Forgotten Twin

New Me

      Sage
     
      Waiting in the shadows. I hear a soft whispered.
     
      "Father? Father?." I watch as she walks slow to Caden's body. Dropping to her knees. Inspecting him for wounds. But there were to many to know which caused his death.
     
      "No. No. No. Noo." she cried.
     
      I gave her a moment. To not be sure to come out of the dark too soon. Need it to look like I walked in and saw them.
      "Time. Time."
     
      Elizabeth had done nothing. Any witch would of done anything at this moment. They would of tried to save him. Call for help. But not her. I wonder why for a second. Yet she just kneeled there. Crying for her father to come back. Pleading to not leave her like everyone else has. It joys to us to know she is the reason for every lost and death she caused. All her weakness has caused all of this. It was all her fault. Her doing.
     
      "I warn her. Since she was little. Maybe now she will understand." I shook my head. So disgusted with the sight of weakness. "How could I ever given birth to such a thing. She has never done anything right. Ugh."
     
      Soon I amerge from the shadows. Softly walking towards the both of them.
     
      "Elizabeth? What happen?" I choked as I place a hand on her shoulder.
     
      "I. I don't know. He was like this when. When I came in." She sobbed.
     
      I pretended to smooth her. Hating to comforted her of all people. "Yeah yeah. Lets not cry."
     
      "Who would do this? Why him? Its all my fault. I should.."
     
      "It is your fault." She didn't react to my words but cry. She blames herself. As she should."But we must face our guilt. He would want that."
 
  Slowing Liv cry. Laying her head on Caden. Wanting to beg for his life back. She edge her face into his corpse. Webbing all over my mate. She clench to his shirt. Whispering words. I hear a prayer and the name of HER GODDESS. Ugh. As if she would save her from her utter mistake. She should of knew this would happen. After her last lesson, she should of knew better than to get Caden involved. She was always so good at twisting his arm for her. Now look what she has done. She killed her father and my mate.
 
      "I didn't mean for this." She whin again and again. Her pleads and crying was so annoying. It aches my ears to hear it. I was done with it. Done with her.
     
      With my hand behind me. I assembly a knife, visible in my hand now. Forming from my dark magic and smug in some of Caden blood. I had one last thing to do in my plan. The very last thing. And then all will go well. I would just have my daughter Meredith and I can make it through this world together. Learning the all truth of making scarifies. Just us two.
     
      As we all need to do at some point in our life. And sometimes we need to make many, many of these scarifies. And at the extreme causes too. We are the sacrifice. And today. My dear mate Caden made his for Elizabeth problem to be taken care of. I will forever miss and love my dear Caden. May he rest in peace among our ancestors.
     
      "What can I do? What should I tell Mable? And Mery? Oohh no. Mery." As Elizabeth turns. Witness her pathetic tears. I laugh at her.
     
      Elizabeth frown and look at me. Tears stream down her cheeks. "Theres one thing we can do Elizabeth." I say in a soft tone as I bend down to her.
     
      She turns back to Caden. And I see her chest rising up and down in hiccups.
     
      "Anything!" She yelp.
     
      "We will bring all to peace. Everything will be so much better now. And you can help do that. Do something worth your human life." I said.
      Elizabeth sobbed. As she turns to look at me once more. I grab her shoulder and hold the knife tightly in my grip. And in slow motion. I pludge the knife into her. Ridging it deeper and higher inside. She arches in pain. Groaning in pain. I make sure to hear each gusty, broken sound in her. And the blood pouring out as I take it out. And stabing her once again. Making sure she won't surrvie this. Making sure this time she will meet her ultimate fate. DEATH.
     
      "All must come to balance." I said as she looked at me in shock.
 
  Holding onto the knife in her weak hand. Blood covers the floor beneath her. Flowing faster and faster the deeper it goes. Elizabeth falls down. With so much blood pouring out. She had no energy to fight back. She had lost way too much. I smile in delight. Feeling joy for once in Elizabeth state.
     
      "Just die already child. Its the one thing you were meant to do." She frown and her eyes closed. Fluttering to the back of her head, as her breathing slowed down. And I waited until she stop moving. Her body was cold to my touch and her heart had stop competely.
     
      "Last drink. Last." It hiss to me.
     
      I smile knowing it was time for all of this to come to an end. No more Elizabeth to ruin anything. It just hurts my sweet Caden had to be part of the plan too. But so be it. He made his choice when he picked her over me. Over us and the coven. Over peace and love. Over balance of nature. Oh well. He will live long in my heart. I will see it was Elizabeth who brought this among us. My dear Caden will not go down for this.
     
