Chapter 171 The Inktresss Vengeance (1/2)

Aegin had never expected the Inktress to leave them alone for good. After all, she thought that they had something she wanted, why would she simply leave them to the Pirates?

Sure enough, only a couple of hours had passed before she was back in the brig, holding both Aegin and Ebony aloft with her ink.

”Where is he?” she hissed in anger.

Aegin couldn't help laughing as she choked them. So he'd been right. Between Rassa telling them he was immortal and seeing the state he'd been in when he was starved, Aegin was positive that merely drowning the Vampire wouldn't kill him. Afterall, the only thing that water did to the body was block the airways. Asphyxiation didn't seem grand enough for someone of Rassa's abilities to die of.

”How…would…we…know?” Ebony choked out.

The Inktress seemed to growl as she clenched her teeth, then she threw the two from one side of the brig to the other. It wasn't a large cage so they didn't go far, but it was still painful thanks to the force the Inktress had used. Ebony squealed in pain despite her having Tank to break her fall. Aegin on the other hand smashed straight into the bars and to the ground. The knock to his head dazed him, and after a moment he raised a hand, drawing it back to see blood. He grinned.

”That was rather rash of you,” Aegin said, ”If we die, who else do you expect to get information from?”

Aegin turned to face the Inktress, but as he did, he noticed the Tracking Charm had fallen from his pocket as he'd been thrown, and it lay in between him and the Inktress. Of course, both the Tracking Charm and the Protection Charm Rassa had given Aegin and Ebony had been taken by the Pirates upon their imprisonment. However, the unique properties of the Tracking Charm allowed it to appear back with Aegin and Ebony not long after they had been taken.

The Inktress, about to retort, spotted the charm at the same time Aegin did. Despite Aegin's attempt to school his expression, he knew the Inktress saw his alarm right before Aegin lunged forward to take the charm.

The Inktress swept an arm across her body, the ink sweeping out to trap Aegin against the bars of the brig before she knelt down and picked up the charm.

”Interesting,” the Inktress said as she looked at the charm, ”It's not like the others, the markings are different, more intricate”.

Ebony, having realised what it was the Inktress was holding, gritted her teeth through the pain as she spoke, ”It'll make no difference to you. You can't use it”.

The Inktress's eyes narrowed as she comprehended what Ebony had said, her eyes focusing on the markings.

As she looked, the door to the brig opened, and the Pirate Captain who had captured and imprisoned them descended with a few of his crew members.

”Inktress, you're making an awful racket. I thought you'd already gotten what you came for,” the Pirate Captain sneered, ”Our agreement was that I got the rest of the spoils”.

The Inktress's eyes narrowed as they began to comprehend the mist that surrounded and penetrated the charm in her hands, the mist that wove and began to speak to her, whispering the meaning behind the markings on the stone. She'd never tried to comprehend the markings on the stone before, but now that she realised how heavily the mist played a part, she could only grin as she began to see the meaning behind the markings.

”A Tracking Charm?” asked Inktress, ”How useful”.

She ignored the Pirate Captain as she turned to Aegin, an inky shadow pierced up from the ground like a spike, stopping right before Ebony's chest, ”Tell me how it is activated, and I'll let her live”.

Aegin's eyes narrowed as they flicked to Ebony, then back to the Inktress.

From the corner of the next cell, Jeremiah spoke up, ”I may have only been around these kids for a bit over a month, but I can guarantee that death would not be a punishment to them. Face it Inktress, you made a bad call. I would love to see the look on Ishta's arrogant face when you inform him that you messed up. That you lost him an investment that would have probably allowed him to dominate the world”.