:poke: Author's note
(poke) thinking
"poke" talking
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Darkmaster2: LOL, I'm glad you still like it. Cain needs to be here though, I have plans for him. I hope I'm keeping everyone in character. Well, enjoy the next chapter.Chapter eight: Temptation
After the whole thing with the breed and Cain, Silver has been very distant from everyone.
She talks to Yayoi and Shido only when she has to, she has refused to talk to Guni at all. That could be because Guni said something like, 'if you don't hurry up and tell Shido how you really feel about him, he may go back to Cain since he is being nice now.' You can imagine the yelling that was done about that.
Also she has said that until she learns how to master her powers she will not feed or sleep in the coffin with Shido. Due to her fear that she will transform and kill them if she gets to close.
Shido is extremely worried about Silver. He doesn't know what to do, or how to train her in mastering a power he has never seen before.
There is also the fact that Cain could come back at anytime and the next time he might not be so helpful.
At this time Shido and Yayoi are trying to convince Silver to feed before they have a repeat of how Shido found her in the park.
"Young One, you can't continue on like this. You need to feed. How can you even hope to master your power if you are this weak? Nothing will get done and you will just faint like the night I found you."
"Thank you so much for bringing that up Shido."
"Look, what we are trying to say Silver is that we are worried about you. It has been what two weeks since you transformed and you have not fed. The only thing that is keeping you up right now is the fact that Shido stays by you when you sleep and tries to feed you then."
"Look, what I am trying to say is that I'm scared of my power. I'm scared that I will transform again and this time it won't be a breed that I slice. I can't stand the thought that if I feed from you I could kill you and not even mean it."
"Nothing like that will happen Young One I will make sure of it. You are still the same person you were before. Just because you can transform does not mean that when you do someone will die. I think the reason you killed the breed like that was because your warrior mind saw that it was an enemy and attacked."
"So what you are telling me is that I not only can't remember my past, but now I have a split personality?
"No Young One that is not what I am saying at all. I am saying that when you transform your mind set changes form everyday to survival. Or at least that is what I have gathered."
"See your not even sure. Your trying to tell me not to worry about it and your not even all that sure about what you are telling me. I need to go take a walk. Please don't follow me. I'll be back in about an hour and then we can try to get my transformation under control so that I can decide when I want to change or not."
"Alright Young One. I'll see you in an hour. Before you go though can you promise me a couple things?"
"What are they Shido?"
"First please if you see a breed don't try to take it out by yourself. And second when you get back please feed. Even a little will make me happy."
"I will see what I can do Shido. Bye."
She walks out and goes down the street. She doesn't really know where she is going to go, but she needs to clear her mind and think clearly about what happened so she walks where her feet take her.
It just so happened that her feet lead her to the park Shido found her in. Not only the park, but she walks to the gazebo as well and sits down inside it.
She sits there thinking for some time when Cain shows up and sits down next to her.
As soon as she notices him she jumps up and draws her sword. She remembers what Shido had told her about him and even though he was the one who made it so she could transform back she is not going to take any chances.
"Put your weapon away Child. I mean you no harm. I thought I stated that when last I saw you."
"That may be, but Shido has told me a great deal about you, and I'm not about to be used by you as a tool for trying to regain Shido's love and trust. You are the one who broke it and something like that is not easy to repair."
"Don't talk to me about that Child! There is no way you can understand every thing that went on between me and Shido! But like I said, I am not here to do any harm to anyone. I simply want to help you. I know about your power and I could teach you how to master it."
(I would like that. He helped me before so why wouldn't he do it again? If he teaches me how to master it then I could go home to Shido and not have to worry about anything. Then things could go back to normal. I like how things were before. Then I had nothing to worry about and things were so much easier.)
While Silver stands there thinking Cain takes the opportunity to walk up to Silver and stands right in front of her looking into her eyes.
"You really could help me? What am I saying? I don't trust you. Leave! Now! Go, I can't take any of this!" She drops her sword and runs home leaving Cain where he stands in shock that she reacted that way to him.
