Chapter 1
She trembled as the wind chill her through the ripped and bloody bed gown. Her eloquent robe discarded in an attempt to throw off her pursuers. She could feel her power draining from her. She had to last till dawn and the power it afforded her. Despert to increase the distance be tween her and her hunters she ventured off the path into the dense forest. Crying out as the thick briers tore into her feet and legs, she didn't pause. The luxury of rest she could no longer afford. There wasn't anyone that could help her; she was alone. Her pace faltered as she remembered the events of the night. The betrayal, the distruction, and the genocide of her entire race. Her soul ached. She was the last of her kind; well they were the last of their kind.
Her hand rested on the slight swell of her stomach. The child within restless at its mother's strain. She was scared. She knew she was dieing, if caught her child would be the key to the distruction her race had forged. The very world her kind had sculpted from nothing. Power. That was what her all child meant to her persuer. A weapon to use to please his master.
From behind, she heard the calls of men and that of the horses. They would have to dismount. She had a chance now. Her pace picked up. The sky was gray, the sun would rise soon and then she could save them... soon.
A red light shot past her blocking her path with fire. She whipped around, fangs bared, hissing and snarling at the man in front of her. Her friend, her spouse, her lord, and her murderer. Her eyes involentarly searched his for a seed of the man she had sworn herself to. While his alburn locks and aristoctatic features whre the same. His blue eyes no longer glimmered with the humor she had fallen for. Now harsh and cold they chilled her to her very soul.
"Ah, why run? You knew I would find you. You are mine. I need you... well I need that monster inside of you. It reeks of power. A power that will be mine." Her mind whirled for ways to buy time. 'Anger him' a voice in her head wispered.
"You're too weak to best me. How you have fallen. Why did you listen. You had power, you had immortality, you had us. NOW YOU ARE LESS THAN NOTHING!"
"Whore!" A burst of energy bolted from the end of his staff, slamming into her body, causing her to scream out and fall to her knees. As suddenly as the attack started, it stopped. "Finally on your knees where you belong." Her body was convulsing from the last attack. She tried to breath. Froth bubbled from her lips staining them red as she tried to talk. She opened her mouth and snarled another insult.
"I would never have guessed you would be so subserviant. My lord would have never have fallen to be a mere puppet." She watched as his face turned purple with anger.
"You will pay for that beast." The callous words tore at her heart but she knew that the man she loved had died already. Just as the sun peaked over the horizon, he hurled a bolt of sickly green energy at her. She gathered the power the rays of the sun offered her and the energy that was left in her body and pushed it into her womb. Pain like none she had felt before tore through her. As the world around her dimmed and she was struck she smiled. As her body careened to the earth a vision of a ruby haired girl with verdent eyes flashed before her.
"Keep her safe..."
