A Twist in the Starnik's Past

Chapter 3: What Made it Happen

Dakota's P.O.V

So, it was official, we were stuck seven years in the past, nearly a year before Lupa and I were born and many years before Myka, so mom and Scott don't even know we exist, because we don't. We've lost our powers, grandma says it's because we don't exist yet, so our powers won't either, as she said, "what powers are there to give to those that don't exist yet", but at least we now have her to help us now. She said that we have to stay quiet, remain away from mom and Scott and do not do anything stupid, just let things run its course and don't interfere with anything. Myka came to the realization of the way her spell did this, she reckons it was because she asked the spell to show us in their time and tell us why they fell in love. But she also gave us some hope; she said that all spells have either a time limit or a way out. She thinks that if we can find the reason mom and Scott fell in love then it'll send us back to our time. But that was the thing, we didn't know what we were looking for, we didn't know when we really were, we didn't know when we'd find the reason. As far as we know, they fell in love the night they told us grandma and dad made them kiss. But if it was, then why did it send us here? Even Myka didn't seem to know why.

We had another problem as well. We remember mom and Scott telling us of a pack they used to care for, the "Valley Pack" that lived on the other side of the valley from their den. If they found us here, then they most likely wouldn't take kindly to strangers being in their territory, so we'd have to stay far away from them as well. We couldn't touch anything, we couldn't talk to anyone, we couldn't be seen, so how on earth were we going to find out this reason if we couldn't pretty much do anything?!

We started walking, trying to keep and gain some distance from mom, Scott and that pack so we wouldn't ruin anything, who knows what we've already done by being seen by them already. It's been nearly two hours since we spoke to grandma, so we were on our own for the time being. Or so we thought. For as we were walking, she appeared before us.

"I've got some news." She smiled.

"What?" Lupa asked quickly. "Please tell us."

"I've spoken with the gods…"

"We know about Sirius, no need to worry." Lupa giggled. Grandma looked at her and Myka and I in shock, but then again, if we hadn't been born yet, then we haven't learnt about Sirius or the other gods. This was before the time that we died, so we hadn't learnt of the gods yet. "Sorry, carry on." Lupa said.

"I'll pretend I didn't hear that." Grandma said shaking her head. "Anyway, I've spoke with Sirius, and he's allowed me to help you get back to your time. He's spoken with the others and he's going to deal with all of this after you get home. He's allowed me to move you across time and within reason four times to find what you're looking for."

"Why four?" Myka asked.

"I tried for five; he wanted only three, so we agreed on four. The more I do this then the more I will know of the future, I could know things that I don't want to know and shouldn't know, so he's only given you four tries."

"It makes sense." I replied. "But you said he's going to do something to you and anyone who knows about us, what do you mean?"

"As a guide I have the power to erase memories, but only as a last resort, so call me if you need help with anything. But I can't keep doing it, it's not fair on those you ask me to do it to and who knows what I could be erasing."

"We understand, thanks."

"You're welcome." She smiled. "So, any idea where you want to go first?" She asked again.

"If it's ok with you, we kind of decided that we'd have to go closer to mom and Scott to find our way home, we'd have to talk to them maybe as well." She seethed straight after.

"That's not a good idea." She replied worryingly.

"We can pass ourselves off as the Valley Pack, they won't be any the wiser." Myka added. She narrowed her eyes towards us for a moment, she was deep in thought. We knew the risks, but this was something we had have to do to get home.

"Ok, just be careful."

"We will, thank you."

After grandma gave us permission, we did something we weren't really looking forward to. We ran back for mom and Scott's den, still being aware and alert to our surroundings and making sure the Valley Pack weren't going to be around the next corner. Thankfully though, we didn't run into them as we ran for the den. I'm not sure if my sisters were thinking the same as I, but I thought this was giving us a good chance to see what mom and Scott were like before we were born, only two years after the Starnik were reborn. But I was worried, mom called me "cutie", she couldn't have been in heat, she told us and dad that the first time she came into heat she conceived Lupa and I. It was a sickening thought, so it wasn't easily pushed out of my mind. We had four chances to get this right, four chances to find the reason mom and Scott fell in love and to get home.

