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Disclaimer: I do not own Legacy of Kain, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.Don't get to Nosgoth itself til chap 5

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Chapter Fourteen: Eldar reunion

It took me several moments to get past my initial shock of being face to face with Janos Audron himself. He was the last surviving member of the Ancient, original, Vampires and the 'Tenth' Guardian whom had been tasked with protecting the Reaver.

I snapped out of my shocked daze mostly due to the fact that he was smiling at me gently in amusement more than anything else. I could hazard a guess that he was likely used to getting amazed looks along with expressions that meant 'I can't believe I'm meeting the Janos Audron!' or 'A vampire with wings?!'. He also likely got the last type of staring looks mostly from younger vampires.

I made a firm resolution with myself to not act like a youngster. I would not start asking questions, silly or otherwise of haggard looking Eldar. The Ancient Vampire looked like he'd been through more than enough lately and I did not want to make things worse for him by asking questions about the Hylden realm and if he knew anything about what they were planning on their side of the portal. There was so much missing information regarding the Hylden even in the game and it would do no good to go posing questions or postulations about them to someone who had just escaped the 'prison' realm where they were kept.

I shook off my shock and then glanced around the area once more to try to see if any of the human priests left lying about on the ground or against the trees that might have had enough blood left within their dead bodies to make an easier meal for the winged Eldar. Sadly, the bodies strewn about each had large puddles of blood pooled around them. All of them had received brutal wounds as they had gotten caught in the cross-fire of the vicious fight. Even the few that had been knocked away into the trees lay broken in pools of their own blood. I... did not know how to draw blood from a distance like Kain could and I was unsure if Janos had the same ability or not. I was quite likely the only viable donor around and Janos looked like he needed more than I would be able, or willing, to offer at the moment. I shifted my stance as I looked back at him and the shrugged my shoulders in a helpless gesture. Couldn't hurt to ask him...

"There is plenty of blood around," I said to him. "If you know how to draw the blood to you that is?"

"That... was not an ability that I cared to master over the centuries," Janos responded with a weak shrug of shoulder and wing.

I nodded in understanding at his words. It was a bit of a gruesome ability and the Eldar male had seemed to give off a kind of monkish or pacifistic attitude in game that always made me think that he did not much like to fight or deal with gore. He had also seemed to be the orderly, immaculate sort that preferred to be clean and tidy when he could. I watched as he looked himself over and he weakly brushed at a few feathers in a brief attempt to straighten them before he seemed to give up on the movement barely a moment later. Yep, clean and tidy sort when he could be bothered to manage it. He seemed far too tired to do more than take basic stock of his injuries. It was a bit of a relief that this too remained true when it came to comparing the real thing to the story I had come to know during my youth. It seemed like it was only the small things that differed between what I knew and what was reality.

I realized suddenly that I was glad that I had drawn my wings back into my body earlier and yet I found myself equally disappointed by that fact as well. I found that I was actually curious to see what his reaction to another winged vampire would be and then there was also the thought that I might well have the chance to learn how to fly from the ancient vampire. I mean, I could fly now, but not well. I had found out swiftly that I was only really skilled at gliding, banking and catching thermals to remain airborne. Skills that seemed to be mostly instinct driven. Once in the air... it was everything else that proved to be a bit difficult for me. Maybe... maybe I would be lucky and have the chance at some point to ask him for a few pointers. First thing was first though, I needed to get Janos back to the safety of Sanctuary where he could recover in peace.

"I... um... I'm going to take you back to Sanctuary. You..." I waved a hand at his bedraggled form. "Well to be blunt, you are a mess."

He let out a half-hearted laugh at my words and nodded his head. He took barely a half-step toward me before his eyes abruptly fluttered shut and he let out a soft groan as he started to collapse. I moved swiftly to catch him in my arms and let out a grunt as I stumbled a bit under his weight before I was able to regain my balance. It seemed as if the battle with that damned Hylden had indeed taken it's toll on him.

I looked him over closely and rapidly came to the conclusion that his injuries were worse than I had first assumed. He had slow-to-heal wounds spaced over his body. Wounds that were bleeding sluggishly. His hair was sweat slicked and disheveled from the fight but there were several fresh beads of sweat trailing down his skin. Had he been human, I might well have thought he was running a fever. I frowned as I realized that he might actually be running a fever considering the fact that he was one of the First Vampire's and had never actually died to become what he was. I put my hand to his forehead and found that he was human warm.

