Syd cursed as she beat against the magically-reinforced metal bars of her cell. The stone cave walls were barely wide enough for her wingspan. It annoyed her almost to the point of insanity. Jessie and Des were in adjacent cells. Des leaned against the bars of the wall that separated her cell and Syd's, and whispered. "There's no hope for us anymore."

"I talked to Scott's mother. She's going to try to reason with him."

There were wild shouts from the hallway, and Syd approached the bars. She saw her boyfriend's mother being unceremoniously thrown into another cell, and then as the guards left she took her tail in her hands and cut off the tail. A green liquid bubbled inside the spade. Syd ran it along a couple of the bars, and smiled as she was able to escape.

"Moni?" She questioned, arriving at the cell of her future mother-in-law. "What happened?"
Monica looked at Syd. "Well…when I heard about your aunt being imprisoned I had to do something."

"Which was…"

"I tried to poison him." Monica as well as her husband, Derek, Scott and Nick's father, were alchemists, and thus had access to virtually every chemical known to demonkind.

"Did you…when you gave him the drink, did you catch him in the middle of a meeting?"

"Yes."

"Ah…was it a sentencing?"

"Yes."

"What did he say?"

Again there was a commotion in the cellblock as Jessie screamed and was dragged from her cell, restrained, and carried into another room. A heavy boulder was rolled into the place of the entrance, barring the escapees from freeing their comrade.

Inside the chamber, Jessie snarled before she was put under a silencing spell. She cried and beat the stone floor with her hands as the wing membranes were cut from the bones. "Sell these…maybe you can make a few dollars off of them." He carelessly tossed the triangular skins to one of his own comrades and looked at his wife, who was prone on the floor, passed out from her attempts at calling for help. "Excellent….we'll have a new omega on our team."

In a sudden burst of green energy, a vine, thick as a tree, burst forth and knocked Daemon off his clawed feet, saving Jessie's life. The vine was still glowing and captivated them all, even the one who had supplied the power: Des. She had no idea she could do that…Oh well, she thought…whatever defeated her uncle. Snarling, the male demon acknowledged defeat and stepped off. Des broke the bonds and waved her hand over her aunt's broken wings, healing them and replenishing the membranes.

Jessie's blue eyes blinked. Not even…not even alphas had that power. In fact, she wasn't even sure if Ayan had that power. Was Des destined to be a goddess when she passed into the next world? When she saw that Drew wasn't with the twins, she knew there was no time for discussion of Des' powers. "Where's Drew?"

"We dropped him off at Andie's before we went sightseeing and were captured."

"Ah….thank Ayan…" Jessie muttered.

"Andie's also got a place for us to stay."

"Excellent. Are you girls ready to start school?"

"Yep!" Both twins replied.

"It'll be nice to have someone to hang around with other than my sister."

"HEY!" Syd growled.

"I was joking."