The Awakening

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Leuxy  Leuxy got up and cringed from the pain on her sides.The Quads noticed her in pain and gave each other wary looks, as she became aware of their gaze and explained to them what occurred earlier in the schools hallway.Leuxy hurried out the room and returned to her seat and waited for her aunty.The Quads hopped onto the desk and stared at her furiously."Quads relax. I’m fine really I’m healing....slowly but surely“Leuxy reached over to pet them but Emerald, Sapphire and Garnet moved away from her touch. Walking towards the computer on the desk with their facial expressions looking annoyed "We are going to surf the web to see what’s new amongst other things"Sapphire said with a indignant tone in her voice."Um...okay" Leuxy sighed while she buries her head in her arms on the desk.“You should have linked us Leuxy and we could have helped.”Diamond came to lay against her arms as she lifted her head to look at him.Diamonds back was turned to her as he watched his siblings use the computer.He had his paws tuck underneath his chest just like cats do with his tail somewhat twitching.She could tell that he was upset "You know Diamond you and your siblings have the same characteristics of felines"Diamond huffed at Leuxy comment and turn his head to look at her."Don’t change the subject Leuxy, you need to stop blocking your soul link to us so we can sense when you’re in danger" Dimond was agitated but he kept his cool.Leuxy scratched behind his ears,  which seems to calm him down."Okay, I’ll think about it.I just don’t want you four to get hurt that’s all, And besides I can take a hit."Leuxy smiled at him which made Diamonds anger fade away.“We’re here to help you Leuxy, so please stop blocking our soul connection to you.”He got up to put his paws on her arms so he could place his forehead on Leuxy’s.His eyes were close as he spoke "We’re your guardians. Trust that we can and will protect you" he backed away to look her in the eyes,"Promise me you’ll let us help you in certain situations from now on."Leuxy rested her head on one hand, with elbows propped up while she traced imaginary lines with her finger on the desk."I promise."Dimond nodded then walked off to go join his siblings.Aunt Lilly returned with a bunch of supplies in her hands, and the ones she couldn’t carry was floating behind her following her every move.Her aunt was a beautiful Japanese woman with long black hair in a classic messy bun, with three kanzashi used to hold the bun in place.She had a heart shaped face which was round and slightly long bringing out her other facial features. She has on dark eyeliner around her big wide pretty blue eyes which made them pop out more,and her nose and lips were an ideal size. Aunt Lilly always dressed comfortably and casual with nothing to fancy unless needed. Under her white lab coat,aunt Lilly had on a dark beige short sleeve bottom down blouse that was tucked into her high waist black cargo pants, with a black round toe high heel.”Morning Quads"she greeted them as she placed all the supplies on the small metal table that was a few steps away from her office desk. "Morning" they all said without ripping their attention away from the screen "Um...aunt Lilly you don’t think that’s a bit much?"Leuxy sighed "Nope not at all, we don’t know how bad you’re hurt.Now lift up your shirt and let me see where the damage is."Leuxy did as she was told.Her aunt looked over her injuries “Hm, well it looks like most of your broken ribs are healed"she pulled Leuxy shirt back down. "It’s a little red in the areas but it’s going away. Are you still in a lot of pain and do anywhere else hurt?"Leuxy shook her head "No ma’am. I feel a little pain but it’s slowly fading and every where else is fine."Aunt Lilly looked at her with a concerning look"You sure?"Leuxy smiled to reinsure her aunty "Yes ma’am, I’m fine really. You don’t have to worry" Lilly sighed as she went to sit next to Leuxy on with her arms crossed.She looked down at her niece with concern still in her eyes "Leuxy what you’ve done today was very dangerous and reckless. What have I told you about not drawing attention to yourself?" Leuxy looked down at the floor with sadness "I couldn’t just stand there and watch those animals die".Aunt Lilly uncrossed her arms to lean back on her hands looking forward at nothing at all. Leuxy aunt seemed deep in thought trying to form the sentences in her mind,before she spoke so Leuxy could understand her aunt’s opinion on the matter."Bumblebee listen I love how much you value life and I adore that so much about you.But learning to hunt is a very important skill to have and as long as they don’t kill the animals for no reason, and use it for food or other beneficial things then I see no wrong in hunting"aunt Lilly placed her hand on Leuxy’s head."Look at me pumpkin" Leuxy looked up at her Aunt trying to hide the sadness in her eyes."sweetheart I know it’s difficult but that’s just nature. What about the carnivores that have to eat other animals to survive.Are you going to stop them from getting the food they need just because it’s hard to see their prey getting eaten?"Leuxy thought about it and shook her head "No.They have to eat to