Chapter 1:
A beautiful and enchanting burlesque woman converses with striking violet eyes and raven black hair pin by intricate braids a high bun. Her light tan skin has traces of white glowing fluorescent tattoos. One thing you at to admit her eyes speak many pains, sorrows and paths she did walk.
"Darling', I suggest you should stay on your planet. There are many sorrows here" the southern accent of the woman known as Moxxi says.
The mysterious woman shakes her head, her soft yet strong voice flows out easily, "No, Moxxi I must come there, my planet holds nothing no more. My children are grown and my career happens stay on pause for influential devices of music I must find. I have nowhere else to go but to you, my dearest sister"
Moxxi sighs and responds, "White Lily, if they found out about you being a…a…they would take you away" her eyes has a tinge of worry in her succubus eyes. White Lily shakes her head, not once will she have whoever they are could take her away.
"No, whoever they are they will never defeat me. Prepare for my arrival in near days and have an escort and transport if you're horrendously frightened for my safety" White Lily said.
"I oppose to your ideas, sweetie. I know there's no way to convince you otherwise; I will send for you with a few I trust" she said sporting a smile to her longtime friend since her child-bearing years of Scooter, Ellie and all of her other children that she had, White Lily has been there for her through thick and thin for her best friend.
They share a deep sisterly bond between them since White Lily made a blood connection many summer moons ago which was when they were in their early twenties.
White Lily smiles back her natural rosy pink slips gracing her features positively. She acknowledges her friend with a hand to her heart and chuckles, her soft laughter reminding Moxxi of all the years that her laughter did remain the same. "Then I shall away for your trustees at dawn, farewell for the time being"
"Later, my White Lily" She disconnects the call and lets out a deep sigh in her bed chambers, a small province abode she has acquired in her bar in Sanctuary. Now she has other things to worry about;
First, Jack taking away her best friend and he kill her.
Second, her children being murdered before her eyes before Jack slit her throat.
Third, is keeping her business afloat while staying under the radar from Jack.
Fourth is White Lily's own safety and not have Jack finding her existence, but that's number one, right?
One thing she knows is to call on some old friends and hope that they will help her, but they would possibly do it for the money. She calls the four vault hunters though they are no in Sanctuary that they may have other plans.
Mordecai, Lilith, Roland and Brick
They all did help her out back in New Haven then and caused some glorious ratings for her Under dome before Handsome Jack destroyed it. Lilith leads the place with her lover Roland, Brick and Mordecai are left; Though Brick doesn't want to help because he's still brooding over her puppy that The Sheriff of Lynchwood.
The last person she dares to ask is Mordecai. She brushes her nervousness that stirs in her stomach away; she summons him to her bed chambers. She doesn't know what he will say or react to after asking him, but she has no last resort other than the Vault Hunters.
Mordecai lazily strolls through the doors, his gaze of annoyance on the woman who broke his heart. "What now, Moxxi? Want another try at breaking my heart?" The stinging of is words biting at her heart. She feels the sorrow that tingle inside, she shakes her head.
"I need you to escort a very important person here; can you care for her safety and not let any of her strands of hair a miss?"
Mordecai's eyes rise behind his goggles, 'Since when does Moxxi care for another but herself?' he begins to contemplate many ideas to who this woman may be; her daughter, Lover, Wife, Friend or anything like that?
"What does this gain for me?" he asks her, his hands shaking in his gloves. She narrows her eyes slightly but quickly returns to her casual glaze. "Mordecai," he stares at her in shock, she address him by his name and not b some nickname she gives everyone.
"She is not taken by Jack or have him know about her existence, he'll hurt her. She's very special. Please, I ask of you to do this"
Mordecai calculating gazes at the woman he loved and still loves dearly despite the pain she gave him due to her infidelity and he hates to admit it too. He knew that the love was real but it was just as fast as it came and she left him for that swine that stole her. It broke him into many glass shards.
He begins to notice that Moxxi is resulting to asking…begging possibly to have him get this mysterious woman before the chance that Handsome Jack gets his grimy hands on her. Hell knows what he'll do with or towards the girl, possibly even cause harm.
Mordecai took notice of the panic and desperation in the eyes of Mad Moxxi; for once in his life he had felt the need to actually help her after she broke his heart. "I'll do it" he tells her, honesty laying in his words.
Moxxi's eyes had a spark of hope; unfathomable awe lies in her core, heart and mind. "Thank you" she says thankfully.
"No need for any special return favors later" he said before she could even open her mouth to respond. Her eyes had a ting of disbelief making Mordecai stare in them briefly.
"The offer stands" she says with a wink. She places a hand on her hip and holds her chin up. "I'll pay enough that you'll have a good wad of cash"
Mordecai nods and turns around and walks out the door and shouts out, '"You better keep your words" he gathers a few others and heads off to the destination near The Oasis. One thing he does know is that the place is very humid and dry and Jack won't surely bother the place just yet, right?
Moxxi on the other hand cups her diamond and pearl best friend necklace around her neck and stare down at it, her friend made one with her decades ago. She had been once trash, as she felt like, in a family that she spits at the name and for once she's glad that they haven't bothered her still.
White Lily and her had been best friends since back then and still is, she had helped her leave that hillbilly inbred family and has now White Lily and her children, including her own offspring the only ones left she considers family.
