Call Of The Spirits Chapter 14 The Prime Minister's house was empty and we were searching the bushes, bricks and grass for trap doors or secret entrances, "This is like a hotel compared to what I live in back in Kaylyle" I say to Fortis, "My parents own a furniture shop, we get regular customers that trade a armchair for fifteen squirrels" Fortis says to me, "Don't you deliver things with your brother and sister" I say, "Yes, but Lily and Cody loathe it, so we barely do it now" he says smiling "The last time I saw you on delivery after school, you, Lily and Cody were delivering a sofa and two armchairs to the richer part of Kaylyle" I say. "And so what, the rich always buy our stuff", "I haven't reached the point" I snap "You were running with the armchairs that looked like they weighed ten pounds like they as light as a feather to the house with Lily and Cody struggling with the sofa". "And so what if I can run while carrying two armchairs" he says rolling his eyes, "Wait" I snap again, "After you delivered the armchairs, you ran back to help Lily and Cody who had nearly dropped the sofa three times and picked it up to help them and the effect was like you were two people", "Conclusion" Fortis says thinking he is not special at all, "Unrealistically strong, so strong it could be just my imagination" I say "Actually it could be" I mutter shocked "Sorry" and I turned away to check the other side of the house. "How strong is he?" Caeli asked, "It's all my imagination" I explain. I heard footsteps behind me, "You think my strength is all in your mind" he says trying to be serious and unsuccessfully trying to hide his grin, he leads over me trying to pick me up, "No, no, no" I say scrambling to my feet but he's too strong and already too late as I'm quickly sweeping me off my feet to three feet in the air into a position that made me look like a baby being cradled in its father's arms, "You're enjoying this aren't you" say trying to be serious and, I, nailed it, I said, I nailed it. "I can't say I dislike it so yeah, I'm enjoying it" he says and as soon as he finished the word it I rolled out of his arms onto the grass and scuttled of to where Caeli and Caelum were. "If your so strong Fortis, I challenge you to a arm wrestling match" Caelum says grinning and rolls up his right arm sleeve revealing a muscly arm, "Challenge excepted" Fortis said beaming and rolls up his right sleeve revealing a arm that only God must have created. Snap out of it Parva, it's just a arm. The boys plonked their elbows on the soft grass to wrestle and Caelum was already sweating, "Start" Caeli and I say at the same time coincidently. As soon as they started Caelum's hand was flat on the ground, " I won, I won, oh yeah oh yeah, I won" Fortis sang only to mock Caelum's weakness. After he got up and brushed himself down, he made a beeline to a abnormally large yellow postbox and jump upon it. But instead of landing on it he fell through it, "Fortis" I screech without thinking and bolted in my gown with a few stumbles to the post box that had now split in two with Fortis somewhere inside it. "Fortis?, Are you down there" I ask the darkness infront of me, "I'm here Love, actually do you know where here is in fact" his voice echos up to me, "You have found the Nigrum Frigus" I call to him but all I hear is a yell of pain or fear, "Fortis" I shriek again and jump down the hole. My bones ached all over, and I open my eyes and the place I was in was pitch black and the entrance had been shut. I get myself to my feet and there was nothing to be seen or found until I was gagged, a hand holding a hankichief covered with chloroform covered my mouth and nose, I would recognise that sweet smelling liquid anywhere. I must have been unconscious for ages. The light crept under my eyelids and eyes snapped open only to find a small room with quiet little voices muttering around me. Vivos?. Vivos was strapped to a rectangular metal plate by his wrists, waist and ankles like me. Fortis was also in the room chatting to Vivos, "She's awake" Vivos chimed who must be in a good mood since he got company after days of living in the dark, but he looked different. He face was pale, covered with scars, bruises, blood and he also had a black eye. "Hey" Fortis said smiling trying to turn his head in my direction, "Why aren't you attached to one of these metal things" I ask him, "They temperamentally paralysed me and being attached to one those things would prevent me from standing up so they strapped me to a chair in front of Vivos with a force field light beamed over me" Fortis explained to me "I'll be in the one where you are now Vivos and you'll move to the one next to Parva so Parva and I don't make up a escape plan for some reason". "Cool, you just have to make sure I don't steal her from you" Vivos said to Fortis just to annoy him and he doesn't even have any interest in me at all, this left me smiling and Fortis very angry. "Fortis, you look like you're going to throw a tantrum" Vivos said mockingly and leans over to smile at him and chant but only to receive a head butt by a very angry person who was taking it very seriously in fact a little to seriously.

