After Anna had fainted they'd all moved off to find a cave, and with luck found one just as it started to rain and thunder. No one had talked about what Shino might and might not do. He wasn't sure whether he should do it or not either, if he turned her she might never forgive him but then again it might save her life. He was just so confused he wasn't sure what to do. He wanted Anna to wake up so that he could talk to her but she was still asleep. She just couldn't come back till she rested. Andrew had told them what had happened to her and Shino had told everyone that she was to sleep till she awoke on her own no was to wake her up for anything and only then would they go after Raistlin. He was still horrified what had happened to Anna, he wanted to rip Raistlin's heart out whatever was left of that shriveled mass of meat. He had no heart, and if he did it was too small to give any care to Anna.
She was still a child and yet everyone wanted her dead. Her birthday would be coming soon; maybe that's when they officially need her dead to call forth his people. He just didn't know everything that was happening. He started to daydream about when the two of them had been living on Earth care free and strong. He remembered her joy at the thought of seeing the musical Rent. He had laughed at her and teased her saying that she only liked it cause it was sad depressing just like her life. She'd given him that pouting face and kicked him in the shins saying "It doesn't matter what my life is like now, its about keeping whatever left of my dignity intact." She had said it all with a smile, and she was still a child.
"Anna please wake up and wake up soon, as corny as it sounds I'm lost without you by my side." Shino whispered to the night sky.
Sighing he got to his feet tired of watching for any monsters that Raistlin or Elysee might send after them. He'd ask Tanis to watch for him, the half-elf would understand why he was tired.
"Shino are you alright?" Tanis asked standing beside him.
Shino jumped and looking to Tanis smiled a little, "I don't think anyone's ever given me the jump like that Tanis."
"Sorry didn't mean to scare you." Tanis said laughing a little, "Are you alright though? It must be hard to watch Anna like this."
"Harder then anything you know." Shino whispered kicking at the gravel at his feet, "You have a wife don't you Tanis?"
"Yes she's at home safe with my son." Tanis said nodding his head, "Why do you ask?"
"Do you think you could change your wife into something she detested? Something that she'd rather kill then be, something she'd rather die the become." Shino asked his voice soft and full of his sorrow, "Could you burn out her candle?"
"You don't think you can help Anna do you?" Tanis asked laying a hand on his shoulder.
"I just don't think I can do it to Anna, she'd never forgive me." Shino muttered shaking his head, "She's killed over 100 vampires on Earth."
"But did she ever love those vampires?" Tanis asked gently.
Shino looked at Tanis and found him smiling softly at him. He knew then why Anna liked Tanis. He also knew that if he did turn Anna she would forgive him sooner or later. She wouldn't be able to hate him forever; she loved him just as much as he loved him.
"Shino get in here now!" Kala's familiar shouting voice called for him.
Shino came running back inside the cave he saw that Kala was serious as he came towards her, what could possible happen to bring Kala to be serious he thought? He saw then that Anna was shaking all over and that there was blood trickling from her mouth. She was bleeding but from what? He ran to her side and falling down to his knees crouched beside her. Taking her hand he noticed that she was cold and her pulse was weak. She was dying but from what? What was causing her this pain? His eyes were frantic as he took in her body it was horrible he couldn't explain what was going on with her.
"What's going on?" Shino demanded glaring at his sister, "What did you do to her Kala?"
"I didn't do anything she just started coughing and we tried giving her some water but she wouldn't swallow it. Then she coughed up blood Shino!" Kala stated looking gravely at Anna, "I may not get along with her all the time but you do love her and I don't want to see you in pain Shino."
"Caramon is what she saying true?" Shino asked looking at the human male standing beside his wife tears in his eyes, "Is it?"
"Yes Shino it is she's not lying Anna's dying." Caramon whispered shaking his head a single tear falling from his eye, "I can't figure out any reason why this would be happening to her?"
"I can't figure out what's wrong as well." Paladine stated looking away from Shino's gaze, "Neither can Crysania."
