Monique Tether

Yes!!! I am so happy, I am almost to a hundred pages, I'm a total writing freak, and the story still hasn't progressed much. WAHWAHWAH!!!!! I know! It sucks! I don't know where the story is going so I just keep writing and writing and I'm going nowhere! But luckily, I asked Mystic what he wanted in the book, and he said to be a horse again, so don't worry, the story is beginning progress. But I have an odd feeling it is going to come out sooner than Spring, like, maybe in a few days? But remember, even if the book is finished by feburary, I'm still going to be working on it and making sure it goes far, then my movie career can start. So, what do you guys think of Le Dernier so far? Tell me, right here!!!

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Please ignore the fact that almost every other two words are not spaced, thats not how the book is, trust me.

Chapter 1

A new City

“Andthat is how we got this wonderful city back after that epic war.”an elderly woman reads to her grandchildren.

“Wow, Amy didall that just to save her family?” the little boy said.

“Yep, herfamily was very important to her since her real parents died in a carwreck.” the elderly woman said as she closed the book.

“So manypeople died. Why?” the little girl asked as she looked down at herbunny toy. She stroked its soft face, her bunny toy was like a childto her. Her best friend, a little toy, it will never hurt herfeelings or make her cry, it only brings happiness.

“Death isjust the ending title of the book of life. Each and every one of ushas a story, and they all end with death. But as long as you lived amemorable life, people will read and cherish your story until theirscomes to an end as well.”

“Not, all ofus, die. Do we?” the little girl yelped as a tear fell from hereye, she cuddled her bunny toy even closer.

“Only untilgod above makes things perfect again. Then none of us will ever die,and our stories will keep going on for more and more to read, and wewill be able to tell them personally our stories.” the woman saidas her head rested onto the pillow of her rocking chair.

“That's nevergoing to happen, grandma. We all die, always, you just said so.”the little boy got up and got some milk, then came back down. Thewoman took a long hard pause.

“I suppose wewill just find out, won't we? You know, I've got an even better storyto tell you than the past few I just did. Do you want to hear it?”the woman asked cupping her hands together and leaning over.

“Not me, I'mtired, and dad says he's on his way.” the boy pauses as he hears aknock at the door. The kids go running.

“Daddy!!!”they scream as they open the door. The door slams open, hitting thelittle girl in the face. The little boy is scared as death to see twomen covered in black cloth.

The woman runsout of the chair and grabs her cane. One of the men grabs the littleboy, and runs out. The other man turns to the woman and grabs thecane, she pushes down on the cane, and the man goes flying throughthe roof. She runs out the door, and whacks the man holding thelittle boy in the head, he falls to the floor.

“Trent, areyou alright?” the elderly woman asked. He holds his head and looksaround. Instead of seeing the outside of a suburban home and hisgrandmother holding him, he sees fog, and a meadow. The woman shakeshim, but he fades out. He becomes fully in the meadow, cars pass him,its the middle of the night, he's confused, and surrounded byflowers.

“Where am I?”he asked himself. He heard his name whispered in his ear over andover. He turned, but no one was there. He suddenly felt a huge push,and he flipped over. Suddenly, he opened his eyes, he was in hisbedroom, and Destiny was shaking him to get him awake.

“Trent!!!Finally! What happened? You are never this sound asleep!” Destinyyelled worried.

“Why wouldyou wake me up then?” Trent asked looking into her angry red eyes,though they seemed oddly calm right now.

“Cause I gotup to go to the bathroom, and usually you wake up right away, youdidn't so I got worried you died or something.” Destiny said as shegot under the covers.

“Well, Ididn't die. But I think I may have had a thought...”

“Nooo way!You had a thought? Wow! That is so much more than you ever...”

“Shut up,okay?” Trent interrupted her after her sarcastic remarks.

“I'm sorry, Icouldn't resist!” Destiny said chuckling, Trent always felt thather little laugh was so pretty, so innocent and cute, though she feltembarrassed to ever laugh because she thinks she sounds like achoking rabbit.

“Anyway, Mrs.Interruption, I had a tho...” Trent paused, trying to head out ofanother easy tease from his interrupting buzz of a wife. “a dream,from my childhood. When I was around five, I was at my grandparentshouse and...”

“Trent,you've told me that story dozens of time. You were taken by a man inblack clothing, dropped on your head when your grandmother whackedthe guy in the head with a cane, then you... were somehowtransported to a meadow on the side of the rode.” Destiny laughedas she thought about the last part.

“I seem tohave made a mistake by telling you that I was also... naked.”Trent's straight face couldn't stay long enough to prevent laughing,after all, when Destiny laughs, it is extremely contagious.

“Oh, I knowwhat happened! The black clothed fairies took your clothes and dumpedyou in a meadow by a busy highway covered in flowers.” Destinylaughed, Trent couldn't help but join.

