Cyrosphere 3:: Lives Mingling Together (4 page)

All eyes turn to her.

Kyle states, “Fine. Whatever.”

Jurnee says, “She goes anywhere I go. We are attached at the hip.”

Kyle replies, “Whatever. The more the merrier.”

Ginger responds, “Tomorrow. Good night.”

Chapter Fifteen:

Later that night Ginger sat up in her bed writing in her journal. Today she came face to face with evil. There was no other way to describe Feltus Witchburn.

In time Ginger was slowly dissolving the layers to why he was killing and how she was mixed up in this huge mess.

She got an incoming call from Frost. She picked up on the fourth ring.

Apparently Crystal got a special two year assignment to relocate to Vegas. She was given all expenses paid and Frost was going to move down there and go to school there.

Ginger was speechless for a few moments.

She asked, “What about UCLA, your dream school?”

Frost laughs and responds, “I found love. My dream girl and I can go to the
University of Phoenix. No big deal about changing directions in life.”

Ginger gasps and asks, “Did you say love?”

Frost chuckles and replies, “Yeah I think I am in love.”

She bit her tongue and just listened. Sure Crystal’s siren fairy heritage was somehow influencing him, but if his reasonable parents had no problems with this arrangement, then neither did she.

Ginger wished him good luck before handing up. She quickly writes this in her journal, brushed her teeth and headed to bed. Tomorrow was going to be a wild day as is. She needed every hour of sleep to continue her journey of investigation.

She sighed, as she laid her head on the pillow and crashed.

Chapter Sixteen:

The morning seemed to fly by in a rush of little details that slipped along. Before she knew it, it was three minutes until eleven am. She finished training with Stacey and was going upstairs to shower and change.

When Ginger comes downstairs, Stacey is fully dressed in a simple black tee and jeans. Kara Townsend, Kyle Cromwell, Jordan Lensherr, Penny Belkins, and Jurnee Hillrender were waiting in the kitchen. It was time to get some answers.

Kara says, “Who wants to do the honors?”

Kyle responds, “Let me.”

Kyle closes his eyes and raises his arms. The room begins to spin and a flash of red lifts them off the ground and then places them on the ground to another world.

Ginger asks, “Are we in
Paris?”

Jordan
smiles and replies, “Yeap, where the world is hidden.”

Stacey says, “Being special has its advantages.”

The sparkling city lights of
Paris makes the smile on Ginger’s face glow. She had never been outside of California before all this craziness and now she was hopping from place to place. Her life had taken a turn and she loved the adventure.

Their small group went to the Eiffel Tower. On the elevator ride up, Kara said the spell that transported them from earth to a totally different world. The witch kingdom is Tamroot Magic Temples, a place where anybody with witch DNA was welcomed.

Sure normal humans who knew about this place were allowed a home. Ginger looked around the high rise mountains to the east, and the sliding slops of a giant hill to the west.

In the north was buildings looks like any other city. That was were they were going. They were in the center of the road between each direction. To the south was a rode that was titled Magic Prislein Timeless Freelands.

Ginger asked, “Where does that road lead?”

Jurnee says, “That is the road to the vampire land.”

Stacey gasps and responds, “What? Are you certain?”

Jurnee replies, “Yes, like I told Ginger here. I started to go there over three hundred years ago when I was first turned, but refused.”

Ginger felt Stacey enter her mind and saying, “We have to go there before we leave here.”

The way Stacey said that Ginger knew it wasn’t a request, but a declaration. She planned to go, and now the question were was Ginger coming with her.

Chapter Seventeen:

The twenty minutes walk north in silence to the high reaching buildings was filled with tension. Ginger had so many questions, but needed to concentrate on one task at a time.

Once at a huge hotel building, Kara was greeted by a man like royalty.

Ginger thought, “Pays to know the queen.”

The seven of them were ushered up to the roof, where Ginger saw a few women laying by a gigantic pool. One of them was the Queen. Destiny Sawyer is in a bikini with bodyguards at all the exits.

Stacey tells her telepathically, “The brunette in her late forties is Trinity Simone Barlett, another elder you haven’t met.”

Ginger responds mentally, “I don’t remember seeing her at the meeting.”

Stacey answers with her mind, “Not all elders go to the board meetings.”

Ginger nods.

Stacey says mentally, “That is Tara Maeve Denvers, another elder and mother to an indigo.”

Ginger responds telepathically, “She is the one we need to be asking questions to. A guarded mother might let certain details slip.”

Kyle chimes in, “Destiny. Can we have a word?”

Destiny answers, “If you must disturb me.”

Jordan
smiles and says, “Your majesty. We have brought royalty.”

Destiny stirs from lying out and sits upright.

She asks, “Where?”

Penny states, “Me. The former queen gave me her powers. I am the rightful empress.”

