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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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Edits 04/2016.
Chapter Seventeen: Nightmares and Knowledge.
Cold.
I felt so cold.
Where am I? I thought groggily.
I looked around the area blearily as I wrapped my arms around my body. It was so cold, enough so that my body was wracked by uncontrollable, violent shivering. Even with superior eye-sight, there was nothing but darkness that surrounded me on all sides. It was almost like I was isolated within a small circle of light and everything else was just... black and empty and cold.
What the hell is going on? I thought with a frown. Where is everyone?
Distant laughter started to echo through that cold darkness. It was a cold and merciless laugh that filled me with dread. I twisted around as the laughter grew closer, seeming to originate from behind me and I fell into a defensive stance with my claws up in front of me. I hissed low in warning, a sub-harmonic rumble building in my chest at the same time.
"Who's there? Where are you?!" I asked with a snarl in my voice.
More cruel laughter filled the air. Once more it seemed to originate from behind me, as if the person had moved to remain at my back when I had turned. I spun around slashed my claws at... nothing but air. I let out a snarl of breath as my growling grew to audible levels.
"Dammit all. Show yourself!" I shouted angrily.
I backed up slowly and had to bite back a whimper of fear. What the hell was with this place!? A breath of cold air passed across the back of my neck. I spun around swiftly and slashed out with my claws. My left wrist was suddenly caught in an iron grip. I hissed in shocked fear as I recognized the face of the man, the vampire, that now held my wrist trapped within his unyielding grasp.
Auron.
"Did you miss me, my sweet pet?" he hissed softly as he tugged me closer to him.
I struggled to break free of his grasp and then let out a choked scream as he twisted my wrist sharply. The motion broke my wrist in an instant and I had to bite my tongue in order to avoid making further noises of pain, sounds that I knew he would enjoy immensely. He readily let go as I pulled back and I managed to scramble away and got some distance between us as I cradled my damaged wrist to my chest. I let out a snarling hiss that expressed my rage, fear and pain. I shook my head over and over as I backed up a few more steps.
"You can't... you cannot be here!" I growled at him. "I got away from you! You are not even on this world! This is just a nightmare!"
He stalked towards me slowly and a cold grin curled his lips. I fell back into a defensive stance, even as I continued to hold my damaged limb close to my body. He stopped with a low sultry sounding chuckle as he raised a hand and looked over his claws. He finally looked up at me again as he let out a 'tut' noise.
"My sweet pet, did you truly think that escaping from me would be so easy? Did you truly think that I did not have ways to find what belongs to me, wherever said possession goes? I will have you back, my sweet little pet, my Draconian l'ange. I already know where you are," he said as the cold grin curled his lips again. His hand fell to rest just below his neck, something glinted under his fingertips. "And I am here my pet. Now be a good girl and come to heel."
He was suddenly right in front of me. By the time I had registered how close he was, he had already lashed out with his claws. My left cheek was opened in a wide gash that left a hole that my tongue could have fit through before I could react. I could taste and feel the blood as it filled my mouth and ran down my cheek. He licked the blood slowly from his claws and I felt my eyes widen. I needed to get away, to get out of this nightmare. I let out a warning, fear-filled growl as I backed away from him. I spun around a second later and bolted. His laughter echoed all around me as I found myself suddenly running through the halls of his castle. Screams of pain and torture echoed in my ears as I ran. I knew, knew, that I was just dreaming, that this was not real, but all I could feel was the desperate, wild need to get away.
I slammed my way through a door that blocked my way and the light of the room blinded me for a moment. When my eyes focused I saw Auron's bedroom before me and Auron himself was rushing at me. I let out a scream of rage and fear as I lashed out with my claws to strike at his face. I heard him curse viciously as his hands grabbed my wrists in an iron grip and he forced me to the ground.
"Dammit all Katrina! Wake the hell up!" he shouted in my ear
Wait? Why would he-? I thought as my mind scrambled to make sense of what was going on.
