Magical

Modified from the RP, a few things were changed so each chapter is from a single POV. This is the offical book (for now) and I will make the cover soon! Credit to all of us, cause we all made the lines.

## 01~ 𝓔𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓮

Estelle stood on the top of the cliff, looking over the green hills and rivers. Her home. As she turned away from it, she thought, *Not anymore.*

Estelle checked that everything was in her satchel, including a small dagger, in case of emergencies. Her dusty rose coloured dress swished as she knelt down to pick up the book she had just dropped. It had a faded blue cover and faint gold writing pressed onto it that read:

A Book of The Moon & Sun

She had received it for her 5th birthday, from a lady she had never met. The pages were worn from the countless years of them being flipped, dreamed about and creased.

Elle carefully picked up the book and placed it in her bag. She readjusted the pale blue cloak that surrounded her petite frame and took off into the woods. Elle looked around the trees; there seemed to be more and more as she got farther away.

Elle heard a thunk nearby. Without thinking, she ran towards it. It was a boy, probably her age, and he was running.

"Wait!" Elle called out. Maybe he could help her.

Estelle, without thinking, thrust out her fingers and used her magic to send a message.

"Don't run."

The boy stopped, and terror was evident on his face.

"I am not going to hurt you...I just..I don't know..I wanted to know why you were running..." She said the last part in a whisper "And I wondered if maybe you were running for the same reason as me."

Suddenly a loud crack filled the clearing.

Elle heard the noise and pulled out her dagger

"Who is it?" She asked with uncertainty. For all she knew, it was a wild animal.

“Uh, hi?” the boy said, stepping out of the shadows. “Please don’t kill me!”

Estelle smiled. "We won't... but who are you?"

Elle was glad that no one had noticed her magic, Silver and Lavender, fluttering through the air.

"I'm Daesyn," He said slowly, carefully eyeing the dagger Estelle was holding. "I...was running away."

"What are you running from?" Elle asked curiously.

"People." Daesyn replied vaguely. "I'm...just too scared to go back, I guess."

"Me too," the other boy said softly.

Daesyn looked surprise. "Really? We're pretty similar, then."

Suddenly a girl burst into the clearing "Who are you?" she asked suspiciously.

Estelle hid her surprise. Maybe she wasn't alone, after all?

The boy, who Estelle had learnt was named Jamie by using her magic, started backing away.

"I said, WHO ARE YOU?!" the girl asked again. "And why are you in the middle of nowhere?"

"Stay, you can't leave now...because I think you all know what is happening.." Elle demanded.

Estelle grinned "You all *are* magic... I can sense it!"

Daesyn’s head whipped back at the girl as she said something.

"No, I'm not." Daesyn argued. "I'm normal. There's no such thing as magic."

"Uhm..." the girl said uncertainly. You could tell she wasn't used to sharing secrets.

"M-magic? No-no..." Jamie said.

Elle rolled her eyes, "I can literally see your magic!”

"Nope, no magic here!" Daesyn said, crossing his arms. "There's no such thing as magic!"

Estelle pulled out her book and pointed at the picture of the moon on the cover.

"What's that?" Daesyn asked, his curiosity getting the better of him.

"What do you mean *magic?*" the girl demanded. Estelle noted that a few more people had shown up as well.

"*Magic* is the truth. On the 1rstday of July, The moon and The sun crossed paths. As a result, 12 people were enmagicked. .. That we know of."

"I guess I don't have any better options..." Daesyn started. "But this doesn't mean I believe you!"

"We need to escape somewhere that no one could ever find us...somewhere we won't be seen..or found" Estelle continued, dismissing Daesyn’s comment.

“But, first, let's introduce ourselves.” She finished.

"I'm Lori." The girl with purple hair said.

Finally Estelle addressed Daesyn’s comment. She smiled. "I know..That means the other 6 are still missing... And I'm Estelle Xena Grayce"

"There." Lori pointed to a teen sprawled on her face looking at them. it looked like she had tripped over a rock.

"Make that 7."

The one guy sighed a little. “Not that any of you have listened to me for the past few minutes, but my name’s Cassil.”

Daeyn nodded at all of them, "Hi, Cassil. And Estelle, Lori, and some other people."

Estelle realized she needed to get everyone to listen. She slowly gathered every once of wanting to be heard and fashioned it into a vessel. When she let it go,it emitted a Whistle, that went fast, fast, then slow, then fast again.

"My Moon Song. " Estelle said, as if that explained everything.

Yet another girl stood up, entranced by the music. "Very good." She pointed at a girl. "Who are you?"

"Me? I'm Ailiseu." She replied nervously.

Several minutes of introducing followed, until Lori cut in, "Guys, just introduce yourselves already. Also, Estelle, explain."

"Thank you! Everyone, we are *all* magical, whether we like it or not. So I think that it's best that we go to the one place we can be safe." She paused for a moment "Ash Falls." Estelle had heard tales of the magical place where people were worshipped, not criticized, if they were magical.

“Okay, how do we-” the girl called Solaya started, but Jamie had tripped over a rock and hit his head and everyone averted their attention to him.

Lori rushed over and examined Jamie’s head. "Jamie, you have a concussion. I mean..." She flushed when everyone looked at her. "My mom was the head of the town infirmary and well...yeah."

"Y-yeah," Jamie said.

"I really think we should get going. I don't want to be out here at night," Ailiseu said softly, twisting her fingers together.

"I agree, " Jamie mumbled.

"I know a mountain cave a few miles from here we can stay at," Lori Informed everyone.

Estelle smiled at them all.

Daesyn nodded, then turned to Estelle. "Where'd you say we were supposed to go?"

“For, now, we’ll go to the caves Lori has told us about.”

Daesyn turned towards Lori. "Can you lead the way?"

"Just fair warning, it's my hideout so don't be surprised at the mess," Lori warned them.

Daesyn shrugged. "I'm a messy person. I don't mind messy places."

“Okay, then follow me.” Lori said.

They walked for several minutes, all together, before Daesyn cocked his head and said, "I think I heard something."

"Seriously, guys. I heard someone." Daesyn insisted, his head turning towards the left.

Daesyn started to wander away, looking for the sound. "I know you're here." He said, scanning the trees around him.

Estelle felt the urge to stop him, but didn’t. She instead silently trailed him. Daesyn was looking at something in a tree above him. Estelle watched as A tree branch cracked and Daesyn rushed towards it. It was a girl, Estelle saw. Daesyn looked at her with keen interest, and Estelle noted the magic trailing behind the girl. She was Magical. The girl shrieked and punched Daesyn, and Daesyn yelled, "OW! What was that for?!”

The girl jumped up, but screamed as she put weight on her foot, "Sorry," she managed to mutter.

"It's fine," Daesyn replied. "What's your name? I'm Daesyn."

The girl narrowed her eyes, "Like I would tell you," she tossed her hair and tried to get up.

"Fine," Daesyn sighed. "Will you at least come with me?"

She crinkled her nose, "And why would I trust you?" she got up and leant on the tree. Suddenly Estelle realized that the others must be at the cave by now. She sneaked away, leaving the two alone, and climbed up a tree, where she could rest.

