Hannah rolled over again in bed, trying desperately to ignore the
mumbling from her best friend Crystal who was sound asleep in her bed on
the other side of the room. As usual Crystal was chanting something that
Hannah had only understood one time. The one time she understood what her
friend had been mumbling was when she had copied it down. Although, she
never quite figured out what it meant, but she had showed it to Crystal the
next day.
"What's this?" Crystal had asked the next day when she had spotted the paper with her mumbled words scribbled on it.
"It's stuff you were mumbling in your sleep last night. I don't think I got all of it, though," explained Hannah.
"Perhaps I can fill it in," said Crystal taking a closer look at it.
"Go ahead and look," said Hannah who was already dressed and ready to go from her restless night.
Crystal did look and after she had read through what Hannah had discerned from her mumbling three times she got another parchment and began to rewrite it. She was done in the next ten minutes and read her finished form aloud so that Hannah could hear it properly.
"Five did come with one good friend, to achieve one miracle long foretold. With none other to lend them hand, On these specific foretold lands. Two are smart, Yet two are graceful. The other you will know, Once you meet on these cold lands. One will have life and the other is too cold to have such creatures. This riddle will come to you, Through spirits bold thro' night. In eighty days, You will meet. With one true friend and none other to lend you hand, To form this miracle so long foretold but not forgotten. Does it make sense know Hannah?" asked Crystal once she had finished reading the paper.
"It makes tons more since now, but what does it really mean?" asked Hannah in return.
"Well, it means that in eighty days we have to make our way to one cold land that can sustain life and then after that the other cold land that cannot sustain life," explained Crystal.
"Well, then where would we go? I mean Earth holds lands like that but that riddle means something elsewhere besides on earth doesn't it?" Hannah asked again.
Crystal nodded and said, "But it also says that we'll know by spirits bold thru' night, so you might as well keep listening to my mumbling, see if I provide any answers," answered Crystal.
"You must be one of the two smart people," exclaimed Hannah.
"I guess we'll find out in eighty days, won't we," replied Crystal, Hannah just nodded as they left their dorm room in the boarding school to go to breakfast.
* * *
"Ingoria, wake up, you're having a nightmare, wake up," yelled Jeannaisais into Ingoria's ear while shaking her. Ingoria was literally screaming in her sleep about some prophecy. Before she could finish she was brought to reality.
"What was I doing?" asked Ingoria.
"You were screaming about some prophecy that we had to pay attention to," answered Jeannaisais, clearly shaken by what she had heard her twin sister say. Her and Ingoria were identical twins and had been sent to a boarding school. The same one, in fact, that Crystal and Hannah were also at, at that precise moment.
"So, what did I say this time?" asked Ingoria.
"You were saying that we must talk to Crystal and Hannah within the next eighty days," answered Jeannaisais.
"Oh, come on Jea, I've said that before and we couldn't find them," said Ingoria.
"Ingry, we've been through this, they're here and now we really do have to find them," said Jea quite forcefully.
"Well, once again and like always, you're right. We'll keep a lookout for them," replied Ingry.
"No, we are going to find them, today," Jeannaisais nearly yelled. Ingoria just nodded as they left their room for breakfast. * * *
"Simon, are you ready to leave yet?" called his mom.
"Just another five minutes please mom," Simon called back.
"All right, but we have to leave with in the next ten minutes, you know," said his mom.
"Yes, mother, I know, I'll be right down," said Simon. His mom was getting ready to take him to a boarding school, the boys school associated with the girl's school that some very dear people he had never met were there.
"All set," said Simon as he walked down the stairs and then out to the hovercraft that his father had recently bought. Too bad I have to leave it, thought Simon as he climbed into it.
It took precisely thirty minutes to get to the boarding school. All the other boys were standing in lines in front of the school ready to greet him. Out of the other forty boys that were at the school, to Simon's great shock, one looked exactly like him. This boy went by Noshi and he also claimed that he had come here in an alien spaceship from another planet. He promised to tell Simon more afterward.
After everyone was done greeting him, Simon received even more of a shock. He was to be Noshi's roommate. Excellent, thought Simon, I guess I won't have to wait long to find out what else he wants to tell me.
"Let me take you to our room," said Noshi, "Follow me, we're on the top floor."
Simon nodded that he understood and picked up his luggage, which Noshi also took up some of his luggage to carry about the many flights of stairs. It took the two boys nearly 45 minutes to carry all of the luggage all the way up to the top floor. There was only one room on this floor.