We came to a grinding halt outside Scott and Mom's den, we peered inside, but nothing and nobody was in there. We had a good look inside, just out of curiosity, there were things here that they didn't in the future. The drawings on the wall looked brand new and recently done; everything was clean and looking good overall. So if they weren't here, then where were they? It was then Lupa suggested something. When we come to visit, if they weren't here, they were on that cliff over looking the Valley. Generally, it would take mere seconds to get there with either of us. Lupa had the same teleporting power as I now because of the spirit she was, Myka could with the use of a spell, and me, well... being me, so it was no worries to get there. So we were left with no other choice but to do it the normal and none lazy way, to walk it.

We ran to the right of the den and down the winding path that led into the Valley, but upon reaching the edge of the plains, we came to a stop after seeing them sat high and right on the edge of that tall cliff, but not only that. We saw they were watching the same thing we were, a grey wolf that stumbled and walked as if drunk across the plain and towards the stream that ran the length of the Valley. I couldn't believe it.

"Is that…" Lupa started.

"Terry." I growled.

"Terry?!" Myka gasped. "Terry as in mom's dad and our Grandpa?"

"Yeah, that's him." I grumbled again.

"Wait, this is the day he came back to apologise to grandma."

"Yeah, I remember them telling us that." I replied. "He was…" I stopped when the thought came to me, the thought of what he was really doing. "He led the Ditori here."

"What?" Myka gasped again so Lupa turned to face her.

"Terry was the Ditori's wolf finder and tracker, they'd send him out, he'd find a pack and then he'd go back to them and lead them to that pack. He was the one that led them to mom and Scott."

"Well why are we sitting here, let's stop him." Myka said and starting to take steps out. But I grabbed her and pulled her back in.

"We can't, this has already happened, we need to let it run its course."

"We need to let the Ditori come for them and take them away. They get out remember so we don't need to worry too much." Lupa added. Myka nodded after a moment of thinking, and it was when we turned around to watch again we saw that mom and Scott had run around and down the cliff and towards Terry.

"They don't know what they're getting themselves into." I sighed. After a few minutes of watching, Scott then picked him up and began to carry him towards us, so we dived into a hedge and let them pass. But mom then split off and headed towards another part as if walking after something, whereas Scott walked straight passed us. It was when Myka nudged me and pointed to him that we saw something that made our hearts lurch. She pointed out his neck, his bare neck. Of course, this was before mom gave him those scars; she did that to him because of what Terry did and left her again. But it gave us a thought. We remained hidden until mom passed a few minutes later and ran up the slope, back towards their den before emerging out and looking at one another.

"Did you see that?" I asked looking at Lupa.

"His neck? Yeah, I saw it." She sighed.

"Maybe that's it." Myka suggested. "They had a huge argument the day that happened, so what if after it happened they saw their love in friendship again."

"I don't know, it doesn't sound right." I replied.

"I don't think so either." Lupa agreed. "But it's worth a try, it's all we've got at the moment."

"Shall we call grandma?" I asked. Lupa didn't seem to wait before she threw back her head and called out for grandma.

"Grandma we need you!" Mere seconds later, she appeared before us with a smile.

"How can I help you?"

"We think we've got an idea."

"Great, where and when to?" She asked and holding out her paw for us. We walked towards her, but that was the thing, when was it they had that argument? I placed my paw on hers, then Myka on top of mine and finally Lupa last.

"Two days from now." Lupa answered. Myka and I looked at her puzzled. "I'm surprised you don't remember when she told us about that." She laughed lightly.

"Are you saying my daughter falls in love with a human two days from now?" She asked.

"Not love-love, but friendship love, trust us." Myka replied. "Grandma nodded in understanding and put her other paw above Lupa's." She took a deep and closed her eyes before silently muttering strange, unrecognisable words. Basically gibberish, we didn't understand a word of it. But as she did, I felt a tingling sensation all over my body, but something else was happening that was far stranger. Everything around us was moving in what looked like super speed. The light dimmed and turned to night in but a few seconds, animals and wolves of the pack passed us at impossible speeds, but also without seeing us. Everything was being fast forwarded. Night turned into day again, then only seconds later turned back into night again before back into day.

"I must head back to my time." Grandma said as time stated to slow around us again. "But you can still call me when you need to move on." Time continued to slow, until eventually it was how it was and everything appeared normal. We turned to look at grandma, but she was gone and we were only holding each others paws.

"Ok, now that was weird." Myka giggled.

"You told her it would happen today, but when today?" I asked looking at Lupa.

"I don't know, it could have already happened." She replied.

