Escape From Evil

Chapter One

Author's Note: I have been writing this story for three years now and finally decided to share it with the world. I hope that you enjoy it. Dedication to DJLyons for her being a great friend.

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Trissieal flapped her long white feathered wings, gliding over the beautiful white puffy clouds below. There was nothing but clouds for several miles. There were other Angels like her flying over the clouds of Paradise and many of them greeted her, bowing their heads to their Queen. Also, walking atop the solid clouds were the guards of Paradise, the Titans. However, she knew that Paradise didn't truly need protectors. After all, who would are to break into Paradise and try to hurt anyone? That would be a suicide run if she'd ever heard one.

She was a tall, around five foot ten or eleven, and voluptuous Angel. She hand long fire red hair that fell to the middle of her back unrestrained and moon silver eyes that glowed out of an ivory; girlishly beautiful face. She wore a long sleeve white tunic with gold embroidery around the collar, cuffs, and chest of her tunic, and a pair of white velvet slippers on her dainty feet. Her wingspan was as large as she was tall and they were powerful, but she was nowhere near being the most beautiful Angel in Paradise. However, she was the only one that had been picked by the King and had become the Queen of Paradise.

At the thought of King Loki, she sighed and shook her head. She knew that she should be happy that the King had chosen her for his bride, but she wasn't. She'd been married to the man for over a century and still she felt nothing for him. When she'd first married him, she'd told herself that she would learn to love him and everything would be fine. However, it was more than one hundred years later and still she felt nothing for the man. It wasn't his fault because he was a perfectly nice man, but she just didn't love him and there was no reason for her not to. Well, except for one and she had a feeling that that one reason was the real reason that she had never fallen in love with Loki.

The Angel Queen glided over the clouds a little slower now as she fell into her thoughts and she didn't see anything even as she dodged past the other Angels that flew above the clouds as well. Shortly after she'd been chosen as the King's bride, she'd taken a trip to the Mortal Plane and it had been there that she had met someone that she could lose. However, it was forbidden for two reasons. The first reason was that she was already married and the vows of an Angel couldn't be broken no matter what. The second reason was that the man that she'd fallen in love with was not of the Mortal Plane, but of the Abyss. Simple translation, he was a Demon.

Trissieal didn't dare think his name for fear of someone hearing it. There were several Psionics among the Angel and Titan ranks with the specialty of reading minds. However, there was a law that prevented the Psionics from reading the minds of others without their consent and anyone that betrayed that law was executed. Once the law had been put into place, they had stopped invading one another's privacy and not one had been executed for the crime. Some had come close, but not one of them had been killed and she felt relieved over that. She wasn't one of those Psionics, but she was able to put a mental wall in front of her thoughts to protect herself.

The Angel knew that mental wall was the only thing that kept her safe and she was glad for it. Then, her thoughts turned to her son and she clenched her jaw. Nykrian was the most precious thing in her life and she would destroy anyone who dared to attempt to harm him. She knew that her son was far more powerful than herself and that he could defend himself perfectly, but it was her maternal instinct that made her want to protect him. There was only one thing that she didn't like and that was her son's emotionless all the time. It bothered her for some reason, though she couldn't put her finger on as to why.

The Prince had been trained by the best of the best and it showed when he sparred. Granted, he might never need his skills, but he still drove to be the best. It was his goal and one that he was easily meeting. He could defeat up to ten Titans at a time now and that was a feet no Angel was capable of, no matter how powerful. Not even Loki was capable of such a feat, but it was just that that worried her. After all, if he became too powerful then people might start to ask questions and the fact that he looked nothing like Loki would probably come up. That would not be the best question to come up because she wouldn't be able to answer with all honesty that Nykrian was indeed Loki's son.