Chapter 12
A letter to Juvia.
Dear Juvia,
I know it's been a while since my last letter, sorry about that, some things have been coming up lately… but I did get your last letter! So Ned's finally going to school, what is he seven now? Guess a lot of things have changed since I left, I miss you guys so much. Sometimes I just want fly back and visit. Hey you remember Akira? Well you haven't met her before but I told you about her, she's living with us now. It was strange yesterday after we practiced with James' friends this creepy guy came out of nowhere and started mind-controlling them and then some how brought Artemis out. Don't worry I'm fine, actually better than before. She gave me and Machi a 'gift', I have no idea what it is yet, but I don't feel her as much as I used to. It's weird, I thought that maybe if she left I'd feel better, less angry, but I only feel empty. James has been acting weird lately, because of what happened yesterday he promised to all of us what was going on. I hope you can meet him one day; he really is a great guy. Well that's all for now! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Tara
Tara got an envelope from her desk and folded the letter into it. She sighed and sank back into her swivel chair staring at the letter on her desk. She got home earlier and was immediately 'attacked' by Machi. Even she was surprised of how big the pup had gotten. Machi put her head in Tara's lap and looked up at her with her large crimson eyes. Tara smiled at her and scratched the dog's head. Tara got up and went to the mailboxes down in the lobby to send her letter. She came back up and thought of something, she went over to Machi and kneeled in front of her so she was eye level. She looked within and searched for Artemis' soul, but only a faint outline of her soul was there and she couldn't reach it. She found James' but it was far away at the school, a new soul was there, it had her exact same wavelength as hers. It wasn't like James' wavelength; it was different like an exact copy of hers. Tara reached out to Machi's soul, Machi complied with her and they resonated. It felt weird resonating with an animal; Tara wasn't sure what to make of it. Machi's furs highlights became red. They just sat there staring at each other; they could hear each other's thoughts. There wasn't much to Machi's mind, she was just as curious as Tara though, poking around each other's minds. Tara realized she could find out what Machi's previous life before she came along with them to the city, but something was blocking her memories.
She subconsciously heard the door unlock and open.
"Hey Tara, a package came for you-" James almost dropped it, Akira ran into him. She peered over his shoulder to see what he stopped for. Tara looked back at them; the whites of her eyes had turned red. They shifted back to normal as she stopped the resonance. "Hi guys." She smiled up at them. "OH My overly large sweater!" She took the package from James who was still standing there trying to process what he just saw. She ripped it open and pulled a giant blue sweater out, she put it on and it slipped off her shoulders and fell to the floor.
"Maybe it's to big…"
Let's skip forward to 6 o'clock.
"You still haven't told us what you were doing with Machi earlier." James was fixing dinner; Lance and Melody should be arriving soon.
"Yeah well-" She was cut off by someone knocking at the door. "I'll get it." Tara got up from the couch and opened the door. Lance and Melody walked in, "Hey guys, come right on in. Make yourselves at home. Akira they're here!"
Akira came out of her room; she'd been painting it black so her white t-shirt and shorts had black paint splatters on them. She leaned in the doorway of her new room and began playing with her long braid. They all looked at each other for a bit not knowing what to say, James kept cooking. Melody's arm was in a cast, her maroon hair was up, and Lance looked the same.
"Is that Machi?" Lance petted the large dog that was leaning against him.
"Yeah." Tara sank into one of the various chairs they had out. "What happened to your arm Melody?"
Melody looked down at it, Lance looked at her worriedly, "I don't know, some of the teachers found me in front of school, just staring at the sky. I woke up in the dispensary and my arm was broken."
"We told them what had happened." Lance added. "They looked for the guy, you know the one that attacked us, and they couldn't find him. He just disappeared, or that's what they said."
James stopped for a bit and looked at Tara, she looked back at him and motioned him to get over there. He blew his bangs up and made sure the food was alright and then walked over to Tara's chair and stood behind it, placing his hands on the top of it.
"I guess you guys want an explanation now." James said.
