Prologue

"Wind, Earth, Fire and Water take us away from here, protect us from the evil that surrounds us. With no harm to none let my will be done, so mote it be." Alina chanted echoing true the cave. As the last words left Alina's mouth the bodies of her sisters began to disappear.

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Sophia had been coming to before she had felt her body being lifted away. Know that she was coming too she felt dizzy and lost as she saw the threes that surrounded her. Sophia remembers hearing Alina's voice, but know that she was train to look around she didn't see anybody else but the forest threes. Sophia didn't understand what was going on, as Sophia's head cleared and the dizziness had passed she started to get up from the ground. It was still light out and the path could be seen clearly, but as Sophia kept walking it became dark and she couldn't see the path any more. Sophia stopped and looked around and said to the woods, "Where am I?"

Sophia looked around her and found a place to sit. As she took a sit she looked up toward the night sky. The moon had not risen that night, but as Sophia looked around she saw a shadow move and heard the snap of a brand. Sophia looked toward the noise and was blinded by a bright light and thrown farther into the woods.

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"The light came from the direction of the lake." Michael Cardona said as they made their way toward it. Emanuel leading the way with his father and Michael his brother fallowing behind him. Branches braking under Emanuel's feet as he felt the pull to reach the light.

"Emanuel slowdown you don't down what is out there." Emanuel's father Aaron's deep voice called out as he tried to keep up with Emanuel as he tried to get to the lake.

There was something within Emanuel that keep pushing him to get to the lake faster making him forget that his father and brother where fallowing right behind him and that although they were in the woods that surrounded their home the raveling clans sometimes pass those boundaries train to cause trouble. The moon had not come out but it was okay Emanuel didn't need the light he had his night vision. He had grown up in the Montana Mountains and knew the paths pretty well so even is his vision had been missing for any reason he could still fine his way.

Emanuel broke into the clearing and the first thing that cached his attention was the body that laid between the water and the dry earth. Emanuel was so focus on the creature that was before him that he didn't notice that his brother and father had finally catches up to him.

"Who is that?" Michael asked as he stood behind Emanuel.

Aaron was moving around Emanuel to get to the body, but before Aaron got past Emanuel his hand shot out stopping him. "What do you think you are doing?" Emanuel asked as he change his position and moved in front of the body in the ground to protect it. "Don't get near her."

"Emanuel come down." His father said as he tried to get him to focus on him, while Michael tried to get to the body. "Don't you see that she need help?"

"I will give it to her but I need you both to move back. So Michael I suggest that you start to move back if you don't want to end up with a broken arm." Emanuel said as he looked over toward his brother while still keeping an eye on his father.

"Emanuel we are moving back know." Aaron said as he motion Michael to move back to give Emanuel the space he wanted.

Once his father and brother have moved back and Emanuel began to felt that it was save once again he moved back to the woman lying on the ground and kneeled beside her. Emanuel checked for a pulse, once he found it he felt the breath come back into his body. He proceeded to check the rest of her body to make sure that she didn't have any broken bones or opened wounds that could be a harm to her.

"Is she okay, do we need to get her some help?" Aaron asked looking at his son as he protected the girl.

"She seems to be fine, but I want to take her home and have mother check her over just in case I missed anything." Emanuel said as he prepared to pick her up from the floor.

By this point Aaron had gotten close enough that he could get a better look at the girl that was in Emanuel's arms. "I have seen her before." Aaron said as Emanuel broth her closer toward him.

Michael had been looking around train to make sure that none of the rivaling clans had trespass on their territory or had come upon the girl that his brother know protected. As he was taking all the smells in the area he catch one in particular that didn't belong in their territory. Michael became tense and was on guard in case of any attacks. "Dad, Emanuel I think we should hurry this up I just cut Mathye's scent." Michael said as he moved in closer to his brother and father.

Emanuel became tense and pulled the unconscious girl closer toward him to keep her safe. Aaron took in the night air into his lungs and affirm what Michael had said. "It seems that he has been here and around her." At Aaron's words Emanuel began to make his way toward their home and toward the safest place that he could think at the moment to put her in. That left Aaron and Michel to protect his back from any attacks.

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'Does Silver Dragons always ruin everything? I had just started to become acquainted with my new toy when they had showed up.' The man hidden in the shadows thought to himself as he watch them take her way.

