Toru: so whats up now?
Me: now if I told you that what fun would it be?
Toru: which means I'm gonna hate it.
Me: not necessarily. Remember I own nothing but my own character.
Previously:
Toru joined her master giving a glaring look back at 'Jack' also knowing his little secret.
"Were you flirting just now?" Toru asked with a raised brow.
"Jealous?" Chase gave a side smile.
"Of course not."
As Hannibal flew threw the sky he landed on a distant mountain.
"So what is I lost the showdown, I still have you my boy. And this time your emotions won't get in the way." Hannibal said with an evil smirk as a pair of glowing violet eyes looked at him.
Chapter 27 Deep Roots (part 1)
Chase Young's lair
Hitomi walked along the corridors, in her human form, rubbing against her head, Toru healed it but she still had a splitting headache. Orion out on his patrol caught a glimpse of her and caught up to her in is human form.
"Oh, hi Orion." Hitomi smiled as she greeted the Spartan.
"Good evening, Lady Hitomi." Orion said with a slight smile.
"Seriously you could just call me 'Hitomi'" she said with a smile. But Orion was incompliant; Hitomi eventually gave up on this knowing she wasn't going to change his mind.
"Have you're injuries healed well?" Orion asked changing the subject.
"Mm-hm. Toru is really good at using healing magic. I've been practicing to but being knock unconscious doesn't do too much good" Hitomi said trying to make a joke out of it.
Orion's anger flared. He couldn't protect her, and if it wasn't for Lady Toru Hitomi could have been set into a coma. He wanted to get back at Hannibal for harming her. Hitomi was to kind of a soul to even be allowed to have a single scratch on her.
Hitomi could tell his anger flared and tried to calm him down. "Hey, its no big deal, really I'm fine, honest."
Orion clenched his fists in anger. "No, it is a 'big deal'!" he shouted.
Hitomi whimpered, as her ears lowered super-gluing them to her head never hearing Orion raising his voice.
Orion sighed and petted her head. "I apologize, my Lady, I should not have lost my temper."
They had parted ways after the encounter and Orion couldn't stop looking at his hand. What was he doing? Hitomi wasn't his wife, she wasn't his mate and yet…he had strong feelings for her, why was that? May be it was the resemblance she has to Teresa, or maybe it was something else.
Toru was walking the corridors singing to herself softly but for some reason even the faintest part of her singing could be heard.
"Where there is desire
There is gonna be a flame
Where there is a flame
Someone's bound to get burned
But just because it burns
Doesn't mean you're gonna die
You've gotta get up and try, try, try
Gotta get up and try, try, try
You gotta get up and try, try, try"
Toru had walked to the throne room and saw Hitomi in deep thought.
"Hey cat, I got something to tell you we're going on a field trip." Toru said with a smile.
Hitomi's ears perked with excitement. "Oh yeah where?" she asked. "Time travel?" Hitomi asked as Toru simply nodded. "I-I'm sorry, I assumed that you needed some type of shen gong wu or some kind of weird syfi device for time travel.
"That just makes it convenient I have my own methods. It takes a hell of a lot of chi but its worth it. I do some time travel in my spare time." Toru explained opening a portal into a blance dimension.
The girls were in a room full of magical charms and potions. The room was bright adorning Toru's pentagram above and below them. It had taken years for Toru to acquire all of these.
"What spare time do you have that I'm not with you." Hitomi said unconvinced.
"That's the beauty of time travel I could be gone for weeks in one time line but make it back here as if only moments had passed in our own time line." Toru said as she went over the shelves trying to find something.
Hitomi placed hand over her face, shaking her head. "W-Wait what?"
Toru pulled out a small pocket watch. "Ah-ha! Here it is. And don't think about it too hard, trying to understand the space-time continuum to much will only give you a headache."
Hitomi looked at the small pocket watch. "We came all the way here for you to get a pocket watch?"
Toru twirled the watch before catching it. "Its not just a watch, its what where going to use to time travel. You ever hear of the Mad Hatter?"
"From Lewis Carrols' Alice and Wonderland, yeah I've hear about him, why."
"Well a few years ago I met a scientist was obsessed with time travel. The man was a recluse but he was also a genius. I had worked my way into his favor seeing that I not only had a true interest, but I could also assist him in his work."
