Chapter Two
The remnants of the witches, vampire, werewolves, and shifters that
had been imprisoned here lined the walls of the cramped cells. As I passed
by the last one I barely cast a glance into it as I went around the corner.
"Please let me out."
I was losing it. No one was here yet people are asking me to let them
out. I would have to right to the guards and ask for a healer. I backtracked
around the corner to the last cell. The upper window was covered so that it
was impossible to see out of. I knelt by the slits that form the framework for
the bottom half of the door and carefully removed a couple.
"IS someone in there?" I asked quietly I didn't want the guard to think
I was weird if there wasn't anyone in there.
"Yes, I'm here you should know that since you captured me about two
days ago." It was a girl on the other side of the iron door. She sounded about
sixteen, highly stung, pained, annoyed and pissed off.
"What do you mean captured?" Now I was puzzled. Why were they
capturing people again? Besides this girl didn't seem like a killer or one of
those odd people that insisted on telling the humans about our world and
Night Harbor. "What did you do to be captured?"
"You and those damn vampire thugs stole me from my home and you
don't remember that? You don't know why you captured me? Why am I
here? Can't I go home?" The girl's voice was rising into the hysterical
pitches that were normally followed by tears. But the tears never came. The
hysterics subsided and she regained her composure.
"I don't know who you think I am but you've got me confused for
someone else. I haven't been out of this dungeon in five and a half years.
I've grown up inside of the common cell behind the back of your cell. I
don't know why you're here or why you were captured. I know that you
can't go home. No one that has ever set foot in this prison has ever left."
"Triz, you are such a bad liar. I saw you walk up to the thugs and kiss
one of them as I got knocked out cold. You bitch. I trusted you. I have been
living under your roof since the firestorm. I've done your dirty work, taken
care of your household and even become engaged to your son. Now you turn
me in. Why would you do something like this?" The girl was about to start
screaming.
"My name isn't Triz. My name is Selena. Like I just said I've been in
here since six months after the… Firestorm." Oh my god we're from the
same area. Night Harbor. My mind went reeling. "By the way what's your
name? Who is Triz?"
"My name is… My name is… my name is Angel. Angel from Night
Harbor? You were brought here after the firestorm? That means you're from
Night Harbor as well. I knew a couple of Selenas there. What's your family
name? Mine is le Therone. I was put into a power house when I turned ten."
Angel was calming down and her normal line of thought together.
"Angel…. Angel le Therone of the Night Harbor le Therones? You
were put into a power house at age ten? That means you are… you are…
you are just like me." I felt a sudden rush of warmth like finding a long lost
friend.
"How do you know me? How am I just like you? Were you in a
power house?" Angel was confused she felt as if she was about to burst. But
why?
"I was raised on Night Harbor. Like you I was put into a power
training house when I was ten. There was a girl named Angel le Therone
there. We were neighbors before but had never met until testing day. See my
uncle raised me. He was a Harding like my father. The funny thing was that
my name isn't Harding. It's Silvermoon. I was named because after I turned
2 years old my mother died not leaving me anything but a note that said
'You're a Harman, a Redfern and a Harding. No one can harm you as long
as you believe that.' My uncle wanted me to be tested because of my half-
breed status. If I was a disgrace to both families so they were hoping that I
was more of one than the other so that I could be changed if I was. Anyways
I don't know what they saw but I was moved into a training house before the
sun rose the next day. I was the first one there. By noon that day the other
three girls had been settled in and the doors were guarded." I didn't want to
remember much of that day. Everything was so blurry. I know that someone
had placed wards around the house; someone else had put a memory spell on
the four of us one night. It was supposed to keep us from remembering the
exit codes and our families outside of the power house.
"Your surname is Silvermoon? Oh my god. It's me Angel from the
same power house that you mentioned. Why are you here? How come your
not locked up like I am?" Angel kneeled to look out at her once close friend.
"I don't know why I'm here. I am not locked up because… well I
asked the guards when they caught me so I've been labeled as harmless and
child like so that they wouldn't get in trouble. They told me that they would
come to get me on inspection days so that I would only be in my cell for ten
minutes." I didn't feel like discussing the past and how things had worked
out as they did. Mainly cause I my self didn't know. "Angel keep up the
crying and screaming. I'll be right back. I need to use you as a cover. I think
someone is coming." Was that the stair door slamming? I need to go check.
I walked over the huge door at the end of the hall. The slave dungeon
was bright with the light of hundreds of candles.
"Serefina. Come here." A small girl about fifteen approached the
door. "What's going on? I can't tell."
"Oh it's a Prisoner March. They captured a bunch of people so you'll
be having a lot of company. I heard one of them is the head of the Harding
Vampire clan." Serefina looked around again. "Here they come. Stand
back."
