A Twist in the Starnik's Past
Chapter 5: Busted
Myka's P.O.V
Grams brought us back to a time before all that, to the time just before mom gave dad those scars and back in the Valley. Before she vanished, we were able to ask her why she couldn't just take us home, and we had the Answer Lupa sort of knew we'd get, Sirius. He knew we had come back from the future thanks to grams being his recon wolf as all guides are, but he wanted to see if we could find our own way back and prove we are worthy of our powers, something along the lines of that. So therefore, he forbid grams to take us back and only gave us four chances, two of which we have used. In my sisters own words, "he's an asshole", something grams wanted to agree with, but she couldn't.
When we arrived at our new time and destination it was still night, so grams suggested we find a place to sleep, she said we looked tired. But we didn't want to go to sleep; we just wanted to go home and be with our families and have mine in my own time with their father by my side. But we did see how tired we were, it was starting to wear us down. So we gave into it as she faded away and left to find a place to sleep. But we were foolish. We chose to sleep out in the open, so we lay side by side each other, but we were seen.
Only a minute after we settled, a black wolf came walking around the corner. Instantly I thought it was dad, but this would have been before a time he changed at will and the green eyes proved it wasn't. He saw us, and instantly started snarling and crouching to a defensive position and demanded to know what we were doing in his territory. As we got up, Lupa seemed to have recognised him. She said it was a wolf named Saren, Alpha of the Valley Pack, she said she knew this because she recognises him from the afterlife, one of the many wolves and people who came to greet them when they all died the night I was born. So now, we've been seen by one of the many people we didn't want to be seen by. We explained to him how we weren't a threat and convinced him further with a lie, that we were invited here by the Starnik and asked to seek them out and that they'd offer shelter. He took a moment, but it seems he bought the idea, so he led us back towards his pack in which he regrettably introduced us to his pack, so now we had nearly thirty wolves that knew of us being here.
We were given shelter, a small den large enough for us. Saren did the honours of taking us there, but before he left, he strangely said what a nice "family" we were. Dakota didn't really think much of it, but when he turned to look at Lupa and me, we saw it as a far funnier thing. So we explained it to him, he must have thought we were a family rather then siblings. Lupa's the same age as Dakota after all and I'm a few years younger, I guess it looks like in his eyes Lupa was Dakota's mate and I their pup. We found it hilarious, I started playfully and jokingly started calling him dad and Lupa mom, and Lupa playing as the loving mate that sent shivers up his spine. We walked into the den and lay down together again for body heat seeing as it was a cold night. Lupa lay with her head resting on Dakota's neck and me just behind her on his chest, both of us complimenting like they used to on how much of a good pillow he was, because he was, warm and comfortable. But then we had a serious talk, if they thought we were a family, Lupa suggested then it would be a good cover for us, something that would be a little more explainable. A family travelling was easy to talk about, three siblings was a little stranger, more suspicious. It was something we didn't want to do, something that was a little weird, but it was all a good cover story. So we agreed, in a way, we all found it funny, I did look a little like both of them in a way. Dakota and I had the same eyes colour, but his were a little darker if you looked up close, we had the same black fur other then he had white as well, whereas the tips and flecks of brown I had would be easily explained as coming from Lupa. In another way, it was rather sick to be thinking that, but we all still found it funny. We could talk to each other about anything as Lupa once told me and we have, we're siblings, it didn't mean anything. So if Lupa and I used to talk to Dakota about being in heat, then faking to be a family didn't matter. We fell asleep, comfortable and warm as a "family", but technically, we are a family.
But that night I had a dream, or at least I think it was. Although I didn't see anything, I certainly heard something. I distinctly remember hearing a howl, and mom and dad's at that. Throughout the "dream", that's all I heard, and all I saw was black. Did it mean something?
I awoke the next morning; seemingly the first seeing as Dakota was slightly snoring and Lupa's breathing was calm and smooth. There was plenty of light outside, so it was defiantly morning, so I had time to think over that dream. After minutes of thinking, it hit me like a brick to the face, it was so obvious. I sat up to think it over again, but my quick movements didn't go unnoticed. Dakota took a quicker breath like a breath of shock, and Lupa being on his neck must have felt it so they both woke up to see me sitting beside them. "Myka?" Lupa groaned. "What's wrong?"
