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Isis was afraid even to sleep in theanxiety that if the demons came back for her once more. The charms wereineffective to their power of call, which was pretty evident from last nightbut she was so tired. Her eyes were burning from reading the old dustyscriptures, that too mostly handwritten and her eye-lids had become as heavy aslead.

It was not possible for her to stay awakeany longer and she flopped down on her bed and immediately fell asleep, as ifsomeone was waiting for her to get submerged in the world of sub-conscious. Assoon as she was asleep Isis was taken to a place in her dreams which she hadnever seen before.

It was a cottage in the middle of nowhere.A woman as lying there heavily pregnant and about to give birth and her motherwas moving around hustling and bustling all over and fussing over at the ladywho was pregnant and she was speaking to someone who could not be seen.

“Wherefrom did you get this woman? Ruriel she looks older than Jesus himself,”exclaimed Julia looking at her.

Theman whom she referred as Ruriel looked at Julia and said, ”Beggars cannot bechoosers is an English saying which I am not all fond of but that does not meanthat my condition at the moment is far more different from it. Where from am Igoing to get a mid-wife in this middle of nowhere?”

“Youhave done great darling,” piped up Cattaleya from the bed and continued,” Freyasays that you have brought a half witchling.”

Ruriellooked at her as if she has lost her mind but then with sorceresses anything waspossible this he had felt in this short time he had with his life. They couldmake anything out of nothing and the Ruriel registered that there was a musicplaying in the background and the temperature of the room was far colder thannormal.

“Whois exactly playing the harp and singing?” he asked finding no one in thevicinity and there were no musical instruments in the room in his knowledge.

“Yes,there is a spirit in this room playing Spanish music and singing along with it,to keep your daughters strangling each other. Now please,” and before she couldfinish the statement there was another scream from Cattaleya’s throat indicating another contraction.

AsJulia applied the potion on her stomach again, she asked,” We would not lie toyou woman. We are sorceresses and my sister is having twins. We need help withthe birthing, are you ready to give that? Do not worry, you will bewell-furnished for the rest of your life. That I can assure you.”

“Ihave no doubts about that Misssus. I shall be happy to help. But what aboutthis devil with an angel’s face over here?” she asked looking at Ruriel.

“Thisone is no angel at all. He has said that he will drink all my blood if I wasnot ready to come with him,” continued the witchling.

“Ruriel,seriously???” asked Julia in amazement.

“Briberydid not work, so coercion was the only option that was left so as to bring herhere. I did not have much time with her writhing in pain over here,” saidRuriel defensively.

“Thatdoes not mean that you have scare the woman like that. Now get the hell out ofhere and stay there until I call you or you hear the cries of the babies,”fumed Julia as she beckoned the woman beside her.

Andin the meanwhile the potion whose main function was to enhance the birthingprocess to make it faster and easier had already started doing its job and theamniotic sac broke.

Thenstarted the grueling process of birthing of the babies. The midwife was sopuzzled that she could not get the hold of any one head because she could seethat the babies were jostling inside so as almost she got the feeling that theywere fighting to come out first.

“Ican’t take this anymore Freya. Please for heaven’s sake shut up and let her doher job,” said Cattaleya in a considerably tired voice and just like that everythingfell still. The witchling took hold of one single head and pulled out and therest two children swam out themselves behind her with their umbilical cordswere all tied up together making it very difficult to severe them.

“Icannot hear her cries,” sat up Cattaleya holding Julia’s hands with her faceand palms all sweaty.

“Thisone has not made it Missus. I cannot find a heartbeat,” said the midwife as shehanded over a dark haired girl to Cattaleya.

“Myangel of Death is being tested by Death himself. But do not worry sweet thing.I am not going to let him take you away from me so soon,” said Cattaleyakissing the crown of the head of the blue tinged child with a wave of darkmidnight black hair on her head. She closed her eyes and reached out to the powerwhich was numb inside her from the pain that she had been facing for the pastfew hours.

“Laelia,”she whispered in her breath pronouncing her name for the first time. This wasnot the name that was to be used for her regular calling but this was the namethat she had to gain, she had to achieve when she was sixteen, when she came ofpower and just like that she found her first-born hanging and floating aroundat the door of death just hovering waiting for the death’s door to open whenher mother puller back by her arm and brought her back to this world once moreand her precious baby opened her eyes and let out a wail.

