A Twist in the Starnik's Past
Chapter 2: The Mistake
Dakota's P.O.V
Either that was some crazy dream, or it really just happened, either way, my head felt it had been hit by a car, AGAIN! What was it that happened? Myka did some spell, but the ground gave way, I thought we all died again for a split second. But wait… who's to say we haven't, we could be. Myka is so un-dead if we are. I strain my eyes to open, but that's when I find it wasn't only my head that rocketed with pain, but my entire body. My vision was blurred, but I could make out simple things. I was laid on something soft, there was darkness all around us all but one circle, so I assumed we were in a den of some sort. I could only guess and hope it was mom and Scott's, where else could we be seeing as we were only just outside before. "Mom?" I rasp, man how dry my throat was, it was horrifically bad. But was then a part of what I thought to be the wall moved, but it turned out to be a wolf.
"Don't talk, you're ok." She replied. Well at least it was mom and we were alive, but there was something odd about her voice. It sounded…I couldn't place my paw on it, it was certainly her's, but there was something in her voice making it sound different. She padded over to me and sat before my head, and started placing her paw in certain places. "Just lie still."
"What happened?" I still ask as my vision started to return. I started to make out objects belonging to Scott lying around the den, and the soft thing I lay on was one of the fur skin rugs.
"You tell me, we found you lying outside with those two." I moved my head around and could just make out who I guessed was Lupa and Myka still passed out across the den.
"Myka and her stupid spells that's what." I grumble.
"Who and her what?" She giggled. I only then seethed as a minor wave of pain burned through me. "I'd better tell Scott you're awake. Just lie still and take it easy, I'll be back soon." She said and rising to her paws. "See you soon cutie." My seething came to a sudden stop at that word and my vision snapped back to normal as she walked out with a large grin. Not only was her voice different, she looked completely different. Sure it was her, but she still even looked different, but I still couldn't place my paw on it. Maybe she was coming into heat; it was that time of year so it was about time. But she has never said that to me, it was worrying. I lifted my head and looked over to Lupa who seemed to be stirring, so I crawl over to her, but only adding more of that searing pain course through my body. So when I reached her, I flopped out again with my face opposite hers.
"Lupa…" I whisper and placing my hand on her cheek. She snapped her eyes open as soon as I touched her, but her eyes then half closed and they fluttered. But something else happened that made me worry, she breathed! "Did…did you just breath?" I asked.
"What?" She sighed but with a deep breath.
"You did it again, you breathed!" I exclaimed a little louder. Instinctively, she took another breath, but it must have been that breath that made her see, for her eyes widened quickly and she shot up onto her haunches while breathing heavily.
"What the hell!" She yelled. I slammed her muzzle shut and laid her back down as she started whimpering, I guessed she was feeling that pain I did.
"Just lie still, it'll pass soon."
"Dakota, I can't see." She hyperventilated in panic.
"You're panicking because you're alive?" I chuckled. "Isn't that a good thing?"
"Who's alive?" Myka groaned. "And why can't I see?"
"You!" I yelled and managing to sit up. "What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything." She groaned.
"You said a spell and now we all feel like crap, Lupa's breathing and mom's calling me cutie."
"Lupa's breathing?" She gasped with wide eyes and looking over to me.
"Mom called you cutie?" Lupa asked.
"You did something, and whatever it was, was not what we planned."
"Mom's probably in heat, it wouldn't be the first time she's said or done something like that to you, dad or Scott." Lupa added while she pushed herself up to her paws.
"Can we talk about that later?" I snapped and taking her by surprise.
"That spell should have worked; I don't know why that happened." Myka groaned and pushing herself up to her paws. "I'm sorry; I didn't exactly think that would happen."
"What did happen?" Lupa asked again. "We fell into that light, then we wake up here."
"Let's find mom and Scott, they might know more." I suggested. I walked over to Lupa, but she motioned for me to help Myka as she was already on her paws and could walk. So I let Myka lean against me while we walked outside and into the blinding light which after we let our eyes adjust we sat a little distance out. But something was strange, something wasn't right out here either and we all saw it. The leaves were falling, they were withered and old, it was autumn; but how? Last we saw and knew it was the middle of summer. That can't be possible.
