Aria shoots me a quick side look but says nothing. She already thinks of me as a weakling and now these withdrawals will really show her my biggest weakness of all. I got to do something quick before this gets worse. Maybe if I can get a hold of more shylo berries I can suppress my withdrawals symptoms.
“We could use your help preparing for the three days of the hue.” Felix calls from his front door. My mind scrambles.
“Absolutely, Felix do you think I could trouble you for some Shylo berries first?”
“I’ll give you something much more potent than berries Cade.” He shouts while exiting leaving me no choice but to follow him all along wondering what the hell could be stronger than those berries. Whatever his offer is what I need to get me by. I don’t notice that Aria is on my trail until I catch up to Felix outside on the edge of his fields.
“Why is your heart racing, are you scared, Cade?” She asks me why looking at me as though I’m a kid.
“How do you know my heart is racing Aria?” Can you actually hear it beating in my chest or something?” I laugh at the thought.
“Yes, actually I can hear your heart beating in your chest and I can hear your lungs expanding and filling with air too. I can hear most of everything, Cade.
“Here…” Felix hands me a mug of a dark liquid. “As I promised here’s something better then Shylo berries.”
I smell it and drink it. “Shylo berry rum.” He finishes.
I hear only the word rum and immediately down the entire contents. Did he say rum? As the dark liquid flows into my blood stream I start swimming in warm thoughts.
“I love Shylo berry rum, damn! Thank you, Felix this is hitting the spot very nicely indeed.” As he promised the rum starts working on me immediately. I feel stronger and my head is clearer. I don’t know if it is the rum or the anticipation of the harvest hue and what will happen next.
“What is wrong with you?” Aria snaps quietly in my ear. The suddenness of it makes me jump. “Calm down…why are jumping around Cade?” She adds while pulling back her hand I fear to slap me again.
“Don’t hit me again, Aria I’m just fine. I’m actually better than fine, I’m great!” She pulls me closer
“You are intoxicated.”
Before I can get even one word out a bright glow grabs my eye and all of my attention. I turn just as a wall of fire ignites, rolling in a perfect line for a mile or so until Felix’s entire property line is fully a blaze.
I must be drunk I realize as I can’t look away from the beauty of the wall of fire which they have set I assume as our first line of defense against the night creatures. The fire is so bright that I had not noticed the full eclipse of the three moons bringing the darkness.
“We should get back inside now the harvest has begun, soon they will come.” Felix adds his final warning before setting back towards his home. Confused and dazed I follow behind with
Aria at my side. She hasn’t spoken since the full eclipse I think she’s actually speechless.
“Have you seen this before, the harvest hue I mean?” I ask but she remains quiet. “Are you alright, Aria? Are you scared now?”
“Be quiet Cade, I’m listening to the sounds around us.” She says before quickening her pace.
“What sounds?” I say quieter.
“I can hear…” She stops in her tracks.
“You can hear…what exactly?” I ask. Her big eyes find mine.
“I can hear them all and they are coming straight for us.”
I don’t need to know the names of the monsters nor do I want to but press anyways.
“Are they the same things from yesterday…those sphinx things again?”
“Yes and many others. I need more strength, Cade. I need to eat or I will not be able to fight them all.”
“Okay we will get you some more ox blood then.”
“No I need the waters of the Yukon.”
“Well we’re nowhere near the Yukon anymore, Aria.”
“I need to drink from you again if there’s no Yukon. I need fresh blood the fresher the better.”
“What? Seriously you want to drink my blood?”
“Please it will not hurt you at all. It will make me stronger and it will help you too you’ll see.” She leans towards my neck, I allow her not knowing why but I feel overwhelmed by the promise of the return of that previous pleasure. Her fangs sink down into my neck and I feel them enter my skin. It stings at first but it quickly fades into a subtle cooling sensation which ends with a nice tingling thumb. Pulling back she comes eye to eye with me.
“Now we can face the herd of beasts.” Aria says.
To Be Continued
The Survivor
Bloods Divide Universe II
Chapter 1
Aria
My strength is fully restored to the highest level now that I have had fresh blood from Cade. I can now hear and see that we are outnumbered and that the night creatures approaching us are much larger than the sphinx.
