A/N Here is the new chapter... I hope you like the idea that they start seeing the future rather than the past!
Chapter 5
It was four months later when I heard the next song. I was at Greenbrier with Ethan and Eve, eating a picnic and enjoying the last warm days of the year. The suns rays shined around us, scattering across the trees and gravestones. It was our place. Mine and Ethan's and now Eve's too. I had just bitten into a slice of cake when I heard the haunting melody echo through the trees.
First moon, first year,
The first demon will appear,
At midnight, when it strikes
The first moon will bind the night.
I dropped what I was holding, spilling the crumbs onto my white, vintage top.
Demon, L? A blood Incubus? Ethan kelts to me, anxious and worried and angry.
"Possibly, or maybe something worse."
"Worse? What could be worse than a pack of super-strong, angry, blood-sucking Ravenwoods? Who would love to get revenge on you!"
Abraham, or someone just as bad.
I kelt it. Ethan and I never mention Abraham or our past in front of our daughter. One day, on her sixteenth birthday, we will tell her what we went through, how Macon died once, Ethan twice and Lila found her way back to us, even if it was only for a short while. We will tell her of the horror of her grandmother, my mother, who was turned against her choice. We will tell her to love Izobel and to hate Sarafine just like I do.
We will tell Eve how John was prepared to sacrifice himself twice to save the Mortal world and to save Ethan when we thought he could not be saved. We will tell her how Liv was always there, finding the truth even when it could not be found and most of all we will tell her about Amma, who was always there for Ethan, through thick and thin, good days and bad. But today is not that day. I know she is only seven months old, but a Natural is capable of understanding more that you'd think.
I look over and see her sitting 10 metres or so away, lying in the grass, perfectly still. I rush over and to my horror see she is in a perfectly rounded circle of singed grass. I stop before I step in, unsure of what it could mean, but knowing that it wasn't good.
Ethan! Come! It's Eve…
Ethan is here quicker than I would think humanly possible.
What is it?
I don't know. But it has our daughter. I take Ethan's hand and together we step into the circle. Instantly I feel the familiar feeling of going into a vision.
"What do you want from me?" A girl calls out. She looks like I did, but different. Her eyes are green.
The girl is surrounded by fifteen stone demons, each holding their own weapon of destruction. Blood Incubuses.
There is no reply to the girl's question, just silence. She is growing more and more panicked with each second that passes. She is lying now, collapsed in the grass, her head held in her hands. She is my daughter, in the future. And somehow I know that this is her sixteenth birthday, her sixteenth moon.
"From you, nothing." A voice calls from the darkness. It is neither sad, nor happy. Welcoming, nor threatening. It has no emotion.
"Who's there?" Eve calls. I know who is there, but it is clear she doesn't.
"I am the Lilum. I am neither good or bad. I have darkness from the depths of hell and light from the highest of the high in me. I am the ruler, the creator."
"What do you want from me? I'm a nobody!"
"You speak a lie, child. You are the most powerful caster ever. Born to a mortal Wayward and a Natural caster. You are part of a prophecy." Oh, no. I think I know where this is going…
"The first will go dark, but the second will choose. The third will destroy and re-create."
"What? Re-create what? Help, please. All I ever wanted was to be normal. I don't know what to do."
"When the time comes, you will know, child."
I gasp for breath as I open my eyes. I sit up as Ethan does, both of us to shocked to speak.
"Eve!" I grab my daughter and she opens her little eyes, smiling up at me.
I love you, Mama. I hear the voice in my head. It has never happened before.
I love you too, Eve. Never ever forget that.
P.S Are you looking forward to the movie?