Title: WESTLAND - Part 2
Pairing: Kahlan/Cara.
Rating: T
Notes:
The characters Kahlan, Cara, Richard, Zedd, Denna, Nicci, Shota, Darken, Leo, Flynn and other things belong to Terry Goodkind and ABC - Disney. Sword of Truth and Legend of the Seeker.
It is a AU story and it is not beta-ed.
HUNTING
Kahlan had her backpack and horse ready, she was going toward the Confessor's Palace to talk with the other Confessors about her plan of invading Tanimura and hunting the Heirs. Cara was pacing and biting the knuckle of her forefinger, she would not want Kahlan to do it. But knowing Kahlan, she will do it anyway. Then Cara said she will go toward the Temple of the Mord'Siths and will meet her Sisters and would help Kahlan. Kahlan remembered Cara about their nephews, but Cara said they would safe with Zedd and Shota, and the Royal Guards.
Richard's Royal Guards would protect Richard and Denna's sons, Denna had hers Royal Guards there, Cara's Royal Guards would stay in the house mountain and Kahlan's Royal Guards would protect Zedd's house.
Confessors and Mord'Siths are on the edge of the cliff looking down at the Tanimura's first city beyond the Westland Mountains. There are four hundred Confessors and seven hundred Mord'Siths there. One day before, the Mother Confessor Dennee had made the hawks toward the Home Guard and the Dragon Corps with a message to warning them about what they were going to do and why they would do it.
Kahlan's father was furious when he received the news about Kahlan's madness. Suddenly, he realized that from House Cypher-Amnell, only he and Kahlan were alive and she was walking for her death.
When the darkness of the night fell over the city, Confessors and Mord'Siths marched side by side, riding their horses toward the Jagang's Palace. When they reached the gate of palace, they turned for left and followed toward the mountains. They rode faster, Kahlan and Cara could be dead because it had passed five days that Kahlan and Cara had left Westland. The time which Kahlan had asked for finding Jagang's heirs and then they could rescue them. Berdine and Dennee were heading the march.
Kahlan and Cara had met three days before in the middle of the forest in a small cave between the Confessor's Palace and the Temple of the Mord'Siths. In the dawn, they would follow toward the Jagang's Palace to hunting Jagang's Heirs. But that night in the forest was special, and they slept naked hugging each other after an intense and passionate lovemaking as if it were the last time, their moans echoed for the forest.
Cara had bought the wedding rings in the Zedd's Emporium before following toward the Temple of the Mord'Siths. When she met Kahlan in the small cave, she kneeled in front of Kahlan and told her an oath of love for Kahlan "I want to be tomorrow at your side when you wake up, I want to be tomorrow quiet and keep loving you, I want a dream comes true, a child with your look, I want to be always beside you, you bring me peace, you make me complete." Kahlan's eyes were full with tears when she kissed Cara and wore her ring. Then she put the another ring in Cara's finger saying the same oath of love Cara had said her before. It was Kahlan and Cara's wedding.
The Jagang's Palace was empty and the city was decadent, it had passed three years of Sea's War, where the King of Tanimura died and the Heir Official was disappeared. The rest of the Royal Family, the Queen Six and their two younger sons moved toward the cave in the mountains behind the palace. She thought it was more safe there.
When Kahlan and Cara were checking the empty palace, they were attacked for some Jagang's soldiers who guarded the palace. Kahlan confessed one of them, and this one revealed where the Queen and her sons were living. It had passed almost one month after Richard's death and four days that they left Westland.
Climbing the mountain toward the cave, Kahlan and Cara were not dressed with their traditional uniform of Confessor and Mord'Sith, they were to hunting and killing, and not be seen. They wore winter clothes, all in black. Black leather boots, belts, scabbard and holsters for their swords, daggers and agiels. Black wool pants, blouses, and gloves. Black coats and hooded cloaks. But the necklaces with the Confessors symbol and the Mord'Siths symbol were visible over their coats.
The last image which the Queen Six saw before dying, it was Kahlan in front of her, Kahlan's bright blue eyes gazing at her intensely with her dagger slipped between the Queen's neck and chin, the blade tearing Queen's throat and stabbing her brain. The Queen could not make one sound. The head of the Heir Official of Tanimura thrown on the floor.
