He sat next to her bedside, absently rubbing the palm of her hand with his thumb, as he looked at her sleeping form. The vison was difficult for her, he saw, she was sweating and was turning her head from one side to another. He reached over and lay the damp cloth back on her forehead. How he hated to see her like this... he leaned back in the chair and took a few deep breaths. This had been the ninth time within a month. The dreams had been normal till last night. The visions had begun from one second to the other. Thinking back at the times that the visions and dreams were so frequent was with the war, five years ago. It meant trouble, and that trouble would be upon them, very soon.
An explosion made her look south, and the blinding white light made her close her eyes and smoke billowed up in to the sky. The scenery changed and she stood at the place where the explosion had happened. A pale yellow sun hung in a bloodred sky, black clouds were passing the sun now and then, casting an eery light back at the ground. It started to rain and red raindrops splashed onto the ground and onto her body. She looked at the raindrops and noticed that the liquid was to thick to be rain. It was... blood, she started running as the blood came down harder, soaking her. A black shadow appeared in front of her and wrapped a hand around her neck, and squeezed it. She couln't breathe! She felt how the air was slowly squeezed out of her. She coughed and tried to free herself from the hands grip. She couldn't.. Her vision became blurry and saw only blackness...
'Fay...' She heard as she coughed. 'Fay...' Faya groaned and opened her eyes. 'There you are...' How she hated that sarcasm in his voice. Faya blinked a couple of times and then sighed. 'Howlong?'
'Couple of hours...'
'Fuck it...' she groaned and moved to her side to look at him.
'Same one then?' He sighed as she nodded and Sesshoumaru looked at his mate for a long time and narrowed his eyes in thought... There was something different about her. Yes, she was still the stronge, defiant vixen she used to be, but she had changed after the war. It was not just her becoming a mother or her having those blasted visions. She had lost her edge...
'I-I just don't know what to do...' Faya whispered as she hugged her legs close to herself. He stood up and walked toward the hearth, where a peaceful fire was burning. He placed his hands on the mantle, supporting his weight as he stared into the flames... Flames that reminded him at the fiery spirit of his mate. His mate that somehow turned into a weak little flame deprived of oxygyn, that lost the capability of life and passion. It almost seemed to him to him that she was afraid of her own shadow. After the longest time he took a deep breath, straightened, turned around and looked at her again. The fear in her eyes made his heart cringe 'Then we will find it out, together...' he whispered as he walked back to her bed, sat down and pulled her into a hug 'We will find it out together.' he reassured her.
'There is a reason for everything, firechild...' they heard a voice from the side. They pulled apart and looked at the univited guest. Chosing to hold her tirade to herself she looked at the First Father and said 'Welcome First Father.. forgive me... I had a few bad days... I cannot handle uninvited guests very well...' she said as she tried to stand and then looked at the God in front of her. Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes and was clearly not amused by he whole situation. 'I'm gonna check up on the children.' he said as he took a strand of her hair and kissed it. She nodded and send out a ripple of energy to the children, one that wasn't returned. 'They are not answering...' she said panicked as she opened her eyes and looked at her mate. 'I can't feel their energies...' The Lord and Lady of the Sûnilár House looked at each other and then at the First Father.
Gone was the loving, peaceful, couple and fullfledged furious demons were standing in front of the Fire God. 'Your children are not in the palace anymore...' The voice of the First Father came to them. White streaks flashed through her hair as she growled low in her throat. 'Where are our children?'
'Hó.. you wanna fight me? A god...?' He smirked and raised an eyebrow as he crossed his arms over his chest and looked at the two.
'How would you feel when someone took away your daughter...?' Sesshoumaru now asked as purple pupils swam in bloodred pools.
Faya shifted away, ready to attack him. Fujimi closed his eyes and smirked. 'Silly girl..' he smirked. 'You can't go up against a god.' He continued as he stopped her attack with a finger and looked at her. He pushed her foot away with his finger and she crashed into the opposite wall.
'This is only a fraction of my total power... I am a god, you know..' Fujimi said as he looked at Sesshoumaru. 'Do you really wanna fight wtith me?' he asked as he looked at the Lord of the Sûnilár House.
'So, tell me, do you want to test mine?' another voice came to him and Fujimi froze at the sound of the voice.
'I am getting annoyed by all those uninvited guests.' Sesshoumaru now sighed as he took a step closer to his mate when she stopped next to him again. He smelled the faint scent of blood in the air and with that he lost his patience. 'You tell me where my whelps are, or so help me by all the saints that I know, you will have a verocious Hellhound as adversary. And I can tell you, they are monsters...' he growled low in his throat, as his fangs grew and his eyes burned bright red. A white haired mate stood next to him.
'Yes, you have what it takes...' The First Mother said and came from the shadows and stepped next to her husband. 'Tell us, where our children are...' Faya whispered as white flames danced around the room. Goddess Amara looked at the two and had to be impressed by their power. 'Stop this, now..' The Goddess whispered and the fury of the two instantly melted away. 'That is better...' Amara said and looked at the couple in front of her.
'We are sorry for coming here uninvited. We are sorry for taking the whelps, but believe us when we say that they are alright.' Amara smiled at that and both looked at her. 'We have one more quest for the both of you, and your children would only be in the way of obtaining this goal. But first let us go somewhere where it is a little more comfortable to speak, shall we?' Amara smiled and before one of them could even protest they found themselves in the library. A small fire was crackling in the heard. The Lord and Lady now sitting in two comfortable chairs and looking at the first parents of the Kasai Clan that were leaning against the heard.
'Okay, now tell us why you are here..' Faya sighed as her eyes turned a darker shade of green.