“Holymother of God, this child is alive too. Missus, you are a hell of a womangiving birth to three babes at the same time,” said the mid-wife as Juliabathed and cleaned the babies and swaddled them in clothes.

Cattaleyalooked at her sister and nodded as if saying to bring her children over to her.The babies born together, not one minute ahead and not one minute lesser. Theyare going to be connected through their hearts and mind for their whole lives.One breathe shared in two bodies.

Shetook hold of both of them in her arms handing over her crying child to Juliawho was standing before her. Freya and Daphne. One with the hair as pale andshining as the full moon and one with her hair as red as the flames of thelicking fire and they both opened their eyes at the same instant and looked atCattaleya making her heart swell. She would be holding them for the first andlast time tonight.

Freya,named after one Goddess with the power of another and Daphne named after thelove of Apollo, the dew drop which is eternal. Freya’s blue eyes were filledwith defiance and mischief and Daphne’s brown eyes speckled with gold only hada steely resolve and love in them. Cattaleya could only hope that she had donethe right thing and made the right choice in giving the child to whom and herdark angel had her green eyes. The next in line Necromancer after her.

“CallRuriel Julia. He needs to hold his children for once in his life like me,” saidCattaleya softly cooing to her babies.

Rurielcame inside with his vision swimming with tears which had formed and a smile onhis lips which could brighten the darkest night.

“Ourdaughters….” Said Cattaleya in an awkward silence not knowing what she wassupposed to say.

Rurieltook all of them in his arms and whispered something to them in Russian whichshe did not know what he meant but Julia whispered to her.

“Youare even rarest than the rare jewels found deep inside this earth, you are mysun in this life condemned to eternal darkness and you my darling are my onlyocean which is hidden your eyes,” she translated.

Rurielwas speaking to his three daughters saying to them only what he saw in theireyes and that was the truth. His love for all of them was so pure thatCattaleya’s head hurt and her heart was on the verge of bursting out justhearing what he was trying to mean to his daughters.

Ruriellooked up at her and said, ”Tell me about them and what they mean to this wholeworld before I have to give them up to you and her. Tell me what they willbecome, and tell me what they need to be in order to be…”

“Shushhhhh….I shall tell you everything… Just calm down and sit here,” said Cattaleyapatting the bed beside her.

“Theyare a medical rarity. All the three twins are look alikes of each other, I meanthey are identical to each other except their hair and their eye colour, buttheir personalities and environment are the factors that will shape them intowho they are about to become and what impact they would be having in shapingthe Earth,” said Cattaleya looking at her kids fondly.

“Ihave no doubt that these babes are ready to leave their mark on Earth. Laeliaand Daphne are supposed to be out of the focus zone and Freya will be also so,automatically since she will be staying at my in-law’s place but she is goingto a tough thing to handle,” said Julia.

“Daphneneeds to be shaped into a warrior Ruriel. Make sure of it, and show her nomercy and cut her no slack. She needs to become the deadliest assassin that ourworld will ever see,” pronounced Cattaleya without even blinking her eyes orthinking that she was saying this for her newly born child.

“Ithink it is high time that we get going on our ways to separate homes whichhave been readied for our arrivals,” said Ruriel who picked up a sleepingDaphne in his arms and kissed Cattaleya on the lips and went out of thecottage.

“Donot worry, Leya. He is a man of his word and Daphne is going to make youproud,” said Julia as she picked up a still gurgling Freya in her arms andbundled her up since she might get hurt from the spirit travel.

“Julie,never ever let anyone know about Daphne. And specially not Aunt Brassia. RatherGrandmother Brassia,” said Cattaleya as she rose up with sleeping Laelia in herarms and Hugged them both tight and hand in hand both the sisters went out tothe forest and found the darkness of the Halloween for both of them quitecomforting.

Isis opened her eyes following the joltthat had passed through her body and woke up. But her reaction was not thatterse or frightening, because she already knew that Cattaleya was her motherbut what she came to know was that she was not an only child. But there mighthave been other reasons which had forced them to keep the sisters apart.

Isis did not know this for a fact that bothher sisters at different continents of this world were having the same dream atthe same time in their sleep. They all had different reactions to the dream showedby their mother because Cattaleya knew that they all needed one thing to winthe Apocalypse that was coming, true love and the unity of the three sisters.

True love as she very well knew they wouldbe finding in their own time but they had one thing since they were born, thecompanionship and love of the three of them, which had been lost and now it wasneeded back. The Earth needed them back.