The King of the Midlands, the King of D'Hara, the Higher Commander of Home Guard and the Higher Commander of Dragon Corp were on top of the Westland Mountains already. They were going with their Armies toward Tanimura. Midlands' Army with ten thousand soldiers. D'Hara Army with thirty thousand soldiers. Twelve hundred Highest Guardians, Home Guard and Dragon Corp with six hundred men each one. It was five days that Kahlan and Cara left Westland toward Tanimura.
Confessors and Mord'Siths reached the cave where Kahlan said, by a journey book, they would be waiting them. But nor Kahlan neither Cara were there. Only the corpse of the dead Queen. They looked around and Rikka had found the tracking of them toward the forest down below near there. The hunting started.
Kahlan and Cara had seen when the men followed toward the forest after Kahlan had thrown the head of oldest son of the King of Tanimura on the floor and with two large steps, she reached and killed the Queen. Then they reached their horses and chased the men. Cara got to kill some soldiers with her bow. The Jagang's soldier which Kahlan had confessed was with them, he showed them the two Heirs.
it was a wild horse racing, but the Confessors and the Mord'Siths are excellent riders, they and their horses were like one. Kahlan grabbed her dagger strongly in her hand, when she was next one of Heirs, she stabbed it in his back, the blade tore his flesh and lung and heart.
A loud scream echoed in the forest before the Heir fell of his horse, it was a mix of a painful scream with other furious screams. Some soldiers were riding in a path above where Kahlan and Cara were riding and they descended the hill toward them surrounded them. The men riding in front of them stopped and turned around, among them the last Heir of Tanimura alive. They jumped on the floor with their swords in hands. Kahlan and Cara and the Tanimura's soldiers behind them did the same thing.
Cara scared the horses with screams and the buzz of her agiels. The last Heir alive had her eyes full with tears gazing at Kahlan furiously, she had her hood down and in hands she hold by hair, the heads of Official Heir and the Queen of Tanimura. She lift them toward the last Heir alive showing them for him, then she threw them toward him. Kahlan used her unmistakable Confessor face.
The Heir alive screamed out loud and his soldiers ran for his death. Kahlan hold her sword and ran toward the Heir alive, but many soldiers surrounded her and Cara and the confessed soldier. They were lethal but they were only three against forty soldiers or more. It would be a hard battle.
Kahlan and Cara had their back for each other. Kahlan saw the Heir alive looking and turning around toward the opposite direction. Then she looked for Cara and nodded. They had not talk to know about each other wanted to do. Kahlan started to run to chase him Cara right behind her agiel-ing everyone who approached Kahlan and hers. But the soldiers were many and blocked them. Kahlan got to confess two more soldiers, but this was too much and she fell. Cara screamed in fear. But the three Kahlan's confessed soldiers protected her. It had still eight soldiers alive fighting against them.
Then the Heir alive returned with more than one hundred Tanimura's soldiers, Kahlan was still on the ground and opened her eyes wide when she saw them coming close with their horses and far behind, for sure more than ten thousand soldiers running toward them. Kahlan's eyes filled with tears, she remembered about her all her life when she was younger, her dreams, her parents especially her lovely mother, about their brothers Richard and Leo, about her friends Darken and Denna, the Confessors. And about her true and only love, Cara, since their childhood until that moment which it would be their last one. Then she turned her head and looked at Cara, she had killed the last soldier and turned around looking at her. If she was going to die, she would like to die beside Cara.
When Kahlan hugged her and kissed her, Cara frowned her eyebrows. Kahlan cupped her face, caressing her thumbs on Cara's face, only love in Kahlan's eyes full with tears. "My wife" Kahlan said. Cara looked into her eyes answering "Now and forever my love". Then Cara felt the ground tremble, the noise of the horses coming, and she saw over Kahlan's shoulder a big dark spot coming close quickly toward them, thousands of arrows.
Cara goes down squatting and pulls Kahlan with her. She protects Kahlan's body with hers own and screams for three confessed soldier to protect them. They goes down over them protecting them as a shield. The arrows tears everything in their way. Cara screams out loud when a arrow stick in her thigh. Kahlan and Cara hear a grunting and feel the blood of confessed soldiers draining over them.
