The Sacred Six

The extinguish

“How long are you staying at this place? This school?” Thalia asks, “I don’t know… I think my mom said a month…” “Okay, well it is what it is… I mean I cant stop you from going… I Cant do much to change your mind. I get that its your Dads funeral but why so long?” Thalia asks frustrated in  a sense. She didn’t want Demetria to go. She want to continue the secret relationship. She did love Demetria in a way but wanted her bread buttered on both sides when it came to her affair. She didn’t want to tell her family, but she wanted to keep using Demetria as her escape. “Maybe if I tell my Family and you tell your family we would still be able to get some communication through to each other. Everyone would understand why we have been so sneaky and it will be just fine…” Demetria says. She cant understand why her girlfriend can not just come out with it. She is so willing to tell the world of the love she has for this women but Thalia feels like she is being forced. Thalia shakes her head at Demetria. “Maybe a month away is good… I’ve got things to clear up this side… I mean my parents are arranging an engagement and all and you know, its just going to be a little less stressful on both of us, you being away, because I don’t have to sneak around.” Thalia suddenly changes her demeanor her tone arrogant and her ego visibly showing for some reason. “ I don’t understand Thalia… We are both sneaking around. I want to share my s****l orientation. I am not ashamed! You are the one that is! Whose engagement are you talking about? Another excuse to push aside our relationship!” Demetria says, anger in her voice. “My Engagement! Okay Mine!” Demetria’s face contorts pulling back her head in surprise. “Your engaged?!” Thalia shrugs, “And you act so calm and casual about this Thalia? Like you never had any feelings towards me? Like this whole thing was a lie!” Demetria says pursing her lips, trying her hardest to hold back the tears. “It is what it is Demi. Maybe I just need a normal life!” Thalia says haughty. “You know what… Keep your damn Lies! Keep your damn soon to be Marriage full of lies! Just keep it! I will not be some ones side chick! You want Normal! Well Thalia! What is normal for the Spider is chaos for the fly!  Your normal is a damn illusion!” Demetria climbs into her car, starts it and speeds off. Leaving Thalia alone in the parking lot where they met.

