Prologue: Enter Yukiko

"Talking"

'Thinking"

"Demon talking"

'Demon thinking'

The sound of sandaled feet was heard along the deserted cobble streets of ancient Rome. A young girl around the age of seventeen raced along the empty alleyways and other streets to escape what danger had ruined her life. Her left hand was cut and bandaged but the blood still seemed to drip through and the sound of her harsh breaths were carried away with the wind.

Yukiko raced along the pillars and ruins of buildings that stretched before her. Her long, spiky silver hair was fastened in a loose bun to keep from getting in her face, and her robes were a little worse for wear. She ran without looking back, and soon she had passed the town's borders.

Her heart gave a cry of joy as she reached the forest, but her poor heart dropped to the ground as she saw the figure of a man before her.

"So filth, you thought you could escape me did you?" The man tilted his head to the side, showing off his features. His pastel blonde hair hung low around his ankles and a tight white set of robes adorned his tall thin frame.

Yukiko's breath caught in her throat out of fear, and she shuddered. "Asleif." She managed to choke out.

Asleif only chuckled before stepping forward. Yukiko took a step back.

"Look here monster, we can do this the easy way or the hard way, it doesn't matter to me, either way you die." His words came out smoothly as if he didn't mind taking life from others.

"You're the one who should be called a monster, I trusted you, you were supposed to be my friend." Tears had begun to well up in Yukiko's eyes.

In seconds Asleif's hand was around Yukiko's neck. "I was never and will never be a friend to a monster." He squeezed a bit harder, and a flurry of feathers surrounded the area. Yukiko clenched her teeth as she felt wings spring from their place in her back. She caught a glimpse of silver and turquoise out of the corner of her eyes.

Yukiko, was trembling now, but it was out of anger. Her eyes narrowed. 'That bastard will pay, no one and I mean no one hurts me enough to make my wings appear.' She looked at Asleif and growled before reaching out her own hand and punching him hard enough in the face to knock him to the ground and gain her freedom. She stepped back a couple feet as he got back up, white wings spread out behind him and he sneered.

"So you think your brave enough to face me monster."

Yukiko didn't give him time to hear her answer, she took off into the sky ignoring the shout of Asleif as he followed after her. 'I got to shake him off my trail somehow.' She looked around at her surroundings and growled again, there was nothing. She was knocked out of her train of thought as Asleif rammed into her causing her to crash into a tree below.

She kneeled over and coughed up some blood, before standing again. Asleif walked over to her smoothly and he smirked.

"Hurts doesn't, even though a monster like you should feel so much more." He lifted his hand and backhanded Yukiko hard across her right cheek

Yukiko spit the blood at his feet. She then looked at him with hate filled eyes.

"You'll pay for this Asleif, for those who betray their friends are nothing more than monsters themselves."

He growled out before ramming his fist into Yukiko's jaw. She looked up at him and smirked.

He frowned and narrowed his eyes. "Why are you smirking, you impudent little…" His sentence cut off when he noticed the sudden brightness around the area.

He snapped his head up to look at the glow of the full moon. His eyes widened and he stumbled backwards.

Yukiko chuckled darkly as her body changed. Her teeth grew into fangs, her hair turned just black, and her nails turned into claws. A silver cross appeared on her forehead and the sound of rushing water could be heard around the two. She looked up at Asleif and smiled.

"Your betrayal shall not go unpunished." She lunged forward towards Asleif, who fly off into the sky. She followed after him as a break-neck speed.

Asleif shivered and reached in his robes pulling out a white and blue glove. He held it out as Yukiko sped closer. "Golden Spirit!" He yelled. A white light emitted from his palm and hit Yukiko dead on. She was flung down to the ground, but quickly got back up.

She held out her hand and held it out with her other hand. "Water's Rage!" The sound of rushing water grew stronger as a deep blue stream of it swirled around her hand. It then shot forward like a whip and wrapped around one of Asleif's wings, tightening.

Asleif gave out a yelp of pain before pulling out a feather, and clutching it in his palm. "Fierce Golden Shadow!!" The feather multiplied and shot out like tiny daggers towards Yukiko.

She growled as they made tiny cuts along her arms, neck, and legs. They cuts started to hiss as they began to burn.

"Dammit!" She rushed forward and began to punch Asleif. He dodged ad few, but then she delivered a roundhouse kick to his jaw and he slammed downward.

"Whirlwind Dance!" The water began to twist around Asleif's form and Asleif screamed as the water began to twist faster causing little spikes to shoot out. He screamed again as they dung into his flesh, his vision began to blur from the pain but his eyes widened as he saw Yukiko Coming down with her fist glowing deep blue.

"Arrrraggggh!" She shouted as her fist connected with a sickening crack. Asleif flew back ramming into the wall of rock, rendering him unconscious.

Yukiko stepped under the shade of the trees and her form shifted back into what it originally was. She looked over at Asleif and her eyes widened. 'Pity, sadness, anger, rage!, Damn why do I fell this towards him.' She took one look before getting disgusted with herself and she once again took off into the night's sky, flying as fast as she could from what she didn't want to see.

She didn't want to see the blood that had stained her hands. Tears began to fall down her cheeks as she fell from the night's sky. She landed with a soft thud a golden colored grains of sand, and as her vision began to swim she saw a three different colors, black, red, and, yellow, before the darkness of her pain caught up to her.