Always Be Forever

Chapter 26: Bellafonte

1100, BCE, September 15

"Get Alex and Ben home,"

Mulan had told me before he had headed out of the chamber. He had just undone my housecoat and I was bare-naked right in front of the bed with the door left open. Hearing footsteps, I grabbed my housecoat and put it on right away. "Bellafonte?" I heard a voice. It sounded like Alex, but he also sounds exactly like Mulan, so I don't know who it is. "Alex?" I had asked before he stepped into the room. It has to be Alex; it has to be. Mulan had just left the castle to fight Patrick, so it must be Alex. "Yeah it's me," he had let out, standing behind me. "What's going on?" He asked, and I turned around to face him. "It's nothing for you to worry about," I had told him as I headed to my dresser and grabbed my Belgian blue dress. Grabbing my black thong-like panties and hiding behind my curtain, I drop the housecoat and get changed. The dress covers up my boobs while supporting them and wraps around the neck, tying it with a ribbon that then shows off half of my back. The bottom half is covered up with a zipper. The dress is quite long, but when I spin it flies up. Grabbing my blue high heels and putting them on, I walk around the curtain to see Alex looking at me, stunned at my beauty. "Wow," he had let out. "Do you have any other clothes like that?" He had asked me rather curiously. "Why do you ask?" I had asked him. No one has asked me that question before. "It's just that I've never seen Cashmere wear dresses like this, or anyone being able to pull it off. I have to admit, you look good," he had told me. "If there's any way that'll help you figure out which one is me and not Cashmere, look for the tattoo," I had told him. "What tattoo?" He had asked before I realized that they were both still invisible. I raised my left arm and crossed it over to my right arm, palm facing down, and ran it over where my tattoo was, revealing the tattoo. I use my right hand and raise it above my left arm, and reveal the other tattoo.

The tattoo on my right has two blue swirls that wrap around each other, and at the very end where it opens up near the shoulder; it has sparks of blue that shoot out of my arm when I use my magic. The magic goes all the way down the tattoo to my hands where it connects with a ring on my middle finger. The other tattoo on my left is a little different, but it is the same colour. Instead of it being two swirls, it is just one and it wraps around itself with the shape of a wave inside of it. My right hand shoots out magic, and my left hand shoots out water in all shapes and sizes. When they are mixed together you can either get destructive storms, or it can help wipe out evil magic. "Cashmere will eventually get one of the tattoos that I have," I had told Alex as he stared in shock at the tattoos. "I have never seen a tattoo so beautifully done," Alex had told, walking towards me, wanting to touch them. "I had done them myself," I had told him as he stared at me in shock. "Cashmere will more likely get the one that's on my right arm," I had told him. "But it will be after she gets the gift of immortality from Aaron," I had told him before he turned me around. "They're beautiful," he had told me before he tried leaning in to kiss me. I had backed away and had put my hand on his mouth, and that was when he backed off. "Sorry, you just look exactly Cashmere, I couldn't help myself," Alex had told me. It was then I remembered that Mulan had told me to get Alex and Ben back home. "I have a weird question to ask, but it's kind of worth it," I had told him, sitting down on the bed. "What is it?" He had asked sitting across from me. "Before the portal opened up was there anything that you had said out-loud to yourself?" I had asked, hoping that I could find an answer to what happened. "I had told myself that I love Cashmere," he had told me. "And after that the portal opened up?" I had asked just to get a sense of what happened. "Yeah," he had told me. "Well then let's go try it out. We'll go to the magic room," I had told him before getting up and walking out of there.

"What about Ben?" He had asked. I had forgotten about Ben. "If it works I'll get him," I had told him before we had walked down the stairs to the throne room and walked to the magic room. I had cleared an area near the back, so there was enough room in case something backfires. "Just pretend I'm not here," I had told him before he looked at the brick wall, closed his eyes, and had said out-loud, "I love Cashmere." A few seconds went by and nothing happened. "Dang it," he had let out after opening his eyes to reveal that he was still here. "I might have something. I'm almost out of it, and I've used it to get to Aaron before," I had told him while I had grabbed a vial that had mixed blood in it. It had both Mulan's and my blood in it, and it can open any portal. Opening the vial, I had put a dash of blood on the wall, and I had put it in a circle large enough for a portal to begin. Putting the vial down, I brought my right arm up and focused my hand on the circle. A streak of blue light came from my hand and went onto the circle. Instead of it opening up, it lit on fire and then went out, causing a crash to happen at the top of the castle. This had never happened before, so I don't know why this is happening. Flying back from the crash, I notice Ben running down to the room and entering in. "Is everything okay here?" He had asked as he helped me up.

"Just trying to figure out a way to get you guys back," I had told Ben. "Well whatever you guys are doing, it's not working," Ben had told me as I walked back up to the wall. "I don't understand what happened," I had told myself out-loud. "Maybe you need to use something else," Ben had suggested, before I noticed Alex reaching for his head in pain. "Are you okay?" Ben had asked him before he fell over in pain, reaching for his head. "Make it stop!" Alex had yelled out in pain, and the bricks fell and the portal appeared. That was when I realized what was going on. Alex was tied to Mulan because they were now in the same timeline. That means that Jack is also tied to Patrick, because Alex is from that timeline and has now come into ours. "Take him," I had told Ben before he picked him up and carried him in through the portal. The fighting has affected Alex. Grabbing my vial of mixed blood, I had put the number 10 on it and threw the rest of it in the portal. The blood was now going to keep the portal open for a little longer. Running out of the castle, I break into my vampire-like running, and I get up to Mulan who is now on the ground. "Stop the fighting!" I yelled out before getting to Mulan. "Mulan?" I had asked him, until I realized that he was losing lots of blood at the moment. I wasn't going to let his death stop me. Mulan isn't technically immortal like me, he has the gift of immortality, but it comes with a consequence. If someone uses it too many times, they can actually die. I lifted up his top, and noticed that his wounds were trying to heal themselves, but it was taking too long. Without thinking, I lifted him up from the ground and flew him back to the castle.

Running to the magic room with the portal about to close, I quickly grabbed my vial and had put some of Mulan's blood in it. I then grabbed onto his sword and pricked my finger and a drop of my blood landed in the vial. I then tucked the vial inside of his pocket, and I brought his head up. As I had kissed him, I could feel the portal sparks surrounding us, and it sucked us up.