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Palmacosta was a seaside city that was destroyed by a giant tree during the World Regeneration. Slowly the city started to be repaired and brought back to its former glory. Just as the citizens believed the worst had passed, disaster struck once more and this is where our story begins.

Smoke as black as the night sky and thick enough to blot out the brightest star billowed out of the destroyed houses. The owners of said houses fled for their lives from the ones hunting them. On a house above the panicking citizens stood a solitary cloaked figure that, in contrast to the other citizens, was not panicking. Instead, she was scanning the crowds of people looking for the one who started all of the carnage in this otherwise peaceful city. A flash of red caught her attention and when she looked over, standing there was Lloyd the Great standing over two bodies' one woman and one man. Seeing his work here was done Lloyd turned to walk away thus giving the woman an opportunity to attack. Seeing her chance, she prepared to attack him only to force herself to stop her attack when a boy walked in front of her perch, unintentionally allowing Lloyd to escape. The boy was blonde with a single hair that stood up above the rest. He wore a pure white coat that went to his ankles and light brown pants. From this distance she could just make out emerald eyes. He seemed to recognize the bodies. 'Maybe they were related?' she thought as she slowly scaled down the house to get to a better vantage point.

Once she was on the ground, she saw the boy kneeling next to the bodies. She was about to approach him, but decided against it when the woman woke up and started talking to him. "Emil, you came back. Oh dear I can't even see your face. I'm not going to last much longer, but you have to live. You have to run before Lloyd comes back. Go to Luin. To your Aunt Flora. Hurry." Talking took all of the energy she had left. The boy, Emil, she reminded herself, watched as his mother's life faded from her until there was nothing left. 'It isn't safe here we need to move.' She thought as she started toward the grieving boy. Just as she was about to place her hand on his shoulder he suddenly screamed, "Mom!" The figure jerked back as her ears rang from the shout. Once her ears stopped ringing she heard the metallic clang of armoured footsteps moving toward their position, most likely lead there by his shout. She immediately grabbed his arm and as calmly as she could manage said, "I know you are hurting right now, but we need to move. Your shout just alerted the Vanguard to our position." Emil didn't budge, still staring at his mother's corpse. She cursed, as the footsteps were right around the corner. Too close to run from, she would have to fight whoever it was. She swung around and grabbed her weapon from behind her, a double-edged blade that was as long as she was tall. When she saw whom she would be fighting dread pooled in her stomach.

There stood Lloyd Irving with both his blades out. He looked at her for a minute before saying, "I thought I had killed everyone from this area, but apparently I was wrong. I'll fix that now." Apparently, the sound of his voice snapped Emil out of his trance, because a blonde streak ran past her toward Lloyd who had his blades raised ready to strike. She didn't give herself time to think, she grabbed Emil by the back of his jacket and threw him behind her while also bringing her blade up to clash with Lloyd's swords. While holding Lloyd back she yelled over her shoulder to Emil, "Run. There is no way you can fight him as you are now. Run and get stronger! I'll hold him off long enough for you to get away." " No I refuse to just leave you here! You can come with me to Luin!" said an enraged Emil. She felt her blade slip and had to duck as one of Lloyd's swords swept over her head. She drove her blade up to knock him back, and then she slashed diagonally across his chest. With Lloyd momentarily distracted she said, "I can't fight him and protect you at the same time! I'll meet you in Luin! Now go!" Emil seemed to be conflicted before he grimaced and said, "Alright, but you better not die. I'll be expecting you back! So don't go and die on me." As soon as he saw her nod, he turned on heel and ran for the city entrance.

Once he was out of sight, she turned back to Lloyd and prepared herself for a fight. The cut she gave him wasn't enough to kill him. It would just slow him down a bit. 'Something is wrong here.' she though as she parried a blow. 'Rose told me about Lloyd on multiple occasions and from what she said this is something he despised. Therefore, that leaves two options. Either something had happened to change Lloyd since his sister had last seen him or this wasn't Lloyd. I've seen some bizarre abilities over the years so the ability to transform is a valid possibility.' She was brought out of her musing when he charged at her. She blocked the first strike, but she didn't expect him to jump back. Before she could retract her blade, she felt the bite of his sword piercing her shoulder. She didn't have enough time to react before he ripped his blade out of her shoulder, in doing so ripping through the bones of her shoulder blades. She fell forward into a puddle of her own blood seemingly unable to move. Lloyd put his swords away and turned to leave; while his back was turned, she sprang up from the ground and thrust her blade into his back. He jerked forward before pulling her blade from his back and throwing it to the side. By the time she had retrieved her weapon he was long gone.

