“Why, isn’t this such a heartwarming scene” The unfamiliar voice soaked in sarcasm caught the attention of the two laying in the grass.
The first one to look over in the direction of the new comer is Azarias. Neal, on the other hand, has a slower response. If it hadn’t been for Azarias moving to stand up off him, he probably wouldn’t have even opened his eyes.
Out of everyone it could have been, he was not expecting a little girl to be standing there. She appeared to look around Azarias’s age, well his current physical looking age at least.
She is wearing a big poufy black dress and a little black laced headband. It stands out on her pale, glass doll like skin and blond hair pulled up in pigtails. If it wasn’t for the rather mature and strange look she had in rose coloured eyes, Neal probably would have just ignored it and went back to sleep.
“Who are you?” Azarias looked on edge, mixed eyes narrowed while his lips twitched as if he wanted to bare his teeth like an animal towards the girl.
She had a terrible smell to her, of course he didn’t feel secure. Not that Neal could sense what Azarias could with ease.
“Hmm..you are rather interesting, aren’t you?” The girl was suddenly right in front of Azarias. He was stunned, his moment of surprise allowing her to stare him right in the eyes uninterrupted while her nose was barley a breaths away from his.
As soon as he registered her closeness he quickly jumped away, gaining some distance as he glared daggers at her. He would have rushed away already if it were not for Neal being near by. This wasn’t someone he could just glare at and make run away. That made her a danger to them, any danger was no good to be around Neal.
Neal on the other hand didn’t understand why Azarias was so on edge. He moved to stand up, wondering what was happening. He could feel the hairs on his arms standing on edge as if in warning. Azarias’s strange behavior making him even less willing to just fall back asleep.
A smirk appeared on the girls lips, seeming amused by Azarias’s reaction. Well considering the reports, this child surely was not going to be normal. To think it was of this species though, haven’t they all died out? Ha, so interesting.
“You know it is rude not to introduce yourself first before asking someone else’s name right?” Not that she would give it anyway, only that one person could know her true name. The rest could just call her by her professional title or die.
She was met with silence and she just sighed and let it be, no matter, all she needed to do was bring this boy to His Majesty. They didn’t need to get along to do that. He looks rather young with lots of potential though, perhaps he would be of some use if…altered properly to serve.
“No matter to that, you are to come along with me.” She suddenly appeared in front of him once again, but this time he was prepared and quickly dodged away before she could grab him. A frown tugs at her lips, but she simply brushes it off before doing so again.
The result was the same. Her with empty hands and him giving a silent glare from afar.
“Go away you ugly thing.” Azarias spat in a voice Neal didn’t think he was capable of. He glanced back and forth between them, unsure what to do. Going over wouldn’t work as they were so quick…or was he already getting so unfit he couldn’t keep up with the speed of children? It gave him a headache to think about so he brushed the thoughts away and watched silently, prepared to jump in if given the chance.
At least if Azarias was rushing away, he wasn’t getting hurt by whoever this girl was. Which was a relief to him, he didn’t know what he would do if Azarias got hurt.
This seemed to really tick off the girl, a black smoke forming around her form and her lips trembled.
“You litTle brAt. HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT ME!” The light sweet tone of her voice shifted deeper and garbled, sounding not like a sweet young girls voice at all as rose coloured eyes glow a deeper red.
The bottom of the skirt of her dress caught aflame where her hands gripped the fabric tightly, it was a deep red flame that burned along the black of her dress as if it were eating up coal, spreading and growing along the bottom of her skirt yet she didn’t seem alarmed at all.
When she noticed she quickly patted her dress, the flame vanishing. She took in a deep breath, shutting her eyes a moment to calm herself.
No need to allow this lesser being to anger her, she will simply need to catch this little bugger another way.
For the first time she laid her eyes on Neal who still looked rather lost in this whole situation. She hadn’t paid any attention to him since he was rather powerless and gave off an even weaker vibe then humans did, which was rather pathetic. Who could think this to be anything but a baby, a big baby, but none the less a human baby with the kind of air he had around him.
The only interesting thing about him was the fact Azarias had been seen resting with him when she found them. Also, having not rushed away from this area when clearly sensing danger, she assumed it was because of this less then human. If he is important, then he will be a good way to get the little brat to do what she wanted.
