So Much For The After Glow
Daughters of the moon
Created by: Shibobwa shingami

Chapter Five: Reminisce

Sorry this one is so short! Also! Sorry for this one taking SOO long to finish! I've just been so busy writing original stories that I've ignored this one and I'm sorry to the fans reding this. Thank you for being patient. I hope you enjoy this one and sorry again for it being so short! If you want to read some of my other stories, originals, I'm failingsway at http/ see you all soon! – Shibobwa Shingami

"Stanton," Serena whispered looking into her room. Dark shadows danced on her walls. She couldn't let him know abut her being pregnant, because then the Atrox would find out and try to take it from him. But how could she hide her big stomach? It wasn't possible. Was it? Serena looked around the room. It didn't seem like anyone was in her room, but then Stanton appeared. He turned the clock around and looked at Serena. "Hey,"

"Stanton," Serena embraced her lover and kissed him gently on the lips. She looked at him closely. "What's wrong?"

"I have to go away for awhile." He muttered quietly. "I don't know for how long…"

Serena was taken back. "What? Why? How come? What are you going to do?"

Stanton laughed. "I'm not going to do what you think I'm going to do… I don't know what I am going to do… The Atrox wants me to go to the past and then go to the future. I'm looking for something, or someone for the Atrox, they just won't tell me what or who." He explained running a finger along Serena's cheek. "I'll miss you."

"I'll miss you too," Serena whispered snuggling into his chest. Just went she felt secure and safe, he shimmered into nothing. Serena stood there by herself sighing. Was this part of fate? Him not knowing about their child?

Morning rose like every other day in the city of L.A. The bright sun warmed the streets and sidewalks. Serena yawned and opened her eyes to the bright light.

"Mommy, mommy!" the little two year old ran into Serena's room jumping onto Serena's bed.

"What is it, Luna?" Serena asked sitting up.

"Aunt Jem is here!" She grinned. She ran back to the kitchen. "Can I have some waffles?"

"Sure kiddo," Jimena laughed and started to make some waffles. She turned around to ask Luna if she wanted any syrup, and her mouth dropped. "Madre Santa de Maria," (Holy mother of Mary.)

Luna was looking at herself in shear shock. Her hands were disappearing and she was breathing heavy. "What's happening to me?"

Jimena blinked. "Uh… Serena!" Jimena walked over to Luna and looked at her. "Calm down Luna. Breathe, all right? Breathe. In and out,"

"What's," Luna breathed in and out. "Going on?"

"You're turning invisible. What happened?"

"I saw a picture of mommy dying. Like a movie, but it was in my head!"

"What the heck is going on?" Jimena asked her self, thinking. "Your mommy is not going to die. Bien?" (All right)

Luna nodded and swallowed, closing her eyes. Serena appeared and covered her mouth. "What?" She wrapped her arms around her daughter and rocked her. "It's alright honey,"

"I saw you dying mommy, I don't want you to die…" Luna started to cry into her mother's shoulder.

Serena looked up at her best friend in fear. She understood that whenever Jimena had a premonition, it always, always, came true. But how could this be? How could Luna have premonition and invisibility? Could she also move things with her mind and travel in time? How could this be?

Luna was sleeping in her room and all the daughters were sitting in Serena's kitchen. Collin was out surfing and so it was only the girls. Catty was feeding Wally and looked up. "This is majorly weird," She explained seriously. "How? How could she have all of the gifts?"

Tianna shrugged. "Could it be because her dad's Stanton and her mom's you?"

Serena shrugged. "I don't know…"

"This is loco." Crazy. Jimena shook her head and breathed. "I wish Maggie was back from vacae, she could explain this all,"

Vanessa nodded. "I know… Well if the Atrox finds out, then it won't be good."

The girls nodded. "We all have to watch her at all times." Tianna pointed out the obvious.

"How did we survive when we were little?" Catty asked trying to remember when she was really little. The daughters all thought about the past and all shrugged. "I don't remember." Vanessa sighed.

"Yeah, me neither." Serena frowned. "Should I read Luna's mind to see what she saw?" She suddenly asked biting her bottom lip.