"Can you guess which door we go through now?" asked Noshi.
"The only one I can see on all of the walls up here," answered Simon very sarcastically. I don't know if I'm really going to like this guy, thought Simon to himself.
The two walked over to the door and set down all the stuff they had been hauling up countless number of stairs. Noshi opened the door and let Simon walk through first. Simon couldn't believe his eyes. This room was nearly as big as his entire house.
"Believe it, bro, it's here to stay, now that I've made it this way," said Noshi smiling.
"What do you mean you made it this way?" asked Simon.
"I mean, I changed the place with my alien abilities. I'll tell you and show you them tonight after dinner, which happens to be in 10 minutes. Okay, let's get your stuff in here and hurry down those ten flights of stairs, shall we?" asked Noshi as he hurried to grab a few of Simon's bags and haul them into the room next to the other bed. As soon as everything was in the room they left and ran full speed down the stairs. Hoping they wouldn't be late for dinner.
* * *
Crystal and Hannah had just finished dinner and were heading back up to their rooms when two girls, that greatly resembled Crystal but were identical too each other, stopped them. Both girls were running and had to catch their breath for a moment. They had already gotten an evil look from the Miatresse, the head honcho, because of their running.
"What do you guys want?" asked Crystal. "Are you two Crystal and Hannah?" asked the girl to the right.
"Yes," answered Hannah and Crystal at the same time.
"Good," exclaimed the other girl.
"Why?" asked Hannah.
"I'm Ingoria and this Jeannaisais, as you can see we're twins," said Ingoria.
"And what do you need us for?" asked Crystal.
"I was told to talk to you," answered Ingoria.
"Why do you need to talk to me Ingoria?" asked Crystal.
"Please, call me Ingry. I need to know where to go in exactly eighty days time," replied Ingry.
"And I was the one that heard her say she needed to talk to you two, but we're both on a quest of truth. She can always tell that everything is fake, somehow," exclaimed Jeannaisais.
"Well, we're not quite sure ourselves where we're going to go in eighty days, we're still trying to figure it out ourselves," said Hannah.
* * *
Out of breath Simon and Noshi hurried into the dining room and sat at their chairs. They received quite a few nasty looks from a few superiors but made it without getting in trouble.
They sat and ate dinner at their own table and as soon as they were finished they went back up to their room. Simon couldn't wait for Noshi to finish explaining how he changed the room.
Once they got to the room Noshi closed and locked the door behind them.
"There are a lot of young roamers during the night, don't want any of them trying to listen in, I made the door soundproof myself," explained Noshi, as he went to sit in a very comfortable looking chair.
"How?" asked Simon, "How can you do all this stuff?"
"Like this," said Noshi. Noshi waved his hand and all of Simon's clothes zoomed neatly into drawers and the drawers became labeled with what category of clothing was in them. Simon froze in midair, he had been holding a couple pairs of pants while beginning to open a drawer, but now he had nothing in his hands.
"Okay, that was freaky," said Simon, slowly seating himself on the Queen sized bed with drawers underneath.
"Freaky? How can it be freaky when it is so cool?" asked Noshi.
"Umm, who else in this world can do that?" asked Simon in response.
"You're asking all the wrong questions, Simon. The correct question is, am I the right person of the galaxy to have received this gift?" explained Noshi.
"Well, I wouldn't know, but I can tell you that Earth is the only habited planet in the galaxy," answered Simon.
"Ah, but you, my dear brother" said Noshi, pausing dramatically, "are wrong."
"Really, how?" asked Simon.
"More than one humanoid race exists, the galaxy is full of the unknown, but we have the power to reach it. We just have to find four girls," said Noshi, smiling.
"What four girls might these be?" asked Simon, almost in shock from so much information with such little truth proved.
"They go to our coinciding school. Their names are Crystal, Hannah, Jeannaisais and Ingoria," answered Noshi.
"And what will we do after we find them?" Simon asked.
"We find the hidden spaceship and take off to a few cold lands," answered Noshi, still smiling.
"How do you know all this?" asked Simon, still in shock.
"Here, read," said Noshi as he threw Simon a curious object.
"What do I do with this?" asked Simon.
"Just put your finger on poem and read it," answered Noshi.
Simon did as he was told and read the poem. After he was finished reading he lay down on his back and looked up at the ceiling with his mouth open.
"When did you find this?" he asked.
"Today," answered Noshi, "When I saw you I knew that we were twins of some sort."
