Shattered

The Test

I took a deep breath preparing myself to go on stage.
"Inhale, exhale. Just breath and you will be fine." I thought.
"You ready to go out there and knock em dead."Jeremy said.
"Ya." I muttered."this is it."
I walked onto the stage when my name was called. In the center sat a large grand piano. A microphone hooked to it. My music sat on the beautiful black stand. I walked to the center, my black lace dress trailing behind me. I stood in front of the piano facing the audience. I took a quick bow. Then sat down to began...

"Dude hurry up". I snapped."this is my first time testing someone and I am not going to miss it."
"Well they don't know they are even being tested." He replied back.
"Look, we made it." I whispered looking down, below the building we were standing on was a concert hall, from within I heard a wonderful sound. Something that took me to heaven and back.
"Wow, whoever is performing, they sound wonderful." I muttered the bitterness quickly escaping me.
"Max, the performer is Tess Wood. The person who we are testing."Tyler said.
"So we have to ruin the performance?"I asked sadly.
"We can wait for her to be done, then when she is walking off the stage we can start." He said.
"I guess that works."I said my heart pounding as I began to recognize the end of the song.
"We have to go now." Tyler added, as soon as we heard the crowd began to cheer we started her test.

I didn't die on stage, but what happened next almost gave me a heart attack. As the crowd cheered something muted them. From the corner of my eye observed movement. Then an explosion rang from the far corner of the room. I ran to the mic.
"EVERYONE LEAVE IMMEDIATELY".
I yelled.
I started to run along with the crowd but I just couldn't get out. Something was chaining me to the room, to the building in general.
"Ugh," I groaned.
I turned around to look at the building. I was standing facing the stage from far it liked very small. Suddenly from the dust in the corner a figure appeared. A large thing with spikes coming out of weird places.
"What the hell."I muttered under my breath.
I ran toward the spikey figure. Something was pulling me toward it I just couldn't resist. I was attracted to it like a magnet. I continued to move toward it anger building up inside me a weird feeling. The thing growled, now I could see it closer. A demon or monster of some sort like what I have read in books. A scaly beast with large spikes thrusting out of its dark skin. The feeling blew up inside me. That's when everything changed.

Everything seemed to be going good. When we released the demon we put an attraction code on it so she wouldn't be able to leave.
"Look something is happening." Tyler said.
I tense up, if this messed up I would loose my place as tester. Which is a job I have been working at for a long time.
"Look." Tyler said surprisingly.
"What is it." I yelled.
"She seems to have, um. Transformed !?" He said questioningly.
I looked an couldn't believe what I saw.

My visioned blurred and I collapsed. I felt like I was morphing. My organs were screaming within my body, crying calling for help. Pain stabbed at my back. I moaned. What was happening to me. Was I dead because all I saw were angels.

"We need to interfere!" Tyler screamed.
"We can't, this is a test." I yelled back at  him.
"God what is going on, I have never heard of or seen this happening to a new recruit." Tyler muttered.
"That is why we need to interfere, is there anything we can do."
"We can send a weakening code onto the demon." I said in a mischievous way.
"Is it legal?" Tyler asked.
"No one ever said we can't." I replied.
And so I did

I felt as if I was floating in mid air. Light bouncing everywhere my eyes were open but closed at the same time. The pain in my back began to grow. Burning, hotter. Brighter. Until finally I opened my eyes.

"Umm, Max." Tyler said."she is floating."
I looked closer.
"Tyler, she is not floating, she is flying." I said tensely.
What was going on?

When I looked around I realized that was in the air. I looked at my back and what I saw almost caused me to faint. Two large black feathered wings with golden tips flapped behind me. They were larger then me, an beautiful. I looked down within my hand lay a large staff black staff with carved patterns along the side and a turquoise stone at the top. I pulled at the stone it came out connecting to a large thin blade that was hidden within the polished black wood.
"Wow." I said.
My head was spinning. I snapped back to reality and finally decided what I was going to. I gained control of my new wings then attacked the demon.

"Tyler, she is going after the beast." I said.
"She has a sword." He replied.
We watched intensely as Tess and our demon danced in battle. It swiped at her with its claws she dodged and stabbed its hand. Her wings were beautiful. Flapping in the air like silk in the wind. The monster attacked again this time hitting her and bringing her down. She fell to the floor. There she lay for a few moments then suddenly she jumped back up. Gaining speed she went straight for the demons neck. All I saw was a river of blood and a silver streak. Suddenly the demon was on the floor and so was the girl.