Hell Hath No Fury

Chapter 10

My End, My Love

I could not do this alone. There had to be a way to reach where they were. There just had to be. I searched the chamber frantically while I battled with my own body. I accidently pushed a box off a table and a small, golden dial spun out and landed face up on the floor. I picked it up to see that Kain's insignia was etched into the metal with a vampire shaped hand print with a small button in the centre. I traced it with the tips of my claws. I could only guess that it was a time device linked to Kain. Maybe it would take me to him... or maybe it would send me hurtling randomly through time...

Another contraction brought me to my knees and I made my decision, I had no guarantee that the device would deliver me to Kain but I had no other choice than to try.

As I pushed the button with my palm and I felt a sense of displacement take hold of me as I was projected through time. My surroundings disappeared and I prayed that someone in the heavens would guide my journey.

A charge of electricity escaped my body and I opened my eyes to see the blue lightening snaking away from my skin. I looked around, but the place I now found myself was not a place I knew. There were murals on the circular walls of ancient vampires and the prophesied vampire champion who held the Soul Reaver. In the centre of the room was a deep pit and I crawled my way painfully to the precipice and looked into the chasm.

Beneath me I saw Kain, his chest bloodied and the Soul Reaver in hand. At his feet lay a human body. Kain turned and the body rose up saying his name, Kain reflexively drove the Soul Reaver through the man asking him.

"Do you so enjoy death?"

"Yes," the man responded strangely. Then he transformed and it was my Raziel who was upon the Reaver, his soul leeching into the blade.

"Raziel? No..." Kain tried to withdraw the blade but Raziel held it into himself.

I could not look. I had to turn away from what was happening. If only I could've been down there. But in my condition I would never have made the descent in time, and I could not allow Raziel to see me like this. I forced myself to turn back to watch Raziel. I had to know what happened.

"The Soul Reaver... pure of all corruption... this is what it is for. This is what I am for..." Raziel struggled with the words but continued to let himself be drawn to his doom, looking Kain lovingly in his eyes, "The two become one, both Soul Reavers, together... and the Scion of Balance is healed. And I am not your enemy... not your destroyer... I am as before, your right hand... your sword."

Kain held Raziel's shoulder "No Raziel, this can't be the way,"

"And now you will see... the true enemy," and with that Raziel drew his final breath and relinquished himself to his eternal fate. He became the Soul Reaver.

I had to leave, my eyes burned from the tears that resulted from my child kicking me viciously and the almighty sacrifice my husband had made... I had never gotten the opportunity to say that I still loved him.

The chamber shook from some force I could not see and I heard Kain's words but could not understand what he said. I struggled out of the chamber and as far away from the impeding danger as possible. I made my way to what looked like some kind of council room and I fell against the wall, I prayed for death to find me here. The pain was so intense, my heart was completely destroyed and my child had kicked at my bones and organs so much that I knew I was bleeding internally.

I heard footsteps approaching and watched as Kain entered the room and then surveyed Nosgoth through a great gap in the wall.

I yelled as another contraction drove through my body. Kain turned to me, stunned.

"Morganna?" his eyes betrayed his dismay "What are you doing here?" he approached me and then stopped as he saw that I was starting to bleed between my thighs, "What in God's name?" he threw the Soul Reaver to the side, the eyes of the skull illuminated as Raziel's had. I winced as the pain of labour took hold of me.

"I had to find you Kain, I had to know..." I grabbed my bump and screamed as the pain intensified. Kain came closer to me and held my bump too.

"Tell me what to do!" he demanded from me.

"Something's not right... It's not like it was before," I tried to breathe but my organs were hurting so much, "Take it out of me Kain. Please, remove this thing from me!" I screamed.

He grabbed my dress with both hands and torn it in two. My flesh was revealed to him and his eyes stared in horror. I looked down and saw that my stomach was covered in black and red marks from where I was bleeding internally.

