'His' Death

Dracania awoke to find Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake still fast asleep, she sighed, she missed D already. It had only been a year since she had killed him. Dracania got out of the coffin careful not to wake Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake, and she made her way to the stables. She mounted one of the horses bareback and took off headed towards his castle.

Dracania was about to enter the graveyard when she spotted 'him', 'he' was standing before D's grave and he looked to be smilling.

Ancestor:"You can come out I won't hurt you, your like me now. There would be no reason for me to hurt another Noble, especially my grand daughter"

Dracania went over to the Ancestor,

Dracania:"He died smilling

Ancestor:"Did he?"

Dracania:"Yeah, he almost looked like a child set free from it's endless torment"

The Ancestor smilled

Ancestor:"Where all just children begging for the end to come inside, no matter who we are, we're all pledding children. You understand how it feels don't you?"

Dracania nodded, she knew all to well how it now, she wanted death.

Ancestor:"Nobody. No matter how stupid, ugly, rich, poor, loved, unloved, worshiped, onhoroed, young, or old wants to die. Nobody wants to live forever truelly. You find it rather dull living for all eternaty, watching others grow old and die. While your damned to never age, to never see the sun again, and your almost unable to die. You welcome the stake to the heart and your head cut off!"

The Ancestor laughed

Ancestor:"Do you now see how true this is? How unrealistic? How confusing it is?"

Dracania nodded

Anecstor:"Good! Listen here, and listen good! Swear you'll do what I ask of you before I tell you. You must swear you'll do it! No questions asked!"

Dracania:"I swear i'll do you one favor in honor of D"

Ancestor:"Good"

The Ancestor pulled out a stake and handed it to Dracania

Ancestor:"Kill me"

Dracania:Why?"

Ancestor:"I'm tired of living forever! Just Do it!"

The Ancestor's arms where spread wide leaving him open, Dracania gripped the stake. She pulled back then lunged it deep into the Ancestor's chest, blood purred from the Ancestor's mouth.

Ancestor:"Thank you"

The Ancestor fell to the floor

Ancestor:"Thank you"

The Ancestor repeated, the Ancestor smilled as 'he' breathed his last. Dracania batted away the tears, she was actually sad to see the Ancestor die.

Dracania returned home where Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake was waiting for her, he hugged her tightly.

Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake:"Whats wrong?"

He'd noticed the tear stains on her checks

Dracania:"It's nothing Niar, don't worry about it"

Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake:"You're lying"

Dracania:"Alright. You caught me. I went to visit D and the Ancestor was there, and 'he' made me kill 'him', and 'he' was glad to die!"

Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake:"After having lived so long it must of been wonderfull to truelly be free"

Dracania:"Maybe one day we'll join the Ancestor, D, Catlin, and everybody else"

Dracania had been severaly wounded, she would of bleed to death if Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake hadn't been there

Dracania:"Why won't you let me be free?"

Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake:"Because I don't want to lose you!"

Dracania:"But you can join me!"

Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake:"What is wrong with you?"

Dracania:"I just want to be free! Free Niar! Free from all this! Look, in a couple years Rain will be able to care for himself. The what?"

Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake:"I don't know"

Dracania:"We've lived long enough don't you think?"

Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake:"I've lived longer than you"

Dracania:"Don't you want it to be over?"

Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake:"I do"

Dracania:"Then when Rain is gone we'll end it. Oh! What fun!"

Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake:"Alright, my princess"

Epilogue

Dima and Rain stand at their parents, grand parents, and great grand parents graves, and it's pouring.

Rain:"Can we leave now?"

Dima:"Why? We're celebrating!"

Rain:"Celebrating what? Their deaths?"

Dima:"No, silly! There freedom!"

Rain:"Freedom? How is death freedom?"

Dima:"Your freed from what bound you to this life, like out almost immortality"

Rain:"I don't get it"

Dima:"You'll understand in a couple years maybe why death is desired over life even if it lasts forever"

Rain:"Right... can we leave now? I'm freezing!"

Dima:"Suck it up you big baby! Dad would laugh at how pathetic you are!"

This made Rain stiffin up, he had looked up to his father

Rain:"Mother wouldn't like your attitude"

Dima:"She had one of her own"

Rain groaned, Dima was right once again, he was tired of being wrong.

They turned to leave but something caught Dima's attention, she'd noticed the necklace laying on D's grave.

Rain:"Come on!"

Dima:"Look"

Rain grunted then turned and ghasped

Rain:"Are they?"

Dima:"It's just there spirit's Rain"

There before them at each grave stood a ghost of it's own, the Ancestor stood with 'her', D with Catlin, and Dracania with Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake. The Ancestor seemed to be there but not there while 'she' was solid, the Ancestor had 'his' arms around 'her'. D and Catlin seemed halfway visible or semi-transparent, D had his head resting on Catlin's right shoulder, the marks revealed.

Rain:"I never knew he bit his love"

Dima:"It was to keep her with him"

And Dracania and Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake where like the Ancestor. But Dracania seemed more solid but not by much she was still pretty transparent.

Rain:"Why is mom different?"

Dima:She was a dhampir still but her Noble side had won over"

Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake had his face burried in Dracania's hair, Dima smilled all of them where still together and free. Rain smurked, he was just glad that they could be happy even after life. Dracania was first to smile, the Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake, the Catlin, then D, then 'her', then the Ancestor, and Rain broke into a smile as well.

Then they fadded away one by one, 'her', Catlin, D, the Ancestor, then Dracania and Count Grand Duke Baron Niar Drake at the same time.

Rain:"Why did they dissapear like that?"

Rain had stopped smilling and Dima smilled wider

Dima:"Thats the order they died in"

Rain:"Oh"

Dima:"Let's go, besides, i'm hungry and it'll be day soon. We better hurry!"

Dima ran

Rain:"Hey! Thats not fair!"

Rain followed, he trusted Dima to protect him, and she would, till the end of time if needed.