Koala & the Three Crows

and the secret nobody knows

(Narrative Introduction)

Koala and the three crows, protect a secret no one knows. Down in a village in Southern France, a stones throw from a town called Prance. This village a memorial from the past, as time whiters by, it's secrets did last.

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A bird came down swerving towards the windshield, Jeac overreacting, swerved and hit a small rock on the side of the road.

[A loud popping sound as the tire went flat.]

"Darcy, we're going to have to change the spare." Jeac said as he pulled the car over to the side of the deserted, wooded road off the backstreets, just outside the edge of town.

Darcy and Jeac were two high school sweethearts, in their late twenties, from a town called Prance. They were on their way to an old friend's house they knew from school. When their old, beaten rust bucket blew a tire, down an old worn down street barely used anymore, almost forgotten and taken back by the Earth, with the overgrown forage and the century old canopy provided by the elms. It was midday, just after breakfast, so there was plenty of sunlight coming down through the treetops, bit there still seemed to be this eerie sense of a place so peaceful, quiet, and still, there has to be something lurking in the distance or over the hill.

"Will you hand me the tire iron, Dear?" Jeac said as began to jack up the car, with the spare out from underneath.

Rustle, rustle, thud, thud, flap. Noises were heard from a distance in the back and from the top of the cliff.

"What was that?" Cried Darcy, as she looked towards the cliff where the sound came from. Slightly nervous and concerned she began to walk over to Jeac and without taking her eyes off the cliff, handed him the tire iron.

Now Jeac, a little hurried now, continue to change the tire. When he almost had the tire tightened all the way back on, a crow shrieked as a few birds flew off from a branch, disturbing the natural ceiling that had been oddly still followed by another sound of thudded, hurried footsteps that came, but this time it was louder and heading straight for them. The sound of large footsteps came terrifyingly with the low base of each step echoing through the empty wooded street, the rustling of the leaves came as a shrieking cry that carried with it, the heartbeat, as the slow alert heart beat turned towards near attack.

"GET IN THE CAR, DARCE!!!" Yelled Jeac as ran towards the driver's door. The pair hurried into the car and started the ignition as a six foot tall, baby black bear, with solid black eyes, beautiful matted fur and this pretty but kind of creepy smile that looked as if it came from a cartoon, came running down the hill towards them. Running on its back two hind legs as if it were human.

As soon as Jeac got the car started and put the car into drive, the bear darted to their right and headed up the street to a spot that seemed a little more peaceful than the rest of the street. A beam of light pierced the shadowed street and brought into view a beautiful little area next to the creek that glowed, a spot neither of the two had noticed before. The bear ran alongside the street and darted to the left this time and seemed to disappear behind a large rock. Now the two just sitting there in the car, panicked with a sigh of relief settling in, stared curiously at the rock where they last saw the bear.

"Whew, oh my God, that gave me such a fright. What was that? Do you think we have her a fright? Or was she going to come after us?" Darcy said as she looked briefly at Jeac, while trying to keep her eyes on the rock in the middle of the lighted area beyond the shadow of the road.

"Darce, why do you think it was a she?" Jeac asked a little amused, now that things had calmed down a little.

"Look, she's back." Darcy yelled at a low whisper.

Children's Book: Text

The bear came back out from behind the rock where she seemed to disappear. Now as the bear came back, she was walking slowly on all fours, looking around as if she were suspiciously guarding a litter of cubs, but she was just a cub herself. Now as the two stared and wondered what the bear was guarding. She was standing in an open area, next to a creek, with one single boulder surrounded by a beautiful thin light green grass that seemed as if was a manicured flower bed in someone's front lawn. With nothing else around her, the pair silently pondered what she was guarding.

"Let's drive up the street and see what's she's guarding." Darcy said a little inquisitively curious.

"What, we have the tire fixed, let me just gather the tools and put them away. Then we should leave, this rust bucket won't protect us from that bear." Jeac replied as he pulled the door back open.

Jeac got out of the car and gathered the tools and put the old tire into the trunk of the car. As he walked around the back of the car towards the driver's door. Darcy opens her door, loudly creaking, and startled Jeac.

"You startled me, Darce." Jeac said as he looked towards her. The sound of the car door cut through the silent tension that had once again returned to the deserted street.

"What are you doing Darce?" Jeac asked as Darcy began to walk towards the bear away from the car.

"I think I ought to go and see, I'll be careful." Darcy replied as she headed up the street, keeping her eyes on the spot where the little bear was pacing back and forth.