He looked at me and placed his hands on my face, "You must trust me Morganna," he eyes revealed his worry but they also gave me strength. He cared for my welfare.

"This was you plan all along wasn't it?" I asked between short breaths, "Raziel was alive. You were using him," he looked sadly at me.

"I did not want it to end like that Morganna, believe me I didn't."

"Why..." I stopped and screamed again, I held onto Kain this time and pushed my claws into his flesh, he winced from my actions but continued to hold me, I drew in a short breath "Why didn't you tell me?"

"If you had known, you may have gone searching for him. It may have ruined everything. I'm sorry Morganna, but I had to keep Raziel from you." For the last moment that I thought clearly, I realised he was right... If I had been involved, the events that happened may not have done so. Raziel's sacrifice was necessary, and I loved him all the more for it. I glanced at the Reaver blade, the eyes still glowing, I wondered if he were looking at me.

Another wave of pain shot through me and Kain released my face and placed his hands on my stomach. He began forcing one of his claws into my flesh and started to make an incision across my stomach.

My screams echoed though the chamber and I had to bite my tongue to stop myself from trying to swallow it.

I tried to hold still but I could feel everything and it hurt so much. I could feel Kain forcing the wound that he had made apart as gently as he could.

"Trust me," he said again, his hands were covered in my blood and his eyes fixed in concentration. He forced his hands into me and I screamed again, I could feel his clawed hands moving inside me, they had a hold of something.

He gently started to lift his hands out of me and in his grasp he held something small and covered in my blood.

I could hardly breathe but I watched intently as Kain stared at what he had brought into the world.

The baby drew in a breath and let out a harsh cry, it was alive.

Kain smiled and nearly laughed but stopped himself, his eyes lit up and he just looked at the tiny creature in his hands. He turned to me and held out the child, he had to place the baby onto my chest as I could not lift my arms enough to take hold of the tiny body. He took the umbilical cord and tore it with his teeth, and then he turned back to me and took the child in his large hands again. He rose to his feet and walked away.

"A daughter," he whispered, his smile was one of pride, "I have a daughter."

I took my chance while Kain was distracted by his child. I crawled across the floor, towards the Soul Reaver, the blood from my stomach stained the marble floor as I made the journey. I reached the blade and dragged it to me. I looked into the skulls eyes and they illuminated again.

I looked at Kain, who was still looking at his daughter with such joy in his face.

I used the Soul Reaver to get to my feet, I turned the blade in the opposite direction and rested the hilt on the floor so that the tip of the blade rested against my chest.

Then I threw myself onto the Soul Reaver. I gasped as it penetrated my heart and I pulled myself further onto it.

Kain turned around, he looked in horror at me and held the child to his chest as he ran to me and tried to remove the blade form my chest.

"No, Kain" I said, not allowing him to pull it out, I held on tightly to the hilt, "This is how it was meant to be, I am going to him now."

"No, Morganna, you can't do this. He will devour you." he pleaded.

"If he does, then it's more than I deserve," I coughed and some blood escaped my lips, "But at least I will be with him."

"Please, Morganna, think of our daughter," I had not heard such urgency in his voice before.

"You have... what you wanted, Kain," I said, "You have a daughter... you have your heir... and now, I have my release." I drew one final breath and felt my heart stop before the darkness overcame me. I felt my soul being drawn into the blade, while I watched as Kain held our daughter. He kissed me and the child cried, I saw him kiss her bloodied forehead lovingly.

As the darkness descended upon me, I heard a single voice.

"Morganna..." it whispered, I wandered through the darkness and felt a presence with me, "Morganna..." came the voice again, Raziel's beautiful voice. I was consumed by such love and adoration, as if Raziel's very arms had embraced me into his eternity and I fell in to him with contentment, it felt like he was kissing me over and over, holding me tight and saying my name. I had found him. He still loved me and I loved him so much.

We had found each other, at last. Our eternity together started from here.