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CHAPTER ONE

I glared up at my mother, "You may have given birth to me but you will never own me!" I snarled at her. She grinned showing her rotting teeth proof of her using dark magic. "I wouldn't be too sure of that, child." She hissed, before she plunged her black dagger like poisoned nails into my chest. I couldn't hold back the scream of pain as the dark magic flew through my veins calling to the Shade in my blood and trying to eliminate the Elf blood that also ran through my veins. I don't know how long I screamed for however when I came to my voice was gone as was my mother. I was curled up into a small ball on the floor by waist length brown hair matted with my sweat and blood and dirt, *It's a good thing I didn't have anything to eat or things would be a lot worse.* I thought with bitter resignation of what was my life. I closed my eyes and tried to get some sleep, I never knew when she would come and start up her torture again. I was awoken to what sounded like a small animal calling for help, seeing that I was alone I decided to try and find the source of the noise. I could always use something to eat if it was killed and I would love the knowledge of helping something escape their fate if it was still alive. When I did find the source of the noise I was surprised to find a small creature, one of its legs ripped off with its back up against one of the caves many walls, snarling in defiance at a larger creature that was trying to kill it.

I saved the small creature by killing the bigger one with a single quick blow breaking its spine and with a quick twist, I snapped its neck. The small creature continued to growl and snap although I was now its target. I stared at the small creature in wonder. *You just won't back down will you little one….I should be more like you.* I thought as I watched the small thing as it watched me. Finally I decided to try something I had never attempted before, I was going to try and use magic. I wasn't sure what to do at first, my mother only ever used dark magic and that was usually only to torture me or one of her other 'guests' that she had chained up in come of the many cave's that were scattered around the twisted pathways of the place that I had been brought up in. I sat down in front of the small creature crossing my legs and making myself comfortable. Easily ignoring the dead larger creature that lay right beside me I took a deep breath in through my nose and let it out through my mouth slowly. I continued doing this until I felt a small gentle nudge in the back of my head, it felt warm and I reached towards it mentally. A world of color and beauty filled my head, smells and sights I could never have dreamed of appeared before me. Whispers started slowly one syllable being dragged out for what seemed like minutes before a new one was added. Soon however the whispers started to speed up then slowly grow louder. I was afraid at first not being able to see what was talking to me, but soon I realized that it was the tree's that were talking to me, they taught me ancient knowledge from the beginning of time in a language that I had never heard before but I instinctively understood. I don't know how long I stayed like that soaking up all the wisdom I was being given before I remembered the small creature, a wolf pup as I now knew it was called. *How can I heal the pup?* I asked the tree's, there was a silence then a different voice answered me in yet a different language.

I turned around trying to find the source of the new voice and was surprised when I saw what seemed to be a soft white light that floated over the surface of a stream. I couldn't understand the language and I started to grow frustrated at my inability. All the sudden I snapped out of my dream state and found myself back inside the dark cavern underground, the only place I knew, the wolf pup was almost completely still it's eyes were glazing over. "No you can't die!" I shouted at the pup I reached for it desperately trying to think of a way to heal it when I remembered the words that the white light had spoken. Hoping that those were the words I needed I gathered the pup close to my chest and whispered the words. "With the warmth of the sun, the healing properties of water, and the magic of the earth, I call upon the power gathered to heal the wounded." I felt something deep inside me shift then sudden warmth flooded my body followed by a golden light that wrapped around the pup, then an intense pain that sent me into darkness. When I next awoke the wolf pup was no longer in my arms and the carcass of the mountain lion I had killed had its stomach ripped open and the entrails were gone. I lay there in the darkness of the cave and mulled over everything that had happened. From the moment I had heard the wolf pup's calls to the moment I had spoken those strange words. My eyes widened and I reached up to touch my throat, "I spoke. I'm speaking! I can talk again!" I exclaimed with joy. Usually it took several days for my voice to recover after I lost it, "Wait how long has it been?" I muttered to myself, flinching at the thought of what my mother would do if she found me where I was and if she ever discovered what I had done. I felt my whole body tremble as memory after memory of the torture that she had put me through physically and mentally up till this point, but my trembling worsened as I sadly and fearfully acknowledged the fact that what she would do to me would be much worse than anything she had done up till now.