"I think we better go to bed," said Simon, he then got up and went to undress. * * * "Well, shouldn't we try to put our brains together and figure it out?" asked Jeannaisais.
"Yes, that would be smart, but remember, we can only talk about it at night, while no one's listening, so this is our room number and floor. See you later," explained Crystal as she wrote the info handed it to Ingry then her and Hannah headed away.
"See you then," called Jeannaisais, Hannah waved back in answer.
"Already then, what do we do until then?" asked Ingry to Jeannaisais.
"We wait and try to do some homework," said Jeannaisais, still watching the two other girls leave. Ingry nodded. * * *
"Simon, wake up, wake up," screamed Noshi in an abnormally loud voice, "Or I'll poor water on you."
Simon bolted out of bed as soon as he heard that and went searching for his clothes that he had set out, but he couldn't find them.
"Oh, sorry bro, I cleaned in my sleep," explained Noshi.
Simon just sighed and got the clothes back out of his drawers.
"Why aren't you dressed yet?" asked Simon, seeing that Noshi was still in his night shorts.
"I'm not undressed, now," said Noshi as he blinked, by blinking he became fully dressed.
Simon shook his head and put on his clothes. "When's breakfast?" he asked as he got dressed.
"At 9:30a.m.," answered Noshi.
"And what time is it?"
"9:15"
"Oh, great, we gotta hurry, and fast."
"You got that right bro, but I have a faster way to go, just grab hold of my hand."
Simon did as he was told and then, suddenly he was ten stories down in front of the dining hall doors.
"But we're fifteen minutes early," said Simon.
"So let's take a walk, there's something I still haven't mentioned."
"Great," muttered Simon under his breath as he followed Noshi out the door.
"What'd you forget to mention?" asked Simon ten minutes later.
"There's gonna be a dance tomorrow night," answered Noshi.
"Okay," said Simon, a bit shocked it wasn't another amazing alien thing. "I'm guessing we're gonna find those four girls there, but then we still have to wait another seventy-eight days,"
"Okay, that's fine with me, that all?" asked Simon.
"Yep," said Noshi, "Let's head back, shall we?"
Simon nodded and followed Noshi back to the dining hall entrance; they were now only 2 minutes early, but not 3 minutes late like they had been for dinner.
* * * "Hey, Crystal, did you see this?" asked Hannah pointing to a sign that said dance tomorrow.
"No, I haven't, I'm guessing you haven't either?" asked Crystal.
"Nope, I guess we'd better pick out some nice dresses to wear to that, huh?"
"Yeah," nodded Crystal, "We better get to our rooms. Ingry and Jeannaisais are going to be there soon."
"Right," replied Hannah and they set off for their rooms.
* * *
"Where are they?" asked Ingry as she paced up and door Crystal and Hannah's dorm, before Jeannaisais could respond the door opened and in came Crystal and Hannah. Both girls went over to their own beds and sat down on the edge without saying a word and then looked at Ingry and Jeannaisais.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" asked Ingry, trying to break the long silence.
"For someone to say something, I guess," said Hannah.
"Or else, pondering what everything means," said Crystal.
"Or trying to discover what truth there really is in this whole thing," said Jeannaisais.
"Good enough," said Ingry, with a satisfactory nod.
"Do you two already know the prophecy?" asked Crystal.
"No," Ingry and Jea said together.
"Well, let me give it to you," said Crystal, she then read off the prophecy to them.
"Okay," said Ingry after Crystal was done reading it. Jea didn't say anything, but merely stared at Crystal.
"So, what's the first thing on our agenda?" asked Ingry.
"To find the other two," replied Crystal.
"How?" asked Jea.
"At the dance."
"What dance?"
"The one tomorrow night."
"Oh, well that's a lot of help," said Ingry, interrupting a possible argument between Crystal and Jea.
"Was that supposed to be sarcasm?" Hannah asked Ingry, "Cause it sure sounded like it."
"No, not really," said Ingry.
"The dance is a great help to our quest, we all are doing this for truth, right?" asked Crystal, not pausing before continuing, "Well, then, we'll want to use every possible angle, everything we can find, let's take it and use it to our advantage." * * *
"Simon, aren't you going to eat something before your classes?" asked Noshi.
"How can I? After all you've told me," said Simon.
"Well, you could always play sick, go to our room and figure out what you can do about it," said Noshi, as though it wouldn't be any problem for him to do so as well.
"No, I need to get through the first few days, it's mainly this dance thing that's getting at me,"
"Ah, I see. Time to go, we both have all the same classes. First is history, then math, then English, than dancing or music, after that is science and the last but certainly not least is our free time."
