A/N: Ok I said I was going to do a filler chapter, but I've decided to advance the plot some more. So here.
Outside of Teufort...
Two young women were standing from a cliff edge looking at Teufort. The first woman wore a sleeveless white dress shirt and a loose purple tie with black jeans and tall sliver boots. She had black hair that was tied up in a bun and had purple eyes. The second woman instead wore a a gold and red colored sports bra with khaki colored shorts and brown boots. Her hair was also black but was in a bob cut/ponytail style and a fringe covered her eyes.
"What a cute little village!" the latter said.
"Nah, it's a town. It's too big to be a village." the former replied.
"Whatever, it's the same thing."
"It's not."
"And how'd you know?"
"I know, trust me on this."
The second woman rolled her eyes. "Village, town, whatever it's called. It almost looks like our place!"
"True, but it's smaller. And less sand."
"C'mon, let's check up on our lil' sis. It's been a while since we last saw her." she said with a grin.
The day went on as normal for Jackie and Heather, though there was one difference that went noticed.
"Hey Jackie?" Heather whispered.
"What is it?" Jackie whispered back. The two were in the library doing their homework and had to keep quiet.
"Where's Julie?"
Jackie raised an eyebrow. "I thought you hated her guts? Why would you want to know where she is?"
"Cause everyone's talking about it. It's like she disappeared or something."
"Oh really? Fuck her, serves her right." she went back doing her Algebra homework. "One less prissy bitch the world has to deal with."
Heather couldn't tell at the moment, but she had an inkling that Jackie had something to do with Julie's disappearance. As she could sense an aura of hostility emitting from her.
The bell rung, signaling the end of school. The two packed up their stuff and headed towards the throng of students exiting through the double doors.
"We should look for Revi." Heather said. "I want to make up for yesterday. She wanted to hang out with me, but you know..."
"Ah, I see. You know she does remind me of-" Jackie stopped mid-sentence. "You know, just go on by yourself. I gotta do something quick, ok?"
"Uh, ok...her house is on Hollow St! The yellow one!" she said as Jackie hurried off.
"Hollow St! Yellow one, got it!" Jackie said as she disappeared.
(Jackie's POV)
As much as I wanted to go with Heather and her friend, I felt something was...off. I decided to go investigate the matter.
Little did I know that I would run straight into it.
Literally.
I rounded a corner and ran into someone.
"Ooof!"
I run into people way too often these days.
"Sorry about thaaaa-oh my god." my eyes widened as I realized who it was.
"Hi Jackster! Long time no see!"
"Red? W-w-what are you doing here?" I sputtered. "And what the hell are you wearing?"
"What do you mean?" she said as she blinked.
I facepalmed. She was wearing barely any clothes at all.
"You're wearing a sports bra and very short shorts. Do you know how exposed you look?"
"But this what Wren wears!" she pouted.
"She wears long pants, and a jacket to cover that at least." I responded. "Could you at least change into something more appropriate?"
"Fine." she snapped her fingers and the bra turned into a red and gold colored tank top. "But I'm keeping the pants."
"Told you so." I soon spotted someone else who I knew.
"Trinity?"
"Yup, it's me." she said. At least she wore something not as revealing as what Red had, though her shirt could be buttoned up a bit more. "You don't seem happy to see us, why?"
"I'm not. Just surprised to find you two here." she wrapped Trinity in a hug. "Nice to see you two."
"You too sis."
(3rd POV)
The three sisters sat outside a nearby cafe discussing any events that they had missed during their absence.
"Anyways, that's how I killed the number two assassin in the multiverse, again." Trinity said with a huff. "I swear people will do anything to be the best these days."
"You do realize how redundant that sounds right?" Jackie said.
"I know, though it does shake things up a bit. I always like a surprise every now and then."
Red looked over Jackie before saying, "So? You found a special someone yet?"
Jackie looked up before returning her gaze to her frappuccino. "No." she said as she flicked her straw of her drink around. "What makes you think that?"
"Oh, no reason. I just figured that you grabbed a lucky person with a body that you have." Red smiled. "You grew, didn't you?"
Jackie blushed and covered her chest with her arms. "No..."
"Of course you did! The last time I saw you, you where a bit shorter, not as muscular, and not as big che-"
"She gets it Ruth." Trinity said, obviously noticing Jackie's discomfort. "No need to further embarrass our lil sis just because she's maturing, jealous cause she's bigger than you?"