“Oh, honey,you were so tormented as a child!” Destiny said as she strokedTrent's face. His piercing color changing eyes stared back to her. Ayear ago, when Trent and Destiny first kissed, she transferred herAbny powers to him, figuring he would need them more since he studiedAbny power all his life and knew how to use it like a pro. Destinyhowever, would be just another female Abny, she wanted to be normal.But her eyes now stay the color of her last mood before shetransferred, blood red, and they glow in the dark. She still has thetaste for white blood though, being born on Drafox territory, soevery once in a while she'll sneak a taste when Trent gets hurt.Trent, being born human, doesn't have Abny fangs, or Abny hormones,so he doesn't have a taste for white blood whatsoever. Trying tobreak Destiny of her addiction is hard though, and keeping a freshhealing wound away from her is even harder.

Trent's eyesturned a deep red when he began thinking about his old family again.Like Destiny, he only has bits and pieces left of his mother, afterall, it has been twenty years since Destiny first and last saw her.

“Your mom'sname is Amy right?” Trent asked her.

“Yeah, why?”Destiny continued to laugh, but then she noticed that Trent's eyesweren't that happy blue they usually are, they were red.

“Honey? Whatswrong?” she asked as she caressed his hand. She lightly kissed him,she hated when he was sad. Being an male Abny, he can transferemotions to Destiny, and instead of him crying, Destiny will cry. Hedoesn't mean to do that, it just happens.

“Hon, youknow I can't cry, you know what happens, don't start.” Destinybegged him to hold it in, warning him of what happened last time.Destiny got up and left the room, though it wouldn't help much sinceshe and Trent are connected by true love.

Destiny ranoutside and closed the door, she tried to prevent herself from beingtargeted by Trent's emotions. He hadn't learned how to control themyet, so for now, he can't cry, Destiny will cry, and when Destinycries, all hell breaks lose.

“Trent!!!Hold it in!!!” she screamed holding her arms. She could feel thetears coming through. She screamed as she fell to the floor.Suddenly, her pale white skin turned red, and her pores drippedblood, her shoulder blades came out of her skin and became skeletonwings. Her night gown ripped off, and she became a dragon. She grewhigher and higher, her blood red eyes became amber yellow, and sheflamed the skies with her cries of pain. Trent ran out and tried tocalm her down.

“Destiny!!!Come down here!!! Now!!!” Trent demanded. He had to do this thelast time she turned into a dragon and tried to terrorize a smallcity. Destiny lowered her head down to Trent's level.

“We need totalk.” Trent said as he got on Destiny's head. She took one hugeswap of her giant wings and she went up into the sky. Clouds floatedpast them and the moon followed them. Trent wished that Destinywasn't a dragon right now so that they could cherish the moment aslovers, not as a man and a dragon.

“I'm sosorry, Destiny. I tried to keep it in but I couldn't.” Trentlowered his head in sadness. Destiny moaned to let him know sheaccepted his apology.

“When we getback down, remind me to go get a towel for you.” Trent hadremembered last time, after Destiny cooled off, she became normalsize again, but she was naked and covered in blood, its all a part ofthe transformation process, the body turns inside out to unleash theselected animal, then upon re-transformation, the body heals andbecomes normal again, but clothing is not picked up in thetransformation, therefore, if you transform in public, have an extrapair of clothes handy for afterward.

As Destinylanded, she slowly shrunk down. Still a dragon, but the size of ahuman, she collapsed to the ground. Trent ran inside and got a towelfor her. She trembled as her body got ready for re-transformation. Ithurts like having your skin torn off and shot back on with a staplegun, and like a woman going into labor, she awaited the painsilently. Then, it struck. The stinging began, she screamed louderand louder as the pain intensified. Being a human and going through atransformation hurts a hundred times worse than being an Abny or aDrafox and undergoing a transformation. Abny bodies can handle iteasy, to them it feels like being poked with a needle in the butt,yeah it hurts, but it isn't like having your skin ripped off. Itsquicker too, Abny's can transform in a flash, humans take at leasttwo minutes. Also, there isn't any aftershock, a burning pain allover your body, followed by what feels like eels zapping every partof your body over and over. Its the process of the skin settling downagain, and it hurts badly.

Trent tookDestiny inside, he knew this would last another few hours at theleast. If they're lucky, it will end before sunrise. Trent settledDestiny down in the bath. He ran some cool water, he knew the burningwould start soon.

“Try not tocry, okay? If you do, call me, I have something to stop it.” Trentsaid as he kissed her head and walked out to give her some privacy.Destiny knew the aftershock would start as soon as her skin felttight, so she checked, just to see how many minutes it would bebefore the pain started again. If she placed her arm on her stomach,and stretched the skin past her breast, it would be thirty minutesbefore the aftershock began. If she could barely grab her skin, theaftershock is well on its way, and in only a matter of seconds shewould be in extreme pain. If she could stretch it passed her stomachbut no further, she has an undecided time line. Destiny preparedherself for whatever her skin told her. She reached down and clampeda piece of it. So far, so good, but grabbing it alone doesn't meanshe's far away from hell. She pulled it up, it went past her bellybutton. Even now, she's at an undecided time line, but she keptpulling anyway to get an exact measure of her time. She closed hereyes and pulled further and further, she dared herself to look, andher skin was far below her breast. She prepared for crying, andcalling Trent as soon as she did so she could find out what he had tostop the crying. He knocked on the door.