"How long were we out?"
"A few hours." Mom said as she came trotting up the hill; her voice, her fur and her body in a way looked the same, but there was a more youth in them. Mom was a very mature she-wolf, but now she looks like she's two. Lupa and Myka had their jaws hanging loose and I was struggling to keep mine up. Had she not been my mom, I'd admit, she'd be pretty hot.
"Mom?" Lupa gasped, still Myka and I were surprised to be able to hear her breath.
"Nope, sorry, maybe she's down with the pack. When Scott gets here one of us will find her for you." My sisters and I all looked at one another in nothing but utter confusing.
"Huh, funny." I replied sarcastically. It was then Scott came jogging up the slope, but he gave us more of a shock and made Lupa's now beating heart speed to unbelievable levels. He was in human form, but not only that, he looked younger, younger by about eight years. He had a small stubble, long, messy black hair, what the hell was going on?!
"So they're awake." He smiled.
"I don't know what happened to them, but they must have hit their head pretty hard." Mom laughed.
"Ok, what happened to us and what is wrong with you?" Lupa asked.
"You tell us, and nothing is wrong with us. What's wrong with you?" Scott chuckled as he walked towards the den and placed his bow against the wall.
"Dad, what's happening?" Myka asked now as worried as the rest of us. Scott pointed to himself, then looked behind him as if looking for someone before turning back to us.
"Are you talking to me?" He asked with an amused smile. "I don't know if you know this, but I'm a human and you're a wolf." He then laughed. "How hard did you hit you're head?" He added as he and mom then started laughing really hard. Lupa, Myka and I only looked at one another in shock. What was wrong with them?
"Ok, we're going to go this way and let you clear your heads." I said as if talking to a pup, just plain and simple before leading Myka and with Lupa following behind to the left and away from the hysterical two. We could still hear them laughing a while later and Myka could walk again.
"What the hell is wrong with them?" Lupa asked.
"I'm sure it's some prank." Myka answered. "But what's wrong with you? You're breathing!" I placed my paw over her muzzle and could easily feel her breath on my pads. I placed it and my ear on her chest, with her permission of course, and I could feel several, long and strong heart beats, but also her warmth, something I hadn't felt the same since mom and Scott fell in love and she only had half a spirit. It was like she was back to normal.
"Do you feel ok?" I asked as I moved away.
"I feel sick." She answered and licking her lips a little. "Sick as in starving sick."
"Well seeing as you haven't eaten in three months I don't blame you."
"Something is really wrong, what did you do?" She asked as we both looked at Myka.
"Just a spell to give us the answer, I don't understand either why it did what it did so don't blame me."
"Call dad, he used to be in Scott's mind so he could be doing something, he might know." She nodded before looking up to the sky.
"Shadow! Shadow I need you!" She called out. Her voice echoed out around the forest and around us, but other then that nothing happened. We knew he could always hear us, but he could only come if it was to do with a charge, and Myka is his charge, he wouldn't come if Lupa or I called. He did sometimes though, but the gods don't like it when their guides come down for personal business like a father seeing their children just because he could. Something to do with spiritual laws. But nothing happened and no-one came. "What the heck?" She said irritated.
"Try grandma, maybe he can't come." Lupa suggested.
"Grams, please help us!" She then shouted louder, but really, she didn't have to, they always hear us no matter how loud we are. We waited a moment before the wind around us picked up a notch and blew in one direction in which we followed it and there she stood. Grandma looked at us, but with a puzzled expression.
"Grams something's wrong, I'm breathing and mom and Scott are…" Lupa started but was then cut off by her.
"Who are you?" She asked. "Who are you and how come I heard you?" She demanded and slowly padding towards us.
"Not you too." I groaned.
"Me too?" She asked harshly and sitting opposite us.
"Mom and Scott don't recognise us." I replied.
