“I love you all. Take care of each other,” Nora says to her family, who stares at her in horror.
Nora’s words to her family takes the last of her strength. Then, something hits her chest, but she feels nothing as she falls to the floor. Nora didn’t even feel the pain when she crashes onto the floor, but she hears the crack of the glass beneath her beaten body.
Nora’s vision is blurred, she looks up at Robbie as he lifts her into his arms. Only one more look at him, she thinks. Still, she only sees the glistening tears that rapidly form in his eyes. Tears stream down Robbie’s face as he lays Nora on the floor next to JR. Nora begins to panic, for she can no longer see or feel her children. Even, Robbie starts to fade.
“Robbie, is Aria dead? I want to see her. I need to know she is dead,” Nora says in a weak whisper as blood pours from her mouth. “Please show me everything.”
“No, Nora. You don’t want to see this,” he says kissing her hand.
“Please!” she mumbles.
He nods, touches her face, and closes his eyes. Instantly, Nora is seeing the end of the battle, replayed through Robbie’s eyes. In a slowed down, fast forward motion, Aria’s diamond figure disappears the moment Nora’s spike enters her. Aria’s pale skin glows under the blue light that Nora holds over her to keep her from using her powers. Robbie’s eyes lock on Nora dangling in the air screaming. Nora’s head is back and her arms are out to her sides. A beam of light shoots from Robbie’s hands to Nora’s chest. Blood drips from her stomach as if she’d been ripped wide open. A blob of what looks to be her insides hits the floor. Then Robbie’s eyes move to JR, who stands over Aria with Nora’s spike in one hand and Aria’s head in the other. Nora gasps with shock. Still looking through Robbie’s eyes, Nora watches in horror as Robbie races over to the blob that fell from her stomach, he picks it up and screams. The bloody mess is not Nora’s insides, it is her daughter. Nora screams, breaking from the vision.
“No! No! No!” she screams.
“Aria used her last bit of energy to finish you off. She blasted a bolt of fire at you and … before I could stop her—Lizzy teleported in front of you. In that same second JR somehow calls your spike and removes Aria’s head, releasing you from her hold,” Robbie says.
They had won the battle with Aria. Although it felt like she was dying, Nora’s body began to heal. Still, she and Robbie feel as if their life ends in this moment. They didn’t want to live knowing Lizzy would not be a part of the life that awaits them. Silence falls around Nora, as she watches Aria’s body fade away, leaving only a pool of blood.
As Nora begs for death, she reaches for Lizzy. Robbie places Lizzy’s limp body in Nora’s arms. Nora holds her tightly to her chest. Lizzy’s heart beats slowly. She wasn’t dead, not yet anyway. Nora sobs and she tightens her grip. She kisses Lizzy’s head and wipes away the blood from her face.
“Mommy has you, baby,” Nora says, brushing Lizzy’s hair with her hand.
Lizzy opens her eyes and gives Nora one last smile before her gray eyes turn white and she stops breathing. Nora shakes her gently and calls her name.
“No! No! Please, Robbie what do we do?” Nora screams.
Robbie cringes. His body shakes with pain as he holds Nora. JR sits beside the three of them and wraps his little arms around his parents. Nora pulls him close.
They hold each other until their bond causes Lizzy to shake.
Lizzy is pulled from Nora’s arms and levitates a few feet from the floor. Robbie and Nora look at each other in confusion. The room shakes, and bright, colorful beams of light fill the room, then vanishes taking Lizzy with it.
“No! Where did she go?” Nora asks furiously.
Almost completely healed, she jumps to her feet and frantically searches the room.
“She went home, Mommy,” JR says, smiling.
Nora lifts him into her arms and holds him tight. It is then she remembers Robbie saying that when a Szion dies, they go back to Boligon, so why not Lizzy?
“To Boligon?” Nora questions.
Robbie sadly shakes his head and Nora’s heart weakens. She drops to her knees beside Robbie and JR.
