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Unic0rn69

Just thought I'd give everyone a little update.

I'm currently working on what will be, when it is finished, the final chapters of Newhaven. It is currently at seven pages, but will probably grow by many more before it is finished. I plan for these final chapters to be emotionally charged as possible. I know that many of you will be disappointed that the series is coming to an end, but all good things must unfortunately end at some point.

However, I do intend to write more stories using the events of Mare Mistress as a basis and backstory, but with new characters, new plot lines, and new adventures.


I want to sincerely thank all of the fans of the story for their support up to this point. You have all been an inspiration to me, and it is because of you that this, what I consider to be my greatest work, has been possible. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart, and hope that the final chapters are satisfying and bring the story to an end in a way that will do justice to the series. It is also my hope that you will be as supportive and eager about the future stories I have planned as you have been about the Mare Mistress series.

With all of this said, expect the final chapters to be posted here within the week.

Thank you all again, it truly has been a wonderful ride. :)

:) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( ........................ I don't know what to be........ The fact that we get more chapters thrills me to no end but then having the story end makes me sad. I don't know what to be........ I guess i should be happy that you intend to continue with other works along the same story basis.... So Happy it is. :lol:

This ranks equal first on my top 5 favorite stories written on this forum (but seeing how it was written long before my other fav's it ranks 1st overall)

You have my undying gratitude for this amazing series HBDMN

Lonesomwolf

P.S here's another 10

As promised, here are the final chapters. Enjoy!






Chapter 9
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“So explain this to me again doc, just one more time…” I said to the aged haflinger Equan who stood before me, seeming a bit annoyed to have to explain the procedure he was about to perform for the third time.

He sighed, and began yet again.

“We have to stop your heart long enough for you to clinically die. We’re going to expose you to an extremely potent level of anti-chronoton radiation in order to force the temporal signature of your body’s cells back into sync. We can’t do it while your heart is beating, the stress of the procedure would cause your heart to quite literally rip itself apart, killing you instantly.”

“Isn’t there any other way?” I asked, attempting to disguise my fear but failing.

“I’m afraid not. We must act soon. By our calculations if you make another time jump, not only will we not get you back, you won’t survive it. This is your only chance.” The doctor said as he put his hand on my shoulder. “Don’t worry, you’re in the hands of some of the best and brightest minds in Equan society. We’re going to do everything we can for you.” He said reassuringly.

I sat in silence for a moment.

“Okay.” I said, “I guess I don’t really have much of a choice now, do I? When will you be ready to perform the procedure?”

“Within the hour. Preparations are already underway.” The doctor replied.

“Okay. In the meantime… can I have some time alone with my wife?” I asked.

“Of course.” He replied, nodding at the other doctors and nurses that were in the room with us, signaling them to leave. “We’ll come and get you as soon as everything is set up.” He said , exiting the room and closing the door behind him.

Adara stepped closer to me and rested her muzzle on my chest, closing her eyes as I held her head in my arms and gently stroked her face.

“Adara…” I said, “I want you to promise me something. Before I tell you what it is, you have to swear you’ll promise me first.”

“Anything my love…”

“Adara…” I said, lifting her head up and looking deeply into her eyes, “swear to it.”

“I swear my love… I’ll do anything” Adara replied, nearly in tears.

“If anything happens to me… if I don’t make it… promise me you’ll find someone else and be happy. I can’t bear the thought of you living the rest of your life as a miserable shell for my sake.” I whispered to her.

Adara’s eyes started to glaze over as tears streamed down her muzzle.

“My love… I don’t know if I can…”

“You have to, Adara. Please… I want you to live a good life, even if I’m not around to be a part of it. There are plenty of Equans and horses out there who would bend over backwards to be with a pretty mare like you. You don’t have to forget me, just promise me you’ll move on and live a full, happy life.” I said to her, wiping her tears away.

“I promise.” She said sullenly. “My love…”

“Yes?”

“Hold me…”

I held Adara in my arms as she silently wept. I kissed her muzzle, stroked her face, did everything I could to comfort her as she closed her eyes, trying to mask her sorrow and pain.

What seemed like moments later, the doctor returned.

“We’re ready to perform the procedure.” He said.

I kissed Adara one last time and put my hand on her cheek.

