Chapter 9 Deadly Visitor

"Whew! That was easier than before." Buck breathed.

Shodun gave a nod, "Will's training actually gave a boost in our stamina and endurance according to my calculations."

Will laughed, "Well...certainly you had me fooled at the first match. You guys...and girls are pretty good."

"Congrats." A female voice was heard behind him, he turned around to see Alyss standing with spare gym clothes, taking a collective gasp among the boys which half of them got some death glares by others.

"Alyss!" Will exclaimed, pulling her into a hug, shocking her and blushed furiously. She heard him whisper, "You alright? Same goes to Daniela?"

Frowning slightly with the last question, she replied, "Of course! I am the king's courier, plus I learnt some skills from you." She reached into her shirt and pulled out something, "And I also got this!"

Will eyed it closely, "Hmm...."

"What? Are you going to give me a lecture on how I can't wear gold oakleaves because I am no retired? Or the fact I haven't trained for a year yet to earn it?" Alyss took several paces away holding the amulet close to her as if Will right that instant was going to take it away.

Will paused acting he was seriously considering about it, but to him it was perfectly fine. Really, in this world the value of power is really limited with the oakleaf, so it didn't bother him.

"Hmm..." Will continues.

"What on earth are you two talking about? Necklaces? Come on, we JUST won a match here." Jennifer came along with her hair still a bit wet from the shower.

Will broke into a grin, "Not at all Alyss, Not at all."

Ooo

As soon as they entered the door, Alyss went straight for a shower. Will sat down and took a look at the report filed of the earlier event.

"Interesting... " Will stirred slowly with a spoon in his coffee. After several minutes of facial contortions, Alyss came out of the bathroom, Will raised an eyebrow, "Wow, even after shower, you look like you got hit one of Horace's sword."

Alyss glared across the table, "Are you trying to tease me?"

Will shook his head with a straight face, "No, really you do look like you got hit with a sword."

After a hard look, "You do realize I know you already read that report?"

Will turned away and hid his smile, Alyss exploded, "Oh Alright! Fine! Go ahead!" As he couldn't hold it in anymore, bursting into laughter.

Will took a small sip of some coffee, "Alright... anyway. So apparently after school tomorrow. We are going to meet them. They got some assignment for us..."

Alyss's face turned serious, "Yeah I heard about that too...what do you suppose it would be? Do you think they will give us a choice?"

That was the crucial problem, the biggest wonder was how far is the company going to push them.

"Well...we'll have to just wait and see now don't we?" Will said with a warm smile, "Come on, we got school tomorrow. Let's sleep on it"

Ooo

"Alright class, please take out your textbook." The teacher said that morning on the first block of the day.

Toby leaned over to Will, "Hey Will, are you sure you aren't cheating?"

Will turned to look at him horrified, "What do you mean?"

Toby elicited a sly smile, "Don't play dumb, I saw you that night. You were carrying one of the top beauties in the school in your arms."

"Who...?"

"Come Daniela Loviez, she's like an idol around the country." Toby laughed.

Will slowly remembered that night, "Oh..that."

"So, are you?" Toby looked at him expectantly.

"Of course not! I don't even like Daniela that way." Will muttered while opening to textbook to the right page.

Toby turned away as he saw the teacher glaring towards their direction, his face showed that he wasn't convinced at the slightest.

After an hour of lecturing what rocks were, everyone couldn't wait to just leave the classroom. The halls began to fill up with people as they began moving to their next class. Will turned to look behind him, but saw no one he knew of.

"I swear I heard someone was calling my name..." Will mumbled as he pushed his way through the crowded halls.

Daniela was jumping up and down trying to grab Will's attention, "Gosh darn it, he's out of earshot."

Amanda suddenly appeared beside her, "Hey BFF, did I hear you just call for Will?"

Daniela swirled around slightly red faced from calling over the loud hall, "I am not! I mean.. I WAS but it was for someth-"

Amanda didn't let her finish, "Oh! This is the first, never before the great single Daniela called out a boy specifically! You going sweet on him now aren't you? See! You're blushing!" She said with a small smile.

"No! I'm just-" Daniela said even more red faced from actual blush.

"I couldn't believe the rumors were that true." Amanda turned and slammed lightly at the nearest locker, laughing.

"What are you blathering about?" Daniela demanded, "And I am NOT going sweet on him, I am going to kill him."

"Really? Rumors been going around saying he was carrying you through school grounds that night." Amanda explained with a lower tone.

"W-what?" Daniela exclaimed at the ridiculous response, "I wasn't being carried by..." She trails off as she remembered about the whole Refraincrat attack.

