The Sacred Six

The cognizance

“Nix… What the hell…” Rowan says looking up at his sister who just ran down the stairs. He then see’s Mason run down after her, calling for her. “Mason… What are you doing here? Why are you only wearing a towel? You realize this isn’t a really good time right?” He says to Mason Puzzled. “That’s not Mason… Its Jinx. Something about a witch and I’m his Eternal flame, or forever flame… Something like that!” Phoenix shouts, Interrupting the glare Rowan is giving Mason. Valkyrie Chuckles… “A Twin flame…” She says but gasps as soon as it comes out her mouth. “Yes exactly! Wait! How do you know that?” Phoenix asks, out of breath from all the rambling. “I don’t know… It just like popped into my head… It just came out!” She responds, Everyone is looking at everyone suspiciously. “I know that everyone is going through an overpowering time at the moment… But I need to make sure Phoenix is fine….” “I’ll be fine!” Phoenix shouts, “She’s Fine!” Rowan shout. He reacted like that because ever since he was small he has always, protected his older sister. Their one year difference in age didn’t make a contrast to him. They were twins. He cared for her deeply. Even though Mason over powered him in height and in build, he was not scared. He had an instinct to protect his sister. “How is that Jinx?” Demetria asks, forgetting about the dog she locked up in the bathroom earlier. “Its Jinx! I’m not going crazy! I saw him with my own eyes! He talked to me as a cat… Now his Human?!” Phoenix says pointing of the Brut of a man standing in front of her. “Where on this God given Earth is mom!” Valkyrie asks, given this circumstance is getting out of hand, her mom must explain. “Speak of the Devil and she shall appear!” Her mother says walking into the Kitchen, “And for the love of God Jinx, Put some clothes on…” She says slamming her handbag on the table. He nods, retreating upstairs at the command of Amethyst.

The five of her kids stand before her weirded out and crazed. “What is going on? Besides dad dying, well, Out of the damn blue, none of us have gotten a second to grieve because this s**t day just keeps getting weirder and weirder!” Pagan says throwing her hands up in the air, “That’s beside the point, We’ve just watched our oldest sister have a complete Meltdown and um well, Upstairs Stone is having one! He refuses to come out. What the hell is going on?!” Pagan starts again pacing up and down in one short spot.  “Oh my God! DAD!” Phoenix shouts watching Her fathers entity stand again behind her mother. “Where?” Valkyrie asks looking around the room. “Your father is only going to be here temporary… He has plans that he needs to see out…” Amethyst says looking over at the stair case, everyone looks in that direction. Mason stands there at the bottom of the stair case. “Oh come here you handsome Kitty…” Their mother calls to him, he complies. Mason walks over and bends his head down,  Amethyst scratches his head, and he looks as though his enjoying it… Phoenix rolls her eyes… “You know when we were actually sleeping together, I told you I thought it was cute that you snored like the purr of a cat…” Phoenix say directing the message to Mason. He lifts his head and smiles. “Well It was soothing being with you so that’s most probably why I purred.” “Hold on! Wait a minute? That’s really Jinx?” Demetria asks pulling her head back like it was unbelievable. “What the actual f**k was I saying this whole time!” Phoenix responds throwing her hands up in the air. “Wait… Ewh… You into that stuff?” Valkyrie says, Everyone knew she was going to take it so out of proportion. “No! No… I mean yes… No… I didn’t know he was you know, a cat…” Phoenix responds, “What did you think, He was a horse?” Valkyrie asks looking him up and down. “Gross…. Just disgusting, I cant speak to you people!” Phoenix says. Rowan shakes his head. “It doesn’t matter what he looks like on the outside, It is who he is on the inside that counts. When Mason Came to us as a kitten, He had already traveled many lives… He had even been a God, according to Greek Mythology, I don’t believe he told you that Phoenix. But when he came to us as a kitten, We assumed he wasn’t going to change his form. Until he was just about the age you were when you were had a spell put on you. He was given a small boys body to start his life with you. We Searched this because we had never experienced a Familiar changing into a boy. That is when we found out who he was, and why he was here. He is Truly your twin flame. He had searched many lives for you. So we thought, we would keep him…” Amethyst says referring to Phoenix. Mason smiles at Phoenix, “Wait?! So your not a virgin?” Valkyrie asks surprised. “Wait? When did you think I wasn’t? We all know that bridge was burned for you long time ago…” Phoenix respond with a lot of sarcasm in her voice, slapping her sister back with a burn.

