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Aurianna Ravenna Westminster

Going home in the back of her dad's car while listening to Jon Bellion's Human on her headphones, Danny couldn't help but think to Marcie's words earlier

   'The only reason why two different colours would show is if you were a hybrid. It means that you are the offspring of two powerful creatures, one with light magic and one with dark magic.'

The song reached the chorus.

I'm so sick of being human

Idiot, she thought. Maybe she and him could switch for a day, see how he'd like it. Danyall rolled her eyes and caught Lawrence's reflection on the rear view mirror. She took her time to study the man she called her father. Unlike her raven black hair and her deep purple eyes, Lawrence Swan had sandy blonde hair and light brown eyes. She had always known that Lawrence was not her biological father. He had adopted her after her mother died. She never met her father and her mother, Beverley Adderley who died when she was nine never mentioned him. Even she didn't have black hair and purple eyes, Danny recalled. Instead, she had pure white hair, the whitest Danny had ever seen, and eyes so golden, it was like looking at the sun.

That got to Danny. One of the colours in the ball was a sunshine yellow. Maybe her light side came from her mother. And her dark side must have come from her father. So who was he then? And where was he? One thing Danyall was sure of, however, was that her mother was the key to solving the mystery and, for all she knew, her real name was not Danyall Adderley-Swan.

*

Same day
Pegasus' house
Agios Minas
Greece

Elsewhere, Pegasus Poseidon sat at his desk and tapped his pencil continuously. His pastel hair kept falling to his face and he soon gave up trying to put it in place. His thoughts, although were supposed to be on his Greek Culture assignment, kept drifting to the dark haired girl who shunned his cousin earlier at school. His door suddenly swung open brusquely and in walked his closest friend, Jackson Frost.

Jack took one look at his friend and could tell immediately that his mind was elsewhere, seeing as he didn't warn him not to open his door like that. "What's on your mind, horse head?"

"Nothing much."

"Your cousins?"

"Nope."

This stumped Jack. Pegasus' mind was almost constantly on his cousins, or rather how shitty they were. "I was thinking about that dark haired girl from the cafeteria." Pegasus said. Jack smirked. So, his friend was thinking about that chick with the fiery attitude? No wonder he was quiet.

"Do I sense a crush? 'Cause if I do, I'd say totally go for it. Just don't break her heart or you'll be the one choking."

Pegasus looked at his friend like he had lost it. For the living personification of snow and ice, he sometimes acted like his great-grand uncle Eros and his cousin Dionysus put together. And that was putting it lightly. "No, Jack, I do not have a crush on her," he rolled his eyes, "I was just thinking about the way she shut Apollo up. Literally and verbally."

"I know right?" laughed Jack. "She was incredible. I wonder where she learnt that kind of dark magic from, she should teach me." That was what was bothering Pegasus. That kind of magic was dangerous, even deadly - god or not - and he most certainly did not want to be on the receiving end of her wrath. "Anyway, I have an assignment to finish. And Jack," he added, "don't slam my door open like that again. It annoys my mom." Jack smiled.

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Same day
Aurianna's house
Willowbrook
Wisconsin