Call Of The Spirits Chapter 13 The tunnel was pitch black apart from the tiny rays of light at the other end. There was this noise coming from above us, music, feet, talking and a faint buzzing noise. "Fortis, can you hear that noise" I ask the darkness, "Yes, sweetie, I can" the darkness tells me, "Where are you" I ask, "Would this be a clue" he says and puts his arm around my waist and it made me jump. "You scared me to death" I tell him, "Not much longer in the dark now Parva, you will survive it". I hoped I will. Then Fortis strangely started to recite a rhyming line that creeped me out, "Darkness bites the children after light, If he doesn't bite you, he'll bite you tonight". "You are just scary, having rhyming lines in your head that are just, terrifying" I say to him. "Look where we are now" he says and right in front of us was a ladder leading up to a trap door. "That's where the tiny rays of light are coming from" I say as if I was talking to myself, "I'll go first" Fortis said, but then suddenly the trap door opened and he nearly had a heart attack. "Hurry up, even we got here first" whispered a voice, it was Caelum and Caeli. I quickly followed Fortis up the ladder into the light, when I reached the top it took me a couple of minutes for my eyes to adjust to this unusually bright light. When I could see again I noticed Caeli who was sat on a chair, was wearing a violet dress, if only I could swap with her but then I would feel sorry for Fortis being forced to wear a violet suit. "How did you get in so quick" I ask Caeli, "The gate" she replies, "The gate? Why couldn't Fortis and I just go through it instead of the secret passage"? I ask annoyed, "Species check, DNA check, X-ray, etc, you would have been electrocuted, no escape" Caelum explains "And Fortis you wouldn't want that to happen to your precious gem, Parva". Fortis was clearly annoyed by this but stayed still instead of breaking his neck. "Who does the gate let through" I ask Caelum, "Humans and the Superior" he says, "Who or what are the Superior?" Fortis asks, "We don't know, but it could be some type of human developed race" "We're human" Caeli says, "I think they already know that" Caelum said rolling his eyes. "Where are we" I ask looking around the damp, dusty, room that looked a little like a restaurant, "This used to be a cafe called Cafe Rouge" Caeli says "Home to the secret passage that only we know" "We better get going before we are spotted" Fortis says in a I don't like this place voice, "Fortis, Cinereo is very formal, so tuck your shirt in, hold your girlfriend's hand as if it's made from bone china and one little squeeze would shatter it and don't worry about standing out" Caeli beams. We stepped out of the door into a deserted street where there was nobody to be found apart from this neat cottage, but the owner was out, I hope. The position Fortis and I were in was most uncomfortable, I felt like the blood was draining out of my right hand but Fortis looked like there wasn't a pint of blood in him. "Relax" I whisper to him "You look like you have seen a ghost", "S-s-scared" he whispers back, "We all are s-" I whisper but Caeli interrupts, "Quiet, we are meant to be in complete silence while walking, it's tradition" she says through her teeth. Whoa, I think, one lousy tradition, well, this is one lousy city. Keeping a immaculately straight posture is nearly impossible since I've spent all my #life cooped around a small fire or crouched in a tree sheltering from the pounding rain or keeping out of reach of the dangerous beasts below that occupy the forests outside Kaylyle. "Parva, look, look" Fortis whispers to me, I hate it when I go into daydream mode. I suddenly could feel my jaw drop in awe as we hit a wall of sound, all I could hear was violins, flutes, guitars and lots of other instruments but many I couldn't describe or name. Cinereo was a forcefield covered city, that's why I couldn't hear the music outside. "We don't stick out like sore thumbs dear" Fortis mutters to me but I struggle to hear, but he was right there were people wearing pink, violet, pea green, blue, orange, black, white, indigo, red, yellow, cream, heather, gold, brown, bronze, hazel, grey, green, silver, every colour under the sun. "Look at that person" Fortis said quietly looking to our right. Water? A woman beside us was wearing water over a pearl coloured dress with who I assume is her husband was wearing snow that was obviously fake since it was like 30 degrees celsius in the domed city. "Where could the Nigrum Frigus be" I ask Caeli, "God knows" Caeli replied, "The Emperor's mansion" Fortis suggested, "Too obvious" Caelum said, "The Prime Minister's house at number 10" I suggest, "Good thinking, Fortis's girl" Caeli said. "Your good at this" Fortis complimented, "I didn't know there was a Prime Minister, I heard Captionem mention it, I just guessed" I say and we both burst out laughing no matter how stupid we looked, how many people were looking at us or if we were laughing so loudly and so informally, defiantly not laughing that Cinereo squeak that's high pitched, posh, that generally gets on outsider's nerves and goes ha ha ha ha, spiffing joke or something along the lines of that.

