*Miley P.O.V~ At the Hermitage*
I was watching Sandry make her location potion. She crushed mint leaves and Rose's favorite spices in the molcajete, a rock with 3 thick rounded stubs as legs and a hollow center to crush anything in for salsas or for us Witches, physics, and kitchen-fairies, for potions. Jeremie had located Rose, but Mike destroyed her phone after two rings. She was going to be pissed when she finds out. I was watching as Sandry took one of Rose's fake pearl bracelet, the one Odd gave her on their second date, when my vision caved in and I was soon standing in a mist covered place.
"Hello?" I asked and my voice echoed throughout the place.
"Miley," Rose's voice came to me.
"Rose?" I asked as I looked around myself.
Rose suddenly appeared through the mist.
"Miley, don't ask how or when, but you can communicate to anyone you know really well through their dreams. You don't have to be asleep but the person does. I managed to come to you because of it. Now listen closely. I am inside a warehouse, much like the one in the past. Remember where the Witch Stream met with the Wolf River? If you mapped out our home over the human's maps you will be able to find me," Rose told me then disappeared.
I came back to my body with a gasp. I blinked away the black spots and noticed the Molly was in front of me.
"You're back. What happened? Why did you just space out?" Molly inquired as she let go of me.
"I don't really know what it was, but I saw Rose," I said.
That caught everybody's attention.
"How?" Calvin asked me.
"I don't really know, I was watching Sandry crush the mint leaves and Rose's favorite spices along with her fake pearl bracelet, when my vision caved in. Then I found myself in a mist-covered place. Rose told me that I got the power to communicate with people in their dreams, but only if I know them really well," I paused then continued, "I don't have to be asleep but the person I want to contact does. And, I'm guessing, I have to be thinking about them in order to contact them"
"You don't know how or when you got that power, right?" Sally asked me.
I shook my head no. I turned towards Calvin and Odd who were near the doorway in case we got a lead to bolt right out of there.
"Do you have any maps about this place? Rose said that is we mapped out our home world with the human world, we should be able to locate her," I told them.
"I finished the potion!" Sandry said as she looked up from the molcajete.
We all looked at her and she pointed at the bracelet. It had a greenish glow to it and it lay on the counter.
"Odd, Calvin, I need you guys to come here and think about Rose. How she looks, how, she acts, and ways that will help the potion work," Sandry said.
Odd and Calvin placed two fingers on the bracelet. They closed their eyes and after a short while, the bracelet went from a greenish tint to a pink colored glow. The bracelet flew off the counter and fitted itself on my wrist. I gasped as I saw Rose inside a warehouse. She was tied to a pillar and she was unconscious. I felt my vision cave in again but this time, I saw everything. I saw the way that Mike had taken her. He had gone behind the factory and headed south towards an abandon warehouse, not that far from it.
"I saw where he took her! It almost exactly like the one she was in back home!" I cried out as I looked at my brother and sisters.
"Well? Let's go!" Molly said.
We all ran out of the house and I lead everyone towards the warehouse. When we got to the entrance, we all had to duck behind some bushes because there were two guards outside the warehouse.
"I'll distract them, you guys go and free Rose," Sandry said.
Before Calvin or any of us could stop her, she ran out of the bushes and called out towards the guards. They ran after her but she was really agile. She outran them and led them towards the forest. Molly ran after her to help while the rest of us went inside. Once inside we saw Mike along with several men standing around Rose.
"Well, it seems as if you guys decided to surrender fast," Mike said.
"You're right, we came to surrender," Calvin said.
His left hand was behind him in the okay sign. We had made up our own sign language and that meant play along.
"But we have to make sure you won't hurt our friends," I said.
"I will never hurt your sister," Mike said.
I held back a snarl. I noticed that the others did too. My eyes flicked to Mike's hand and I saw a glint. I lunged myself at him and morphed in mid-air. But before I could connect with him, someone knocked me to the side. I growled and then I was in a new form. My slim form turned into an athletic one. My skin turned grayish and my nails turned into claws. I now stood on two legs instead of four.
"Is… that our hybrid form?" Calvin asked.