"I think I know what we're looking for." I replied. Their eyes snapped open and they both moved their heads to look up at me as I looked down at them.
"What?" Dakota asked still sleepily.
"Their first howl." I answered. "They howled together before they met your dad, so their howls would have matched. If their howls matched then they were destined to be with one another, so that must have been it."
"They were only friends when they did that." Lupa answered and sitting up slowly.
"But it's a sign that they were made to be together. It's a sign they were meant to fall in love."
"I think she has a point." Dakota replied as he stretched off his back. "It's makes perfect sense to me."
"But are we sure?" Lupa asked. "We could make a mess of this and waste another try. I agree that it's possible, but are we sure?" We all looked around at one another, she was right, we couldn't mess this up, we had one attempt after this to get this right, we couldn't be wrong.
"I'm certain." Dakota replied.
"Me too." I added.
"Then let's call grandma." Lupa said as we then walked outside in which Dakota called out for her and she appeared before us in a moment.
"You know, I can't sense you when I try unless you call me." She said moments after she appeared before us and pointing to me.
"That'll be this." I replied and holding my paw up to motion to dad's one. "It stops spirits and has even stopped Sirius from finding me."
"That's useful." She responded. "But annoying."
"You get used to it." I giggled.
"So, where are you off to this time?" She then asked.
"Mom and Dad's first howl, that's gotta be it." I replied.
"And they matched?" She questioned as she held out her paw. We took hold of it, but just before I opened my mouth to answer, she spoke again. "Don't answer that." So I didn't. Once more she started talking in that gibberish language and like the first time, day turned back into night and then back into day before turning once more to night in only a minute. Wolves walked passed and the clouds flew over head at impossibly speeds. As time slowed again, it came to be night and grams stated to fade away. Only a minute after it started, we were in another time, two days after where we were previously. We hadn't moved, not physically anyway, we still sat outside the den, just the three of us as Gram's returned to her own time again. Only seconds after we arrived, laughter came from around the corner, and when we looked around, Saren and a few other wolves walked around, but after seeing us, he approached us and left his wolves where they stood.
"So here you are." He smiled. "We were wondering if you've moved on seeing as we haven't seen you for a while."
"We're sorry, we've been exploring." Lupa quickly answered and winking at Dakota and me.
"No need to be sorry, you're part of the pack now, we look after our pack."
"Well, thanks." Dakota replied.
"So, if you're not exploring now, there's going to be a moonlight howl tonight, would you care to join us?" He then asked. It took us by surprise to say the least. We looked around at one another, until finally we accepted his offer and we walked away with him. In a way, it was a good thing to do this, hiding and being unsocial if anything would only draw attention and suspicion, so the smart thing to do would be to go out and act normal, something we were told not to do. So to be unnoticed, we had to…be noticed. Strange…
So they led us out and across the Valley plain and up the slope leading to the top of that cliff that mom and dad liked to go to in our time and the same one they told us they learnt to use their powers at. We arrived and many of the pack were up there and howling already with friends, family and with hopeful mates to be, all either way having fun and howling their songs with or too one another.
We stopped just at the top of the trail and let the others walk on, we weren't really sure what we should do now, do we turn around and walk away, do we go in a sit around watching or do we go in and howl? Lupa seemed to be the one to decide for us and ushered us to have a little fun while we could and howl. So we followed her towards the back and the three of us sat near the tree line. A three way howl, something I'm not sure I've heard of before. We sat around awkwardly, not sure who was going to do what, until suddenly my brother threw back his head and howled into the nights sky, nothing special, just a soothing howl. Lupa joined in a moment after we listened into him and I did shortly after to complete the sibling howl of ours. It was a simple howl; nothing much really went into it seeing as we didn't know what we were howling about or what the others really were hearing on the inside. But then something happened that seemed to have sparked things up a little. I don't know why, but I felt words start coming to me, words that eventually I started to sing out.
(AN/: You should know this, Anything written like this is sung by Dakota, Anything like this is sung by Lupa, Anything in a normal font like so is sung by Myka, And anything like this is sung by all of them.)
