Chapter 17 – A Mothers Plea.
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“Jag I know you have come to kill me”, Madeline said as she stood waiting for Jagger’s arrival. She knew this day would come and has waited a very long time for this very fateful moment to unfold.
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“YES I am!” Jagger coldly replied
“Before I watch your blood spill I want to know WHY MADELINE? You of all people have betrayed me, all these years you have led me to believe you were a true friend, a true sister of the Oracles of the light, a true friend to ME, to my MOTHER and you do this to Michael when you knew I said to protect him as he is. WHY?!” Jagger raged as the devil danced towards the surface
“I should kill you right now and forever let you carry this knowing you have betrayed me … WHY!! Of all the people Michael?” Jagger trying to calm the demon that was slowly erupting from his core.
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“Jag please allow me the chance to explain, yes you can kill me and you will never know the real reasons. What looks like betrayal is not my friend.” Madeline replied desperately.
“I want the TRUTH no lies, no twisted stories Sorceress or you will die”, Jagger’s patience was growing thin but he wanted his answers.
“I had to unleash the ‘beast’ on the night of the blood moon, as it has been written in the sacred books of Wizardry, the prophecy has come alive, you know this, you have studied it. I gave Michael what belongs to him, he is a TRUE Wolfbane. It is his blood just as Ruthven is yours.”
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“What are you talking about Madeline”, Jagger snapped in an irate outburst.
“Jag please…. you are now an enemy to the Wolfbane hierarchy telling you such things will only bring ammunition for your Emperor will succeed, you know that Vladimir brings this war closer, it is coming alive for both Emperors are eager and patience is growing thin on all fronts.” Madeline replied in desperation.
“I don’t care about the Emperors and their egotistical games Madeline I care about Michael and his wellbeing and you have gone and betrayed my very simple wish.” Jagger snapped.
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Madeline in all her power could see Jagger was true in his speaking.
“You tell me no lies, oh Jag you are in love with him... You really do love him... Don’t you!” she said almost relieved to see that he truly did love Michael.
“YES I do, I didn’t want him to feel the pains of being cursed and you of all people went against my orders. I am still waiting for your answer… the truth Madeline my patience is growing thinner… be warned”, Jagger stiffened up his core to ease his demon from its release.
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“Jag you and I have been friends for a long time, you know I have never betrayed you, although this may seem like betrayal it is not. Michael is a true born Wolfbane, and I only unleashed what was rightfully his, on the rise of the full blood moon, he is the next Emperor to rule, he is a true Wolfbane. As It has been written, I had to unleashed the ‘beast’ in Michael so that he could…”, Madeline stopped
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“Destroy our kingdom, kill all vampires….” Jagger pressed angrily
“Come on Madeline no more secrets you have been my trusted ally and friend, you have watched me grow … STOP messing with the information”. Jagger was getting pis*se*d at the verbal games.
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“Jag please, you must understand this is difficult for me, I was always true to Alexis and when Luther forced her death in jealous spite. Which were lies to begin with, Luther knew very well if he had touched Alexis, Vladimir would kill him, so he used you as his pawn, he knows Vladimir will not touch you, you are too important to him, you are his son, his true son, just as Michael is Romans son, please you must understand” Madeline plead
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“WHAT!” Jagger roared
“Hasn’t Vladimir told you yet?” Madeline shocked that Jagger didn’t know yet.
“NO!!!” Raged Jagger as his core twisted.
“So my son… I had a heir to my half sister… and…”, Jagger felt ill as his insides were about to erupt in an nauseous explosion.
“YES, I know the secrets and betrayals never end, but you must believe me, I love your mothers still today in her death and I promised her I would be true to you. But I had to do what is right for my own son too” Madeline desperately trying to fit all her information before Jagger would release the devil from within his core.
“WHAT!!” Jagger stepped back in horror.
“Michael is my true son, I am his biological mother” Madeline quickly added.
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“He has a mother and … he came from Appaloosa Plains”, Jagger’s demon still dancing in his core, yet he could see Madeline was telling him the truth.
“No Jag he has grown up with my sister, Cheyenne is a sister of the Oracles just as I am. Just like Lady Montana. I am the Great Wizard’s oldest daughter we are blood sisters.”
