Long Way Home #Wattys2016

Chapter 39

Emilina POV

I sat there listening to her tell me about herself; my mother that I really never knew. On top of that, Mama Rosealee was her cousin. I knew we were close since I meet her that first time but I would have never guessed she was our cousin. I stood as the wall of wind and earth fell; a girl started speaking to the crowd around us. She was laughing and jumping up and down, which made the Moon Goddess laugh.

"Child," The Moon Goddess call the girl making her instantly stop and look at her with her jaw on the ground. "Stand still for a minute and let us think. But first please close your mouth." The Moon Goddess told her making the girl snap her jaw shut.

"Sorry," the girl said lowering her head making me wonder even more who she was.

Our mothers looked at us confused, as did our father. I knew exactly what they were thinking because I was thinking the same things. I turned to ask the girl whom her parents were to find Mama Rosealee standing behind her. She stood there as if she would protect the child from us.

"M...M...Mary," her voice broke as she saw my mother and tears started to fall from her eyes.

"Moon Goddess, may I greet my dear cousin properly?" My mother asked but not taking her eyes off Rosealee.

The Moon Goddess only nodded as she was still trying to figure out why her wall fell; I started to wonder the same thing. My mother pulled Rosealee into her arms as they both started laughing then crying.

"I can not believe I have been with you this whole time. How could I not see you in them?" Mama Rosealee asked my mother after they finally stopped crying.

"First, Wyatt is not my birth son and Emilina looks like me more now than when she was little." I heard my mother but stopped listening to them as I came closer to the Moon Goddess.

"I just don't understand...it was not supposed to be this way." The Moon Goddess was mumbling to herself.

"Why did you release your spell if you didn't want any of them to see each other yet?" I asked making her snap out of her own thoughts; she stood there staring at me for a moment.

"I didn't release it, I don't know how or why it fell." She finally answered me as the girl from earlier walked up to us.

"Moon Goddess," her voice was quiet and she kept her head down. "It's my fault." Her words were so low I almost missed them.

"What did you say?" A woman spoke from behind the child, making her jump.

"M...M...Momma, when did you get here?" The girl asked the woman that was standing in front of her.

"I've been tracking you for three days to drag your little disrespecting, ungrateful ass back home." The woman said as she reached for the child, but she only grabbed a handful of empty air.

"Who the hell do you think you are to speak to a child like that; much less a child as special as this one? You need to leave right now before I release my fury on you." Her voice was as gentle as a spring wind but her eyes were angry like a blazing fire.

I had to pick up my jaw from the ground as I watched the woman swing her clawed hand at The Moon Goddess; did she not know who she was messing with. The woman's hand never made contact with her target and the Moon Goddess did not move; but the woman was moved. The woman noticed she was a good ten feet away from her target and her own child was standing in front of her; fully shifted and her animal was in control.