DISCLAIMER: I don't own In the Forests of the Night, Demon In My View, or Shattered...though, Elani, Adrian are MY characters...

-Light And Dark-

By: hidden dreamer





~FLASHBACK~

I sat by my window, looking out into the night. It seems so strange...it is as if the night is calling to me. But, that cannot be real. I am just a human teenage girl...not a vampire. If they even exist.

I have read Ash Night's books, and I know that they aren't real. But for some reason, a part of my mind doesn't fully dismiss the idea that it is all real. Yet I don't know why I think like that. Probably some weird problem with me to add to the pile of numerous things strange about me.

Ever since I was born, I've noticed strange things about me. Like how my eyes are a pale violet color, and shift to cerulean blue whenever I feel strong emotions. Or how my black hair seems to ripple like silk, never truly getting tangled. I am petite and slender, having a lithe body. My skin is pale, with a faint flush to my cheeks always there.

Also, I've noticed other strange things about me, hidden beneath who everyone knows me as. A strange feeling of power within me has surfaced many times, and especially when I am angry. Other people have slightly noticed this, and many of them steer clear of me. Yet...my best friend is always by me.

Her name is Ember Smoke, and exactly like her name. Her hair is a brilliant copper color and is completely wild. Her eyes are a smoky gray color, seeming to faintly swirl sometimes.

Sighing, I turn away from the window and climb into bed, where I instantly fall asleep...and into a strange dream...

~Dream~

A thick mist surrounds me...there is silence. I am all alone, wandering around, trying to find a way out of this mist.

Suddenly a voice whispers from somewhere nearby. "One of light, come to me."

One of light? That didn't make any sense to me, yet I sensed that the voice was calling to me, so I followed where I had hear it come from. Ending up standing next to a magnificent Angel with pure black wings, I stared. His beauty was unimaginable, with his icy blue eyes and shocking silver hair.

He spoke, "You are the One of Light. Yet, you are the child of night. So strange that one of the two to fight the Leron is completely different from her name."

"What do you mean?" I asked, confused.

"Your name as of now, is Liseli, which means unknown. Indeed you are unknown to everyone but myself and the other Angels. Your name shall become Elani, which means light, soon. Listen to this prophecy which I am about to say:

One of Light

One of Dark

Light from night

Dark from day

Comes the calling

With falling's fight

Comes the falling

With calling's bite

Light and Dark unite

While rises the Circle

Battles shall be fought

Both will show their might

Chaos shall reign

Blood will be spilled

Known shall be pain

Thirst will be filled



This prophecy I just read isn't completely there, since it was lost many, many years ago when one of the Leron seers predicted the prohecy, and only part of it was saved."

"But what does anything of this mean?" I asked, still confused.

"You shall know soon enough. Now I must bid you farewell. Good bye, Light One," the Angel said before fading into the mists.

"Wait!" I cried out, wanting to know more.

But he was already gone, leaving only a whispered comment, "Soon enough."

The mists slowly disappeared and I saw the face of a girl. She seemed familiar, yet I couldn't figure out who she was. She had midnight black hair, pale skin, and blazing black eyes. But the thing that frightened me was that she wore all black, and had a knife tucked into her boots...and she carried herself in a 'hell to what everyone else thinks, damn the world 'cos I'm better than everyone' attitude.

And suddenly I recognized exactly who she was...me. But, it just couldn't be. I mean, I was nothing like that. Though, I knew that it was true; it was me. Somehow. It was me, but a different me. Maybe that was the 'Elani' me that I was going to soon be.

Suddenly...



~Dream Over~

...I woke up, hearing the shrill blare of my alarm clock. Wiping my eyes groggily, to get the sleep out of them, I got out of bed. Sighing, I got ready for another day of school as a senior at Falcon Grove Highschool. Such fun...not.

"Hurry up, Liseli, or you'll be late for school," my mother called up the stairs.

"Coming!" I yelled as I finished pulling my clothes on and brushing my hair...not that my hair really needed brushed since it always looked perfect.

I hurried down the stairs, grabbing a piece of toast before grabbing my backpack and heading out the door. Everyday I walked to school, since the school wasn't too far from my house. On the way, Ember came out of her house and skipped up beside me.

"What's up?" she asked me in a cheery voice.

"Nothing...I just had a strange dream last night," I replied.

"What about?"

"Oh, I was visited by and Angel and told about some prophecy that went like 'One of Light, One of Dark, Light from night, Dark from day' or something like that. Then I saw myself as someone different than I am now," I told her.

She had paled considerable when I said the first lines of the prophecy, and I became curious. Why would she seem troubled by a dream?

"Why are you so pale? What's wrong?" I asked her, worried.

She took a deep breath and said, "That prophecy is real..."

Suddenly a large sound was heard...



~FLASHBACK OVER~



...and I was woken up from dreaming a flashback of my past by Risika throwing my lamp on the floor, breaking it. Vampires only dream when something important was going to happen, and I knew that the prophecy was starting.

"What the hell do you want?" I asked, irritated.

Risika grinned a malicious grin because she had gotten me irritated, and replied, "Oh, I was just in the neighborhood when I sensed something important was going to happen. And then I found you sleeping and you wouldn't wake up."

"Oh shit...where?" I asked, suddenly not irritated any longer.

"New York. What's so important about it to you?" she told me.

"The Dark One is about to be known. So I got to go now, bye!" I said, before leaving her.