Pure Gold (open)

[Bella Setos]

Her blond hair was dripping wet. Sticking to her face and making her look like a person climbing out of a dunk tank. Bella had just found the urge to go for a swim. She just asked her daddy for permission and when she got the okay took off. Bella hadn't been planning on her hair ending up so messy. It plastered to her cute face, and she disliked the clingy feel. She pulled the strands away with a gorgeously perfect set of nails on her fingers. They were long, and perfectly rounded with french tips, for the moment. As soon as she started changing into a werewolf her nail polish was going to be ruined, but that was okay...

Bella semi-walked and semi skipped over to a boulder by the water. She climbed her way on top of it and stood up, looking out at the water. She loved how sparkly it was and only wished her twin Kage was here with her for this amazing view. She was wearing a yellow tankini with a black stripe that made her look like a cute bumble bee. She was short but the way she was proportioned she looked skinny and tall. Her big blue eyes were focused on something in the water. It glistened in the water and she was extremely curious.

The female's sharp hearing picked up every splash against every rock. It was a quiet lull in the back of her mind. She had to focus for a bit and make sure this wasn't a hallucination. The glistening was in the shape of a almost flat cylinder. Like a pocket watch of some sort. Her nose was filled with the smell of salt water and the breeze. It was almost lunch time, and Bella was glad she had packed some food. She could tell that she was going to be hungry very soon.

Deciding she wanted to go take a closer look Bella started to climb down, feet first into the water so she could look. Of course she hadn't stopped to think that rock might be slippery... "Ahhh!" she yelped as she slipped down and fell into the cool water. Bella was just glad she hadn't landed on any sharp rocks or sea urchins. "Ooopsies...." she said softly rubbing her lower back. Hoping no one had seen her literal slip up. //

[Kylar Setos]

Kylar ran through the forest, his body in werewolf form as he lobed through on four paws. Dad was being parinod again and sent him to check up on Bella. Kylar had tried the whole "Your mature at the age of 45." Dad had just laughed and said "go check on your sister." Kylar rolled his eyes and went. Luckly he had some clothes in the pack he was holding over his shoulder.

Kylar looked at the trees he was passing and slowly shifted out of werewolf form to human. he smirked and pulled his clothes out and got dressed. Only problem with shifting. Clothing issues. Course, that was human decency. To him it was kind of redundent but the leather he liked.

Following the smell of salt, kylar found himself on the beach. kylar sniffed, catcihng his sister's scent. "There you are," kylar thought, walking along the sand to where he saw bella hanging on the rocks. He couldn't help but snicker as she fell in the water. Kylar walked up to the rocks, easily climbing onto the rocks as she surfaced."Smooth move ella-bella," kylar said, smiling as he used her pet name. Course, he had a couple names for her, some more funny then others. Kylar slipped his shirt off as he looked down, and jumped into the water, cannonballing into it right next to bella. "CANNONBALL!" he shouted as he hit the water, making a wave hit her. Kylar Laughed as he came up and shock his hair around."hey bells. you doing ok? Dad got worried," He said, pinning it all on him. Course, it was him. Kylar grinned as he rode the waves and chuckled.

[Bella Setos]

Bella turned pink at the sound of her brother's voice teasing her. She turned to see him jumping into the water next to her. The waves splashed her and she shook the water off her face. She then smiled at him, listening to him ask if she was alright. "Uh-huh. I'm fine, thanks for checking on me." Bella said. It wasn't like her to complain, and right now she was as content as possible. She stood up in the water and grinned at him. The water was almost up to her shoulders. She took a few steps towards the shiny thing she ahead spotted from above. the water shimmered, and she could still see the golden color under the waves. She was still unsure if it was real or not though...

She pointed to where she saw it. "Do you see something gold and shiny here?" she asked. Hoping it wasn't just her eyes playing tricks on her, Bella need confirmation of it. She wasn't going to go searching for pirate treasure if it wasn't there. Bella didn't particularly feel like wasting her time on it if it wasn't there.

