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~*~*~*~*~Chapter Five of Daine's Double Surprise~*~*~*~*~

Daine and Numair were about get up and go get something to eat when a somewhat agitated voice sounded out of nowhere. "Mage, what are you doing with my daughter?"

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All of a sudden a blast of green magic came out of nowhere and threw Numair up against the wall. Knocking the air out of his lungs. "Numair!!" Daine yelled and ran to his side. "Numair what happened are you ok.?!" She was close to tears as she helped him sit up. Numair nodded his head as he regained his breath. "Yeah--I'm ok--I think." He winced as Daine put pressure on his right shoulder. "Awww--Daine don't do that. I-think it's cracked." His speech was hoarse. Daine pulled back his robe and felt along his collarbone. She felt movement in the bone. "What happened Numair?" Numair didn't answer, his shoulder hurt too much.

"Daine get away from him!" The voice sounded again as a light in the middle of the room grew and went dark. Leaving a tall horned figures standing in its wake. The taller person moved towards them with a dagger in his hand. In panic Daine threw up her hands. Black and copper magic sprouted from her hands and hit the oncoming figure, throwing him back a few feet and freezing him.

Numair watched in fascination as his love and wife-to-be threw magic at the hostile figure that she did not have. Daine, shocked, looked at her hands as she turned back to Numair. "Wha-How-I don't have the gift. Whe-where did it come from?" Numair shook his head, having no clue himself. Daine looked at Numair as he tried to moved and winced. "Daine, help me to the bed." Daine took his good arm and steadied him to his feet and helped him to walk over to and lay down on the bed. He was sweating with pain when his head hit the pillow.

"I'll be right back." Daine walked over to the figure she had frozen and gasped, it was her father, Weiryn. "Da!" She half yelled half whispered in aghast. "Why---how could you?" The only thing that Weiryn could move was his eyes.

"Weiryn!!" An angry female voice called out. "What do you think you are doing?!" A bright green light flared beside Daine and cleared to reveal Sarra Beneksri. "Weiryn what have you done, she moved to stand in front of him." She looked at him and her face evened out when she realized he couldn't move. "Weiryn what happened?" Amusement played in her voice. All Weiryn could do was move his eyes.

"Ma, what's going on here??!! What is Da doing?!!" Daine was a little more than pissed. And made no attempt to hide it. Sarra looked at her daughter. "I too would like to know what is going on. One moment Weiryn is at home, behaving himself and the next he's here, in trouble, and frozen in place,-- " She was cut off by a moan from the bed. They looked over and saw Numair trying to sit up. "Numair, no, lay down." Daine walked over and knelt beside the bed. "Do you want me to get Alanna, Duke Baird or somebody?" Numair shook his head. "No, not while your parents are here. I think your mother can help." He looked at Sarra with pain in his eyes. "Well, might as well undo what Weiryn has done." Daine stood up and Sarra took her place. "Just relax Master Salmalin." She put her hands over his shoulder and carefully healed the pieces of bone back together and repaired the nerves around it. Numair relaxed with the stop of the pain and Sarra stood up and walked back over to Weiryn.

"Daine, I think I know how and why you all of a sudden have the gift." He sat up stiffly and pulled Daine down to sit on the bed. "It's the only plausible explanation I could come up with as to why you could do that-" He pointed to Weiryn. "To your father, a god, and him not be able to break out of it. The magic you threw had two colors, black and copper. And if I'm not mistaken, our babes have grandparent as gods, their mother is a WildMage and I'm not exactly a weak mage myself." Daine cut in, getting at what Numair thought. "So you think that our unborn children felt you or us in danger and used their gift to stop the threat." Numair nodded. "But how?" Numair shook his head and placed his hand on Daine stomach. "With the history of these two, there's no telling." He cupped Daine's cheek in his left hand and kissed her softly, then stopped when Sarra tapped her foot on the floor.

"Ehem, Is there something you would like to tell me, Veralidaine Sarrasri." Sarra asked sarcastically.

Daine blushed and looked down her hands then back at Numair who had an amused look on his hansom face. "I think we should tell her now, don't you think?" Numair whispered. Daine nodded.

The two stood and walked over to where Sarra stood by the frozen Weiryn. Daine spoke first. "There is something that Numair and I would like to tell you." She paused a moment then went on. "There's two something's actually. The first being, Numair and I are going to wed." She stopped to see her Ma's reaction. Sarra looked pleased and happy. "I was wondering how long it was going you two to come to your senses." And she hugged both Daine and Numair. "So what's the second thing?" Daine inhaled deeply and Numair squeezed her hand for reassurance. "The second is that-is that, I'm with child." Sarra's eye's widened and she looked like she was going to cry. She looked from Daine to Numair then back to Daine. "I-I don't know what to say." She stepped up and hesitantly hugged her daughter, probing Daine with her magic as she did.