Darcy walked up the street, remaining on the opposite side of the road across from the side of the bear down by the creek, keeping her eyes cautiously fixated on the bear. Jeac, wanting to get in the car and leave decided to follow her up the street, on foot, in disbelief, that she would be so curious after they both were almost attacked. As Darcy neared the trail, on the opposite side of the street, where the bear was down by the creek, she started to cross the road and the bear stood up on both hind legs. Darcy nervous, not wanting to run back and instigate a chase, continued forward looking, nervously at the bear. The bear now standing on both back legs, looked up at Darcy and gave her a reassuring smile that reminded Darcy of the Chesire Cat from Alice. Normally, this would have been creepy and frightened Darcy, but the ambiance of the street with it's subconscious hidden allure and the infectious curiosity that had now filled Jeac, made Darcy a little more confident as she headed down the trailhead towards the boulder, creek, and bear. About halfway down the trail, just as Jeac caught up with her, a loud shrieking came again from the crows. Startled Darcy look towards Jeac, who wrapped his arms around her. Now both had looked away from the creek and when their eyes met back with the bear, the bear had moved forward to the edge of the lighted area, closest to them on the trail, grinning, with her arms gestured towards the rock as if greeting the pair. Nervously the pair continued up the path towards the bear who was still grinning. When they were about ten feet away, the bear looked towards the boulder and then back.

"Good afternoon Darcy, Hello Jeac, my name is Koala." The bear said as she smiled at the two.

"Good Afternoon." Darcy replied looking confused and intriguingly at Jeac.

Completely bewildered and taken aback at the idea that this bear just talked to them, let alone they were walking straight up to a bear that was standing there in the woods and smiling the most unnatural smile you could fathom seeing in nature. The two stopped right in front of the bear, as if she were another human they were meeting for tea.

"Koala, you said your name was? How is it that you know our names?" Darcy asked as Jeac interrupted.

"How can you speak? Not being rude, bit animals don't talk." Jeac asked politely as the sense of danger was completely vacant of his mind.

"Yes, Koala is my name, I've lived here for centuries, with a few friends who tend to know everyone, at least who everyone is." Koala replied looking from Jeac to Darcy, as the three crows landed on the branch beside where Koala was standing.

"Bears can't live centuries." Jeac replied with indignant disbelief. Being a professor at a local school about animal biological studies.

"And Bears can not talk." Koala replied with that grin returning to her face.

"We know of all the people in the outer lying towns. The Crows and I, the perks of a bird eyes view. No one notices a crow in their yard or on the corner of the street. But the Crows, who just as old as I, notice all things." Koala finished explaining as she motioned the two towards the boulder near the creek.

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The three crows flew from their perch and behind the boulder, mysteriously disappearing, when you would think they would have came out on the other side. Koala following behind the three crows, gesturing for the two to follow. Darcy immediately started following behind while Jeac who was still pondering how a bear, that could talk, could really live for centuries, as if the bears age was the only thing not making sense. As the two hurried behind Koala, they saw where the crows had disappeared to, the boulder which looked like a single stone, had an opening on the backside, leading into a dimly lit cave. The low yellowish glow seemed to be radiating outwards from no observable source, illuminating a deep, long cavern. The two followed closely behind, still wondering what they were doing following a talking bear and three birds into a cave hidden in the woods in the most peculiar spot off the side of a road that has not had much traffic or care for decades. They seemed to have a silent trust with the animals they just met, even though they were being lead down into a cave by talking birds and a talking bear, who only introduced themselves and didn't explain where they were going. Now as the group wandered down into the cave and the entrance began winding out of sight.

"Our apologies about the tire." Koala stated with a now echoing voice inside of the cave.

"The tire, that wasn't your fault, that was just because a bird flew and almost hit our windshield and I swerved to..." Jeac begin to reply as he slowly realized.

"Was that one of you three crows?" Jeac asked a little frustrated about the wreck and tire popping, now.

"Yes, as I was explaining, We are sorry about the tire, but we wanted to share our secret with the humans and over time we came to agree about sharing this secret with Her." Koala explained looking over towards Darcy as they finally came near towards the source of the light.

The group, Darcy, Jeac, Koala, and the three crows came to an opening at the end of the tunnel, to a den that was filled with crystals of all different colors; purple, blue, green, red, orange, and mostly yellow, that we're all glowing and at the center of the room was a perfectly cube shaped rock with a book, a goblet filled with a glowing blue liquid, and a flower in the center, standing about three and a half feet tall with a single bushel of the most beautifully lit purple grapes draping beneath the single flower which resemble a tulip. As they entered the room, Koala once again rose to her hind legs.

