We got back to the manor half an hour later; Atlas had already gone to work. Kelva went into the living room to talk to Adell who was reading the paper. I went upstairs to chill out in my room for a while.

I heard the phone ring and it woke me, I noticed I had dozed of on the bed. I bolted up. I knew who was on the phone so I ran to the door. I opened it and the ringing stopped, I half thought he had hung up, but then I heard Kelva talking to herself and smiled.

I got to the top of the stairs and saw Kelva sat on the sofa by the phone talking to Keaden. I came down and looked at her; she gave me a just-a-minute look so I let her finish telling him what happened earlier that day. I got a drink from the kitchen and came back out and sat by her.

She said her good byes and passed the phone over.

 "Well, hello there" I said smiling

 "Good morning, you have been adventuring again?"

 "We didn’t find much though"

 "Except a Démok" he laughed "I'm proud. Kel just said that mum was looking through some papers she found in the shack and it sounds pretty important... don’t you know?"

 "Know what? Sorry I had fallen asleep and your call woke me up..."

 "My apologies, I should have considered your sleeping habits" he laughed

 "Yes, you should... and don’t be so insensitive..." I said mockingly "Besides I haven’t been sleeping well, last nights storm didn’t help either, when are you coming home?"

 "Tonight I think, but... I need to talk to you about something" his tone dropped.

 "What do you mean?" I was sure he was going to say he wasn’t coming home.

 "Well I only come up here for the pack runs, once a month. Since my job is to be the eyes and ears of the Falvia region (which isn't much of a job since there is hardly any stray activity there), He, uh...asked me to come up here... more often. And do some...jobs. I didn’t give him a proper answer, not until after I talk to you, and everyone else."

 "What kind of 'jobs'?"

 "You know the basics. If there’s a stray that’s needs his face rearranging for stepping out of line, they need someone to step to" He said playfully. I smiled "I spoke to Kelva she doesn’t mind even though she isn’t all chuffed with the idea, she’s going to tell Atlas and I think she’s telling mum now. What do you think?" I wondered for a minute, not wanting to make his decision for him, but not to make it blatantly obvious I didn’t want him to...

 "...its up to you, do you want to?"

 "Not really, But this is my home as much as there... and I love Falvia, but I can’t say no if he says I have to, he’s my Alpha ...I KNOW... you don’t like that, but I can’t explain it" He didn’t have to I understood, but I didn’t like the idea of him playing bell-hop to some over-grown man-pooch. Of course, I would never use that terminology to him...

 "I just don’t like the idea of you playing bell-hop to some over-grown man-pooch" Oops.

 "Leun...It’s not LIKE THAT"

 "I KNOW, I KNOW, IM SORRY, Ok. So, what time is one making a re-appearance, assuming you can come home tonight?"

Oh, dads just walked in, I need to go. I will have a chat with him and Kale and I will tell you what’s what, when I get back, 'K'"

 "Capital 'K'" I smiled

 "'K', see you soon" he said

 "Bye"

 "Bye"

I hung up and went into the lounge, where Kelva and Adell were studying the old notes,

 "Keaden said you found something important?" I said walking through the door.

 "I'd say, you tell him, I will go get my diary," Kelva said to Adell. She got up and left the room and I sat opposite Adell on the chair looking at the notes strewn across the desk.

 "Ok, basically the previous resident of the shack, A Mr. umm" she checked one of the papers "Corwell Valeice, was researching something which he called the Archaic Relics, or Arcane Relics"

 "I'm presuming that’s what these pictures are off?" I said

 "Correct, well at least I think they are, as you can see they are of all shapes sizes and I assume of different usages. I don’t have much info on them at the moment, he wasn’t documenting on these papers, only... well I think he was only writing out equation’s, presumptions and ideas on what, where, and how they work."

 "So what are they? What are they used for?"

 "I honestly don’t know as of yet, but if what I'm reading is correct, then these hold 'Immense' power. Judging by these equations and ideas, he was studying them. Which means that he must have had one"

 "Or more than one, look at all these he’s drawn" I looked again across the withering pages at the intricate artwork he had put so much time and effort into drawing...