I felt a sudden flood of Aura Power pulse over me. It started below my right ear and spread through my entire body like a jolt of lightning. My eyes flew open wide and I gasped for air frantically for several moments before I could focus clearly on my surroundings. I relaxed minutely when I saw who it was that actually held me pinned down.
Kain was above me and it was he who held me pinned, not Auron. I was pinned to a soft bed and not cold stone floor. One of his hands held my wrists above my head and the other was pressed firmly against the right side of my neck where his Mark lay. I looked around the room in a daze as I tried to make complete sense of my current surroundings. The dream still tugged at the edge of my mind and left me feeling confused and lost, as if my very essence had been weakened by the nightmare. It was a strange sensation and I did not care for the lingering feeling.
I noticed that Vorador was standing by the doorway. There was a look of minor annoyance on his face and five slow to heal scratches had rent open the right side of his cheek. Janos stood at his side, both holding a restraining hand to Vorador's shoulder and looking worriedly at me. I blinked again at the pair and then focused on Kain.
"W-what is going on?" I asked in confusion.
My voice sounded strange to my ears, worn, as if I had grown ill all of a sudden... or had been screaming.
"We are not exactly sure Childe. We came to retrieve you for your lessons with Vorador and I as you were late. I grew concerned when you would not wake," Janos shook his head slowly. "I went to get Kain while Vorador watched over you..."
Vorador let out a soft growl as he moved a hand to his cheek where the scratches were finally healing over. I blinked in shock as I fully realized just what it meant that Vorador had five scratches across his cheek. I quickly glanced up at my pinned wrists and I shifted my hands as I did so to get a better look at them. There was fresh blood dripping from the claws of my right hand. I could feel myself blush first with embarrassment, then I rapidly paled as I realized that I had attacked an Eldar!
Fuck, shit and damnation! I thought worriedly as a distinct sense of panic began to build in the pit of my stomach. What the hell did I do?!
"You started whimpering and crying out," Vorador said as if in answer to my panicked thought. His voice was bland but his eyes still shone with faint annoyance. Annoyance that was directed at me. I gulped. "Then you lashed out with your claws as if driving off an enemy. Kain and my Sire returned just as you started to lash out again."
"Oh... I..." I looked back to Kain with a blink and another blush. He hadn't moved an inch and the position that we were in was beginning to become a touch... embarrassing. "You... umm... you overwhelmed me with your Aura to wake me?"
"Yes," he responded to my question with a nod and a frown. "You would not stop struggling otherwise."
"I..." I shivered slightly as I shifted beneath him. "I... I am a-alright now..."
Kain let out a sound that sounded very much like a snort of disbelief. He shifted off of me a few moments later and then stood beside the bed. His eyes never left my form and he crossed his arms as he looked me over. He looked ready to pin me down again in an instant if there was a need for him to do so.
"Explain what just happened Little One," he ordered in a clipped tone.
I could not help but flinch at his tone. I sat up carefully and gave an idle shrug of my shoulders as I did not know quite what to say. I rubbed at the bridge of my nose as I tried to think. Finally I just gave another helpless, embarrassed shrug.
"I... it was nothing but a... a bad dream," I said as I avoided looking at them.
"Childe... whatever happened was no ordinary 'bad dream'," I glanced up at Janos with a small frown as he continued to speak. "Gashes appeared on your cheek as you slept... no one here touched you Childe."
My eyes widened and a sudden flash of fear tore through me at his words. I reached up quickly to touch my left cheek. I pulled my hand back and saw fresh blood on the my fingertips of my left hand. The hand that had been free of blood. This was not Vorador's blood that coated my fingertips but my own. A small tremor started to make my hands shake. The tremor became a shuddering vibration that started to rock my entire body as I looked up and stared at the far wall. I fought to push the growing fear down, to think. A soft whimper of sound escaped my throat despite my attempts to keep the noise contained. I closed my eyes and too in a harsh breath as I tried to calm down. I heard Kain move and a moment later my chin was held firmly within his grasp as he forced me to look up at his face. I blinked at him with wide eyes.
