The Darkness unfolds

[Kiara Johnson]

Max, unable to transform in the depths of the dark fortress, ran as fast as he could toward the dungeon.  He had followed Kiara here and was forced to fight his way down the fortress against many different creatures and hordes of Death Eaters.  His mind raced, he knew Voldem0rt had fallen but what about Kiara?  Had she decided to leave him, leave behind her the life they made together?  Even if she had, he understood, he knew it was her dream and he felt that his selfishness of wanting to keep her with him was just that, selfish.

Still, he also knew that Evan would be able to be with her if she did decide to let herself die and that stung, like a icy blade sticking in his heart.  He'd have to try and stop her.  He'd have to ..

"It's what Evan told you about, isn't it?"  He had said.

Kiara never answered his question, she never said anything about Evan, she had told him she'd changed her mind however, Max believed that she was just saying that to try and make him stop dwelling on it.  He never did.  How could he in all honesty, knowing that Kiara had a chance at death after all these years, a chance to leave the mortal world and be with her mom and with Evan.  A chance she would never get again.  That's what she said.

"This is the one and only chance I have to die.  If I don't take it, I will forever walk the earth.  Never able to live a silent life but charged to always watch, always keep things running in the direction the gods want.  I don't know if I want that."  Kiara had told them on their walk that night.

"However, I don't believe that I want to leave your side either, Max.  I love you."  She had finished.

Max rounded the corner and busted through the door.  His feet stopped at the sight before him.

His son, stood, motionless, facing his fallen mother and grandfather.  Kiara still knelt beside her father, he still had not let go and was staring at her as if he wanted nothing more than to continue fighting but his wrecked and dying body wouldn't let him.  

Max wondered how she killed him.  He wished he could have seen her final blow.  His eyes now wondered to the blade sticking out of her back, he noticed the black blade for what it was and understood now how it was that she would not come back.  The blade would take her from this world and hold her in it's death dimension.  Kiara owed that sword many lives and now, it was taking hers.

[Ginny Weasly]

wow Kiara, this story is great! Post more!!!!

[Kiara Johnson]

(Thanks you all.  I will post more in a bit.  :))

[Evil_To_The_Max]

keep going*

[Kiara Johnson]

Chapter 4




Harry rushed in the room, just a few paces behind Max.  They had fought their way down the dark fortes together, not the first time they fought back to back in the face of Voldem0rt and his Death Eaters but  as Harry looked what lay before him he knew, it would be the last time.

He tried to run over to Kiara but suddenly found his feet wouldn't move.  Max looked at him and nodded.  Voldem0rt still had breath and wasn't about to let anyone interfere with him and Kiara.  He was trying to be sure that even in death, he'd take out what Harry wanted more than anything, his family.

"Let her go!"  Harry yelled.

Kiara turned her head and saw them standing there, she tried to speak but only blood trickled out of her mouth, no words could escape.  Max saw the look of pain on her face, he knew she didn't want to leave but how could they help her?

"Kiara.."  Max whispered, his voice failing him.

"Mom, I'm so sorry..."  Jr found his voice.  "mom, don't leave us, stay..."

A blood -red tear slid out of Kiara's eye and she turned herself to look at her son.  Her expression going from pain to forgiveness.  

"No!"  Max's  voice thundered and the room shook.

Max saw the expectance on her face.  He saw how she looked at JR, a look that forgave all and said good by.  He couldn't except that.

Just as Kiara began to fall to the floor, Max broke free of the hold Voldem0rt had on the room and he reached her in time to catch her before she hit the floor.  He grasped the hilt of the sword and wrenched it out of her chest.

[Avril]

go on ;D

[Evil_To_The_Max]

Keep going*

[Kiara Johnson]

A black mass shot out of the sword, hitting Max in the chest and flinging him clear across the large dungeon room.  The last thing Max saw before he fell into unconsciousness was Kiara's body hitting the stone floor.  The lights when out and all was plunged into darkness, the only thing that could be heard was a scream of anger form some unknown source and the fortress lurched and shook, then all went silent.

Max, in sleep, saw what happened in the dungeon as he was fighting his way down.  His mind raced through the formalities and insults from Kiara and Voldem0rt then time seemed to stop.  Things seemed to move in slow motion.

Kiara hurled several attacks of fire and ice at Voldem0rt as he dodged them with the agility of a man several years younger then he.

Then they both stopped as Kiara looked again at her father, there, standing now in front of him, being used as a sort of shield, was JR.  Max could not only hear but feel the icy growl that escaped from his wife's throat at that point.  It was as if Max was the one who was being growled at.  He couldn't move, his body suffering some sort of frozen state.

Kiara looked more dangerous now than Max had ever saw her.  He was certainly glad not to be the recipient of that anger.  She seemed to almost glow with a darkness unknown to anything he'd seen before.  He never knew it existed in her.  Sure, he always knew she was a bit darker than the rest of the ones they knew but this, this darkness about her now seemed almost the total opposite of good.  Kiara was evil, perhaps worse that her father except that, she loved.