"Now this den is a sacred place, that deserves the most utmost respect. This room contains three keys to understanding our secret, a secret nobody knows." Koala explained to Darcy and Jeac as the crows flew around and landed, each, on a different color crystal.

"Yes, but what is this secret, you haven't explained why we should have followed you into the cave in the first place." Darcy asked a little more curious now.

"This secret, that nobody knows, is the secret to magic, eternal life, and the powers of the mind, that haven't been known by humans since the beginning of your human civilization. After the time when men went from foragers to farming, towns to cities, from outside in, their species turning their backs on nature as if it were unnatural and slowly forgetting the ways of life as it began, generation after generation understanding less and less, while understanding more and more of their productive lives in their own outside inside societies. That life has an intrinsic value for immortality and magic permeates the endless soul. The powers of the mind are limitless overcoming the material physical body." Koala began explaining the secret of magic in a priest like manner while gesturing towards the stone table in the middle of the room.

"Are you saying that humans forgot about a drink that could make us live forever and some grapes that will make us magic? Jeac asked sarcastically as if humans would remember something like this.

"Those are not grapes and that liquid isn't a drink." Koala replied looking towards Jeac.

"The liquid you dip your hands in before you read the book, this book contains the knowledge that all use to know, entrusted to us by the humans that wrote this book long ago, when men still lived amongst the others. And the grapes are actually plasma fruit, a fruit which grew all over the Earth and were nearly destroyed to extinction by the humans that started modern day society, they are a fruit that helps the mind while reading the book. This book contains a secret that nobody knows, a secret of magic and how to grow." Koala continued explaining.

"Why did you want to share the secret with me?" Darcy asked Koala.

"Why did you want to share your bread with these crows?" Koala asked.

Darcy owned a small bakery on the Main Street in the middle of downtown Prance, a small town in Southern France. Darcy liked to bake all kinds of pastries and breads, and sometimes around lunch when there were a few birds outside eating the scraps customers had dropped, she would bring the birds some of their new types of breads to see if they would like these exotic breads of new recipes from the regular bread, she would normally throw out. She thought the birds outside, chirping and singing gave to the atmosphere and overall customer experience.

"Men wrote this book and we've been waiting to share it with humans, but it had to be some that would believe, we have tried sharing with humans before but for the humans we tried sharing with last time, this knowledge became a greed and source of power they tried to use to against their own kind." Koala explained.

"I think we humans would remember a group of humans that tried to use magic to overthrow society, we keep a detailed history." Jeac explained questioned.

"As you will come to understand magic gives you the power of the mind, memories can be erased, if need be. Objects can be moved, time can slowed or stopped, and life can be seeded at the mere thought." Koala responded.

"Now what you do with knowledge is up to you. But if you break the sacred trust of living respect the power will cease. As last time we tried sharing with this group of men, only three, and these three men returned to their homes and tried using the power to gain ultimate control of their fellow men, after breaking the sacred trust of living respect, these men lost their knowledge from the book and their abilities of the mind and came back here with guns. They tried stealing the book to regain the knowledge, we, the three Crows and I had to erase their memories and leave the secret unknown, this was many centuries ago. Now soak your hands in the water as you eat a single plasma fruit. When you are done chewing the fruit, you can read the book." Koala explained as the three Crows flew out of the den and back towards the entrance, and Koala followed.

Darcy looked towards Jeac and them the two each grabbed a fruit and started to eat. They soaked their hands in the glowing blue cup of liquid, and whilst doing so came to understand that the liquid was water from the creek, and had a blue crystal dipped into the cup, the fruit grew from the seed of a tulip that had been enchanted by the purple crystal, the book was meant to be read with the glow of the yellow crystal, the green, red, and orange crystals were meant for other purposes beyond what they were currently made aware. Now after they both finished eating and soaking their hands, Darcy took ahold of the book and began to flip the pages for her and Jeac to read.

The first page started out:

To retain the knowledge once learned, from the living respect we have earned, we enlightened men inscribed the knowledge for generations past. The living respect given is earned and the knowledge shared is the knowledge learned. The powers of life and mind are the magics of space and time. To know the meaning is to understand, that we exist as more than man. The force that permeates the endless expanse is only divided by each living occupant. To reach beyond our physical state we must project what we radiate.

