Chapter 1
“Jacob?” I shouted. He flicked leaves off his glowing bronze hair,
“We’re almost at Falconpoint.” The border, I thought. Humans. I let out a sigh of relief and stretched my glowing silvery wings. I unconsciously touched for the branded crucifix on my forehead.
“Traitor...” a voice whispered in my head, a shot of pain coursed through my angelic body. “I am a angel, fighting for equality and freedom.” I recited the saying of the rebel angels my mother had taught me before the catholics had taken her to be executed for high treason.
“Cara, c'mon, we need to leave now if we want to get there before sunset.”
Jacob had crept up on me, giving me a shock. I bent down as he climbed onto my back.
“Cara, the war will stop you know. We will stop it.” He told me.
“I know Jacob, I know” I murmured back as we flew off into the horizon.
* * *
As the great city of Falconpoint came into sight, Jacob's eyes glowed with a happiness that showed the opposite of the Demons I had been told about in myths when I was a child. I remember when I had found him scorched and dying at the edge of the dark forest. I was going to finish him off until he looked at me; those red eyes would never leave me, I nursed him back to a stable condition. When I looked at him, my body was repulsed but my heart told a different story. I was snapped back to the present when a crowd of humans roared in approval as we landed. This was no wonder. We made them; the first human was made when a Demon and an Angel had a child.
We ate till we were full of spit roast trout and and honey then just managed to roll into bed. “Now that, my dear, was a real plate of food.” Jacob whispered as he kissed my hand and rolled onto his side of the bed.
* * *
We stayed at Falconpoint for what seemed like a lifetime. Jacob wanted to stay and settle down, he knew how I felt about that. Everytime I disagree with Jacob it seems my instincts tell me,
“Hah! I told you so!” I sat there for hours, thinking. The 24th crusade... Two weeks.
“Jake!” I shouted down the hallway, Jacob came running out of the kitchen with a thing the humans called ‘chocolat ’ smeared all over his face,
“Yes Cara?” he questioned as he wiped the dark brown marks from underneath his lips.
“We can stop them, on the crusade that comes on the 21st of June.” He stared at me,
“How?” I waited for him to catch on. “No! I can’t put you in danger like that again!”
We were in the forest on his coming of age, the big 16. He looked so worried every time I came near him; he would growl at me and beg me to run. But I was too curious. The Divine Beast was a sight which no young angel should have been exposed to. His skin bulged and he had ripped out of his clothes before I could see anything else. What was once my Jacob was now a Divine beast tearing the forest down. He could simply look at a tree and whither it or make it burst into flames. The person inside had no control. I had managed to run just in time. The beast was a giant black Titan with flaming sockets instead of eyeballs and giant claws instead of hands. His beast was extremely rare for a Lesser Demon; Demons like him normally had beasts like Doom Horses or birds. A greater would normally get such a powerful Divine. My mother also had a rare Divine, a Pegasi. We were taken over by our divine for ten minutes of our lives on our sixteenth birthday. Then we could morph into them whenever we need them.
“Cara,” Jacob’s soothing voice snapped me back to reality, “Thats your coming of age.”
“What? What do you mean?”
“You turn sixteen on the 21st of June.”