"I still don't see the Mad Hatter comparison."
"I'm getting to it. The dear doctor was one of the top scientists in the world fascinated with space and time. 20 years earlier his wife got into a car crash sending her into a irreversible coma. After that he became obsessed with time travel, trying to reverse the night he lost his wife. He became so obsessed that he eventually stopped leaving his home. Once I heard that he was close I became is lab assistant. With my help what could have taken 5 more years only took a few months to complete. But while the machine was complete it was also unstable so I have to use my chi to stabilize it. After realizing that I offered the man a deal he gives me this and I take his wife out of the coma."
"I bet he didn't believe you at first, right?"
"Yep but I quickly rid him of his doubts and woke up his wife, and as per our agreement I got this."
"You know I keep hearing 'was', did you kill him?" Hitomi asked.
"I'm not that heartless."
The clouded leopard looked at her 'mother' unconvinced. "I still don't like this, I've read the Butterfly Effect we change one thing and the next thing we know apes are ruling the planet."
"You do realize that humans are a form of ape, right?" Toru asked. "Beside what does it matter?"
"Of course you don't care, how much humanity could you possibly have left?"
"Ok, look the time stream isn't as delicate as TV makes it out to be, you doing one thing out of place won't create a drastic change, in fact 99% of the time its exactly what's suppose to happen. So do you want to go or not?"
"Yeah why not." Hitomi shrugged.
Toru used her chi to activate the machine and a portal opens in the floor and the girls jump through it. They passed by moments in time and history as a light at the end of the tunnel opened. The girls found themselves in a puritan village and quickly hid behind a wooden house.
Salem Massachusetts 1692
"So where are we?" Hitomi asked
"Uh, the device says 1692 Salem Massachusetts-ooh, this might be a problem." Toru said messing with the device.
"I'm sorry, I know I did not hear Salem Massachusetts during the 1600s. WHAT DO WE DO?!" Hitomi shouted.
Toru quickly placed her hand over her friend's mouth. "I know how about you shut up and let me perform an allusion spell so we can blend in."
"Oh, ok."
Toru used her chi and disguise both of them in puritan clothing they wore a coif, shift, waistcoat, apron, petticoat, and black shoes. Hitomi's blue hair changed into long and blond, her large paws turned into white gloves, and her slited blue eyes turned into normal looking ones. The girls looked at the heavy clothing and cringed.
"Ew." They said in unison.
"Is this what humans actually considered fashion? Its gross." Hitomi said.
"Ok I'm all for blending in but I refuse to wear a freakin' doily on my head. My hair may not be long but it looks too good to be covered up." Toru stated as she took off the coif and threw it through the ground stomping on it.
"Ditto." Hitomi did the same and rid herself of her coif.
The girls head into the town walking along the dirt road and were quickly getting looks.
"We don't look that strange do we?" Hitomi asked.
"No, but I might to blame for it."
The girls walked around town for a while until Hitomi felt her stomach growling.
Hitomi tugged on her 'mother's' dress. "Mama, I'm hungry!" she whined.
People nearby immediately started to give them looks did that girl just call that black woman mama?
"Don't say crap like that in public!" Toru grabbed Hitomi's hand and tugged her along until they made it to a pub. The place was poorly lite, and mainly filled with men with poor personal hygiene problems. They were getting unwanted stares as a skanky looking waitress walked up to them.
"You 2 don't seem like you're from around here." The woman said.
"We're not. Can you just bring us whatever's good here and bring me a drink, thank you." Toru told the woman bluntly. The woman gave Toru a look and walked away. "Bitch."
The girls had their meal and left the pub walking around town, and over and over again Toru would notice this woman near them. The girls eventually went down an isolated street and the woman followed. Toru pulled the woman to the side and pulled out a blade holding it against her neck.
"I don't like being followed lady. What do you want?" Toru said in a threating tone.
"Nothing, just thought I'd help out a fellow magic user." The woman said.
2 hours later
The girls followed the woman to her cabin deep in the woods. The cabin looked fairly small on the outside but when they went inside it was 3 times bigger than what it looked like outside.