At the bottom half of the page there was an aerial image of a tree stump, the center core was solid and the rings were wavey lines of almost perfect circles around it.

The following pages:

For the abilities of magics & living respects, one must first understand the world within which we live. The natural observation of Earth and the Heavens, the Celestial Spheres and their Motions, the states of matter and their interactions and their retentions. Second one must understand the physical body within which one resides. That the body is merely a home that keeps the brain alive, and that the brain is the vessel which the soul resides. To understand these better in depth, one must take a green crystal and dip it into the water of the creek nearby, then one submerses oneself into the creek, and the Earth herself will imbue one with the natural understanding of the body. To understand the world within which we live, one must take the orange crystal, placed upon this rock that guards the entrance to the cave on the night of a full moon and look towards the moon through the orange refracted light. This will imbue the understanding of the world within which we live. The red crystal is to be used after the green and orange crystal, the red crystal you place in the light green grass that grows around the entrance of each cave and lie in the grass next to the crystal during a rain storm, lie still in the green grass with one hand one on the red crystal and after the transformation the storm will pass and the eternal life of living respect will be understood.

The Remaining pages contained diagrams of celestial motions along the ecliptic and diagrams of the body with different understandings attached. There were also maps of different locations to find other caves with crystals and texts, the natural way to seed the plasma fruit with the mind, and the abilities one could learn and how to use them.

After finishing reading the last page with the maps of the other caves around the Earth, the Three Crows flew back into the room, only now the crows looked slightly different, the crows looked a little more majestic and personified than before. Koala came back into the room and looked towards Jeac and Darcy.

“Darcy, would you like to pick a green crystal?” Koala asked smiling as she motioned over to the section with the green crystals.

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Darcy walked over to the green crystals, after eyeing the crystals she picked one and followed Koala out of the cave. Jeac followed close behind Darcy, while the Three Crows stayed in the cave. As the three, Darcy, Jeac, and Koala made their way up to the surface and towards the creek. As they walked towards the creek, the sun was setting behind the tree line, making the wooded area glow with a vivid orange tint to all that the light touched. Darcy dipped the green crystal into the creek’s water and Darcy and Jeac, fully clothed entered the creek and submersed themselves. As the two swam in the creek, which was deeper than the water appeared. The water turned a little greenish blue and a greenish tinted foggy mist covered the surface and their heads. After a few minutes of swimming the two had the complete understanding of the body, the natural functions and the full potential of what was possible for the body to become. The two walked out of the creek and looked towards Koala, there remained a silence of understanding between the group as the enlightenment process began, a mutual understanding of what was expected. The three walked back into the boulder and down into the cave. As they entered back into the den the Sun had set and the moon began to rise. The three walked into the den and Darcy, silently, walked over to the section with the orange crystals and after scanning the crystals, she picked one near the top of the section, and then Koala without saying a word started to lead the two back towards the surface. By the time they reached the entrance of the cave, the moon was completely above the horizon, when it appears the biggest in the night sky and was shining through an opening in the trees. Darcy placed the orange crystal at the top of the boulder, and herself and Jeac walked around to the other side of the boulder, standing in-between the boulder and creek and stared into the orange light. Through the prism of the crystal, many images began to show, motion of the celestial spheres and the size of the universe compared to the size of the individual being. And after the moon’s light had completely passed through the opening in the trees and the beam of orange light disappeared, a loud thundering sound reverberated through the wooded area. The three went back into the cave and Darcy again went over to the crystals, this time picking a red crystal. They made their way back to the surface, while the rain began. Now the two placed the red crystal on the ground and laid down on each side of the crystal with one hand touching the crystal, not knowing what to expect from this, the two laid there anxious to find out what they would learn from the red crystal, as the book explained what they would learn from the green and orange crystal. With the rain beating down on their faces, they had their eyes closed until the rain stopped.

“Darce, you look like a child again!!” Jeac exclaimed with a subtle excitement as he jumped up to look at his reflection in the river.

The rain storm and the red crystal had made both of them look like they were ten again. Being rejuvenated back to their childish selves.

“What you do with Knowledge is up to you, as long as you do not break the sacred trust of living respect.” Koala repeated again as the two giggled like little children.

“It was nice to finally meet the two of you and the Three Crows and I consider you both friends, feel free to come back and visit as often as you would like.” Koala explained as she slowly walked back into the cave, this time to go to sleep for the night.

