Chapter 2: Serenity's Secret Past
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After lunch was over the new and old students headed to there houses to get the new students, a feel for that new house. TJ and Dustin, both were getting use to there new rooms, As for Cat, she found herself in love with one of Harry Potter's emery, Draco Malfoy. Cat made herself feel welcome as the other Slytherin girls were scared of her. This new Slytherin girl but, somehow Draco make Cat forgot all about them and started work on their feelings for each other. As for Serenity, she and Hermione were in a room together. After Serenity move in her stuff along with Hermoine, the girls got to talk.
A few miuntes later, before the girls got to talk, Harry and Ron,walk in the girls new room. Harry and Ron feeled it would be a good idea if they got to know Serenity, because she was Hermione's new friend.
Hour and hours, ti'l Ron, ask about Serenity's Paladin on her neck. Sure Harry and Hermione saw it but they through it would be best not to ask about it, but here Ron, not know ask her about it. Serenity was not all shock about is, because everybody who Serenity ever meeted ask her about it. She was not at her scary of it, to who people who didn't know her through, it was just a stupid charm that she weor. But is was no charm that she was wearing on the gold band corker, it was in fact in beded in her skin.
Serenity, toke off the gold band, and there they saw is charm, was in-beded in her, not a place of jewel. The mark on Serenity's neck, was one crirle and three diamonds that seen to be together cross over in the crirle.
After seeing that, you know they are question to how it got there. but it was Harry, that ask about it, and not Ron. But see that it was like Serenity and Harry, were on the same level of different for other people. Harry had all ready took Serenity about the lighting bolt in the middle of his forhead.
Serenity being to tell the story of how she got the burned mark on her.
"It was over seventeen years ago," Serenity slow being can to speak of her past.
Hermione and the boys were the first to here Serenity, sad story. Serenity didn't feel her friends for Bay View should have ever know, but she feeled that Harry and his friends, should know tell truth about Serenity's past.
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The midnight forest bristled with witches and wizards. a dozen or so ran through the moonli grove, holding torches, searching following their, the powerful warlock Titan Cronus.
Another witch, young, vain, and beautiful, hid in the shadow of an ancient tree. Her name was Pure. In her arms two babies slept, pressed against her blue silk robe.
Her partner, the girls's father an aged whitelighter (who was now an elder) Leo, dressed all in black, from his velvet trousers and fitted waistcoat to his velvet slippers, seemed to have disappeared.
"Leo," Pure whispered, her breath visible in the icy night. "Coward. Why did you leave us?"
"Quiet," a voice commanded. It seemed to have come from the tree itself.
"I should have known," Pure hissed, kicking the tree trunk. "Leo, you old trickster, this is no time to show off."
"Shut up," the tree urged, adding politely, "oh, great witch."
Pure was tempted to kick the trunk again, to whisper something rude at its scaly bark. But one of the babies began to wriggle in her arms.
The infant girl was very alert. Clearly, she sensed what Leo had heard. Now Pure could hear it, too. The heavy, hobnailed boots of the warlock Titan Cronus crunching through the snow. The mighty darklighter was leading his searhers toward them.
Quickly, Pure dipped a finger in the herb pouch she wore around her waist, then brushed the honey-and-thyme potion aross the stirring child's lips.
Which baby was it, Cosmos-Apolla or Serenity-Artemis? They looked so alike, it was impossible to tell. Already their colorless birth eyes were turning blue, the same startling blue as her own, Pure noted.
As Titan Cronus's footsteps drew nearer, Pure saw the glint of one of the gold charms that helped tell the infants apart. It was the delicate half-moon necklace that belongee to Artemis.
Pure should have known. Artemis was always alert aware, attentive. Her twin sister, apolla, whose necklace carried a different but macting charm, was the calmer of the two.
Of course, Titan Cronus wanted these babies. Already their sensititvity was obvoius. Their hearing was become honed. Their recognition of danger sharp.
But the mighty darklighter and his torch-bearing mob ran right past them. Their footstep grew fainter as they moved out of the forest.
Titan Cronus had not found them. Still, Pure pressed the infant girl to her, willing them not to cry out, not to make a sound.
Time-passed - minutes, hours. Pure waited, listened to the whirling wind, the hotting of a lone owl. Finally, she stepped out of the shadows into the cold moonlight.
"Leo," she grumbled. "You can materialize now. We're all very impressed with you cleverness."
"Yes, great witch," he said.
Great witch? She is a child herself, Leo thought, picking splinters of ice froms his nappy whitle hair. Ah, well. The young deserve respect, need it to grow strong. Brushing snow from his velvet coat, which only a moment ago had been twisted tree bark, Leo smiled.
Leo was very old, an aged elder-whitelighter, so practiced at his craft that he - like the forceful Titan Cronus - had attained the rank of whitelighter.
He'd had decades to perfect his skills and senses.
While Pure, for all her pouting vanity and temper, was but a guardian. She wasn't a bad witch, just young, willful, and terribly impatient.
Like all whitelighter, Leo was talented shape-shifter. It was not bragging to say he could turn himself intojust about anything: a tree, a rock, flowing water, leaping fir, spiraling smoke, and animals and humans of every age and appearance.