"If a god and his most trusted cleric can't figure it out does that mean she's going to do die then? Does that mean that Anna fighting all this time meant nothing to anyone? Wait it did mean something, it meant something to her but now she's going to do die cause none of us can figure out what's wrong with her." Shino asked tears creeping into his eyes, "I can't lose her I won't survive watching her die this way. No one here knows why this happening to Anna?"
"Annabelle knows Master." Andrew whispered gesturing to the wisp of almost invisible air, "She knows and she'll tell you if you'll listen."
Shino nodded his head and tried to keep his emotions from bursting forth, "Go ahead Annabelle."
"She's run out of time vampire king." She replied back that perfect blank face appeared beside Andrew's.
"Run out of time for what?" Shino asked confused.
"She's going to die because the time draws closer to when they will finally kill her and be able to call forth the destruction of the Four Lands." Annabelle whispered her eyes had those human emotions of pain and sadness, "Just like when they did it to me vampire king."
"This happened to you as well?" Tika asked softly her face tear streaked at the prospect of losing her niece.
"Yes it did it when Bremen was still alive Allanon. Your father failed me back then and you will fail your granddaughter." She answered back with a careful patience.
"No I won't fail her, I am not my father I am myself not him." Allanon countered back glaring at the wisp, "So don't ever try and tell me otherwise, I learned that from Anna the first time I met her, just as she is not like her father. She won't die at all, too many people care for her."
"That doesn't matter how many people care for her." Annabelle said shaking her blank face, "He had tried to stop them just as you are trying now to stop it. He failed and just as he failed you will all fail even if there are more in number then the last time it happened. It is not possible to stop what is already been put into place. Anna will die in a matter of hours."
"No!" Shino yelled.
They all stared at him. He wasn't going to lose the one thing that meant the most to him in the whole world. Anna had risked her life to come back to this land to stop her crazed mother and father and now. When they've come so close, now that they are almost done their mission she's going to die? No he wouldn't let it happen. It just couldn't happen this world needed someone like Anna in it to show whoever she touched the joy in just everything that was around them.
"Vampire king you can not stop this." Annabelle stated softly her eyes downcast and a single glossy tear fell from one of them, "I don't want to watch how she'll die, I'll know how I died then. Lets just leave her here and get off the Four Lands."
"If all this happened before then how is it the world of the Four Lands still here?" Shino asked softly glaring at the wisp, "Its you your wanting her to die cause the man who loved you didn't try hard enough to save you did he?"
"I don't know what you're talking about." Annabelle replied calmly looking away from him.
"Don't even try that with me! He didn't love you enough to risk his life for you so you want Anna to die so that you know its something that happens every time someone tries to destroy the Four Lands." Shino snapped glaring still.
"Your wrong." Annabelle whispered softly her sorrow in her eyes where Shino could see plainly that he was right.
"If you're so afraid of watching her die then just leave and never come back! We don't need you telling us that we can't save Anna." Shino snapped, "She'll live because everything is different. She's just a child still I won't let her die! I love her too much to let her die."
"You will fail." Annabelle whispered, "They failed with me you all will fail."
"No cause I'll make her immortal then she can't die. She'll live and she'll fight on with that indisputable strength she has." Shino whispered he brought Anna's body up to meet his mouth, "Please forgive me but we can't lose you not when this world needs you more then anything."
"Shino…" Kala whispered tears falling from her eyes.
He nodded to her and placing his mouth where he had bitten her earlier sank his teeth in again. He didn't drink to feed he drank to save her life, to save Anna from being like Annabelle. Her heart was strong and she would never waver even if she were a vampire. He drank till he felt her heart having difficulty in beating; he knew then that if he didn't turn her she would die from loss of blood. Backing away from her he bit his wrist and putting it to her mouth hoped that she would drink his blood. He was going to bind her to him to protect her to even help her. Not long ago she had done this for him and her heart was probably already weak from the thought of losing him. Now he was in the position of trying and hoping that she would come back to them.
He knew Anna was strong and all he wanted to do with her was hold her and hold onto her forever. He finally felt the connection of the binding snap into place. He looked down and saw that Anna was swallowing the blood but her eyes weren't open and there was nothing but her swallowing the blood. He knew then that she was a vampire that she'd awake in a couple of hours thirsty and confused and wouldn't even understand what was going on. He had done this to her and all he wanted to do at that moment was to run into the light and burn to death. He had destroyed her and now what was going to happen to her self-image? She would never forgive him.
