June 29, 2001 – 14:51 Coralis was at her flyball practice, one of the last ones of the season. When she would be up in the sky during a flyball game or practice, she’d usually leave her hologram on the ground or in the locker. However, she was expecting a call from Eva, regarding the ghoul case they had been working on the previous week, so she kept it on her. The practice was almost over. She stood on the ground, in the middle of the field, listening to Brono’s briefing. She felt her hologram vibrating and pulled it out of her cloak. She walked away from the group to answer it. “Can you come pick me up at metro Henri-Bourassa? Healing Moon is requesting our presence,” said Eva. “Healing Moon? Right now?” “General Tobly wanted to send me and Emery there, but apparently, the Healing Moon insisted on you and me. High Fay Ellya agreed, because it involved ghouls, and well, it could be related to what we’d been working on in Grenville last week. She warned them that it could take long
June 29, 2001 – 16:20 Coralis and Eva looked at each other. Emma turned around and walked to the locked door leading to the patient and examination rooms. “What did you do with the blue marble?” asked Coralis, then looked at Sebastian. “How were the wards? Have they been compromised?” “Couldn’t find anything wrong with the wards. The ward setup is quite intricate, you have done them, right? I didn’t sense any other essence residue lingering in them,” said Sebastian. “Yeah, I have done them recently,” said Coralis, and turned her attention back to Emma, who was holding the door to let them pass through it. “Does your pack have any type of ward setup around your pack land?” “I know we’ve had wards, but I’m not sure anymore. After what happened 2 months ago, with the fays trying to summon wolves, I advised Alpha Collins to look into them, but I don’t know if he did. As for the blue marble, I believe Jessica still has it on her. We kept it, figuring it’d probably be something you’d wa
August 3, 2001 It was a Friday night. Coralis sat on her inn’s bed, her back against the wall. She arrived in Glasgow the previous night, to work a case alongside her mentor Andrew and some other EBEE agents. They wanted to go out to grab a few drinks in town, but she decided to stay in their room and take advantage of her time alone to call Frank. To call him, she always refused to use the satellite function on her hologram, as she saw it as an unnecessary risk. The Fullemon twins gave her a code that she could dial from any landline phone, that would make the call untraceable, and she made sure to use it whenever she could call him from a landline phone or a payphone. “Hey!” she said when he picked up the call. “Hey! Just as I was losing hope!” “Losing hope? Am I that bad?” “Depends,” he softly laughed, “when I am going to be able to take you out for your birthday? You know that I’m getting a car tomorrow, so I’m also looking forward showing it to you and taking you places.”
October 20, 2001“Are you going to be able to pass by later on?” said Frank, while on the phone with Coralis.He stood on the back porch of his mother’s apartment. His sister Stephanie had just arrived, with Sebastian, and they were still waiting for his brother Raymond. They wanted to do something for their mother’s birthday, without their extended family, so the siblings agreed to meet at her apartment for lunch.“I don’t know. I’m still in Winnipeg with Eva, I’ll call you before I leave, but I really have no idea when this meeting will end. I’m not even supposed to be here, but for some reason, elders here are requesting my presence at this meeting. For how long are you going to be at your mom’s?”Coralis stood by a payphone in the middle of a shopping plaza. Eva was next to her. She was still refusing to use her hologram in satellite phone mode to call Frank, to make sure that none of her elders could ever intercept her calls to him. It was lunchtime, so they decided to go to a hu
December 28, 2001“…and it is another victory from our beloved Northerners!! Are they going to win the Silver Cup this season…”The flyball game against Argentina just ended, and Coralis headed back to the locker room with her teammates. Their coach met with them there for a little briefing. As Coralis and Sebastian were about to leave to meet with Frank and Stephanie for drinks, their coach intercepted them.“I know neither of you ever addressed rumours, but just so I know how to answer journalists… is there anything between the two of you?”Coralis and Sebastian looked at each other and started laughing.“And why would they think that he and I are together?” said Coralis, after a minute. “Last time I paid attention to rumours, people still thought that Princess Veronica and I had the hots for each other.”“Uh, well people see you two talking often to each other on the side and leaving the field together, so people are wondering.”Their coach Mylo knew that she was seeing a human. Sh
February 2, 2002Coralis was having lunch in the mezzanine of The Bloody Velvet, with Princess Veronica, Prince Hendrick and Eva.“Something doesn’t make sense. We all know King Matthew never got along with his brother Lucas, and we suspect Lucas of working with goblins. However, I don’t get why the EBEE is asking me to inquire about the Vase of Crimson Sky, instead of investigating the potential of a war, like the CMMA is tasking Eva to do. If Lucas is after it, I should be helping you to keep it out of his hands, not just inquire about it.”“If you don’t mind me asking, why would anyone care about that vase? I’m assuming it’s not just some antic decor?” said Eva.“If we’re to believe what our father told us about it, it’s a family heirloom. It creates born vampires and fortifies bloodlines. He didn’t elaborate, but from my understanding, it allows us to procreate and is basically at the root of our bloodline,” said Prince Hendrick.Coralis and Eva looked at each other.“I think you