Red paled. "N-no I'm not!" she said as vein popped up on her head. "And don't call me Ruth, it's Red!"
"Whatever...Ruth." Trinity said with a grin.
"GAAAAAAAH!"
"So what brings you here, Jackie?" Trinity said, ignoring Red's tantrum. "Vacation, exploring perhaps?"
"Huh?"
"Why are you here rather than your workplace, you know, the Allies?"
"Oh...yeah about that...I don't want to talk about them..."
"What happened? Something bad?"
"Look T, I don't want to-"
"Spill it. NOW."
Jackie looked up and found both of her older sisters glaring at her. Red with more of a concerned look while Trinity had her usual stoic look. She sighed, she knew that her sisters were going to find out anyways, no use in keeping secrets from them.
Typical overprotective older siblings.
"The Allies...we lost badly..." she started. "Everything we worked to build it up...gone."
"You guys lost before haven't you? Don't you usually bounce back after suffering a lost?" Red asked.
"No, this is different...we lost BADLY." she responded. "I don't know the exact details...but everyone's scattered or dead..."
"Oh my..." Red gasped.
"Right now I'm just staying here until more personal come, if they come, that is."
"So you don't know the status of anyone?" Trinity asked.
"Well, I have Arachne for one, but for anyone else no."
"Not even Willis?"
She shook her head. "I'm least concerned about him right now. He probably could take care of himself, cause you know. I'm mostly worried about my other friends. Since they're not as...durable as we are."
"Count us in." Trinity said as she closed her eyes.
"What?"
"You need our help."
"Wait, what! No!" Jackie said. "I don't need help with this."
"Jackie, you need some help." Red said. "This is way worse than the previous times you've lost, and you need some outside help this time around."
"Exactly." Trinity said as she opened her eyes again. "I know you want to solve this problem by yourself, but this is way out of your league to accomplish on your own. If Willis was in this situation, I can understand why if he wants to do it alone, but he's not here, you are."
"But you guys have other stuff to deal with." Jackie said. "I don't want you to get yourselves involved with this."
"Look, someone or something tired to kill you. I am not going to let that slide."
"Me too." Red said. "No one gets off the hook that easy."
"Fine, you can help." Jackie said, not wanting to further prolong the inevitable. She knew the older sisters were extremely stubborn, it also doesn't help if it runs in the family.
"Yay!"
"Now, would you bring us up to speed?"
Meanwhile
"So, when did your cousin move in with you?" Revi asked.
"About a couple days ago." Heather responded.
The two girls were in Revi's room playing on a video game console. Revi sat on her bed while Heather sat on the floor.
"I win!" Revi said as her character Heather's character.
"Dammit! I thought I had you." she dropped her controller. "You had no health left."
"Can't beat the Queen!" she said as she stuck her tongue out.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever..."
Heather looked at a clock, "Five-thirty. I gotta go." she got up and grabbed her bag.
"See yah, partner." Revi said with a smirk.
Heather smiled back as she left the room. She made her way out of Revi's house, also saying goodbye to her mother as she left. When the exited the house, she noticed something.
"I wonder where Jackie is? She never came at all."
She turned right and started to walk. "Well, I hope where ever she went is important..."
"Heather!"
"Jackie?" Heather turned to find the said girl hurrying up to her, along with two other girls she didn't recognize. "Where were you? Revi and I was expecting you to come!" she said before pointing the the two newcomers. "And who are they?"
"Sorry, but I had some family drop in." she motioned to the two girls. "Heather, these are my two older adopted sisters. Trinity and Red." she said pointing to the respective sister.
Trinity gave a wave and a smile, but Red on the other hand...
"Omigod, you are soooo adorable!" Heather was quickly swept off her feet and was being swung around by the said woman. "You almost look like me, except a bit softer!"
"Um, Red? I think you're hugging her too hard."
"What makes you say...oh." Red looked down and saw Heather was starting to turn blue and trying to escape her hold. She let go so Heather could breathe.
"God, what is with people having death grips?" she said as her breathing returned to normal. "And I thought my mom only had hugs like that."
"Sorry, I forget my own strength sometimes." Red rubbed the back of her head with a chuckle.
"So, your sisters huh?" Heather said to Jackie.
