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Song of Heroes

Chapter 3

Tales of Past Pains

Warren shoved the man aside, making a note to burn him later, and ran up the stairs to Kelly.

"I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to see you again," Warren said as he took her hand in his.

No one at Sky High would believe that it was Warren Peace who said the words that he had just whispered to Kelly. Many people knew Warren as a loner, but no one knew why. He had never told any of them how he went to sleep one night, listening to a lullaby, with his best friend beside him. And he had never had told anyone how when he woke up the next morning she was gone.

Carefully checking Kelly over Warren noticed there were many scars on Kelly's wrists. Many of them looked fresh.

"What happened Kelly?" Warren whispered, looking up into Kelly's hazel eyes.

Cassidy immediately sensed the panic coming off of both Warren and Kelly. "Bonnie and Clyde, come down stairs and we'll talk over hot chocolate."

"Did someone hurt you?" Warren asked. He saw the answer in Kelly's eyes. "Tell me who and I'll hunt him down."

Kelly shook her head and the charms in her hair whacked her face, dangerously close to her eyes. "I don't know who…"

"Room for mistakes," Warren said with a sinister grin. "We'll start with the Commander."

Despite herself, Kelly laughed. She threw her arms around Warren's neck. Burring her face in his shoulder, Kelly continued to shake from laugher. After a while, Warren realized that she was still shaking, however, it was no longer from laugher, but now it was from crying.

Surprisingly, Warren found himself crying too.

When their tears finally stopped, they pulled apart and took a good look at one another. Both faces were tear streaked and both sets of eyes were red and puffy. Warren and Kelly began to laugh again.

"Come on down," Cassidy called again. "We'll make some hot chocolate."

"At our house, the house that has been inhabited and cared for, for the past ten years," Wini suggested.

The group agreed.

A few minutes later, the Heart sisters, the Peace siblings, and the two mysterious men were in the Peace's kitchen with mugs of hot chocolate.

"Jim Royale," the older of the two men said. His hair was a blackish blue color that hung past his shoulders and there seemed something empty about his dark eyes. "You've been staring at me like I am poison."

Wini's jaw dropped. "I am so sorry. I did not realize I was making you feel uncomfortable."

"That's kind of hard to do, Wini. His sister lives to make him feel awkward and uncomfortable," Cassidy said with a small smile.

"Still, I'm sorry," Wini said. Then a realization seemed to come over her. "Kerri, I haven't really heard you speak. Is everything okay?"

Kerri seemed to be jerked out her daze. "Yeah, yeah I'm all right. Just tired, that's all."

The man who could shape shift gently stroked Kerri's tri colored locks.

"I caught your name, its Rick," Warren said.

"Yep, Rickard Riley, at your service," the man said. He had short dark brown hair, gold eyes, and a goofy smile. He reminded Warren of a Labrador.

"His expertise are stalking, making people laugh, and being an all around ding-dong," Kerri said.

"But you love me," Rick said, making big puppy eyes. He leaned towards Kerri and stole a kiss from her.

Warren was not happy about seeing someone kiss Kerri. He had had a similar feeling when Wini had brought home her first boyfriend. Needless to say, the relationship did not last long at all.

"Don't bother trying to break the two of them up," Kelly said, noting Warren's look of anger. "There's no way those two will part. My father already gave his approval for them to marry before he and mom…"

"Before your dad and mom…?" Wini asked.

None of the girls answered.

Jim took in a deep breath. "Mr. and Mrs. Heart, along with a few other friends, went missing last year."

"She didn't ask you!" Warren yelled.

"Well if you two just saw them, you can see that the girls are hurting," Rick countered back.

The once still air was starting to whip around the room and Rick's hands were starting to transform.

"STOP IT!" Cassidy yelled over all the noise. "Wini power down. Rick, control yourself."

Wini took a couple of deep breathes, and the air stilled. Rick snorted, but his hands stopped morphing. Warren noticed that they weren't like his hands before Rick and Wini started to lose control.

"I won't have my friends fighting one another," Cassidy whispered. "I've seen enough fighting."

"Should have thought about that before you brought the pretty boys," Warren said as he pushed his chair back and stormed out of the kitchen. The group heard the back door slam shut.

Kelly followed him without a word.

"I am so sorry," Wini said. "It's…just that…we never expected you guys to be gone for so long. And when you did come back, I expected us not to miss a beat in our friendship."

"Understandable," Jim said. It was then, for the first time, that Wini noticed that Jim had a slight accent. So did Rick now that she thought about it.

"You learned about flesh weapons in Sky High, right?" Cassidy questioned.

"Yeah," Wini answered, "weapons that come from the flesh of a person. It's been awhile since the powers went instinct."

"Not instinct, the circumstances have never arisen for them to reappear," Rick explained.

