Anna Raziel's daughter
Chapter 21 Raziel's return; the battle plan
Everything was silent between samara, Anna, and Adam, 'so anyway, when's raziel coming??' Adam sweat-dropped at the thought of samara seeing raziel. 'When he gets here you'll know, but how is it that you raised Anna knowing the risk of being executed?' 'I ran away from my own mother, father, and other sisters. My father I hated so much, he couldn't possibly understand why I fell in love with raziel, but when he found out, he beat me to the point where I thought I was gonna die.' 'Whoa…..and I thought I had it hard, you're just as bad!' when the 2 looked to find Anna, she was gone. 'Goddamnit Anna! Why did you leave!??! Don't you dare hunt down kain; you can't take him on your own!!!!'
Anna meets vorador- Anna found some crypt and heard a voice calling out to her, 'ok, kain! Bring it on!!!' 'Kain, I'm not kain….my name is vorador, I need to talk to you Anna.' Anna looked at the green vampire, 'I think I've seen you before…but where?' 'While you were still 7, your mother saw me, you know me because I was studying you. My reason is only because I've never seen a child that's born from a vampire/human parents. But still why on earth do you look more human and yet underneath all that you're a monster.' Anna glared at vorador, 'what the hell was that supposed to mean!?' 'I can unlock your vampiric abilities again if you want…..' Anna turned from vorador representing that she's giving a thought about it, 'with your abilities you'll be stronger, faster, and invincible….' 'Hmmmm…..alright, I'll do it, just please don't tell my lover, mom, and dad about this….' 'Deal, just kneel in front of me and it can begin…' Anna knelt in front of vorador who placed his hand on Anna's forehead. It kind of was hurting Anna's head which is why vorador heard grunting in pain. 'There it's done my 'child'.' Anna got up and wanted to test her new strength, she placed the palm of her hand against the wall. Then with all her anger, wrath, all into her fist and then *POW* when vorador saw her punch the wall, he was surprised, the wall crumbled to bits leaving a hole in the wall, 'good job my 'child'.' Was all Anna heard, 'but I still don't understand something: you hate humans, why?' vorador frowned, 'this is nothing of your business woman, but I guess since you're a child made from forbidden love, then ok.' Vorador began explaining everything to Anna, some moments she snickered, cried, or grew angry. 'I never knew that, but I'm not surprised people treated me like that all through out my life….still though I'm sorry.' Vorador was shocked for a few seconds then glared at Anna, 'I'll keep your words in thought, but don't expect anything in return!' 'Deal!' just suddenly the door opened, 'DAD!?!?' 'So...our wretched little savior returns... Come to join the last pathetic battle of the vampire race? But on which side, I wonder...' raziel glared, 'I've not come to fight you, Vorador.' He turned to Anna, 'what is my daughter doing here?' Anna looked at her father in fear, she still remembered what happened when she questioned her dad the 1st time 'Ummm…daddy, are you sure about this?' raziel looked down at Anna, gripped on her throat. 'You're chocking me dad…' 'Anna!! How dare you say something like that especially to your father!?' Anna started crying, 'but dad, I just don't think it's right. I'm just telling you, there's probably another way. Please daddy.' Raziel realized what he was doing to Anna and dropped her. 'This is the only path for the 2 of us.' 'Sorry daddy.' 'Now stop your crying and come along.' That memory burned into her head after that incident, but her belief is that there's a different path just gotta keep looking, 'Anna, here is just getting an extra hand in her abilities and you don't know why you're here.' Raziel continued glaring, 'I know this much: that you are the author of my fate - and as such, only you can rewrite it.' Anna was now concerned, 'DAD! VORADOR!! STOP IT!!!!' was the only thing that could come out of her mouth, but vorador chuckled, 'You give me too much credit.' 'You forged the Reaver - I have seen the evidence.' Vorador became suspicious, 'I was its maker, yes.' Anna thoughts 'wait, I thought Janos created the reaver! So who is it Janos, vorador, or is it both!?!?' 'Then you know its purpose.' Anna stared at both of the men waiting for a response, 'No - only the scraps of prophecy my master shared with me.' 