David approached Anna nervously at first, but then remembered who he now was and his nervousness vanished. A devilish smile crossed his lips.
"Dave, is something wrong?" Anna asked when she noticed something off about him.
"Wrong? With me? Why, nothing's wrong with me! Come on, baby, I'm fine," He reassured. She wasn't convinced.
"I don't know, you're not acting normal." Anna said.
"Come on, I'm the same ol' guy you knew yesterday!" He said.
"I'm still not convinced, David. Are you sure everything's okay?" Anna asked, crossing her arms. David shrugged offendedly.
"Come on, you know I'm the same guy. Come on, I have to show you something." Anna tried to shrug it off, but the thought that something was wrong lingered in the back of her head.
They came to David's favorite spot: behind two rather close-together buildings, there was a fence. David liked to sit on the fence at night and watch the stars when he needed to escape from the world.
They sat on the fence and silently gazed at the stars for a few minutes before Anna spoke up.
"So what did you want to show me?" Before David responded, he thought. He thought of all he had been told once he became the ruler of the dark angel realm. He needed an heir, someone to take over when he was too old for it. He pulled a velvet box from his pocket.
"I want you to marry me, Anna, I love you." He smirked. Anna was surprised. She looked at the ring, then back up to David's smiling face.
"Oh, David, yes! Yes I will!" Anna jumped to kiss him, rocking a bit as she remembered they were sitting atop a fence.
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"What happened to that you, David? The one who asked me to marry you?" Anna asked.
"Don't you fools get it? I used you to get an heir! I never loved you, Anna, and I never will!"
"But you're wrong, David. You loved me before you got those ridiculous powers of yours," she said, "you used to love me."
The statement infuriated Nezznus because he knew it was true. Sophie got in front of her father and stopped him from lashing out at her mother.
"Save the fighting for me, Nezznus," Sophie said. Nezznus sighed and stepped back.
"Shouldn't you be calling me 'daddy'?" He smirked. Sophie sighed.
"Ugh, just shut up and get it over with," Sophie sighed, bowing her head in disappointment.
Here I am, giving in to the very man I've been trying to avoid for ten or so years. I feel so pathetic…Sophie thought. It was the very last thing she wanted to do, but she much preferred it over a dead mother.
"Sophie, what are you talking about?" Manny asked. He was very confused; what was all the talk of 'converting' and 'dark angels' and whatnot? Is there something they're not telling me?
"Uhh, please save all questions until the end?" Sophie retorted nervously as she stared at Nezznus' cold, dark features. Manny gave her a look that suggested she had sprouted a second head.
Even if things were frozen at that moment, they quickly thawed. Nezznus held his hand above Sophie's head and began an ancient chanting that began the process of transferring the royal throne to someone and turning them permanently into a dark angel, doomed to never change back to whatever they were before.
That's when everything flashed through Sophie's head. Her whole relationship with her father, and her father's relationship with her mother. The parts she hadn't seen all came to her. It wasn't his fault he was the way he was today. This fate was forced onto him, the betrayal of his dear love and not to mention his own daughter, none of it was what he wanted. He didn't want to betray the girl he knew he would love the rest of his life, and he especially didn't want to have to do this to his first and only daughter. It wasn't his fault.
Sophie understood.
"Get away from me!" Sophie pushed him away. Nezznus looked up to his daughter with an angered sneer and Sophie knew she was in trouble. No matter if he didn't have any legal dominance over her anymore, she still knew that if she ever did that she'd really be in the dog house; and now she was.
"Go ahead, hurt me. Do your worst. But ask yourself, do you really want to? Is this really what you wanted to happen? Or are you just doing this because you know you have to because of those things attached to your back that control your life?" Sophie said. Nezznus was infuriated. He clenched his hands into fists and growled under his breath.
"Oooh, death glare, I'm so scared!" Sophie taunted.
"You better watch your mouth, kid!"
"Oh, 'kid', that's all I am. Some stupid kid. I'm not just your daughter; I'm a 'kid'. You know, you probably don't even care for me at all. So go ahead, do whatever it is you want to do to me; but it won't make you feel any better." Sophie spat.
"You, were born a dark angel. You weren't born the innocent little kid you think you were. You're a dark angel at heart, and its in your blood. This is in your fate whether you like it or not. So you better shut your mouth and get ready to take the throne!" Nezznus exclaimed. Manny and Frida gasped to themselves. Is that what this was all about? 'Dark angels'? Are those things even real?
"Yeah, just get this over with."
"First we have some…business, to take care of." Nezznus turned to Manny and Frida with a menacing smile, and suddenly the last thing Manny saw as he was knocked unconscious was Frida being shoved in some sort of jail cell cage.
For now, that'll do. This story is winding up soon, so don't worry. Oh, and the ending? Yeah, you'll love it. I just know. So review?