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Chapter 1

"So remember. Be good and brave. Never give up on hope. Pray for the strong, good angels to come and fight with us, help us standing up for ourselves." the soft, gentle voice drifted through the silk curtains.

"When I will be older, I will join the Watch like my brother did!" One of the boys, with short chocolate brown hair - he could not be older than 5 - said excitedly in the next moment. "I will protect out city!"

"That is a really honorable goal Sammy." The woman clothed in white silk smiled at the small boy. "But until then you still have a lot of time. Use it wisely and learn as much as you can."

Sammy nodded eagerly in response. "I will learn everything there is to know!"

The blonde woman with sky-blue eyes chuckled and rumpled the small boy's hair affectionately.

"Are you going to continue the story of the big war, Serenity?" A small girl with red hair and with such white skin it was almost unhealthy, jumped up excitedly.

"Sure! Now, where were we…" The priestess said turning to the girl but at that instant her eyes landed on the black figure near the entrance. It was funny really, how he stood out at this place. In the temple that was so bright and light in color. To the white and silver walls he was a sharp contrast with his midnight black hair, with his black pants and shirt and his unearthly dark wings. Outside, especially so late at night it was almost impossible to see him, his dark colors hiding him well, making him part of the shadow, but here, where everything was soft and light, he was just the exact opposite.

"Actually, it is pretty late. Why don't we make a stop here and continue tomorrow?" She said, tearing her eyes from those midnight blue ones and smiled at the children sitting in a half circle in front of her.

"Aw, but we just got to the exciting part!" Sammy pouted.

"Yeah! I want to know what happened with the citizens after the attack!" The blond boy next to him nodded eagerly.

Serenity couldn't help but laugh. It sounded like little silver bells in the ears. "You all know how the story ended. We are here, aren't we? Alive, protecting this beautiful city." She shook her head the smile never leaving her lips.

"Just tell us how the war ended, tomorrow! Don't you forget it Sere!" The red head said with her hands on her hips.

"I promise." the priestess nodded leaning closer to the girl and winking at her. "Safe night to all of you." She said as the children slowly stood up.

"Goodbye Sere!" They said as they took their pens and papers, shuffling them into their bags.

Endymion watched the scenario in front of him, still like a statue. The mini humans, the children were still so honest and innocent. He often found himself watching them as they listen to the stories, as they stared wide eyed and with open mouth at everything that was new to them. They were so similar to the cherished children of his kind. He still could not pin point the exact time, the exact age when the humans lost that innocent glory.

The kids ran towards the entrance, surprise obvious in their eyes as they noticed his from leaning against the pillar closest to the door. They kept their distance from him, throwing only shy glances his way. No matter how pure and open minded they were, their natural instincts were already in place. And those instincts kept telling them to fear his kind. To be aware because it was never safe to be around the wings of an angel. So even though they adored him, they stared at him with awe, they made sure to be at a safe distance from him. All, except one, the small red head. She made an abrupt stop on her way out of the temple when she got next to him.

"Thank you for saving us, Angel!" she said blushing crimson red and running out of the door in a hurry in the next moment. He said nothing, did nothing only kept staying leaned against the pillar with his hands crossed in front of his chest, watching the last one of the children leave the temple.

Once the temple was empty of the noisy kids, he pushed himself away from the pillar and walked towards the small, petit woman dressed in white.

"After all what angels did to humans you still teach the young ones to trust us. I can't decide if you are purer than the white snow or incredible naïve." He said.

Those deep blue eyes turned to him laughing as she grabbed the last of the pillows the children had been sitting on. "Well we have you as a proof that angels can be good." She said as she made a stop at one of the small desks, grabbed a paper from it and pushing it into his hand she hurried past him to put the pillows away.

Endymion glanced down at the paper. It was a drawing. A child's drawing, a mess really, but even he could recognize a dark haired blue eyed angel with midnight black wings dressed in white armor hovering above five children, protecting them from the darkness lurking above them.

"White is not my color." He said putting the drawing down on the table as he walked to stand in the center of the room.

Serenity rolled her eyes a soft smile playing on her lips. "Not the point." she murmured as she closed the cupboard and looked around to check if the place was again clean from the mess the children had caused earlier. Once satisfied she turned to him again a mischievous smile playing at the corner of her lips.

"You know little Rose asked me today if angels were capable of feelings. If they could love."

