Most of us were ready to kill something and we were only half way to Miami and Kyle wouldn't stop singing the theme song at the top of his lungs off key for his own enjoyment and entrainment instead of reviewing the case files like we were supposed to do on the way to start investigating a case. He also decided to make up some of his own ridiculous lyrics which started to be a little annoying but Mandy and I thought it was hilarious to no end. No wonder Mandy was already laughing at him and someone else dancing around the cabin like he was drunk except he wasn't falling over like normal drunks would do. Jessie rolled her eyes for the eighth time in the last hour and turned away from him trying to concentrate which wasn't that easy with him around. He was still singing loudly off key. I was trying not to laugh at him and act annoyed too but it wasn't working very well at all because he and his friend were actually really funny.
Hotch looked up at Kyle, then looked back down at the files, suddenly his head flew up again with a shocked look all over his face which quickly vanished replaced by confusion. He stared at Kyle for a moment longer and looked away shaking his head unsure what had just happened and what he had just seen and went back to his case file. There was nothing out of the ordinary when he looked twice but the time before he thought he had seen someone dancing with Kyle though no one else was there when he looked a second time. He had to of imagined it also sense Kyle was the only one he knew of that would dance and act crazy like he was at the moment.
Mandy and I looked at each other shocked after we saw Hotch's face when he thought he had seen something different and then shot warning glances at Kyle and his partner to stop him from acting so crazy before we all lost our minds.
Kyle noticed our looks and stopped dancing and singing to ask us "What?" He got a little innocent look on his a face like a child's.
"Nothing you're just being completely crazy and a complete nutcase." I rolled my eyes. "I'm surprised someone hasn't lost their sanity with you around yet. If you keep this up we'll all go insane and be sitting around a camp fire sing Kumbia by the time we get to Miami. That is if we aren't all thrown in a mental institution beforehand."
Mandy winked at me as if to say 'Good answer Danni. Way to go and keep the secret.'
"Kyle you're driving everyone else crazy here." Trent came over, sat next to me with a couple of files to look over before we landed in the Miami airport in a couple of hours. "Danni's right. We should all sit down and start to do your job. We aren't kids anymore Kyle and need to stop acting like we are. We're agents now so we better start acting like it."
"What do you expect?" Mandy asked him as if it was a joke.
"Nothing more or less from Crazy Kyle," Jessie, Jessica, Trent, and I said in unison which was as true now as it was the first time we said it in high school.
Suddenly Hotch head flew in my direction with another shocked expression which also vanished the moment he looked at me and saw nothing unusual yet.
He could have sworn he heard someone say "Seriana." What did that mean? He had never heard that word before. It had sounded like someone's name but whose name was it? What was happening to him? Why was he hearing voices and seeing things that others couldn't hear or see? Was he going crazy or having a short mental break down that came on so suddenly without any signs beforehand? He hoped not a time like this. That was not what he needed at the moment sense we were on a case and it was our first case as well.
"What's the matter?" Gideon had seen Hotch's eyes darting everywhere which wasn't a normal action for him under any circumstances what so ever even with us all around them. Usually he just sat concentrating on the files ignoring us the whole time. Even if they had discovered the kids before they were agents, he had never acted like this before. Now his eyes were darting everywhere with a shocked expression every few minutes but there was nothing unusual on the plane.
"Ever had strange feelings that something is around you and sometimes you can see and hear things that aren't really there." He said quietly but everyone heard him said it. "That's what is happening to me right now and it's really strange and starting to worry me. It's never happened to me before but now it is all the time. I think I might be having a sudden mental break down but I would have had signs of it coming on."
Mandy and I looked at each other thinking that he could see, hear, and feel them too. Did he have the sight or was it just a few flashes for now which was common especially around little children who sometimes lost it all as they grew up? Few people who were grown had the sight but in most cases they can only see flashes if they believe in magic in some form. We were all suddenly curious. How could he have the sight if he didn't believe in magic or if he did believe just not in the sense we believed?
Jessie glared at us. "You told him that stupid legend too. Didn't you? It's not real anyway as you should know that. We aren't stupid."
"No," Mandy said. "We didn't tell him the legend at all. I'm going to ignore the rest of that statement Jessie because you know how I feel when you say things like that. It is real you just don't want to believe in it but someday you will have to accept that it is before we have trouble. You're too lucky that you haven't been attacked yet."
