Pandie Katteken: Loved your stories/poems by the way. Thought that they were great! And yes, Deven does have Iliana; I'll try to put them in here. I take it Spot likes chilli dogs? That's a good idea, I read your bio the dragon tiger one, and I loved what you and Hazel did with it! Loved Spot too. Thank you for liking my fics, it's always nice to have people commenting on how good your work is, isn't it? ;)
Sweettooth (a.k.a. IReYn): ::sings:: Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear IReYn/Sweettooth. Happy birthday to you. How old are you? Let's just hope you're not as old as me (18) if you aren't, try staying the age you are. Much more fun then. If you're older…you have my sympathy. LOL!!! ;) I have given Deven someone, he has Iliana. I'm gonna put them in this chapter, if not this one, then the next one. Nope, all the kiddies are going to grow up normally…well…age normally. Oops, almost gave away something there. I'll try to 'continue with my greatness.' You think my stories are great? Whey hey!! ^_^
Jezel Blackwind: Thank you. I'm getting belated happy birthdays left, right and centre here. Not that I'm complaining mind you. I hope you love this chappie too… ;)
Thea101: I'll send you an email with some more ideas; just tell me what your ideas are first. Let me know what you're wanting done with your fic and I'll try to come up with something for you. Like I said, if you need any help, just ask. You have me email addy, just send me an email asking for some help. I promise not to yell, and I don't bite…on purpose… ;D I think you did say happy birthday to me in 'Marie', I'm pretty sure you did. Poor you, school. ::Shakes head:: I'm glad I'm outta school, I hated it. I'm in tech by the way. I love it; I didn't like school because I was bullied a lot. Actually, I was accused of being…wait for it…a vampire, because I love vampires. Humans eh? Such pitiful creatures. LOL ;)
Jez101: It's horrible wearing glasses isn't it? I've had mine for almost four years, and I still forget to mention them when I'm describing what I look like. ;) Hmm, my stories are: very good, very funny and…wait for it…very interesting? That's a lot of verys, but not enough fairies. Don't mind my strange humour, I get like that when I've had very little sleep. ;)
Last reviewer. Don't worry there is a story in here…somewhere…I think. ;)
Spikes-gal787: Why are your parents yelling at you? You didn't do anything naughty did you? ; D Yeah I love series stories, get to know what happens over a period of time. This wasn't supposed to be a trilogy; at least I hadn't it planned that way. It just sorta happened like this. You never know, I might make it into a longer series. Hmm, I'll think about that one.
This chapter's for Pandie, since she wanted to know if Nila's child is in this story. This chapter is more or less about Nila's daughter Nuria, but it starts off where she's fifteen. Hope you guys like it? Here it is.
Part 2: Sweet Sixteen.
Nine years later and all of Daybreak's children are sixteen…well, with the exception of Miles and Nila's daughter Nuria, who's only fifteen. Nuria Neely has black hair, like her mother, but warm brown eyes like her father Miles. She looks every inch an Egyptian even though she's only a quarter.
Nuria and Deven have become quite close, and they always stick together, it's like they're joined at the hip.
Tomorrow though, Nuria will be sweet sixteen. Thierry is holding a surprise birthday party for her. But right now, she's busy fighting with Oren over something; let's go take a look shall we?
"Oren Redfern!" Nuria Neely yells at the older brown haired vampire. "I don't care what's on, I was watching 'Scary Movie 2.'"
"The way she's going, it'll be 'Scary Movie 3' we'll be watching." River says. The rest of Daybreak's offspring, with the exception of Oren and Nuria, laugh at this. Nuria glares at her cousin and yells at him.
"Don't make me start on you River Lennox!" she hisses through her teeth.
"Nuria? Will you please just calm down?" Nariko says, going over to her cousin and putting her hands on Nuria's arms, where she guides a reluctant Nuria to the huge couch shaped like an 'L.'
"Why am I always getting yelled at?" Nuria asks to herself. "Just because I'm the youngest doesn't mean that you guys can get to pick on me."
"Who says we're picking on you?" Faylinn asks.
"Oh come on!" Nuria nearly yells. "You always blame things on me, you leave me out, and you treat me like I'm a baby!"
"Nuria, if you would stop acting like a spoilt bitch all the time, then we won't do any of those things." Oren says, going up to his cousin and grabs her by the arm roughly.
"Ow! Dammit Oren! Let. Me. Go!" Nuria yells, loud enough that Oren's father, Ash, comes into the room to see what all the commotion is about.
"Hey, hey. What's going on here?" the blond vampire asks. Ash doesn't look like he fathered Oren, because he only looks about twenty, the age in which he stopped growing. After giving birth to Oren, Mary-Lynnette had Ash change her into a vampire. It's the same as Rashel, Hannah and Maggie, although Rashel was reluctant to be changed into a vampire, but she came around after having a dream consisting of being old and wrinkly and having an eighteen year old as a soulmate.
