Her Hero {Legacies}

Muscle Memory - Part 2

Three knocks on the door indicated to Hope that Josie had returned, leading the auburn haired girl to quickly let her in whilst checking no one was looking their way.

"Thank you Josie" Hope thanked the brunette, "We can't take him down to the kitchen so this is a real help"

Taking a cloth she carefully picked up the cup of steaming hot cocoa before passing it to Mike. Upon smelling the hot beverage, Mike grinned and downed the entire thing again.

"Woah" Josie laughed, "Someone likes hot cocoa"

"You're telling me" Hope grumbled. Taking one of the pastries Josie had brought Hope held it out to Mike.

Head tilt.

Sighing Hope took a bite and swallowed before handing it to Mike again who started copying her. After his first bite his eyes went wide and he quickly demolished the pastry before looking longingly at the plate on the edge of the bed.

Picking it up, Josie handed it to him, smiling softly as she did, "Here"

He grinned like a lunatic and started eating pastries like there was no tomorrow.

"Quick learner" Josie summarised what she had just seen, "Almost straight up imitation"

"That's what I thought, but he only sees a part of what we do. At some point he has instincts that take over" Hope offered her theory,

Josie nodded slowly, "What like... muscle memory?"

"That's one way to describe it" Hope agreed, "But to have muscle memory..."

"You have to have actual messages first which means that something took his" Josie finished for her. When greeted with an astounded look, Josie shrugged, "What, I'm acing biology"

"So what the hell happened to his memories?" Hope sighed, "And can we get them back?"

"Hope there's still more to this than you're telling me" Josie sighed, "Because nobody would do this to just a normal guy"

Groaning, hope threw the paper ball at Mike. It stopped midair in between his eyes.

"Is that you doing that?" Josie asked,

Hope shook her hands, "He has power, but no magic. He is more powerful than anything I've met"

Josie lay her hand on Mike's arm and it began to glow red. But Josie shook her head, "I'm trying to siphon from him, but nothings happening"

Mike lay his hand over Josie's. Then it started glowing red as well.

"Woah" Hope exclaimed, yanking Josie back, "Did he just..."

"He siphoned me" Josie gasped, "That's not possible"

Hope calmed down Mike, who had been getting more and more agitated by the duo, "He can replicate any magical ability"

"We need to tell Mom. I don't care if it gets you in trouble" Josie stated,

And for once Hope agreed.

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"So you're telling me, that after my strict instruction not to tell anybody. You not only tell my daughter, but then proceed to show her everything he can do!" Caroline yelled,

"Mom- " Josie tried to cut her off, but Caroline was having none of it,

"I will get to you in a minute" She snapped, shutting Josie up, "Hope do you know how irresponsible this was? We don't know who can sense his abilities. That branded one probably followed him. You could have lead the rest of them right here!"

Hope looked at her feet in shame. That hadn't crossed her mind.

"However" Caroline sighed, "This replication ability is something that we definitely needed to know. From this moment on, do not perform any dangerous spells around him"

They both nodded, "Mom, I wanna help try and get his memories back"

"We don't even know if he has memories Jo" Caroline argued,

"He does" Hope supported Josie, "He's got some levels of muscle memory which can only form from actual memories"

"He's also the most powerful being we've encountered in years, we don't want to return his memories and it turns out he's satan incarnate" Caroline shot back, "So we find out who he is before we even think about returning his memories, understood?" 

Both girls nodded, still slightly defeated, 

"Have we had any luck on that?" Hope asked, 

Caroline shook her head, "Rick is still hitting the books, but we've heard nothing yet" 

"Great" Hope sighed, 

A scream caught everyone's attention. In a flash Caroline had sped to the origin. Hope and Josie following as fast as they can. The scene they discovered turned their blood cold, a squad of branded ones were marching towards the school, axes in their hands, 

"Get Mike" Hope ordered Josie as she ran at the burned ones, grabbing a pipe that was lay on the floor. She leapt into combat, spinning the pipe expertly. 

The first Branded one approached her, Axe coming down in an arc over it's head. Hope spun around him, but unlike last time, She took it's legs out using the pipe instead of her magic. This time the Branded one fell to the ground with a thud. Grabbing the fallen axe, Hope turned and threw it at the next closest enemy. It got lodged in the ugly beings chest. But it only forced him back  a step. So leaping off of the ground Hope smashed the pipe into his stomach. 

Again he doubled over slightly, but then stood up again and growled, "Give us the sword" 

"Yeah I get it" Hope snarled back. 

The backhand of the Branded one came around and struck her. Sending her flying to the floor. 

The next thing Hope saw, was an axe swinging towards her head.