Dracania is sleeping fitfully, she keeps tossing and turning as if she wants to wake up.

Left Hand:"She's having a pretty bad nightmare from the look of things, bettter wake her"

D placed his hand on Dracania's shoulder. Dracania opened her eyes slowly as if waking from a deap slumber, she yawned.

Dracania looked up at D lookind down on her, oh how she had missed his cold dark stair that only she saw happiness in.

Dracania:"D, can I ask you something?"

D:"What is it?"

Dracania:"What was mom like?".

D glanced away from Dracania,

D:"Not here"

Dracania:"Where?"

D:"Come"

Dracania followed D.

They stood on the hill, many things had happened on this hill thats probably why it's liked so much. Dracania and D sat nere each other,

D:"When I first meat her she seemed so bored with her life".

Dracania:"I wander why"

D:"Nothing seemed to intertain her it all, it all seemed dull".

Dracania:"But she had no idea how exciting things could be, she was so beautiful just standing there".

D smilled,

D:"That long blond hair being tossed by the wind, and those beautiful brown eyes".

D:"They seemed to say, 'Wow! Who are you? And whats your name?' 'I'm D' I told her and her eyes lit up".

D:"She seemed so astonished to meat me, she'd been studying everything about the Nobility".

D:"And she heard about me and marveled meeting me, i'll never forget that look in her eyes".

D:"'I'm Catlin' she told me, that name seemed to speck to me, 'She's the one' it said".

Dracania said nothing,

D:"So I asked her to join me after explaining everything".

Dracania:"Was she afraid?"

D:"Of course she was! She was also confused but she trusted me".

D:"I don't know why she trusted me"

Dracania:"Because who wouldn't trust the legendary D?".

D:"True, she was to beautiful to leave in that town and she would of been found out".

Dracania:"What would they do to her?"

D:"Kill her, they would of killed her out of fear".

Dracania:"Thats terrible!"

D:"But you could say I saved her from that fate, for the longest time we traveled together!".

D:""I had what I wanted! I had a lover, for the first time in a long time, I was happy".

Dracania:"But it didn't last and it's my fault"

D:"It wasn't your fault it was mine mostly".

Dracania:"What do you mean?"

D:"On one of my jobs I slipped up and she got scared".

D stopped smilling,

D:"She called me a monster, a fein, a blood sucking monster, a Noble...".

D looked at the ground trying to hide his emotions from Dracania but she saw them anyways.

D:"I didn't want her to leave me, I loved her to much to let her go".

Dracania:"So you settled?"

D:"Only after I dispacted 'him'... but she was still afraid... so afraid".

D closed his eyes,

D:"She was so afraid of me! She was right! I'm a monster!".

Dracania:"D! Don't say that! You help people! You only do whats necesarry! Your not a monster!".

D:"Dracania face the facts! Where wanted by nobody! Hunted and alone!".

Dracania:"D, please..."

D looked at Dracania her eyes so filled with sorrow it hurt D to stay angry. He diverted his gaze,

D:"Sorry"

Dracania:"It's alright please continue"

D:"I hated being kept in that place".

Daracania:"The castle?"

D:"Yes the castle, but she loved it there she thought it was enchanting".

D stopped a moment,

D:"I'll never understand why, perhaps because it mirrored how I felt".

D slightly smilled a little but let it fade,

D:"Then she fell ill, I was so worried".

Dracania:"You knew it was me right?"

D:"Not at first I was confused then I figured it out".

Dracania:"I made her weak"

D:"She was already weak and fragile she could barely handle me".

Dracania slightly smilled,

Dracania:"Does that mean I can't handle you?"

D:"You? You can handle anybody".

Dracania smilled fully at that,

D:"I was so happy when you came along, I forgot she was ill".

D:"Then when she started getting weaker I remembered she had been weakened".

D sounded on the brink of tears,

D:"I couldn't save her! It was to late! I hadn't come to her aid fast enough!".

D sobbed,

D:"I held her in my arms as she left me, and gave me something".

D looked at Dracania tears streaked on his checks,

D:"That heart necklace was what she gave me".

Dracania looked down at the necklace,

Draacania:"I remember you giving it to me"

D:"It was hers".

Dracania:"Why did she want me to have it?"

D:"So you could pass it on to your daughter so it wouldn't be forgoten".

Dracania sighed and let the pendant drop from where she had held it.

Dracania:"You must of loved her allot"

D:"I would of followed her to the ends of the earth and back if I had to!".

D:"I loved her so much"

D stopped there and cried,

D:"But she had to leave!".

Dracania rapped her arm around D,

Dracania:"It's alright, i'm sure she's smilling down on us right now".

Dracania leaned agenst to tree watching the sunset, D had fallen asleep after awhile, and Dracania didn't bother him. She watched as the sunset she never thought she'd ever see one.

D:"Uh"

Dracania looked over at D, he was sturring, with a moan D woke up,

Dracania:"Good morning, well I should say good night".

D:"You remind me so much of her"

D strocked Dracania's check and she grabbed his hand.

Dracania:"Come on we have work to do"

D got up after Dracania let his hand go so he could. They mounted up and headed out putting the castle behind them, they'd never see it again hopefully.

They arrived at a village this was normal rutine by now, Dracania stayed behind to watch the villagers. Last time they where amboshed by villagers and had to suffor being stoned.