      "Knowing the council will look on her now."  Taking one last look at my beautiful work. I lend in to kiss my mate one last time. I sent a prayer for him. Walking away. I left only them in present. My friend made sure it was like I was never there. And the council will have nothing but to focus on Elizabeth than me.
     
       I took out my last vital. And my friend drinks it all up. Hissing in a monasterly way. Feeling it fullness. We head back to give it time. Let it take its truest from. And wait for the council to make their announcement. And then its all over. I can start my plan to bring the darkness to us all. To be the strongest creatures again.
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      Liv
     
          The atmosphere around me was dark and cold. I can not see anything around me. But I know I am sitting on the ground. I don't know if I am outdoors or inside but everything is cold and wet.
         
          My hands wrap around my waist holding myself tightly. Trying to get a grasp on my breathing. I didn't know I was breathing so hard at the time. I feel my whole body vibrating the ground. I look up as I feel wet drops falling on to my hands and lap. It wasn't rain as all I see above me is the pure darkness that allure me towards it.
         
          "Where am I?" I whisper.
         
          I look around, left, right ,forward, back, left, right, forward, and back and again. Hoping to see anything but no. Nothing, there was nothing.
         
          My chin snap down into my chest and I brought my knees along with it. Holding everything together. Hoping this strange feeling will go away.
         
          "Why do I feel like this?" I cried. "Everything hurts!"
         
      I don't even feel like myself, it was strange. Was I even me right now? Or am I someone else?
         
          I sat in this dark pit for what seems like hours and cradle myself the whole time. The pain seems to ease off but still linger along the surface.
         
          Then I heard it. . . The music . . . It was a light noise and it calls to me. I look up and with open ears I listen to the sound that rang and bounce around in my ear drums.
         
          "What is that?"
         
          With the small strength I had, I let go of myself and waited a little, afraid I may fall into pieces. My muscles felt weak and strain from power. Like something drain the life out of me.
         
          I let out a deep breath and then courage took over and swang my legs around and use one hand onto the surface and press. Pushing all my mighty and the other hand on my knee doing the same.
         
          I grunt to myself as the pain ripped through my body and killing each nerve.
         
          "Aahhhh!!" I yelped.
         
          I fall back unto the ground as the pain was too much for me to bare. My blood was boiling and and my gums hurt. My bones ache and my eyes feel like bloodshot.
         
          "What is going on? What happen to me?" I spoke to only myself.
         
          I sat down on to the ground and try to get a feeling of something, anything. Trying to figure out where I was. But I couldn't not make it out.
         
          "What is this place?" My eyes burn with every blink I took. And I rub them trying to fix the pain but it didn't work.
         
          The music got louder but just slightly. Like it was coming towards me. Or was I going towards it. I couldn't really tell for my body started to move.
         
          Was I shaking or was I walking. I couldn't feel anything, I couldn't even feel myself in my own skin.
         
          Then I saw it! I saw something glowing in the distances. Mmhh I guess I was walking but how? It was like my body responded to the music more than my mind did. It was like I was connected fully to myself. Like I was just a spirit.
         
          "Hello is anyone there? Can you help me, I think i'm lost?" I call out as I walk closer and slower to the music that seems to be coming from this light.
         
          I was just feets away from making it to the light but then this odd sharp pain ran through my entire body. Throwing me at the ground again
         
          "Aaahhh, it hurts! My body hurts so bad, why? What is happening to me. Please help me?!" I cry as I reach out my hand.
         
          I grab my body with my arms crossing around it. And I felt so lost and broken, it was like something was inside of me. Stretching it way out, my head had a thumping feeling to it like my brain was being ram into.
         
          "Ugh I don't feel good, my body doesn't, doesn't. . ." I stumble my words as the pain got worse for me. I felt like I was in the oven baking.
         
          Then I felt my whole body going down hitting the ground hard. And I lay there shaking in the coldness. There was nothing left to do. I couldn't even talk anymore for my throat felt like sandpaper. And my eyes close and tighten. Hoping it will go away as I try to sleep it off.
       
        Blanking my eyes from the light, a figure walks towards me. My mouth open but nothing came out. I lift my head and their hand reach for me. But the pain drill through me and everything went dark.
       
        Seconds later, I woke inside the light. I was still on the ground. Looking around, barely able to move. It was like I had been beaten. I was outside in a campsite. "Hello?" I whispered in agony.
      "Hello daughter." Slowly getting up. I was face with the back of a woman's head.
      "Do I know you?"
       
