Chapter 5: "The Jewel Staff's Story"
Brandy slammed her fist on the table, "I knew he would come back but... why now?"
Jessi tried to comfort her friend, "Brandy-"
"No, Jessi! You don't understand! Your family... Your mother was supposedly dead but turned out to be a fellow scout and your father, well, he... appeared out of thin air. And my family... Well, my family's messed up. My father's evil and my mother..." She couldn't finish the sentence. She started crying on Jessi's shoulder.
"It'll be OK, Brandy. I don't know how, but we'll make it better...somehow." Jessi said, looking at her best friend.
"Meg, why did Nicholas want to destroy his own daughter?" Zac asked Meg.
"Because Brandy has the Jewel Staff." Meg said in a simple tone.
"The Jewel Staff... I've heard of it before. I vaguely remember you mention it before."
Meg nodded, "Yes, long ago, before Jessi was born. The NeoMoon Queen, the ruler of the NeoMoon planet, had created it in the purpose of an emergency. She had given it to me, thinking that when I had a child, it would be destined to have it. To my disappointment, Jessi wasn't the one. Later on, it vanished from our planet, looking for the one it was destined for. It must have found it since it was embedded into Brandy. The Jewel Staff has another power, unknown to Brandy, though. It will reveal itself when needed."
Brandy nodded, "Yes, Meg's right. I was only 2 years old when I first activated it. I was too young to remember so my mother told me of the incident..."
-flashback-
Young Brandy was watching TV when she heard her parents arguing again. She didn't know what they were yelling about but she had a feeling it was a bad thing. After 15 minutes, she had had enough. She ran up the stairs and got in the middle.
That was a mistake.
Her father, Nicholas, slapped Brandy for getting in the way. She started to cry and Nicholas was getting angrier. Before he could abuse them any longer, Brandy exploded. Nobody knew how or why it happened. It just did.
Before their very eyes, a golden staff with a green jewel on the top appeared in the young girl's hand. The staff sent a beam of light at the man. He disappeared from the room. No one knew where he went. Rachel ran to her daughter and asked if she was alright. No one saw the Jewel Staff disappear...
-end of flashback-
"...My mom said the Jewel Staff went back inside me. She didn't know why it activated. She also said my father was always evil and had hit her a couple of times before I existed. I just contained that evil. Then I banished him, and that was the last time I remember seeing him... until now."
Meg nodded, "Yes. It was your want to protect you and your mother that made the Jewel Staff activate."
Sapphire padded beside Brandy just in case she needed her. Ruby and Amber went to their own respective owners. They all left Brandy and Sapphire alone to give them time to think about all the things that have happened.
Amber looked at the woman with eager eyes but waited until they were out of Brandy's hearing range.
"Meg?"
Meg looked at Amber, "Yes?"
"Tell me... If Brandy has the Jewel Staff and it was created on your planet...Wouldn't that mean...?"
Meg nodded, "Precisely. We just need to wait for the right time to present itself and then she will appear."
A scream interrupted Amber's thoughts.
Jessi ran outside to see what kind of Mutant was attacking. That was what she was expecting to see.
But what she saw was much worse. Nicholas was taking Brandy.
"He's kidnapping his own daughter!"