This one is longer than my normal chapters because, well, it's an important chapter! You'll see why. (: Well, I wanted to thank everyone who has kept up with my story so prominently and I would like to say "OH MY GOD! I HIT ONE-HUNDRED REVIEWS!" That's AMAZING! XD I'm so excited, I've been dancing around my house—that is not made up, I'm being totally truthful! Well, This one took so long because, well, we're having money issues—who isn't—and I am desperately trying to finish "Black Fire" The real book I'm writing... Well, since I'm actually going for a published book here, I wanted y'all to know that 'Carissa' is sadly my fake name, lots of people do that. Well really, my name is Natalie Baker. I'm sorry I wasn't truthful with y'all about that... it made me feel bad, well, please keep reading and reviewing! Tell me what you think..
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As Mary-Lynnette laid beside her sleeping Ash, her body sore and tender, she couldn't bring herself to be mad like she would've been if it were any other guy. Yes, she was a virgin before... last night, but she knew what it would feel like. Her and her mom had that talk many years ago. And yes, sex before marriage is wrong, but they were soulmates and promised to each other now.
At that she had to look down at the ring placed on her left hand. It sparkled in the sliver of moonlight that showed through the curtain. It was a joyous amazing night, something that she would remember for the rest of her life. Yes, she wasn't mad, but why did she feel like it was wrong timing and wrong... just wrong?
"Mary?" She heard Ash's lazy whisper.
"Yes..." She let her word trail off, nervously. The same question that went through every girls head after... something like that, went though her head now, Was I good?She knew that it was wrong to wonder, but she was also scared to find out.
"Why are you still awake?" He asked, before breaking into a loud yawn, "Are you okay?"
"Uh," she hesitated secondly, "Yeah."
Sadly, her pause registered in her thoughts and Ash knew, "Mary-Lynnette?" She rolled over to face him, but instantly regretted it as pain shot through her, she winced, "Are you okay?" Ash asked firmly.
"Do you think...." she started scared like, "That was the right thing for us to do? I mean, We knew each other for a couple weeks before you left and you just got back yesterday and I don't know, but if you think it was okay then I guess it was okay, but I'm scared it wasn't right and you were all, 'I'd have to make this up again.' and I don't want you to leave again, but of course you could if you wanted to but—"
Ash cut her off, "MARY! Calm down...I'm not leaving. I'm sorry that you're having second thoughts and if I could I would take it all back—if you wanted me to that is. But I will only ever love you, Mary-Lynnette, remember that."
Sorry. She thought towards him, I don't usually ramble like that, I love you.
It's okay, Mary-Lynnette. He said scooting over to hold her in his arms, she rested her head on his naked chest, breathing in and out slowly, in sync with Ash. As she was about to be asleep when something came back to her, something important.
Miss them yet? Echoed in her mind, the words from the window had in her dream... the dream that happened to be controlled by an evil Dragon.
"The others!" Mary-Lynnette screamed, remembering that in her dream the other's were gone.
"What are you talking about?" Ash asked, confused, but Mary-Lynnette was already out of the bed and grabbing clothes off the ground, ending up in Ash's boxer's and her own tank top. She ran from the room leaving Ash in the bed.
"ROWAN!" She screamed, running down the stairs to where the girl's rooms were located, "JADE! MARK! KESTREL!" She named off, busting into Rowan's room. All of a sudden she heard a high-pitched scream coming from Jade and Mark's small room,Why Jade, why is it always... "JADE!" She screamed again, all but breaking down the door, Jade was in there, thankfully so was the vampiric Mark. The room was trashed, with all of Jade's favorite books on the ground, the lamp knocked over, the bed over turned, and two kitten caresses and a grown cat's on the ground, with a crying Jade over them.
"what happened!?" Mary-Lynnette yelled, pain in her abdomen not truly forgotten, but beside the point, "What's up with the kittens?" No one answered her, Mark was picking up the books as Jade picked up the cats, tears streaming down her cheeks. "What. Happened?" She asked again, grabbing the lamp and putting it back on the table.
"What the hell?" Ash said, walking in and stopping mid-step, taking in the room. "What happened?" He stopped Jade from leaving the room, grabbing her by the arms and asking her directly, "What. Happened?"
"No one will tell me!" Mary-Lynnette sigh, exasperated.
"What?" Ash said picking up one of the caresses from his younger sister, "Cat got your tongue?" He sneered, a forced grin on his face.
"STOP! JEWELS!" Jade sobbed, grabbing for the kitten. "Give her to me, Ash, please?"
"Tell me what's going on then!" He said, holding the body farther from Jade. She jumped and grabbed it, careful not to damage the already ripped up kitten.
Suddenly he turned to look at Mary, questioningly, "Mary-Lynnette." He said seriously, "How did you know they were in trouble? Rowan and Kestrel's rooms look the same as this one. They're not in there and there is blood—not human blood." He added, seeing her distress.
"The... that dream." she said slowly.
"It... it was an eagle." Mark spoke up, fixing the bed. "It talked... It called itself a... dragon."
"It killed the cat's and threw... us... around." Jade spoke up, nervously.
"Is everyone stammering tonight or is it just me noticing it?" Ash asked, his voice as careful as Jade grabbing the kitten, as he put all the papers back on the desk. "Come on. Let's search the others girl's room." Jade excused herself to bury the kittens in the backyard, tears still streaming down her face.
