Skybound Volume 1: The Girl Who Flew.

Chapter 2: The Passage Of Fate.

(An: Edits have been made in preparation of Chapter 3, there have also been several grammar edits, and I generally improved the overall clarity of this chapter.

Oh, and I fixed a scene near the end of the chapter where I used the wrong gender for a character. Resulting in some confusion.)

A young girl with long purple hair walked the alleyways of this fair city, she wore nothing but a white shirt with a black jacket.

Her hood was up in an attempt to obscure her face, it wasn't that it was ugly far from it.

Her peach lips and slightly pale skin could draw in any man.

Yet once glance at her eyes would send shivers up any spine, crimson eyes full of malice.

"Hey, there's sweet stuff... Why dontcha come on down to my place." a man uttered, putting a hand on the shoulder of this girl.

She blinked, stopping in her tracks as she uttered only two words, "Hand's off." it was a single warning to the foolish drunk that would dare put his hands upon her.

A warning that the drunk would not heed, for the minds of the glutton were all but tainted with impurity

"Aw come on sugar don't be like that, You know you wanna be with me..." his hands began to lower.

Lower.

The girl's gaze narrowed and she let out a small sigh as his hands reached a forbidden area, "Fool." with that single word she began to move forward, the man behind her reduced to a sputtering mess, the sputters then turned into screams.

He shouted outwards, "W-What did you do to me!?!!!" falling flat upon his ass the man looked up as,

The girl blinked, turning around and raising her right brow curiously at the panicked man who sat in a pool of his own blood, hands cut off to the side.

"Hmm." the girl blinked, tilting her head to the side curiously, walking forward unflinchingly even as her shoes made contact with the blood, she knelt down locking eyes with the horrified man, "Still alive eh? Even while losing that much blood...?"

Her eyes flashed a bright crimson, and as she looked the man over she then reached out with her right hand, "Adrenaline coursing through your blood... Caused by fear? Not enough to keep a man from bleeding out so what is-"

She was cut off by the man thrusting his right hand forward a pulse of electricity firing off towards the girl, however, it seemed to bounce off and fire off skyward causing the girl to smirk lightly, "Aha, a mage..." she then lunged forward digging her fingernails into the man's eye socket.

"Even as a drunk most people wouldn't be so brazen to try and get handsy in broad daylight... Yet you had the balls to make that attempt." her gaze was cold, calculating, her nails digging deeper and deeper into the socket, "The way your veins pulse, the way your blood moves." she spoke fangs bared as she pulled back removing the eye from this man's socket, "A mage through and through!"

She then dropped the eyeball to the ground, all joy sapped from her face, "And yet you're so weak... so irritatingly weak, so weak that you may as well be an ant smashed under heel." The corpse of the man lay before her.

His blood leaked from the holes that she had made, so she sighed, "Oh well... Thanks for the meal." she reached back down grabbing the eyeball before casually inserting it into her mouth.

A soft blue glow came with the satisfying pop, oh how she yearned for these moments.

Where peace rained and meals were easy pickings, it was enough to make any girl smile.