        The woman laugh. As she stir a pot over the fire. "I would think so. We have spend many hours talking under the moon." Can it be? Before I can ask my next question. She answered it.
     
      "Yes. You are dead." I gasped. And tears stream down my face. Grabbing my body. Hating the fact that this had happen to me.
     
      "How? How can I?" Swallowing my words. "No father? Is he? Did Travis feel it? What on earth happen?" Ranting with questions.
     
      She turn around and seeing her face was so clear. She was beyond beautiful. It was hard to describe her. But the goddess had a beauty that no one can tell another. Her look just traps you in aw.
     
      "You know what happen my dear. And I am sorry the pain is more real then ever now." She turns back to stir her pot.
     
      I looked down. My body shaking like crazy. I begin to focus on what happen. Really, really think back.
       
        "Then why are you here in my nightmare?" I asked. I tried to walk but the pain grew. "Ah my body hurts. Why am I in so much pain goddess?" She laugh and then stop. Wanting to hear her comforted voice again. Wanting her to explain it all to me.
     
      "We been here before Elizabeth. I answer all questions but one." She said.
     
      "We have?" I whispered to myself.
 
  As I hold onto my body. I try again to think back. To remember it all. And then it all hit me. All my nightmares. All my dream with this agony pain I feel. Our last encounter. Everything that lead me to here. Father's death. My death. The pain I felt and question all my life. Its real now. Its all real.
     
      "Sage." I said softly.
     
      "Yes. She did complete her quest. Killing you and letting the darkness out." My eyes widen. And I try to stood up. Shock at her news.
     
      "No! That can't be. Goddess! She needs to be stop!" I pleaded.
     
      "Yes again. You are right. And you will stop her." I frown in confusion. "Sage's one quest years ago was not meet. Will at least she fail."
     
      What quest?
     
      "Her ancestors warn her. And I guided you to a stronger, better path." She said.
     
      "What do you mean goddess?"
     
      And then the pain grew more in time. Choking on my own blood. I spit it up. The pain and the vile taste of it made me sick to my core. It burns my throat as the blood came out. And a hand grab my shoulder. Looking up, it was not her.
     
      "Father?" I cried.
      "Yes my wise witch." I grip for his embrace. Sobbing like I was a child again. Oh how great it felt to be in his arms again.
     
      "Is this real? How?" Looking at both him and the goddess. I was utterly stun with misbeliefs.
     
      She turns and hands us a cup of tea. Instructing us to take a seat. "This is just a path for you my child. You can not stay. You have far more important things to do." Her voice help my body from over loading.
     
    "I need you to help him goddess. Please for me. For your child. Help my father. It is not his time. He doesn't belong here." I beg.
   
    "I can not."
   
    "Thats why we are here. Your powers goddess. You can. Willingly you can send him back. To do not do this please." My tears stream a river down my face.
   
    "I can not." It was all she can say as I plead for father's life. He say nothing as I beg.
   
    "You can. Why won't you help him?" I asked.
   
    "Because it is his time. And not yours. I'm here for you Elizabeth. As he is for you as well."
   
    I shake my head. Looking at my fathers sorrow eyes. "No. You are here because of me. Because I caused this. Please help him! Send him back. Just please help."
   
    She frowns and shakes her head as it tilted down. And I cried a no. Feeling such failure.
   
    "This is peace my child." She said so gently.
   
      I felt my chest trying to clasped. But with fathers hand and her voice. I was stable. Feeling as if am floating away. They mix so well together. I don't fully understand.
     
      "My dear. I know this is all confusioning. But you need to go back." Father said.
     
      "Will you come back with me?" I asked.  Even knowing goddess has declined my pleading offer.
     
      Both father and goddess had the same look. And my pain stung me. My spine tighten and the truth hits. It send a shock to my heart.
     
      "He can not stay. And I have no say once you say your goodbyes."
     
      "Goodbyes! No!" Shocking my head.
     
      "Its okay Elizabeth." Wiping my tears away. "I belong else where. But I will always watch you."
     
      "What if I don't want to?" I selfishly asked.
     
      They chuckled and goddess graze my hand. "Do you remember our last talk child?" She asked me.
     
      Taking in a breath. "Yes. But I still don't fully get it."
     
      "Thats why you need to go back." Father said.
     
      "How can I when I'm the reason you died. I caused Travis pain. And Mery will be heart broken. I fail and let Sage win. I can't go back." I cried.
     
      "Those are reason to go back." He replied. And I try to make sense of it.
     