"Yes we do, and from you to Tara. That really freaked us out, you turning into a wolf…" Melody said rubbing her arm.
"Well it all started-" And I shall save you from the long drawn out explanation James gives them, he just tells them about his great-great-grandfather but left out the dragon.
"Ok, but what about Tara?" Akira asked still leaning in her doorway.
James shrugged, "I don't know."
"I'm actually pretty glad that he did that." Tara said. They all looked at her in disbelief.
"Well I mean, I'm mad that he you know that, but Artemis would've come out eventually."
"That thing had a name?" Lance sneered.
Tara frowned at him, "Yes, yes she does have a name. And you will all be happy to know that she wont be making another appearance any time soon. We…worked things out…" She was still worried that she may never see the wolf again. "She also gave me and Machi a gift," She quoted with her fingers. "And I think I figured out what it is. I can resonate with Machi."
Akira snickered.
"Wait what?" James looked down at her.
Tara rolled her eyes, "I can resonate with Machi, it's actually pretty neat."
"I didn't know that people could resonate with animals, I mean it already takes a long time just to find someone, or adjust to someone with the same wave length. It's almost impossible…" Melody looked over to her partner.
Tara raised an eyebrow, "I guess the gift was being able to resonate with her, because it felt like she was like a copy of my soul."
They all looked at Machi curiously. The dog sniffed and barked at the stove, something was beginning to burn.
James smelt it to, "Oh ssshit." He raced over to his food and quickly moved his burning sausages off. "Well I hope you guys like your spaghetti without sausage."
After dinner Lance and Melody went home and things settled back to normal.
"Lemme see it." Tara said crossing her arms. James was on the bed watching TV.
"See what?" James looked at her. She shifted her weight to one leg and stared at him. James' eyes widened.
"Oh my god," Tara closed her eyes and put her hand on her face. "Not that you perv, the dragon thingy."
James pouted, "What dragon thingy?"
"I've seen it before, while you were sleeping. I thought it was a tattoo at first but then it was gone the next day and now this. Let me see it."
He sighed, "Fine."
He got up and walked over to her showing her his shoulder. The dragon looked at her and let out a breath of smoke. She grabbed his arm gently and moved it around to see it.
"Wow, why didn't you show this to me before?"
He shrugged, "I didn't want you to worry about it, besides I thought it was nothing."
"Doesn't look like nothing." She let his arm go with a slap.
"Well it looked like nothing at the time."
Tara glared at him hearing the tone in his voice. "Whatever." She mumbled to herself and fell onto their bed. James sighed and decided it was no use fighting her right now.
Akira sat cross-legged in her room staring at the freshly painted walls. The background and the ceilings were painted a deep purple, she'd painted buildings in the foreground. The little black silhouettes of the buildings had yellow painted windows as well. She got up and began to paint some stars and the moon. She finished and stepped back to admire her work, it some what reminded her of home. She shrugged and went to go sit in her windowsill.
(Well that was disappointing, that took way to long to write. Oh well. You know I noticed that there are a lot of gaps about this world that we or just I don't know about. Like how does their school system work, or what about the government? Does Lord Death just rule them all or is there an actual government. I guess only Ookubo knows. Well thanks for reading again! Write that review! Next update will come out soon, I hope…)
Viserys,
limped into the old mansions courtyard. The old rusted iron gates closed behind him on their own. He was back in France, at the old Daedra mansion. The west wing had collapsed and now only a pile of rubble remained, the house was over 200 years old but the rest was still in good shape. After his king had died he came back and tended to the old home waiting for the time when he would carry out his kings will. The double doors opened to the mansion revealing the large entrance, the twin staircases were covered in cobwebs. Everything was covered in cobwebs, just how he liked it. Viserys maintained the place but he didn't clean it. The family portrait stared down at him as he hobbled over to the servants courtiers were he lived. "Damn wolf, that bitch will pay." He slurred in French. He was only curious, maybe the young masters dragon would be triggered from that, guess not. Viserys would have to try a different emotional response to bring it out. He might even have to kill his woman. He cackled to himself, his laughter echoing through the empty halls.
