Clementina - S05 E24

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Clementina - S05 E24

Read Story: SEASON 5 EPISODE 24

Portal of the One only worked one way. You said they couldn't see or detect us until we stepped through, but we could see them. What happened?"

"That sigil you found in the attic. I don't remember ever seeing it before. I don't know what it does."

"Was there anything in any of the journals about it?" I asked the twins.

"We weren't looking for anything about sigils," Athena said. "I guess it's back to the books." She nodded to her sister, Demeter, and the two curvy goth twins headed down the front corridor leading back to the house.

I glared at Bathory, then at Makala and Alura.

"We've been following everything you guys say, bringing about freakish changes to our bodies, taking dangerous chances with unknown creatures. But now, when we are reaching the end of this freak show you throw us this curve?"

The three cave spirits all frowned and looked down almost in unison, then Bathory spoke up.

"I have never seen that sigil before, I don't think it is from our timeline"

"Then where did it come from?" I asked.

"I am guessing some other timeline, and it somehow found its way here."

"How?"

"I don't know."

I swore. "Do we even know that the Sigil of the One is on the other side of that portal?"

"Oh, it is," said Jenna. "Is that what you seek? can take you right to it right now. I am the dark queen, the Nazi freaks do what tell them now that I'm creating their little dark phallite army for them."

"I don't think they are going to do what you say anymore, now that your dark queen markings are fading," Clementina pointed out.

"We can get body paint," I said. "We can paint them back on, think that's the least of our worries. I'm more worried about what else these three got wrong." I glared at the three cave spirits.

I was angry, no denying it. I needed to calm down, I stormed out of the nexus, through the barn, and outside, leaving Clementina to deal with her time-traveling brethren. walked up the hill to the ring of trees we had planted to remember my father and the other people who had died at the hands of Ona's dark queen.

I sat down on a rock in the center of the ring and put my head in my hands. What if everything we had been doing up to this point was wrong? What if the cave spirits were misguided? What if all these physical changes that had been wrought on my body were all in vain? And what about my mother? Or Clementina? Or the others? And not to mention Olympia, Athena, and Demeter...I was the one who had recruited them.

I wanted to cry.

The snap of a twig behind me made me turn. My mother was approaching. She sat down in the grass at my feet and looked up at me.

"Are you having second thoughts?" she asked.

I nodded. "You?"

She looked off int the distance.

"Actually, no," she said after a moment. "I think there are some unexpected twists, but no, I have having no second thoughts. This will work out, I promise." She put her hand on my knee.

"I wish could have your faith," said.

Something twinkled in her eye. "You can have faith that I have faith, that's enough."

She climbed to her feet and hugged me..

"It will be okay," she said. "Want to go for a swim and relax?"

"You go ahead," I said. "I just need a little more time to myself."

My mother nodded and sauntered down the hill to the pool. I looked up at the sky. I wanted to have faith that what my mother said was true, but I just wasn't sure. I slipped off the stone and lay down on the grass in the shade of the trees. I must have drifted off, because the next thing I knew I was waking up with the goth twins, Olympia, Clementina, and my mother standing over me. Alura and Makala were hovering in the background.

"Wake up," Athena said. "We've got something from the journals."

"Okay, shoot." I said.

"The sigil was found at the bottom of Alura's main well, the one in the room with the tentacle labia statue. Some other things were found there as well. In fact, the journal speculates that there is some kind of a portal at the bottom of that well that connects to some other place and time."

"There is definitely something odd about the bottom of that main well," Alura said. "I usually don't go all the way to the bottom, I branch off on the side tunnels where my rooms are."

"So does the journal give any idea of where it might go?" I asked.

"No...but..." Demeter started, but Makala interrupted.

"You should only be able to open one portal at a time in any given place," she said.

"So...what does that mean?" I asked.

"It means that the portal at the bottom of Alura's well regardless of where it may have pointed in the past should now point to the reality where the Sigil of the One is."

"So now we have two portals to the Sigil of the One. Does that change the metrics at all? Can we take extra people with us when we go?"

"Doubtful, but I don't know."

"Okay, so let me try to sum this up. We now have two portals, and a former dark queen who can lead us straight to the Sigil of the One. What's stopping us from going tomorrow and getting this done right away?"

Silence greeted my question, so I continued.

"I choose Jerina, Olympia, and Makala to come through the portal with me, Clementina, and my mom. Tomorrow we paint Jenna up like the dark queen, then we go through, grab the sigil, and come back. Easy peasy. Any debate?"