~~ Mordecai arrives at Oasis with the available Vault Hunters as the sun sets to dawn and the sand blows gently across the horizon. Three of the vault hunters step up near the desert hill. "Who are we meeting exactly?" Maya asks her eyes focusing on the pink hue sky above.
"What the hell's that?!" Gaige shouts, pointing at an oval silver shape coming down from high above at rapid speeds.
A slim pod descends from the heavens to the ground, the pod slides down like slates until it forms at the feet of a woman with striking features. The woman bends down ad places her hands in the silver goo that forms from the remains of the pod and it shapes around her wrists lie cuffs.
"Greetings, I assume that you all were sent here to escort me to Moxxi, Correct?" She asks her voice soft and strong with emotion.
They analyze her features, raven black hair in a bun with many magnificent braids, violet eyes with thick black lashes and light tan skin. She wears a silver dress the fits her lean hourglass frame greatly, the back has a curve of a lily tattoo forms on the back of her dress, the collar of the dress that goes up to her neck and a heart cutout between her breast.
"Excellent, lead the way please" she says politely, she smiles widely and her white teeth glistening like pearls in the sunlight.
As the advance to Oasis, they begin to think about what this woman did to have Moxxi escort her back to Sanctuary? The woman moves effortlessly though the sands with ease, as if she knows the desert and has been a sand raider. A sand raider is a legend; one mysterious person cloaked in black had a raider group that lived in the desert and dies in it, but they made a legend by killing so many and saving a plenty as well.
"Who are you?" Maya said, breaking the silence by her question.
The woman turns her head slightly and chuckles. "And who are you as well?" her joke cracks the seriousness. "I am a Fallen Angel, once a White Lily full of love and hope. Now I am nothing but a nobody; my career is only left of a dream I had as a child" They didn't understand what she meant other than she's claiming herself a 'Fallen Angel' and was once a White Lily. They question her sanity and several other people are quite insane like their companion Krieg and overall Pandora is full of this madness.
"Just call me Fallen Angel" she murmurs. They climb the wood planet steps of Oasis and leave back to Sanctuary. "Since that day" she looks around the floating city in the sky.
"Since what day, if you don't mind me asking?" Mordecai says, his eyes focusing on her in wonder. She holds her head down and closes her eyes. "I cannot wish to tell you" she whispers and opens her eyes and turns towards them. "Show me the way to Moxxi, shall you do that?"
"Yeah" they said leading their way to Mad Moxxi's bar. They arrive at the bright lights of a bar that made the new woman sigh in content.
Fallen Angel whistles as she takes in the bar, it looks different yet if tics Moxxi at the time due to resources and environment. She steps inside and goes up to the bar counter and press her hands palm down lightly. "Moxxi doll, I have arrived" she says in a monotone voice.
Just as soon as she speaks the words of blessed magic words, the enchanting burlesque woman in red appears from behind a hidden door near them.
"Thank you, sweethearts; Here's the payment like I promised, now run along"
she takes out cash and gives them it and they divide it then exit the building.
Mad Moxxi and Fallen Angel stare at each other silently. They embrace each other in a hung awkwardly from both sides of the counter. "It is good to see you again"
"It is. What have you been up to?" Moxxi asks as she ends the hug and steps away. Fallen Angel lets out a sigh and took a seat in the bar stool and glance around the empty bar.
"I had been focusing on my career. My children are grown enough that they're in college and I am here now to stay with you" Fallen Angel replies, taking a seat on a bar stool and relaxing her head on her hand.
Moxxi picks up a bottle of rum. "Want one, sweet lily?" she pours a shot and passes it to Fallen Angel, she turns in her seat to face the woman and takes the thick rimmed glass. "Yeah"
"Moxxi, what have you been doing?" Fallen Angel says, she picks up her shot glass and takes in quickly and slams it back on the counter making the tick glass making a sharp sound of ringing in her ears. Moxxi tells her everything that has happened in the last fifteen years. Much of it has made her upset at this Handsome Jack for burning down her best friend's Underdome, causing many innocent lives harmed and death. The story concludes to where they now are at. Moxxi could tell how mad her friend is because of the glowing tattoos shining dimly under her clothes and her arm including her eyes are gleaming darkly.
"I won't show myself due to many reasons but I am surely going to help you as much as I can" Fallen Angel declares.
As the night blesses Sanctuary with its shadow blanket, Fallen Angel sits on a bench recently built near Scooter's garage, several feet away from the gate entrance to Sanctuary right near the drop off. The stars in the sky is like little dim candles that light the sky up beautifully.
"Why has this ever happened to me? Ever since that day...What a pity I thought I would've had a glorious future" she whispers. A glowing tear sliding down her cheek, It lit the cold ground up leaving the glow of the tear making a dot of glowing liquid.
She scoffs and leans her head back against the beautifully hand carve wooden bench. The memories of the past seem making her lost in deep thoughts. Not once did her dreams as a young adult or teenager came true. She never had the loving married with a man of her dreams, a home to come back to from long trips across the galaxies to see her family and husband.
The guy that she had fallen in love with as a teenager did be with her for sometime but left her for another female, not once did her apologize or seen her again. And if they had seen each other again, she would know what to do and it's not pleasant.