"What exactly happened in this dream Little One?" he asked firmly.
"Auron... Auron appeared in the dream," I started to shake even more and I started to loose focus on the room as I tried and failed to fight the panic that filled me. "Attacked me... the fuck?!"
I almost shouted the last two words and Kain's hand closed tight on my shoulder. He gave me a harsh shake and the abrupt, teeth rattling motion forced me to focus on him again. I had to bite back another whimper. Literally. My fangs sank deep into my lower lip as I forcefully muffled the noise. His eyes were cold but there was something in them that also helped steady me and I took a couple of deep breaths through my nose.
Kain glanced over his shoulder at the other two male vampires and he let out a soft growl of noise that I couldn't quite place meaning to in my current state. Both of the other males gave a slow nod of understanding though and they left the room. The door closed softly behind them. Kain sat down on the bed after they had left, though he still eyed the door for a few lingering moments. He was likely waiting for the pair to get out of earshot before he spoke further. His thumb rubbed along the line of my jaw in a near soothing movement as he looked back to me. He sat in silence beside for a few more moments as I continued to tremble softly and struggled against the fear I felt. The shaking started to fade a bit as he continued to rub his thumb over my jawline.
"What else do you recall my Little One? Start from the beginning of this 'dream' and tell me all you can," Kain said. He had pitched his voice to be low, calming.
I took a slow, shuddering breath as I tried to contain yet another whimper of noise. I tried to calm the tremble that continued to wrack body and had at least a little success in containing the worst of the shuddering. I felt a flash of anger sear through me. Anger directed at myself and the fear that I felt. I grit my teeth and focused on what I could remember of the dream even as I clenched my hands into fists.
"It was dark and cold. I couldn't see anything at first and then a dim light seemed to fill the air just around me. Everything else remained encased in inky darkness. Then... I heard laughter in the air," I shuddered and tucked my legs in closer to my body. Kain shifted to allow the movement though he kept his grip on my chin. "When I spun around Auron was there. He grabbed my wrist... and he broke it in the dream."
I blinked as I realized that my left wrist ached. I glanced down at my left wrist and then my right. Kain let go of my chin to allow the movement as I examined my wrists. My right wrist was fine, but I saw that my left was bruised all the way around. The bruise was healing even as I examined it, but it had not actually been broken as it had been in my dream. It was barely even sore at this point. Even when I poked at it I felt no real pain, which was probably why I hadn't noticed the injury in the first place. That or the fear had distracted me completely from the pain. I looked up at Kain questioningly as I rubbed at my healing wrist.
"I did not cause that damage to your wrist my Little One," Kain said quietly.
I nodded slowly at his words and then continued to... essentially make a report.
"He said... that I could not escape him, that he could somehow find me, " I successfully bit down another whimper and simply shivered instead. "He... I remember he touched something on his chest that glinted, but I... did not get a good glimpse of what it was. He also said that he was already... already here. Somehow."
I managed to bite back a soft whine that wanted to escape my throat as I tried not to break down. I looked down at my nearly healed wrist and fought against the harsh memories that tugged at my mind. I had thought I was finally free of Auron. Silent tears slid down my cheeks and my hands had started to tremble more violently than earlier. I closed them back into tight fists to try to contain the trembling. I looked away from Kain quickly, feeling suddenly weak and useless as anger once more seared through me. I was angry at myself for being so damned afraid. Angry at what had happened to me. Angry at the memories that just would not go away...
Kain let out a soft growl and grabbed my chin in his claws once more. His grip was... almost gentle as he made me turn my head back toward him. He ran his thumb over my cheek and wiped away a fresh tear. I felt my eyes widen as I heard the soft sizzling, burning sound. I looked up at him in surprised as I remembered what that sound meant. My tears were made up mostly of water, just like a human's tears, and thus... they ate at his skin like any acid would eat at a human's skin. He did not flinch at the pain that had to have resulted from his action.