February 9, 2002Coralis sat at the back of a taxi, on her way to Frank’s dorm. Mark, his roommate, wasn’t going to be home all night, so they agreed to meet at his place, where they would just be the two of them. She thought about the vase’s replica she created the previous week for the Chicago royal vampire family and hoped it would work as intended. She was confident that it would kill its user instead of granting powers but wanted its curse to extend to wherever the user’s essence could be found, with a different effect.She hadn’t seen Frank the entire week. When she was finally able to leave Chicago, after finishing the vase’s replica in the morning, she had to fly to Winnipeg with Eva for a meeting. After that, she spent the week between South America, for flyball games, and London, for EBEE affairs.The entire week, she’d been debating within herself if she should break up with Frank, or go through revealing herself to him. She knew he wanted her to let him in, but she never c
February 10, 2002The next day, Frank met his mother and sister at a restaurant they like going to for brunch on Sundays.“How is Coralis? Heard she’d been seriously injured last night,” said Stephanie.“I don’t know, didn’t talk to her today. I saw her last night. She was okay, didn’t have any injuries, but then had to leave in the middle of our date. I think she tried to call later on, I know she tried this morning, but I didn’t pick up. I am still a little bit upset that she left when it was supposed to be our time.”“What time was it when she left?”“What did you hear? Did she get injured? How bad?” asked Molly to Stephanie.“Hmm middle evening I’d say, was before 10,” said Frank.“You moron, shit happened after that. I was also called in to work last night, for an emergency. I heard her name mentioned a lot by patients. One of my bosses witnessed the whole ordeal. If your girl wouldn’t have shown up when she did, trust me, we would have had to treat a lot more patients than we did
December 24, 2003 – 19:00“Sally has been killed?” said Sebastian.Samantha nodded and answered Linda’s question. Frank looked at his sister. He knew she was also worried. The doorbell rang and he jumped. Louis went upstairs to answer, followed by Lizzy.“Congratulations!” said Louis as he let Coralis and Audrey in. “We saw on the news. The UK is no longer hunting you down.”“And no longer stuck on house arrest in London,” said Lizzy as she hugged her daughter.“I told you so!” said Sebastian as Coralis walked down the stairs to meet with the others.“Don’t get too comfortable, we’ll be moving to the kitchen to eat,” said Linda as Coralis gave a confused look to Sebastian.Sebastian told her the discussion they had before she and Audrey arrived as Frank led her to the kitchen, his hand on her lower back.“By the way, Sebastian, Emery is now a wanted witch. He was 49th when I checked the lists after talking to MI6.“Frank mentioned something about names when I started calling you Blue,
December 24, 2003 – 16:30Louis handed Frank a drink after Linda collected their winter coats.“I remember that night she took down your former leader. I heard a lot about him, but nothing good,” said Stephanie.“Took down former leader? Is it the duel you mentioned last year when we were trying to get Audrey back?” said Louis, looking at Stephanie.Stephanie nodded to her uncle.“Frank us that you’re close to Coralis, are you like her?” said Molly.“Coralis? Ah yes, I keep forgetting she’s known under a different name. I’m not exactly like her. I’m a werepanther, a different type of lycanthrope,” said Samantha, following Frank to the basement.“I remember seeing her transforming into a panther the night she killed Dwayne,” said Lizzy.“Some mages learn to transform into an animal of their choice. Blue can transform into a black panther,” said Sebastian, leaning on the chair Stephanie sat on.“She looked like a black cat when she came back from that house with that Veronica girl,” sai
December 24, 2003 – 06:00Coralis was making coffee when Samantha woke up.“Good morning, Samantha! You’re up early.”“I couldn’t sleep. Are you sure it’s fine if I come with you guys tonight?”“Yeah, if they told us you’re welcome to come, then you are welcome. They’re very nice people, and they know about us. Well, they know about me and Sebastian, Stephanie knows about you, they won’t mind what you are.”“If they know I’m not human and still want me to come, I think that’s already more than I can hope for.”“Think about it, I rank 11th on the global list of witches to kill on sight and they still want me to marry into their family. What does that tell you?”“All I need to know.”Twenty minutes later, while the girls were making breakfast, Frank woke up. It had only been 5 days since Coralis returned home after a long absence and to him, it still felt like it was the day before.“Considering the time it was when you got home last night, shouldn’t you still be sleeping?”Coralis jump