“It’s going to be okay…” I whispered. “I’m ready” I said to the doctor, wiping a tear from my eye.

Before I knew it I was being whisked away, my helpless lover left standing there with Saphira and Joran at her side comforting her. I hoped that image wasn’t the last one I’d have of her.

We entered the room where the procedure was to be performed. It was filled with all manner of odd-looking devices, and one very large, intimidating machine somewhat resembling a CT-scanner. There were already three or four doctors in the room milling about, some preparing instruments, some tweaking panels on the large device, all of them seeming too engrossed in their work to notice that I had arrived.
The haflinger doctor stood over me and brought a mask to my face.

“Try to relax. Take deep breaths.” He said.

I complied, breathing in deep whatever it was that I was being given.

Within a few seconds I felt a tightening in my chest. I heard the pulse monitor beginning to chirp erratically. It felt as though a truck had been parked on my chest. I struggled to breathe as my heart began beating faster and faster, becoming more and more erratic.

“I can’t….” I gasped, my back arching as I rose up of the bed in agony, my eyes rolling back in my head. In moments, the monitor flat lined and I lost consciousness.

“Go, go, now!” I heard the doctors shouting as I slipped away.


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Chapter 10
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A most curious sensation overtook me. All of a sudden I could see all of the doctors. I could hear the flat lining pulse indicator. I could see all of the doctors… and… myself?

“Get him into the chronoton chamber, stat!” One of the doctors said.

“We’re thirty seconds in, two minutes remaining before he suffers permanent damage.” another one said frantically.

I watched as the team of doctors sealed me into the large device in the middle of the room.

“This can’t be happening… am I… dead?” I thought to myself.

As soon as my body was shut in the device, the team of doctors hurried behind what appeared to be a protective barrier.

“Initiating chronoton burst.” One of the doctors said as the room grew dark and an overpowering blue light filled the room from inside the machine. The flurry of conversation was almost too much to keep up with.

“Temporal alignment at thirty percent…”

“We have less than a minute left to start his heart back up…”

“Initiating secondary chronoton burst… NOW!”

A second burst of overpowering blue light filled the room.

“Temporal alignment at seventy five percent and rising… one more should do it…”

“Twenty seconds remaining until he begins to suffer brain damage…”

“Initiating final burst…”

A third burst of light filled the room.

“Temporal alignment at one hundred percent.. We did it, move move move, get him out of there!”

All at once the doctors rushed back in and pulled my lifeless body from the machine. One of them held an oxygen mask over my face as another one charged paddles.

“CLEAR!” the doctor yelled before administering the shock. My body spasmed, but remained still.

“Charging…” the doctor said while another doctor began CPR.

“CLEAR!” Another shock, still no movement.

A third.

A fourth.

A fifth.

“He’s not responding…” one of the doctors began.

“AGAIN!” shouted the Equan doctor.

In hesitant compliance, one of the doctors shocked me one final time, to no avail.

The haflinger Equan doctor sighed and looked down at my corpse sullenly.

“Note the time of death. Take the body down to the morgue. I’ll inform his wife” he said.

It all seemed so surreal.

“I’m not dead!” I protested loudly, knowing it was futile. None of them could hear me. “I can’t be…” I whispered.

Adara…  I thought to myself, running toward the door. Upon trying to push the door open, my hand went right through it. Hesitantly, I stepped through the solid door as though it were thin air. “Okay… maybe I am…” I muttered.

I ran down the hall and could see the waiting room in the distance. The Equan doctor was already standing next to Adara, Joran, and Saphira. All at once Adara threw her head back and let out a shrill, blood-curdling whinny as her legs buckled and she fell to the ground as though taken down by some unseen predator. Seeing that was more painful than anything I’d ever experienced, knowing that she was reeling from the news of my death, and that there was nothing I could do to console her.

Joran knelt down in front of Adara and picked up her head, putting it on his shoulder as he embraced her in a tight hug, his own eyes closed tight in pain as tears streamed down his muzzle. Saphira stood silently in the corner of the room, gazing out the window at the sky, weeping silently.

Hanging his head, the doctor quietly left the room, leaving them to grieve. I ran into the room, passing right through him as he made his way out. I hit the floor on my knees from a full run as I approached Adara. I immediately tried to put my arms around her, but was unable to.

