1. memories
Last time, the night family battled the odds to stay together, and in the end, they were successful, but at what cost? This is a week after Caleb comes out of his coma. In between, there is little to report. The current date is still 1955 caleb’s birthday
Time seems to stand still in between events of Death calls us and now; the nazis are still being investigated for the disappearances of French art and the artifacts of museums across Paris, now investigations are going through on the attack on Princess Diana’s car wreck and her death. IN other news, Paris is supposed to have a surprise concert in a few days of “A far off soul Is like a
scattered dream,” and that made a tour from Russia to Italy, and now Paris, I think back... It’s been a week since I reconnected with my family and friends. I woke up in the presence of so many people: Judas, Sarah, Kali, selena, Jasmine, Aimee, Mikhail, Arshin, and Aurora. I had a room full of people and IM not gonna lie I know the value of A soul, and I believed in the moments that I was forever removed from my life if you listened to our last story, Selena’s last
story you know what we went through and right now what Virgil and Dante saying was true..you can’t go through that and not be changed, and right now I’m searching for answers, I can’t do it, I need out, but as we’re currently having time off for “family time” or you call it “date night” at the louve, it’s clear somethings wrong, it’s in the air, or is it me? For now, I, Aimee, Selena Judas, Kali Sarah Aurora Mikhai, Arshin, and Jasmine decided to relax. I took a breath and looked around at the glass above me while Sarah and Kali were chatting excitedly back and forth with
Selena, that’s when I felt something on my shoulder, and it snapped me out. I looked at Judas, and he smiled at me. “You’re doing ok, Caleb, relax, there’s nothing here,” he said, and I nodded, and I took a deep breath. I felt someone grab my hand, and I looked into the eyes of Aimee. It was a week ago that I came out of the hell we were in, and soon after, Aimee and I confessed our love for each other. “Love, are you ok?” she asked me, and I nodded at her and kissed her on the cheek. “Just tired, should we go inside?” I asked, and Kali walked over. “I think this was overdue for you
guys, but I think there’s a problem, Sarah and I have to use the bathroom mathl alan”(like now)
I nodded and looked at Judas and Selena, and Selena spoke. “You take the girls to go to the restrooms, we’ll get the basics handled, capisci.” I nodded and turned towards Mikhail and Aurora, and raised an eyebrow as they were chatting slightly secretly. I asked. “What’s up?” While relaxing piano music was playing in the background, along with at least 50 other people at the entrance under the glass triangle, they nodded. “Yeah just talking about the museum this was a good move” I nodded but cocked my head to the side and said “Thank Selena and Kaliya it was their idea, especially after rescuing me from the jaws of death” Mikhail nodded “Yeah I get that” and I sighed and looked around the louvre for the bathroom it was in the corner with a men and woman symbol but it didn’t say men or women just the tiny man and woman symbol. I sighed, and from the back, I saw the girls flick or fly forward past me, screaming, “Bathroom, hurry, Sarah.”
Aimee shook her head and yelled “Don’t run if you fall I’m gonna have to tell Judas” and she recoiled as the wind blew from when they flew by us at breakneck speed and I chuckled slightly “are you ok Aimee Amore mio?” and she stuck her tongue at me and said “your sisters are gonna run into someone in their quest to relieve themselves” and I shook my head slightly and said. “They have their moments when they pull their own weight, but the risk of wetting themselves isn’t when the mind works properly.” She smiled at me and picked up her hat from the ground, from when it blew off. She
sighed and looked at me and said, “So how are you feeling? You’ve been mildly quiet for the past few days after you came out of your coma,” and I nodded and cocked my head to the side. ’I’m taking it a day at a time there are times when my nightmares get the best of me, for now, I’m ok,” I said, a slight smile on my face she scowled slightly then said, “You know I worried about you te voir sur ce lit (seeing you on that bed.).” I widened my eye slightly “oh aimee you spoke another language” and I pulled her close, and the vision came up of what happened after I was rescued.
