A Twist in the Starnik's Past

Chapter 7: Fate, The Reason Why

Lupa's P.O.V

So our work was not yet done, but why? We found the event that gave us back our powers, but it was not the one to send us home. Myka can't take us back with another spell, and Sirius won't allow grandma to, asshole, I can't believe I let him live in the future. But then again, this was the time before all that, so he was an ass now and after. With all my arsenal of gifts, one of them isn't like grandma and to move through time, annoyingly. Myka tried another spell to move us forward in time, but that didn't work either, nothing we seem to do doesn't work. Mom and Scott shouldn't remember a thing according to grandma, good thing too; the things that we told them would have made the world a completely different place. But now that wasn't the problem, the real one now was how were we going to get home.

We sat around for hours, far away from the cliff with grandma, neither of us unable to come up with an idea of how to get home. Grandma kept saying how she was willing to break Sirius's rules and take us back, but we refused her to do so, she'd get into more trouble in doing so, and if she's sent to hell now, she wouldn't be able to find mom and Scott to reunite them in the future, give Scott the gift of lycanthropy, give me my gift as a psychic, therefore making me the earth bound angel, Myka would not have been born and therefore on-one would have been there to resurrect us or kill Sam. Everyone we so dearly loved would have died and wolf kind would have perished under their iron fist if grandma wasn't around. One thing leads to another, if the first didn't happen, then the rest wouldn't.

She reminded us that we had one last chance, and no matter if it was the right place or time, her memory would be erased automatically by Sirius and no-one would be able to help us. Myka would birth her pups before she was even born, I'd never see Faolan or my children again, Dakota would never be able to kiss Chance or have that family I know they've been trying to have, all we'd have is each other, and we'd have to stay side by side to survive and live a life separate from mom, Scott and eventually ourselves. But that was another question that ran through my mind. What was happening to us back in our time? If we had fallen through time as it seemed we did, then our bodies wouldn't be there and my children and mother would have just seen me vanish before their eyes. We've been gone for well over a day now; they are going to be worried about us. They're never going to see me again, or Jack, Myka and Chance, Dakota. This was so messed up, I didn't want to stay here, we all wanted to go home, that is all we want.

Eventually, the fact that it was now night and how we'd been up for a while started to come to us, and eventually we started to give into it. Dakota jumped us back to mom and Scott's den after grandma recommended it and that she'd watch out for them and anyone else that came close. Without saying anything, we lay scattered around and started to drift off to sleep. I wasn't going to sleep yet; Dakota and Myka were nearly there inside the den whereas I was just resting my eyes lying outside, I didn't feel the cold anywhere near as much. I was just relaxing for a while when I then heard a voice that made me open my eyes a little. Staying where I was and leaving my head on my paws, I looked around with my eyes, no-one was around so I dismissed it as the wind and closed them again.

"…Sound asleep." I heard that echoed voice again. I shot my eyes opened and raised my head; I defiantly heard something that time. It was a female's voice, and it sounded like mom. But if it was them or anyone else, grandma said she'd wake us up.

"I wonder what they're seeing." A male's voice then asked. I knew that one from anywhere.

"Faolan?" I called out a little loudly and looking around.

"They were looking for a family matter, I'm sure they'll be up soon."

"Mom!" I called out again this time a little louder. I woke up Dakota and Myka as they soon were stood at the entrance of the den.

"Lupa? What is it?" Dakota asked groggily.

"Shush!" I snapped and looking around the area outside. They remained behind me and looked around puzzled.

"It's weird to see them like this." Faolan chuckled.

"Did you hear that?" I asked in a near whisper to them behind me.

"Hear what? What can you hear?" Myka asked. I didn't reply, instead I took a few steps out to listen again.