Jimena nodded. "Maybe…"

All the girls were frightened. Serena couldn't die. Serena tentatively narrowed her eyes and poked into her daughter's mind. What she saw was shocking. She pulled out of her daughter's mind gasping for air and falling backwards into darkness.

"Serena!" Everyone called out as Jimena caught her before she fell to the ground.

"Oh my god! She's having a seizure! What do we do?" Vanessa asked biting her bottom lip.

Neither Luna nor Serena woke up until the next morning. Serena had woken up first. She stared at her friends with look of disbelief.

"What happened?" Catty asked holding Serena's hand.

Serena looked out the window for a moment in silence. When she turned back, she was crying.

"What's wrong?" Tianna swallowed. Did she want to know?

Serena breathed, trying to find a way to explain what she saw in Luna's mind, but she didn't know how. Luna's mind was so twisted and confusing, she didn't know where to begin. She had never been in a mind so complicated and panic-stricken. It was frightening just trying to find the memory of the nightmare and when she had found it, she had felt like she lived through it. She could feel the pain in her heart, the pain she never wanted to feel but couldn't understand. She saw herself die, but she couldn't believe how she did. She couldn't tell her friends. It would worry them too much, break them apart and distrust each other.

"I never got to the dream." Serena lied and sighed. "Her mind is so complex. It was one of the only minds I couldn't penetrate."

"Must be cause she has all our powers." Jimena decided as she folded her arms over her chest. "Do you think that dream might have been a premonition?"

Serena shrugged. "Maybe. I'm not sure. I'll try talking to her later about it."

The daughters all nodded and moments later, Luna woke up with no recollection of the nightmare that she had witnessed. That, or she was trying to forget or lying all together. The daughters suggested Serena try reading her mind, but Vanessa decide that it wasn't a good idea after what happened last time and for once, Serena nodded in agreement.

Later that night, Luna woke up and without even thinking about it, she fluffed her pillow and turned on the light. A moment later, a glass of water was in front of her, waving in the air. Luna took the glass and took a long drink of it, sat it on her desk and then turned off the light and fell back to sleep. A moment later, she was screaming and the lights started to flicker on and off.

Serena ran to her daughter's room expecting to see a follower but blinked when she saw what was going on. Tianna's power. Things were flying all over the place.

"Luna! Calm down!" Serena shouted.

Luna stopped screaming and everything dropped to the ground. Snow globes shattered, and her toys crashed into pieces.

"What's happening to me?" Luna sniffled and Serena decided to tell her two-year-old daughter what was going on, hoping that even though she was only two, she would have an idea that what was going on, happened to her mom and her mom's friends when they were younger.

Years went and Luna learned more about her powers and found it to be exciting in all perspectives. The only thing she didn't like, was her premonitions, all that had to deal with her mom dying. She stopped trying to tell her them because her mom wouldn't listen and so, Luna secretly did everything she could to learn how to prevent a premonition from occurring, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't figure it out. Luna didn't know when the premonition would happen, but she did know by whom and so she watched them attentively. Sometimes Luna felt that her mother knew as well, but only pretended not to for the sanity of herself and her friends.

"Hey, Aunt Jem?" Luna asked one day. She had just turned thirteen and found out that she had the ability to turn into shadows. She had followed the darkness to Jimena's house to ask a question about premonitions. It was late at night and she had just had another one. Jimena jumped and turned to look at Luna appear from the shadows. "Don't do that." Jimena said clutching her chest. "I'm not as alert as I used to be!"

Luna apologized and sat across from the daughter that had premonitions and inhaled. "Have you ever been able to prevent a premonition from happening?"

Jimena didn't say anything for a long moment and then chose to speak. "Is this about your mother?"

Luna decided to lie. "No… It's about this boy at school." She decided and rubbed the back of her neck. "He's going to humiliate my friend at school and I don't want it to happen…"

Jimena nodded. Could she see through Luna's terrible lie?

"No, I could never prevent a premonition from happening, no matter how hard I tried…" Jimena's voice lowered.

"But is it possible?"

Jimena shook her head. "I don't think so."

"But we decide our own fates." Luna insisted desperately.

