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Anais Nin
Anais Nin
Thespian

Feb-15-2009 01:09

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

I glanced up at the large clock again. Each tick and each tock drove my mind farther back into the past. A past I had left behind ten long years before. A past I was facing now.

But first came the waiting. I hate waiting.

I glanced around the station again. Deserted. Not a soul in sight. Strange, considering that this used to be a bustling train station ten years ago. I pulled the letter out of my shoulder bag to look at it again.

"Anais, Be at Winchester Station, Platform 7 at 23.00, 2/15. ~Lisette"

Lisette. Could I really face her after all this time? Well, I was about to find out. With a shaking hand, I shoved the letter deep into my bag. Where was she? It was 23.17. Lisette had never been late in the twenty plus years I had known her. What was going on?



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Lolita Marinez
Lolita Marinez
Sleuth About Town

Feb-23-2009 14:14

Anais gasped and suddenly darted into the room before the others even had a chance to draw their guns. She snatched up her treasured childhood toy........a handmade teddy dressed in Scottish tartan. On the floor next to it lay the miniature sporran gleaming in the candlelight. Snatching that up as well Anais raced back towards us ducking for cover as we started shooting.

Father Manfred dived for cover and when the shooting stopped he yelled my name "Lolita, you dirty traitor. I knew there was something about you......."

"Hahahahaha" I laughed. "Powerful men like you should pay more attention to the people who work for them. Pretending to be your secretary for years to learn your secrets and you NEVER SUSPECTED!"

Ace looked at me stunned. I had never told him about my undercover work. He thought I was just a beautiful sleuth who knew how to move on the dancefloor.

Acemaster
Acemaster
Well-Connected

Feb-23-2009 19:29

((Funny how there are two men and four women, each man loving two women. Weird! ;-) ))

"Here's the deal, Father." Ace told Manfred, "We won't kill you, provided you let us have that statue and get away with it."
"No deal." Manfred stared up at his captors, "DAB will never release that statue."

Ace took out his handgun, firing one into the Father's arm. "Just so you get the jist of who your dealing with."
"I told you I'm not going to tell you."
Ace turned towards the others. "This statue has got to be here somewhere. You should canvass the area, and maybe you'll find whoever has it."
"Ace, this is a big church!" Anais exclaimed.
"And that's why I'm going to stay with the Father." Ace gleamed devilishly, making the Father sweat like a pig.

As the others started searching, Ace worked over Manfred. Finally, Manfred gave in.

"It's with a nun. Sister Margaretta! She has it!" Manfred moaned.
"She's in the church now?"
"Yes." He grunted, "She's teaching the children on the second floor somewhere."
"Much obliged, Father." Ace smiled. He commenced tying the Father up and gagging him, stuffing him in a closet.
"I'll be back for you soon." Ace assured him, and he turned to find the others.

As he ran through one of the corridors, he ran into Vulkie.

"Hey, Vulkie!" Ace panted, "The Father said that a Sister Margaretta has it, and that's she's teaching kids on the second floor."
"Wonderful! Lisette should be nearby somewhere."
"Go get her." Ace told her, "We'll go and search the third floor while the others keep looking. Manfred could be lying."

Lolita Marinez
Lolita Marinez
Sleuth About Town

Feb-23-2009 21:35

Rounding a corner in my search for the statue I found Anais sitting on the floor inspecting her teddy bear.

"Come on" I exclaimed "This is no time for childhood reminiscing. We have to find that statue"

Anais looked up at me with shining eyes and held out the sporran. The tiny little pouch that her teddy had worn around his waist was now open and Anais was holding another piece of parchment in her hand. Apparently Father Manfred had been trying to open it using some sort of ritual but Anais had remembered a rhyme her father had taught her and finally realized it was used to open the tiny pouch.

"The power you seek is LIFE and DEATH. Beware all ye who seek. Find the Sanctuary where life is consecrated and death mourned."

"Fredo" Anais whispered "He knows how to use the statue. Life and Death. That is how he keeps returning when we think he has been killed!"

I stood stunned for a moment trying to comprehend what she meant. I had to shake myself to get myself moving again. I knew we must be in the right place. A CHURCH....... where babies are baptized and funerals held. Churches are called Sanctuaries.

Grabbing Anais' hand I turned and dragging her behind I said "We have to find the others. We have to warn them!"

Vulkie3
Vulkie3
Haynes

Feb-24-2009 05:23

(Hmm Ace. Not looking good I think. We left Lisette at home,cuz she was making it too dangerous for us,getting kidnapped etc.)

Joseph Zeo
Joseph Zeo
Tale Spinner

Feb-24-2009 07:01

((Actually Vulkie, I don't think Lisette would allow us to leave her at home, especially with all the dead bodies around :P We all know she's a feisty woman, and she's the one who started the whole search and really wanted the treasure... and I don't think she'd allow Joseph to be 'alone' with Anais. So, yeah, let's say that she tagged along anyway. It makes more sense.))

Joseph Zeo
Joseph Zeo
Tale Spinner

Feb-24-2009 08:21

((Sorry guys, I'm getting confused here. In the beginning Lisette had a statuette, we opened it, found a clue, and hence began our scavenger hunt. That statuette was last mentioned Feb 19 11:08, and no one ever wrote that it was lost.