The girl had a hard time trusting her eyes sometimes. They showed her too many strange things. She wondered sometimes what the world was like through other people's eyes. She was content though. She was starving, or dieing, or anything of a negative nature after all though. She was just happy to be around her awesome big brother and her Dad and other great people too. Everywhere she looked there was another awesome person. She wished she could be taller like her big brother and her Dad. However she also like being herself. It was just her big brother and father were soooooooooooooooooooo cool. She just wanted them to be happy.

[Kylar Setos]

Kylar looked down where she was pointing and smirked. She often did things like that, but he went along with the jokes. "Yeah, there is. weird," Kylar said, suprised at that. "be right back, K bells?" Kylar said and dove under the water, going for the shiny thing. Kylar felt around, his eyes closed and grabbed the item. By the feel, it was a locket of some kind. Kylar pushed up and shock his head, throwing the water away and held it up. It was a silver locket with a wolf head on the front."Strage, but da ja vu," kylar said, looking at it. it seemed so familiar, yet....... the memory was lost to him. "Bells, lets go on shore and try and open it. Bound to be something in here," kylar said, swimming to the shore and walking up, sitting in the sands.

"Grr, how the heck do you open this thing?" Kylar said, using his nails and teeth to try and open it. the teeth were for show to try and make Bella laugh, but he couldn't figure it out. Kylar looked at it again, and an idea came to him. Crazy, but.........."no way," Kylar thought, pushing the nose of the wolf and it opened. Kylar gasped as he opened it and two pictures were inside. One on the right were two little were kids, both blond and very much bella and kage. the other was of mom and dad and Kylar as a kid."mom's locket," Kylar whispered, pulling the picture of bella and kage out a little and seeing a close up of his mother. he did the same for the other little and saw his father, both smilling, his father looking like he just cracked a joke while his mother giggling about it."Bells, our mother used to wear this all the time. I remember her picking me up when i was little and it would hit me in the head. How the heck did it end up here? I knew it was stolen, but holy cow," kylar said, handing it to bella with the pictures back in place. He knew that bella never meet there mother, but a picture was better then nothing.

[Miss.Oreo]

Bella was so glad that she wasn't seeing things. She stayed put like he had asked as he dove down to get it. When he surfaced with a locket in his hands she was very curious. She nodded and followed him as fast as her little person could go. She walked up the shore, the sand warm between her wet toes.

Bella giggled as Kylar tried to open it. It was very funny when he tried his teeth on it. Her blue eyes got bigger than usual when he poked the nose and it popped open. "You opened it." she mumbled. Her sharp ears caught his whisper. She heard her brother explain what the locket was. "She did?" Bella asked. She took it from him and studied the pictures. "She was so pretty, and there is me and Kage. You were really cute too." Bella felt her eyes get watery, and not because she had gotten water in them or something.

She looked up at cage, tears almost spilling over in her eyes. "I miss Kage. Mom loved us all soo much, it isn't right for us to be apart." With that she ended up throwing herself on her big brother cause she really wanted a hug. It wasn't like Bella to start complaining but she really missed her twin. It wasn't the same without him, and she could only imagine the things they were doing to him at the Labs. As she had said, it wasn't right.

[Kylar Setos]

"I'll let that one slide," Kylar said, smiling at bella. If anyone else said that, he would have disagreed, saying even as a baby he was bad a**.But with bella, he would say cute.Or let her. ether or. Kylar but an arm around her as she hugged him and slowly rocked."it's ok ella-bella. We'll get him back. I promise. I miss him to," he said, rubbing her back in the hug. Kylar almost expected tears, but this was his sister after all.

"Come on bells. Lets go back. I want you to show dad what you found," he said, smiling and hoping that dad could cheer her up. He wasn't really go with it. Sure, eh would smile and all, but Dad was a lot better with putting up with the cutsy stuff then him. and Since kage was gone, her usual victum for most of it was gone as well. Kylar smirked and let go off bella, saying," Race you back?" He knew she would win, but a little win might cheer her up. Kylar smirked and went back to the rocks, grabbing it in his hands and putting it in his bag and puleld his pants off, putting them inside as well and shifted. it was instant and he looked down as his sister, and took the locket in his hands and put it around her neck."If i remember right, this locket can change length by a machine inside, so you can wear it when in werewolf form. now, lets run." Kylar let a bark of laughter out and started running back. it was only a mile or there. an easy run for a were. Kylar loped forward, his clothes in the bag on his shoulder and his four limbs letting him run like a wolf.

