Sorry this story took forever to update. I was at my beach house all this time and decided to relax instead of wrote all day. Anyway, here is your long-awaited chapter!
Chapter 3: August 15th, 2014 3:42PM
"What is the meaning of this!?" I.A. screamed, her voice shrill and quivering in the fear that her throat was about to get ripped apart by the Queen herself. "F-Father! Help me! Please! I swear to the Goddess above I didn't do anything!"
The Queen gave a nearly silent laugh and raised her metal wing even closer to I.A.'s exposed skin. "Don't even give me that Imperial Adversary! I'm sure at the age you are you have discovered the vile powers deep within you."
"D-dark powers?!" She stuttered. "I have no dark powers you speak of!" Desperately, she slowly turned her head top her purple-haired Father. "Tell her Father! I am nothing but a regular normal angel!"
"No you are not Imperial Adversary…" He said sternly, raising his hand up as a gesture to say 'be quiet', "I knew it from the day I found you abandoned in the clouds."
I.A.'s blue eyes widened as far as they would go. The shock of everything her father had just said didn't directly enter her brain. It instead swirled around her ears, echoing the words that seemed so alien to her it stung like pain to hear them each time. "N-No…" Was the word that escaped her dry, pink lips.
"Yes, Imperial Adversary." Her so-called father repeated. "I am not your real father, nor would I ever want to be. Do you remember the eve of the night thatincident happened?"
How could I forget…? She thought, her body beginning to shake uncontrollably. That was the night it happened. That night was when my brother and I were outside catching wild fireflys as we starched our wings out when I got really mad at K.A. for killing a few on purpose. That was when… "M-My wings and my hair…t-they grew all black…and later I figured out my blood was also black with white mixed in…"
"You are a smart girl Imperial Adversary." Queen L.U. said in a mocking tone. "I am surprised you have not yet figured it out. I hear you love learning about other dimensions."
The more words that were spoken, the more that I.A's head throbbed in pain. A single feather that was made of cold metal rested it's tip on her throat. If the Queen applied even just an ounce more of force, black blood wound pour out from the wound. "Y-yes, the other worlds interest me! But I don't understand any of this! What does that have to do with any of what you two are telling me!?"
"I am sure by now you know of the Fallen Realm, no?"
Queen L.U.'s words stopped I.A.'s breathing for a second as her brain scattered for something to say. But to no avail could she muster up anything from her mouth.
Queen Living Universal sighed. "Not talking, eh? Well then I'll answer for you." The pink-haired woman cleared her throat. "Our sources have indicated that you, Imperial Adversary, are a half Angel, Half Fallen one cross breed! You are no Angel and there for not a citizen of this world! Souls of the Damned like you are not welcome in my Realm!"
With one quick slice, I.A. had a small gash across her shoulder. She winced in pain, but refused to scream. The Queen had purposely missed her neck.
Midnight black blood spilled out from the wound and gushed all over her white clothes. Anything the black ooze touched hissed and steam erupted from it as if it was screaming as it was burned to death.
"See! It is proof she is a Damned Soul!" I.A.'s 'Father' said, pointing at the blood sweeping from her body. "She must be taken to the Fallen Realm at once!"
"Oh no, the Fallen ones will never accept her!" The Queen said, taking a small half-step away from the pool of blood that was gathering at the feet of I.A. "She must be banished the worst place in all of the Realms!"
"NO!" I.A. screamed, tears rushing fervently from her blue eyes. "I don't want to be sentenced away to a different Realm! I want to stay with you! So what if I am half Angel and half Fallen one!? I am loyal only to the Angles! Please don't throw me out!"
But it was too late. The Queen had already started her Exorcism. A blue circle-shield formed around I.A's body. No matter how hard the girl kicked and punched and screamed, the circle didn't break.
"We shall banish you to the Demented Realm!" The Queen shouted, her spell almost done. "There you shall live with the inhabitants there and die alone there!"
"NO! PLEASE FATHER DON'T SEND ME THERE!" She shouted at the top of her lungs, but neither her father nor the Queen responded.
White began forming at the edge of I.A.'s vision, but her mind refused to drift away. Why? I don't understand! I am the offspring of two beings that cannot live near one another!? Why did Father lie?! Who is my Mother?! IS K.A. a Damned Soul too? Why did Father take care of me if he knew all along?! Why am I alive?!
I.A.'s mind quickly lost all sanity with her questions. There were too many. Her head hurt too. She wanted answers, now. But the darkness overtaking her said otherwise.
The purple-haired man whom she had come to know as her father walked up the circle and raised his hand up to his 'daughter'. Before I.A.'s eyes finally fluttered shut, she saw her father mouth something. It was "I love you."