Hi guys! I know, I know. 6 months is so long, and believe me I wish I updated before now. And I know I said I was going to update on the first year anniversary of this fanfiction but, I was busy, and I didn't have any ideas. When you get so far into a fanfiction ideas become sparse or you end up having a great idea, whilst you're in the middle of Asda doing some shopping, and its like Oh shoot, well I can't write fanfiction in here, and you're trying to remember the idea when you get home. Gaaarrrgh vicious cycle. HAHA! Anyway I am back my lovelies with a brand new chapter. Hopefully we will be getting to the SAVE CLAIRE AND MICHAEL PARADE! Soon. Hopefully. It will be a couple more months until a update I am guessing as I am turning 18 soon, and I am going on holiday, and I am now in full time employment being a chef, and I shall tell you something it is a challenge everyday I work there.

Anyway back to the story... In the last chapter, you saw who Gwion was, and what his role was in Myrnins life. This chapter you'll see how he died, and what impact that had on Myrnins life and what importance he plays in this fanfiction. I do hope you enjoy it! It has taken me several word documents to put this together haha, and several months or weeks to write, I hope you like it AND ENJOY!

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Chapter 23

The Autumn of 1834

Approaching Ada's home was becoming far too easy now, not something I would think over many times before crossing the threshold. It had become almost a natural routine, I would visit every other day to see her, and see her. I was beginning to fall for a human, a beautiful human being. Gods I must be crazy, but I could not help myself, for a man to fall in love and admit it is a commitment in itself, and tonight I shall tell her. I'll take her away with me, somewhere far, where her father cannot reach.

As I approached the door, I heard a soft muffled voice from inside.
"-ather, I am alone. I do not know what it is you are speaking of. No one besides us has been here. I promise," Ada's voice sounded strong and calm, not as uneasy as I knew she felt.
"Can you explain the broken door? The ripped sheets, the broken belongings? Did you do that all on your own? A fit of rage maybe? You never was a good liar Ada, maths is your strong point, and my calculations seem to tell me, you girl are a liar!" A hard sound echoed around the room, a slap of skin. I couldn't stand here any longer, listening to all this, I burst through the door, to see Ada's father clutching his cheek. I was fooled to believe it was the other way round. Her hand was resting upon her lips, in shock. She'd struck her father, and that would bring consequences. As he wiped the blood running from his cheek with his handkerchief, he scowled my way.
"You boy, I know you. You was at my daughters birthday celebration, I am guessing you are the one who is fucking my daughter? A wild guess maybe, but you're her type. Dark hair, dark eyes, she likes the evil ones, the ones that reflect her own traits. Be careful boy she's a succubus, just like her mother; a slut". This time I struck him, he hit the far wall at the back of the room, my fangs dropped from their sheaths, my eyes clouded with a deep tantalising red, my throat burned, I bit my own lip to savour the taste of blood, as I opened my mouth and breathed the air, I rushed towards him and grabbed him in my hands, as my hand closed around his throat I yanked his head to the side and bit. Ada tried to take me away, I was not willing to let go, but to kill her only living parent it would be devastating on her behalf anyway, but utter pleasure on mine.
"Myrnin! Let go, don't kill him! He is my father, I cannot let you have that on your conscience. Let it go, he is not worth it. Now let go." I finally let the man I despised fall from my hands. I enveloped Ada into my embrace.

"Ada, come with me. We must leave. I have enough money for the both of us, you had not need pack. I need to take you with me, I love you Ada," I then took her, within my arms, and ran, ran as far as I could. I met Gwion at the rendezvous point with Evangeline their suitcases resting at their feet. I grabbed Gwion as he grabbed Evangeline and ran, ran as fast I could when I heard a gunshot.,
'Come on! We must run faster he will follow,' I screamed.
'Myrnin slow down, I-I cannot run that fast. He will not kill me! He is my father,' Ada replied breathless. I did not listen, for I could not risk it. I had to get us away from here. I lifted her in my arms and ran faster than my legs could take me. As we reached the riverside, I could not feel Gwions presence behind me.

