Chapter 4
Tech was lying down on the couch to calm himself from Sophie's powers. Sophie, Wendy, and Daniella were all on the ground in front of him. Lexi, Ace, Duck, Rev, and Slam were either sitting on separate chairs or standing while the girls explained.
"In Anasala, there's only one race," explained Sophie, "Mom was the first coyote to come into the midst of our people and Dad fell in love with her the day they met. They married and had us. We were their only children. Daniella came first, then Wendy, then me. We were born as triplets actually. Our parents were the first of the Light Guardians who were supposed to protect our land if anything bad happened. And we were supposed to inherit their places if anything happened to them. That's why we have these bracelets. Each charm represents a color of the rainbow. After the Light Guardians began to protect us all, everything was perfect and we all lived in peace. But not forever…"
"You see," Wendy began, "there was one of us who wanted all the power for himself. He wanted rule Anasala and take all power from your world and destroy it so that he would be the ruler and make our people his slaves. But, his plan backfired. He wanted to stop the sunrise during the lunar eclipse, but our parents defeated him and he organized an evil faction which he called the Order of the Scorpion from recruited members by kidnapping them and turning their powers to dark magic. He used them to restart his plan. He had them help him to destroy our parents in the next full moon so that they couldn't stop them, but we had our powers by then and were willing to help them. Our parents were weakened in the battle, but Eronor, as he called himself, was, too."
"During the battle, the lunar eclipse retracted one of the attacks," said Daniella, "It bounced back to the 3 of us during Mom and Dad's fight with Eronor. We gained these powers that night and Eronor was banished to the depths of your world in the deepest part of the land, along with all his servants who remained loyal to him. The ones who no longer served him he killed himself. Mom and Dad gave us what strength they had left a few days ago to send us here to stop him from a plan that they suspected he would try to commit while in Acmetropolis. But the portal they opened to send us here opened to high above ground and we fell and hit our heads and lost the majority of our memory. Then, of course, we found you."
"So, basically, this Eronor guy wants to be all powerful in your world, destroy our world and make your people slaves," Lexi paraphrased, "But you and your parents wouldn't let him and he was banished to the dark part of this world where he's planning something that your parents want you to stop."
"Yes," Daniella said.
"If they wanted it to stop," Tech asked, sitting up slightly, "why did they send you, being so young, when they could have sent someone more experienced?"
"Because no one else believed them," Wendy explained, "We were the only ones. They believed that we could do it and they were too weak to help us. They sent us and we lost our memory getting here."
"I-just-want-to-point-out-just-as-a-suggestion-that-maybe-just-maybe-we-could-come-along-and-help-you-defeat-this-Eronor-guy-so-that-you-won't-be-alone-while-you-go-on-this-mission-that-your-parents-sent-you-on," suggested Rev.
"I have no idea what you just said," said Daniella, "but it had something to do with you helping us, I just know it." Rev nodded. "In that case, I'm not certain whether to say yes or not."
"Fine, you can come," said Sophie.
"What?" Daniella and Wendy both said, "Sophie!"
"Well, we all agree that we trust them," said Sophie, "And maybe it's time to point out the other thing that we left out. The really important, big thing."
Daniella and Wendy both didn't get what she was saying at first, but Daniella finally spoke up. "Oh, you're talking about…no, no, no, no, no, no-no-no-no-no-no-NO!"
"But--"
"No!"
"But they--"
"NO!"
"But we--"
"Oh…no."
"Daniella," Wendy said, "just give it a chance." Daniella gave her a look. "Besides, they'll probably never believe us anyway and we can always 'fix the problem' if something goes wrong because we told them."
"Yeah, you're probably right about the first part," said Daniella, "But what's that 'fix the problem' part…thing…whatever?"
Wendy pulled her closer and whispered in her ear, "The Ind-may Ase-ray Ell-spay."
"Oh," said Daniella, understanding.
"Yeah," said Wendy.
"I didn't catch that, what'd you say?" asked Sophie.
"Just play along," said Wendy, angrily.
Sophie stood up. She looked at her sisters. They nodded. "We're Witches."