Up to the point when we entered the Nin's old residence, we don't know what object we were looking for (didn't say in the previous hint). According to Vulkie, the crooks threw the ''treasure'' out of the window, and Father Manfred grabbed it. According to Ace, we threatened Manfred to let us have that statue... (so i guess Ace noticed that it's a STATUE the crooks threw at Manfred? are we all agreeing on that? and that statue is different from the statuette at the beginning of the story? Ace please confirm. thanks.)

According to Lolita, Anais said Fredo knows how to use the statue, and that he kept himself from dying... However, (1) Fredo never owned that statue (2) Sounds like you need to use it within the church, according to what the Teddy Bear parchment say; but Fredo had been 'regenerating' long before we reach the church scenes...

Okay, everyone have been amazingly creative and we got a wonderfully fun story going. As long as we keep the story straight, I'm sure we'll all pull this through :) May I suggest that Anais found out the treasure (the statue) contains the power to bring life and death, and we leave it at that (without dragging Fredo back from the fiery grave). Lolita it's your call, other characters in the story don't know about it yet, so you can still work with it.

So, we've Anais and Lolita on the first floor, finding out what the treasure actually do (btw, that's a good one Lolita), Lisette chaining Joseph to her, wandering nearby somewhere (i'll try to straighten that one out in my next post), finally Ace and Vulkie heading to search the third floor (not 2nd?). Okay guys, let's try to straighten out this exciting story. Happy writing!))

Joseph Zeo
Joseph Zeo
Tale Spinner

Feb-24-2009 09:14

"Ouch, Lisette, you're breaking my arm!" I grumbled.

“Well, that’s for trying to lose me!!” Lisette continued to jerk me forward as she ran up a flight of stairs. It was actually Vulkie’s idea, but I was as guilty for not standing up for her. Honestly, I was a bit disappointed when I realized we couldn’t ditch Lisette. The girl was absolutely impossible to shake off.

“I’m confused, are we looking for a statue? What does it look like?” I asked.

“Shut up! Are YOU the one who got banged your head? We’re looking for the treasure. What more do you need to know?” Lisette snarled. I kept my mouth shut.

Anais was right -- this church was huge. We reached the second floor and faced a long stretch of corridor. This was going nowhere. I didn’t even know what this treasure look like. Lisette kept her spirit up and dashed forward, her hand still latched tight onto my wrist, of course.

Two third down the corridor, we began to hear noises. Laughter, to be exact, and they seemed to belong to children. It was coming from the room at the end of the hall, next to another set of staircase. Lisette and I quietly crept toward the room. I decided to keep my gun in the holster, but I know I’d never be too slow to draw if I needed it.

“…so this was how Daniel was saved from the lion’s den!” A sweet voice of a women said. “Now, who want to hear another story about Daniel?”

“Me!” “Me!” “Me!” The children responded enthusiastically.

We peeked into the room and saw a gentle looking nun, holding various story telling props " puppets, stuffed animals, statues. At the same time, hurried footsteps were heard running up the flight of stairs next to the children’s classroom.

Lolita Marinez
Lolita Marinez
Sleuth About Town

Feb-24-2009 15:24

((Sorry for any confusion.........I could have finished the story with the teddy and sporran being the powerful object but I'm new to this and I didn't know if it was my place to finish someone else's story..

I read it as a search for the Priceless Statuette of Bha Zhing Ze and the first one was just a clue to get to the proper real powerful statuette. And Ace asking Father Manfred for the statue also confirmed that theory for me.

And read on to find out more about how Fredo did it.

I hope this clears up my part of the story))

P.S Thankyou for the compliment Joseph.

Lolita Marinez
Lolita Marinez
Sleuth About Town

Feb-24-2009 15:38

Racing up the stairs with Anais in tow I spotted Joseph and Lisette peering into a classroom. I motioned for them to come away and we went a little further down the corridor.

"Anais has worked out what the treasure is and what it does" I told them. "She says it's a statue of a half man, half bird and it has both the power to kill and to bring life back."

When Anais had told me the clue and her suspicions about Fredo I finally remembered something. Working as the secretary for Father Manfred often meant I was there late and a few times I had seen Sister Margaretta walking in the cemetery late at night. Could she be related to Fredo? Did she really know how to use the statue's power?

"We need to get the statue but if she knows how to revive the dead maybe Sister Margaretta also knows how to use the other power of the Statue. What are we going to do?"

Suddenly Lisette turned on her heel and started draggin Joseph back down the hallway. "LISETTE!" Anais hissed "Where are you going?"

Lisette dragged Joseph into another room and Anais and I followed behind. Suddenly everything went black right in front of me. A cloth had been thrown over me. I struggled out of the covering to discover we were in a closet/changing room and there were nuns clothes on racks. Lisette was changing and she had thrown clothes at the rest of us.

After a few minutes, four nun's emerged from the closet. I was trailing behind trying not to laugh at Joseph dressed as a nun!

Acemaster
Acemaster
Well-Connected

Feb-24-2009 15:59

((So sorry! I thought that the whole time, we were looking for the statuette. Stupid me. Okay, then, yes. Lisette has one statuette, the other is what we're looking for. Sorry about that!

And, BTW Lolita, I don't think anyone's really sure how to end a story... that's mostly because these usually just die out. ;-) I can't post right now, but I will later. Just wanted to clear that up. ;-) BTW Great post Lolita. I'm so glad I wasn't there. :-)

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