??????

*whisper* Shhhhhhh.... I hear someone coming. omoeD. omoeD? Damn it where is he.... ok I can do this by myself.....

omoeD is back

.... Hello?.... Is that you omoeD?... How are you friend?.... Really? Where? Can you show me?...... But its to dark you know I cant see anything.... No I don't want to die here but I cant even see the hand in front of my face let alone a way around this place..... Wait, what did you say?... Ha you have to be kidding.... There is no way that's possible... How do you know about my dreams?.... Who is she? Do you know?... Oh please tell me omoeD..... Why not? They are just dreams they cant be real... How? So then why am I here?.................. I don't understand, what pendant?.... I don't have a clue what your talking about omoeD...... Alright, I will wait here, I wont go anywhere. Hey omoeD? Do you really think we will get out of here?..... Ok then I trust you....

Am I? Or am I not?

Peaceful dream.... A young girl... I feel... Love and pride. So much love for and from her. Who is she? So excited to be with me... she is hunting with me, I am teaching her... and she looks up to me.. like im some sort of hero. Why? My heart just bursting with pride and joy for her. This is so strange... I don't know who she is. But yet.... This dream is not like the ones of death and destruction... this is happy and peaceful. I have this dream as often as I do the others. Im confused, I can feel myself wanting both worlds, but can such a thing exist... on one hand blood thirsty murder is so appealing and on the other being a hero to someone and being filled with pride at there achievements... I don't know.. maybe they are just dreams and mean nothing at all. Maybe the girl has something to do with my being a killer... or no longer being a killer. I don't know the dreams just seam to real. If only I could remember something... anything.... Gods its so dark

Not alone?

.......
What's that?.... whose there?.... oh, its just you.... where have you been?..... oh. Did you find a way out?..... oh, that's to bad. Oh well its ok, we will stick to the plan you and I. What's that?.... How do you know?...... Oh ok. What did you say your name was again?..... omoeD, well its nice not to be alone after all omoeD. How long have you been here?..... What? Wait a min.. Don't go, don't leave me alone...... Oh your coming back?.... Ok. Hey next time can I go with you?..... Why not?.. Find my own way?.... but its to dark in here I cant see a thing.... Other senses? Like hearing and smell and stuff?.... Ok well I guess I will go to sleep while you are gone... I feel kinda tired and weak..... The food is all gone you say? Oh... well I guess we starve from here..... Ok omoeD, take care. I will see you later... Hehe I guess your right, I wont actually see you later... Hey don't be gone to long ok... I don't like to be alone.....

Is this who I am?

Nightmarish dreams.... Blood... People screaming in pain... but something comforting about it. Why? I see myself threw the eyes of a cold blooded killer. Enjoying, savoring the moment when the light of life leaves the eyes of my victims, hearing there last breath rattle free from there chest. I can still feel my pulse racing, my heart beating furiously in my chest while I kill.... Is this who I am? It must be, the pleasure I feel when I wake from these dreams.... I must have been caught... This is my sentencing... placed in a cell with no light and no food to die alone. That's why no one comes when I call out for help.... Surely there is a way out. There must be... and... yes... that just might work. I will pretend I am dead, I will not move for several days, let the guard come to me, and when he does.. I will spring back to life and claim his.... Yes, yes that will do nicely. I will kill the guard and make my escape. Just lay here... one place.... Don't move... Don't make a sound...they will come... kill them... run and hide... kill them and be free... they will come, they will come, they will.... and kill them, yes, yes that is what I will do, kill, kill, kill anyone that tries to stop me......

.......

........... I don't want to die, not here, not like this... but then I don't know how I would have wanted to die.... Its so dark..... Im alone... Im scared. I have found food but there isn't much... still no way out.... I cant recall anything... so.... alone.... please somebody... help me.

Later

Hours had passed.... Maybe days I don't know. I have crawled along for a while searching for a way out and have found nothing. I have cried out for help for so long that my voice has gone horse. Im hungry.. I feel like I haven't eaten in a month. I need to find a way out... or some food. Im beginning to think I may have been left here to die.... I don't want to die alone.