 "That’s what I was thinking. But that shack has been looked through time and time again. So if he had one or more than one, its most likely it (or they) has been repossessed by a third party. Either that or he kept them hidden, which assumes that he must have a safe place to store them. Which begs the question: What place could have been safe then, and not be found after all the years that have passed? Surely we would have come across something"

 "MUM...you’re rambling again" Kelva said re-entering the room.

 "Sorry, you know how I get with these things" she laughed. Her long dark hair swaying as she got up to fix a drink from the cabinet by the window. Kelva sat next to me, and opened her diary.

 "So what are you doing with that?" I asked hinting at the diary

 "Oh, well remember how I said that I couldn’t find anything to-do with that green lightning stuff from my dream, Well I'm reading though what I wrote to see if I wrote anything to back the theory that it mite have been one of these I was using" The room went cold. I shuddered but Kelva commented on it first "Wow. what was that, it was like a breeze, did you feel it?" she asked looking from me to Adell.

 "Your damn right I did" My senses were drawn just passed the table, there was something there.

 "Are you ok?" Kelva asked resting her hand on my left arm? "Your eyes seemed to have glazed over or something... you ok?"

 "Hmm... oh, yeah. Sorry, it’s just weird eh?" I replied half heartedly.
 Adell sat back opposite us and continued to look through the pages. She didn’t comment on the sudden draft. Kelva started to look through her diary and I started to relax...

 I calmed myself, first listening to my breathing, then focusing on my aura, I flexed my senses through it, taking in my surroundings with my eyes closed, feeling there movements, there breathing, there heart beats, then I drew my attention to the spot by the table. It was there, a consciousness, a person, his attention on Kelva... but with nobody standing there...was I sensing a ghost? OH HELL I WAS SENSING A GHOST...?

 "WOW" I hollered then bolted over the sofa. I catapulted myself through the door and up stairs then stumbled down the corridor to my room then fumbled to get the door open. Took me three attempts to grab the handle then I threw myself inside and slammed the door shut with my back to it panting... shaking... mumbling.... I never knew I had it in me. Seriously I didn’t know I could sense ghosts. I mean, I knew I had a hightend sertain.... spiritual... whatever's. But I thought it was just in me. Not being able to throw my mana to sense other spirits... but I could... I wondered if I could have been imagining it... I could have, I mean I hadn't been sleeping well, had I. I’m just in need of T.L.C...And alcohol...lots of ALCOHOL. I had just sensed a 'Ghost' for crying out loud... The door knocked "AWAAAHH" I bellowed shamefully

 "Leun what’s wrong?" Kelva asked concerned.

 "Are you ok, what happened?" Adell asked, both of them behind the door.

 "Amf-hu man...hiz...umm there...at...u-you...HUUUH" I was shaking like fault zone. I was better than this. I have gone one on one with Démoks for heavens sake this thing wasn’t even a threat...'just calm down Leun' I thought to myself  '...BREATH....1...2...3...'

 "Leun calm down, just open the door let me in..."

 "NO! Something’s there"

 "WHO?" Kelva shouted, getting annoyed.

 "HOW THE HELL SHOULD I KNOW..." I bellowed

 "Leun it’s just us two..." Adell said calmly

 "Leun if you don’t open this door I SWEAR..." I whizzed the door open then yanked them in and before I knew it, I had a mana wall up outside my door. I slammed the door shut and looked at them both staring at me like I was crazy... Heck if I wasn’t now, I was sure I was going to be. I jumped a bit when I looked past them to see Brox stood up on my bed watching me with his head at an angle, with a did-I-miss-something expression...on a WOLF...I didn’t know he had that expression until then.

 "It's a ghost....it's a spook, it's a polty, and IT’S THERE..."

 "Leun...you know it's ok to admit you have a problem, It wont change anything, we will support you and we will love you all the same..."she put her hands on my. I couldn’t believe Kelva had considered that...SCREW Casper. Kelva thought I was a junkie!

 "IM NOT HIGH, IM SERIOUS! ...ok...chill out, its just a ghost...you have seen, handled and met" I gestured to Kelva "worse...calm...relaxed...NO WAY IM GOING OUT THERE AGAIN!"

