Alright. Alright. I'm not too thrilled with my work on this piece. It's been a while since I've looked at this story. (Been working on the other parts of my Mages of Lancet Series) This chapter is meant to get y'all thinking. I want you to be curious (especially my readers from Magical Massacre where Isaac is first introduced) about why I "changed" Zac's magic, and I want you to wonder more about his potential blood drinking.

Ask me questions, and if you get confused, tell me. I will try to clear it up.

Enjoy the story! I command you! Wahahaha!

Angel Slayer Magic

A wonderful cocktail of colorful curses lit up the infirmary like a rainbow of sin had just erupted from betwixt Isaac's lips. Faces turned from light pink to hot pink and then to burning scarlet. With a definitive pop, the wing that had been out of joint twisted, snapped, then locked in.

As soon as the wing was in place, Isaac's hand couldn't reach for his silver flask fast enough. He unscrewed the top and drew it to his mouth. The burn of liquor replaced the pain fading from joints Isaac didn't think a normal man should have. A rye whiskey burned an alcoholic trail down his throat, and when he finally pulled a now half-empty flask away, he did so with a sharp "Hoo!"

Unlike the rest of the women in the room, Kagura's face was calm, collected. She looked down at Isaac. He was testing out his wing despite the pain she'd just put him through. After a second, Kagura asked, "Better?"

"Bloody hell yes," he sighed with a voice almost like relief. Even though some of the other joints were still mangled, a few bones broken in that wing, Isaac could at least get it to move.

Isaac still didn't get it though. He pressed his flask against his forehead then slumped down at the headboard. So many things… Why couldn't he remember it? Why couldn't he remember any of it?

All he got were blurry bits and pieces. He knew how to talk. He knew he had an accent compared to these Fiore women. Damn it. Damn it. Who was he? Why did he get shipwrecked?

With the cool flask pressed against his skull, Isaac attempted to delve deeper and deeper inside of his mind. There were flashes of people. A certain man and woman continued to reappear over and over again.

The male was as tall as Isaac and had the same ear piercings, but where Isaac's tongue was pierced, this man's bottom lip was pierced. The man was always smiling and surrounded by multitudes of females. Was that his brother Urian?

The woman on the other hand was shorter. She sported a mess of brunette waves and spikes. Her hair always had a camo bandana in it, and she stood alongside a man with a visor across his eyes. She held the man's hands and lifted the visor to stare into crimson orbs. Isaac had no clue who the knight cosplayer was, but he did assume the woman was his cousin Adamine.

He felt like someone had drilled a hole through his skull, rummaged around in his brain, and picked out all the memories. Isaac had motor skills. He could talk. He could see fine. He just couldn't remember….

Isaac wanted to throw his head in his hands in frustration, and he did. But, as soon as he did, he felt that masquerade mask over his face. It was a mask that Isaac didn't even understand why he wore it. It was a mask that he couldn't even take off by himself.

Even now, he tried. His fingers attempted to slip underneath the mask, but they wouldn't even grapple. Isaac needed to scream in confused rage up to the ceiling at his current predicament, but he didn't get the chance to.

The infirmary door squeaked on its hinges, and all the women in the room turned their heads sharply. When Risley approached with a tall red head, they all looked at her with eyes of followers. So… that was the guild master Sirenia?

She appeared to be. The woman was older, beautiful. Her hair was long and flowed around her slender shoulders to frame an oval face. With full lips so red that they looked like she'd just been given one hell of a kiss, Sirenia's face was that of a seductress.

Taking one look at Isaac with her piercing, bicolored eyes, Sirenia greeted, "It's been a while, Lucifer." Though her words seemed playful, there was this seriousness deep inside of her that kept Isaac from snickering. This… Sirenia knew something about him. He could sense it. Something within him knew her, and that something didn't like her one bit. Angel, the voice in his head hissed.

Even though, Isaac bowed his head. "I'll take that as a joke, Ms. Sirenia."

For some reason, that got the master to quirk her lips. She glanced to the many women in her guild. The five looked on expectantly, awaiting for an order. "Let me have some time alone with King Isaac. I want to see what I can do for him before Bickslow's sisters see him."

Crestfallen looks crossed the faces of each woman, but when Sirenia's harsh eyes narrowed, Kagura merely responded, "Of course, master." Her body bent into a polite bow, and after shooting a glower at the rest of her team, the girls scampered out of there like a bomb had just gone off.

So, Kagura wasn't the only one with a death stare.

Isaac settled his one purple eye at the woman. He looked at her, but when their gazes met, Isaac noticed something. Her one purple eye was the exact shade of his.

Kagura leaned her back against a wall in the hallway even after she'd left. Although it was against her nature to spy, she couldn't help it. Some part of her felt like she needed to protect the amnesiac king in the infirmary. She felt like she needed to guard him. Perhaps, it was because she knew what it was like to wake up one day and nothing was the same as it had been.

