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

Mixed Emotions

   "Markus?" Kember could hear Nyx as he raced up Sanctuary's steps. "MARKUS?"
    "What's happened?" Kember took off down the hall to meet him. "What is going on?"
   "Malice needs Markus!" He let out, and Kember's face mus have gone white as a sheet, for his hands were coming out to grab her as her legs gave out from under her. "Whoa now, Kember, I didn't mean like... Fuck, MARKUS?" He shouted again. "Where the fuck is that Vampire?"
   "Nyx?" Lady Ellaria called out from the banister above. "What is all the shouting about?"
   "Malice needs Markus. Navina and Lync have gone mental, and there are a whole lot of Vamps that need a Kingly reminder of who the bosses are!"
    "What do you mean, they have gone mental?" Kember mumbled, trying to stand on her own once more.
     "It's a battle back there..." The Demon started, the words flying out of his mouth so fast. "... swords flying and blood splattering, it was beautiful really, except that some douche bag was all threatening on Navina, and then her male showed up all beast like, tossing peeps around as if they were toothpicks and shit; and now, Navina's all spewing some lost language and somehow, has gained control of them all... It's messed right up!"
    "Go back to the lost language..." Ellaria asked, "Which language?"
     "What? Which one? For real?" Nyx was floored, "Which one..." He muttered, shaking his head. "Whichever one controls Vampires!" He shouted, and Markus laughed as he came around the corner.
   "That's my job!" He told them all.
   "Well, you've been replaced!" Nyx cocked a brow at him. "No joke, Homie, she's got them all on bended knee, and they ain't worshiping you, my brother!"
     "What? How?" Markus was now floored as well. "On bended knee? Who is she?"
    "Navina!" Nyx replied, all out of breath, and looking like he needed a trip to the Doc's office. "But it's not Navina..."
    "And they're Vampire?"
    "Did I stutter?" Nyx lashed out. "They've found a new king, and it's Lync, not you! Now, is your royal fucking highness gonna stand for this shit? Or, do you feel the need to rip shit up?" Nyx was walking away now, with, or without Markus; and Kember was going with him.
   If Malice needed help... Lady Ellaria, on the other hand, had disappeared to one of her many rooms, lost in a million and one books, and Kember had no idea what she was looking for.