 -SMACK!-

 I could hear sniffing... And I could feel wet dots on my nose... I woke up to find Brox sniffing my face... then he turned to look at Kelva who was filing her nails on my bed, Adell gone. I let out the slightest groan as I checked my jaw was still in tact behind my numb cheek...

 "You were out for 20 minutes...now have you calmed down yet? Or do I have to put you under again..." she said her eyes not moving of her manicure... I got onto my elbows

 "Well I'm insulted, I cant believe you would think that I would be on something narcotic...and your not even open to the idea that we might have ourselves a resident ghost...SHIT" I bolted upright of my hunches"...I DONT WANNA SEE DEAD PEOPLE" I said

 "Don’t you DARE make me come over there Leun...your calm now, STAY THAT WAY" she demanded waving her nail file at me... she was right

 "You’re right...sorry... I'm cool now" I exhaled

 "Ok...now tell me what all that was about..." I stared at her blankly...

 "Did you have a lapse of memory or have I been speaking another language for the PAST HALF HOUR"

 "You said you saw a ghost...How did you see a spook when last time I checked you weren’t even the slightest bit psychic or clairvoyant...?"

 "I’m not, I could just tell there was something stood there and then I relaxed and focused and I could sense a guy stood there, I think he was looking at you, I couldn’t see him, more an impression of a consciousness or something... bah, I can’t explain it"

 "Looking at me... Great, I have a paranormal fan club" she smiled, I half-laughed "look I'm going to go back downstairs, If you feel up to it you might like to join us, Atlas will be back soon anyways" she got up and walked out...

"IT’S OK ABOUT MY CHIN BY THE WAY... AND AS FOR ME AND GARY GHOOL... I WILL BE JUST DANDY... she isn’t listening is she?" I said to Brox, but he just walked past me... his way of saying I was being a tit and nobody was listening..."fine then...just so long as nobody is feeling guilty for doubting me...and knocking me unconscious... and ignoring me...and..." Brox turned and looked at me... his expression said it all "Oh all right I'll shut up..."

 I managed to steady my nerves to get into the living room, which honoured its title since the presence was gone now. We talked for a while about these relics and decided we needed more information on them. All that we really knew was what they were referred to as, that there powerful and that they were quite a few of them. After a short while Atlas returned home from work. He walked into the lounge where we were, wearing a pair of dirty jeans and a sleeveless shirt which complimented his heavy build...

 "Evening" a small smile forming on his face "What’s all this" He said gesturing to the papers still on the desk.

 "Oh long story, we will explain it all better when Keaden gets back" Kelva said rising. I couldn’t help noticing the room go stone cold all of a sudden. "The headlines are: me and Leun find a bunch of old papers from the old shack. There are artefacts of great power on the loose and we now have our very own in-house boogieman" Atlas looked all shades of confused, but still walked over and gave Kelva his HI-Honey-I’m-Home kiss. I wasn’t paying much attention to this though. The room was cold and I could sense a uneasiness in the air, somebody wasn’t happy. Kelva turned around to sit down again.

 "AHHH-" Atlas roared in pain as his body suddenly crashed through the door, smashing it of its hinges. He skidded half way though the entrance hall...

 "ATLAS..." Kelva screamed, she bolted through the door to him and dropped down next to him. Me and Adell were in hot pursuit...

 "What the Hell happened there?" I exclaimed, "It was him wasn’t it?"

 "Who?" Kelva asked as Adell knelt next to him. He started groaning as Adell started a healing spell. She placed her hands over him palm down and started muttering words.

 For a second I thought you did it, but when you started talking..." I started

 "The room went cold; I know I felt it too. I didn’t expect this though..." She looked back to him on the floor. He was awake now, Adell's spell working in full force. He started to sit up but Kelva held him down. "Don’t move your going to be ok..."

 "Don’t worry I’m fine. Adell, thanks but its not necessary, I have been thrown through heavier things. It just dazed me...what was it?" He said rubbing his head.

 "Our in-house boogieman" I said looking around but I couldn’t sense him, I figured he was probably upstairs...

 "Come on lets get you up" I helped him to his feet and the door opened. Keaden walked in with a bag, which he quickly dropped when he saw the scene before him.

