Light and Shadow
Chapter: 3
A True Angel of the Night
It has been a while since I've worked on this but I'm still writing. I will always write something it just might take a little while for chapters of different fics to come out. My basic pattern is to complete a chapter of one fic and move on to the next until I come back around to the first fic.
Lina parked her car in the parking lot across the street from her apartment building. She got out and locked her car as the last bit of day disappeared into the horizon. She walked up to the sidewalk and began to look both ways before she was going to cross the street. Right before she stepped out onto the street she heard, "Well, what do we have here," come from behind her.
Lina spun around to see a bunch of street punks lounging on a car that she was sure wasn't theirs. She looked over them as they started to move towards her. Their leader was easy to point out. He was a tall young man with aqua green hair and golden eyes. He was wearing a button up dark blue shirt that wasn't buttoned at all. His thumbs were hooked inside both pockets of his baggy white pants. He walked forward before leaning towards Lina and saying, "What are you doing out this late? I thought good girls were always home by this time."
Lina glared at him, not afraid of the little gang, and replied, "Well I'm no angel. And, if you'll excuse me I have other things to do."
A couple of the gang walked forward and would stand right were Lina was going to walk. They laughed as she tried to get by as the leader taunted, "Hey, now we weren't trying to be scary. We just want a little fun is all."
"How's this for fun," Lina shouted as her anger boiled over and she could no longer control herself.
She threw a quick punch at the gang member in front of her which sent him flying into a trash can. Lina spun and dodged another member as he tried to tackle her from behind. She then quickly hit the same member with a snap kick to the back of the head. She squared off with the rest of the members as the leader sat and watched with amusement. After elbowing around one Lina glared at the leader and said, "What's the matter afraid of being beaten by a girl."
The leader just laughed as he stood up and replied, "I was going to give you a fighting chance but now you have insulted me."
Lina moved towards the leader and sent a punch right towards his face. The young man easily blocked her punch and pushed her back with one arm. He then popped his neck before saying, "Now this game is over," before running towards Lina at a mind numbing speed.
Lina could barely follow his movements but sent a kick towards where she thought he would be. It turned out to be just an afterimage and her foot went through air. As she was trying to find him again Lina felt arms wrap around hers and put her into a full nelson. Lina tried to struggle but he had strength and leverage on his side. The leader lowered his mouth to her ear and whispered, "I'm Valgaav and I will make sure you won't forget this night."
As the rest of the punks were coming towards Lina to do whatever they wish; a loud cry, sounding like a large beast, rang out from above. All the punks froze in their tracks for a second before backing away. With the punks backing up they left a space where a figure landed in. It was human looking with large, leathery, black bat wings coming from its back. Its body was featureless and looked like that of a moving shadow. After a moment the figure turned towards Lina and Valgaav as brown robes began to appear on the figure. Soon it looked like a monk with black wings was standing in front of them. It was at this moment that Lina felt Valgaav let go of her. Before she could react he walked in front of her and kneeled to the thing while saying, "What do you require of me my lord?"
From the way the hood of the robes moved Lina would guess the figure looked at Valgaav before replying in a light tenor voice, "I have come for what I have been hunting."
Valgaav looked over his back at Lina before asking, "She's the one? Well then I must say that's a interesting turn of events. She's all yours my lord."
Lina didn't wait for anyone to move and she took off towards the door of her apartment. As she ran across the street she heard the commotion of the punks coming after her. As she was running up the stairs the figure landed in front of her blocking the door inside. Without thinking she threw a punch while shouting, "Out of my way weirdo."
Her punch didn't even connect. She felt like her hand was being held still by the air. She couldn't move her fist from right in front of the figure. As she tried to pull her hand down one of the figures arms extended towards her. Right as her hand could move again the figures gray hand appeared from in the long sleeve and touched her cheek. Lina jumped away from the figure and prepared to defend herself. As she looked around she noticed all the punks circled around but hadn't moved towards her. She looked back up at the figure in the monk robes as he walked forward slightly. He extended his hand towards Lina before saying, "Do not fear me child. I will not harm you if you come with me."
