243 Twins challenge

"Daddy we are not to interfere but to observe. Remember this is our test not yours. We cannot change their fate but we can maybe give them comfort. If we change something that is fated then we change our present. Let us go and you stay here. " Lilli looks at Lotus and they start to walk towards their grandparents. 

Lilli kneels beside her grandmother. 

"loosing a child must be a hard. I'm sorry that you lost him before you could meet him." Her grandparents look at them . They are surprised because they had not told anyone yet. Lilli takes her grandmother's hand and looks deeply into her eyes. Feeling her loss and pain. 

"You have three children at home who will grow up to make you very proud. One will become a military man and a Doctor . One will be a medicine woman and marry a musician. The other will travel the world and be a lawyer. You may have lost this child and may suffer other losses as well. Just remember that no one can bring a life into this world except for The Father. Only he can bless us with life. We do not know why this child was not meant to be but do not believe anyone when they say that they can bring your child back. " Lilli hugs her grandmother and looks at her grandfather. Wow he looks just like uncle Inola she thinks. 

Lotus smiles at her grandfather and holds out her hand. When he takes it he can see who she is. His eyes grow large and he starts to say something. Lotus places her finger over her mouth and shakes her head,asking him to be silent. They hear someone coming the two girls run back to their parents. It is a woman she looks around the same age as their grandmother. Her eyes are ice blue but everything else about her is nearly pure white. She has a black aura about her. The girls hold each other's hands tightly.  The woman speaks 

"Have you thought of what I asked ? Will you retrieve the crystal for me. I know that you want to make your wife happy and what does a long dead God need with it." The woman sneers. Astila's father stands and looks at her. 

"I will not forsake the gifts that I was given for a child not yet born. You will not get the crystal from me. " he stands and glares at the woman. His wife stands and holds onto him as if begging him. The woman sneers and starts to mover her hands . 

"If you will not get it then I will take your wife as well. You surely will not abandon her?" Astila's mother falls to the ground unable to breathe. His father looks like he is going to waver when Lilli comes out from behind the bush and yells. 

the woman laughs and turns towards her. 

" you are but a child what do you know? I will do as I please." The woman released Astila's mother but then grabbed his father's neck. 

Lotus joins her sister and they send an energy bolt towards the woman. Knocking her to the ground. She looks shocked and turns towards them. Fire comes from her hands as she walk towards the girls. Lotus smiles and drawing the energy from around her she sends the woman through the air. Lilli sends stones through the air to hit her. The woman blocks their attack and the clouds in the sky grow dark. As the fallen one gathers power. The girls remember what they learned at the cabin and draw from the four elements. The wind and dirt bing to swirl fiercely as they gather their power. Aisling starts to come from their hiding spot but Uktena stops her.

"they have to face her on their own. If they dont they will never have the confidence they need. " he sends the girls a boost of energy to help their spell. 

Lotus feels the added energy and sends herself into the air drawing the electrical energy from the clouds. Her hair has fallen to her waist and is blowing about. She yells at the fallen one. 

"You are nothing in the eyes of the father. You make claims you know you cannot do. You prey on the grieving to gain power that is not yours. It is time for you to return to the father for judgement. " sending a bolt of lightning she hits the woman sending her flying. The woman in desperation grabs Astila's father calling to the girls

"I will spare them but you must surrender your powers to me. You cannot win against me." Seeing the wind begin to die down thinking she is about to get her way. The woman smiles. 

Lotus and Lilli smile at each other Lilli tells the woman 

"you only know how to take and not give , you know nothing of live or honor. Our parents have taught us that no matter the circumstance we do not surrender our power to evil. That a persons fate is only in the hands of the father. So release him and go back quietly to the father maybe he will forgive you and give you another chance to make things right." The woman laughs 

"The father lives humans not us that is why we rebelled. I will not go back to him ." She 

pushes her hand into Astila's fathers chest and pulls his heart out, sending him to his death. Yelling at Astila's mother. 

"you weak woman you could not even control your man to get him to do your will. You are just a maggot feeding on rotting flesh. Here is your man worthless and dead. ." Lilli becomes enraged and fire leaps from her hands she takes off running and her flame filled hands punch the woman's chest setting her aflame. The woman begins to scream as she sees a golden light shine on the area. Screaming in fear and pain chains appear on her hands and feet, the earth opens and swallows her up. The Father has sent her to her punishment. This fallen one will not be given another chance to harm anyone. 

the girls look at their grandmother , Lilli holding her as she cries out in pain at seeing her husband laying there. Astila is heartbroken at seeing his fathers death but grateful that this time he did not give in to the fallen one. He sees his fathers spirit standing beside his mother. Astila's fathers spirit asks the father. 

" can you help her ? Take the memories of today away from her. Let her live in peace." The light shines around the spirit and Astila's father has past on. Astila's mother looks at the girls smiling as if nothing is wrong and asks them. 

" children where are your parents? Why are you out here alone?" Lilli knows now why her grandmother is trapped inside her own little world. She no longer is in the same world as they are. Feeling sorry for her Dad that they were not able to change anything from the past except to send the fallen one for judgement from the Father. Uktena comes out from to stand in front of the girls telling them . 

"you did well , you defeated the fallen one and saved your grandfather's soul.  He was fated to die this day nothing you would have done could have changed that. What you did change was your grandfather did not betray his powers and that allowed him to pass to the other side. Instead of your grandmother being punished with tormenting thoughts and trying to end her life. She is still trapped in her own world but not as punishment and when her mind can deal with her husband's death she could recover. Where as before there would be no hope of it. You passed without asking for help I am proud of you. " he places their bracelets on their wrists. Aisling and Astila comes out to congratulate them. Astila stops to say good bye to his father. Something he did not get to do before. He then kneels beside his mother. Hugging her. She whispers to him

"Someday I will return just not now?" She then loses consciousness. Uktena takes them back to the present. Where Crystal and Yanasi is waiting. 

a light shines in the pool what seems only a few moments from when they went in. Crystal stands and goes to greet them. Lotus and Lilli show her their bracelets and start to tell her about their adventure. Uktena takes Astila aside for a talk. 

"Thanks to them many people have been saved. Over the years the woman had caused many deaths , now those lives will be saved. They stopped a great evil . You and Aisling should be proud. " Uktena tells Astila. Astila looks at his daughters and smiles. 

"I am more than I can express, I just had hoped that my father and mother's circumstances could have been changed." Sighing he knows that if they had something precious could have been lost.