I am so so so so sorry that it took this long but my internet went down and I got some writter's block and btw would all the people who voted for nick pm me at my profile so i can send the sneek peek to you as a reply thnx. Enjoy chap 8!

When we went over to Teru's we found Nick sprawled over Teru's matress with Teru curled up on his chest. I didn't know why this made me mad and jeleous but I slamed the door and cleared my throat with an uneccassary loudness. Nick bolted up and looked at me with big eyes.

He stood up and looked my in the eyes, "You left me." he said, his eyes filled with such betrail and saddest in his eyes it made my heart quake and shiver over with guiltiness, "You left me for that 'shifter and you didn't even bother to come back to me and say you didn't love me to my face." I saw a tear trail down his cheek.

"I-I'm sorry but I. I do love you." I try to finish but he refuses to let me.

"Then why did you put me through that!" he yells and clenches his fist so tight blood trinckled through the cracks between his fingers, "Why are you putting me through this? Don't you know I love you damnit!"

"Yes, I know you love me and I know I love you but I'm not in love with you like I am with Tony-"

"Just stop right there! You don't know how it feels when you love someone... I mean in deep love with someone and they tell you their in love with a phony." he did some sort of hand geasture as if waving me off and he walked to the door brushing roughly past Tony before turning towards me an looking at me in the eye and saying harshily, "When you relize the truth then come to me... You know where to find me."

I sighed and looked at Nick's back as he walked away. He'd spent the night with his arm wrapped around my sister's shoulder just to tell me that he hate's to love me. Great. Just great.

Tony shook his head and walked up to me and wrapped an arm around my shoulder. "Don't worry about him, baby girl. He's just jeleous." he kissed me on the forehead.

I looked at Teru who was now sitting up and rubbing her eyes. "I'm sorry about Nick, V." she mumbled.

"Whatever." I brushed her apology off who is she to apologize for my Nick? What... Did I just think my Nick? Oh, wait yeah I did because he is mine! "Any news on the prophecies? Or the apoclyse?" I asked.

"No, but I have found a new resource who can tell us a little bit more about or pasts and stuff like that." she stood and walked up to me and Tony, "I called her and made and appointment with her, she is astatic to meet you by the way." Teru smiled a perfect bright smile.

"Who is she anyway?" Tony asked.

"She is what I guess you could consider as the Elder of the vampires." she said. "Her name is Duantia, she goes by D. She is the oldest woman lamia in the history of vamps who is still alive to this day."

"How come I've never heard of her?" Tony asks suspiously.

"Because, shifter, Duantia is exclusive she prefers to keep a low profile ever since she was put up for a bounty back in the late eighteen hundred's. Duantia studied with witches for a thousand years before studing the art of shifting with the Shapeshifter's. She has lived through each era even when the world ended and everytime a new order came that was who she studied with, keeping herself on a high yet very secretive pedistal. The only reason she isn't known for her age in today's world is because in the early nineteen hundred's she allowed the rumor of her deah by bounty to go around in order to get hunter's to well, stop hunting." Teru said all of this as she walked around her apartment getting clothes ready and trying to get things started for the day.

"I won't buy it 'til I see it." Tony folded his arms across his chest stubbornly.

"And that's the type of attitude that put the shifters at the near bottom of the Night World food chain, you all are just lucky the 'wolves are so disgusting otherwise we'd look at shifters as nasty little wanna-be's." Teru said in a offended manner.

"Eye roll." I said and looked at Tony, "Wait outside while my sister get's ready.

He nodded solenmly and walked out.

When the door closed behind him Teru looked at me hastidly, "I am so hurt." she said.

"What?"

"This is so wrong and it's hurting m, Victori." she hissed, walking studily toward ke glutching he chest in a gesture to mend her un-healed heart, "You got to choose which guy you wanted and it wasn't fair! Maybe Tony was meant to be mine. Maybe Nick was meant to be mine, I will never know because you were the mainstream in a four person affair." she said.

"What?" I repeated more intently.

