AN: I guess I forgot last time, only the red-head belongs to me.
Heading East on a highway in the Mid-West
"T, tell me the story of what the oracle said to you again, are you sure she didn't tell you what type of fae she is?"
Tamsin rolled her eyes "Lorelei, I've told that story like a hundred thousand times already. And yes I'm sure she didn't tell me, she was interrupted, remember."
"I know but I never get tired of hearing it, especially the part about the beautiful firebird with the fire red hair and piercing green eyes" Lorelei said with smirk.
"Gods, I just had to bond with a narcissistic Phoenix." deadpanned Tamsin earning her a punch on the shoulder.
"Fine, it's not like there's anything else to do on this God forsaken ribbon of concrete and I guess I should try to keep you entertained. Don't want you to die from boredom and turn my truck into a funeral pyre." Tamsin huffed. After a brief pause to collect her thoughts, she began "I had finished the mornings training run in record time and I was wandering around the courtyard waiting for everyone else to finish, when I felt drawn to a door that I'd never really paid attention to before..."
The heavy wooden door creaked as the young blond pushed it slowly open. An old woman tending a fire at one end of the room, smiled and turned toward the door. "Come in child. It's nice to have company." She sees the wide eyed look of the teen-aged girl. "Come, come, it's alright" she motions the girl further into the room.
Stepping towards the stone pedestal in the middle of the room, she holds her hand out towards the girl. "My name is Seraphina, I am an oracle. Please, come, let us see what the Fates have in store for you my dear."
After carefully surveying the room, the young blonde moved towards the pedestal taking note of the jewel and gold encrusted basin of water in its center. Studying the old woman briefly she reached out to the offered hand. Seraphina squeezed the teenager's hand, turned it palm up and slowly rubbed circles on the palm with her thumb. "What is your name child?"
"Tamsin" the girl replied.
"Ah, Tamsin, a beautiful strong name for a beautiful strong girl" the old woman smiled as she continued to message the girl's palm. She reached into her cloak with her other hand and withdrew a small dagger. The girl flinched but Seraphina held her hand firmly. "It's alright my dear, just a few drops of blood from your palm will allow me to see what the Fates have planned for your life."
Tamsin looked at the dagger and noticed that the handle was adorned with the same jewels and gold patterns as the basin. She nodded and Seraphina slowly drew the blade across the girls palm opening a shallow cut. Several drops of bright red blood fell into the basin, Tamsin's eyes widen as the water and blood started to swirl and turn cloudy. Seraphina let go of her hand and when she looked at her palm there was no cut or blood to be seen.
The old woman's eyes turned glassy as she stared in to the basin for several seconds and then cleared before she began to speak. "You will be a great warrior, one of the most powerful Valkyries ever known, others will speak your name with reverence. Over thousands of years you will escort many brave and noble warriors from the battlefields to paradise. Oh my, you will be lost to sisterhood when your heart forms the sacred bond with a powerful warrior." Suddenly Seraphina gasp and placed her hands on the pedestal for support, her eyes grew wide "I don't believe it."
"What did you see?" asks the girl in a shaky voice.
"You will bond not with one warrior but two, three hearts beating as one, a trinity. It is very rare and very powerful. You will feel it when your first warrior is born, she will cause a growing ache in your chest until you cannot ignore the desire to seek her out. A fierce warrior, a stunning beauty, a mystical firebird with alabaster skin, fire red hair and piercing green eyes. You will be smitten from the first time you lay eyes on her. The two of you will fight side by side for millennia, through several rebirths for both of you. Your lives will be forever intertwined, you will experience limitless passion for one another, but your hearts will not bond until the birth of the second warrior."
"Hhhmmm" Seraphina paused and her brow furled. "The second warrior is an enigma, both irresistibly beautiful and frighteningly lethal. Eyes both brown and blue, the heart of a griffon and of a lamb, virtuous yet insatiable, a shining beacon of light and a consuming abyss of darkness..."
"TAMSIN! GET YOUR BONEY LITTLE ASS BACK OUT IN THE TRAINING YARD RIGHT NOW OR I'LL TIE YOU TO A STAKE AND HAVE THE OTHERS USE YOU AS A TARGET FOR ARCHERY PRACTICE." boomed the voice of the fully armored older Valkyrie standing in the doorway.
Seraphina saw the teenager's eyes go wide and her face become paler if that was even possible. The oracle turned towards the Valkyrie and nodded "Good Morning Acacia. It's been many years."
The Valkyrie frowned and then practically growled "Yes Seraphina it has been a long time" as she watched her student turn towards the door and beat a hasty retreat out of the room...
"... I snuck back to the room the next day, but when I went in everything was gone. It was a store room filed with chairs and old archery targets. There was no fire place, no stone pedestal and no old woman. I checked every door off that courtyard in case I picked the wrong one, but I never saw Seraphina again."
Trick's Lair
"Trick, do you think that Bo's little episode last night had anything to do with the end of days prophecy?"
"I just can't be sure Dyson, some of the remaining fragments of the scroll of Seraphina are almost completely unreadable. There is so much of the prophecy missing. I am going to speak with the Morrigan and the Ash about getting access to their archives. We need to know more."