Life and Soul Reunited

by CypherCA

Chapter eight has arrived. *crickets chirp* Darn. Oh well. Hope you enjoy this chapter. I find that they're getting longer in length. *gasp* That, and my hand is turning grey from the lead. Sometimes being left handed is just a pain. But, you know what they say: Left handed people are in their right minds.

Chapter 8: Confrontation, New Dream, and Realization

<Oh man,> Rowen thought to himself. <They saw the title. Now they're probably going to ask me a million questions. I'll just hide the title page and ignore any questions they ask. I'll introduce Rich when I'm good and ready. Now, where to hide the title page...>

"Kento, are you sure that's what the title was?"

"I'm positive. It was in big, bold, black and white print." Kento and everyone else, including a now filled-in Cye, sat around the dinning room table trying to figure out what was going on. "I wasn't able to catch who wrote it though. Ro grabbed it too soon."

"Ro sure has been acting strange since his pen-pal came. I think we should march right up there and demand that he tell us what's going on." Ryo stood up to emphasize his argument.

"Hold it Ryo," Sage said, "if we do that, he'll clam up on us."

"Sage's right." Cye agreed. "That would be like Rowen to do that."

"Then what do you suggest we do, huh?" Ryo shot back.

"Everyone calm DOWN!" Mia yelled. They all looked at her. "Sage and Cye have a point, but so does Ryo. Rowen can't keep this to himself; but we won't pressure him to tell us," she gave Ryo a warning glance, "yet. Let's ask him if he'll tell us. If not, we'll ask why and when he will tell us. But we'll wait until after dinner. Speaking of which, Cye, you'd better get back to cooking. Everyone calmed down?" The boys nodded. "Good. I'll get Rowen for dinner."

'Knock-Knock-Knock' "Rowen?"

<Wow, they waited a full ten minutes.>

"Rowen, can you unlock the door? It's just me, I promise."

Rowen thought about it for a moment, then got up, and opened the door. "Yeah Mia?"

"I wanted to see if you were okay."

"I'm fine, really."

"In that case, go wash up. Dinner's almost ready." She left.

Rowen watched her leave. <Not one word about the book. How odd. Oh well, maybe they won't ask about it, considering the way I reacted.> He washed his hands and headed for the dinning room.

"Rowen, can you come here please."

<Uh oh. Here it comes.>

"Ro," Sage started, "do you want to tell us about the book?"

Rowen turned to look at Sage, surprised. <They're giving me a choice to tell them or not? This is new.> "No, not right now."

"Why not?" Cye asked.

"And when are you going to tel--oof!" Ryo gave Sage a dark look for elbowing him in the stomach.

"I have my reasons," Rowen responded meekly. Then, in his normal voice, "But I will tell you soon, I know that."

"Ok, just wanted to ask."

"Can I go?"

"Yeah." Rowen got up and went to bed. The others followed his example shortly afterward.

"Oh goody. The visions are back. Come out, come out where ever you are." <Great, as soon as I find my brother, this happens again.> "Come on, I don't want to waste all nig-" Richard stopped mid-sentence as he found himself hurtling through space and towards a star. <The north star.> some strange instinct told him. Then, he noticed that he wasn't slowing down. "Um, okay, you've made you point. Can you stop me now?" Panic started to crawl across his brain when he didn't get a response, verbal, mental, or physical. He closed his eyes and waited to wake up, but he didn't. Richard was now beyond panic as he flew right into the star's corona. <It doesn't burn. In fact, it feels kind of nice.>

"Hello Polestar."

"Who's there?" <That was definitely not Anubis.>

"You know who I am. People refer to me as the North Star. You may call me Polaris.

"Right. Now I know I am going insane."

"You have met your counterpart, Life. You must now awaken your power."

"What are you talking about? Life? Polestar? Power? You know, it would be nice if someone clarified all this for me!"

"You are Soul; you are Polestar. Awaken and reunite with Life! Complete the jimah. [prophecy]

"Would you shut-up about that stupid jimah?! That's all you and fire-head seem to be able to talk about!"

"When awakened, seek the Terokh Jeruth. [Tree of Possibility] There you will find the instrument of evils' undoing. Remember what I have said. Keneht tsahvahn vahk." [We are immortally linked]

Richard woke up drenched in sweat. "I wonder what she meant by that last saying." He said to himself. "And why is she speaking in.......wait a sec. Why am I worrying? It's probably just my sub-conscience. Still, I'd better write it down. Maybe I can use it in the book."

"Anubis? What's going on?" Rowen asked, completely confused.

"You have met Soul; Polestar. Awaken his power and guide him."

"What are you talking about? The only person I've met recently is......NO!"

"NO!" Sage sat up at Rowen's yell.

"Ro, you okay?" <Rowen looks like he's......angry at someone or something. But what?>

"I'm okay. It was just a.....disturbing dream. That's all."

"Want to talk about it?"

"No, thank you. Goodnight Sage."

"Night."

On the astral plane, two figures stood, looking down at the world.

"Do you think they're up to another fight?"

"Of course. Did you tell him?"

"Not directly. He's smart though. He'll figure it out pretty quickly."

"I hope so. The barrier's almost broken. I must inform Kayura before the week is out."

"Good luck to you. I must go. Until we meet again, Anubis." The figure faded away.

"You too, Polestar."