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Chapter Forty Three

The guys walked behind the young woman with the brown curly hair and white dress as they crossed the campus. She walked gracefully along, her hands clasped in front of her. She almost seemed liked she was humming as she walked through the dark campus.

"My sister said her and Mia are at the school library," she smiled back at them, there was a blue glow to her eyes.

The boys waved and Kento softly said, "how did you meet her?"

"She was wandering around the building," Ryo said as he ran a hand through his newly shortened hair for the millionth time.

"And you just agreed to bring her along," Rowen asked suddenly.

"No," Cye paused to search his memory. "Well, it was weird. We found her wandering around, and she smiled at us and called us by name. We've never met her before, but she looked up towards the roof and said that you guys needed us. It was really sixth sense."

Sage looked at the girl, "you said she was the detective's sister?"

"Yeah," Ryo nodded. "She told us if her sister knew she was there, she would have a fit, but I think that's too late now."

The boys stopped chattering and saw Kento stride up to the girl. Keno put his arm around her shoulders, and she looked up with glittering blue eyes. They were electric blue, almost like lightening. Kento cooed, "hey, there, cutie!"

She smiled so sweetly at him as Cye tried to pry him off, "oh, Hardrock, you are couth."

He grinned but Sage finally grabbed him away too, "hey...she didn't complain!"

They came to the library as the boys took turns try to keep Kento away from the sweet girl. Sure enough they found Mia sitting with Detective Stell looking over a very big manuscript.

Detective Stell stood up and hugged her baby sister and said, "you are very persistent at being involved in all this."

"I can't help it, my visions show me more things when I'm closer to them," she smiled weakly. She seemed to sag into her sister's arms who caught her as she fainted.

Detective Stell glared at the boys, "I'll take care of my sister, you all should talk to Miss Koji."

They saw the detective lift her sister to a nearby table and place her coat underneath her head. Ryo wandered over to Mia, the others following one at a time. They peered over her shoulder at a very large old book, that looked like it had old vellum sheets with illuminated letters. However, they were letters but kanji.

Ryo asked first, "hey, Mia, what's that?"

"Oh, its brilliant, Ryo," she beamed up at them, it had been a long time since any of them saw her that happy. "Detective Stell had some of grandfather's texts and manuscripts that he been researching on before he died! These are almost two thousand years old!"

Kento interrupted, "these look like some weird mix of Chinese and Gothic..."

Cye laughed, "when do you know this sort of stuff?"

"Hey, I know Chinese," he rebuffed at the insult, "and I've taken my share of art history courses."

"Of course you have," Rowen teased and Sage just shook his head. The boys laughed and Mia chuckled.

She ran a hand over the vellum, "no, he's right though. This book is from the Yamato! But long before vellum, animal hide was ever thought to be used for writing! These writings use some very archaic form of Chinese..." she flipped through the book to show a very familiar looking painting. It was a large white tiger with multiple limbs fighting a wolf with a chain in its teeth. "This tells the fall of the Fenris clan, it's not clear but it says that the Old Ones had been fighting among themselves and that the beast within the wall of fire, Fenrir, broke his chains..."

Ryo interrupted and pointed to the image, "I saw this at that dynasty castle when I went to go find Ruby."

"...I'm not surprised, this seems like it was a really big battle," she said as she flipped to another page. "That's as much as I've been able to translate though. However, it keeps using a word that I don't like, Fate."

"Is there anything on our armors," Sage asked leaning over onto the desk.

She flipped the pages carefully with her gloved hands and pointed to the last page, which was faded terribly but it had an emblem from each armor. Under it was two suns, one white and one black, and underneath that was a golden sun.

Rowen sighed, "I assume that one is Leea..."

Mia nodded, "there's so much to translate!"

"Don't ware yourself out, Mia, it is late," Cye said softly.

Detective Stell came over as they chattered among themselves and said, "excuse my meddling sister, she has a soft heart for helping people, but stuff like this really wares her out."

Ryo decided to ask, "how did your sister know where we were? And who are guys?"

