Ch.3 Identities Revealed
"Unghhh…, Where are we?" Nova groaned.
"I don't know," Luna replies, "But wherever we are, I do know one thing."
"What?" Nova asked.
"It's nighttime," She replied.
"Oh," he said simply.
"Oh good, you're awake," a strange voice said, "Here have something to eat."
"It would be easier to do so if we weren't blindfolded," Luna Nova said together.
"Oh, Ok, here," The person said.
She was very strange, with tattoos all over her face, and between her eyes, her violet-purple eyes, were two crescent moons and a golden key.
"My name's Zara," She said
"I'm Luna…"
"…and I'm Nova…"
"Where are we?" They ask together
"You're…" Zara started
"Zara!" someone yelled
"Why are the prisoners not blindfolded?" asked another voice.
"Well…" Zara stammered
"We asked her to remove…" Luna started.
"…the blindfolds because…" Nova continued.
"…we don't like not being able to see where we are." they finish.
"What are you doing here in this forest?" the first voice asked.
"Our mother told us we had to get away," Luna answered.
"Do you know what happened to Nala and Simba?" Nova asked.
Suddenly they hear screaming, and someone runs up, "Terra, Karra, some lions just walked into our encampment!"
"Well, what are they doing?" Terra asked.
"Nothing, they're just sitting by the fire growling at anyone that comes near," the boy answered.
"Alright, Sean stay here, we'll take care of it," Karra told him.
"Do you think it could be…?" Luna thought.
"Maybe, do you have any ideas?" Nova asked.
"Yeah, remember when we got every cat in the palace to come to the library?" she thought.
"Uh-hu, good idea," he thought in reply, "Ready?"
"Ready," She thought.
"Zara, Sean, I suggest that you step back," Luna told them. Then, Luna and Nova sent out an earsplitting roar, and the two lions heard their humans calling, "Nala! Simba!" So they ran to them.
"Why, it really is you," Luna and Nova exclaimed together, as the lions purred at their feet.
Terra and Karra run up breathless, "You know these lions?" they ask.
"Yup," Luna replied.
"This is Nala," Nova nodded at one lion.
"And this is Simba," Luna nodded at the other.
"But they were just regular cats this morning," Nova explained, "So don't ask us how they got like this…"
"Because we have no idea," Luna finished.
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"Thanks for untying us," Luna said, "and for showing us around."
"No problem, after all you helped us with the lions," Terra said.
"It was nothing," Nova replied.
"Ummmm," Karra said.
"He said, 'It was nothing'," Luna translated.
"You are a very strange pair," Anne remarked.
"No stranger than anyone else here," Luna replied as she looked around the circle. Terra and Karra were there, and so was their younger brother Sean. Sean's twin sister was there, and Zara with Andorra and Adriana, her wolfhounds. Anne, of course, was there. She was the one to find the Hollow and set up the camp. Whenever someone asked her how she had found it, she would always say, 'the trees told me,' Apparently they were all royalty who had been thrown out because they were different. Well more different than anyone else, though Anne's story was never the same twice.
"True," Anne admitted, "So why exactly does the General Staff want you dead?"
"Apparently a Seer saw strife and chaos in our future, not just for us, but also for Middlen," Luna answered.
"Unghh," Nova groaned.
"Whoa! It happened again," Sean exclaimed as Nala and Simba grew into a pair of lions.
"Hmmm, interesting," Nova muttered as he opened his Grimoire.
"What's that?" Zara asked pointing at the book.
"Hmmm? This? This is my Grimoire," Nova answered, "It has a whole bunch of spells in it."
"But we can't do any of them," Luna said, "We don't have the flair."
"Watch," they said together,
Silky fur
And wings of skin,
Change the shape
That we'll be in.
Neither birds
Nor frogs, nor cats,
We'll now be
A pair of bats.
"See it didn't work," they sigh.
"It isn't just filled with spells though, it contains our family history, and it can hear me," Nova explained, "Watch, show me the family tree of Terra of the Hollow." He spins the book around so they can see.
"Wow, here I am, and there you are Karra," Terra exclaimed pointing at the book.
"I see Sean and Sara, but where am I? I thought we were siblings," Zara asked, and looked up at Terra and Karra.
"Um, well the truth is," Karra started.
"You see, we found you in the woods," Terra picked up.
"And we raised you as our sister," Karra continued.
"But you aren't really," Terra finished.
"But…But…," Zara stammered. She turns to Nova, "Do you think it could show my family tree?"
"Maybe," He replied, "Show me the family tree of Zara of the Hollow." He stares at the book in disbelief, "Luna come look at this."
"That can't be right," Luna exclaimed, "Show me the family tree of Luna and Nova, formally of Middlen Castle," she said to the Grimoire.
"What, what is it," Zara asked, "and why did you ask it to show you you're family tree?"
"Because…look," Nova said showing everyone the Grimoire. They stare at it in disbelief.
"You're family tree and our family tree are one and the same," Luna said, "You're our sister."