I walked towards the man that had knocked me to the side. I was slightly taller than my human form so I was at a slightly good advantage. I brought my hands together and sent a Spirit Bomb at him. He faded into dust and I had to snort to get the sickly sweet smell of that vampire out of my system.
My siblings and the Lyoko Warriors fought with the remaining men. I turned around and saw that Rose wasn't tied to the pillar. I whined and Calvin risked a glance in my direction. He gripped the man he was fighting with by his shirt and punched him in the gut.
"Where is he?" Calvin snarled out as he pushed the man to the ground.
"I wouldn't dream of telling you," the man snarled.
"Oh really?" I asked- more like growled out-
I came up to him and pressed my arm against his throat. He started gasping for air. Just then, we heard Rose screaming in pain. The Lyoko Warriors went to help while us siblings stayed to fight the remainding men. I crushed the man's windpipe and then we finished the others.
We ran outside and saw that the Warriors were on the ground. They had bad cuts and gashes. Mike had Rose by her arms. Rose was struggling against him, trying to get to her boyfriend and friends.
"Odd! Guys!" Rose cried out as she pulled against Mike.
Mike turned her around to face him and slapped her. Rose gasped. She turned her face and spat at him. Mike's face became enraged and he slapped Rose again but with so much force that she fell to the ground. I took a step forward and Mike thrust his hand in our direction. Vines came out of the ground and wrapped around each of us siblings. We struggled but couldn't break free. We all stared in horror as Mike hit Rose. Mike had locked Rose's power inside of her, rendering her useless without her magic. She couldn't fight him in hand-to-hand combat because he uses his magic to fight.
He beat her bloody and then took out the knife he had earlier.
"Let's see if those scars will heal this time," he said as he ripped her sleeves off.
He dragged the knife across the same cuts he had caused her years ago. Rose screamed as her skin was cut open. The wounds seemed to become much wider than they were originally. He finished cutting her and then turned to look at us. He moved so that he was behind her. He grabbed her hair and pulled her head up as he placed the knife across her neck. Rose's breath hitched and her eyes widened.
"Say good bye to your family and friends" Mike said as he pressed the knife against her neck.
He was about to slice her throat open when a purple with yellow blur knocked against his right shoulder. Mike stumbled back and dropped the knife. Rose almost fell flat on her face but the purple with yellow blur caught her. Rose and all of us gasped when we saw that it was Odd who caught her. I glanced over to where he was supposed to be lying, but saw that he wasn't there.
He laid Rose down on the ground and then turned towards Mike. Rose took a sharp in take of breath but before she could say anything, Odd lunged towards Mike. Rose screamed when Mike threw Odd off of him and Odd landed on a rock. Odd lied there for a minute before he threw himself at Mike, who had walked a little closer. We all heard a sickening crunch before Odd jumped away from Mike. The vines loosened their hold and faded back into the ground. Odd stood there for a minute before collapsing. The Warriors ran to him while us siblings and Sandry ran to Rose. Her eyes were half closed and her breathing was slightly irregular. Sandry widened Rose's left eye and I managed to see that it was glazed over.
"We need to get them back to the Hermitage. If we take them to the hospital, we can't possibly explain their injuries without revealing the Supernatural world," Sandry said.
Calvin nodded and turned towards Molly and me.
"Give me your sweaters. We need to cover her arms before we move her," he told us.
I took my sweater off and handed it to him. Molly did the same. At least the sweaters were worn thin, because they had to tear them into strips in order to tie them around Rose's cuts. Calvin picked up Rose and then we saw that Ulrich and William had Odd between them. He was conscious enough to walk but he needed help. Calvin, Sandry, Molly, Sissy, Yumi and Aelita ran towards the Hermitage while the rest of us stayed to help Ulrich and William. Hope and Faith got rid of the bodies and were trailing behind us. We made it to the Hermitage and had just entered the house when Odd looked up from the ground.
"Rose," he said, rather dazed.
"She'll be fine. Sandry, Molly, and Calvin are taking care of her," Yumi said as she came down the stairs.