They did not move and the name of Kahlan is screamed. Kahlan tries to move but the soldiers over her and Cara are heavy. She tries to scream but her voice fails. Then she feels the weight over her decreasing, when she rolls on her back she sees the Mother Confessor Dennee and her fellow Confessors and the Mord'Siths there. Cara is sat with arrow buried in her thigh. Berdine is squatting beside her and breaks the arrow in half. Cara screams in pain. The Mother Confessor gave Kahlan the dagger that she had buried on the Heir's back.
The Heir alive is near them already with the soldiers and attacking them. It's a suicide battle, four hundred and one Confessors and seven hundred and one Mord'Siths against more than ten thousand Tanimura's soldiers. It was getting dark and Confessors, Mord'Siths and Tanimura's soldiers were still fighting for their lives. The Tanimura's soldiers came from all sides on and on. Confessors and Mord'Siths were tired but unstoppable because of their training in the Westland Mountains, they learnt to fight and rest during a battle. While ones fight, another ones rest. One protecting another.
The Kings were distressed because of their daughters they sent the Home Guard and Dragon Corp ahead they were excellent riders and would arrive faster. They knew where they should look for them. The Mother Confessor Dennee sent messages by the two hawks.
It was getting dark when Home Guard and Dragon Corp arrived to help the Confessors and Mord'Siths. The Tanimura's soldiers seemed they appeared in the air from all places. But Kahlan had her eyes on the Heir alive and she saw when he tried to runaway mounted in a horse. When Kahlan was going run, Cara hold her wrist. She was worried because Kahlan was exhausted and the Heir alive almost had not fought and his eyes had only rage. Kahlan was going to her death.
Kahlan looks at Cara and says she has to do it, then she pulls her arm from Cara's grip and before turning around she sees the bannermans from Midlands and D'Hara coming close. The Midlands and D'Hara Armies were there. Relief. Then Kahlan runs toward her last prey.
Kahlan ran among the trees, a shortcut toward the Heir alive. With all her strength she jumps and grabs the Heir alive's tunic and with the own weight, she pulls him toward the ground. When they fell, quickly, Kahlan has her daggers in hands, she is sat on her heels beside her prey and when she has her arms up, the last Heir punches her stomach and rolls, he stands up with his sword in hands and moves it toward Kahlan's throat to cut it. But a body throws Kahlan against the floor and the Mother Confessor is trembling violently over Kahlan, her blood is flowing out from her body fast, a panting breath, her eyes opened wide trying to keep them open, but the death is leaving her. Dennee was Kahlan's best friend and a sister Kahlan never had. Kahlan screams out loud. When the Heir tries to hit her again with his sword, she blocks him with her dagger and lift her body from the ground with a fast movement, and with her another hand she buries her dagger in the last Heir's heart. And with the last Heir, it was buried the threat against Westland. It was the Conquest of Tanimura.
Dennee said her before dying that Kahlan would be the best Mother Confessor than any other. And she gave Kahlan the Mother Confessor's ring.
DREAMS
Denna opened her eyes, Nicci smiled at her brushing Denna's hair from her face. Weakly, Denna lift her arm and touches Nicci's backhand with the tip of her fingers scratching it softly. Denna feels a painful pain above her heart and closes her eyes. Nicci is speaking something but Denna does not understand it. Nicci cups her face with both hands and Denna opens her eyes. Nicci is few inches from her face, Denna looks at her eyes, then her mouth. Next second, Denna is kissing Nicci, her hand on back of Nicci's head and the other on Nicci's shoulder.
Nicci's heart grew huge, when the Queen of Westland kissed her passionately. Denna was a beautiful woman who made her heart to beat faster since at the first sight at the Kahlan and Cara's engagement. Nicci had been involved with some persons, but no one had made it with her, only Denna owned Nicci's love. Denna had awaken up after two months fighting against the death.
The two women had grown close more and more. Denna has talked about everything with Nicci. About her life and dreams. She did not remember about her wedding with Richard, or their children, or that she is the Queen. Neither about Kahlan and Cara's engagement or Richard's death. Even she did not remember about Sea's War and Darken and Leo's death.
But one thing kept in her mind besides her family and childhood, she would like to trip beyond Westland Mountains and know other lands and people. Nicci smiled at her only, then they kissed each other passionately. It was six months after Richard's death.
Kahlan and Cara were gazing at Nicci when she told she and Denna would travel beyond the Westland Mountains and they would know other lands. Denna was happy beside Nicci holding her hand tight, Denna's joy was contagious. Kahlan and Cara looked at each other speechless and nodded only, they had never seen Denna like this when she was with Richard.