"Well, bring it on." * * * "I know this dance is an advantage for both teams, but we don't know who the other two are," Ingry pointed out.
"Well, the poem says we'll know by sprits bold through night, right?" asked Hannah.
"Yeah," said Ingry.
"So, me and Ingry will stay up and listen to anything and everything Crystal and Jea say during the night. That might help," said Hannah.
"Well, then, let's do it, what do you say, Jea?" asked Crystal.
"Time to hit the sheets and get some sleep, or else I could just say Je, like they would in France!" exclaimed Jea.
"Well, that's all, good night to you both," said Hannah; those formality classes were really getting to her.
"Right back at ya," said Jea, who seemed just a little hyper; Crystal hoped she could still get to sleep easily, without bouncing off the walls first.
Crystal and Hannah then went to bed, well Crystal actually did. Hannah was sitting in her bed with a textbook.
"Don't forget to listen," said Crystal as she laid her head on her pillow. Sleep came within five minutes of doing so, had she had the most wonderful of dreams. * * *
Dong, si el ding! (Come, we need help!) Ding, no ti el ray! (Help, not enough time) Color, canadi e lest! (Quickly, please do so now) Canadi e lest! (Please do now)
"Where did you learn that?" asked a man with red hair, much like Crystal's own, he was quite cute.
"Why?" she asked.
"It is a very important language to me. I helped create it and now I am all that is left of it. Tell me now, how do you know it?" he rplied.
"I don't know. What is it?"
"It is the Language of Powers, or more properly, Callity fi roush de illuse. Roughly translated to Language of powers and illusions."
"Hmm, never heard of it."
"Well, I guess I'll just have to search you for the knowledge of such a thing." He said thoughtfully.
"Okay, and how are you going to do that?" she asked, curiosity lighting up her eyes.
"I can read minds and search them to the deepest depths that even you don't know." He replied, beginning to look in very deep thought.
Crystal stood there in shock. How was he going to? She asked him how and all he said was, "Macko machin, sealt a macko el naziray."
"You have the knowledge of my ancestors," he said suddenly, scaring Crystal, "That is how you know Callity fi roush, I'm not sure you know de illuse quite yet though and may not ever, it's hard to know with el Callity. So, what do you need help with?"
"So, that's what I was asking for. Ding! That means help, interesting; it gives you powers does it? Anyways, there's this prophecy and we don't know who to look for at the dance, but we know they'll be there," she said hurriedly.
"No problem, just look for me and my twin brother and I'll look for you while Simon looks for your sister. Just so you know, I'm Noshi," he said.
With that, Crystal awoke with a start, creaming, "Tel ack rise! Tel ack rise! Noshi, alae ding!"
"Okay, that was really freaky," said Hannah, What'd you say."
"He is coming1 He is coming! Noshi will help," was all Crystal could say before collapsing on the bed, leaving a bewildered Hannah. Hannah muttered the strange words, shaking her head. Finally, she decided to add those to the long list from many nights of strange words from her friend. She then down and went to sleep herself. * * * "Remember to write down everything," Jea told Ingry as she lay down. Ingry nodded and grabbed pencil and paper before sitting on the chair; she intended to get every single word. * * * "Dong, ding. Si el taer, lest. Canadi!" she said into the blackness of sleep. (Translation: Come help. We need it, now. Please!)
"Jo ca norady." Said a young man with red hair, much like hers. (Translation: I am here.)He was cute, she found herself blushing and forced her self to stop.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"Simon," he said, "you?"
"Jeannaisais, more commonly as Jea," she replied.
"What do you need help with?"
"Well, there's this poem thingy and I really don't understand it. I think Crystal does more than I but we're supposed to meet two guys, besides us four girls and we don't know who to look for and I'm just looking for some help," Jea said, gasping for air when she was done, she realized she had just that all in one breath.
"I have just the answer. You look for me and I'll look for you. Oh, and learn some more of the Language of Powers, me and Noshi call it Callity fi roush de illuse, meaning language of powers and illusions. I wonder what one it will give you or what you can make of it," said Simon.
"What do you have?"
"I have the powers of inner calm, teleportation and another I'm trying to develop; the power to teleport others without me and objects without me touching them."
"Jo alae cama," she said, "I will try. It's fun! I can do it there too right?"
Simon nodded before disappearing and before Jea knew it, she was bolt upright in her bed saying, "Simon alae ding."
