"Maybe now things will be less monotonous. Go to NYC, get captured, get threatened…" Syd moaned. The demons had previously taken metamorphosis potions, transforming them into normal everyday humans. Syd and Des had jet-black hair and serene emerald eyes. Jessie had blue eyes and blonde hair. After they had conversed with Andie (through Syd's cell phone), they received their new address. Fay, who had accompanied the three demons, zipped from Andie's electronics shop and back to Des and her aunt and sister, holding a key ring.

Jessie took the key ring and took hold of the key dubbed for opening the front door, entering it into the keyhole. She smiled when she saw it had enough furniture to last them for a while. Syd examined the kitchen. "Andie must have done this." She laughed when she noticed there was food there, too. "She really went all out, didn't she?"

"Yeah." Jessie smiled. "Just like in the old days."

"Whatchu mean?" Syd asked, puzzled.

"I used to help her save the world whenever Jake was sick or grounded or something."

"Cool!" Des grinned.

"You two will be going, by the way, to the same middle school I went to. It's down the block from here." Jessie informed the twins before she started looking over the newspapers. "Hmm…that's interesting."

"What?" Syd asked.

"There's an opening for a job at the school."

"You don't have a degree, do you?"

"Yeah." Jessie nodded. "I do."

"Hmm. I'm going upstairs." Syd replied before sauntering up the stairs to her bedroom.

"So what do you think Aunt Jessie's gonna teach?" Syd asked on the twins' way to school.

"Hopefully a class we don't have." Des snickered.

Suddenly, Des sneezed and wings erupted from her back. They weren't her normal ones, at least not the membranes. The membranes were now a rich, golden color. Des turned her head, wide-eyed, flexing her wings out of curiosity. "What on earth…" She whispered.

"Good thing no one's around to see this, eh?" Syd replied.

"Syd, what happened!" Des cried.

"I. DON'T. KNOW!" Syd roared.

"I'm sorry!" Des snapped. "I'm just NERVOUS! WINGS just SPROUTED out of my back!" The teen backed away from her twin, accidentally skidding into a lone car that had been speeding. Syd screamed and raced to her twin. Des didn't stir, but at least she was breathing. She did occasionally cough or sputter, and with each cough, she began transforming.

Des stirred and her eyes fluttered open…but the place she was in now was not New York. The air had a sweetened, fresh scent to it, and there were cold clouds billowing around her ankles as she stood up. A golden, beautiful, slender figure glided toward her with a grace that not even deer could claim their own, for it was too precious a glide to belong to any earthly creature. "Ayan?" Des whispered. "Am I dead?"

"No, Des." Ayan spoke finally, after examining Des' beautiful wing membranes. "I have just desired to talk to you."

"Then you know what's wrong with me?"

"It's not a curse, Des, that you have golden wing membranes. Those are only given to those who have a greater destiny. Come, walk with me." Ayan descended a staircase of sorts, made of clouds. Des followed. "It has been taught to you that I know of every demon's destiny, yes?"

"Yes ma'am."

"And do you know of yours?"

"It has…not yet been revealed to me during prayer."

"But you do recognize you'll gain psychic abilities."

"Yes ma'am."

"Well…now is as good a time as any. Destiny, when you…when you pass into the next world, you're destined to be a goddess."

"Me, a goddess?" Des mouthed, not believing what her goddess had just told her. "I…"

"Your powers will continue to grow 'til they become so powerful…you'll…die."

"Die!" Des gasped. "When?"

"Oh, you'll be very old, but…when you die, you'll be restored to a physique like you had in your twenties." Ayan smiled. "No worries."

"Des! Wake up!" Syd cried, as Des stirred and opened her eyes, not in the spirit world, but in the real world. Syd smiled and hugged her sister. "You're alive!" She laughed.

Just as quickly as Des discovered she would be Ayan's prophet, Daemon discovered what he would do….drain Des' power for himself…and then…

Kill her.