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Tears slowly crept down Justin's face as he slowly made his way around the house exploring the complex. When he found the library he stopped and looked around. Up on the top of one of the bookshelves was his book. The spell book that he didn't take with him when he left. He held out his hand and the book flew into it. He started flipping trough it. He found all his old spells that he had memorized, as well as, some new ones. As he continued to flip through the book, he found a picture of him and Sammy. He quickly shut the book, put his hands over the top of the cover and closed his eyes. He then slowly opened them and ran his hand over the top of the book.
"Hey sweetie! How's it goin?" Joey said into the phone as he made his way to the den.
"Daddy!" Maggie's voice rang out.
"Hey!" Joey said smiling big.
"Mommy, says that you are a dumb son of a witch."
"Oh she does? Well, you tell Mommy that she shouldn't say stuff like that about me. So how ya doing?"
"Good."
"Yeah? You being a good girl for mommy?"
"Yeah. She is cookin dinner. When are you coming home?" She asked, her voice sounded sad.
"Oh, not for awhile honey. I need to get some stuff done with Uncle Lance, and Uncle Josh first. But I will be home as soon as possible."
"Kay."
"Who are you talking to?" Joey overheard Linda say.
"Daddy." Maggie responded.
"Hey honey?" Joey said.
"Yeah daddy?"
"Let me talk to your mom."
There was a slight rustle with the phone and then Linda's voice came on.
"What Joey?" She said coldly.
"Do you remember that old doll that my Grandma gave to us for our wedding? And we would hide it from Maggie cause she would just fall in love with it if she saw it?"
"Yeah?" His Ex-wife's voice sounded lighter and softer.
"Well, if I'm not back in two weeks, I want you to go to my house. It's still where we used to hide it. I want you to give it to her. Say... just say, that her Daddy will always love her." Joey said with tears in his eyes.
"Joey, what are you talking about?"
"Just promise me?"
"I promise." Linda said softly.
"Thank you. Look I got to go, I will talk to you later."
"But Joey..." She said as he hung up the phone and put it down on the desk.
He sighed, looked at the clock on the wall, then made his way to his room.
Lance was in the second den working on the computer. He was trying to look up some information on Justin, where he was, and what had he been doing all these years. As hard as he looked, he didn't find anything. He gave up and left the den. As he was walking down the hallway, he saw Josh sitting on the floor, curled up and leaning against the wall crying. He immediately ran over to his lover and asked what was wrong. With no answer from Josh, he just pulled him into his arms and held him, assuring him that whatever it was, it would be alright.
Beryl sat in an enormous greenhouse meditating. He was trying to get in contact with the Oracle. As he found himself in the astral realm, he was, greeted by the Oracle. She had aged but not too much, over the years. He asked her about what was coming. She hesitated in telling but broke down.
"The beginning of the end is near." She said, "Although the war is coming, you all have the upper hand at the moment. If the Gods get a hold of the Dream Masters, they will be unstoppable."
"Who are the Dream Masters?"
"They are a group of 5 people ranging from 17-25. They were born with a gift, they can travel into dreams. They are young and don't know what they are capable of. Throughout the time of man, there have only been 3 clans of Dream Masters. This group is the fourth. There is an Englishman by the name of by the name of Logan Wilkes. He is the only remaining member of the third clan. Knowing that the fourth clan was out there, he spent over 5 years searching for them. At one time he even thought that the Chosen Ones might be them. Finally about 6 months ago, he found all of the five. He took them to a private island off the coast of Maine where they were to be trained. There they have remained until now. Logan will go off to the mainland and come back a dead man."
"You mean he's gonna be turned?"
"Yes. The Vampire Gods are after him in order to get to them."
"Then we have to get to them before they do?"
"Yes."
"How long do we have?"
"I can't tell you that, all I can tell is that you don't have long. You must find them before they do."
"Where?"
"JC will know."
"Thank you."
"Oh, and Beryl!"
"Yes?"
"Deliver this message to Justin for me."
Chris sat in the living room with his son asleep on his lap. He picked him up and carried him to the room that was set aside for him. After closing the door to Little Justin's room, he ran into the original Justin.
"Oh... hey Justin..." Chris said.
"Hey." Justin said.
"Um..."
"Don't."
"Huh?"
"Just don't!"
"What? You mean ask why you did what you did?"
"Chris!"
"No Justin, I'm not gonna let you try and pass this off like it was nothing! I want to know why!"
"I can't explain it!"
"Bullshit! You just don't want to explain it!"
"Not now Chris!"
"Justin!" Chris called as Justin walked down the hall away from him.
The tears returned to Justin's eyes as he walked away. He didn't know how to explain why he had done what he did. He knew he was going to have to face the guys some day, he just didn't expect it to be this soon. As he continued his way through the never- ending halls, he ran into Joey. Expecting the same from Joey as Chris, he stopped for a second and looked at him. Joey just looked into Justin's eyes, shook his head and went back into his room. As the door closed to Joey's room, Justin felt even worse. He decided the least he could do was to go and talk to Josh first. As he reached Josh's and Lance's room, he saw the door slightly cracked open. He peaked inside and saw Lance holding the crying Josh in his arms. Lance looked up and saw Justin standing out in the hallway. He gave him a death stare and Justin just backed away and continued on his walk through the maze of hallways. When he decided to go back to his room to think about things, he ran into Beryl.
