Blair Lehay stood alone at what the locals referred to as The Dells. It was a high cliff face curving around a beach below that was commonly filled with teens and loud music before moving out into a deep body of water. As she stood there she could sense the life forces of the people that resided in the nearby town of Ipswich. Even at such a distance Blair could sense the group of energies that stood out among the rest. It was easy enough for her to know that those energies belonged to the members of the Covenant whose possession of the Power helped them to easily stand out to anyone who could sense or feel the Power.
Blair sighed and stepped back away from the cliff the ragging water bellow causing a sense of unease deep within her. The time was beginning to draw near when everything would come to an end. Which way the path would lead even her abilities would not let her know. When the end finally came there would either be light and happiness or darkness and death.
It was her destiny to have come to Ipswich. Blair had become aware of that years ago. Even before she had realized that she was being pulled to Ipswich the course that had lead her there was already set. Unfortunately, that course had been filled with heartache and fear along the way.
There was reason for her to stop the darkness that haunted Ipswich. She had to break the curse that haunted her. She was unlike them and she had always thought it unfair that she had to bear the curse of what they had brought into being. Their darkness should have never been hers to bear. But, family could not be chosen, even family you hated with everything that you were. The evil they brought into her life had destroyed all the happiness and love she had once so easily thought was possible to possess and keep safe.
However, she had been wrong. Love, no matter how much you loved could not keep those you loved safe. She had been strong back then but had only been able to watch as one by one she lost anyone she had held dear. Even now as she looked out at the water she could remember the moment the car had hit the water and sunk into darkness. She remembered the agonizing feeling the water crushing down around her and stealing her breath. She could remember being pulled from the icy depths and the piercing pain in her heart when she was told her parents had not survived.
After that she had blamed herself for their deaths. She had been old enough to possess and use the Power her mother had always told her she was destined to possess. She was not like the males that inherited the Power. As a female her abilities were not as general but instead were honed to a more specific ability. Her Power was over the five elements of air, fire, earth, water and spirit. From a young age she had been able to use and skillfully control her powers especially the element of earth, finding enjoyment in helping flowers grow or to create small tremors to through of the balance of her . At times she would even mix the elements of earth and spirit in order to communicate with the animals that she so loved. She had even discovered that if she used a mixture of the elements with a strong concentration of the spirit element she could even heal, to certain extent. It also gave her a higher awareness for sensing and reading the energies surrounding her.
Despite her abilities with the elements, including the element of water, she had been unable to save her loved ones from their watery deaths. With an Power she could've saved them. She should've saved them. Instead she had let fear overcome her and in the end she alone had lived. She had loved her mother and the man that even at a young age she had always been aware was not her true father but had loved him as such. She loved them and yet she hadn't saved them.
The only family that she had left after the tragic accident had been her mother's sister. She had loved her aunt as well. And yet once again that love could not save her. The darkness that her mother and aunt had always warned her against soon found her. He come as she had been told her would. He who was nothing but evil. He who kept the curse she bared living on. The moment she first felt the evil within him she had recoiled in disgust and denied him what he wished of her, Power and partnership. When denied he had taken the life of the last person she had to love. Her aunt who possessed no Power of her own died and once again she had not been able to save her.
Blair could remember the feeling of being loved and loving in return. But now those feelings were buried deep inside within a memory of what once was. She had made friends, if she call them that. To be honest Blair could no longer remember the last time she had allowed herself to truly get close to another person. With the overhanging shadow of darkness that followed her she didn't want to risk losing another person she loved and so closed her heart off from others, protecting them as well as herself.
In Blair's mind all that was left to her was destroying the curse that had brought all the sorrow into her life. Destroying that darkness was all that mattered anymore. It was for that reason that she had come to Ipswich, the place where everything had begun and the place where everything would decided in the end. The curse that had been passed down to her through her god forsaken family was to bear but the true was not her's alone. Her brothers and sister that made up the Covenant of Silence were involved as well. Now that she had come into her full power it was for that reason that she had come to Ipswich, to seek them out and stand with them when the moment of the final confrontation came.
She could feel the darkness lurking nearby, watching her and waiting for his moment to strike and take what he wanted from her. To give him what he wanted would only mean her death and until an end was brought to him and his evil and the curse was broken she couldn't allow herself to be beaten. Whether she lived or died in the end didn't matter. When it was all over and her purpose was served perhaps she may start to forgive herself for what she hadn't been able to do and to live fully as she secretly wished to do. If died in the end she could die knowing it all over and that for not being able to save those she loved and had loved she deserved it and perhaps would meet them where ever death lead her.
The sound of the ragging waved echoed in Blair's ears reminding her of that day long ago. Sighing she turned away from cliff face and began to walk back toward the forest that lined the area around the Dells and the road that laid beyond it leading to Ipswich. With thoughts of her impending meeting with those that made up the Covenant of Silence, Blair walked silently through the darkness with her only companion a beautiful black sleek black cat with its one sapphire eye and one emerald colored eyed glowing brightly in the dark followed her closely.
Tomorrow she would meet for the first others who were like her. People she did not have to keep the secret of her powers from. The same people who if they knew of her origins she was sure they would turn on her as fast as she would turn on herself.
There was a brief moment where Blair had to force herself to push away the thought of friendship and achieving a closeness with someone. No matter how many times she reminded herself she couldn't have that, at least not for the time being, it didn't stop her from wanting it from deep within her heart. Because no matter how much she denied it her heart was lonely.
AN: Alright the first chapter for my new story for Caleb and Blair. As always let me know what you thought about my start. Id love to know what you thought!!!