## 02~𝓓𝓪𝓮𝓼𝔂𝓷

Daesyn sighed again. The girl was so frustrating.  "Because I'm trying to help. Your foot needs to be looked at."

The girl said softly, "I'm not going anywhere, I'll be fine on my own."

Daesyn shook his head. "I'm going to help you, and that's final."

She just smirked,then straightened up and glared at him, "You can try." then she blacked out from the pain.

The girl just collapsed. Oh shoot, he thought. Making sure that her heart was still beating, he lifted her up and started to run to the caves where the others were.

"GUYS! GUYS! I NEED YOUR HELP!" He yelled.

He lifted her up and started for the cave. "Guys, guys." Daesyn panted, exhausted and out of breath as he arrived to the cave. "She needs help."

Laying the unconcious girl on the ground, Daesyn took a look at her foot.

“Who needs help? Where?” The guy called Cassil asked.

"Here!" Daesyn yelled. "Bring an ice pack or something!"

Cassil brought some of his medical supplies. “What’s wrong with her?”

Jamie handed them his ice pack. "Thanks Jamie!" Daesyn said, putting on the girl's foot.

"She fell off a branch and hurt her foot. She blacked out from the pain." He told Cassil.

"If any of you touch me I'm going to punch you," she mumbled, sitting up. Daesyn sighed with relief.

"No, you won't. We're trying to help you." Daesyn scolded her, putting his hand of her forehead again.

She tried to get up on her foot, but the pain was obvious.

The girl elbowed him. Hard. "Ow," He complained. "Can you ever do anything without hurting people?"

Daesyn smacked his head as the girl blacked out again.

"Seriously, just accept some help!" He groaned.

"Maybe put her on a bed? And give her some water?" Suggested Ailiseu, looking at the girl.

"Good idea," Daesyn replied, carrying her to a small enclave in the cave.

The girl tried to hop, but she fell, she caught herself though and got up again.

Daesyn left to get some more supplies, but when he got back, the girl was gone.

“Where is she?” Daesyn asked.

Outside, Lori called out, “She’s here!”

The girl glared daggers at Daesyn and everyone else, "Leave me alone." she hissed at them.

"Cant we at least treat your foot?" Jamie asked.

Lori sighed, walked over and pulled the girl in the cave. She gave her a bandage. The girl kicked Lori hard, in the stomach. Daesyn had to admit she was quite feisty.

“You should tie her up, if you honestly want to help her.” Cassil suggested.

The girl sneered, "I would love to see you try." she readied her defenses.

Daesyn had to admit, he would love to see her try to stop him. But she never got the chance, because a loud roar ripped through the area.

## 03~𝓒𝓪𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓵

Cassil hugged himself for a moment, staring at the fire. He left the cave.

"Wait!" Jamie said "it's dangerous!"  It *was* dangerous, but he needed to find something.... Cassil cursed as it started raining.

Cassil blocked the rain from entering his eyes, and headed towards the forest. Cassil was searching frantically at this point. He knew that there was a lion, and who knew what else outside, so needed to know that they were okay. They, being the several kittens that he’d found several weeks ago. Cassil found the three kittens drenched in rainwater, and meowing hopelessly.

Suddenly a shout came from behind him, ”Watch out!” a girl screamed…

Cassil saw that it was the lion. “Great,'' he mumbled.

Cassil scooped up the kittens in his arms, and darted back away from the creature.

Another guy had shown up, and drew a dagger, "Get away from the kittens."

“Dude- calm down.” Cassil said.

The kittens had stopped meowing when he’d picked them up. The guy slashed at the air, "It might be a mountain lion, but we can scare it away with noise," he mumbled.

“And if we had fire, but that’s a different story. Back to the cave, then.” Cassil said quickly.

“No, that is not a mountain lion” Solaya, the girl who had shouted earlier, said, stepping closer to the boy.

“Whatever it is, we need to leave!”Cass cut in.

The guy, who Cass figured was the ‘Brian’ Beluna has talked about, didn't move, "There's no point, I'm not going to fight it," he kept his eyes locked with the animal "Get back to the cave, I'll take care of this."

“Wow, good idea, Mr. Obvious.” Cassil darted back to the cave with the kittens.

Daesyn shrugged and followed Cassil. Cassil set the kittens down inside the cave, noticing the sick one. He mumbled something, and looked through his medical supplies. He wrapped it in a warm blanket. He needed this one herb.... which he was coincidentally out of. Suddenly Opie stepped out of the shadow and gently snatched the sick one digging into his pocket. He pulled out the materials needed and got to work, working with skilled hands.

“Hey! What do you think you’re doing?!” Cassil shouted at Opie.

"Cassil, I think she's trying to help," Ailiseu said.

Cassil was rather protective of the kittens. And he didn’t even know Opie. “Who are you supposed to be?”

Opie threw the surgeon's knife at the wall next to him dismissively "I'm doing my job, I study healing"

Ailiseu stroked one of the kitten's soft fur. "They're so cute," she murmured.

Cassil rolled his eyes, unfazed. The surgical knife was useless now. Apparently Opie wasn’t the brightest, in his opinion. Opie took a small towel out of his pack and wrapped the kitten to keep it warm then set it next to the kitten's siblings "Okay, formal introduction, I'm Opie Winchester, at the moment I am a boy, and I study healing"
“Great. That would have been nice to know earlier, when you snuck in here unannounced and snatched one of the most precious things in the world to me.” Cassil said.
Opie snickered "Sorry, I'm bad with introductions when there are injured to treat, I never intended to hurt that kitten" he clarified packing up his tool and wiping rain off his brow.

Cassil set his jaw, but nodded slightly.

"And you arrrrrrrrre..." he said standing up and looking Cassil over curiously.

“Cassil Gardener.” He said, monotonous.

“That’s you, medic guy.” Cassil said when someone yelled ‘medical emergency’

Opie nodded and ran over to the situation, starting to examine Solaya right away.

Cassil sighed, and looked over the kitten. Apparently Opie knew what he was doing, and he nodded, satisfied. Cassil lit the end of his dagger, using hand sanitizer (Not invented yet, but have fun XD). And guarded the entry of the cave.  Daesyn joined Cassil at the entrance of the cave. "Hey," He said, waving. "Do you have any spare weapons?"

Cassil nodded. “Would you like a dagger, or a dart-gun?” He asked Daesyn.

"Whichever works. Dagger, I guess." Daesyn replied. Cassil gave him one of his daggers. Cassil leaned against the wall of the cave, looking out into the darkness. "Thanks," Daesyn said, holding the dagger by his side. Cassil squinted out into the darkness, seeing something...He gripped his dagger a little tighter.He probably wasn’t going to be able to sleep.

Daesyn had left, and was walking towards Beluna. “You Okay?” he asked her. They both left together, with Beluna angrily explaining how he had ruined her life. Yet he just kept trying.

Cassil was on edge. He took deep breaths, and even hummed that old song to himself. His palm was getting sweaty from holding the flaming dagger.