Enymion raised an eyebrow as he stepped closed to her. "What did you answer to that, priestess?" He asked his eyes intense in a way that should have scared her, that scared everyone because at the moment those eyes were not human at all. That color of blue did not existed anywhere on Earth. But she was not scared. Not around him. Instead she walked up even closer to him, tilting her head to the side.

"The truth. That angels are just like us. They can feel pain and hurt. They can hate and love. They have flaws just like we humans do. They can be arrogant and egoistic for example." She poked his chest with her tiny finger mockingly as she side stepped him.

Endymion raised another eyebrow. She was the only being who dared to pull a prank like that on him. The only person who could so openly mock him and live to see the next day. "Arrogant?" He asked, stepping up behind her so fast she could've not possible seen it coming, wrapping his arms around her waist, his lips at the back of her neck, his wings wrapping around them, sheltering them from sight.

"Yeah. I know one specific angel so arrogant; he can assault me in the middle of a temple and think he can get away with it." She said, her voice husky but alive with humor.

Endymion chuckled against her neck but lowered his wings. "Well, if the place is not to your liking, we can help that." He said and tightening his hold around her waist he snapped his wings and they were in the air and out of the temple within seconds.

Serenity giggled as she turned in his hold and wrapped her arms around his shoulders. "I don't remember telling you I was ready to leave." She said scolding but her eyes were sparkling with joy.

"I don't remember asking." That well known arrogant answer from a being who knew too well what he was capable of doing made her role her eyes.

"I don't like to be ordered around." Serenity said a slight scowl rumpling her features. Soft fingers lifted to smooth out the winkle on her forehead.

"I am well aware of that fact." Endymion said before placing his arm back around her waist and flying higher up towards the top floor of the highest building in the city.

"Just what are you planning angel?" She asked smirking just as they landed in the one, big, open room that was his apartment. It had no railings; all the walls except one, had been taken out so the apartment was really one big open room, only 8 pillars keeping the roof in place. The air could sweep through the room which had only one huge bed in the center. Around it hang several silk curtains. There was one huge wardrobe at the only remaining wall next to the door, which lead to the staircase. Serenity knew the place better then she cared to admit.

"You will see." The dark whisper came from behind her, so close to her face, that his breath caressed the soft skin beyond her ear and her body tensed with the familiar feeling that only he could awoke in her.

"You know, sex is not the answer to everything." She whispered but did not try to avoid those sensual lips which caressed her neck, the familiar arms that wrapped around her waist from behind. The stone hard body of an angel pressed against her back made her painfully aware just how much power he had on her.

"No?" His lips brushed her earlobes and she found it difficult to think, to see. All she could see was dark…. midnight dark with an edge of blue. It took her a moment to realize what she was seeing. Smiling a sensual smile she reached out to softly run her fingers across the feathers.

"Not fair cocooning me into your wings." She gasped as he lightly bit down on her shoulder blade.

"It seems someone finds it to her liking to play along with them." He answered, his arms leaving her waist, his hand moving slowly up her body, caressing her rib cage on their way up to her breasts.

Serenity's smile turned into a moan as she leaned against his chest more. "And someone seems to enjoy it." She said and ran her fingers once more across the wings enjoying the shudder that ran through his body at her touch.

"No more." Endymion snapped turning her around and pushing her to the bed. He went down with her, his lips caching up her giggle.

-0-0-0-0

It was some hours later that Endymion finally unwrapped himself from her arms and legs. Pulling on his pants and shirt he threw a glance at Serenity's sleeping form. She often said he was not playing fair with using his body to his advantage to seduce her. Well, if it was the case he did not feel bad about it. He was an angel; he was used to getting what he wanted. If it was arrogance, then be it. However, sometimes he got the feeling the seduced one was not Serenity at all, but himself.

Turning away from the temptress who was lying naked on his bed, he sat down at the edge of the bed to pull his boots on.

"Where are you going?" Serenity asked suddenly, breaking the silence of the night. He looked at her from over his shoulder. She was sill half asleep, those amazing blue eyes flattering desperately as she tried to keep them open.

"Andrew went out tonight to check out a pub a few miles north from the city." He said finally, turning back around.

"He found survivors?" She asked sitting up on the bed, wrapping the deep blue silk blanket around herself.

"Possible." He said watching her from the corner of his eyes as she scooted closer to him on the bed.

"You don't believe they are uninfected." She stated frowning. There was silence for a moment. No movement only their eyes locked together.