"I'm alive again which shouldn't be possible and everything has changed. Do you know where Faolan and the pups are?"
"Who and whose pups?" She asked back. Lupa's jaws could only drop. Her face then contorted into that of an angered face and she turned around to face Myka.
"Ok, I'm going to kill you!" She roared and diving at Myka. Myka waved her paw in Lupa's direction and to the side, but nothing happened and Lupa collided with her. She stood over Myka's chest and snarled in her face. "You did something, I don't care if it was an accident, but because of you our own parents don't recognise us and nobody knows my mate or pups!"
"Lupa that's enough!" I growled and pulling her off. Myka quickly sat up, but she looked down at her paws.
"My powers don't work." Ok, this now has just taken to a new level of seriousness.
"What?" I gasped. She looked up at me and her eyes narrowed, but nothing happened. She then threw her paw out in my direction, but still nothing happened.
"I've lost my powers." I looked across to Lupa and jumped, but nothing happened, I remained where I stood. Lupa then held up her paw facing the sky, and narrowed her vision onto it; but the only thing we saw was her paw, nothing more.
"We've all lost them." I said. I looked around to grandma who only seemed to be sitting there in confusion, but interested, most likely because of how insane we looked. "Grandma we've lost our powers!" I said again.
"Who are you?" She only asked back.
"We're your grandchildren." Lupa answered.
"My daughter hasn't had pups." She replied. "So you can't be."
"You're our spirit guide, where's dad?" I asked.
"Who?" She asked puzzled. I roared in frustration, and I tried not to turn it towards Myka. We've gone over that and if I did then that wouldn't be getting us anywhere.
"Grams something happening to us, we need help." Myka pleaded. "We're your charges, how else did you hear us?"
"Scott and Rosie are my charges, I don't have any others." She answered.
"But we're your grandchildren." I added just as desperately. "Our mom is Rosie, we had powers, but now on-one knows us and we've lost them."
"Prove it." Was all she said. "Prove it to me."
"You're mate was Terry." I replied and taking her back instantly. "He left you after knowing you were pregnant with our mom."
"You died giving your life for her and Scott jumped in front of the bullet that wasn't meant for you." Lupa added.
"Dad's power is based on fear and pain and mom's love, who else could know this. Please, we need help, something's happened and we've lost everything." She stared at us in awe, we could tell.
"How do you know all that?" She asked.
"Because you're our grandma and Rosie's our mom, you're all our family!" I replied panicky.
"Then how did this happen?"
"I said a spell that was supposed to show us the answer to a question, but something else happened and now we've lost our powers and no-one knows us, not even you."
"What powers did you have?"
"I was a teleport." I replied.
"I could make a shield among other things." Lupa said.
"I was a witch with mom's healing powers and Dad's telekinesis."
"Only Scott has that power!" She exclaimed as if she caught us out in something. "He's human so that can't be possible."
"You gave him the ability to turn into a wolf, he's my father."
"I did no such thing!" She spat. "I have no reason to so why would I?" I looked around at my sisters, we couldn't convince her. But then Myka spoke out of the blue and with a random and completely off topic subject.
"What year is it?" She asked. "What's the date?"
"It's July 2012." She answered sceptically.
"Oh my god." Myka muttered.
"What is it?" I asked quickly.
"The spell." She replied and seemingly deep in thought. "Searching for that answer throughout their time, give me that answer in this rhyme." She then looked up at Lupa and me as if she had a brainwave. "I asked the spell to show us the answer in their time, we've been sent back in time!"
"What?"
"Think about it. Mom, dad and grams don't recognise us because we haven't been born yet, we've lost our powers because of the same reason. Grams hasn't made dad a wolf yet so she had no idea what we're on about. The spell sent us back in time to see the answer for ourselves."
"See what?" Grandma asked.
"Why they fell in love."
"It would explain it." She replied, but still not looking convinced. "I want you to stay here while I find out if this is possible, don't let anyone see you. I'll be back soon." She then suddenly faded away and leaving us to our thoughts and each other.