"Adopted sisters..." Jackie corrected. She looked down so her bangs covered her eyes when she said this.
"Do they work with you or something?"
"No, we work elsewhere." Trinity said. "I'm a professional assassin."
"And I work as an enforcer!" Red said.
"Oh..." she turned to Jackie. "Is it normal for you guys to take up shady jobs?"
She shrugged. "Well, we are good at fighting...might as well put that to use right?" she replied. "Even the Allies are considered "shady" since of our military power and connections."
"Ah..."
Jackie noticed Heather's discomfort. "We're not inherently bad. Just because we take up these jobs doesn't mean we're bad people...well for me at least. I can't say the same for my sisters."
"Noted."
"I dunno about you guys but I have a feeling we are going to need much more room soon." Arachne said as she twirled some pasta with her fork.
"You got that right." CV said. The robot was off to the side watching lazily as the other ate.
After introducing the two new members to the rest of the family, it became apparent that the small house was getting a bit too crowded for the amount of people living inside it.
"We can stay elsewhere, if you want." Trinity said. "Nice spaghetti by the way Miss Ana."
"Oh it's nothing." she said. "And please, just call me Ana, I don't like formalities."
"Nah, ah'll figure something out." Dell said. "Maybe expand the house out or something."
"But that will cost money...something we barely have." Ana said with a sigh.
"Don't worry about that." Arachne said. "Money is irrelevant when you have three being that came simply wave their hand to make whatever you need appear."
"You know that's hard to do right?" Red said. "Well for us that is...Jackie can pull whatever she wants out of nowhere. Dunno how she does it."
"Do what?" the said girl looked up from her pasta.
"Nothing." Red said as she continued. "Anyways, creating stuff out of nothing is extremely hard on us when compared to other things we do like teleportation and regeneration."
"Hm, well that's interesting." Arachne said. "I always thought you could do stuff like that just like that." she snapped her fingers for emphasis.
"Yeeeeaaaah no. It's not. We may be powerful but were not gods."
Later...
"So sis, pretty interesting companions you have don't yah?" Red said.
"Yeah, I guess so." Jackie replied. The two were sitting on top of the roof, looking at the stars above. There wasn't much light pollution where they were so the stars were easily visible. "Though I wish we'd met under different circumstances..."
"Meh, it could've been worse." Red said back. "One other thing...have you been keeping tabs on, you know, HER?"
Jackie tensed up and widened her eyes before turning to Red. "What?"
"You know, the other you?"
"Uhhhhhhh, yeah...we're more like "acquaintances" right now."
"Huh, good..."
After a brief silence Jackie got up and started to walk away.
"Where you're going?"
"Ah, I gotta do something, it's for...school. Yeah, school." she said.
"Whatever, later." Red turned back to watch the sky.
As soon as she was out of an earshot, Jackie silently opened a rift and hopped in. She landed on a tree branch as the rift closed behind her.
She was now in a heavily dense forest, even with the sun high up in the sky, it was pretty dark under all the leaves and branches.
"Now where did she run off to?" she asked herself before jumping off the branch and landing on the ground below. She then took off running into the dark maze of trees and foliage.
"Ok, good. Now this time, try to coat your entire arm in fire." Ana said.
Heather nodded as she lit her hand on fire, she then allowed the flames to slowly creep up her arm until it hit her shoulder.
"Jackie wasn't lying, she is good." Trinity said.
"Well, what do you expect from the daughter of a pyromaniac?" Arachne responded.
Trinity hummed in agreement. The two were watching the mother and daughter practice their pyrokinesis in the back of the house.
"I have a feeling that Heather has something more to her than what it seems." the Wanderer said.
"That's what Jackie said, after all she does have the possibility of having two elemental powers to her."
"Hm, yes, fire and metal. Very peculiar." she watched the girl conjure up a small fire ball and throw it at a stack of cans, knocking it over. "I wonder how we can make sure of that though?"
"I think she only has the passive ability metal elementals possess, which is nigh-invulnerable skin and bones. Mainly because the fire elemental part of her is pretty big."
"I don't think she or her parents would allow us to test that out at all. Especially the mom." Trinity said. "And I have a feeling she does not like it when someone messes with her daughter."