“I was disowned from the throne when I betrayed my father; by falling pregnant to the very man I love Roman Wolfbane, against my father’s orders. When I disgraced him, Montana was made Mother Oracle. She was the one to take my mothers breath of life, to continue the great works of my father. I betrayed my own kind for love. You understand me don’t you?”
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“Madeline, if what you’re telling me is true, you have still ruined Michael’s life. His innocence, his pure soul, he is just learning of the cruel and hard world the supernatural world is and yet you throw him into the fire as you did. He doesn’t have full conception of anything to do with the Drakes and the Banes and you just handed him to the lions so to speak.” Jagger trying to comprehend himself what he had just learned.
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“Please it is his right, I have sacrificed all my life in waiting for the day, hiding, keeping all the magical powers dormant so that I could gift it to Michael who it all belongs to, he was born with this, it was revoked from him as a baby, so that he could be kept safe with my sister in a non supernatural world until he would come of age, then it was up to me to return his very own powers”.
“He IS the unnamed beast the prophecies are written about, you know them well. We all do….”
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“Upon the rise of the Blood Moon the firestorm arises, the unnamed beast will emerge with the glow of emerald. Bonded by the truth, the last of his kind, arises the 13th warrior. The bond will be broken, the trust a token, for no blade or steel or conjure of sorcery can touch this foe. The 13th warrior will stale mate his game for the very toxic blood he feeds, will be that of the great beasts. To quench the inferno that rises, he must seek the lightning in the snow that will find him on the crossroad, succumb to his true love, will he betray his own blood.”
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“Wait a minute, if Michael is the unnamed beast… then Mortias cannot be the 13th warrior…or king” Jagger stated.
“You’re getting it my humble friend. The 13th warrior…” Madeline didn’t finish the sentence.
“Is me”, Jagger blurted out in total shock of his own realizations.
“YES …. you are the last of your kind, you are the one who seeks for truth” Madeline relieved Jagger started to understand the prophecy as she knew the meaning of , a long time ago.
“And yet I'm always finding lies”, Jagger still unearthed with all this information.
“YES because all you look for is the truth”, Madeline said
“So what do I do now?” Jagger said in complete confusion of all the new information.
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“Seek the truth my friend, you are the only one who can answer this question. But Please you must… promise me.. I know you love Michael.. I can see it, not just love him but you are completely immersed in his soul… Why Jag tell me why?”
“Because of his pureness it’s something I have never seen in my whole existence he seeks the truth in people just as I do Madeline”, Jagger admitted this is what linked him to Michael so strongly and it was their pure bond that made their love for one another far greater than anything else either had felt before.
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“SEE this is why I beg of you please do what you can. I have given him my every power and abilities from my own core upon him, all I ask of you my dearest friend, please look after him, watch over him… and.. keep his name hidden.”
“I know you are in love with him, I am no one to question what gender can love another, you know this I have never been on to judge, I myself have betrayed my father, who forbid me to be in love with Roman, yet I love Roman still today I fell pregnant to him and betrayed my own family just to be with the one I love to save our child. You are brave noble and strong, deadly to many whom fear you….. please I beg you” Madeline said with pleading words.
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“Yes but this changes everything! Madeline you are asking me to go against my very own existence, my own kind. We are dying out. This is why Vladimir wants….”Jagger chocked on his words
“Wants the beast…But I thought Cyd was Romans…. Son?” Jagger stated with a cold edge.
“Jag Cyd is Roman’s nephew not Romans son as you and everyone is lead to believe, this was said to protect Michael’s true identity, until I could return his powers back to him, Cyd’s soul is not as pure as Michael’s you know what I'm talking about you’ve seen it, I know you have”, Madeline urged.
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Jagger felt ill, he now had the hardest task in his life. To choose his own very existence and who he is or follow his heart and side with the one he loves, his very own enemy.
“I am so sorry you are put in this predicament, all I can ask of you is to seek inside your own very core… deep inside your own soul you will find your answer. I cannot tell you what to do, no one can. You know what it is that you love about Michael and how strong you both feel.” Madeline replied with a heavy heart.
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“Madeline I was bred and trained, a war vampire, for this very day, to bring the unnamed beast down to stop this war between the two supernatural species, the wolves wants all vampires to be gone, to make us extinct”
“Why would the universe bestow this curse on me, to make me fall in love with my one true enemy?”, Jagger for the first time in his whole existence felt defeated and broken, his mothers death never had this kind of pain as this was tearing apart all his insides, he felt his walls all crashing down on him.