"Yes I will you took the risk to save me my love I will always forgive your stupidity, never forget that my love." Anna's voice sounded in his head and he couldn't help but laugh.
She stopped drinking and Shino lay besides her still laughing at what had happened. She had learned to talk to him telepathically to tell him that she was fine with what he had done for her, that she still loved him as much as the first time they met.
When Anna's eyes fluttered open she saw things she had never seen before. Wait she had seen them, but now she was truly feeling them and seeing them. It was a new experience and she was finding it hard to concentrate on anything. She was finally able to sit up and she saw that everyone was still asleep. They all had been worried about her when she was dying. She could still feel deaths grip around her somewhere, and she knew even though Shino had turned her into a vampire she was still in danger and that meant he was in danger. She wasn't going to let him die or any of the others. This was her fight and she was going to fight it alone. Her parents were doing this to her not to anyone else. She may be a vampire she was still a Druid and she knew ancient magic that Shino's clan of vampires could never fight against.
"Forgive me my love but I have to do this." Anna whispered brushing his hair back from his face. He was so handsome she didn't want him to go but she had to do this.
She stood up and taking a deep breath began her spell casting. She felt the world come to her response. She was more in tune with the world then anything she could remember. Must be because she was a Druid. She asked the world for one favor just one favor.
"Please take them back home." She whispered taking that hook from the world and taking it around everyone in the cave.
She felt the pull as some of them were beginning to wake up as she was finishing the last bit of the spell. This spell was ancient and not many knew it existed not even her grandfather. Her great grandfather had used this spell a long time ago when Annabelle had been human. As the spell finished she watched, as everyone she knew was spirited back to the world of Krynn. Everyone left peacefully and turning around she saw that her grandfather, Tanis, and Shino were fighting to stay with her.
She smiled and came to stand before them looking to Shino she sung to him, "Excuse me did I do something wrong I get invited then ignored all night long?"
"I've been trying I'm not lying no ones perfect I've got baggage." Shino replied trying to stay with him.
"Don't forget me always remember that you helped save this world." She came up and gave him a soft kiss on the lips, "Now you have to go all of you."
She begged the world to take them away from this land. To save the people that meant the most to her. She was too much disaster for them; her aunt and uncle could still have a family and have a life. Tanis had a wife and a son he needed to get back to she couldn't stand it if they lost him in this fight. Her grandfather Allanon had to keep teaching the Druid's ways. Shino had to help his people after this was done, he was there king and he had an obligation to them before her and he knew it but didn't want to believe it.
She finally opened her eyes and looked to see that they were gone, that all of them were gone. She smiled and started her journey back to her father and mother. She knew they would be expecting her but this time it was just the three of them and she was determined to fight them till this was all done.
"You felt it didn't you Raistlin?" Elysee asked softly, "She's going to come back and she won't be happy at all. Were going to have to fight her till she dies. But now she's a vampire everything's different."
"Of course I felt it and nothing changes she will die upon that alter just as Annabelle had hundreds of years ago." Raistlin whispered calming his wife as she came and sat beside her.
"I hate her." Elysee cursed.
Raistlin smiled, "I know my dear I know. I hate her as well she took Andrew away from us."
"I didn't take Andrew away he left of his own accord you assholes!" Anna shouted from the bottom of the steps.
They were in a spacious courtyard that was big enough to have a full out blown formal party. She was standing there dressed in black and red. She was reflecting her anger with her clothes. She was pale and her eyes blue and gold took her parents in them and swallowed them up. She knew that they were scared of her and it brought a sadistic smile to her face. She wanted to rip their throats and watch as they struggled to breath and talk at the same time. She shook the thought out of her mind and realized that she didn't know how to control her vampirism urges.
"You came back." Raistlin whispered smiling at her, "How delightful we don't have to go running after you."
"Do you know what today is father mother?" Anna asked using her speed she ran till she was behind her.