 She slams the door walking into the quiet house. Her trusted companion stands in the corner in the darkness… “Now that wasn’t nice…” He says referring to her slamming the door. “Nothings nice at this point…” Demetria says walking past Cato and up the stairs. He spins on his heels and follows her. “Why are you following me Cato…” She asks, him being on the receiving end of her foul mood. “I am suppose to be loyal. I am your best friend…” He responds. She pauses, “I liked you better as a dog, and when you didn’t speak…” He infuriated her. Why must he follow her? “Now you are just being Nasty aren’t you? I don’t know who you think you are? But in my house and under my roof you will respect your familiar. Besides that you will never talk down to him. He is right he has been loyal to you and he still is. I do not condone your bad moods unfortunately! Build a bridge and get over it Demetria! And I dare you to slam a single door in my house or presence again. You will be on the receiving end of my wrath…” Demetria jumps in surprise, as her mother stands in her night gown, Slippers and curlers in the hair. "Mom!" Demetria says startled, "I didn’t know you were there..." she says again now trying to look for an excuse for her nasty behavior. "Well if you hadn’t slammed the door so hard I wouldn’t of been here. But it’s a good thing I was, else I wouldn’t of seen that disrespectful behavior..." Demetria looks at her shoes nervously. "I'm sorry. I didn’t mean to be so rude..." Demetria says to Cato acting as though she is a child that has just been scorned for doing wrong. Cato nods as an acceptance his eyes sad. "Right even though I do not condone your behavior. I would like to learn the reason behind it." Her mother says gesturing her to her room. Demetria wasn’t expecting this. She thought, now that the relationship with Thalia was over, that she wouldn’t have to expose her secret, but something in her told her that this was the time. She wasn’t going to live in a lie any longer. Although her affair was sweet and thrilling, it had to come to an end. Especially now that Thalia is getting married. She felt used by her, hurt by the situation. She always knew her mother and her siblings would understand. There was never a doubt in her mind. She wasn’t concerned of judgement from their part. Hell, there was actually no reason behind keeping the secret from them, other than it being just a thrill to the two lovers. She knows that it wasn’t right what she did to her familiar. She knew that she was in a bad mood and the way she apologized was not going to heal his heart. She was stubborn and felt she was right. Her ego was huge especially after this heartbreak. So she didn’t look at Cato any longer. His sad eye made her feel impeccably guilty. She followed her mother to her mother’s room  “Close the door child…” Amethyst says walking in first. Demetria complies. “Mom I am sorry about what had happen-“ Demetria starts but then is interrupted by her mothers hand being help up in the air for her to stop speaking. “I do understand that this ‘going to school’ thing has put you under pressure… Its put everyone under pressure Demi, your sisters and brothers… Your father Dying has put a lot of pressure on me… You kids growing up in a normal life and then suddenly having to stop living your normal life because you find out that you are witches. I feel that it is very overwhelming, but what must be overwhelming for you is the secret you were carrying from your family… The fact that you just went through a break up and that your girlfriend is getting married is very Overwhelming but its no excuse for rudeness.” Demetria’s eyes almost fall out of her head. “You knew?” “The whole time my dear… Your gift is persuasion… mine… Well I am a scryer and besides, I have a lot of help from my spirit guides and friends on the other side… Do you think that I honestly didn’t keep tabs on my kids… All these years? Girl I had too… With Lysander floating around looking for my children, looking for me, How could I not?”  She says nonchalantly, “Why didn’t you say anything?” Demetria asks as if she was caught out in a lie. “How could I? You know very well that your siblings, and myself and your father would not look at you differently if your s****l orientation was not the same as ours… We have accepted this long time ago. Your paths are all planned out but its up to you to choose correctly. If you like women… Well so be it! Doesn’t make us love you any less. It makes us love you more… Now I know you are angry with you sister but you shouldn’t be…” Amethyst says with a smile on her face. Demetria was Angry with Phoenix because of her finding her twin flame. She wanted Thalia to be hers so very much. To have someone want you so bad that they will live a thousand lives over and over again just to be with you is a romance story on its own. “He found her… she didn’t find him firstly… I’m sorry that your girlfriend wasn’t your twin flame… Life works in unexpected ways. That relationship wasn’t meant for you. Especially seen as you are just being used as an escape. Mason was searching for his twin flame in many of his lives because he had live many lives. He came across to this life believing that he would not find her, But he did. He was getting bored of living the countless past lives doing the same thing over and over again. He decided it was over. He needed someone to share it with, he needed to find his twin flame. He found it in your sister… Its not the same for everyone. Your father and I hated each other. I mean we are completely the opposite… But let me tell you, I would have never been able to grow older any different. It took us countless fights and a lot of years to realise what we really were to each other… Now I’m not saying that it will happen to you. Soul mates are hard to find, but yet, you may be lucky… It can take 2 seconds as soon as your eyes meet… or it can take 2 years or 20 but you will know when it is your twin flame. Now this girl, the one you were with… she’s not your twin flame. She actually doesn’t deserve your love. You may be heart broken now but I believe better things are coming… Do you know what I mean?” Demetria sucks in her breath to hold back the tears, Nodding her head in agreement to her mother. “Now… I want you to go to sleep now. Call your familiar, tell him all that has happened. He is the best person to speak to in this situation… He knows everything about you, and you need to learn to control your emotions. We are Empaths, we feel each other completely. You must of felt how sad Cato was when you said those unkind words to him….” Demetria nods her head replaying those feelings in her mind again. “Well Remember the four things you cant get back in life. The stone once its been thrown… The occasion once its been missed… The word once its been said… and time once its gone… I’ve always told you kids that…” Amethyst says now climbing into her best and covering herself with the blanket. “I love you mom…” Demetria says retreating from her mothers room and heading to her own.