Ingry just wrote it down and went to sleep. Jea didn't leave her much choice, waking up and going back to sleep that fast. At least the message came through; they'd talk about it in the morning.
"What's this?" Crystal had asked the next day when she had spotted the paper with her mumbled words scribbled on it.
"It's stuff you were mumbling in your sleep last night. I don't think I got all of it, though," explained Hannah.
"Perhaps I can fill it in," said Crystal taking a closer look at it.
"Go ahead and look," said Hannah who was already dressed and ready to go from her restless night.
Crystal did look and after she had read through what Hannah had discerned from her mumbling three times she got another parchment and began to rewrite it. She was done in the next ten minutes and read her finished form aloud so that Hannah could hear it properly.
"Five did come with one good friend, to achieve one miracle long foretold. With none other to lend them hand, On these specific foretold lands. Two are smart, Yet two are graceful. The other you will know, Once you meet on these cold lands. One will have life and the other is too cold to have such creatures. This riddle will come to you, Through spirits bold thro' night. In eighty days, You will meet. With one true friend and none other to lend you hand, To form this miracle so long foretold but not forgotten. Does it make sense know Hannah?" asked Crystal once she had finished reading the paper.
"It makes tons more since now, but what does it really mean?" asked Hannah in return.
"Well, it means that in eighty days we have to make our way to one cold land that can sustain life and then after that the other cold land that cannot sustain life," explained Crystal.
"Well, then where would we go? I mean Earth holds lands like that but that riddle means something elsewhere besides on earth doesn't it?" Hannah asked again.
Crystal nodded and said, "But it also says that we'll know by spirits bold thru' night, so you might as well keep listening to my mumbling, see if I provide any answers," answered Crystal.
"You must be one of the two smart people," exclaimed Hannah.
"I guess we'll find out in eighty days, won't we," replied Crystal, Hannah just nodded as they left their dorm room in the boarding school to go to breakfast.
* * *
"Ingoria, wake up, you're having a nightmare, wake up," yelled Jeannaisais into Ingoria's ear while shaking her. Ingoria was literally screaming in her sleep about some prophecy. Before she could finish she was brought to reality.
"What was I doing?" asked Ingoria.
"You were screaming about some prophecy that we had to pay attention to," answered Jeannaisais, clearly shaken by what she had heard her twin sister say. Her and Ingoria were identical twins and had been sent to a boarding school. The same one, in fact, that Crystal and Hannah were also at, at that precise moment.
"So, what did I say this time?" asked Ingoria.
"You were saying that we must talk to Crystal and Hannah within the next eighty days," answered Jeannaisais.
"Oh, come on Jea, I've said that before and we couldn't find them," said Ingoria.
"Ingry, we've been through this, they're here and now we really do have to find them," said Jea quite forcefully.
"Well, once again and like always, you're right. We'll keep a lookout for them," replied Ingry.
"No, we are going to find them, today," Jeannaisais nearly yelled. Ingoria just nodded as they left their room for breakfast. * * *
"Simon, are you ready to leave yet?" called his mom.
"Just another five minutes please mom," Simon called back.
"All right, but we have to leave with in the next ten minutes, you know," said his mom.
"Yes, mother, I know, I'll be right down," said Simon. His mom was getting ready to take him to a boarding school, the boys school associated with the girl's school that some very dear people he had never met were there.
"All set," said Simon as he walked down the stairs and then out to the hovercraft that his father had recently bought. Too bad I have to leave it, thought Simon as he climbed into it.
It took precisely thirty minutes to get to the boarding school. All the other boys were standing in lines in front of the school ready to greet him. Out of the other forty boys that were at the school, to Simon's great shock, one looked exactly like him. This boy went by Noshi and he also claimed that he had come here in an alien spaceship from another planet. He promised to tell Simon more afterward.
After everyone was done greeting him, Simon received even more of a shock. He was to be Noshi's roommate. Excellent, thought Simon, I guess I won't have to wait long to find out what else he wants to tell me.
"Let me take you to our room," said Noshi, "Follow me, we're on the top floor."
Simon nodded that he understood and picked up his luggage, which Noshi also took up some of his luggage to carry about the many flights of stairs. It took the two boys nearly 45 minutes to carry all of the luggage all the way up to the top floor. There was only one room on this floor.
"Can you guess which door we go through now?" asked Noshi.
"The only one I can see on all of the walls up here," answered Simon very sarcastically. I don't know if I'm really going to like this guy, thought Simon to himself.