The Loonatics were shocked. They didn't know how to take this news. Ace and Lexi and Rev thought they were crazy. Slam and Tech were confused. Duck…laughed.
"You actually think you're Witches!" Duck continued to laugh, louder than before. Sophie pointed her finger at him and a ray emitted that surrounded him and made all his feathers fall off. "OK, I believe you. Change me back!" Sophie pointed at him again and all his feathers grew back…with one little side effect.
"Uh, Duck?" Tech said, pointing at his backside.
Duck looked and saw that he had a pig's tail. "OK, this isn't funny."
"I'm sorry, I don't know how to fix that," said Sophie, "I'm still working on that spell."
"Look," Tech said, getting up, "try what you want, you can't get me to believe in magic."
"Let me guess," said Wendy, "You wouldn't believe in magic if it hit you in the face at 100 miles per hour."
"Exactly," said Tech.
Wendy pointed her finger at him and a sudden gust of wind emerged at 100 miles per hour and pinned him to the wall.
"Wendy!" Sophie shouted, "Stop that!"
Wendy pulled back her finger and released Tech from the wall.
"First, Sophie uses my powers to heal herself and knocked me out and now this," said Tech from the floor. Ace and Lexi helped him up. "I'm starting to think that these girls are more trouble than their worth."
"If this guy is so powerful, he must have known you were coming," Ace told the girls, "They never went after us at all."
"Exactly," said Daniella, "I think that the thief you attacked the past few days was from the Order of the Scorpion. He would have sensed power not value. That's what he was after. He was using a spell to withdraw power from the stuff in the bank and the museum." She stopped and her smile vanished. "So it's our entire fault if anybody was hurt."
"It's not your fault," Rev said, slowly to Daniella so that she could understand, "You didn't mean to. There was nothing you could do."
"Thanks," said Daniella, "I guess that makes it a little better."
"Hey, maybe we can use that spell Mom and Dad taught us and see what happens," Wendy suggested, "I--"
"NO, DON'T!" Daniella shouted at her sister, "The last time you tried to use that spell was the day they taught it to us. Do you know why? Because we had so much trouble doing it that we weren't going to use it again. Sophie spent the next 2 weeks as a pancake!"
"Maybe we shouldn't do it," said Wendy.
"I like that idea," said Sophie, "I would prefer to keep what limbs I have remaining. We'll only use it in emergencies and we'll do it together so that there's less chance of a mistake."
"So," Tech asked, "if you really are Witches, how come you needed our help with all this?"
"Eronor is too powerful for us even with our parents' abilities," said Daniella.
"Plus, I just remembered," said Sophie, "Mom told me that there were 6 anthros with power that could help us defeat Eronor if we weren't strong enough. She must have been talking about you!"
"Why would your mom be talking about us?" asked Duck, "And, more importantly, how did she know about us?"
"Our mom has been doing study on your world for years," said Wendy, "That must be how she knew about you. Mom's always been smart, and curious, and a bit of a troublemaker, and a…matchmaker. Wait a minute, Mom must have known we were feeling lonely and set us up with you because she thought that we'd be falling for Tech, Rev, and Duck!"
"What?" Duck asked.
"Us?" asked Tech.
"Yeah-right," said Rev.
"Yeah, you like us, don't you?" asked Sophie.
"Yeah," said Tech.
"Kind of," said Duck.
"Pretty-much," said Rev.
"That's exactly how we feel about you," said Daniella.
"Uh, before we go into the love scenes, what exactly was this Eronor planning when your parents sent you here?" asked Ace.
"I don't remember exactly what she said," said Sophie, "But it had something to do with drawing all power out of your world and destroying what's left to start an apocalypse in our world and take control of it to make all of our people slaves to his will and the Order of the Scorpion would be his second-in-command while the rest of the lands fell apart at the seams." The Loonatics were shocked and confused at her ramblings. "In short, we're all doomed if we don't stop him."
"Would this apocalypse have anything to do with the Scorpion Insanity March?" asked Daniella.
"Sounds about right," said Sophie.
"Sophie, that's the worst thing that could ever happen to either of our worlds," said Daniella, frightened all of a sudden, "If we let that happen, there not going to be a world for Eronor to rule!"