The Silver Lining
Summary: Thrown into the world of Arthur and his knights along with two deadly threats with blood ties to her, Sophia goes from Romania 1887 to Briton 467 AD and finds herself is the deepest trouble she's ever been in and no way to get home.
Rating: Rated T-M for violence, supernatural/strong themes and later chapters.
Genre: Drama/Romance/Supernatural.
Author's Note: I'm back! Don't remember me? Awwww, it's okay I wrote An Enemy's Daughter, Captured Hearts and All That I'm Living For among a ton of other fiction under the penname to do with SAXON in it, but it changed constantly. And with a few really good ideas for the King Arthur fandom. It has been like two years and my writing has improved immensely since I left. I lost a ton of my King Arthur writing. To which I am not happy about at all as many were good but just needed improving, so... with that said, I will be having a few stories pop up a lot in a next few weeks King Arthur related and I hope you enjoy them.
Anyway first story to get on a roll back on here and I'd love feedback gang, its always appreciated. Chapter 1 ain't too long, but the next one will be a good long one, I promise.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything other than Sophia and the other characters not recognizable from King Arthur. Sophia and co are based very loosely off Van Helsing characters at points.
Chapter I
The clouded hills of Romania were infamous among its people for being home to some of the worlds most feared and strangest of creatures. The small villages that were scattered far across the lands were small, barely a population of two hundred at most, but that is the way the people liked it. Living among themselves they kept the secrets of the old days safe from the world outside of them. In the small village of Transylvania a castle was built close to the cliff face and overlooked the small farming town almost in the sense of a parent safe guarding its child as it played among others.
The castle itself was old; it belonged to the Valerioius family line. Gypsy kings and queens who were said to have family secrets that would terrify even the purest blooded of men. The last of the line were only children, a brother and two sisters who lived to protect their heritage and the people from darkness, if only things were that simple though.
Amongst the shadows of a long line, a tragedy occurred prior to the birth of the three children to Michkel Valerioius. His grandfather's first born son was cursed, cursed to live a life of immortality. Of course, it all sounds fun, until they realised how he would have to sustain his immortality and strength. Drinking the blood of living beings.
Michkel, with his three children not more than fifteen, twelve and ten respectively could not let his children be faced with killing their own blood, did so himself. He lost his life to protect the thousands that would have been killed at the hands of his own kin.
The death of Michkel and this creature however saw a secret bargain being revealed that no one would know of until people began to be attacked by an unknown creature in the night. Four long years passed by and the children of the Valerioius line grew, trained and fought to defend the innocent.
They lived upon the vow to defend and fight to aid those who couldn't protect themselves, to fight for causes that were not their own.
However, when the youngest child, Sophia, was only fourteen a terrible accident occurred. The eldest children, Zachariah and Clara had found the creature in which they had been hunting since the death of their father.
One bite, one scratch from the beast would cause a human to become one of them. It was how they increased their numbers, but only certain few could take such an attack and become one of them. Zachariah and Clara were two such people...
In the next six years that followed, Zachariah and Clara became what they had always hunted; werewolves. Sophia encountered them on numerous occasions but she always managed to avoid being injured and avoid killing them. Warrior she may be, but sister she was also and her heart would not allow her to kill her older siblings no matter how many times she was reminded that they were no longer her family.
And that is where this tale begins, not too long after Sophia turned twenty years old, on the day that would change her whole life...
Sophia stood up against the thick wooden pole that had been placed in the center of the forest clearing, her hands crossed above her head as she looked around at the trees and shrub, trying to see the things that she was baiting herself for. Her heart beat rapidly in her chest as she let out probably her ten deep breath within the span of thirty seconds. Leaning her head back against the pole, she tried her best to calm her nerves, she had baited herself many times before, but never with the intention to stay longer than a chance to shoot one of them. This time was different.
A twig snapped to her right and she turned deep brown eyes in the direction that the sound came from, her heart speeding up as she tried to find the thing that was stalking her like prey through the thick shrub. A growl turned her attention to directly in front of her and she felt her fear spike suddenly before she remembered why she was doing this, telling herself that she wasn't allowed to run or save anyone should they fall. For the six years of innocents who have been killed at the hands of her siblings, for the people who may in future be targeted by them. For her family, to put an end to the shame that had they had been burdened with over the years. To end the curses that had been place upon their house.
"Come on you two, I'm not running this time," she said as a challenge to the beasts that were out there, watching her, her voice thickly accented.
The growl came again and Sophia focused in on a certain part of the shrub in which she was sure that it came from and her eyes widened as the moment the creature became visible to her sight it jumped out and charged at her like lightning. She managed to dive out of the way and when the beast ran into the pole she'd been against, the ground before it dropped away and it fell as a cage came up out of the ground, capturing the creature.
The villagers appeared out of their hiding places, armed with guns and other weapons and Sophia spun round from where she was watching the cage when someone screamed. Her heart leapt into her throat, she had gathered that the other wouldn't be far from the other, but hadn't realised that it would attack. The man it had just killed was tossed across the clearing like he barely weighed anything to it and Sophia gasped at the size of the creature. It jumped upon the cage, clawing at it, trying to break the metal. Sophia called out for the villagers to kill it. Shots were fired and as she drew her sword, ready to fight, the ropes holding the cage suddenly snapped at the weight of both creatures and Sophia shouted for everyone to run as the cage hit the crowd and broke open. She turned and took off running down one of the narrow paths trying to find her way through the trees.
Snarls and thudding made her look over her shoulder as her breathing became labored and short as she tried to gain speed and get away from the two of beasts. The feel of hot breath on her neck, made heart tighten in fear when she realised they would catch her, she wouldn't get away from them this time round.
A bright burst of light blinded her suddenly, causing her to trip over her own feet and just avoid the claws that would've grabbed at her flesh.
As she hit the ground her head collided with a boulder that suddenly appeared, knocking her unconscious...