"We didn't even mention it to them at all." I said to her. "Like Mandy said it is real and you know it too just don't want to admit it because you're afraid to find out it's not but it is Jessie or should I say your real Trinity name, Dazara."
"I still don't believe you," She turned away "It's not at all real! It's not I tell you! Not! Dazara isn't real! Nor is whatever you call yourselves!"
"It's Seriana and Taralan for your information, Dazara. Besides your refusal to accept your destiny is the exact reason Anna and Sam are get frustrated with you for not believing the truth about your world Dazara the Destroyer and second member of the Trinity that rule over the Seven Plains." I said to her using her real name and full title emphasizing it and she knew that I was right about all this. She could feel them near her protecting her everyday but her fear was the only thing stopping her from believing in them. She believed in it before her father had died but when he died she stopped believing in that kind of stuff and blamed her fantasy world for her dad's death but it wasn't its fault.
Kyle shouted. "That means Karjiko's here too. He's a lot like me right."
"That's who we were glaring at other then you. You and he are two of a kind. We only brought a few of them along with us not all of them." Mandy said. "You and he are both crazy and that makes you both insane. The two dancing maniacs, He started dancing with you for no reason but he does that all the time. Usually he sings 'Barbie Girl' or 'Sk8er Boi' or one of his other songs he calls his theme songs."
They're not real humans. Hotch suddenly realized he only knew the human side of us. If we weren't human then what were we? Could we really be something else? What were we talking about? Who were Karjiko, Sam, and Anna? What was the legend? What was happening?
Jessie turned back to the file she was reading in total anger still not believing us. She wanted to believe like Mandy and I did but she didn't think it could really be real and if it wasn't real then it would kill her if she found that out. She believe in that stuff before her dad died because he was everything but now she was too afraid to believe thinking it would disappear like it did the day she heard of her dad's passing. She could go though that emotional devastating pain again if she found out it was suddenly all a lie and all of this wasn't true at all after everything she thought was true wasn't.
Suddenly she felt nothing around her. Everything disappeared. Her mind was taken over and flew to a memory, one of Anna'sShe saw herself standing on a rise looking down on the Plains in pure frustration not far from where she had been captured and held against her will for a few days by our enemies. She still felt a slight physical pain from being beaten and a lot of emotional and physiological but she tried to hide it not wanting to show any sign of weakness to our enemies or our people. If our people saw our weakness or pain they might lose their faith and hope in us, their Trinity. We couldn't let that happen to them all.
"Where are they?" She shouted angrily losing her patience waiting. She hated waiting for something might never appear again. Her time as a prisoner wasn't helping her have any more patience then she had when she was finally found and rescued by one of her guardians. As least now she was free from her captors and with one of her guardians, someone who cared about her and protected her like she was a very precious princess and important and to them and to them she really was important. To them she was everything even as the Destroyer she was important to the people of our world because she was a Trinity and not of any less or more worth then others. People were chosen or created to be her guardians for a reason. They had swore loyalty to her and took an oath as a guardian from that time forward they had to protect her from any real or imagined threats and advise her when she needed it the most.
"Please calm down Mistress, you must have some patience now young, Dazara. If you don't have patience with them then I will have to stop you from doing something drastic that you'll regret someday." Anna scolded her gently staring down at the same time toward the place where she knew the other three Trinity girls that were called Dazara's 'sisters' would appear as soon as they could come for her to rejoin them and take their places together once more. "You know that sticking together and running for your lives isn't an easy task for the Trinity to do. We guardians have our work cut out for us now that you have true enemies to fight against. Before we only advised you and helped you when you needed it and protected from imagined threats or chasing off suitors and stalkers but now we really do have to protect you from a real threat. We almost lost one of you many more times then we can count and more then we like to admit it but it's all true. Your sisters will come find you now that you have been rescued from your enemies and they and you are safe once more. They must have heard the news from Karjiko by now. He is one of the fastest phoenixes known in the Seven Plains. Just please try and be patient my friend. You are safe here with me and there is nothing you need to fear dear Mistress. I'm here as your guardian to protect you until they come for you so you can take your place among them once again then I will travel with you until you get to safety again. After I know you will be safe while I am gone I will go contact the other guardians that are looking for you as well and tell them you're okay and safe so they will stop searching for you and will be reunited to stand with you when you must once more fight this great evil that threaten the people of The Seven Plains."
"But you promised that they would be here waiting for me to rejoin them when we arrived here." She said angrily frustrated letting her pain out in that emotion. "I can't just stand here waiting forever Anna. I'll turn to stone if I do. They should've be here by now. I can't wait for them any longer."