“I thought after Aria’s death, we would get our full powers as gods. That didn’t happen. Why?” Nora asks.
“This world is still not saved. Dumont is not dead. I am done, there is nothing I want from this world. Without Lizzy, this world is just dead space,” Robbie says.
Although Robbie loved Nora and JR, without Lizzy he and Nora are not whole as leaders, people, or as parents.
“I cannot live knowing I am the reason she is gone,” Nora weeps.
“You’re not the reason, Nora,” Robbie says.
She holds JR and they go home. Nora and Robbie stand on the front steps of their house, looking at the door. Never have they been more terrified of something as simple as walking through the door of their home. They fear what walking into that house will do to them. They can’t go in knowing that Lizzy will not come running into their arms to greet them. They fear the pain it will cause them to not hear her laugh each day. They fear they will lose themselves when Lizzy is not there each morning when they awake.
The door swings open, and Mia leaps at them with tears in her eyes. Nora sobs even more. Mia reaches for JR, but Nora snatches away. She walks past Mia and heads to her room with JR wrapped around her neck. Giggles of sweet Lizzy replays in her mind, so loudly they sound real.
“Mommy, can we go see Lizzy now?” JR asks.
Robbie sits next to Nora and wraps his arms around her as she tries to clear the giggles from her mind.
“I feel her also,” Robbie says.
Nora’s heart crumbles into a million pieces as Robbie prepares to explain to JR that he will not be able to see his sister anymore. Robbie’s sorrow and pain increases as the feeling of Lizzy’s energy grows as if she stands right next to him. They feel her running wildly and her heart pounding rapidly as it often did when she played. Nora can feel the tightness in Robbie’s chest as they both remember the moment Lizzy vanished. They are painfully reminded that none of what they are feeling can be real.
One look into JR’s eyes and neither Robbie nor Nora can say anything. A conversation no parent is ready for. How can they explain to a three-year-old that he will never see his sister again? Instead, Nora breaks down and only mumbles of I love you comes out of her mouth. JR looks up at his parents with confusion in his face.
“Mommy, Daddy, don’t be sad,” he says, hugging Nora’s neck.
Again Robbie and Nora cringe when they hear more giggles. I am losing it and you are hearing my insanity, Nora thinks. We are both struggling to let her go. That is why we feel her so strongly, Robbie silently replies.
“Would you like me to take JR to his room?” Mia offers, peeking in.
“No, we will do it, thanks,” Robbie answers.
The closer to the room they get, the louder Lizzy rang in their heads. Nora tries to block Robbie from her head so that he did not have to suffer with her, but she couldn’t and each step brought them both agonizing pain. Their minds punishing them in the cruelest of ways.
“I deserve this, but not you,” Nora says to Robbie.
Laughing rolls around their heads, making it difficult to walk.
“No one deserves this,” Robbie says.
More giggles and laughter drops Nora to her knees. With a sudden urgency, Robbie snatches JR from her arms and races to the twin’s room.
“I would rather be dead than suffer like this,” Nora whispers.
Robbie’s sudden rush of excitement sends Nora racing toward the kid’s room.
“Mommy!”
Not anyone’s imagination and they are not seeing things, it is their baby. Lizzy leaps from Robbie’s arms into Nora’s. She wraps her arms around Nora’s neck as Nora sobs in disbelief.
“Mommy, we helped you get the bad you,” Lizzy whispers into Nora’s ear.
Nora squeezes her.
“You sure did, baby.”
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nbsp; JR sits on Jonny’s back as Jonny crawls around, pretending to be a horse. Robbie wraps his arms around his ladies and kisses Nora. After a long moment Nora sets Lizzy down and watches proudly as she rushes Jonny.
“How?” Nora asks.
“I took Lizzy’s owie away and made her come home, Mommy,” JR answers, using his thoughts.
Robbie reaches for him and he jumps into his arms.