The woman removed her purple cape reviling her long natural black hair, her caramel skin, and hazel eyes. She snapped her fingers breaking her illusion spell. Her puritan clothing disappeared and revealed her black dress, purple corset, and black boots.
"I apologize for the long walk, my husband and I enjoy our privacy. You know there's no need for you to hide, you're among friends here."
Toru snapped her fingers breaking her illusion spell, revealing her baggy black pants and green tank top and her heavy combat boots. Hitomi's blond hair disappeared and her blue hair returned and her semi-naked form.
The woman lifted a brow. "Endowing an animal with magical powers, not commonly done. Ok, introductions, my name is Nefertiti, and my husband-who should me back soon-is Agrona"
"Egyptian and Celtic, interesting." Toru said.
A baby then suddenly started to cry, Nefertiti then walked over to the crib and picked up the 2 month old child.
"And this little angel is Amunet." Nefertiti said looking at her child giving her a smile. "So do you mind telling me your names?" she asked.
"Hi I'm Hitomi and this is Toru." The clouded leopard said gleefully.
"So what type of magic user are you?" Nefertiti asked.
"Natural and talismanic magic user, and I do a little invocative magic." Toru simply stated
"Illusionary, and talismanic magic user in training." Hitomi said with a smile.
"Your clothes are quite strange, tell me what village do you come from?" the wiccan asked.
"We don't come from any village." Toru said rather bored.
Nefertiti saw the markings on her hands, 'Those markings'
"So why did you want to help us?" Toru said looking at the woman seriously.
"Well there's not to many of us magic users left so why not help." She gave such a heartfelt smile.
Nearly half an hour later the girls where helping with dinner. Toru was chopping vegetables, while Hitomi skinned several hare's. It had been forever since Toru cooked something, Chase won't allow her to-that's what the servants were for.
Hitomi giggled, "We're eating bunnies." She looked at her 'mother's' fore lone face. "You know it wouldn't hurt if you gave Nefertiti a chance she's pretty nice."
Nefertiti then came in the house slamming the door behind her and rushed into the kitchen.
"You two need to hide." She said panting. The girls tried to argue but they were quickly teleported upstairs. "Now just stay up here. My husband is bringing someone over and he won't be here long so you need to stay up here for 20 minutes, please."
Before she could say anything else she teleported back downstairs.
"Well that was strange. I wonder who it is?" Hitomi asked
"That's exactly what we're gonna find out." Toru then made the floor disappeared revealing what was going on but remaining undetected by those below them.
The girls watched attentively as 2 tall men walked in, one was a black men about 6'5 wearing clothing that was fit for men of nobility at the time walked in. Nefertiti went up and kissed the man, the girls guessed that was Agrona. But the other man they couldn't see who it was he was wearing a top hat and dressed in English style clothing. Nefertiti shook the man's hand as the guys sat down waiting for her to finish dinner.
"So how was London?" the wiccan asked as she was finishing what the girls started.
"Just as dull and boring as I left it. I might go back in another 200 years or so an oracle told me there should be some excitement by then." The man said.
[A/N: the 'excitement' I mention was the Jack the Ripper murders. For those who don't know]
"Agrona, did everything go well?" she asked her husband.
He sighed obviously tired from his long journey. "It did, but there were some complications."
"Like?"
"Like Agrona here not being able to handle some nosy reporter. I told him he should have let me kill him, but no." the mystery man said with a side smile, the girls still couldn't see his face.
"Just because you can kill someone without thinking twice doesn't mean I can as well. I actually have to sleep at night, you heartless man." Agrona said not really caring for his friend's violent tendencies.
"I'm soulless not heartless, besides sleep is overrated." He said with a nonchalant attitude.
The man then removed his hat. The girls got closer to the floor to see who he was as his long jet black hair spilled out, his Asian face and golden eyes were revealed.
Hitomi's eyes widen. "Oh, my God…"
"It's Chase." Toru said in a small whisper.
Well, well, well, I wonder what Chase is doing there? Anyone wanna take a guess? Go ahead, don't be shy. Oh and those lyrics I put at the beginning whoever is the first to answer correctly they can suggest the next filler chapter as long as it doesn't involve killing Hannibal or Wuya. Plez review.