A/N: I'm being consistent! :) Here's the next chapter! There are some parts in Latin and I'm not completley fluent in it but I hope it's right... it isn't too hard to understand but I thought that it'd be interesting. Hope you enjoy... and I kinda have the plot fixed but keep sending me ideas because I have already used a few and I only know the general plot so if there are any specific things you'd want to see, let me know!
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~Harmony
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Chapter 26
NEONA P.O.V
Neona, use your power! I could sense the frustration in Phoenix's voice.
I won't. I only use it when needed.
You need it now!
No.
They kept nagging me to use my power but I won't. I only use it in a life or death situation. This was not a life or death situation. A kid just cut in front of me, as we were about to get a milkshake.
I turned to Phoenix and gave her a look.
"Seriously." I sighed, amused. "This is why you need control… and knowing when to use your power and when to not is a part of it."
"Fine. But now you get a milkshake a minute later than you could have gotten it."
I rolled me eyes and laughed. Having a sister was great.
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MAX P.O.V.
I turned away from watching the kids and spoke to the older members of the flock.
"Okay guys, this is great and all but we need to keep moving and thinking ahead. The school will obviously still be looking for them for the rest of their lives… Look at us- adults, and still being chased."
"Max—" Nudge started. "I think-"
"Shh not now Nudge." I closed my eyes. "Okay here's what we're going to do. We're going to go back to Colorado, some how, Fern's foster parents will accept her in and by somehow I mean we know how." I gave Angel a look. "… and we're high tailing it to another state. Got it?"
"Max!" Nudge frantically yelled. "I think that we should be think about the disaster that's coming."
We all swiveled out head to her.
"What?" We all questioned at the same time.
"Yeah Neona told me that she kept seeing visions and I think that they're visions of the future. In her sleep, last night, she mumbled a rhyme or something."
Iggy dismissed the thought. "So? It's probably a story or some silly children's song."
"No it wasn't. I heard it Jeb's head." Neona spoke up from behind us with Phoenix and Fern at her heels.
"Um. Sorry what?"
"The rhyme. I told you I have visions of the school doing horrible things and I think that the rhyme will help us save the world from the school." She said this is one long breath with a melodious tone.
We were all speechless.
I broke out of my daze. It's like when we were kids all over again. Jeb must want Phoenix and Neona to save the world like how he wanted me to save it. I already did though… right? "Okay. Neona, don't worry. We'll prevent the school from doing whatever it is they're planning but now, we have to get moving."
I gathered out things and we rushed out of the mall, into a clearing and up to the sky.
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PHOENIX P.O.V.
Finally, we were home. I could finally show Neona where I grew up. Of course, she was knocked out on my bed right now. Angel had taken Fern to her foster parents house to "deal with the damage". And Mom and Dad would talk to the school tomorrow so that a missing child's picture wouldn't be all over the state.
I watched Neona sleep. Those visions that she sees- well I see them too. And I know exactly what she's talking about. It's as if we see the same image but judging from our connection, I see how that 's possible.
"Hey." Neona was awake.
"I thought you were sleeping?"
"Well I'm not anymore."
"Yup!" I smiled and walked over to my bed and reached under. I handed her a change of clothes and pointed to the shower. "You can clean yourself up… right through that door… Max says we have to be ready because we might have to leave at any moment."
Neona took the clothes. "You know, you're nothing like how I imagined you to be." She started walking to the bathroom door and before closing it, said "…You're even better than I imagined you to be."
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NEONA P.O.V
"Save me!"
I know you. Your voice… I thought I'd never hear it again. It's a dream or a vision.
"Trust your instincts… you have to save me!"
Save you from what... or who?
"I can't tell you that but you have to get be out of this hell hole. You and your family are the only ones who can do it."
Why us?
"Because you're all special."
Who is this person that is trapping you? I can only see bits and pieces of it. You have to tell me more or I can't do much.
"Oh you can do plenty. You just don't know it yet."
I know you can't tell me what or who or you'll get killed, but a clue? Anything?
"The poem."
But… but you never finished it.