A sound caused me to look up in surprise and I was startled to find myself looking at the wolf pup that I had tried to save. "You're alive huh little one?" I said happy that I had managed to save its life even though my body was protesting at my every movement. "Yes your golden magic saved me." I heard the words and I felt my mouth fall open in surprise it took me a few minutes to recover, "You can talk?!" I blurted out in surprise and confusion, worried that I was finally losing my mind. "You can understand my thoughts?" The wolf pup questioned sounding as surprised as I felt. I learned that he had been out with an adult wolf from his pack when they had been attacked by that mountain lion the pup had ran away and the mountain lion had given chase. The pup had been sure he was going to die when I came out of no-where and killed the mountain lion, then after a few minutes of sitting with my eyes shut and he had almost died a golden light covered him and when he woke up he was being held against my chest and he had a new leg. He had left trying to find his way out but unable to find the exit he had came back and ate some of the mountain lion before trying to find the exit again. Not finding it again he had come back and I was awake. "Wait so this has all happened in one day?" I questioned the pup in surprise and confusion. "Is this really possible? All of this happened in one day?" I mentally wondered the pup just sat quietly and then asked me to lead him to the exit. I was surprised out of my mental mussing, " I would pup, but I don't know where the exit is, this entire cave and all adjacent cavern's are controlled by my mother and her dark magic, the pathways shift constantly to prevent people from being able to leave. I have lived here for as long as I can remember and I have never seen the outside world, or a creature such as yourself or the mountain lion that was attacking you until today." I told the pup honestly. "Tell you what, stay here with me and I promise every time I can I will search for a way out of here and when I find it I will take you with me." I said. The pup thought it over for a while, I stayed quiet and let the pup think my offer over, "Very well, I have no other choice. My mother called me Chas what is your name?" The pup asked. I had to think for a moment, mother very rarely called me by my name unless she was using a dark spell that required the use of my name in order to bind me. "My name is Nia. Nia Whisper Silversnow, I will do my best to get us out of here Chas." I said.

I am not sure how long has passed since Chas came into my life, however I have successfully managed to keep my mother from finding out about him and I have finally found a way out of this place. "Chas I have finally found it! I know the way out of here!" I happily sent out mentally. We had found that we could hear each other's thoughts, I had found out in one of my many dream states that the magic I had used had tied our minds together which was an extremely dangerous thing to do since if he was killed I would be in danger of dying from the shock of his death. I had also learned many things about the world, magical and non-magical. I shook myself out of my thoughts and called mentally for Chas again. When he didn't reply I begin to search for him and to my horror I found him pinned down on the cave floor with my mother standing over him holding a dagger. "NO!" I screamed and without a thought of the consequences I used my magic, creating a spear of lighting and throwing it at my mother sending her flying off of Chas and into the cave wall. "Oh, what's this? Using magic against your mother? And white magic to, what a disgraceful child! You need put in your place." My mother snarled saliva and blood flying out of her mouth as she spoke. She muttered a dark spell to heal her left side where the lightning had created a hole then she stood up. I kept half my attention on her as I used magic to unlock the chains that were pinning Chas to the cave floor. He was unconscious and bleeding from several cuts all over his body. "Oh no, what has she done to you?" I whispered, making sure not to say his name, if she had his name she would have control over him. All the sudden I felt a chill rush down my spine and going on instincts alone I jumped using air magic to sending me flying up towards the roof, flipping over mid-air to see what I was running from. My eyes opened wider then I thought possible as I saw what had been coming towards me. It was half a dozen Ra'zac's made up what I guessed to be the parts of long dead 'guest's' that my mother had used for her own pleasure. I gulped and whispered a silent spell of protection around Chas, I knew I was going to have to conserve my magic since it wore down my energy but I needed to be sure Chas would be safe no matter what the outcome.

