Night Light

 

Disclaimer: Legacy of Kain belongs to Edios and Crystal Dynamics not me. I am making £0.00 out of this fic, it is written purely because I have a burning need to create. Are you amazed by the fact that they are not mine . . . neither am I; I’m just a little disappointed.

 

I do however own Light.

 

Rating: PG-13

 

Part: Three of I still haven’t worked out how many there are going to be.

 

Set: all over the place ^_^

 

Italics = flashbacks

 

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Chapter Three: Games and Ghouls

 

Two lion cubs raced across the savannah, one perfect gold the other chocolate brown.

 

Siblings.

 

Gold leaps suddenly landing on chocolate brown sending them both tumbling. They roll together growling playfully at each other, training themselves for skills they will need in later life. They keep playing, coming apart at times before leaping at each other again, teeth grip tails, blunt claws scrape fur, growls and yelps fill the air.

 

In the distance a predator watches.

 

 

 

{Sanctuary of the clans}

 

Kain slumps on his throne a book open in his lap; he however has stopped reading it a while ago and now lightly dozes, enjoying the quiet of the evening, which is soon shattered

 

“GET BACK HERE NOW!!”

 

Kain jerks awake hearing the pounding of paws and hooves, he jumps as the doors to the sanctuary slam open and a black leopard sporting purple spots races inside in its jaws flaps its prize.

 

Raziel’s cowl.

 

The enraged wraith chases her inside, they race around the chamber, circling the throne several times, and Kain lifts his legs from the ground to avoid being trodden on. Unfortunately at that particular moment the leopard leaps on him anyway using the master vampire as a spring board. She leaps again colliding with the pillar of dimension and clambers up it leaving deep claw marks in the marble.

 

Raziel stops running and glares up from the foot of the pillars not being able to clamber up the pillar at all.

 

“Give it back” he mutters

 

The leopard laughs aloud, opening its jaws allowing the cowl to flutter back down, Raziel snatches it from the air and wraps it back around himself before shaking his head and walking with purpose out of the sanctuary.

 

Kain sighs and goes back to his book.

 

After a few moments the gentle sound of claws scratching deeper into the marble is herd, a few quiet mewls and eventually humming.

 

“You coming down at all” Kain asks not looking up from his book

 

“Um . . . yeah, later the views nice up here” the leopard calls back down

 

“Nice view . . . of the wall?” Kain is now confused; he puts the book down, stands and walks to the dimension pillar looking up, it then dons on him what’s wrong “your stuck aren’t you”

 

“NO!” is cried back down,

 

“You are” Kain laughs

 

“I’ll come down there in a minuet and bite you” the feline shrieks desperately

 

“Try it” Kain’s still snickering

 

“Why you” the feline yells

 

It is at that moment that her claws lose their purchase on the marble and she falls. Kain jolts back falling as he is struck with the weight of a full grown leopard falling from a great height.

 

“Sorry” is mumbled after a few moments of silence.

 

 

//**//**// Half an hour later //**//**//**

 

“Bored” the small feline rolls over “bored, bored, bored”

 

“yes” Kain agrees “bored”

 

“I know what we could do” Light smirks

 

 

//**//**// Ten minuets later //**//**//**

 

 

“I hate beans” Kain hisses glaring at the bean puzzle

 

Light purrs proudly and nudges a puzzle piece with her nose towards him

 

“This bit goes there” she purrs

 

“Where?” Kain snorts

 

“There” Light points with a claw

 

“Where?”

 

“Look right there” she sighs loudly “oh for crying out loud”

 

The authoress shifts form once more, however the new form to emerge is not that of a feline, but one of a human girl.

 

The girl is almost completely human, save from the black cat ears sticking out from her black hair, the long furred tail which is now lashing furiously on the marble and clawed hands which are more like paws than hands.

 

Light glares at Kain before snatching the piece away and slotting it perfectly into place.

 

“There” she snorts

 

Raziel enters the main chamber of the sanctuary grumbling quietly to himself about one of his brothers, he pauses looking at the two unsure what to be more surprised about, the fact Kain is now sitting with a human-ish girl or the fact that the two are doing a bean puzzle.

 

“I didn’t know you could do that” Raziel snorts walking over to get a better look at the small human-ish author, the feline shrugs before looking back to the puzzle.

 

 

//**//**// Half an hour later //**//**//

 

 

The puzzle lies completed on the floor of the sanctuary, Kain lounges half on half off the throne, Light lies half asleep staring at the non existent ceiling while Raziel tries to think

 

“We haven’t spoken to Melchiah in a long, long time” he mumbles, Kain makes an ‘hhhhhmmmm’ noise

 

Ten minuets later

 

The three wander slowly towards the necropolis for lack of anything better to do. Raziel sighs wistfully as they wander steadily through his old clan territory, seriously considering getting the place fixed up, despite his lack of fledglings. 

 

The necropolis looms out in the distance

 

 

//**//**//**/ Necropolis /**//**//**//

 

 

“No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no”

 

Kain turns hearing the small mumbled words and notices Light walking a few paces behind them, tail wrapped around her leg, ears flat against her head, paws gripped in front of her chest, her head down.

