Part 10: The Truth at last
I collected all of my sisters and all of the guys and then headed down stairs to find my aunt and master Splinter. In the living room, kitchen and foyer of them there was no sign. We all looked around for a second and then Eli, now the best at seeing in the dark, noticed something.
"Hey look," She motioned her arm still wrapped in bandages from yesterday, "There are lights in the dojo."
We all looked and could now see a soft flickering light coming from under the dojo doors. A few exchanged glances later an we were all making our way there and then heading in quietly.
There were hundreds of candles set up all over the room and master splinter sat at one end on a meditation mat. Next to him stood the figure of my aunt wearing what looked like a long white dress of some kind.
"come in girls," She turned and smiled at us, "Thank you for bringing your sisters down here Lisa."
I walked over to her, "What's going on aunt angel?"
She smiled back at me but in that instant looked so sad, so heart broken that I found I had suddenly lost my voice.
"Remember the freak out I had last spring Lisa?" She asked me gently.
I stopped and thought about it for a second and then nodded, "Yes, you had a bad panic attack when we went to see Maleficent."
She nodded once and then motioned for me, my sisters, and the guys to sit down near her on the pillows I had just now noticed.
"There was a reason for that," She continued, "Do you remember which part made me freak?"
Gabbi suddenly got a horrified look on her face and curled towards mike, "When...they ripped off ..."
"Her wings," My aunt finished. "that's right."
"Why?" Vivian asked, "We thought you thought the scene was just gross."
"Is there more too it than that Aunt Angel?" eli asked.
"much more dumpling," She smiled sadly again, "Now let me tell you a story that's almost as fantastic as that movie. It will help you better to understand what you are.. and more importantly why you are."
"Once... Long ago..
In this world there existed many fantastic beings. Fey, spirits, and many, many more. Most of them were kind hearted and loving beings, that wanted nothing more than to live at peace with the humans of the world and find understanding.
During that time there was a great fey Queen. She loved and protected all of the fair folks because to her they were all her beloved children. She often traveled the world to see how the other beings besides the fair folk, lived out their lives.
In one such travel she went as far east as she could, traveling until she reached the land that lay at the water's edge. The last island before the great dark ocean that housed even more of her people, opened out and seemed to go on for eternity.
She met many folks there, and during a time of horrid battle and war, when a group of young Kappa spirits and their NezumiJin master fought to end the terrible domination of a war lord, the queen stopped and for a moment found love in the heart of the wise NezumiJin that was the teacher of the young kappa.
However this world was not to last. As the world of men began to change, and become more powerful, that power came at a price. They began to believe that the fey and other spirits were evil. They learned their weaknesses and began to hunt them down.
The queen saw her beloved NezumiJin fall, and with him his four sons, the last of the Kappa.
The Queen had no choice but to return to her home land and protect her remaining children as best she could. But eventually even her magic could not keep the people away from the children. The lines would die out, Unless she took DRASTIC measures to save them.
So in order to preserve the four blood lines of Earth, Air, Fire and Water, the Queen sacrificed her self, and her magic. The blood lines would meld with those of the humans and some day when the time was right, they would emerge anew, carried quietly through the lines of her now human children until the world changed. Until the day that the fantastic was once more accepted and the spirits of old would be called forth into the world again.
But this salvation came at a horrid price.
The Queen gave her self up to the humans to cast her spell. The very people that held her down and tore her beautiful wings from her back, would be the ones that would unknowingly some day once again be her children.
The Queen finished her spell and the attackers left her there, the sun set on an era, an the Queen of fey breathed her last.
But hope remained eternal for she knew that even as the blood lines would someday come back into being, so would she. And this time, no matter what, she would not fail to protect her children.
The Queen's last breath was a prophecy and a promise.
"When the spirits walk this world again, Through means of magic or of man. They will call for the four elements, and We WILL live again."
I stared at my aunt for about ten seconds as what she said finally crashed DOWN on me.
The four elements, earth, air, fire and water. The spirits walking this world again by means of magic OR of man.
Us, the Guys, Splinter, My Aunt, ALL of this was meant to be.
"So what are you telling Us Aunt Angel?" Vivian asked, "That this was meant to be? We're..."