April 22

I woke to a start. Jumping up and taking a defensive posture. I felt weak and dizzy. It was dark and I couldn't see anything. I stood for a long time listening... my head was spinning. I was disoriented and confused.... water... I heard the sounds of water running close behind me. Where was I?
The trickling sounds of water soothed my tension some and I relaxed a little. I stood there somewhat on guard listening.. waiting, but I didn't know what I was waiting for. I turned and reached out in front of me heading to the sounds of the running water. I bumped into a low wall... no wait.. it was a pool. NO!! it was a fountain. Ok, so..... I found a fountain, now to find a light or something. I followed the edge of the fountain using my hands to guide my way... I found a wall, a real one this time and followed that until I found a switch. I toggled it a few times but nothing happened... power must be out. I took a few steps forward and a door slid open triggered by the motion sensor. So then the power isn't out just no lights... strange. Funny even with the door open there is no light. What is this place? No lights at all? Its black as pitch how is anyone supposed to get around in this place? How the hell did I get here? Was I drugged and kidnapped? If so for what?.. when?.... Ok calm down, think what is the last place I remember,...I... don't remember... I cant remember a thing...not even my.....

"SOMEBODY HELP ME PLEASE!!!!"

A Fathers Soul for a Daughters life pt. 8

I could smell sweat, rank and sour, the sting in my eyes. I could taste blood, bitter. My ears were ringing with the sounds of our pikes clashing. I was slowly regaining my senses again, becoming conscious of my actions. I could feel the blind rage that had guided my hand, my body, my mind fading. The feral was subsiding and I could feel exhaustion waiting for its moment to claim me.... just on the brink. My first thoughts were of Meela, I searched franticly and found the walls intact, Scarlet had replaced hers and Meela was safely behind them, my own walls however had been destroyed during my lose to the feral. My second thought..... the Shadow Ancestor... I looked around... I could see blood spray everywhere... I quickly searched myself and found my right shoulder had been dislocated, numerous cuts on my arms and legs, a broken finger and a deep gash across my chest, and on my head someplace.... but I was still alive. The Shadow Ancestor lay in a heap on the ground a few yards from me, laying in a pool of blood, laughing... His guard was down, now was my chance to finish him for good... But I hesitated, I couldn't figure out why he was laughing

(SA) "Hmhmhmhm.... Welcome back Deomo"

his voice was pained and weak... how long had we been at it? How long was I lost to the feral?.... the sweet sweet feral.

(SA) "It appears you have what it takes... GODS DEOMO!!!! Your strength, your speed... the raw power you poses when you allow the feral to do what it was meant for you..."

(D) "Shut up. Im tiered of listening to you."

(SA) "Then finish it... Son... finish me and join us."

I raised my pike and advanced on him, ready to end his pathetic life
!!!!!!!! My pike!!!... It was...It's.. broken.. where was the other half???
I looked toward my so called father as he rolled over... there buried deep in his chest was the other half of my pike, the hilt sticking out just a few inches.

(SA) "Come Deomo...*cough* fulfill your destiny"

No... I cant... I couldn't kill him, not because he was my father.. because I realized that taking his life would end my own... and complete the transformation.

(SA) "Why do you not do what you have come to do? *cough*... Ahhhh... I see *cough* you understand now what will happen if you kill me *cough*... You have no other option.... join us by taking my place... or I can just slowly take over as I have been... We will always be connected you and I *cough*... Always."

I looked down at my chest.. the pendant glowing red and ominous... A whisper in the back of my mind was talking to me. I felt a warmth, something familiar about it. The voice was soft and kind.... I could trust this voice... she had always been honest with me in spite of everything, she offered guidance, a solution.

(D) "I don't think so Father this ends now."

I reached up and took hold of the pendant and snapped the cord from my neck

(SA) "What are you doing?"