"You heard me!" she yelled, "I was the soulmate to one of those men," she pointed at the door, "and you were the soulmate to one of them also. But do to our overwhelming powers we are able to sense each other's soulmate touch. You met the boys before I did. So they got the illusion that they were each of your soumate's when the truth is that one of them were mineVictori. Mine! But you are so selfish that you are the only one who got to know each of them and you just chose like you were deciding which flavor of frosen yogurt you wanted then you just gave me the remains out of your trash. Maybe I didn't want Nick! Did you ever think of that?" Tears were streaming down Teru's face and she was cry so hard snot was trinckling down her face. "I wasn't meant to be witb him but you chose my fate you aren't always right, Victori." she wiped her face with a Kleenix I hadn't relized she'd gotten until she had it in her hand.

"I'm sorry," was all I could say.

Tony's POV

I waited outside the door until I heard Teru's yelling and sobing. I didn't want to easedrop but she was yelling so loud a human couldn't help but hear. I rubbed my eyes and thought about what Teru was saying, and it was unfair. I never gave Teru a chance even when I didn find out there was a possibility that she could be my soulmate. Jus then Nick came up and punched me square in the jaw, pain exploded through me centering on my jaw. Everything went black.

...

I woke up tied up in a chair in a dark room with brick walls and a cement floor with only one door leading out. Just as I gathered all my thoughts and figured out what Nick had done to me, Nick bursted through the door.

"So, you really do kidnap people." I said teasing him with the knowledge I'd acumilated in V's mind.

"H-how... y-you you fucked V!" Nick yelled and was over me in less tthan a milosecond and choking the hell out of me, I tried to draw in a breath but it wouldn't come, he was taking my breath away with every shake. He was snapping my neck back and forth with excessive force. I was gasping in pain when he dug his sharp finger nails into my neck and blood started to drip through his fingers. I tried to scream but couldn't.

"How DARE you!" he screeched in my ear, fangs extended. He dashed for my throat the there was nothing I could do or say about it. He had me tied with a silver intwined rope to a silver chair, holding me defenseless while he bite down hard on my throat. I screamed as the burning pain kept getting stronger and stronger the more he yanked my throat, ripping it out with his fangs.

I merely sat there and gasped and wheezed as he drank my life away from me. The last thing I saw was his blood renched face, his red pupiless eye staring into mine, then he whispered softly, "Death shall greet you kindly, yet the other life will treat you harshly."

Then everything was black. I don't know how long I stayed in the never ending blackness, no sound, no light... nothing. Nothing but me and my dim thoughts. I thought about alot of things while I was in the darkness, I thought about how me and Victori seemed so right for each other, but then it felt so wrong somehow. I didn't know what to think. Fate had given us four a choice, unlike the other soulmates who didn't have a choice at love; but maybe fate gave the wrong people the choice because we didn't choose right I know that. I thought about what Teru had said. About how it was Victori's choice and not her's or Nick and mine's. It was true. Victori was treating us unfairly. Teru didn't even have a say in who she wanted to love.

Just as the thought came a heart renching pain exploded in my chest, and I had to struggle to hold on the the little bit of "consciousness" I had left. I screamed. No one could hear me, I couldn't even hear myself. But I held on to the little peice of life that still wanted to live inside me and I dind't let it go.

"Ohmigod!" I heard Teru's voice scream.

Teru, I wonder why she's so unset...

Victori's POV

Teru had taken me to the Vampire Elder's house, Tony had totally ditched us and that made me wonder if he had heard all of what Teru had raved at me about. I looked at my feet as we rode in her Stang. I am so selfish that I couldn't even think about my sister's feelings. I am so self-absorbed, clueless, and utterly the worst sister in the world. I turned my head and looked at my long lost sister, could I have ruined the relationship I never even remembered I had? "I'm so sorry for my selfishness." I whispered.

She smiled slowly turned towards me and beamed, giving me a solid nod of acceptance. She really was a caring person. When we pulled into a road that led to giant gates I thought, Oh great she lives in a gated community. We pulled up infront of the gates and Ture whispered something to the gaurd that made her big, blues eye blink once then do some sort of hanbd gesture that made the gates open. We then drove about twenty miles up a long, narrow seemingly never ending road. We finally pulled up infront of a giant, Victorian styled mansion that had what looked like four floors and a guest house out back with a lake and waterfall. Fansy, I thought in awe as I looked the expensive house over.