[Bella Setos]

Bells stepped back from Kylar when he let go. She wiped her eyes, and thanked the heavens her nose hadn't started running. She nodded, ready to go show her father the locket. She felt the locket's weight slip onto her neck. She touched the locket as it nestled itself a bit lower then her collar bone. She then turned around so she wasn't facing Kylar and slipped off her swimsuit and shifted. She picked up her swimsuit between her teeth, careful not to poke holes through it.

She heard Kylar starting to run off, and her lips curled in a wolfish grin. She chased after him, catching up very quickly and surpassing him even faster. It didn't take long at all for them to get to the camp. Her ears swiveled as she heard her brother approaching. She waited by the entrance for him before they would go find their father and show him. She had another wolfish-grin as he appeared. "I win." she said, almost cheerfully. she wasn't at her usual full blast cheerfulness yet. this hadn't been that great of an accomplishment since she had already knew she would win.

Looking around there were lots of rebels. The scents were mixed with werewolf, and vampire alike. There may have been a few escappee test subjects but she would have to sniff through the maze of scents to be able to find that. People were walking around, training, and planning. It really obviously was their rebel camp...

[Kellen Setos]

Kylar smirked and shifted, pulling his pants out and slipped them on as he said," You win. Come on, lets go. I know the way." Kylar said, pulling a shirt out and handing her his jacket. Not exactly the best thing to talk through a base of weres in just a swimsuit. Even if you are the alpha's daughter. Kylar smirked and put his arm over her shoulder after she shifted and walked her through.

The camp was separate from the vamp camp from about an e8th of a mile distance, but still vamps were walking around the place. There were many simple house, and many tents. The armory/ command tent was the most fortified besides the walls surrounding the place. Kellen's small house was at the center of it, but still large compared to others. It had a room for all of them. The camp was still lively and weres were all around and busy. Kylar walked through, smiling and waving to a couple, winking at girls he liked as he went. Kylar smirked as one girl winked back as He opened the door to the alpha's house.

Kellen

Kellen sat at his table with his council around him. All 13 wolves sat at the table, looking at the hologram in front of them all. It was the scarlet rose from the ground up."As you see, we can't get our sataliet to get picture of there underground facility, and we have no idea of what is down there. From intelligence, we can assume this," kellen said and the image rose and five more floors showed with blurred edges."We assume that there is five floors going down. As to what each floor is, we don't know yet. We believe that the vampire kind and kage are being held on the forth, but no confirmation. We know that they haven't moved them out yet. We Have watchers all around the facility, but there are no opportuntes to act yet due to there security. But, I think that we can get a wolf in if we-" Kellen said as Kylar came in with bella."Kylar. bells. Your back early," Kellen said, supirse on his worn face. Kellen felt his trench coat swirl around his feet as he turned and the hologram turned off. Kellen Smiled at bella and turned to his council, saying," We will meet again tomarrow. Dismissed." The 12 weres got up and nodded, leaving out the back door. kellen watched them go, then turned and smiled at his kids. Kylar backed up as Kellen came up for a hug. kellen smiled at his son as he looked at his nails, but Hugged his daughter instead."hey bella. What chu doing back so early?" Kellen asked, down on his knee so to be eye level with her.

[Bella Setos]

As they entered camp she shifted to her human form. Taking the coat with a polite thank you, and feeling her big brother's arm around her shoulder. She followed him into Kellen's meeting place. Bella felt a little bad for interrupting their meting. She hadn't meant for her troubles or discoveries to interfere with her father's work. But it seemed like it was ok, and she figured it was really important that Kellen know that she and Kylar had found the necklace.

She simply nodded when he said they were back early before, but now she was more responsive. She felt really serious considering what the locket was and its content. As he came down to her eye level by getting on his knee she felt shorter then ever. She looked at him with a serious pair of eyes and a faint smile. Her slender fingers lifted the locket that was around her neck.