They turned and were surprised to see her move so fast. They didn't comprehend what she really was. Being a Druid before becoming a vampire created something different from a normal vampire. The sun was still out and yet here she was standing in it unafraid of its burning touch. The world had forgiven her for becoming undead.
"What's so important about today Anna?" Elysee asked taking Raistlin's hand.
"Tell me why you hate me so much. I look just like you mother and yet you hate me with an unrestrained passion that I can't comprehend." Anna replied.
"It doesn't matter Anna." Elysee said hiding behind Raistlin. She didn't want to talk about cause she was afraid of it Anna could smell it.
"Tell me mother." Anna replied.
"No." Elysee stated stubbornly hiding behind Raistlin.
"Just tell me!" Anna yelled tears creeping into her eyes, "Cause of you two I lost everything that has ever mattered to me. You had an innocent family killed, destroyed my life as a child, sent me to another world, hate me for no reason, killed Maeyul cause he was protecting. I hate you but I want to know why you would do this all to me and not to Andrew!"
"You almost killed me!" Elysee yelled out.
Anna stood there shocked by those four words. She didn't understand. Why would she try to kill her mother?
"You don't even remember do you?" Elysee shouted coming from behind Raistlin ready to slap Anna.
Raistlin grabbed Elysee and kept her away from Anna, "She doesn't remember dear cause it was all Shino's magic not hers.
"Elysee was close to death when one day you were about 14 and you were standing in front of us at the Tower of High Sorcery. You had this almost possessed look in you eyes, as though it wasn't you. But you had a blade in your hand made of pure silver, something I believe you had specially made on Earth to combat the vampires."
"Yeah those blades saved my life a lot." Anna muttered.
"Well you threw that blade at Elysee trying to decapitate her." Raistlin said glaring at Anna, "Today we still do not know why you did it. We were planning on killing Andrew not you at that time. But then we forced Shino to take Andrew as his servant hoping that would bind them together and they would take you instead."
"We won't take her." a soft hissing voice came from behind Anna.
She turned around and saw that they were the others from the Hadeshorn back in the Valley of Shale. They had come to help her, but why? Why would they want to help her?
"She is our vampire queen our king has finally found a mate that is strong enough to fight for us." One of them whispered grinning wickedly at her parents.
"Don't kill them this is my fight." Anna stated looking at her parents, "I told you a long time ago that I knew what the evil was, everything about it and why I was brought here. Shino and I both thought it was to stop you two for a while, but its not it never was."
"Then what is it Anna?" Raistlin asked looking fearfully behind Anna at the other vampires.
"The evil is you, it's not the vampires and it's not me." Anna whispered smiling at them, "For a little while I was beginning to think that it might be me but then I actually learned today as I was sending the others home that its not me. I was never meant to fight this battle at all. It was supposed to be Andrew and you took that away from him. Now he lives only to serve Shino. You destroyed your son and you've destroyed your daughter. Tell me how does that make you feel father? Mother?"
"I don't care have them kill me all you want." Raistlin replied softly shrugging his shoulders.
"No I'm asking the Four Lands to take your magic away from you father." Anna replied softly, "Killing you would make you happy, taking your magic away would crush you."
"No! I won't let you." Raistlin summoned a fireball and threw it at her.
She dodged it and appearing behind him took his arm and sent him flying across the courtyard. She walked towards him confident and sacred at the same time. She wasn't going to kill him that was a definite. She watched as he got to his feet blood trickling from his forehead. He summoned small demons to kill her but she just waved her hand destroying them as she continued to walk towards him. He tried every spell that he had memorized and kept sending them at her. He would go down fighting her.
When she finally stood in front of him she smiled and whispered, "Thank god that this moment's not your last."
Touching his forehead she engaged the Four Lands to strip his powers. To leave this evil mage with no powers at all, no connections to the magic he loved more then his wife. When she felt all his power leave him she removed her hand and he crumpled to the ground in a heap. She bent down and raising his head to look at her locked eyes with her. She could always be spell him with her eyes but she didn't want to. She wanted him to see the anger and injustice that were clearly seen in them.
