"I can't believe it. It's really her." Kiary thought

She ran to Angel. Wrapping her arms around her she spoke in joy.

"I am so glad to see you again. After I heard about your demise I didn't know what to think. I just so sorry I wasn't there for you." She was speaking

Angel put her arms around her drawing her in close.

"Shh. Don't worry about it. I'm here now." She said

"At lest this madness is over and we can get back on with our lives." Kiary said

Angel moved one arm up to Kiary's neck.

"Who said it was over?" Angel asked

Kairy's eyes opened. She looked at her and saw two evil red eyes. Something cold was at the back of her neck. Angel had a knife in her hand. She pointed it at the back of her neck and pushed it. In a quick stab the dagger was in her neck. Angel left it there and walked away as Kiary fell to the ground. Angel smiled. Ginryu looked at her as she walked away from her dieing friend.

" Angel, what the hell did you do?" Ginryu yelled

Angel looked at Ginryu and simply closed her eyes and grinned.

"Oh I'm sorry I missed one." Angel said

She was behind Ginryu in a second. She put her arms around her and held her tightly.

"There is this voice. I don't know why it is there, but it keeps yelling out these names. But it keeps saying to leave them alone. Kiary was one of them." Angel finished

Ginryu's eyes widened in horror. She couldn't get out of Angel's grip.

"What are you?" Ginryu asked

Angel smiled again.

"I'm Angel aren't I?" She said

Ginryu looked back at her. She looked up at Ginryu with red eyes.

"I've missed you so much." Angel said

Angel let her go. Ginryu turned around watching her. She backed away getting to Kiary. She was on the ground trying to breath. She held her hands at her throat. The knife pierced her trachea. She was slowly choking to death.

"Why would you do this to your friend?" Ginryu asked

Angel looked at her confused.

"What happened to you?" Ginryu yelled

Angel looked at Kiary and spoke.

"Ah, I need my knife back." Angel said

She ran over and ripped the knife out of her neck. The knife was stopping the flow of blood into her lungs. Kiary slumped to the ground lifeless.

"There that's better. I don't want to lose this one." She said

Ginryu's eyes watered in this sight.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DO…" Ginryu said

Before she could finish Angel was before her holding her neck with one hand. Ginryu couldn't speak and couldn't breathe.

"Don't… yell… at… me…" Angel said angrily

She tightened her grip at her neck.

"Gin… Gin… Ginryu. That is the name she keeps calling to me." Angel said

She was scared. Like looking the reaper in the face.

"What is this creature in Angel's form?" She thought

"At lest now I know the names of the people I'm going to kill." Angel said while smiling.

In that instant Ginryu couldn't fathom what has happening. As the grip tightened Ginryu saw her life ending. Her heart was slowing. A single heartbeat and she fell. There was shouting.

"Why are you doing this?"

"Because I can."

"That is no excuse for your actions. And what's worse you're using my body to kill all these people."

Ginryu opened her eyes. She wasn't dead. But who was that talking. Before her stood Angel. But she was talking to someone.

"You are nothing more than a parasite. Stealing other peoples bodies and attacking innocent people."

"Ha, your one to talk. What have you been doing? Innocent? These creatures have been desecrating the land they step upon. They shouldn't be allowed to live."

"Just because you chose the beastmen over us doesn't mean you can kill these people."

"They have killed so many of my followers. I cannot allow their presence on this planet anymore. I was given a second chance to change what was wrong. And now I will use that power to fulfill my obligation to this land."

The people who were left alive tried to see what was going on. They heard shouting between two people but they could not see them. Ginryu coughed and got up. Stumbling away she heard the conversation.

"The only reason we killed them is because they started this war, you started this war. We just wanted to live in peace."

"Fool. You all started this war. When you expanded your colonies you took our land. You had no right to what you did. You can't possibly imagine how many innocent beastmen you trampled when your nations were established."

Getting far enough away she could see Angel. But she could not see the other person she was arguing with.

"So your going to kill all of us for something our great grandparents did? You're just going to continue the cycle?" Angel said

Ginryu saw her mouth the words.

"You are all accountable for their actions. You shall be judged as thus." Angel spoke

She saw Angel speak those words as well.

"What the hell is this?" Ginryu said

Angel looked over to the cowering Elvaan.

"Ginryu, you have to get the others and get out of here!" She yelled

"It's no use running. You can't stop me. Watch as I kill this weak one now." Angel said

She walked over to Ginryu. Ginryu was too frightened to move. Angel stopped before her and kneeled down in front of her. Angel just smiled.

"Why are you doing this?" Ginryu asked

"Why? I guess because I love killing. The rush I get from it. It makes me feel so nice every time I kill one of you. It sends my senses into a rush of endorphins. I guess this is why she doesn't want to stop me. She likes it just as much as I do." Angel said

"What are you?" Ginryu said

"I go by many names. But I guess I can give you something for me to go by. Since you all have such a lovely buzz word for me I guess I'll use that."