“Goodbye, it was very nice to meet all of you. We will definitely come back and visit you four.” Darcy replied as Jeac and herself began back up the path towards the road.

Jeac and Darcy headed back down the road towards their car, which they had completely forgotten about. When they got back to their car, Jeac grabbed the key and cranked it, the made a grinding noise, because the car had been left running. Now with the car out of gas, the two decided that it would be best to walk home. Given the fact that they looked like children and probably would raise questions driving. They locked the car and began to walk alongside the road towards their home in their little town of Prance. As Darcy and Jeac finally made it to their street, they walked down the sidewalk to a little French Victorian style cottage with terracotta roofing and white stucco siding with little windows that had little grey shutters. They turned in for the night, the next morning when they woke up, Jeac had breakfast ready.

“Darce, I was thinking that I should call into work and head up there anyways. Just to see.” Jeac explained as he brought crepes over to the nicely set table.

“That sounds like a wonderful idea, I think I’ll go and check on the bakery as well.” Darcy responded as she drowned her crepes in syrup.

“What about the car, Jeac?” Darcy asked after they finished breakfast.

“I’m sure it will be fine, that roads looks like nobody had driven on it, in years. We should probably go get it later, when it is a little darker outside, wouldn’t want to be seen driving it.” Jeac explained as he found his phone to call work.

The two set off, Darcy to her Bakery and Jeac to the school where he taught, he figured that he could blend in with the other children and see it from their perspective. While Darcy wanted to go and make sure everything was fine at the bakery. Both wanted to test out their new abilities the magics had given them.

Upon arriving to the bakery Darcy walked in and forgetting the way she looked tried to walk into the kitchen, where her store manager yelled at her.

“Employees only. Sorry little girl.” The Store Manager explained smiling.

Darcy a little frustrated at being told that she wasn’t allowed into the kitchen of the bakery she owned. Decided to pretend to be a customer and went and bought a crumpet, trying to make sure she wasn’t noticed. She bought her crumpet and decided to have a little fun with her new magics. She looked around the shop and saw the display case with an assortment of pastries they sold, she stared at the stack of crepes and started to make the crepes overheat and explode inside the case. Using her telekinetic abilities to excite the atoms at the molecular level of the crepes causing them to heat and the yeast to rise.

“Fas Pas!!” Yelled the Store Manager as she jumped from the crepes exploding.

Just as the crepes exploded a chef walked out from the kitchen, that Darcy wasn’t allowed to go into, carrying a tray of freshly baked loaves of bread. Darcy made them levitate just barely above the tray, causing the chef to lose balance of the tray and drop the tray with all the bread loaves still floating there in the air, for a second. Once Darcy realized he dropped the tray she launched the loaves outwards like an explosion with French bread loaves flying all over the bakery. One landing on a table with some customers, enjoying some muffins and coffee.

“Compliments of the Chef.” Darcy yelled across the bakery, giggling at the mess she just made.

After finishing her crumpet, she decided that she probably shouldn’t make any more problems here, after all it was her bakery. As she left she mentally seeded some pretty flowers in the soil outside and smiled as she walked down the sidewalk wondering what Jeac was doing.

“Excuse me young man, what are you doing wandering the halls?Where are you suppose to be right now?” The Principal, Jeac’s boss, asked as the other kids hurried into their classrooms.

“Mr. Shamos’ class.” Jeac answered, thinking that would be the safest place, because it was his class. Not realizing at the time that he had a substitute teacher that day.

Now the Principal escorted Jeac to Mr. Shamos’ classroom, because students were not allowed in the halls between classes. As soon as they arrived to the classroom door, Jeac remembered that he was not teaching the class that day.

“Mr. Frencelli, I have a student I found wandering the halls. His name is…” The Principal began.

“What is your name, son?” The Principal asked Jeac.

“Jeac S…, Jeac Subjeti.” Jeac replied almost saying his real name.

“Jeac Subjeti, Mr. Frencelli. Does this student belong in your class?” The Principal asked.

“No Sir, I took role twice and everyone is already present.” Mr. Frencelli answered.

