"So, what's up with this great big bad Dominus of your and why do you act so afraid of him?" I asked as Raven and I passed down a few more hallways, keeping closely to her side as some people in low hoods passed me with dark scowls.
Raven's face tightened just after she bowed to them and we'd passed. "I'm not afraid of him!" she barked, her eyes lighting up dangerously. "He's just highly respected."
I nodded, but didn't miss as her face flushed slightly and her gaze shot straight forwards as we came into a room with stone walls with a deep whooshing noise, like hard rainfall beating against the mountain from outside.
"Ah, what do you know," Raven said crossing her arms over her chest, looking pleased. "Right on rime."
"Open the gates!" someone called.
I jumped with surprised just as the walls began to shake, slowly parting, revealing a thick flowering waterfall from behind. Air cold as glacier water rushed out to me, I cringed, blinking back the water droplets that collected on the ends of my eyelashes.
"Here they come," Raven exclaimed rather excitedly.
Who? I wanted to ask, but I wouldn't have gotten the chance. At exactly that moment, as I peered closer into the falls, I made out moving figures like shadows. Suddenly, bursting through the falls, came a flying figure with a dark thick hood over his face, soared in and landed with perfect balance, shaking the water from his wings. Water dripped from his dark leather gear as he approached us, beside me I heard as Raven's back jerked straight and she beamed.
"Lucien, welcome back." she said coolly.
Lucien whipped back his wet hood revealing a smooth face with long blonde hair and electric lime green eyes that flashed very cat-like at me before traveling back to Raven.
"Thank you Raven." His chin jerked over to my direction. "We have a guest?"
Raven nodded. "Lucien, this is Lilith Black, over new half blood, Lilith this is Lucien Veil."
Lucien's hand instantly darted for mine as he bowed, kissing the top it hit softly, the smallest of smiles hidden in the corner of his mouth. "An honor to finally make your acquaintance."
"So, you're the Dominus?" I said curtly, retrieving my hand and nonchalantly wiping if off against my sleeve.
"Me?" Lucien's said straightening with a chuckle, "Flattering, but no, I'm not. I was just flying with him--ah, that should be him right now."
Just as Lucien said that, another flyer came diving through the falls, water spraying everywhere. Hidden under a dark hood, the flyer landed with precise, shaking off his wings.
His wings.
Long an powerful, they weren't like anything I'd seen. Splayed out from his body, they had no smooth feather like Lucien or Raven of any other flying being I'd seen. They looked demonic and dragon-like with a dark russet color.
I tried not to gawk like an idiot as the flyer came forward, tucking his wings normally against his side, striding towards with leather boots, gear with purple straps and black buckles and a red glittering sword in his holster.
"Alice, you finally made it," Lucien exclaimed. "I thought you wouldn't be able to keep up."
The supposed Alice snorted darkly as he pulled his wet hood from his head, dark wet hair falling to his shoulders in wet strands, hinted with dark shades of red like he'd bathed in blood, his eyes flecked with splashes of auburn flashed to me as I shrank next to Raven.
"Alice," Raven said with a slight bow, stiffer this time. Her body had changed in this guys presence. "How was your flight? Do the angels to seem to be moving?"
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Fallen (Undergoing editing)
Teen FictionI never thought it would end like this. I always thought I had a home. I always thought I had a family, but as it turns out, my past is darker than the lies they told me and the truth they kept from me.