"They are watching always, so Liberate me. It is not the doves you should fear. It is SHI.
Me , et salva animam tuam."
Liberabo vos. I would promise but you know I don't do that.
I woke up panting and gasping for air. I reached over and pulled the lampshade to see Phoenix staring at me.
"Are you okay? You were freaking out in your sleep…"
I shoved my hair back with one hand and grasped the nightstand with the other. I look around in a confused state.
"I'm fine. I need to think."
I walked outside the cave to the mountains. I guessed that it was around 4:30 am.
She's alive. Or it must have been a dream. It had to be or it could have been her talking to me from heaven. Or maybe it's not. Maybe he does have her. But he was dead too? Or not.
I shook my head. This was all too confusing. I fumbled with the pendant on my necklace. If she's alive, I have to save her. I looked at the sky. Dark, mysterious, comforting, with two starts illuminating me. A sign. Maleficent, I hear you, and I'm coming.
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MAX P.O.V.
There she was. My daughter. Staring at the night sky deep in thought. She looked like ghost with her scarily dark hair and mesmerizing eyes. I should have known about her and saved her long before.
"Hey, Neona. Are you alright?"
She flinched a little in surprise.
"Yeah. I'm thinking."
"Okay. I'll think with you." Fang did this often. The best thing to do was give them space.
"We need to leave."
"Yes I know Neona, we're leaving tomorrow morning… I have an idea where but we'll discuss that."
"It's not Arizona. We have to go somewhere else. We have to save my friend. She's trapped and the people trapping her are planning to do something really bad."
"Which friend?"
"Maleficent."
"Like the one from the books? The evil one?"
Neona smiled. "No not that one. I met her when I was 2 at The School. She's really special to me and the only friend I had. A year and a half ago, she was moved to another room and that part of the building was somehow burnt and destroyed. The scientist with her and Maleficent both died… or so everyone thought. But I heard her voice today. She said she was alive and that she needed help."
I was speechless- which happens on rare occasions.
"I- uh- okay. We'll save your friend. If she's important to you and you trust her, so do I." I stood straighter and more confident. I was beginning to feel like a leader again. I hugged Neona.
"Don't worry. You'll get her back."
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NEONA P.O.V.
Good. Plan is in motion. Step 1, get everyone to agree to go there. Step 2, actually figure out what the poem means. I couldn't get sleep again and I'd been reciting that poem in my head over and over again. I remember when Maleficent first said it… when we first met.
~Flashback~
"Number 2347- Dark hair, tan skin, yellow glowing eyes, hybrid."
I perked my head up… new kid!
"Number 2347- Maleficent."
Maleficent? Now I was scared.
"Don't be scared of me." The girl was in front of my cage. She had huge glowing yellow eyes and dark wavy hair that cascaded down her shoulders. She was extremely tan and looked very mysterious.
I shuffled farther back into my cage and she looked sad. She got into her own cage and held the bars and tried to see me.
"Your name is Maleficent? Are you bad?"
"I can be. But call me Mai. It's much prettier. They gave me the name Maleficent because they think I'm evil."
"Are you?"
"So, what's you're name?"
"Neona." Her eyes lit up as soon as I said my name and she scooted even further in her cage.
"It's you. I know you. You're going to save the world one day. I feel it. And your family will help you."
Suddenly, she collapsed onto the floor in exhaustion. The whitecoats came rushing in with a bunch of needles to inject her with. When they left, she started to mumble something.
What did it mean? I knew it was about me. This was one weird kid.
~ End Flashback~
Of course. The poem. She saw this moment and she knew her fate. I looked into the sky and mumbled what she had said years ago. Thank you Mai, I'm coming.
"An old friend you once met can aide,
For she is not in the heavens above but in the hells of the masquerade
Pleading she is, for the future seen is too great to escape
The daughters of the warrior, saviors nonetheless
With Mother, Fire, Water, Earth, and Darkness- but none in excess.
They are watching always, so Liberate me. It is not the doves you should fear. It is SHI.
Me , et salva animam tuam."
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