“You did good, little man,” Robbie says kissing JR’s cheek.
“I don’t like that mean, Mommy,” JR says making a sad face.
“I know, none of us did, but she won't bother us anymore,” Robbie says.
JR smiles and jumps from Robbie’s arms.
“I know,” he says, racing to get his turn on the uncle Jonny horse.
Nora and Robbie sit on JR’s bed, watching their children play. Never again did they want to leave their side. At least not for a while. Soon Mia and Zen join them.
“You alright?” Zen asks Robbie.
Robbie nods.
“Their powers are unbelievable and they are still babies,” Robbie says.
Zen nods.
“The moment, Lizzy arrived, she showed us what happened. You know, this is only the beginning. As soon as this is all over, you and Nora will be immortal, and your kids, well they will become …” Zen stops.
“Become what, Zen?” Robbie asks.
“There is an old legend in Boligon of extremely powerful warriors born of the purest of blood. These beings were some of the most powerful of all beings. There is not much about them. They were just tales, but your twins will not be immortal and they are not Szion. The only other being they could be is a Deglon,” Zen says
Robbie smiles and kisses Nora.
“Yes. Our Deglon. Many others after them will be our world’s warriors. Losrath said you all will lose your Szion powers. What is left of the Szion and Szion born children will become Deglon. Each unique and each with a hunger to destroy evil. These two will have the strongest of the Deglon bloodline, which means they will never be safe. We must kill Dumont.” Robbie says.
“Robbie you will have to change them when they are older. You know the change I mean. It is not safe for them. No one can know who they are,” Zen says.
Robbie nods.
“My babies are not warriors!” Nora snaps.
Robbie laughs and hugs her.
“They will be,” Robbie says.
“When will this Deglon change take place for us Szion,” Zen asks.
“I don’t know, but get the word out. We want every Szion to be ready for the change,” Robbie says.
“We can’t,” Jonny says.
“What? Why?” Zen asks.
“Don’t know. It must be the change already. I tried to reach Robbie earlier. I wanted to let him know Lizzy had come home, but I couldn’t. I tried to call out to any Szion and couldn’t. I thought it was just me. You know—the stress and all,” Jonny says, galloping around wildly.
“Let me try,” Zen says.
He shakes his head.
“Nothing.”
Robbie nods then closes his eyes.
“A call to all. Szion life is over and a new life will soon conquer you. I don’t know when or how, but prepare yourselves. Please respond,” Robbie says aloud.
He waits. After a few moments, random whispers of replies ring in his ears. Robbie sighs and opens his eyes.
“Oh my god,” Nora whispers.
“What is wrong?” Mia panics.
“There are only 30 Szion left in this world. Dumont has killed the rest,” Robbie replies.
Jonny carefully removes the twins from his back and sadly walks out of the room.
“Soon there will be only us,” Zen says, also standing to his feet and walking out of the room.
Their family is much smaller now, but they are stronger than ever. Everyday Robbie and Nora learn something about their new abilities and find that the twins continue gain new powers as they get older. Robbie blocks most of their powers, due to them destroying the house when they throw tantrums. However, it seems they find a new one to use every week.
Each week Zen and Jonny loses a Szion gift and gains a Deglon gift. At times, the change is incredibly painful and in other times the change is uncontrollable. Hunger for life grew in Mia and hunger for souls consumed the Szion.
As the months passed, Robbie’s family learned to live with their changes, but the many growing abilities that came with the Deglon life continues to surprise them.
Four months have passed since the battle with Aria. Robbie and Nora decide the time has come for them to finish the cleanup. With slight power of gods and the life of a Shadow, they know defeating Dumont would be no easy task. They knew the last few months with their family would possibly be the last moments they had with them as they were.
The family awakes to Jonny’s famous omelets. After breakfast, while the children still slept, the adults sit in the living room sipping coffee and making plans for their next attack. After another hour, the twins walk in, rubbing their sleepy faces. They climb into Robbie’s lap and lay their heads on his chest while they slowly adjust to the morning.