Finally he moved, leaning closer to her, his fingers running down her cheek, tucking her hair behind her ear. "I am not sure we are even going to find anything or anyone."

"Yet you are going." It was a statement. He ran his index finger across her lips his eyes following the path his finger took.

"He is a foolish man ,thinking he can save everyone." He said leaning down, capturing those pink lips with his. It was one short kiss but so soft, so gentle from a man that you could only imagine to be rough and hard.

"Still you are going to help him." She smiled leaning closer and kissing his jaw. A gratitude. A sweet thank you from her that he was here, that he was protecting the humans.

"I wonder myself why. Those humans might be already infected. Even if they are not, Selena is now big and strong enough for the numbers of humans living within its walls. Everything is now in balance. We can't endanger that with bringing too many people here. The city won't be able to support itself if there are too many living on its streets." He said, pulling away. He stood from the bed and walked to the edge of the room.

"Yet you go and if those people are healthy, you are going to bring them here." Serenity watched his back, watched as those beautiful midnight black wings spread. He did not comment her statement. He did not have to.

"You are good." She said as certain in him as she was sure the sky was blue and the grass green.

"No, I am not." Came his honest answer. It didn't matter what she thought, how she saw him, he was not good. He was anything but good. He was an angel warrior. One who had killed, one who kept killing without hesitation when needed. But the petit woman in his bed dismissed his answer like she did every single time he denied her belief in him being good. "Stay." He said before he jumped into the air and made his way up north to find Andrew.

"Be careful." The wind carried her whisper causing a muscle to tense in his back. He was an angel, he was almost unbeatable, he could live thousands of years. She was just a human, with a life span so short it was but a blink for his kind. One stronger push, one misstep and she could die. Yet she was worried about him. It awoke something warm and sweet in his chest. Shaking the thought from his head he sent a mental note to one of his guards before he focused solely on the pub coming slowly into view in front of him.

-0-0-0

Only a few minutes after Endymion had left, Serenity heard the slight rustling of wings at the edge of the room. Wings as red as blood, turning into black at the end, came into view as a strong, blond man landed in the room.

"Go away Jedite. I don't need babysitting." Serenity said half-heartedly, leaning back against the soft pillows with a sigh, pulling the blanket up to her chin.

"Aw you are hurting my feelings, Sere." The boyish sound of his voice tugged the corner of her lips upward.

"It is nothing against you Papillon." She said using her nickname for him. He really was like a butterfly. With beautiful wings, he was one of the fastest angels she had ever seen. He moved with such incredible speed and with such elegance it was impossible to follow. He was basically invisible to human's eyes thanks to his speed. Even though with the intense color of his wings he should have stood out. Now he was sitting at the edge of the room, his legs swinging back and forth in the air. "But I can protect myself." Serenity added as an explanation.

"Discuss that with Endymion." Jedite said making no indication he planned to move anytime soon.

"Really, that man…" She huffed rolling his eyes.

"Shell I remind you he is not a man?" Jedite asked smirking, earning a glare from the blonde priestess.

"Not the point. Really, even if he does not trust my skills to protect myself, which, if it is true, needs to be discussed as well, who on Earth would dare to come to his apartment without an invitation?" She said shaking her head.

"I don't think he is worried anyone from Earth would pay an unwanted visit." Jedite answered his voice lacking the playfulness from a few moments ago.

Serenity had no answer to that. She lay on the bed staring up at the ceiling in silence. Was it really possible that an angel could come into the city without anyone noticing it? She didn't think so. Then she glanced at the bright back of Jedite. Then again, he and the other 3 guards of Endymion were also coming and leaving the city without anyone noticing… "I still don't like babysitting." she murmured in the end.

"Be happy it is me. I know you like my company more than any of the other three's." Jedite winked at her from over his shoulder.

"Yeah, no wonder since you are the only one who does not want to kill me at the first chance possible." She said with her arm across her eyes. She admired the loyalty the guards had for Endymion, she was grateful he was protected by such men, but she also knew that except of Jedite she was not on their favorite person list. As Kunzite put it once so nicely, they swore to protect Endymion from everything. They saw her as a hole on Endymion's defense. His attachment to her too dangerous and a weakness. The guards protected her only because that was what Endymion ordered them to do and they saw her at the moment not yet as a life threating weakness for Endymion. Would that change…

"And I am more fun to be around." Jedite added to lighten the mood. Serenity was grateful for the interruption and with a slight smile on her face she turned to her side closing her eyes and drifting back into sleep again.

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