 

“You ok” Raziel calls to her

 

“Fine” she looks up suddenly, grinning nervously

 

“its just you look a little pail” Kain mutters wandering back to the author

 

“fine really” she grins again “DON’T TOUCH ME!!” She shrieks leaping backwards as the vampire reaches a claw out to her.

 

She collides roughly with an old tomb stone causing it to break.

 

“Ouch” she whispers, rubbing her back

 

Kain frowns but he is not looking at the author he’s looking at the ground next to her, its moving, rising and falling slowly as if breathing, a cloven hand reaches up from the ground and grabs the authors tail.

 

Light yelps and stands before stamping on the claw sending it back under ground.

 

 

All the graves are moving now, the ground breaking apart as body after body tries to rise to the surface, the little author darting frantically between them trying to force bodies back into the earth

 

“No! No! No! No! No!”  She chants

 

Kain and Raziel watch on in wonder.

 

A ruffle of feathers causes them to turn, Janos has landed behind them

 

“I felt magic” he says looking past the vampire and the wraith to the author who is now getting out of breath.

 

“they just started getting up” Raziel shrugs, for the first time getting a full view of what it looked like when he came in to the physical realm from spectral.

 

The author has given up now and sits panting in the middle of the graves while the long dead inhabitants crawl towards her. One reached her and lays a crumbling hand on her shoulder.

 

“I thought I felt necro-magic” Janos nods spotting the ghouls around the author

 

Vorador approaches having run up obviously following his sire, he slowed and pulled a disgusted face

 

“What on Nosgoth” he hissed eyeing the authoress now surrounded by ghouls all of them sitting around her waiting.

 

Kain started towards her steadily picking his way over the ghouls who paid him no mind what so ever, all of them just stared blankly at the author.

 

“Can you put them back” Kain asks looking disdainfully at the zombies who have now curled up around the authoress, each one laying a hand on her somewhere.

 

“They usually go back on their own” Light whispered not looking at him

 

“Why aren’t they doing anything” Raziel asks

 

“I’m stopping them” Light takes a deep breath, control obviously tiring on her “when I run out of energy they usually go back”

 

“Usually” Vorador murmurs

 

“Sometimes they stay up but they’ll go back eventually” she shrugs before frowning “I hate it”

 

“Hate it?” Kain asks

 

“Yes I hate this” Light looks down and shakes her head frantically “hate it, hate it, hate it”

 

“Why” Raziel asks confused, Light looks up confused

 

“You’re not disgusted” she asks

 

“Well it’s not overly attractive but” Kain shrugs “I’ve seen worse, plus this is quiet a strength little one”

 

“They hated it” Light looked away “and they were right, this is evil” 

 

“Evil” Janos raised his eyebrows “why would you say a stupid thing like that, the world needs death just as much as life”

 

“When I was little, my pride knew I was different” Light whispered “but they grudgingly excepted it, my father was strong enough to protect me” she shivered “they knew I had power but I didn’t understand anything about it except that I had made the odd dead insect live again”

 

She sighed and seemed to slump forward a little

 

“One afternoon me and my younger brother were out on the planes, we wandered to far from the pride and a half starved rouge lion exiled from another pride killed him”

 

She shuddered visibly and wrapped her arms around herself, her tail coiled around her leg

 

“I didn’t want him to die so I used my power, I couldn’t control any of it and it was only small, hardly really worth calling it power at all” she swallowed “my brother died that day but not all the way, we went back to the pride together, but he was drooling and still torn up pretty bad, I hadn’t been able to heal him from the attack”

 

“Dear god” Vorador muttered

 

“I hid him from the rest of the pride and brought him food for three days, but then his fur fell out, his skin went grey and his eyes went flat . . . he started to rot from the inside out” she paused “it didn’t take long for the smell to attract the pride, I was cursed according to them, they exiled me and my father after killing my brother properly”

 

Janos ran a cloven claw down the feline’s spine before stroking her hair

 

“They hunted us through the grass lands, my father was killed but I managed to escape, I didn’t want to be in the grass lands, I wanted to go somewhere else, I wanted a home” she smiled a little “I wandered the grass lands as an exile for years before I woke up here”

 

“Why did it take you so long to get here” Kain asked

 

“I think my power was too small for any mass world shifting teleportation but it grows over time” Light shrugged.

 

The ghouls started to move slowly, crawling away from the author, sliding back into the earth, back where they came from.

 

“told you” Light whispered then looked up at the master vampire standing over her “sorry, I can’t stop it, they reach into me and use my power to rise, I can’t stop them”

 

“I . . . I think I might be able to help you there” Janos smiled “I can teach you to lock yourself”

 

“You mean you could teach me how to stop it” Light asked

 

“Well I . . . I could try” Janos managed a smile

 

“THANK YOU JANOS I LOVE YOU” Light practically threw herself at the blue, winged ancient

 

“I’m not promising anything I don’t know a lot about death magic” Janos said around the arms that had coiled around his neck

 

“Surely a death guardian would be better” Vorador spoke

 

“True but first she’ll need to be able to recognise her own magic, I can teach her that then we can see about finding Mortanius or another”

 

“Thank you” Light purred again

 

End Chapter Three

 

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