Ok, so I'm finally doing this, I've had this and the next three chapters written for a few months, just been lapsed on time and internet. So without further adue,

Chapter One

"Finally!" I nearly screamed as I walked out of the school after going to my locker earning odd looks from many of my schoolmates. It seemed as though school was taking much longer than it used to. But perhaps that was because I didn't get half as much sleep as I did back before I started this mission. I used to get six to eight hours of sleep, now I'm stuck with three or four if I'm lucky. If not, then none at all.

I laughed at myself as I got on the bus. It was mid March but I was the only person in the whole high school dressed as if it was late July.

"You're messed up." Ms. Annie, the bus driver, told me, shaking her head at me as I sat in my usual seat in the front right seat.

"I know." I said lightly smiling.

She'd been bugging me constantly since early December when it started snowing to wear a coat. The first time she'd said something, there was three feet of snow on the ground, but it never bothered me, so I was in a tank top, shorts, and flip-flops. She'd told me I was nuts and to wear more suited clothing, so the next day I consented slightly and wore jeans and a long-sleeved blouse. She told me again to wear heavier clothing. That time I ignored her. She had continued chiding me about it ever since.

"It's nice out" I added as an after thought.

She looked at me in the rear-view mirror, shaking her head. "You're messed up." She repeated and left it at that. I think she gave up on me, writing it off as a lost cause. Oh well.

"Andrew?" I called in the language of the Whitelighters, which to humans sounds like nothing more than a series of clicks and clacks. He immediately appeared in front of me in a swirling flash of white lights.

This is a trick done by Whitelighters known as orbing. It's like teleporting, except when you teleport, you move through space and time, so it takes you a second or so to get where you're going, depending on how far you are from where you're going. It also has limits, you usually must see where you are going when teleporting to avoid ending up in a wall or a table or something. Orbing however allows you to travel through space but not time, allowing us to go anywhere we want or any time we want for that matter… at least I can do the time thing, most Whitelighters can't, I'm a special case because I also happen to be a Soul Summoner, but I'll cover that later.

"Oh I see you're home. Where's your brother and sister?" He responded, confused as to why my twin who was usually home before me, was absent.

I shrugged. "Noalani is at Crystal's house and will be back after dinner, but I don't know where my brother is, he wasn't on the bus. Should I try to find him?"

"Yeah, I have a bad feeling about something, though I don't think its Myrrdin. We should check our charges after we're sure he's ok."

"Alright." I whipped out my cell phone and pressed down the number 3 on the pad then send to auto-dial my twin brother.

"Hello?" a voice came on the phone.

"Hey Myrrdin, sup?" I replied a struggled to smother a relieved sigh.

"Nothin', Cerradwen. You?" He replied.

"Just got home, wondered where you were."

"Oh, I told dad I was going to the baseball game after school, remember?"

"Yeah, I remember, but he said no." I responded narrowing my eyes.

"I know, but mom said yes."

I sighed. "Your father is going to be so mad at you when he finds out."

"I know. I'll be grounded, but it's worth it. Plus, It's an 'if' he finds out." He thought for a second. "He's your dad too, sis."

"Not since last month. I wrote him off when he tossed me down the stairs. Remember?" I countered, my voice dripping with venom.

"Yeah, well, I don't exactly get along with him either." My brother responded just and bitterly.

"Yeah I know. When will you be home?"

"Around 6 or 6:30." He said, then added "Hopefully before dad. What time does he get home? Seven o'clock or something?"

"Between 6:55 and 7:10. Depending on traffic and complications at the mill." I replied looking at the clock. "If I were you I'd get home before then, dad'll want to know where we are and might come home early if we don't answer the phone."

"Alright I… wait… what do you mean 'we' don't answer the phone? Where will you be?" he asked suspicious.

"You're not the only one that sneaks out you know. I'll be in AE. I'll take one of the phones off the hook here at the house so he thinks we're just on the phone. So put it back on the hook when you get home. When he calls your cell, tell him I'm on the phone to Steph. If he calls mine, I'll tell him that you're on with Aaron. As soon as he calls one of us, we'll immediately call each other to fill us in. okay?"

"Yeah, we're good." He replied after taking in all the instructions. "Are you coming home tonight?" he asked, knowing sometimes my 'job' had me doing odd and often times long hours.

"I don't know, Andy senses something bad is going on. So I better head out."

"Alright. See you later… oh hang on, what do I tell dad if you're not home?"

"I don't know, for all I care you can tell him I died, ran away, or just vanished in a puff of smoke… or a flash of glittering lights if you prefer to tell him the truth." I said casually, honestly not caring what the man who calls himself my father thought.

"That's not very nice." Andrew, who I had momentarily forgot was still present chided me.

"I know that." I replied tensely. "I don't care." He sighed and shook his head at me. 'What is with everyone shaking their heads at me today?! It's getting really annoying!' I thought.

"You should lighten up on him a little, he is your father." Andrew told me. I looked at him for a full three seconds before laughing.

"What?" Myrrdin asked.

"The Angel of Death just told me to 'lighten up'. What's wrong with this picture?" I gasped out between giggles.

"That's funny." my brother said, laughing as well. "Anyway, I'll tell dad you're staying over at a friend's to work on that chemistry thing you and that one girl have." I heard Myrrdin say.

"Fine with me. But I still would like to hear his reaction if you told him that I disappeared in a flash of glittering lights." We both laughed a bit, then saying goodbye to my twin and slipping the cell back into the pocket of my tan colored cargo jeans, I turned to Andrew.

"So… who should I check on first?" I asked seriously walking across the room and removing a phone from it's cradle.

"Well…" he began to reply and closed his eyes. I felt his aura flare, then return to normal.

"You should check on Kazema first then go to Egypt, just to save your the energy for the time traveling." He said. "And don't go lolly-gagging around for too long in Japan!" He added as I got ready to orb. He knew me far to well.

I smirked at him and disappeared in a shimmer of lights, traveling in an instant to central Japan.