"I knorw right, or as you would say 'ikr'." Teru said, reading my thoughts suspiously because she only did that once when I first met her.

"Why, are you ready my mind?" I asked, suspicious.

"Well, you can read my thoughts if you want. I just thought since we were sisters might as well get as close as possible. You know, get to know each other's weekness' and stregnths' it could really help us in the final battle against the darkness." she said.

"You sound like some person off this book series I sat down long enough to read once." I said, thinking about how middle-aged the Witch series by Holder&Vague (And yes I just advedrtised a book so what).

"Oh, I read that series, good book. Some people wouldn't like it though." she said.

I tilted my head to the side. "Why is that?" I asked.

"Becuase, the thing about that book is that you have to sit down and really get into it otherwise you could really get lost." She said as she turned th engine off and gathered her purse and big, green bag that she kept her scrolls in.

"I guess your right, I got bored with the first chapter," I got out the car, "But it really got interesting when she moved in with her aunt in the secong chap." I said as we walked up to the mansion. Making small talk with her was good I guess, considering we just recovered from our first sister fight in a long time I'm sure.

"Yeah, we used to fight all the time before the storm. We were close though, I remember one time when we were in a major fight over who got to play as Dora in 'pretend', but when this girl down the street named McKenzie McLeanord threw gum in my hair and hit me in the face you knock her out cold." she said with a laugh.

I laughed, "How old were we?" I asked.

"Like... five or something like that. It was hilarious when mom had to explain to the neighbors that you didn't mean it. Really you had been drinking some stregnthening vixen elixer that gave you etra strenght, plus your crazy spunk you were a killing machine." Teru was laughing hard by the time we made it to the giant double doors, and by now I had joined her.

The door swung open before us right when I was abou to use the giant, golden drangon door knocker. A woman with long, knee-length, white blonde hair, a sharp nose, eyes that look like they have seen the world their sparkling blue and green mixture shining brightly, her natural pink lips pouting. "Hello," she said in a whispy, beautiful voice.

"I-" Teru started.

"I know who you are Aishi, and Thanatos." she nodded at Teru when she said "Aishi" and nodded at me when she said, "Thanatos."

I know that in one of the scrolls they called you Aishi Teru but what does she mean by Thanatos?, I thought to Teru.

"Thanatos means Death and Aishi mean Love, two different sides of two different stories come together as one soul. One sisterhood." Duantia said as she made a gesture for us to come in.

We walked into the foyer and stood there dumbstrucked, the ceiling was a casade of chandaliers and gold, the floor was a beautiful white marble, there was a fireplace on the right wall that was oddly complimented by the derk wood bar at the left wall. There was a white leather couch, automen, and a love seat facing the fireplace with a expensive looking glass table with elegant designs on them sitting infront of the fireplace. Swanky.

"Thank you." Duantia mummbled as she lead us over to the couch. She sat on the couch next to Teru and I sat on the automen. "So, you are here for information." she said, I didn't know if it was meant to be a question or a statement.

"Um, yes we are. It's about the prophecies." Teru started but didn't seem to know how to finish.

"Yes, the prophecies. You want to know what I've studied about them." Duantia laughed, "They were right, Aishi shall search for knowledge while Thanatos shall for power. Ah, first young Victori you want to know why I call you thanatos. Because that is your soul's name. You two are Old Souls and everytime the world ended you two were there the only two that survived through out the whole thing. Your physical bodies died rigt affter your soul was finished with it and then your soul's rested and waited for the next time they needed to be used." Duantia sipped on some tea that was sitting on the coffe table.

"So your saying basically that we are Old Souls that change the world evertime it ends?" I asked, wondering exactly why the Wild Powers exist when we do the real work if these prophecies are so true.

"I'll explain it to her," Teru said to Duantia then turned to me, "Okay, we are Old Souls, which are basically people who get reincarnated over and over again. And everytime we come to Earth for a new life we are twin sister's, we were brother's once but that was when the witches ruled, anyway when we reincarnate we are the ones to always bring the world back togehter with our mutual deaths. But, it's different this time you see what's ending the world this time isn't a natural disaster," she glanced at Duantia who gave her a solemn nod, "It's total and complete darkness and blood."