Sissy and Aelita were behind her. Odd took his arms from around Ulrich and William's shoulders and bolted up the stairs. I ran after him, seeing as I'm just as fast as he is now. I skidded to a stop when I saw that Calvin, Sandry and Molly were standing at the foot of Rose's bed watching as Odd placed his hands on Rose's arms. They stopped bleeding and closed completely, not a mark or anything. Her bruises faded and when Odd took his hands away, Rose opened her eyes. Her eyes immediately landed on Odd. She threw her arms around him and hugged him tight. He hugged her just as tight, if not even tighter to him. When they pulled back, I heard Sally, Hope and Faith gasp.
"What?" Calvin asked them as he looked around the room.
"Their auras… they're glowing with a golden light!" they said.
"G-golden?" Calvin asked.
"But that's only for the Cat Clan! Our Clan's glow grey or white!" Molly said.
"I think I know the answer," Rose said.
We all turned to look at her. Odd had sat down on the edge of her bed and had his arms wrapped around her. Her skin seemed to give off a healthy glow and her cheeks were flushed.
"If I'm assuming correctly, Odd is a descendant of the Cat Clan," she said.
"But that's impossible! The Cat Clan is an extinct Clan!" Molly said.
"What are you talking about?" Jeremie asked as he came into the room.
Everybody else followed him inside.
"You know that the Eternals are our enemies right?" Calvin asked.
They all nodded.
"They have been our enemy since the beginning of the Supernatural World. They used to live in harmony with the other Clans, but they soon became power hungry when they lived longer than all of us, even the Immortals. The second battle, in which our parents were just 4 year olds, The Great War, our last line of defense were the Cat Clan. They were people with cat-like agility, flexibility, and hearing. They were more experienced warriors and had the high rate of half cat, half something else offspring," Rose explained.
"There was also talk that a cat woman mated with a human wasn't there?" I asked.
"Yes. Father and Mother always talked about the possibilities of the offspring being alive, if not with grandchildren," Molly answered for me.
"Yes. And, I'm positive Odd is a great grandchild or something if the rumors were correct," Rose said.
"Now that you mention it… I was always pretty agile when I was a kid. I would climb up trees just to get away from my sisters. I'd always land on my feet when I let go of the branch at about two feet," Odd said.
"Rose? Come to think of it… you would always ask Father to tell you all he knew about the Cat Clan. You were always fond of the stories and said that you would meet your soul mate in one of their descendants," Calvin said.
Rose nodded. "I was always fascinated by their agility, flexibility and hearing. Also about their healing powers. I don't know how, but I always knew I would find my soul mate in one of their descendants"
She shifted so she was leaning over the side of her bed and felt underneath it for a bit. She grasped something and pulled it out. It was a well-worn and thick book. It had the symbol for history on the cover.
"Is that the history book?" Molly asked.
Rose simply nodded and leafed through it until she came to the chapter she wanted. She turned it around and let it lean against her. It was the chapter talking about the war. Most of the book was words but everything else was pictures of what things looked like and what the war looked like.
"This is the chapter about the Great War. It talks about the war. How it began, what happened and how it ended with the sacrifice of a great Clan. The Cat Clan, known in your world as followers of the Egyptian Goddess Bast. From what our parents told us, they were always training. Father even challenged one of the kids to a duel. Needless to say, he lost to a girl" Rose said with a smile
She flipped two pages and came to a picture of one cat woman. "This is the woman who was said to have mated with a human. She managed to tell someone before the sacrifice but that person died during the battle. However, he managed to write it into the book," Rose said.
Underneath the picture was, Mikayla, member of the Cat Clan, mated with a human. She hid in the human world until the birth of her 3 triplets, two girls and a boy. The whereabouts of where they live are unknown even to, my shock, their mother. The father died three years after their birth.
"So the children were three at the time of the Great Battle?" Jeremie asked.
"According to the book, yes. But we don't know what happened to them. If they died or if they lived into adulthood," Calvin said.
Rose had placed the book on her bed and was tracing each word of the text. Her brow furrowed after she was done and she retraced the words.
"What is it?" Odd asked her.
"Six of the words are deeper than the rest… f…r…a…n…c…e. France?" Rose said as she looked up.
