Chapter 7 The Love Of A Mother

• "So what is the plan once we get back into civilization?"
• She was kept her baby girl close to her chest, keeping her baby girl as warm as possible, against the chill that was surrounded them. Keane looking for tracks making sure that ahead wasn't some kind of ambush waiting on them. "I haven't the slightest clue. All I know is she needs to feed. I'm just hoping that whatever we left behind will be put to good use when or if they come."
• "I know how we can blend in, once I feed. We will find them."
• "Find who?"
• "The gypsies."
• "Why would they accept us into their flock?"
• Isadora held up her mother's necklace which was all she had of her left. "They will honor this. They might be a lot of things, but they stick to the rituals and their word of honor."
• "What is that?"
• "It's from the old country. I have carried this with me for a long time, it represents each of the families from the old country. Those who had sworn to loyalty to Eeuielle's grandfather so many years ago. If they are true to their bloodlines, they'll honor this."
• Caelan keeping close to Isadora, though she had been mad at him since the moment she learned that he knew some of the truth of what was going on, she had also forgiven him as well. "You haven't named our child."
• "I don't know any names. I haven't been around a lot of others to think of names."
• "Natalya or Ingrid."
• "Ingrid?"
• "My mother's name. Our daughter has my mother's hair, a very pale blonde."
• "I do like the name Natalya, but Ingrid is too..."
• "I know. Natalya is a perfect name for our daughter."
• "How do you know that is yours?"
• "I had to cut the cord, I know she is mine. Even if she wasn't, I would still claim her as mine. Through her blood I knew she was hundred ours. Now, why are we looking for the gypies? You got a plan I assume?"
• "If anyone knows about magic or curses, then they may know how to remove this bracelet. Or at least might can lead us in the right direction."
• She held her baby a little closer and kissed the top of her little girl's head, "Natalya, we are going to protect you always."
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• Jett who had been staying behind for she knew that time was ticking, it was only because of her that Isadora had been able to control her hunger, now with a baby, it was like history repeating itself. Jett true name wasn't Jett at all but she had assumed that name once she had to sacrifice herself, her true form to become what she was now. She would have to keep the secret of past in order to spare Isadora the pain. As night had finally set in, everyone inside the cavern where the baby could be kept safe, Keane was keeping watch. Since vampires were not susceptible to the elements, and though the baby girl they named Natalya who was nursing while her mother wrapped the baby up as the fire crackled through the silence of the night. Jett coming out from her perch moving in silence to where Keane was standing watch, he turned to see the lynx staring at him. He had not yet realized that he was under her spell, in a trance while she showed him images of what she had to do so that Isadora wouldn't make her mistake. For already, time was ticking away and there was not much more time spare. When he came to he realized that what just happened and knew they would have stay here. He gave himself a few more minutes before walking away to get Caelan's attention. It wasn't his turn but it was urgent. While Isadora slept curling up with her child already she was being drained of her energy and she would only have, so much time before her body couldn't sustain herself.
• "You are going to go on a hunt my brother, tonight find a few for her to drain because we are not going further than here. I will stay here and keep watch. We too are going to need to feed, but I will wait till you return."
• "What is wrong Keane. you look as though you saw a demon or something."
• "Let's just say time is ticking, now go."
