Stevie Rae
We reached the slightly open doors of the building thing. Rephiam and I looked in first to see what was going on in there, if anything at all. There I saw Zoey and the others first. "It's my buddies. They're here." I excitedly, yet quietly, claimed.
"So are my father, brothers and Neferet." Rephiam stated shortly after. I then saw them, which you would think is the first thing I would have noticed but I haven't seen my friends in like forever. I wonder why they're all here. I quietly wonder. I stop looking through the doors and look over Rephiam. There was a dim light coming from a fire torch thingy and the light hit his wings causing a small ripple of light to shine over his feathers. Not quite sure of what I was doing I reached out and stroked his left wing. He turned his head to look at me and I stop, immediately dropping my hand in embarrassment. "It is alright Stevie Rae. You did not do anything wrong." I smile nervously at him before I turned all serious.
"Rephiam, you don't have to do this ya know? I'm not forcing you to do anything you don't want to." We both know what is to come and I seriously didn't want to push him through something outrageous.
He sighed softly and turned his head to look back into the building. For a moment I really thought he was going to not go through this, and it's alright with me, but he did stay quiet for a long time. He then turned back to face me. "I know that I will lose what I believe is the most important thing to me, my wings, and I will not be able to fly again, but," a recognizable, birdlike, smile appeared on his face "and do not laugh at this, I know that what I will lose will be replaced by the flight my heart will take when we can truly be together." I couldn't help but smile. That was the single most nicest thing anyone has ever told me before, and I even told him. His smile grew just a tad at me. Then I seriously couldn't hold back my urge, I went into his arms for a hug and to my happiness he wrapped his arms around me and returned the hug.
I step back so that I could look up at him. "Alright then. If you're ready for this, let's do this." He nodded at me once before we completely stepped out of the hug and I opened the doors completely.
No POV
Stevie Rae and Rephiam walked into the building to see the beauty of its architecture. It looked almost like ancient Greek structures with columns placed evenly along its length and at the very end of the huge room was something similar to a throne platform where Neferet drank from Kalona, the Darkness tendrils multiplied, rippled and wrapped around the two. In the middle of the room was a proportional section of grass and flowers. The roof was somehow completely transparent and the full moon is completely seen and its light shined through the roof. Zoey and the other vampyres (and Aphrodite) stood of in the right wall watching the Kalona/Neferet drink fest going on. The Raven Mockers lined the top part of the columns watching from above. Stevie Rae and Rephiam stood in the shadows for a while before Stevie Rae stepped out first into the dim light that the moon graciously offered.
Aphrodite felt a twitch and looked over in the direction of the double doors they came in just recently. After the initial shock of seeing her here a smile slowly tugged at her lips. She quickly alerted the others and they tore their gazes from Kalona and Neferet to see the red vampyre standing there. Zoey smiled. "It's Stevie Rae. What is she—"Then Rephiam stepped out and stood close to Stevie Rae. Gasps rippled through out the group and even Kalona had gasped himself. Aphrodite saw this as familiar, she's seen this before. Zoey on the other hand was about to warn Stevie Rae of the Raven Mocker when his wing went up and took her in yet another embrace. Stevie Rae sighed and moved closer towards her Raven Mocker. Zoey became instantly confused.
At the same time the bulls of Light and Darkness manifested only in spirit and are being perpendicular to Stevie Rae and Rephiam. The Darkness bull snorted out a laugh. 'So here we are, here to see who wins out this battle.'
The Light bull pulled back his head. 'Let us not talk brother, let us proceed, and remember the deal.'
'I have not forgotten brother.' With that the Darkness bull shined brightly as some of his energy moved forward to manifest into the humanity of Rephiam.
The well muscled, dark black, thick, long haired Indian male stood before Stevie Rae and Rephiam. He lifted a hand and smiled towards Stevie Rae, completely ignoring his other half. "Accept me, and he'll go away." The humanity softly urged.
Stevie Rae sighed deeply and reluctantly stepped out of Rephiam's winged embrace. "It's not that simple." The humanity dropped his hand and glared at the Raven Mocker before him. Aphrodite then realized where she saw this before. Her vision! Her vision is happening now!
Kalona, angered and partially confused by what is happening, yelled out in pure desperation to keep his son. "Rephiam! Do not betray me again my son!"
Rephiam heard the silent rules of the battle, uttered by the black bull, and launched forward, determined to win. The humanity used some of the white bull's energy to conjure up a spear with two black raven feathers tied near the stone arrowhead. He swiped the spear at Rephiam as he came but Rephiam caught the spear and pushed it away so he could get an opening. His humanity caught this and squatted down to the ground and pushed the spearhead up nearly scratching Rephiam. As the battle continued all hell broke loose around it. The other Raven Mockers screeched as the battle progressed, all else forgotten by the vampyres, the fallen angel and Aphrodite, they watched as the struggle to regain the humanity Rephiam never really had progressed.
The white bull looked up towards his counterpart. 'And what shall you do to insure a win brother?'
The black bull said nothing as he moved behind Stevie Rae. With a soft whisper he gave her his strategy to "insure a win" as his Dark brother has stated. 'Red Vampyre of Earth, mutter calls to help your Raven Mocker succeed, show him that you are with him, that you want him to win, show him your love.' The Light bull silently went back to his old position while his brother laughed at him.