Amanda began nodding, "All the signs...check.....trailing off in sentences....double check."

Daniela swiped the small notepad from Amanda's hand and ripped the page out, "Why are you even keeping track of this!?"

Amanda laughed walking away, "Gotta go now, later! You'll need to do even harder...you know. Alyss." She said with a small laugh as she tied her hair into a ponytail.

"I don't like him!" Daniela tried again trying to make her friend understand.

"Whatever you say!" as Amanda turned at the next corner.

Gosh, aren't they annoying...someone saw Will carrying me? This is seriously going to ruin my rep... Daniela started walking in the opposite direction which she crashed into someone.

"Woah- ow! Watch where you're going you klutz!" She said as she began to pick up her books.

"Wow, that's what you say when you crash into someone? You're the one who wasn't looking. Not even an apology as a response." The familiar voice replied.

"Why you-" She looked up to see Will helping himself picking up his stuff with agility, then proceeded to help her clean her stuff which everything rolled in every direction. Awkwardly, she muttered a thank-you. Which Will didn't seem to hear it.

"I was heading the wrong way..again. Oh well. I'll see you at practice then." Will said half to himself, standing up and began to head down the hall, which Daniela stopped him.

"Here, your sis forgot this at the mall." She passed something to him, "A bag with a receipt?" He asked a bit puzzled.

"I figured she might need it or something, she did buy something with a card." Before quickly walking away leaving Will confused.

Ooo

For the most part of the day, Alyss wasn't around Will. Which from what Toby said that morning, worried him greatly.

"A 82 out of 100..." Will half said it to himself out loud as he walked out the front door, distracted, he missed the steps of the stairs. With years of training, the reflexes came naturally to him as he quickly shot out his hand and pulled on the stair railing on the side and leveraged him nearly at ninety-degree angle and with his face a couple centimeters above the ground.

"That was close" Will breathed out, he looked up to see several people looking at him which he quickly and effortlessly pulled himself up and began walking towards the line of expensive cars waiting.

"Hey Dave, where's Alyss?" Will rapped the window on of the driver who was sleeping.

-snort- "Oh...uh? Hey Past 1... not sure where she is.. oh right I'm supposed to drive you first to the tower. She's running a bit late today." He replied slightly sleepy.

Will thought about it, No smell of any beer of the sort. "Alright... Let's go I suppose."

Within a short while, they arrived and Will rode the elevator up to the selected floor. The lady took a glance and pointed to one of the chairs, "Over there P1"

Will shook his head, "I really don't understand why they can't just call me by my name."

There weren't much to do, which really bored Will. For what seemed like a long time, he then suddenly saw a man who was dressed in a fashion which surprised Will. A...noble? Is that really a noble? He..dressed like one.

The man practically ignored him sitting there and stepping into the elevator. With that the only thing that has happened for the past forty-five minutes, suddenly his pocket started to vibrate and began playing a song he never heard of before...but actually liked the tune...until the fact he saw the two beady eyes looking at him from the desk, which he quickly pulled it out and answered.

"Uh..hello?"Will asked uncertainly

"This is Daniela..." the voice replied.

"Um how did you even get my cellular phone number?" Will asked surprised.

He heard an irritated sigh from the other end, "We call it a CELL phone, and you have mine."

Will pulled the phone he was holding away from his ear to check, it was definitely not his.

"We must of mixed up some of our stuff when we...crashed at school." She said, "I want my phone back, don't you dare go scrolling through my messages and things." She added as an afterthought.

"Messages..?" Will said with a puzzled tone, he then heard a small sigh of relief, "Oh..that's right...nevermind what I said, just ...don't scratch it or anything. We'll switch it back at school tomorrow, K?"

Will began nod, then realized she couldn't see him, "Uh yeah sure. Hey do you-" Then she hanged up on him, "Sheesh, not a simple goodbye."

Sarah came out of the office, she looked at the phone Will was holding. "Is this some kind of new cell you got? Isn't it a bit..." She searched for the right word... then failing to do so, "a bit...girly for you?"

Will stuttered, "Oh uh no, this is Daniela's. We had a bit of a mix-up earlier today at school."

"Ah."

"So we're going to meet up and swap phones tomorrow." Will said reassuringly.

Sarah then shook her head, "I don't think so."

"Why not?"

She paused, as she saw the elevator ringed. "You'll be seeing her tonight."

"Wait what?" his voice showed confusion.

Alyss stepped out of the elevator, "Sorry, the teacher didn't needed me after all. Turns out she wanted another girl instead."

Will grins at her, "No problem...Sarah definitely has something for us...let's see what this meeting is about."

Ooo

Alyss held up a hand, "Wait.. you want us to do what?"