His held my gaze for several heart-beats before he spoke in a soft, mesmerizing tone.
"You are mine Little One," he rumbled. "I will not let this Auron have what is mine. Do you understand me?"
I blinked and then nodded slowly. I realized that he was attempting to reassure me as much as he could given his battle-hardened nature as a dedicated warrior. I let out a small, partially bitten back keen of noise as I nodded my head a little faster. I reached up to wipe away my tears as he moved his hand away. I had long ago learned how to cry silently in order to avoid drawing attention to myself and I glanced down and to the side as the tears fell without my making further sound.
He let out another soft thrum of noise and I looked back up at him with a startled blink at the odd note buried in the sound. He face was still and his eyes were narrowed upon me, almost as if he were trying to work something out. He let out another noise that sounded almost like a sigh before I suddenly found myself yanked in close to his chest. I let out a yip of noise and then froze in absolute shock against him. He was... stiff. He remained completely still and it was as if I were being held within the arms of a marble statue and yet he was... he was...
He was holding me! Comforting me!
It... this was bizarre, more than bizarre. I would never have expected this from him. I let out a choked laugh and then slowly tucked myself in against him. I was still crying silently and I continued to shiver uncontrollably from time to time. After a while the tears slowed and then stopped completely as I was able to finally push the memories back down. I sniffled softly and scrubbed at my face briefly as I slowly pulled away from him. Kain let go of me easily enough, though his hands did briefly brush against, and linger on, my hips. I looked up at his face and he looked back with a raised eyebrow.
"Better?" he asked, his face a mask of calm indifference.
"Yes," I said with a blush as I looked down. "Kain?"
"What?" he asked in a stiff tone.
"I...um. Thank you," I said softly.
Kain hmphed softly and then stood. He moved to the door and opened it. He paused in the doorway spoke over his shoulder without turning around.
"We will look into ways to prevent such an attack in the future," he said, his tone still stiff. "In the meantime, you still need to go to Vorador and learn how to write in our script. I will not have you shirking your assigned tasks because of this."
I let out a small sound that was close to a laugh and I nodded at his order. I appreciated that he did not intend to coddle me. I... wanted, needed to keep my mind busy.
"I will need a few more minutes to clean up," I said as I pushed myself to where I was sitting on the edge of the bed. "I'll go right to the library when I am done."
Kain nodded in approval and left the room.
*-/*-*
I had gone to find Vorador as soon as I'd finished washing the tears from my face and the blood from my hands. Janos had been with him in a large library that was filled with nothing books, papers... parchments I should say, quills and ink pots. I apologized for having wounded him as soon as I entered the room and caught their attention. Vorador's reply was a simple snort of amusement, whilst Janos told me that he was glad that I was well and on my feet again. It helped that they let the event drop from there as if nothing had happened. I really hadn't wanted to rehash anything. Then...
Then the fun started.
"Try it again Childe," Vorador said as he crumpled up yet another piece of parchment that I'd been writing on
He tossed the balled up parchment it into the nearby fireplace that cracked merrily, mockingly. I watched the bit of parchment burn with a deep sense of absolute annoyance.
"What the hell am I supposed to use as a 'c' for fucks sake?!" I growled out under my breath.
We'd been at the lesson for well over three hours and the entire process had long since gotten... frustrating. Both for myself and for Vorador. It had not helped that the first thing he had done after I had apologized was to hand me an older book to see if I recognized any of the writing within. It was in English which was equal parts amusing and relieving when I realized that one of the younger languages of Earth was an ancient language of Nosgoth. The annoying part was that it was a book of... smut. The bastard had given me a book of smut.
I'd snapped the book closed as I felt the blush burn my cheeks. I glared at the ceiling even as I tossed the book back to him. He'd found the entire thing amusing whilst Janos had been mildly confused by my reaction to the book. Neither of us explained to the Ancient my sudden, and continued, upset with the green-skinned Eldar.
