Walking down the hallway, Jack was stomping away his feet hard on the ground as he plodded along. He was just about to call it a night after successfully plotting his plan.
’What could be so important to call a meeting at this time, and why does it have to be now.’ He thought, frustrated.
It wasn’t just any meeting between the Leaders though. Mona had specifically told him that this was a meeting for only the big four families, which meant it didn’t include the head generals or the supreme commander. As if it was something they didn’t want them to know about.
This was a rare matter, and the only time Jack had been called into a meeting like this before, was when they decided to invite him to join the leader’s table. Making the Big three into the big Four.
Eventually, Mona had led him down the hallway, and they stopped just outside The Sundhiled family room. When she pushed the heavy door open, the other two could already be seen sitting there waiting. The rooms they stayed in were quite grand and large, and there were several separate rooms. Each one was designed slightly different to suit there own style.
Jack looked around the room, even though it was the same layout, it looked completely different when comparing it to his own. Most of the decor used looked like it was from an older era. There were also several paintings of large beasts on the wall with a single man taking it down. ’Useless Junk’ As Jack would have called it was scattered on top of desks and drawers.
Nonetheless, Jack needed to comply, so he sat down at the large rounded table that looked like it was designed for twenty, but only the four of them were present.
This, of course, meant they were sitting quite far away from each other, but Jack liked this anyway.
"As the elder of the group I shall be the one to start the meeting," Mona said. Although she didn’t look old at all. Burnie looked to be in his fifties, and Jack was just reaching his thirties. Jack had always thought Mona was around the same age as him, but now she had suddenly declared that she was older. He was wondering what type of witchcraft she had to use to look so young.
Now that he thought about, she certainly dressed like a witch as well. Even now in the middle of the night, she was dressed in all black, with a pointy hat and a veil covering her face.
’Does the mad women sleep in that?’
She stood up from her seat as she talked to the others. "I’m sure you all know why I thought it was necessary to call this meeting, but I did so just to make sure we’re all on the same page."
’Huh, they know what this is about already. Have they been doing things without me behind my back?" Jack thought.
"We are here to talk about the Blade family."
’Them again... this is just a waste of time, we need to be dealing with Pure. Oh well, maybe I will learn something about them.’
"We need to make sure that all our families and fractions, including the subfamilies, receive this message. They are prohibited no matter what, to either go after the student known as Quinn Talen or try to research which family he has given the ability book to."
"What did you say?" Jack shouted as he shot up from his seat.
"Ah, I guess you weren’t here for that part," Owen replied. "I seem to remember you left the room at that time. The boy who won the match against the Multiplier. Turns out he and his unique ability is under the protection of the Blade family."
"Yes," Burnie said, nodding his head up and down with his arms crossed on top of his large belly. "We all heard it, ’the chains that have been locked away for centuries, shall be broken by the Blades.’ And we all understand what he meant by that."
The other three all nodded their head, but Jack didn’t have a clue. He didn’t have a grand history of ability users from the beginning of time. His family and his power were only discovered after the Dalki era. He knew nothing of what this damned code meant, and he was starting to get increasingly frustrated that no one was informing him.
What he did understand was what that made clear. They were ordering nearly every person they could, to not touch Quinn Talen. All of this was due to his connection with the Blade family.
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