I couldn't believe my ears. A prisoner march!? There hadn't been one
of those since before I was born. Why were they doing one now. And why is
there a Harding in it. The Hardings are as old as the Redferns and the
Harmans. All three date back to prehistoric times. Oh well I'll find out when
I talk to them. I am in charge down here.
"Selena. You've got some company. Now will you be sure that these
new captives don't get out of their cells. If one gets out you will be put into
the pit. Do you understand me? Child you are given way to many perks as it
is." The guard looked into the doorway obliviously looking for the child he
knew had heard the noise and had come to investigate.
"Don't worry about me Jamael. I know if you get caught having let
me roam freely around in the dungeon you will be in trouble. Don't worry
I'll take care of the prisoners." Selena looked at Jamael sweetly and smiled.
"I knew I could trust you." Jamael pulled a key out of his pocket. He
muttered the canceling spell as I stood off to the side of the door. The door
glowed silver for about a minute and then vanished. The doors to each cell
swung open and Angel stood up. She tried to walk forward to see what was
going on and was stuck in the doorway. An invisible wall had gone up and
she couldn't leave the cell. "Sorry I forgot to say that you weren't allowed
out of your cell even if the door is open. Now I would like to introduce you
to your new dungeon mates. First cell is for Monsieur Leon of the Harding
clan and the second cell is for his children Mari, Amara, Coriander and
Valerian of the Harding Vampire clan. Third cell is for Adrela Sheffield.
The fourth cell is for Tessa and Terra Harman. The fifth cell will contain
Ivory de Cistrine. The rest of you will be sorted at Selena's discretion.
Anyone caught giving her trouble might regret it after she punishes you. You
have never seen her type of magic. Selena I leave you these keys and you are
in charge." With that Jamael let the door close behind him. The roll he had
carried floated down to the floor. I leaned over and picked it up. On it was
the name of every one of the prisoners plus someone that were to be brought
in later.
"You all heard Jamael. I am in charge. My name is Selena
Silvermoon. I have been captive since the firestorm. Now line up and let me
look at you. By the way Garon don't you dare change into wolf or I'll be
forced to kill you now." I really didn't know how to use my powers but that
wouldn't matter. The 'wolf didn't know that.
"Selena please have pity on you cousins." Leon Harding was standing
there with three bodies huddled behind him and a tall young man next to
him.
"Don't talk to me. You sent me away to be trained at the power house.
You didn't bother to come look for me after the firestorm. I was on the run
all alone and lonely no one to take care of me and no one to believe my
heritage. I am of no relation to you. I have been down here for five and a
half years. You never once came to look for me or even visit when I was in
the power house." I was mad this was the family that had raised me and they
hadn't even bothered to look for me. How dare they. I am the future ruler of
three clans and I wasn't important enough to come look for. "I know that I
was told to put you into a certain order but I have always been given free
will so that now if you are done whining I will arrange you. Garon you first.
The rest of you werewolves need to go into these first four cells. Thank you.
Now Ivory and Adrela how nice of you to join me. This cell if you please. "
I was being nice by putting them into the same cell with Angel. "Terra and
Tessa Harman where have I heard those names before. Oh yeah Serefina told
me about you. Aren't you two some hot shot witches that are supposed to
prevent some catastrophic war? Never mind. In here if you don't mind. Mari
and Amara bee a long time hasn't it. Didn't both of you get sent off to
finishing school the year your dad left me to be locked away in a power
house? This cell is for the two of you. Move it let go of uncle Leon.
Coriander and Valerian how lovely of you to drop in on my humble abode.
Right this way if you please. Oh uncle Leon your next right this way. This
cell has been reserved just for you. You three vampires if you would move
this way in you go. Thank you. Now there are only three of you left one
witch, one cougar and one half breed. The witch goes in here, the cougar
goes here and the half-breed goes here. I would advise you to not move once
you are in your cells these cells have been spelled against you leaving.
Actually I took that spell off a couple of weeks ago. But the doors are each
made of what I know you can't get through. Like the fact that my dear
family is behind a wooden door, those two wolves are behind a silver door,
those witches are behind a iron door, you shapeshifters are behind a glass
door that will shatter and imbed itself into your skin and kill you and you
three the guardians are behind a door that has all four woven together and
sealed with a seal that only Garon and I can break. Now if you don't mind
since I am a prisoner here as well I'm going back to my cell. It's the
common cell around the corner so if you need anything as in creature
comforts." I began to walk away. Why am I doing this? Those are all people
that are important to the Night Harbor society. I can't leave them locked in
here. Who captured them? I never thought there was a hunter alive that
could capture my family or take two witches from a safe house. What has
happened since I was captured? What has happened since the firestorm?
Why are they locked in here like the common thieves that used to be locked
in here?
