• "That's not true" he said. "It is true" I said, trying to smile. "It's not true. Just look at yourself. Darkness didn't consume you, you're controlling it! Also, what about your father being a thief?!" he yelled. "My father was a theif, he stole blood from other vampires so he didn't have to get them himself." I told him. "What about-" "Titan!" I yelled. "Please stop." I whispered "That's enough" Titan began to growl, he jumped me and pushed me down into the stream and landed on top of me in crawling position. "Dammit, Pheonix! You're not meant to be consumed by Darkness already!" he yelled at me. I swung around so that this time, I was on top of him, like he was on my before. "There's nothing I can do! It's my destiny to be consumed by Darkness, I can't change that!" I yelled at him. He tubbled me back into the stream and him over me. "How do you know that that's you're destiny?!" He asked me. I couldn't even hear the sound of witch and vampire steps surrounding us. I tubbled him back over "Becouse my Mother said it was so! She never got someone's destiny wrong!" I yelled back. He growled and rolled me back over "You can reshape your own destiny! If you don't like it, then you have the choice to change it!" he yelled at me. I tried it roll back over, but Titan shoved me back down. "It's not that easy!" I yelled at him. "Nothing is ever that easy! But that doesn't make it impossible either" he said quietly to me. There was a long silence. I could hear the flow of water from the stream and feel my wet skirt, shirt, and stockings cling to my skin. I began to cry blood tears, I don't know why I began to cry, I just did. I tried to push the tears back, but they kept coming. And, slowly, the water around my head began turning red. He bent down and licked some of my tears away. He got off me and lied down in the stream next to me. "Sing for me again" he said. I sang the lullaby my mother sang to me becouse that was the only way I could feel close to her soul, and right now, I needed it.
    Hush Child,
    The darkness will rise from the deep,
    and carry you down into sleep.
    Child,
    the darkness will rise from the deep,
    and carry you down into sleep.
    Guileless daughter,
    I'll shape your belief,
    and you'll always know that your father's a thief,
    and you won't understand the cause of your grief,
    But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
    Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, only to me.
    Guileless daughter,
    Your spirit will hate her,
    The flower that married my brother the traitor,
    and you will expose his puppeteer behavior,
    for you are the proof of how he betrayed her loyalty.
    Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, only to me.
    Hush child,
    the dakness will rise from the deep,
    and carry you dow into sleep,
    Child,
    the darkness will rise from the deep,
    and carry you down into sleep.
    Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, only to me.
    Guileless daughter,
    each day you grow older,
    Each day I'm watching my vengence unfold,
    For the child of my body,
    the flesh of my soul,
    will die in returning the birthright he stole,
    Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, only to me.
    Hush child,
    the darkness will rise from the deep and,
    carry you down into sleep,
    Child,
    the darkness will rise from the deep,
    and carry you down into sleep.
    "Your mom seems really nice" he said sarcastically becouse the song spoke of me dying and being consumed in darkness so she could get her vengence. I thought for a second "Actually, she really was" I said. Titan took my hand and we spent the rest of the night staring at the stars and everyone else, watching us.

    Next, Shadow of the day 31