Cassil heard a ‘Hello?’. “Hello? Who’s there?” Cassil was confused, and honestly tired. Suddenly a scream rang out. He ran outside, and saw that Beluna was being attacked by a beast. “How fabulous” he muttered, then Cassil ran at the beast, and plunged his flaming dagger into it’s skull. Cassil continued trying to cut down the beasts. Cassil was legit covered in blood. Some of it was his own. Cassil panted, wiping sweat off of his forehead, and in the process wiping blood onto himself. Cassil was on the lookout for more beasts. Who knew if the travelled in packs? Cassil had to kill two more of the beasts. And this time, he was doing it alone.

## 04~𝓑𝓮𝓵𝓾𝓷𝓪

Beluna was slowly regaining consciousness. Beluna opened her eyes and saw Daesyn, "Ugh, not you, Brian punch him in the nose for me."

Daesyn looked relieved that she was awake. "Oh good, I was really worried." He said. When he left, Beluna managed to get up, with a few swallowed screams, she sat up and took some water that was besides her. Beluna for once didn't struggle, she just didn't have the strength, she showed her displeasure though and growled whenever someone got too close to her. Lori walked over to where Brian was helping Opie with bandages. "My mother was the head of the infirmary back home, can I help? I have a trick for blood loss." Lori said.

Brian nodded, and Beluna said, "Just apply bandages, it's not too serious."

Beluna wanted to get up and start punching all the idiots, aka everyone. She was starting to feel better though, and drank more water. Opie then turned to Beluna and worked on her because Cassil was now completely stable.

Beluna snarled at him, "You have no idea how much I hate you."

Noting the commotion about a tiger, Beluna rolled her eyes, "God, let's just all drop dead."

Opie said"Too bad you don't have any apples, because you're not getting rid of me" he joked dryly and healed her to the best of his abilities.

Beluna sneered at him, "You are so lucky I'm not able to punch you, because believe me, I'd break your nose."

Beluna slowly raised her arms, it still hurt to bend then though, her foot was the worst though, "Hey Med Guy! What's your name, by the way?"

He looked up at Beluna "Opie Winchester"

Beluna shrugged, "Yeah, I never knew your name, nice."

Beluna got up and winced, everything hurt, she still stood up, but immediately felt light headed.

Beluna steadied herself, and she sighed, taking deep breaths, her vision clearing, she asked, "Can I help?"

Opie then ran over to Beluna sitting her back down "You’re hurt tough girl, stay there for a bit longer" he handed her a herb and ran off to the next patient. Beluna inspected the herb, eh, she threw it, and got up again, no one was stopping her.Opie ran back to her and sat her down again picking up the herb and stuffing it in her mouth "I swear to the stars, I will cut off your legs so you have to stay here and let me heal you-"

Beluna spat out the herb, in Opie's face.

Opie grabbed it and shoved it down her throat and forced her to swallow, then ran over to Jamie, checking on him. Beluna glared at him but still swallowed, she would get him back though, and he better watch out.

'Someone collapsed!" Beluna called, and Brian dragged him inside. It was Daesyn. Beluna fell asleep after she noted he was fine.  Not even 5 minutes later Beluna woke up from yelling.

"Fluffy bunnies.....NO! DONT EAT MY PINEAPPLE !!!" Jamie yelled.

Beluna grumbled, "Can someone shut him up, or should I?"

Opie got to her feet and shoved another herb at Beluna "Eat this. It takes nightmares away"

"I'm fine, *he's* not." she pointed at Daesyn.

"I'm okay..." Daesyn mumbled, trying to stand up.

Beluna glared at Daesyn, "You aren't fooling anyone, now sit back down."

Beluna was too busy glaring at Daesyn to notice what was going on with her brother, who was playing truth or dare with some other people.

Beluna looked at her brother, "Brian, can you go punch Daesyn in the face for me?"

Brian sighed and turned towards his sister, "You can punch him when you're better."

"Rude-" Daesyn said, crossing his arms. "I'm right here, you know!"

"Yeah, I know, why do you think I asked Brian to do it, you're just out of my reach," Beluna snapped at Daesyn.

Brian went back to the game, "Truth or dare?"

"PINEAPPLE!!!" Jamie screamed.

“Thats probably dare.” Lori informed them, a sly smile creeping over her face.

"Oh my god." Beluna said, rolling her eyes.

Brian shrugged, "Okay, I dare you to... scream your favorite song."

"Mumph-gruesp-murble!" Jamie started to choke.

Beluna splashed the water on Jamie. “Dear, God. I’m going to die if I have to spend another minute here.” she said. After Solaya took up Jamie’s dare, and sang, Beluna was still giving Jamie a hard look. *The idiots.*

“ Truth or dare?” Solaya asked Brian.

"Truth" Brian decided. Beluna glared at Solaya, a glare that said, *You will regret being alive after this.*

Opie walked to a secluded corner and called over "Tough girl if anything goes wrong call me okay I'm going to go pass out"

“Whatever.” Beluna mumbled, turning her attention back to the game.

“Ok, do you have a crush on Lori?“ Solaya asked, grinning.

Brian smirked, "Duh, she's my friend, I hope." he glanced at Lori, who currently had a very bright red face.

“ I don’t think that answered my question,” Solaya said, still grinning.  Beluna got up and winced, but she walked around and checked on people, she glared at Jamie some more. Beluna looked around again and she nodded satisfied, she gave Jamie her most ferocious glare, that made her seem to radiate anger. She couldn’t stand listening to more truth or dare.

Beluna walked over to Avery and she plopped down besides her, "Hey." she said.

She smiled at Beluna. "Hey"

"Sorry if I seemed rude earlier." Beluna smiled back.

Avery shook her head. "If you were, I wouldn't have noticed." She admitted. "Still getting used to this whole 'being around actual people' thing"

Beluna's expression darkened, "Oh, you don't know just how bad it can be,"

## 05~𝓢𝓸𝓵𝓪𝔂𝓪

Brian sat down next to Solaya, "You want to scout outside?"

“If you can help me get up“ she said smiling.

"Wait Solaya I kinda wanted to talk to you. Maybe after?" Lori cut in.

”Sure Lori,” Solaya said, taking Brian’s offered hand and standing up.

"So later?"

“Yep!”Solaya said smiling.

Brain and Solaya went out and spent a quarter of an hour scouting the area. Solaya even found a few berries to eat. When they got back, Solaya spotted Lori.

” Hey, what did you want to talk about? Solaya asked.

"So um can we go somewhere more private?" Lori said, glancing at Brian.

“Yes, we can” She said. Lori and Solaya went to the back of the cave.

"Ok so um I know you like Brian and um I um I kinda like him too." Solaya could tell Lori wasn’t sure how to say this.

” Well, duh. I already know that.” Solaya said, smiling.

"What? Am I that obvious?" Lori asked.

Solaya laughed “Kinda! Is there anything else?”

"I just wanted to say that I respect who *he* likes. If he likes you I'm okay with that." Lori said quietly.

“Thanks, same. Also, when did you start liking him?“ Solaya inquired.

"I um-like when we met in the cave?"

“Yeah..me too. I also..Have something to tell you. About tonight. I kinda, sorta, kissed Brian?”

"Oh, um that's great Solaya." Lori said smiling. But she looked devastated.

