Chapter 11
“I told you for the last time I don’t even know if he’s here but when he does come home I’ll tell him you came by all stalker style!” Yelled Mace right outside the front door as Lydia closed it behind her.
“Trouble in paradise?” Belac asked as they walked towards the door.
A concerned look crossed Caleb’s face as he sped up. “Nobody ever comes around here, no one just drops by, heck no one really even knows where we live exactly.”
“And it would have stayed that way if you two morons would have been more careful!” Lydia yelled before stifling her own voice with a glance back at the front door. “If you two idiotic twits wouldn’t have screwed up and been seen by a norm…”
“Regular human.” Caleb interprets for Belac. “We call them norms.”
“Yes, now if I can continue…as I was saying, if you two hadn’t gone for a nice flight in front of someone we wouldn’t be in this mess.” Lydia snapped.
“So I take it you know that Belac here is one of us.” Caleb sighed.
“Yeah I kind of figured that when that human outside insisted that she saw the two of you change into birds and fly away using spirits from the freaking ground!” She huffed pushing past them. “Now because of that she decided to follow us here and is demanding to talk to you.”
“Who? Who saw us?” Demanded Caleb.
“Grace you moron!”
Caleb went pale and felt sick at the thought of all the things that could go wrong now that someone knew about their powers. “I have to talk with her.”
“And say what exactly?” Lydia demanded. “It was all a bad dream?”
“I’ll figure it out.” Caleb said stomping toward the door.
“What about me?” Belac asked.
“Stay here with Lydia.” He answered over his shoulder.
Looking at the pissed off expression on Lydia’s face Belac frowns. “Joy.”
“Whatever I’m nobody’s babysitter.” She said walking towards the kitchen.
“Is this how families are supposed to work?” He hollered after them both.
Ignoring the question they both separated, heading in different directions.
Flinging the door open Caleb charges outside to find Grace struggling against Mace who is holding her hands at her sides. “What the hell is going on here?” Caleb runs over to the two of them pulling them apart.
“Stalker girl here has lost it talking about spirits and shape shifting not to mention the full blown stalker syndrome following us home so she could get at you and then to top off the crazy she attacked me when I wouldn’t let her in!” Mace yelled while pointing at her.
“Stop trying to make me think that I’m crazy I know what I saw!” Grace yelled.
“Cut it out both of you!” Caleb shouted. “Mace give us a minute I need to talk with Grace alone.”
“Fine.” He snapped heading to the house. “Oh and I’d watch it with her she’s a biter.” Mace said holding up his hand.
“You bit him?” Caleb said turning back to look at her. “What are you an animal?”
“No I’m human, I’m just a special kind of human that’s all.”
“I’m sure that’s what every monster says.” She fumed.
“If you’re another bigoted human that has already decided that I am a monster you can leave now and make sure never to come back, I don’t need to be insulted or called names by someone that is so short sighted they can’t see past appearances and before you start with the usual threats of how you will run off and expose me to whoever let me tell you to go ahead and do it because in the end who would actually believe you? Run to the news stations or the police and tell them how two teenage kids turned into birds and flew away, they might come and check us out but they’ll find nothing out of the ordinary and that’s when you will be hauled off to a nut house, so that being said goodbye, good luck and have fun in the insane asylum.” Caleb said turning back towards the house.
“Caleb wait.” She said with her shoulders dropping along with her will to argue. “I’m…I’m sorry, I’m not a bigot I didn’t mean for it to come off like that.”
“Of course you did other wise you wouldn’t have said it, I have never understood why people say things like I didn’t mean that, during an argument or when someone is mad people want to say something, anything that will hurt the other person. I know that whenever I have argued with someone I knew exactly what to say in order to hurt the person and keep the argument going I’m sure you are no different.” He said turning back to her. “Why are you here really Grace?”
“I…did you know that I have had a huge crash on you for a long time?” She said surprising him.
“No.” He answered unsure what else to say.
“For all your…gifts, perception isn’t one of them is it?” She frowned. “I wish that you could know how it feels to want someone so bad and them not even notice that you are alive.”
“Don’t be ridiculous you’re one of my best friends, we hang out at school and talk all the time of course I notice you’re alive.”
“Not the same way I notice you though, after all you said it yourself we hang out at school this is the first time I have ever even seen your house.” She sighed growing more upset.
“Maybe you should come inside we have a lot to talk about.” Caleb decided against his better judgment.
The two of them walked into the house receiving stunned looks from the others except for Belac who was beaming at the turn of events.
“Is crazy infectious? It must be because otherwise why would you bring a norm into our house.” Lydia snapped. “No offense Grace but you being here puts all of us in danger.”
“I don’t see how, I’m harmless, I don’t even eat meat.” Grace reasoned.
“The mere fact that you know of us and have seen the things we can do makes you a target and there are far more creatures under our protection than we can risk.” Mace explained calmly.
“I would never betray Caleb or the rest of you.” She said firmly and Caleb could tell that she meant it.
“I believe her.” Caleb said. “And whether or not any one here agrees with my decision I have let Grace into this house and I will explain everything to her and trust her.”
“I agree with you.” Belac smiled.
“Okay kiddo you’re new you don’t even get a vote.” Lydia snapped.