'We want you to become like us...' Her answer came quick and swiftly.
'What?!' both asked in unison. The God and Goddess of the sacred fire looked at each other with a smile and then looked at the two in the chair.
'We want you to become God and Goddess of the Sûnilár House.' She said again.
'How, exactly must we accomplish that?' Faya asked now.
'And it shall be known
that the one in likeness of the goddess
she who brought two houses together
created the strongest lineage in history
The one that carries the sacred patterns
needs to become one herself before she
aids the Holy ones in battle.'
'I missed that part of the prophecy apparently.' She said as she looked from the First Parents to her mate. 'You didn't know, cause it was not foretold yet...' Amara explained. Faya chose not to discuss that matter. 'And the Hellhound needs to become a God aswell, why exactly?' She asked instead as she crossed her arms over her chest and peered at the First Mother.
'Hey... I feel compelled to announce, that I am hurt! You don't think I am god, already?' Sesshoumaru asked as he placed a hand over his heart in mock hurt. Faya pursed her lips and looked at him with him. 'no comment...' she then said.
'Is that all you can say, no comment...' Sesshoumaru said as he peered at her. Faya now raised her eyebrow and said: 'we have guests... to comment on that we would need to send them away before explaining... I don't like to have an audience when I eleborate on that question.' She said with a smirk and he saw a twinkle in her eyes, one that he had not seen in a long time.
Amara coughed politly and both looked at her again. 'To answer your question, it is simple, one cannot be bounded to a deity without being one themselves. Besides you two are already demi-deities.'
'Huh?' Faya now said.
'For about five years actually...' Fujimi intervened with a nod. 'You, because of your merger with Amara, and your mate, well, because he is your mate...' He said as he rubbed his chin.
'Because we have children, is that what you mean?' Faya asked as she crossed her arms over her chest. 'No need to hide it, we are all adults here... we know the story about the birds and the bees..' she said with a cheecky smirk. 'I know the why now... because of my merger, the how is what intrigues me...'
'You will be taught by us, in order to become full deities.' Amara said as she looked at them both. 'You will be taught by me, and your mate by Fujimi.'
'Right...' Faya answered and rubbed the back of her neck. They were asking them to become gods... Faya wrapped a hand through her black mane of hair and looked at Fujimi-sama, who just smirked at her, reading her frustration. 'Do you think we were prepared to become god and goddess...? The father and mother of a whole new line of Youkai?'
'I hate it when someone pokes my mind without permission... god or not...' Faya glared at him and he smirked at her.
'So what is your answer going to be?' Amara now intervened.
'What do you mean?'
'Willing to become deities?'
Faya gaped at them for half a second. 'You're not giving us much room to debate, concerning the fact that you have our children.' She said. 'What do you think our answer is going to be?'
The First Parents beamed at them 'Excellent, shall we begin?'
'Right now?' Sesshoumaru asked now.
'There is no better way than now, isn't there?' Fujimi asked.
'You do know that visions like these, take a lot of energy right?' Faya said as she looked at Fujimi.
'My dear, you do not yet know the definition of pain, yet...' He smirked as he stood before her. He gave a small tap on her shoulder, with a finger, and she crashed to the ground.
'What the...?' she whispered as she pulled herself to her knees.
'And that just with a tap on the shoulder. Do you want to know what I can do with a finger?' Fujimi asked as he bent through his knees and looked lazily at her. Faya looked from him to Sesshoumaru and heard Fujimi tisk at her. 'Don't look away from me, you have no idea what I will do.' and with a finger he send her crashing in to the opposite wall. Boiling mad she pushed herself to her feet as the flames in the hearth intensified, and shot to life.
'That is what I wanted to see.' Fujimi said with a wide smile. 'We will start lesson number one at the crack of dawn. Goodnight now.' he said, and with that he took the hand of his wife and both disappeared. Both Faya and Sesshoumaru were breathing hard and he saw passionate fires burn in his mate's eyes when he looked at her.
'And this is the First Family in essence...?' He asked her. Faya glared into the fires, as small explosions started to come from it. 'Fay...' He said as the sparks started to grow and intensify. 'Faya...' He repeated her name with a little more pressure.
Faya stretched out her hand and the fire came to her. When she finally looked at him she gave an eery smile and he saw that her eyes were completely black. 'He has made a powerful enemy.' Fire danced around her and he saw the shapes of dragons and the lines on her skin started to pulsate.
'Faya... don't let it consume you.' He feared for her safety, her sanity. He shifted away and appeared behind her. 'Why do I even bother, talking to you, at this point.' He asked and pinched a muscle in her neck, making her go limb. He sighed and looked at her as he held her in his arms. She was losing it, and when this wasn't settled quickly there was no telling what she would become.
He blamed the First Family for this, he blamed the merger for this... They had known that it would leave unforseable consequences... and yet, she had to do it, in order to save the land she had come to love and her friends that had died in vain. Why was she holding this all in? And in that second it hit Sesshoumaru full in the face. In those five years, she had not talked about it once! Not once! About what the merger was like, about her accepting the Goddesslines that were running over her body. He fell to his knees, with an unconscious mate in his arms and looked down at her. He saw how drops of water fell on her face. It wasn't water, they smelled salty. It were tears! It were HIS tears. He pulled her close to him and cried. 'When will you start trusting us, the way we trust you?' He whispered at her.
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Hey guys, after more than a year of absence. Life happened, and needed to deal with it. I am back and going with my story, altho at the moment, I have no idead where it will be heading. I have bits and pieces and the plot, but I need to put it all in one story. I will finish this story, but it will take time. Just bare with me. Thank you all.
~ Silverblood Elf
