Title: Dark Justice
Author: Third Charm
Fandom: Babylon 5
Pairings: Marcus/Neroon, for now. Others may be added as the story progresses.
Story Type: Crossover, Supernatural, Suspense, Action, Drama, and Romance.
Rating: M
Disclaimer: Babylon 5 and all subsequent major characters, plots, and ideas are the property of J. Michael Straczynski, Babylonian Inc. and Warner Bros. The Dark Series, the Carpathians and all the other magical and preternatural beings belong to Christine Feehan and her publishers. Only Cassius and Cassandra Virostikov are mineThe following story was written only for the purposes of entertainment. No income had been made.
Warnings: AU - as in, " Canon? We don't need no stinking canon from either series! AU", AT, het, slash, extreme violence and dark themes.
Spoilers: Everything – including the kitchen sink!
Summary: This is an answer to the 2007 Halloween crossover challenge found at the Delusions group. It is a crossover between Babylon 5 and Christine Feehan's Dark Series. Love comes to even those who believe themselves undeserving, and Justice will always be met out, even to those who bend the very fabric of time to their will.
Acknowledgements: I must thank ckl for taking the time to beta read this story.
Author's Note: Information on the Dark Series and all her creations can be found at Christine Feehan's official website. One Earth year equals 0.74 Minbari cycles. The Minbari words and phrases were found at the "JumpNow" website in John Hightower's Minbari dictionary, though not all are direct translations.
Dark Justice
Introduction
There are many species in the galaxy that can claim the title of an Ancient Race, some of them benign, most of them not. There are the Vorlons, the Shadows, the Old Ones and, of course, Lorien. THEN, there are Earth's Carpathian Ancients; the Warriors, the Hunters, the Predators, the leaders of Earth's preternatural and magical societies and the protectors of Mother Earth Herself. They stand between all of Earth and the darkest of all evils. They are also the only things that stand between human democracy and PsiCorps from taking complete control of the EA through their twisted and unnatural telepathy.
They are as old as time itself and a part of life on Earth that humanity has been hiding both in fear of what the other races would do if they knew of Earth's Dark species and as last ditch defense of Mother Earth. The humans of the Earth Alliance and beyond also hide the preternatural species' existence at the Carpathian Prince's own request, for the Carpathians along with the rest of their Ancient brethren of Earth have always walked the Shadows and the Night.
But all these things were now about to change. The veil of secrecy so long and so valiantly held was about to be ripped violently away. The true Masters of the Night were about to be forced to into the starlight by the miracle of a bereaved Hunter's lost child found paired with the senseless tragedy of that child's own life hanging in the balance.
What will happen then? What happens when a Carpathian Ancient's lost child finds his soul mate – and it is NOT a being anyone would it expect it to be? Can the endangered Carpathian race and society survive a soul bond the likes of which has not been seen since the days when the legendary Gilgamesh walked the streets of Babylon when it becomes known? And what happens when that same Carpathian Ancient's child suffers a most horrible fate: that of practically dying at the hand of his own soul mate?
What happens when one of the oldest and most terrible of the Carpathian Hunters must awake from his grieving slumber to save his lost one? Can he race across the stars in time to save his long thought dead child, or is it already too late for both the father and the son? Has a desperate and foolish Challenge finally unleashed the chained Darkness of the most Ancient of all the Prince's Hunters soul? Has it unleashed a horror too terrible to name and too powerful to stop on an unsuspecting galaxy? Or can love truly heal all wounds?
What happens when the Minbari learn just what they would have truly faced had they had actually attacked Earth Herself? What happens when the Old Races who have walked the stars with all the arrogance of Gods learn of other, hidden Elder Races; of Elder Races of pure and unforgiving predators that would hunt them ALL to the Rim and beyond for what they had perpetrated against their world, their species and all the brethren of Mother Earth? And what happens when these hidden Elder Races converge on Babylon 5?