Even now the brat stood in front of Neal while glaring at her, rage deep in his eyes as the colors swirled inside them. She could feel a huge wave of malice in her direction. Ha, like she would let a mere child malice scare her. Only His Majesty could look down on her and give her that thrill of his attention. No matter what species, she wouldn’t allow a child to get the better of her.
Azarias who had returned to Neals side noticed her strange behavior change, his heart rate picking up as he shoved down his desire to fight the girl head on and instead try to get away with Neal while she seemed to be thinking. It took a lot in him, visibly shaking in his spot as he sucked the desire deeper inside of him.
“Neal, we need to le-“
“You know, it is rather rude to glare at a lady. You need to learn some manners you uncultured thing.” The small girl gave a soft sigh from where she floated behind Neal, two bat like wings sprout from her back flapping. One small hand rested against the side of Neals neck while the other simply resting on his shoulder. A sharp toothed smile on her lips a smug look on her face as she stared down at Azarias.
Azarias glance to where she had been and to where she was now, eyes wide from his surprise before narrowing once again as he gave a low rumble.
“Get. Your. Dirty. Hands. Off. Him” His voice grew deeper, colours flickering in his eyes as if fighting among themselves as the golden colour tried to spread out.
“Ah, ah, ah. No. Attack me or continue this behavior, I will burn this human up in seconds, and be sure he will suffer twenty times the amount of pain any normal flame would give him.” She felt empowered, a rush going through her as she declared who the winner was of this game of cat and mouse. She may not have him in her hands, but she had this human. Without a single doubt she knew by his reaction he wouldn’t just let this human die.
Neal was caught off guard by the girl suddenly appearing behind him, sharp nails digging into his skin as if in warning making him lose any words he was about to speak out. Instead he found himself having trouble focusing as his vision blurred, a hazy feeling filling his head. It was different to the haze of sleep, it was far colder and more terrifying then when he simply dozed off.
He couldn’t speak or move even though he wanted to, even if he focused on it he couldn’t. He could only stand there focusing on the fact how off everything felt, and how focusing on anything else besides this rush of out of body feeling and confusion was impossible.
This little girl is terrifying!
The colours stopped swirling, faintly glowing as Azarias gritted his teeth together.
“What do you want.” He spat out reluctantly, an unspoken insult laying on his lips as he itched to fight and bring down this girl. This Resulting in her eyes narrowing at him as she dug her nails deeper into the humans neck.
“I’m sorry, is that how you speak to a lady rude thing? Be more polite, else I can’t promise your human wont exit this without any scars.” She spoke threateningly with an uncomfortably wide, teeth showing grin.
Azarias glare deepened more, it took it all he had in him not to slice into this girl right now. His fingernails have grown longer, sharper. Hidden where they were tucked into his palms where he had made two tight fists at his sides. They punctured into his skin deeper and deeper as they grew, but he frankly gave to care about it.
“Will the ‘Lady ‘ tell Us what she wants from Us?” His tone was laced with malice, being unable to contain it as he spoke through clenched teeth.
Now this wasn’t much better, but she decided their would be plenty enough time to train him. Well, that is if His Majesty wanted him alive at least. Which considering the age of the boy would probably happen. Hmm, what fun she could have with training such a head strong thing, it was always fun to break the tougher ones.
“Come over here! I will bring you to His Majesty. He wishes to meet you.” She stretched out her other hand to him as she kept the other on Neal, being careful not to slip up and give any chances to lose her bait and prey.
Reluctantly Azarias put his hand out, a swirling of disgust in his stomach as he thought about touching this girl. She had no life in her as he had seen in everything else, it was so disturbing to him he didn’t want to be anywhere near her. However, as he glanced to Neal, he found himself sucking in a breath before placing his long finger nailed hand in hers.
Then it was as if all the air had been sucked out of him. His vision went black, and no matter how hard he tried to breathe in again he only ended up choking on nothing but the thick black darkness around him.
Sorry for lack of updates, I just haven’t felt like writing anything for anything. I’m never sure how often I’ll update, but as they come I hope you enjoy them! Thank you for your patience.
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