She sighed as she slowly sank to the blood soaked ground. It didn't matter if she tried to chase after him. She couldn't track him by smell thanks to the smoke. Even if she could track him, she doubted her body could handle round two with him. The first thing she needed to do was close the wound in her shoulder, which was bleeding multiple rivers of blood. Which, once it dripped down her arm, looked like criss crossing red vines. With how much blood she was loosing it would only be a matter of time before she passed out from blood loss. She couldn't die from something like that; she still had to find her father. Although if it were up to her she would avoid him at all costs, but her mother's dying wish was that he find him so that is what she would do. Well technically, it wasn't her dying wish. Her mother was captured when she was only a baby and forced into a human ranch where she escaped from only to be absorbed into her ex sphere right outside where her father and her were staying. Her mother could talk to her through her ex sphere which is how she wound up looking for her father who as far as her memory goes didn't really like her to begin with. As proven by the fact that he gave her over to scientists who injected something into her that made her much stronger. The strength itself wasn't a problem. In fact it was kind of neat if you could over look the minor side affect of not being able to tell friend from foe. She had attacked her dear friend of many years while under that haze. It took an injury to her stomach and Rose's shoulder before she was pinned long enough to come back to herself. Ever since then she tried to never use that strength. Every now and then, she had to, but it was a last resort. The strength felt wrong, evil somehow. Whenever she had to use it, she got chills and would feel nauseous. As if, her soul itself rejected the energy that the injection gave her.

But that was something to think about at a later time. Right now, she had to think about how to stop the blood from flowing out of her shoulder. She looked around for something to stop the blood flow or at least slow it down. When she didn't see anything she sighed before removing her cloak and used it as a makeshift bandage. 'I'm going to have to clean out my shoulder later, but right now I have to worry about blood loss not infection.' she thought as she shifted into a more comfortable position.

She brushed back her blue hair with her good arm and swept it over her shoulder. While waiting for the blood to slow her mind wandered to her father again. 'One of the only things I can remember about him was that I had his hair and eye color. The blue hair should make it easier to find him, but my eyes changed to red when that energy was injected into me so I have no clue what color his eyes are.'

She felt the blood clot in her should and sighed in relief. If she had bled for much longer she would have been in serious trouble. As it was with the amount of blood she lost, she was going to have to go replenish her energy. Another side affect from the injection was that she needed to drink blood. Not much and it didn't have to be human, but she still had to drink blood and that along with the feeling whenever she uses that strength made her wonder just what it was that they injected her with...She gave herself a mental shake. It didn't matter right now. She had to get out of this city before she attacked someone on accident. As far as she could tell, she only attacked people with a specific type of blood, angelic blood. She knew this because she attacked Rose when they first met, and she attacked Kratos a few years later. Other blood types didn't bother her but for some reason angelic blood was a siren song to her senses. She supposed that made it easier to find her father though, considering he is an angel too. She found that out when she was ten and suddenly she didn't feel hungry, about a week after that, she didn't feel sleepy. A few months of that and then she lost the ability to feel anything. At that point she new she was different from everyone else, the wings that sprouted about a year later only proved her suspicions. She never liked her wings though; they probably would be pretty if it weren't for the fact that they had red veins winding through them. 'Another side affect from the injection no doubt. Oh well, no use getting my wings in a knot over it. It is what it is and there is nothing I can do about it.' she thought tiredly. With that, final thought she stood up slowly, careful not to open her newly healed shoulder wound again, and started in the direction of Luin. 'I'll stop on the way there and drink some monster's blood. I told Emil I would meet him there so I will.' She thought as she walked off into the night.

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