“OH s**t… The dog!” Demetria says remembering her dog she locked away in the bathroom. “I really hope this is not a dude claiming to be that flame thing with me, cause I don’t think I can handle it at this point.” She mumbles walking to open for the talking dog. She opens the door and runs back to the kitchen to be protected by everyone in case the dog had turned rabid. He came out wagging his tail, and panting like a dog normally does. Mason, chases him away, “Away from me dog! Or I will slice you open!” He shouts, moving away from the dog and over to the other side of the table. “Cato… My dear friend…” Amethyst says bending to pet the dog. “Cato is also like Mason except he chose to be a Familiar. Cato spent his life being reincarnated, but couldn’t get the feel of those lives. When he met us. He knew that it was meant to be.” She says to Demetria, “Do you want to show what you look like to Demetria, Cato?” He disappears and comes back within moments fully dressed. “ Marcus Porcius Cato, at your service, Demi…” This old man, Little to no hair on his head with frown lines on his head. A prominent nose and a very welcoming smile, Appears from where Cato the dog had disappeared. He extends a warm hand out to Demi, “Nothing like being mans best friend…” He says smiling. She takes his hand smiling back, she feels comfortable around him. “Sorry to interrupt your big damn Happy family reunion but Can I please get some answers… For all of us?” Valkyrie asks, Talking on behalf of all of them. “We will need stone. Meet me at the fire place, get comfortable because it will be a lot of talking. And please guys… Don’t use your mind. Just stop speaking in your head. Be quiet. Clear out all of your thoughts and shut your subconscious out while we are around Stone…” she says leaving. Rowan leaves up the spiral staircase to fetch his brother.

 Walking in on him talking to his chameleon, dobby. “Can you hear him? I can hear him… I feel like Doctor Dolittle… Do you think I can speak to your bird? Maybe he will talk back?” He mumbles looking at Rowan who stand in the door frame. “Um no. Leave the bird alone… Come with me… We are going down stairs… Family meeting…” Stone smiles at the chameleon putting him back into his glass cage, and smiling as though he was on some sort of high.

Before they could leave the kitchen Mason pulled on Phoenix’s arm pulling her back, while everyone retreated to the comforts of the fire place in the living area. “For a little old cat you have major strength…” Phoenix says pulling her arm away. “Please don’t push me away because you know who I am… I love you dearly, and you can feel the pull between us. You know we are twin flames…” Phoenix pushes on Masons chest in anger. His body as large as it is, felt no push. He stood still in that position he was in before. “I trusted you with everything! Everything. With my ex, I told you when we had s*x, I told you why he broke my heart, I told you everything growing up. You took My Virginity! I couldn’t understand why this brute of a man. Beautiful as he is would want me! I felt that when you didn’t want to continue with a relationship with me, It was because of ME! But I see now. My confidence level faded. When you friend zoned me I didn’t know why! I spoke to my cat about everything! Like a damn open book. You couldn’t of said anything? These whole 22 years of my life, you couldn’t say anything?” She says pushing his chest each and every time she starts a sentence. “I don’t have to make excuses, Phoenix! It was me. Because the countless times we made love, the more I wanted to tell you everything. I confided in your father and he told me to take it down a notch. Be friends not lovers. Of course I wanted to lose myself when You told me everything about your ex, That’s why I paid him a visit… To teach him a lesson. You can not pin your anger only on me! If I had my way I would have you what ever way I wanted! I hated myself for having to friend zone you. I have wanted to speak to you for years! To tell you how sorry I was. Look how this is overwhelming you now? If I had told you that I was your cat that you speak to every day, what the hell would you have thought… I would have lost you… “ Phoenix rolls her eyes, and turns to leave but he pulls her back again. “Just sit with me… at the fire place. Remember your parents cabin in the mountains? That one weekend we went? Sit with me like we did in front of that fire place.” “No I can’t… Besides we were naked in front of that fire place! I just cant accept this at the moment. Let me just… I don’t know… Let me just think about all of this stuff… The twin flame crap… Let me just think about everything… Please…” She says once more, pulling out of his grip.

Phoenix walks into the living area where everyone is seated. “God Women I do not want to see things like that! Erase that Mind?!” Stone Shouts at Phoenix. “Oh s**t! Clear your mind Phoenix, Clear your damn Mind.” Following Phoenix is Mason. “Why the hell is he here? Is this why I’m picturing them naked in front of a fire place? Is this a test?” Stone asks again to anyone interested in answering. “Ewh Mason! Stop picturing s**t in your mind! She’s my sister Damnit!” He shouts again, Mason pauses trying to erase the thoughts he was having of Phoenix. “Right… Kids take a seat… This is going to be a whirlwind adventure…” Amethyst says sitting in front of her six kids and her two kids companions.

