"S-stay back!!"
My sister is yelling at my father and she's blocking me with herself; she's nudging me to move back further into the hall. Zayfur sighs and looks to his daughter "What are you doing Celeste?, I need to take of the monster; would you please move?" Celeste shakes her head and stares daggers into her father "No, I know what you're doing, in fact I know the truth of why you're doing this and I won't let you!" Zayfur grits his teeth at his daughter's statement "If you know the truth then why don't you get out of the way?" Celeste backs up getting me to back up as well "What is happening?, does...does father really intend to kill me?" Celeste continues to stare Zayfur down "No, don't you dare turn this around on him, I'll be blocking you until we- no, until he is safe!" Zayfur sighs as he loads two sharp metallic hand sized objects into his crossbow and then aims it forward "Do you really take me for such a bad shot?" Celeste's angered stare turns into her face being consumed by fear "W-what?" Celeste says with a shaky voice. Zayfur turns his aim to the left of his daughter towards the wall as he fires the crossbow, quickly pulls it back while lowering his aim and fires again; both shots can be heard hitting the wall and then ricocheting off it and the sound of a softer sounding impact. "Where did it land and what is this sudden sharp pain....and this taste...blood....and metal..?" I bring my hand to the left side of mouth "Why...why can I feel my teeth?" I look at my hand and it's covered in blood. I look to Celeste, looking at me her face turned pale; I look down at myself to see a sharp object lodged in my chest "Oh...I was..hit and I'm...bleeding, in my mouth and ches....its...getting hard to breathe.." I reach out to my sister for help "Celes...chest tight...breathing..hard, I feel... cold." My last words before I collapse to the floor and my sight fades to black. Celeste steps forward as she drops to her knees staring at the lifeless body of her brother.
"No...no....NO, XENITH!!"
Celeste pulls her brother's body to herself as she holds it and looks up as she sobs uncontrollably "X-xenith...this c-can't be happening...n-no.." Zayfur walks over to Celeste to try and put a hand on her shoulder "Look, I know this is tough an-" Celeste smacks his hand away before it can get too close and she turns angrily to her father with streams of tears going down her face "Get the hell away from me you monster!" Zayfur scoffs then reloads his crossbow. My consciousness is lost within the void, nothing but darkness, that is until I see a piercing light followed by a familiar voice "Xenith...I've come to give you my aid." despite it all I find a way to form words so I can respond "Who... is that... Xhe...nymph..?" the light gets brighter as it the voice speaks to me once again "Yes that's me, while every law of nature tells me not to as well as how much trouble I'll get into, after you've gotten this far I can't stand to sit by and let your life end like this." I try to form what feels like a smile "Thank y-" I get cut off as a blinding white light washes over me.
"C....Celeste...?"
Celeste freezes and stops her crying as she looks down to see me awake and breathing. She rubs her eyes to make reassure herself and puts a hand on my face "You... you're... you're alive!" I smile at her and as I do I feel the part of my mouth where the flesh is torn, missing revealing my teeth but, despite it my sister ignores it and hugs me tightly "Hah, I know what you must be thinking, no I don't care what you look like because through and through you're still my brother; my only question or concern is..your left eye.. its pure white, almost glowing as it is." I have a puzzled look as this is new news to me as well "Perhaps... something to do with how Xhenymph revived me..?" I look down at myself noticing where the objected was lodged in, the wound is now closed and the object lays on the floor. Zayfur overhears chatter and turns around to an unwelcoming shock "L-look everyone, he came back to life; the true power of an actual monster!" he says as he readies his crossbow once again. Celeste noticing this pulls me in for another hug as she whispers in my ear "I love you brother." as she while crouched, takes half a step back as she is shot twice in the back, falling forward towards me; I quickly get up to get to my sister.
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Fallen
خيال (فانتازيا)Born by prophecy, live by circumstance, the life a red eyed assimar named Xenith Laytun'Farr had been put into until it all went spiraling down