Finding Julie wasn't hard for Jackie, she'd thrown the girl into her own pocket dimension, where she had full control over. It only took a couple of minutes for her to find the girl/assassin? wandering the forest. She looked completely fine however, unlike when Jackie first threw her in, which seemed strange.
Even though Jackie had full control over the environment and the dimension itself, she took no chances and slammed the girl's head into a nearby tree.
"I hope you spent the time you spent here well, cause I want an explanation NOW." Jackie said as the girl sat on the ground, dazed.
"Fuck off." Julie spat back, only to get kicked in the head.
"Look here, I'm not the one that is usually violent, but if it threatens the welfare of a friend to hell with that!" Jackie picked her up by the throat. "So why don't you make it easier for yourself and talk."
In response, Julie spat a mouthful of blood in Jackie's face.
Jackie internally sighed before using her free hand to wipe her face. "Wrong move bitch." she tossed her into the air. "BUSTER!"
A large rift opened and a large mechanical hand emerged, it slapped the girl out of the air and towards the ground. The impact left a sizable crater that would have killed any normal human.
Jackie walked over to the crater and found Julie still alive. She saw that she was still conscious, but badly wounded. She also had a reddish aura emitting from her and small flames leapt from her wounds. However, the wounds were slowly closing up.
"Fire elemental..." she thought. "She that's how she isn't dead yet."
She looked up to find the metal hand now held a large wooden hammer, poised and ready to swing down.
"Take five Buster, I'll call if I need you."
The hand retracted back into the rift and closed the rift behind it.
Julie tried to get to her feet, but found herself unable to. It was like gravity was pushing down on her, preventing her from getting up.
"If I were you, I would start talking. As much as I like beating the utter crap out of you, I'm getting tired of your stubbornness and so is the writer."
There was a brief pause and the tension was extremely thick.
"Fine. I'll talk, Wanderer." she said with a defeated sigh.
Jackie waved her hand and Julie was able to get to her feet. Jackie teleported her next to her and pointed a knife to her throat. "Who are you and what do you want with Heather and her mother?"
"That's classi-GAK!"
A tendril speared itself through Julie's stomach. She almost doubled over in pain.
"As long as we are here, you will not die, but you will feel the pain. And pain is much worse than death." Jackie said coldly as her eyes turned pitch black. "Now answer the question."
"I can't-GAH!" another tendril pierced her.
"Stubborn..."
"Please!" she was stabbed again.
"...defiant..."
"Jackie!" another pierced her leg.
"...arrogant..."
"Don't do this!" one went through her left shoulder blade
"...prick..." three more tendrils materialized and rocketed towards Julie.
"Ana is the long lost daughter of our queen!" she shouted.
The tendrils stopped short of her.
"What...?" Jackie said as she narrowed her eyes.
"Queen Alana of Flarient, the mother of Princess Penelope, and step mother of Princess Evelyn." she said in between breaths. "I am Julie Amber, personal servant of the Queen herself."
A/N: So Pyro is royalty. How...interesting. Welp, better work on the next chapters since school is 99% done for me.
Trinity Lythan "Death Incarnate"
Age: Unknown (looks 17)
Height: 5' 10''
Weight: 153 lbs
Bio: The second oldest of the Lythan siblings, Trinity works as a deadly assassin in the multiverse. She is known for her flawless performance and creative executions, and is considered one of the best assassins in the multiverse. She is deadly accurate with her heavy caliber sniper rifle and kunais. Her purple cloak is unique as it can blend into the surrounds. She's extremely stoic, and cares for her other siblings, especially Jackie.
Ruth "Red" Lythan "The Enforcer"
Age: Unknown (looks 17)
Height: 5' 9''
Weight: 142 lbs
Bio: The third oldest of the Lythan siblings, Red works as the Wanderer's primary enforcer. If there is a disturbance that threatens the Wanderers, Red is usually the first there to deal with it. Her war hammer clears the path to victory, while her dual berettas takes care of anyone else still standing. She's very bubbly, despite her line of work, but it hides her true colors that have murderous intent.
Buster "The Animatronic"
Age: Unknown
Height: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Bio: Very little is known about this very large robot. What IS known is that "he" follows Jackie's orders, likes smashing thing with a wooden hammer, blowing things up with a laser gun, it has multiple hands, and can create rifts so it can assist Jackie. No one has seen this animatronic in his entirely before, even Jackie hadn't seen what he looks like.
Till next time,
-D.W