"We have to stay here?" Lupa questioned.
"I guess." I sighed and lying down. "If this has happened then we can't be seen."
"Remember what grandma Jenny used to say, time can always be changed, she changed it all the time. So we could seriously mess things up if we do something wrong."
"But I'm starving, I feel like I haven't eaten in like, ever!"
"I'll find us some food, you two stay here." I replied and getting back up to my paws again. "It'll be safer if one of us goes, that way we won't draw attention."
Myka's P.O.V
It was all my fault, all of this was my fault. My sister hates me, we've moved back in time, we've lost our powers, we could change our future and even erase our very existence. To make matters worse, I don't want to give birth before I even conceived my own pups or met their father! I can't give birth when their father or I hadn't even been born yet! I could have just gone and stubbed myself from the future, and therefore my pups and because I was the one that killed Sam, he wouldn't be stopped. Who knows what damage I've done already by bringing us here.
Eventually, it all started to get too much, and I found myself silently weeping into my paws. Lupa lay some feet away from me, so I guessed she was obviously pissed and wanted nothing to do with me. Dakota most likely felt the same way, my own siblings hate me and I've taken Chance away from Dakota and Faolan and her family away from Lupa. What more could I lose now? So as it all came to me, the tears began to fall. It was all my fault!
"Hey what's wrong?" Lupa asked in surprisingly a caring voice.
"Everything." I replied without removing my paws, but I could sense she was still lying where she was before. "I've lost my mate, I've made you and Dakota lose yours and your family. I could have killed us all before we were even born." I sobbed. But then I felt something I really didn't expect, but I accepted it. I heard her moving, and it was moment later I felt her against my side and her paws around me. I sat up and leaned in against her and laying my head on her chest to cry it out. "You hate me, Dakota hates me, I've ruined everything."
"We don't hate you." She cooed and stroking my cheek. "You're our little sister, we can never hate you. Remember what mom used to say, "forgive and forget", I'm sure we'll find a way to get out of this. Family is everything in ours, and when you have yours it'll only be made stronger."
"We have to get home, I can't give birth here." I continued to sob.
"That's nearly two months away; we'll get back by then."
"But how?" I wailed loudly. "We don't have our powers, so I can't get us back."
"We'll find some other way, I'm sure grandma will find a way." She replied softly. There was a benefit to this, not that I was going to mention it. At least now I was given the chance to know what Lupa felt like when she was alive completely. She was warm, tender, soft, it was motherly. I started to settle some as it started to remind me of mom's touch, even more so as she cooed and stroked me. No matter how old you get, with the right person, they can always make you turn into a puppy again. So what if I was nearly three years old and pregnant, I left like a pup in its mother's embrace. But it was then we started to hear Dakota returning. He groaned and grunted as he came towards us, dragging something that looked like a buck with him. I quickly sat back onto my haunches and wiped away my damp cheeks and looked back at Lupa. "Better?" She questioned.
"Yeah, thanks. You really are the perfect mom." I laughed weakly.
"So will you be when you birth my nephews and nieces. Just keep those hormones under control, let it all out on Jack when we get back." She smiled. We looked back at Dakota just as he dropped it before us.
"Now that was hard to get back here." He breathed. Lupa was before the carcass before we both blinked, already ripping into it and devouring it. I was hesitant, which my brother saw. "Come on, eat up."
"I'd rather not, I can't keep anything down." I replied.
"Gotta keep the little ones strong." He said as he lay beside Lupa. "Come on, dig in." I still sat where I was, but I really then did start to see that I had to. It wouldn't be good for me, let alone the pups, and I couldn't let anything happen to them. I sighed, knowing I'd regret this and took a leg in my paws and started ripping into the muscular limb. It tasted great, but I knew I'd taste it again sooner or later with that added tinge of vomit. I glanced over at Lupa; she had her head deep inside the belly of the buck and gorging on the delicacies held within. Some she-wolf like behaviour.