Silence!

Ginger thinks, “Oh shit.”

Destiny replies, “And what proof do you have?”

Stacey responds, “Her blood. Have your bodyguard check.”

Destiny frowns. A tall 6’4 man in shades and slacks is motioned over to join them. He is a light skinned African American male mixed with Irish. He is strikingly handsome, his big brown eyes honed into Ginger. She felt her heart quickly beat. It hit her sudden, as she licked her lips.

Heat flushed her skin. Desire cursed through her body.

Ginger wondered, “Who is this man?”

Stacey answers mentally, “Mark Liam GrimJones, head of security to the queen and a witch indigo.”

Ginger turns her eyes back to stare at him and wonders, “He is delectable.”

Chapter Eighteen:

Destiny is sipping a Margarita when Mark stands tall like a wall before her.

Mark asks, “What can I do for you my queen?”

Destiny speaks, “Use your skills to verify her story.”

He nods.

Ginger wonders, “Is he going to use magic?”

Mark walks smoothly to Penny who doesn’t back down to his tall, brooding presence. It is Jurnee that shows her fangs, which makes Ginger step back even if that threat wasn’t aimed at her.

Jurnee was like a sentry, ready to protect what was hers’ with her life. The fierce, protective look in her eyes, made Ginger long to have Diego back. That level of loyalty can not be faked, or copied.

Mark states, “It won’t hurt. I promise. Just need to take her hand. If you’d like you can read my mind.”

Ginger steps up and looks at Jurnee, “You can trust him.”

Jurnee asks, “You sure?”

Ginger loos up at a grinning Mark and says, “If he lies. I’ll use my special powers to torture him if necessary.”

Mark chuckles. Jurnee rolls her eyes.

Penny says, “Whatever. Let’s get this over with.”

Penny walks up to Mark, takes his hand and closes her eyes. Ginger could see his telepathy was downloading her memories like a computer program. All of Penny’s past was now his as well.

Ginger says, “Wow.”
Stacey asks, “What did you see?”

Jordan
speaks, “His gift, one of them at least.”

Ginger states, “He’s unique.”

Kyle responds, “Aren’t we all.”

Mark laughs and replies, “You can say that again.”

Penny lets go slowly opens her eyes with a grin on her face. She falls into Jurnee’s arms and passes out.

Jurnee yells, “What did you do to her?”

Mark says, “Unlocked her past, all of them.”

Jurnee gasps and says, “
No! You can’t do that.”

Kyle answers, “
Seems like too late for that.”

Stacey asks, “So she remembers all her past lives?”

Mark nods and tells them, “Every last detail.”

He turns to Destiny and Ginger can practically see the wave length of them communicating telepathically. It is like a shinning arc of colors.

Destiny says, “You can go now.”

She leaves before anyone can say anything, she just teleported away.

Kara asks, “What just happened?”

Kyle snarls, “We were dismissed.”

Stacey sighs, and Ginger feels she isn’t the only one with disappointment.
 

Chapter Nineteen:

It took five minutes, but finally Penny was awake. She seemed the same, except now she was cuddly with Jurnee. To see the transformation without knowing why was astounding.

It was like a curtain had been lifted from her mind. In a sense it had, giving both women a second chance at happiness. Ginger smiled at them as she sat next to Kara on the chair that Destiny vacated.

Kara says, “We were so close.”

Ginger responds, “I wouldn’t be so certain about that.”

She gets up and moves close to Trinity. The forty five year old brunette is 5’6. She has green eyes and is a powerful demon/witch hybrid.

Ginger asks, “Can I speak with you a second?”

Trinity says, “Sure. What can I do for you dear?”

Ginger responds, “What can you tell me about the former queen?”

Trinity smiles and replies, “The kindest soul alive, always helping others and my goodness she talked Alkmene and Shalice into joining PHD,”

Ginger looks confused and wonders, “What is that? It sounds vaguely familiar. Jensen had mentioned it before she bailed.”

She asks, “What is PHD and why does it sound familiar?”

Trinity frowns and tells her, “Project Human Development. I believe it sounds familiar because your parents worked on special projects. A lot of families did over the decades.”

Tara calls Trinity ending any further questions.

Ginger wonders, “Did things just get weird or what? This doesn’t make any sense and keeps getting weirder. Like only half truths and pieces to an entire puzzle.”

Chapter Twenty:

That was a huge waste of time. As their group prepared to leave this world. Stacey kept glancing over at her. It was now or never. They were almost in the center where they first began this journey.

Ginger mentally tells Stacey, “Let me handle this.”

She walks besides a giddy Jurnee and a happily Penny, pulled them back from the others and with that touched described her plan. Jurnee nods her understanding and Penny is still smiling.

Penny says, “Oh can I see it.”

Everyone stops and stares at her.