"Please Mistress. They will be here soon. I know they will Dazara." Anna added quickly knowing that Dazara was struggling but there was nothing she could do other then hope Dazara didn't lose control which happened occasionally sense she was the Destroyer. "Patience Dazara please calm your rage Mistress. You must have patience with them Mistress. Calm down and be as calm as a gentle breeze. I know that what has happened to you has affected you greatly. Now please calm down Dazara. You are safe here with me now Mistress. I am here to protect you as I promised when I took the oath as a guardian many years ago. None of your enemies will harm you as I stand here with you protecting you as the oath of a guardian states with my life."
Dazara's black hair was loosely hung around her oval face almost in a perfect way though she looked quite exhausted after her ordeal. Her eyes were dark and the black coloring hid most the pain she had felt before Anna had defeated her enemies and rescued her but Anna knew her friend too well and she wasn't hiding any of the pain from her guardians who she thought knew her too well. Luckily she was rescued by Anna before their leader Zerona had come to taunt and torture her. The only difference between her and the evil was their eye color. The evil had blood red eyes. Hers were pure black showing the darkness he had in her heart but it was a good darkness not an evil darkness. Darkness could be evil or good. The same goes for light, evil and good. It depended on the heart of the one who controlled it if they had a good heart then the light or darkness was good or if their heart was evil then the darkness was evil.
"Mistress look, there's Seriana, Dazara," The black haired paled skinned vampire pointed down the mountain bringing Dazara out of her thoughts. "I told you that they would come as quickly as they possibly could if you were patient and waited for them. Unisa is a unicorn and that is why she arrived first. Nothing is faster than a unicorn as you very well know."
There in the field below a black haired young girl rode on a pure white unicorn toward them at full speed. Her black hair glittered in the sun. She looked up, smiled, and shouted. "Dazara, your back, welcome home, my friend!" She raised an arm in welcome to her friend.
"It was Danni!" Jessie fell over trying to get up to fast and fell over on to the floor in her haste.
"Whoa Jessie are you okay?" Kyle helped her up off the floor where she had fallen because she had got up to fast.
"You're Seriana!" She shouted at me.
"Of course, I could have told you that and I have told you that many times before." I didn't look up from the file I was reading about the doctors.
"But..." She stopped realizing I wasn't going to tell her anything right now.
She groaned and rubbed her temples.
"Headache," Ashley said trying to smooth over what had just happened.
Most of us rubbed our temples when we had a headache.
"No, Danni needs to explain that thing I just saw to me." Jessie glared in my direction. "What did I just see? What was that thing?"
I answered with a look that clearly stated, 'We can talk about it later, not right now Jessie.'
"What is going on?" Reid asked us curious.
"The less you know the safer you are." Ashley said sighing suddenly deciding it was the best explanation at the time.
"Who would attack me if I know what you girls are talking about?" He asked not understanding at all.
"The Triad," Almost everyone in the HSR's said in unison. Only a few of them didn't know the secret we held. The rest looked as confused as the team but shrugged as if it was normal. They didn't mind us talking about something they didn't understand because it happened occasionally.
"Who are the Triad?" Reid asked oblivious to the most dangerous people we'd ever known in our whole world. Not to mention they were the ones that had ordered our extermination as they called it. Death was a more adequate description and that's what we called it. We had stayed alive for a long time with that which was a mighty miracle in most people's books.
"Jami... and who are the others again Ashley?" I asked.
"Focus on the case" Gideon said.
"Okay so why is this FBI case again?" Mandy had lost her train of thought when Zacks, someone else others couldn't see, touched her arm.
"The doctors were trying to find a cure to many forms of bacteria in case of an attack of bacterial weapons and they all had a visitor no one can remember and that didn't leave before the explosion but wasn't killed in it." JJ said.
"Don't touch me like that again Zacks." She said to that someone many couldn't see and settled back for the rest of the flight. "Don't do that please Zacks, you know that I lose my train of thought when you do do that. I need to concentrate right now."
Jessie still wouldn't believe us and she felt someone groan nearby in pure frustration. She didn't know it was Anna sense she had shown her the memory but it didn't help her believe like she had hoped it would.
"You know what Ashley sometimes you still act like that little gypsy princess. The only one who is known in all the worlds that knew they could out think a Triad without getting killed by her and you also did it very effectively and before she knew it she was defeated without you doing much of anything but one spell she didn't recognize." Alex suddenly said to Ashley without thinking about it.