"Daine!" She exclaimed in a whisper. "There's two--you're having-twins." Daine shed a few tears and nodded her head slowly. "Are you disappointed?" Sarra opened her eyes in surprise. "No, I'm happy for you and." She paused and looked slyly up at Numair. "My future son-in-law." Numair looked down, pink touching his cheeks as he wrapped a arm around Daine's waist.

Sarra cleared her throat and stepped back toward the frozen hunt god. "Well, this should be an interesting story as to how your father got to this state and hasn't been able to escape."

Daine was about to say what happened, when her stomach started to roll. She closed her eyes and swallowed. 'Not now.' She thought to herself as she exhaled deeply. "Daine are you ok?" Numair guided her to sit down on a nearby chair. "I think I'm going to be sick." Was her reply before bolting to the privy. "Daine do you need any help." Sarra called after her. "NO!" Was all she said. Sarra shook her head and looked at Numair. "Well that confirms her pregnancy." Numair chuckled and shook his head. "That it does."

"Now, Master-" Numair cut her off. "Please, you 'can' call me Numair."

"Ok, 'Numair', since my daughter is busy at the moment. Could you tell me why the god of hunt is unable to break free of this spell you put on him?"

"Well first of all, I didn't put this particular spell on him. Daine did. And even if I did cast such a spell, it would last this long." He stopped.

"How did Daine do it. She doesn't have the gift." Sarra looked puzzled.

"You're right, she doesn't, but the baby she carries-" He stopped to let Sarra try to figure it out.

"The children will surely have strong gifts, with a background as theirs. But that doesn't explain it. Gifted children don't show signed of magic until months after birth. Not a month after conception." She paused and started to passe. "And then for the mother to use the baby's gift is unheard of."

Numair shook his head. "No, I don't think that Daine used their gifts, but they felt Daine's fear and used Daine as a symbiote to stop the threat."

Sarra nodded. "Now that makes some sense, but the babes don't even look anything humans yet. So how could they do this?"

Numair was just as confused as Sarra. "I don't know, but they did. It will definitely make for an interesting eight months."

Sarra laughed quietly. "You think the just only the next eight months are going to be fun. Look how magically active they are now. Just wait till their born." Numair sighed and nodded. "I know."

Numair and Sarra stood quietly thinking for a few minutes. Then Sarra's face went from amused to worried. Numair noticed the change. "What's wrong?"

Sarra shook her head. "The next thing that I can't figure out is why Weiryn is still frozen? It would be one thing if he was a human, but he's a god. And he's stopped in his tracts." She paused to see what Numair would say. He too had a worried face. "Numair, you'd best keep this new finding secret. If someone found out that Daine and your children have the power to stop gods, and possibly kill them-" She swallowed hard at the thought. Numair finished her for her. "There's no telling what someone would do get a hold of them!" Sarra nodded.

The tension in the room eased when Daine entered and fell into a plush pillow chair. Numair walked over to her. "Are you alright?" Daine looked up into Numair's emotional eyes and nodded. "Yeah, I'm just fine." Then she hesitated at the way he looked at her. "Why, what's wrong?"

Sarra answered her question. "Well, your father is still stuck in the state that you put him in." Daine shook her head. "I see that, but shouldn't he be able to break out of anything that a normal mortal mage put on him?" Numair spoke next. "He can break free of, if not totally ignore a normal mage's magic. But, the mages that threw that magic are, as far as you mother and I think, far from normal mages." Daine looked from Numair to Sarra and back to Numair, confused. "What do you mean?" "We think that our offspring, that you carry now, have gifts that affect gods and humans alike." He pointed to Weiryn. "And I think that he is enough proof of that."

Daine had a look of disbelief on her face as she put all the piece's of what happened that day. She looked a Weiryn who's eyes moved back a forth and said. "So, what do you we do?"

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(A/N) Ok, That the end of Chapter five. Some might classify this as a cliffhanger, but each person might think differently.

I'm sorry it took so long to get up, I had the worst time coming up with something that didn't sound totally cheezy!!!

Soo, I wrote it, I uploaded it, now you've read it, and I'm waiting for you to review it, Chop Chop, get to it!!

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