December 23, 2003 – 22:15“LIEUTENANT YOUMIS?” said Sebastian, looking at him. “Wasn’t he supposed to replace High Fay Zaaro?”“Yes. These abominations reek of his essence.”A few minutes later, Coralis got back on her feet and stepped out of the circle.“Lieutenant Youmis is exhausted. I don’t think he will regain control anytime soon,” said Coralis.“And you said vampire essence was in the mix?” said Eva.“The second time was already worse than the first time. And now this? Why here? Why our pack?” said Emma, as Emery walked back through the portal, followed by High Fay Ellya.“I don’t know why, but we will find out. That’s also why I didn’t want to kill the wolves. We know we can reverse it. Once the connection to their human counterpart is restored, we can question them,” said Coralis, looking at the time on her phone. “I should call my mate before he gets home and worries if I’m not there.”“Ellya, we need to send a unit to capture Lieutenant Youmis. Blue Thunder said he was exha
December 23, 2003 – 21:00 The Northerners were playing at home that night. When the game was over and she and Sebastian were about to take off to go home, Coralis received a call from Emma. She signalled Sebastian to wait and put the call on speakerphone. Emma was in a panic.“BLUE, can you come RIGHT NOW?”Sebastian suddenly got worried.“Where? What’s going on?”“Is Stephanie okay?”“Here at Red Crescent pack. Yes, Stephanie is fine. She left Healing Moon at 9 to go home. She’s not here.”Sebastian was relieved to hear that and swore that if Stephanie still wanted it, he’d complete their bond when he got home, even if he knew Coralis was probably right: the mark was a seal.“I’ll be on my way. I’m close by,” said Coralis, ending the call, and took off, Sebastian following her.“What do you think happens this time?” said Sebastian, as he was trying to keep up with her.“I don’t know, but I’m guessing she couldn’t reach out to anyone at the CMMA. Remember the last time they got a hol
December 20, 2003 – 00:15 (Scotland Time)Coralis closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She wanted to rip their eyes out and strangle them, but she knew these girls were humans, most likely heading to the same destination as she. She believed Frank when he said nothing ever happened with that actress, but she didn’t like these girls talking that way about her man.She was thankful to have her wrist binds so she wouldn’t break storefront windows by accident. Her eyeglasses only prevented her from using her eyes to direct her elemental energy and to camouflage their elemental colour but without her wrist binds, her elemental energy still leaked through her pores and she could still use her hands to direct it. She walked away and headed to the bar before she did anything to these girls and ended up in jail.Her flight landed in Montreal early morning. She had a game in Mexico in the evening but decided to skip practice time just so she could spend more time with Frank before she had to
December 19, 2003 – noon“There is still a hold on your name, right?” said Erik.“In Scotland? Why not in London?” said Henry.“Yes, but considering Blue Thunder is technically a citizen of England, she doesn’t have jurisdiction over me. I could still be walking into a trap, however, so I still made sure of that. Not sure why she wants to meet there, but I think it’s better there than in London. Even with a hold on my name, I’m not too keen on walking around the SIS headquarters. Taking my flight from Scotland instead sounds like a better idea anyway.”She tried to call Frank on her way to Scotland but got no response. She hoped he was still asleep and tried not to overthink it, but she was worried. As she was hovering above the meeting spot, Frank called her back.“That was you trying to call, right?” said Frank as soon as she answered.“Yeah, everything okay?”“Yes. I was in the shower. Wanted to take my phone in the bathroom just in case you’d call, but my scattered brain forgot it
December 19, 2003 – 09:00Coralis and Andrew entered the meeting room, dragging a restrained Xanita with them.“What is this?” said Alfredino.“Xanita Aza is the one who killed Minister Luke Massina and we sent a copy of our evidence to British authorities,” said Andrew as he played the video timeline assembled by Erik and Henry. “Do you want to handle her yourself, or shall I hand her to the authorities?”“It seems we owe you an apology, Blue Thunder,” said Rolland, watching the video.“The warehouse we searched never had any cursed weapons. It was merely a ruse Xanita used to get Blue and me away from the hotel. Want to tell me again how in gods worlds Massina’s murder got pinned on my apprentice when we were nowhere near the vicinity of his hotel?”Phraton tried to say something but Alfredino quieted him, using magic to shut him up.“JORGIE! Jorgie Fluk gave me that tip about that warehouse!” said Xanita, panicked.“Oh, we know about that, don’t you worry. Unlike you, he’s been mak
December 11, 2003“WHAT?”“I still need to find evidence to prove it or force her to confess, but I was right. Blum was protecting someone. Xanita never received a tip about that damn warehouse.”“That explains why Gus could never find anything relevant or suspicious about it, besides someone tampering with their security cameras.”“Basic human material wasn’t difficult to tamper with. We probably were the only two elementals to have ever set foot in there. Do you know if Sebastian is available tomorrow?”“I don’t know. We don’t have a game tomorrow, but lately, I talk to him only when I’m in my London flat. Only place I can talk safely.”“I’ll check with him then. Remember when Xanita said she had a call to take and came back with that so-called tip?”“Yeah, and thinking of it, she was also the one who sent us to that warehouse.”“She had been talking to Jorgie. Erik and Henry are on their way back to where you guys live, they’ve been a great help.”“Jorgie? The same Jorgie who’s bee