 "He- Whoa... What happened here? Are you ok?" he walked over and helped me pick him up. "Who did this?"

 "Ok. Look. You two get him upstairs to bed then-"

 "I’m not going nowhere until I find out what just cannonball’s me, and I’m ok seriously" Having been helped to his feet, He let go of me and Keaden and rested a hand over his chest. Adell stopped healing as we started to pick him up.

 "Ok everyone back into the lounge. We'll explain everything" Adell concluded

 "Keaden can you get the door" he smiled at me and I realised what I said "...erm... you know what I mean" He walked over and stood it up with one hand.

 "So let me get this straight... there are an unknown number of old... powerful... things." Keaden quoted as we stepped into the bedroom that evening after dinner.

 "Yep" I said sitting next to him. Believe it or not I was actually getting bored of hearing all this...

 "And we need to get more info on them"

 "Yep"

 "Which means shaking down the old shack?"

 "Yep" I picked up my book that I was reading and sat on the bed

 "And we have a ghost" he said, I took a deep breath...

 "Yep"

 "Did I miss something?"

 "Yep"

 "What?"

 "I missed you" he smiled and sat next to me he put his head on my shoulder.

 "So how did everything go with Kale?"

 "I talked to him, said I needed more time to think it over," He said quickly" And, you know, talk to the family" I rested my head on his and put my book down. "He didn’t really like it though, I think, he thinks I’m stalling, guess I am in a way..."

 "Hmm..." he had no choice; I knew that, he knew that. It wasn’t so much talking it over with the family it was telling the family, and Kale was expecting Keaden to do that now while he was back. "Are you tired?"

 "Not really... are you?" he replied looking up at me, I shook my head.

 "I’m going to go get a drink. You want one?"

 "Sure..." He replied. He got up and walked over to a plaque of antique swords on the wall. They belonged to a warrior called Vadell Kemrenis, Who died over 6 centuries ago fighting against poverty, slavery and such. When he died the powers that be at the time honoured his bid to create a law against slavery and trafficking. These swords belonged to him and were given as a gift to one of the Embreya's ancestors, who at the time helped his campaign...

 "What do you want?"

 "Anything, water" he looked back at the swords, I could tell something was wrong, I don’t know what? He was fine a minute ago. I walked up to him and put my hand on is right shoulder and my chin on his left.

 "You okay?" He smiled and closed his eyes.

 "Its nothing, I'll be ok"

 "You sure?" he nodded "Ok I will go get you that water" I walked out of the room and went to the kitchen. I thought about what could be up with him... but I couldn’t come up with anything other than the pack. Perhaps he knew he wouldn’t be able to spend as much time here. And nobody without an ability to grow fangs and sprout fur was welcome in the northern territories. Perhaps Kale gave him an ultimatum pack or us. 'He better not have' I thought, or maybe he wasn’t here to discuss it... I was thinking to much. If it was anything serious Keaden wouldn’t keep it to himself.

I got the water and my drink and was starting up the stairs when Adell opened the door of the lounge.

 "Leun...little help please, love" She had a half smile/half panic expression. I put the drinks on the steps and walked over I could feel Brox' discomfort and hear him growling in the lounge. Then I started to sense something wrong again, through my aura. I got to the door and knew what it was...

 "Uh-uh, no ta, not me, not in there, not with him" I said and swiftly turned around

 "Leun this is...rather important..." I heard the tone of her voice, the certain uncertainty init and I couldn’t leave her without knowing what caused it. I admitted defeat and turned round.

 "What’s up...?" I sighed

 "See for yourself" She said making room for me to enter the room.

 "What the..." I mumbled at the scene before me... the papers on the table were spinning in all directions, flying up and around the table, Brox panting, growling at the ghosts doing. I knew it was him, his presence sent a chilling pulse through my mana. "Its him"

 "No kidding... I need your help" we made eye contact; I let my face fall into a worried expression. Then I perked up with some false hope

 "Kelva will help... I’m off to bed, night then" I smiled and turned around, Adell caught my arm

 "Kelva cant communicate with him the dead!"

 "What makes you think I can?" I said knowing it was a stupid question.

 "You know he’s there, you know he’s a 'He'. Look, I have an idea, I want you to try and focus on him, See if your able to hear what he’s trying to tell us?"