Martin Cortex nodded, "Exactly what we just told you. That's what happened since the start up till now."

"So that man...who left earlier, that was the company's boss AND Daniela's father?" Will said with a surprised tone.

"Indeed, he's requested someone to keep watch over her daughter. He knows about our existence...now in the past that would have been a problem...but he is the only one who will know about it. Another thing we need is to figure out if he's clean enough. If he has some back-alley smuggling happening, then we can't allow that to continue either.." Sarah added.

Director Cortex leaned back on the chair, "This is completely up to you two's decision, the only reason we're coming to you is the fact you might have a better chance with them, then instead having an agent of hours train for several hours on the etiquettes and all."

Will puts a hand under his chin propping his head up. "Alyss...what do you think?"

Alyss wasn't particularly thrilled of the whole idea, partially was the fact all the rumors around the school, and now they are spending more time with Daniela. But she felt she owed her some respect, after all what happened at the mall. She looked at Will who was, as usual, neutral as ever.

"Alright Sarah, before we decide. What are we going to be doing?"

The director and the CEO looked at each other, "Isn't that easy? You'll be living with them."

Ooo

Two cloaked figures stood in the rain after they were dropped off in front of the large mansion. The large door suddenly, opened and two butlers appeared, "Greetings, you must be the guests who will be staying over from now on."

"I wonder, if this is going to seriously undermine my habits. I think I would even take an old shack instead..." Will said in a low voice, only Alyss could her which he didn't hear, but saw her shoulders slightly moving up and down.

"Come on, let's go." She said.

They were both led to a room, where Albert Loviez stood up. "Hello, welcome to my humble home. Please make yourselves at home. Call for the servants if you need anything." Then he leaned a bit closer, "I believe, you two are the agents they sent."

Will was the one who nodded, which Albert smiled with relief and satisfaction.

"Good, alright show them to their rooms where they will be staying. Not the guest rooms. You two, I'll see you tonight. Then we can all get to know each other, my daughter will be joining us, naturally." He said with a smile.

Will and Alyss bowed and followed the butler out and was led to rooms with doors directly in front of each other.

"Madame, sir, these are your rooms." He introduced and then left as he was instructed earlier.

They both opened the doors to their rooms, Will surveyed the room. "Well this is much more fancier than the cabin, but it'll do."

Alyss knocked on the door and opened it, "My room...looks exactly the same as yours."

"Haha, that's no surprise there." Will nodded as he placed his things down on the floor and began unpacking. Realizing that Alyss was still standing there, "Aren't you going to unpack too?"

Alyss thought about it, "There's plenty of time for that, the problem is what are we going to do when we are at the dinner tonight?"

Will paused while holding a sheet of paper, "Oh...that's right."

"Well...?" She asked expectantly.

Will turned and looked at her. "Well..what?"

"What are we going to do?"

Will gave an indefinite shrug, "Why are you asking me for?"

"Because you're a Ranger, and Ranger's do all the planning and thinking." Alyss said with a complete straight face.

"Hey now, that is just unfair. What are couriers supposed to be doing anyway?" Will asked defensively.

Alyss puts a finger on her lips, "Well, we are the head of diplomatic service..."

Will held up his hand to stop her, "Hold it right there, that's good enough." Giving up.

"Alright, my plan is....to do nothing."

Ooo

"Where are these two guests of yours father?" Daniela spoke irritably.

Albert sighed and glared at his daughter, "These people are from a friend of mine. They'll take a while to come by. Also mind your manners young lady, try to be acceptable to their actions until they've adapted to how we act and do thing-" The doors suddenly opened to reveal a tall blonde girl in an elegant white dress, who strode purposefully with absolute perfection as if she has been walking like that for her whole life.

"Noble Albert, Lady Daniela. I am Alyss Mainwaring, a pleasure to meet you." She introduced. That struck a chord in the room, everyone was surprised with the immediate perfected acting.

Suddenly it registered to Daniela, she rose from her chair abruptly, "Alyss? What are you doing here?"

Albert stuttered, "Th-they sent a kid?" Then he recalled the memory of what the CEO said to him earlier, do not be alarmed of who we send. We have our reasons.

"Ah...Miss. Mainwaring. Please have a seat." He welcomes slightly awkwardly.

With a swift bow, Alyss took a seat. Food and drinks began pouring into the room, Daniela gave several glares towards Alyss, Albert had his mind tangled with the idea of a student being an agent.

"May I ask, where is your partner that came with you today?" Albert finally accepting the facts and trying to start a friendly conversation.

Alyss took a light sip from the glassware, "Oh, he's still in his room. Won't be out later on."