"Oh no, she's having another Lupa moment." Dakota sighed. A "Lupa moment" to him is when he thinks I have a moment where I either start talking to myself or I see something he can't. Whereas really it's some spirit that caught my attention. It happened a lot when I got this gift from grandma seeing as I couldn't control it and filter out the voices. It's been a while since I heard voices at random, but nothing like this. Mom and Faolan aren't dead, so how come I was hearing them? I had a cold breeze not pass by me, but run through me, and there was no wind, so it can't have been the weather. I linked in with that breeze and when I did, I started to see two transparent figures that were mom and Faolan, but they weren't any other colour but white and they left behind a trail of tiny white orb like things. Even I hadn't seen anything like this. Was this some gift I had and didn't know about? Grandma would have to teach me these things again at some point, there was a lot I still didn't know about psychokinesis. Three more figures appeared in front of them, it was me, Dakota and Myka. We lay side by side and paws touching. But we were lay with our heads up as if we were awake, yet our eyes were closed.

"It's nice, it such a lovely thing to see my children together like this." Mom replied.

"Just out of curiosity Miss Rosie, but why are they doing whatever it is they are doing?" I smiled a little, mom hated him calling her "Miss Rosie", yet he still did it, but as a sign of politeness to her.

"They wanted to know why I fell in love with Scott before he became a wolf, I don't know what they're doing." I think I started to understand what this was. It must have been some sort of echo from the future. But how come only I was seeing this seeing as Myka and Dakota clearing weren't.

"If you don't mind my asking, but why did you?"

"Beats me." She giggled as she looked down at us. "I'd like to know the same thing." She stroked the side of my cheek, and at the same time I felt as if someone was genuinely beside me doing it. I placed a paw over it, but nothing was there. "I guess it's because Scott was always there for me, before and after Shadow, he was even there for Lupa and Dakota when they needed. He was my friend for many years; I couldn't have imagined my life without him."

"A lot less eventful might be one way." He chuckled and then making her laugh more.

"Oh yeah, defiantly." She laughed. "But I couldn't think of a better life. If he hadn't come back for me, it's likely we'd all be dead." That last sentence repeated and echoed in my mind for a moment before then fading away as well as mom's voice. Those orb like things dimmed before disappearing and I stood staring at the spot where it all happened. Suddenly, it hit me in the face like a slap.

A few minutes later, grandma brought us to our last try, something we could only hope was right. We were on a rooftop, hopefully at the right time and place we had to be if my memory serves right. It was night, but the streets were lit brightly with street lights and the sounds of car horns and people could be heard from miles around. Grandma wanted us to be sure this was the right place, before she brought us even I wasn't sure, but it did have some thought to it. It made sense if we thought about it long enough. So after the longest hug we've ever had from her, she brought us here and disappeared back to her own time to have her memory erased. If this was the wrong time then we're now on our own, there's nothing we can do about it. But I was more or less certain that we had to be here. Myka and Dakota didn't seem to see why I saw what I did, or the sense that this could be the place to send us home, but they thought it was better then lying around for another day or perhaps a week until we found what we were looking for.

So here we are, on the night that made mom and Scott became what they were today. They night they were separated. We heard a loud crash followed by a booming explosion, so we ran to the edge of the rooftop; we were in a large town centre. Basically a large roundabout with shops and apartments on the outside and the actually roundabout looked like a small park type thing with a few trees, benches and stone paths to walk around on. To the right of us and on the far side we saw Scott yelling and crying out loudly as he used his power to throw people and cars around like a human's doll. The three of us watched in awe, he told us this happened, but not like this. It was this night that made them stronger. Because of this night, mom met dad, birthed Dakota and me, dad died and Myka was born after Scott and mom fell in love. Everything that was to happened was because of this night; this night was the reason everything happened. Had it not happened, nothing would have happened the way it was supposed to, in fact, nothing that was supposed to have happened would have happened.

