The New Light of Hope: Books I to VI.

Chapter VIII: Journey to the Northeast Forest; Day 4.

Abigail:

The next day came before we even knew it. And just as we were preparing to continue our journey, Sadie and Jemma had told us that they saw their mother in their dream last night; and we told them that we also saw our parents in our dreams that night. Don't believe me? Well, we did; me and Bellatrix shared the same dream and we saw our father in that same dream as well, as if what I had reffered Maria to as "A so-called spirit" was trying to actually "reconcile" for staying quiet until it was already too late.

"Let's move out!" Chief GorseHunter ordered; and so, we continued our journey where as we settled down that evening, we would learn that we were not too far away from the Northeast and that we were getting closer.
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Bellatrix:

As we settled down for the night, Aurora came to us saying that us the Heroes ourselves needed to have a private conversation amongst all of eight of us about our dreams we had the previous night.

"So, we all saw our family members in our dreams last night?" She asked us when we got settled to talk; we all responded to her with "yes" when asked.

"We saw our mother in our dream last night." Sadie revealed to us.

"We saw our father." I added in.

"I saw my mother." Milly said.

"I saw both of my nieces in mine." Summer then added. "Let's uh, let's just say I felt a lot of emotions during the dream."

Violet and Lavender Williams are both Autumn's daughters as well as Summer's nieces and Violet and Lavender's maternal aunt; she had not really interacted with them prior to her father's passing just like the rest of her family members. Why, I remember one day, Violet told me during our make-up time during class periods after lunch, that if she were to see her again, she would make her pay the price. I even remember the conversation very well. I'm surprised she didn't attack her during the dream. I thought to myself as she spoke.

"I saw my mother as well." Amethyst added in after Summer finished. "I suppose Maria felt bad for the fact that she and Amanda were working for the Diablos."

"And so they should!" Sadie added.

"Well, if Maria is really doing us a favor, that's a good thing. But they're going to have to do more than just that for them to gain back our trust. Even so–"

"Half of the apprentices are gone!" MoonStone exclaimed a before Aurora could finish. "What? How so? Who's missing?" Amethyst asked.
"We were settling down for the night and as we were doing so, Osprey, Brindle, Night, Silver, Cedar, Shade, and Swift as well as a few other apprentices disappeared!" He explained.

"Well, why are we just standing here doing nothing? Let's find them!" Jemma said.
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We began to search for the apprentices that had went missing that night; it was a good thing that they left behind tracks so that way we could find them easily. "Anything?" RowanStep asked. "Nothing yet!" Amethyst replied.

OwlHeart: "Surely they couldn't have gone far."

HawkTalon: "I sure hope not."

Just as he spoke, I caught glimpse of Night coming from a shaded area with a large grey rabbit clenched in her jaws followed by Brindle carrying a blackbird and Osprey coming behind them; Silver, Cedar, Shade came out with prey as well and so did the other apprentices; some of them had freshly caught prey in their mouths.

ShadeHeart, MistFur, HawkTalon, and a few other animals ran up to them, wondering if they were all right as well as given them strict lectures. Once they had finished their lectures, Aurora came up to them and asked: "Why did all of y'all run off like that?"

Braken, an apprentice from the Sun Chasers, placed his prey down and said: "The elders from each of our Divisions needed food. Without it, they'd die and so Night, Cedar, and a few other apprentices came up with an idea to try and find some prey or something to keep them from dying."

"We managed to find some too." Cedar added in, showing his squirrel to us. "A lot."

"Wait just a sec." I said. "You managed to find all this prey from hunting, right?"

"That's right." Cedar replied.

"So, if y'all found and hunted this prey, then that would mean…" I paused for a second and I then looked at everyone and said: "We're getting close."

"Wait, really?" Brindle asked. "Perhaps so." I said.

"Well, it looks like we'll have a lot of traveling to do the next day and the day following. You young ones head back with us and give your catches to your Division members." RowanStep instructed the apprentices.

We all went back and while the apprentices did what they were told, we told everyone that we were not far from their new home now and that the next day would be a busy one.

And so it would be.