Darkness has an heir

Chapter 1

This story starts in a realm where a wizard wanted to use a demon to make a weapon, but his one mistake was that he shouldn't have summoned an extremely high-ranking one for his first try...
How had this wizard found the scroll to summon the empress of demon kind? Why was one able to summon her?
It was simple really. The power required to summon her was the power she sought to take advantage of, and oh how she took advantage of that naive wizard.
Granting him a temporary boost in power was an easy feat, in return, she wanted some of his own abilities. For the power required from a wizard or any mortal really to bring her to their realm was difficult to measure and she would be a fool not to take advantage of such a rare opportunity.

A year later the demon empress had a baby girl, the power within her baby was exactly what she'd been after. She hoped the hybrid would have her demonic lust for chaos and access to the powers only witches and wizards had access too, demons couldn't cast spells or make potions after all. Valenska raised the baby but had twins somewhere along the line with one of her consorts.  She let her daughter, Raine, grow and do what she pleased knowing her child craved darkness and power even though she claimed not to. So when Raine decided she was going to move to the human world her mother let her." You may live amongst the mortals as long as you visit us as often as you can." That was the only conditions and she agreed. The Empress would bring up the overtaking of the empire after her daughter got bored of playing mortal.

At the age of 178, she was perfectly settled, 2 years later she began building a perfect life and made friends. She was happy but remembered to keep up her half of the bargain.

Now

Raine settled onto the couch snuggling into her hoodie with a whine," Trina hurry up! We wanna start the movie!" She grumbled looking over at the blonde making snacks in the kitchen.
" I wouldn't be taking so long if you and Stephanie bothered helping." Trina snapped from the kitchen, putting salt on the popcorn and fetching glasses from the cupboard.

Raine rolled her eyes and then looked at Stephanie pointedly, she stood up glaring at Raine with her bright lilac eyes and went to help. Neev and Sam snickered at Stephanie but shut up once she looked at them, the promise of a good slap in her eyes.

At the Rose territory

Zen came inside, his light grey hair sticking to his sweaty face and neck," Mom, I'm done training with dad."
His mom nodded and waved him over." Good, wash up and then it's time to practice your magic." After getting himself cleaned up Zen sat next to his mother and started writing notes on herbs and healing, despite his age it was always good to go over the basics every now and then.

The next day

Raine hurried out of her house, running to her car." I'm so late!" She said and drove off to her job that she was already twenty minutes late for. Ten minutes later she's running past the beach bar and to the lifeguard tower, " T, I'm so sorry that I'm late! Please don't tell Neev!" She begged, looking up at her best friend who sat at her watch guard area.

Trina rolled her eyes and tossed Raine her on-duty shirt to put over her swimming costume." This is the last time." She grumbled for the third time this week, she was too forgiving of her lazy friend, Raine nodded and ran to her tower and watched the children playing, her otherther duties included calling out to swimmers that went past safety borders, helping lost children and saving drowning people of course.

After her shift, she went inside to meet with Trina and Stephanie. Trina was eating, her mouth full of fries as she scrolled through Instagram looking at memes, and Stephanie was snorting with laughter while she read a horror story on her phone while sipping on a virgin cocktail. Raine rolled her eyes and grabbed a buffalo wing off of a snarling Trina's plate." Did you order for me?" she asked by way of greeting.
"Yes, she did," Sam said setting a chocolate milkshake down with a plate of fries, the tanned blonde grabbed a few fries from the ravenette in revenge making her roll her eyes.
" Petty child." She hummed before taking another wing.

Just then Neev walked in giving his sister's long blonde hair a tug, Trina swatted his hand away her face scowling at being fed up with her group of friends. That's how most of their summer went, working on the coast during the day, hanging out on convenient afternoons, and having sleepovers and movie nights on weekends. The group were quite close and always did everything together, even including their best friends little sister, Amy, who Raine saw as a sibling even.

In a few days it was the young girls birthday, Amy would be 13 and Raine had every intention on making her birthday special. Amy loved gaming and Raine planned for them to have a Minecraft all-nighter. The teams had been decided earlier in the week. Raine was Amy's favourite person so she'd be on Amy's team, much too the whiny blonde's protests, Neev and Stephanie, and of course Sam and Trina.

Trina complained and tried negotiating, wanting the birthday girl on her team but the black headed female would hear none of it. Eventually the weekend rolled by and the group ate and gamed to their heart's content. Much to the girls' dismay Sam turned on Trina, Neev doing the same Stephanie and killed them all. Amy and Stephanie took sweet revenge on the boys whilst everyone slept. Instead of marker moustaches, they'd gone ahead and coloured their entire faces with green permeant marker and then with black markers they had written," I'm a creeper" on their foreheads. The boys were furious, they had work the next day." Amy! I can't serve milkshakes to people looking like this!" The older brother complained to his sister who was in tears on the floor.

As the weekend came to a close Amy whined about having to go to summer school the next day but shut up when Raine promised to drop and pick her up for the whole week.

" Amy, I promise we'll get to play call of duty if you can pass your math test this Friday." The teen promised the younger as she stepped out of the car on Tuesday. The pouting thirteen-year-old nodded her rustic brown head, her mode improving slightly as she ran into the building, Raine smiled and drove off just as the bell rang.

Eventually the hottest season ended and autumn rolled around bringing brown, red, orange and yellow leaves along with cool breezy wind making hot chocolate a must.

It was almost always warm so the lifeguard duty job remained. Raine also worked as a waitress in a restaurant. Her life was great she had to admit, even though she knew all good things must come to an end the past two years had been wonderful and she intended to keep it that way, although when life took a turn for the worst, the half-breed was truly unprepared.

A few months later it was time to visit her family again. She stood in her neat bedroom, full of blue and green items, casting a portal and stepping through.

"Mom, I'm here!" Raine declared knocking on the door, Alika opened up to the small townhouse in the capital city of the empire, saved for visiting due to the palace being too vast for a small family gathering.
" Welcome back, sister." Alika and Aliki said in union their looks were very similar for twins that didn't share a gender. Both wore simple dark blue shirt and pants, thick enough for warmth but still able to move with swiftness and ease, making it easy to take down any enemy they may encounter, even though they were royal they were raised to spy and blend into shadows.

Raine looked at her siblings for a second before hugging them both, wrapping her now pale green arms around her similar skinned siblings. " What's with the cold attitude? Don't tell me you're too old for warm welcomes already." She joked and some of the cold aura vanished from the twins.

They shared an uneasy glance." Raine...mother wants to tell you something-"
Alika was cut off when their mother walked in, " Raine dear, how are you?" her mother wrapped her up in a hug and walked her into the lounge.
" Hello mother, I'm fine and you?" she replied sitting down on the velvet one-seater couch, her mother just waved off Raine's question and sat down.

" Raine my dear, I've never once told you to not follow your dreams and all that other nonsense, but I want you home so you can train to take over the empire. You used too love practicing your magic, come back, you can train again and now that you are older you need to practice your in-court skills more."
Her mother watched her closely awaiting the out burst.
" What? Come back? For how long? I don't want to wear gowns and dance with power-hungry mutts!" She whined, the princess didn't want to come back just yet and she wasn't bored of playing human either. Especially since she still suspected stuff about her friends...

" Raine Celeste Dark, I will give you 2 months then I will force you to come home." Her mother snapped her crimson eyes flickering like waves of heat radiating from a fire.

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