Solayas face fell ” I am the worst friend ever” she groaned.

” Look, I don’t know who he likes, so don’t you worry. Who knows!” She said.

"No Solaya, you're a great friend. We shouldn't let Brian get between us."Lori assured her.

“Yeah, your right.” Solaya said,

Then turned over to Ailiseu, “I never really got to meet you” she said smiling brighter.

“Hi. I’m Ailiseu...but, I'm just going to go to bed…” She was being a bit shy, Solaya could tell.

“Oh, Okay.” Solaya said.

“Bring me the twins or you must pay  the price…..” Jamie suddenly mumbled. “Price….”

Then he jolted awake. *What was that?* Solaya thought.

“ Jamie, how about you take a night shift? Maybe get a little breeze?” Solaya asked Jamie then turned to Lori “ That will keep Jamie over there awake hopefully, let’s get some rest”. She said then lied down and sailed into a deep, dark, nightmare.

"Pineapple" Jamie mumbled.

All Solaya could think about is what Jamie had said, repeating over and over again, piercing her head, pain jolting from every corner, laughter, screams, roars, and blue eyes. Then a medicine touched her mouth and she began dreaming of Brian, riding on a unicorn, then a pineapple pummeling her, and she knew how Jamie felt. She shuddered awake, the unicorn had started to eat the alive pineapple, and she really didn’t think that was supposed to be in the dream. Solaya saw Opie sitting down while tending to another girl she thought to be Avery. She smiled and hummed as well, the song always helped her go to sleep. Solaya did it quietly so he wouldn’t notice her though. Solaya closed her eyes and mouth when Opie came near and placed tiger skin of her.

Solaya was about to fall back asleep but so many tweety noises kept her up, she was able to manage to pull the tiger skiing from her face and saw lots of light coming in. She groaned, really loud it may have woken a few up, Solaya had barely even gotten any sleep, and most of that sleep was nightmares. *I am going to get Jamie good when I am able to be able to move without pain*, she thought and tried to scoot up on the wall with a lot of effort, she was able too. “Oh gosh,” she said and looked around to see bodies sprawled over on the floor.
“ Do you need any help? I mean, I am no good but I could help using magic maybe?” Solaya asked Opie, really needing something to take away pain.
He shook his head "No they're all fine, now mostly I'm taking care of nightmares, and for Mr. mumbles, all dreams so everyone can sleep"

“Ok, good,” she said, kinda relieved.

”Wait, I know what I can do, I have never really used my powers! I could train, I don’t think that would put too much strain, would it? Plus, it is almost morning,” Solaya asked excitedly.

He sighed, "You should wait till there is someone with experience, I barely know what magic is-"

“I guess you're right, where is, I think her name is Estelle or something. I think she knows more about it than us, '' Solaya said, her shoulders sagging. People started to stir. She really hoped she wouldn’t wake them up.

Opie handed her some tea and tiger jerky he had been making "That's breakfast"

Solaya smiled, “Thanks” she took a sip and immediately regretted it, the stuff was sour and had a weird aftertaste “What is this?!” she asked wanting to spit out the sludgy stuff. Then she quickly gulped down the tea that was really hot.

Cassil woke up, “What’s going on?”

Opie handed him the tea and tiger jerky "Everyone nearly died I saved their lives, its morning, also your boyfriend talks in his sleep"

“What. How did we die?”

”It’s a loooonnggg story, and a big one too and I really don’t want to tell it so you better wait until someone else is awake, specifically your boyfriend who keeps getting death threats''. Solaya told him.

"*nearly* died, your all fine, I just didn't sleep to secure your health and safety" Opie indeed looked like he had not relaxed in quite awhile, his toffee blonde-brown hair fell in a messy ponytail instead of the usual bun, and he had huge bruises under his grey-violet eyes.

“You should sleep, then.” Cassil told him firmly.

“We have to move to a new cave soon so Opie can rest in that cave, it’s best for everyone.” Solaya said.

He nodded and brushed a loose strand of hair out of his eyes and started packing, "I promise I'll sleep soon"

“I told you guys from the beginning that it was bad to travel in large numbers and attract unwanted attention from predators, but did you listen to me? Noooo.” Cassil was kind of delirious.

Solaya grumbled and gritted her teeth slowly standing on her knees.

”Stop being a big pain and wake everyone else up!” She said losing her temper from the pain.

"No!" Jamie cried in his sleep.

Cassil nearly had a heart attack when Jamie shouted. “What... is he doing?”

Opie helped Solaya to her feet "Practice walking for a bit"

“Ugh, just shut your boyfriend's mouth up” she cried out, tears streaking her face now, “just stop, stop, stop!” Solaya cried while slowly fully standing up, leaning against the wall. She started taking deep breaths to calm down and took a step, wincing, but kept going.

"Jamie had very vivid dreams and tends to talk- or scream- or yell, in his sleep" Opie watched Jamie wake up he then handed Solaya a homemade crutch "This will help"

“Thanks” she whispered, still trying to walk.

Jamie sat up,"Oh." he said.

“... you sleep-talk.” Cass informed him. “It’s kind of weird.”

“You can say that again” Solaya mumbled.

"I sleep talk? What?" Jamie asked, glancing around.

Cass smirked a little. “It’s not *that* weird, though.”

"...that's good?" Jamie still looked very confused.

Opie snickered and walked Solaya through moving with a crutch.

Solaya chuckled, “If you say so, beware of Beluna, she really wants to kill you now” she informed Jamie. Cassil limped over to the kittens, making sure they had food. Opie had given them a mix of tiger jerky and strengthening herbs, even a smashed up dead mouse.

“Ewww” Solaya said, not willing to even look at the weird concoction. “Look! I can do it” she said taking another than another step.

"Beluna wants to kill me?" Why?" Jamie cut in.

“It is kinda obvious, you kept her up with your weird noises and got her really annoyed” Solaya shrugged, it was nothing new by now.

” Are you ok?” She asked Cassil who was face flat on the ground. He had tripped. Opie helped him to his feet and gave him a makeshift crutch as well.

“I’m fine.” He mumbled, looking very embarrassed.

“I don’t know what we would do without Opie” Solaya said, smiling at him.

Jamie quietly laughed. "At least you didn't knock yourself out like I did"

“Yes indeed, you are lucky” Solaya said, still working on walking through the room.

“Well I mean, I was just unconscious for a long time after being severely wounded, but yeah. That’s a perk.” Cass smirked, and winked.

Jamie blushed redder than Solaya thought was possible.

Opie snorted, "You'd all be dead, or barely alive" he helped Cass get used to a crutch "Okay Jamie you shouldn't need a crutch, although I'd like to see you practice walking as well"

"Me?" Jamie looked around,  like someone else,  also named Jamie,  magically appeared.  "Oh, ok"

He did what Opie asked. Cassil put the three kittens in his backpack. She giggled harder and sat down to rest, Solaya felt like she had just run a marathon.

Opie was encouraging exercise "The poison is working its way out, in an hour you should be perfect"

She shook her head, “No, I am too tired.” Solaya said and started taking deep breaths once again.

