Summery: Jack Darby was your average teen from jasper until he met arcee but what if he was never average and normal. What if he had a secret that only he knew until he was forced to reveal it to save his partner. This is the tale of the spirit channeler.

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It was the day! June Darby though hated it. She was about to give birth to her late husbands child and she was livid. Oh why did her husband have to die saving the town from that biker gang? What were they called again? Oh yeah the devil rider's of hell or DROH for short. Her co worker and child's godmother was busy making sure she and her child would survive the experience. She thrashed as a contraction hit and she cursed her husbands spirit for leaving her and their child. Oh yes June was having a horrible day. With one last push a cry removed her anger and taking some energy in the process leaving her drained and calm. Mood swings are not a good thing to have when giving birth June could tell.

"Congrats June its a boy" said her coworker may Sanchez.

The two had been child hood friends for years. They practically grew up together since before preschool. They both had a desire to save people and when they both started working at the hospital the two were called the month sisters due to both being named after months. To be honest neither woman minded they were practically sisters in all but blood until three years ago. June had married May's brother James Darby making the two true sisters. May's own husband Kevin Sanchez sat near the east wall smiling at his little nephew.

"What are you going to name him" asked Kevin.

"Jack blade Darby" said June with a giggle.

"Jack blade oh you mean like a jack knife? I can see that! I can tell he might have a sharp wit as he grows he takes after his dad after all" asked Kevin thinking of how many times his best friend made him laugh and brought his mood up when he was feeling down.

"Jack blade Darby it is" agreed may thinking of her late brother.

June smiled down at her son as he opened his surprisingly electric blue-grey eyes and reached up to touch her face. June let him as she smiled a bit wider. She was sad James wasn't going to be able to watch jack grow up. Unknown to her jack was seeing a small flame colored blue float closer to him and entered his chest leaving a ticklish feeling making the new born laugh not knowing that a spirit had just become dormant in him.

A few weeks later saw June and jack return to June's home ready to raise and care for the family that would soon have a interesting encounter in the future.

She placed her child in his crib and looked at the carved wooden cat James had carved with two tails. It was a nekomata or Japanese demon cat. A powerful spirit that was said to ward off evil. Her husband had a huge obsession with the Japanese legends that also grew to robotics. She had found a blue print to one such robotics project of her husbands. It was a handheld device that looked like a electronic card holder. She realized it was for Jack on looking at the notes for it. Her husband must have known Jack would follow his father's footsteps someday and wanted to give him something to remember him by. The times her husband had a feeling about something was usually right and June had saw that on the work bench was a completed prototype of the device. It indeed held cards but they were blank. It looked like James was going to create a new card game. June smiled resolving to give it to jack when he was old enough.

(End chapter)