R here, hope you enjoy the chapter

Kaidence wakes up to see a person staring at her. Very closely.

Her fist immediately shoots out to cop her in the nose.

"Ow!" The girl replies, staring at her. "What the hell, Kai?"

"Hayley?" Kaidence says, startled as she receives a giant hug. "What are you doing here? Why are you here?"

"I've always been here," Hayley replies, smiling. "I'm a Hunter too."

Kaidence shakes her head, heading to the bathroom.

Looking in the mirror, she winces at her reflection. Her brown eyes, usually dark were now dilated and bright. Her skin looked dirty, probably from driving into a river, and her hair was limp and disgusting.

"Can I shower here?" She asks, turning to see Hayley still sitting on the bed.

"Sure," she replies. "We got some of Christina's clothes, she seemed to be your size."

Kaidence nods, showering and washing up, sighing in relief as the hot water hit her face and she scrubbed at her hair, using about half the shampoo bottle just to remove the dirt and mud. Finally emerging in soft and comfortable clothing, a black shirt and black leggings, she heads out, smiling at Hayley.

"The others have been waiting for a while now," Hayley says, grinning. "Let's go."

"For me? Why are they waiting for me?" Kaidence asks, frowning as they both head out.

Hayley was a friend from a long time ago. They had grown up together, enjoying life. Discovering their powers together, giggling about inside jokes together, talking late into the night with each other. Hayley being three years older than Kai had been a guardian sister for her, a safe haven. It was all happy and lucky and joyful. Until Hayley had had to move away with her parents for a "new change", a "fresh start."

Or that's what her mom had told Kaidence when she was only 13 years old. "But why?" Kaidence had screamed at her mom, her own mom. "Why does she have to go?" "It's for the best." Her mom had said. But it wasn't fair, it wasn't. Only Hayley had known about her powers, only she had been there for Kaidence when she had accidentally killed someone, sobbing late into the night in her arms. Her power was based on emotion, that was the first thing that Hayley had taught her.

This all lead to her parents. Their death was nothing, simple, an accident, a freak accident. The gas had accidently been left on in their house, and when Kaidence had gone out one night, to go to the movies for the first time without Hayley, something must have caught fire and the house just blew apart. With her parents in it.

This was all what Kaidence was told. What she didn't tell anyone was how she had been messing around with her magic, trying to get a small ball of flame to roll along her knuckles. How it was just a small game, a harmless one. How she still had the flame interlacing her fingers when she was heading out the front door. How she turned once to wave and tell them that she'd be gone for an hour or so. How they'd waved, smiling and glad. How their auras were bright and happy, how happy they were. How her mum had laughed and told her to be careful and hide her magic. How she'd smiled and lost control of the magic when she lifted her hand to wave once again. How the house splintered from the impact of the flame as it met the gas. How she herself was thrown back, her hand in front of her face, providing a shield between her and the heat that would have surely killed her. How her mouth tasted of ash as she stood up, legs shaking. How the air smelled of smoke and burning. How she spun when she heard the police and ambulance on the way. How she couldn't find their auras. How she couldn't find the auras she had grown up with. How she couldn't, how she ran that night, heading far, far away from that place. How she collapsed at someone's doorstep, how the warm arms took her in.

How she found Xena.

"And we think it would be good if you spent some time here." Hayley says, smiling at her.

Kaidence realised at that point that she had spaced out during the whole explanation.

They entered a room full of people sitting around a large table.

"What's going on?" Kaidence asks when everyone swivels to stare at her.

"I don't believe it." Christina says in awe. "And she doesn't know at all?"

"Nope," Eric replies, grinning.

"What don't I know about?" Kaidence asks, scratching her arm awkwardly.

"Absolutely nothing." Another male says cheerfully, grabbing her shoulders and gently steering her to the table where she takes a seat. "It's 9 in the morning, can we tone down the aggressiveness on the poor girl?"

Kaidence turns to inspect the male who stands behind her. He was maybe a few years older than her, with brown hair and cheerful blue eyes that were currently glaring round at everyone.

