The air rushing down, almost drowning out my screams. I was moving so fast. I could see my home. Fading before my eyes. I hurt all over. They chained me. Not allowing my to save myself. Letting me feel the raw pain, that was only the beginning.
My wings had burns along with my skin. The marks, were branded in. A dark black against my pale skin. I screamed, I knew they could hear me. I sure hear me.
They banished me. Deaming me a Fallen. I had done something that they didn’t like. When I say ‘They” I mean my family.
I had saved a life. A life they didn't want saved. I saved a dark creature. I had done what others could not have done. For they could not see past what he was. I could, I saw what he is. He was not a blood sucking crazy monster. He did drink blood, but did not kill humans to do it. He loved with his whole being. Until she died. I could not have saved her.
I could only save one. She was not as friendly to humans as he was. That is why I picked him. I was now paying that price. I was driven by the need to protect what I thought was a decent person. Not thing, like my family and the others called his kind.
The chains that wrung around my body seemed to cling tighter. The more I moved around, the more they burned into my skin. I just caught the look of my brother before my home vanished from my sight. I could hear him scream my name, one last time.
Then I heard nothing. I saw nothing. I only felt the pain and the wind rushing by me. I felt the loss of my family. The loss of my home, and the loss of a piece of myself.
I knew, I was getting closer to the planet. I could smell it. I braced myself for impact. I was nowhere near brace enough.
The impact knocked the air from my lungs. I fell flat on my back. I lay shell shocked on the ground, looking up at the sky. Looking up at my last piece of home.
To say I have felt anything like this pain before was a sick twisted joke. I felt my broken wings. If you have not guessed yet, I was an angel. I could tell I had a couple broken ribs, a twisted ankle and a dislocated shoulder. That was on top of the chain burns that were around my wrists and ankles, and the one around my neck. I had a mark burned into my flesh. On my back, right on my left shoulder.
It was the mark of a Fallen. I could never go home. I could never see my Mum, or my Dad. My brother. Oh god, my Brother! He was my over half. My twin. I felt what he felt. He felt what I felt. But I had known that before they branded me. I blocked him out of my mind, let the pain surround me, and only me.
I moaned. I did not cry, no matter what pain I felt, I would not cry. I didn't cry when they had the trial. Or when you chained me.
~~~FLASHBACK~~~
“Ava, you have been accused of saving a vampire. What do you say to this?” said one of the man on the council. There were seven in total. Two women and five men. They were all high ranking angels.
“ I saved a soul, that I believe was worth saving.” I replied in a monotone voice. I was calm. if I had to pay the price of saving someone that they didn't like, then so be it. I would still do it again.
“ You saved an enemy!” Yelled another man next to the man who first addressed me. “ A dark one!”
I said nothing, just stared straight ahead. I would not answer that.
“ He was not your mate. We know she died. You have no reason to have saved him.” A woman said, she had a homely face and curly blonde hair the hung down her shoulders. She was beautiful. They all were.
I still did not answer. She was asking something in that statement. She was asking if I loved him. Instead of answering what she wanted I stated again.
“ I saved a soul, that I believe was worth saving.” I said a careful, calm tone. I had a mask on. Not letting a single trace of emotion on it.
“ Without any real reason to have saved a dark creature, I hear by banish you, Ava. Dismissed.” The man who first spoke, spoke again. I merely nodded.
I was already handcuffed. Two warriors came and grabbed my shoulders and started towards the door when someone shouted.
“ You can’t! You can't do this! Sure she saved a dark creature, but to banish her! To mark her as a Fallen!?! She’ll die down there!” I know that voice. I whipped my head around.
“ Brother! Stop, you must stop. I have been given my punishment. I must fall through to it.” I said in a steady voice, even though I was breaking inside, just at the thought of leaving him. But I knew him. He would do something stupid to get himself banished and come with me.I know this because I would do it for him.
He walked over to me. “ No! I won't have it! I can't let you leave.”
“ Brother, you must promise me something.” I could not let him get kicked out because of me. He shook his head. “You must, please.” I let the last word out in a whisper. Trying not to cry.
He looked up at me and nodded. “ You must not do anything stupid. I mean it. I am no longer going to be there to get you out. You have to look out for Mum and Dad for me. Can you do that?”
He nodded again. But he looked down. “ Than promise me. “
He let out a shaky breath and said in a somewhat steady voice.” I will. For you Ava. I promise.”
The warriors began to drag me out again. “ I love you brother.” I yelled over my shoulder.
He tried to move his way over to me. Some guards held him back. He fought back. “ No! No, you can't do this! Ava! Ava! AVA!” He yelled. I started to pull back. I didn't want to leave him like this. He was my brother. My twin. My other half. “ Brother! Take care! Be good!” I could not cry. Not in front of all of them.
They took me to the edge, then pushed me to my knees. I knew what was coming. They had to use hellfire, to hurt an angel. I knew enough not to brace, it would do nothing.
It took me a moment to figure out that a loud scream I was hearing was myself. After they got the chains on. I thought I was going to pass out from pain. I hung on, for my brothers sake, than my own.
They pushed me over, just as my brother came running into view. He shot out his hand. It was too late.
~~~FLASHBACK OVER~~~
I felt the need to cry. I couldn't. Not yet, at least. I had to survive. Or did I? What was the point? The only problem was that I couldn't die, unless someone ripped out my heart. It felt like someone did.
All I felt was pain. I had a numb, nothing, empty feeling. It was swallowing me whole. I had to push on, not for my sake than my brothers. He would lose a piece of himself if I died.
I took a deep breath and pushed myself up. I spread my wings out. I looked over my shoulder for the damage, only to gasp at the sight.
My wings were now a solid black.