Opie walked over and started packing, "Jamie, Cassil, keep working on walking if you fall, help each other up okay?" He then realized Cassil twisted his ankle, ran over set it back into place, and splinted it helping him to his feet and fed him a painkiller.

"O-okay. Where are you going?" Jamie asked.

Opie smiled "Nowhere, I'm just cleaning and packing"

“Good” Solaya sighed.

” Shouldn’t we wake up the rest? I am honestly surprised that they still have woken up!” Solaya asked, noting that she had just witnessed a beautiful Camie moment.  Was Cassil *blushing*? No. It was probably just a trick of the light. Cassi started walking again. He rolled his ankle, and fell. “You know what? I’m just going to sit here for a second...”

Solaya crawled to Ailiseu and shook her to see if she would wake up.

Ailiseu finally woke up and said, "Huh? Wha-wait, what are we doing? Were we going somewhere?"

“ We’re working on it, there are a lot of injured people if you didn’t notice! Also, do you know where Estelle went?” Solaya asked.

"OH NO THE TIGER ATE HER- I mean, she's probably out looking for a better place to stay-" Jamie shouted.

At that moment Estelle walked into the cave and rolled her eyes.

"You know, I have to sleep sometimes."

Opie smiled "I don't!" He looked like a slight mess surrounded by sick and injured teens, with a messy ponytail and horrid eye bags.

”Estelle? Hey, you probably don’t know me very well, I am Solaya, we have been through a lot. I think that Opie can tell you. Oh! And this is Opie” she said pointing to him.

Jamie waved awkwardly, and Cass pet one of the kittens.

Opie was 5ft 2 and he didn't look like much, "Erm, they all nearly died, I (thankfully) healed them as it is my profession"

Estelle smiled. "So, while I was resting in a tree, you were all attacked?"

"Pretty much," Jamie saidd.

“Yeah. I got attacked by a big creature that was poisonous and got me, then Cassil attacked other creatures and got the benefits, Jamie keeps falling and crushing his head, Beluna, you haven’t met her yet but she is super stubborn and feisty, twisted her ankle bad then got bitten there, and kept walking on it even though it hurt and it kept getting worse, so yeah, and so on and so forth.” Solaya informed her.

Opie yawned and kept moving between patiant's "Okay Solaya, the poison has mostly worn off try walking again"

Solaya stood up, and got ready to continue practicing. *Im going to be fine,* she reassured herself.

## 06~𝓞𝓹𝓲𝓮

Cass tried to leave, saying “I’ve got my own cave. I'm going there.”

Opie rolled his eyes "You're not going out without the rest of us," he said as most people were awake by now, and ready to go, thanks to Opie's packing.

“I have my own place to stay, and I can survive on my own.” Cass Argued.

"So, if I refuse to leave,  all of us have to stay?" Jamie asked.

“Someone’ll probably drag you.” Cass noted.

"Probably..," Jamie sighed.

Opie smacked Cass "A. Your boyfriend needs you, B. There is no way by all the stars you could survive with those injuries, C. Even if you do live the kittens won't be able to. you can barely stand, much less take care of yourself AND your little fur babies"

“Wait, I have a boyfriend?” Cass asked.

Estelle watched them all with amusement in her eyes. "Point is no, you're not living on your own" Opie is literally the only thing keeping them alive sometimes.

“... but when did I get a boyfriend?”

Opie just snickered and walked away, redoing his hair into a bun. Opie was almost done packing "Alright everyone, we know it's not safe here, any ideas on where to go next?"

Cassil shrugged. "Didn't Ella say something about an 'Ash Hollow'?" he asked, messing up both the name and the place.

“Yeah, what’s that?” Jamie asked.

"No idea, " Cass said.

"Do we even know where that is?" Opie asked. Cassil rolled his eyes.

Estelle smiled. "Yeah, I said Ash Falls. And I know exactly where it is."

"I think I've heard of it before, but I've never been there," Avery added in.

"Great, how long will it take to get there," Opie said, adjusting his focus to the seasoned genius who knew things, ah yes he would call her the All-Knowing.

"Well...It might take some practice...Especially for the people who are trying to deny their magic. Only when we are truly ready to accept magic can we go through...There is sort of a border...To keep unmagical people out. I think That I should take 1 day to reach mine, Opie the same, Cassil 4 days, Solaya 2 days, Lori 3 days, and Jamie 5. I haven't really met anyone else." Estelle told Opie.

"Why am I the longest?" Jamie complained. Cassil crossed his arms, and sighed. "Because you haven't even *begun* to accept your magic You're scared of it" Estelle said to Jamie.

Jamie crossed his arms. "Okay....So how do I accept it?"

"What do you mean, Magic isn't real" Avery interrupted Estelle.

"And I'm guessing you'll take 10 days." Estelle said to Avery, Ignoring Jamie’s comment.

Opie knew that he would most likely leave any of their sides no matter how much magic he got, he was loyal to the ones he trusted, and for some reason, he trusted this group of ragged teens... Ack focus, heal, he did his best fueling himself into another healing session... stupid sleep, he didn't need that.
“Ohhh” Solaya said, coming back from the back of the cave. “Opie, this is not going to work. My ankles are so tired and they really hurt” she said, sitting down and rubbing them.
"Can we make a cart or something?"  Jamie asked.

“Good idea. Who volunteers to push the cart?” Cass said.

"We could take turns?" Jamie suggested.

Opie ran to her side and worked on them, easing her into a sitting position, he also seemed to be focused on something else. Beluna finally woke up.

Opie passes Beluna some tea and tiger jerky absentmindedly "How are you feeling"

Beluna ignored the drink and food, "I'm feeling fine," she got up.

Cassil stood up again, but tripped, and fell. Opie handed him his crutch, "Come on you can do it," he urged.

“We seriously need that cart” Solaya said between giggles.

Opie rolled his eyes and turned back to Beluna and put it in a bag and water skin for her, "At least take this"

"Geez thanks, now I can throw it at someone's head." Beluna snatched the bag. Opie yawned and rubbed an eye, he had barely slept and he was *still* taking care of them all.

"Those of You who are healed, WE should probably get started on....let's call it your "entry exam' " Estelle said.

Cassil groaned. “Entry exam?”

"You need to accept your magic to pass the border,as I said earlier. It's not an actual exam. Now, I think we better get to work with Avery first." She motioned for Avery to follow her as she walked out of the room.

Opie was helping everyone into groups of three ready to travel. He hoped Estelle would be done with Avery's ‘exam’ soon.

Daesyn shifted uncomfortably. "I don't think I'll pass the exam thing." He admitted.

Jamie looked nervously at Beluna.  "Me either"

Opie smiled "If you survived tonight, magic should be a breeze, hopefully" he muttered the last part, moving everyone forward.

Brian chirped cheerfully, "Guys if this is a test for magic, then I'm sure you'll all pass, how hard can it be?"

Beluna gave her brother a *really* look.

