Forgotten And Destined (Forgotten # 1)

by CATT

  CHAPTER 32

  My skin browned overnight so, I didn’t have to worry with sun screen as I put on my bathing suit the next morning. I managed to acquire a really great-looking tan in the last week we had been here, and I can’t wait to get back out in the sun and add to it. Walking to the kitchen, I make myself a glass of tea and pick up an apple to go along with it and head outside.

  Lisa is still in bed, which is unusual for her because she is always up before the crack of dawn and ready to go. She’s one of those morning people that everybody hates. I walk outside, and the sun feels great when it hits my body. I place my iced tea on the end table by my lounge, before taking off my robe and lying down. The sun feels fantastic. I had been lying there for about an hour when I see someone, in the distance, walking toward me. As the person grows closer I recognize her. It’s the girl from the restaurant the night before.

  I sit up watching as she walks towards me. She has on a pair of jean shorts and a pink tank top with sandals. When she was close enough I said, “Hello” and asked her if I could help her with something. I was shocked by the words that come out of her mouth.

  “You’re a Keeper aren’t you?” I didn’t know what to say how could this girl know what a Keeper is, much less me being one?”

  “Who are you?"

  “My name is Rachel, Rachel King.”

  “Well Rachel I’m sorry, but I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

  “Please don’t play this game with me, I know who you are.”

  “Look I said I’m sorry, but I can’t help you.” I spun around and start to walk back toward the house. The girl grabs me by the arm.

  "Wait please I need your help.” Looking back at her, I see terror in her eyes, and that’s what makes me tell her "Come on in the house.” We walk in the living room, and I tell her to have a seat, and I’d be right back. I run up the stairs and knock on Lisa’s bedroom door. I open the door and notice Lisa is really sick. She looks horrible.

  “What’s wrong with you?” I asked.

  “I think I’m dying; I'm chilling, and my stomach is killing me.”

  “Ugh….sounds like you have a virus.”

  “I don’t know what I’ve got, but I think it’s going to be the death of me.”

  “I’m sorry sweetie really I am but, right now we have a problem. I hate to bother you, but you need to come to the living room. There is a girl in there that knows we’re Keepers.” That had Lisa sitting up in bed.

  “How could that be? Is she human?” Lisa asked.

  “Yeah’ she’s human I guess, she’s not a Neither nor a demon.”

  “What does she want?” Lisa asked.

  “I don’t know. I left her in the living room, so I could come get you.”

  “Alright I’ll get up, go ahead and go back to the living room with her and give me a couple of minutes.”

  “I’m sorry I know you don’t feel like dealing with anything right now. I promise I’ll fix you some chicken soup to help settle your stomach after our new friend leaves.” Lisa gives me a weak smile and says “I’m holding you to that promise.” I leave her and return back to the living room. Rachel is still sitting in the same spot I had left her. She looks up when I step into the room. I offer her a glass of tea. She tells me yes and follows me into the kitchen. When we go back to the living room, Lisa had propped herself up on the couch with a blanket. She looks so pitiful sitting there my heart goes out to her.

  “So you’re the bitch who has caused me to have to get out of my sick ass out of bed when I feel like I’m dying” Lisa asked looking at Rachel.

  “I’m sorry you’re sick, and I wouldn’t be here if I knew what else to do” Rachel tells Lisa looking scared to death.

  “So how do you know who we are” Lisa asked Rachel while motioning for her to sit down.

  Rachel walks pass Lisa and takes the seat at the other end of the couch. She takes a big drink of her tea before answering.

  “That’s hard to explain," she finally said.

  “Well why don’t you give it a shot anyway?” Lisa told Rachel.

  Lisa and I sit and listen as Rachel tells us she has been doing simple spells for the past two years and that last month she had met a fairy named Link that had told her he could help her expand her powers. Of course, Rachel had jumped at the chance to be able to do bigger spells. Right now her spells consisted of possibly making kids face’s break out with pimples if she was mad at them. What Rachel hadn’t known was you can’t trust fairies. Somehow, the fairy had tricked her and ended up taking her brother back to the fairy realm.

  “Alright now we know what you’re here about. What we don’t know is. How you know we're Keepers? And what do you want us to do?” I asked making sure I asked the most important question.

  “I have read about Keepers in Wicca books and on the internet. You guys are supposed to be a myth, but when I saw you in the restaurant I just knew who you, were. I could feel you. I don’t really know a better way to explain it to you. I need your help in opening the door to the fairy realm, so I can get my brother out, Everything I’ve read says a Keeper is the only other thing besides a fairy that can open the door.”

  CHAPTER 33

  I look at Lisa, and she is giving me the same knowing look. Neither one of us can understand how this human girl could even start to be able to feel us. Humans aren’t supposed to be able to feel a Keeper.

