DISCLAIMER: See first chapter

A/N: Finally I've decided to update. Sorry about being slow. This usually happens around this time of year. I kinda get lazy with everything but I'm back in the writers seat and ready to go. So be prepared for some regular updates in the coming months. Yah.


Chapter 6: Arani's Tale

Nathan sat and watched Jess and Carlie roughhousing on the bench beside him. They were waiting at the bus station for Lyndsay who said she had some important news to share with them.

"Would you two please get a room?" Nathan groaned.

Carlie let go of Jess and gave him a dirty look. "You're just jealous because it's him I'm messing around with."

Nathan snorted and shook his head. "I actually want to mess around with Jess,"

"Oh gross," Carlie hit him in the shoulder.

"Well Nathan I have been hesitant to say it but……….I love you!" Jess cried.

"Oh god!" Carlie moaned and slapped her hand to her forehead.

"I've just been too afraid to show my feelings!" Jess was grinning wildly.

"Me too. Let's get married!" Nathan giggled.

"Postpone the wedding for now cause Lyndsay's bus is here," Carlie stood up.

"Alright Jess, we'll wait until later." Nathan winked.

Lyndsay climbed off the bus and waved frantically at them. "Hey guys!" She hugged Carlie. "What's happening?"

"Nathan and Jess are getting married." Carlie said.

Lyndsay laughed and threw her arms around Nathan. "I'm glad you found someone."

"So what's this big news you have to tell us?"

Lyndsay pulled something from around her neck. "This is a necklace which I pulled out of a dream,"

"And?" Carlie asked impatiently.

"And I saw the story that goes along with it." Lyndsay said.

"What's the story?" Nathan asked.

Lyndsay smiled. "Let's go somewhere private before we get into that."

"My place anyone?" Carlie suggested.


"Okay, everyone on the floor in a circle and join hands." Lyndsay instructed. They were in Carlie's lounge room and Lyndsay was in command.

Following orders, Carlie, Jess and Nathan sat in a circle with a spot left for Lyndsay. She sat down and placed the necklace in the middle of the circle. Then joining hands with Nathan and Carlie, she began to whisper.

"Take us back to the past through this necklace and make it fast,"

Carlie, Nathan and Jess smirked at the words that Lyndsay obviously composed herself.

Suddenly everything began to blur and the four Sorceresses braced themselves to watch the past.


It looked like a tepee with a fire set in the middle. There were two people standing either side of it. One was around six and had long black hair. Her eyes were chocolate and she wore a long blue silk dress. The other was an old man with white hair and green eyes.

The old man held up the necklace to the six year old and cried: "Arani, child of Pathan and Keeper of the light, take this necklace as a sign of your vow to protect the light above all your desires." He placed the necklace over Arani's neck.

"Take on the responsibilities child as you go along with you life,"

Arani smiled and bowed to him. "I will," She said softly.

The scene faded away and was replaced by another. This time it was in a cave and there laid a teenage Arani next to a man who looked around twenty. He was pale with long golden hair and a muscly build. Both wore nothing and looked sweaty. No guessing what they'd just done.

"I've got to hide the light, without it, no one will ever find me." Said Arani.

"I know just the place. Give it to me and I'll make sure they never find you." The man smiled.

Arani passed him the necklace and the scene faded away once more.


"Is that it?" Carlie asked.

"I think so." Lyndsay answered.

"So the necklace is the light?" Nathan said.

"It was," Jess said slowly. "But I don't think it is anymore."

"Great. So all we know is that Arani eloped with this guy and he hid the light." Nathan said.

"All we have to do is look up Arani in the book of shadows and we'll find out what happened to her." Lyndsay replied.

"Already tried it. I've been dreaming of a woman called Arani and I looked her up. Not one book in Marcus' library mentions Arani." Nathan replied.

"We could google her," Carlie suggested.

"I doubt there is anything on the internet about her." Nathan said.

"Let's give it a try, you never know what we might find." Jess suggested.


Carlie sat at the computer while the other three lazed around. She'd been looking for an hour on google for Arani, the light. So far nothing had come up.

"I keep getting this French website with Arani in it." Said Carlie.

"Well look at it. It might be about the light." Nathan snapped.

"Dude, I can't read French." Carlie retorted.

Nathan went to the computer and looked over the site. "No good. It's just a family tree."

"We should ask Marcus. Maybe he knows." Lyndsay said.

"Well summon his ass over here!" Carlie exclaimed.

Lyndsay closed her eyes and the room soon filled with blue particles from someone orbing.

"How may I service you Sorceresses?" Marcus asked.

"That sounds dirty." Carlie said.

"Ignore her. Do you know anything about someone called Arani?" Lyndsay asked.

Marcus shook his head. "No I don't. But I'll try and get some for you." Then he disappeared again.

"That was a great help," Jess rolled his eyes.