 "OH... but he gives me the 'willies'." I groaned, looking over my shoulder at the papers flying all over...

 "Only because you don’t understand anything about this, if you do this you could break that fear and learn more about your abilities... just give it a try"

I turned around shaking, and then walked into the room and sat on the sofa...I knew what to do... I relaxed, felt through my mana, spread my mana over the spirit and focused on him. I couldn’t see him but I could feel him. Once I stopped shivering at this, and felt some sort of ... courage, I started to mumble...

 "Who are you?" The papers dropped immediately, scattering all around as they glided to the table and floor... I couldn’t tell what I was sensing it wasn’t sound or a feeling it was like a whisper on the edge of my mind... I focused on it and it came to me gently. I asked again. This time it was louder...

 "Alas...al..." I repeated

 "Atlas... is it a warning for Atlas?" Adell asked me, I slowly shook my head. I relaxed my senses and tried to connect to it...

 "What’s your name? Who are you?" the mental sound came again "Alasti...Alast...Alastor? Is your name Alastor" the feeling I got from it wasn’t a yes but more of a near enough so I settled with that question and moved on..."Ok Alastor...what do you want? Why are you here?" I had lost all sense of my surrounding it was only me and him. I had my eyes closed as usual when in this mana-meditated state or manatated as I call it, clever eh? (I came up with it myself) "I cant tell what your saying... ore? Or more do you mean more?" when I said that the papers moved again,

 "He wants more of these papers?" I heard Adell say

 "What are these Arcane Relics?" I asked him, taking a gamble... then I heard a voice Echo Clearly, Coldly into my ear...

 "Get All the Papers NOW!" It was him right into my ear. I felt myself get pushed forward into the mess of papers, my manatated state thrown from me. I stretched out to sense him... but he was long gone... Adell came over to help me up of the floor...

 "What happened? oh my god, your face is shock white! Are you ok?" She said

I let out a short convulsion as my nerves settled themselves

 "Don’t EVER ask me to do that again ok... eww that was weird..."

 "What’s going on?" Keaden entered the room "Shit...are you ok" he came over and helped sit down.

 "Yeah I'm fine, just trying out mummy’s great idea..."

 "And what idea would that be?" he said looking at Adell

 "Oh, nothing out of the ordinary... only talking to dead people!" I said sarcastically

 "MUM!" Keaden bellowed at her she looked a little ashamed

 "I'm fine Keaden" Kelva walked in with Atlas holding his arms around her waist..."Just a little shook" I finished

 "Why what’s up?" Atlas said

 "Urrgghh..." I sighed "just getting an update" I said a little annoyed at everything happening so fast, at least I wouldn’t have to keep repeating myself if I told everyone at once, that made me feel a little calmer. "The ghost has a name, we call him Alastor now" Atlas smirked "And he wants us, no I’m being polite, Violently Demands we get the rest of these documents"

 "And you found this out, how?" Kelva said as if she was just tuning in

 "By trying out mum's whacked out but working idea of talking to him" Keaden said annoyed, he was standing behind me now with his arm around me, rubbing my shoulder.

 "Yes, it was my idea and I wouldn’t have had Leun try it if I had thought it would harm him, which I don’t think it has. It was good for a first attempt. I think this Alastor wants us to get these papers, so Keaden, Leun will you go and get them?"

 "We were planning on getting them in the morning." Kelva said

 "Well if its as urgent as Alastor makes it out to be... we need to study them as soon as possible"

 "And since when do we care what Alastor thinks?" Atlas protested

 "Clearly you don’t, but it doesn’t change the fact that we still don’t know anything about these so we must follow any leads we have, and the only lead we have is obviously one that needs our attention, So Leun, Keaden you will go and find these documents and look for anything else that could be of relevance, Atlas will you drive them to the forest while me and Kelva do some research"

 "On what?" her daughter asked "The relics we don’t know anything!"

 "We could look through our books or on the network to see if anything similar that has been noted through out history. But I was thinking more along the lines of Clairvoyance, see if there are anything we can do to make our new resident more...presentable"

 "I see. Ok I will go get our family Grimoir's" Kelva concluded.