Dynal: Thanks. This, unfortunately, is the last chapter. Sorry. Thierry is my favourite character as well, that's why I have dedicated my four Night World fanfics to him. Hope you like this chapter.
Thea101: Reading the computer before you go to school? Tsk. I do that when I go in to tech late. ;) Woman! Hold your horses, lol. I'll update The Dark Prince after the weekend, I promise, I just need to use this weekend to get my brain to work again, lol. Glad you liked it. Last chappie though. But there is still quite a few chappies of The Dark Prince left. Why did I start writing fanfics? ::looks to the sky:: am I in popular demand at the minute? Between you and Thade182, I don't whether I'm coming or going, lol.
Anywho, on with the story. This is the last chapter by the way; I'll be updating The Dark Prince after the weekend. After all, I did promise didn't I?
WARNING: If you are sensitive, be careful when you read this last chapter. Sorry if I was a little graphic with describing Theorn about five paragraphs down. Hope you guys like this. It's finished, by the way.
Part 6: Transformation.
It has been three days since the tribe found the bled out bodies of the four missing newborns. Later that night Theorn was to keep watch and guard the cave. He went missing and I have not seen him since. I am very worried about my son.
"Mother?" Conlan comes running up to me, his expression one of extreme horror, and sadness.
"Yes Conlan?" I answer warily. Ever since Theorn went missing, I have been neglecting my role as a mother to both Conlan, and especially my newborn daughter Karina.
"We have found Theorn." He pants out.
I snap my head up, and look hopeful.
"Where is he?" I demand. "What happened to him?"
Instead of answering me, Conlan looks to the ground, then behind me.
I follow his gaze and see Rama, Barak and two other hunters carrying something long and seemingly heavy. I know straight away what it is.
"No!" I choke out, the tears filling my eyes.
"Nariko?" Rama looks at me, saddened by the long bundle in his arms. "We found Theorn in the centre of the forest. He's…"
"Do not say it!" I scream, holding up my hand. "I already know."
Rama and the others gently drop the bundle on the ground, and I take in the scene before me.
Theorn is lying there with his eyes shut, skin pale and cold. His lips are blue. He looks as though he is sleeping, until I look at his throat, which has been viciously ripped out.
"What happened?" I demand.
"We don't know." Rama answers.
"Leave me." I say to them.
The five of them leave me alone with my dead son. I gently reach down and pull Theorn into my arms, and then sob my heart out.
After I have cried for a few minutes, a scream erupts from me.
"Mother of Life! Why did you take my son? He was only a child, you didn't give him enough time to live!" I scream at the top of my lungs, the pain and the hurt racking my body. I cry harder, I have never cried this hard before in my life. Not when Conlan was born, not when Theorn was born, not when Hecate died, not when my mother died, not when Karina was born, and not when I came across the babies in the forest three days ago.
"My poor baby." I whisper, running my fingers through Theorn's hair. One more tear escapes from my closed eyelids and I open my eyes to watch it fall into Theorn's cheekbone.
I lay my head on Theorn's chest and close my eyes.
I must have fallen asleep, because the sun is starting to set and Rama is shaking me awake.
"Nariko?" he whispers, the tears evident in his eyes. "We have to bury him now."
"No!" I whisper harshly.
"Yes, there is nothing you can do." Rama tries to console me, but I have none of it.
"My baby boy is dead." I whisper. "Why did this happen?" The tears squeeze from my closed eyelids again.
"I do not know. But you have to eat, you need to feed Karina, she's in the cave screaming." He says. I lean towards him, and shakily wrap my arms around his neck. He holds me back, but after a few minutes he pulls back.
"Come." He says, holding his hand out to me, I take it and he pulls me to my feet.
"Mother?" Conlan comes over to me, and opens his arms. I run into them, and he wraps his arms around me tightly. "Come, I'll take you inside."
Both of us walk to the cave and I meet my older sister Olesia as soon as I walk in.
