Raiden sireling of Raziel

by kainthegreat

Raiden is the last remaining decedent of the Razielim, but for some reason his wings are different from that of his sire. Just who or what is he and what is his destiney. *Note this was written long ago and may or may not be continued...

1. Chapter 1

Part One

A Journey's Beginning of Raiden Son of Raziel

It was near dusk when the sounds came to his ears. He opened his eyes from his long slumber. He had gone through his evolution stage along with his brothers and sisters. He longed to see what it was he gained. He pushed himself from the ground but as he did so he felt something brush against his back. He looked behind and saw magnificent feathered wings. His sire must have gained great wings like this too. Then he paused his golden eyes were widening. What would Kain think?

He rushed to a near by mirror and gazed at the wings in the reflection. They were monstrous in size and black as night in color. Quickly he tied his black hair the way his sire would and grabbed his clan cape. As he was throwing it around his shoulders he heard the sounds again. Groans, gurgled screams, and many footsteps. He froze in fear, something was wrong. His door flew open as a winged figure came running in. It was his sister Garbriela. He looked at her with surprise in his eyes she had bat wings not feathered wings, but that did not concern him at this hour, she was badly wounded and frightened. Her normal silver hair was caked with blood and here green eyes shined with unshead blood tears.

" Raiden." she cried," We must get out of here now."

" Whats happening?" asked Raiden in his calm yet harsh voice, something he had earned from both Raziel and Kain.

" It's horrible. Our cousins and uncles are attacking us. They already killed half the clan." said Gabriela with the blood tears running down her face.

" Why?" asked Raiden

" I don't know but we must flee. We can use our new abilties to do so."

" Yes. Come we must get out of here. There is no where for us to fly in this room. We must go outside to do so."

" But they our out there. We would be killed."

" We must take that chance then for our survival." said Raiden as he grabbed her hand and started running down the hall.

The screams grew louder as they were nearing outside. The hallway was getting brighter and soon they reached the dismal chaos. Bodies of their clan laid scattered. Their bat wings were cruppled on their backs. Some though were torn off and were no where in sight. Anger surged through Raiden's body but he knew what would happen if he didn't controll it, the powers he had gained powers at his making that no vampire has ever learned until they reached a millenium, the power to harness and controll the unpredictable power of lightning. Of course he only had the harnessing part of it down. He calmed himself and felt the power recide.

He heard Gabriela gasp and cling tightly to him and he looked up to see a score of Dumahim stand before them. From behind came the sound of footsteps of a score of Turelim. Raiden hugged his sister close to him and clenched his fangs. He'd rather die than have his young sister harmed. The power began to increase again and this time he didn't want to stop it, but he was hit in the head from a projectile from a Turelim from behind. He lost his grip from Gabriela and fell to the ground. He was angry at himself, he let his gaurd down and it cost him his life and Gabriela's. He heard his sister scream and then the rush of feet coming towards him. Then they stopped and the Turelim and Dumahim began to worry soon they were screaming as they were dieing. What had happened? Who killed them? Raiden forced himself to open his eyes and what he saw suprised him. It was Kain. Soon pitch black was all he could see and he fell unconsious.

Raiden awoke in the sanctuary of the clans. His head ached and his body was sore. He sat up and looked around he has at the foot of the pillars and setted on them was Kain. He stared at Raiden with his golden eyes not once blinking. This made him feel uncomfortable, it never really was good to have Kain stare at you, only on occasions did Kain ever do anything that was not cold-hearted. He could only guess what Kain would do to him, he had let his gaurd down and cost him his sisters life and now Kain would punish him, but Kain did not move nor did he motion to the Reaver. Raiden got up and went towards Kain and knelt before him.

" I'm sorry M'lord I failed my clan." said Raiden

Kain leaned forward abit as he said ," Why would you say such a thing? You did not fail."

" I have. I let my gaurd down and it caused the death of my sister." Said Raiden lowering his head.

" You would have killed everything with your powers if you hadn't including yourself and your sister. You would have ended your clan there and then." said Kain standing up

" True, but maybe in that instant I would have gained controll of it." said Raiden slowly getting up

" Maybe, but it would have been too risky. You're too much like your father and forefathers."

" Where is my father? Did he fall?"

Kain's eyes went cold and weary at Raiden's questions ," In a manner, but you need not to be troubled by this."

