"Help me, Cain! You have to help me…You owe me Cain! Meet me where we met when I was a child." Cain knew what he had to do. He would have to go. The man that protected them from the world needed him. He of course knew why but he wasn't sure how he was to help. He couldn't help the children, they were children! He was in control of the vampires. Well, kind of, the vampires obeyed him as he was the father of them, but they still hid behind other things as he could not watch them all the time.
The old man held two little bundles in his arms. He was waiting for something, that anyone could see, but what he was waiting for was another guess all together. He must of saw something for he stepped back further in the darkness, further still when a young man walked by with an equally young woman, neither saw the old man which easily blended in to his surroundings. When they were gone he called a name, it sounded old, kind of rustic, like it had not come out of a voice in years. Which in truth it had not; it was name almost as old as time itself, and equally as important to the world.
Cain saw his old friend, standing in the darkest part of the alley with two little bundles realizing that his friend was protecting them with a small shield that was invisible to all that were not looking for it or them. "Sa…" Cain started. The old man turned and replied "I have changed my name my old friend. My name is Paul. Poppy Paul. As that is the name that their mother has told me they shall call me." Cain looked at his friend and noticed for the first time the tiredness and pain in his friends eyes. "Maybe you should tell me what is going on my friend." "Well…" Paul started to tell Cain what happened and why he had called him to help him now.
"Cain, my son, as you know has met another woman; well what I didn't tell you was she is a sun-fairy. Yes I know, it is forbidden for creatures of the moon and creatures of the sun to breed. Neither would listen to me till much too late! When she found out she was pregnant she cried, she finally admitted to me that she isn't just a sun-fairy (as if that isn't bad enough!!), her mother, is the Queen Latina, of the sun-fairies! Her people would NEVER accept the child of her and a moon-elf. She also told me of a prophecy at her birth. She said that the prophecy said that she would go through three pregnancies and the children of these pregnancies would be able to destroy or fix time. She also said that the first pregnancy would be the one that brought the past into the picture who would be able to control all of its siblings as the past is also the present and the future. At first I thought that statement made no sense but now I understand. She is saying as the future becomes the present and the present becomes the past, the past can change anything even the present or the future as everything is one." Paul sighs "But, when the girls were born, I saw what had to be done. Cain I need you to use their magic. The girls change from day to night. In the day their hair is blonde with eyes that for Tequila Carmen are the color of the clearest blue water, while Tanta Carma's are the color of the blue sky. At dusk both change, their hair turns raven black and their eyes turn silver. Cain, my dearest friend I need you to help me to disguise them. Can you get under their natural defenses?"
"My dearest friend, are you sure this is what you want? I mean if you disguise them now will anyone know what they are? Will they know what they are? Are we going to teach them how to lower their shields and how to lower their disguises? As you know, their disguises will not be able to stay up at all times. As the girls get older they will be able hold their disguises longer but right now who is going to hold their disguises for them? You? Their father? Their older brother, Cameron, or their older sister, Cassandra? The child you adopted for your son so that the girls looked normal? Stacey, is that her name? My friend I'm afraid that they will not be able to hold the disguises on their own at this young age."
"Cain, do not worry. I shall protect them till I fade back into the moon. Which is the other reason I call you, Cain when I fade I need you to finish training the girl. As one of these girls is my replacement. She will be the protector of the dark; though which girl it will be I won't know till they turn a year old and can use their magic easier. Cain, promise me! Promise me, you shall teach the girl, as she will need you."
"As I stand here my old friend I promise. The girl shall never be taught by anyone but our family."