I threw the pendant to the ground. I felt the grip on on my chest... that invisible hand crushing the life from me.

(SA) "Deomo you *cough* cant... you will die."

My vision blurred, I could feel life slipping from me slowly.

(SA) "Deomo no! *cough* put that back on!"

(D) "Why? to become..... like you?.... I would rather..... chose....... *I love you Meela*..... death."

I raised what was left of my pike and with all the strength I could muster brought it down upon the pendant.

(SA) NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A brilliant flash of light washing everything from view, a searing pain. The Shadow Ancestors cry for me to stop... trailing off and then....everything was....... gone.
















*Thank you..... Kimbrya*














All was dark.....
quiet,
cold,
Beneath me I could feel the soft new rug, I could hear the rushing trickle of the fountain.... I didn't move... I couldn't, exhaustion gained a firm grip on me and was moving in to put me down.
Was it over? Did I win?
a strange and unusual peace had settled into my heart and I knew.... Meela would be safe, as well as Scarlet. I let a long over due sleep over take me... as I drifted I couldn't help but think... funny... the blue lights must have burnt out... but all 6? Strange... oh well...... I will.... fix...... later......
*sleep*

A Fathers Soul for a Daughters life pt. 7

I stood up.... my head lowered. A defeated feeling spreading all over. This.... thing was.... is my father.

(SA) "So you see... I have been with you all the time."

(D) "No... I don't believe it. I wont..."

(SA) "How could you not... when I have put the truth right in front of you."

(D) "No... everything I have believed up to now.... a lie? How can you expect me to believe what I have just seen?"

(SA) "Because I have shown you the truth."

(D) "Then why?.... why did you do it?"

(SA) "Would you have rathered that the clan elders have you executed? Would you stand by and do nothing if your daughters life was in danger? Do anything in your power to protect her? This is what I did for you.... and now... I must fulfill my part of the bargain with the elders."

(D) "What bargain?"

(SA) "To "make" you when the time came, when you were ready. I had to become one to save your life. And now... I have to "make" you"

(D) "I wont become you"

(SA) "You have no choice... your fate was decided all those years ago.... you should have died then, but thanks to me making the sacrifice I made, you have had a chance to live... your life belongs to me."

*FLASH*

(M) "Daddy? Daddy where are you... where is mommy?"

(D) *!!!!!!* "Meela honey go find mommy quickly.... I will be with you soon"

(M) Mommy is with that other man... she acting funny, then she gone"

(D) *Feral* as calmly as possible "Sweetheart... I need you to go back to where mommy left you, find that place and wait for me there."

(M) "But im board... and lonely... Mommy is playing with the other man..."

(D) *Damn you Scarlet.. Maxell you stupid son of a bitch*
"BABY!!.... Listen to me... I will be with you soon, now go back, just waite there for me... I wont be long."

(M) *Pouty* Ok.

Turning my attention back to the Shadow Ancestor, and having to use precious energy needed to take on this thing, instead to put up a stronger wall. Damn it Scarlet you know I cant have these distractions, you know my life is at stake as well as our daughters.... and you do this now. NOW!!! You stupid.... *Feral pulsing* I will deal with Maxell as well... does he not have self control enough... he is no man.. just a dog in heat.. like all the rest and no better then those that hurt her before. Meela is left alone and unprotected... YOU LEAVE MY DAUGHTER ALONE AT A TIME LIKE THIS!!!! YOU WILL PAY DEARLY!!!! *FERAL, growing out of control*

(D) *Snarl* "Listen to me father. I don't let anyone dictate my life... I am in control."

(SA) *Shaking his head* You don't have a choice... and... what's this? Ah... she is somewhat alone right now isn't she... yes I can feel the energy level around her is not focused on keeping her safe, yours is but her mothers seems to be a bit.... distracted. Maybe I will pay her a short visit."

(D) "You go near her and I swear to the Gods I will tear you apart!"

(SA) "I just want to see my grand daughter Deomo... that's all. *wicked grin* She would make a great Ancestor when she is of age."