I nodded, "Yeah, that's what one of the prophecies said." I said listening to her intently.

"This is the last time the world is going to end and this time the race that rules the world after the destruction is going to rule it forever so it's our and the Wild Power's jobs to make sure that that race isn't evil. What the true goal is: save the world from the darkness and ensure that human's stay at the top of the food chain, well as far as they know anyway." Teru said.

Just then a small petite, light skinned, brown eyed, beautiful girl in a maid's clothing stepped in the room and respectfully bowed to Duantia then to us. "Madams would you like some tea?" she asked in a voice that sounded scared.

"Um, sure." Teru said and noded at her.

"Can I help?" I offered.

Duantia looked at me with sharp eyes, "The servant's serve. Not the guests." she said in a pulled voice.

"Oh, I am very acustomed to the way that the have's and have-not's system works. I'm sure you know that in this life I grew up in money? I have never appriciated the way that system works, and I would like to help Ms..." I looked up at the servant girl.

She licked her dry lips then bit down, "M-Milesant, Ms. Milesant." when she spoke she fiddled with her hands nervously, her eyes darting back and forth between me and Duantia who was staring at me with stern eyes.

I stood, "I will help Milesant with the tea and you two try to dumb down all this information in a way that I would understand." I said and walked with Milesant into the giant kitchen that a professional chef would envy.

"Why?" Milesant asked intently, staring at the pot of tea that she sat on the stove.

"Why what?" I asked as I opened the new box of Lipton Tea bags.

"Why are you doing this for me? To me? I am nothing but an servant with no power against Duantia and when you two leave she will scold me greatly. I could loose my job for letting you into her kitchen against the master's will, I could loose everything." Milesant hadn't turned the stove on yet but with her stern gaze on the pot the water started to boil over. "Because she has that power you know? You could be at the top of your game one day, get on her bad side..." she gave a small, non-humored laugh, "Well, let's just say you are no longer what you would call 'the shit'." The pot was made of glass (weird), and you could see the water evaperating under her gaze as the pot started to get a light red tint.

Then the pot exploded from heat. I jumped back with a small shreik. "Oh." I stared at Milesant as she seemed to cool down.

"I am sorry, that was my fault." she whispered and started to clean the glass, I beant down to help her but she moved eyes on me that were once brown but were now irredescent violet. I backed off and went back into the foyer where Teru and Duantia were giggling.

"What?" I asked.

"I was just showing Teru how to transfer her vision from her eyes to here ears. You see we saw everything without actually being there... Millisent takes her work quiet seriously you will find." she said and took another sip.

"Yeah, had to figure that out the hard way." I stated and sat on the automen. "Her eyes... They changed color." I said looking at the door that led from the kitchen to the foyer.

"They tend to when she get's angry, a great power that girl posesses... If only she could control her urge's though." Duantia shook her head, "I plan on using her in the final battle, because when she looses control she can be deadly and that is the main time we will need something deadly."

Me and my sister nodded in unison. "So anyway we're not here to talk about her," Teru said. "Now about the prophecies please, tell us the whole story."

Duantia turned to me, "Your sister already knows the most of it, but I will explain it all to you:"

Just then an image, no more like a old film played back in my head and judging by Teru's small gasp beside me she saw it, too.

"Sharl are you ready?" a girl with long, silky copper hair, a muscled body, and porcilen white skin with eye like Teru asked another girl with short, croped blonde hair, wicked curves, the same face structure, and eye like mine.

"Of sourse, Maridith I am always ready for anything." Sharl tucked one of her blonde bangs behind her ear and picked up a velvet marble bag that had a golden string tied tight around the top, holding it together.

Meridith put a gentle hand on her sister's shoulder, "Sharl this is something bigger than the both of us. I do believe what the witch said." her eyes were filled with worry.'

"Meridith," Sharl whispered looking at her sister with eyes filled with hope, "That crazy old bat is the Elder of the witches, I'm surprised she doesn't have a cane yet. Look I do believe in all this 'Night World' mumbo-jumbo, and I do believe that when I open this bag that the powder inside will give us the power to stop the world from the never ending water. But as crazy as it may be: I do not believe we will be able to reincarnate. We are mere humans." Sharl played with the golden string with her peerfect fingers as she said this.

