Chapter 26:

-Blue Green Eyes-

Further years passed and still Michael didn't show any alterations at itself. Every time the cure had another effect on him. It seemed that he lived his former life through. The miseries, joy, loves and his human death. He showed his emotions strongly. Sometimes, he was like a small boy confused and cried.As the scene came when he loses Selene, a world had shattered and he wanted to join her. whatever emotions overwhelmed him, it always ended in a disaster. The hybrid, the beast in him didn't allow the human emotions and he changed. Definitely for five years the village had suffered under mysterious deaths and nobody could do something against it. Not only people fell a victim to Michael also the animals, which served them for food, were slaughtered. Nobody saw the beast of the death and consequently nobody knew Michael's dark secret except of Grey Wolf and Ivanhoe, who tried everything to bring Michael to his senses.Well, and as they finally made it, they had a rather confused Michael before them. The usual blackouts caught up with him again and he felt lousier than ever before. However he didn't give up. Grey Wolf had suffered already quite a lot of Michael's fury-attacks. First his crippled leg, then, his hip was dislocated and at last, he had lost his left eye.Michael was really short before to kill him in individual parts and he could consider himself lucky, that he got away alive. They repeated it another time and Michael showed strange reactions. There were none.For the first time for years and after long trying and failures, Michael lay there... unconscious and flat-breathing. They were already almost worrying, as Michael still lay in this coma after two hours.Ivanhoe sent his father home, as he was obedient to the guard and hold an eye on Michael. Grey Wolf didn't refuse and did what was told him. The sun began already to rise of the 31. October. It became noon, when Michael started slowly to move itself. Ivanhoe was dozed off however, his instinct woke him and he went in defence position and was ready before sudden attacks. To his amazement... nothing happened. Michael awakened, as I he had slept however as he wanted to stretch himself, he noticed that he was chained. He focused shortly his strength and he tore the chains like a thread. He sat upright however lowered his head and held his hand at the head.

"Everything all right with you... Michael?" Ivanhoe asked carefully. Michael shook the head. "What is it?"

Michael raised his head and stared directly into the eyes of Ivanhoe. "I feel strange."

"Michael? " stammered Ivanhoe surprised and showed on Michael's face.

"What?"

"Your eyes... they... they're no more black... they're blue green."

"That's impossible. How can this be?" like a small child, he touched his face however, by touching it, he couldn't determine any changes. He felt also his teeth but his fangs were still there. Apparently, nothing had changed. "Nothing has changed. I'm still what I am. I can still sense the power within me but nevertheless, I feel different."

"How different? Can you describe it?"

"No idea. The hate, which drove me, is still there, but it doesn't concern me... I don't care. I feel humanly and either again not. What happened?"

"Inconceivably. It actually worked out. We already almost had given up the hope, after you overthrew the village into the chaos and killed almost my father."

"What have I done."

"You can remember nothing more?"

"No, it's, as if I woke up from a long dark sleep. The silver stake... the silver stake is the last thing I remember."

"But, that is six years ago. You went through different phases and sometimes, you have told confusing things."

"I saw her. I saw Selene." he clenched his fists and he was near to weep. "I miss her so very much. She was killed because she loved me. I'm a curse... a plague and I have a son, whom I'd like to meet. I want to be for him a father, however I can and will never be able to."

"Hey, don't blame yourself. It wasn't your fault. You cannot be at two places at the same time. You reached things, no one of us ever can reach. You have a family, don't forget this."

"What could I probably teach him, anyway? The kill? To recognize a vampire from a Lycan with the smell or better, how to change? No, I'd liked to keep him out of this as well as possible."

"You sound like a human being. You have the freedom to see him, nobody keeps you back except yourself."

Michael growled, but he didn't twist any feature. "I was human and nothing and nobody will take it from me whatever I am."

"The full moon really hit your kidney."

"What should this mean again?"

"I was only just thinking and I wasn't aware that it was the night of the spirits... Halloween. This supported all. It neutralized you, my father named it: taming. But I sniff more power than before, however, you don't look anymore, so as if one should be afraid of you."

"Is that a compliment?" Michael laughed.A laugh, that one had been heard no more for a long time of him, a laugh, that Ivanhoe had never heard of him and it gave him a security and calmed him down in a way.

"As you wish. I propose, we go to my father and still something, call me Casey, sounds better and my friends call me so."

"Then, you want me, despite what I have all done to you as a friend?"

"Rather you as a friend as, as an enemy. And furthermore it was indirect your fault, you gave in yourself merely to your inner beast and whoever already doesn't do this."

"And this should calm me down. Well thank you. If it's possible, I'd like to rest after we visited your father."

"No problem. Let's go."