“Valkyrie… Hey… Valkyrie…” Valkyrie sleeps, silently snoring to the calls of her name. “HEY WAKE UP I WANT TO TALK!” Valkyrie jumps up startled looking around her empty room, She looks at her clock on the wall its almost one in the morning. She bats her eyes again, getting ready to doze off. “Don’t go back to sleep…” The voice comes again, “Huh?! Who said that?” She jumps up, looking around her room once more to find nothing. “It was me you nut case…” The voice comes from the glass cage where her pet frog is. She stands from her bed and walks towards it worried that she is still in dreamland. “Who said that?” She says eyeing the cage suspiciously. “its me silly! Parca…” “Parca? I don’t understand?” “The frog… in the cage… What I don’t understand is why you didn’t listen to your mom when you were in the family meeting…” Valkyrie shrugs, not knowing what her frog is on about. She was surprised at first with the frog speaking to her, but was over it rather quick. She had seen and heard worser things that night than her frog speaking. “Well I’m talking about the familiar! I thought that you would be running here to speak to me… to see if I spoke back… but no… I had to do the talking first. I’ve spent a rather long time waiting for you to talk to me, where I can talk back…” Parca says jumping on a rock placed in her cage. “I’m so sorry… I actually had a lot going on… You know finding out that I’m a witch and all that…” “that’s true… Should I have given you time to get adjusted?” “No… I always speak to you… Just weird that you speaking back for a change…” Parca makes a noticeable laugh, obviously because you cant really see a smile on a frog. “Well I need to tell you some things before you leave for Graceland…” The frog says, “well You woke me to talk so, Here I am…” Valkyrie says sitting down on her bed in front of Parca Cage. “I need you to be safe that side… You need to be responsible, and you need to trust your siblings…” The frog says with concern in her voice. “Okay not really the talk I wanted… Seen as I’m awake early hours of the morning to hear this from a frog.” Valkyrie says sounding a little offended for some reason. “Why do you sound upset by my statement…” “Well it’s not like I’m not responsible…” Valkyrie says rolling her eyes. “Valkyrie I’m not saying this to make you upset, you have been mischievous in the past so I’m just giving you a heads up that’s all…” “mischievous? Wow! You are sounding just like my mother! Isn’t a familiar suppose to do whatever I want? My mother wouldn’t even sound as condescending as you are…” She says to the frog. “Valk, Please don’t get me wrong… I have eyes and Ear in the spirit world telling me that something big is about to happen… I need you to get your head in the game. Its not me being condescending, or patronizing, its me being your faithful Familiar, warning you, guiding you… With all my respect.” Parca responds, her voice of love and sincerity. “Well maybe that shouldn’t be your first words to me… A warning… I’m going back to bed Parca, good night and see you when I’m back!” Valkyrie responds, getting up and going back to the same position in her bed as she was lying before her familiar woke her up. What Valkyrie didn’t know is that Parca was doing as a familiar is suppose to. She told her, all that she knew. Valkyrie was the most stubborn of the siblings. She was Mischievous, Having 3 DUI’s and getting her Licence taken away. She felt that she was the most outspoken and the others couldn’t handle it. Such a young girl speaking the way she does, doing just about what ever she wanted. She felt that it infuriated them. It didn’t, she was not humble whatsoever like her other siblings, and she acted as though she was a spoiled little rich girl, but her personality was sweet, and she was abrupt most of the time because she didn’t understand a lot of things.  She although never took responsibility for anything. She was not jealous of her siblings, they fought often, but they had a special connection and trusting them wasn’t a problem. There was Numerous times Phoenix and Rowan had bailed her out of sticky situations, and Stone, Demi and Page were always there as a guiding hand. She took her parents fake divorce the hardest though. She wasn’t emotionally strong for it. She felt stupid being told it was all a lie because when her mom was going through the divorce with her father she had started to rebel. She felt like Parca didn’t have the right to dictate to her, She’s just a familiar, a slave to the witch world. Although Parca had also been her confidant since she’s been born to the earth she felt that Parca was being judgmental. Telling her to be responsible. Parca wasn’t although. Trying to get through to her witch to help her through the future’s Misfortunes.

Parca closed her eyes and in a sort of a Mind link, contacted the other familiars that were all under the same roof but separated by the walls of the bed rooms. “We have a problem guys… Valk is not listening to me… There is huge problems coming for the sacred six. We need to speak to the big guy I fear, we need to get through to someone who will listen, or else we will lose them. I fear that if we do… you know lose them… the witch world will come to a complete end…”