Flowers That Led to Faith

The switch

Jake stands back from his busy group. He stares from the corner of the backyard of this abandoned suburban town. The group had hurried in the dark each getting their pieces for the ritual ready and in place the group introduced to him as the Night Riders had consisted of many supernatural, but from what faith had said when she introduced them there were more that couldn't be seen and more that weren't here. He stood confused and excited as he listened to the men of missions regroup and rethink their plan in the back of his head.

He shook it off when he saw the mark move away from the busied group, the men blabbed on not watching the girl that centered their mission. He decided they were busy so he just continued to listen as he watched her move across the yard to the dark corner behind the bunker overgrown with greenery as the garden was wild and unruly grown at its own free will and with limited barricades. She slid into the darkness as much as she could but his bike had stood in between her and the silhouette of a large man that looked A lot like the younger son busy in the yard with the rest of the unusual group that stood in front of him.

Interested he moved closer to the yard to past the forge and the busy table that centered the yard that she introduced as the hearth of her home. She explained to the group that it was guarded by a spirit of the fire element and that it had already earned many elements just as Lilocks had. That the hearth was birthed from flame in the forge in the beginning of its creation not the only Lilocks had been born from the same pit that birthed them and many more like them some known about and some that walked in silence. Not realizing on explanation of this that the hearth that was now the forge had new spirits that lurked around it that chose to stay silent and nurture its fire elements to wield the strongest metals to its desire and were a cocky group of students that belonged to the sorceress the began to follow him unaware through the little yard. they had picked up the ability to hear the voices of the kindred souls inside faiths head so when he walked by with the men of missions rattling they picked up on parts of the conversation and went into defense and started stalking the man with missions of their own. Jake not noticing them and them not noticing the sorceress or the older Aiden standing in front of her in the green jungle like garden.

Jake snuck up to the side of the shed just within ears range and decided to block the others from hearing the words of their unrelenting mission. She was congratulating him for something that was cut off by Aiden saying, "Where's the dragon."

She replied quickly, "You wouldn't believe me if I told you." She shook her head and began to explain, "The man that's your dad's repete from this world has shown up here and is hiding with her in the shed. In some kind of cloak of invisibility or something it happened minutes before the villainous man out to get me with the famous villains of the hottie hotline. Speaking of your mom how's she doing?"

With this Jake stopped dead in his tracks and decided to walk away. He stopped the men as he turned right into the spirits behind him as he hushed the men in his mind. His voice echoed in the men's ears they knew it from other silent oops missions. The first time they had heard him speak in the whole meeting of the arguing men. "We have a bigger problem than you thought guys. That's not even her."

The men stopped right in their tracks and waited for him to explain what he had just seen right before. As he explained the forge team had heard everything but Jake left out the mention of the dragon leaving them all in the dark about the animal they would have stolen at first sight. Jake had been having a hard time controlling them lately they had been taking over more and more leaving him completely in the dark about their mission.

The forge team had already been aware of the differences the woman shared but had left it alone knowing that Faith had a mission they shared they wondered away from the man while leaving behind one of their class to keep an ear on the conversation before to catch up to the news they had just heard.

The Group readily moved passed him like passing traffic for just a moment slowed to the pace of a turtle in a race with a hare. The groups movements began to blur and the darkness that had engulfed the night had been broken by what looked like the sun breaking the surface of a new dawn