"He?" Daniela injected.

Alyss gazed evenly to Daniela, "Yes, Will is also here."

"He is also what?" Daniela exclaimed in surprise, then she turned to her father, "What is the meaning of this? You said they were one of your friends-"

"Daniela!" He cuts in, "Please, they are going to be living her from now on. Show some curtesy."

Silence fell at the table, silently a shadow walked into the room. Unseen by anyone, Alyss picked up a movement however.

"Mr. Loviez, let me present you Will Treaty." Alyss introduced with a sly smile.

Albert and Daniela looked at her confused, "What do you mean?"

Daniela remembered the first day when they met Will, "He's in the background somewhere...."

Alyss turned her head, "Come on Will, they can't see you."

After a moment, right before their eyes. Revealed a boy from the dark shadows, "Greetings" As Will gave a stiff bow.

Albert blinked with surprise, he's basically shadow himself! Magician? No....

"Hello Daniela, good..evening?" Will looked at Alyss to check if it was a correct term.

Daniela only responded with a slight nod.

"Well, certainly now everyone is here. Let's get down to business, under some agreements these two will be settling in our home." Albert began.

Seeing no one was going to say anything, "Clearly, you two have some etiquette learnt. I suppose I can go on and cancel that tutor I had called. Daniela, seems like you know them we won't need any long introductions."

Daniela muttered under her breath, "Who said they could come here? Of course I know them, they are practically are in my school and potentially some of my classes."

Will raised a finger, "Oh here Daniela, your cellu- I mean, cell phone."

Albert eyed the phone in his hand, "Why, do you have my daughter's personal device?"

"Oh...well...someone was being a total blind bat, and so she crashed into me and we somehow picked up the wrong one." Will explained in a good-natured tone.

"Excuse me? Blind bat?" Daniela spoke in the most unladylike voice. "For YOUR information, I was looking. It wasn't my fault you pushed me down."

Alyss turned in surprise, "Pushed her down Will? Why would you do that?"

Will exclaims, "Why are you getting worked up about it? Also, for the record. I didn't do that, you plainly crashed into me."

"You...you..." Daniela seethed in anger.

"Will is correct. Daniela, you should know better to say something that misleading." Albert said sternly.

"M-misleading?" Daniela stuttered.

Will had a puzzled look over his face, "What was misleading? Were we conducting an investigation?" Will craned his neck to check Alyss for an explanation, but she was beet red while prodding her food with a fork delicately.

Will sighed, "So Daniela, when are you planning to give it to me?"

He then saw on the corner of his eye Mr. Loviez having some several shades of colors forming on his face, "That...misleading. I DON'T understand this world how you can get that wrong."

"I meant my cell phone, when are you planning to give it to me?" Will asked amending his question.

Daniela's face displayed guilt and embarrassment, "Oh? Right...well..you see....."

"You lost it?" Will said bluntly, which striked right into Daniela.

"N-no! I...only...dropped it?" Daniela said with a weak smile.

Will glared and muttered loudly, "Why are you answering my question with a question?"

Alyss flattened her dress on her lap, "Better one is...what do you mean you..dropped it?"

"Well..."

Albert shook his head with the palms of his hands on his face, "Look, we have barely gone through 12 hours and we already have such problems and indebted to our guests."

Daniela crossed her arms, "It was you that was assuming something that wasn't even in our minds dad!"

Will sighed, "So what happened to the fate of my cell phone?"

"You see...."

"I don't see anything." Will shot out quickly, only rewarded with a punch by Alyss.

"Thanks Alyss, I...encountered a group...and they said to give them all the valuables..."

Will leaned on his chair on its two legs, "Oh Sarah is going to kill me soon."

"Where and who were they?" Alyss asked.

Daniela looks up, "The park back near the middle of the city."

Albert rose from his chair in an angry tone, "Why are you there at such time? You know I forbid you to go there."

Realizing a terrible secret she revealed, small tears sprang to life in her eyes, "No, dad! Please don't post bodyguards-"

Albert waved his hand and called out, "Starting next Monday, have at least 4 body guards on her way to schoo-"

Will interrupted, "That won't be necessary."

"If you know what is good for you, you stay out of this." Albert ordered. "Now young lady. You are the heir of the Loviez company, the mall was just a small line of what really would have been a terrible problem, you will accep-"

"Lord Albert Loviez, I said it isn't necessary." Will's tone of command sent shivers down everyone present in that room, including Alyss who was curious why Daniela was close to tears.

"Esco-" Albert pointed to Will which then Will moved in a flurry movement and slammed the table's surface with a smash and several utensils fell off landing on the red carpet with a soft thud.