'Gwion?! Gwion where are you?' as I turned to look for him, I heard not a gunshot but a sharp wail. 'Gwion?' I wept as I ran. I did not stop for anything, not to fill my lungs with air, not to rest my aching legs. I ran through the shadows as if I was just a spectacle of dust. My vision dispersed into red blotches, becoming a red sheet of senses. I headed for the heartbeat, who it belonged to did not matter. If it was Ada's father I would not hesitate to rip out his trachea and display it for the wolves. That man boiled my blood more than the sun, he drew the anger from me with one look no matter what. More gasps of pain. I rounded through the trees when I heard soft tears muffling the quiet night air, my ragged breaths sounding foreign to the surroundings. Evangeline was kneeling on the forest floor next to Gwions still body.

'Brother?' I cried, 'Gwion, no- no Gwion?!' I screamed, as I took a step forward, a sharp click sounded throughout the air.
'One more step Myrnin, and you can join your brother in hell,' Ada's father spoke, whilst holding a crossbow loaded with a silver bolt.
'Why? Why are you doing this? What have we done?' I whispered.
'A monster reeking of sorrow. Have you ever heard something so ridiculous? I could write a poem about that you know? Would be such a hit with the younger generation. Sorry I went a little off track there. You ask me why I am doing this? You see I dedicate my time to ridding the earth of you creatures. You don't belong here. God did not make you, Satan did. Hell does not belong on earth. You deserve to burn for all the lives you have taken. And you shall.'
'Father let us go,' I turned around to see Ada stood between me and her father.
'Ada, run! Don't be foolish, he will hurt you too!' I couldn't seem to get through to her.
'Ever since I was a child I looked up to you as my hero father, always wishing I could follow in your footsteps. You told stories of love, and poems of romance. I never knew such a loving father could become such a monster. Never have you been so cruel to me as you have these past few years. And it shall stop! I will not let you kill anyone, do you hear me? Because I will stop you first.'
'Ada please watch what you say my dear, my finger may accidently slip on the trigger, and Gwion would be finished once and for all. And do not forget I have other bolts, Myrnin could be next. You never do know darling. Oh for how I love a good twist upon a tale.'
'You're sick,' Ada cried with disgust.
'You girl,' he pointed at Evangeline. 'Where is the grimoire?'
'What? I do not know what you speak of.' She said.
'Do I look stupid to you girl? I know you are the guardian. Tell me where it is!'
'I-I don't have it.' Ada's father pointed the crossbow towards Gwions heart, Gwion was already injured healing slowly. He would be fully healed soon, in time to escape.
'Wait! Wait,' Evangeline rose to her feet in a fit of panic, surrendering with her hands pointed towards Ada's father. She looked towards me signalling me to move towards Gwion. I slowly approached him, as Ada took a step forward towards her father. Gwion rushed up and grabbed Evangeline and moved her away quicker than a breeze. She collapsed to the floor in a heap, and a shot was fired. Ada's father had pulled the trigger, and hit Gwion square in the heart, soon after another shot was fired, I could smell the gunpowder over the scent of blood. Ada had shot her father. I did not care. I ran to Gwions side.
'Gwion?' I sobbed. 'Oh brother, I am so sorry'.
'N-no bother. I- I am t-the one who is sorry. I- I should have known you when you were a child. Oh the y-years I have missed brother. I have ne-never lived as much a-as I have with you. I-I love you Myrnin. D-don't forget,' blood flowed from his mouth as the life in his eyes and body escaped into the night. His body was resting on my lap, his head lolled to the side, empty and lifeless, as if he was never here to begin with, as if God had teased me with what I wanted most, a family. A family that was not mine to have. He took my brother from me. I could not bear to look at this any more. I ran, far into the night.
I hid in the shadows, avoiding every speck of moonlight that danced upon the ground. I kept quiet, nothing breathed and nothing sounded from me. I stepped deeper into the darkness to mask the cries that wanted to escape from my burning throat, the emotions that wanted to rip my body to shreds, the beast wanting to break the chains and take over. It was all too much, yet not enough to express what I felt. The darkness did not suppress my fear, only enticed it, and made it stronger, for the loss of what was before me was too heavy. I cried and I screamed and I tore at the skin that lined my wired arms, but it did not calm me, it angered me. More skin was shed, until I healed to repeat the same action over and over, until I could not feel no more. Until I stopped what made me feel. My humanity.