"We found this out at the beach and came to show you it." She said it quietly, then she popped it open with the secret nose trick and the pictures were revealed. It took her about two seconds of looking at the pictures for her eyes to get all watery. Then about five seconds after that hot tears were streaming down her face. She held it for him to see though, despite the sudden urge to throw herself into her father's arms. Bella couldn't help it, she had already gone and cried once today, but she missed Kage and her mother a lot. Bella wanted a hug...

"I-I-I miss t-them." she said this quietly, stuttering again. Bella couldn't help it she usually ended up stuttering when she was upset or scared. It wasn't really a habit, she just couldn't help it. Her big blue eyes were overflowing with tears and her eyes were getting a bit red. She blinked her eyes because her vision had gotten blurry from the excess moisture on their surface. It was sometimes hard to believe that little, sweet, baby Bella was the daughter of Kellen the great Alpha, or the sister of the really cool Kylar... they were both so strong and they knew what to do, Bella wanted to be more like them.

[Kellen Setos]

"Where did you get that?" Kellen asked, his face going pale as he saw that. His whole body language went to caring father to shock. Kylar raised an eyebrow and said," bells and me found it down at the beach. why?" Kellen blinked, taking the pendent in his hands and clicked it open, then looked at bella."I thought I would never see this again." kylar figited nervously, sencing there was more to it then that. Kellen looked at the photos, then at bella and handed it back to her daughter. Kellen wrapped his large arms around her, helding her as he felt her tremble, saying," Don't worry. I vow that we are going to get Kage back." Kellen's body held her, but it wasn't his mind into it. His mind was back to the day after Bella and kage were born. back when he put his mate into a coffen....

..... kellen Looekd down at his mate's body. Kellen felt his eyes wet as he stood over her body as the rain rained fdown on the tent above them. Kellen held her hand as the other alphas and council wolfs stood around them. his children were being taken care of a trusted nanny right now, so the others just came to pay there respects. kellen cried and put his hands down on her crossed hands on her midsection. Kellen wiped his eyes on his sleves and leaned up, and puled something out of his pocket. Kellen wrapped the chain around her cold neck and put the locket on her chest. The lockt had a wolf's face on it, and photos of there family on the inside. The same locket that was around bella's neck today. Kellen wiped his eyes and leaned down and whispered,' So you can always have your family at your heart." kellen backed up as the coffen was closed and lowered into the ground, the sound of rain growing harder.......

..... kellen let go of bella and said," Bella, Can you hold onto that locket for me? I don't think I can anymore," kellen asked, giving her a sad smile. Kellen kissed her on the forhead and stood up, pacing for a second then asked," Kylar, bella, I need a second," kellen said and left the roof, going to his.

Kellen paced the room for a second, worried. Could someone have raiden his mate's tmb? it is the only way that someone could have gotten that locket. Kellen Looked out the window, thinking that locket could be back in place.

Kylar

Kylar watched as his father went into his room and winced as the door was closed. Kylar was confused. Kylar loked at bella and walked over, asking," What do you think that was about?" kylar asked.

finished

[Bella Setos]

Bella watched her father. Silently letting the tears roll. She looked at Kylar when he told Kellen where they found it. Then returned her gaze to Kellen as he wrapped his arms around her. She was shaking a little, as if something was breaking, or if something was already broken and something was missing. She knew exactly what was missing though... Kage.

She nodded in agreement as he asked her to keep it. Then she watched as he announced he needed a moment and watched him leave. She turned to look at Kylar, confusion on her face. She wiped her face and sniffled. Then she answered Kylar's question. "I... I don't know." She turned her head, looking over her shoulder at the door her father had disappeared behind. Bella sighed, looking back at Kylar. "I'm sorry, I didn't want to complain... I-I just..." She took a deep breath before she started crying again. Yes, Bella was finally putting a lasso around her emotions. It wasn't like her to complain unless she really had a problem. Missing Kage was definitely a big problem. She had always been a big baby, but she was also pretty good at cheering up other too. Bella was your ice cream binge buddy, the person to play in the sand with and the smile waiting for you at home...

Bella wondered if it would be best to go now. Leave their father to be by himself for a while. She looked up at Kylar, a faint smile on her face. "I'm gonna take really good care of this." She place her hand over then pendant. then she glanced at the door again. Before asking what was on her mind now. "Do you think we should go now?"