In a heartbeat Kagura had lost her family, her brother. Jellal had been the bane of her existence for so long, and because of him Kagura had grown up with wrath and loneliness poisoning her soul. Had it not been for Sirenia taking her in, Kagura wasn't sure where her life would have led her.

Now though, she felt like she had a purpose, and that purpose was making sure to protect Isaac. From what Kagura remembered of him, he was a powerful and well-organized leader. Although he didn't think of himself as good a leader as his cousin Princess Adamine, he was taking massive steps to keep Lancet mages from murder. He stood at the front of protests, and he was an extremely active leader for mage equality. Lancet had a wonderful leader in proud, King Isaac.

Still… that title did get Kagura's head floating towards the female version of said title. According to Adamine, Isaac was in desperate need of a queen. Lancet nobility always took a wife before taking the throne, and the fact that Isaac was unwed gave Normans another reason to add kindling to their hate fire.

As long as Isaac was an amnesiac, he would be relieved from the stress of finding a wife, taking part in the fight for equality, and simply ruling a hate filled country. This amnesia was likely a blessing in disguise.

Kagura leaned her head against a wall much like many of the other women had been doing. After a bit of snarling, Kagura had gotten the sorority guild to disperse. Currently, she was the only one in the hallway, and thanks to her team's help none of the other girls knew Kagura was down here.

As Kagura listened in, she couldn't hear much. Sirenia likely put a spell of silence in the room, but it wasn't going to keep Kagura from trying. She was all but pressing her face inside of the wall when the infirmary door opened to show Sirenia and Isaac.

"Couldn't wait to get him back, I see," Sirenia charmed, her lips curving into a sly smile.

Kagura's words jumbled up in her throat as much as her skin flushed hot. With her vocal chords flopping like a fish out of water, Kagura couldn't muster up a single reaction to deny the truth Sirenia spoke.

After a while, the master just laughed. Her heavenly voice warmed the air around her. Light seemed to brighten the room at that sound. "Well, at least, I know that I'm putting him in good hands. Kagura, could you get Isaac better acquainted to the guild? Also, I'm leaving it up to your team to figure out sleeping arrangements for him." Sirenia gave Isaac a look of motherly pride. Then, she left them with a simple "Have fun".

Once Sirenia disappeared down the hallway, Kagura couldn't form words. Isaac was giving her that boyish grin while he ran a hand up the back of his neck nervously. "I'm very sorry to inconvenience you, Kagura," he admitted. "Guess you and the other girls are going to have to babysit me."

Kagura raised her chin and pulled her shoulders back. In this posture she could at least forget not only how stunning Isaac was with his big, black wings, but she could also forget how that single, purple eye got her skin hot. "It's no problem at all. I signed up for the job, and it's my duty to see you well taken care of."

She gave a pause. "We'll be leaving for Crocus early tomorrow morning." When they began walking down the long corridor, she asked, "Could Sirenia not do anything for your wings?"

Isaac raised his brow then jerked backwards as if he'd forgotten the appendages were there. "Uh… Well, actually, we didn't talk about them. She told me that they're beautiful and not to be hidden. She kind of sounded pissed off that I wanted to get rid of them…" He rubbed that hand back against his neck. It seemed like the confused, puppy look worked well on him.

Kagura could feel her heart melting for this lost man. Even though, she continued with her drill session. "And, your magic? Sirenia has a vast knowledge of lost magicks. I'm assuming that yours is lost."

Isaac's purple eye looked towards the ceiling. When his lips parted for a breath to escape them, Kagura assumed Sirenia had made Isaac vow not to tell anyone about their conference.

"Well, Sirenia said something about Angel Slayer Magic."

Kagura raised her dark, purple brow. Angel Slayer Magic? Well, that was certainly new. When she just kept her lips shut and her ears open, Isaac kept on. "Sirenia said that Angel Slayer Magic is magic taught by Heavenly Angels to humans. The magic was meant for humans to combat Fallen Angels when time came for Armageddon." Isaac expanded his large wings. "She said that the wings are a side effect. Kind of makes sense when your enemy can fly, but a human can't."

"Interesting. Would you let me see them when we get done with the tour of the guild?"

Isaac cast her a grin, and Kagura could have sworn those doubled up canines that Araña had been trying to show came back out. Somewhere inside of herself, they alarmed her. What if Araña was right about Isaac's flask? What if he truly needed blood to survive? Kagura had never heard of something like Angel Slayer Magic, and apparently, there were side effects. Could blood drinking be a side effect?

So, has anyone figured out who Sirenia is yet? Perhaps, it's too early to tell, but I'm planning on leaving a trail of breadcrumbs for you all.