Angel stood up and raised both hands to her heart.

"You may call me the shadow lord, leader of the beastmen army. And, the new found owner of an angel's soul." She said

"This can't be real. This has to be a dream. There is no way you can be alive." Ginryu said

"There is too. When you all killed me so many years ago there was a prophecy of my return. My soul is incomplete. It was too dark and evil to be brought back to a living creature. So the great summoners from my castle were able to bring me to a false body to inhabit. I just needed the opposite to finish my form. So to a demon this angel was the perfect fit." She gloated. "Now you know who I am, I can't let you live anymore."

"Stop it, stop killing my friends you demon." Angel said

"You had your chance to say goodbye, you have lost it. But there are more of them you can say that too. So many more." She said

Angel drew her knife and put it to Ginryu's skin. It was being dragged across her neck; it touched her skin then stopped.

"You stupid wench. You can't stop me." She said

"I won't stand idly by and let you kill anymore of my friends." Angel said

"Fine, have it your way." She said back

Angel got up and put the knife to her left right hand.

"I love pain, but how long can you last before you can't take it anymore?" She said

Angel stabbed the knife through her hand. The tendons flexed in shock.

"AAHHHH!" Angel cried in pain

"Hah ha ha ha." She said countering

Angel brought her hand to her mouth and caught the blood that was escaping.

"Mithran blood is quiet a delicacy. It's been too long since I had any."

"You sick bastard, what are you doing?" Angel yelled

"We now share this body, but I will be the one to control it fully."

Ginryu watched the whole thing happen.

"This is too much to bear." She thought

"I must end your suffering." Ginryu said

Ginryu drew a sword from a sheath on her belt. While Angel was distracted she pushed the weapon through Angel's body. It hit her lungs and pushed through cutting the side of her heart. Finally in scrapped against her spine and exited through her back. Angel's eyes widened in pain. Ginryu stood there crying holing the sword in her body.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry I had to do this. I had to watch you die once before. I don't want to see you suffer anymore."

Angel grabbed the sword trying to take it out. But Ginryu put such force on it she could not remove it. Even in this reanimated form the shadow lord could not survive this attack.

"I… can't let this be the death of me." She struggled to speak.

"Just die already!" Ginryu yelled

Angel looked to Ginryu in the face and spoke.

"I'm sorry."

Angel put her hands on Ginryu's face. A force of energy and a black aura of Angel split from her body.

"Ha, I have the necessary power I need to rule this land once again." It spoke

Ginryu looked at it and looked back to Angel. She had only the one feathered wing and the dark one only had the one bone wing. The shadow lord split forms to live on. Ginryu quickly stopped putting force on the blade in Angel. She fell forward coughing up blood.

"Oh my goddess. Angel, you can't die again." Ginryu cried out

"Bring… me to… Kiary…" Angel struggled to speak

Ginryu hunched her up and took her to Kiary's corpse.

"Good, now please take the others and leave. Get as far away from here as possible." Angel said

She looked at Kiary brushing the strewn blood soaked hair from her face.

"How could I let this happen? I have to set this right. A life for a life." Angel finished

Angel put a hand on her neck, a bright light sew the fatal wound up again. She leaned over and put her mouth to Kiary's lips and breathed in. A full exhale and her body jolted. Kiary coughed out hard and hunched in a fetal position in pain. She opened her eyes and there was Ginryu getting her to her feet. Looking to her surroundings there was Angel on the ground breathing heavily, a sword in her chest and slowly dieing.

"What is happening?" Kiary asked

"You're alive again, and if you want to stay that way we need to get going." Ginryu spoke

The shadow lord looked at Angel, as she was able to bring back her fallen comrade.

"So you think by bringing her back to life will make this any better? She will just die again." She said

Angel placed a hand on Ginryu's sword and slowly pulled it out. Putting a hand over the hole and a light shined healing the mortal wound. Getting up she looked at her evil counterpart.

"I won't allow you to kill any more of these people." Angel said

"Oh and how do you plan on doing that? Bleed on me?" She asked

Angel ran at her. With one wing she was a little shaky but Angel could move freely again. Getting close to her the dark aura repelled her essence.

"You can't even touch me. How do you expect to kill me?" She spoke

The crowd behind her was being rushed away when Zanu and Terra returned to see what was happening. Angel could feel Terra's presence. And so could the shadow lord.

