Aurora’s Life of Dreams

Great, Another One

Aurora’s POV

Jett and I sat in silence in our room for what seemed like hours, but it was only mere minutes since Faith dropped the bomb and left after Drew. I couldn’t believe what I had just heard, I have siblings. Biological siblings, sure they are half siblings but they are my brother and sister none the less. I wanted to be angry but Harmony kept calming me down when the anger started to build in me.

“Sweets, are you okay?” Jett asked gently as to not stir the pot of my emotions.

“I never wanted more siblings,” I said and looked up at him. We laughed and laughed until our stomachs hurt. “Well you’re taking this well.” He grinned as he rubbed his hand against my back.

“I never really thought anything like what is happening in my life could possibly happen to real people, but here it is. Happening. To me. I’m not even mad or shocked anymore. I can’t be. My life has been a series of lies and secrets from people who only want what’s best for me. Can I really blame them for that? Besides now I know my dad isn’t a murderer, my mom loves me from the great beyond, I have a pretty interesting aunt who gave birth to my half siblings. I’m sure I can put a reality show together!” We start laughing again at my life changing revelation, but are quickly silenced as Hayley comes bursting through our door.

“Good to see privacy still isn’t your forte,”

“Well I don’t think you’ll care when we tell you what we have to tell you.”

“We?” I questioned as she turned around.

“IAN DA**IT COME ON WE NEED TO TELL THEM TOGETHER!” She yelled down the hall. A few moments later Ian finally makes it, completely out of breath like he just ran a marathon.

“Sorry....guys.........she’s......faster.....than.....she looks.” We laugh at his very obvious pain.

“It’s okay, now start over. What do you need to tell us, Hay?”

“We just came from the pack hospital, the healer confirmed it. We’re expecting!!”

“That’s so exciting and completely ironic with today’s announcements!” I joked as I shot Jett a look. He was laughing so hard and they had no idea why.

“Why do I feel like we’re missing something?” Ian asked after finally catching his breath.

“Well I met my aunt yesterday, who we discovered today mated with my biological dad and birthed my twin half siblings 13 years ago. So today’s just the day for baby announcements.”

Hayley huffed as she sat on our bed crossing her arms, pouting like a child.

“Oh Hayley I’m sorry, I’m just in a mood,” I say as I walk over and sit beside her throwing my arms around her small frame, “I’m so happy that you’re carrying my niece or nephew and you know I’m going to throw you the biggest gender reveal-“. Before I could finish my though I started having a vision **”Raina, you and Rory have to do this. You’re the only ones left who can.”

“Rollie, I can’t. Mom didn’t teach us how to deal with this without her. This wasn’t supposed to happen.”

“But it did. Mom is gone, Dad can’t help us. We have to do this ourselves, I have to lead Chesapeake and you and Rory have to take him on. Aunt Jen never knew what Thomas was a part of fully. The Reaper, Charles they’ll do anything to avenge him. They will never stop coming after Rory, especially now that she’s having the pups that will continue our line.”

Just as he finishes his remark, they hear footsteps above their heads. “They’re here.” Roland whispers to her. They start chanting and then they’re gone.**

“Rory, dear, tell me what you saw.” Everyone was staring at me while Faith was crouched before me. Looks of worry written all over their faces, more so Jett and Drew.

“I need to speak with you,” I look up from her at everyone else, “privately.”

Each of them start to head towards the door when Jett mindlinks me,

“I’ll be in my office when you’re done, okay?”

I nod acknowledging I heard him, he blows me a kiss as he walks away. As soon as the doors close my eyes meet Faith’s. The expression on her face so calm, she knows what I’m about to say.

“You die?”

She takes in a deep breath waiting a few moments to let it out, “yes. Please you can’t tell Andrew. It doesn’t happen anytime soon. But yes I’ve seen my children having to cope without me.”

“You didn’t send me that vision, did you?”

“No, your psychic abilities are starting to come into play. You saw what happens in the future.”

“Raina and Roland, I think you had recently died, they were confused. They said you didn’t prepare them to do ‘this’ alone. They spoke of the Reaper and Charles and something that Thomas was a part of, tell me.”

“Rory, we need to prepare-“

“Faith, please. I can’t take anymore secrets or lies. I think me knowing what I’m up against is a huge part of preparing me for what’s to come.”

She looked at me with a face of surrender,

“Okay. Before you were born there was a colony of witches looking into these creatures that none of us had ever seen before. It was a cross in species that we would never expect and The Reaper was orchestrating their creation. The Reaper is part vampire part witch, which would normally be impossible but his bloodline of witch also contained syphoning abilities. In his transition to becoming a vampire, the God of the witches blessed him by bestowing those abilities upon him. With that blessing he saw that there was an opportunity for the Goddess of Vampires to do the same for her people. So he began turning people left and right and with that sacrifice, the Goddess gave them different abilities. Thomas, for example, died a werewolf so the Goddess covered his vampire scent making him a hybrid in secret. Charles, from a powerful warlock community, kept a portion of his powers and was given the vampires curse of immortality as long as he feeds on blood. Charles doesn’t have full vampire abilities such as strength and speed so he relies heavily on his magic. They call this species Angels of Death as their very existence continues as long as they feed on the blood of a living creature and they tend to kill anyone who stands in their way. The Reaper was the first of them and everyone that he has turned is sired to him. The Reaper befriended Thomas before he turned him, he was his right hand man. I believe the Moon Goddess had your mother mate with him to destroy him, she just didn’t get that chance. Charles took Thomas’ place after his death and vowed he would avenge his friend. I think The Reaper has led him to believe that is what he wants as well and that is why he wants you dead but that isn’t the reason, at least not the only reason. The blood of the Leroe line can bring down The Reaper, his family can be tied back to ours through the generations, it can kill him and all of his followers but it has to be a pair of Leroe women. The legend says two created him two can destroy him. When I die, you and Raina will be the last two women of the Leroe line. You two will have to take him down.”

I sat in utter shock of everything she has revealed in these last few minutes. This man that basically created his own species which is just a twisted bunch of combinations of the species that currently exist with vampires is supposed to be killed by little ole me, it has to be a joke right?

“Is this a vision we can change, your death I mean?”

“I’m afraid not, dear. This is one I’ve seen played out for years and years. Which is why you and Raina will be trained together, BUT you cannot tell her of what you’ve seen. She will never go through with this if she knows my death is a direct result of working to take down The Reaper. She must believe that she is only preparing to help you rather than take on the responsibility herself.”

“That’s CRAZY! How could you keep this from her? From Roland? From Drew? They’re your family!”

“The same way that you will have to keep what you’ve seen from Jett, Magan, Dominic, Payton, Hayley, April and anyone else you care for. This is a gift that the Goddess gives us that we are not supposed to share, we are only supposed to prepare ourselves for what we’ve seen and try to navigate it if it affects others negatively. I’ve only shared what I’ve seen with you and Drew because I knew it was the only way to get us all together to protect one another and prepare for the real evil that we will face. Do you understand me, Rory? No one can know what you’ve seen unless it’s the only way.”

I sat and thought of her words for a moment which I’m sure was written all over my face, “you’re never going to tell me what you saw in the hall this morning are you?” I asked.

“No, I won’t. This is something I must know and everyone else will have to experience.”

“Okay, I’m ready. Let’s get ready to whoop some a**.” With my siblings on the way I need to be as prepared as possible to defend myself, my pack and my family. No matter what.