"Three Shapes of a Soul"

*Solveig*

I feel my mother anxious and excited but also confused. I think she doesn't know how to react to this situation because it took all of us by surprise. Dad is happy, and nothing else would change his mind, he is happier than any of us.

My brothers are a bit jealous but they are happy too, and I told them they are crazy for being like that. They want mothers only to themselves and they don't want a new child.

"Yet you have already found your mates, and soon you will begin your life on your own, then who is going to be left with me?" She said to them and they all shut up.

I smiled as Seth came to visit me earlier, we both have become really close, and we have just been together for a short time, nothing big has happened, but we are so good together, I am so happy when he is around. He left me to be with my mother, and I already miss him. But I am glad he respects me and gives me some privacy.

I am curious though; because I feel something strange around the Gods. I feel like they are hiding something, or they know something and they are not telling us. Perhaps I am just insecure.

'You are not, my sweet, dear daughter,' I hear my father's voice. 'I feel the same way... And I am going to address it to them soon... for now, they are with Aen and they are catching up on past events...'

'How are they catching up?' I ask a bit uncertain about what he means.

'Vampyrs transfer knowledge through blood, so he and his brother are feeding their God, both with knowledge and with energy... He will be able to even talk our language soon...' My father explains easily.

'That is going to help a lot because that is exactly what we need. To understand what is going on in their minds...' I say back.

He comes to me and we both watch mom sleep. 'She is the most beautiful creature in the universe to me...'

I tilt my head to look at him and smile as he has a dreamy look on his face. 'Dad, you are such a puddle of mush when it comes to mom.'

He laughs and ruffles my hair. 'What is wrong with being a puddle of mush for your loved one?'

I grin. 'I didn't say it was wrong, but it is cute... the mighty dragon that can't help himself to melt for his mate...'

My father smiles and shakes his head. 'For my mate and my children. You are also my treasure, one that I plan to defend to death... if I have to.'

I sigh and hug him. 'Don't talk like that, please... we need to come out of this one, there is so much more to live, I want to live!'

He holds me tightly. 'And that you will, I promise...'

We hold each other in silence, smiling both but deep down inside, both of us also think about the future and what lays ahead.

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*Caliope*

I sigh and lay in bed with Amra, and we both hold each other in silence. My mind can't stop calculating and thinking about what will happen next. I caress his arm as he holds me, and I shiver slightly remembering the fight he had to recover Solveig. Those creatures were something impossible to describe.

'Not all creatures have form and color... sometimes they are the absence of those things,' Amra answers my thoughts.

I nod and hold him, I don't want to think about it much, but our next fight might probably be the last.

He moves and sits on the bed, looking at me. "This is not going to be the last, although it might be the biggest. You have to understand that perfect balance, perfect peace, it is just not possible. In this world and any other. We are all made of confusion and doubts because that is what makes us all different and unique."

I smile at him and kiss him. My rock with wings. I am specifically proud of him including himself in the 'we' of his speech. I sigh and look at his eyes and ponder about our next actions. "I think I can do something... with the help of that child..."

Of course, he doesn't like the idea, even though he didn't hear it yet. "Let us do this, we will be able to help..."

I kiss him so I can interrupt him. I still have that power over him, to unfocus him and make him stop thinking when I kiss or touch him. "Just hear me out..." I tell him after our lips part. "I am part darkness, and I have managed to live with it for quite some time... that child, she seems to have amazing powers that amplify other's abilities."

He shakes his head. "You used your powers fully only once, and that almost took your life. I don't want to put your life in danger... or that child's life..."

I smile and caress his face. "We never tried to explore what it was... we never tried to understand it... but it is part of me, it is within me... and you have loved me nevertheless..."

"You are my Asteria, I could never... not love you," He adds and I smile.

"That is why it is time we use Lucifer to understand more about my powers, perhaps he knows about them more than we do..." I see him frown so I continue. "I have been the happiest soul in the universe for all this time, but I don't feel as complete as I should. It is like we used it to our advantage once, then hid it and never spoke about it again... but it is still a part of me..."

He sighs and closes his eyes. I know this is hard for him, but it was just something that has been eating me lately. The possibilities of us winning are amplified if we study this option, which will also help me become more complete.

I look at Amra again with a new thought. "Isn't it time for us to tell Meadow the truth?"