The Principal took Jeac down to his office and had he sit in the waiting room, while he had the secretary look up Jeac Subjeti’s schedule. Jeac knowing they were not going to find his schedule decided to try and make a little distraction and escape. He looked over at the filing cabinets, thinking he would open the ones in the back room, He tried to focus his energy radiating from his body like he learned in the creek about the human’s natural electromagnetic field that could be intensified with the Earth’s magnetic field. He focused really hard, visualizing what he wanted to happened and then the filing cabinet’s drawers came rushing outwards, launching the drawers across the room, crashing into the door. The Secretary shrieked and jumped up to see what was happening in the Principals’ office. Jeac took off immediately down the hall and headed for an exit near the front entrance. Jeac, nervous, took off out the front doors of the school and decided to hide in the woods outside near the sidewalk, hoping not to get caught, knowing if the Principal couldn’t figure out what class he belong to, the cops and maybe CPS might get involved.

Darcy meanwhile was walking down Main Street of her little town, with all the shops and boutiques, came across a little shop, she usually did not pay much attention to. A holistic and magic shop, she decided to go in and look around. The shop was busier than she would have originally thought. While she was looking around she started making some the items other customers were looking at glow. While one customer was looking at an amethyst stone, she made a small white lily bloom in the middle of it. The lady shrieked and bought it immediately. A gentlemen was staring at some of the old artworks on the wall, with magical and majestic landscapes, Darcy changed the night sky of the painting to images she had seen from the orange crystal while the man was staring at the paintings, The man fainted and another customer rushed over.

“Call an ambulance, this man is sick.” A lady screamed to the store clerk.

Darcy decided that it was time to leave the shop, she decided to head back to the house and texted Jeac to see where he was and how his adventure of their new life was going.

[How is it going for you Dear? Having as much fun as me?] The text Jeac received, stated.

[Probably not Darce, right after first period Mr. Hickder (the principal) caught me in the hallway and might have called the authorities. Was hiding outside in the trees near the sidewalk, then decided to head home.] The text Darcy received, stated.

[Where are you now?] a second text Darcy received, asked.

[Main Street heading home, I blew up a few pastries at the bakery and then sent a man to the hospital and thought that I might stop playing around. (lol he fainted, nothing serious)] The text Jeac received, stated.

After Darcy arrived home, they made lunch and ate it outside in the back patio. They took turns growing flowers and rearranging the back yard with their new abilities. Playfully undoing what rearrangements the other just did.

“So do you think you will be able to see over the steering wheel when we bring the car home?” Darcy jokingly asked Jeac.

“We should head over there before sunset and say hi to Koala and the Three Crows, before grabbing the car.” Jeac replied ignoring Darcy’s joke.

Darcy and Jeac set off to the street just outside of town lost to time, Jeac carrying a small gas can he had in the garage, with enough gas to get the car home. The two walk down the side walk, Darcy growing flowers randomly as they went. Telling each other about their day, mostly Darcy talking, for Jeac’s day was not as exciting as he hoped. They arrived to the street, the car still parked along the side of the road, they filled up the gas, put the can in the trunk and headed back up to Koala’s spot near the creek.

“Good Evening Darcy, Hello Jeac.” Koala said as soon as the pair reached the path towards the creek.

“Good Evening.” Darcy replied.

“How are the two of you adapting to your new abilities.” Koala asked as they headed towards the cave entrance.

“Well we are not carrying any guns with us.” Darcy replied jokingly.

“Yes, that is a good sign.” Koala responded as they entered the cave.

Darcy and Jeac each told Koala and the Three Crows about their little adventures that morning. Darcy smiling while explaining the things she found funny. As Jeac was explaining his day, Koala interrupted him.

“Remember, if you need to protect yourself and the secret nobody knows, you can always erase the memories of those who do not yet know.” Koala replied as she had been guarding this secret for centuries.

Darcy and Jeac stayed for a few hours talking with Koala until the sun set and then parted their ways and decided that it was dark enough to drive back home. They got in the car and started driving home. They made it almost all the way home when a group of bats started attacking their car.

[Whack, a loud sound as a bat hit the windshield]

“Crikeys!! What was that?” Jeac yelled as he tried to stay on the road, barely able to see over the steering wheel as it was.

“I think that was a bat.” Darcy relied a little startled quivering in her voice.

“If that was a bat, why isn’t there any blood.” Jeac asked pointing to the large shattered spot in the passenger side of the windshield.

The bats continued to attack the car until they reached the edge of town, and suddenly stopped. Darcy and Jeac made it home and hid the car in the garage. The two were happy they made it home without any problems from the local authorities. But were concerned with what was attacking their car. After all, if they just made friends with a talking bear and three intelligent crows, why bats would be attacking their car just outside of town. Bats after all were not native to the area. The next morning the two woke up to a crow shrieking outside their bedroom window. Darcy got up and went outside to see why the Crow was out there shrieking.