Singing her good morning song, Mia walks into the kitchen to grab their warm chocolate milk she prepares for them each morning. The twins laugh as Mia kisses them. Lizzy jumps out of Robbie’s arms to snuggle next to Jonny. After feeding them, Jonny begins one of his tales. Each day the twins are excited to hear what story Jonny will tell. They excitedly sit near him and listen. Jonny jumps around like each wild animal he portrays in his story, making them laugh. He pretends to sword fight dragons making them gasp and jump. Every move he makes the twins react as if they were watching an incredible movie. Everyone loves Jonny’s tales, but not as much as Johnny loves telling them.
Moments after the story, Jonny is racing the twins to their room to play. Only a few minutes into their game of cowboys, Lizzy stops and gazes off into nowhere.
“Lizzy, what’s wrong?” Jonny asks.
Lizzy races out of the room. She stops in front of Robbie and smiles. This is no ordinary smile. Robbie’s heart jumps with concern. Nora looks at Robbie to see what he feels, but all she feels is his concern for the unknown message behind their daughter’s beautiful smile.
“What?” Nora thinks to Robbie.
“I don’t know,” he answers in silence.
“Lizzy, what’s wrong?” Nora asks, lifting Lizzy into her lap.
Lizzy looks up at her, her eyes soft and warming.
“Mommy, is bad coming?”
Nora’s eyes grow wide and everyone jumps to their feet. Robbie looks at Nora and smiles. Wasting no time Mia, Zen, and Johnny lock themselves in the safety room with the twins. Robbie turns to Nora and pulls her close, then kisses her gently on the lips.
“Are you ready for this,” he asks.
Nora only smiles. Robbie laughs and kisses her again. Robbie and Nora meet the shadows a few miles away from their home. The battle is quick. Unlike before Robbie and Nora were one with their strengths, leaving them in complete control. They didn’t stop with just that group of shadows, they moved from city to city and state to state destroying Light and Shadows. Along the way, they also take out as many of Aria’s vampires as they can find, with only one goal in mind—stopping Dumont.
Dumont rests against a tree in the shadows of Nadia’s cabin. She chants and dances naked around a fire in her yard.
“Will you stand there gawking at me all night or do you want to tell me what it is you want?” she says, sitting in a chair.
Dumont smiles and walks from out of the darkness.
She looks up at him and grins.
“Ah, nice choice. The prince is very handsome,” she says.
“Shall I wait for you to put some clothes on?” Dumont asks.
Nadia shakes her head.
“For what? It is nice out. Are you ashamed, Sir Dumont?”
“Not at all. You are quite stunning.”
Nadia brushes her shor
t brown hair from her face and smirks. She motions for Dumont to sit.
“What can I do for you?” she asks.
“You know what I have come for. Can you help me?”
“Sorry to hear about your daughter,” Nadia says, turning her chair toward Dumont.
Dumont glares at her.
“Have I chosen the wrong witch?”
Nadia laughs.
“That is a very powerful couple. It will take a lot of my energy to make you that powerful.”
“What do you need?” Dumont asks.
She stands and slowly strolls over to Dumont, stopping directly in front of him. She runs her fingers through his hair.
“I’ve always wondered what it would be like to make love to a king,” she says.
“I don’t have time for this!” Dumont snarls.
His patience growing very thin.
She gives him a soft, seductive gaze.
“If you want the Szion family dead, it will cost you.”
Dumont frowns.
“What do you want?” he barks.
“I want what every woman desires. A child with a powerful man.”
Dumont smiles.
“You are human. Having a child with me could kill you.”
“I am stronger than I look. I was born with demon blood. Besides, I was not talking about you, Dumont. I want a child with the prince. It is his body you claim so it will be he that pays your debt,” she says.
Dumont runs his hands up her porcelain thighs softly. He grips them tightly and lifts her into his lap.
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