"Midnight creeps so slowly,
Into heart of those who need more then they get…" But suddenly, Lupa started as I howled along the tune in which Dakota started doing as well.
Daylight deals a bad hand,
To a wolf that has laid to many bets!" But then, Dakota sang out with a powerful voice and exchanged with Lupa.
"Oh, I'll shine tonight with you,
Like you want me to,
And I'll hold you tight, baby oh!"
"The mirror stares, you in the face, and says baby…" Then we all howled as a part of what we felt come to us before we all brought our song to an end.
"You say your prayers, though you don't care,
You say your prayers, though you don't care!"
We finished our song laughing; we hadn't done something like that in a while so it was fun to do it again. We leaned against one another seeing as the laughing started to make us wobbly. But then we heard clapping, so we looked to our left and behind us and immediately our laughter subsided. Mom and Dad were sat with smiles watching us from right there and applauding us. We froze, thoughts of what to do went right out the window.
"What do we do?" Lupa whispered frantically.
"Oh don't stop on our account." Mom said. "It sounded good."
"Err, thanks." Dakota replied as Lupa and I still leaned against him either side, too frozen to move.
"You look the perfect family." Scott added.
"Oh yeah, the perfect family." I giggled.
"With my daughter and mate, nothing can make anything worse." Lupa replied just as playfully and nuzzling Dakota's neck.
"So, had your crazy moment now?" Mom then asked.
"Excuse me?" Lupa asked.
"The other day?" She questioned as if it was obvious. "We found you and when you woke up you thought I was your mom." She added with a light laugh.
"Oh that." Dakota replied. "You look a lot like her, sorry about that."
"Well if you hadn't noticed, I'm only two; I don't plan on having kids yet."
"I'm four, so that can't be possible." He chuckled but with a hint of it being fake. Lupa and I finally had the sense to get up off of him, so we sat beside him either side as we turned to face them. But wait, why weren't we running? We couldn't be seen by anyone, let alone them!
"Well to tell you something, you're mate looks a lot like my mom." She replied.
"Strangely alike." Scott added.
"What a coincidence." Lupa said with a fake laugh but with an expression of shock. They both looked at us for a moment as if studying us for something, mom more then anything. Her eyes narrowed as she looked at us one by one as if looking for something, her way she uses on us to look for a lie.
"There's something not quite right about this picture." She finally said after an agonising moment of awkwardness.
"Well I don't know what that could be." Dakota answered.
"Me neither." Lupa replied. We seriously had to get out of here; I seemed to be the only one who knew that.
"Hey dad, you said after this you'd teach met to track, can we go now?" I asked looking at Dakota and gesturing to the slope that led away from here. He took a moment, but he understood eventually and confirmed he did with a nod.
"Sure honey, we can use the forest." He replied. "Well that was a good talk, I'm sure we'll meet again." He added as we started moving towards the trees that led behind them.
"It was good to see you, see you around." Scott replied with a wave as we merged with the trees, but as soon as we did, it turned into a full on sprint to get away. We ran for a minute before slowing to a gradual halt.
"You called me dad?" Dakota chuckled.
"Oh so, "hey bro, can we go now because our mom and dad from the passed might find out about us" was ok to say?" I laughed. "Besides, you called me honey!"
"We can't go back." Lupa added with an amused smile. "I think she nearly sussed us out."
"We have to; we've got to see it remember." I replied.
"Let's go then, we can't miss it." Dakota added as we then started walking back. "Just don't call me your dad again."
"Fine, just don't call me honey…Daddy." I giggled and playfully shoving him. We walked the distance back, but as we did we couldn't hear the howls and songs of the pack, so they must have left. We looked over that rock that they were sat on to see they were sitting down right on the edge of the cliff talking, we had to strain our hearing to make what they were saying.
"…can't, I'm not a wolf." We heard Dad say.
"You don't need to be a wolf, I've heard you sing. Now howl!" Mom demanded. He sighed and sat down beside her looking out over the valley. He opened his mouth and attempted to howl. It sounded like a caribou choking on nails; it was dreadful, so bad it made us all seethe and I scraped my claws along the stone leaving four marks down it. How was it mom fell in love with that? Oh wait, "that" is my father.