'Wait a tick, vorador has a master!?' Anna's thoughts were concentrated on that thought alone, 'And do these scraps explain why you would forge a weapon to imprison your savior?' 'Ah, well then... it seems we have our answer. You've chosen your path. Raziel angrily 'I have chosen nothing. I've been deceived at every turn.' Vorador looks at him thoughtfully, but says nothing. 'You seem to know what I am. Tell me.' 'I thought I did, once. But now all the prophecies have failed. The Pillars are corrupted... I am the last of my kind...and when Moebius's hunters find me; it will have all been for nothing.' Anna now was just lost on everything little thing that vorador was talking about, 'You've forgotten about Kain.' Vorador Contemplating Ah yes, Kain... I fear he shoulders a greater burden than he realizes. Then, to Raziel I cannot help you - even if I was inclined to. I crafted the Reaver blade, but only at the behest of my sire, Janos Audron. What sorcery he and the others laid upon the sword afterward, I cannot say.' Anna and raziel both remembered what Janos tried to do before he died, 'Janos tried to give me the Reaver before he died. He said that it was forged for me... but what did he mean? As my weapon or my prison?' 'Perhaps you should ask him yourself.' Raziel was shocked but Anna felt tears of joy, happiness, shock come to her blue eyes, 'Janos is here?' vorador looked at Anna who was now cover her face trying to hide her tears, 'In a manner of speaking.' Vorador led both the father and daughter to a secret room, 'The greatest of us all - the father of our race. The Sarafan tore the heart from his living body five centuries ago.' Anna stared at the body, it brought back that painful memory, 'Anna stood there in fear, to afraid to move, until the soldiers found her and Janos. One of them yelled, 'hold him!!' before Anna's eyes, Janos' chest was ripped open, she saw him scream in agony. 'Look at his black heart how it still beats.' She got her anger, courage, and sorrow to grab out her reaver, 'YOU SONS OF BITCHES!! YOU BASTARDS!!' she charged at them and started showing her 'wrath of god'. But no matter what she did to them, they laughed at her, 'look at this men: a woman that knows how to fight.' She stared at them still angry, one of them took the butt of their sword and knocked her out.' She could clearly remember the blood spilling on her as those men and the Sarafan form of her father were cutting Janos' chest wide open only to take out his beating heart. 'But there's no sign of decay - how is this possible after all these years?' Anna nodded her head in agreement, there's no decaying yet he's dead, 'Somewhere, the Heart still beats. And while it does, the body will remain preserved. If his Heart could be restored, Janos might yet be raised.' Anna knew what had to be done but did her father that's the real question, 'And you haven't tried to recover it, in all these years?' 'Many times...but our enemies hid the Heart too well. It was taken as a trophy to Avernus Cathedral centuries ago, where they christened it 'the Heart of Darkness.' Believing that it embodies the essence of our dark gift, they hid the Heart away, lest it fall into the wrong hands. Our hands.' 'Those goddamned bastards!!' Anna thought evilly, while her father walked back towards vorador, 'Redeem yourself - you may be our last hope. Perhaps you alone can find the Heart, if it is meant to be found. If Janos can be resurrected, he will have all the answers you require.' Vorador reaches into his robe and withdraws the key to the library exit, offering it to Raziel. 'This key will open your way to Avernus. But be advised, there are dark sorceries at work in the cathedral. You must be on your guard.' Vorador then vanishes in a cloud of mist, leaving Raziel standing alone in the chamber. 'Hey vorador!! Please come back!!!' Anna yelled wanting to talk to vorador more, Raziel and Anna enter the library, and finds Vorador at the guard railing, starring down at the room below. 'Avernus is in flames... and with it, our hopes may evaporate.' 'How can we find the Heart in the midst of such chaos?' Vorador turned to both Anna and Raziel -- 'You must act quickly. But beware - an ancient evil dwells within, long Unspoken among our kind. Undoubtedly this is the source of the corruption that infects the Circle. If you 2 are to succeed, you must resist its influence.'