G I Genie Ch 10

I turned to stare at Catherine, wondering where in the hell we were. I wa ask her, when a four-foot-tall man appeared before us.

"What ta 'ell be ya wanting? I has me a job to complete 'ere," the short male said.

The male stared at me, then his eyes flew wide as he spied Catherine.

"Hello Galin, I take it you are well?" Catherine asked.

"I'd be a sight better if ya no was here. What's dis? Ya got another master. Huh, ya always get da ugliest ones," the short male said.

"Galin, we need protection. He is going after Elvantor Hajib, we need all that," Catherine started.

There was a huge boom, then the same evil dick, as I called him, appeared.

"Ah Galin, after I kill this one, I will entertain myself with you," Elvantor Hajib said.

I just shook my head as a huge number of undead appeared. "Guess you aren't too smart, I said as a bolt shot out of my shirt, knocking him out of the sky.

It then turned on the first twenty that were heading toward me. They melted if made of butter, they also didn't arise. This caused them to halt a moment, then another bolt took another twenty.

Elvantor Hajib waved a hand as he and the undead vanished.

Galin stared at me then smiled a crooked smile, "me thinks me chances just improved." He then turned to Catherine, "So what's ya be wantin?"

Catherine smiled as she launched into a narrative that I had no idea what she was talking about.

Galin had his hand on his chin and beard as he thought for a few moments. "Aye, 'tis possible. May need a few things, for dis power. Um, yes, gonna need a few things. Fraid ya gonna 'ave ta get 'em."

Catherine smiled, "I pretty much figured that, give me a list, and I'll start."

Galin then turned to me with a curious look. "Ner seen dem deadens destroyed like that. How?"

I opened my shirt to show Galin as he hissed his appreciation. "The guardian of the daughters of the seas. The shield sword of ther sons of the sand. I swear I be seeing several of the shield crystals from several others. Aye ya been busy 'ave ya not?"

"Master asked, and I have been doing all I can," Catherine said.

Galin nodded his head then gasped, "ya... ya 'ave the bracers of shielding, I nay thought ta see 'em again." Galin then bowed, "what can I do for ya? If ya be going after tha' bastard, den I'll 'elp ya. I 'ope ya can 'elp me people."

"I have a great many shields, plus I have Felensar, a great sword. Though he and I can not do everything, the bastard has a great advantage. We've destroyed about forty though, he has a great multitude more. I don't mean to insult you, Felensar, but we need more," I said.

Again, Galin had his hand on his chin as he stroked his beard deep in thought. "Me thinks me 'as a solution fer ya. Hold 'ere a few moments and me 'ill be back."

Galin vanished a moment later my mouth hanging open, "He is coming back, isn't he?" I asked.

Catherine was nodding, then I heard Galin's voice come from the thin air. "Aye. 'es a bold one ain't 'e. 'Tis a good thing, ya be gonna be needin' it."

A moment later Galin appeared with four wicked-looking daggers, very sharp and lethal looking. "Damn, I said. "Those look dangerous."

"Aye they be, put ya energy to dem. After you throw dem they will return to ya. Wherever yas had dem, they will be there," Galin said. "No worry, every throw 'ill be deadly, ya can't miss, no matter."

"So, I just have to power them up with my energy, any chance I can take more than one each time," I asked.

"Oh ho, ho, now ya be wantin' miracles, though in this case? Ya 'ave a very good chance," Galin said with a grin. "Now excuse me, I need ta be movin', bastard'll be back."

We watched as Galin had a huge pack appear before him, then with a sideways grin he saluted then vanished.

Both Catherine and I were staring at where he had been, Catherine standing as close to me as she could. It was at that moment that I saw that she had a strange look on her face. What the hell was that?

At the home of Victoria Rayton, she was pacing the living room. She was anxious, she had promised and wasn't thrilled about contacting her again.

It had almost been an hour now, and she was more nervous than she thought she'd be. An insistent knocking at her front door made her jump.

Opening the door, a female with long blonde hair was standing there. "Well, I was afraid when we did this all that time ago that it might unravel," the woman sighed. "Aren't you going to invite me in? I can't just walk in after the agreement we made."