"Alex, think before you speak about the secret!" Ashley yelled jumping on her brother suddenly.
"Focus on the case." Gideon called to us from where he sat.
Ashley was busy telling Alex off for saying something that sounded like the secret he wasn't suppose to mention certain things like the fact that she was a gypsy princess and had stripped a Triad and before the Triad knew what was happening it was too late she had lost you power and was suddenly purely a human and disgraced. That had caused Ashley's death sense the other Triad members were so angry with her for tricking and destroying one of them so callously. The only reason Ashley had done that other then the fact she knew she could trick the Triad in to thinking the spell wasn't dangerous until it was too late. What she was really doing was proving to us that she and the gypsies would always remain loyal to the Trinity and the light and never follow the Triad if we died.
Suddenly she stopped shouting and sighed. "Fine Shadow then if you think you can deal with it appropriately then do so."
After a few seconds Alex suddenly said "Ouch that hurt!"
"Serves you right for saying all that Alex before you even thought about it and saying things like that is like yelling the secret out loud." Ashley said proudly and settled back quite pleased with what Shadow had done.
Hotch looked up again curious but his eyes remained blank to the beings he'd seen before but he thought he'd heard a voice again before Ashley and Alex had spoken. This was starting to drive him crazy. He sighed this was going to be a long case from what he felt and definitely not a normal one.
"This is not good at all." JJ commented bringing him back. She started to rub her temples like Jessie had done a while ago but because she didn't find any connection but what the doctors studied and a strange un-remember-able visitor. Why were they being targeted?
"They all were trying to find a way to stop some anthrax and other bio-chemical weapons in case of an attack is the only connection except for the visitor that no one seems to remember much about." Reid said. "That's the only connection I can find. Why do they all have a strange visitor that everyone seems to conveniently forget? It's like their memory of the visitor is completely erased before the bombing."
Hotch's cell rang and he answered it. "Okay thanks Gracia." He hung up. "Four more doctors studying similar things are dead two of them women. So we just have to find out why are they being targeted?"
"We'll find them and put these killers behind bars," Tori called over. "You've got to remember you have the teenage spies with you to help out now."
The jet was really slow to me; I closed my eyes and whispered, "Please show me a memory." One of the guardians obliged.
A small cave was hidden by bushes but it was so small it surprised me. "Uh, are you sure this is it, Tara? This is the secret place you found for us to hide when we have to get away and can't make it to Hootaru's house without getting caught first, this little hole."
I turned to brown haired, green eyed, Taralan. Nick-named Tara or aka Balance was serious about the small cave we stood in front of together. "It's off the main paths Seriana and its hidden by bushes and there is a large room inside. Zerona will never see it if she's chasing us and neither will..." tears formed in her eyes as she struggled to say his name."...Zacks." She broke down tears spilled from her eyes as she turned away from me. She struggled to regain control over her emotions again as she remembered him and the pain he had caused us all when he had suddenly betrayed us by turning against us.
I gently went to her and quickly but comfortingly circled my sister in my arms. "Just let it out now Tara. No one but you and I are here to see you cry. The world won't see you cry this time so let it go now. Cry all you want because I'm the only one here and I cry sometimes as well, we all do when no one else can see. Let out your pain and your sorrows. Don't bottle it up inside. Cry here with me now. Go ahead and cry Tara."
"We can't let the world see us cry." She whispered to me though her tears were flowing.
"I know but this time it's just the two of us here alone so go ahead and cry. It's okay to cry in secret because you know I have many times and I have shed tears in secret. Tears have healing powers that can't be found anywhere else." I said still holding my older sister gently as she cried silently into my shoulder.
She finally let loose everything into her tears sobbing. "Why? Why did he do this to me Seriana? Why?"
She was still struggling a lot more than before until after Zacks had suddenly turned against us without a warning. No one knew why or how he had turned against us so suddenly when they wasn't' even a sign of trouble from him either. He loved Tara but know he was just as dangerous as Zerona, Seymour, or Despair. I was still trying to understand why he did it myself. How could he do this to us, to Tara? He seemed like he would always be faithful to us unlike Tara's first ex-boyfriend the ancient vampire, Victor.
