DayDreamer9: This is getting good :) Wonder what her powers will be?

Atemu: You're just have wait and hey out, though one of her power is bend the water.

Saurka-Moonlight: Great! What power does she hold? Update! Great use of character!

Atmeu: What this is everybody want to know what Mana's powers are. This well be the last chapter 'til I get 5 new review.

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"Wahhhhhh!"

The piercing cry pervaded her dreams and awoke her out of a sound sleep.

"Mommy, Mana's crying," Stella mumbled as hse nudged her mother in the bed next to him.

When there was no response, she wearily opened her eyes. The digital clock read 3:17 A.M.

Digital clock? Something didn't make sense here.

She nudged her again. "Mom, Mana's crying." They had brought the baby home from the hospital earlier that day.

"I fed her last time," Ella mumbled. "It's your turn."

Huh?

"Mom, um, biologically I'm not able to…"

"There's a wonderful invention called a breast pump. I made up several bottles; they're downstairs in the refrigerator. Give her one of those."

She was ready to tell her that she wasn't sure she knew how to feed a baby, but Ella was already snoring again.

"Wahhhh!" The baby's cries were getting louder.

Well, guess I'd better give it a try as long as I'm up, she thought as she slid out of bed.

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"Wahhhhh!"

"Coming. I'm coming," Stella said wearily, bottle in hand, as she slowly trudged up the stairs to the baby's room. When he opened the door to the nursery, Mana stopped crying and regarded her with a "what took you so long" expression. She picked up the baby, sat down with her in the nearby rocking chair, and stuck the bottle in her mouth. She eagerly sucked for two seconds, then her face then contorted in displeasure and she started crying again.

"What's wrong, Mana?" She then realized that in her half-asleep state that she had forgotten to warm up the bottle. It was ice-cold.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Mana," she said as she cuddled the wailing baby against her shoulder and started rocking her. "Mana, Try to ubderstand this is my first time being around a baby." When she noticed that the rocking motion seemed to have a calming effect on her, she started to relax, too.

What was that song that Mommy used to sing to me, she wondered as both she and the baby yawned simultaneously. She couldn't remember all the words, so she decided to make up a lullaby of her own.

"I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

I am the son and the heir
Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say

I go about things the wrong way?
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does…"

Hey, if the Slumber Song worked for Charm, maybe it would work for her, too.

At the sound of her sister's alto voice, Mana relaxed and closed her eyes. After a couple of minutes, Stella looked at her little sister.

Thank you, Charm, she grinned as she gently put the sleeping baby back in her crib.

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