This is my first LOK fan fic, but i really think it has potential so please R&R btw {} these mean VO.

"You cannot destroy me Kain; I am the engine of life itself. The Wheel will turn! The plague of your kind will be purged from this world! And on that inevitable day, your retched, stagnant soul will finally be mine!"

"In the mean time, you'd best burrow deep."

{Now at last, the masks had fallen away. The strings of the puppets had become visible and the hands of the prime mover exposed. Most ironic of all, was the last gift Raziel had given me. More powerful than the sword that now held his soul, more acute even than the vision his sacrifice had accorded me. The first, bitter taste of that terrible illusion; Hope.}

{Hope. It did not seem like much, but Raziel had given me a feeling I had never bestowed upon him. Hope. It was but a word; so fragile, and yet to someone who had never hoped before it was like a flower; so common among the people, but oft used by the ignorant, the foolish and the desperate. }

"

"Which am I?" {I asked the Blade. It remained silent. I however already knew the answer to that particular phrase; "Desperate"}

{But...what exactly am I desperate about? The world is full of rhetorical questions these days. The Pillars need to be restored. Janos must live. And most important of all: Raziel MUST be freed.}

{I was now more aware of Raziel's presence more than ever before, now that his soul was imprisoned within the Sword he was destined to wield. History abhors a Paradox.}

{The Blade was still silent as the world around me. In this era I had just turned down the chance I had to sacrifice my own life to save the world.}

"Save the world" {I mocked this phrase for even in my ignorance I had made the right choice. To take the life of the last Vampire in Nosgoth would be to Damn the Pillars and this world in any matter.}

{Humans are not competent to serve.}

{If there are no Vampires then the Human guardians cannot be turned to receive the Dark Gift. And as Humans guard the Pillars....They Decay. and the results of that were lying across the Lake of Tears,}

{The smoking ruins of the Pillars.}

{Myself in this era was now seeking a way to turn others, for I had been gifted with the Heart of Darkness, and could not turn only but the dead. I sought Vorador's Head. I would re-unite it with his body and he would create for me an army of Vampires for which I would lead to Meridian to destroy The Sarafan.}

{But my mind should not be dwelling on things that long ago have happened, for that tale ends with loss.}

[....Kain...] came a voice out of nowhere.

"If that is you, Parasite, I will hear nothing!"

[Kain look at your Weapon]

"Raziel?! How is this possible?"

[I have no idea. I do "See" you though]

Kain looked at his sword and saw part of his son's face as if reflected in the Blade.

"Raziel how is it that you are still alive?"

[I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my will is still just as strong as it was. Though the freedom that was once mine, is now no longer with me.....But with you.

"Raziel I must release you!"

[Don't bother; this destiny was pre-written for me. We KNOW that Kain! We've already tried to re-write that fact]

"This cant be the way...." Kain trailed off.

Kain put his Weapon away and walked back to the Citadel. He walked down the spiraling staircase, wondering how to fulfill both of his destinies as did Raziel... His task was over.

He had fulfilled first his duty as the Vampire Champion to wield the Reaver and set things in motion as to keep the Hylden banished. Raziel in this instance was the Redeemer.

However Raziel's dual nature Raziel was both Redeemer and Destroyer.

In his re-making, Raziel became In likeness of a Hylden, and in bearing the Wraith Blade, instead of the physical Reaver, it became a flaming sword, like the one the Hylden Champion would bear.

In being the Destroyer, Raziel had, though not by his own will, undid everything that he was trying to do to save the Vampire Race and even killed The Scion of Balance, Kain.

Kain now traversed the immense fortress, set on by the occational demon or Revenant or even Hylden. Searching for some clue as to why his own fate and how to fulfill first his duty as Scion of Balance and banish the Hylden by creating a new Vampire race and second; as Balance Guardian and restore balance to Nosgoth by purifying or re-making the Pillars.

Nothing in this derelict place could be of any use Kain realized, because the Ancients' prophesies had all been wrong or misinterpreted by the very Vampires who made them. They were now dead; save one; Janos Audron, who was even now possessed by the very demon who he exiled at the Binding.

Vorador had to be the key, he was the apprentice of Janos, but he was now dead; killed by Moebius' mob. He could not wait for his younger self to find his head and resurrect him.

[Do you have any idea what your doing?]

"Vorador…is the key."

[That beast is dead.]

"So time is not of the essence"

[So you seek the ancient vampire in ancient times, didn't we already learn our lesson last time we meddled with time]

"Time is a fickle law Raziel; and Time is not part of the plan…yet."

[So what is the plan, oh Benevolent One?] Raziel asked mockingly

"Trust me Raziel, there is a method to my madness."

Kain then went back up the winding, broken paths and stairs back to the tower.

"Oh and Raziel" Kain said as he pulled out his eldest son's Eternal Prison and cast the Reaver spell. "Things did in fact change!" a ghostly image of Raziel was cast from the Blade. He started to take form; and now he solidifies. A Spirit Trail went from the Blade to the closest part of Raziel from the Blade.

"Kain, how…is this even possible?"

"Maybe History isn't as hateful of a Paradox as we tend to believe."

Raziel then was forced back into the Blade by Kain, who immediately changed into Bat form and traveled to the Termagant Forest Swamp.

Please R&R