*PAIN, severe pain along the bond*

I felt a white hot flash run through me taking the breath out of my chest, dropping me to my knees. The pain was so severe. I didn't know exactly where it was coming from... I looked up at the monster in front of me, a very knowing and evil grin had spread across his face..... MEELA!!! I felt the feral rise... rise to a peak I had not known before, I saw red. My blood I could feel boiling inside my body. From deep within a could hear a growl rumbling rising to a roar... ragging and screaming....

(D) "I'LL KILL YOU!!!!!!"

(SA) "That's right Deomo... let it out... let the feral consume you, use it..... now we shall see what you are made of... now you are ready to join us."

I let out a savage, wild primordial scream as I charged him. I was lost. Feral and blood lust... I could not control the rage, I was lost.... and now in even more danger of being turned.

A Fathers Soul for a Daughters life pt. 6

Suddenly an intense rush of new images flooded my mind.
A young boy, wild.... feral, extremely feral.... in restraints, howling and screaming.... an injection. The child calms and eventually becomes sedate.

The clan elders.... My father... Talking. A dark hooded figure approaches my father.... He is... weeping.... He nods and bows his head. The hooded figure reaches for my father, placing a hand on his head.... A scream... He falls to his knees.

The hooded figure leaves a pendant on the ground near my father.
(HF) "Welcome..... Brother"

The clan elders leave with the hooded figure.... MY father stands with the pendant.... He is changed..... no longer my father....

(F) "Deomo my son, you must promise me..... NEVER take this off."

(D) "*Semi conscious* "I promise.... Father."

He falls to his knees one last time, his transformation almost complete... He screams again. Slowly he stands.... skin white... tattoo burning its way into his skin, spreading.... Blood covering his face from the horns being reshaped.... He reaches for the child... reaches for me.... places a hand over the pendant and my heart.... He chants in the long forgotten Zabrak tongue.... A look of pain on his face as the chant and his transformation end. The images fade.....

The Shadow Ancestor, standing some distance away... looking on. At some point I had fallen to my hands and knees....

(D) "Why?......"

A Fathers Soul for a Daughters life pt. 5

Minutes passed like hours, hours like days, as our dance of fate continued. Both of us countering the others moves without so much as a hint of hesitation. He was good.... damn good and I couldn't get a good offensive going... we were in a stale mate. I was amazed at his poise, how he handled his pike as though it were just an extension of his body. I suppose I looked the same but to see another do what I do is utterly amazing. His eyes never left mine, the menacing glare of those red rimmed yellow eyes, seemed to pier right into my soul... It was almost unnerving. Then without warning.... He stopped. Jumped back a few feet to be just out of reach and stopped. He stood there with this smirk on his face. He lowered his pike.... what was he doing?

(SA) "Your good.... much better then I had anticipated. I can see why the elders chose you"

(D) "Chose me? Why?"

(SA) "Your feral nature hass attracted much attention in your life.... have you not noticed? All your anger, your hatred, the rage..... you remember how good it felt to give into the feral don't you?"

(D) "That was a long time ago

(SA) "But not so long ago you have forgotten... the freedom, the power, the.... bliss of holding the life of another's in your hands...making you a god"

(D) "NO!!! That's not who I am anymore"

(SA) "Hmhmhmhm But it is..... deep inside you... even now you feel it. Calling to you... wanting release..... and yet you deny your very nature.

(D) "No.... I feel nothing of the feral."

(SA) *Grin* You can lie to me all you want, but you cant lie to yourself. Remember the girl.... what was her name....?"

(D) *Kimbrya*

(SA) "Yes.... that's it.... Kimbrya. Because of you she has passed. Remember the feeling when you saw the life in her eyes fade... her unborn child, *hmhmhm* then her. Splendid work. All the lives you have destroyed. You remember, the man in Moenia.... he begged you to spare the lives of his wife and child... they were not your target, but you sent them to an early grave anyway. Why? I will tell you why.... the feral... You ARE a killer Deomo... a perfect machine for taking lives."

