Chapter 5:

-Some Answers and a Decision-

"As you wish. Alexander wrote that he heard voices and was nearly driven crazy. They were no memories, that normally one had who was changed. They were voices from the other side. The underworld."

"Oh, now it comes. I should be the prophesied master of the underworld, right? Nonsense."

"The more you resist against it, the more badly you do it. Your name stands in this book and a type family tree was recorded, but there was never a Michael in the family. For a reason, it was forbidden to them until the right one descent of Alexander was born and that's you."

"And why exactly me! I had a normal life and I had to suffer losses. My family and Selene. I was a doctor and fuck, I was only 25 when I was fucking killed. A short life or what's strange about it!"

"I tell you only, what I could find out in this book. Only the one, who must meet death early and is of innocent heart, is it possible to restore the balance again. Those were the words, which he's heard over and over again. You were and seem still be innocent in your appearance. Even if you dispute it, your heart isn't cold like the our. You form the trinity of the species. All strongly manifested, however, only your human side is strong enough to hold them together."

"Well great. And if she isn't, then what, eh?"

"Then, the chaos will brake out. Why do you doubt it? Did something happen?"

"I don't know, whether Kathleen mentioned it, but I lost for years, in this wilderness my mind. I can't remember anything what had happened, but what I did was absolutely not human and now and then it happens again, like today or yesterday, if one wants to take it exactly. I changed against my will and that in brad daylight, which I never do. I had a vision; dismally however I could recognize a showy letter. Also Celtic. An eagle adorns a big C. I hope it's not another crypt of an elder, is it?"

"As far as I know no, however, on your description to, it's the same symbol, that Alexander used. It's portrayed somewhere in the book." Michael paged in the book, until he found the symbol, but like the book, it was also in a bad condition, however, he recognized it. A vision flashed past before his eyes. Fire...snow...darkness and a sarcophagus with the symbol. "Michael? Everything all right?" Erika asked. Kathleen knelt beside him and touched his cheek softly to get him awake again. He had closed his eyes, however he opened them, as he felt his sister's tender hand on his skin.

"Only a vision, otherwise nothing."

"What did you see?" Kathleen asked anxiously.

"A burning village... a location, which is bloody cold and it's often snows and possibly a cave, then the sarcophagus with the C. Is it possible, that the sarcophagus still exists?"

"Probably yes. ehm by the way…there is still something. In order to stabilize your nature, you need the blood from Alexander himself, which becomes quite difficult, because we don't know exactly where he's hidden. a hint, leads us to Alaska what probably matches your vision."

"One question: why isn't Alexander under us? I mean, he was a hybrid after all. What had killed him?"

"There's nothing certain about it. He quite suddenly vanished from the ground."

"Do you want then that I look for myself for his tomb, for your sake...for all sake? And what happens to me if I found him?"

"You would be unconquerable; you had the absolute control over life and death and over yourself. Maybe it will be possible again for you, to lead an almost normal life and you would have the truth and key to immortality in yourself."

"I will nevertheless remain a monster... maybe worse."

"But you wouldn't more perceive those pains anymore, Mike." Kathleen held his hand and pressed her. Her gaze was filled with hope, but Michael couldn't really avoid himself with the thought to be unconquerable, because there will be a time on which he would fed up the world and wouldn't have any reason to live. How should he be able to die then, if it's seemed already now to be impossible! Now, he had to think again of Selene, the mummy he saw in this tomb. His looks suddenly became cold and stared at Kathleen...

„Fuck, why didn't you tell me nothing that Selene was in this condition"!

"She is dead, Mike." she felt the pressure of his hand, that became more and more tight.

"No, she isn't. She dozes as the elder did it and that is my fault."

"What do you mean by it? And let go Kathleen, it's not her fault." Erika spoke.

"She drunk my blood when I was dying, you remember, when I was a Lycan. One year later, I bit her and that was enough to change her you immune system somehow..."

"Is it possibly then...to awaken her again?" asked Kathleen somewhat uncertain, rubbing her wrist.

"Yes, it is but only somebody willingly strong is capable for it..."

"Like you?" heather suggested.

„I would be capable however, no, she wouldn't survive it."

"And why had she survived the two first? There is no doubt that you're the prophesied and you're the only one under us who is strong enough. Damn it… do it for Selene!"

Michael thought about it and the more he thought about it, the more he enjoyed again, touching her skin and her lips again, however what will become of Melissa then? he loved her in a human way. He had the choice: either he killed her and changed her or he told her the truth and left her back. Both would end in a disaster.

"O.K." was his answer, even if it sounded rather sad and undecided. "I will do it, for her sake and... for Alex's."

"Are you sure?" Kathleen knew that they all committed a mistake and that he could have been together again with Selene for years, but it was withheld him and this had changed him... for nothing.

„Bring her here tomorrow. She will need rest and she will be safer here. I want to be alone then and Alex shouldn't be here. Caleb and Zed should do something with him. No idea what. I need now time for myself. I don't know anything more what I want or should think. I will go to get some fresh air." Michael got up and left the apartment, without to put on fresh clothing at all, because in that moment, everything doesn't matter to him and he had only Selene in the head. Kathleen, Erika, the Lycans and Erika's Death Dealers remained, silently sitting in the living room, while Kathleen now sat down on the chair, let fall herself totally exhausted and desperate.

"How will this all end?" she sighed. Erika took the diary into her hands and looked suspiciously and hated at it. that such an old story could put a single life totally upside-down and such an affectionate personality, like Michael, had before he was changed completely had changed him. "If you like, you can stay here. The boys can use Michael's room and you can sleep with me."

"Only if we don't trouble you..."

"No. I believe, I appreciate your company now all the more."

"Thank you and... hey, no problem."

"And what about me? do I not belong to your company?"

"Oh stop wailing, Zed." tried Caleb to cheer up the mood, what he also did, because Kathleen laughed and did a gesture with her finger that he should come to her what he also did. She gave him one long and ardent kiss.

"And now, be quiet or I will send to out of the door." and she kissed him once again.