"Go back to the land of Krynn where you will die a lonely bitter man." Anna whispered.
"Elysee?" he whispered before she started the spell of transportation.
She laughed loudly at him, "Don't worry about her she'll get her just desserts as is due to her being my mother. She deserves to die more then you do."
"No!" Raistlin screamed grabbing Anna's wrist, "Don't you'll never forgive yourself if you do it."
"I'm not going to kill her, she's going to go through the test of the Druid and if she can survive the memories of her deeds then she'll live. Lets hope she's strong." Anna whispered, "Go back home now."
She sent him to Solace to the Inn that everyone was waiting for him and for Anna; hopefully Shino wouldn't try to kill him. She turned around and saw that Elysee was already out taking the Test of the Druid. If her mother did survive, then that would say that the mother is stronger then the daughter. The test had almost killed Anna; she could still feel the repulsion that she felt towards herself.
She walked back and lying beside her mother rested her head on her arm looking at her mother's blank face. She would never be able to do this if her mother was aware of her, her mother would try and kill her before she'd hold her. Anna took a deep breath and tried to sleep a little as the others watched over her.
"Tell us Raistlin where is Anna?" Shino yelled slapping him across the face.
"Easy Shino!" Caramon shouted holding his youngest boy, "If you hit him too much he's going to go out and we won't get anything out of him and won't be able to help Anna."
"Who is Anna father?" his young boy asked looking up at him with big eyes, "Do I know her?"
"Not yet but once she gets back from her trip she'll tell you loads of stories and you'll both have fun. Isn't that right Tika?" Caramon asked looking to his wife with tears in his eyes.
"Yes she'll come back she won't let herself die, she's too stubborn probably got that from…"Tika couldn't finish the sentence. She was having a hard time just standing there trying not to fall over.
"Take it easy Tika." A calming voice came from the kitchen bringing hot water for Tika.
Tika looked and saw that it was her friend Goldmoon. She'd come back to Solace to bring Tika's children back to her. They'd been visiting with Goldmoon and Riverwind with there children in the Plains of the Dust. She was happy that they come home but she wanted Anna back here with them.
"Now sit down and calm yourself Tika I'm sure whoever this Anna is she can take good care of herself." Goldmoon whispered handing Tika a cup.
"Oh she'll take care of herself after Elysee has killed her!" Raistlin shouted.
"Anna won't die I can feel Elysee losing the battle." Allanon whispered practically materializing from the darkness behind Raistlin, "She's losing the Test she's going to be dead by dawn and Anna will still live on."
"Elysee won't die she won't let herself die till she kills Anna." Raistlin whispered.
"The Test of the Druid is not to be messed with why do you think there is so few of our kind? Cause they die during the Test just as you mages can die during your Test." Allanon said laughing at Raistlin.
"This Anna is she strong?" Riverwind asked standing beside Caramon, "Shino tell us will she survive if her mother dies?"
"She will but she'll never forgive herself." Shino whispered backing away from Raistlin and sitting in a chair near the window, "No one understands how much she really wants to have the normal life of a family and a peaceful life."
"You two can have that after you get her back." Laurana whispered softly laying a comforting hand on his shoulder, "If Tanis and I can have a family then you and Anna can have one."
"Sometimes I'm just not sure." Shino replied sighing as he looked out the window, "I shouldn't have let her stay there all alone."
"What else were you to do Shino? Scream and fight back while she sent you away?" Kala asked giving him a light punch on the shoulder, "Don't worry she's alright. She's strong she'll be fine."
"But Elysee isn't okay." Allanon's grave voice sounded, "She's dying now."
"Mother?" Anna asked.
She could feel that the Test of the Druid was done. Yet all she wanted to do was hear her mother's voice just once more.
"Anna what I've done is what I believed in." Elysee whispered softly to Anna, "If I had the choice to redo it I would still choose this same path. I really believe this world should die, guess I wasn't much of a Druid."
"I'll never forgive you for what you did to me all my life." Anna whispered, "I'll never forgive you for all the deaths you committed, the lying, the hate, the lust to kill. You deserve to die more then me."
