Venno Rapter - The Hellish Series Returns - Series Two

Rad's Jade Gem (Story 14 - Chapter 1)

Just a quick note, Harper’s father is now a Golden Eagle as opposed to a Harpy (as he was referred to in the first series), for the purpose of there being only three Harpy sisters each generation (or least there was supposed to be). 

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A young, lone Harpy with a beautiful green yet soft plume of feathers was standing on the balcony in her bedroom, the doors wide open as the curtains waved in the breeze behind her. 

Her main body feathers were a light shade of green, while the upper back length feathers considered to be her hair were a darker shade with a streak of bright green going through the bangs that covered her right eye. Her tail feathers and upper wing feathers matched her body in color, but with the same yellowish-green streaks as the color of the fluffy feathers around her neck outlining them and the tips of her wings, the lower wing feathers being a bright greenish-teal as well. Her beak was grey, the same color matching her legs and single claws on either wing that would otherwise make up her hands. 

She was wearing a simple yet dull greyish-blue dress, the skirt appearing almost feather-like, but was actually made from fabric. 

Her steely gaze hardened as the frown on her beak hardened, her wing claws  seeming to clutch the railing more tightly as though she were debating whether she should finally fly off right then and there. 

Her sclera was a very light green color, almost appearing white under some lighting, but was actually a shade of light pastel green, her iris being a very bright greenish-teal, her pupils being a single black slit. 

All of her focus was entirely on the city below, the penthouse apartment that she lived in being on the top floor of the second tallest building in Terronto, with the tallest technically being the ‘All Seeing Eye Tower’ when said tower was extended to its full height, which could get up to six times as tall as it currently was in its compressed form. 

But regardless, going anywhere else would beat living in this dull penthouse for another day, the bustling streets of the city down below looking far more welcoming than the boring life of living day to day in the same apartment without leaving the confines of its walls nearly every single day since her birth. 

She didn’t even flinch when she heard the sound of her bedroom door opening, but she knew exactly who it was regardless since there was no one else living in the apartment but herself and her mother. 

“Jade, you know I do not approve of you going out onto the balcony. Come inside and remain hidden. That is not the proper etiquette for a future High Harpy Priestess” explained the older Harpy sternly, her eyes hidden behind her bangs as she lowered the hood of her short, ancient looking grey cloak that was very tattered near the ends. On her head was a sharp golden tiara, the two points on either side having tiny crosses while the centre point had an upwards facing crescent moon. 

Jade sighed in frustration as she rolled her eyes, refusing to turn to her mother who she resembled very closely, only a much younger version of her. 

So trying to convince everyone that she was kidnapped by an evil woman like in that one story about the princess with very long hair was definitely not going to work, considering she had taken to comparing her life to that of the princess in the story on nearly a daily basis.

She found great joy in watching her mother’s scowl everytime she brought up the similarities between her life and the princess in the story, but that joy was always replaced by frustration whenever she was told to go to her room and study the ancient passages from her mother’s grimoire until bedtime. 

Obviously, she never did, and would just go straight to bed with the large, heavy, ancient book beside her to make it appear as though she had fallen asleep while reading it.