The night wind whipped at my ripped flesh, sending repetitive chills through my bones. I kept on destroying myself, until the pain was not felt any more. Until it was as natural as the blink of an eye. This was when I began to lose my inner sanity. I was always insane, my mother always told me as a child I would become like my father. My sisters never showed me affection. I thought I had lost everything, the moon and the stars, the only thing that was constantly there for me. When I was sold to Gwion, I was terrified, I knew he was a monster, I could feel it emanating from him when I was placed upon his horse. But when we approached his manor, he turned around to face me with the most loved adorned smile I had ever seen in my life as he spoke his first words to me.
"Welcome to your new home Myrnin, my brother." I smiled in return. I knew my life was about to get better. I thought I had lost my family. But I never had one. Gwion was my only family. He was my brother.

Present Day

General POV

Walking down the cold road, she hugged her coat closer to her body craving warmth; as she breathed fresh air into her lungs she tasted fear. Her legs kept walking, until suddenly she reached the border, she took one step past the Morganville welcome sign, expecting a wave of welcome, she received nothing. She carried onwards eager to seek safety although she knew this was mostly impossible. She was facing something she never had before; civilisation. Her life was behind closed doors she hadn't stepped into the public eye in centuries. It was overwhelming, everything she saw was swelling an blurring, but she knew where she had to go.

Gwions POV

'I am so sorry Myrnin. I am so sorry I did not come forth before now, and see you,' I said utter sadness leaking from my words.
'How long have you been alive?'.
'Nearly 190 years. Please believe me when I do say that I wanted to find you before now. Please Myrnin your words mean so much to me, to know you were alive and I could not see you broke me in more ways than anything I ever held close'.
'What do you mean you could not? If you knew where I was all these years, and you had not come to find me? The fact that you were alive, and I have grieved all these years and killed on a crazy rampage because your death destroyed me. Killed my dear love Ada because you were dead, and I was hungry and thought I had no one, when she had stood with me for more years than I had intended to live. And you stand here requesting my forgiveness? For what, to make you feel better and let me forget that you died, and abandoned me when all along you survived!' Myrnins words stung my heart, holes spilling all my emotions from my chest.
'When you spend your whole life living in the shadows, you become one; an outsider to life, an observer. Myrnin I have thought about you every day for the past two centuries, but I could never muster up the courage to come and find you, though my heart wanted to. When you have become accustom to the darkness, you cannot escape it. You have to understand that I tried. I tried so hard to break my cowardice.'

'So you did not die? You hid away, from what?'
'I did die Myrnin. That is why I am here. I was called upon by Amelie,'.
'Amelie?! My Amelie? The Founder? N-no it's impossible! She does not know of you. She only knew you were dead!'
'She wrote me a letter, informing me that you needed my help. Help that only I could give,' I spoke sincerely.
'Why did she not tell me you were alive?' he sounded as defeated as he looked.
'I was her hold on you. If I ever came to Morganville she was going to kill me, so I stayed away. It was harder to believe that I could see you and she could kill me and you not know any different. So I stayed away. She knew if I came here you'd want to come with me. She knew you would want to leave; so many things would not be the same if you did. The barriers keeping the town unknown to the world would fail, your protégé Claire would fail to be your replacement having not learned everything you have. So she kept me a secret to keep you here, to keep you away from me, and that broke me. It kept me in captivity, I would never leave my home. This in itself is a big step for me. I came for you brother. To help you.' I cried.
'How? How can you help me?' Myrnin spoke with pure confusion.

General POV

She caught the scent of him, he was close, a trail left behind was sweet to her senses. She breathed in the night air as she descended the stairs into Myrnins lab.
'-ow? How can you help me?' Myrnin said.
"Maybe not me, but Evangeline can, can't you my darling?' Gwion said in a seductive tone. Evangeline approached Gwion and grasped his hand.
'Hello there Myrnin long time no see. How I have missed your pretty face. I hear we have some rescuing to do?' She smiled sweetly.

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