I fought as best I could but I knew that I would need to use magic to destroy the Ra'zac's and my energy was already getting dangerously low. I felt something rip my back open as I used a light spell to forever destroy the Ra'zac in front of me. I screamed in pain as I felt the skin on my back open even wider, however I kept fighting and finally the cave room was empty except for my mother, me and Chas who was slowly regaining his consciousness. My protective spell on him was weakening and I knew it was only a matter of time before it completely disappeared. "Nia what's happening?" Chas asked, I let my mind open to him, however that was the chance my mother was waiting for. She attacked full force using her dark magic to break my protective barrier around Chas and using our mental connection to bring us both to our knees. I felt a fear that I had never known well up within me as I watched my mother plunge her hand towards Chas chest and rip out his heart. I screamed in pain as I felt his pain my mother laughed as she held his heart in her blood covered hands. She looked at me and with a smile filled with evil she spoke, "Don't be sad, daughter. I will make you one with the wolf that you loved so much!" With that she started to place a dark curse upon me, I didn't react to her or the words that she was now chanting as I stared at the dead body of my only friend. I felt something within me break and I watched numbly as my mother grabbed a goblet. I didn't flinch as she cut open my wrist and filled the goblet with my blood, nor did I move as she continued the spell however as I saw her raise a dagger to plunge into the Chas's heart I twitched.And my rage and fear collided as one as I called out words in a tongue I had never heard before but that felt like I had always known. "I call upon the darkness from within, the fire of hatred that burns eternally, I call upon the light of all that is beloved, I call upon the magic of the unknown may you gather and destroy the Shade named Roshina Lorna Silversnow! Plunge her into the very darkness that she calls upon to do her evil, take away her power and let her rot in the pits of her own creation!" I felt a power rumble out from somewhere deep within me, my mother had halted in midair and turned towards me Chas heart slipping out of her hand and into the goblet filled with my blood, the dagger fell out of her other hand and pierced Chas heart and the goblet itself. "Nnnooo, NOOOOO!" My mother screamed reaching both hands that were still dripping with Chas blood towards me but it was too late for her. The spell took effect and she disappeared, sucked into a spinning black pit that had appeared out of no-where and left the same way. I fell to the ground, all my strength was gone and as my eyes shut I reached out towards Chas's corpse, "Please don't leave me Chas." I whispered before I fainted.

When I awoke I found several things had changed, one being that the cave which had always seemed huge and endless was much smaller then I remembered and I could smell fresh air coming in from somewhere. Another change was that Chas's body was nowhere to be found nor was the goblet and dagger that my mother had been using in her curse. A third change was all my senses were heightened to a very high degree and I could hear birds chirping. I followed my ears and nose and found myself staring out at a beautiful and colorful world that I had only ever seen in my dream state and even that didn't compare to seeing the real thing. I felt the grass beneath my feet for the first time and I went no further. I collapsed onto the earth and just breathed taking everything in. After the sun had went down and the moon and star's lit up the night sky I finally stood and after destroying the cave that held my darkest memories I followed the sound of splashing. After I came upon the river I hesitated, I had seen myself once and I wasn't sure I ever wanted to see myself again. However I wanted to clean myself for the first time, I wanted to wash away everything that had to do with my past so I closed my eyes and waded into the slow moving river. I sat down and after taking a deep breath I laid down under the water making sure my eyes were closed as tightly as I could shut them I used my magic and caused the water to scrub me clean all over. When I was finally done I shot upward my eyes flying open as did my mouth. I gulped in the air my starving lungs called for and after a moment of just breathing I looked down and found myself staring at a very familiar and yet different reflection. My waist length brown hair was gone my head was now covered in a soft black fuzz of re-growing hair but what really freaked me out was the fact that there were two wolf ears on-top of my head. I reached up and touched them, they were real. I froze in shock at that revelation before looking at my reflection again. My once brown eyes were now a light purple with dark golden flecks, my skin that had never seen the sun to my surprise was a golden-brown color. My finger-nails were sharp and longer then I remembered them to be, the same with my toe-nails, I ran my tongue over my teeth and found two of my teeth to be sharper than the rest. Then I heard a light splash behind me and something wrapped itself around my waist. I sat frozen for several minutes before glancing down without moving my head and I almost blacked out from shock. It was a black tail, I slowly reached behind me following the tail and sure enough it was connected to the base of my spine right above my butt. I scrambled out of the water and up a nearby tree where I sat scared and in shock. This was just too much for me to take in all at once. "Maybe the tree's will be able to explain this to me." I thought hopefully before trying to settle into a dream state. However the new smells and my hearing and everything was just too much for me to handle and I ended up falling asleep.