People ran in fear of him, police fired at him, but he fired back using his power and throwing more things around as he did. I remember him telling us that he thought mom died on this night so he went on a rampage across the town, destroying and killing anyone he saw, whether it was the Ditori or an innocent. Suddenly, we saw mom, Tony, Dean and Skye come running out of a street and towards him, the humans peeled off from mom and then cover behind a car while mom ran for Scott who after he saw her flew into her paws and she did to his arms. Not long after that did the Ditori start coming in from all sides and a helicopter fly over our heads. They ran again, but then saw how they were blocked in, in the middle of the centre.

They were surrounded on all sides with no way out, the Ditori surrounded them and civilians started to come out and witness what was happening. A man stepped out of the helicopter and walked towards the line that surrounded them, we couldn't hear what they were saying, we were way to far away. I'd say we were nearly fifty feet high up here and over one hundred feet from them.

"Ok, so why are we here again?" Dakota then asked.

"This event is responsible for mom meeting dad and Scott coming back to find mom. If he hadn't or one of then died tonight, dad wouldn't have died, Scott and mom wouldn't have fallen in love and Myka wouldn't have been born. Everything comes down to this moment."

"I didn't remember them telling us how they got out of this one." Myka added.

"The Starnik have an incantation which when they said it transported them far away from one another so they could live a normal life and live normally. Mom and Scott used it on this night because there wasn't any other way out." Suddenly, there were several sounds of gun shots that made us focus back onto them. The Ditori opened fire with everything they had, but the bullets didn't come closer then a few feet as Scott caught them with his telekinesis. Silence only came when there wasn't anything left to shoot. The bullets fell to the ground while the Ditori reloaded.

"If I'm right..." I contiuned. "That incantation made a fire consume them and acted as a shield before they were transported away." When I spoke, we could just about make mom and Scott yell as they were shot with the drug that took away their powers. Now I remember what happens, but then I thought about something else. They said that grandma came to them, stopped time and found a way to give them back their powers and allowed them to do what was needed. But upon thinking that, I thought back to when they told me that grandma tried to warn them of this, that she tried to tell them that the Valley Pack was going to die and that the Ditori were coming after them. What if Sirius's mind wipe seeped that bit of information through so she remembered that we told her, just not that it was us that told her it. It had to be the only explanation, we were the reason she came to know that, so if her mind wipe from Sirius failed and leaked through that piece of information, then that's how she remembered it. But on more thinking back, there was also the time she tried to tell us that dad was going to die, another thing we told her of, so therefore another moment when her mind wipe failed.

I was snapped out of thought when I heard that man shout, but not loud enough to know what he said. "So they say that incantation that sends them away?" Myka questioned.

"Yeah, any moment now." I replied as we watched on. The Ditori reloaded their weapons. This was it, the moment we had been waiting for, or so we hoped. Scott stood up and mom jumped up onto his chest to stare into his eyes. But we only started to grow worried, nothing was happening. The man ordered they take aim, so they did, but still nothing happened.

"Nothing's happening." Dakota seethed as he too started to see what I was, that nothing was happening.

"It'll happen, don't worry." I replied as we watched on. But the worry in me and my siblings only started to grow, still nothing happened. We could make out mom and Scott's lips moving, but nothing happened. If I had a heartbeat, it would've burst out of my chest from the worry in me. Something wasn't right, they should be going by now. Suddenly, Myka took a few quick steps closer to the edge and said and fast as she could.

"We've found our parents mysterious desire, now consume them both with Starnik's fire." Her eyes flashed with Starnik energy and when we looked down to them again, a green fire burst out the ground and swirled around them. We could see them through small gaps in that fire. And it was when the Ditori and civilians stepped back from the searing heat that man yelled so loud we could hear.

