I turned towards the sound of the voice. 'C'mon,' I thought, exasperatedly, as I looked upon the person standing in front of me. "What do you want Mick?" I watched as he tried to formulate, with extreme care, what he wanted to say to me. I shifted the two swords on my back irritably as I waited.
"Will you come back?" He looked so sad asking me that. I almost said 'Yes' but then I remembered why I had left in the first place.
My eyes narrowed dangerously. "No, Mick I won't go back. I can't go back." I turned on my heel and began to walk in the opposite direction. He didn't follow.
"They'll find you one day Angel! You can't hide from them forever!" He called as I continued walking.
I stopped dead upon hearing that last statement. "Who will find me one day Mick!" I yelled at him as I started running at him. His eyes widened, either in shock or fear, I couldn't tell which. I grabbed him by the lapels of his coat and jerked him until he was staring me in the face. "Who?" I growled out in his face. I heard them before they said a single word. As I turned, I unsheathed a sword and before I knew it I was in the middle of a complete circle of lycans, almost. "Great" I muttered. I sheathed my sword and waited.
I turned slowly, studying the circle. I was human, brought up by both clans because it was their war that made an orphan of me in their last great battle. That last battle had determined the lives of many involved, and both sides had suffered great losses. But that had been so many years ago, when I was just a baby. Neither side had the heart to kill me, simply because I was helpless. 'Not anymore' I thought sourly. 'But they had urged me to take my closest friends every time I had gone out. That was before I left.' I scowled as I stopped and looked into the eyes of my closest and best friend.
"What would you do if I die?" I asked looking at his soft brown eyes. Everyone stopped and stared, watching really.
He stared at me, his eyes wide in shock. "I'd be right behind you."
Ifrowned. My eyes narrowed dangerously before I stood and walked to the door. I barely got it open before it closed tight once more. I turned and looked into his eyes and saw the fear and the question within their depths. I sighed resignedly before turning away from him.
"If you think I'm going back to that mansion, you can forget it." I growled taking a step away from him. His eyes showed me that was not his intent.
"We want to live with you. What you had said to us before you left is true, every word." That answer came from behind me, from Kahn's eldest son.
"I know that Kain. Otherwise I wouldn't have said it nor would I have left." I looked, reluctantly, away from his eyes. I sighed as I wrapped my arms around my best friend's waist. "I've missed you, all of you." I murmured pulling away slightly. I looked around at everyone. 'How much longer can you take living by yourself?' I wondered as I looked into each of their faces. I let go of him and brushed past him and Tielk. "I have to go" I murmured. I continued to walk away as I felt their eyes boring into my back "It is safer this way" I murmured quietly as I rounded the corner that would take me home. I sighed as I entered my home. The basement was where I lived and the rest of the upper parts of the house were part of the bar that my human friends and I ran. I looked at the clock over the bar that was situated in the center of the room. One hour was all I had to get ready to open the Underworld Bar. I ran a dance studio also but that was open during the day, sometimes itwas open at night also and the people who used the studios went through the side door. The first floor was the bar and the upper three floors had two studios each. There was a fourth floor but no one but I went there. That floor is off limits to even my human friends.
The fourth floor was where I went to practice my sword fighting and martial arts taught to me by Kahn. He was the best teacher of anything to do with combat of any kind. Of course, so was Selene. 'But does it even matter any more?' My thoughts used to hang precariously over the cliffs of insanity at the most intense times of failure. My head whipped around at the sound. I loosened the sword over my right shoulder in its sheath. I walked cautiously towards the sound's direction. My hand ready to unsheathe the sword at an instant's warning. 'Show me where you are.' My eyes adjusted quite quickly to sudden darkness for a human. The sound came again, but from a different direction. My eyes narrowed in concentration. 'Once more and I'll have you.' I thought walking carefully further into the room after closing the door behind me. The third time the sound came the sword was unsheathed and the edge of it nearly severed the neck of who now stood in front of me.
"MICHAEL!" My hand nearly jerked out of control before I could sheathe it again. "What the hell are doing here?" The anger in my voice was barely contained but I could care less at that particular moment. I glared at the collection of lycans, hybrids, and vampires around me. Mark and Kendi caught my eye. My eyes narrowed dangerously, then they widened. Michael was just about to say something but I didn't care. "You've known all this time where I've been and yet you decide to show up now, of all times? And to top it all off you send my friends and Mick to gang up on me on my return trip home from my martial arts class. How low have you stooped to get me back at that mansion Michael? Did Selene put you up to this or was it Kahn?" My eyes narrowed once more in accusation more than anger. Michael looked flabbergasted beyond belief. His mouth opened and closed like a fish out of water before he finally found his voice.
"Angel, listen, come back, please. Selene didn't send us out here to get you. Kahn did. We need you." Michael looked so sincere. He looked on the verge of tears.
I scoffed. "No! I refuse to go back. Please leave, I have customers who will be arriving soon and I need to get ready. I have less time now as it is so show yourselves out and please do not come back. If I need you I know where to reach you. Tell Kahn and the others, especially the ex - Death Dealers that I say hi." I hated having to do that, but it was the only way. Michael needed to get over himself sometimes and just leave it at no. I went over to the door that led to my living quarters. I heard the door slam as I descended into the last level of the building.