When I awoke the sun was up in the middle of the sky and for the rest of the day I simply sat in the tree and watched and listened and smelled everything. When my empty stomach finally convinced me to feed it I was hesitant to actually take the life of any of the creatures that I could see. They all looked to beautiful to eat, then I remembered fruit and I begin to search for some. I found some after awhile and I ate until my stomach stopped complaining then I settled into another tree and once again tried to get into a dream state. It took me several days before I was able to get into a dream state but when I did I learned that the reason for my new appearance and appendages was because the curse my mother had put on me had been messed up and my whispered plea in magic had changed it a bit so I had become part wolf. I learned many things and as more time passed I learned how to make clothes and everything else I needed. I stayed away from anything that wasn't an animal though for several reasons. One being that the tree's told me that my appearance would scare anyone I came in contact with, another reason was I had no self-confidence and I didn't really know how to interact with another person. I did learn from the trees about my parents and the two different heritages's that I had. I also learned that I was 112 years old although I only looked like a ten year old human. Over the next years I grew stronger in magic and in body and mind I taught myself how to swordfight and shoot a bow and arrow, I also created several weapons myself. And I found myself straying closer and closer to human villages, if I could I would help out from the shadows but I never stayed near one town longer than two years. In the year I turned 336 I looked like a 26 year old human girl although my body was strong and although I wasn't all muscle I could do a lot of damage without magic or my weapon's. My black hair had never grown past the tops of my shoulders since that day. I wore a hood to hide my black wolf ears although I could flatten my wolf ears down and they blended in with my hair it was easier to just use a hood. I also wore black pants and a sleeveless black top as well as a black robe, I wore a pair of black leather boots I had created as well. I kept my tail wrapped around my waist like a black fur belt when I was in a town. "The years sure have changed me." I muttered to myself as I took a swig of alcohol from the large mug that I had just paid for. I always managed to gain stares and get gossiped about mainly because of my all black clothes, some people thought I was 'with the king' whatever that meant. However being a girl that wore pants also caused a lot of stares and whispers. I had learned long ago not to let the whispers and stares get at me although sometimes it was easier than others. After I finished with the drink I left and walked into the forest, it soon grew dark but my eye-sight remained perfect and I continued on. All of the sudden the ground in front of me shock and for a second I saw fire and then there was a golden color stone lying on the ground in front of me. I searched the forest around me using all of my senses' and magic as well but I found myself alone except for a few animals here and there. I cautiously walked towards the golden stone when I heard a soft thumping like a heartbeat. I felt my ear's twitch and swivel around searching for the source. To my amazement I found the source to be the golden stone, "No egg." I corrected myself as I reached for what I was now sure was an egg. I hesitated for a brief second on if I should leave it or take it with me. My curiosity won out over my caution and I used my robe to wrap the egg up in and hold it close to my heart keeping it warm as I continue my trek farther into the forest.