Chapter 100 - SEARCHING FOR CLUES

Derek's eyes darted tro and fro the large expanse of the forest, as he stood akimbo, looking for whatever or whomever had broken into his little witch's house; looking for a clue or something that would give him a hint of what had happened at his mate's place.

When he and his cousin, with his beta and gamma, had walked into the house which looked disarranged and totally scattered, he had known that someone had been in the home, searching for something.

But what could that be? He thought. What possibly can a human have that the queen of witches was searching for her?; and now her house has been ransacked, turned upside down.

Did his little witch steal anything? 

He shook his head negatively. It wasn't possible. She had just moved in here and hadn't even stayed for a month.

So what was really the problem? He thought, scratching an itchy spot on his long hair.

"Derek.."

He turned, as he heard his cousin's voice. Hopefully she might have gotten something.

"Any clues left behind?" He asked.

"No. Nothing." Maya replied tiredly. They have been searching the forest area around Emma's house for two hours now, and still nothing.

She looked up, towards the northern area of the zone, and saw Shane and Clem walking up to them. She hoped that their answers to Derek's upcoming question would be positive.

"Any luck? Any clues left behind?" Derek asked the duo, who still seemed startled at the turn of events and happenings around the only human in their pack region.

"Nope."

"Nothing at all."

Clem and Shane replied respectively, shaking their heads at the same time to enforce their statements.

"This is getting out of hand though. We have to tell Melvina." Maya stated, knowing that this piece of information would be beneficial to Melvina's quest for Emma's connection with the queen of the witches in the south.

"Yeah, we have to." Shane agreed, knowing that this one was out of their reach to solve alone. They still had the pack trainings to get serious with, because of the upcoming pack war, that he hoped wouldn't occur. He wasn't an ardent fan of war. There would be too many casualties; and he didn't like or want that.

But till then, they still had to train. They should leave Emma's issue to Melvina.

"Okay." Derek concurred, seeing reasons with his friends. His mother and her friend who was also a witch, would know what to say about the latest development.

But for now, he had to find out what he could say to his mate to calm her down, or better still, live with them at the Pack's main house, that is, if his father would allow it.

When his little witch had slipped into that slight coma, he had noticed that one night, his father had stepped out of the room where she had been kept to heal up. He hadn't know why, and hadn't asked why. He hadn't even let his father see him, to avoid questions about his mate, which he was sure that the older man had. Later that night, he had told his mother, who had brushed it off as curiosity, but had also told him to be careful with his association with Emma, at least till his birthday, when he turned 18.

"We should be heading back to Emma's place. Don't you think we've been away for long? It's more than two hours already." Clem opined, knowing how inquisitive the human could be.

"That's right." Derek noted. They had to be going.

"Any ideas on what to tell her about the burglary?" He asked, as they all started heading back to Emma's house.

" Well….." Maya stuttered, trying to think of a suitable story again.

"Just tell her that it must have been the work of some robbers, who had gotten to her house by some kind of ill luck; or whatever along that line." Clem suggested, cutting Maya short.

An act though done harmlessly by Clem who meant nothing but just to provide a solution to the present issue,  infuriated Maya a little bit.

She thought that Clem had silenced her, consciously.

"But nothing was actually missing." Shane cited, folding his arms on his chest. "Wouldn't she notice that?" He questioned further.

"Let's just hope that she doesn't notice." Clem said, putting his hands in the front pockets of his black combat shorts.

"She will. Emma will." Maya chanted, moving a step faster than the rest. She needed to wash her face.

When she had beheld herself in the mirror in Emma's bathroom, while searching for any clues the intruder might have left behind, she had screamed, causing Derek, Shane and Clem to rush into the bathroom, thinking that perhaps she was in trouble.

They had sighed, hiding their laughs since they were faced with a more important tedious task, before walking out of the bathroom, leaving her to stare and cuss at Eva's work of art on her face.  There were lines, and circles, and painted blocks, cups, in small and big sizes; pencils and some alphabets. She looked like a painted moron, worser than a clown, and uglier than a duck.

"What the hell.." she had muttered, before snatching a black cloth that had been thrown carelessly near the bathroom's entrance, to wipe the colourings off her face for the moment, noting to wash them off later. Also promising to deal with the little Eva in her own funny way, when this search was done.

"What's that?" Clem asked, pointing towards a shiny object on the ground, few meters away from them. They hadn't noticed it while they were coming out, perhaps due to their hastiness.

"Let's check it out." Derek said, walking tentatively towards the object of attention, with the others. 

When he paused in his steps, and picked it up, he found out it was a shiny necklace, decorated with tiny orbs of diamonds; it's most significant feature was the shape of a black quarter moon in the middle, held in the center by the orbs, although in a sharp contrast.

"A necklace?" Shane queried, staring at the necklace which he had never seen its kind before.

"It is not a normal necklace." Maya muttered, staring keenly at the object of attention. "It might have dropped off from the intruder. Melvina would know what to do. Let's go. Emma would be waiting.." She stated, before walking off, expecting the rest to follow her.