Chapter 1: Six Years & Freedom Spells

Rating: T

Disclaimer: I do not own T*Witches. All character belongs to their original owners.

Summary: "Mommy? Daddy? Do you have any brothers or sisters?" their faces looked shocked. "No Aries, we do not." "…Are you sure?" (How are people amazing at writing summaries?!)


Chapter 1

Aron's POV:

Six Years.

It had been six years. Six years since the darkness. Six years since the shadowlands. Six years since I have finally been able to meet my daughters for the first time, and I have finally been reunited with the love of my life. It had been a long six years I can tell you. It's different now. Everything is better; Peaceful. Everything is in order. Everyone is safe. My family is safe, my friends, my kingdom is safe. The darkness is truly gone this time. So much has happened in the past six years, our family has grown with Aries, my son and Luna, Karsh's daughter being born. Finally I feel like my family is whole. No missing piece or emptiness feelings; Whole.

"Now, it is almost the girls 27th birthday and we feel as though they should be ready to take on the kingdom by their 30th birthday, together. Don't you agree Queen Miranda?"

"I agree." My wife spoke. "Maybe even before hopefully, who knows." I nodded in agreement.

Here in front of the council stood myself, my wife Miranda, Karsh, and Ileana. We were having a meeting about the twins, taking on the crowns as queens, together.

"Fine." So it's settled.

"Wait, shouldn't the girls be uh, married off to princes first, so you would have queens and kings?" Karsh interjected.

Council member Idris spoke. "Yes, well I'm sure before three years is up they will. So it's settled. Have the girls see us in the next couple of days."


Author's POV:

Verrick Forde hurried through the halls, he needed to find Aries, and it was time for his lesson. Verrick was a tall, barrel chested man; he was very muscular with a shaven head and beard, and dark complexion. Standing next to Aries you would think he was a giant. But this was a man who was stuck in the shadowlands with Aron for years, a man that helped him get through those years much easier than he would have if Aron was all alone. And Aron had trusted him, just as much as he trusted Karsh, his best friend, Verrick was another best friend, just one he had met more recently, which is why Aron and Miranda had appointed him to be Aries protector and mentor.

He was sure Aries was supposed to be in his room waiting but he wasn't so now he was off to a place where he knew Aries would be his favorite place in the whole castle, his father's study. Sliding down the hallway he called for the little boy. "Aries?" Verrick called.

"Aries…" It was another voice. A tiny whisper, the voice of another man. Verrick stopped outside the king's study. "What was that?"

He put his ear to the door.

"The pow-er of the sun, and the for-ces of the moon. Become one in our qu-est…" It was Aries. He was reciting a spell, a vanquishing spell.

Verrick opened the door and snatched the book from the 5 year old boy. "Aries what are you doing?"

The little boy shot up from his seat. He was so small compared to Verrick, but still tall for his age. He had curly dark hair like his mothers and the skin tone of his siblings, but the facial structure of his fathers. He was also powerful, having just as much power as his sisters combined he was quite a dangerous little wizard, which is why he need lessons every day to learn how to control his magic.

"Just reading." He said in his small voice.

"Well" Verrick said looking down at the spell. "You shouldn't be reading this, come on its time for your lessons well try some much simpler spells, alright bud?" He tossed the book on the chair.

Aries nodded and walked with Verrick out of the study. "Were you talking to someone in here?"

"No just reading." Aries said while Verrick closed the door behind. And just as the door a gust of wind flipped the spell book shut.


Alex's POV:

Looking for Camryn I walked into the main ball room with Luna in my arms. My sister Camryn was standing in the center of the room, directing dozens of servants on where to put everything for our birthday party tomorrow. Yawn. "You can just place that table over there Kohen" I heard her say.

"Cam you're not finished yet, it's been hours" I chuckled. I placed Luna down so she was standing up next to me. "Okay Lu-Lu." I kneeled down next to her. "Mommy and daddy aren't here so I need you to be a very good girl and stay right here where I can see you, okay?"

Luna was only 3; she had rosy cheeks, with brown hair and green eyes. She was tiny, but she was fast and very smart for her age. Her amulet hung around her neck, it was snowflake, and she was born in December during the worst snowstorm Coventry had ever seen. She nodded at my request.

Without turning to me Cam called over. "It's been hours because my sister doesn't want to help me!"

I strolled over to her. "I don't even want a birthday party, you do!"

"We could all use a party Alex."

"I agree." A young boy said walking over with a few chairs.

"This is Kohen, Demetri's little brother, it's his first day working here, and he's doing a great job." Camryn said and nodded. Kohen's pale cheeks turned red at the compliment.

"And since I'm working here, I can actually attend the party this time." He smiled.

"Oh you think so huh?" It was Demetri this time walking over. "We will have to see little guy." Demetri ruffled his little brother's hair and Kohen pushed his arm away, even more embarrassed than before.

"Leave me alone Demetri no one asked you." He pouted walking away. We all laughed.