Opie sighed, it would be impossible to keep them together...he pulled the hood on his rappit skinned halfcloak over his head, he looked like a fairy, exept he was covered in everyones blood... a murder fairy? Nope. Opie laughed and continued building a makeshift cart for those unable to walk. Solaya slowly climbed into the cart and took a deep breath. Opie helped Solaya into the cart and muttered "Just kiss and be done with it" so only Solaya could hear. He was referring to Cass and Jamie who were both blushing, what with Lori teasing them.  Opie handed Cass a herb "Eat this, it will help strengthen your legs, dont worry its not a love herb or whatever, I would never do that to you"

He also handed the herb to Solaya proving it was indeed not a love herb. Cassil ate the herb that Opie had given him. Opie rubbed his eyes and turned to Beluna, what the fridge was up with her? Opie walked through everyone checking wounds and adjusting things as needed. Jamie fainted.Opie rushed over to Jamie and stopped his fall "SCREW YOU PINEAPPLE MAN" he screeched angrily checking his vitals.

"Oh great, again Jamie???" Lori got up and started helping Opie with the injured patients. Beluna grabbed the water from the bag Opie had given her, and she dumped it on Jamie's face.

"AHHHHHH!!!!" Jamie screeched.

"WHY DOES JAMIE KEEP ON GETTING KNOCKED OUT?!" Daesyn almost screamed.

"Hmmmmm, I have no clue" Opie said while treating 'pineapple man’

“‘I’m bored. We should play something!” Solaya said. “Oooooo, Idea! let’s play truth or dare!”

"Maybe something less dangerous when playing with 16 year old girls," Beluna said, still glaring at Jamie. Everyone ignored her.

"Fine" Opie sighed, glad to see everyone agreeing on something.

Solaya smiled, “Who wants to go first?”

"I'll have someone ask me first I guess." Lori said.

“Ok, truth or dare?” Solaya asked. Opie sighed, Beluna was very right. Truth or Dare could be *very* dangerous.

"Truth?" Lori said, looking a bit nervous.

“ Um, who do you have a crush on?” Solaya asked, smiling. Opie inwardly groaned. Solaya really was boycrazy. He was still tending to people "Also lets try to avoid romantic thing, because it can be rude-"

“Very creative.” Cassil mumbled, cutting Opie off. *Oh Dear.*

"Uhmmmmmmm N-no one? " Lori answered.

*Poor Lori,* Opie thought.  Opie sorted her herbs as they had become a bit of a mess.

“If you say so? Who wants to go next?” Solaya asked.

“It’s Lori’s turn to ask.” Cass reminded her.

“Ok, cool. Lori, your turn.”

"Um.... Cassil, truth or dare?" Lori asked.

Opie started making lunch and it gave off a nice, delicious smell.

Cassil sighed. “Dare.”

“Ooooo, what is that smell?” Solaya asked, smelling the soup from far away.

“... just tell me the dare.” He was dreading it.

"No! We should go eat, and forget about this game!" Jamie said

Opie chuckled "I'm doing my best with what I have" she smiled kindly, "Also food's not done yet"

"I dare you to go to the back of the cave with Jamie ALONE." Lori smirked.

“Seriously? That’s it? C’mon, Jamie, let’s plot some murders.” Cass joked. Opie huffed at Lori "You're horrible"

Jamie turned red and followed Cassil.  Cassi just sat at the back of the cave. “There! We’re here! Happy?!”

"Yeah" Jamie mumbled.

Opie laughed and continued making food.

"How long do we have to stay here?" Jamie asked.

Cassil shrugged. “I dunno.”

“Ok, it is my turn! Someone ask me”, Solaya said excitedly.

“Yeah, okay, Solaya, truth or dare?” Cass asked from the back of the cave.  Opie told them that it was fine to come back.

“Dare”. Solaya answered, quickly.

Jamie walked back to everyone else. Cassil also joined the others. “I dare you to lick the floor of the cave.”

Solaya shrugged “Ok, I just need help getting to the ground”.

Opie rolled his eyes and helped her.

"It's actually pretty clean ." Lori noted, staring at the dirt floor, “For dirt, I mean.”

Estelle had arrived back inside. She heard the dare and smiled. The dirt on the cave floor changed to glass.

”Thanks,” Solaya said, kneeling down and licking it. “There, I did it.”

Opie continued cooking the delicious smelling lunch. Hewas ecstatic to be ignored from the game and he was almost finished with lunch.

Lori looked at Elle and said: "Is that a magic book? I have one around here somewhere."

“Really?!” Solaya said.

Estelle rolled her eyes. "It's not a magic book...Just a book that teaches me about magic."

"Well I call it my sun book. It glows sometimes." Lori told Estelle.

"Thats cool, I guess. Well, I guess I better get to work...Cassil, will you come with me?" Estelle said. Cassil nodded, and got up eagerly, leaning on his crutch. The two left. Opie continued sorting his medical supplies and stirred the soup every once and awhile.

"Is food almost ready?" Jamie asked

He nodded "Yeah, it just needs a little bit more time, you can have some tiger jerky if your hungry"

Opie did his best to wash the blood out of his clothes while he was waiting for the soup to finish cooking.

Opie called everyone to lunch "It's ready!" it smelled really good and she poured everyone a bowl.

“Mmmm, smells delicious! Thanks!” Solaya said. Opie sat down and for the first time in a day or two, relaxed and enjoyed herself.

## 07~𝓙𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓮

Jamie finished eating and headed out, to where everyone else was.

“Beluna, you’re plants and trees, knowledge and books,Daesyn you’re water, people, and dreams, Brian, you’re animals, nature, and water and people, Avery, you’re Animals, healing and dreams, Ailiseu you’re nature, animals, and people,  Solaya you’re plants, trees, and people, Lori you’re Dreams, animals and healing.” Estelle finished. Shen noticed Jamie and added on, “And Jamie is the same as me. Books, Knowledge, and dreams.”

“Okay?” Jamie said, very confused.

“Wait, wasn’t it Jamie who did the weird thing, with the ladies voice?! And he is the one who is making those sleeping noises! It all makes sense now!” Solaya said.
"I did what?" Jamie asked.
“Me and Lori were talking, and suddenly, instead of talking about pineapples he talked straight to us, in a woman’s voice. She/ he said something about bringing the twins or we would all die“ Solaya   said, shuddering and closing her eyes like she was trying to get the memory out.

"I said what?" Jamie was now completely overwhelmed.

“You-you don’t, you don’t remember the lady at all?” She said with a worried expression.

"No...I don't remember anything.. " Jamie said.

Solaya took a few deep breaths “This is getting a little creepy”.

“Let’s re-run this, you don’t remember any of your dreams? Anything?!”. Solaya asked.

"No..."

“Darn, well that is helpful” Solaya said  ”Why am I and like Cassil the only ones worrying about this?”

”I am” Lori perked up.

”And Lori” Solaya  added.

"Let me get this straight.  Someone talked for me, while I was asleep, and threatened us?" Jamie asked. Solaya rested her head”This is so confusing, I really don’t know how to take it”.

"Well that's.... worrisome"Jamie said.

She frowned “Very”.

“I think I will take a nap” Solaya said. She left and went into the cave. A couple people followed her.. Jamie sneezed.

“Bless you.” Cass said and Jamie blushed. They both walked into the cave. “Guys!!” Solaya said.