She comes over to me, and hugs me tightly, while Conlan turns away and helps his father and a few other hunters bring my child in to bury him.
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I spend the next day lying on my leather pallet, too depressed to get up and do anything. I have stopped talking altogether. I have completely neglected Karina, so my younger sister Nira feeds her, and looks after her, until I feel up to it again.
It is around sun set when I hear the commotion at the back of the cave.
I get up and head to where the noise is, just in time to see Theorn rushing outside.
"Theorn?" I whisper.
He turns around when I say his name and get the biggest shock of my life. Theorn is still pale and more handsome than what he was. His dark eyes throw the light back at me, like an animal. But it is his teeth that has caught me attention; they are long, like a predator, and curved slightly. He pulls back his top lip, farther than possible, and snarls at me.
He turns around and runs out of the cave, Hellewise shouting after him.
"Theorn, I'll stop her. I swear to you, I'll stop her!" she yells at his retreating back.
"Hellewise?" I go over to her. "What happened? Who did this to him?"
"Maya, she made Theorn into some sort of blood drinking monster." She answers.
"I'll kill her!" I hiss. "She made my son a monster!"
"She chose him. Maybe because he was going from her to me, and she wanted him all for herself." Hellewise explains.
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A few weeks later and I haven't seen Theorn since he left. I am outside drying herbs, when I hear my son's voice.
"Theorn?" I whisper.
I follow the voice and I see him sitting cross-legged on the ground, with Hellewise mixing some sort of potion.
"Theorn?" I choke out in a sort of burst of laugh. He looks up at me, and then looks away.
He still looks the same as I saw him last, pale and predator like.
"Don't look at me." He says.
I ignore him, and come closer. He tries to scramble away, but I drop to my knees in front of him. I out my hand out and hover it in front of his face before putting it onto his cheek.
I have no idea who moved first, but we are embracing each other. I cry my heart out on his shoulder. I pull back slightly and kiss him all around his face.
"Why did you leave me?" I sob out.
"I'm sorry Mama. I didn't want to hurt you." He says, the tears running down his own face, I reach out and wipe them away. "I already attacked Conlan. How is he by the way?"
"He's fine baby, he's just fine." I say, putting my head back onto his shoulder.
"Mama?" he asks, rubbing his hand up and down my mostly bare back.
"Yes Theorn?" I say, holding him tighter.
"I done something terrible." He says, the tears coming out harder.
"What did you do?" I ask.
"When I ran away, I came across another tribe, a human tribe. After I attacked a little girl I was stabbed by the hunters, I was also stoned and burned by them. But I can't die. I met a girl there who tried to help me escape. I killed most of her tribe, including her." He sobs out.
"She was my soulmate and I killed her." He coughs and cries harder. I just hold him even harder.
"It is going to be alright baby. I'm here." I soothe.
"Hellewise is making me a potion to sleep until my soulmate is born again." He says. "I don't want to leave you, but I can't wait until she's born."
"Alright. I love you son." I say to him. Reluctantly letting him go.
"Theorn?" Hellewise says, getting his attention.
"Yes Hellewise?" he looks over at her.
"It's ready." She says.
We walk to the forest and Theorn digs himself a grave. He climbs in and takes the potion. Almost as soon as he takes it, he falls asleep. I look to the sky and mumble a sort of prayer.
"Mother of Life, guard your son, and let him wake up and find his soulmate." I say. Both Hellewise and I cover him with the dirt.
I really hope that Theorn will wake up, and find his soulmate. In the meantime, I have a daughter to look after. And I have a grandchild on the way. Both Hellewise and I walk back into the cave, the sun setting behind us.
The End.
A/n: Awww, nice ending rite? Sorry about it being short. This is it over, now next week I'll update the dark prince. If I don't then Thea101 will kill me, Lol!!! Okay, it's the middle of the night and I'm going to bed. Goodnight. Thanks for all those who have reviewed. I thank you. Big kiss. Mwah.
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