By the time Selena was done, there was an uneasiness in the air, and Sarah was about to
be in tears, “Selena...how...I want to say how dare you, but” and Selena sighed. “I made a real mess as a member of the night family I’m supposed to control myself but I put everyone at risk, I killed Kali and tried to fix that, and made a mess of that, went to protect Caleb caused a major stir where Caleb was going to be rescued by the seven deadly sins who happened to be the death knights” and I stopped her by putting my hand up quickly. “It’s not that you made a mess of things, it’s that you went warrior and amid a time that matters, you didn’t trust that I would be able to protect you guys. This was a nightmare, and now Im locked into a contract where I have to
KILL Alexis Gabriel and give Vatican CITY to the king of violence and wrath,” and Selena sighed and nodded. “I did it all with good faith,” and I looked at her, “Selena..have you, of all people, the educated one of all three of us, heard that the road to hell is paved in good intention? The worst acts imaginable were done with good faith. selena looked down and closed her eyes, and Kali said, “You shouldn’t be too hard on her. I don’t entirely remember all this, but it sounds like the goal was to find you and save me. She tried to-” That’s when Judas spoke. “Kaliya, if what your
sister and brother are saying is true, then selena and Ciaran would have to come back WITHOUT you,” and he crossed his arms. And said “Selena I think this takes some real reflecting love, yes throughout the entire process, saving Caleb was admirable but the one time you didn’t think properly put everything in jeopardy, and according to Caleb his part is still not over” and Selena sighed “I didn’t mean for anyone to get hurt, I just wanted to bring my family home” she said, and bit her lip and wiped a tear away that was blood it was real. And she sighed “so what do we do now?” and I sighed and got up. “I need to think this over, Selena. You literally risked the promise I gave to you guys, but...beating you won’t do anything. I know you’re going to be
beating yourself for a while, so for now, let’s breathe and count our blessings that even through this nightmare, we are all together once again. And we hugged...let me repeat that EVEN THROUGH THE NIGHTMARE WE ARE ALL TOGETHER ONCE AGAIN..” that’s when there was a knock on the door and I spoke “ok guys you can come in now” I said, and the other 5 members entered in and Aimee was the first to enter and said “Jasmine went into the bathroom, she needs a moment after hearing things” and I sighed “My oldest sister came back into the picture and threw cherry bombs into this fire where there didn’t need it, I knew there was going to be
drama but the trade off is that the great schism that tore my family mended itself and it just costed my soul..like we often said “we night family will go to the end of the earth for our goals” I sighed and thoughts came up when I finally saw Aimee and the first thing I did was walk over to her and said “Aimee would you go for a walk with me?” and I could feel she was taken back and blinked “a walk? you just woke up don’t you think that you should take it easy that’s when I felt everyone’s eyes on me and I blushed slightly and Selena for being in trouble decidedto give me an out and said “Aimee there’s a lovely cafe upstairs” I nodded and Aimee looked at me, a slight blush on her face before I heard something string in her voice that sounded strangely coerced
then we were gone traveling through the place thinking.I had thoughts in my head. I was captured in hell for a good period. What seemed like days passed, and as I looked into the view of the sky, of the ground, my feet walked on, the girl of my dreams in my hands, I felt grateful. She smiled and said, “So your real name is not Caleb? It’s Ciaran, huh? Where did Caleb come from?” I snapped, and I was sitting at one of the tables with a cold drink in my hand, a shake. I needed the cold. I was in that heated prison for what seemed like forever. I looked up at
her and said “Well...after the church attacked me and my family, and Judas took over my wellbeing he gave me the nickname Caleb, yeah its Ciaran but I still use Caleb because as you know the saying the church warlock program, if we can be seen we can be targeted, and if people know our true names we can be controlled”. she then crossed her arms and said, “and I gave you my name quickly, but you didn’t give me yours until now” and I nodded. “It wasn’t to offend, you saw and see what we’re up against’ and she nodded. “So what do you want from me now?” I held her hand and said “Now that Its clear where my path goes to is going to be difficult If I dont take on Alexis and Gabriel then” I didn’t finish the sentence and I didn’t need to, she reached out and