'That is all? Some motivation?' The Darkness bull laughed once more. 'What good that will do him.'
Stevie Rae placed her hands on her chest and with all her might she followed the feeling that came to her. "Rephiam, I know you can do. You're strong, and powerful, and just plain amazing. Please, don't lose. You'll die if you do I just know it. Please. Don't leave me, Rephiam. Please, please don't leave me."
Rephiam and his humanity were at a stalemate when her words came to his spirit. His eyes were shut tightly in effort as he tried to push his humanity off him. The rules ran through his head quickly; He must fight his humanity and win to regain it completely, if he loses then the consequences of losing will be great and the longer he stays fighting, the more his current humanity starts to dissipate and the stronger his opponent gets. I cannot lose. He tells himself over and over. I… Cannot… LOSE! His eyes snapped open, a dangerous red glow shined through them. He used his wings to push his enemy off and that knocked him off its balance. Rephiam started to float just inches off the ground while his humanity rushed towards him, the spearhead pointed straight towards his heart. Rephiam moved last moment and grabbed the spear with both hands. He pulled the spear up and behind his humanity causing its arms to move behind his back. His humanity groaned when the pain of his arms being pulled back got too intense. Rephiam then placed one clawed foot on its back and pushed hard causing the spear to break in half when his humanity fell forward, its hands still plastered to the spear at the time. It fell forward and winced in pain and it tried to get its shoulders back into place. Rephiam held both half in his hands but then quickly threw away the end without the spearhead. He flew towards it and by the time it stood up Rephiam reached it and pulled it up into the air. Then he let go and let his humanity hit the floor with a loud crash. Rephiam flew down next to the finished manifestation and he pointed the spearhead at its head. His humanity stared up at him, his face and body all bruised up and bloodied. "Fine, alright, finish me off. Regain your prize." Rephiam pulled up the spear half and his humanity closed his eyes, a small, almost unnoticeable smile on his lips. The spear went down and landed just inches centimeters from his face. The manifestation opened its eyes and looked at the spear half beside him before staring up at the Raven Mocker in confusion.
"If I kill you now," Rephiam stood and continued looking down at his fallen opponent, "that would not make me any more human." He then turned away and started walking towards Stevie Rae.
The white bull bellowed in anger. The black bull on the other hand charged towards his counterpart and horned him in the side. The bull bellowed out again and tried to pull out of the horns but it was too deep. 'Finish your half of the deal brother.' The black bull half stated, half threatened. The bull groaned and then the humanity screamed. It turned into spirit along with both halves of the spear and came shooting at Rephiam. The Raven Mocker turned and got hit with the spirit. He fell onto the floor with the impact and Stevie Rae ran over to him. That was when the black bull yanked his horns out from his brother's side.
'Do not be so proud of the victory here dear brother of mine.' The Darkness bull angrily stated. 'You have won the battle, but not the war!' He bellowed once more before disappearing and the Light bull followed quietly after.
Stevie Rae dared not touch her fallen Raven Mocker. "Rephiam! Rephiam are you okay? Rephiam!" After a few seconds on no movement she touched his back at where his wings met and the feathers started to deteriorate away. She squeaked in surprise and moved back. The feathers started to fall off him and started to disappear into the air. After just a short moment of this Rephiam sat up in his new human body.
He groaned and rubbed his head. "Okay… That hurt."
Stevie Rae couldn't believe her eyes. He did it. He regained his humanity. She squeaked once more in happiness and threw herself into him. "Rephiam you did it!" Tears flowed from her eyes as she hugged him, her arms wrapped around his neck.
His hand came over and lay at the small of her back while the other was placed behind him, palm first into the ground, to hold them both up. "I really did not have any doubts." She chuckled and pulled herself away to look at him.
Kalona stood, ignoring the commands from Neferet to stay still. Repulsed he glared at his once favorite son. "Rephiam, how dare you!"
Rephiam stared at his father and stood, momentarily forgetting about Stevie Rae. "I followed my heart and spirit."
"You abandoned me!"
"You repulsed me!" He admitted after so long.
Kalona twitched in shock to be quickly replaced my anger. "You are not my son anymore."
"I would not want to be." Rephiam quietly added. With that Kalona opened his wings and broke through the roof and flew off. Neferet glared at the others before running out of the building as the Raven Mockers followed their father into the night, they too repulsed by what their older brother had done. Rephiam half groaned, half sighed. Stevie Rae stood and placed a hand on his arm. He smiled at her and looked towards he friends, she did the same.
They gaped at her, not entirely believing that what just happened just happened. The silence stretched on for a bit before Shaunee exclaimed out. "Alright, I know he's a Raven Mocker and all but, damn! He is smoking hot!"
Alright, you guys no the drill, please review. And just to explain a little bit of my thinking, I called the two bulls brothers because I sort of see them as brothers of Darkness and Light and as for the rules I think they are pretty straight forward. Oh and sorry that it might feel a bit rushed at the end, it's because it was rushed and I might, key word might, come back some time and rewrite that so it's not that rushed. Probability of that though is slim to none so don't expect that to happen.