The remnants of the witches, vampire, werewolves, and shifters that
had been imprisoned here lined the walls of the cramped cells. As I passed
by the last one I barely cast a glance into it as I went around the corner.
"Please let me out."
I was losing it. No one was here yet people are asking me to let them
out. I would have to right to the guards and ask for a healer. I backtracked
around the corner to the last cell. The upper window was covered so that it
was impossible to see out of. I knelt by the slits that form the framework for
the bottom half of the door and carefully removed a couple.
"IS someone in there?" I asked quietly I didn't want the guard to think
I was weird if there wasn't anyone in there.
"Yes, I'm here you should know that since you captured me about two
days ago." It was a girl on the other side of the iron door. She sounded about
sixteen, highly stung, pained, annoyed and pissed off.
"What do you mean captured?" Now I was puzzled. Why were they
capturing people again? Besides this girl didn't seem like a killer or one of
those odd people that insisted on telling the humans about our world and
Night Harbor. "What did you do to be captured?"
"You and those damn vampire thugs stole me from my home and you
don't remember that? You don't know why you captured me? Why am I
here? Can't I go home?" The girl's voice was rising into the hysterical
pitches that were normally followed by tears. But the tears never came. The
hysterics subsided and she regained her composure.
"I don't know who you think I am but you've got me confused for
someone else. I haven't been out of this dungeon in five and a half years.
I've grown up inside of the common cell behind the back of your cell. I
don't know why you're here or why you were captured. I know that you
can't go home. No one that has ever set foot in this prison has ever left."
"Triz, you are such a bad liar. I saw you walk up to the thugs and kiss
one of them as I got knocked out cold. You bitch. I trusted you. I have been
living under your roof since the firestorm. I've done your dirty work, taken
care of your household and even become engaged to your son. Now you turn
me in. Why would you do something like this?" The girl was about to start
screaming.
"My name isn't Triz. My name is Selena. Like I just said I've been in
here since six months after the… Firestorm." Oh my god we're from the
same area. Night Harbor. My mind went reeling. "By the way what's your
name? Who is Triz?"
"My name is… My name is… my name is Angel. Angel from Night
Harbor? You were brought here after the firestorm? That means you're from
Night Harbor as well. I knew a couple of Selenas there. What's your family
name? Mine is le Therone. I was put into a power house when I turned ten."
Angel was calming down and her normal line of thought together.
"Angel…. Angel le Therone of the Night Harbor le Therones? You
were put into a power house at age ten? That means you are… you are…
you are just like me." I felt a sudden rush of warmth like finding a long lost
friend.
"How do you know me? How am I just like you? Were you in a
power house?" Angel was confused she felt as if she was about to burst. But
why?
"I was raised on Night Harbor. Like you I was put into a power
training house when I was ten. There was a girl named Angel le Therone
there. We were neighbors before but had never met until testing day. See my
uncle raised me. He was a Harding like my father. The funny thing was that
my name isn't Harding. It's Silvermoon. I was named because after I turned
2 years old my mother died not leaving me anything but a note that said
'You're a Harman, a Redfern and a Harding. No one can harm you as long
as you believe that.' My uncle wanted me to be tested because of my half-
breed status. If I was a disgrace to both families so they were hoping that I
was more of one than the other so that I could be changed if I was. Anyways
I don't know what they saw but I was moved into a training house before the
sun rose the next day. I was the first one there. By noon that day the other
three girls had been settled in and the doors were guarded." I didn't want to
remember much of that day. Everything was so blurry. I know that someone
had placed wards around the house; someone else had put a memory spell on
the four of us one night. It was supposed to keep us from remembering the
exit codes and our families outside of the power house.
"Your surname is Silvermoon? Oh my god. It's me Angel from the
same power house that you mentioned. Why are you here? How come your
not locked up like I am?" Angel kneeled to look out at her once close friend.
"I don't know why I'm here. I am not locked up because… well I
asked the guards when they caught me so I've been labeled as harmless and
child like so that they wouldn't get in trouble. They told me that they would
come to get me on inspection days so that I would only be in my cell for ten
minutes." I didn't feel like discussing the past and how things had worked
out as they did. Mainly cause I my self didn't know. "Angel keep up the
crying and screaming. I'll be right back. I need to use you as a cover. I think
someone is coming." Was that the stair door slamming? I need to go check.
I walked over the huge door at the end of the hall. The slave dungeon
was bright with the light of hundreds of candles.
"Serefina. Come here." A small girl about fifteen approached the
door. "What's going on? I can't tell."
"Oh it's a Prisoner March. They captured a bunch of people so you'll
be having a lot of company. I heard one of them is the head of the Harding
Vampire clan." Serefina looked around again. "Here they come. Stand
back."