"I agree," Hayley says, sliding into the seat next to her, holding a plate with a stack of pancakes. "Eat." She says, shoving the plate in front of Kai.

She obeys, picking up a fork and digging into the pancakes, placing a forkful in her mouth. It was heaven in a bite.

"Good?" The male who she had just met asks, slinging a dishcloth over his shoulder.

"Amazing." Kai confirms, taking another bite.

"Well, we may as well introduce ourselves," he then says, sitting in the chair next to her.

"My name is Eric and I enjoy killing people. My hobbies include sharpening my blades and knitting socks for elderly women." Eric snarks, leaning back in his chair.

"When you're done being an asshole, Bloodstone." The guy next to her snaps. "I highly doubt she'd want to learn more about YOU. What is there to know, anyways? He loves looking in mirrors all day and lounges around, letting us do all the work."

Kaidence has to shove another forkful of pancake in her mouth to stop herself from laughing.

"I'm Christopher, this is Christina." The male from the previous day says, gesturing to himself and the girl sitting next to him. "We're twins." "Our parents thought it would be hilarious if we had similar names." Christina says, rolling her eyes.

"I'm Elara, and this is Matt." The red haired girl from the previous night states, grinning at a dark brown haired male.

"They're in LOVEEE." Eric says, making kissy faces.

"Completely and unconditionally," Christina adds, adding a moony eyed face with twisted hands.

The male next to her rolls her eyes, although he smiles. "I'm Nikolai."

"We've all been waiting for you to wake up," Christina says, bouncing in her chair excitedly.

"Oh, why?" Kaidence asks, frowning. Genuinely confused, she looked around as everyone laughed.

"You're the last of your kind, sweetie." Elara says, patting Kaidence on her hand. "So you have amazing powers and-"

"And everyone wants to see you kick some ass." Hayley rolls her eyes, smiling as she leans back in her chair.

"I'm sure you know all about how the Devil's child is after you." Christina says sympathetically. "It must be awful."

"Wait, what?" Kaidence laughs nervously. "No, Eric said Satan. He never told me anything else."

"Eric," Elara says disapprovingly, shaking her head at a blissfully uncaring Eric.

"What? Satan, Satan's child, his maid; they're all the same in the end, aren't they?" Eric says, shrugging.

"Well, it's a bit more than that," Nikolai says, frowning at Kaidence's empty plate as he picks it up to place it in the sink.

"Okay, so basically-" Christina starts.

"No, let me explain-" Chris interrupts.

"Hold on, I literally brought her here-" Eric says, sitting up and actually looking interested in the conversation now.

"Everyone, out!" Nikolai snaps, clapping his hands when he sees Kai's expression of bewilderment. "I'LL explain it all to her."

They all file out obediently, muttering under their breath about how they could have explained it better.

"Hayley, I'll bring her to you afterwards." He tells Hayley, who nods and follows the others out of the room, closing the door softly behind her.

"Now, how do you feel?" Nikolai asks her, leading her to a couch where they both sit. Clapping, two mismatching cups and a kettle fly into the room, landing on the coffee table with a clunk. Frowning, he watches as a pitcher of milk and a tumbler of sugar also file in slowly, landing on the table finally. Smiling, he claps again, a plate of strawberry frosted biscuits landing on the table. "Biscuit? I made them myself!"

Kaidence looks at him with surprise and relief. "Are you like me as well?"

"No," he replies kindly, taking a biscuit and passing it to her. "I'm a mage, more into magic, while you control things with your mind."

She nods, accepting the biscuit as well as a large, chipped mug of coffee. "Could you please tell me everything?"

"Tell you?" He laughs. "I can go one step better."

She frowns, and all of a sudden is spinning and falling.

Down, down, down in a brightly lit vortex until there is nothing.

She finally lands in a dim room, a vast contrast to the previous room and the tunnel she had just fallen through.