"We are much more than humans sister," Meridith said urgently. "We are the protector's of this realm. And as soon as you figure that out the better. Now hurry we must go to the lodestone before the world starts to unravel."

Then the film faltered and went away as soon as it came, I got a quick glance at Teru's shocked expression before another film poped up in my head.

A girl with short curly red hair, a heart shaped face, and eyes like mine walked down a hall way of what looked like an ancient castle wearing a dress that was pink and had a form fitting torse but it spread out from the waist down, white elbow legnth gloves, and pink lipstick. She walked until she got to a open window (which was really like a opening in the wall because there was no glass really just a stoned rim). She looked out the opening and a tear traced her cheek.

What she saw when she looked out was her kingdom that had been destroyed from fire, the molten lava was racing toward her home. The shapeshifters had all dug a very deep mote around the castle to stall the lava from the hidden castle in order to keep the princess' safe.

"Mairlen!" a girl who was identical to the girl except she had Teru's eyes and her dress was green, yelled as she ran to the girl with my eyes. Lifting the front of her dress as she hurried down the hallway to her sister.

"Mairlen, the prophetess said that she has found out what we shound do in order to save the world!" the girl ran up to Mairlen with a smile on her face.

"Katherine that's impossible. I know we supposedly have all these powers and that we are Old Souls who saved the world before but... There's just no hope. How are we suppose to save our kingdom? I mean the witches already put the Dragon's away now they are coming for us I believe. I don't know which I should be more afraid of, the witches or the lava." Mairlen tilted her head back and gently rubbed across the bottom of her eye, wipping away tears without running her mascara.

"Look all we have to do is open up this bag of magic powders, lather our skin with it, and voula! We have the power to save the world! I promise you it will work." Katherine lifted up the same bag that Sharl and Meridith had in the other mind film.

"Look, I know we are supposedly the protector's of thisd realm but do you really think that that powder is going to work a second time?" Mairlen took the bag gently and held it up for a better veiw.

"I know it will just like I know that I will see you in another life time."Katherine smiled the familier knowing smile of Teru.

Mairlen smiled a wicked smile like mine and said surely, "I trust you sister." then she pulled the golden string.

The film was over and I quickly looked over to Duantia who's eyes were now wide and she looked strained. "One more memory." she whispered and then another mind film was thrown at us.

"Brittany, Maya saidthat she wished you would calm down." a girl with curves like an angel, tanned skin, fine bone structure, and red stained lips walked over to a similar girl but instead of straight black hair, Brittany had short blue hair.

"Angel (pronounced on-gal), I do not approve of your relationship with Maya. We have secret duties we have to preform and Maya's disrupting you greatly." Brittany got up and walked over to her twin who was oddly wearing a black crop top, a black skirt so short it showed her undergarmets, and no shoes. That's usually the way that Maya would dress.

"Brittany, what are you saying." Angel flipped her black, silky hair over her shoulder and smiled wicked at Brittany, my eyes gleaming with tease.

Brittany got up in one swift motion from her bed. "Angel you know good and well what I'm saying." she hissed, Teru's eyes were burning with anger. "I'm damned well tired of you hanging around with this Maya. She's bad news." the witches hands were now glowing with a green aura-like essence around them as she clenched her fists tighter.

Angel's hands did the same only her color was red. "What, you rather I hang around with you and goody-goody Hellewise?" she hissed.

"Yes, Hellewise is a good person and I do believe she could help us." Brittany sighed, the green glow left her hands and she flopped back down on her bed, looking up at her twin. "Angel, the last two lives we waited for the end of the world to happen before we did something. But now we have the knowledge all we have to do is go to the lode stone with the powder, pour the powder in the hole that will devlop in the lodestone and then pour our blood in the lodestone and we will have saved the world." Brittany was getting more and more excited as the simplicity of all this was revealed as she spoke the long time thoughten words aloud.

Angel sat next to her sister, "Your right. I know how simple it sounds but I don't want to die, and Maya says she has found a way to immortality." Angel smiled wickedly.