I worriedly bit at my lower lip as I tried to think. From what I had learned from Vorador, full-blooded vampires on Nosgoth did not actually get 'cold as death' unless they had not fed for several days, if not one to two weeks, and that was all dependent on their age. Kain himself normally ran a temperature that seemed to be about ten degrees below human norm, around eighty-eight or eighty-nine degrees Fahrenheit or thirty-one Celsius. He had a cold-warm touch that made me shiver as a result of that lower body temp. That Janos was human warm might very well mean that he was feverish, but it could also be his normal temperature.

I snarled softly in worry as I just did not know. I needed to get the Eldar back. I looked around and then groaned softly at the thought of having to carry Janos all the way back to the Sanctuary, which meant going back through the spider infested canyons and potentially having to deal with the threat of thieves, if any survived being around the arachnids.

Egggh, there has to be a better route to take than that one, I thought to myself, but sadly if there was another route, I did not know of it.

I knew at least that if I moved carefully and precisely, then I would be able to keep both myself and Janos invisible with my Gift. If I could manage that then the spiders, and potential thieves, would not realize that we were nearby, even if we were right under their noses.

As long as I managed to stay away from the webbing, that is.

It was a very long trek back to Sanctuary. Seriously, you try to carry the dead-weight, no pun intended, of a winged Vampire Ancient sometime and tell me how easy it is, especially when you are having to be attentive in order to avoid tripping on the poor guy's wings and keep your Gift active the entire trip whilst also trying to avoid the spider webs that lined much of the canyons. Webs that would get you into trouble you can't afford to get into. Several times I had to avoid groups of spiders regardless of my being as careful as I could. Then I had to carefully avoid the Sarafan guards once we were back in the city as Janos' presence would set off the glyphs on the ones wearing heavy armor. There are times when I wish I knew how to teleport from one place to another, it would be so much easier than this.

Ugh, I thought with a wince as I ducked us down a back alley to avoid yet another patrol. I think I'm developing a cramp in my arm!

I rolled my shoulder as much as I could given Janos' heavy weight on my arm. I let my focus on my Gift go once I, excuse me, we, were just in front of the door to the Blue Lady and even then only after I had confirmed that no one was around. I growled low in my throat when my attempts to open the door without dropping Janos failed and had to resort to kicking the door open. I started to make my way laboriously down the steps. I was greeted by a handful of younger vampires who had apparently thought that the Sarafan were suddenly breaking in. I... had kicked the door open a little too forcefully... In the end though, instead of helping me, they just stared at me in numb shock as I carried Janos down the rest of the stairs and toward the main halls of the underground Sanctuary.

Idiots, I thought with a soft growl. They could have a least offered to give me a hand! Fuck.

I could hear Vorador and Kain in the distance. They were arguing once more from what I could tell. This time the fight seemed to be over some sort of detail regarding the Sarafan troops movements. Vorador seemed to be nitpicking really, as the shouted information seemed to be rather minor a thing to be fighting over. I let out a soft sigh as I started toward where the shouting originated from. It was going to be hard to explain how I'd ended up finding Janos, but hopefully I wouldn't have to explain anything in too much detail until after the Eldar was well on his way to recovery.

I did take comfort in one thing more than anything else. I had remembered what had been forgotten, what had been blocked from my mind. I could to tell the pair about that bizarre yin-yangish stone that the Sarafan Lord had been wearing. The son of a bitch had not had the time to fuck with my mind as he had when I had trailed after him back in the Keep. I took grim satisfaction in the knowledge that my actions had both cost him twenty men and had once more given me the crucial seeming information that the boy had obviously not wanted me to have.

I eased down the last of the steps leading to the libraries where the two males argued. I had to pause a few times in order to prevent myself from stumbling and inadvertently sending both myself and Janos sprawling down the stairs. I moved into the library and watched the two males with a growing sense of annoyance as they argued pointlessly. After another minute or two of listening to their vicious banter I finally let out an aggrieved sound and coughed loudly to get their attention.