"FIRE!" I stepped forward beside my sister and threw out my paw in their direction. As soon as they fired, one of my shields surround them within the fire so it was hardly seen, it blended in together nicely. Dakota then stepped forwards in-between us and held out one of his paws towards them as Myka did as well. When she did, everyone surrounding them went soaring back and away as if some shockwave had hit them and the firing ceased. It was then that Dakota with his paw held out, raised it quickly and towards the sky that mom and Scott vanished in two balls of fire into the sky and in two different directions. The fire started to die down and the crowd jumped to their feet, some running for their lives and other ready to fire again, but at nothing, they had gone. It was a minute later that the Ditori climbed into their vehicles and that man in his helicopter that they drove and flew away. We recognised Skye, Tony, Dean and my step grandparents, Jenny and David, walk into the centre of some crater and talked quietly.

We were stood where we were, right on the edge of the building as we looked down at everything. We turned and walked back a little way as not to be seen before sitting to face one another in complete silence. It was fate, our destiny, it was in our future to come here and do this. It was us that made mom and Scott separate; it was their children that made the Starnik live. It was us that made grandma try and warn them of this night, it was us that made her try and warn us of Dad's passing, it was us that made them separate on this night, we are the ones that made the Starnik who they are. We got our powers for a reason. Myka her gift of Wicca to create that fire to conceal them, I that shield which let them live and Dakota the one to teleport them far away to be safe and carry out the prophecy. It was fate we received these gifts; it was our future to come back to this time and see and do what we've just done. It was the Starnik's children that made the Starnik do what they had done.

But the more important thing was our question. Why did our mother fall in love with a human? It was because of us. They fell in love because we were the ones that made everything fall into place before it even happened. We were the ones that made everything happen the way it was supposed is no Starnik incantation, we are the Starnik's incantation!

We tried to get our head around that fact when we started to hear a rumbling sound, one we have been wanting to hear for over a day now, the same one that we heard before we came hear. It was soon after that a bright light just seemed to appear from all around us from nowhere. I closed my eyes as it grew to blinding levels and it consumed us all.

I opened my eyes what felt like only a few seconds later to another light, but the natural daylight, not some supernatural light. I looked around, Dakota and Myka just opened their eyes to my left as we lay in our line with Myka right beside me and Dakota on the other side. We looked around, before us was a gap in the trees with a view of a Valley, behind us was mom and Scott's den, but no-one was around. I looked back at my siblings when Dakota asked.

"Are we back?" Myka looked at me and then down to my paws when a smile grew on her face. I followed it and at my paws lay, curled around another were three pups, but not just any pups, but mine. My jaw dropped a little and a tear of joy fell down my cheek as I took my paw off Myka's and stroked my daughter, Sarah's face. She smiled in her slumber and shifted around a little as to get more comfy.

"Ahh finally." A voice said from behind. Lying where we were, we looked around and walking from the den entrance came my beloved mate. Foalan walked towards me and nuzzled my neck, but when he went to pull back, I carefully manoeuvred myself to sit up and I wrapped my paws around him without saying anything and let another tear fall down my cheek. "What's wrong?" He chuckled as he wrapped his paws around me.

"I thought I'd never see you again." I muttered.

"What made you think that?" He laughed lightly again. "You've only been out a little over an hour." I pulled back quickly and looked him in the eye.

"What?" Myka asked before I could.

"You've only been out for an hour, why something wrong?" He asked.

"We've been gone nearly two days, how is that?" Dakota asked.

"Ok, I don't know what you three saw, but you've been here this entire time and only for an hour."

"Where is everyone else?" Myka then asked.

"Your mom and dad are out on a walk and Chance was about to throw up, so Jack went with her."

"Wait, What?" Dakota stuttered.

"Dakota!" Chance yelled as she came running up the slope to our right, barrelling passed us and flying into his chest. He wrapped his paws around her and smiled as he inhaled her scent.

"What are you doing here?"

"I brought her." Faolan answered. "I thought that you'd be out for a while when we got back so I brought her."

"How?" I asked.

"Myka's not the only witch remember." He chuckled as he kissed me.

"We were getting worried." Chance giggled as she kissed him.

"We?" He laughed.