He shrugs; a very human thing to do. "It is not like we were lying to her, we just didn't know she didn't know. But I find it strange they didn't notice it yet."

I nod. "I agree, but it is evident they don't have any idea of it. We should tell her tonight."

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*Meadow*

I find myself walking more carefully now as if knowing that I am pregnant has made everything different. The truth is that I have been feeling strange for a while. To know it was because I was pregnant was just giving a reason to it. My hand rests on my belly, where a tiny bump shows. How did I not notice this?

'Because we were busy with a trans-dimensional war, that is why,' Caleb answers, and I chuckle. He wraps his arms around me and kisses my neck. I shiver and sigh.

'My heart will never stop skipping a beat or two when you do that...' As I send him back. So he kisses me again and I giggle.

A knock on the door brings my attention to something else. We didn't sense whoever was behind it. "Yes?"

"Your presence is requested in the main building," I hear the voice of Lucifer and I shiver.

"Lucifer...?" I ask.

"Yes?" She answers.

I walk to the door and open it. "Are you using some kind of power?"

She looks at me with a small confusion in her eyes, but then it changes. She nods. "Oh, sorry. I am expanding it to all around us. It is like a cloak of senseless power, it might affect many... I am trying to mask the intense power of all the creatures in here, to protect everyone..."

I relax some and Caleb comes to rest his arm around me and then looks at her. "Thank you, I know you are truly invested in protecting us, in protecting our son. Please let us know if you do things like this, so it doesn't take us by surprise."

She acknowledges this with a nod and walks away from us. I turn my head to look at Caleb and kiss his shoulder. 'So, we are requested to the main building... shall we?' He smiles and kisses my nose, making me giggle.

As we walk into the main hall and we see Caliope and Amra there, we smile at them and wave. They both greet us and then gesture us to sit with them. It comes to my surprise that it is only us there, no one else. I start to worry a bit.

"Thank you for joining us Meadow and Caleb, we really needed to have a few words with you," Caliope speaks first and I nod.

Both of us take a seat and watch them carefully. "I am sure you are curious, if not worried, about the reason why we have called you here," Amra says to us both.

"That is a fair statement, what is going on?" I ask.

Cali looks at Amra and smiles at him, so he takes a seat next to her and lets her speak. An interesting interaction. "It has come to our knowledge that you both are a unique and rare pair among your own species. We know the Dragon-Wolf, who is Caleb. And we know his power. But what has come to our attention is that you didn't know that you are also special, Meadow."

I blink a few times in surprise, but is Caleb who speaks instead of me. "She has always been special to me. But I am sure you don't mean it in that way."

I squeeze his hand and feel my heart beating fast. "Cali, can you explain a bit more?"

"Of course," She adds. "You are also a shapeshifter Meadow... though what animal, I don't know yet... but you have another creature in you..."

Both Caleb and I look at each other and then back at them. "I am what?"

Then Amra speaks. "It shouldn't be of a big surprise, after all, he created you. He made you. He transferred his essence to you to make you like him. You might be another dragon, or something else. But you are not just a wolf..."

The thoughts rush to my head; another creature in me, something more, something else aside from my wolf. Amra's words make sense, but how is it that I never felt that other animal in me? Why did I only feel my wolf? It doesn't make sense.

"Why did I never felt this?" Caleb asks.

"You have chosen your Wolf as a primary animal, so only her primary animal has awoken. We don't understand fully how it works, there can be many things involved in this, or perhaps nothing we might think about this could be wrong or right," Cali says.

"But we always saw it in your spirits. As angels, that is a gift we possess. I always saw you and your wolf and your dragon, Caleb... Not in shapes, but in spirited form. Three shapes of your soul." Amra adds.

Instinctively I rest my free hand on my belly. "Does that have anything to do with our baby?"

Cali shakes her head. "No, but it is how we realized you didn't know. Your soul also holds three shapes, and you need to awake that third shape in order to be complete."

I breathe a bit more relaxed after this, as my first thought went straight to my child, but soon enough, I feel doubts and questions. A third animal I haven't sensed before, I haven't ever felt before. Of course, it was possible, Caleb has two animals, he is a shapeshifter. That rare and almost extinct race. What could I be? What can it be? It seems that I need to have a talk with my wolf, and we both need to awake someone else.

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