Storm Call

Parallels Introduced

Johann shot up, covered in snow and in his true cat form, and immediately began looking around to make sure no one else was there before beginning to scale a nearby tree. His quick checking proved to be inaccurate, as he found Ender perched on a nearby branch by the time Johann managed to get his claws through the thin layer of ice.

"What're you doing here?" Ender asked, not turning around. He seemed to be looking for someone or something. "I came here because of how the other Luna is acting. She thinks I'm asleep, so hopefully she doesn't grab me again." Before Johann could get a word out, they both sensed three new presences nearby, one of which felt similar to Ender's own aura. "That's your cue to meet them," Ender told him before jumping off the branch, which was several feet in the air. Johann slid down the tree as quickly as he could, but he saw no indication that his brother had even touched the ground. That's when another cat, bearing a striking resemblance to Stella's current cat form, but instead of glowing rings, there were diamond patterns on their legs, forehead, and tail, arrived.

"Something seems familiar about you," the cat said, carrying a voice that only Johann would've known. They ran partially up a nearby tree before launching them-self off, simultaneously starting a back flip and reverting back into their natural human state. Johann decided to return to his body's natural form as well, and shortly after doing so, he turned around to see a girl his age, her cat ears and tail still visible, standing where the she would've landed in her cat form. He recognized his aura on her, and assumed it was his Delta counterpart.

"You are Johann, right?" she asked, not sure if it was him or Ender that was the white cat. Shortly after the question was asked, Ender, still in his cat form, acted as the answer by perching himself on his shoulder. "Well, in that case, I'll introduce myself." She extended her arm and prepared to offer a handshake, which Johann accepted. "I'm Sten Klouden, the 'you' in the Delta timeline!" Her glasses, each limb having a cherry blossom tree etched into them, reflected the sunlight onto Johann's cat ears. Another pair of ears, lime in color, poked out of the snow shortly afterwards.

"I take it that's your sister under there," Johann commented upon seeing the ears. A tail of the same color, too far away from the ears to be a cat, broke through the snow along with part of her lavender hair.

"Enderia, c'mon! You seriously still can't be that shy around us!" Ender shouted, prompting her to get out of the snow. Her glasses were completely frozen over, so she cast a small white fireball to melt the ice. When it didn't move or flicker, Ender was surprised when it burned itself out shortly after evaporating the drops of water left on the lenses.

"Did you forget there's more than one set of rules for fire?" Sten asked, not sure if Johann and Ender had known about it. They remained silent. "Well, you see, every timeline has their own set rules for colored flames. Nobody knows why they exist or when they were made, but that's just how things are." Her explanation was enough for them to try to continue another conversation when Ender and Johann were struck by a bolt of lightning coming from above.

"That must've been Luna," Ender grumbled. Sten and Enderia were confused, thinking they meant the Luna that almost exactly mirrored Lucas, her Delta counterpart. He explained, "The Stella from the Sigma timeline apparently dropped their Luna off here for some reason, and somehow she found her way to us. Now she's in my tent, more than likely trying to lose her static charge, which is why we were struck with that bolt." He looked around again, now remembering that they were around the area that he and Stella left the tablet piece. Two more energies were felt, one of them feeling like Stella, the other being another Taylor, shortly before the final pair of cat ears poked through the snow, only noticeable due to some of it being displaced around it and the shadows being cast behind them. A pair of wings could be heard nearby, signalling Leanne's arrival.