Deadly

Chapter 1

I see him, finally! I waited for him all day. He's walking out of the office to his car. I guess he must be real tired since its 10:48 at night. He looks pretty cute actually, sort of innocent young face with brown hair that falls over his blue-green eyes. I feel sorry for him now, his type don't exactly belong in office buildings. He has a worn down, weary look on his face, like he knows that I'm here. Such a waste, he looks like he would have made a good Shadow if he had the genes. Oh, he's getting to his car right now. No one's here except him and me. Good. I rush over to him and materialise right in front of him. Aw, he's speechless, that's so adorable, I could vomit. "I'm very sorry about this", I say, then I mist and plunge myself right through his chest and heart. He's on his knees now; I lean in to hear him whisper in a hoarse voice "a Shadow?" I smile. They are always so surprised, brainless idiots! As if he didn't get the message when I basically flew through his body. "Give me back my lyte!" he breathes. So he does know about the Darke and the Shadows. "Oh, but the Shadows don't want you to have your lyte. Otherwise they wouldn't have sent me." I laugh at him and pull my hair behind my ear to show the corner of my right eye, and the silver mark that ran through it. "Scorpio?" he gasps, his final words, then his eyes glaze over and he crumples at my feet. I won't have to clean up the body, since I haven't left a mark on him. I'm done with my assignment, I'm going home.

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"And you are telling me that you had a twenty one year old hottie at your feet about to die and you didn't even hug him?!" Kat cried at me, "You shouldn't waste cute guys like that Jayde! How could you?" I was sitting in the recliner in the common room with my best friend, Katarina Virgo, eating a sugar cookie and laughing at my latest assignment. I just came back from New York and already Kat was being Kat, as usual, completely obsessed with guys even though there are five perfectly good looking ones that were her age and available in the institute. Yes, Kat was being the pale skinned, slim and wavy-haired brunette Katarina Virgo complete with her sign right in the middle of where her collar bones meet.

"Yes, and may I remind you that he knew too much about us? He had to go, so I left him there without as much as a thought in that direction." I sighed inwardly.

"Recite the apology of the wasteful!"

"No freaking way Kat!"

"Recite it!"

 "I'm very sorry that I wasted a perfectly cute guy, and I shall never do so again as it goes against my gender and the way of life that I have chosen." Why Kat made that up is completely beyond me, but she would always find a way to get me to say it, so I might as well get it over with now.

"Good, now I don't want to hear about you doing something like this ever again!"

"Fine, I won't!" Let you hear I added internally. "Where are the twins then?" I asked, changing the subject.

"Um...I think they were sent to Beijing, or was it Bermuda?"

"So they're not here then?"

"No, but they're supposed to be back in half an hour."

"Cool. I'm going to change my clothes, 'kay? I'll comeback down later."

"Sure. I have a training session with Tarius soon. I have to leave on an assignment at midnight."

Ugh, "Kat do me a favour and actually kill the target this time, it's not that hard!"

"You know I won't though!"

"Kat we're Shadows! It's what we do!" I whined.

I went to my room which was on the seventh floor of the Institute. I knew each floor off by heart; it's not a surprise since I've basically lived here my whole life. Ground floor: fifty metre swimming pool, first and second floor: sports hall, third floor: our common room which served as a dining room, fourth floor: Tarius' and Aqua's offices and dorm rooms, fifth floor: Wayland's, PC's and Daemon's dorm rooms, sixth floor: Denny and Ava's dorm rooms, seventh floor: Kat's dorm and mine, eighth floor: library and computer room, ninth floor: Capricorn's office, dorm and Cancer's office, ninth floor: Cancer's dorm and Libra's office and dorm. Then there was also the roof and the garden.

I threw my uniform into a corner; my uniform consisted of a long sleeved fitted black turtle neck, black skinny-jeans and black boots with heels. I'll tidy that up later. As I changed into my fave white graffitied sleeveless top and black shorts I caught sight of myself in my mirror. I was a mess! My normally straight, black hair was tangled in what looked like five Gordian's knots, my tanned skin almost abnormally pale, and my eyes were itchy and red. See this is why I hate night assignments! I complained bitterly to myself. They make you look like a witch! I quickly brushed my hair with a wet comb, and washed my face in warm water. I checked myself in the mirror again, this time seeing a sixteen year old, tan, brown eyed girl with perfect posture, black hair that fell to her waist and her sign over her right eye. There you go Jayde, not so bad now. I ran down to the gate just as Ava and Denny Gemini pulled up in the silver BMW.

"Ava! You're back!" I cried with joy as I saw a girl step out of the car.

"Jay? Oh my gosh! I thought you weren't going to be back until tonight!" Ava exclaimed.

"It was easier than I imagined." I replied.

"Ava!" I heard Kat shout. Then all of a sudden Kat had me and Ava squashed together in a great bear hug.

"Finally! I have both of my friends back! Do you know how annoying the others can get?" Kat said in a muffled voice.

"Yeah, the triumphant returns." Ava joked as we untangled from our friends grasp.

"Hey Denny!" I called to Ava's almost identical twin brother, Aiden. I would never get used to how much they looked alike. They both had the same blue-green eyes, the golden skin, the blonde hair and their signs on their left wrists. The only difference was that Ava was a bit thinner, and Aiden was taller.

"Denny!"

"Aiden!"

"Hey man, you're back!"

I heard the cries of PC, Wayland and Daemon as they gathered around their fourth brother. I saw three guys running down the steps that led to the institute. PC was the Latino with his sign on his right palm, Wayland the one with a buzz cut, slightly freckled skin and his mark on his right shoulder, and Daemon was the guy who had electric blue eyes, long brown hair that fell over his eyes, and his mark, hidden under his t-shirt, over his heart.

"Speak the devil's name and the devil shall appear", Kat muttered darkly.

Then they turned to me.

"Jay? When did you get back?"

"Scorpio?"

"Cool you're back!"

"Hey guys!" I replied.

Just as we were all getting into a group hug we heard a gentle female voice say "Perfect, everyone's back. How were the assignments?"

We all turned to see Libra coming out of the building followed by Capricorn and Cancer. The three elders.