"Sit!" I am not in the mood to do this.
"Now. I want you to tell me what happened after the firestorm. Adrela you go
first." I sat down on my bed. It was funny the cell I was in looked more like a
flat. The guards and the slaves for some reason liked me so I got anything I
needed. Whatever I needed I got whether it was clothes, furniture, medicine,
food or water.
"Selena, you know part of the story. I was
ten when I was tested and put into a power house. When built to train the
Guardians. We lived there for a year until the firestorm. The firestorm
destroyed the wards around the house and when it was over I just ran. I was too
scared to check if any of you were alive. I ran home or to what was supposed to
be home. When I got there, there were strange people leading my family out of
the house. My younger sister was knocked out cold hanging over one of the men's
shoulders. I gathered as much strength as I had left and I changed. I hadn't
changed shape since my mother had died so changing back into a panther was like
saying goodbye to her one last time. I
jumped at them trying to make them free my family or what was left of it. Only
my cousins were still conscious enough to realize it was me and try to help me
fight. Witch power blossomed from the slack hands of my younger sister who was
coming to and three of my shapeshifter cousins changed. Two cougars and a
leopard raced to my side. My aunt and uncle were cornered. She refused to throw
any power at their attackers and my uncle wouldn't shift. He didn't have the
strength to move. Their values kept them from protecting themselves or their
children. The attackers figured that they were outnumbered and they ran. I
shifted back and walked over to my uncle. I asked him if there was anywhere we
could go. He told me that he had gotten a letter from one of his friends who
lived on Silver Island. The island was part of our Society. His friend said
that Silver, Ancestral, Astral, and Dark Islands have all been destroyed. We
are the last remaining members of the Society." Adrela stopped for a minute and
drew a star over her chest. "My uncle gathered me and my cousins together. We
walked slowly back into the house and climbed down a narrow stair that lead to
a room that was hidden deep inside of the house. He told me and my cousins to
shift and my aunt to stand back we placed our paws on a panel next to the door
and it opened. We spent Five years living down there. We were not allowed to
shift back to our human forms so I was a stuck as a panther for five years. I
could only leave the room by the dark of night to go and get food from a
storeroom. One night when I was getting dinner three thugs jumped out of the
darkness around me and I was captured. I was brought to what they are calling
New Order Palace. The Night World is taking over and our Society the First
World is alive within this dungeon. Selena you are the only one that can help
us. Your family, the Redferns, own the council. They are the ones that are
basically in charge." Adrela turned and began to cry. How can someone so
nice be related to such an evil family? Why did they want to get rid of us? Our
society never harmed anyone. We lived within our Society all four species lived
together and tried to keep the beliefs that had kept our Society alive and out
of the way. Why us?
Our society had once covered the actual
coast line but when other people like us, vampires, witches and shifters that
were ran by some strange council out to get rid of the innocents, we moved to
the islands that could be shrouded to never be found. Silver Island was mostly
for 'wolves, Ancestral Island housed witches taking care of their needs of
quiet places to perform rituals, Astral Island is where most of the
shapeshifters lived, Dark Island of course belonged to the vampires. While
every race had their own island the leaders of all the islands lived and worked
on Night Harbor Island. People who belonged to more than one race were allowed
to live where they wanted to but most chose to live on Night Harbor because
that is where they worked. I'm guessing that these Redferns were as important
to the Night World as the Hardings were to the Society of the First World on
Night Harbor Island
"Adrela you can lay down here if you want
to. Ivory how about you tell me your story. Your family was the Historians for
the Society so you have more clues than we do." I was beginning to believe that
if they would have known that I was alive our even where my body was they would
have come for me.
"Okay here is my story. I'll start from the
beginning from when Night Harbor and the First World Society began. Around the
time of the Salem Witch Hunts began a strange group of people arrived in the
Americas. We could tell that they were like us but then again they weren't. Yes
they were vampires, witches, shapeshifters, and werewolves. But for some reason
they were different from us. The First World Society has taken years to build
good strong relationships with the innocents and we had put ourselves on an
equal level with them. But the strangers didn't care. They put themselves above
the innocents and began to kill and destroy." Ivory paused for a second to look
into Selena's face. "That is when we moved our society from the coast line to
the island rings that is now the Night World Island Palaces. Before the Night
World took over it was the Night Harbor Society Islands. The Night World took
out the islands beginning about five months before they got rid of us. Astral
Island was the first to be destroyed the shapeshifters living there were out
numbered and even in their animal forms they were killed or taken prisoner by
the Night World Shifters. Than came Dark Island the vampires put up a good fight,
but your family surrendered so that they could save the rest of the vampires.
Your uncle is a good man and a good ruler. Ancestral Island was easily
overthrown when they attacked on a holiday where all guards were off at the
rites and no one was actually paying attention. Silver Island and the
werewolves were taken over about a month later. It was an island a month until
they got to the main island. They had taken information from their prisoners
that had allowed them to figure out who lived on this island, how to get onto
the island and how to get to the Guardian House. They were going to kill us
all. They started the firestorm in hopes of burning us out. Like farmers do to
crops so that they can rebuild the land. When the storm began my uncle ran to
get me. My cousins had been killed when a silver chandler fell from the ceiling
of their house as the house caught fire. He got to the house grabbed me and ran
for the docks. He yelled for me to change as we were running. I changed into
the wolf and jumped out of his arms. He owned a house near the docks and began
running to it after he changed. We ran down the stairs and into the basement.
We huddled in a corner and I used some of my remaining power to cover our power
and our scent from the people that were searching the house above us. I could
hear my next-door neighbors screaming as their son screamed and fell down. I
saw the blood from a corner of our hiding place. Those Night People were
killing anyone that got in their way. If I didn't watch it my uncle and me
would be next. A week later I took the
shields down and began to look around. I hadn't heard any screams in about two
days so I figured it would be okay. I ran into this girl that I had known from
a party on Silver Island. I couldn't remember her real name but we all knew her
by Triz. She was from an old family so I figured that she would be all right. I
asked her what was going on and she told me that all of the old families were
being rounded up for questioning. She also said that she would no tell them
where I was hiding because I was so young. She brought me and my uncle food and
told us any news. We stayed like that for five years. One day we heard people
walking around upstairs and than Triz and some guys in black came down the
stairs and dragged my uncle and me upstairs. We were taken to the Meeting Hall.
They had changed the name and it now was the Night World Darkness Headquarters.
They told me that this was none of my business and if I didn't say a word
nothing would come of me. So I stood there while my uncle was interrogated they
were trying to get information on the Elders Council and the Society. My uncle
wouldn't talk. They threw him into the dungeons right then and there. They told
me I was to young to be of any help or to harm them so they told me to leave.
But as I was leaving the tiger that was standing by the door saw a tattoo on my
upper forearm." Ivory stopped talking and pulled the ragged sleeve from her
thin forearm. A blue star with a G in the middle was barely visible because they
were so small. "We each have one. They were put there within our first four
days in the House. So the guy saw the tattoo and dragged me back into the room
to a man that every one addressed as Sir Redfern. He asked why the guard brought me back in and the guard pulled at
my arm and showed him the mark. He then leaned over to the man and told him
that the tattoos were only put on those that were being trained to be the
Guardians of Night Harbor. Sir Redfern laughed and told him to take me to the
Night World Palace Dungeon. That's how I got here." Ivory looked mad at Selena
but if she was she didn't say anything.
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