“Good Morning Crow.” Darcy said as she walked outside to see what the Crow was shrieking about.

The Crow, silently without making any sounds talked to Darcy telepathically. Imagining the words or visualizations the Crow wanted to communicate and radiating these thoughts to Darcy. Explaining that there was a problem outside of town and Koala wanted them to come back and talk with her about this. Answering the Crow telepathically, Darcy let the Crow know that her and Jeac would head over there immediately, but would take them a little while because they would have to walk. The Crow nodded and flew off back to their little nest in the woods.

“Jeac, the Crow wants us to come back to the woods and talk to Koala, there is something she wants to warn us about.” Darcy explained as she started getting dressed.

As they wandered up the deserted street and made it to the path that leads down to the creek, Koala was standing there, waiting for the two as usually was coming to be expected.

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“Good Morning Darcy, Hello Jeac.” Koala greeted the pair as they walked down towards the hidden cavern,

“Good Morning Koala.” Darcy replied.

“What is it that you wanted to warn us about.”Jeac asked a little interestedly.

“Well as the secret goes back through the ages of time and no one knows this secret of mine. When a new soul learns the truth an enemy rises from the soot. This enemy, a friend and foe, will test the enlightened on how they know. Many things will ensue, until the soul is proven true.” Koala began explaining in her priest like manner.

“Now this enemy, friend and foe, will follow you wherever you go. Creating problems that will persist, from anger to zany, down the list.” Koala finished explaining her mystically phrased passage.

They made it down back into the den and Koala motioned them over to the stone table which now was home to a single silver crystal glowing and radiating.

“This silver crystal will show the nature of the new foe, for as all things manifested into the universe there is a balance. When a new member learns the secret no one knows, the balance is shifted and it releases a fundamental being that will follow the secret bearers and try to reveal the secrets that no one knows. A mischievous force of a being that will try to make your new abilities known to the point of breaking the sacred trust of living respect, to restore the balance of what you learned, and the force could return to the soot burned.” Koala finished explaining to the two as she motioned for them to grab a handful of ash from each of goblets on either side of the silver crystal and simultaneously dust the crystal with it.

After dusting the crystals with the ash, Darcy and Jeac looked at each a little concerned with what they just saw.

“Remember what you do with knowledge is up to you. But I will advise you to keep our secrets, is the safest route.” Koala began explaining.

“If we wanted to we could tell others about the magics, what about the cave and the creek?” Darcy asked.

“Yes you can share the secrets with whomever you like. But only share with those you trust. You can show friends you trust the cave, the Three Crows and I are more than capable of protecting this place, with have done it for centuries. Remember there are many defenses you can use, many abilities the green crystal showed you.” Koala explained.

“Like telekinetic projections?” Jeac asked.

“No, yes that will help, but that is not a defensive ability. Memory wipes, astral cloaks, illusory distractions. The green crystal showed you, towards the end of the enlightenment process the defensive abilities, using your mind to extract recent memories from enemies, projecting cloaks or images around yourself and manifesting the illusion of objects to help guard yourselves.” Koala explained.

Later that evening, Darcy and Jeac talked about their plans and wondered what kind of battles they would be experiencing, Koala didn’t explain anything definitely. They decided that they would go back to their jobs and take back their old lives using astral cloaks, the ability to project light of the image of their adult selves to the other humans around them.

The next morning Darcy arrives at the bakery, still a little pretend mad about not being let into the kitchen, walks straight into the kitchen. The baker was next to the mixing machine making that mornings fresh batch of dough, still being childish, made the dough start expanding and globs of arm like protrusions starting crawling out of the mixer and on to the floor. Darcy, smiling walked through the kitchen and into the office where she began doing her normal office work. The Store Manager was out front setting up the display case. After going over a couple of the bakery’s financial paperwork, Darcy got bored, started drawing little kid style pictures of the creek and cave. Decided that she was going to go out front and help set up the shop. As customers started coming into the shop, the flower pots in the windows started to glow vibrantly, the pastries started pulsating deliciously in the case. A few customers were sitting at a table enjoying their morning coffee, conversations, and a jelly filled crumpets. The Jelly started oozing out of one of the crumpets and started to make it’s way across the table to the other crumpet. Unnoticed by the patrons, until that first bite. When all of the sudden, the light fixture exploded and fireflies poured into the room. The fireflies started swarming the customers and lit up their pastries with all their blinking lights. The customers panicking started to head to the door, Darcy with her quick thinking, dimmed the remaining lights, and levitated all the fireflies to the ceiling away from the customers and their food.