That upset transferred over to the lessons. It did not help that he was not exactly explaining things in a way that made sense. Janos had to step in more than a few times to help as all the different symbols were starting to give me a headache. There were only twenty four symbols, so there was a bit of confusion as to which symbols were used in place of others. Like 'j' and 'y', they used the same symbol. 'NG' had it's own symbol.
'Th' and 'Ei' had their own symbols as well. It was as if what you were 'sounding out' was also how it was spelled according to the way the symbols worked. 'Nothing' involved the symbols for 'n', 'o', 'th', 'i' and 'ng' from what I was understanding. I gave a frustrated growl and was about to snap yet another quill in two when the door of the library was opened abruptly. Kain entered the room at a swift pace. He looked over the three of us and easily noticed the not-so-subtle glares that I was shooting Vorador's way.
"Little One, we're going hunting. Follow me," he said in a clipped tone. "Now."
Just as quickly as Kain had entered the room, he was gone. This left me looking at the door, to my writing teachers and then back to the door once more. Janos was doing his best to stifle a laugh and Vorador looked annoyed as he glared at the doorway.
"You had best catch up with him," Vorador growled.
He began to mutter darkly under his breath about young and foolish vampires. I jumped to my feet, glad to be done with my lesson for the day and ran out to follow after Kain. He was just leaving the building when I managed to catch up to him. Since he looked mostly human, and I did look human, we were able to move through the streets of the slums fairly quickly and without incident. Kain suddenly stopped and grabbed my arm as he pulled us into a side alley.
"What?" I asked, more than a little bit startled.
"I'm taking you out of the city for this hunt," he said as he looked down to meet my gaze. "Wrap your Gift around us both."
"So we can sneak out without being seen? Sure," I flashed him a small smile that showed no fang and half closed my eyes as I focused on my Gift to wrap it around the both of us. "Just don't let go. I do not believe that I can maintain it for you if you are not touching me."
Kain let out a 'humph' of noise and then pulled me after him after we had faded from sight. I had to jog to keep up with his long-legged pace. Soon enough we were out of the city and in the canyons beyond. He continued to pull me along behind him until we were well out of sight of the main gates. He finally stopped and let go of my arm, becoming visible in the process. I dropped my Gift barely a second after I felt his hand leave my arm.
"So... what are we hunting?" I asked him in a tentative tone.
"Bandits that have been attacking travelers entering the city," he said with a smirk. That didn't sound like a bad target. "That should be simple enough prey for one of your inexperience."
"Hey!" I crossed my arms and glowered at him for a moment.
I let out a sigh at his raised brow and a knowing look. I let my arms fall back to my side. He was right to issue that knowing, judging look. I didn't really know how to hunt, not really. I could sneak about easily enough with my Gift but every confrontation so far had indeed been me relying on dumb luck in order to survive. A chance to actually hunt might... be interesting.
"What do I do then?" I asked.
"Hmph. Stay to the shadows," he said as he pointed into the darkened portion of the canyons. "Move silently and strike swiftly. It is best for one as young as you to take out your prey one at a time. So be sure strike when each member is alone."
I nodded quickly and then looked at him with a frown.
"Where are they anyway?" I asked with a tilt of my head as I tried to listen for the sounds of my intended prey. "And why do I have the feeling that you are just going to be watching me again?"
Kain growled out a laugh. "You must learn to find them yourself and you are correct that I will be watching. Primarily so that you are not slain. Beyond that? You will be on your own for this hunt my Little One. I have already done you the favor of dealing with the spider infestation. I will not aid you further. Do you understand me?"
"Yes!" I responded quickly.
I coughed quickly to hide my nervousness, as well as the relief that I would not have to deal with any giant spiders. I also took a little bit of comfort in the fact that he'd be there to make sure I did not get myself killed. Kain chuckled softly, a dark sound of humor, before he suddenly leapt upwards. He climbed onto a ledge on the canyon wall and he disappeared from my sight.
Great, this'll be fun.
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