to run.
The chosen one must have faith,
Or all will be lost,
The Dark One will rule the land.
She can win this battle,
But only by her hand.
The Elder Council will rise once more,
One by one,
Six will heed the call.
Nothing like you would expect,
These are yours to revere and protect.
One who knows what she is not told,
One to fight the battles foretold,
One to feel what is not hers,
One from the world which we protect,
One from the enemies which we chase,
And the Chosen One,
Who they will embrace.
When the council has risen,
It is time to strike,
Gather your army,
And go to the fight.
Courage will win the day,
But only if she has chosen to stay.
Ally finished reading and let her hands drop to her lap with the scroll in them. She sat there for a moment taking it all in. “It’s very cryptic,” she said with a smile. “How do we find these council members when we don’t even know who or what they are exactly?”
“We don’t know for sure who or what they are but read it again and see if you can work out what they might be,” he gently instructed.
Ally looked at him and pulled her eyebrows together, then picked up the scroll and read it aloud, one line at a time to work it. “Ok so the first one, ‘One who knows what she is not told.’ Well that could be a psychic right?”
“Yes, that is what I believe,” James said, motioning for her to continue.
“One to fight the battles foretold.’ Could that be a warrior like Damian was?”
James nodded. “I think so, yes.”
“Ok, so next we have, ‘One to feel what is not hers.’” Ally sat pondering that one for a second, then her face lit up as she remembered something Adele had told her. “An empath! That has to be an empath right?”
James smiled at her again. He was so proud of how she was putting everything together. “Yes, an empath.”
Ally was feeling pretty proud of herself too. She didn’t decipher old prophecies every day!
“And ‘One from the world which we protect.’ Ok well that’s a human.”
“Yes. The next one.”
“You know all this already, don’t you?” she asked.
“I have ideas, yes. But we don’t really know anything for sure.”
“Hmm…I guess not. So next, ‘One from the enemies which we chase.’ vampire, right?”
Again, James nodded.
“But how could we have a vampire on our side? That doesn’t make much sense.”
“You’re right, it doesn’t. However, it's in the prophecy, so somehow I am willing to bet we will have a vampire on our side.”
Ally began to squirm a little at the thought of trusting a vampire. “I don’t think I’m loving that idea to be honest, but I guess what choice do we have.” She shrugged.
“I don’t really like the idea any more than you, but it’s in the prophecy and so far everything has come to pass from it, so I have a feeling we will just have to get used to the idea.”
Ally agreed, but still felt uneasy. She looked at the scroll again to read the last line. “Well this one is easy, ‘And the Chosen One.’ That is obviously me. So we have a psychic, a warrior, an empath, a human, a vampire and myself.”
“Correct.”
Ally took a depth breath and made a hmpf sound. “So once the council is formed, that is the time to strike right?”
“I believe so, yes.”
“So what do we do now? Are we supposed to be out looking for them or are they going to come to us?”
“I don’t know little one. I have thought about it many times, but I still don’t know.”
“There's more I want to know, and we have to think about tomorrow before we go trying to solve this problem,” she said motioning to the scroll in her hand.
James leaned in and placed a soft kiss on her forehead. “You’re right little one. Ask me anything you want.”
“I need to know what kind of defenses I have against the vampires, should we find them tomorrow.”
He looked at her sadly and brushed a stray lock of hair behind her ear. She sighed inwardly at the loving intimate gesture. “To be honest my love, I don’t know that you have any. You are only half immortal, and we haven’t had time to put your abilities to the test to discover what you have or if the ones you may have would be of any use to you against the vampires.”
He was concerned, she could feel it radiating out of him.
“Then we have to adapt