Treasure Of Dragons, Royal Dragons Book 1 Chapter 59

Ria

Just after breakfast Drago takes me to a door under the stairs. I have seen this door, but as it's under the stairs, naturally I thought it was a closet or storage. This door actually opens into a small foyer-type area.

Directly to the right is another door. This one has a bio lock that Drago has to place his hand over. It scans his palm and then there's a click as the door opens. The next place is just a straight hallway about 12 feet. There's yet another door at the end.

This door is metal and there's a palm scanner and a retina scanner that Drago has to utilize before the door slides open.

This is all feeling incredibly cloak and dagger, and I kind of feel like laughing, but I refrain. After the metal door is a small foyer leading to cement steps going down, so this place is actually underground, beneath the castle.

I feel the temperature drop as we descend and there are lights placed every few feet. We finally reach the bottom and there's another door, but Drago just opens this one. We enter what can only be described as a control room.

It makes me think of spy movies I've seen. There are several computers at desks. There's a large group of screens on the wall. There's information on two, and as I look I see faces complete with all sorts of information, like an electronic dossier.

I see Constantine stationed at a desk with several monitors around him. He sees me and waves, and I nod in acknowledgement. There's a big conference table set up in the middle and there are papers in different piles.

There are maps posted around several places with different levels of views. I walk to where Constantine is and read the screens over his shoulder.

“You do realize you're being backhacked by a hydra right?” I watch his face when he turns his chair around.

“Yeah, I know, how did you see that?” I step forward and point to several lines of scrolling code.

He tilts his head, “You caught that from back there?” I just shrug.

“It's this whole back hacking my hack, but then I'm back hacking each head of the hydra so it reaches out more places.”

I snort, “So your double agent is a double agent.”

He just smiles at me for a second, I watch a few lines of code scroll past as I read it all, then I put up a finger and point to his keyboard.

“May I for a sec?” He smiles, jumps up, and does this whole bow at the waist thing while doing a sweeping gesture of his hand towards his chair.

I roll my eyes and sit. By now I see Drago watching with Ash from just a little ways behind us. I turn back to the screen and start typing code rapidly as I read what's scrolling.

“Holy fucking shit, Batman,” I hear Constantine mumble behind me.

By the time I've finished typing in the codes and enhancing several programs, setting up traps for all his back hackers, and planting information bombs on the hydra I get up.

“How did you know and do all of that?” He looks genuinely surprised.

“My name was Nemis.”

His jaw is literally on the floor, “No way in fucking hell.”

“How did you think I got into all of those government records and erased everything?” I just shook my head.

I walked over to the information on the big screens with pictures and information.

“Hey Constantine, rerun these dossiers with the new program parameters I just put in there.” I hear him start typing away as the information on the screens erases.

Then the pictures pop back up with new lists of information beside each name. So now there's more info and more details with each.

I look over and Drago and Ash are just watching me, “What?”

“Why didn't you tell us you had these kinds of skills?” Drago asks me softly.

I take a big breath and let it out. I shrug a little, “I told you I graduated high school at 14, and I tested out of most of it. I basically skipped 3 years of college courses with the testing I did while I was there, what more did you want me to say? When will that be utilized here while I raise a brood of children? Okay, yes, I'm smart, okay, so what? What good did it ever do me honestly in the long run besides label me a freak, and help kill off my siblings?”

I turn back to the screens before they see me fighting for control. I walk forward and look at something they have posted on the board next to some pictures.

I look at it closely, and it's a signature next to what is obviously a deceased person. The signature is familiar in a way.

I turn around and find a pen and a piece of paper, I write the name, then change it around to what it actually is. I have seen this particular puzzle before.

After I write out the name concealed within the signature I push the paper across the table to Ash. He picks it up and looks at it, then at me, then he runs it to Constantine.

Drago looks at me puzzled but I just look at the ceiling. Fuck, I didn't expect this bullshit today.

Suddenly information and a picture show up on the previously blank screen. I turn to Drago.

“What is he?” He looks somewhat confused.

“His name is” I abruptly cut him off.

“Not, who is he, what is he, because no way in fucking hell should he still look like he's 25. I know that mother fucker, and I knew him at 11, so he shouldn't still look like that.”

Drago's eyes are huge. He knows who this man is and what he does, and now he knows he's done it to me. Now, I'm even closer to losing my shit.

“He's a dark Fae. He was just handed to us a week ago after that crime scene you saw. We've been looking for all of his information. We know he's responsible for at least 15”

Again I cut him off, “I know what he does Drago” I turned and seeing a trash can barely reached it before I dropped to my knees and puked my guts out.

Drago is beside me holding my hair back, and he's whispering that it's okay.

“It's not okay Drago, that man is my Uncle, He's Braun's fucking brother.”

I hear Constantine behind me, "Holy Fucking Shit!” That's an understatement.