"That won't, be necessary." He repeated with the tone they didn't hear before. It clearly meant that it was a clear point, not an invitation.

Walking to the household owner and Will pulled him aside where no one could hear them. With impressed eyes of Alyss, ten seconds flat, Will persuaded why he shouldn't order such reckless and useless idea.

"And I thought I was the King's Courier..." Alyss said behind her breath with a smile.

Will turned around and faced Daniela, "Tell me, where did you lost my phone exactly?"

Ooo

Alyss and Will followed Daniela in the night towards the park, after walking halfway she asked the question which was tugging her this whole time, "What did you say...to get the bodyguards off me and manage to allow us to go in the night to the park he absolutely forbid me from going at all..in daylight."

Alyss inclined her head to listen what Will's response was, "It's my phone that YOU lost, priority sets everything."

They saw her head bob up and down under the street lights, "And the personal bodyguards?"

Will laughed, "Technically you're not off the hook with that yet."

Daniela stopped in her tracks, "What?"

Alyss filled her in for her, "Your father is going to consider that."

"Oh...okay." Then she continued walking.

Alyss and Will exchanged a glance, then quickly followed in her wake.

Ooo

"Right here, this is where I lost your phone." Daniela pointed at the bench with a small fountain beside it in the park.

Will pressed a the button which concealed the hidden bow, only visible to Will. The surrounding was scanning the scene, "8 guys, armed with two knives and one had a one of those modern weapons." Will said which surprised Daniela, "How did you know?"

Will bent down and wiped the ground with his gloved fingers, "Not long, but seems like they are from somewhere with seeds..."

"Seeds?" Alyss asked with a puzzled tone.

Daniela jabbed her thumb in a direction, "There is a florist shop over there."

Will nodded, This map is amazing, it tells me basically what I could gather....and more. This red blinking dot must be my phone.

A thought occurred to Will, "How did you get into my phone?"

Daniela broke into a smile for the first time that night, "Oh come on Will."

Will stared at her, daring her to say it out loud.

"Alyss." She said finally then began walking in a direction.

"Uh yes?" Alyss snapped to attention, "Wait..why did she say my name?" Even more confused, if she had not known better, she could have sworn there were some distinctive redness that showed on Will's cheeks.

Will sighed, "SINAS will probably go after the phone, I don't need that thing anyway. Let's see the real mission of why we are here."

They called out to Daniela, whom seemingly disappeared in the evening fog, "Daniela! Where are you?"

Alyss said to Will slightly worried, "Where could she be? Didn't her father say this place was forbidden, there must been a good reason why."

"Daniela!" Will called out. They then heard a faint reply, "Over here!"

They ran to the direction where the voice came from, "Oh thank goodness, don't go off like that!" Alyss exclaimed as vapor huffed out of her mouth in the chilling coldness.

Daniela stood up slowly, "I'd like you two to meet something, promise to tell no one. His name is Adam. He's likea monkey or ape of some sort. I come here every day to feed him. My dad thinks I'm visiting a boyfriend or something...that's why..."

Will and Alyss walked a bit closer to see what she was petting.

Will suddenly drew his saxe knives out and went into a crouched position, so did Alyss did the same.

Daniela looked surprised at them and stood in front of them defensively, "What are you two doing? Put those away!"

They both didn't move a muscle, after 10 minutes frozen in place. Daniela suddenly felt a bit worried of why they haven't moved or replied.

Alyss crumpled to the floor gasping and terrified, "....Will....you..okay?"

While Daniela rushed over to support her, "Will?Are you in some state of shock? Just think of bunnies! You can move, Adam won't hurt you." Which was the least of what Daniela knew of that creature she's been feeding for the past 5 months.

They heard him say something, which they edged a bit closer to hear him. In a croaky voice full of malice, "...I ...thought........"

Daniela looked at Will with wide eyes with slow fear overcoming her, "What is it!? Do you have asthma?

Alyss weakly shook her head, "No way Will.....No..."

Will rasped staring forward at the beast, "Yes..Alyss...that ..is what...you think..it is.......But....how...did.......this.. Kalkara....survive...?"

You might be all wondering now.....how on earth did this Kalkara survive? 

This is a disclaimer notice,

I do not own the Kalkara's, Will Treaty and Alyss Mainwaring or anything that also belongs to John Flanagan.

Everything else is mine~ SINAS does not exist i made it up and i like that name now too.

The smokers or drinkers mentioned or will be mentioned will be well and above the requirement age depending where ever you are. So don't worry about Will smoking or something. They aren't over 18...obviously, probably thugs or something will be so they ..well are thugs haha.

~Pulse! :)