Zedd and Shota had told with Kahlan and Cara, and the Kings and Queen of D'Hara - Denna's parents - after the Conquest of Tanimura or the Blood Rage, like it was known the Kahlan's madness by Westland people. They told about her health, Denna's body was weak almost dead when they had to use powerful magic to heal her and save the baby child. Zedd had warned Denna would have consequences and it would be lost of memory, but too, she could not live for a long time. She would have to take care if she wanted to live for two years or more.
Kahlan Rahl-Amnell - The Mother Confessor and the Higher Commander of the Confessors and the last Heir of the Midlands, and Cara Rahl-Amnell - the Mistress and the Higher Commander of the Mord'Siths and the last Heir of D'Hara - were under a tree looking at a distant carriage going away. Denna and Nicci were going to do their dreams true, they would know other lands beyond Westland Mountains. Kahlan and Cara were silent, the bright sun above in the sky and a fresh wind caressing their skins. The two children playing each other next them, their nephews. Kahlan and Cara were from House of Rahl-Amnell too and they will rule Westland till the Heir Official - the oldest Richard and Denna's son - to be with the right age to rule the Westland kingdom.
Six years after, a carriage arrives in front of the Mountains Palace, in Stowecroft, this palace was built to be the House of Rahl-Amnell's home. It was in the same place where it was built Cara's mountain house that now, it was the Royal Guard's home. Nicci descents from carriage and looks up, Kahlan and Cara are at the top of staircase with their nephews. They are looking down at Nicci. Then two children descent too, behind Nicci. Two girls. When the little girl looks up at Kahlan and Cara, they gasp. The younger one looks like Denna. Her eyes and look, her hair, her smile, her body and skin, almost everything. Only her face format, her mouth, and the color of her eyes were look like Nicci. The older one was a mix of Denna and Nicci, just like Richard and Denna's sons were a mix of their parents too.
After Nicci hugged Kahlan and Cara and presented them the children of hers and Denna, Nicci turned around and nodded toward the servants waiting beside the carriage. They stepped for behind the carriage. Nicci was dressed all in black. Cara started to weep, her shoulders trembling violently and her tears rolling on her cheek, unstoppable. She turned around, she would not see her loved sister Denna inside a coffin.
It has passed twelve years after Darken and Leo's death and the Sea's War. It has passed nine years after Richard's death, the Conquest of Tanimura or Blood Rage, and the Kahlan and Cara's wedding. And three year after the death of Cara's father and sister. Cara's father had been seriously injured in the Blood Rage and never recovered his health and after he knew about Denna's death, he died months after.
It was the first time Cara was there, Cara thinks cemetery is not a good place, when it is alive, only it brings sadness. But it was the first time she was mourning by her dear ones. Cara is thirty-one years old and Kahlan, thirty years old.
Cara is in front of the Rahl-Amnell Mausoleum. Richard and Denna - the King and the Queen of Westland are buried there.
Cara feels a soft touch in her thigh, she looks at the little hand of her older daughter, then the little girl put her small arm around her thigh embracing it and looks up at her with her bright green eyes, but her little one looks like Kahlan. Cara caresses the honey hair of hers and Kahlan's daughter. A hand caresses her back up and down slowly, then Kahlan stands beside her without stopping to move her hand. Cara leans into Kahlan, and kisses her. Cara's hand lift toward Kahlan's pregnant belly and caresses it, their younger daughter will be born soon.
Cara thanks Zedd, Shota and Nicci all the days inside her heart, because of their powerful magic the Kahlan's dream could come true. Cara had not thought to have child, but after she had been with her nephews all those times, they are like her own children. When Cara saw Denna and Nicci's daughters, she was sure that she would be mother one day, because she and Kahlan could have their own children.
They walking inside the Mausoleum, their nephews - Richard and Denna's sons - are ahead with Cara's mother - the Queen of D'Hara and Kahlan's father - the King of the Midlands. Following them, Kahlan, Cara and their daughter. Nicci comes behind with hers and Denna's daughters and her parents, Zedd and Shota. Everybody stops in front of the Richard and Denna's carved tombs, the first King and Queen of Westland kingdom and the first ones buried there. They pray for the dead and leave flowers for them.
THE END