" Why did my cousins attack my clan? Who ordered this?"

Kain turned away from Raiden and sighed ," I did."

Raiden's eyes widened at this. His Grandfather the murder of his clan? He trusted Kain and now he killed his clan, and he couldn't help but cry ,"WHY? WHY DID YOU DO IT?"

" DO YOU THINK I ENJOYED CALLING THE ATTACK I HAD NO CHOICE! IT WAS TIME FOR YOU SIRE TO FIND HIS DESTINY AND SO ARE YOU!" Yelled Kain. Most of the clans were afraid when he would yell, but not Raiden. He nearly smiled to this, too much like his forefathers.

" What do you mean?" asked Raiden suspiciously.

" Do you think it is by chance you grew the wings of ancients while your brothers and sisters all grew wings like your sire's? No you have a destiny waiting for you. One that concerns every forefather and your sire. You must go to the past and find your destiny. I can help you there." said Kain quickly.

" And who am I to find in this past? and why must I be the one to do this?" asked Raiden almost cold-heartedly.

" Because you are chosen to do so. Your power, your wings, and your heritage. Did you not know that you are gaining bits and peices of your father and forefathers!? The wings are represented of Janos Audron! Soon parts of you will change to resemble Vorador, Raziel, and yes even Me!"

Raiden stood doubstruck, how was this possible? Him a descendant of Vorador and even the great Janos Audron!? So many questions were now whirling around his head. So many that needed to be answered. Kain seemed to know this and he only nodded and looked at him.

" I will send you to Vorador first if you wish." said Kain suddenly ," knowing him he may know somethings."

" But isn't he dead?" asked Raiden with sudden couriosity.

" Yes but that doesn't meen a chronoplast can't help." chuckled Kain

Raiden's eyes widen ," I thought they were all destroyed!"

Kain smiled, which was always rare and frightening," I've kept one safe. Come here and I shall teleport us there."

Raiden walked to him and Kain placed his hands on his shoulder. Soon they were teleported in the cloud of green light. Everything went by in a blur and soon stopped when they reached a winding staircase. The walked down them with their foosteeps echoing behind them. They past many dark rooms and Raiden would try to look in them but Kain would only shake his head. Raiden lost track of how many steps there were, he only knew there were too many to count. Finally they reached the bottom and walked down the hallway to a door. Kain opened it and they entered into a room filled with mechanical items. Kain silently went to these and turned many of them soon the who thing came alive and the gate opened.

" I've set the time to where Vorador should be alive. You must make haste to him and don't let anyone know what you are." said Kain turning to Raiden

" How am I to hide what I am?" asked Raiden looking at the gate

Kain used his powers to make a cloak appears ," This will hide your wings, and to make yourself look more human use the cloaking magic. You have the inherited from your father and me. Go now Raiden. Find Vorador."

Raiden walked to Kain and grabbed the cloak from his outstretched arm. He climbed the steps to the gate and stood in front of it. He looked back and saw that Kain was gone. He sighed and entered the gate. He was transported in a rush of golden smoke, to the past. He didn't know if he'd ever see his grandfather again. Suddenly everything went dark as he fell unconcious. When he woke he was outside in a swamp, he was in the past and this was Termogent Forest.

Raiden got up from the soft ground and brushed himself off. He looked around and noticed to his horror that he was stuck on an small mound of an island surrounded by a river. He cursed quietly to himself and looked to see if there was a part of the river he could easily jump over. To his luck he found one that would be a risky jump. He readied himself and with some momentum he leapt from his spot to the bank nearby. He barely made it one inch less he would have fallen in the water. Panting he walked down the bank to a large clearing where he found Vorador's mansion.

Queitly he went to the door and opened it. Once inside he looked around, it was finely decorated with furniture and paintings of winged vampires. Winged much like Raiden was. He continued on with no interuptions from anything living or undead. The halls twisted and turned to many different rooms. He would have liked to see what was in them, but he had to find Vorador. Suddenly he stopped in his tracks, he heard something. Voices. He kept his ears open and kept quiet. Soon he was able to make them out.

" You sure he's one of us this stranger?" said a rough womanly voice

" Of course look at him closely there's no question about it." said a man

" Can he be trusted?"

" Any of our kind can be."

" True but look how he dresses. As though he hides something."