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    "Shit! Look at them!" Mia sighed, "They haven't moved!"
    "It's like a trance, she keeps chanting, and they just keep showing up and bending the knee!" Kordahn replied. "I knew the females of our clan could tap into the past, but this..."
    "You've never seen this?" Mia inquired.
    "The females of the Kor'Mhia are precious and extremely secretive, obtaining abilities that even the males cannot even begin to grasp. He made it so, after he claimed what was not his to claim. Only he, would have control over them, and so they were taken at birth, and cleansed; and most of the young do not survive the cleansing..." He sighed, "My Mother's clan would not stand for the customs that Pathen had set down..."
    "Pathen?" Malice let out.
    "Before him, the Kor'Mhia lived in peace. Before Pathen, our males and females lived together, but he wanted our females for himself, for his Order... And so he took them, and those he could not take, he corrupted, mangling them before sending them out into the vast nothingness, alone..."
    "And you said your Mother's clan, they would not stand for it?"
    "They did not approve of Pathen's ways, and since Foran, my Father, was of Pathen's blood, he was no longer trusted either, and they left for the shores of the Isles. Together with the others who left the Order, and a few they had met along the way, my Mother's people saw fit to make sure that Pathen and his hoard of time travelers, would never find us, and they erected the shield."
     "The shield?" Malice let out, "This just gets better and better!" She shook her head, and returned her gaze to the mass of Vamps who had gathered before them.
    "It covers all of Samo'Ana, keeping it hidden from the rest of Samo'San." He explained, as the portal activated behind them, and Nyx walked through, with Kember at his side.
    "What? What are you doing here? Why did you come back?" Malice made for the female's side.
    "I had to come back!" Kember smiled, as Malice pushed a lock of hair out of her face. "You, are not happy to see me?"
    "I would have been happier to find you naked and safe, and waiting in my bed!" Malice whispered into her ear, and left a kiss on her cheek, just as Mia let out a huge...
    "What the fuck?"
    Malice spun round, scanning the scene for whatever it was that had caused Mia to...
    "Markus, buddy? What the fuck are you doing?" But the Vampire would not respond, as he made away from the portal, and towards Navina and Lync, captivated in the same trance as the others.
    "Uh?" Lord Eroch let out, and Malice slapped her hand on her thigh, and chuckled. "Again, what the fuck, Malice?"
    "I know what he is!" She grinned back at her Lord of Darkness, and proceeded to kiss Kember on the cheek again, before making her way through the chanting swarm.
    "Wait, where are you going?" Kember called after her. "Malice? Wait..." She added, following behind her.
    "It is with honor, that I approach thee!" Malice started to speak, her own words masked in that eerie tone, and her presentation of their language...
    Everyone watched, as Navina let her head fall forward, no longer looking into the heavens, but at Malice, with a wicked grin upon her face.
     "You speak in the tongue of old, you may approach the Lord, Valkyrie, and honor his presence with your blessing!" The voice replied.
    Not quite like those of the Eno'tai, but just as eerie and creepifying for Kember, as she watched Malice fall to one knee, and bow her head. Malice, taking to one knee? Was this for real? That big, bad ass Warrior, was bending to another? This made no sense... but then Kember remembered how Malice had acted when she first lay eyes on Lady Ellaria, he patience, the grace she had upheld herself with...
    This, was just another of Malice's tactics, wasn't it? This, was how one communicated, in the days of old, right? It had to be.
    "What is she doing?" Mia asked Kember, but all she could do was shake her head. She had no clue.
    "It has been many centuries, since last, your Prince of Darkness has reigned from his throne!" Malice rose before Navina, looking first at her, and then Lync.
    The male was in a trance still, held tight by the chants of his followers. This was insane, this, was unreal. Who, the hell, was he? And what the fuck..
    "Yes, it has!"
    "Then allow me, to offer a gift upon his glorious return..." Malice bowed her head, and held out her hands for the female to grasp, but the moment she did, Malice let the blast flow from her fingertips, and the Orb encased Navina and Lync, breaking whatever hold whoever it was, had on them both.
    On them all, in fact, as one by one, they rose to their feet, shaking their heads to rid the fog in their minds, and the questions started to rise.
    "Where are we?"
    "What happened?"
   Some spoke of a sorcerer brought upon them by the enemy. A male so sinister and vile, he had turned their little planet into a vast training ground, and their children into warriors, long before their time. They remembered everything, right down to their first meeting with the so called sorcerer, and how he had promised them everything, and delivered nothing but war and chaos. They remembered how he had warped their world and twisted their traditions, and they remembered a name, a male who called himself Pathen; and they had driven him from their lands before he had had a chance to do to them, what he had done to Navina.
    "What will you do with him?" One of them inquired, looking back at Lync as he lay next to Navina.
    "Who is he?" Lord Eroch replied, as the masses moved around them.
    "I don't know, but I feel as if... I felt that he was special somehow..." The male replied, the look in his amber colored eyes so lost.
   Okay, so Madrina and Reh were safely on the other side, and it seemed as if the fighting had ended, for now, but Malice was dying to find out more about this sorcerer. Who, would give her the answer she sought?
    "Can you believe it, a sorcerer? Really? Is he that desperate?" Mia chuckled to Nyx as they passed, and Markus grumbled.
    "Where do I find this, Pathen?" Malice asked throughout the crowd, desperate for word on the bastard's whereabouts.
   Someone had to know where the sorcerer fled to...
    "Yo, Mal? You coming?" Nyx called to her, as he started to line the Vampires up in front of the portal.
    "Coming where?" She muttered, still lost in thought.
    "Home!" He laughed.
    Home! Where was, home? The Null? Earth? Sanctuary? The Celestial Temple, which still remained lost? Lost, lost, lost! All of it, including her most vital memories.
    "Pathen?" Malice roared into the darkened skies, and the thunder roared in return. "I will find you, and when I do..." She added, her voice growing quieter, before she turned towards the portal, and Nyx. "Let's get off this fucking rock, and find us some answers!" She grinned at him, feeling heaven's might beneath her wings.