"Ash, what's going on?" Mary-Lynnette asked, grabbing his arm as he lead her to the room across the hall.
"This Dragon better have a good reason for doing this." He said like he didn't hear what Mary-Lynnette said, and he didn't. He was listening out around the house for anything out of the ordinary, How is this thing doing all this at once? He thought. Just because Ash was tough and had to be tough for Mary-Lynnette and the others, he was scared. Scared to lose his family, scared to lose his love, but he covered it up with his tough words and his uncaring attitude, though it really couldn't hide the feelings from Mary. He couldn't hide anything from her.
So, she probably knew about his scared feelings. He was scared that she would get hurt, he was scared that he couldn't protect her from a dragon like this one, but he had to.
unless—
"Mary-Lynnette..." Ash said.
"Ash, pain..." she squeaked and just as the words were out she fell, unconscious, again.
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Rowan was scared, she couldn't see where her and Kestrel were, but she knew they weren't alone. There was a mind near by, an unexpectedly bright one, but the mind had walls all around itself. So she couldn't read it. She didn't know how they got in this stuffy room, her and Kestrel had been knocked out at the house and awoke here.
Rowan? Kestrel mentally called to her, not daring to mutter a word aloud, can you get a read on that other mind?
No... Rowan thought, back. Probably a guard. Hey, how... bright does his light seem to you?
Like... normal?
Very strange... Rowan thought, remembering what Ash had told her once when they were alone before he left a whole year ago: She burns brighter than anyone I've ever known. She thought about this a while. Could it—
Rowan! Kestrel thoughts screamed to her in shock, Do you think?
Hey can I have my own thoughts at all?
Well, if you want to have your own thoughts then block them, Kestrel thought, quieting her mind down, I'm tired...
"Hey..." The soft voice scared Rowan and Kestrel into standing position and though they could move their arms—which were tied with a wood-type rope, making it impossible.
"Who are you?" Kestrel barked.
After a slight hesitation, the soft voice said, "Kris. I'm prisoner here, just as both of you are." As he said this, he slightly opened his mind so they could tell that he wasn't lying also showing that he was a human.
"How long have you been here?" Rowan asked, keeping her calm, as always. "And why?"
"Well, Have you heard this before?
One from the land of kings long forgotten;
One from the hearth which still holds the spark;
One from the Day world where two eyes are watching;
One from the twilight to be one with dark."
"Yes, the Wild Powers." Kestrel said, "I've heard that they've found three of them. 'Land of kings long forgotten' Delos Redfern. 'Hearth which still holds the spark' Iliana Dominick-Harman. 'Day world where two eyes are watching' Jezebel—I mean Jez Redfern and 'Twilight to be one with dark' Hasn't—"
"No, don't say it..." He said, his voice full of an unexpected malence, "you see, 'Twilight to be one with dark' Kristian McNole, at your service—though, I like Kris better."
"HOW!?" Kestrel asked, trying to figure out how that could be possible, how Circle daybreak didn't know anything about any of this.
"I think," Rowan started, "You should probably explain how that is, Kris..."
"Well, you see I was taken from my home when I was a mere child. The Dragon you probably already know about him, John Donurk, took me and raised me, leaving me human. He said that I would be changed into a vampire at seventeen, but before they changed me there was an accident. A maiden angered me while bandaging my bleeding calf, I don't remember what the fight was about, but I remember the blinding blue lightning and then she had disappeared. John had fought for weeks as I was stranded in my room about me. Finally one of our guards came and got me. Throwing me down here."
"And how old were you when they threw you in here?" Rowan asked, quietly.
"Five."
"So," Kestrel started slowly, "You've lived on the outside of the Night World—twilight you could say—and were meant to be part of it until they figure out that you were a Wild Power, so they threw you down—"
All of a sudden there was a blinding white light, it cut Kestrel's sentence short they all squinted into it. "Hey!" A voice grizzly voice yelled into the room, "No talking!"
"I'm so—" Rowan started, but the guard didn't want to hear anything from her, in five short steps he was over her, he grabbed her by the arm and threw her across the room, where she hit the wall, sliding down it she didn't make a sound besides a slight whimper.
Since, the room was silent after that, the guard left, leaving the door wide open. "Here." he said and they were thrown two blood packets and a bag that smelled of human food, "Eat."
The door shut loudly.
"Rowan!" Kris and Kestrel yelled.
"I'm fine," She said sitting up, as she righted herself her bound hand accidentally touched, skin that wasn't hers. All of a sudden her body was filled with Electricity. It came from her hand and went down to her toes, back up to her brain.
"Hey, don't I know you?" Rowan and Kris said at the same time.
All Rowan could see in her mind was a big flashing sign, Soulmate, soulmate, soulmate.
Wasn't that just great? I thought Rowan deserved love. Well, I'm fighting myself on the idea that Mary-Lynnette should be changed into a Vampire. Wouldn't you think that Ash would try to persuade her once again? Well, Review and tell me. Also, tell me what you think of Rowan And Kris, and Kris' story. Please, I need thoughts—good or bad, just review and tell me. I can always change it up.(: Surprises coming soon, stay tooned! :D