Meanwhile, Jeac was back at his podium teaching his class about animal biology, straying from time to time from his normal syllabus to new understandings he learned were possible. One of his students threw a paper air plane and hit another student in the back of the head, the class started laughing and instead of lecturing the students, Jeac joined in laughing. As soon as the entire class was laughing, including Jeac the should be responsible adult. Birds started pummeling the windows, smacking straight into the glass, not cracking the reinforced windows or injuring themselves, bees started flying in the bookshelf at the back of the room, some buzzing, some auzzing, and some cuzzing. The class, stopped laughing, now a little concerned and frightened, started hiding under their desk. The loud thundering echoes of the birds smacking into the windows echoing across the room and the symphony of the different alphabetic buzzes of the bees that flew out from the bookshelf. The classroom in complete chaos now, Jeac using his telekinetic abilities opens the windows to let the bees outside, and using his elemental abilities to create a strong wind rushing out of the classroom to carry the bees with it and prevent the birds from flying into the room. The kids, with their panicked state now forgotten, started throwing their homework into the air and watching their pages fly out the window with the bees. Jeac too, joined in and started throwing his lecture pages out the windows.

Darcy, before meeting Koala, would usually stay at the bakery until Jeac was about done with his class, so they could meet up at the house around the same time. So as it goes being back to their new normal lives, set off to the house around the same time. Walking home as they were, Jeac ran into Darcy a few streets from their house and arriving at the house together to find there were little dirt mud creatures running around the front yard and on the roof of the house, making a mess and eating all of the flowers in the flower beds. There were creatures of fire running along the branches of their magnolia tree in their front lawn. Darcy and Jeac looked towards each other, and with telepathic understanding, Jeac cloaked the dirt creatures and the fire creatures from the neighbors who were a little concerned, and Darcy using her elemental ability created a small rain storm to put out the fire creatures and wash the dirt creatures back into the ground. After Darcy washed away the creatures from the yard, a couple of dirt creatures ran down the street towards the neighbors that were watching, frightened the neighbors screamed and Jeac made a gust of wind that blew the dirt creatures into dust and blasted the terrified neighbors with sand. The neighbors were astounded in disbelief with what they saw. After trying to explain to the neighbors that what they saw was a mini dust storm and reason with them, Darcy extracted a few memories. And the couple went into the house, now relieved, and just sat there for awhile, before started dinner, which they cooked telekinetically from the comfort of their living room couch.

After dinner and telepathically telling each other about their day, they decided they would take a walk down to the park together, watch the sunset and maybe grow a few flowers and a single tree together. Now as they neared the park the two noticed a glowing shadow radiating from the tree line towards the back of the park. Keeping alert they began down the path in the park and they started to grow flowers here and there, looking for a spot to grow there tree away from the other people, cause a tree is a lot more noticeable than a few flowers here and there. Then what appear to be hundreds of house cats coming from the trees started stampeding across the park in every direction, now these weren’t just normal house cats, some grew bigger the size of tigers and lions while still looking like house cats, the small ones roared ferociously like lions while the bigger ones meowed like house cats. The bigger cats just ran around avoiding the other people, but the smaller cats started chasing people with the roar of a lion coming from their little bodies. Darcy and Jeac took off towards the end of the park where all the cats were coming from, projected a bunch of illusory mice, some small and some large, and had the cats chase them back into the woods away from the humans. Now once inside the woods Darcy grew a bunch of catnip along the edge of the forest to keep them busy if they turned around.

A few days later towards the weekend, when Jeac didn’t have any classes and Darcy, well she owned the Bakery so only had to be there when she felt like it. Decided that they were going to go back to the creek and hang out with Koala and the Three Crows and spend the night over there and enjoy their new friends company. Late Friday afternoon, just before sunset the two walk up the deserted street and just as they reached the path.

“Good Afternoon Darcy, Hello Jeac.” Koala responded with that smile from when they first met.

“Good Afternoon Koala.” Darcy replied.

After that nothing more was to be said.

[Ending Narrative for Credit Scene]

Koala and The Three Crows, keep a secret nobody knows. Except their new friends Darcy and Jeac, and the will to explain they lack. This Secret nobody knows, of the magics and how to grow. To protect the sacred trust, of living respect or turn to rust with regret.

The Respect given is the Respect earned, with crystal in hand focus on what you learned.

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