“He can’t be gone… he just can’t be…” The mare whispered.

At this point I couldn’t hold back my tears any longer.

“Oh Adara…” I wept, desperately longing to put my arms around her and offer her comfort, the pain that she was going through resonating in me as well.



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Chapter 11
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I sat by Adara through the funeral. She wept silently, along with several other mourners. A bagpipe struck up in a sullen melody of “Amazing Grace” as my casket was lowered into the ground. Almost as soon as it had begun, the somber ceremony drew to a close. The mourners slowly trickled away, eventually leaving only Adara standing by the freshly disturbed mound of earth that covered my grave, Joran and Saphira both trying to comfort her.

The palomino mare laid down with her head resting on my gravestone. The sky began to grow dark, and the wind whipped furiously.

“Adara…” Joran said softly as he put his massive hand on her, “We have to go, there’s a storm coming. It looks like a bad one, we need to get to shelter.”

Adara lay there motionless, not making a sound. Large drops of rain began to fall intermittently, slowly becoming more and more steady as a roll of thunder rumbled through the air. Joran looked back at Saphira, who simply shook her head. Joran and Saphira hesitantly left as a torrential downpour began.

Adara closed her eyes as the rain soaked her beautiful body. Her wet mane clung to her neck, making her look nearly as miserable as she was feeling. The mare let out a low, deep, painful moan as a tear streamed down her face. I turned from her and hit my knees in agony, sobbing loudly, my heart being ripped out of my chest by the sight of my love in such pain. She lay there for hours in the pouring rain, not once moving.

When the storm finally passed several hours later, the mare fell asleep, exhausted.

All at once a bright light appeared in the sky above me, and I felt myself being drawn toward it.

“No…NO!! I WON’T LEAVE HER HERE LIKE THIS!” I screamed as I desperately clawed at the earth, trying futilely to cling to this world. I scrambled forward, fighting the unseen force that was pulling me toward the light. “I… WON’T… LEAVE… HER….” I grunted as I strained with all my might. The light vanished suddenly, and I stumbled forward from the force of my resistance, my entire body falling into Adara’s

I became surrounded by what seemed like fog. I could see nothing else.

“Where am I?” I wondered out loud. In the distance, I could faintly see the image of a palomino mare with her head hung low, weeping.

“Is Adara sleeping? Am I… in her dream?” I wondered.

As I slowly approached the mare, all at once she lifted her head and her ears perked up and locked onto me. “Hu… husband?” She whispered, quivering.

“Adara?” I said, stopping in my tracks.

A deafening whinny erupted from the mare, and she ran toward me at full speed. “HUSBAND!” She yelled loudly.

She slid to a stop just inches from me, and I fell forward, my arms on either side of her neck embracing her in a hug.

“Oh my love… I thought that I had lost you…” She whimpered.

I stepped back from her, hesitating as I looked at the ground.

“What is it?” She asked.

“Adara… this isn’t real. I think you’re dreaming.” I said, turning away from her.

“But… it feels so real… husband please say it isn’t so… I don’t ever want to lose you…” The mare said as she began weeping.

“I don’t know how much longer we have together, my love. I believe that I will cross over soon. I was being pulled toward a bright white light earlier… I fought it and fell forward onto… or rather into… you. I was with you earlier… at the hospital… at the funeral… oh I wanted so badly to comfort you, to kiss you and hold you in my arms… it hurt me so bad to see you in so much pain.” I said to her, lifting her chin with my hand and gently stroking her face with the other as I kissed her on the muzzle. “I love you Adara. Never forget that.” I whispered.

The mare stood quivering as she closed her eyes.

“I won’t let you go,” she weeped, “I just won’t let you go… the devil himself couldn’t pry you away from me.”

“Adara… my love… I don’t think there’s anything either of us can do about it. I believe that I was allowed to stay here for a few more moments, so that I could say goodbye to you. When the time finally does come for me to cross over to the other side, I don’t think either of us can prevent it.” I put my forehead to hers and closed my eyes, weeping with her. “I wish we didn’t have to say goodbye” I said as my voice wavered and squeaked, “Oh Adara… I love you so much… words could never do my feelings for you justice.”