" Very well if you can't seem to trust him shall we take him to lord Vorador?"

" That maybe why he's here. To kill lord Vorador and take his place."

Raiden nearly laughed at the antics of these two and merely continued knowing they were following. He came upon a large dining room with many paintings in it and at the end stood a large statue of a winged vampire. He walked up to it with wide eyes. This vampire nearly looked like him, only the hair was long and its eyes were blank. There were small details that were different from him but the two were the only ones that stood out. The cheeckbones were thin like his and its claws were the same. Who was this ancient? Was he a forefather like Vorador and Janos? Footsteeps had Raiden whirl around. Who he saw didn't surprise him, it was Vorador. His eyes looked from Raiden and then to the statue.

" Who are you and what are you doing in my home?" he asked sternly

" My name is Raiden first born of Raziel. I only come for answers." said Raiden bowing his head to Vorador

" Very well start asking, but I'm afraid you must hurry there isn't much time left." sighed Vorador and looked at Raiden lost in thought ," Begin."

" Kain says that you are part of my inheritance, but how is that possible?"

" Ah yes the one mighty question always seems to come first." Vorador sighed before continuing ," You are a rare vampire that's for sure. Let me see your wings if you are really the one."

Raiden untied his cloak and let his wings spread out above him. Vorador only nodded saying ," As I thought, Kain came to both Janos and me asking for our blood, saying he had some vision of a mighty vampire combined of many ancient vampires. This vampire would be the great one of them all greater even than Janos Audron himself. The destiny you are seeking was however not seen by Kain, but later on Janos had the vision also and saw more than Kain, though he never told us. I'm afraid it's too late now that he is dead and I soon will be taken by the sarafan."

" Why not flee the sarafan?"

" Why should I when most of my family has been killed? You are too young to understand yet, but I accept my fate."

Raiden was about to fight this when the sound of wood hitting wood was heard. The sarafan had arrived for Vorador and he was in danger himself. Vorador did something none would have expected he gave Raiden his sword saying he need it more than himself. Raiden strapped it to his belt and threw on his cloak. Then Vorador pointed Raiden to a secret path behind a bookcase and sent him off. As soon as the bookcase closed the doors to the dining room were thrown open and Raiden could here the struggle coming from the room. The tears ran down his face as he walked through the passage. Vorador was a part of him in a way that no vampire ever knew. The path twisted and turned into a candle filled room and on an alter in the center was a winged vampire. Raiden gasped at this. The heart was torn out of his body yet the vampire still looked alive.

Raiden aproached the vampire and clasped on of the hans saying ," You look familiar to me. You an ancient aren't you? You look peaceful in your death state as though your sleeping with your heart still beating in your chest. What would you think of me if you were alive? Do you think me as a failure? That I could have saved both my sister and Vorador if I did not stall? Or would you be like Kain in answering that it had to happen and that if I would have tried to stop it I would have died as well? Huh why am I even talking to you if your dead?"

Raiden didn't know how long he sat there with his hand clasped to the ancient's. He didn't notice the tears falling or the figure walking behind him. All he knew was that he had too many questions answered and too much to do. The figure gribbed his shoulder and pulled him roughly from the ancient's body. It pushed him against a wall with one of its talloned hands. On it's right hand was a wraith like sword, surprisingly like the reaver. The figure itself was as surprising as the weapon it weilded, it's whole body was blue and destroyed, there was hardly any evidence that it was ever living. It's eyes even surprised him they were blank like the statue.

" Who are you and what are doing near Janos' body?" It said in an angry yet familiar voice

" He's.... He's Janos Audron" said Raiden gasping for air

" Yes he is. Now answer my question before i kill you"

" My name is Raiden son of Raziel."

The thing's eyes widen as it dropped Raiden. It backed up slowly as if something was hurting it. " How is this possible all of them were dead?"

" Not all of us." said Raiden getting up

" My first born alive, but how?" it continued

Raiden looked at the thing puzzled ," Sire?"

The thing looked at him as if just realizing he was there ," Indeed I am."

" Kain said you fell though."

" More like thrown. Did he tell you he ordered me to be thrown into the abyss?"

" No, but he told me he order the attack on our clan." said Raiden shaking his head.

" Yes and now he has fallen to my blade." said Raziel lifting the wraith sword," Now if you don't mind I must reserect Janos."

" I shall join you."