“Dear, youdon't have to knock, we're married.” Destiny said as he opened thedoor, he had a small tub of ice cubes. Even then, Trent looked awayas to not deprive her of her privacy.

“Trent, justlook! You have to see where you're pouring those things.” Destinyyelled as she raised her legs to cover her chest.

“Not until Iknow you are covered and I can't see anything.” Trent just stoodthere with his eyes closed. His over respect was going to costDestiny a pinch of time, since she had to reach out to get the towelto cover herself up. Meanwhile, the water was getting hotter andhotter, close to the point of steaming, do to Destiny's overwhelmingbody heat.

“Go.”Destiny said as he opened his eyes.

“Dee, I loveyou, and I don't want to make you feel like I enjoy watching yousuffer.” he said as he poured the ice cubes in the water.

“Watching mesuffer is one thing, I understand when I'm in pain and you look away,cause it hurts you too, but we are married, sometimes you've gottalook, even when I'm undressed. Why are you like that anyway?”Destiny asked as she grabbed some of his hair before he could turnaway again.

“Cause, itmakes me feel like I'm being a perv.” Trent answered as he gotcloser to her.

“How issaving your wife's life being a perv?” she said angrily as shepulled his hair more, she didn't want to be mad, but she was in pain,and Trent wasn't making any sense. No loving man would wait until hiswife covered up to save her from death, even just pain.

Destiny kissedhim lightly on the lips to let him know she still loved him. Thosebutterflies were still there, the little fluttering bugs in yourstomach when you fall in love. They only stay for a while, for mostpeople, but Destiny wanted every day to feel like she was justmarried.

Trent trippedover the bath wall and fell in the hot steaming water, it felt justlike what Destiny was experiencing. He screamed as she let him go,and he jumped up and ran the cold water as soon as he could.

“Aaah...”Destiny lightly whispered. Usually, whenever Destiny sighed like thatit meant she was relaxed, but this time, it meant the pain wascoming.

“Sweetheart?”Trent turned for a moment to see if Destiny was alright.

“It, it'scoming...” Destiny tried to pinch her skin, but she couldn't shestruggled to try, but her skin was tight as a snake wrapped aroundits prey. Trent immediately got out of the tub, and rushed to getmore ice. If she didn't stay cool, she could burn herself to death.Trent rushed the water into the bucket, he figured he could just makehuge ice chunks. He tried to hold back tears as he heard Destinyscream in agonizing pain. He waved his hand over the water, he wouldhave to use all of his energy, but he had to make the ice. His handshook as dry ice leaked from his pores, dropping right into thebucket, freezing it in seconds.

“TRENT!!!HURRY!!!” Destiny screamed. He could tell by the shaking in hervoice that she was boiling hot, and in pain. Trent grabbed a knife tochop the ice out of the bucket, and rushed to get it into the water,but as he ran from the kitchen to the bath, he slipped on thedripping water from him getting wet, and fell to the ground. He triedto get up, but he knew he had thrown his hip out. Even now, loveforced him to heal quick, and while it stung like hell, he grabbedthe bucket and ran into the bathroom. He threw the bucket in thewater, and collapsed. Just then, he noticed the blood trail he leftbehind. He fell right on top of that knife, and it went straightthrough his stomach. He coughed blood onto the floor, Destiny shookat the horrible sight.

“Trent!!! Getup!!!” She screamed. Suddenly, she felt no more pain, she only feltlike she had to get Trent up before the knife went further. She knewif she could get the knife out, then his Abny body could heal him,but Destiny would collapse herself if she got up. Either way, she gotup and fell down over the bath onto the cold floor. The coolness feltgood on her body, but she couldn't just lay there. She lifted up hertorso, and grabbed Trent by the side, and with all the power she had,she pushed him over. But where was the knife? It was in so far shecouldn't see it, and his Abny body had begun to suck it in deeper soit could heal. Destiny had no choice, she took her Abny fangs, leftover from the transfer, and ripped at Trent's flesh, going deeper anddeeper, until she reached it, the handle of the knife, she grabbed itwith her teeth and ripped it out. Blood flowed down her neck as shegrabbed the blade from her teeth. She ran back into the bath, thecooling water took away her pain only slightly, but it felt good.Now, all she had to do was wait. If she got it out quick enough,Trent's body will continue to heal, if she didn't, his blood willturn clear, and he will die. There is nothing more she can do, butsit and wait...

You like it? I hope so, cause the second chapter is even better! (And we meet Mystic for the first time in twenty years!)