The Secret Hybrid Child

Awaken

We've walked a few miles, roughly, to get to the close of trees Savilla indicated as the meeting point. As we stand there waiting the air slowly becomes less humid, and all animal noise ceases. Lucas pulls me closer to him, his eyes shifting back and forth telling me Lars is fighting for control.

"Shhh it's okay."

I whisper to him while I caress his cheek but it does no good. His eyes finally stop roaming and lock onto an old woman who appeared from nowhere. She was bloodied, one eye swollen shut, her lips busted, she walked leaning heavily into her cane as she slowly shuffled closer.

"Sanctuary and peace.....please"

As those words left her lips her body began to fall, but before it reached the forest floor Cammi was there to catch her. With her eyes swirling purple Cammi hissed out between her teeth.

"Someone help me, the old crone is heavy."

Tristan goes to her side and scoops up the old witch in his arms. With a nod from my father we begin our trek back to his castle.

"What's wrong with her?"

I am close to Cammi as I whisper silently into her ear. Purple eyes meet mine as anger and sadness war within her facial expression.

"She has been beaten and stripped of all her powers except her baser ones. The ones that come from within, the ones that can only be taken with her life."

A few moments of silence pass before I speak again

"Who is strong enough to do this?"

Her eyes go to Savilla's limp body and she sighs.

"No witch I know off is strong enough to pull this off. Savilla is a strong witch and one of the oldest, but if Lilith lent her powers to your mother then it's possible she could have done this, and makes her that much more dangerous. Now that she has had access to Lilith's power she can siphon it for herself."

I stop walking and sigh heavily, rubbing my temples slowly. Lucas comes up behind me and wraps his arms around me and leans his head into the crook of my neck. I smile and lean my head back onto him, his move to my arms as he rubs up and down.

"We will figure this out, no need to a stress, just stay alert please."

I take a deep breathe and nod, he moves to my side and twines his fingers with mine. We walk side by side until we have caught up with everyone else.
Once settled in my fathers meeting room, and after Savilla has cleaned and calmed herself, we all wait to listen to her story. She takes a sip of the offered brandy and smiles at my father nodding her head in thanks. For several moments she stares into the glass, slightly swishing the amber liquid.

"She came to me, your mother, upset that Lilith destroyed your pack, she said Lilith went on a rampage. Lilith wanted you badly and she would do anything to get you.  Your mother killed your father and sisters and confronted Lilith about her lack of timing and tried to berate her for making her slaughter the people she came to love. She was upset, she never showed it, but she would cry at night. She asked me to train her more, give her powers to overtake Lilith. That's what we were doing before Dahlia fed from Lucas. As soon as his memories were unleashed, his power shuddered the earth in a shockwave. Anyone with the slightest magical inkling felt it. Lilith had found us a day before then and was going to force your mother and I to do a tracking spell. But when we felt Lucas' strength Lilith immediately shed the male form she was in and stood in all her glory. Do not let her fool you, the body she wields now is her original. Your mother found it for her and used the remains to bring her back. But she wasn't going to sit by and let Lilith have Lucas. No, she decided she would make it a race, whoever got to him first would reap the benefits of his powers. When Lilith found out about her betrayal they fought, with no regard for me or any of the hundreds of people in the town closest to my home."

She sighed, took a drink, and shook her head

"Yes I am a witch, and I have done horrible things, but I have never taken a life that was not an immediate threat to mine. I tried to stop them but Lilith laughed and pulled from me my powers. Then left me to die. Your mother found me no longer useful and she too left. When I was strong enough to make a portal I came here seeking refuge and to let you know that they both are coming for your mate Dahlia, and you must be ready."

The silence in the room was deafening, no one spoke, we just shared several glances around.

"Even if they wanted my power they couldn't get it. The only one who would have access to that is my mate."

We all looked at Lucas and then heard Savilla sad chuckle.

"My dear boy, they both have the power to break your bond with Dahlia and bond you to them. Their powers are not just elemental, Lilith is demon spawn. There is a reason she was the first night walker. Her other powers and immunities grew from her stealing from others. She is the daughter of Asmodeus and first born daughter of the oldest tribe. She slaughtered them all on her 16th birthday when they denied her the prince of one of the Lycan tribes. Her demon side came through and she was then cursed to forever walk the nights and feed from humans, to forever live with her tortured soul. But they failed to realize she was part demon so what they found as punishment she saw as gifts. She gave birth to several leaders of tribes who branched out from her darkness."

She turned to look at Tristian and Alexandria

"Your conception lies in incest....your father was from her bloodline."

The look of disgust upon their faces mirrored all of ours. To know there were no bounds to her depravity was sickening.

Silence again permeated the air and then my father asked

"My father...."

Savilla smiled her sad smile at him.

"The Lycan prince she wanted. Centuries passed until she finally bathed his soul in her darkness and then she had you. Once she birthed you she no longer wanted your father. He was furious and his madness took control. It was your nursemaid that stole you away and took you to the Vampire lord. She had to be sure you would be protected. When he found out who you were he took you in, he hid you when she left your father. When she came looking for you at his palace he was smitten, got her pregnant and your brother was born.  He raised you with your brother and Alexandria. He called my sisters in to hide your scent. She never knew you were in the castle that she lived in. When Lycian gained a little clarity he went to her and convinced her to kill the vampire who fathered her child and go with him.....you know the rest of that take."

Tristan, Alexandria, and my fathers faces were sent with disgust and sadness. Their eyes all blazed dark crimson hearing what had happened about their father and the man that raised them.  She was fixing to continue when I felt a shuddering. I grabbed onto Lucas, eyes wide, canines and fangs both on display. Everyone turned to me but I couldn't bother with them, there was a power calling, a dangerous, deranged power that made my bones ache.

"Dahlia what is it?"

Cammi was there but I couldn't focus on her, a pounding in my head began to turn to words, someone shouting so loud it felt as though my ears would burst and bleed.

"Let me out! She is coming and I must kill her for her betrayal. Let me out!!!!"

My eyes met my fathers and a whine escaped me.

"What is it my daughter, tell me what do yo....."

His eyes widened as he to began to hear the voice ringing in his head.

"My father has woken."