Call Of The Spirits Chapter 12 Fortis's hair turned from dirt to soft after I washed it and I felt proud of it. It was about eleven and we had sat down for lunch, we were having a feast, the squirrel and a chunk of goats cheese Fortis happened to be carrying as part of a secret stash. After a while Fortis got bored and experimented, the result was a squirrel and cheese sandwich which he claims to be delicious and forces me to try it, so I take a nibble of his. It was as tasty as the sock smelt like roses but I tried not to pull a face so I lie instead, "Yum, great" I say not convincingly, I try to savour the moment and try not to drown myself with water to get the taste away and also get Fortis worried that I am actually trying to drown myself or I have rabies. He has quite a simple mind for someone who was in top set for everything, maths, english, french, you name it. This brings me to the thought of P.E, in our school, Pecan Fields high, all the girls dig boys from top set P.E. Fortis was trailed around school by a herds of them and he could have had any one of them but, why me. I was that quiet girl in the corner who knew much more than it seemed, but I wasn't as smart as Fortis. I never had liking for boys because they didn't really like me either, they were just into pretty girls but they called pretty girls fit, that just doesn't make sense. "Fortis, this sounds like a pretty dumb question to ask" I begin, "Fire away, pumpkin, I'm all ears" he says then tucks into another squirrel and cheese sandwich. "Why did you pick me, there were other girls, you brought your popularity down, I don't like sports at all, there is nothing fun about me" I say "There is" he says confidently and this scares me because he sounded like he knows me more than I know myself. "What is it then" I say knowing I have no talent at all, "I love your singing" he says in that same confided I know you better than you know yourself tone, "You always sung quietly to yourself when you thought nobody was listening, you were right about everyone else, but me, I always listened". He knows everything about me, first I'm a Spirit Warrior with a cat spirit form, now I sing to myself when I'm bored. "But I'm awful" I say truthfully, "Sing, sing, sing" Fortis chants, "If you really want to be deaf, think of a song" I say "I like that one I think is called Come Tomorrow" he says and strangely that's my favourite song. Creepy. I clear my throat and I begin "When the light comes, It will tap you to wake, Whispering your safe, Whispering your warm, Whispering your shielded, So you know, for you to remember, Come tomorrow, Tomorrow has come, When morning comes, Darkness flees away, All you need is a wonderful thought, To drift you off to sleep, You are safe from all the harms, Now you are here you will always be loved, Come tomorrow, Tomorrow has come, When the light comes, Cocooned in your bed, All your worries will fade away, All your darkest thoughts will disappear, Curled up you are safe, Curled up you are warm, Come tomorrow, Tomorrow has come, When morning comes, Darkness flees away, All you need is a wonderful thought, To drift you off to sleep, You are safe from all the harms, Now you are here you will always be loved, Come tomorrow, Tomorrow has come" I didn't notice all the time I had been singing, I had focused on a small willow on the other side of the stream so I turn to face Fortis. He was asleep. "Fortis wake up, we haven't made any distance towards Cinereo to rescue Vivos, come on, no time to sleep" I yell trying to pull him to consciousness, "I'm not asleep darling, but nearly, because your singing is so beautiful" he says opening his eyes, "I'll go and get the bags and the rags" say running off to the hollow tree. When I reached the tree I just managed to get all three bags and two blankets in my arms when Fortis called from behind me "Want me to carry them", "Sure I say" and I turn around. Fortis wasn't there, there was only a stag. "Fortis" I say trying to get past the stag to find him, "I'm the stag darling, I've transformed so I could carry the luggage" the stag says "Ok" I whisper and put the bags on his antlers and blankets on his back, "Does it hurt" I whisper hoping he is not hurt, "Not at all, don't worry, transform and hitchhike". He says. I didn't fancy walking anyway so I transform into a little cat with ginger fur and jump on his back, "Hold on sweetheart" he says. I did the opposite and took some time to strap the bags to his antlers and strap the rags in as well. The ride wasn't at all smooth, but we did cover more ground. "How far is it" I say knowing we won't be close or a ridiculous distance if The Caeruleus can travel it, "Another hour, roughly" he estimates. Within