grabbed my hand, settling my nerves “I will... you’ve fought the world alone long enough already, you, your sisters, but look at the group now there’s more than you three if I’d known I would have...” I looked at her, a dismil look in my eyes, and said “Aimee the world Im in, the situation we are in, our world is not so black and white as you believed, in Jesus and satan and the faith that comes with Christianity and I have experience that says that there is no satan, and that hell itself is where I just came back from in the city of dis where I fought the very devil higher than satan” and She narrowed her eyes, which I have to say was a well handled response to being thrown your faith back, thats when I paused and looked at her and said “I know IM
sounding harsh, love but in the past few hours Ive had the realm of hell thrown in my face, Im lucky Im here right now, Im not trying to insult you, but what could you tell me about your faith that I didnt see? I ran into the literal flames of the city of dis I had to fight the god Abaddon, and nearly lost my sister Kali and I was locked and captured in the prison of heresy” She stopped me by putting a finger to my lips, which honestly was brave for someone like myself at that moment, she had Selena’s audacity but at that moment she said, “Ca...Ciaran, you are rambling, and your voice is rising your causing a scene. Lower your voice and tell me without the emotion and the effects,” My eyes went to her fingertips painted pink and blue, and I removed her fingers from my
lips and took a deep breath. “Babe, what Im saying I...dont know if you’re prepared for the level that I need people to be on for this, can you turn on the very people that brought you up? Jasmine Jessica Kane...what would Abel think? What would Judas...” and I stopped, and she took a sip from her shake and said, “What? Are you done?” and I sighed and kicked the thought away from me I wasn’t going to entertain the thought of that, I sighed and said “Alexis and Gabriel of both the Regio family are in charge of the high point of the Vatican city...and mind you if you’ve been checking online I..we are still wanted for the bombing in the Vatican city” and Aimee nodded. “Yes, you’ve been through a lot, and you’re going to be going through a lot, and do you
remember what your sister said to you?” I blinked. How did she know what my sister said? “Wait, which sister?” Aimee blinked and said, “Kali, you dork. She said you made a promise to her and selena that if war came around, you would need allies, and you would find those allies in the least convenient of times.Ciaran,” and I blinked and was about to say something, but the vision came back long ago. So I’m being guided like a hostage outside, like a prisoner, thinking about
using my ability as soon as I get outside, but I have to wait to see who it is. Could it be a member of Alexis’s brood or Gabriel? Someone followed me this far? I question it, then as we reach outside, I turn and see, huh, “Kali, what are you doing, you scared me half to hell. He throws me hard, and I bounce off the wall, and recoil as my shoulders bounce off the wall.“Ok, Big brother, spill it, you know I can sense it more than anyone when you’re in trouble, and you’re doing a horrible thing to hide it, now talk to me.” Kali sighed and pulled out a rolled-up herb stick, lit it before taking a deep drag off it, and handed it to me. I know what this is; we did this together
whenever there was a need to vent.I sigh and drop. “How can you tell?” We take a drag and let the herb run through us like a pair of Indians. She went to sit with me and blinked at me.’I don’t know, the moodiness all of a sudden, the withdrawal, the need to be silent, bitch I can see right through you, now talk,” She said, taking the stick and sucking it and holding her breath.“Ok, happened not too long ago, maybe a week ago, it’s been almost a couple of months since I was taken on the first day of the training course, I met up with a girl named Alexis and a guy named Gabriel, ”I said, looking at her. She sucked on the cig like a tube and blew out the smoke. It smelled like her, Chocolate Vanilla cinnamon. She blinked at me, nodded, and handed it over. “Don’t tell me you’re crushing on Gabriel and Alexis. I remember you were as curious as I was and
Selena, ”I curse as I once again feel my temperature rise, and I look away. Like I needed to be reminded I wasn’t completely straight.“No, they aren’t, at least not Gabriel. Alexis is the one I’m worried about, because the first time we met, we got off to a bad start; she gave me a really hard time, called me a ruddy punk who won’t last. “Kali’s aura started to steam. She could materialize fire, and I held up my hand.“Easy Firefox, not done yet, so she starts talking shit, and making gestures, from your favorite this” I bit my thumb at her, then took the cig from her and sucked on it, and held it while flicking the top of my hand under my chin at her and releasing it. She smirked. “Bad boy big brother, do as I say, not as I do, using bad gestures without knowing what
they mean ″ but there was a look of a grin on her face, and her fox tail was flicking quite a bit.She loved that I knew she would. “Go on?” She said, taking the cig and sucking on it hard, and blowing it everywhere.I sigh, then continue, reliving it.“Well, after speaking Italian, which I’m sure she understood, she got really mad and cursed at me with her words, and before long teach stepped in and pulled Alexis into order and chastised me. “Kali scoffed and shook her head. “So much for good first impressions, Ciaran, is that it?“I shook my head and took the cig and took my light to it, and again the end burned, and I blew it again in the air.“Soon after, Gabriel steps up