• Caelan eyes flashed a evergreen hue before he had vanished into the night. For he was going on the hunt searching for bandits or travelers, anyone that Isadora could drain. For whatever was going on, he knew it had to be serious if Keane called him brother and urged him to hunt. Tonight, he was on the hunt to save Isadora's life. Her one and only weakness that he knew would take her life, feeding off of a human's life-force. She had a code she stood by when it came to feeding on humans, for one she would never harm an innocent life regardless. Right now though, their child needed her to survive. Pushing past the blizzard storm in search of his prey, unaware that deals in the dark were being made. Jett had teleported herself into the catacombs, known as the city of the death, for it was under the streets that once thrived with people until lava had killed many in it's wake. Through the winding corridors she bolted until she found the room she was looking for. How she wished she had her human hands once again but she wasn't going to stall any longer. Her time was running out, if she didn't hurry up her time would be up and Isadora would suffer the same fate as she had. She wasn't going to let that happen, she was going to be there for her daughter and granddaughter, and even though they wouldn't ever know her true identity. As a mother she was going to be there for her daughter every way possible. In her mouth she took the Grounding stone, then she left the area without trace she had ever been there. She had to be careful for there were those who were watching, if they had managed to find a way to capture her, then her efforts of saving her daughter would have been in vain. She waited by the door for she could hear sounds coming from the room, Carissa was now learning why she didn't have it as tough as Isadora. Dagen could be cruel and because he had lost his prize, his pet; it was now Carissa, who was now to endure his wrath, his rage. Once he left the room, Carissa trying to recover with some small amount of dignity when she saw eyes glowing and she soon was under Jett's spell. The ring that Carissa had on was a different stone, for it wasn't like the grounding stone, it was the Twilight stone. It wouldn't absorb her powers, giving Isadora the chance to regain her full abilities. This would also be a way for Isadora to escape Degan and his henchmen who were already getting too close to comfort. Carissa unaware of what she was doing when she lowered her fingers and taking the stone that was in Jett's mouth. It was wrapped up for the power was strong and Jett had to concentrate as Carissa unaware of her fingers being burned by the stone and finally the Twilight stone was pushed off the ring, and now Dagen would only be able to find and trace his wife. Jett quickly taking the stone in a cloth as she did the grounding stone before she vanished into thin air. Dagen came back into the room where his wife was still in a trance unaware of her fingers had been burned off, he didn't know how the stone was replaced but he new what was about to happen would be out of his hands, unaware that if he had just cut Carissa's head off, he would have been able to stop Jett's plan. Jett who was back in the cave where Isadora was struggling to stay away for the power of the stone had been unleashed.
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• Already, Isadora appeared to be draining, turning into dried bones as Keane tried to force her to drink blood to help fight off the drain for Caelan had yet to return. Jett dropping the stone from her mouth for this was what Keane had seen through Jett's mind's eye. He knew this was going to hurt but it was the only way to save Isadora. He picked up the stone and quickly placing on top of the other for the merger was breaking the absorption stone Will, breaking it just as his fingers like Carissa's fingers had melted away. The stone finally broken and now the Twilight stone was in it's place. Life being restored back into Isadora who took a deep breath for she felt herself returning, no longer feeling like a caged animal who had been locked a way for so many years. She felt stronger than she had been, and when Caelan returned he felt defeated for he could find two for her to feed off, but she would only need one. The other bandit that he had caught he and Keane drained. Jett wasn't going anywhere now, she would still be here for her granddaughter and daughter, though the bracelet and ring could never taken off only by Dagen was the only one who could do that. However, switching the stones gave Isadora her full strength and abilities back without her being cut off from it like before.
• It wasn't until noon that everyone was already gone and the henchmen could no longer find a trace on Isadora, for once the absorption stone had been destroyed their way of finding her and hopes of taking her back was now destroyed. Because Dagen didn't know if he had killed Carissa before the switch had been made, he would have been able to stop Jett in her tracks. Now his pet, his treasure was out there and would be able to stay hidden. It was what he feared, for his allies only feared him because he had control over Isadora. Now he found himself forging a deal with Dark Heart pack leader named Stephen for he was taking his brother's place, but Dave believed Stephen was his older brother.
• "Dagen, my men have lost your pet. However you're in deeper shit if your vampire clan believes you have lost control over her."
• "No shit. I am willing to forge an alliance, you having vampires as allies would be to your advantage."
• "Ah yes, you know the alliance I had offered some time ago. What makes you think the offer is still on the table?"
• "Word is the Crimson Knight still wants your and your family's head on spiked, with Vampires on your side why would Igor and the others want to risk another hundred years of war? When already the humans are more valuable to use than just be used as cattle."