[Ginny Weasly]

Oh, its a great story but I'm practically crying! It's great, please post more, while I blow my nose.

[Evil_To_The_Max]

^ what she said

[Kiara Johnson]

Voldem0rt laughed.  The sound of which was spine chilling in it's self.  However, Kiara made no sign of backing down at all.  The total opposite, she smiled.  Almost as if she was beginning to have fun.

"No."  Max tried to shout at her.  Of course, he was just watching so his voice meant nothing.  However, he knew that sound, her posture, everything about her hinted that she didn't care what happened so long as her target was destroyed, even if it meant killing herself to do it.

He knew what she was doing, she was calling on the devil himself.  He could feel the room heat up as a crack in the floor opened up, the flames of Hell it's self reaching up, looking for something to feed upon.

"I told you once old man.  You can fight me, try to destroy me all you want but, if you ever messed with my children, it would be the end of you."  Kiara's voice came in a low, menacing growl.  Her eyes flickered a deep, blood-red and her cloak flew around her with the movement of the hot air.

The ground beneath their feet began to tremble at Kiara's rage.  Nothing it seemed, would stand in her path to kill her father.  Max could tell just how angry she was, she looked so calm, her words echoed in his mind and seared into the fabric of his thoughts.  Only, when Kiara was in a total fit of anger did she become annoyingly calm and Max now noticed, she even looked almost, relaxed.

Voldem0rt looked just as confident as ever, perhaps a little too confident.

Jr stood, unmoving, his face set in a zombies stare.  

"Try what you will Kiara, you want to kill me, you've always wanted to kill me, what's stopping you?  Oh, are you worried from your son.  I guess it's just another obstacle for you.  You'll have to kill him to get to me....I'm ready to finish this."

Max winced at his words, Voldem0rts mistake, he knew.  NO one, stood between Kiara and her kids.  Not even he himself would dare do that.  Kiara loves him but if he ever tried to hurt one of their children, or simply keep her away form them, she'd have no problem killing him.

Once again, Kiara growled, no fake laughter here, she was all business and the temperature in the room rose even higher until, behind Voldem0rt appeared a tall, darkly dressed male.  His hair was the same color as Kiara's, and his appearance was quite demanding of respect.  He nodded at Kiara then JR disappeared, wrapped in a blanket of flames and Voldem0rt turned a slight pale shade as Kiara stepped forward.

"I will return him at your request, Lady Kiara"  Sebastian disappeared.

What Max thought to be the flames of Hell, were instead, the flames from the Lord of Fire himself, Sebastian, Kiara's half brother.  Max felt a slight relief, knowing that she did not indeed pull the Devil card he knew she could.

"So, now we finish this with out effecting the lives of the innocent, father."

"So we do."  

As Voldem0rt spoke, he reached into is robe, pulling out the sword of Darkness, The Soul Reaper, as it is properly named.

The black blade seemed to shimmer, and the souls, belonging to the sword, could be seen, trying to escape it's grasp.  Max knew this was the end of Kiara if she truly wanted it to be so.  Only three ever came back after being killed by this weapon, and it was Kiara who had brought them back.  Max didn't know if Kiara would even have the choice once taken by this sword.  It is the same one Voldem0rt used to slay Belgarian, when he was asleep in his bed at the Rivan castle.  The very sword that took Kiara's past away from her.

[Evil_To_The_Max]

Keep going...... :D

[Ginny Weasly]

BUMP! BUMP! BUMP! More! I feeling rather scared by Kiara.

[Kiara Johnson]

What happened then was amazing to watch.  It happened so fast that Max had to slow it down in his mind to see.  To the naked eye, it happened in the flash of a few seconds.

All the years of fighting, all the years of pain and it was all over in a matter of  seconds.  Not much time to the ordinary human but to wizard and sorceress alike, it was the end of life, their eternity.

With out warning, Voldem0rt lunged forward with the blade, Kiara stepped aside, getting cut on the shoulder, then returned with a bolt of lightning, hitting her father in the same shoulder as her cut one.  The circled one another for a moment then Kiara threw yet another bolt at him, he blocked it with the sword.  

Then, Voldem0rt dove at her one final time, Kiara saw it coming but didn't move, she let the sword sink deep into her chest, grabbing it's blade and helped it go through, bringing her father closer.

As Voldem0rt slid the blade into his daughters chest, Kiara holding the blade and puling him to her, helping him push the blade into her, She laid her other hand on her fathers temple and a dark flash appeared between her hand and his head then he simply fell to the ground, Kiara fell to her knees next to him.

Max watched in horror at the ease in which Kiara excepted her death.  She didn't even flinch when the blade entered her chest.  She looked as if she actually enjoyed it, a smile on her face and a glint of victory in her eyes.  Max watched her fall now, he could see the turmoil on her face, she was making her decision.

"It would seem we both loose."  Voldem0rt said just before coughing up a mouthful of blood, his eyes looking for ever like he was shocked she had killed him so easily.

"...I warned you to stay away from my children.  You didn't listen"

[Hermiony Granger]

O.k great ki----  
  but how come when we I asked if I  could do this y'all where like well i don't know :-\