(D) "No! No that's not true.... its not who I am anymore."

(SA) "Deomo, don't be so naive.... You can not deny what you are. There is a reason you take so much pleasure in killing. A reason why you are so good in combat. There is a reason why you have achieved so much....

(D) "I am where im at because I made it happen.... I control my life, not you!!"

(SA) "You really believe that? Then you are a bigger fool then I thought. Every thing you have done has been all a part of a plan to get you ready. To make you ready for us.

(D) "Im the fool!!?? HA!! You couldn't take me as a young boy what makes you think you can do it now?"

(SA) "Because you were to young, and far from ready."

(D) *Smirk* "I guess you don't remember my fathers pendant stopping you then do you?"

(SA) "HAHAHAHAHA!!!! You still think that's what happened? I feel almost sorry for your ignorance."

(D) "I saw the look of pain in your face when you...(SA) That was because I was imprinting apart of myself on the damned thing you moron. We needed you to keep it on so I told you to promise me you would never take it off."

(D) "You told me?!!.... No... my.... my father told me...... Who are you?"

(SA) *Wicked grin*..... "Call me dad"

A Fathers Soul for a Daughters life pt. 4

*Ting tang whoosh.... Tang tang ting*

Sparks flashed off our pikes as we meet head on, illuminating the semi darkness surrounding us, forcing the shadows to retreat. We spun and struck, thrusted and parried, dodged and blocked, near miss after near miss.. in perfect unison. If someone were to witness they wouldn't know if this was a fight or a well choreographed dance. Minutes went by and neither of us had so much as scratched the other. Then we both went down.... as one we did a leg sweep combo that landed.. I quickly rolled out and away from him instinctively... he did the same. I rolled up to a one knee defensive posture facing the Shadow Ancestor.... he stared back at me in a mirror image, as though he were mimicking my every move.

(SA) "Not bad... thiss is going to be fun"
(D) "Save your breath"
(SA) "I can do thiss.... allll day"
(D) *Grin* "so can I"
(SA) *Smirk* "Can you?"
(D) "Try me"
(SA) "Hmhmhm.... I will"

We leapt at each other again
*Ting whoosh ting ting tang.....*

A Fathers Soul for a Daughters life pt. 3

I ran up to the window again, just in time to see my father slain.... to see the blood spray across the face of a young boy... me, but this time I was ready as I watched the replay of that terrible night, the cold icy hand of the Shadow Ancestor reaching for the boy.....
I tapped on the window.
*FLASH*

The house disappeared, everything vanished, everything except.....
Black robe, a hood up hiding the face... all that can be seen are the glowing yellow eyes narrowed down to thin horizontal slits. The icy haggard voice that has plagued my thoughts and dreams, echoing in my head day in and day out.... spoke.

(SA) "Ssso..... here we are..... jusst you.... and me"
(D) "You know why I've come then"
(SA) "Oh yess.... I know why.... I give you one last chance to join with usss of your own free will"
(D) "Never"
(SA) "As you wish.... *sigh* You leave me with no choice.... letsss see if you can out last your father hmhmhmhm"
(D) *Growl* I will make you eat those words before I finish you"
(SA) *Evil grin* "Why wait?"

With that he threw off his robe to reveal himself to me. We were about the same size and weight. I could see his eyes clearly now, a fiery ring of red encircled the glowing amber eyes. His skin the color of milk, a ghastly white....His horns revealed the same as my own.. Well they look the same as what they have changed into on me anyway. His lips curled back in a menacing grin revealing ivory teeth, sharp as needle points. His tattoo was like none I had ever seen before... It didn't just cover his face, but his entire head, neck, and across his shoulders. It was a deep crimson red.. the color of blood. Gods!!! This creature before me could not have been born, no, it had to be created, manifested if you will.... how could it have ever been a living breathing Zabrak?