the hour we were in the forest surrounding Cinereo. "Its best if we transform back so we are not shot if we are spotted, we need to look human" he says and it just scares me. We quickly walked towards the big gate when we heard some whispers over to our left, "Over here lad and little lass" they murmured but the gate was opening and we were pulled to the left by the whisperers. "Are you trying to get yourselves killed" one said "Well the lad is trying to get his girlfriend slaughtered by going anywhere near the great gate" the other said disagreeing with the other. "I'm Fortis and this is Parva, we want to rescue our friend Vivos" Fortis begins "We need to get into Cinereo", "And your are Spirit Warriors" one said, "Why don't you just shoot us then" I say grumpily, "We want The Spirit Warriors to survive" one of them says "I'm Caeli and my partner is Caelum" Caeli says like we are new friends, "Shut up Caeli, sorry she's my twin and didn't get a fair share of knowledge" Caelum says grumpily. "Ok, you want to get into Cinereo, we have got clothes and a secret passage way" Caeli says cheerfully, but what did she mean by clothing. Caeli reached from behind her and grabbed a black bin bag, untied it and pulled the most extravagant dress out made with so much wonderful material it could dress six adults from Kaylyle. "Put this on" she says and holds it front of me the bright aqua material nearly blinding me. The dress fitted me perfectly apart from the dress trailed along the floor for about two feet. "I'll do your hair, Cinereo style" Caeli says to me leaving me hoping that Cinereo hair styles are not ridiculous and guess what, they were. My hair was french braided then coiled around into a bun with daisies woven into it. "What do you think, Parva" Fortis said while twirling in a matching aqua suit, the suit was worse than my dress, we'll stick out like a sore thumb. "Dashing" I lie "How do I look" I say trying to twirl, "Ravashing" he says and his voice didn't sound like he was lying, "My favourite colour" he whispers in my ear, now that's why he isn't lying. "Loverbirds, this is the passage way" Caelum says and pulling a clump of ivy away from the wall revealing a little passage in a rock "It goes into the deserted part at the west of city, we are in the south, as soon as you arrive head north to find the emperor's manor, I guess that could be close to The Nigrum Frigus". Fortis was first in the tunnel because I might sorry WILL get my dress stuck if not. I was going to jump into Fortis arms but Caeli shoved a cape in my arms and guess what it's colour was. Aqua. No. "You might need it" she said. And she was right.

Call Of The Spirits Chapter 11 I screech with pain, blood pouring from the wound. I manage to see Fortis walk off into the forest, before... "Parva, darling, you are having a nightmare" a voice calls to me worried in a worried tone. I slowly opened my eyes, Fortis was there, I was so worried and scared. I sat quickly and dived into hugging mode before Fortis took another breath. "I'm so glad your here" I sob on his shoulder, Fortis was hugging me now, whispering comforting words in my ear. We were now curled up on my bed. The tears were starting to dry up and I started to feel safe once more. I didn't want anything to ruin a moment as perfect as this and by the looks of it Fortis didn't want to either, then I noticed the most dirty thing I had ever seen, greasy, caked with dirt, matted and most likely, could be alive. It was Fortis's hair and it looked like a E.T. "Fortis, would you like me to wash your hair" I say, "Is it really messy" He says and his hands shoot upwards to cover his hair, "No it isn't" I lie "I just thought it would be a good idea before your hair feels neglect and runs away" I say even though if hair had feels and legs, Fortis's hair would be in a place like Panem. "Okay" Fortis says while pulling his hair so he could get a good look at it and he makes quite a disgusted face at it. I help Fortis to his feet and we walk down to the stream. "I will wash yours" he says, I feel my greasy hair and I just can't refuse, "Ok, then" I say smiling. The part of the stream we arrived at was more like a massive pond, quickly Fortis led me to a part so I could lie down on my back with my hair in the water. "Ladies first" he says, "No, age before beauty, that doesn't work does it" I said and start to take out my hair. "Why, not you are younger than me, three months in fact" he says helping me with my hair so I don't yank any humungous clumps out, "I know, but I don't have the beauty, I'm a pig in mud" I say finally getting my hair out and lie on my back. "No your not, your. . ." he begins "You have got looks and don't you deny it" I snap, "No I