“What can you hear, Aria? Can you see them yet? How many of them are there?” Cade asks me and I look at him unsure how to express the seriousness of the situation.
“Cade, I can hear and see them all and we are outnumbered and unevenly matched. You’re going to need to change into your other skin, Cade now if you can. Then maybe we might stand a chance for a little while.” I say as Cade immediately transforms right before my eyes into a white cat which he calls a tiger. “Oh, wow Cade you look ready for battle now.” I say to his tiger form and he growls up at me almost trying to speak.
“I can’t believe that we are lucky enough to have a two-skin with us on the harvest hue. Now at least we will have a fighting chance. Well, at least until my sister Breeyan comes to get us that is.” Felix says.
“Your sister is coming here now to get you?” I ask uncertain how a Shyloian could possibly be strong enough to actually rescue all of us from the night creatures.
“Yes, my sister Breeyan has a tundra runner and she can take us all to Shylo City in no time. See so there’s no need to go out on your own as I said before we are safest here until she arrives.” Felix says.
“Did you just say she has an object that can run fast? What is a tundra runner? I have never heard of such a thing. Dahlia never told me about those.” I ask Felix who doesn’t seem shocked by my questions.
“A tundra runner can fly us all to safety and now that the harvest hue is amongst us she knows to come and get us. My sister would never leave us to die here.” Felix says.
Just then a dark cloud appears above our heads
“Look out its shank above.” Felix shouts. Their sounds are loud. “If they are here soon so will more meat eaters.” Felix warns.
Cade becomes violent and starts to pace back and forth while leaping up to try and catch one of the shank from the air but misses it. He must be to smell them and he might recognize their smell from before when he was eating them for supper in his man form.
“I gather you probably want to eat more of those shank uh, Cade?” I say to the tiger form of him to which he growls loudly just before leaping to try to catch one from the air…
More of, The Survivor
From author
Stacy McCarty
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Character List and abilities
Cadence/Cade Troy
Race: Half human earthling and half two-skin, Fae.
Age: 44 spins 22 earth years
Description: Black hair, brown eyes, tan complexion, approximately 168 pounds, six foot one inch tall, slightly muscular body type.
Abilities: He is a two-skin shifter who shifts into a white tiger. He has a photographic memory, and he is advanced with electronics. He hides how smart he is by pretending to be dumb. He is an admitted alcoholic.
Aria
Race: Tragons
Age: 40 spins 20 earth years
Description: Dark Blonde hair, blue-purple eyes, tan complexion, approximately 118 pounds, five foot three inches tall, curvy hips with a muscular body type.
Abilities: She has the strength of ten men, can run at the speed of light making her invisible which is about thirty-eight thousand miles per hour but she can only maintain that speed for a minimal time because of the planets pressure. She can see in the dark and hold her breath for two hours. She can appear dead for days if necessary. She can speak and understand all the languages of Tragon after she hears them for a while, a true linguist. She can transfer her powers temporary to the person who she shares her blood with. She can hear sounds for up to twenty miles away. To the world she is to be left untouched and unharmed but to the Kysco Nation royal council that is lucky even to mate with her, they will have full reign over her forever. She is also immortal.
Dahlia
Race:Tragons
Age:84 spins 42 earth years
Description: Black hair, brown eyes, light complexion, approximately 148 pounds, five foot ten inches tall, slightly muscular body type.
Abilities:same as Aria but more advanced because of her age.
Felix Mapping
Race: Shyloian
Age:30 spins 15 earth years
Description: Silver hair, gray eyes, pale white complexion, approximately 185 pounds, six foot three inches tall, slightly muscular body type with some extra weight from age.
Abilities:Good with the cross bow and hunting night creature. An excellent farmer and botanist making him in control of the majority of sproutshroom and Shylo berries in the Shylo region, he is similar looking to humans from earth.
Sean
Race: Ferlin
Age:84 spins 42 earth years
Description: No hair, green eyes, lizard type skin covering his body, approximately 205 pounds, six foot tall, very muscular body type and has no tail.