"Could that be the place they were born in?" Aelita asked.
"Could be," Rose said.
"We could find out some other way," Sally whispered out.
"Spirit Walk?" I asked.
She nodded. I looked at Calvin and saw that he was gritting his teeth.
"Cal. They'll be fine. I'll go with them so you don't have to worry" Rose said as she rolled her eyes at him.
Calvin simply grunted. Sally and I sat down on Rose's bed and we held hands. Odd let go of Rose and we closed our eyes and soon we stood in a thick fog. We were in the Spirit World.
*Sally P.O.V~ Spirit World*
Rose, Miley and I walked hand in hand through the fog. Rose was between us, seeing that if a ghost touched her hand, she would see their life and death. We stopped and thought about the cat woman, Mikayla. After a while she appeared before us.
"What do you want?" she asked us.
"We want to know if your kids were born in France," Rose said.
"They were, but they are long dead now," Mikayla said as she looked down.
"None of them had any offspring?" I asked.
"No. They never reached adulthood. Why?" Mikayla asked us.
"We have a friend who has the same characteristics as someone from the Cat Clan," Miley said.
Mikayla reached out and grasped Miley's shirt.
"Is it a boy?" she asked.
"Yes. Our friend is a boy," I said.
"Does he eat too much and never gains any weight? Or gets taller?" Mikayla inquired.
"Yes… why?" Rose asked.
Mikayla let go off Miley's shirt and grasped Rose's left hand. Miley disappeared with a gasp. Rose's eyes glazed over and I knew she was seeing something. Mikayla pulled Rose towards her and my grasp on her right hand loosened. My hand left her's and I opened my eyes to find myself surrounded by everybody else.
"What happened?" Calvin asked me.
"We contacted Mikayla. We asked her questions and then when we told her one of our friends showed Cat Clan characteristics… she simply grabbed Rose's right hand causing Miley to leave and then she pulled Rose towards her, causing my hold on her to loosen," I told him.
"No. You couldn't have been able to do that," Rose muttered.
She opened her eyes with a gasp and her eyes dilated. She then turned to Odd.
"It is you… you reincarnated just as I thought you would," Rose said.
No. Not Rose. Mikayla.
"Let my sister go!" I snarled out.
Rose turned her head and smiled.
"Your sister is letting me use her body to see if this boy, is the reincarnation of my son," Mikayla said through Rose.
"She'll explain everything to you," she added.
Rose blinked and looked at each of us, as if in a daze.
"Rose? Are you all right?" Odd asked her as he placed his hands on her shoulders.
Rose nodded her head.
"Care to explain about what Mikayla said?" William asked her.
"Mikayla somehow knew that a half-ling from two of the powerful Clans would fall in love with her children. She put a spell on all three of them, to reincarnate in the future, when we needed them," Rose said.
"She told me Odd is one of them, but the other two girls won't awaken until we win the battle," Rose added.
"What else did she show you?" Faith and Hope asked.
"His future. The obstacles in both of our lives," Rose told us.
"Like?" Calvin asked.
"A fight with someone that has two outcomes. I couldn't see who it was but both outcomes result in one of us getting injured and blaming the other," Rose told us.
"Well. Mikayla was really useful, right?" Sandry said.
We all nodded. It was quiet until Hazel broke the silence.
"When are we going to go back home?" Hazel asked.
Rose, Molly, Sandry and Calvin got worried looks.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"We need to locate the Gate. That's the only way some of our allies can get through if they are human," Calvin said.
"But, we don't know where it is," Molly said.
"Shouldn't all of you know where it is? Isn't it part of your history?" Ulrich asked.
"Yes, it is part of the history but the Gate is made of magic. It moves from its place every year. The last I knew of where it was located at was in 1998. The Gate was in London, Europe" Sandry explained.
"And we need to find some more allies," Rose added.
"How long is that going to take?" Faith asked.
"Depending on how our research goes… a while" Calvin said.
"So pretty much a few months?" I asked.
Rose, Molly, Sandry and Calvin wouldn't look at us. Us siblings groaned. We were never going to go back home.