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Chapter 24: Learning Why
Cat's POV
"What?" I screamed at Melody. "What do you mean I'm our only hope?"
"Cat, I know it's a lot to take in," she said, quite relaxed despite the fact that I just screamed in her face. "But you need to calm down. The only reason you would be our only hope is because if everything is going to happen again, it will take somebody with great skills, bravery, and faith to defeat Remidima, for those are the things I had when I defeated Morgana."
"But I'm not you, Melody," I said in a whining tone. "I don't have those traits."
"You may think that Cat, but bonding with you has helped me see that you, out of all six of my sisters, have the same traits I do."
"Huh?"
"It's true, Cat," Estar said, practically coming out of nowhere and making me jump. "You're the only one who shares the same traits as her."
"Estar, were you—!" I began, but was cut off by Kanade who firmly stated, "Cat what both of them say is true. There's nobody who reminds us so much of the younger Melody than you. In a literal statement, not only are you around the same age as her when she was trapped, but you even look like her a little. Trait-wise, the rest of us are too foolish, too doubtful, or too petrified." She then quickly added, "No offense intended to all of us…"
"What are you…?" I tried asking something before I was once again cut off by Anan and Quellie.
"Well, ever since that… um, that day," Anna began.
"We've seen that you were the one who was truly like Melody!" Quellie finished. All my other sisters stared at them.
"What day?" I asked inquisitively.
"You were never supposed to know about it," Ara stated with emphasis while glaring at Anna and Quellie, "because we thought it would make you change and that you wouldn't be the way you are today."
"It depends on what happened. Now that I know about it, I want to hear what happened and how exactly it related to me being our only hope." At this point, all the others went in another corner to chat amongst themselves since they knew that what was going on was a sisterly thing and we didn't want to be bothered. Melody took a deep breath and then said,
"It happened nine years ago. You were about three years old and I was nine. This happened when the wall was obviously still up. So, do you remember how when we were younger you and I would always go under the wall and swim in the ocean?"
I nodded. How could I forget those days? Those were the best adventures I ever had with Melody. Well, from what I believe. She continued, "You also know that we've always told you that your very first adventure was when you were five, but the truth is, it was when you were three."
This surprised me because I actually remember a little bit from when I was three, but if I didn't remember my first adventure, then something must've happened that was so bad, I wasn't allowed to know about it. So, I listened intently to Melody's story.