"Cam I just don't think this is the best idea I've been getting a really bad vibe."

Cam frowned and huffed. "You know maybe that bad vibe is how much of a bad babysitter you are? Lu-Lu's gone." She smirked looking over my shoulder.

I turned around, she was gone. "UGH! LUNA!"I yelled running out the room.


Author's POV:

It was late, downstairs in the castle the night workers were quietly working, cleaning or protecting the halls of the castle. Upstairs, the halls were silent; everyone who was there had gone to sleep. Aries and Luna had been put to bed long before everyone else had gone up to rest. The royal family's rooms were on the west side of the upper castle. Miranda and Aron's room was the room straight forward, all the way at the end of the great hall. Camryn and Alex's rooms were right next to each other, on the right side, and Aries across from theirs on the left.

Inside the extremely spacious room, Aries was fast asleep. "Aries." A voice whispered once again. It hadn't stopped since Aries went to bed. "Aries." It said again.

Aries stirred and rolled over. His bedroom door opened slowly. That's when he heard the giggling and little footsteps from outside in the hallway. He sat up in his bed and yawned. The giggling figure ran past his door again. It was Luna. Aries sighed, hopping off his bed, walking to his door he opened it to see Luna running around the corner out of the great hall.

"Luna?" He called. Luna always escapes from her room at night, but her parents and her own room was on the opposite side of the castle. She never made it all the way to the west side halls before a servant had caught her and returned her to her bed. Aries looked around the hall, both his sisters and his parent's doors were closed, which is why they probably didn't hear Luna running around. So I guess it was Aries job to return her to her room. He was her protector after all. At least that's what the adults told him. So Aries rubbed his eyes and went after her.

He ran to the end of the great hall. "Luna?" He called again. She was already at the other end, she was chasing something. "Luna wait." And she turned another corner, still laughing.

When Aries reached the next hall he saw just what she was chasing. It was a shadow. A dark shadow of a woman, she was dancing and twirling on the wall, and Luna jumped and squealed with delight, trying to catch the shadow. "Luna!" Aries yelled.

Both the shadow and Luna turned to Aries simultaneously. "Look! Look! Fairy!" Luna jumped pointing to the shadow on the wall. The shadow waved Aries over and continued dancing down the hall. Aries grabbed Luna's hand, not taking his eyes off the dancing figure. "Come on Luna, let's go back now." Luna pulled away chasing the shadow again. "No! Wait Fairy!"

"Luna! Stop!" He followed both of them to the door of the North Tower, the shadow slid through the crack and Luna was just tall enough to open the door. The shadow danced all the way to the top of the stairs waving the children forward who chased it all the way up the stairs and into the tower top. Once inside, the door slammed shut behind them.

The tower top was a large, circular room the highest point of the castle. Inside the center of the room was a large well, inside the well it looked like the night sky with a giant star at the bottom, Aries didn't know what the well leaded to. The walls were covered in pictures of people and places all over. It was the story of his sisters, the prophecy. And just like that the shadowed figure danced down the well and was gone. Luna ran to the well, but was too small to see over the edge, she stretched her arms up to the top rim and pulled herself up.

"Don't do that, you'll fall in." He pulled her off. "But" She protested. Something hit the floor hard behind them and they turned around.

It was the spell book from earlier. A gust of wind opened the book and flipped to the same page as before. The pages illuminated. "Aries" a whisper came again.

"Look! Look!" Luna jumped again running over to the book. Aries walked over and sat in front of it with Luna standing next to him. "Story?" She asked.

"No Luna, A magic spell. Here Listen." He leaned closer and put his finger on the page.

"Freedom Spell."

"The power of the sun, and the for-ces of the moon." He sounded out again

"Become one in our qu-est, to open the doors to the sha-dow lands." With that sentence his amulet began to glow.

"Let our light ill-um-inate the eter-nal night and leave no corner un-touched so that we may free our friends from the dark-ness that binds them."

"AHH!" they both screamed as darkness shot up from the pages of the book with a roar. They backed away as a dark fog began pouring from the book and filling the room. Thousands of shadows started flying up from the well and out the windows of the tower top, screaming and hollering. Luna and Aries both covered their ears, Luna hiding behind him. Aries closed his eyes and sat on the floor. The book slammed shut. He opened his eyes and the fog and shadows were gone, except for two. A man and a woman, not the same dancing woman from before, stood directly in front of the children. From his covered ears he could here both the shadows laughing, scary menacing laughs, the woman approached the children. Luna held on to Aries as the laughing shadow kneeled down inches from both of them.

He didn't look at her, just down to the floor, as he heard her laugh once more; she swept one hand over both children's faces. Aries saw the sparkles and his eyelids began to get heavy. "Nephew." He heard her whisper one more time before everything went dark.


That's Chapter 1. I wanted this done before October when they start playing the movies again so enjoy! Don't forget to R&R, it helps me keep writing, Fav. And follow if you'd like! -XO