Chapter 8

Fate

Ash smiled unhappily down at Alder. "Where is she?" He asked as he shoved the wooden stake through his cousin's side.

"I don't know," he cried in pain. As of yet Alder hadn't sustained any life threatening injuries, that would change soon.

"I'll ask you one more time and then this stake is going in deeper, where is Lily?" Alder didn't speak, he only cringed. Ash sighed and pushed the stake further in. He didn't want to kill his cousin, they had been friends once, before Ash found his soulmate.

Ash had never been a wonderful guy, completely opposite in fact. The things he had done to humans in his life made him ashamed of himself, that's why he had to help the Ambrose's.

Ash ignored Alder's scream of pain and kept pushing. Images of Alder appeared in Ash's head as he did this. He remembered being a child and having Alder take him hunting, Alder catching him before he fell onto a picket fence, Alder smiling and playing with his young cousin.

"Stop it," Ash growled, Alder had been sending the pictures. They were true, all of them a memory of his childhood, but his childhood was over. "You came here to kill me Alder, do you think those little memories can change that?"

"Ash stop, I'll do anything," Alder whimpered.

"Tell us where she is and the stake will be removed before more damage can be done," Ash said. Alder shook his head. Ash pushed the stake in all the way.

"She's at the Bluffs," Alder screamed. Ash stepped back and looked at Shiloh.

"Let's go Ash, my parents will take care of him," Shiloh said, turning to leave.

"Don't kill him," Ash whispered. Shiloh looked incredulously at him, then simply nodded.

"Let's go," Shi said, running up the stairs. Ash followed him up the stairs and into the car, hoping they weren't too late.

Lily was lying on something hard, it was poking into her back as she came back to consciousness. Lily opened her eyes to see a bright blue sky above her with hardly a cloud in the sky. Her arms were still tied behind her back and her feet were tied together so that if she tried to walk she'd fall over. Lily turned her head and saw Patty and Lane smiling down at her.

"Good morning dear," Lane smirked as he reached down and picked her up, placing her on her feet.

Lily looked down into the dark depths of the cliff she stood upon, the wind blew her hair behind her as her naked toes felt the bite of the rock beneath them; she smiled dangerously, knowing something they did not.

Lily opened her mouth, noticing something was different from her dream, she wasn't wearing a gag. With a shrug she smiled venomously at her once friends.

"That won't kill me, nothing will," she laughed.

"You're human now, anything will kill you," Lane said as Patty handed him a long, wooden staff. Lily shook with laughter.

"You're a foul creature, you deserve this," Patty growled.

"You are fools, both of you," Lily began, and as she spoke it was as if someone stood beside her, whispering in her ears. She knew she had said it in the dream, but until that moment she had no idea what she was saying. "Do you not know who I am? I am a vision of the night, I am eternal, I am your nightmare." She understood what she was saying now, even if she didn't at the time. The prophesy had stated this, and her parents had named her for the prophesy. Her names meant all that, and so much more.

It was if a veil had been lifted in front of her face, she laughed at the look on Lane and Patty's faces. They were stupid. Lane stepped forward holding his staff and poking it at her.

Lily turned and jumped off the edge, knowing what Lane thought as she felt her body flow and change. Her hands disappeared and in their place were talons, her skin was growing long, soft feathers, and she was shrinking, her hair disappearing, and her bonds were falling to the water. At the last possible second Lily turned into the wind and let it carry her up the cliff. She was a girl no longer, she was a beautiful silve falcon, just like Patty.

When she had smelled a feral smell two days ago she had realized it was a shapeshifted, it was only a matter of getting that shapeshifter to touch her so she could copy its form.

Patty looked up at her, a horrified expression on her face.

"How did you copy me?" She whispered in shock. Lane was less articulate and simply looked on in shock.

Lily sqwaked and spoke mind to mind with Lane. "Your death awaits you beyond that ridge, my brothers are here to find me."

Lane swallowed visibly and looked up at the silver falcon that was flying over their heads and over the dirt pathways to the road. Lane watched her and saw her brothers pile out of a car and Look over. Lane stepped to the edge of the cliff and stepped off just as Patty turned into a falcon and flew away.

They got out of the car when they reached the Bluffs and looked around. There was one other car here. They raced forward far enough to see Lily go off the edge of the cliff. They all cried out as one as they saw this. They waited, hoping to climb down the cliffs and find her at the bottom when they saw a rather large, silver falcon flying in front of them.

"Lily?" Shiloh asked, looking up. He was just in time to see the girl that had been standing the turn into a brown falcon and fly away, while the boy stepped over the edge.

The falcon landed in front of them and suddenly it was flowing, moving, changing into something else. Shiloh watched in shocked fascination as the bird disappeared and a naked Lily stood up.

"Anyone have a coat?" She asked.

Ash stared at the naked girl, feeling more than a little guilty. It wasn't that she was naked though, the girl comanded your attention by sheer will power. She seemed to shimmer as she stood there. Her brothers had all turned away at this point, leaving Ash to pull of his long, button down shirt and hand it to her. She slipped it over her head and let it fall to cover most of her, he was much taller than her.

"I'm descent," Lily said, her brothers turned back.

"You're okay," Shiloh said, reaching over to hug her. They all saw this as some sort of sign because one by one they began to hug her. The poor girl was almost blue by the time they were all done.

"You must be Ash," Lily said as she held out her hand to him, "I'm Lily, I had a dream about you."

Ash laughed and took her hand, shaking it lightly. "Apparently sexy women dream about me a lot," he smirked, thinking back to his other cousin James and his soulmate that had dreamed about him too. "Or maybe it's just really powerful witch's."

She seemed to except this answer as she turned back to her brothers.

"Can we go home now?" She asked. They nodded and climbed down to the car.

"Shouldn't we go after your friend there?" Noah asked as they climbed in the car. Lily turned and looked back towards the cliffs.

"He's no friend of mine," she shrugged and got in the car.

Many gracious thanks to poisonous lily and windychic. While Lily didn't review the last chapter, and I don't even know if she's here yet, she did review! And yes, Damon kicks ass, I plan to have him in this story a little later, don't ask me how though I will explain it all when the time comes.

Anyway for Windy, I wanted it to be, don't mess with us! I mean there's five big, strong boys… Would you want to mess with them? Lol. Anyway it actually only takes me a half hour to an hour to write these chapters, but for some reason it takes me twice as long to write the other one, go figure.

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