• "There is a bigger price here to Dagen. Our castle was destroyed by the Crimson Knights and we are going to need a new place and we are going to need to recruit some new soldiers. So I am going to need some supplies and what not."
• "I have plans to rebuild my old castle overseas, but where are you thinking of your new pack house?"
• "I leave my second in command here so that I can have a new pack house built in the Americas. That being said, my second-in-command will stay here till the pack house is completed. Thus it would give you protection at the same time my people aren't scattered. I want a treaty signed that Igor will have to abide by, and that none of the Crimson Knights tamper with. Once the everything is completed in the Americas, we won't stop looking for your precious pet. We learned something right before the connection was destroyed."
• "What is that?"
• "She had a baby girl, though the little girl doesn't look like you at all, but more so of a certain soldier that had once been your friend. Caelan and Isadora have a baby girl."
• Dagen eyes flared with angered for he had never wanted Isadora to have a baby because she was already one of her kind, now that she had a baby that would be the baby girl would be a hybrid. Already, Isadora's abilities were extraordinary and truly unknown for the absorption stone was the only thing that had disabled her full strength. Now there was another whose abilities could be stronger than her mothers.
• "What are you getting at?"
• "We are locating the Pure lines, the Primals that would also mean Isadora's daughter would fall in that category. If we capture Isadora, you would want revenge what better why is by giving us Isadora and you keeping her daughter and there would be nothing Isadora could do to save or protect her daughter. I do have experience in that area, if you remember some time ago?"
• "Yes, I do remember. Fine I will have the treaty to be arranged before this night is over. You bring your pack here, for the vampires and lycans will form a new alliance that every beast and creatures-of-the night will know that they cannot rebel against the alliance that is forged between us."
• "You are now speaking my language, too bad for Dracul and others once they find out that Isadora is freed though, they will want to turn against you."
• "Dracul my half brother, he knows that going up against me he would need more than his army to overpower me, but I am not taking any chances. Find Isadora and her baby girl, bring me Caelan's head and I shall make you stronger than Igor."
• Stephen smiled, "I like how you think, too bad you are a vampire, but I can look passed that."
• Though Stephen and Dagen struck their deal, neither of them trusted the other which is why they were friends. They trusted no one but themselves and of course a mutual understanding had been formed many hundreds of years ago. As they say, "An enemy of my enemy is my friend. That was the solidarity of their foundation they stood on and stood by."
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• Back in the states, Isadora managed to find several of the gypsies and they were able to stay a while with the caravan until Natalya was at least a year. Keane had went his separate ways, though he didn't go back to his country, instead he went back to the lodging that he and Caelan and Isadora had built some time ago. He was going to stay there for none of the trackers had ever located Isadora and it was already setup. Though Isadora wanted to leave Caelan for she knew them staying together wasn't going to be easy she also knew Natalya deserved to have her father and she reminded herself what happened the last time she tried to run from him. They ended up getting married in the Bayou keeping a low profile in the South. It would be sometime before they uprooted and headed further south, where some places were considered untamed. It would be there, they would be able to live without fearing to be discovered. Jett stayed with Natalya as she had done with Isadora, for now the little girl had something that had been denied to her mother and grandmother, she would grow up to have her both parents to love her and protect her. Caelan and Isadora did have other children, three more boys named Santiago, Diego, and Ramirez; and of course Isadora had another baby girl hair like black dirt that was rich from the Valcanoe even darker than coffee, but it was her eyes that stood out. Warm honey with richness of molten gold, for she was very much had gotten her grandmother's looks; which was something that Jett was surprised to see for herself. Believing, that in a way, this was a blessing that many never got to witness or experience. She had managed to break the family's curse; and even though her daughter still wore the bracelet of a slave. It was however, had transformed itself, so that it wouldn’t be considered something that a slave would wear. Maybe something that royalty or of noble blood would have worn, for it was because of the Twilight stone, which caused the transformation once the Absorption stone had been destroyed.