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Thanks Sammie-Chan for inspiring me to write and post this story :-)

AU NanoFate/Yuri

Author's Notes: This is my first story so be gentle. Constructive criticism is very welcome. I plan to have 2 arcs in this story. This fic will definitely have NanoFate pairing with possible other pairing so if you are not a Yuri fan you may want to stop now. I do enjoy drama and angst so I'm afraid there will be lots of that but rest assured it will have a happy ending (for some…). I am posting this as M rating as their will be lots of swearing, violence, blood, lemon scenes and murder. I will try to remember to put warnings at the start of particular chapters for more sensitive readers.

Enjoy!

Fairy-Wren.

Papillon

Chapter 1:

Black

Black glossy feathers glinting with a purple green sheen are exposed in the moonlight. Its long hackles on its throat extended and shaggy as it throws its head back and make's its strong, clear sorrowful lament breaking the deafening silence in the clear night air. It shouldn't even be awake at this time of night but then again it is its own master and answers to no one and nothing. Its wings beat majestically stirring the dust on the ground as its individual wing feathers caress the cool night's air delicately and with purpose almost as if the creature and the night were lovers.

I watch from my cage as the raven takes flight watching me with its white piercing eyes. It is free and I am trapped. A twisted turn of events. An irony! I watch as the raven the colour of my heart and soul can do what I had once dreamt of doing, taking flight into the unknown with the vast expanse of sky as its only limit. It called once more its first note loud, defying, how I used to feel in the past, descending fading to a deep, slow muffled wail at what I must seem like now if I dared to look within.

The raven's wings beat harder and faster almost as if suddenly aware of the suffocating atmosphere of my cage trying to trap it in. In seconds the creature gains height seeming relieved at the distance between it and myself. I gaze at it with indifferent empty blood coloured eyes as it circles the expanse of my solitary prison twice while maintaining its sly eyes on me. It doesn't take long for the raven to disappear like the traces of hope I lost so long ago.

The stifling silence returns but it does not bother me as it used to. The darkness is comforting and embracing as it surrounds me completely. The night doesn't judge me for what I have become. I look up at the quietly mocking moon.

As a child, people used to say I was a proud, independent and fearless girl that was always smiling and laughing. They used to say that I was like a prince always helping and protecting others, challenging society's constraints and always putting everyone before herself no matter who they were. That girl, that prince seems like a completely different person. A person I can never be again. A person that died long ago. I smirk at how easily my soul was broken, at my interminable weakness. Once a good and noble prince with a heart of gold now a prince of darkness trapped in a cage, a prison of her own doing until called upon to seek revenge on unsuspecting victims. A prince who punishes others regardless of if they are right or wrong. A prince doing others bidding without question. A prince who couldn't fight her own battles and ended up surrendering her heart and soul. A prince trapped alone in a dark fortress that time forgot with her dark thoughts. A fallen prince.

In the dark there is no need to hide. No one is here to see the truth. The undeniable truth that I sold my soul to save hers!

I turn away from the moon and close my eyes. I have to focus on my next mission.

To be continued…