This man was great friends with the Darkness. The Darkness has watched him grow becoming his accomplice in every evil he had done. The Darkness was the one that had comfort him giving him a peace that he had never gotten with his own family. The Darkness gave him a purposes and power he couldn't describe.

He looked back toward the group that had butcher his plans for the night. He looked at Emanuel the future leader of the Silver Clan carry the girl away. But he was not worried the time will come when he and she would cross paths again and at that point there will be nobody to help her escape his grasp.

The first thing that Aaron heard as they approach their home was his daughter's voice. "Mom they are back and they have broth someone with them." Gwenith said as she turned back toward her mother.

"Gwenith get the spear bedroom ready." Emanuel was the first one in the door and heard as his mother gave the other.

"No she is going to my room." Gwenith stop in the middle of the steps as she look back toward her mother waiting for instructions.

"Fine, Gwenith go bring my things and take them to Emanuel's room." Alma said as she looked at the girl in his arms. "Come on hurry along Emanuel." Emanuel nodded his head and continue to make the way toward his room.

His mother stayed back a couple of feet and walked with Aaron. "What happened to her?" Alma asked her husband.

"We don't know. We found her unconscious next to the lake. As we were making sure she was fine Michael smelled Mathye and we began to make our way back." Aaron said as he put his hand around his wife and squishes her toward him.

Emanuel lied the girl down on his bed and waited for his mother to check her over. "Now both of you out so I can take a look at her." Alma said as she motion for both her husband and son to leave the room.

"I am not leaving her." Emanuel said as he moved closer to the unconscious girl in his bed.

"Fine just don't get in the way and don't you dare growl at me." Alma said to her oldest as she turned to her husband with questioning eyes.

"He has been like that ever since we found her." Aaron said moving back toward the wall as he moved out of the way.

"Gwenith bring those thing over here and help me clean her up." Alma said she looked over at her daughter.

"Doesn't she remind you of someone?" Aaron asked as his wife finished cleaning her face and checking her body over for any injuries that Emanuel might have missed.

Alma took a step back and really took a look at her. "Now that you mention it, yes, she kind of reminds me of Rosa." Alma said looking back at her husband. "It can't be they all died 3 years ago." Alma said as she realize what her husband was train to get her to see.

"I would have agreed with you if it wasn't for the fact that Ricardo called me two night ago. He made me promise that if for any reason him and Rosa ended up dead or missing that I would take care of their daughter." Aaron said looking at the still unconscious girl on the bed.

"The question now is was she the only one that survive or did her sisters make it out alive as well." Alma asked looking worried at the implications of having this powerful woman lost out in the world suffering who knew what.

"I am hoping that she would be able to tell us a little bit more of what has happened and maybe get a confirmation on who I believe she is." Aaron said as he put his hand around his wife.

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Sophia began to move as she heard the voices that were around her. Her head hurt and her body ache all over as she tested her arms and legs to see how mobile they were. She began to open her eyes and look around. "Where am I?" She asked as she took in her surrounding her voice raspy and dry.

"You are at the Silver Dragon Clan and you are among friends." Alma said coming over to her side. "How are you feeling?" Alma asked as she looked her over.

"Fine, I just have a headache and some sore muscles." Sophia said as she tried to sit up but at the moment she tried the pan made her rethink her decision.

Emanuel seen her pain expression helped her back toward the bed. "Relax, lay back and let your body heal." Emanuel said.

"Do you remember how you ended up in the woods?" Aaron asked as he stood at the foot of the bed.

"No, I only remember seen this bright light right before I was thrown across the wood then just black." Sophia said as she looked at each one individually.

"Do you remember your name?" Gwenith asked as she enter the room with a glass of water.

Sophia looked at her for a minute before a small smile came over her face. "My name is Sophia."

"Hello Sophia, I am Gwenith nice to meet you." Gwenith said giving her a smile that reached her eyes.

"Nice to meet you." Sophia said a little reserve on how to behave.

"Don't worry honey we will protect you and your memory will come back to you eventually." Alma said a comforting smile on her face.

Sophia looked at the people in the room and hoped that they were right because at this moment she felt that she had left something or someone berry important to her in her other life and she need to figure out what it was.