"Oh shit, I'm so sorry please, come in!" Victoria said, the woman staring at her.

"So you actually did what you said you were going to. I find this new you to be more than agreeable. Had you been like this back then, things would have been far different than they are now," the woman said.

Victoria sighed, "I wasn't all there back then Tawny, I made a lot of mistakes. I was just a greedy human, I regret a great many things I did and the pain I caused," here tears started to fall from her eyes. "I pushed them all away, and now I find that James and his wife's daughter, is still alive."

"You say that her memory is almost non-existent? Here I thought that the spell hadn't gone that deep. From what you told me, John has encountered magic, powerful magic. I don't really want to go to them, but in this case, I have no choice," Tawny said.

"I assume that I will have to go with you. It's been decades since I was before the council, not sure if I want to again," Victoria said with a grimace on her face. "They had just been released and weren't in the best of moods."

"Yeah I know," Tawny said, a sour on her face also. "Yes, you have to appear with me. We need to get all the information that we can about her before we go. Here I'll take you," she blinked her eyes and both of them vanished.

They both appeared a moment later in the living room of Catherine's house. They were standing there a moment when Tawny started to shake.

"There was an extremely powerful Jinn here, by the great Jinn! We need to go now, before they return," Tawny almost shouted, grabbing Victoria, blinking, then vanishing.

They appeared back in Victoria's house. Tawny was still shaking, making several motions. "I hope I erased all trace of us being there." She turned toward Victoria, "what in the hell are you mixed up in?"

Victoria just shook her head, "as far as I know, it's the same as always."

Tawny shook her head, "no, this is a dangerously powerful Jinn, I felt almost pure evil. I'd be almost defenseless against it. If it can trace us? We are dead, I don't have half the power it does."

Victoria's mouth dropped open, damn it, what was her niece involved with? Now she and Tawny were involved as well. Shit, they might be in more trouble than they had ever been.

"We need to get the hell out of here as soon as possible," Tawny said, then a moment later grabbed Victoria, vanishing.

Less than a minute later they appeared outside the Jinn council room. They walked in together, all the council staring at them gasping.

"We thought that the two of you had an agreement to stay apart," the head of the council said.

They all looked accusingly at both of them. "I am sorry to disturb the council as I was not going to come back, as penance. I wouldn't, but it seems that my brother's daughter is starting to remember," Victoria said.

This caused the entire council to gasp, "so what do you want of us?" the leader asked.

"Her brother has vanished, he is the only one that can contain her. He went into the military and neither of us can find him," Victoria said.

"I see," the council leader said. He then reached out to find the man, then his eyes went wide when he realized just who the man was.

Tawny saw this reaction though did not comment on it. For the moment she filed it away why did she think that the council was hiding something from them? Tawny was starting to get a bad feeling about this whole situation.

"At the moment I am not feeling where he is," the leader lied. He couldn't reveal that John Richards was supposed to rescue the female Jinn he was bonded to. "I can tell you that Elvantor Hajib has been released."

"Released!? Isn't the council stronger than him?" Tawny asked.

The leader sighed, "a lot of what the council could do they aren't able to. Many things were done wrong when he was punished. Therefore, there is much that we can not do. We suggest that if you travel that you watch everything."

"You do realize that if we can't get John to her soon, that much that happened before? Could be far more dangerous now that she is grown. Hell, John doesn't even know that she's still alive," Victoria said.

The entire council gasped when Victoria mentioned the event from years ago. "We will do all we can to locate him," the leader lied again.

Victoria looked at everyone on the council smirking, she swore that they were all lying to her. From the almost worried looks on their faces, she knew that something was going on. Though just what that was she wasn't certain at all.

Both females vanished a few moments later, appearing in Victoria's house. "I swear that they are lying to us, though I'm not sure why," Victoria said.

Tawny was nodding as she was certain they had lied. "I know that if Elvantor Hajib is loose and involved then it explains a bit. If you want, I can stay and keep a watchful eye on her."

"It might if we both do, though we need to hide her for the time being. If I remember right, you have one of the best hide aways than anyone," Victoria said.

"You've actually talked to her, how is her state of mind?" Tawny asked.