Kerri nodded in agreement. "It takes some great emotion to unlock the powers. Kelly's were unlocked the night before we left. A boy had come home with Cassidy from Sky High to work on a school project, and he teased Kelly mercilessly."

"She nearly killed him when a dagger came out of her wrist," Cassidy whispered into her hands. "It took someone to emotionally and spiritually break down my sister before her powers surfaced. The harder the wall is to break…"

"The stronger the powers," Jim finished for Cassidy.

"We went looking for something that would take away her powers. We hoped to replace them, and even if we couldn't we'd be fine with that," Kerri said in a small voice.

"How in the world did you plan to do that?" Wini demanded.

"Warren, please wait up," Kelly called as she ran up behind Warren. He did not do anything to slow his pace. "You're being an idiot."

"Looks like we're in the same club," Warren snapped.

Kelly stopped. "This wasn't my chose. I didn't want to be like the warriors in Cassidy's lullaby."

That did stop Warren. He too remembered the unended lullaby.

"A journey does not always mean

From here to there

Sometimes it means an inner change

One I'd willingly make for you

But lying to you

Would be no different than lying to me

So now I search for a way to change

Without changing me at all

Still I whisper the words

As endless as time it self

Sweet Dreams; Good Night"

Warren turned to Kelly as she finished a part of the lullaby. She did not have the capability to lull anyone to sleep, that Cassidy did have, but Kelly's voice was still beautiful and captivating.

Without warning, the two teenagers were attacked. Both whipped their heads around and stared at their attackers.

One was a tall blond woman with piercing blue eyes. She had large, bat like wings coming out of her back. The other was a tall pale man that was playing with some electricity between his hands.

The bat winged woman launched herself at Kelly. In response, Kelly produced a short sword from her bare arm.

Warren only had a moment to gasp in surprise before he was attacked by the lightning man.

"Warren," Will Stronghold called as he punched out the lightning man, who was suffering from several third degree burns.

Layla rose up some vines from the ground and stopped the bat winged lady from attacking Kelly anymore.

The roar of a motorcycle could be heard. The bat wing lady hissed and took to the air. The electricity man ran as fast as he could. The motorcycle stopped in front of the kids. Kerri got off.

"Is everyone okay?" she asked franticly.

"Yeah," Kelly said as she picked up here sword. It slowly melted back into her arm and she rubbed the scar tenderly. "I thought we would have lost those two."

"Angelica and Mathew are extremely stubborn," Rick said from the motorcycle, both he and Kerri had neglected helmets. Warren was surprised to see that Rick had lost the dog look to him. "I'm going to quickly make sure no one else is around."

The motorcycle roared to life and Rick was gone. Kerri stared after him for awhile.

"Kerri, it would be nice to have some help," Kelly pleaded. Layla, Will, and Warren were both examining the scar that the sword had come out of.

Kerri shrugged and headed towards her home. "Let's go Kelly. Warren, it might be a good idea for you to go home too."

Pulling her arm back, Kelly ran to catch up with her sister.

Warren turned to his friends. "Thanks for your help."

Layla and Will called their good-byes and went into Will's house.

"How cool is that power?" Will said with a sighed. He flopped down onto his couch.

Layla sat next to him. "Who do you think those people? How does she know Warren? And is she going to go to school with us?"

"Who knows, but she's cool."

"Who's cool?" Mrs. Stronghold asked as she came from the sanctum.

"This girl with this really cool power," Layla said. "I think her sister called her Kelly."

"Let me guess, this sister is named Cassidy or Kerri?"

"Kerri," Will answered his mom.

"Steve," Mrs. Stronghold called. "Steve get over here now!"

"What's wrong Josie?" Steve cried as he stormed through a wall.

"The Hearts are back!"

"Really?" Steve cried. "When did you see them?"

"Will met Kelly and Kerri," Josie said.

Will decided to butt in. "Yeah, and Kelly has this really cool weapons that she can produce by just taking it out of her arm. She has a lot of scars, but I think that might be from the weapons."

"She produces Flesh Weapons?" Steve and Josie said in unison.

Kerri and Kelly made it home at the same time as Rick. When Kerri gave him a questioning look, he shook his head.

Jim and Cassidy were waiting for the trio.

"We didn't leave him in Poland," Jim said as he held up a large stuffed elephant.

"Bob," Kelly whispered sadly. She took her security blanket from Jim before trudging up the stair to her room. She fell onto her bed and fell fast asleep.

Next Time:

"It's probably the neighbors asking us to turn down the music," Cassidy said with a laugh. She turned the stereo down; earning herself glares from Kerri, Kelly, Jim, and Rick.

Cassidy opened the door and gasped. Kerri and Kelly came up on either side of their sister and scowled.

Principle Powers and the older two Strongholds frowned down on the sisters. This was not how they imagined the three.

The three adults looked the three sisters over.

"May we come in?" Principle Powers asked sweetly.