Sheriff:"I heard you where attacked in the village of Kroan, don't worry the village of Zilon is much kinder to half-breeds".

Dracania:"Why is that?"

Sheriff:"Well we've always injoyed the pleasure of knowing we could trust dhampir's to rid us of Nobles".

Dracania:"You've had dhampir's here before haven't you?"

Sheriff:"At one time, yes".

D:"Can I see your records"

Sheriff:"Sure"

The sheriff pulled out a think folder,

Sheriss:"This is all of it".

She patted the folder, and D picked it up and read the label,

D:"Is this everybody? Or just the dhampir's?".

Sheriff:"Oh, here let me see it"

D handed it to her, and she took a good many out. But it was still pretty thick,

Sheriff:"This is all of them"

Dracania:"Thats still quiet a bit".

Sheriff"Like I said the village of Zilon respects the dhampir's race very much"

D picked the folder up. Dracania peared over his shoulder and read along with him, he stopped once he reached the ca's. Dracania searched the names and saw the reason he stopped looking. There in black in white faded from fifteen years of sitting around was the name, Catlin. There wasn't a last name listed,

Sheriff:"Has something caught you interest?".

D:"This dhampir who lived here... Catlin was her name"

Sheriff:"Ah, yes I remember her".

D:"I knew her"

Sheriff:"Well she was a very bright girl but she was blinded to her true nature".

D:"I know, I met her"

Sheriff:"Thats right her father was found killed and her missing, fifteen years or so ago".

D:"Thats because I slayed him and took her with me, I had fell inlove with her".

Sheriff:"What happened to her?"

D:"She fell ill and passed after she had my child, a girl".

Dracania stood in the shadows so the sheriff couldn't see her,

Sheriff:"You had a child with her?".

The sherrif sounded shocked and she had every reason to be, it was unbelievable.

D:"Yes, fifteen years ago she gave me what I always wanted... a baby girl".

Sheriff:"Where is she now?"

D:"Catlin is gone, but... as for my daughter..."

Dracania stepped out of the shadows. The sherrif ghasped,

Sheriff:"Is this her?"

D:"It is"

The sherrif stood and approached Dracania. Dracania grabed her wrist when she reaced for her,

Dracania:"Sorry natural reflex".

She let the sherrif's wrist go, and she touched Dracania's check lovingly.

Sheriff:"Your eyes remind me of Catlin's but of your fathers"

Dracania let the sherrif touch her. But she was tence,

Sheriff:"Why so tence?"

Dracania:"I have to be on gaurd at all times"

Sheriff:"Not with me, don't give me that look!".

Dracania:"Why not?"

D:"She cared for me when I ran away"

Dracania:"Really?"

Sheriff:"I still remember you when you first came here".

The sheriff stood infront of D for a moment,

D:"You where so cute back then".

D said nothing but smilled faintly,

Sheriff:"Look at you now all grown up and so gorgeous!".

D:"Thank you"

Sheriff:"You have such a lovely daughter to, it's to bad I didn't get to met her till now".

Dracania:"We've been busy"

Sheriff:"Of course you have Hunters never get a break"

Dracania:"Parden me but I don't know your name".

Sheriff:"Same here"

Dracania:"Dracania" Sheriff:"Aina"

Aina offered up her hand then almost regreted it till Dracania shook it.

Dracania:"A pleasure to meet you"

Aina:"The pleasure's mine"

Ania pulled her hand back,

Aina:"So how has my favorite dhampir been?".

D:"Happy"

AIna:"Happy? Oh, cause your showing your daughter around the world"

D:"Right".

Ania was smilling, she placed a hand to D's check, he didn't even resist,

Aina:"You know you remind me of a certan person".

D turned away,

D:"Don't say that"

Aina:"Why not? You know I tease you"

D:"I don't want to hear it!".

Aina:"D... why... wait... is it true? The rumors i've heard, the tales spun, are they true?".

D looked at the ground,

Aina:"Is 'he'...?"

D:"Yes"

Ania back up clearly afraid,

D:"I'm still the same dhampir you knew".

Aina:"But this changes everything!"

D:"Why? Cause 'he's' so special I have to be treated specially to?".

Aina:"Yes, your the Prince of Vampires! Don't you see that?"

D:"I'm no prince"

Aina:"Why do you deny it?".

D:"What kind of prince is a dhampir?"

Aina:"You are! 'He' hand picked you to be 'his' son".

D:"'He' didn't pick me he created me for 'his' own selfishness!"

Aina:"Look at you! So angry!".

Ania seemed to be injoying herself,

D:"'He' nearly killed me every chance 'he' got!".

Aina:"What?"

D:"'He' did all these expiriments on me..."

Aina:"Why?"

D:"I was the only success 'he' wanted to know how to make more..".

Aina:"So 'he' did all that?"

D:"Yes"

Aina:"No one's ever heard about that"

D:"Because I haven't told anybody that accept you and Dracania".

Aina:"I never knew..."

D:"It's alright"

D looked up,

D:"Promise me you won't say anything".

Aina:"I swear on my life that I won't",

D:"And if you do I will hunt for you to the ends of the earth just to kill you".

D:"And for the record he's dead"

And with that D and Dracania left the wind snarling in there wake.

Aina"So he's our king now? Well fairwhale... our Prince, wait... our King... our King of Vampires...".