"Oren won't let me go!" Nuria says to Ash, still trying to pull her arm back.
"Oren Mark Redfern! Let Nuria go or else!" Ash hisses at his son, who lets Nuria go. Although Oren has Mary-Lynnette's hair colour, he is the exact image of his father. Both Ash and Oren are tall, but Ash has at least five inches on Oren, they both have eyes that change colours, both are lanky, have nice muscles, and most of all, they are both Ladies' Men.
Nuria's older brother, Deven comes in, holding his six-year-old son, Gabriel, in his arms. He looks over at his sister and Oren fighting, and then he looks at Ash.
"They were fighting again?" Deven asks Ash.
"Do they ever do anything else?" Ash replies, still glaring at Oren.
"No, I can't say I've ever seen them do anything other than fighting." Deven replies. Nuria sticks out her tongue at Deven. She walks over and takes Gabriel from him.
"Ach! You're getting heavy." Nuria says to her nephew, putting him down on the floor. Gabriel reaches up and holds Nuria's hand. Gabriel has violet eyes like his mother Iliana, but has jet-black hair like Deven. He looks like both his parents, but has Nuria's personality and short temper.
"I'm six years old, Auntie Nuria." Gabriel says. "So I'm not surprised I'm heavy."
"What are you doing up so late anyways?" Nuria asks.
"Daddy let me stay up." Gabriel replies.
"Daddy did not." Deven says. "Daddy was just about to put you to bed. Come on now, it's nearly eleven."
"I'll put him to bed." Nuria offers. "Come on Gabe."
"Can I have a piggy back?" Gabriel asks, looking up at Nuria and swinging her arm.
"Okay." Nuria lifts Gabriel up and puts him onto the couch, she turns around and Gabriel climbs on her back. Nuria puts her arms under Gabriel's legs so that he won't fall off.
She walks out of the living room and up the grand staircase to the floor where the bedrooms are. She walks to a baby blue painted door, opens it and walks in.
This whole room is decorated in different shades of blue, the single bed is midnight blue, the furniture is powder blue, the walls are sky blue and the inside of the door is the same baby blue as the outside.
Nuria picks up Gabriel's dark green pyjamas and walks to the bed, where she sets Gabriel down, and starts to change him into his pjs.
After which, she pulls back the duvet cover and Gabriel climbs in, Nuria puts the duvet back over Gabriel,
"Now get to sleep." She says, leaning down and kisses Gabriel's forehead. "Night sweetie baby."
"N'night Auntie Nuria." Gabriel says, yawning. He closes his eyes, and falls asleep fifteen minutes later.
Nuria turns around and heads for her own room, she flops down on the bed and looks up at her water-patterned ceiling. Her bedroom has a whole under water theme; the headboard is made into the shape of a giant clam. The walls are artistically done with fish; on one wall is a huge Orca whale. She also has a huge fish tank filled with exotic looking fish, ranging from tiny iridescent neon fish, to angelfish, to gold fish, as well as half a dozen sea horses.
I'll be sixteen tomorrow. She thinks to herself. Sweet sixteen, and never been kissed.
Reluctantly, Nuria gets up and gets changed into her own pjs, and climbs back into bed. She starts to read one of her many books about Ancient Egypt, since she was told that she was a quarter Egyptian, Nuria has spent quite some time reading about her culture. She even had her room decorated in Egyptian style.
After reading for about half an hour, Nuria starts to see double vision. She just has time to put the book down and turn off her light, before she falls asleep.
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Nuria wakes up the next day to someone shaking her, she groggily opens one eye to see her father, Miles, shaking her and saying her name.
"Nuria? Wake up." Miles says.
"Wha…why?" she asks, still not fully awake.
"Thierry wants to see you downstairs." He replies.
"What for?" Nuria asks, yawning.
"I have no idea. He just said to get you up, tell you to get dressed and come downstairs. He wants to talk to you about something." Miles answers, biting the inside of his cheek so as not to smile.
"Okay. All right, all right. I'm up." Nuria says in a sleep filled voice. "Tell Uncle Thierry that I'll be down in about an hour and a half." She pulls the bed covers back, and swings her legs over the bed. She shakily stands up, and makes her way to the bathroom. She turns on the shower, and takes her pjs off, stepping under the stream of water she gets washed.
An hour later, she comes out of the steam filled bathroom, and gets dressed. She pulls on a black shirt with thin white stripes, and three quarter length sleeves, dark blue jeans that tie at the front, and black leather four-inch heels.
She quickly runs her brush through her long black hair, ties it back with a black velvet scrunchie and runs out the door and down the stairs.