"So your child and your master has returned. I think I could make use of this." She said

Angel looked at her in utter disgust. She turned to Zanu yelling for him to take Terra away. In that moment the shadow lord strikes Angel to the ground. This dark evil image of Angel runs through the air to Terra. Zanu steppes in between Terra and the moving dark aura of the shadow lord. The shadow lord knocks him aside and pushes her hand into Terra's chest. It pushed past the skin not tearing the skin. She picks Terra and looks her in the eyes.

"Who are you?" Terra asks frightened

"Why I'm your dear mother. And we should never be apart. Don't you think?" She asked

Terra looked at this creature in her mothers form. She wasn't in any pain she was just afraid of her for some reason. She blinked and her vision was going black.

"What is happening?" Terra asked

The shadow lord pushed her aura into Terra. She took over her body and did with it as she saw fit.

Angel got up and saw her daughter, but it wasn't her anymore. There were two bone wings growing from her back. That was not all either she was changing. Terra's body was growing, her arms and legs stretched out as her frame thinned. Her head shifted to look like a demon. She wasn't her daughter any more. The shadow lord took complete control of Terra.

Angel didn't know what to think anymore. There was nothing left for her. That being took her friends, her daughter, and her life. There was nothing left for Angel now. Hopeless she stood up looking at the beast that was once her daughter. At that moment the sun started to rise. Its ray's bleed over the town. The destroyed city was being illuminated and Angel felt the warmth on her back. She turned to the sun and closed her eyes.

"What is there left for me here? Just take me away so I can rest, I don't want to fight these battles anymore." Angel said

"You can't possibly think about giving up now can you?"

"Yes I am, there is nothing else I can do, and I am dead after all." Angel said

The light refracted off of carbuncles ruby on her forehead. The colors shined on the surrounding area. The ruby was absorbing particles of light. Angel could feel the warmth covering her body rejuvenating her.

The shadow lord was directly behind her. Raising a ragged claw she swung down hard to attack Angel. As it crashed down she held nothing but air.

"Where did she go?" She asked

"Look up."

Above her was Angel floating with two white wings keeping her in the air.

"I have never hated a creature so much before. I reserve only my all for such a thing as you." Angel said. "You steal my life, my friends, and my daughter. There is no compassion or sympathy left." Angel said

The ruby on her head was bright red. The solar rays it collected held a strong power barely being held back.

"I give my all to stop you." Angel said

She started collecting energy and she froze in the air, her wings covered her as she curled up. In a sudden moment her wings moved outward in full plumage and she stretched fully. They ruby flashed unleashing a vibrant flurry of light. It shined on the shadow lord. Its power pushed forth a force that could not be stopped by her dark aura. It was so strong it was pushing her out of Terra's body. A dark shape of the creature was thrust from her body. The light overpowered this figure destroying its form. Soon it just faded away in the light of the ruby.

The light force slowly dimmed as Angel used the last of her power. Her wings didn't have the strength to keep her afloat anymore. Down she fell. To the ground she crashed, upon impact Angel blacked out.

From what was left of lower Jeuno Angel's friend's slowly approached her body. Zanu and a white mage were tending to Terra. She was the first to awaken. Getting up she wanted her mother. They were both weak. Angel was barely breathing. She didn't look like she was going to be getting up. Terra got up and slowly hobbled to her mother.

"Mommy… mommy, where are you?" Terra asked

She saw a congregation of people. She moved to them trying to push her way through them. Ginryu saw her and picked her up.

"You shouldn't go in there now." Ginryu said

"Mommy, what is wrong with my mommy?" Terra asked

"She is sleeping. She needs her rest." Ginryu said

Terra kicked her way free and ran through the crowd to see her mother motionless on the ground.

"No."

She crawled to her getting under a wing and into her arms.

"You can't be dead." Terra cried. "You said you would be there for me. Why wont you get up for me. I need you now."

Terra was sobbing hysterically. In her distraught state she did not feel the wing closing in on her. It was pulling her closer.

"Do you remember that lullaby I sang to you when you couldn't sleep?" Angel said very faintly

Terra nodded trying to get next to her mother as much as possible.

"I… I came here by day, but I left here in darkness and found you… found you on the way." Angel sang softly "And now on, it is silver and silent… it is silver and cold, you in somber resplendence, I hold."

"Light… like the flutter of wings, feel your hollow voice rushing into me as you're longing to sing." Terra joined in

Angel put an arm around Terra.

"So I… I will paint you in silver… I will wrap you in cold. I will lift up your voice as I sink." Angel sang

"Cold in life's throes." Terra sang

"I fell asleep for you." Angel sang

"Cold in life's throes."

"I only ask you turn away."

"Cold in life's throes."

"I fell a sleep for you."

"Cold in life's throes."

"I only ask you turn a…" Angel finished

Legal notice. I do not own FFXI. It is property of Square-Enix. All PC's and NPC's have thier respective owners. The song "Silver and Cold" is under full rights of AFI, please don't sue.