Madeline could see Jagger was torn far more than she had ever seen him, she knew this was the hardest task he would endure, she loved and trusted him with all her heart and soul, and deep in her own core hoped his heart was a true as she always believed.
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“My dark Knight, please understand this, you are one man against many traitors including your own kind. You’re very own blood would put you up to death for their own glory as you yourself know this. You were trained to be the man you are today, but you still have a heart something your dearest mother gifted you with, something no training no magic can ever derogate.”
“I watched you mature into a wonderful man you are today, yes a true soldier of the night, but also a pure soul, a man of truth, someone I have been honored to have known all my life. Although you feel torn you must seek deep with in your own very core”, Madeline continued
“Please understand all my life I have lived in fear of being caught, carrying two burdens one watching you grow and suffer in life with the pains of not being able to tell you sooner and my own son whom I never got to watch growing up, never have had the chance to reach out and touch his face, to hold him to hear him call me mother, …. You hold him, touch him, comfort him… I have lived a life where I had to sacrifice my own love to save others…a very lonely hard life it is”, Madeline said almost sobbing.
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Jagger could see Madeline’s desperation and pain, his head was throbbing yet he could see her aura glow for she spoke the truth, he knew from this moment on his life would not be an easy task and his whole existence was the build up to what was yet to unfold. He took a deep breath for he felt he couldn’t get enough oxygen into his lungs.
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“It’s taken that one person to show you truth, to show your true heart… Michael, hasn’t it?”, Madeline asked
“Yes Please forgive me for my outburst but you must understand that this is not an easy task. I face betrayal in every corner I turn”, Jagger replied
“But you do not from Michael do you?”
“No….. he is the only true person to me”, Jagger knew this was true.
“My dearest Knight, protector and ally… I ask 2 things of you, only 2…please you must do all in your power to keep Michael safe… even if it means …..”
“Going against my own kind”, Jagger said
“Sorceress you ask a huge task of me, I need time to digest all this.. I cannot give you my word on this.. I am sorry. This is far too much for me to digest in one night.”
“Jag you know it wont be easy…”
“when has my life been easy Madeline? You know darn well it’s been a rough ride from the moment I was born.” Jagger throwing his point across sternly.
“Jag please I just ask you look over him, watch him from a distance… guide him to be the wolf he needs, deserves to be. He will reward you in the end you will see. I promise you that. Please…”
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“Reward me?.. How by killing me?… Fighting me?” Madeline you are asking too much of me.”
“Jag has your love changed for him this quickly? You came here tonight to kill me for you believed I have done the one thing you didn’t want, is it not, that you felt betrayed and are hurting that Michael is now a supernatural.”
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“YES, I didn’t want his innocent destroyed…but this changes EVERYTHING!!!” Jagger burst out in desperation.
“So has your love for him changed this quickly… that you cannot feel for him anymore?”
“Madeline I do not know anymore…. I know deep down……I love him. When we are together I feel my soul is complete… as one, but … this really alters everything…”, Jagger’s nausea was growing he closed his eyes to try to remove the sick feeling growing in his core.
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“The great power of the universe knew what it was doing when you met one another before the blood of the moon. The universe obviously knows something that no one can see just yet. You have to seek deep within you both to find the key to everyone’s freedom, not just your own”.
“Please… Jag I beg of you… I have sacrificed my very own life for this moment, and you can… end it with the blink of an eye, I am now sacrificing my trust in you as a loyal friend, the loyal man you are, the seeker of truth with the very information that could have Michael killed.” Madeline felt sick with desperation.
“Please… You think I am not torn in feeding the truth of information to you, you could kill me and set up a trap and end it in an instance and I would have wasted my whole life for nothing, just as many others who carry the burdens with their secrets. I am torn just as you are feeling, you are my enemy now.. yet.. I still trust you” Madeline said in a pleading whisper.
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“Madeline I know… I know……. I have never in my life been brought down to my knees as I have with your information. You must understand I need time to digest this. To allow my own core to come forth and do as I feel needs to be done. Be it what ever the outcome is”, Jagger replied with pains of his own
“You have my word I will step back and let Michael grow as a wolf, but I cannot promise you anymore. I just cannot… not at this very moment, you must understand what you are asking of me, you are asking me to deny my own heritage, my true existence.. I need time”.
