

"Nice illusion spell. It took me a while to find the right one to counter it. Must've been someone powerful who taught you that." She commented.

"Yes, helping others does have its advantages," Nadil responded.

"Oh, I see, you helped the witch that was trapped in that hole. Maybe I should've put a stronger seal on it."

"Well then you were a little too sure of yourself."

They both carried on with a normal conversation, which basically consisted of speaking in cryptic words of insults.

"Well, it looks like my fun has run out. I think it's time to get what I came to here to get," Lana said.

"He isn't going anywhere with you," Nadil said knowing who exactly she meant.

"Oh so I can't hide anything from you can I? Well then I guess that I should just take him from you."

Soon gusts of wind entered the hall making it hard to see. Nadil protectively held on to Rune. He noticed that the winds seemed to be harsher around them. He could vaguely see Lana a few feet away from them.

"You know this will be much easier on you and the others if you just hand him over," Lana said.

"Never," Nadil responded.

"Suit yourself."

He felt a shock go through him and he loosened his grip, which wasn't good. Lana took advantage of this and managed to snatch Rune away. Nadil was thrown to the floor along with the dragons. He sat up and saw Lana holding Rune. He was about to try and get him back but Lana stopped him.

"Nah, ah, ah. Stay where you are. I could just kill him with a snap of my fingers and I'm sure that neither side wants that, now do they?" They all stood where they were.

"Good. I'll tell ya what, since this obviously isn't a fair match because I could just kill you all in a second, I'll make this fair. I'll give you all until your deadline, which should be in about fourteen days, to take him from us. Should you succeed then we will let you keep him, but we will destroy this whole world along with him. Or if you manage to kill us all in time then we will spare this world regardless of who is left. And there is going to be no negotiations we've had enough of that already. Now that's fair isn't it? Okay so I'll see you guys. Oh yeah don't bother killing him. The elf here wouldn't like it one bit." She finished and disappeared.

Nadil growled in annoyance. This isn't turning out great especially if he has to deal with the dragon tribe himself. Who are not in good terms with him. He could tell that a sword was pointed at his neck from behind ready to separate his head from his body. He wondered why they always go for that. (A/N: C'mon ppl you've gotta wonder why they always slice his head off when he could just put it back on. But then again they always separate it from him.) Now he has this problem to deal with. How he hated hard circumstances.

"You might as well listen to her. After all I know exactly where they took him and I'm sure you would like to get him back as much as I do," Nadil said civilly, which came as a surprise to all of them. Before Alfeegi could say something Raselene made a motion for Rath to hold him still, which Rath did by placing his hand over Alfeegi's mouth muffling what he was about to say. She walked over to her lover (ah! not that two word again) and placed a hand on his shoulder bringing his attention to her. She whispered something in his ear and he held a shocked look for a moment before looking calmly again. He looked at her in confusion then sighed.

"Fine," Lykouleon said dropping his arm.

Nadil turned around to look and saw that a sword was not pointed in his direction. He just looked at the dragon lord's emotionless face. He understood the message. It's not like he was going to do anything. He promised the elf that he wouldn't. He nodded in understanding and motioned for his rival to follow him. This was only a one chance. This will never happen again. He walked towards the open window of Lana's rented room and pointed to the floating island that appeared a few days ago.

"She took him there. The island should land in about seven days. Gives us time to prepare. And it'll take a day of travel to get there." Nadil explained. He was planning his own ambush before when he figured this all out but didn't know how to go through with it. The usual attack all out was something they couldn't afford because he could tell that they could easily kill them with one attack, which Lana proved a few minutes ago.

"I'll go see if the others have ideas. You're welcome to stay but I trust-" Lykouleon began.

"If I wanted to do something I would've done it a long time ago. I have no intention of starting something right now. As much as I hate working with you, I'm sure the feeling's mutual." Nadil said cutting him off. He nodded and walked out. Now how was he supposed to break this to the others?

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Kinshin: Yes I took to long and I apologize for it! I'm very, very, very, x1000, sorry! Of course you people know I have major writers block and I'm sorry that you have to wait a long time and the fact that this is so short. I'm trying to get everything sorted out, especially this one. I have ideas but I can't seem to type it out and you should see how many times I rewrote this particular chapter I think about nine times! I tried to get everything better but I know I made a few mistakes on their characters and all because I know I wrote them out of character and if you're still reading this you know my predicament. I'm very sorry people and I hope that you're not tired of this yet because there are still a few more chapters left and I think I might not update for a few months or maybe until next summer! I hope I don't take too long! Anyways thanks for your patients!

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