survive"aunt Lilly placed her hand on Leuxy’s shoulders "Exactly. Yes nature can be hard to watch but there’s always a point to Mother Nature’s way." Leuxy nodded in understanding and then said "The circle of life, could be so beautiful and yet cruel" aunt Lilly could sense Leuxy’s low spirits."Come here bumblebee" Her anuty softly said getting up off the desk with her arms extended out knowing that her niece needed to be soothed.Leuxy embraced her aunt while trying to control her sorrow from spilling out."Bumblebee you’ve been so humble considering everything you been through.”Unexpectedly the tears she fought so hard to hold back finally broke free.Not knowing what came over her, a flood of emotions that she’s been suppressing began to overflow rushing its way to the surface.The Quads moved away from the computer to go comfort her as she sobbed.They knew there was a meaning to this grief of hers and so did her aunt. All her aunt Lilly could do is hold her tight as she cried away years of her bottle up emotions."I’d brush aside the neglect from my parents, the cruelty by my siblings and also the ashamed looks from the people in the kingdom all the time." Leuxy’s voice trembled when she spoke, inhaling deeply to calm her self."So why does it hurt to think about that now? It never bothered me before.”She wiped away the tears from her eyes with the back of her hands, looking to her aunt for the answer she needed."It’s because bumblebee, there’s only so much someone can take before they break. Indeed you are a strong spirited person and always smile through the hardships. But it doesn’t mean you don’t have feelings like everyone else" her aunt alway knew the right words to say to give her the strength or courage she needed at times.That is why she always looked to her aunt Lilly for guidance.                                Lilly  After what occurred in the lab,I told Leuxy to go calm her mind down some where with the Quads and that she don’t have to worry about her classes for the rest of the day. As for me I still have one more class to teach.I arrived to the classroom as the second bell ringed Indicating that class was now in session.The students were already seated with their grimoire placed on top of their desks ready to be used, Just the way I like my class. Everyone knows the drill and there’s no need to waste my breath and time explaining to my students how I run things around here. I gave them at least a week to fall into my schedule and Routine, but there’s still a lot to be learned and exams are right around the conner.“Afternoon class" I leaned against my desk putting my hands inside my lab coat, as I peered at my students."Afternoon Dr.Lilly" they all greeted back."Alright class flip your grimoire to page 321.The section you all will be learning about today is titled the five main elements." I waited for everyone to be at the proper page before I continued."Can anyone tell me what are the five main elements?" Everyone raised their hands eagerly. Good, I will get through this lesson quick. I chose my first student to answer and He stood up "It’s air, water, fire, earth and wood Dr.Lilly."he smiled, proud of his answer."Wrong, sit down Devon" his smile faded. "Anyone else?" Only a few raised their hands now, not as confident as before I see."You, what’s the answer"I pointed to the next student and she stood up.“it’s air, water, fire, earth and metal"she said.“Wrong again Ashley, sit."Ashley slowly slid back into her seat with confusion written all over her face."Can anyone please answer this simply question?" One of my A-plus students stood up and he was one of those teacher’s pet,I can’t stand students like that.They made my head hurt but at least I can trust he’ll get the answer."Yes Dr.Lilly it’s air, water, fire, earth and ice"I stand corrected. He smirked with such confidence, like he just won the Nobel prize. Oh that poor kid, I shall crush that ego of his.I slowly clapped and nodded "oh wow, yes.That’s wrong again cole, sit."He plopped down into the seat with his mouth wide open.Some of the other students giggled quietly,I sighed and shook my head.This is going to be a long ass day."The five main elements are air, water, fire and then spirit" I snapped my fingers so that the display of the elements could appear on the magic board behind me.Everyone looked at me like I grew a third leg on my forehead."I’m guessing from all the weird looks I am getting that you all are lost."they nodded and mumbled in agreement.Damn. Explaining this might take up the entire class period. Yup, today’s going to be a very long ass day."Yes, spirit is one of the main elements.It always seemed to be forgotten about because most people think it’s a useless element."A student raised his hand and I gave him the okay to speak."Do the spirit element allow people to be able to control ghosts, just like how certain people can control the other elements?" His question made me squint.I honestly don’t know how I let my bond-by-tie talk me into teaching magic.Curse him, He’ll hear from me.I sighed as I held the bridge of my nose trying to compose myself before I spoke."No Liam,that’s not what or how the spirit element is used."I sighed, Then crossed my arms as I stared at my students."Okay here’s an example.The