“I pray and trust that you will find it deep within your own core to do what is right.. I cannot expect anymore of you. Forgive me my friend. I know you feel betrayed yet again. I cannot change this”. Madeline said sadly.
Jagger was starting to feel his own head throbbing with anxieties and information he still couldn’t bring himself to digest properly.
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“And you second wish sorceress ….. What is your second wish?” Jagger knew and waited for her request.
“You must kill me tonight, take my golden dagger and drive it through my heart… you must keep that dagger with you, you will need to give it to Montana.. this has been in the family for many centuries and only works for the sisters of the oracles, however I gift you the power tonight for you to take it after you have taken my life.” Madeline said with a heavy heart.
Jagger knew, he has seen this kind of sacrifice before, he knew when a supernatural has worked so hard in their life and demanded their life to be taken to prevail any evils getting to them to torture them against their very own powers, it was the right thing to do. He tore inside knowing everything he did tonight and seeing that Madeline was a true friend to him, he knew this was the day his own mothers spirit died from his heart.
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“Madeline… … May I ask a favor from you before I grant your final wish” Jagger swallowed as he spoke.
‘Yes of course”, Madeline could see Jagger was hurt but was powerless in reading him, she knew he had mastered the art of splitting his mind and expressions far better than anyone.
“A hug from a friend, a true friend”, Jagger knew that embracing Madeline, she wouldn’t feel the tormenting pain of the dagger as harshly as it would be otherwise, he felt he owed it to grant her a pain free death in a small honor for her truth and honesty. Despite his own core twisting in pain for all the information he had been given.
They embraced for the last time. Jagger knew he had to kill Madeline although it wasn’t for the same reason for when he first arrived, he knew from now on he had the biggest journey of his entire life and his own core felt death knocking at his door.
“I am truly sorry my friend, please know it has been an honor in knowing you, you truly are one of a kind, it has been a pleasure”, Madeline whispered her last words as Jagger inhaled her last breath of life with the strike of her dagger.
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With Madeleine's body slumped at his feet Jagger stood, he waited; he knew Grim Reaper would be arriving to take Madeline’s spirit to the underworld. He felt helpless, he was for the first time in his entire life lost and felt completely weakened something he never experienced before. He burned to hold Michael to look into his eyes and feel his pure core, and at the same time his burned with pain, a growing rage knowing that Michael now was his one true enemy.
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“Forgive me my lady”, Jagger whispered as he watched the magic come to consume her body into thin air. He stared at Grim Reaper who he knew very well, having met many times before, knowing that it never got easier; Jagger knew his fate would be as such, one day soon if he made the wrong decision.
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As with every death at the hand of Jagger, Grim wasted no time to embrace his Dark Knight. Jagger knew that Grim always came to take away the many souls that Jagger’s hands had last touched, Jagger also knew many more souls would perish in this war, with every death of a true ally it never got easier. Grim knew that Jagger had the hardest task in his life, and wasted no time to reassure him that he needed to make the right decisions, from now on or his own life would be in question.
Grim in his cryptic manner warned Jagger that if he was not careful he would be coming to collect his soul very soon too. Jagger could sense this. As they embraced in the quiet of the early morning, no further words were spoken. Jagger only wished to have his love sent to his mother, and Grim was the only one who would be able to deliver it, as he knew he would and did every time they embraced.
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Jagger went to the dorm to check on Michael and could see he was reading, as much as he wanted to go to his room to immerse himself in his own growing desires to release his own tension and pain, as he desired his uplifting core, his presence, Jagger knew it was best to leave him be.
“I love you… please …..forgive me”, he sent Michael telepathically as he turned to leave into the night.
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Michael stopped, Jagger came to his mind.. he could feel him, sense him. Michael quickly ran outside to see Jagger running off in the distance.
“I love you too”, he whispered
Not sure why Jagger wanted his forgiveness, as he watched he realized that Jagger knew he was a wolf and he was certain Jagger was disgusted in him. His own heart burned, he was scared, for the first time he feared that Jagger wouldn’t want him anymore. His own core was tearing apart, yet he felt pains coming from other areas, he knew deep inside they were Jagger’s pains also, but he didn’t understand or know what was happening.
Michael went back to his room and cried himself to sleep as he had been doing ever since he was bitten with the cursed bite.