"Ahem! Excuse me. I am so very sorry to interrupt the rather enlightening conversation you two gentleman are having," I bit out sarcastically through clenched teeth, "but I have an Ancient vampire here that you might know and he is in rather poor health at the moment. So, boys, can I have just a little bit of help here?"

At that point, I honestly did not care if either of the two male vampires got pissed with me because of my sarcastic tone of voice. I was tired, hungry and increasingly worried about the male vampire that I was carrying. Plus there was the simple fact that it was getting harder and harder to hold Janos up. A human would never have been able to carry him as far nor as swiftly as I had. What I was not, was in any way concerned with whether or not a particular group of new guards that had just started out, green-horns to use the military vernacular, should be killed off now or at a later date. Nor did I particularly care about the egos of the two males in front of me.

Vorador turned toward me with a growl and his expression twisted from anger to shock in less than a second as both my words and the sight of whom I had in my arms registered. As for Kain, once he saw Janos, he too was shocked at the sight of the Eldar male but he seemed no less angry. Ah, well. Vorador moved to my side swiftly and then gingerly took his Sire from my arms in order to brace the older vampire himself. I stood up straight and rubbed at my stiff shoulders with a faint groan of relief. I winced as I rubbed at the crick that had developed in my neck and shoulder. Of the two, Vorador spoke first with amazement laced clearly in his tone.

"Where did you find him childe?" he asked.

"At the Pillars," I responded with a shrug as I rolled my shoulder and shook out the stiffness in my arm.

"And what were you doing at the Pillars? I told you to take care of the Sarafan in the canyons!" Kain's voice was a low snarl as he started to advance on me.

I flinched slightly at his enraged tone but I held my ground as I turned my gaze to him. I squared my shoulders and kept my gaze on his. I figured that it would be best to treat this like another mission report.

"The Sarafan that were in the canyon are dead, exactly as you wished. I saw that the Pillars were not too far off from where the last of the group was finished off. I wanted to see them. When I got close to the Pillars, I heard a weird chanting and felt some strange energy. The Sarafan Lord was there at the very base of the Pillars, along with a group of twenty priests. I believe they were attempting to open and maintain a portal to the Hylden realm, mainly because when I interrupted the chant by killing off one of the priests," I jabbed a thumb backwards to point at Janos, "he and a Hylden warrior came flying through the portal whilst tearing at each others throats."

Kain's right brow had arched upwards by the time I finished giving a summary of what had happened. Though his eyes still glared down at me, his upset with me seemed to have faded... just a touch. He reached up with his right hand and grabbed my chin firmly. I twitched uncomfortably at the tight grasp but that only resulted in an increase of almost painful pressure on my chin as his claws started to dig into my flesh just enough to draw a few droplets of blood.

"Regardless of the result of your actions, you were supposed to return here. You were not to go on a walk," he said in a low, hissing tone of voice.

I opened my mouth to snap back at him that he had given me no direct order to return once my task was complete, when Janos gave a low groan that stopped my angry words in my throat. I turned my head as much as I was able to given Kain's unyielding grip on my chin. I could just see out of the corner of my eye that Vorador was attempting to help Janos stay on his feet. The older vampire kept trying to stand upright on his own but had to give up and had to use his Childe as a bit of a crutch when his energy ran out again. Janos spoke softly after a few moments spent regaining his breath. His voice was obviously weakened from blood loss and and fatigue.

"Do... do not be upset with her, Kain," he said as he blinked wearily in our direction as he tried to focus on us. "The young lady did us all a great service in going to the Pillars, even if the intent of her going there was merely a desire to see them. The Hylden... they have found another ally in this realm... they seek to break the bindings that hold them once more. However tenuous those bindings may be at this time, they still hold our Enemy at bay. Stay your anger Kain. She has done no wrong."

"I will not tolerate disobedience!" he growled at the older vampire.

"You did not tell me that I had to come back right away you know!" I snared with a small, frustrated shake of my head. Kain's grip tightened further still and I flinched more due to the increase of pressure more than the pain, but I kept my gaze locked on his. "You told me to deal with the Sarafan in the canyons, that's it. I figured that I could take a small walk since I had some 'free time'. It's a damn good thing I went, beyond finding Janos I saw the Sarafan Lord again Kain. He didn't have the time needed to work any spell in order to fuck with my head. I remember now what it was that I had been forced to forget!"