Mia looked up at the detective, she had already told Kento who would eventually blab, so she didn't think she would be apprehensive. The detective was indeed kind enough to explain again, and they saw Lynn stir. She rolled over, her eyes were glowing deeply, "the distortions, Stell, they're getting worse."

Stell went over and placed a hand on her sister's feverish head, "hey, you don't have to keep doing that..."

Cye thought he knew what was going on, "she's some sort of Seer, isn't she."

Rowen frowned remember that Hoshi had been the last Oracle, "isn't that the same as an Oracle?"

"No," Lynn paused to sit up against her sisters will. "Oracles were made by the Old Ones, their abilities may or may not manifest and usually they commune with nether spirits to get their info...I assume she could see shadows?"

Sage nodded, "she could, is that why they didn't harm her?"

"Indeed, they knew what her use was," she paused as she weekly stood up. "There are different human abilities though, I just happen to be born what you call a Seer. I can see different points and space and time, probable and unlikely, future, current and past. It's not always accurate though."

"And your sister," asked Sage, he was getting a sneaky suspicion that the detective wasn't just a normal girl.

The detective smiled, "my abilities are far more mild, I can see my future..."

Kento frowned, "UGH! Okay, so the nether realm is back?"

"No," Lynn said as she glanced at Mia. "At least not yet, the distortions are getting worse though."

"Distortions," asked Rowen, he was reminded what Cerule had said to them. He almost choked as he remember her calling him Dad. He was no one's father. She had to be old enough, that if he did have a kid, he would have been ten or eleven which was impossible. He didn't want to think about one of his first failed relationships in his early twenties but there was no way, and Hoshi...Hoshi's body was gone.

She nodded, "see the Earth is an elliptical orbit..."

"We know that," Cye interrupted, they could tell he was getting irritated with the whole situation.

"Well, because of this the realms don't easily line up with each other, but they always link with each other one way or another. However, when the light sealed it up, its like two matchsticks rubbing together. They spark, which cause rips in the fabric of the space-time, and things are getting through."

Kento laughed, "hah, we sound like an episode of Doctor Who!"

"Cerule is from the future," she paused as Stell tried to shush her. "They have to know, they're probably gonna figure it out anyway."

They boys kind of paused and looked at Rowen who was laughing, "that explains that comment she left me with! She called me her dad!"

"It's very likely that the absence of your armors has brought different people into this time line," she paused as the guys started teasing Rowen about having a kid. "It's possible you just haven't met her mom yet, nor should you ask her who it is."

"Obviously," Rowen groaned at the guys remarks.

Kento laughed, "Old Man, Rowen..."

Rowen elbowed him in the ribs pretty hard, "at least I have a kid, I don't see any of your children coming from the future."

Mia said to them from her large manuscript, "boys why don't you go check on Leea? I'm sure she's having a conniption that we have been gone so long."

"What about you," asked Sage, he was still untrusting of the two sisters. He didn't know why but felt unease with them.

"I'll get a ride from the detective, feel free to stay tonight if since its so late," Mia said, she didn't take her focus off of the book once though. "Ryo you might have to sleep on the couch though, Leea kinda took over your room."

Ryo groaned and started heading out, "guess I'm slumming it like White Blaze."

Cye laughed and followed, "I'm driving, I don't trust you or Kento to drive Mia's jeep."

"Hey, I drive perfectly fine," Kento protested and ran after them.

Rowen lingered a little, and said to Mia, "don't be afraid to call if you need to, you sure you don't want one of us to stay?"

Sage nodded, flipping his soft blonde hair, "we can stay with you if you want us to?"

"No, go on back, besides Leea needs more protection than I do if that's the case."

Detective smiled at the two boys, "she is safe in our hands, Strata and Halo."

They looked at each other and walked out still slightly suspicious. Sage grabbed Rowen's arm, "look!"

He looked up and saw the moon was blood red. Rowen felt a shiver go through him, but something burn in his pocket. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his armor's orb. It was crystal again, and his virtue for wisdom lit up brightly.