The two walked over to the door and set down all the stuff they had been hauling up countless number of stairs. Noshi opened the door and let Simon walk through first. Simon couldn't believe his eyes. This room was nearly as big as his entire house.
"Believe it, bro, it's here to stay, now that I've made it this way," said Noshi smiling.
"What do you mean you made it this way?" asked Simon.
"I mean, I changed the place with my alien abilities. I'll tell you and show you them tonight after dinner, which happens to be in 10 minutes. Okay, let's get your stuff in here and hurry down those ten flights of stairs, shall we?" asked Noshi as he hurried to grab a few of Simon's bags and haul them into the room next to the other bed. As soon as everything was in the room they left and ran full speed down the stairs. Hoping they wouldn't be late for dinner.
* * *
Crystal and Hannah had just finished dinner and were heading back up to their rooms when two girls, that greatly resembled Crystal but were identical too each other, stopped them. Both girls were running and had to catch their breath for a moment. They had already gotten an evil look from the Miatresse, the head honcho, because of their running.
"What do you guys want?" asked Crystal. "Are you two Crystal and Hannah?" asked the girl to the right.
"Yes," answered Hannah and Crystal at the same time.
"Good," exclaimed the other girl.
"Why?" asked Hannah.
"I'm Ingoria and this Jeannaisais, as you can see we're twins," said Ingoria.
"And what do you need us for?" asked Crystal.
"I was told to talk to you," answered Ingoria.
"Why do you need to talk to me Ingoria?" asked Crystal.
"Please, call me Ingry. I need to know where to go in exactly eighty days time," replied Ingry.
"And I was the one that heard her say she needed to talk to you two, but we're both on a quest of truth. She can always tell that everything is fake, somehow," exclaimed Jeannaisais.
"Well, we're not quite sure ourselves where we're going to go in eighty days, we're still trying to figure it out ourselves," said Hannah.
* * *
Out of breath Simon and Noshi hurried into the dining room and sat at their chairs. They received quite a few nasty looks from a few superiors but made it without getting in trouble.
They sat and ate dinner at their own table and as soon as they were finished they went back up to their room. Simon couldn't wait for Noshi to finish explaining how he changed the room.
Once they got to the room Noshi closed and locked the door behind them.
"There are a lot of young roamers during the night, don't want any of them trying to listen in, I made the door soundproof myself," explained Noshi, as he went to sit in a very comfortable looking chair.
"How?" asked Simon, "How can you do all this stuff?"
"Like this," said Noshi. Noshi waved his hand and all of Simon's clothes zoomed neatly into drawers and the drawers became labeled with what category of clothing was in them. Simon froze in midair, he had been holding a couple pairs of pants while beginning to open a drawer, but now he had nothing in his hands.
"Okay, that was freaky," said Simon, slowly seating himself on the Queen sized bed with drawers underneath.
"Freaky? How can it be freaky when it is so cool?" asked Noshi.
"Umm, who else in this world can do that?" asked Simon in response.
"You're asking all the wrong questions, Simon. The correct question is, am I the right person of the galaxy to have received this gift?" explained Noshi.
"Well, I wouldn't know, but I can tell you that Earth is the only habited planet in the galaxy," answered Simon.
"Ah, but you, my dear brother" said Noshi, pausing dramatically, "are wrong."
"Really, how?" asked Simon.
"More than one humanoid race exists, the galaxy is full of the unknown, but we have the power to reach it. We just have to find four girls," said Noshi, smiling.
"What four girls might these be?" asked Simon, almost in shock from so much information with such little truth proved.
"They go to our coinciding school. Their names are Crystal, Hannah, Jeannaisais and Ingoria," answered Noshi.
"And what will we do after we find them?" Simon asked.
"We find the hidden spaceship and take off to a few cold lands," answered Noshi, still smiling.
"How do you know all this?" asked Simon, still in shock.
"Here, read," said Noshi as he threw Simon a curious object.
"What do I do with this?" asked Simon.
"Just put your finger on poem and read it," answered Noshi.
Simon did as he was told and read the poem. After he was finished reading he lay down on his back and looked up at the ceiling with his mouth open.
"When did you find this?" he asked.
"Today," answered Noshi, "When I saw you I knew that we were twins of some sort."
"I think we better go to bed," said Simon, he then got up and went to undress. * * * "Well, shouldn't we try to put our brains together and figure it out?" asked Jeannaisais.