Nuria comes to a stop at the living room doors, fixes her hair, and straightens her clothes, before opening the double doors. Inside though she nearly has a heart attack, because as soon as she steps into the dimly lit room, she is bombarded with a yell of "Surprise!"
She looks around the room, while clutching at her chest, and sees that the entire living room is decorated with banners proclaiming "Sweet Sixteen." And "Happy 16th Birthday."
Everyone in the mansion is crowded into the spacious living room, each of them sitting on chairs, the 'L' shaped couch, the ordinary couch, or on beanbags.
There is a long table along one wall, filled with food and drinks.
Instantly, Nuria is bombarded with people giving her hugs, kisses, and presents. Thierry comes to her rescue and guides her to sit on the couch on his knee. Nuria turns around facing her Uncle.
"Did you do this for me?" Nuria asks.
"I set the party up, but it was your parents idea to have one for you." The Night Lord replies.
"Thank you. I get up, thinking that you wanted a serious talk with me, but when I get downstairs I almost have heart failure instead." Nuria says smiling.
"Sorry for that." Thierry apologises. "But what gave you the idea that I wanted to have a talk with you?"
"That falcon shapeshifter of a father of mine, came in, woke me up and told me that you wanted to talk to me." Nuria says, glaring at Miles standing on the other side of the living room talking to Keller.
"I told Miles to bring you downstairs, when he asked how, I told him to say anything to get you down. I didn't know he would have said that I wanted to speak to you." Thierry replies with a smile.
"Oh well. What's done is done." Nuria says. Before Thierry can reply to this, Nila comes into the living room carrying a huge chocolate birthday cake with sixteen lighted candles. Suddenly everyone in the living room is singing "Happy Birthday." Nila comes over to Nuria and stops in front of her, holding out the cake.
"Make a wish sweetheart." Nila says.
I wish to find my soulmate. Nuria wishes into herself, and then blows out the candles. The room is in an uproar of applause, whistles and cheers.
Nila walks away from Nuria to go into the kitchen to cut the cake; meanwhile Nuria gets orders from everyone to open her presents. She starts with the biggest present that's sitting on the coffee table.
"This one's from…Uncle James and Aunt Poppy." She says, reading the label. Nuria tears open the wrapping paper and pulls out an art case. Nuria has been big on art for a long time; she has always painted, sketched, drawn and sculpted since she was around four or five.
"Thank you Uncle James. Thank you Aunt Poppy." Nuria says, reaching out her arms and hugging James and Poppy, and receiving kisses from them both. Nuria opens the other presents, getting more art things, clothes, perfume, body spray and other girlie things.
"Oh, here's a present from me." Thierry says. "I asked your parents, and they said that it was alright to get you this." Thierry reaches into his pocket and pulls out a case that a bracelet would be in. But when Nuria opens it, it's not a bracelet. It's something else entirely.
Nuria gasps when she sees what it is. Inside the case is a key attached to a black key ring with the Ferrari emblem.
"You got me a car?" Nuria asks in a surprised, squeaky voice.
"Yeah. You said that you were sick and tired of having to come home in Nariko's car, so I went and got you one for yourself." Thierry replies sheepishly.
"Thank you, thankyouthankyouthankyou." Nuria says, grabbing Thierry in a hug hard enough to crack his ribs, had he been human. She gives him a huge kiss on the cheek, leaving a glossy brown mark from Nuria's coffee coloured lip-gloss.
Nuria jumps off Thierry's knee and races outside where a black Ferrari Spider is waiting in the driveway. Nuria runs to the car and unlocks the door; she climbs into the driver's seat, sticks the key in the ignition and starts the car. The engine makes a soft velvety purring sound.
Thierry climbs into the passenger seat and instructs Nuria on what to do. She pulls out of the driveway and out of the grounds. She heads towards the Strip, and cruises past the many hotels and casinos. She circles around with Thierry's help, and heads back to the mansion. She parks the car in Thierry's huge garage, and jumps out of the car.
"You'll be given driving lessons once a week, all paid for by me." Thierry says as they walk back into the mansion.
"You're the best Uncle Thierry." Nuria says, wrapping her arms around the Night Lord one more time.
Nuria and Thierry go back into the living room and everyone helps Nuria bring her birthday presents upstairs to her bedroom.
"So?" Galen asks. "How does it feel to be sixteen? Feel any older?"
"Yeah actually I do. I feel more mature and more responsible." Nuria replies, giving the Prince of the Shapeshifters a huge grin.
After Nuria has put away her presents, it's already nighttime. She gets dressed for bed and goes to sleep, with a huge grin on her face.
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A/N: Sorry for the long wait for this being updated, but I've been busy with my A.V.C.E Art stuff. Hope you liked this chapter? Please review and let me know what you think. Now I gotta go and watch the "Tremors" series. Bye. ;)