“What?!?” Cass asked.

"What?" Jamie echoed.

“ She threatened to kill everyone on the next stop, or we can give her what she wants, now if you ask me, that is **not** good. Anyone got anything helpful to say?” Solaya reminded everyone.

"What does she want?" Jamie asked.

“ I don’t know” she whispered “I think it might be the twins, or our talents, or something”.

“I have nothing helpful to say.” Cass said.

“Thank you Cassil” she said rolling her eyes, “So Cassil is on the gonna die list, anyone else?”

Jamie fiddled with the hem of his tunic. He did *not* like the mention of Cass dying.

"Twins? We don't have those!" Opie said.

Cassil raised an eyebrow. “The twins? Aren't, like, Brian and Beluna twins?”

“Yeah, I guess.” Solaya said.

Cassil sighed. “Whelp. Seems like we’re in mortal peril. Never had that before.”

Jamie suddenly screamed as a spider crawled into his foot.

“Wow, are you scared of spiders? Here” Solaya said and smashed it with her hand since she wasn’t able to step on it, due to her leg.

"M-m-me? S-scared-d of spiders? Pft" Jamie tried to smile,  but it looked more like a grimace. Cassil picked up a different spider,and Jamie pushed the urge to scream out of his mind.

"aHHHH YOUR HOLDING THE 8 LEGGED MONSTER-I mean, cool, you are holding a spider..."

Cassil smiled a little. “I can put it away, if you want.”

“Wow, there are tons of them!” Solaya said, looking closer at them.

“What the-“ Cass stared at them. Suddenly Solaya paled, “Guys, these aren’t Normal spiders. Get away from them! They’re electronic, fake. I think they might have poison of some sort in them.”

Jamie started giggling uncontrollably.

“Hurry, hurry, hurry” Solaya mumbled.

"The only thing I have is that the whole world will not be a good person to me either and I'm going through the kiwis and the Olympians and I have a pineapple. " Jamie said, feeling very delusional.

Cassil swatted the spiders away from him. Solaya had collapsed. Cassil had been bitten by several of the spiders, and he fell over, delirious. “Ha! Jamie is a giggle monster.”

Then Jamie collapsed as well,  still giggling....

## 08~𝓞𝓹𝓲𝓮

"Grab everyone, put them on the cart," Opie said and grabbed the sleeping people. He realized he was talking to himself, Brian and Estelle were outside.

"Cassil is a giggleier monster, " Jamie laughed.

“Okay, but Jamie is a cute giggle monster.” Cass giggled.

"Yeah, yeah lovey dovey" Opie dragged them all into the cart squishing spiders

Brian and Estelle noted what was happening, then ran out to the cart and helped Opie with the rest of them. Opie gasped as one nearly got him, he squashed it.

"Cassil is a cuter giggle monster, " Jamie said.

Cassil snorted. “That’s not true!”

"Is too!" Jamie protested.

Cassil smiled sleepily. And then started crying.

"Nooo! My precious bean! You are not allowed to be sad!!"

Opie rolled his eyes "By all the stars" he shoved an herb down his throat and killed the last of the spiders.

Cassil sobbed uncontrollably. Whatever those spiders had injected was doing strange things to him. Jamie hugged him. He was still crying, but he hugged back. “You’re warm and comforting.” He wailed.

"Fluffy bunnies ", Jamie agreed.

Opie studied them, then stabbed them with a needle bringing them out of it, well mostly they were still a bit woozy "What the heck" he muttered.

"Wha happen?" Jamie mumbled.

Cassil had been hugging Jamie’s ankle, sobbing. He blinked. “What... happened?”

"You guys were calling each other cute, sobbing, and hugging" he clarified.

"What?!?" Jamie asked, looking at Cass. Cassil let go of Jamie, and coughed awkwardly. Jamie tried to hide his **extremely** red face, but Opie noticed it.

"I have no clue, and I'm sorry if the truth hurts" Opie said, analyzing the poison. Jamie fainted. Opie mumbled about way too much fainting and took care of Jamie.

Solaya was screaming uncontrollably, shaking, and saying ‘No’ over and over again.

“This is a mess.” Cass stated, as if Opie didn’t already know that.

He nodded and buried, his face in his hands "Kiss your boyfriend awake we all have a lot to talk about" he muttered angrily.

“Again, when did I get a boyfriend?”

"Jamie, wake him up," he says knowing it was virtually impossible. He himself was working on Solaya. Opie woke Jamie up and fed him an anti-poison serum. Solaya suddenly woke up ”WhereamIwhatshappening!” She asked. Jamie is awake, but still bright red. Cassil sighed. “That was one of the weirdest things that’s ever happened to me.”

“Oh, good, you guys are fine and dazed, what happened?” Solaya said smiling, “thanks Opie, I don’t know where we would be without you”.

Opie replied, "I do. You'd be dead."

## 09~𝓔𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓮

Estelle came back after 2 days of practicing her magic and everything was in shambles.

"I'm guessing my good news is not going to help this, is it?” she asked, after everyone had awoken.

"I want to go back home" Opie muttered, she for the first time looked scared.

“Agreed, the lady said by our next stop, we would all be dead, not really looking forward to that. But, if you want to fight I will be willing, I would hate  to disappoint you” Solaya said, giving a small, but sad smile.

Opie went on her tiptoes to pat her shoulder "I want to make it out alive""I guess I shouldn't have left...I'm so sorry guys."  Estelle said, looking around. Elle went to a corner of the cave, clearly distressed.

Opie turned and gave her a small smile "Its okay, also I'm a girl right now"

"Well then, I won't mind some friendship.  I feel like I've failed you all. I just wanted to help" Elle felt herself pouring her heart out to Opie.

Solaya grabbed her crutches and limped over to her.

“ No, don’t be. It is not your fault that some idiot is trying to kill us. I will stand by your side the whole way, even if that means dying” she said the last part more quiet, but you could tell Solaya meant every word. That was when the book started shaking..Quivering, sputtering. Estelle reached for it, then tried to open it. It didn't budge

"Oh no." Elle whispered, the color draining out of her face.

“What is it?” Solaya asked, fear in her face.

"Its...It's too late...We have to go to the border- Now" Suddenly Estelle stood up and grabbed her bag.  Her blue dress was covered with dirt. "Opie, find everyone you can...anyone that is too weak to walk has to travel with a buddy" Estelle was back to her normal self--A leader.

Opie gathered everyone, those too weak were loaded into the cart and pushed, "Okay let's go" she pushed the cart. Jamie ran out of the cave and helped Opie push the cart..

"The border is closing.  I can feel it..I don't know why...." She explained to Solaya.

“ Oh not again” Solaya groaned as the road away from the cave, most of them were in the cart because they were still asleep and delirious. “Why can’t you guys be more useful!” she said slapping the unconscious Beluna.

Estelle looked to the mountains ahead. "It will take us 2 days. But We will make it.. We must make camp for the night."

"Now? But the sun is still up." Jamie said.

Estelle snapped her fingers and her dirty blue dress changed to a light green full length one with silver embroidery.  Opie passed out some leftover soup to keep strength up. Estelle created a bed out of the nearby willow tree and sat down in it to read more of The Book Of The Sun & Moon. She flipped it onto a random page..which seemed different than the rest of the book.

