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Chapter 4
The Fall
After what had happened in Nyx's Grove Kalona dragged his himself to the place and to his sleeping quarters. He threw himself on the bed and closed his eyes and drifted to sleep, wanting to get away from everything.
Nyx laid awake in her bed with Erebus sleeping beside her. She knew she had to make a decision about Kalona; a simple slap on wrist would not suit what he did today. Nyx knew that it really wasn't because of the kiss she was angry about, actually, what she felt during the kiss was what really puzzled her; the feelings the kiss had brought her, she touched her lips absent-mindly and pushed the kiss out of her mind. She loved Erebus and was meant to be with him, not Kalona, even if Kalona sometimes seemed much better than Erebus but today it shattered that. Kalona had acted out of hate and anger and jealous, all agents of Darkness, something that could not be in her Realm. Her eyes closed again and the decision had been made and it would take action tomorrow.
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That morning Kalona was summoned to meet Nyx at the gates of her Realm. As he walked over there he noticed that the sky was cloudy and gray, that never meant anything good. He walked with his head down, only to raise it when he came in front of Nyx. He fell to his knees in front of Nyx, her face held no emotion, just like her onyx eyes. Kalona took in Nyx; the only thing he didn't know was that this would be the last glimpse of Nyx he would see, a bitter-sweet memory, just like seeing her again would be in the future.
"You have disappointed me Kalona." Nyx said and he didn't respond. Nyx saw that there was sadness in his whiskey colored eyes. "Do you have anything to say for yourself Kalona?"
Kalona met the Goddess eyes and knew that this might be the last chance he got to ask for forgiveness but he decided not to. He would not be condemned to hide his feelings. "Not at all, my Goddess. What I did yesterday was show you my love for you and I will not regret these feelings because I love you."
Nyx's eyes stayed emotionless, he face cold and impassive. "Kalona, my Warrior, you must understand that I can never, will never return those feelings because I belong with Erebus and I love him, not you." Kalona's eyes hardened and he clenched his jaw and spoke thru clenched teeth. "Then my Goddess let me be damned because these feelings won't leave and it is how I feel. A goddess such as wonderful as you, deserves a better man than Erebus." Kalona sneered at his name as if saying the name brought a disdainful taste in his mouth.
"And you think after what you did yesterday, you deserve me?" Nyx snapped back, her tone hard and cold.
"No, my Goddess. I do not but you still deserve better." Kalona quickly said back, his voice void any emotion.
"What you did yesterday was unacceptable as well as unforgivable. You have let your emotions take its toll and you have even dared to feel jealous and hatred towards my Consort. You cannot be here if you have a feeling of harming him." Nyx said and Kalona could not believe the words, her words. This couldn't be possible, this had to be a dream, and his ears must be deceiving him. "Therefore Kalona, I am banishing your body from my Realm and you are no longer my Oath-bound Warrior."
"Please do not do this, my Goddess!" he begged on his knees.
"I do nothing, Kalona. You have a choice in this. I even give my warriors free will, though I do not require them to use it wisely." She said coldly.
"I cannot help myself. I was created to feel this. It is not free will. It is preordination."
"Yet as your goddess I will tell you what you are is not preordained. Your will has fashioned you."
"I cannot help how I feel! I cannot help what I am!" he shouted, tears streaking down his face now.
"You, my Warrior, are mistaken; therefore, you must pay the consequences of your mistake." She finished. Then with one perfect flick of her finger, the goddess banished Kalona, and he fell.
Nyx watched as her former Warrior fell. She couldn't hold back the tears and she fell to the ground weeping. What had become of him? This wasn't the Kalona she knew and loved as a brother, as a friend. She felt strong arms wrap around her and she leaned into Erebus, comforting her as she cried. It was true that Erebus didn't like Kalona but he didn't like the fact that he was gone because it caused the one that he loved so much pain.
Kalona fell from Realm to Realm until he landed on the grass in the middle of a prairie on Earth. Reality sank in even more for Kalona. She had banished him without even a second glance. What a fool he had been.
Kalona looked down at his body that was bruised and hurt and bleeding. He flapped his wings to make sure they were not damaged, but it didn't shock him that they were pitch black, there had been stories he had heard.
The now Fallen Warrior of Nyx disposed Warrior of Nyx stood up from the ground and looked around him. He was surrounded by trees, in the middle of a forest. Tears still fell from his eyes, and scrubbed his eyes wiping them away. What would become of him now? He truly didn't know. Then he say figure in the shadows and it took form of a bull. It stepped out of the shadows.
The white bull. Kalona eyed it; he had heard about the bulls, Nyx had taught him all about them. Slowly, Kalona met the white bulls red merciless, cruel, evil eyes. "What is you want?" Kalona's voice cold and hard, guarded.
"I have a proposition for you, Fallen Warrior of Nyx."
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