" Very well." said Raziel walking towards Janos' body

Raziel lifted Janos' heart and looked at it with weary eyes. Then he put it into the body of the ancient. It took a minute before the wound healed and Janos Audron awoke. Raziel stood where he was but Raiden stepped back into the shadows. Did he really want to know more off what he was to do and to tell the ancient of his failures? He listened to them chat and noticed that Janos' would look at him once in awhile. After they were finished the ancient vampire walke over to where Raiden stood.

" Why are you hiding my child?" asked Janos in a calm voice.

" Er I was... *sigh* I'm afraid I'm not worthy to be in your presence." said Raiden with his head drooping.

" You only have failure if you believe it and you believe it because of your sister's death." putting a hand on Raiden's shoulder ," If you would have released your powers would the circumstance be any different?"

Raiden shrugged the hand off of him and yelled with rage filled eyes," IT COULD HAVE SHE COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED! WHY DO YOU ALL SAY THAT IF I WOULD HAVE RELEASED MY POWERS THAT ALL WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST?" he felt foolish for yelling at Janos and now wish he hadn't. His sire was the only one who moved while Janos only smiled.

" You're young still come with us and maybe you might find answers you are looking for." said Janos gently pulling Raiden out of the shadows to Raziel.

Janos put a hand on both Raziel and Raiden and in a flash of blue light they disappeared. Life rushed past them and soon they came upon the Vampire Citadel. Raiden walked away from Janos and Raziel were talking and went to one of the barred windows. He looked out at the world outside, nothing was there, not a single living thing.

Hoping not to attract attention he clibbed the wall and went to the rooftop outside. He took off his cloak and set it on the roof. After he did so, he jumbed off the roof from a dismil height. Right before he meet the ground he opened his wings and soared upwards. He circled above the citadel for sometime not knowing what Janos and Raziel were doing. All of a sudden there was a loud rubbleing and Raiden looked at the pillars, Kain told him what happened when he refused the sacrifice.

Raiden thought it safe to land and when he did the pillars exploded. The tremor caused him to somewhat lose his balance. Forgeting about his cloak he hurried down to where Janos and Raziel were. When he jumped down he saw Janos standing in front of Raziel and Raziel holding the wraith blade at Janos. Something was wrong with Janos, a green cloud was around his eyes, and his wings and skin were different. Raziel looked at Raiden suddenly and his eyes widened.

" RAIDEN RUN! NOW!! THIS ISN'T JANOS IT'S THE HYLDEN!" he yelled.

" Foolish Raziel of course I'm Janos." said Janos though his voice was different," Don't believe him boy the pillars just happened to change me is all."

" RUN! DON'T BELIEVE HIM!" cried Raziel rushing at Janos but doing so Janos uses a energy bolt on him and it hurts him beyond sustainable and sent him to the spectral realm.

Raiden stepped back in horror, his father was gone. The thing, Janos, whatever it was now turned to him. It laughed at Raiden's look and walked towards him. Raiden pulled Vorador's sword from his belt and pointed it at Janos and it still laughed.

" You're foolish to try to kill me. I doubt you have the power to come back like Raziel." laughed Janos/hylden.

" I kill you even though you're in Janos' body." growled Raiden

" And how our you going to do that, didn't you see how Raziel failed? He wouldn't kill Janos when he was at his mercy."

" Janos said that you only fail if you think you did." said Raiden summoning a ball of lightning ," and I'm no failure."

Raiden sent the ball at Janos but before it hit him, he flew off. Raiden rushed to the opening and watched as the form of Janos grew smaller. He would have pursued if it hadn't been the voice behind him.

" You have done well Raiden." said the voice.

" Yes Kain I have." said Raiden turning to Kain.

" But your journey is not over yet. I need you to sleep again for evolution to take place one last time and when you wake come find me. I have a job for you."

" And what job is that?"

" To find members good enough to be in an army for the growing evil."

" Very well" said Raiden.

Raiden spread his wings and flew off. He went to the only place where he could sleep in peace. Kain's tomb was secluded enough no one would disturb him there. When he arrived he went through the bars in mist form and went to Kain's coffin. He laid inside and closed it up. Before he went into a deep slumber he had one last question. What was he? and now he thought he had the answer. He was an ancient, just by blood not age. An ancient that would help save Nosgoth.

To be Continued in Part 2