Brady, be quiet! Sorry, my friend Brady was the guest who reviewed and said: "I can't believe you put yourself in there" and "seriously?" Ignore him. Btw thank you Brady for the reviews!
Story Time!
Gracie checked her Imparter. Meet at Stardust Rock. Neverseen defeat plan. From Sophie.
She sighed. A few days ago she was at school playing with Angel, and now she's in a new world and shape-shifting frequently.
"Dex!" She shouted from the bed. Dex walked in, smiling. "What?"
"Sophie wants us at Stardust Rock and I'm too lazy to get up," she complained, flopping on the bed face-down.
Dex chuckled and held up his leaping crystal. "Well then, I'm leaving by myself! Bye!"
"Waaaittt fooorrr meeee!" Gracie moaned as she slid off the bed and sulked over to where Dex stood as he leapt them both to Stardust Rock, where Mr. Forkle, Sophie, Fitz, Biana, Keefe, Linh and Tam were waiting.
Dex frowned. "Where's everyone else?"
He heard a snort from within the shadow of a tree, and out stepped Adria and Alexandra, both smirking at the Keepers. "Bro, If you can't even see people standing in front of you, you got a fat chance of stopping the Neverseen." Adria smirked.
Right on cue, a fox leapt out of a bush, instantly transforming into Jason. Angel and Renee jumped down from a tree, laughing. The rest of the Keepers also showed up, and sat down for the Black Swan meeting.
Mr. Forkle cleared his throat. "So, Sophie and Dex have come up with an idea to defeat the Neverseen. With a lot of help from the new Black swan members and the Song twins, of course."
"Ahem." All eyes turned in the direction of Sam, Gracie, and Mali, who'd had cleared their throats. Mr. Forkle hurriedly corrected himself. "And the Shifters, definitely."
"What is it?" Mali asked, and Sophie leaned across the table to explain.
"Ms. Sam, Ms. Gracie and Ms. Mali have discovered a secret Neverseen hideout somewhere near Alluveterre. There they overheard the Neverseen discussing something about the entire crew meeting here to discuss a final plan that will destroy the council and Black Swan. Ms. Adria and Ms. Alexandra then told us that they know a bit about this plan and they even have a paper about it. The paper, please."
Mr. Forkle held out his hand at Adria and Alexandra, who glared at each other and whispered; "Where is it? I thought you had it!"
Mr. Forkle clucked his tongue. "You kids. Always losing things of utter importance. Do any of the Shifters happen to have it?"
Sam and Mali shook their heads. Then Gracie did something miraculous.
"Guys! I found it!" She exclaimed, grinning widely. Mr. Forkle smiled. "Wonderful, Ms. Gracie. Now, please take your seat. I'll let the Shifters take a moment to read the sheet."
"That rhymes," Alexandra whispered to Adria, both smirking.
Gracie leaned across the table. She'd never had a real, good look at it; just skimmed the words.
"What..." Renee started. Everyone looked towards Adria and Alexandra for an explanation. Gracie stood their confused. What do you mean, what? The words are right there! Can't they read?
Adria and Alexandra's faces whitened as they looked down at the sheet. "How did it do that?" Adria asked, outraged. "It was in the Enlightened language before! How did it switch to jibberish so fast?"
Gracie cleared her throat. "Ahem! The words are right in front of you. Do you guys somehow not see it?"
The Shifters looked at each other, each shaking their heads one at a time. Suddenly Jason snapped.
"Yes! Yes I understand now!" He exclaimed, staring wide-eyed at the paper. Angel and Renee leaned in closer. Then their faces whitened too. Jason smiled in triumph. "Aha! I understand it!"
But Angel backed up, arms out at her side for balance. She coughed. "I have to go... somewhere..." she said, and she dashed out of the room. The rest of the elves looked at each other, shrugging.
Gracie was thinking though. How come she could understand the runes, and Jason, Renee and Angel, but how come the others just can't?
Suddenly, a memory triggered in her mind.
Eight year old Gracie leaned over the desk, writing jibberish on a piece of paper. She heard someone clear their throat above her, and she looked up to see a furious subsitute looking down at her.
"Miss Gracie, how many times have I already told you, I don't want you writing while we are learning Science! What even are you writing?"
The substitute snatched the piece of paper before Gracie could hide it, and started looking at it. "Jibberish!" She announced after several seconds of trying uselessly to decipher it. "It's bad enough that your writing in my class, and it's worse that you're simply wasting your time writing jibberish! Your teacher will hear of this!"
The subsitute scribbled Gracie's name on the blackboard and continued with her lesson, while throwing away the piece of paper. The moment class ended, Gracie fished in the recycling bin for the piece of paper, and finally found it.
But the writing wasn't hers anymore. It was another person's handwriting. Very familiar...
She looked out the window, and jumped back when she saw a girl staring right through her soul. Freaky!
The person held out a pencil and a piece of paper, with the same exact words on it. Then he vanished into the shadows.
And now Gracie knew. That person, was Jolie.
Gracie gasped as her memory faded, and she sat down in her seat, not listening to a word that Mr. Forkle was saying. She had only heard of Jolie once, and that was Dex talking about her to Sophie once. She just couldn't help eavesdropping.
Dex later had shown Gracie a picture of Jolie, who looked exactly like the girl staring at her. Dex said that Jolie was dead, but was she really?
"Guys, I'm gonna check on Angel," Gracie interrupted Mr. Forkle as he was lecturing mid-sentence.
"Go on, Ms. Gracie." He said, shooing her away, and he continued discussing the battle plans.