Disclaimer: I do not own any of the recognisable people; they all belong to the lovely L.J Smith. I am not making any profit or anything like that from this, or any of my other stories, these are just for fun. And for my warped imagination, LOL ;) Any unrecognisable people belong to me, such as: Nila, Deven and the kiddies of Daybreak.
I would like to tell all those who have reviewed my other fic Marie, that I will continue to post chapters up for that story, as well as for this one. What can I say? I couldn't resist doing another fic. Damn! This will be fic number nine. (Felt an awful like Fat Man Scoop there with Be Faithful. Anyone else love that song? I LOVE IT!)
Here is my new fic, it's a sequel to The Dark Prince and Who Are You?
The Next Generation of Daybreak.
Prologue.
"You little…I'm going to kill you Ash Redfern!" a loud angry voice rings out from the game room in Thierry Descouedres' mansion.
"Why?" the second voice asks, this one full of innocence. It belongs to one Ash Redfern.
"You cheated!" the first voice replies, this one belongs to the infamous John Quinn, or…Quinn as he prefers to be called.
"I did not!" Ash protests. "I can't help it that you can't play air hockey."
"Yes I can. You just cheat!" Quinn replies.
"Boys, boys!" Mary-Lynnette Redfern – Ash's soulmate – intervenes, coming in between the two vampires. "Knock it off! You're adults, act like it." She continues, going back to feet her nine-month old son Oren.
While the two vampires go back to their argument, more quietly this time, Rashel Quinn – Quinn's soulmate – comes into the game room with a crying Sanura in her arms.
As soon as Quinn hears his daughter cry, he immediately stops his bickering and runs over to take Sanura from Rashel. Sanura stops crying as soon as she's in her father's arms, instead she sucks her thumb and puts her head under Quinn's chin.
The whole scene is just too cute, the once notorious Quinn, made completely from ice, melts as soon as his nine-month-old daughter is in his arms.
"Thank you Quinn." Rashel says, going up to him and gives him a quick peck on the lips. "Any longer and I was going to throw her out the window."
"You wouldn't." Quinn protests, hugging Sanura closer to him,
"No I wouldn't." she agrees, giving her soulmate a slight smile.
"So…how's Nila?" Mary-Lynnette asks, handing Oren to Ash.
"She's fine." Nila Neely says, coming in through the game room door, with her son Deven beside her. Nila has a swollen belly, due to being five months pregnant.
Sanura spots Deven and puts her arms out to him, and he takes her from a relieved Quinn.
"Hello sweetheart." Deven says to her. Sanura giggles in response. "Where are all of the other children?" he asks the others.
"Oh, they're around…somewhere." Mary-Lynnette replies. At this, Nilsson, Thierry's butler, comes into the game room and confronts the six Daybreakers.
"Lord Thierry wishes to see everyone in the living room ASAP." He says in his deep velvety voice, which is tired and strained. Probably due to looking after Thierry and Hannah's daughter Nariko.
"What's wrong Nilsson?" Rashel asks, standing tensely.
"Anything wrong?" Quinn puts in.
"No, no. Nothing like that. Lord Thierry wishes to know how the children are doing." The butler replies.
"Tell him we'll be there as soon as the boys clean up their mess." Deven says.
"Very well Master Deven." Nilsson says, turning around and going back out the door.
"I suppose we had better get to the living room to ease Thierry's worries?" Nila suggests.
"I think so too." Deven agrees with his mother.
"Boys, tidy up and get to the living room." Mary-Lynnette says. When neither Ash nor Quinn move, she yells. "Now!"
Both of the male vampires tidy up the game room, and the girls and Deven leave the room with the two children.
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The blond Night Lord sits on the large midnight blue couch with his wife/soulmate Hannah, and his daughter on his lap.
He waits patiently for Ash and Quinn to sit down beside their wives/soulmates, before he speaks.
"All right, I would like an update on how the children are doing." He says in his hypnotic, silky voice. He looks at James and Poppy Rasmussen.
"Both Faylinn and Melia are fine." Poppy assures the ancient vampire.
"They are learning extremely fast for being nine months." James says.
Thierry nods, and looks at Ash and Mary-Lynnette Redfern.
"Oren is doing great." Ash says. "He's feeding alright, and sleeps fine."
"But he learns fast like Melia and Faylinn." Mary-Lynnette puts in.
The Night Lord looks at Thea Harman and Eric Ross, since last names run in the female side in the witch families, both Eric and David has kept their own last names.
"And how is little Erika?" he asks.
"She's doing well, and learning fast." Eric replies.
"She knows who to call on the orange Witch fire." Thea says.
Next, Thierry looks at Gillian Lennox and David Blackburn.
"Murphy and River are great as well." David says.
"Both of them can call on the witch fire as well." Gillian says in her soft voice.
Thierry frowns in thought before his gaze settles on Quinn and Rashel Quinn.
"Sanura is fine and healthy." Quinn says.
"And, guess what?" Rashel says, smirking at Thierry.
"She's learning fast?" he asks, more a statement than a question.
"Yeah." Rashel says.
"How's baby Harley?" he asks, looking at Jez and Morgead Blackthorn.
"Great." Morgead replies, looking at his son.
"He learns fast, loves being on the bikes and frowns when Morgead talks about him getting more attention than him." Jez says, smiling wickedly at her soulmate/husband.
"And what about Sari?" Thierry asks looking at Prince Delos Redfern and his wife/soulmate, Princess Maggie. Since marrying a prince, she has become a princess. But she doesn't like being called princess.
"Sari is great. And, like the other children, she's learning at an accelerated speed." Delos says.
"She also seems to quite down when Deven is around." Maggie says, looking at her nephew.
"How are the triplets?" Thierry asks Prince Galen Drache and his wife/soulmate Keller.
"Chase is still quiet." Galen says in his calm and gentle voice. "But when he last saw his grandparents, he took my father's impression. He is now a lion."
"Shaylee is now a panther, since she took my impression." Keller says. "And Sarai is now a leopard, since she took Galen's impression."
"How's Nariko?" Nila asks, seeing that Thierry asked how everyone else's child is doing, and he didn't say about his own daughter.
"Nariko is doing well, she's still clingy to me, but other than that, she's fine." The blond vampire replies.
"Why are the children learning so fast Thierry?" The pixie vampire – Poppy – asks.
"I don't know Poppy." The Night Lord replies. "We'll just have to wait and see what happens when they get older. I hope it's nothing drastic." At this last part Thierry looks at Deven.
Almost two years ago, Deven was prophesised to be the Dark Prince. But instead, Deven was in fact born to destroy the Dark Prince. Who in fact turned out to be Hannah and Thierry's son, but Deven killed him five months ago. For a two-year-old Deven looks pretty good, actually he looks about twenty.
"I have no idea. I hope not either." Deven replies in his velvety voice. "But as you say, we'll just have to wait and see."
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A/N: Please review and let me know what you think. This is just the first part; hopefully chapter 1 is better than this. Let me know if you think that this is crap, good or tolerable. Remember, flames will be ignored.