don't, you. . ." he says, but I interrupt again, "You have got a cute baby face, beautiful hazel hair, stunning green eyes and muscles like steel" I say smiling at his beauty and all my compliments. I only know he had muscles of steel because: 1. It's visible 2. He won a wrestling competition in school 4 years running 3. You never want him to be worried and terrified, like the last time we met The Caeruleus and Fortis to be holding your hand. All I can say to describe it is the pain was excruciating. Firstly there was cooling sensation of the water pouring over my sweaty forehead and hair. I sigh in relaxation and this makes Fortis smile. We didn't know what was living in the stream and how dirty it was but it beats having a sweaty, greasy rag on top of your head. When he had finished I rapped my hair in the remains of Fortis's jacket. "Ok Fortis, you lie down while I refill the bottle" I say and following my orders he lies down but very cautiously. Probably scared his head might falls in and he slowly drowns or a gigantic fish jumps out and take his nut off, if not that it must be something really childish for a 5ft 9in sixteen year old boy who is strong as a cheetah is one speedy cat. Refilling the bottle was harder than it looks because when I picked it out of the water it had either a lot of seaweed in it or a small fish this meaning I had to tip it back in and try again. "Here, filled a bottle" Fortis beamed and handed me the bottle, the water was clear and I mean clear, as clear as glass. "How do you do that?" I asked in shock and with a hint of rage since it could take me hours and it takes him like a second, but I couldn't be mad at him, ever.

Call Of the Spirits Chapter 10 "Your not mad not even the slightest bit" he said in my ear and rapped his arms around me, but I just turned to face him and cried on his shoulder. I could tell he was thinking of something to say but then something stupidly parentish comes out. "There, there, Parva" he says stroking my back like a parent would do when their child is upset. Then my mood turned around, I strangely start laughing and he was laughing with me, I hope. "I brought you tea" he said, reaching over and giving me a bowl filled with stew and a wooden spoon, "Did you calve these spoons" I say, "No Vivos did them all, I just did this one" he said to me holding up his spoon that was uneven, a lot shorter and watching Fortis use it to eat his stew, it just cracks me up, but I manage to keep the laugh within me. "I think there is a hole in it, Fortis" I say to him smiling, "That's why the stew keeps vanishing" he says quite dazed, then holds the spoon to his eye "Can see you" he said to me in a childish voice. I start to smile even though it was far from funny. "I wonder where Vivos is" I say quietly "Vivos will be in Cinereo, in the nigrum frigus, sadly but most likely" he replied. In the heart of Cinereo was a hidden underground torture chamber and dissection lab called the nigrum frigus, only those of high authority know where it is. Vivos was most likely to be in the torture half if we're lucky, if not he would already be dead. In the dissection lab scientists dissect the bodies of The Spirit Warriors to help wipe them out. I don't want to think about it anymore because it is a spine chiller of a story, I was thinking the nigrum frigus never mind the torture chamber, that could make a deaf man puke. "We have got to go and rescue him" slips out of my mouth "He is not going to stay in the nigrum frigus much longer", "Parva I know we need to but I don't think we'll get anywhere by nightfall, sweetheart, we'll get up early" he says "Ok, you sleep" we both say, "No, I will" we both say again "Fine I'll go to sleep" we both say again and drop our heads down on our pillows. I turn my head to the right so it faces Fortis's bed. He was awake and it he just so happens to be facing his left so he is staring right at me, "Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite" he whispers, "Sweet dreams" I whisper back and with that I drifted off into a deep sleep. Suddenly I woke up, it was dark, cold and worst of all I was the only human-mutant thing in the hollow tree. I just couldn't believe it, Fortis was gone, he abandoned me. I get out of the blanket and run outside of the tree, I could only just see about 10 feet. Then there was a loud snapping of a twig behind me, I turn, yet nothing was there. "Fortis, is that you" I say my voice quite low, riddled with fear. "Parva my dear, don't be frightened it is only me, Fortis" Fortis says from behind me, using common sense I turn around to face him. As I turn his hand covers my mouth. I'm struggling to breath, trying to scream as he raises a knife and plants it in my chest.