Chapter Eleven

Hidden in the shadowy Forbidden Forest, five Mages were quietly conversing when several centaurs suddenly trotted forward. "Mages."

Five smiles graced the magical beings as each tipped their heads in respect and acknowledgement, stunning the centaurs with the emotions. For as long as centaurs could remember, no one really thought much of them except to be star crazy gazers who made no sense and were simple creatures of the magical world. It was quite nice to see someone thought of them as something more, "Hello, our dear friends. What can we expect from the skies?"

Each centaur graciously looked upwards, watching the planets dim beneath the clear black sky. Even during the day they could see the night and it didn't look very good at the moment. "Night has darkened the sight, clouded the vision."

Each Mage knew that centaurs were quite the seers, knowing the stars better than even those with true visions. "Not good."

Isis blinked at the statement as she just entered the small clearing, "What's not good?"

Lucas turned to quietly update the last arriving Mage, "Those of the seer's lines have been blocked. Not even the centaurs can read the stars for the past, present, and possible future."

Maya floated closer to the two, "There's more." Her soft voice caught the attention of the others, "I've been feeling someone's life thread being duplicated. At least two people and one is close to danger."

"Do you know who?"

The immortal spirit gravely shook her head, "I haven't figured it out but I think I have an idea. One of our students does have a strange flexing of life. It's doubled yet it's almost like three people. With two in danger."

"Have you followed it yet?"

Maya smiled, "I'm a spirit. I cannot die but I also cannot truly protect someone if they decide to attack us both."

Even though Maya had her friends' attention during her speech, one Mage's attention had been split between conversing with the centaurs about their clouded sight, who believed the darkness was the cause of a balance tilting too far in one direction and needed to be cured before Fate could brighten the skies, as well as trying to listen to his friends. "Isis? When did you arrive?"

The demon smiled at the slightly surprised wizard turned Mage, "Just arrived. Why was I called, not that Remus and Sirius were glad to have their classroom to busy their minds and hands before dinner?"

Osiris lifted a brow at the redheaded twin, Maya, "You have the floor again, Maya." He had been wondering himself why they were all here in the Forest. He had felt the mental calling just after finishing his long overdue conversation with his godfathers.

Said Mage flushed, she had already explained to some extent and had to do it again. "As I already tried to explain, I keep feeling duplicate life threads in danger. One such life seems to have three people but two of them are slightly identical."

"Identical?"

Maya tried to think of a way to describe the feeling, "It's the same person but one thread says the original has been copied, alter if you must think. The last person with the thread involved seems to be in control of the first two."

"Uh, that's slightly confusing and I actually understood that."

"Surprised, Osiris?" The Mages all laughed at the pouting male before Maya began to question them.

"What do we do now?"

"Watch this person. Find who they are. I must ask us all to remain. Watch for everyone. We must see who they are."

All agreeing on the subject, each Mage split into separate paths. On order from their leader, each readied themselves for another enemy to destroy and quite possibly another battle.