I couldn't believe my ears. A prisoner march!? There hadn't been one
of those since before I was born. Why were they doing one now. And why is
there a Harding in it. The Hardings are as old as the Redferns and the
Harmans. All three date back to prehistoric times. Oh well I'll find out when
I talk to them. I am in charge down here.
"Selena. You've got some company. Now will you be sure that these
new captives don't get out of their cells. If one gets out you will be put into
the pit. Do you understand me? Child you are given way to many perks as it
is." The guard looked into the doorway obliviously looking for the child he
knew had heard the noise and had come to investigate.
"Don't worry about me Jamael. I know if you get caught having let
me roam freely around in the dungeon you will be in trouble. Don't worry
I'll take care of the prisoners." Selena looked at Jamael sweetly and smiled.
"I knew I could trust you." Jamael pulled a key out of his pocket. He
muttered the canceling spell as I stood off to the side of the door. The door
glowed silver for about a minute and then vanished. The doors to each cell
swung open and Angel stood up. She tried to walk forward to see what was
going on and was stuck in the doorway. An invisible wall had gone up and
she couldn't leave the cell. "Sorry I forgot to say that you weren't allowed
out of your cell even if the door is open. Now I would like to introduce you
to your new dungeon mates. First cell is for Monsieur Leon of the Harding
clan and the second cell is for his children Mari, Amara, Coriander and
Valerian of the Harding Vampire clan. Third cell is for Adrela Sheffield.
The fourth cell is for Tessa and Terra Harman. The fifth cell will contain
Ivory de Cistrine. The rest of you will be sorted at Selena's discretion.
Anyone caught giving her trouble might regret it after she punishes you. You
have never seen her type of magic. Selena I leave you these keys and you are
in charge." With that Jamael let the door close behind him. The roll he had
carried floated down to the floor. I leaned over and picked it up. On it was
the name of every one of the prisoners plus someone that were to be brought
in later.
"You all heard Jamael. I am in charge. My name is Selena
Silvermoon. I have been captive since the firestorm. Now line up and let me
look at you. By the way Garon don't you dare change into wolf or I'll be
forced to kill you now." I really didn't know how to use my powers but that
wouldn't matter. The 'wolf didn't know that.
"Selena please have pity on you cousins." Leon Harding was standing
there with three bodies huddled behind him and a tall young man next to
him.
"Don't talk to me. You sent me away to be trained at the power house.
You didn't bother to come look for me after the firestorm. I was on the run
all alone and lonely no one to take care of me and no one to believe my
heritage. I am of no relation to you. I have been down here for five and a
half years. You never once came to look for me or even visit when I was in
the power house." I was mad this was the family that had raised me and they
hadn't even bothered to look for me. How dare they. I am the future ruler of
three clans and I wasn't important enough to come look for. "I know that I
was told to put you into a certain order but I have always been given free
will so that now if you are done whining I will arrange you. Garon you first.
The rest of you werewolves need to go into these first four cells. Thank you.
Now Ivory and Adrela how nice of you to join me. This cell if you please. "
I was being nice by putting them into the same cell with Angel. "Terra and
Tessa Harman where have I heard those names before. Oh yeah Serefina told
me about you. Aren't you two some hot shot witches that are supposed to
prevent some catastrophic war? Never mind. In here if you don't mind. Mari
and Amara bee a long time hasn't it. Didn't both of you get sent off to
finishing school the year your dad left me to be locked away in a power
house? This cell is for the two of you. Move it let go of uncle Leon.
Coriander and Valerian how lovely of you to drop in on my humble abode.
Right this way if you please. Oh uncle Leon your next right this way. This
cell has been reserved just for you. You three vampires if you would move
this way in you go. Thank you. Now there are only three of you left one
witch, one cougar and one half breed. The witch goes in here, the cougar
goes here and the half-breed goes here. I would advise you to not move once
you are in your cells these cells have been spelled against you leaving.
Actually I took that spell off a couple of weeks ago. But the doors are each
made of what I know you can't get through. Like the fact that my dear
family is behind a wooden door, those two wolves are behind a silver door,
those witches are behind a iron door, you shapeshifters are behind a glass
door that will shatter and imbed itself into your skin and kill you and you
three the guardians are behind a door that has all four woven together and
sealed with a seal that only Garon and I can break. Now if you don't mind
since I am a prisoner here as well I'm going back to my cell. It's the
common cell around the corner so if you need anything as in creature
comforts." I began to walk away. Why am I doing this? Those are all people
that are important to the Night Harbor society. I can't leave them locked in
here. Who captured them? I never thought there was a hunter alive that
could capture my family or take two witches from a safe house. What has
happened since I was captured? What has happened since the firestorm?
Why are they locked in here like the common thieves that used to be locked
in here?