  “Rachel I’m sorry about your brother. It’s true that a Keeper can enter the fairy realm, if they have the right incantation to open the door but, by what I’ve read the fairies are always changing the glamour to make sure that never happens. I don’t think a Keeper or anything else has ever gotten in the fairy realm unless the fairies take them there.”

  “I have the incantation” Rachel said as she pulls a piece of paper out of her pocket. “I hid behind a tree. The fairy didn’t know I was there. I wrote down every word he said, so unless they have changed the spell by now this will work. All I need you to do is open the door. I’ll take it from there.”

  “Look there’s no way we can open a door and just let you walk through it. It's not that simple. First off, even if it’s possible that incantation is still good, and we're able to open the door. A Keeper will have to go in with you in order to open the door for you to get back out. Secondly, we have no idea what the Fairy World is like. Thirdly, don’t you think as soon as you were spotted by the fairies, they would change the glamour opening the door, leaving you or us without a way out?” I say to the girl.

  “Please help me my brother is all I have. It's my fault he’s in this mess, and I have to get him out.” Rachel said as tears running down her face.

  “May I see the paper” I asked, holding my hand out? Rachel stood up walked over and held out the piece of paper, she had written the incantation on. I take the paper unfold it and start reading it to myself. I didn’t want to take the chance of reading it out loud in case it still worked.

  “This is said to the fairies to the east and to the west open thy door I seek, and I will give you parse.

  This is said to the fairies to the north and to the south hold, thy door and let me pass. This is said to the fairies of our realm protect our door and our land.”

  I read the incantation a couple of times not believing such simple words could open a door to a whole different world. Looking up at Lisa, and Rachel, I decide I will help her. “I will help you, but you’re going to have to give us a couple of days to work out a few plains and let Lisa have time to get feeling better.”

  “Thank you” Rachel said still crying.

  After talking with Rachel for a while, we found out that her, and her brother Adam lives in an apartment over one of the shops on the boardwalk. They had been in and out of foster homes their entire lives and had never met their parents. Then a couple of years ago they ran away and came here. Her brother had managed to get a job on one of the ship yards, and Rachel works in a souvenir shop. She will be turning eighteen in a couple of
months, and her brother will be turning nineteen the week after her birthday. They would be the same age for one week. I tell Rachel she can stay with us until we go to the Fairy Realm and bring her brother home. At some point Lisa had fallen back asleep while Rachel and I had been talking.

  I went to the kitchen after helping Lisa back to bed. I blink in all the ingredients needed to make homemade chicken noodle soup. Rachel comes in the kitchen and tells me she needs to go back to her apartment to get a few things, and she will be back. I tell her to be careful and not to talk to anyone, and by that I meant fairies. Rachel left, and I continue preparing Lisa’s soup and wondering how this girl could have known Lisa, and I was Keepers. That should have been impossible.

  CHAPTER 34

  Rachel has been with us at the house for the last two days. Lisa is starting to feel a little better thank God. Plus we found out it’s impossible to come up with any kind of plan when you have nothing to work with. So, our plan is to open the door and I’d go in with Rachel while Lisa waits here with the incantation and after three hours, she will reopen the door, and hopefully we will be there with Rachel’s brother.

  We haven’t come up with a plan B like what we will do if the fairies change the glamour while we’re still in the Fairy Realm, Or what if the fairies catch us and take us prisoner. Guess we’ll make plan B up as we go along.

  The good thing is I haven’t had much time to think about Case or Dominick. That is fine with me, because I wasn’t any closer to figuring out what I was going to do about Dominick than I was when I first came here. Fixing a glass of tea I go to sit on the front porch and watch the sun go down. Tonight's the night. We're going to open the door to the Fairy World. Drinking the last of my tea, I go back in the house. Lisa said she is hungry, so we start fixing sandwiches when Rachel walks in the kitchen.

  “Are you hungry?” I asked.

  “I don’t think I could eat anything, even if I wanted to” Rachel replied.

  “You need to eat something. I’m not trying to scare you, but you never know what’s going to happen tonight. If we open the door and go through, we’re not guaranteed when or if we're going to get back out so you’re going to need all the strength you can get.” I give her a plate. She accepts and starts fixing a sandwich. We ate in silence for a while before Rachel asked what time we are going to be leaving.

  “I say we get ready to do it, as soon as we’re done here. That is unless you guys want to wait a couple of hours” I replied.

  “No I’m ready now” Rachel says.

  “No time like the present” Lisa states.

  We finished eating then went to the living room and start moving furniture around making sure we have plenty of room. With the furniture moved I go to change clothes and get ready for our trip to the Fairy World. I put on my leather pants and leather sleeveless top. Looking at myself in the mirror, I braid my hair then clip its heavy mass on top of my head. When I am satisfied my hair won’t be coming back down I walk back to the living room while praying we were doing the right thing. Lisa and Rachel are in the living room waiting, when I walk in. Taking the incantation out of the pocket of my black leather hip huggers I unfold it and tell Lisa and Rachel “Let’s do this” as I step in the middle of the floor.