Brittany slapped her sister so hard it left a mark on her brown skin. "Don't you dare listen to that devil. Maya and Hellewise used to be the closest of sister's but now Maya is turning over to this this.. DARK MAGIC! And I'll be cold and damned if I let my sister get into that. Now you are coming with me to this journey to the lodestone and then we are going to save the world before it ends." Brittany got up and grabbed her sisters arms pulling her up with her.

Angel looked at her twin with a shocked expression. Then nodded slowly grasping how important this really was.

The mind film was over and I looked over at Teru only to find the exact same shocked expression that I was sure showed on my face also. I looked over to Duantia who was breathing deepily and clutching her chest tightly.

"Miliscent!" I called and Milliscent came in with a tea pot in her hand and a confused look on her face, until she got a look at Duantia. She quickly put the tea pot down on the table and ran over to her master.

Milliscent pulled out a hankerchief from her back pocket and wipped it across Duantia's forehead. She whispered words in a different language until Duantia's hand slowly went down limply from her chest and her breathing went back to normal.

Duantia whispered what seemed like a thanks to Milliscent in the same weird language as Milliscent was using a moment ago. "Go on, Milliscent." she whispered in English.

Milliscent stood, put the henkerchief back into her back pocket and then bowed shortly to Duantia then me and Teru before leaving and going back into the kitchen.

"Sorry about the scare, that happens from time to time whenever I use too much power, for power lies in the soul and my soul is ver very old and worn." she sniffed then tucked a strand of stray hair back behind her ear. "Now I'm sure you want this explained a little more in detail."

Teru blinked once then said in an emotionless voice, "We have to commit suicide in order to save the world."

I looked over at her, shock inside me growing wider and wider.

"Doesn't it make sense." Teru said, "Look it said so with Brittany and Angel. If we go to this lodestone, which is where the rip in the realm starts and pour that powder in it then sacrifice our selves the hole will close and we would've saved the world." she said.

"Speaking of realms..." I turned over to Duantia after soaking in all of what Teru just said, "What did Meridith and Sharl mean when they said that they... we were the protector's of this realm?" I asked.

"Well, there are three realms. The Day Realm which is the second largest realm next to the Farren realm the Day Realm is a realm where only the purest of souls are born in it is simply heaven, then there is the third biggest realm the Quest Realm this is the realm where the people who are cut between good and bad go, then the ther is the Farren Realm, where we are. The Farren realm is the biggest realm there is, the souls born in this realm are both bad and good and immortal. Which is why the Night World is in this realm and not one of the other two." Duantia took a deep breath and took on a serious expression, "The realm's each have a protector, but sice the Farren realm is bigger it requires two protector's, sister's... You."

Teru and I gasped in unison.

Duantia continued, "The realm's each have been destoryed at least once, the only time a realm is destroyed is when another soul that belongs to anotherr realm escapes the life loop, which is when the souls that belong in one realm keep reincarnating but the soul never leaving that realm, and the escaped soul goes into the wrong realm once that person reaches eighteen then the realm that soul is in is currupted and it ends. That's the protector's job, to find whatever supstance that their realm produces each time they are reicnarnated. For the Day realm it's a blue rainbow's corner, for the Quest realm it is a slice of the devil's horn, for our realm it is the sawdust from the tree of life. It is allways produced in that violet velvet bag with the golden string as you saw in the 'mind films'. As Thanatos lightl y put it." she smiled at me.

"Why are you calling me and Teru out of our names? I mean Aishi Teru? Thanados? What's that about?" I asked accusingly.

She chuckled, "Those are your spirit name's. God name's each soul then puts it in a body for the human's to give you your mortal name. Some times humans give their child the right name but it's really rare."

Teru stood abrutaly. "So than it's settled. We have to find the bag."

I nodded and stood next to her. "Any clue where to fine it?" I asked Duantia.

She looked at me with sad eyes. "No, I only know where the lodestone is I'm afraid. It's in the deserts of Las Vages. Your soul's should lead you there peacefully. From the lodestone on your souls should give you hints on where to find the bag. Good luck, guardians, princess', and witches. May your years of experience help you."

Excruciatingly lonf chap sorry for the wait. Review and dnt forget to pm mi profile for the sneek peek