A picture of a somewhat familiar woman was there...and there was a riddle..or a song.

*Midnight Calls,*

*The Death,*

*The Light,*

*Over.*

It was extremely confusing.

“What’s wrong? Solaya asked, waking up.

Solaya crawled over to see and gasped “My mom used to sing it to me! I never understood it but I loved it anyway” she started singing the song, tears were seeable.

*So its a song,* Elle thought.

"Your...Mom..What does your mom look like?" Estelle asked Solaya.

Solaya smiled "She had light brown hair, and beautiful green eyes...I am ever so envious of those eyes.

Estelle paled. "Is this her?" She pointed to the picture

Solaya frowned "Yes, that is her..Why is she in the book?"

"I  don't know...I think she might be magical too...My mother definitely wasn't..Did you ever notice...colors around her?"

”The villagers always thought her a witch, but I loved her so, I always loved listening to her magical songs about the sun and the moon, the plants, the color of nature and love, powers within, all that. In fact, she gave me this before she disappeared,” Solaya said and pulled out the cloth that was half moon half sun, colliding. She smiled, tears still falling down at the memory of her mother.

Estelle paled. "I think...Solaya...Your Mother must have disguised herself...Of course she used magic...  Your mother gave me this" . She pulled out the book.

“Wait what? I have no idea what is going on!” Solaya said, shaking her head.

"She's the lady.....Her.  My 5th birthday.." Then Estelle disappeared in thin air.

## 010~ Cassil

Jamie tripped and almost landed in the fire,“Where’d she go?”

Jamie didn’t  land in the fire because Cassil caught him. Opie cursed at the soup he had spilled"Okay, oldest members need to meet," he says pulling Brian, Lori, Solaya, Beluna, Cassil, and Jamie aside "Any clue what just happened?"

Jamie turned bright red as Cass said, “Be careful,”

"Yeah, okay, we have no clue where to go without her, we barely know magic, and we're out in the forest" Opie said worriedly.  Cass realized that he was still holding onto Jamie, and let go, bright red. Cassil let go of Jamie,  and Jamie fell the rest of the way to the ground. Cassil coughed awkwardly, and sat back down next to the fire.

Cassil cleared his throat a little. “Opie? Thanks for all your help.”

Beluna grimaced, "Yeah Opie, thanks for shoving herbs down my throat," she said, her voice coated with sarcasm.

Opie nodded "I honestly should thank you all as well for taking me in, I really love having something to do and people to be around"

Cassil smiled. “Okay, come here, you get a hug.” He told Opie.

"What about me? Do I get a hug?" Jamie asked,  not really thinking about what he was saying.

Beluna turned her attention towards Jamie, "Yeah, and I'll elbow you in the stomach for a bonus."

“Of course you can have a hug.” Cassil hugged him, not really realizing what he was doing.

"Gak!" Jamie said, seeing what was happening. A wolf- or a vye- was attacking everyone. Jamie grabbed a sharp rock.

Opie laughed at Jamie "Um, here, I'll go borrow  a weapon for you," she asked a member of the group and got him a bow and some arrows "Here"

"Thanks " Jamie said. Cass had to admit he was adorable.

Cassil was confused. “Wait, what’s happening?”

Beluna walked over to Cassil, "Hey Cassil, do you have any weapons I could borrow?"

“Many.” Cassil replied. Beluna looked over some, "Can you forge your own?" she asked, for once no sarcasm in her voice. Cass nodded.

Beluna's eyes flashed and lit up, "Could I try?"

Cassil had a wry smile. “Are you sure?”

Beluna crossed her arms, "How hard can it be?" she smirked slightly.

"Fighting first, forging later" Opie pointed out.

“It can be very hard, and usually takes up to  four hours.” Cassil informed her.

Beluna crinkled her nose, "That stinks, but I'd rather have something for next time, so I say, let's get started!"

They were both oblivious to the fact that there were werewolf-like creatures attacking their friends around them.

“Fine. Do you have an abundance of metal?”

Beluna shrugged, "Hey I'm the newbie, I thought you were supposed to have everything ready, I can go get some if you want," Beluna added.

“I don’t carry welding materials with me all the time!” Cass said.

“Hey, can you do something more than argue and do useless stuff?” Solaya yelled over to Beluna and Cassil.

Beluna looked over at Solaya, "Oh yeah, we're chit-chatting like little girls, no dumbo, we're talking about weapon making."

She glared at Beluna, “I knew that, but you guys weren’t getting anywhere”.

Estelle popped up in the midst of all this. Opie ran over to her for a check up "By the stars, you're okay"

Cassil took out several knives. Cassil lit his daggers on fire, and killed the last of the vye’s. He was worried.  Jamie was really injured.

Opie called him over "Cass I need help with blood loss, could you do the honours of keeping him calm?"

Cassil nodded, and knelt down next to Jamie. Suddenly Opie said, "Oh skies above get back!-" he shoved Cass away and scurried away himself.

Cassil’s eyes widened. “What?!”

“Oh dear” Solaya muttered to herself. Opie grabbed a medicine from one of the girls, Mira, and tipped it down Jamies throat.

“Pineapple..” Jamie

“Oh, so he’s fine.” He noted, when Jamie mumbled ‘pineapple’. Jamie mumbled more about pineapples.

“Are you okay?” Cassil asked.

"Mmmmmfffgggghhh"

Cassil patted him on the head.

"Woof" Jamie mumbled. Cassil laughed a little.

Mira chuckled. "Does he think he's a dog?"

“Oh my gosh!” Solaya said waking up from the noise, “this is not ok, he might turn into Vye, we have like, 71 more hours till he is totally affected!” She said worriedly.  Opie quickly gave Jamie a second dose.

“It's fine.”  Opie reassured her.

"Meow!" Jamie cried suddenly, startling everyone.

Cassil smiled. “You’re being very cute right now, James.”

"Oooooooo Camie!!!!!!!!! YES" Lori squealed.

“Who’s Camie?” Cass asked. He hoped she wasn’t Jamie’s girlfriend.

"Cassil and Jamie duh." Lori smiled.

“I’m *so* confused.” Cass informed her.

"*Sureeeeeeeeee Cassi"*

Cass rolled his eyes. Jamie started...purring? Cassi giggled. Jamie kept purring and rubbed his head against Cassil's arm. Cassil blushed bright red, and patted his head again.

Cassil gave him more medication. ”What do we do?”

Brian went over to Cassil, "Maybe someone with more experience will know, or magic." he shrugged.

"I um, well I've been practicing magic since it accidentally killed my sister. Plus I'm stronger at healing." Lori said quietly.

“Great, then do something.” Cass said. Cassil started flipping through the magic book, looking for something to help Jamie.

“Meow " Jamie said. Jamie hissed at Solaya.

She shook her head at Jamie,looking utterly surprised at his behavior “I promise we will fix him” Solaya told Cassil.

Lori then had pink and silver mist swirl around her hands, healing Jamie.

"Rowr?!?"Jamie collapsed,  fast asleep.