Moxy : Unknown, Untold

Chapter 5

As Noocah gave me the food, I ate it pretty quick. There in my seat, I felt the urge to go to sleep and I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer. It felt like a little nap that I took I woke up, still very sleepy, feeling that we are slowing down and I hear Noocah shouting. “Yes, we’re home. I can do what I want!!”

I looked out the window and I see we arrived at what I assume is Tigstra, stopping right in front of a building that is covered in forest, that sort of looks like a castle – so in tune with nature.

“Hey, Moxy wake up! We’re here!” Noocah’s excitement is a little annoying.

“Already? I just went to sleep a few minutes ago.”

“Yeah, you were out cold. Think you need to go to a mirror and see yourself, your stripes is clearly visible now. Wow! Your transformation is quick, that usually take a normal Tigstrian 1 year to get where you are in your transformation.” Said Noocah in astonishment.

“Ok, in that case, just give me a sec to wake up properly.” I’m still half asleep in the comfy chair.

“Ok, but won’t you hurry it up a bit. I can’t wait to show you everything!” Through my have opened eyes I see Noocah getting a bucket of ice cold freezing water and poured it over me.

“H-hey, damn that’s so cold. Why did you do that for!?” Immediately I’m irritated with him and I’m want to slap him so hard that he would fell right on his ass.

I flew off my seat and I went towards him. “Hey you two, don’t start a fight, you both know who’s going to lose. So please don’t let me intervene.” My mom caught us before I could even hit him, and now that it is school holidays, I have plenty of time getting him back for it.

“I had to wake you up faster and it what looks like it worked pretty well.” To me Noocah is acting like a little child.

“Yeah, yeah I’m up. I’m gonna get you back for that.”

I gathered my things, stepping out of the ship, seeing strange looking animals walking around, not noticing the ship.

“Whoa! What are they?” I’m really surprized to see a lot of strange looking creatures.  

“These my dear little sister, is what our animals looks like, some of them you might recognize like the cats, dogs, crocodiles and dolphins. But be careful, some of them do talk like us and those are the animal forms of some of the Tigstrian people. So don’t try to pet them.” Noocah warned me with a smile.

As we walked through the forest, and we came across a huge iron gate also covered in forest. One of the guards asked alerted. “Who goes there?” It seems that the guard didn’t know about our arrival.

As soon as he saw us, he looked shocked and surprised. “My queen, I didn’t realize you would be home so soon. If I may ask, who’s the girl with you? She doesn’t look like she comes from the village.”  

My mom smiled at him, breaking into a soft laugh. “No, she is not. She’s the one we were looking for, my daughter.  

The guards look like they understood and opened the castle gate to let us in. My newly found brother Noocah and mother leading me to what looks like a garden. “Moxy, I want to show you my favourite place here at the castle.” Leading me right to where she does her gardening, I think.

There I see the castle garden and it looks very familiar in a way, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. “Mom, I feel like I’ve seen this place and been here before, almost like deja vu.”

“How come?” She looked at me confused.

“I have these kind of weird dreams for a while now, where I fight an enemy and I hear a baby cry in the background, acting like it’s my daughter…” It sounded really weird when I said it out loud.

To my surprise my mom is calm and happy, sort of anyway. “Well it sounds that you have someone else’s memories.”

“What do you mean I got someone else’s memories? Whose memories do I have?” Whoa! Where did that come from? Did not expect that.

“Your dreams and this garden should look and feel familiar, because it sounds that you have my memories in your dreams.”

I’m taken back on hearing that. “Oh wow! Really? How is that even possible?”

“This is where it all took place. The Willow tree’s spirit had put it in your dreams to let you know that you’re not human, and warning you about what is coming and happening.”

“Oh, warning me about what?” Now I’m starting to get scared.

“There is a prophecy about the ultimate forbidden child. One is born every 200 years on the full blood moon night. No one has ever seen one before and somehow no one has figured out who it is, but me.”

In a way that doesn’t make any sense to me, and having a weird look on my face doesn’t make it any easier for me to understand. “How is that possible? Wait, Mr Cilmar said that Jayden wouldn’t be the best in class for long, until my powers arrive. Is that something I should be worried about?” Remembering what Mr Cilmar said back at school.

“I don’t know, we have to find out… Here we are, my garden.” There is a huge white hexagon gazebo in the middle of the pavement with stone benches in a circle and then the green grass with all sorts of flowers of different colours.

My mom went to sit down on one of the benches, admiring the garden.

Noocah looked at me in thought, somehow I could hear all his thoughts. “She has no idea what is waiting for her, the training, mastering of her powers and the rest of her transformation. And the situations she needs to go through, I need to be there for her, when she needs a brother.” That made me feel a lot better and I’m surprised he has a soft spot in his heart for me.

I looked around admiring the place, then when I looked back at my mom and looked very different. I have a purple streak in my hair, she just had a white one in her hair. She had black and white stripes all over her body. “Uh… mom? Is that you?”

She looked at me weirdly, then a smile formed on her face. “Yes Moxy, it’s me. This is what I actually look like. We can change form, you know.”

Just then Noocah came walking past me, asking our mother something I wanted to know as well. “Mom, do you know why Moxy’s transformation is so fast?”

“Well Noocah, you must remember her body is catching up on all the changes she needs to go through on our planet, so everything is going to be much quicker than normal. Her training will have to double and be more intense and she will have to go to the school right here, if she needs it...” She answered.

“I know that, but it has been a little over a day since she started, I think.” Noocah interrupted her.

“That’s not normal at all, it would at least take a month…Noocah, would you please show your sister to her bedroom and while you’re at it, give her a tour of the castle too.” She had a warm smile on her face.

“Yes ma’am.” Noocah answered excitedly, looking like he feels like a little boy, just the way I got to know him in this 1 day.