  “Rachel you need to stand beside me. “Lisa you stay over there away from where the door is going to open. We don’t need to take the chance of you getting pulled in as the door closes. When Rachel is beside me, I look at them both and asked if they are ready for this. They both nod and I hold up the paper and began reading.

  “This is said to the fairies to the east and too the west open thy door I seek, and I will give you parse.

  This is said to the fairies to the north and to the south hold, thy door and let me pass.

  This is said to the fairies of our realm protect our door and our land”.

  A bright light starts to appear. The light is so bright I have to hold my hand over my eyes to be able to see. The light grows, and grows, until becomes a door the only problem is we can’t see what is on the other side. “Looks like we will be walking in blind,” I said to Rachel. I can tell she is afraid, but I know without a doubt she won’t turn back. Glancing at Lisa I tell her “see you in a couple of hours bitch." She tells me she’d be waiting and not to get caught. I give her a smile, and she flips me off I take Rachel by the hand, and we walk through the door.

  CHAPTER 35

  The light is so bright neither of us can see anything I tell Rachel not to let my hand go and to keep moving forward. After maybe twenty seconds the light starts to lose some of its brightness then it’s gone all together. We had done it. We were on the Fairies' Realm.

  It is eccentric to say the least. The flowers are gigantic, with some of the brightest colors I’ve ever seen. The rose bushes stand as tall as tress, and they have roses on them that were colored up like a rainbow. The grass is so green it doesn’t look real. The best way I have of explaining the Fairy Realm is that it looks like wonderland from Alice and Wonderland. Everything is exaggerated it’s bizarre and beautiful at the same time. Summer would go crazy if she could see all these flowers. I think she would have a hard time killing these. Glancing at Rachel I asked, “How are you doing?”

  “I’m all right” she said as she inspected the surroundings. “Have you ever seen anything like this?”

  “No I can’t say as I have" I said as I continue studying everything and wondering how in the fuck I keep getting messed up in shit like this. Because I’m getting the feeling as I look around that this is going to be some crazy shit going on here.

  “Let’s use the woods over there for cover it’s not good for us to stay out in the open like this. A fairy could spot us any second.” Rachel heads towards the woods without another word from me. We hike a little ways into the woods just deep enough that I’m sure we can’t be spotted from the clearing before I stop Rachel and tell her to let me see if I can find her brother, and I’d blink us to him. When I try to use my mind to locate Adam, nothing happens it’s like there is a shield blocking me or something. So I try to blink myself back out to the clearing once again nothing happens.

  “Rachel we may have a problem.”

  “What did you find him? Is he alright?”

  “No I wasn’t able to find him, I can’t blink either it’s like something’s blocking my powers.”

  “What” Rachel asked in a scared voice.

  “I can’t use my powers their gone all of them” I tell her as I was starting to panic. How am I supposed to keep us safe, here without any kind of powers? I was still trying to decide what we needed to do when I see movement out of the corner of my eye. Scanning the area, I see nothing. I had just begun to think I had imagined seeing something when it moved again. It’s the tree branches, they are moving and not because of the wind either. It is like the branches are arms or something. Out of nowhere a branch in the tree above us swoops down and knocks Rachel to the ground. Grabbing her hand, I pull her up and yell “RUN!”

  Branches are hitting us from the left and right. One of the limbs hits me so hard it almost knocks the breath out of me. Nevertheless, I continue running never letting go of Rachel’s hand, until we clear the woods and the tree line. Rachel is crying I twist around to make sure she is alright. Before I have the chance to ask if she is hurt, we are thrown to the ground. Our hands are being tied behind our backs. I try to break free, but without my powers, I’m just a hundred and ten-pound weakling. We are pulled back to our feet hands tied behind us. Our attackers turn us around to face them.

  OK now I’ve seen everything. Our attackers can’t be more than three feet tall with wings that look like butterfly wings. Their faces look like that of a child but when they speak you can tell they aren’t children. There are six of them but for the life of me, I can’t tell if they are male or female. They appear to be both. They're cute, but I have the feeling, they can be very cruel if given the opportunity.

  All six let out some kind of victory yell as
they hold up sticks. Three of the little people move behind us and start pushing us forward without speaking. I peek over at Rachel and see she is still crying. Whispering I tell her not to say anything, unless she has to. I try to convince her everything will be alright that I’ll get us out of here. I have no idea how I’m going to accomplish it, but I’ll think of something. I have to.

  The little people speak in a different language. I realize as I listen to them speak to each other. I would give anything to know what they are saying. We have been walking for almost an hour when I see civilization. We are thrown to the ground in front of a house or a hut. I don’t really know which you’d call it. It’s like one of the straw hut’s you’d see the tribe people living in on the documentary channel.

  CHAPTER 36

  “Stand” a deep voice orders. We are pulled to a standing position and we are facing a fairy that I’m assuming must be the king fairy or head fairy or whatever the hell they call the guy in charge here.