"Then let's go, we need to see it." Myka said trying to urge us on.

"You want to see mom nearly rip open Scott's throat?" I chuckled.

"No, but we need to see the reason now don't we. I don't want to see our mother nearly rip open my father's throat." She replied as we then started running away towards their den. This was an event we didn't like to talk about, none of us, even mom and Scott, especially mom seeing as she was the one that did it. But this was an important event; it could be the event that sends us home. If it wasn't then we have three more tries, then after that, we're so screwed. Why can't Sirius just send us home? If Grandma has the ability, why can't she just take us forward and back in time? Maybe it was because of Myka's spell, maybe, because it was her, only she has the power to undo it.

So we ran and ran, sickeningly, not wanting to miss the moment mom nearly killed Scott and he broke her back. We ran off the path so we wouldn't be seen, this event had to happen, we couldn't interrupt it. So when we came close and peered out of a bush that we see mom only a few feet in front of us lying on that rise overlooking the Valley and Scott sitting in the entrance and watching her with his neck looking normal, did we then know it was about to kick off. In fact, it was two minutes later he got up quickly and stomped over to her and stood over her. Only a moment later she seethed and tensed up and snarled at him but without moving her head. "Stay out of my head." She didn't answer, she only snarled louder and started to bare her teeth without even facing him. Her growls and snarls grew louder until it finally happened. She spun around with such speed he never had a chance to react and it made us all gasp. She lashed out her paw towards his face, but he managed to move back to avoid his face, but she made contact with his neck and she dragged her claws down it and leaving three deep, jagged wounds running down it. He roared in pain and he threw his haand in her direction and then away, she scrapped across the ground and then into the air with just as much speed as her attack before slamming into a tree and an almighty loud crack erupted from her spine as well as an even louder yelp of pain. Myka gasped but I slammed her muzzle shut before she could make another noise.

Scott fell to the ground on his knees and held his hand against his bleeding wounds while mom pushed herself back to her paws, her spine was bent at a disgusting angle, we could see it. But it then cracked and snapped back into place which she seethed through before she then glared back at Scott and softly growled. Scott glared back at her and moments later, she suddenly let what looked like tears fall down her face as she snapped back into reality. She ran towards him and leaned against him in an affectionate embrace while Scott used his other hand to accept it. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." She sobbed.

"It's ok, I shouldn't have bothered you, you would have sorted yourself out eventually." He replied but still seething as the blood trickled down his neck. As a drop fell onto her muzzle, she pulled away and placed her paw over the wound, as a result his groaning and seething increased as her healing brings that stinging sensation with it. The blood trickled back up his neck, and that which hadn't dried into his clothes streamed back up and into the wound as it started to heal over. But as it came to the point it turned into a scar and that started to fade, he took her paw in his hand and removed it, showing us those three scars that we three knew all so well. She looked at him in confusion. "I want to keep them." He said with a reassuring smile. "To remind me to give you some space sometimes." She leaned against him again and he wrapped both his hands around her.

"I really am sorry, I didn't realise what I was doing before it was too late." She replied and softly crying. We thought that, that might be the moment to leave, so we pulled out of the bush while they were talking to themselves and walked away in silence.

I knew we were all thinking the same thing, we all just saw that happen. We all wondered why mom really did that, but now we know. That was something neither of us wanted to see and it looked like Myka was taking it the hardest. She had a cold, dreaded look in her eye, she looked scared, horrified even that she saw her parents do that to one another. But then again, we all were.

We walked some distance away before sitting down in a circle to face one another. We didn't have to say or do anything to know that, that wasn't the event we needed to see. But we tired. I saw Myka try and move a stick that lay between us, and Lupa held her paw in the air to conjure a shield ball, but nothing worked or happened. We looked at one another, all of us thinking, were we going to find the event on our second attempt, or were we only due for more heartbreak and disturbing memories of our parents?

A short chapter here guys, but i hope you still enjoyed it. I think i need to read through the Prophecy of the Starnik again so i know what to use. lol. So Never Unseen, have you been disappointed yet? Please leave a review as it's nice to get one and i get excited when my phone goes off saying i have one and i hope you enjoy what comes next. On a final note, i only aim to do at least another five chapters to this, so as i said, it won't be long at all. Will they get home, or are they due for more heart breaking memories and to remain in the past forever. What do you think this event they are searching for could be? I know. hehehe. Until next time. :D

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