Dawn of a Thousand Suns, Book I: Arch De Angels

Chapter XXIII

A strange feeling awakened Lucius and immediately realized that something had happened or was about to happen. Uriel also woke up with him, and they found Michael already awake. The three of them stared at Angela, and for a second she too opened her eyes and whispered, "Something is not right." They got to their feet and ran to the balcony. It was already midnight in Mondelay, the area was lit up with lots of torches. Officers were coming and going in the streets and on the wall. There was almost no one outside except the guards, and they notice nothing strange at first glance, but the feeling that woke them up was getting stronger and stronger did not give them rest. Something had to happen or was already happening.

They returned to the room from the balcony again. The only thing that illuminated the room was torchlight coming from the windows, so they set it in semi-darkness and because of this darkness, they discovered something they couldn't while on the balcony. Their eyes in the room glowed faintly red. The redness on the outside was almost imperceptible, but it was slightly visible in the darkroom.

"The redness will increase." Stated Lucius.

"Why do you think that will be the case?" - Michael asked.

"When we woke up, we were in the dark, but we noticed nothing in each other's eyes, so either it appeared after, or it was so weak from the beginning that we did not notice."

"What should we do?" - Michael frowned.

"We all feel that something is about to happen, so we have to warn the wizards." - Uriel noted and everyone agreed. They ran to the door and knocked on the door, but no one answered for some time. At last, they heard the voice of a servant approaching the door and cursing the children on the way.

"We want to see wizards now!" - Cried Uriel.

"You brats, are you crazy or what? It's midnight and everyone is asleep. Don't make me repeat and go to your beds now!" shouted the servant angrily, and hurried away from the door, but the youngsters would not give up so easily. They took chairs and started pounding on the door rhythmically.

After a while, they heard the voice: - "Enough! Stop this madness right now!"

Slowly the door opened, and they found themselves in the face of a young wizard who, as Lucius remembered, was called Rufus.

"What the hell" He yelled at the sight of them and jumped back, taking a combat stance. "I knew from the beginning, leaving you alive was a wrong decision." - gritted the wizard and waved his hand backward...

"Wait, listen to us!" cried children desperately. Rufus was a little confused by this, apparently not expecting reasonable verbal communication from red-eyes.

"Take us to Vittorio. We have something to say!" Uriel implored.

"Humph, why should I?" - Rufus asked hesitantly, remaining in his fighting stance.

"Something will happen soon, something terrible, please we should talk to him," - begged Lucius.

He hesitated for a moment, then cleared the way. "Walk in front of me! One wrong move and you are a dead meat!"

They met Vittorio in the hallway, sitting on the floor with their legs crossed and the robe tightly wrapped around his torso. Red-haired wizard standing behind him. At the sight of the kids, she too jumped back warningly, as if preparing some spell, but Vittorio stopped her.

"Well, what is happening now?" - Asked the black wizard and looked at their eyes showing no emotion.

"Something will happen soon," Uriel said.