We stood there for what felt like an eternity, eyeing each other, sizing each other up.... circling, studying the others movements... waiting for the opening... waiting to strike.

(SA) "lets dance"
(SA)(D) "RRRRAAAAAAA!!!!!!"

A Fathers Soul for a Daughters life pt. 2

My slow drift through the astral plain quickened. I was now moving at an un godly speed in the direction of my enemy. As I got closer, the air around me began to grow cold and dense. A dark shroud loomed in front of me swallowing everything in view. Flashes of memory passed before me, my mother singing to my baby sister, my father teaching me simple traps for hunting, kisses good night and warm hugs.... my mother weeping holding me close to her, my father making me promise to never remove the pendant, blood spraying across my face, a bone chilling scream of pain and agony.....

Everything began to spin and mix together, if there was an up in the astral plain I didn't know which way it was. My heart began to race, my palms became cold and clammy.... I needed to get out of this area fast, but I couldn't move. Panic set in, a sudden rush of despair took hold, the darkness before me, now engulfed me, pulling me into it deeper. Gods what was I thinking? I cant do this.

The air continued to grow heavy and cold. I felt an icy grip take hold of my lungs as I struggled to breath. This was suicide!! A Shadow Ancestor!!??.... No way!!, only a fool would try and take one of them on alone. I needed to go, get out while I still had the chance, think of some other way. I cant fight this thing, im not strong enough for this.

I had lost all hope so it seemed. Fear would be an understatement to what I was feeling. I would have been grateful to just have fear. This... this feeling was absolute terror to say the least. Fear would have been called joy in this case. I HAVE TO GET OUT!!!

*DEOMO*

"Father?!! Father help me please! I cant do this! I cant, I cant, I cant!"

*You must Deomo, you can... you are my son*

"NO! NO! I cant! How can I defeat this thing when you couldn't?"

*Meela... remember Meela*

"Remember?... How can I think of her at a time like this? Father help me please"

*If you cant remember why you are here... then there is no hope, and all is lost*

"But father...."

*Meela*

"Meela..."

*meela....*

"Mee...."
"MEEEEEEELLLLLAAAAAAA!!!!!!!"

Energy shot through me and burst forth like a volcanic eruption. The darkness broke and cowered away, the air became breathable again. The cold grip fled as though it were shot out of a cannon..... Everything was becoming clear again... I quickly remembered to center and ground again and forced this indescribable terror out of me.

I found myself on what appeared to be a yard in front of a house. Deja vu. I know this place, I know it well.... I was home and I knew what was going to take place inside in the moments to follow.... I have found my enemy.

A Fathers Soul for a Daughters life pt.1

Everything felt so surreal, nothing was concrete but yet I could feel everything. The sensation of utter freedom, no restraints what so ever. As I drifted along I could feel a warmth of a presence all around me. There was another presence, warm as well but not as dominate as the first. I could feel the firsts energy pulsing with love and excitement at my being there.... Meela?.... Oh my little angel how I love you. Na muirnin... do not worry, you will be safe.

Her energy flowed to me like a river opening up to a vast ocean, and surrounded me, holding me as I have held her so many times before. Love filled my heart. Very gently I asked her to go to mommy, (the other presence I sensed) and stay with her. I could tell she was reluctant but she seamed to understand and slowly released her hold on me and pulled back to her mothers warm embrace. I waited in my drift to be sure she was safe behind the walls and barriers, safely tucked away in her mothers arms. I then put up my own walls between us... I could still feel her, and she could feel me, but we could not interact. As long as I know she is there, can feel her there, I have something to hold onto.. to come back to. *I love you*

It was time.... Now there was no turning back. I closed my eyes and manifested my fathers pike into my hands. I could feel its power vibrating strongly, coursing and surging through me. I opened my eyes and looked around, trying to feel out the direction of my enemy.

There.... that is where I needed to go.... that is where the spirit of the Shadow Ancestor awaits..... the battle ground has been set, and when the dust settles, only one of us will remain in existence.
*Father be with me*