      "My child. You are so much more than you think you are. Your strength alone is why we are here. It is why you get to say goodbye before entering a whole new world. To be the fury of it all. Because you. Elizabeth. You are the only and the first of your kind."
     
      "My kind? I'm a witch?" I explain. What else can she mean.
     
      Father rubbed my back. As Goddess explain the true meaning of Sage deal with the ancestors. I had read it. But didn't understand the hidden lines. So she explain it all. Telling me whats to happen once I awaken.
     
      "So I am only partly died. And I'm just some monster. Some evil thing thats created from my evil mother." I said. My heart beating fast.
     
      "You are not a monster." Father said, trying to calm me down.
     
      "How can you say that. Of course I am. After all those deaths. They would have a reason to call me one."
     
      "No Elizabeth. You are not at fault. You did not cause their death. You protected those wolves. And you won't the one who set fire to the house." Said the goddess.
     
      "Do not feel guilt for anything. I don't want you to hold this over yourself. It wasn't you." Added father.
     
      "Things will be okay?" I asked them both. They nod. And think it out. Wanting to know for sure if this was all real or not.
     
      "Just remember my child. Thats is all. And one day. When you need me again. We might meet once again. Otherwise. I'm just a moon away." Goddess caress my cheeks. And closed my eyes to her soothing touch. Feeling a small tear fallen.
     
      "The pain. It doesn't hurt as much." I notice through out our talk. The pain ease on. It wasn't gone. But it wasn't so bad as it was in the beginning.
     
      "You have learn your pain. And you have accepted it as well. In doing so. It has made you stronger. Just like before." She said to me.
     
      I hiccup a smile. Slowly feeling a warm sensation inside.
     
      "I only wish I had protected you sooner. But I am glad I did up until my death. And I have this." Grabbing my hand as he cup my face. "I love you my wise witch. You and your sister. The both of you are my world."
     
      "Thank you for always protecting me father. Even when we were not together. You still protected me." We hug. And that warm feeling started to get hot. My bones ache. And my blood bubble up.
     
      "Elizabeth?" Looking up to the goddess. "Its time."
     
      I nod. And met their gaze. Knowing everything will be just fine. "Thank you goddess."
     
      "Give them h*** my child. Every single one." The goddess smile with such delight.
     
      And then this hot feeling turn to a boiler. And I closed my eyes. Clenching my jaw. I felt my whole body spinning and then when it stop. My head was killing me. As the aching feeling fill all around me.
     
      My eyes open in little takes. Blurry at first. Once I got to my knees. I turn and felt the goozy pool of blood beneath me. Was it mine or was it his. Maybe it was both.
     
      "Aahh." Softly yelping to myself.
      Looking down I see the knife still inside of me. I grab onto it. Wrapping my fingers and palming it in a string grip. And slowly pulling it out. I bite down hard on my lips. Trying not to scream.
     
      Dropping the knife. I see father's body. My insides quiver at him. But remember our talk. "Do not feel guilty." He had told me.
     
      A odd feeling hits me. And the feeling of the blood calls to me. Looking at my hand. Resting near fathers body. I lift it up. Trumbling to it sight. I lose control. With a low growl, my body wanted it. Wanting to taste it. Needing to taste it. And brought my hand to my face. Smelling it. It was sweet. Why does it seem so sweet? Without a question. I play with it in my hand. It felt so nice. A little too nice. It shines and my mouth waters. I open up. Bring a bloody finger to my mouth. Closing my lips around. My tongue gets a drip. And I suckle on it.  Letting it coat my tongue and drip down my burning throat.
     
      My body shakes. And the little rust noise inside stops. The grinding of my bones stop. Everything felt like it stop. The changing turn quicken and the only pain I felt next was two sharp feelings endure on my gums. I strech out. Feeling the fangs poking through.
     
      I closed my eyes tightly. And I knew what has happen. I knew what this meant. I knew what everything has been leading me up to. I know it all now. It was ever more clear than before. And it felt so right. I felt so good right now. I finally feel like I am me. The me I always wanted to be.
     
      I grab the knife from the floor. Licking the blood from its blade. I feel the evil mist at work through it. It doesn't burn me. But it feels as if it feeds me more. I feel sparks of lighting all around. I inhale to the touch. Taking it all in.
     
      My eyes burns. And I feel a strange feeling. Like they my be a different shade of color. But I did not care. I was mad. And all my wounds has heal from the blood. I feel my magic more stronger now. And the only thing in my thoughts was one person.
     
      "Sage."