"Yes, that would be smart, but remember, we can only talk about it at night, while no one's listening, so this is our room number and floor. See you later," explained Crystal as she wrote the info handed it to Ingry then her and Hannah headed away.
"See you then," called Jeannaisais, Hannah waved back in answer.
"Already then, what do we do until then?" asked Ingry to Jeannaisais.
"We wait and try to do some homework," said Jeannaisais, still watching the two other girls leave. Ingry nodded. * * *
"Simon, wake up, wake up," screamed Noshi in an abnormally loud voice, "Or I'll poor water on you."
Simon bolted out of bed as soon as he heard that and went searching for his clothes that he had set out, but he couldn't find them.
"Oh, sorry bro, I cleaned in my sleep," explained Noshi.
Simon just sighed and got the clothes back out of his drawers.
"Why aren't you dressed yet?" asked Simon, seeing that Noshi was still in his night shorts.
"I'm not undressed, now," said Noshi as he blinked, by blinking he became fully dressed.
Simon shook his head and put on his clothes. "When's breakfast?" he asked as he got dressed.
"At 9:30a.m.," answered Noshi.
"And what time is it?"
"9:15"
"Oh, great, we gotta hurry, and fast."
"You got that right bro, but I have a faster way to go, just grab hold of my hand."
Simon did as he was told and then, suddenly he was ten stories down in front of the dining hall doors.
"But we're fifteen minutes early," said Simon.
"So let's take a walk, there's something I still haven't mentioned."
"Great," muttered Simon under his breath as he followed Noshi out the door.
"What'd you forget to mention?" asked Simon ten minutes later.
"There's gonna be a dance tomorrow night," answered Noshi.
"Okay," said Simon, a bit shocked it wasn't another amazing alien thing. "I'm guessing we're gonna find those four girls there, but then we still have to wait another seventy-eight days,"
"Okay, that's fine with me, that all?" asked Simon.
"Yep," said Noshi, "Let's head back, shall we?"
Simon nodded and followed Noshi back to the dining hall entrance; they were now only 2 minutes early, but not 3 minutes late like they had been for dinner.
* * * "Hey, Crystal, did you see this?" asked Hannah pointing to a sign that said dance tomorrow.
"No, I haven't, I'm guessing you haven't either?" asked Crystal.
"Nope, I guess we'd better pick out some nice dresses to wear to that, huh?"
"Yeah," nodded Crystal, "We better get to our rooms. Ingry and Jeannaisais are going to be there soon."
"Right," replied Hannah and they set off for their rooms.
* * *
"Where are they?" asked Ingry as she paced up and door Crystal and Hannah's dorm, before Jeannaisais could respond the door opened and in came Crystal and Hannah. Both girls went over to their own beds and sat down on the edge without saying a word and then looked at Ingry and Jeannaisais.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" asked Ingry, trying to break the long silence.
"For someone to say something, I guess," said Hannah.
"Or else, pondering what everything means," said Crystal.
"Or trying to discover what truth there really is in this whole thing," said Jeannaisais.
"Good enough," said Ingry, with a satisfactory nod.
"Do you two already know the prophecy?" asked Crystal.
"No," Ingry and Jea said together.
"Well, let me give it to you," said Crystal, she then read off the prophecy to them.
"Okay," said Ingry after Crystal was done reading it. Jea didn't say anything, but merely stared at Crystal.
"So, what's the first thing on our agenda?" asked Ingry.
"To find the other two," replied Crystal.
"How?" asked Jea.
"At the dance."
"What dance?"
"The one tomorrow night."
"Oh, well that's a lot of help," said Ingry, interrupting a possible argument between Crystal and Jea.
"Was that supposed to be sarcasm?" Hannah asked Ingry, "Cause it sure sounded like it."
"No, not really," said Ingry.
"The dance is a great help to our quest, we all are doing this for truth, right?" asked Crystal, not pausing before continuing, "Well, then, we'll want to use every possible angle, everything we can find, let's take it and use it to our advantage." * * *
"Simon, aren't you going to eat something before your classes?" asked Noshi.
"How can I? After all you've told me," said Simon.
"Well, you could always play sick, go to our room and figure out what you can do about it," said Noshi, as though it wouldn't be any problem for him to do so as well.
"No, I need to get through the first few days, it's mainly this dance thing that's getting at me,"
"Ah, I see. Time to go, we both have all the same classes. First is history, then math, then English, than dancing or music, after that is science and the last but certainly not least is our free time."
"Well, bring it on." * * * "I know this dance is an advantage for both teams, but we don't know who the other two are," Ingry pointed out.