"I told you I can't" He said laughing and a obviously embarrassed.
"Try again, but take a moment, look inside yourself and howl from right here." She said placing her paw his chest. "And I'll join in when you do." He nodded and looked back over to the Valley and waited a moment as he searched for that howl. Suddenly he opened his mouth and let out a quiet, soothing, soft howl, but as he took another breath, he continued it and threw out a far more powerful voice that was his howl in which mom joined in only seconds later with her matching howl. So this was it, this was how dad learnt to howl. We listened to them and that amazing joining howl that was my parents. Mom must have known they were made for one another, but then again, he wasn't a wolf yet. If my memory serves right, the night after this one was the night dad first turned after grams gave him his lycanthropy that made him my father.
I was snapped out of thought when I realised they had finished howling and mom was walking towards us, so we ducked behind the rock and waited for her to pass. When she did, we had one last look at Dad who sat facing the moon feeling as proud as he could before turning around and thinking over what happened. "Do you guys feel any different?" I asked. They both looked at me, when suddenly, Dakota vanished before our eyes and left behind that jump scar that he does. I couldn't believe it! I found a large log, so when I waved my paw in its direction and to the side; it flew off the ground, across to the left and split in half upon impacting a tree. Lupa held up her paw and one of her green, electric like shield balls appeared and illuminated the area around us before she threw it and it exploded in an electric burst.
"It worked!" She screamed a happily. We wrapped our paws around one another and laughed it away. But I felt something on her that only proved it further that we had our powers back. She wasn't breathing, I couldn't feel her heartbeat and she felt colder then she did earlier, she was dead, again.
"So we can go home now?" She questioned.
"I guess." I replied. But then something came to me. If we found what we were looking for, then why were we still here? We should have gone home by now.
"Wait where's Dakota? He should be back." Lupa said as we started looking around. But I saw something that made my heart lurch and made us run as fast as we could into the forest. Dad saw us, and something told me he saw something he wasn't meant to see.
Dakota's P.O.V
It worked, we could go home now! I just jumped, I had my powers back, meaning so did my sisters. I appeared where we ran to earlier; it was the first, safest place I could think of to jump to. I cheered to myself and jumped in happiness that we could finally go home, but there was an issue with just jumping back. I looked around, and mom walked out of the bushes, seemingly in shock that I was here. I froze again, unable to think of what to do. "Oh, hey, what are you doing here?" She asked.
"I… was… er, I was...just…" I stuttered and mumbled my words, I hadn't thought I'd run into her again so I hadn't any excuses. I couldn't jump away, I couldn't do anything. Finally I managed to get some words out. "What are you doing out here?" I asked.
"Well, if you must know I had to use the little girl's room." She giggled as she walked closer. There was something about it that made me feeling uncomfortable, and it wasn't just the fact that she was my mother; there was something else about it. "So, do you want to tell me the truth?" She then asked.
"What truth?" I asked back.
"Who those she-wolves really are." She replied.
"Lupa's my mate." I seethed, it was a horrid idea. "And Myka's our pup." Another sick idea that made me want to gag.
"Yeah, I don't buy it." She said shaking her head and sitting opposite me. I sighed, she knew I was lying and knowing her she won't stop unless she found out the true answer.
"They're my sisters." I replied hanging my head.
"There, now that wasn't too hard to say now was it?" She giggled.
"Sorry, but we're new to the area and it would sound weird if not suspicious that three siblings were travelling like that." I replied.
"True, but there's nothing wrong with it, I'm sure the pack understand."
"They still think we're a family." I chuckled lightly.
"So, does that mean you're not taken?" She then asked as she shuffled a little closer towards me, an action that made me be wary of her actions. I thought for a moment, technically Chance hadn't been born yet, so I answered.
"Not yet." I answered just playing with myself and not thinking much of the consequences of saying that. I don't know why, but she growled as if in glee before getting to her paws and moving around closer to me and starting to circle me. Now I was getting really worried, even more so when she started running her tail across my body. I took a breath out of nervousness, but that breath only made me sense something and see the same thing in her eye as she came around. Her eyes, they were full of lust, temptation and desire. "Err. Rosie?" I said worried.