"Oh?" Kain tone was suddenly curious. "And what is that exactly, Little One?"

"A necklace," I said, somewhat eager to explain. "He was wearing a stone necklace. Circular in shape, about the size of my fist. One part of was a deep sapphire in color and looked like a jagged crystal, the other part was a deep red and looked like a large drop of blood. I can even draw a quick sketch if you need me to. It pulsed like a heart when its' magic was being used during the ritual. He was using it, as well as an actual heart, as he cast the spell to open up the portal between the two realms."

"I have never heard of any such stone," Vorador shook his head slightly as he looked first at me then to his sire. "Perhaps it is an ancient Hylden relic?"

"No," Janos said as he leaned a little more heavily against Vorador. "I have... not heard of such a stone. Not in all my years."

Kain's grip had loosened slightly on my chin as he looked me over almost... approvingly. Because I had obtained vital information? And remembered it this time? His eyes narrowed suddenly and he tilted his head. He forced my chin up a little higher, an action that forced me to move with him to the point where I had to stand almost on my tiptoes in order to avoid my jaw being impaled by his claws.

"Perhaps this stone is from your world Little One," he said. "Have you heard of such a thing?"

I frowned a bit at his words and started to shake my head automatically before I stopped the motion. I tried to remember if I had ever heard Auron, or any of his pets, mention any such object while I was in their tender 'care'. I couldn't recall them mentioning any object of magic outside that which was used to 'tame' others. Objects of which I had been mostly unacquainted with over the long years. I then tried to remember if I had seen such an object in the room that I had used to escape. There had been plenty of items laying about the room, I could remember that easily. There had been beakers, jars and the like, a few random seeming objects that looked old. I had been far too intent on escaping that I had no time to take inventory of what could or could not have been useful to me outside of said escape process. I knew, at the least, that I'd never heard of such a thing being mentioned in human legends. Finally I shook my head as much as Kain's grip allowed for.

"I don't know. Maybe?" I shrugged helplessly. "There's nothing that I know of in the human legends of my world that matches what that then looked like and I cannot recall Auron or any of his pets mentioning such a stone. I suppose it is possible that the stone is from my world. If it is from my realm, then it might well have been within the room I escaped from and just ended up here a little earlier in the timeline compared to myself but... I just don't know. I was more focused on escaping, not taking inventory, and because of my capture I know next to nothing of whatever vampiric legends my world might have."

Janos had started to frown as we spoke. He eyed Kain and I with a confused, if slightly upset expression. His blue skin was even paler than earlier and I saw that he had started to lean even more heavily against Vorador.

"Her world...? What are... you...?" Janos started.

He slumped suddenly in Vorador's grasp, once more unconscious. The older Vampire was easily able to support his collapsed Sire and managed to keep the Eldar from hitting the floor in and undignified heap.

"I must needs to take him to rest. Keep it down Kain," Vorador's tone said that he expected to be obeyed.

Kain gave a small huff, almost as if to say that he'd do whatever the hell he pleased. Vorador merely shook his head in exasperation before he carted Janos off to another room to tend to the blue-skinned Eldar. I stood as still as I could and simply waited. I found myself quite glad that Kain had lessened his grip enough so that I was no longer forced to stand on my toes. Kain just... continued to look me over critically. He finally let go of my chin a few moments later and started to walk off in the direction of his room. His Aura and energy still projected a mild anger. Well, mild for him. He paused just outside the doorway of the library and he glanced at me over his shoulder.

"You did better than I thought you would, Little One. Luck seems to favor you," he paused as if he were considering something and then turned to continue on his path. I almost didn't hear his next words. "The boy is below, recovering."

I felt my jaw dropped in surprise. I had thought that Kain would not have been bothered to try to assist Nikolai, the boy being just another human, but he had sent someone? I gave a soft laugh of relief and smiled to myself. Kain had most likely decided to 'help' Nikolai so that he would have something to keep me in line if I got out of hand. Kain did not seem the type to be nice 'just because'. I shook my head and started for part of the Cabal's hideout where everyone went to either rest and to be healed in the 'medical' rooms. I hoped that they hadn't treated Nikolai too roughly.

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