Wheareas Pure had only been appointed the infants' guardian to humle her, to teach her to be reliable, responsible, trustworthy. To think of something besides her own young and beauty.
"Take the babies, Leo. Run fast and far. Find them protectores. Hide them," she commanded, throwing back the hood of her silk robe. "And don't call me witch." Pure's blue eyes narrowed menacingly. "It sounds so common. I prefer goddess, or lady."
Now fully himself again, with only stary scraps of bark freckling his velvet waistcoat, Leo stood before Pure, as tall, thin, and agile as a willow branch. His wild white hair silver in the moonlight, he bowed slightly. "A thousand pardons, Lady Pure."
"Make it goddes," Pure decided, staring brazenly at his pale bony face, which childern often found frightenting, but not the baby girls. "These babies must never know the truth of their power. Sparate them, Leo. Fling them far apart so that Titan Cronus may never find them."
"Goddess, Lord Titan Cronus -" Leo spoke of the one who'd come closest tto finding them.
"Lord of worms and beetles -" Pure hissed.
"And wild ambition."
"That miserable darklighter -"
"Excuse me?" Leo straightened abruptly. "You're forgetting that I'm a whitelighter."
Pure sighed impatiently. "How could I forget that? You don't stand still for a seconed. You're always showing off, shape-shifting and playing the brilliant trickster. But Titan Cronus is a rebel, a renegade who calls up his magick for harm. I won't let him use these precious babies to feed his own ambition."
"He is their uncle," Leo pointed out.
"And you're they father, and he also killed you!" Pure shot back. "Here, help me remove their amulets." She gave Leo the serence infant Artemis, who was wearing the blue haf-moon charm.
"Think, great witch -"
"Elder-Whitelighter, Leo." Unlatching the golden half-sun necklace from Apolla's tender throat, Pure sighed.
"But the babies... without their amulets, how will they know that each is one-half of the other?"
"They must not know." Pure handed Leo the half-sun necklace. The pale whitelighter accepted it, slipping the delicate charm into his vist pocket. When the time came, restless, young Apolla would wear it agian.
But when Pure wasn't looking he only pretened to remove her peaceful twin Artemis's half-moon charm. Artemis soon awake for her sleep, Pure telling Artemis was trying to calm Artemis. "They must never know," she declared, rocking the wriggling child.
"Think... goddess," Leo tried again. "Speparately, they may one day be talented, accomplished, even remarkable practitioners of the craft, but only together can they attain their full powers."
"Exactly," Pure said. "So long as they appear merely gifted, they'll be safe. But if they display their wisdom and strenght, Titan Cronus will track them down and try to use their power for evil."
"They'd never allow it," Leo reasoned.
Give Artemis back to leo and get but Apolla back. Pure whirled suddenly, her mindnight blue cape flaring. "Then he'd kill them," she said.
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As Serenity finish her story. Harry look over at the clock it was 11:30 p.m. and they had to get to bed because they, had school the next day. As Harry and Ron leave they toll the girls goodnight, same for the girls. As the girls got up and into bed, Hermione was still ask Serenity question about her past. Serenity answers them all.
"Serenity what ever happan to you and your sister?" Hermione ask Serenity.
Serenity always for got about her twin sister. "Apolla,"
"Yes, What ever happan to her."
"Apolla, never make it got alway. Both Pure and Apolla die... Leo, find is out toke my to the best place wear he knew I would grow up."
"Where is that?" Hermione asked.
"To the one place where I was some post to be born. He send me to live with me real mother... Piper." Serenity said put her head on her pollow.
"So then that how you got the mark on you neck."
"Yes, but my father Leo never spoke of my sister to Piper. My mother give me a new name Pan Wanda Hallwell-Wyatt. My father also never toke my mother about my name Serenity-Artemis. That was just a name that my aunt Pure, call me, to separtate me for my sister."
"Serenity,"Hermione said.
"Mum... yes Hermione."
"What ever happen to your necklace? The one with the half-moon charm.
"I've still got it," Serenity said. Get out of bed, walk of to her jewel box.
Open the box and pull out the neclace with the blue half-moon. Then walk back to bed and show it to Hermione.
Hermione shock that Serenity actly had the necklace. It so pretty, Hermione thought to herself.
"Somethimes I hear is voice speak to me, for far away. I like to think it me sister call out to me." Serenity put on the blue half-moon necklace on, and before her come say good night to Hermione, Hermione was already sleeping peaceful.
As Serenity try to go to sleep, she hear the little voice inside her head again. Is time the voice was not try to scary her but to sing her a sleep.
"Gotta find your inner strength
If you can't then just thrown life away
Gotta learn to rely on you
Beauty, strength, and wisdom, too
You're beautiful inside and out
Lead a life without a doubt
Don't need a man to make things fair
Listen girl, gotta know it's true
In the end all you've got is you"
Serenity listen to the voice in her head and wouder if that real us her sister call to her. From her world. But the voice was not in a whisper like all the other times, this time the voice was close by like Apolla as stand or sleep ready next to Serenity. Serenity so fall to sleep after the voice of Apolla's die down, Serenity was fast a sleep dream of being with her sister again.
The secret lives of Cosmos-Apolla and Serenity-Artemis, will always just be a secret to the Chamred One know as Pan Hallwell.
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