Chronicles- A Devil's Daughters Crossover- Book Two(Published Feb 2017)

On the Road

    "Okay, not that it doesn't happen all the time or anything, but I am way past confused. Mia? Are we gutting this asshole, or what?" The Demon snickered with blades in hand, aimed directly at the male's chest.
    "I gave you a child!" Navina told them, "I came to you, knowing that only you could help, and I handed you a child, wrapped in brown cloth, with green eyes like my own!"
    Mia just stood there, waiting for someone to say something, or do, something. Anything?
    "Anyone could have known that, it was no big secret after the temple was ransacked!" The male shot back from  beneath his hood. "Anyone, could have that knowledge, and pretend to be her!"
    "It was a secret to me!" She shouted. "The biggest of all secrets, but I can see our meeting clear as day now, and I know, that you are my brother!" Her emotions were getting the better of her, the chaos blinding the courage she needed to finish yelling at him. "And if nothing else, changes your mind, then perhaps this will..." She glared at him. "I have found, Marena!"
   With that, Navina made to turn away, but the hand reached out and caught her, despite the daggers aimed towards him. "You found... but how? Where?"
    "Oh, now he wants to talk!" Nyx rolled his eyes, itching to stab something, or put his blades away and have a drink.
     "You know, where Marena is?"
    "We all do!" Mia laughed, "And that, is Navina! I assure you!"
    The male paused a moment and then his hand raised to his hood, and it fell back to his shoulders. Long black hair, just like Navina's. Deep green eyes, just like Navina's.  He was, the spitting image of her and Marena.
    "You have got to be shitting me?" The Demon grumbled, dropping his blades and reaching for his flask. "This just gets better and fucking better!"
    "I am sorry, if my appearance disturbs you!" The male named Kordahn let out with a smirk.
    "Real funny guy, aren't you?" Nyx cocked a brow and glared at him.
     "My mate, thinks so!"
     "Khia, right?" Navina inquired. "The last time we spoke, in that temple..." She stopped, watching as his eyes draped over her, "... you said that Khia had sent a thousand ships to search for her!"
     "And she did, by sea and by space!" Kordahn replied, "But there was never any sign of her, just rumor! We couldn't keep up... Navina, don't you remember any of this?"
     "No, she doesn't!" Mia replied for her.
     "She gets these visions..." Nyx started, but Kordahn raised his hand to hush him.
    "Someone's coming!"
    "A rather, large, someone!" Nyx added, catching the scent. "It couldn't be..."
    "What do you smell?" Kordahn inquired. "Friend, or foe?"
    "Father?" Mia cut in, just as the hooded figure stepped out of the trees.
    "Euphamia! Nyx!" He replied in a gruff voice. "There's been an incident!"
    "What kind, of incident?" Mia snapped, seeing the look on his face. "What's happened? Is it Madrina? The young?"
     "Their ship was attacked on route to Sanctuary..." Lord Eroch paused, dropping his cloak and letting his long prison striped hair blow in the breeze.
     "And?" Mia blurted out.
     "And they had to jump!" He sighed and shook his head. "They had no other choice, they were pinned down... but that's all we got before the transmission ended!"
    "Fucking, holy... What do you mean, ended? Did they end it?" She asked.
    "Did someone end it for them?" Nyx cut in.
    "We don't know!"
    "How long ago was this?" Mia kept on with the questions. "Is Madrina okay?"
    She was losing it, and Navina felt helpless. What could she say to make it alright? Absolutely, fucking nothing, because it wasn't alright. Not one bit of it.
    "It's been six hours." Her Father told her.
    "Then what are we waiting for?" Mia shouted at him, "Let's go get her!"
    "We wait for her mate!"
   "And where the hell is Nissa?" Nyx growled, only to bark himself down with a glare from is Lord. "Sir?" He added.
    "He wanted to run one last check on the transmission, and he will meet us at Sanctuary!"
    "Then we need to get there, so we can go get Madrina, like now!" Mia was on a roll with the attitude, and cared not who felt her blast.
    "We can't just go, we're a days ride from the portal, and Navina can't just blink herself there!" Nyx pointed out.
    "That's my sister, we go, now!" Mia spat back at her mate.
    "Chill the fuck out! We'll get her!" He growled back, grabbing her by the shoulders and drawing her to his chest. "We'll get there!"
    "I have to go now, Nyx! I can't just wait around, not when she's..."
    "Then go with your Father now, and I will see Navina back to the portal!" He sighed, and kissed her forehead.
    "There is another way!" Kordahn spoke up, and even Lord Eroch raised a brow.
    "How?" He inquired, as Mia moved to stand at his side. "Only Zahara and Madrina have mastered that feat!"
     "And Malice!" Nyx added, receiving a glare of his own.
    "There is another portal!" Kordahn spoke again, "Hidden beneath the temple Navina spoke of. It has not been used in some time, but it is there, if you should choose to follow me there!"
    "I would like to see this temple!" Navina replied, "There is much I could remember there!"
    "Then Mia will go with her Father, and we, will head for your temple!" Nyx grinned, the thrill of adventure filling him.
    "Fine, it's settled!" Mia let out, and turned to her Father. "Can we go now?"
   "Be safe!" Nyx looked her up and down, and her eyes answered for her as she gazed back at him, and Navina felt the goose pimples rise.
   Theirs, was a love like no other, the respect they shared, and the way Nyx gave in to her every will... And they were gone, just like that. Damn, what Navina wouldn't give to remember how to do that, but it was just another thing on her 'Shit I've Forgotten' list. Right up there with the whos and the whys... the whens and what have yous, the what happened to Lync and Marena, and was Kordahn, really their brother? How did she navigate the visions? Did they ever end? Where was Pathen now? And the Celestial Temple that Malice had gone off about? Could she blink to another place? Another time? Just show up out of nowhere?
    "WOW!" The Demon let out as he packed his blades into their secret hiding places. "You gonna be okay there, Vina?"
    "Whoa, hold up, there is only one person who can call me that, and you my friend, are not it!" She glared at him, "My name, is Navina! Remember it, use it, and don't b a dick, okay?" She ended with a smile and turned towards Kordahn. "Lead the way!"
    "You really, don't remember, do you?" Kordahn laughed, waving his hand as he shook his head. "We're already here, Navina!"
    Well now, wasn't that fucking something, as the tall green shrubs gave way to the large stone walls behind them. Rising up, or so it appeared as the mask faded away, revealing all that surrounded them. No longer, were they in the quaint little garden, hidden a midst the forest, or rather, no longer was there a forest, for the garden still remained, right in the middle of a mass stone fortress.
   "What, the mother of all fucks, just happened?" The Demon let out, daggers drawn once again as if he could fight the mist at their feet.
   "Easy now!" Navina laughed, though her own senses were going wild.
   There they stood, in what was now a courtyard, and stone bricks and broken windows looked down upon them. It was dark and gloomy, crumbling and deserted, and Navina felt a sadness about the place. A battle had taken place here, and the more they thought about it, the more her head began to hurt.
    "What's wrong?" Nyx asked, coming up behind her and placing a hand on her shoulder, at the first sign of discomfort. Okay, so he wasn't all bad, just most of the time.
    "Just a headache!" She replied with a sigh.
    "Don't fight it, Navina!" Kordahn's voice echoed off the walls of a hall nearby, and she was drawn towards it. "Let it happen, let the visions come if they must."
   Visions? Oh hell no, she didn't...
   But it was far too late for that, as her feet kept walking and her mind filled with fog.