and wakes me from sleep and goads me into a fight. “Ciaran, if you keep this up, you’re gonna have no choice but to come back, making chaos,” She said, sucking on the cig and blowing out, so soon the whole restaurant has a side scent of chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon. “Yeah, I’m more like Selena than I thought, but you know our line Selena, and I have never been able to hold yourself down,” I say, and again take the flame to the cig and by now it’s halfway gone, and we are truly relaxed by now, or else I would be a major rage right now, my little sister is smart. “That’s the thing, they seem not to get that I’m trying to get them to leave me be, they seem to get more
anxious to fight me”“This is our story, Ciaran, you are my guardian, and I am your confidant, that pact is made clear when I wear your eyes, even when I thought you were dead, I still wore your eyes, and I will continue. To go behind your back is an insult to the eyes I wear. Do not think so little of me, you can’t do it alone, and from what I hear, you require allies, continue.” She was so cool, I insulted her to the core, and she still wants to show me support, family, it is a blessing. “Well, I guess our smoking is over, so I’ll skip to the end, after quite a few back and forths from a
battle with Gabriel in the Sistine Chapel, and A battle in the coliseum involving them both that Alexis kissed me over before I nearly died out. It seems they are now tailing me. Kali blinked while listening, and her head tilted. Tiling, but you’re in Venice right now.” I nod and then try to take a deep breath, remembering what was in my hospital room. “A shade was in my room, maybe five hours after you left, a shade or a familiar, even a Darkling Something appeared in my room....and it called me Cale ″ Kali’s eyes widened, and she looked slightly upset. “Ok, but what
do they have to do with Alexis and Gabriel?” She’s so innocent. It’s the sweet backup I need right now. Finally, I take a deep breath, close my eyes, and look at her.″They both called me Cale, and I know what it is, or what it has to be....” She and I were both standing in front of each other and she was looking inside the glass making sure no one was watching, and turned to me, waiting. My head drops. “...it’s a warning...something big is coming and I know I’m its target..” I flashed back to the table with Aimee and I sighed and looked at her and I said. “I know what I promised
to my sisters and I know what I must do but I won’t do this in the risk of human life not you not jessica who rely on the Vatican city if I bring you on your going to go against your friends, colleagues and upperclassmen who became loyal to the Vatican city” and she scowled at me and sighed and said “what are you going to do about YOUR friends you have IN the Vatican? Do you intend to kill them? You told me that you CAME from the Vatican City you were a church boy when we met..you need someone on the inside” I sighed and looked down, thinking she wasn’t
wrong, but how could I explain the danger, the devils I’ve fought, the shadows I’ve faced, the very screams from the prisoners of the city of dis I then looked at her and said “you are making me think..give me time to decide” and she nodded slightly, her eyes closed and said “in any case you and I aren’t going anywhere now that I know how you feel about me” and my eyes widened slightly. “H-how did you know...I mean...I had feelings for you?” and she smirked at me and said “Such a way with words Ciaran..because you told me just now I’ve heard about the dream” and I widened and again my eyes widened “about the dream...that’s no you don’t know about that”
\and she drank from her drink and said “..when you stutter I know you’re telling the truth..Now I know there’s a dream about me, and you do have feelings for me. Now I gotta ask, what are they about?” I got up from the table and said, “Let’s go back, we finished our walk.” Now she looked worried, but as she passed me, I pressed my lips on her cheek, made her eyes widen slightly, pressed her hand to my face, and pushed me away. I smirked, “If you can stick around long enough...I may tell you...”I’m shot back to the louve in Paris, looking around, waiting for the girls to come back from the little girls’ room, and for a second, the dream I had a while back of me and
Aimee came back to me: I was in a forest thick and deep, full of green pine needles, maybe there were Christmas trees, it was so thick and further down deep it was revealed to be a graveyard, no, it was a cemetery, it was quite...clean, and well taken care of. But what made it more serene and almost religious was the blanket of pure white snow that covered it, snowflakes fell to the ground, and yet there was no image of me. I question this, my dream, but this made me even more wonder because there was a girl, about my height, with long dark brown hair and glasses.