"My darlings each of you are one of the Heirs to the four main Fey Blood lines. Each of you are royalty, and yes Each of you were VERY MUCH meant to find the young men that you all love. I truly believe that in my heart and soul."
"So we aren't human any more?" Eli asked.
"No dumpling," Aunt Angel moved over to her and gently knelt before her, "you were never human. You have always been fey, the gene carried quietly through the blood lines of the families, until the two descendants that had the four blood lines, finally met, fell in love and brought you four precious beings into this world."
Donnatello thought for a second, "You mean like reverse breeding!"
We all stopped and stared at him.
My aunt only smiled, "Well very similar but in no means that deliberate."
Eli blinked at her, "So are you the Fey Queen?"
"I was," She nodded, "In my last life. I knew that I had returned to this world, my memories of my past returned to me very young. But knowledge and power came at a price. All of the blood lines mixed well with humans but mine."
"So your blood disease?" I asked.
"Is a combination of My Human and Fey nature fighting each other as well as what my father was exposed to," She looked down, "I am so sorry My Darlings. I never meant to keep the truth from you for so long. I only meant to protect you."
Eli blinked and then stood up and hugged our aunt, "You did the best you couldn't Auntie." She looked up at her and smiled, "Until this started happening you had no way of knowing if it was going to be us right?"
"That's very true," She admitted.
"Then there's no reason to ask our forgiveness," Gabbi stood up and moved to stand beside her twin, "Because there was nothing to tell. Once there was you came out and we're honest with us. So you didn't do anything wrong."
"No you didn't," Vivian agreed and stood up to be with the other.
I stood and looked at them, "Just answer me one question Aunt Angel."
"Yes, Of course my dear," She tried to smile.
"Do you have powers too?"
She looked down and shook her head, "I have never exhibited any that I know of. My illness has been the only marker of my own different blood. And that is because its mixed, not pure fey like the four of you."
I shook my head and moved over to hug her with my sisters, "Oh Aunt Angel. You gave up so much to protect us, in both of your lives. Nothing we can ever do will be thanks enough for the lives you have given us."
She pulled away and smiled at me, "The fact that you are here to live those lives, is thanks enough."
She smiled and looked at the guys behind us, "All of you young people are a gift. Fey, Spirits, and even Kappa walk this world again. And there is no sadness that can live in me as long as I know the world has welcomed you back into it."
Now the guys got up and hugged her too, each one getting a kiss and a hug back. Then finally master Splinter came up to. She smiled and pulled her self down until she was at eye level with him.
"My darling NezumiJin," She hugged him and he smiled back at her.
"My Tenshi."
I stood up and motioned to the dojo doors, "Come on guys, Lets let the young lovers there have some privacy."
That earned me a couple of scowls from both my Aunt and the Guys Father but nothing I couldn't handle. We all smiled at each other and then left them alone.
A few moments later I had wandered out onto the deck and stood in the moonlight enjoying the night. Below me in the garden, Eli and Donnie walked together just talking and enjoying each other. Near the lake Vivian sat with Leo, and some where near by in the barn I heard hay rustling, knowing that Mike and Gabbi had found a tryst spot as well.
"So what do you make of all of this Lis?" Raph asked as he came up behind me.
"Make of it?" I had to laugh, "Nothing right now.. Sooner or later its all going to hit me and I may have a spaz. But right now I'm just happy that this IS the way things are meant to be."
He put his arms around my waist and leaned his head on my shoulder, "No more worries about your sisters?"
"Not now at least," I snuggled back into him and put one hand on his arms around me and held the other one out flat before me as a small flame sparked to life in it, "For now at least I know we are happy. We are what we are meant to be. The rest can wait till the end of time, or at least the end of summer vacation. Right now I just want to be happy."
"Not a bad thing to wish for," He told me softly.
"Good," I turned and kissed him, "How about we make like our sibs and parents and go find a spot for our selves?"
He grinned at me, "I'd like that."
I doused my flame and then took him by the hand and headed out to find our spot. For now at least everything was perfect and o k.
Sooner or later we would have to go back to the real world and find out how we fit into it now. But at this moment, we all had everything we needed.