The Demon And The Angel | Brypu Cult AU

Chapter 30

Atlas' POV

After about a month of learning how to open a portal, I finally managed to open one that my siblings and I could walk through.

At first, we were very confused on where we were and what we should do, but after a good amount of looking around the area we portaled to, we pick a random direction and went that way.

We ended up waking for a good few hours before we got hungry, we had money, dad had multiple debit cards active for the same account so we took one, but we didn't know what was food and what wasn't.

I began to look through windows while Lotus and Femi were keeping an eye out for dangerous strangers, after all, dad said the human realm was full of them.

Once I thought I found somewhere, we were about to head inside, when a woman started to yell at us because, to her at least, we were kids and there was no way we had money.

Someone nearby heard her, so we heard the new person say something in another language, and once the woman went to yell at them, she froze upon seeing their face.

We turned around to thank the kind stranger, but she was already walking away with someone next to her, so we decided to try and catch up.

The closer we got, the more we noticed things about the two of them.

Both had black and white hair, the girl with white hair fading to black and the boy having hair like mine, they were both in relaxed clothing, but most importantly, they both had white wings that glowed like the moon we had in the demon realm.

Eventually, we caught up with them, and made ourselves known as politely as we could.

"Excuse us, ma'am, we really wanted to thank you for what you did for us!" [Atlas]

"Huh-oh! Don't worry about it, bud, that woman is always complaining about customers and refusing people like that, its really not a big deal" [???]

"Then if you don't mind us asking, where is a good place for food? We were kicked out of the one place we thought looked good" [Femi]

"You can follow us, we're going to go pickup food for us and our father" [???]

"That would be great!" [Lotus]

"Alright, you can follow us then, I'm Crystal and that's my little brother Artemis" [Crystal]

"Its nice to meet you both!" [Atlas]

We continued to talk while we made our way to what seemed like a pretty quiet place to eat.

Artemis went to sit at a table and play on his phone so we followed Crystal and took note of how she ordered, after all, this was all new to us.

Once we got our food, we sat down at the same table as them, and once we finished eating, I decided to ask a few questions since they almost fit the description dad gave us.

"So were you born with just wings or no? I've seen so many people have wings as a secondary feature, not really any with them as the primary" [Atlas]

"Our wings are a bit weird, they are our primary, but we have ears and a tail, but we've deemed them as bad luck since we were little" [Crystal]

"Why? Are they black cat features or something like that?" [Femi]

"No, jackal features, but our father had a bad run in with someone with jackal features, so we associate jackals with bad luck and misfortune, its the reason I have a demon symbol tattoo, its meant to represent safety" [Crystal]

"And the hope is when I'm 16, I can get one too! That way we don't have to worry about anything bad happening ever again" [Artemis]

"So you guys just hide them and hope for good luck?" [Lotus]

"Its all we can do, our father was almost killed by a jackal hybrid, we live every day worrying that someone will know him and recognize our father, its just something we live with" [Artemis]

"Wait, does that mean the two of you are the result of..." [Atlas]

"Oh god no! Not at all! Everything our father did with the man who wanted him dead was consensual, our father didn't know until after he used our father's magic mixed with his to create us, he left to make sure it didn't happen" [Crystal]

"I guess that's good, that knowledge would probably kill us if we knew that about our parents" [Femi]

"Trust me, that was my first question when I found out the truth, the last thing I wanted to be to our father was a reminder of what happened" [Crystal]

"Our father is very quiet about what happened, we really didn't find out until we asked about our secondary features, and even then, we still had a few years before we fully understood it" [Artemis]

"For you, not me, you were eight when you found out" [Crystal]

"I'm ten, it wasn't that long ago-" [Artemis]

"Either way, we've been trying to keep going while avoiding something bad happening ever since we were little" [Crystal]

"So what does your father do now? I can't imagine it would be easy to just go back to something after a bad experience" [Lotus]

"He's a doctor for victims in similar situations, he was 18 when it happened, so it was easy for our father to run away and start going to school, made our lives a lot more comfortable" [Crystal]

"I bet! That sounds like a great job for someone to go into, let alone someone who knows what its like" [Femi]

"It really is! It makes us want to help people when we are old enough to get our own jobs" [Artemis]

"Speaking of helping people, we have to go, the hospital is going to switch lunch shifts soon and we need to deliver food to our father, see you guys around" [Crystal]

"See you around!" [Atlas]

The two of them left not long after, and the three of us began to piece things together.

Dad said we had two siblings, and from what we were told, the two of them were great matches, meaning we likely found who we are looking for.

To top it off, their seeming hatred for jackal mixes makes sense, we may have no idea how dad got along with the person he said was our other parent, but I imagine it was rough in the end.

We just decided to go to a nearby hotel and get a room for the night, it would be expensive for us to stay there, but we needed somewhere to stay to keep out of the streets.

There was still time left to burn in the day, so once we got settled, we went back outside to look again just in case we were wrong.