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Shido is pacing back and forth looking very upset and saying, "Do you think she will be back soon? Do you think anything happened to her? What if Cain got to her and tried to enchant her in his eyes? I don't think she could resist him. She is still young and I didn't see the need to train her for that. I never thought that Cain would come by and use his enchantments on her and I know that I never would use mine. What if she saw a breed and decided to fight it instead of coming home to tell me about it? What if-"
"Shido please shut up!" He stops in his tracks and looks at Yayoi who is sitting on the couch. "I know that you are worried about Silver, but all this pacing is doing nothing but making me dizzy. Sit down and wait calmly for Silver to come back, she said that she will be back in an hour and that was half an hour ago. I am sure that she is just fine. Have some faith in her."
"You are absolutely right Yayoi. I need to sit down and stop thinking all this bad stuff that could happen to her. She will be back soon and I don't want her to see how worried I am. Then she will think I don't trust her to go on a walk for an hour and it's not that I don't trust her it's just that I would not be able to bare it if any thing happened to her." He sits down at his desk and tries to make it look like he is calm.
He was just starting to look like he was calm, when he hears Silver running up the stairs. He is out of his chair and standing in front of the door when she burst through it and slams it shut behind her.
She then launches herself at him and hangs on to him like she is going to be ripped away at any second.
He puts his arms around her and tries to comfort her as best he can before he goes into over protective father mode and asks, "Young One is everything ok? What happened to you? Was it a breed? Was it Cain? What happened, please tell me?"
At first Silver does not say anything. She only stands there trying to calm her self down enough to talk. When she can talk she says, "I saw Cain. I was walking and my feet lead me to the gazebo and I was just sitting in there thinking about stuff. Then Cain came up and sat next to me. I remembered what you had told me about him so I jumped up and drew my sword. He told me that he could teach me how to master my power. That made me think and while I was thinking he got up and stood in front of me. I almost told him yes. I don't know why I almost said yes, but I didn't I ran away from him as fast as I could and now I'm here."
"I can't believe he did that. I'm also surprised that you were able to tell him no."
"What do you mean your surprised I could tell him no? Did you really think that I would agree to do any thing with him after what you told me about him? I can't believe you have so little trust in me. Maybe I should go back and find him." She tries to get away from Shido and leave once more, but Shido does not let her go and keeps her close to him.
"That is not what I meant at all Young One. I meant that I was surprised that you could tell him no because he was trying to use an enchantment on you, just like he did when he helped you transform back. I did not teach you how to block them because I never thought that you would need to know how. But I can see that you do and you are on your way to mastering it with out me teaching you at all. It may be because of who you are."
"Oh, I'm sorry I got mad at you. I don't know what has been coming over me this last two weeks. I just really want to learn how to master the transformation. I'm still scared that something bad will happen, but I won't let that fear control me anymore I want things like they were before. I want to say I'm sorry to you, Yayoi, and Guni. Could you guys forgive me, or will I have to work on earning your forgiveness?"
"I forgive you Young One."
"I forgive you Silver, don't worry about it I understand that you're scared and don't want anything to happen to us even though I don't think anything will."
Guni comes out of hiding and sits down on Silver's shoulder. "I should be the one asking you to forgive me. I thought about what I said to you and even from me that was kinda a mean thing to do. So what do you say? Could you forgive me?"
"Yes Guni I can forgive you. Just don't say anything quite so mean next time. I have started to get used to your comments, but that one took me by surprise."
"I know, I know I said that I was sorry. You don't have to rub it in. Friends?"
"Friends."
"Young one, are you willing to feed again?"
"Not really. I don't think I am going to get over that fear that easily."
"Would it make you feel better if it was me you fed from?"
"I think it would. You would do that for me?"
"Of course I would. I did before didn't I?"
"But that was when I had just woken up from when you had found me in the park."
"So, I don't want that to happen to you again."
"Thank you Shido I don't know what to say."
"Don't say anything. Just drink." Shido leans his head to the side so that Silver has better access to his neck.
She leans over and sinks her fangs into his soft flesh. As soon as she has bitten him she starts to gently pull his blood into her mouth.