“Adara?” I heard Saphira’s voice call out. I was violently expelled from the mare as she snapped awake. I scrambled to my feet and could see Saphira approaching once I got my bearings. “Please Adara, come back home with me. Joran and I have been so worried about you. You can stay with us as long as you want.”

“Oh Saphira… I spoke to him. He came to me in my sleep… his spirit is still here with us, I just know it is!” Adara exclaimed, becoming excited.

“You poor thing…” Saphira said, believing the mare was becoming delusional, “come on Adara. You need to get some rest my dear friend… try to take your mind off of this.”

“I’m not crazy Saphira… he thinks he’s going to cross over soon… I… I…” she said as she suddenly turned her attention toward a tree in the distance, looking past Saphira.

“What is it?” the paint mare asked.

“Saphira… I love you, you know you’re my dearest friend in this world, right?” Adara asked quietly.

“Of coarse,” Saphira replied, “Adara…”

“Saphira, I can’t go on without him.” She said, nuzzling Saphira on her cheek. “ I just can’t do it. Goodbye my dear friend” She said.

I already knew what Adara was about to do.

“No Adara… no… don’t do this, not for me…” I whispered.

“What do you mean goodby…” Adara took off running at a full gallop before Saphira could finish her question.

“ADARA, NO!!” I screamed at the top of my lungs, to no avail. The mare was headed straight for the tree as fast as she could move.

“I’m coming, my love” the mare whispered, closing her eyes as she neared the tree.

I closed my eyes and looked away as a loud “CRACK!” echoed through the air, followed by a brief, shrill screech from the mare.

Saphira and I both ran toward the mare as fast as we could.

“ADARA!!” Saphira screamed in bewilderment. The palomino mare lay on the ground convulsing, blood pouring profusely from her nose as she shook uncontrollably. Saphira laid down by Adara, putting her head over her neck in a loving embrace.

“Shhh… shhh… I’m here, Adara. You’re going to be okay… you’re going to…” Saphira whispered as she began to weep. “HELP! Someone please, help!!!” Saphira whinnied desperately.

Tears were streaming down my face as well. The mare’s shaking gradually got slower and slower, and the blood that she and Saphira were now covered in slowed to a trickle from her nose. The mare’s breathing became labored. She spasmed one final time, her eyes closed and she exhaled as her body became motionless.

“NO!!!” Saphira whinnied, “Adara!”

A translucent image of a beautiful palomino mare emerged from the lifeless body that once was my wife.

“Adara?” I asked as the image turned its attention toward me.

“HUSBAND!” Adara yelled as she ran to me and nearly knocked me over trying to put her head over my shoulder and embrace me.

“Oh Adara… you didn’t have to do this… I’m not worth dying for.” I said to her in tears.

“Please forgive me husband… I was desperate…” the mare apologized, looking over at Saphira who was weeping heavily over her lost friend. “Saphira… I’m so sorry…” she whispered, trying to nuzzle her but passing through Saphira just as I had passed through her. My heart ached for Saphira for having to endure the loss of two of her closest friends within such a short span of time.

The same white light that tried to take me earlier reappeared, but was a bit more gentle this time. Adara and I looked at each other, and we both knew what was happening.

“I love you Adara,” I whispered, pressing my forehead into hers and closing my eyes as the light grew brighter and surrounded us, “until the day I die and beyond.”



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There's not much else i can say that i haven't already said at one point or another. Your an artist a scholar and a gentleman. Bravo with a standing ovation.

I can't wait to see what else comes out of that amazing mind of yours.

Lonesomwolf

i wish i had more time tonight to read the last chapter but i will have to read it tomorrow, i hate the fact that the story is ending so soon but at least it will have closure unlike so many stories on the forum.
thank you for a great story HBDMN

Unic0rn69

I don't think I could have said it any better. This is an epic story, and I am sad that it's over, but I am glad that it I was able to read it in its entirety.

A huge THANK YOU for taking the time to compose this wonderful tale.

now I'm Glad that i didn't read this last night you didn't have to kill the them i know that life isnt always fair but to end such a good story that way.... well at least they went together ....


Unic0rn69

time to bring this wonderful story back to the light of day for new readers to enjoy.
thank you for writing it HBDMN

have you any other ideas for a new story ?




Unic0rn69