In the 1600s
Whispers echoed through the woods and the voices of women was heard if any would listen closely to the sounds.
"Susanne Lael and Miranda Metrik, witches of this Covenant. Sisters of the Elements. Born with The Power." A murmur flowed through the group of women that stood nearby. Infront of an older woman stood two women, one blonde the other a brunette, both who stared at the ground head bowed, showing their respect of their elder. "The charges brought against you from the other families have reason to question your loyalty to this Covenant of sisters. Explain your actions." Both eyes lifted from the ground to look at the elder.
The brunette took the liberty to step foward in defense of their actions. Susanne took a breath before speaking,"We used The Power in defense of The Covenant against John Putnam! Our actions were of good reason." Miranda Metrik nodded while staring into the eyes of the older woman.
"What you did was risking all The Sister's secret. John Putnam was put to death this morning. From here on I banish you." Gasps rose from the two women and placed their hands on their rounded stomachs. "Susanne Lael, Mirana Metrik not only have you risked the secret of the Sisters but you risked the revelation of those with The Power. You are banished, after your children are born only those with the Power may help them with their ascending. You know the pain of going through it, this Covenant shall refuse you help." Tears gathered in the blonde woman's eyes but she refused to let them fall for shame of being banished from the Covenant of Sisters.
Lightning flashed in the sky and both looked into the black eyes of their elder and knew what was coming, while bracing theirselves they held each other's hand. Lightning struck them in the chest and screams erupted from their throats but they held on together the other women looked away not noticing the sparks of energy from their clapsed hands. Both women felt as if they were being ripped apart from inside.Just as fast as they were struck they were dropped to the floor having been lifted into the air, the swirls of energy left their bodies and their hands up to their wristswere slightly glowing before fading completely.
Gasping was heard from both and the shuffling of the others and soon they were left alone on the ground still holding each other's hand. "Susanne..what are we going to do?" Miranda's voice rose from her cracked lips obviously drained on having been stripped of The Power. "Our children..you know they need the help of those with The Power to ascend and control their powers." Miranda began to let tears flow, until Susanne stood with silence before speaking. "We will find someone do not fret Sister." She was staring at her hand when she saw a lightning bolt mark with a letter S on her wrist and looked at Miranda's wrist and there was also a lightning bolt with the letter S. "Strange.." Susanne whispered quietly.
Both girls turned their arm over to reveal the very same mark from their ancestors, it was a lightning bolt with a S on the bottom. "What does it stand for?" Pogue being the first to question them after the tale of how and why they needed their help. Amanda nodded to Ashley signaling her to answer, Ashley traced the bolt with her index finger slowly and spoke quietly,
"Our ancestors were of the Sisters of the Elements Covenant before they were banished from that Covenant, each "sister" was born with a mark to signal their powers' element. Fire from the sun, wind from the air, water from the seas, earth from the ground, lightning from the sky. When Susanne and Miranda were banished they were supposivily stripped of their powers to punish them from helping their child, the only power that would be inside of them would be their daughters and after they would be born Susanne and Miranda would be normal, rumors are that when they held hands they still had a small amount of power hence the mark that was still there. " Ashley stopped speaking and Amanda took that as her que to talk to the stunned boys.
"Lael and Metrik families have always been close, usually only girls would be born but it's not uncommon for a male to come from the line. However, since both of our mothers have passed we have no one to help us with our ascending."
After a moment of silence Reid jumped when a ball of fluff jumped onto his shoulder and all turned to look at the small black and white kitten that stared at him with golden eyes before hoping down rubbing against Ashley's leg. "Hello Saturn where's Venus?" On que a grey stripped kitten walked over to Amanda and meowed at her before seemingly going to Tyler, purring.
"We have familars." Answering the unspoken question from Caleb, Getting up from her rooted spot she plucked Venus up from Tyler's lap when she saw her trying to lick his face.
"We need to think about this, after Chase we can't trust anyone right now." Caled replied before getting up the rest followed suit each leaving the girls there. Tyler looked back and sighed when Reid placed his hand on Tyler's shoulder motioning him to follow the rest.
I'm sorry Amanda spoke to Tyler telepathically and the flames went out as her sadness thickened the air around her as well as Ashley.
Both getting up to go the Simms Manor for the rest of the day. The sounds of both engines starting and both girls watched as the cars left the property and Ashley looked at Amanda while grabbing her arm , her brown eyes flashed and soon Amanda was on Ashley's bed falling asleep from exhaustion of the day. "It'll be okay Mandy, if they don't help us we'll find someone who can." Ashley whispered to her sister sadly and Venus cuddled up against her mistress and Saturn sat by the window tail swishing in lazy motions watching a black truck pull up into the big driveway
A/N: Tears!!
I wanted to have like a familar in the story, since this is my story the familar usually follows their mistress wherever they go magically! Gasp! "What?! cats don't have powers!" In this story they only do for protecting, comforting, helping, following their mistress.
Saturn is a boy-Has more attitude and protects Ashley since she's the youngest and more vulnerable; he likes to sit by windows.
Venus is a girl-Is mysterious and is usually found laying down in the closet
Also! Amanda's mother died from willing Amanda her power before she was consumed by a brain tumor that was too far long to be treated. Amanda was aware of what was happening to her mother and IS affected by the death of her mother but knows her mother wouldn't want her to mope around.
Ashley's parents died when Ashley was younger on a cruise ship in a storm.
Amanda and Ashley are part time waitresses at Nicky's(Taken from the underwear game scene from the movie), you'll see maybe in the next chapter?