"Yeah?" She replied as if in a daze while she continued to circle me.
"What are you doing?"
"Just admiring you." My eyes shot open. Oh crap, mom's got the hots for me. I need to get out of here.
"Well I'd better get back." I aid quickly and turning to walk away, but she was faster and jumped to block me.
"Why? What's the rush?" She then asked.
"Lupa and Myka will be worried about me."
"They're big girls; they can take care of themselves." She started walking towards me, so I started walking backwards with my tail tucked under slightly.
"Oh shit." I muttered as I frantically looked for a way to get out of here without revealing myself. But there wasn't, if I ran she'd only catch me. I looked behind me, a log was coming up which would block me, so I turned to face her again. But it was the wrong move. She lunged forwards and pressed her muzzle against mine. My eyes shot wide open as I continued to walk back faster, but she kept up with me. Eventually, I tripped over that log and fell backwards and therefore taking her with me. She stood over me and finally broke that kiss.
"Whoa there boy, taking things a little fast aren't we?" She giggled and her eyes still in a daze.
"Mom, you don't understand." I said as I tried to push her off.
"Oh so you want to play it that way?" She giggled again. "Who's your mommy?" She said again just before she pushed her muzzle against mine again. I tried to fight her off, but she stood on my paws and pinned me to the ground. I wriggled and writhed under her, but that seemed to only excite her all the more. I didn't want to kick her, but then again I didn't want to make out with my own mother. But suddenly, Lupa and Myka came bursting through the bushes and to a grinding halt to see this sick and disturbing sight that was our mother making out with me. She thankfully stopped and looked back at them while still standing over me.
"Do you mind? We'd like a little privacy?"
"Kota what the hell!" Lupa exclaimed. Her gaze was away from me, so I took this as an opportunity to jump and I reappeared just in front of her. She looked back at me and I jumped to my paws and ran around her to my sisters.
"I tried to stop her, but I couldn't." I replied wiping my lips.
"Oh come on now, I know you like me." She laughed and walking dizzily towards us. I took a breath of relief that that moment was over, but that only brought an answer to why she did that. I inhaled the unmistakable scent that was a she-wolf's heat, and it wasn't coming from anyone else but her But that can't be, her first season was when she met dad, she can't be. But my nose smelt otherwise. Myka and Lupa inhaled it as well, both scenting that same smell.
"Dad saw us; we have to call grams get out of here." Myka said after scenting her.
"And leave so soon cutie?" Mom giggled.
"I'm taken." I yelled at her. "I have a mate already." Her ears immediately drooped and her head started to fall.
"I'm sorry; I don't know what came over me." She sighed in shame.
"Let's get the hell out of here." I said as we turned around to walk away, but then Scott came charging through the bushes, something that made Myka and Lupa gasp.
"What the hell was that back there?" He demanded. "What did you do?" I looked to my half sister for an answer.
"We think he saw us use our powers."
"Scott what is it?" Mom then asked behind us.
"She moved something without touching it like I can." He said pointing to Myka. "And she made some green light that exploded against a tree, the same colour as our eyes." She added.
"Really?" Mom questioned. "Well that one managed to disappear underneath me and appear in front of me." She replied and pointing to me. They both stared us down while we stood not knowing what to do. Busted.
One of my good old, Dun dun dun moments. So what will happen next? Rosie, let's hope that if they can get back she won't remember any of that, but i guess Dakota's going to be a little scarred now, i highly doubt he's going to remember that. I was a little stuck on this chapter, i wasn't sure if i should give them their powers back now or at the final event. But after some consideration, i decided that i wouldn't be able to make any sense of how they got their powers back in the event i wanted to use. So i stuck with this. So, why haven't they gone home yet, have they been busted, will you ever know the answer to these questions?
On the last note, you might remember that i once said that in this story "everything happens for a reason". That was nothing to do with the series at the time, but now that is a saying that you must remember, it is now officially a part of this story. In this story now, everything does happen for a reason, and that will be explained in the next and final chapter. Well done to those that guess right that this was the event that their powers are returned, i only just decided that it would be this morning. So, until next time guys. :)
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