"A long time ago, Shadowhunters, all kinds of magical beings and humans coexisted in harmony." She hears Nikolai say; as if on a speaker all around her. "They depended on each other, there was peace and the removal of any one group would seal the fate of the other two forces."

She walks to the one large window in the room, looking out at the life and happiness beyond.

"But, of course, there would be a person that did not approve. Satan's son himself."

She watches as a male strides into the room, sneering at the light outside and grabbing the curtain, yanking it shut, blocking all light from entering.

"His father had warned him to stay on the low, but he believed that the circles should remain separate. That mixing and matching people was a sin."

She is thrown into a dark, dingy dungeon where she watches as the same male whips another younger boy, a mage, who screams in pain. "Mercy...please, mercy!"

She tries to run ahead, throwing herself in front of the boy, raising her arms up in defence. "Please, stop!" She screams, but the whip tears through her, as if she was a ghost, and she is thrown into a time flux again, this time emerging on a dark clifftop

"He brought all the elements together to destroy them all, to build a new world, but overestimated." She watched as the sky splintered with blinding light.

"The circles were forced to separate." She was now in a study, similar to the room she had started in. A group of people stood in the centre of the room in a circle, palms facing outwards towards each other, a glowing light filling the room. "To make it easier, the Mages like me made sure that the Humans forgot of the existence of magic, of our kinds. But the legend always lived on, in the form of fairy tales, of fantasy worlds. Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, The Hobbit, Twilight and more, they are all remnants of worlds long past and forgotten."

She is brought back to the room she started in. "The male was furious. All his plans, foiled. In a fit of rage, he wreaked havoc upon the magic holders, the non humans." She watches as everything outside freezes and disappears, as if being wafted away by the wind. "They were not dead; merely not alive or in a place where they could be accessed."

She is now brought to a field where a small band of people run towards what looked like a portal. "People like me were killed, I am the last of my kind. The others that you all saw today managed to make it through." She watches as small children run through the portal to the human world, safe, while a couple hand a toddler to a younger looking version of Nikolai. The mother places one final kiss on the child's forehead before turning back to the male who stalked through the long grass. Nikolai stepped through the portal and was gone, but Kai watched onwards. The male bares his teeth, sending out two daggers that hit the couple with a sickening 'thunk' before they both fall.

"He discovered that day that people had escaped, Shadowhunters and one mage, that being me. And one, last magic holder. She was young, she didn't know much. But she was there. And she was one of the strongest there could ever be." Kaidence is thrown back into the study, where the male paces. "He still dedicates his time and life to finding the girl, the one that got away. Years passed, the girl grew up in a safe house, until it was burnt; they had been betrayed."

Kaidence watched as Nikolai steps in front of the burning building and in front of another, younger version of herself, pressing a palm to her forehead, watched as her eyes glowed a bright gold. "I planted false memories of false parents, a false story, false memories of leaving her friends, I gave her a place to go, a random address." Finally, Kaidence sees herself stumbling up to Xena's apartment door, collapsing there. "Until she found a safe haven." Kaidence is then thrown through a torrent of memories, including her being attacked by the demon, her graduating with Xena, smiling as she looked at the apartment they would share, all up until the moment where she drove into the river with Eric.

She is finally thrown into the study, where Nikolai sits next to her, legs crossed and eating a biscuit.

"That was me." Kai says, placing a palm on her forehead. "He's looking for me."

"Correct." Nikolai replies cheerfully, taking a sip of coffee.

"What is his name? How can I find him?" Kaidence asks, teeth gritting. How DARE this man ruin so many lives because of his own selfish ideas!

"Did you not hear me, he is Satan's SON." Nikolai tuts. "We do not know his name. We are safe here, a portal to a pocket of space that cannot be reached by evil hearts."

Kaidence nods slowly, letting all the information sink into her head. "Well, what can I do now? What should I do?"

"You can do whatever you wish, dear." Nikolai says, widening his arms. His eyes soften for a second when he looks at Kaidence's serious, brown ones. "You are home."

My god that was long. Hope you enjoyed