"When I was there, she was scared, feeling very alone. I think she was glad that I was there," Victoria said.

Tawny sighed, "Its good that you can help her, though if worse comes to worst, without John we are screwed."

"I forgot that you are current on a lot of the modern sayings," Victoria said.

"I had to in order to keep up with you," Tawny replied.

A few miles away Catherine was trying not to think too hard. The irritating things that she could feel but couldn't reach in her mind were starting to piss her off.

Being a waitress was hard enough, but to not know was about to drive her nuts. What the hell was going on that her mind was so blank? Especially after all this time.

She sighed, then sat at the back, might as well work on them again, she thought. OK, she knew her name, that she had a brother and an Aunt. The house she lived in was her family's and paid for.

She worked at a greasy spoon as a waitress. No one lived with her, no one knew where her brother was. Both her parents were dead, killed in an auto accident that almost claimed her.

She sighed, as she wasn't looking forward to tonight's shift. Being the weekend, it was a parade of drunks and travelers.

She was on lunch sitting outside, when a large jet went overhead. A glance at it had her freezing, unable to pull her vision from it.

A voice echoed in her head, her own voice, "Johnny, look out, they are coming after us!" She heard her voice screaming.

Johnny was running with her; he'd actually picked her up and running with her. There was the sound of explosions, dirt flying around them. What the hell was happening?

She remembered that John was yelling, causing her to scream as they dived into something like a root cellar. There was a massive banging that couldn't get through. Then the eerie silence that stretched on for what felt like days.

Not long after that, the doors opened, Catherine grabbed her head, a sharp burning pain went through her head. She tried desperately to hang on to the memory she was pulled from John. John was fighting, who was it? Why were they trying to separate them? The last she saw, before the pain grew too much, was a female.

Her boss came running as Catherine fell through the back door holding her head. He grabbed the phone as she screamed out in fear, then passed out.

Back where Galin had vanished, I was ready to go to the next place with Catherine. She smiled at me when I sunk to the ground, grabbing my head.

"Oh shit!" I yelled as it felt as if my head was splitting wide open. "What the hell," I yelled louder as the pain grew.

"Master!?" Catherine was saying, looking all around searching for danger. "Master, who or what is attacking you?"

"I don't know, oh shit!" I almost screamed as the pain upped again. Damn, it felt as if a hot poker was being pressed against my brain.

I would have screamed again, except Catherine pressed a hand against the side of my head. I blinked as I stared up at her, god that felt better. Then I surprised the both of us when I wrapped my arms around her. I pressed my lips to hers, groaning at the softness that was there. I deepened the kiss, groaning louder as Catherine herself started to groan.

I'm not sure how long we held it, a minute, an hour, a day, I didn't know nor care. When we finally separated, I felt as if a part of my soul had been ripped loose. I couldn't have released if my life depended on it. We were both gasping as I stared at her, mostly her lips.

"Uh, uh," was all I could get out. "Thank you, thank you so much," I whispered as I blushed. What the hell I thought, I was a battle-hardened vet and this made me blush?

Catherine finally managed to back away just barely, neither of us noticing the gong that sounded. "I will do anything for you master," she whispered as she touched her lips.

Back in the in the council room, the leader and Catherine's father had tears falling from their eyes. The gong was pealing continuously, making both of them nod.

They were watching Catherine and I as we stared at each other in shock. Now that we had finally acted on it, would we move forward on it?

"Well, that is good news," the leader said. "Now if they can do more."

"There in lies the difficulty, as stubborn as he is, it has taken this long. With this new situation, let's hope it doesn't take twice as long," Catherine's father said.

The leader sighed as he nodded his agreement. I had never really known love not of a person that was not family. I was having a really hard time thinking of Catherine as more than a friend.

Catherine and I were still standing there when there was a huge boom not far from us. Elvantor Hajib appeared again holding his midriff.

The gong was still sounding as dickhead snarled and pointed at me. "What have you done!? She is mine always! You will not wrest her from me," he shouted as he shot several powerful bolts at me.