Abilities:A native to the underneath which is the under dwellings of the Oldlands. It is believed that ferlins are as old as the Tragons. He is a great hunter and life-long friends with Felix.
Judy
Race: Human from earth
Age:44 spins 22 earth years
Description: Reddish-brown hair, green eyes, average body-type, and five foot six inches tall.
Abilities:She a good friend and normal human being. Best friends to Cadence since high school, she was there for him during the most painful times of his life.
Royal council
Race: Humans from earth
Age:84 spins 42 earth years
Description: No hair, green eyes, lizard type skin covering his body, approximately 205 pounds, six foot tall, very muscular body type and has no tail.
Abilities:Humans from earth, they have intelligential weapons and an android called a dagger to protect them.
Breeyan Mapping
Race: Shyloian
Age:44 spins 22 earth years
Description: Red hair, green eyes, pale complexion, approximately 125 pounds, five foot six inches tall, extra weight around belly and untrained.
Abilities: Excellent hunting skills, advanced swordsmanship, can operate tundra runner and other vehicles, map marker, hired scavenger and explorer.
Aunt Maggie
Race: Human
Age:164 spins 82 earth years
Description: White hair, blue eyes, tan complexion, approximately 105 pounds, five foot two inches tall, slender and very frail.
Abilities:Good community leader, sister, cousin, and wife. No children but she helped raise Cadence once his father and mother went missing when he was a toddler.
Bloods Divide
Glossary of Terms
Breeder: Tragons kidnapped at birth an advance race cross bread with the sole purpose of mating a superior race.
Dagger: Trained android protector to the breeders and their mated council member.
Darjin: Magical native mammal similar to earthlings.
Dark Creatures: A name for the many different deadly creatures that hunt at night on the tundra of the Kysco Nation.
Drone: Devices used by the royal council that has a camera used for tracking and spying on others. Operated by dagger.
Fae: Any creature or mammal with the ability to perform magic.
Flame: A device that provides heat.
Fly: flying, running fast for Breeders, daggers and Guides.
Guide: Teacher of Tragon children offering training on how to become a breeder.
Hues: The three small moons one with large ring orbiting Tragon and the light and heat source.
Kysco Nation: The large most populated region on Tragon.
Kyscon: The language spoken by the royal council and it is the law that everyone must speak it or is arrested or killed.
Oldlands: Shylo tribe ruins abandon by the elders of the old tribes.
Purged: The mutated offspring of cross-bread Tragons with anything other than royal council.
Royal Council: Self appointed superior race in control of the Kysco Nation and all surrounding regions.
Shank: A bird found on Tragon that tastes like chicken.
Shylo berry: An edible white blossom with a thick fruity stem, similar flavor to mangos.
Shylo: A race of mammals, similar to the humans of Earth. Usually farmers or engineers.
Shyloian: The spoken dialectic of the Shylo race.
Sphinx: A venoms night creature that looks like a scaled hairless dog.
Spin: The timeframe equal to one year on earth.
Sproutshroom: A small white or grey fungus sprout which is farmed and sold for currency by Shylo farmers. Normally grows in the open warm climates.
Tarcon: a clear colored mud from the caves underneath the Shylo ruins, used for healing.
Torch: A small or large device that provides light.
Tragon: The planet Aria is from.
Tragons: advanced species with superhuman abilities that once ruled the entire region and the only true native to the Ksyon Nation.
Tundra runner: A vehicle that hovers six or more feet off the ground which is used for transportation by the Shlyoians in secret. It can reach speeds of one hundred and eighty miles per hour.
Tundra: Flat land that is mostly rocky or has some dirt covered small hills without trees, only some small plant life.
Two-skins: A human who can shift into an animal. Some can shift into multiple animals.
Vampire: Cade version of breeders, old folklore not real.
Zerkers: Crazed half-wolf half beast-man over seven feet tall and weighing three or more hundred pounds, one of the night creatures on the Kysco Nation tundra.
Dedications
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Series reading order
The Traveler
The Survivor
The Two Skins
The Darjin (fall 2020)
The Purged (Spring 2021)
The Tragon (Summer 2021)
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