We feasted on the meat, Lupa eating far more then Dakota and I. I wasn't particularly that hungry, but it wasn't for me, it was for the pup's benefit, a benefit that I'd later regret. Most of Lupa's muzzle had a layer of blood around it, so she set to cleaning herself off while I sat around with Dakota to wait for Grams. It was an hour after she last came that she returned as a fading image before us. We sat up to listen to her, but we feared what her verdict would be.
"So you say Scott's your father?" She asked.
"Scott's my father." I Replied.
"Our father's a wolf called Shadow that lives…"
"In Jasper Park, Canada." She interrupted Dakota. "I did my research and everyone else believes you're telling the truth."
"So?" Lupa questioned.
"Let me have a look at my grand-pups!" She laughed and trotting the gap towards us. We all smiled and walked towards her and let her scent us and look us all over. Firstly her eyes rested on Lupa. "Have we met?" She giggled and looking her up and down.
"I get my looks from your side of the family." Lupa giggled in return.
"And you?" She questioned and looking towards Dakota.
"Dad's side, another near replica." He chuckled.
"Now you?" She asked looking towards me. "You look totally different."
"After you turned dad into a wolf, he was a black one, so I took more after him."
"Just him? That's a shame." She smiled reassuringly.
"Not quite." I then presented her my left forepaw, the one with two white claws and her jaw dropped. It was when Lupa raised hers she was awestruck, but it made us laugh at her reaction.
"I have a daughter with the same mark." Lupa added to it all.
"You have children?" She grinned widely.
"Three." Lupa replied.
"And I'm expecting." I added so whipped her head towards me and then towards my stomach.
"Now this is a blessing." She smiled proudly, something that made us all simmer down a little and think everything was going to be fine. But then her happiness faded from her face and her aura. We sensed her change. "But it's a curse." We looked at one another, were we being too hopeful. "You must get back to your time, you could destroy everything, even erase your own existence. You must go back."
"We can't, we lost our powers." Lupa replied.
"I brought us here with a spell, but now that we've lost our powers I can't make another one to get home." I added. "We thought that maybe you could help us."
"You lost your powers because you haven't been born yet, so what powers are there to give to those that don't exist yet." She replied. "I will try to find out what I can, but you must try to find your own way and without letting Scott or Rosie knowing about you. I don't know what time your from, but here Scott's eighteen and Rosie's only two, they can't know about you, stay away from them, they can't know anything about the future and neither can I. Anything you do could change everything. Breaking the wrong twig and you could cause the pack to die." There was a lot more to this then we feared, so much could go wrong and even more could be ruined. But mom, here she was two, the same age she was when she birthed Lupa and I. We knew the Pack were going to die, we knew that she and Scott would be taken away, but how close was all that to now?
"Pack, what pack?" Dakota asked quickly.
"The Valley Pack." She answered.
"Remember, that pack that used to live here before they died." Lupa said.
"AHH!" Grams yelled and covering her ears and making us jump in freight. "You can't say things like that, not even to me."
"Sorry, we didn't think." Lupa apologised with flattened ears in shame.
"Don't worry, I can deal with myself, but I can't for Scott and Rosie, stay away from them and call me if you need help. I'll be keeping an eye on you all, be safe." And with that she faded away, again and leaving us with unanswered questions, again! We all stood and looked at one another in an awkward silence when Dakota finally broke it.
"So what do we do now?"
So back in time, two years after the Starnik were reborn and now they are putting their own existence at risk. Myka was the one that killed Sam, so if she was removed from time, then she wouldn't be around to kill him and when Scott, Rosie, Lupa and Dakota all died after that battle, there wouldn't have been anyone to bring them back. Lupa wouldn't have met Faolan, Dakota-chance, nothing they have done and succeeded in doing would have been completed if they mess this up. So can they find a way back without their powers, or can they find a way to get their powers back and therefore giving them a way out. Will younger Scott and Rosie find out, will they destroy the future the Starnik built for them? Read on and review to find out. Until next time folks. Oh, and Never unseen, I'll try not to screw this up, please don't be mad if i do seeing as this is my first and last time travel story. :)
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