"Luna, when someone tries to prevent something from happening, they end up making it happen by trying to stop it." Jimena said calmly.

"What do you mean?"
"Have you ever heard f king Arthur?"
Luna nodded. "What about it?"
"Do you know who killed him?" Jimena asked and Luna rolled her eyes, as if this was a kindergarten question. Everyone learned about King Arthur in the sixth grade. They had half a semester about it. Her favorite was always Morgan Lay Faye or possibly Merlin. They had power and people either feared or respected them. Luna also liked Tristen, although there wasn't much information about him except he had a pet bird. She always wanted a pet hawk that would perch on her shoulder. That would be cool.

"His son, Mordred." Luna said at last as if it was the obvious answer.

"In one of the stories, he killed his father because he no longer had a soul." Jimena said and continued. "As a child, someone told him of his destiny and he tried so hard to not make it happened, that he thought if he sold his soul, he wouldn't feel hatred for his father and kill him. But not having a soul led him to killing his own father because he no longer had feelings or love. If he hadn't sold his soul, he would have had the conscience to not kill him."

"Okay…"

"And ever seen Star Wars?" Jimena asked eyeing Luna.

"Yeah. Who hasn't?"

"Anikin had a dream of Pademe' dying and so he went to the dark side to find a way to stop death, and that tore Pademe' up and that is why she died."

"Okay. I get the picture." Luna sighed. She had to go to sci-fi. Luna didn't even know that Jimena watched Sci-Fi.

It was inevitable, but she couldn't give up. She wouldn't. She had to figure out a way to stop it from happening, but not make it end up happening in the end. "Thanks Aunt Jem." Luna said and stood up. She had to go. She had school in the morning." Then she paused. Time travel. But she didn't know when it was going to happen.

"What is it?" Jimena asked looking at Luna.

"Nothing. Just thought I heard something." Luna looked back at Jimena and smiled. "Thanks."

"No problem-o chica. Take care."

Luna smiled and nodded. She folded into the shadows and disappeared and reappeared outside and decided to walk the rest of the way. She needed time to think.

"What do we have here, a girl walking all alone in the middle of the night?" A voice asked and Luna spun around. She stopped walking and looked into the shadows as a form appeared. Did the Atrox know about her? This guy was from the Atrox, obviously, by the way he appeared out of nowhere and he dark clothes. Did he see her fall from the shadows? She was still working on her entrances.

"What do you want?" Luna asked trying to sound macho and unafraid.

The guy walked closer to her and smiled. "Nothing. Just looking." The guy said looking Luna up and down. "What are you doing out here on a moonless night?"

"Walking." Luna shrugged and took a step back. He couldn't be any higher than a follower because he would have read her mind. He probably had just became one not too long ago, that or Luna had a pretty good mind safe. She kept her mind blank, just in case.

"You look bored. Want to go hang out at the club. I could treat you to some fun, you could meet my friends and dance." The guy offered with a smile.

"No thank you." Luna felt a cold air pass her and she shivered. She suddenly didn't want to be here at the moment. "I really ought to go. Nice meeting you!" Luna smiled and turned around and hurried off to her house, checking back into the shadows every once in awhile to make sure she wasn't being followed. Who was that guy?

A moment later, another form appeared out of the shadows. This time, the man looked slightly familiar, like Luna should know him but she couldn't figure it out. He walked up to her and looked down into her eyes. "Sorry. I thought you were someone else." He said looking into Luna's eyes.

Luna took a step backwards. "That's okay."

The man looked around the area and then back at Luna. "It's not safe out here. Shouldn't a thirteen year old such as yourself be at home tucked in bed?"

How'd he know that Luna was thirteen?

"Yeah." Luna nodded and turned around to walk backwards. Two in one night.

Luna got to her house and flicked on the light. A brush of wind rushed out the window and the curtains swayed and Luna looked around. Someone was in her room. But who?

Luna slipped into bed forgetting about it. Maybe it was just the wind?

The next two years, Luna learned more about her powers and how to harvest it. She fought with her mom side by side against the Atrox and it's merciless followers. Then one night, something happened. There was an unexpected eclipse and a mist fell from the heavens.