"I'm pregnant." He pulled back fast and looked her in the eye. He looked her from there to her stomach and then back.

"Really?" He gasped.

"Oh yeah, I can see that something's there that wasn't a few days ago." She giggled and kissing him again.

Nobodies P.O.V

Jack walked around to Myka while they spoke together and it was a few minutes later that Rosie and Scott returned and greeted us again. The news was shared about Chance and the small family pack hung around the rest of the day to enjoy each other's company. The pups acted like pups upon seeing their mother awake and both Chance and Myka weren't so relieved when they were blessed with nausea, but both were happy that the family were due more arrivals and hopefully more extraordinary gifts as the rest of the family had. As night fell, Myka was sat over looking the Valley through the trees as her mother came to join her, now it was her with a question on her mind. "So…" She said. "Did you find your answer?" She asked. Myka turned to look at her. Rosie so awaited to hear this answer, but she didn't care; she loved her mate with all her heart so she didn't care for an answer. Myka grinned.

"Nope, sorry." She lied. Rosie only smiled and licked her cheek.

"Good, because it's more fun that way." She giggled.

"Ok, but tell me this." Myka then said and turning to face her more. "When was the first time you came into heat?"

"You should know that, it was when I met Shadow."

"Really?" Myka asked.

"Yeah…" She replied and not understanding what her daughter was talking about. "Why?"

"No reason, just curious." Myka asked as she then started walking away with a large grin on her face. Rosie sat still trying to think what her youngest daughter was taking about, but she couldn't think why.

"Hey, wait a minute." Rosie said after seeing that her daughter was hiding something. Myka only laughed and started running, therefore causing her mother to run after her to seek that answer. Myka never will or did tell her mother what she meant that night and it was a secret she took to her grave. But it wasn't the only thing she, Lupa and Dakota took with them and didn't share. That question still remained, why did their mother fall in love with a human? The answer…well, that's something we shall never know. But I think between the brother and sisters, it was because of the world they live in, a world full of wonder, but also a world full of magic. Magic in the Starnik's blood, passed down through the natural and most amazing magic that was their children. It was their children that made everything fall into place and therefore see the love they had for one another. The Starnik went down in history symbolising family, but in a way that wasn't seen by anyone even themselves, they symbolised magic, that magic can be found in the most unlikely of places and in the most ordinary of beings. Magic surrounds us everyday in both fiction and reality, sometimes hidden, sometimes not. If it was, then it was in plain site. Magic swarms us in our lives everyday; you just have to know where to look.

So hear we are, final finished. I did say that this was going to be a short story. So how did i do, what do you guys think? Never Unseen, were you disappointed? I want to thank you guys for reading and reviewing. I want to thank Lonelywithbackenglish2, The Dark Shadow, The Omega's Alpha, Boltandmaybelle247, Never Unseen, The-Crazy-Lone-Wolf and JohnWolf234 for reviewing, you guys are just amazing. I hope you like it.

Some more news here guys, for those that don't know me very well, i never leave the Archive long, so guess what, you will see me back here very soon with a brand new story. I only thought of it the other day, but I've already thought of how it will go and everything other then the title of it. It'll be a supernatural fiction, obviously seeing as this is me here. hahaha The summery goes a little like this: "In a world where werewolves exist and the world knows it, they are treated like dirt most of the time, the world refuses to accept them in society. This story follows a seventeen year old named Cole who is one and lives in a town with his family who are just like him, but he's got a little extra under his belt them the rest of them. He's the only one who can turn into the wolf for special reasons, but his family still have their abilities. No-one knows of their bloodline, but when Cole tells someone he thought he could trust with his secret, it backfires and soon the whole town knows and treats him the complete opposite to how they used to. It's about how he goes out to try and gain the town and his friends acceptance once more and to be a part of the community again." How does that sound? I hope you think it sounds good, but if you don't then don't read it, i'm going to do it either way.

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