I absolutely love this series! Personally, I'm not a big fan of the main character not really having any special abilities, but the sexiness and kick-ass vampires (Myrnin 3) made up for it. But I thought there should be one more kick-ass girl in this story, so enjoy!
EXPLANATION CHAPTER
AKA
PROLOGUE
There's an ancient belief that there are a select few humans that hold a religous power and are closer to God than most. In ancient times these people were held in high power and were wll respected through-out nations. No matter what religion, there were always monsters, so there had to be someone to kill these monsters.
Some call them monks, but most call them Priests/Priestesses.
Over the centuries, they've died down in numbers. As humanity grew to claim the world, their knowledge of monsters and these special humans no longer exsisted. Most of the big monsters had been killed or sealed away, some were still in hiding.
So they have been in hiding as well. Carrying out their duty to protect man-kind. They are known as Priests or Priestesses. They hold mystical powers given to them by divine right. Their connection to God strenthens their abilities, and their training also helps.
On the island of, Island of God, these people have hidden. The elders have taught the new generations the secrets and have pushed them to their maximum potential. There only being one ruler who held the eternal power. The power to vanquish with just a small prayer or a glance, as the legend goes. This ruler, or king, stays on island. For if he were to enter the human world, monsters would not cease until he were dead. The king held the center of all religous power. Only he could give it in the name of God, or take it in the name of God.
But, the numbers of Priests and Priestess are decreasing. The less man-kind believes, the less religous power lies within the world.
At this very moment, in late Novemer (or whenever Claire's birthday is. Could someone PM me and tell me so I know.) in a hospital in North-East Texas, two crying twins are born. Both curled around each other, both wailing for their mother.
The doctor takes them away to do tests. However, the doctor is also a Priest, asigned to find potential students for the island. The powers mostly lie withing twins, usually just one twin. The eldest one. The Priest takes the eldest and holds the crying infant in his palm. He holds out a silver cross that hangs around his neck by a silver chain.
He holds it over the infant and murmurs a silent prayer in the ancient tongue. Then he speaks in modern day english. "My lord, I present to thee with this child. Is she one whom you wish to serve you?"
Infant had stopped whining and was now laying, silently in the man's palm. Upon her wrist, just above her birthmark which was identical to her sister's, whom was still crying and kicking around, glowed a tiny mark of a cross.
The man smiled. The mark. "As you wish my lord," he said.
The parents were told that one of the infants had died, and one had survived. The parents mourned of course, but took their alive daughter in their arms and named her Claire.
"And the other?" the Priest asked them, "What would her name have been?"
The woman and man shared a look. The mother almost started bawling again, so the man answered.
"Her name would have been Cara." he told the man.
The Priest nodded, "I am sorry for your loss, but you do have a beautiful dauhgter," he said. The truth was, Cara was very much alive, just on her way to Insula Dei to become a monster-fighing, protector-of-man, soldier-of-god. Cara Danvers was a name never uttered among man's world, but it grew to be quite popular on the island as the girl matured.
The two grew up leading separate lives. Claire becoming exceptionaly intelligent and making her parents proud by going to college at just the age of sixteen.
Cara grew to be one of the greatest priestesses on the island. Her heart and mind were pure. She was strong and the cunning of a fox. She was deadly, but a beautiful soul. Although, she felt a strange pull to go to man's world.
She insisted that it was to fight monsters other than places than just an arena, but something told her it was much more.