Celeste stopped and seemed to forget her own sorrows for the moment. "H-hello?" She called out, slowly headed in the direction of the crying.

"Is someone there?"

"He'll be alright" spoke someone off to the side, who Celeste had certainly not noticed a moment ago. His skin was dark and his hair fell in red dreadlocks. If he was trying to be cool it was failing with the sunglasses after dark thing, though there seemed to be something in his hands, something he was... petting?
"Someone's going to find him soon" spoke the man, "the child, that is."

Celeste took a step back, strange man in the park, late at night. But there was something familiar about him. Was it his voice? Had she heard it somewhere before?

"Were you... Were you the one crying?" She asked after a moment unsure of this stranger.

The child's crying echoed again through the park but then disappeared, leaving the young man just to smile at Celeste, "Well... sort of." he replied, "but that gets a little complicated. Anyway, I believe this little guy belongs to you" he offered the ball of fur toward Celeste though of course, his direction was just a little bit off, "he's been quite helpful to me, thank you for letting me borrow him."

Celeste flinched backward when he smiled. Her legs were ready to flee and she was more than willing to let them take over when...

Me-Celeste-ow

Celeste looked around, startled by the voice that seemed to be coming from nowhere but then she felt her chest began to glow.

"What-What's going on-"

I've been looking for you Ceres-chan for so long The same pinkish glow came from the stranger's hand and the little kitten hopped down and approached her. The world seemed to fade away into a dream like landscape. It later would remind Celeste of one of her animes. Don't be afraid. You don't have to be alone anymore.


She knelt down, this cat... it was so familiar. A circle of light formed under her as she started at the creature before her. "Are you... my familiar?" She asked

It almost seemed like the kitten smiled up at her. "I would have been here sooner but it wasn't time yet for me to appear before you"

Celeste's hand trembled as she ran it along the kitten's body before picking him up. "We thought...I..."

No more tears. We are one and the same. For so long you have been a bird without it's wings... now let me be those wings. The kitten said, growing to true form which was much larger than the average man. Celeste, from now till the end I will be yours.

"So it is written... So let it be done." Celeste said, saying the words that would complete the bond. A large beam of pink light shot high into the sky. When the light faded, Celeste was passed out, asleep, the large cat curled around her. "Columbus..." She mumbled.

The cat looked up and nodded to Horatio, a thank you.

Horatio just smiled a little and reached out his hand, finding Columbus' head he gave it a pat, "keep her safe" he asked, "especially in this park. She needs to stay away from the crying boy" or she might find herself tumbling and lost through time.

With that, Horatio sighed and disappeared, though not before taking a moment to stop time and give celeste a kiss on the forehead.

Columbus purred and licked his finger tips. He had been true to his word and a kind soul. Columbus would not forget that.

About a moment after Horatio left the Columbus heard a loud BAMF and a woman's voice.

"Celeste!"

Meow Columbus called out. Victoria appeared sword in hand but as soon as she saw the large cat she put it away.

"Thank the heavens..." She sighed.

"Vat happened?!" Kurt questioned, not really understanding why Victoria put her sword away with a giant feline there.

Victoria put a hand on Kurt, "It's alright. His her familiar."

She turned and slowly approached the large cat and knelt down. Columbus sniffed her out reached hand and began to purr. "So you managed to find us, Columbus. I am Victoria, Celeste's eldest sister and this is Kurt, a friend. We'll take it from here." She said patting the beast's head.

The large cat purred and reverted back to it's kitten size, running up to Kurt to sniff him and paw at his jeans. Victoria scooped Celeste up and onto her back.

"Well... Tonight has been rather eventful." Victoria smiled as Columbus ran around Kurt, pawing his jeans playfully.

Kurt chuckled, "das adorable!" He reached down to pet the cat, "shall we teleport back?"

"Yes, let's. She's gonna be out for a while. The bonding process does that." Victoria explained as Columbus hopped up onto Kurt's shoulder and rubbed his head against his.

((Columbus might be able to see Kurt's tail. Columbus: TAIL. TAIL... TAIL))

((Lol))

Kurt nodded and teleported them back, though he had to do them separately so as not to strain himself.

Victoria tucked Celeste into her bed and Columbus curled up beside her. She smiled and kissed Celeste's head. This was good. Now Celeste would be able to keep her powers from manifesting on their own.

Two down... two to go.

((So did Pietro find the little crying boy? Is that what Horatio was talking about?))

((Nope. Ciara has to find him, remember?))

((Right. Just wanted to know cause he was like "He'll be alright, someone will find him" I wasn't sure if he was talking about Little Horatio or Pietro))

((Little Horatio xD pietro will be fine))

((Its just sad cause Pietro isn't typically mad at Celeste. He's mad at his father for liking her more than him. Also, your line))

((Yeah... ))

Pietro went back home, straight to his room where the locked the door, put on his headphones and blared some music while he drew at the table.

June knocked on the door, "Pietro." She called, "Did you want a bedtime snack?" She held a tray, all the other boys had had one before she released them from their homework.

"And I raaaaaan, I ran so far awaaayyyyy" Pietro sung quietly, his music blaring in his ears so that he couldn't hear her.

June shrugged and placed the tray on the floor in front of this door and headed off to her room.

Sometimes around midnight the speedster got up for a snack, finding the tray made his search rather quick which let him get back to his sketches. Something about what Celeste had been wearing just seemed to burrow in his head and he'd begun drawing different things based on it.

((D'AW!))

When Pietro had opened the door, Brutus ran inside and hopped up onto his desk and pawed at some of the doodles, "Meow?"

"HEY!" Pietro exclaimed, shooing him off, "get away from those." he gathered them together, he really had to get an art book at some point, all these loose pages were hard to keep track of. He looked at the dress sketches again and frowned a little in thought, "... the hell am I doing?" he mumbled, crumpling them up and throwing them in the garbage. What sort of boy went around drawing pretty dresses?

Brutus lowered his ears and lowered himself to the desk submissively. After Pietro threw the pages out, a few mins later he felt a head butt on his ankle and the little kitten sat with one of his crumpled up balls of paper in front of him.

He pawed the drawing closer to Pietro and Meow softly, still in a rather submissive pose before the giant Speed master.