By Light of Lightening: Now and Then

By: M14Mouse

Summary: The knights hold a meeting. Catalina tries not to drop a baby.

Disclaimer: Don't own them.

-Hold the baby.

I look up at Undonna from my spell work.

Hold the baby while I finish dinner.

I look at the baby in Undonna's arms then at Undonna like she was utterly crazy.

Not in a chance in the Underworld I was going to hold a baby.

Undonna continue to give me a look. It wasn't happen.

Then she had to say that she was like the men. Afraid of a baby. I wasn't afraid of a baby. I wasn't. I didn't like them.

I knew Undonna's game. Her sister did the same thing with Clare.

She was trying to guilt me into taking care of the baby.

I stared at Bowen for a moment then picked up the baby. She smiled and then disappeared off to the kitchen. I stared at the baby for a moment.

At least, he hasn't start crying. I held him. He still looks chubby.-Catalina

"You didn't inform me that Chip has progress that far into his training with Brightstar or Feival," Leanbow said.

"I didn't know. Brig…Feival has been rather secretive as of late. I thought that it was because of your mount that he stayed away. They never liked each other," Daggeron said with a sigh.

That was true.

Leanbow turned his attention from Daggeron to the Snow Prince.

"Did you?"

"I knew that Brightstar and the boy have been training together. I didn't realize that their bonding has gone that far," Snow Prince said.

"And some of the boy's moves are changed since I last fought him. Have he been getting training from someone else or perhaps from you two?" He asked.

He watched them shake their heads. Their morphers have ingrained them with some fighting ability but Chip's moves have been practiced. The boy has been training with someone. It was definitely someone with experience. There was no one else among them that could train the boy. Well, there is Catalina or Diane but both women were dead.

"It is possible that some of the elves might take interest in Chip," Snow Prince said.

"I doubt it. Chip would have said something." Daggeron said thoughtfully.

"True."

The boy couldn't stop talking.

"One of the huntersmen?" Snow Prince said.

"No, they barely tolerated our presence during the war. I doubt that hasn't changed. The only thing that we can do is watch Chip. Agreed?"

"Agreed," Snow Prince said with a nod.

"Agreed and I will talk to him," Daggeron added.

"Good. Now about my son…" He started.

-MFMFMFMF-

"I am never going to be a knight," Chip said as he stroked Feival's head. He wasn't sure how it happened. It just happened. It hit him a bullet and he just…knew. Knew that Feival was there. Knew that he needed to go. Crap…where was he anyway? The unicorn snorted and shook his head. He laughed.

"I agree with the Bright One. You are very much going to be a knight. We didn't work that hard to be wasted," Catalina said as she approached them. He was no longer surprised that Catalina could find him anywhere.

"But I thought…"

"Yes, the head of our order's decision plays a heavy role in who becomes a knight. There are loopholes and appeals…and I could always approach our Mother if I needed to," Catalina said with a shrug.

"Mother?"

Catalina smiled a little.

"You will meet her soon enough. She will adore you and the others. Beside, I think that it is high time for me and my brothers to have a little talk," She said with a nod.

His eyes widened slightly at what she was saying.

"You are going to tell the others that you are back," He said.

"Of course. I have one more task that I need to finish up."

"Do I want to know?"

She smiled.

Nope, he probably didn't

End of Now and Then

Next Chapter: Step

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