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Here I was again, on the same tree from years ago. On the fateful day where I ran into my old friends and we all became a close-knit family. Before one died, one killed them self, one betrayed, one lost control, and one went missing. Such a loss it was for the one who went missing. The one who could live longer than them, the one who hadn't ever seen them as a family before today. Funny how the one who went missing is here now, waiting for them all to somehow gather around here again, just like old times. Very stupid this so-called person must be to think that history would repeat itself for a second, maybe third or fourth time without there being a problem.

I sat at the bottom of the big tree that had once had all of us family members sit at with pride, not knowing what or if it would all repeat. The same mistakes and the same fate or would we all be together and live this one time, because no one needed us. I tried to imagine a world full of happiness for all of us this time around but couldn't see past the few seconds that would happen. I held onto the chains in the ground and watched as they grew bigger and black. I couldn't leave the ground I was bound to. I couldn't leave the fact that I was now as weak as they would be.

I waited longer and longer till I was about to give up. The sun had set, and it made the slowly growing garden around it look like someone had washed it in blood. The flowers made me sick to look at, but the chains pulled me and held me down from doing more than just my magic. They held my body and they held me greatly to the ground. The ground that the people of my family was bound to. Where they died and where they walked, I never knew, but where they had been and what they had done was what I did know.

I hated how I was here deep into the night and still no sign of anyone. Maybe fate just didn't want me to take another day to breath. Or maybe this time it would be different. We were so close last time. The times before we each got closer. Maybe it was the wrong day, or the wrong time. I stood up and they fell lose, the shadows of night couldn't hold them anymore, but I still walked to the entry of the garden and looked at the lively arch above me. Flowers grew in the night around it, the vines becoming stronger and stronger. In the distance I heard laughter, tons of it. It was so dark out, the darkest night ever, I'd say.

"Watch were you're going!" A girl yelled. "This place is supposedly haunted at night."

"How would you know that? You never leave the house!" A boy pointed out to them in frustration.

"Oh, come on you two, don't be at each other right now. We're going to have fun tonight and see what haunted things are actually there." Another girl.

"Says you." A boy.

As the voices came at me, I knew the ancestors of each one of them. The twins, or the one with split personalities finally got two bodies. The old leader and the one thinker. The betrayer of us all. The one who lost control was nowhere to be heard. The chains tried to snap into place and keep me on the ground, but I took flight and let my wings spread for the first time in twenty years. I spread them as wide as they wanted to go. The kids were late, and they weren't the kids I was thinking about, I was thinking more like teens that I could fit in with. These kids sounded so young. I wasn't going to strip that youth from them. They needed to enjoy it. From under me a voice sounded.

"When did you all get so slow?" The confidence was of the boy's voice below. The one who lost control. The one who killed the twins, who made the other betray and one die. The one I killed and ran away from. He started it, I lost everything repeatedly because of his. I took a deep breath and flew higher till I was looking at the darkest part of the garden lit by their candle. I went to the tree and sat in it. They had taken their time getting here, I must say.

They made a camp like place and went to start a fire, taking the dead branches around the tree. I watched as they look them to be burnt. They didn't know, when could I tell them if not now?

"Hey, you do you remember this tree from somewhere?" The twins asked each other at the same time. They laughed.

"Are we supposed to?" Asked the other girl.

"Feels like it," they said and looked up at me, when their eyes connected with mine they flickered. Their eyes both green, with dark brown hair and strong stubborn bodies. They were the Twins of Mother Earth, who for some time had to once share a body.

"Who was that, what was that," they said looking at the group. "In the tree?" They laughed at the twins and when the twins looked up at me again, I stared ahead. "Maybe an owl." They mumbled.

The girl looked up then and looked at the twins. "She's still there!" She yelled at them. I looked down at her and the twins. The Brother Ocean's daughter. Blue eyes, and blond hair. Unmoving and a straight thinker, distractions were rare and few. Mistakes were common but mainly avoided. Her body built for living in the ocean.

They all looked at me, the twins and the girl. We all just looked at each other. Before the Sister Sky's son spoke.

"What are you doing up there girl?" He asked and I looked him over. The one who betrayed, who was shy. Golden eyes and yellow hair of the sun that he didn't understand. His body only fit for him, he could withstand most currents.

"Looking at you all." I answered at him. I didn't want to tell them yet, they were supposed to come back willingly not be thrown into it, why did they have to come so late? They all took a step back and my eyes went to the Fire Father. His red hair could always been seen in the dark, and his eyes glow the strange color of a reddish brown, and me. I looked at them as a whole. A family I wasn't ready to give up for the billionth time. Not for all of it, I jumped down. Landing still on my feet. They took a step back and watched me look at them.

"Do you wish to stay here the night or come with me to do as you were meant to?" I asked, I was always the one to break the silence. I had always had more to say then them anyways. Not like I wanted to break the silence though. Just then a light came out of no where and hit me in the face, a fire ball light. I backed up and went into the tree again. They brought parents? I looked toward the person who had sent it. Not a parent but not someone I was on good terms with.

"Leave them alone, you demon. You can't take them again. I hoped that you would have been long gone by now!" Shouted the priestess at me. The one that was immortal and lost as many as I have. The one who stayed in the village and new what could kill me, why send me on my way, if she could have killed? Maybe we're both so true of everyone dying.

"I see you haven't changed, m'lady." I said being polite. I looked at the kids and watched them look between the two of us. They didn't know anything and they were still so young. "My questions still stands. Do you wish to fulfill your destiny or no?" I looked at her and she knew that even I was getting sick of this. The reason for giving them the choice of their destiny this time was all I could offer them. If I went back empty handed the kings and queens wouldn't be pleased. The immortal knew this and giving them a choice was a risk that I put on myself.

The chains that bound me only lasted in the day. Which is how I was allowing them the choice this time, not like I had one though. The generation of family looked at us and then at the immortal. I knew who they picked. I took the hint and walked to the immortal. I gave her a look that she understood and took off.

I ran toward the night, I had to stay ahead of time now, and it meant that I had no time to lose chasing it. By the time they choice what they would want, it'd probably be to late. I'd be long gone. Looking at the other side of the world. I wouldn't return to the kings and the queens empty handed. I knew better. It wouldn't end well.

I took off running and let my wings come undone as I ran toward my new home. The darkness, were I was free. Being chained wasn't a thing I liked in the least anyways.