"I know you won't I would call you a fool for forgiving me." Elysee sounded bitter and half way amused, "Just tell your father that I did really love him but I will always hate you."
Anna sat up and looking at her mother's body shed a single tear for her as she called forth the Druid's blue fire to consume her mother's body. She watched till the fire died out and all that was left were the ashes of Elysee.
"You had to let her die my lady." One of the vampires said behind her.
"I know but it still feels bad to know that I killed my own mother." Anna whispered, "Lets go to Shino I miss him too much."
"Is it all over for us now? Do we go back to the lake?" another asked softly.
Anna turned around and shook her head, "No were going to leave the Four Lands and Krynn and were going to find an island just for our kind. I will protect you all every last one." Anna smiled at the idea.
It was past midnight and everyone was asleep even Allanon slept which he never really did but he had to think of his daughter that he'd lost. Shino was out by the lake that Anna had first met Caramon, Tika, and Tanis. He couldn't help but cry a little, it'd been over a month since Elysee had died and none of them had heard a thing about Anna since. Shino couldn't even find any of his people anywhere. They must be hiding from him to afraid to come into the world still. He wished Anna were beside him. He missed her a lot.
Tanis had gone home to be with his family. Caramon and Tika were having a family that was growing up to be quite a handful. Dalamar and Crysania had gone back to Palanthas where they belonged and met each other every now and then to reminisce about old times. Raistlin lived far to the south where no one bothered him. Anna had been right he would grow to be a lonely bitter old man. Ander had returned back to his home to rule his people into an era of peace. Wil, Shea, and Flick had all returned home to ShadyVale where they lived just fine. Everyone had returned to his or her families, and there homes except Shino. He was still in despair about Anna. He was truly lost with out her; he had always told her he'd lost but he knew know that it was true.
"If only I could hear her voice." Shino whispered to the night sky.
"Hear whose voice Shino?" a familiar girls voice whispered behind him with a tinge of amusement in it.
He turned around and saw Anna standing there smiling at him. She was dressed in all black with her long hair tied back in a braid. Her eyes were full of tears but she kept them back while she looked at him. She was alive.
"Anna is it really you?" Shino asked softly his voice cracked and he found it hard to talk through.
"Of course its me Shino. Are you ready to join your people and your queen?" Anna asked extending her hand towards him, "We've been waiting for you for over a month."
"Where are we going?" Shino asked looking at her hand.
"To a place all our own my love, a place for vampires only." Anna stated smiling at him, "Where you and I can have a family and be happy."
Shino took her hand and dragged her into a hug. He held onto her while Anna whispered the words to her incantation to bring them home. She'd been waiting a while to bring him, and now she could. They could now have a family.
As the Four Lands and Krynn went by unbeknownst to the two worlds that vampires had almost destroyed them. The vampires went on with their life on a small island north of both continents and they were all content. Especially with they're with their rulers as king and queen Shino and Anna. Anna every now and then would return to the Four Lands to see her grandfather and tell him that everything was all right and that she and Shino were just fine. Or she'd return to Krynn to see her younger cousins and her aunt and uncle who were always trying to get her to eat. Well as a vampire she doesn't eat and it bothered them a lot. She always told them that drank blood and that was nourishment for her.
But Shino and Anna finally had that family that they wanted. With there first born son Anna called him Maeyul so she'd never forget what had almost happened to the world that she has grown to love so much.
The end…
KilynBloodstone: Hi everyone sorry for the wait but I've been busy with Grad coming up soon! That's right I'm going to be graduating soon; I know your all thinking how can an idiot like her graduate? Well I can. Sorry off topic a bit. It took a while but I finished it and it's not a bad ending. I left the ending open to anything, so I might write up another story that goes with it, but will it be Anna's kids that have to fight? Well that would be interesting.
Sorry to anyone who doesn't like the ending but I like it so that's what matters. Okay so I don't own anything of Dragonlance or Terry Brooks series. I do however own in order Anna, Peter (Maeyul), Elysee, Shino, Andrew, and Annabelle.
All right it's been fun so check out the other stories I have! Laters people!