Lina glanced at the figure before retorting, "So if I don't come with you then I will be harmed. Doesn't leave much of a choice now does it?"
"You just assume that I will harm you. But, it is no use to hurt you, it is better if you are willing," the figure replied as he closed with Lina.
Lina tried to back up but she ran into the wall of bodies. She turned to see Valgaav was the one she ran into. He just smiled and remarked, "I would go with the master if I were you," before shoving her towards the figure.
With the push Lina soon found herself pressed against the figure in the monk robe. She felt his arms wrap around her as she tried to push away. She looked up at him to see those same two sapphire eyes that she had in her weird dream. She blinked before whispering, "Its you...but...but your just a dream."
She could feel the figure smile as her looked at her. He chuckled slightly before saying, "My dear child I am not a dream but a premonition. Once your powers began to wake you sensed that I would come."
Lina looked at him for a moment before she felt his hand cup her chin. She looked into his eyes for a moment before she heard him say, "Come with me and give me back the power I once possessed. Do this willingly and I promise your life will be a wonderful dream."
For a moment Lina felt a haze cloud over her mind. It felt as if every word he spoke drew her into his spell. Right as she opened her mouth to reply she heard many grunts from behind and then a shout, "Master!"
She quickly turned around, still in the figures arms, to see the punks thrown all over the street. Valgaav was beaten and bloodied on one knee in front of them. Before he could move again the young punk was batted away with a gold topped cane. She watched as a man stepped forward from out of the darkness and into plain view. He was as tall as the thing that had her but this man was very noticeable once he came into the light. He was in a black business suit that seemed to impress beyond any possible measure. His hands rested lightly on a cane that was topped with a golden cobra head with ruby eyes. His shoulder length amethyst hair came tumbling out of the black bowler that rested on top of his head. He smiled at the two before he opened his mouth and let out this strange noise that Lina did not understand at all. The figure that held her grunted and backed away from her as if he was in pain. "Even with your gain in power you are still weak when you true name is spoken," the dapper man smile again before placing a cigarette in his mouth and lighting up.
"What do you mean his true name," Lina asked as she moved away from the recovering thing behind her.
The man smiled and replied, "Why beings such as us have a bit of a weakness to our original names. If they are spoken we must do whatever the speaker wishes and I wanted him to feel pain at the moment."
As the dapper man was about to move towards Lina the another set of weird sounds came from the other one. The dapper man backed away with a frown on his face as the other creature stood and replied, "And, if you recall I still remember you true name as well my old comrade."
The dapper man smiled and replied, "Call me Xellos my old friend. It's the name I have adopted for this age. I have come here for her and to deliver a message. The master will forgive your betrayal if you hand the girl over to me."
The other figure snorted and replied, "But, that is our nature to betray. Just like your master led us to betray he who created us. No, I have broken his spell over me and I am my own master now."
"So you think that because you have some followers that you can rival the master. We will see how far you have come then," Xellos smirked as he started to move quickly.
The other being let out the strange sounds again and Xellos stopped in his tracks. The figure jumped and grabbed Lina as she was trying to run. He grabbed hold of her wrist and said, "Don't run."
"Yeah right! The last thing I'm going to do is wait to she which one of you wins...let me go," Lina shouted as she struggled.
The figure wrapped his black wings around Lina and began to chant something in latin. It was very low by Lina could tell it had to do with the summoning of the powers of the winds. A second later Lina was in her bedroom with the figure in front of her. She was about to swing when the figure turned away. "Today is not the day. I will have to deal with my enemies before a come for you. You will be safe from Xellos as long as you do not invite him into your home."
"And, you," Lina asked angrily as went for the gun she kept next to her bed.
When she aimed it toward where the figure was he was gone. She quickly made sure no one was in the apartment before locking all the doors and windows. She then slumped on the bed and breathed heavily while thinking, 'I don't know what is going on but I have some research to do on some of this tomorrow.'
Lina then rolled over, while keeping her gun near, and lapsed into a troubled sleep.
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