Without even realizing it, I drew Felensar. Though I didn't need it this time as the bracers started to glow. I swiped at the blasts as they hit the bracers and bounced back. Elvantor (dickhead) yelled as he tried to vanish, several of the blasts hitting him.

I started to laugh as he was barely healed from the last confrontation. You'd think that after getting crisped more than a few times the idiot would give up. Though, as I said, he seemed the idiot didn't learn.

Shit I thought, as I listened to his screams fade, this guy was more obsessed than I thought he was. I then turned to look at Catherine, noticing that she was glowing. Now what the hell was going on?

"Master, are you alright? He didn't hurt you, did he? I won't allow him to touch you!" Catherine growled, a fierce look on her face.

I walked to her and just reached out, hugging her close to me. At first the growl remained, then she gained a shocked look, finally melting into me.

"Oh, by the great Jinn, that feels so nice," I could barely hear her whisper. "Please be the one."

I snapped my head up, not really sure if I had heard exactly what she'd said. "What was that?" I asked.

Catherine suddenly started, "it's not important," she said low.

OK, I thought, why the hell were people seeming to be trying to hide shit from me? I took a deep breath, yeah, it was starting to unnerve me. Unnerve me almost to the point of being pissed off.

I remember how mad it had made me when we visited Gregory while he was a frog. Hmmm, I was starting to grow tired of being kept out of the loop.

I thought harder about it, we might need another visit to the council. It seemed that a lot was being withheld, a lot that I really needed to know.

Within the council chambers, the two that were watching suddenly had a feeling of forbidding. "It appears that he has figured out more than we thought he would," the leader said.

"Sooner or later one of that family is going to force the issue. The aunt and the sister I am not as afraid of as I am that man. He has a force of mind that I haven't seen since the ever-last master. As you remember, he could have ended the council, I feel this one is that strong," Catherine's father said.

The leader shook, then turned to stare at the male. "You think that he is that strong? The ever-last master realized that there were rules. You think that this one won't care?"

Catherine's father shook his head, "he is a soldier that is at war. Now more than ever, he is fighting to not only protect, but to emerge victorious."

"The last war we had here was bad enough, you don't think it could spread to here, do you?" the leader asked.

"The way things are going. I wouldn't doubt it in the least. I believe that we may have to tell the ever-last master. Though right now I think that the king needs to be advised, first," Catherine's father said.

"Yes, that would be advisable," a new voice said behind them. "If I remember right, they were both rather pissed off when they found out we withheld information."

"Ah, Rasmir, you would know more than both of us," the leader said.

"I would, and might I remind you that your daughter is a close friend of Gen? Also, they have talked recently?" Rasmir said.

Both the other males' faces suddenly paled as they remembered the female Jinn's speaking.

"Shit! We may not have to tell him after all, you think that Gen noticed or said anything," Catherine's father said.

"Gen is far smarter than you think she is, as are the rest of his Jinn's, especially the Princess. I therefore remind you that we have to prepare," Rasmir said.

I could almost feel my ears burning, shit I thought someone is talking hard about me. I started to look around as it seemed to get worse. Then it stopped just as suddenly as I narrowed my eyes in suspicion.

I turned to look at Catherine, "You know where Galin's people are? I think that we need to continue freeing the victims of Elvantor Hajib. Ah hell, I'd rather call him dickhead though no one would know who I spoke of.

Catherine started to snicker a moment later, then laugh, the first true one I had heard from her.

"I do believe, master, that no more a true statement has ever been spoken," Catherine said, then snapped her fingers. Less than a minute later we appeared in an underground area. I'd guess a huge cave.

Not far away from us were what had to be thousands of four-foot tall statues. All of them resembled Galin in some way. A movement beyond all of these drew my attention as a broad ax flew toward me.

It stopped within a few inches of my chest. "Suggest if ya care ta live, ya surrender immediately. Dis our 'ome an' ya not welcome," came a voice much like Galin's.

"We're here at the request of Galin. Here a Dwarf stepped out with a wicked ax on his shoulder. "Aye, where be the loafer?"

"On the run, Elvantor Hajib was after him. Elvantor dickhead has a new problem," I said.

"Hmmm, what dat be?" the Dwarf asked.

"Me," I said, drawing a smile from him.