"I don't know why he did this to us, to you Tara. I really don't know why." I shed a tear of my own. "I wish I did know all the answers though but I don't know any at all. If I did have the answers I would tell you everything but none of us have it. If we had all the answers there would be no war here in the first place but we aren't perfect. We are all just normal girls who were chosen to be extraordinary in our world. I was a worthless orphan before I knew I was chosen remember but I was still chosen before I was born just like you, Cheria, and Dazara were. We were all chosen before we were born to be who we are now. This is our pure destiny. It's all part of we are. We can't escape our destinies because they are one. They are part of us just like we are part of each other as the Trinity."
"It's a little silly that my younger sister is comforting me when usually I'm comforting you in times like these." She said it between sobs. "You're usually the one need to be comforted."
"You've always done the same for me after Despair made me a member of his pack. I'm just returning the favor as always." I shivered as I thought of Shadow's evil side, Despair.
I always would fear him after what had happened to me all because of him. He had made me a member of his werewolf pack against my will without my consent. Shadow saved me afterward but it was too late to stop me from being connected to him in the way I now was. I was devastated and many felt the same but there was no way to change the past. Shadow knew the ritual he had used was unbreakable and even though it had been banned many years before he still did it to bond with me. I was a member of his pack until Despair died and that was not going to happen anytime soon because I had to kill him to keep the balance on straight. To protect the others Shadow made them members of his pack with a less painful ritual. He also told me to him and his pack I was also a member of his pack through my soul. That had made me feel a little bit better about my situation but didn't change the past. I was still connected to Despair.
Tara finally pulled away from my hug and smiled, "We better hurry up and get back or Ruben will follow us when he wakes up and find you gone." She wiped her tears away.
I gently touch the black stone that hung around Tara's neck. It used to be turquoise but now it wasn't and the wolf looked gruesome instead of beautiful and powerful like it had when she and Zacks had first traded Talismans to protect each other with them. "Are you sure you are really feeling better?" I asked wanting to be sure. "You can cry all you want you know. I do when no one is around to see me. You are there sometimes when I do because it helps be feel better. It isn't a crime Tara to feel this way. People say why you are crying because they think we are perfect and no one realizes we aren't perfect at all. Does this talisman still hurt you?"
"Yes the necklace does sometimes but I think it's because he's wearing mine. Anyway we must go; Hootaru can't hold Ruben off forever you know. He's very stubborn even as a young werewolf. He will be on his way as soon as he finds out you are gone. He will find us even though he has no training in tracking yet. We have to wait until he's ten years old." She laughed.
I laughed also. "He made himself my personal werewolf guardian sense that day Despair took me." I shivered unhappily thinking about it. "It's amazing how much stubbornness can be forced into that nine-year-old body we have to wait for the new moon to be on the right time of year sense he's a Lunar Werewolf. It has to be a new moon on Sept. 27th for him to age."
"Don't think about Despair right now Seriana." She said touching my arm in a sisterly gesture. "You shiver every time you do think of him so I know you thought about him a minute ago. Don't dwell on him because it will cause you to hate and hate is not a good feeling to have even toward him though he is our enemy."
Suddenly Shadow swooped down from the sky nearly knocking both of us off our feet to the ground with his giant bat-like wings before we ducked. As he touched down he folded them close to his black fur so they were nearly invisible. He was one of the few demon werewolves with wings. He's ice-cold blue eyes were turning violet. Shadow was angry because his eyes turned red when he was mad. He growled, "Despair is searching for you in this forest, Seriana. He can smell you here and the scar helps him sense you more than before. Don't ignore the pain because that is your only warning that lets you know he is near. I want you to go quickly, run to the west. Unisa will take you to safety at Hootaru's place. She's waiting for you at the edge of the forest for you. Ruben and Hootaru will meet you at the one place we know will protect you. No one but Wolf, Ruben, and I know where it is and it is protected by a powerful spell that means only those she wishes for that are good can find it. I'll cover your scent but you must go now before Despair arrives. Tara you must help me leave a false trail for him to follow. The Trinity's scents are so similar that only my pack can distinguish the difference between them."
I ran toward the west as quickly as I could go fear making me go faster. If only I could make it to Unisa, no werewolf was faster than a unicorn. My feet hit the ground quickly and silently as I ran as fast as I could go.
"DANIELLE!" Mandy shouted shaking me. "We're landing." She winked and whispered, "Your hair's turning black and your eyes are shifting from green to brown. Don't transform right now."
I concentrated on not transforming to my Trinity form on the plane.
When I opened my eyes she nodded and whispered. "Tell me what they showed you later."
"I didn't see all of it." I told her quietly.
"Then finish it later and then tell me what happened in your memory." She smiled.