elements water and air creates ice. Fire, air and earth makes metal.Do you all understand now?"The entire class gave me nothing but blank stares. I shook my head and my grimoire appeared right beside me on the desk.I hovered one hand over it as the pages flipped to the correct section I needed, so I can show the students the proper combinations of the elements. I pulled the picture of a pentagram from the grimoire and tossed it over my shoulder and onto the magic board, so that it could show a diagram with the main elements which I made appear earlier on the board.The symbols of each elements sat at a point of the star."Alright. spirit stands at the top of the point moving around the pentagram going right comes water,then fire,then earth,and air" I sat on top of the desk,crossing my arms and putting one leg over the other to get comfortable so I can explain this lesson. "Let’s say some one has two attributes or more.They could fuse those components together and create a new nature like wood, ice, lighting, metal and so on."The diagram mixed and matched the five element symbols which revealed the elements secondary nature and the class awed.After breaking it down they all were starting to understand, Finally jeez.The bell rang, and I am saved."Please, I need you guys to look over this section when you get home.Tomorrow we’ll be going to find out everyone’s attributes." The students nodded"Yes Dr.Lilly."I waved my hand lazily “Class dismissed."They quickly cleared out the classroom and I headed back to my lab to finish analyzing my research on Leuxy for the rest of the day.I’ve been studying Leuxy’s DNA since her powers first manifested.I’ve been hitting dead end after dead end with no luck in getting closer to her genetic structure.I have multiple computers in here constantly running the data I collected from her, reanalyzing her physicals and specimen I gathered over the years, all the way down to her bone marrow. I’m at my desk going through paper work,when my bond-by-tie Kharijua walked in with his wife Zuri.“What an honor for the king and queen to grace me with their presence."I said jokingly as I got up and bowed towards them.He rolled his eyes so hard I thought they would’ve gotten stuck in the back of his head.“Lilly stop it, you know I hate that" he said. Zuri laughed while embracing me in a warm hug,“Hello Lilly, how you’ve been?"The queen is such a sweet women,I’m happy she become Khari mate."I’ve been holding in there you know between teaching magic"I peered at khari with annoyance,he had slipped away to go mess around with stuff in my lab.He caught my glance,turned around smiled and waved at me."Also this research about Leuxy has been kicking my ass."You could tell that very time Leuxy is brought up, her parents whole persona change and they become so serious. Khari walked back over to rejoin us."That’s exactly what we’ve come here to talk to you about and also this."Khari handed me a black envelope with a blood red colored logo. It was a drawing of a demonic face with two long horns, fiery eyes, and long fangs."I know this symbol, it belong to the demon nation in New York."I pulled out the piece of paper,"Yeah, it was sent through fire magic and just appeared on my desk this morning"Khari said.Make sense why some part of the envelope was kinda burnt but the note inside was untouched.                     Letter From Demon Nation Dear, King & Queen of Unimoonsun kingdom. The king and Queen of the demon nation would be honored to have an audience with you,to speak on the matter of an alliance.                                                      Demon nation.   "What, that’s it?"I turned the paper over to look at the back of it."So haven’t this nation ever heard of an email or phone call?" l shook my head and handed Khari back the envelope."What’s a waste of trees."I walked back to my desk and slump down into my sit, Zuri sat in the chair in front of my desk while Khari sat beside me sideways on the desk.He could tell that something is bothering me as he looked at me with concern."What’s wrong Lilly, you seem stressed?"I chuckled."That’s because I am Khari.This damn research on Leuxy is not getting no where and now the demon nation in the west wants to have a meeting on an alliance.I don’t trust this, somethings not right."Zuri snapped her fingers and a file appeared on my desk."We been doing our own research aside from yours."I looked through the documents that held information and photos of Leuxy inside."Okay what am I looking at exactly?"I looked at the both of them confused."The warriors confiscated a hard drive from a group of enemies this morning and this is what we pulled from the drive."I had mixed emotions of anger and worry,Zuri continued."They were captured before they could leave the territory. We was on their trail for quit sometime now but somehow they kept avoiding capture until today."I was stuck looking over the file and I can’t believe this is happening right now. This is bad. Really bad.Leuxy don’t know this but her parents love her so much,They’re the ones who decided on having me talk Leuxy into pretending to be human.When Leuxy powers awakened,it was terrifying for those couple of months.That day I was playing hide and seek with her in the jungle