“So lets start from the beginning…. Your father was a teacher… You all know that. But he never revealed where he taught. He actually runs a school of magic. Two days before Hallows eve, a friend of ours called in a panic. His name was Lysander. Lysander and I grew up together. Your father met him too, when they were just young boys. My best friend Rowena and Lysander were, Twin flames… Just like Myself and your father were and Phoenix and Mason are. Twin flames were born with the same soul. Although completely opposite in some attributes they still share one thing in common. They share the loved for one another. You will know when you find out twin flame. It may not be right at this moment. You could be friends for ever, But deep down inside you know that somewhere in your past life you were once one. Anyways lets move back to Lysander and Rowena… They were inseparable. They had six children… What were their names now… Mhhh, Maybe that’s not important. But on that faithful night, we received a call from Lysander, saying that Rowena was doing a summoning spell and it went wrong. We work with good magic, powerful but good. This call surprised us completely, why would she dabble in this, she had merely been only selected as a witch she was not completely confident to do all of the spells a strong coven witch could do. Any way we went there and she was full on possessed, claiming it was Satan himself! We couldn’t stand around and watch our friend get taken down to hell. I mean you do not have to sign a deal with the devil to become a strong witch. It’s something that’s passed down to you. Be it through your blood line or a mentor for selected witches. I was Rowena’s mentor. We were best friends… I even named Rowan after her. I loved her dearly. So that night our coven gathered and we started to preform a banishing spell using our white magic. Unfortunately things turned bad and she died.  On Halloween we were visited by Lysander. He threatened Rowan and Phoenix saying that he will kill all of us. There was no other way. I put a spell on all of you.  I suppressed your Magic.” She says sighing at the end of the mouth full of words. “So we are really like witches?” Demetria asks, “Yes you all are. Rowan and Stone are Warlocks…” “What happened to dad?” Rowan asks, “Dad And I never had a divorce. It was a cover up.  We loved each other. He went back to run his school. Remember twenty two years ago he was teaching and he just stopped because of the threat, But they needed him back. He couldn’t risk anything still so he went back to the school. Phoenix is right, she is still seeing your father. He is a ghost, he has a mission, he has a purpose for you kids. Now that his gone of course, but we will get to that in a moment.” “Do we have specific powers or like are we witches of everything?” Valkyrie asks, “Well its complicated, Let’s start with your oldest sister…” Amethyst says looking at Phoenix, “She has the power to Summon, Ghosts, demons, angels… You name it… she is a scryer… She can fortune tell using a crystal ball… She can communicate with the dead… As we have seen previously… You know by the hospital, seeing your father, She has spiritual sensing, She can sense if there is a spiritual force in the area or if someone is using magic, be it dark, white, any type of Magic. She is a clairvoyant… a Invocator and she Relays Empathy… She also processes the power of Mind link, but She would have to work very hard to delve into that. Also her being the oldest has the power to do pretty must anything the other five of you can do… She was a first daughter, Like I was… We have similar magic. Now Rowan…” She moved over to her oldest son, “You have the spiritual sensing, similar to Phoenix… You also have pain Infliction, Mind control and Mind Shunning. Meaning, you can render someone unconscious but with all of those you must remember that you have powerful and also dangerous magic, in your hands…” She turns to stone, “Stone, My baby boy… Your reading peoples minds is impeccable considering you have only had this gift for a few hours… I know you might not think of this as a gift, You all don’t think of it as a gift. But if you use it correctly this is a great gift. Stone… You can create an Illusion called Glamour.  You have Empathy Just like Phoenix , and you have the power to move things around with your mind…” She moves over to Pagan, “My Ferocious red head vixen child… You can Alter the forms of Objects. That gift is called Transmutation. You are empathetic, You have the power to lift yourself or another beings, using Levitation… and you are a potion brewer… let me tell you if they taste anything like your cakes then hell, you will be excellent…” Pagan smiles at her mom, “Demi, To control someone with your voice… the power of persuasion… A little bird told me that you have already started using that tool…” Amethyst says to her, which in turn Demetria looks over to her familiar, and mimes the words, ‘Snitches get Stitches’. “you can also hypnotize a person… Have you ever noticed when your teaching? Your students seem so interested in the crappy boring subject that you are talking about… Well that’s it… Besides that you also share Empathy and spiritual sensing with your siblings…” she sighs, and turns her attention to her youngest and last born daughter. “Valk… You have the ability to spell cast, Potion brewing, Empathy and Healing… Beautiful gifts to have all at once… All of your gifts are beautiful.” She says, looking at each and every child that she has with her, “How do you know what our gifts are if we were infants when you took our powers away?” Stone asks, “We had a scrying witch tell us. Not only was she correct, I could see it in you… Even without having your magic…”