Fraternal triplets Ashlynn, Cortana, and Rory only had a couple things in common- and those things were being female and being related. Rory was the "youngest" of them all, born only 5 minutes after her sister Ashlynn, who was born 5 minutes after the "oldest" triplet, Cortana. They were all exactly five minutes apart, down to the second. The nurses and doctors all thought it was a coincidence, but I think we all know there is more to a story than just the surface.

Rory was a sweet, naive girl who preferred to have a few friends and didn't like large groups. Ashlynn was an outgoing girl who loved to have parties and tended to trust people she just met. Cortana on the other hand was the outcast of them all, she had no friends, only acquaintances. She had fiery red, it was a lovely, deep, crimson red that was not from a bottle. She tried dying her hair a sleek black like Ashlynn's, but the dye never stuck to her hair. So she always wore a short black wig, ever since she started middle school, no one ever knew of her crimson hair other than her sisters who never spoke about it.

Their whole family had secrets, secrets so deep, you'd never see the end to them. Her father was a sorcerer and came from a long line of them. Her mother on the other hand was a hunter, a hunter of the supernatural and descended from many. Their father had quit magic long before he had met their mother, though she knew what he was, she never had the strength to kill him, how she loved him so. How could she have known he still continued to use magic behind her back?

"Hey Corra- could you crack a window?" Rory said from the backseat of Cortana's 1969 Ford Mustang. It was their father's old car that he'd given Cortana for her birthday a couple years back. Corra was the name her family called her, though most people shortened it further to just "Correy."

"Sure Rory." Cortana said and rolled down the driver's side window.

"Ugh! Roll that thing up! It's messing up my hair!" Ashlynn or as everyone called her "Ash." said with disgust, her hands shooting up to smooth out her sleek, long, black hair.

Cortana ignored her sister and continued to drive her sisters to their homes from college. They all went to the same college, RedCliffe University in California. She fiddled with the stereo and finally decided to plug in her iPod to the car after getting nothing but static. "The Scientist" by Coldplay came on shuffle and Cortana's eyes flickered with hurt that she shoved aside quickly.

Cortana's thumb tapped on the steering wheel to the beat of the slow song as her sisters stared out the window at the passing forest as she drove Rory to her little almost Cabin like house that she shared with 3 other students from the school.

"It's a full moon tonight." Rory said out of the blue.

"Yeah, I know." Cortana said plainly and turned in her seat to look up at them. "You both have your amulets, right?"

Rory held up a copper necklace of medium thickness from around her necklace and smiled at her. Cortana smiled back and looked at Ashlynn who held up her wrist that was adorned with a copper band bracelet scattered with amethyst without looking at her.

"How about you?" Rory said from the backseat and Cortana shifted in her seat and looked at her. Her eye were hidden by large, mirrored aviator glasses and she held up her right hand. Her right ring finger was wrapped with a copper ring, adorned with two small summer flowers of the same material with orange stones in the center of each. She opened her mouth o reassure her sister when Ashlynn shrieked.

"Cortana, watch out!" She screamed and braced herself by clinging to the dashboard. Cortana didn't have time to even swear before the impact from the other car. She didn't notice the car that suddenly swerved into their lane before both cars hit head on, Cortana's car getting the worst of it.

Their Mustang flipped head first, doing a complete flip in the air. It rolled three times on the asfalte then rolled down a slight incline, into the woods where the trunk of the car stuck up on the road.

Disoriented and in pain, Cortana turned her head slowly and painfully to look to her sisters. Ashlyn was slumped in her seat, her head resting on the window, unconscious and bloody. Cortana reached her arm up to try to wake her sister but took in a sharp breath as her arm reacted to the motion. "R-ror..." Cortana's voice cracked as she turned her head again, more pain hit her as she saw her sister lying across the back seat, like Ashlynn, unconscious and bloody. Cortana herself was bloody and disheveled, her head reeling, her vision blurred, and she was broken and bloodied. She heard someone approach the car quickly and then heard muffled voices.