"He said he'd try and get us some," Lyndsay snapped back.

"It's obvious nothing is going to happen today so everyone can just go home." Carlie said.

"Subtle way of getting rid of us," Nathan laughed.

"Yeah yeah." Carlie waved her hand at him.

"Look this is going to take a while. Usually things fall into our laps." Jess said. "Lyndsay will have a vision or the book will tell us something but this time we have nothing but a necklace and a name."

"Jess is right. We only have little bits and pieces of the story. We don't even know what the light is." Lyndsay said.

"There is a good question." Nathan said.

"What?" Lyndsay said.

"If the necklace was the light then how come it's not now?"

"I don't know Nathan, I just dreamed of it and got it." Lyndsay replied.

"Where did you dream of it?" Carlie asked suddenly.

"A well on a hill. Arani pushed me down the well and I grabbed the necklace." Lyndsay said.

"Why was Arani at a well?" Jess asked.

"We need to know more about her. Has anyone else dreamed of her?" Lyndsay asked.

"I kept hearing things about her. She ran of with a mortal man." Nathan said.

"That's all we know. That she ran away with this guy." Jess sighed.

"She's Asian right? Maybe she ran away to Japan." Carlie said.

"You know there are more countries than Japan that make up Asia." Nathan remarked.

"I know but she'd want to fit in right? So that if anyone came looking for her that she'd blend in with the others."

"I'm sick of this," Jess said. "Let's do something fun and forget about this."

"It's summer guys, let's go and do what normal kids do in the summer." Carlie grinned.

"Like going to the pool?" Nathan asked.

"That'll do." Lyndsay said.

"Everyone has five minutes to orb home and grab some stuff and orb to the pool." Carlie commanded.

"You got it Carls." Jess saluted her and disappeared in a flash of blue.

"See ya soon." Nathan followed.

Lyndsay shrugged. "I might be a bit longer. My parents haven't seen me."

Carlie nodded. "No prob. Catch ya later."

Lyndsay smiled and orbed away leaving Carlie to get her things ready.


"You know what I just remembered," Said Lyndsay as she treat water in the public pool.

"What?" Jess asked.

"We did this a year ago and met a certain demon in disguise," Lyndsay said.

"Oh yes. Her." Said Carlie with distain.

"Why did you have to bring that up?" Nathan asked.

"Because those three people are checking us out," Lyndsay nodded to three very inapt teens sitting on a picnic rug underneath a large tree.

There were two girls and one boy. The boy had shoulder length black hair with black eyes. His face was handsome and despite the heat and being at a pool, he wore black jeans and a leather jacket.

The girl next to him was deathly pale with black hair. Her eyes were a watery yellow and she looked unhappy to be there. She didn't wear clothes appropriate for the pool either – boots, jeans and a shirt that looked like a corset.

The final girl was a pretty Asian girl and the only one that didn't look so out of place. She wore a flower print dress with thongs. Her hair was a light brown colour and hung loosely around her shoulders.

And all three of them were looking intently at the sorceresses.

"Do we want to bail?" Nathan asked.

"Yeah but not obviously otherwise they might chase us." Carlie said.

"We need a distraction so that we can escape." Jess said.

"I know," Carlie said. "Me and Lyndsay can go over to our stuff and sit around while you two continue to swim. I'll set the tree on fire and everyone will be so distracted that we can orb home easily."

"I love it." Lyndsay said.

"Me too." Nathan agreed.

"Okay. Act natural everyone." Carlie winked.

Lyndsay and Carlie climbed out of the pool and went to sit over on their towels. Carlie didn't even need to see the tree. She just thought of it and soon she heard screaming.

Opening one eye lazily she saw the tree in flames with the group of three rushing away with their backs to Lyndsay and Carlie.

"Now's our chance." Carlie said.

They both grabbed the bags and orbed away to Carlie's living room.

"That was easy." Said Carlie as she wiped her wet legs on the towel.

"Oh yeah." Lyndsay said and they high fived each other.

A few seconds later Nathan and Jess appeared soaking wet.

"Quick, drive yourself before my mum sees you." Carlie threw her towel at Jess.

"Well that was easy." Nathan remarked.

"Great minds think alike." Carlie laughed.

"Who do you think they were?" Jess asked, giving the towel to Nathan.

"I don't know but who cares. They can't find us now." Carlie replied.

"We better get dressed and clean up this mess." Lyndsay said, pointing to the puddle of pool water they'd created.

"Okay. There are towels in the hall cupboard if you need them. You can get dressed in the bathroom, the spare room and mum's room." Said Carlie, heading towards her room.

"I'll use the bathroom," Said Lyndsay walking for the bathroom.

"Spare room." Said Nathan.

"Guess I'm in Miranda's room." Jess laughed.

But something stopped the four sorceresses from getting dressed. And that was an angry voice asking:

"Whose bright idea was it to light the tree on fire?"