"Well, the poem says we'll know by sprits bold through night, right?" asked Hannah.
"Yeah," said Ingry.
"So, me and Ingry will stay up and listen to anything and everything Crystal and Jea say during the night. That might help," said Hannah.
"Well, then, let's do it, what do you say, Jea?" asked Crystal.
"Time to hit the sheets and get some sleep, or else I could just say Je, like they would in France!" exclaimed Jea.
"Well, that's all, good night to you both," said Hannah; those formality classes were really getting to her.
"Right back at ya," said Jea, who seemed just a little hyper; Crystal hoped she could still get to sleep easily, without bouncing off the walls first.
Crystal and Hannah then went to bed, well Crystal actually did. Hannah was sitting in her bed with a textbook.
"Don't forget to listen," said Crystal as she laid her head on her pillow. Sleep came within five minutes of doing so, had she had the most wonderful of dreams. * * *
Dong, si el ding! (Come, we need help!) Ding, no ti el ray! (Help, not enough time) Color, canadi e lest! (Quickly, please do so now) Canadi e lest! (Please do now)
"Where did you learn that?" asked a man with red hair, much like Crystal's own, he was quite cute.
"Why?" she asked.
"It is a very important language to me. I helped create it and now I am all that is left of it. Tell me now, how do you know it?" he rplied.
"I don't know. What is it?"
"It is the Language of Powers, or more properly, Callity fi roush de illuse. Roughly translated to Language of powers and illusions."
"Hmm, never heard of it."
"Well, I guess I'll just have to search you for the knowledge of such a thing." He said thoughtfully.
"Okay, and how are you going to do that?" she asked, curiosity lighting up her eyes.
"I can read minds and search them to the deepest depths that even you don't know." He replied, beginning to look in very deep thought.
Crystal stood there in shock. How was he going to? She asked him how and all he said was, "Macko machin, sealt a macko el naziray."
"You have the knowledge of my ancestors," he said suddenly, scaring Crystal, "That is how you know Callity fi roush, I'm not sure you know de illuse quite yet though and may not ever, it's hard to know with el Callity. So, what do you need help with?"
"So, that's what I was asking for. Ding! That means help, interesting; it gives you powers does it? Anyways, there's this prophecy and we don't know who to look for at the dance, but we know they'll be there," she said hurriedly.
"No problem, just look for me and my twin brother and I'll look for you while Simon looks for your sister. Just so you know, I'm Noshi," he said.
With that, Crystal awoke with a start, creaming, "Tel ack rise! Tel ack rise! Noshi, alae ding!"
"Okay, that was really freaky," said Hannah, What'd you say."
"He is coming1 He is coming! Noshi will help," was all Crystal could say before collapsing on the bed, leaving a bewildered Hannah. Hannah muttered the strange words, shaking her head. Finally, she decided to add those to the long list from many nights of strange words from her friend. She then down and went to sleep herself. * * * "Remember to write down everything," Jea told Ingry as she lay down. Ingry nodded and grabbed pencil and paper before sitting on the chair; she intended to get every single word. * * * "Dong, ding. Si el taer, lest. Canadi!" she said into the blackness of sleep. (Translation: Come help. We need it, now. Please!)
"Jo ca norady." Said a young man with red hair, much like hers. (Translation: I am here.)He was cute, she found herself blushing and forced her self to stop.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"Simon," he said, "you?"
"Jeannaisais, more commonly as Jea," she replied.
"What do you need help with?"
"Well, there's this poem thingy and I really don't understand it. I think Crystal does more than I but we're supposed to meet two guys, besides us four girls and we don't know who to look for and I'm just looking for some help," Jea said, gasping for air when she was done, she realized she had just that all in one breath.
"I have just the answer. You look for me and I'll look for you. Oh, and learn some more of the Language of Powers, me and Noshi call it Callity fi roush de illuse, meaning language of powers and illusions. I wonder what one it will give you or what you can make of it," said Simon.
"What do you have?"
"I have the powers of inner calm, teleportation and another I'm trying to develop; the power to teleport others without me and objects without me touching them."
"Jo alae cama," she said, "I will try. It's fun! I can do it there too right?"
Simon nodded before disappearing and before Jea knew it, she was bolt upright in her bed saying, "Simon alae ding."
Ingry just wrote it down and went to sleep. Jea didn't leave her much choice, waking up and going back to sleep that fast. At least the message came through; they'd talk about it in the morning.