"I suppose you're pissed at me too huh?" Justin asked.
"No, why would I be?" Beryl asked.
"Everyone else is."
"Can you blame them?"
"Not really."
"Didn't you know that this would happen?"
"Yeah, but I didn't expect it to be this soon."
"No, you were just hoping that it would never happen."
"That too."
"I can't be mad at you because I don't know you well enough for what you did to give me a reason to be."
"Well at least I have someone on my side!"
"I never said that I was on your side."
"But..."
"I just said that I wasn't mad at you. That still doesn't explain why you did what you did. You abandoned your teammates, your friends, your brothers. Whatever reason you had for doing it doesn't make up for the pain you caused them."
"I know!"
"Do you? Then why didn't you try and contact them to let them know what was going on?"
"I.. I don't know!"
"You know they would've eventually understood, might not have agreed, but they would've understood."
"Don't you think I know that already?!"
"Then why didn't you? If you know so much."
"Whatever, I don't have to take this!"
"You're right! You don't, but you can't run from it. It's bound to catch up with you. You'll have to face it sooner or later. And for the sake of this mission, it has to be sooner!"
"I'm goin to my room!"
"Before you do, I have a message for you."
"From who?"
"The Oracle."
"Janet?"
"Yeah.."
"What?"
"Do you know of the watcher's spell?"
"Yeah."
"Come with me then."
Beryl led Justin into his room. He brought him to the center and said,
"Help me with this." Beryl said.
"Ok."
Beryl took out a bag that he had in the pouch to his leg guard. In it were some white stones. He took out four of them and placed them on the floor and said,
"Chant with me."
They both closed their eyes and started to say,
"From the Watchtowers of the North, Spirits of Sight show me thy power."
The four stones started to glow, and four full-length screens, like the one in the mystical realm, appeared. The first one showed Chris quietly sobbing as he held his son in his bed.
"You hurt him most of the four. After you left, he lost faith in his power. Especially after his wife was taken away. He vowed never to use his powers again. He even went as far as to tell Lance and Joey not to ever come around him again. Things between JC and him were already on shaky grounds a few days after your funeral."
The tears once again returned to Justin's eyes. The second screen showed Joey sitting on the windowsill of the bay window overlooking a forest that was on the estate grounds.
"He was more angry than anything. As happy-go-lucky as he was, he started to hate you. He blamed you for them not being close anymore."
"Enough, I can't watch anymore!" Justin said.
"You must! This is your message!"
"No!"
"Stay here!" Beryl said with the force of the Oracle in his voice.
"O--Ok!"
The next screen showed Josh lying in his bed asleep.
"He blamed himself for your leaving. He felt as team leader, he should've known something was wrong with you. After you left, his temper got worse. He started to let his powers go out of control until one day, he hurt Lance so bad that he had to go to the hospital. Ever since that happened, he learned to control his anger, and channel it using it to his advantage. But when he doesn't do that, it eats away at him on the inside."
The last and final screen showed Lance in the workout room. He was punching and kicking at a punching bag, and he looked angry.
"Lance went through a few phases. There was one where he missed you so much that he became depressed. Then, once he climbed out of that, it turned into a stage of anger. After that he tried to rationalize, figuring you must've had a good reason to do what you did. Right now, he's angry because he has seen how bad JC has been taking it."
Justin broke down and started to sob uncontrollably. He fell to his knees and Beryl said,
"Spirits of Sight, return to the Watchtowers of the North and take with thee your power from me."
The four screens went back into the stones and Beryl picked them up and put them away.
"The point of this is, you have to tell them, everything!"
"But I can't!"
"Look, assassin or not, you have to tell them. Otherwise, we will all fail!"
"What? How'd you..."
"How'd I know? How'd I know any of this? The last time I saw any of you long enough to actually say something was back in 99 when you were here for the lighting in Rockefellar Center!"
"Then..."
"I told you, I had a message for you from the Oracle."
"She knew..."
"She's been watching over you, all of you, and me, and all the other families, for a long time! That's why she retired and found sanctuary in the Brazilian Rainforests! It was too much for her to juggle a career in music with having fulfill her destiny, as it was for you five!"
Beryl helped Justin off the floor and walked him back to his room. As he turned to leave he said,
"Look, the point is, no matter how bad it was or is, they'll forgive you! They're your brothers." Beryl walked out of the room, and Justin wiped the tears from his eyes.
:::Dream:::
"JC! They're coming for us! Please help!"
Josh quickly spun around and saw a girl dressed in all black, with dark makeup on and black fingernails.
"Where?" Josh asked.
"Off of the coast of Maine. We only have a short time. Please hurry."
"Wait! I need to know something."
"What?" She asked backing up a little.
Josh walked over to her and touched her face.
:::End Dream:::
TBC...
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