when I found her, and my heart dropped to my stomach.She was standing on the edge of gigantic walls that surrounded the entire territory. Her back was turned to me.I portal behind her on the walk wall "Bumblebee what are you doing, how have you gotten up here? Let’s get you and the Quads back down where it’s safe." It’s like I wasn’t even there because she kept staring over the grassy vast plan in front of her."Leuxy I’m talking to you. Quads what’s wrong with her what happen?"They looked just as scared and confused as I was."Bunny, speak to me please."She finally turned to me, the look in her eyes made my body jump back on instinct. Her face was so emotionless but her gaze was so vicious.I just felt an aura of pure evil,"Leuxy, it’s aunty Lilly.Come on let’s go home, okay?"Her gaze became gentle again as the heavy pressure in the air disappeared and she hop down from the merlon."Sorry aunt Lilly, I didn’t mean to make you worry."I hesitated to walk towards her for a second."Okay...um..let’s go home now alright?" I picked her up in my arms and waited for the Quads to join us before I portal back to the castle. When I arrived there was warriors preparing for battle. I told Leuxy to go find her siblings as I looked for her parents.They was inside the command room going over battle strategies."What’s going on, who attacking us?" Zuri walked over to me and explained that everyone in the kingdom had felt a powerful energy.They’re looking for the source of that someone or something."There’s no way we’re under attack, I put up a magic field throughout the kingdom and past our territory for miles.If an unknown person or thing forced their way through the barricades surrounding the kingdom we all would know."Khari called me over and showed me on the holographic table where the magical sensors picked up the power surge."No, this can’t be right. Me and Leuxy was just in that area and we saw nothing and no one over there."Then my mind played back on when I had felt a heavy pressure coming from Leuxy "Tell the warriors it’s a false alarm,I know what caused it." Khari mind linked the warriors to return to normal procedures.When everything died down, I asked Zuri and khari if I could speak with them in their office away from listening ears, they nodded and followed me there. Zuri closed the door behind us and stood next to her husband as I began pacing back-and-forth trying to explain to them what went down on the territory walls.They stood quietly with a blank face."Hello, are you two going to say something?"They snapped back into reality."Sorry, this is a lot to process. Leuxy was born without powers and she’s not even a supernatural being because she was born human." Khari had said as he went to go sit on the couch with his arms resting on the couch back rest. Zuri walked over to him and sat on his lap and leaned against his chest."Well we had it wrong this whole time, she’s just a late bloomer. I’m telling you she had my guard all the way up."I said, still pacing. Zuri patted the empty sit next to them, I sighed and plop down on to the couch."If that’s so we’ll have to keep an eye on her. Until then we’ll keep this between the three of us."Weeks have past since what have happen with Leuxy, I wasn’t sensing that dark aura from her.She was her regular bubbly self and I was beginning to think I imagined it all. Well I wish that was the case, then out the blue I saw a side of her unfold before my eyes. We were playing one of her favorite video games when all of a sudden she just got up and walked out to her balcony. Just staring ahead in one direction her expression became serious."Leuxy honey what’s wrong, what are you looking at?"I looked in the direction she was staring in and saw nothing."It’s late bumble and kind of cold.I don’t want you catching a cold."I placed a hand on her head, "Let’s go back inside and get you ready for bed."She just stood there ignoring everything I was saying."Leuxy?" In a blink of an eye we were standing on top of the territory walls again.We teleported and that dark pressure was surrounding her again. She continued to gaze in the same direction she did the last time when we were here.I took a step back while my Instincts yelled at me to run and get as far away from her as possible, but I fought it.This is my niece,she wouldn’t never hurt anyone or anything I kept on reinsuring myself."Leuxy what are you looking at, what’s out there?" She huffed then shook her head and she hop on top of the wall merlon."A bunch of desperate idiotic sheep’s lead by an even bigger fool."I was so lost, who was she referring to. I knew she had that look in her eyes again I could feel it, the dark aura in the air had gotten heavier. I was about to ask her what she was talking about but then I saw something in the corner of my eyes.There were dark figures moving towards us fast making the miles that lay between us seem like nothing. Rogues.There was hundredth of thousands of them and the worst part was that they were an army of mixed supernatural beings.How in the hell they’ve gotten this close with out tripping my magic sensors. Leuxy calmly sat down, she seem to not comprehend what’s happening right now. I mind linked khari and let him know what was occurring at the eastern walls.I