She was cute, small, and wait, I recognized her. It was the girl I saw a little while ago at the restaurant in Rome, Aimee, but why is she here? I got a chill because I saw a couple of tears passing through her eyes, she seemed to be praying that’s right she was Christian orcatholic it only stood to make sense she would be praying, as she finished she took a drink of something, and turned towards my view and seemed to grow startled looking at me even though there’s no evidence of me being there and yet when she turned and starts to walk that’s when I”m allowed to move, so I step forward and for a second, I make a sound I don’t know how but I do, and She
\stops because she turns towards me and I see a tear large tear slide down her cheek and slide from her left eye, leaving her to wipe it away and she continues to walk. When she disappears, I see myself in her place before, looking around at the snow, I feel it, it’s cold, and the wind blows my burgundy hair to the side, and it whispers to me, no more like instructing me to look down. I took a deep breath and suddenly had a sense of dread attack me. I kept trying to tell myself to wake up, and yet I wouldn’t, I couldn’t. I looked down and my eyes widened and I got chills when I saw why she was crying, though it was covered in white snow, I saw my own grave it was small but intricate I died the way I lived, there was a saying that size never mattered, well it mattered in my life as it did in death as soon as I see my dedication, I was shocked awake, I cried out loud,
and I could feel my heart beating hard even pounding, and I don’t know why It was I couldn’t breathe, I tried to get my head around what I saw, to get a grip that it wasn’t real and yet after seeing it and feeling it so clearly now question what I saw and why and why was it“Aimee,” I said out loud, and I suddenly heard a moaning sound. It was Judas. He volunteered to have the second bed with me after the night, and I began breathing hard, listening to the wind of the open night air coming from the balcony. I turned and picked up the clock. It was 3:00 am. Folklorists call it the witching hour, and right now,w I was more than a little spooked. I couldn’t
breathe, so I just sobbed in silence. I couldn’t see anything in the pitch black of the night, no, that’s not true. I kept seeing in my head the same image, the dedication on my grave. I wanted to ignore it, chalk it up to just my mind playing tricks
But I couldn’t help but remember what it said, engraved.
R.I.P
Here Lies
Caleb Ciaran Willow Night
Strong in Heart, Spirit, and Mind
Remembered by his friends, family, and lover
as having a heart of gold
And a strong level of authenticity and principles
"“Siamo forti quanto i nostri legami”
“vi är bara lika starka som våra band”
“We are only as strong as our bonds.”
~Caleb Night
“Caleb...Ciaran...Hey!!” I snapped out of it, and Aimee waved her hand in my face, and finally, I spoke, “Huh, sorry, my mind is not here. What is it?” She shook her head and rolled her eyes and said, “I said, do you think this is going to get us late?” and I shook my head, “doubts” the dream. I dont think I will tell her about it, it was only going to worry her, no one wants to hear about the nightmare that the two lovers are in about the death of one of them, but that makes me wonder...especially since I once already made that prediction true. When the girls came out
Sarah and Kali were once again tickling one another damn these girls cant keep their hands away from each other and I just rolled my eyes and said “ok can’t we go now?” and that’s when I felt it, a chill it went up my neck was someone about to attack us who was it and now in front of my family, I turned around and didn’t see anyone but when I turned around there was something underneath the bench I didn’t want to but I knew I had to, I turned away and walked towards where I felt the chill and picked up the paper and it said”Just Remember...we’re
watching you...“and I knew well the demons that had my leash knew who was and where I was I hid the paper away and walked back and said “ok potty break over and damn it Kali Sarah will you keep your hands away from each other long enough till we get inside” and Kali looked at me and said “well I wouldn’t mind if you got more handsy with aimee” and I blushed hard at this and so did Aimee”I mean she has appoint Caleb you are my boyfriend and yes you haven’t grabbed my hand, kissed me or anything” and I flinched and said “we’ll resolve that after we get inside” and sarah and Kali crossed their arms “If you give Aimee a kiss right here we’ll behave”
and Aimee turned towards me and said “I don’t think that’s unreasonable Ciaran” and I sighed, blushed and rolled my eyes and said “ok” and leaned in to kiss her cheek but she turned it into a kiss on the lips and I jumped slightly and said “cheap move” and Aimee smirked and said “got me some lip service” and Kali raised her eyebrow and said “ok a deals a deal let’s go”
