Book 3 ~ The Puppet Master

3- The Realization

500 years ago...

"There is a NEW prophecy?!" Asked Rune.

Rune threw his hands up in exasperation.

"You've gotta be kidding!!!!!" Aisling cried.

Night rolled his eyes.

"Come on you guys, this one has nothing to do with us." Coren sighed.

Sock raised an eyebrow.

"And how can you prove that?" She asked.

Koral snorted. "Can you please tell me who has white wings?"

She asked.

Rune raised an eyebrow."Uh, I-"

"Have ash grey wings, doofus," Kura hissed.

Rune sighed.

"And I have pym wings, so..." Sock trailed off, then glanced at her back.

Yup. Still pym wings.

Dalak sighed and hefted Daren on his hip.

"Maybe it's for someone else?" He said hopefully.

Coren threw her hands up in the air."For crying out loud! Isn't that obvious?!"

Daren started to giggle, and Dalak set him down.

He rubbed his temples.

"I'm too pooped to do anything but nap," He said, and fell to the ground, snoring loudly.

Rune and Aisling stared as, one by one, their friends collapsed right then and there, asleep.

Rune stared as he saw a little girl, about six years old with blue eyes, bleach blonde hair in braids pinned in a loop over her ears. She was wearing a white dress with spaghetti straps.

She giggled at Rune and Aisling.

"You humans are funny," She said, and unfurled a pair of pearl white wings.

Rune's eyes went wide.

"What the..." Aisling started. The girl giggled again.

"My name is Angel." She said.

Rune saw his hands were on fire, and he quickly put it out.

"What do you want?" Aisling asked.

Angel smiled.

"Oh, it's not what I want, it's what YOU want."

She leaned in, and Rune gulped.

Something about this kid wasn't natural.

"Do you want the world to end?"

Rune burst on fire and pinned her to the ground.

"I saved the world ten years ago, and I'm not going to let you ruin my record!" He growled, but Angel was still smiling, not intimidated at all.

"I know, so why don't you let me go so I can change quick?"

Rune found himself letting her go, and Angel brushed her dress off.

Instantly, it was fixed. Not a hole or speck of ash to be seen.

"Now then, why don't we stick to the chase?" Angel said.

Her smile faded, and her hair turned black.

Her eyes blood red, and her wings became pitch black.

Rune blinked.

"My name is Demon," She said matter-of-factly.

"Angel is my twin. I am here to warn you."She took a deep breath.

"Subcreo is not dead. His legacy lives on in the Black, the Soul Stealer, and Blaze that burns bright."

Rune couldn't believe it.

"But we killed him! He had no kids-"

Demon glared at him.

"There is such thing as secrets, you know." She said.

Aisling swallowed hard."So... what do we do?"

Demon grinned, exposing fangs.

"Why, you reproduce, of course!"

Rune face palmed.

Aisling's face went bright red.

"WHAT?!" She exclaimed.

Demon nodded."Your descendant is to be the Angel in the prophecy, and your friends descendants are to be the others."

"like, our next kid or-" Rune started, blushing.

"In five hundred years, it is to come to pass." Demon said.

"And you will need a last name..."She paused, then grinned.

"Erindale seems about right."

There was a blinding flash of light, and Rune and Aisling saw a girl with blonde hair in a loose braid with huge, pearl white angel wings standing next to a boy with shoulder length purple hair in a white kimono with a katana strapped at his side.

Next to him was a little girl with pink hair in pigtails wearing a pink pair of overalls.

A boy with green hair and a kind smile had his hand on her head, and had a broadsword hefted over his shoulder.

A girl with black hair wearing a skimpy red top and a long skirt with a slit cut all the way to the top was holding hands with a boy with shaggy red hair wearing an ash grey colored hoodie and black jeans with the oddest wings he had ever seen.

Standing next to him was a boy with spiky white hair wearing a black hoodie and faded ripped jeans.

A boy with black hair, red hair and screamed 'emo' stood a little off to the side from the others, and with him was a boy with white hair and red eyes with a scythe slung over his shoulder.

To their surprise, they watched as the boy with red hair faded and appeared next to the boy with the scythe.

A woman dressed in a velvet black dress with silver eyes, raven black hair and a cruel smile appeared next to the three boys, and for one fleeting moment, Subcreo was next to her.

Then the vision went dark.

Rune and Aisling saw themselves sitting in a room, and Aisling was holding a baby girl.

Rune watched in wonder as he realized the little girl was his daughter.

"What should we name her?" Aisling asked.

Rune smiled.

"Lily. Lily Erindale."