“He’s a spirit warrior which means he’s our family, new or not his vote counts as much as anyone’s here.” Caleb said with a sight growl in his voice. “Mace what is your vote?”
“She has already seen, there is no way around it and anyone that can be an ally I am for it, besides we have all known Grace for years and she has never done anything to make me believe she would betray us.” Mace answered with a shrug.
“Fair enough, Lydia?” Caleb questions.
“It’s not personal, Mace is right she has never betrayed us or hurt us in anyway but I still think it is a bad idea, so I am against filling her in.” She answered. “But what does it matter Mace has already voted in favor so has whatever his name is, that’s two against one.” She finished walking out of the kitchen where they were talking.
“The name is Belac.”
Lydia turned around quickly staring at him and then Caleb. “Belac? That’s a real funny joke you two when you want to actually tell me your real name I’ll be around.”
“What the hell did she mean by that?” Belac asked.
“Who knows maybe it’s that time of the month or something she acts weird when it goes down.” Mace shrugged.
“We’ll ask her about it later right now let’s sit down and have a talk.” Caleb sighed watching her stomp off.
“No thanks you crazy kids have fun but I’ve got some training to do.” Mace said getting up from the table.
“I’ll come with you, I need to learn how you guys fight.” Belac said standing up as well.
“It would be better if you stayed, there will be plenty of time
to train later but for now you need to hear where we come from start to finish.” Caleb suggested.
“Great a history lesson and here I thought we got out of school for the day.” Belac frowned sitting back down.
“Enjoy.” Mace laughed running out of the room before Caleb could find an excuse for him to stay.
“Thank you for trusting me.” Grace whispered.
“It is the least I could do, I owe you that much.” He answered.
“You don’t owe me anything.” She said. “Mace is right I have been acting like a stalker.”
“We’ll talk about our feelings later Grace, I think it’s something we both need to do.” He sighed holding her hand for a moment. “But let me tell you about our family and who we are.”
“I’m all ears.”
“At the tower of Babel the humans tried reaching heaven using the nephilim, looking down at them from on high God knew that they would never give up on the impossible task they had chosen and he felt both pride and fear for them because he knew eventually they would begin to die during the venture and then turn on one another. So, he separated the people by race and language so they would go their separate ways and at the same time placed some on the different continents of the world. Each race had warriors that could defend against the forces of evil. You see when he scattered the people he also scattered the many creatures that walked the Earth as well.” Caleb began.
“Where did all the elves, werewolves, vampires and everything else come from though?” Questioned Belac.
“Some of the creatures were created before man by god, others were humans twisted after the fall of Adam and Eve by the devil giving birth to new species.” Caleb answered.
“So most everything started out as humans?” Questioned Grace a little confused.
“Things like vampires and werewolves, demons and so on did, but elves and dwarves were made before humans along with a great deal of other stuff but to get back to the story, the people he put on the north and south American continents were the spirit warriors. Native American people born with the ability to communicate, control and merge with any and all spirits.” Caleb continued.
Belac started laughing out loud. “Yeah because we both look Indian instead of white.”
“There’s a reason for that if you could shut up for a minute.” Caleb frowned.
“You see originally the Spirit Warriors were undefeatable so powerful they could reach back to the very beginning of the world drawing on the spirits of everything that had died from dinosaurs to plant life but as the years went on the legions of darkness grew the Spirit Warriors were killed one by one and as the numbers dwindled the Spirit Warriors began to despair. The clans true to the light flocked to the few places left where our people had gathered to keep strength in numbers and that is when the Spirit King came into being. The barriers of protection were formed and yet our people still were killed one at a time because the evil ones knew to find the Native Americans, so they made a choice and mated with non-native Americans to conceal themselves and their families from enemies until the barriers were strong enough to repel and expel any dark clan members. Unfortunately by doing that they weakened all the members so much that the new warriors couldn’t call any spirits that died more than a hundred years before they were born. That took place nearly three hundred years ago since that time no spirit warrior has been at full strength until the other night I did the impossible and reach back to the age of the dinosaurs.” Caleb finished taking a deep breath.
“How were you able to do that?” Grace asked.
“I’m not sure as far as I know I am no different than any other warrior.” He answered with a frown.
“There has to be something.” Belac added.
“Well our four families ancestors came here a hundred years ago and protected the town of Passion Falls along with the ten clans of light creatures that live in the area, the barrier was set up and encircles the town and the people in a hundred mile radius.” Caleb answered.
“Four families? But there are only three of you.” Grace pointed out.
“There were only three of us now there are four.” He said looking at Belac.
“You think I’m from the fourth family?” Belac questioned suddenly more interested than he had been.
“It’s a definite possibility.” Caleb said. “The fourth family left around the same time I was born in the hope of creating another barrier north of here but they never made it, you could have been stashed away before they died.”
“That would be a mistaken thought, that is if you guys aren’t lying about the new kid’s name.” Lydia said appearing in the doorway.
“We aren’t lying and what is your point?” Caleb demanded angry at being interrupted.
“Apparently you don’t remember everything about our people, for instants when a family has twins they name them in a very specific way. That’s why I thought you two were playing a joke on us but you really don’t know do you?” She smiled.
“Specific in what way?” Belac asked intently.
“Spell your names backwards, Caleb and Belac are your names revised as is the tradition, everything points to the fact that you two are twin brothers.”
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