Chapter 1: Ritsuka

Staring out over the lighting landscape that surrounding Nesta's castle I curled up closer to Rem and clutched Mage's jacket closer to me as we all sat atop the castle's roof and waited for the sun to rise. This would be the first sunrise this place had seen since the vampires took over and used dark magic to cover it in a never ending night.

No one said anything and I knew that when we all even back that we would need to talk, but I had no clue as to what to say or who to choose the five of them had turned their backs on family and custom's just for the chance to be with me. The human part of me wanted to pull away and go back to my 'normal life' but that life was now lost to me, I was the living embodiment of the grimoire itself and was no longer fully human.

Brushing back a strained of my now long hair, I twisted it through my fingers as the sky turned slowly from black to the first glimpse of pink.

Glancing through the corner of my eye I saw that Lindo was gone, before we all had come up here Lindo had stopped me and given me a small black cell phone.

"I need to leave, I need to go get mom and take her to the hospital." He said and wrapped me into his strong arms.

I hugged him back and knew that I would not see him again or if I did it wouldn't be for a long time.

"Promise me you'll take care of yourself," I demanded and at his nodded reached up and kissed his cheek.

"Wow," Urie said as the sun appeared bright over the horizon, while beams of sunlight danced over the nearby lake. "I have to say Butterfly, you were right this is a wonderful sight."

Mage let out a grunt of agreement, Shiki nodded and Loewen said nothing just stared at the lake.

"We need to leave soon," Rem said quietly, his voice muffled against my hair.

I nodded and with Rem's help stood up, as we all made our way off the roof my foot caught on the edge of my dress and I felt myself falling into midair letting out a scream of panic I felt myself being enveloped into a pair of arms than all of a sudden I wasn't falling.

"You know when I pictured us falling together Fu-fu it wasn't like this," Shiki said and turned me in his arms so that I was facing him.

My eyes widen at the sight of Shiki's beautiful wing and took in every little detail that I could see, his wings were a deep black with purple highlights in them but each feather had a small almost invisible symbol on them.

While I had seen Shiki's wings before I had never been so close that I could seem the detail in them before…or maybe now that all my power was unlocked I could see things more clearly?

"Not my fault the bloodsuckers made me wear this death trap of a dress," I complained and laid my head down against his shoulder as Shiki took his time taking us back up.

"You okay baby?" Mage asked and all but yanked me from Shiki's arms and held me bridal style in his arms.

"I'm fine. I just need to get out of the damn dress." I said and tugged at the fabric of the dress.

The dress itself was beautiful but much too long for my small frame and I wondered if they had done that on purpose in order to keep me from running away more easily.

"Let's get back and we'll find something for you to wear," Mage said and nodding I closed my eyes as darkness fell over me.

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Loewen

Curled up in dog form next to my mate as she slept peacefully on the larger sofa in the library I watched as the others had a whispered argument by Rem's desk.

"She is mine!" Mage growled his eyes flashing red.

Urie snorted and sniffed his ever-present rose while leaning back into in his seat.

"A brute like you with MY butterfly? I think not." He said and Shiki's wings flared out with his anger.

"You stay away from her! Ritsuka Is MINE!" HE hissed and his wings glowed with the faintest shimmer of heavens light.

Fallen or not Shiki was still an angel, with all the powers that came with being one.

"Please, why would she want you?" Mage snapped.

I snorted and cuddled closer to my mate, unlike the rest of them, both Rem and I had understood that Ritsuka would rather choose them all than hurt them all while being with just one of them.

'Don't worry mistress I'll take good care of you.' I thought to myself gently licked her cheek.

It had taken time for me to realize that Ritsuka was my mate and by the time I had figured it out those filthy vampires had captured her. The need to protect my mate had burned away the last of my bond to Lord Maksis, now I felt the bonds that bound every male in this room to Ritsuka, they could feel it to fi only they would take a second to focus.

"Will you all shut up? You'll wake her up," Rem finally snapped and looked up from his phone long enough to glare at them.

They all fell silent and stared at Rem in confusion.

"Why the sudden change of heart Rem?"Urie asked then Mage added.

"Yeah it's not like you don't want her any less then we do."

Rem let out a long sigh and stood and made his way over to me and Ritsuka.

"Don't you three feel it?" He asked and crouched down in front of us and brushed back a lock of Ritsuka hair.

"She already has chosen…she had chosen all of us." He said.