Angel & Xavier Vol1: The call of Evys.✔️

Chapter 19: The beginning of the end...

Heya, my Lovelies! Unfortunately, I have decided this is the second to last chapter of Angel and Xavier: The Call of Evys.  So to those two readers who have diligently read every chapter, I thank thee and to those randos who read random chapters, I thank thee also. But yeah. Welcome to second to last chapter.

Thank you again my dear-darlings, it has been a pleasure.

M.Elisabeth.H1

As soon as the excitement of being in a dining room with THE EVYS wore off, Xavier and I started to realize that we didn't know the ACTUAL Evys... We only knew of the legends.

So Xay being Xay jumped in the deep end.

"How do we know that you're not evil?" He asked innocently; to a rather miffed Evys as we ate the food she had prepared.

"Well... You don't." Evys replied. She paused and looked at the four of us. "I think you all know of my greatest moments and my worst, so I see no reason for you not to trust me..."

I glanced at Xay. "What has that got to do with the question, Evys..." I stated. 

The silence was thicker than cold custard. 

Evys frowned lightly. "I do not see what you are trying to achieve by annoying me."

"Well you're not a god." Xay muttered, snarkily.

Evys raised an eyebrow. "Aren't I?" she mused, her eyebrows twitching as though amused. "I raised peace from the depths of Lydian Herself. I saved millions. I even created a safe haven for those who need it, not to mention I've been alive since the year of Lydians birth. For all you know, I could have been created by the Creator Herself!"

"That's only like eight hundred years." I said as Claire glared at me. "You could have just as likely been born yesterday for all we know." I stopped as I felt Xay tap me.

"If you had a way to save Lydian you would have already." Xay said harshly. "Wouldn't you?" he teased softly.

There was a loud CRASH! as Evys threw the jug of mead to the floor. "I have saved Lydian more times than I care to remember, human. Do not anger me or you may see an Evys I haven't been for a long time..." She glared at us all. "You came here because you thought I could save Lydian again. Well tough luck younglings, the end of Lydian is closer than you would like to think."

I stood up. I don't know why I did, I just felt as though I needed to be in the same position as her. "If you were created by the Creator, then why aren't you in charge?" I asked into the hard silence, trying to make sense of the situation.

Evys face flushed furiously. "I was. For a hundred years before the Fall." 

"The- the what?" Iroh gasped voicing all our confusion. "There- what!"

"Yes. There is an entire Epoch of Lydian history no-one knows. Not Anne, nor the other rulers. There hasn't been a day go by that I do not remember the horrors of Old Lydian. I ruled over the Marylands. I wrote those laws you live by. I split the Marylands into Bethiria, Symia and Astresria. I! Me! Evys! ruled over the ENTIRETY of Lydian for ONE HUNDRED YEARS!" She stopped shouting as Tadashi re-appeared. "I am now regretting appearing to Anne." Evys frown deepened and she turned to her lover.

They spoke together in a form of  Dragonese none of us knew.

"What is the point of being a legend if you can't keep up you end of the bargain?" Iroh asked slowly after a few minutes.

Evys whipped round to look at him.  "The point? The point my dear sonny Jim, is that as a LEGEND I shouldn't have to exist anymore; Yet here I am." 

"I don't think this is what Anne meant when she said we should search for Evys..." Claire said slowly.

I looked from my friends to Evys and her lover and back again. "This is weird. I feel like something is off." I muttered to Xay who had stood up next to me, also feeling the creepy shiver up his spine as though someone were watching us. I looked around looking for the source of the feeling. As I searched for the eyes I could feel staring at us I felt a warm surge of air flow past me towards a smoll picture of an old man in a woolly top hat.

The portrait blinked. 

"EVERYBODY GET DOWN!" I yelled, dragging Xavier to the floor. Almost in slow-motion everyone dropped, Tadashi shielding Evys, the children between them.

The portrait exploded, shrapnel flew in all direction and smoke filled the air, blurring our vision.

"So Evys..." Came an impossibly deep voice from all around us. "This is where you have been hiding for a millennia..." 

"A millennia?" I heard Xay mutter, "But Lydian is only 800 years old!" He seemed to be trying to wrap his head around all the lies we'd been told.

"Kyren!" Evys gasped, and from what I could barely see she gathered her children closer as Tadashi held her.

"Evys... My dear, dear sister."

"Evys has a BROTHER???" Xay gaped.

"Kyren stop! There are children present! INNOCENTS!!!" Evys yelled over Kyren's deep rumble of a voice.

Kyren grinned, he turned to me and Xay. Red eyes bore out of the smoke at us. "All the more fun then." 

I pushed Xay behind me and got up, preparing to smack the Silver Hell out of him.

"KYREN!" Tadashi yelled. "LEAVE NOW!"

"Yeah! Leave!" Yelled Serena. 

"Well that's no way to treat your Uncle little pea" Kyren smiled, his teeth were long and sharp like a 'Gator.

With a click, I suddenly realized who this was.

This was the Dark One. Lord of the underworld and the lost souls of Lydian, an omen of death and a dark cloud on anyone who saw him. -Unlike Evys who was basically worshiped, the Dark One was feared and revered by all and any who knew him.

"Hey!"

I froze. "Xay what are you doing?" 

"Look after Claire for me." He whispered before he stepped up to the demon lord. "Hey Ass-hat!" he yelled.

Kyren turned slowly back to us. I couldn't move. I could't breathe. What was happening.

"XAVIER NO!"

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-M.Elisabeth.H1