needed to hold back the rogues until back up arrived, I started to cast a spell .Leuxy who was sitting perfectly relaxed with her legs crossed with one arm prop up under her cheeks, raised her hands lazily towards me in a way to indicate to stop."There’s no need to tire yourself aunt Lilly, I’ll take care of the nuisances.”She didn’t even turn to look at me, even her tone of voice wasn’t directed at me. It was still cold and blunt.This honestly can’t be Leuxy right now, her whole character changed."Leuxy I don’t think you understanding what’s happening but the enemies can’t get pass this wall." Leuxy yawned "I do.I simply don’t care because they’ll all die anyways" Huh, do she not see thousands of rogues running toward us?,A lot of the kingdom warriors will die under this attack. In that moment Leuxy spoke one word "Disintegrate"and in a flash the enemies army was destroyed.There was nothing left of them, not even ashes for the wind to blow away."Pathetic"she huffed sounding annoyed. I passed a hand over my mouth in shock,my legs began to tremble beneath me. Leuxy turned to me, "Like I said there’s no need to tire yourself." She got up stretched and came towards me.I was frozen in fear "Aunt Lilly are you okay?"she held onto my lab coat as she glanced up at me.Her facial expression was back to normal and the intense pressure surrounding her disappeared just as fast it had appeared."Y..yes bunny I’m okay, just was caught off guard that’s all."I calmed myself and picked her up"Let’s get home.Your parents are probably wondering where are we."After I got Leuxy ready for bed and tucked her in,I mind linked khari and Zuri to meet me in their office in five minutes. When I arrived they bombarded me with questions "What the hell is going on Lilly, how one minute there’s an army at our door steps and the next second they are gone?" Khari was standing by the magic hologram table that he kept in the office scanning the whole territory for the enemies."All those rouges couldn’t just disappeared like that without a trace."Zuri could see how fatigued I was by my body language as I went to sit on the couch."You look like you just saw death himself."She poured me a small glass of liquor and threw a ball of ice in it. She sat down beside me gawd. My whole head was pounding and what I witnessed tonight took a lot out of me."So what exactly happen out there Lilly?" Zuri looked so worried.I told her to relax and asked khari to take his attention off that damn table so I can have his full attention.I told them everything and that Leuxy’s powers actually did come in also heir face was filled of worries."I feel like you two are keeping something from me"Khari walked over to the large painting of him and his wife and he pulled on its frame. It opened up like a door with a safe hiding behind it, How cliché.Inside was a medium dark cherry wood chest with gold markings engraved all around it."Okay first of all that’s the most stupid and noticeable place to put a safe,  that’s the first place I’d look if I was a robber. Second, what the heck is that?"Khari rolled his eyes and placed the chest in front of me on the coffee table."First of all, no one asked for your input Lilly. Second,open it and find out."Us bickering made Zuri laugh making me happy she become a bit more relax. Inside the chest was multiple ancient gold cuffs with the engraved writing filled in with a black type of stone used for holding or sealing away strong energy’s.I raised an eyebrow at them.“I know y’all are not about to put this on bumblebee."Zuri sighed,"We have to,Leuxy is to dangerous and it’s for hers and the kingdoms safety."I was officially angry,"Do you two know how f*****g long and excruciating the process of putting on the seals is going to be?" Khari stressfully rubbed his hand over his face. "We know Lilly, you think we’d like to see her go through that?" Zuri got up to comfort her husband."We went to go see the elders of the supernatural beings, like we always do when I’m pregnant. They told me one of the quadruplet girls I was carrying was going to cause great fear, chaos, and destruction."Zuri’s voice was low and had sadness to it.Khari pulled her in for a hug.“The elders had given us that chest to prevent that path becoming a reality"he said. I got up and started to pace back-and-forth."Why did you two keep this from me, all this time!"Khari grabbed me by the shoulders to stop my pacing."Because we were told not to tell anyone, not even our bond-by-tie."I understood, just then the Quads came bursting in telling us there is something happening to Leuxy. I Portal us to her room and saw that she was on her hand and knees breathing heavy, her father scooped her up so we could take a closer look at her.She had her face pushed up against his chest as she moaned in pain."Leuxy?" Zuri placed her hand on her daughters head."Look at me love"when she did we all gasped.She had little fangs and her sclera was pitch black while her iris was like we were glancing into the universe. We never encountered something like this."Mommy I think there’s something wrong with me."Zuri cupped her cheek,"You’re going to be okay, don’t worry." Leuxy slowly shook her head "Then why do I have a tail?"
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