Heya Readers!

Hope you had a Good Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Sorry for the late upload, but I was focusing on my fanfics 'Sharks and Ninjas' as well as my Christmas special 'Mutopia Yuletide Entertainment' and I had had some writers block here, but hopefully I got something going, but no promises.

Chapter Six

A Dark Knight

After Angela had said her goodbyes to Solomon, she began to walk back to her house which was only a couple of streets away.

Keeping her coat around herself she started to walk quickly.

After what she had seen with that group of men following her and Solomon, she hoped they had gone for good.

Yet as she walked, she couldn't help but feel there was someone behind her.

She held her breath as she listened, and she soon heard footsteps behind her.

Angela wanted to pick up the pace, but she didn't want to show she was afraid, so she kept her cool and kept on walking, yet she felt the presence behind her getting closer.

A voice soon started to sound in her head.

"Turn around Angie! Turn around!"

Angela took another breath and kept walking, but the niggling voice kept at her.

"Turn around! Turn around! Turn around Angie!"

"No…" she thought to herself "No…" she kept on walking but then she felt the presence come right up behind her and before long, she followed the advice of that voice in her head, and she turned around to see a young man no older than twenty in a dark hoodie and holding up a knife!

Angela gave a yelp in fright but before she could run away, the man grabbed her coat and pulled her into the darkness of an alleyway before throwing her to the ground!

Angela was shocked and she looked up to see a silhouette of a tall man standing above her.

"Give me your purse!" he shouted in a high-pitched voice "Give it to me!"

Angela was still alarmed as she looked up at her attacker.

"No! No!" she cried "Please don't hurt me!"

"I won't hurt you!" the man shouted as he waved his arms around and brandished his knife that flashed in the streetlamps from the street "I just want your money! Give it to me! Give it to me…!"

Angela shook her head both in defiance and fear, yet she reached for her purse hoping to throw some loose change at her attacker then run when she had the chance.

Her attacker seemed rather frantic and as if he was on a high and was demanding for money for his next fix before it went away.

She had no idea who he was, and she didn't want to be responsible for his next fix that meant him being a danger to himself or to others, but at the mercy of him and his knife that could easily cut her to ribbons, she didn't have a choice.

She looked towards her bag and pulled out a handful of coins yet before she could throw it down, she suddenly saw a large shape in the sky above her attacker and her eyes widened.

Her attacker was still waving his knife and screaming at her and hadn't seen her reaction.

Angela started to back away as she analysed the shape above her attacker, which looked to be someone with large, feathered wings as well as a broad-shouldered body.

"Behind you!" she screamed.

'WHAT!?" her attacker shouted "You think you can distract me? Give me your money bitch! NOW!"

Angela shook her head then cried out in shock as she saw the shape land behind her attacker then grab him before throwing him against the wall of one of the houses in the alleyway.

The Mugger cried out in shock as he was grabbed, and Angela watched in horror as she saw him get lifted off the ground with surprising strength.

"Sinner! Filthy scumbag!" a voice was heard from the figure "You dare try and mug an innocent woman?"

Angela blinked as she watched, and she fumbled in her bag for her phone so she could activate the torch.

"Get off me! Get off me!" she heard the mugger scream "Let me go! Let go!"

"No fucking way, you filth!" the same voice was heard followed by a caw almost like the sound of a raven.

"You dare to mug an innocent woman! And you will pay for your sin!"

"Who are you!?"" the Mugger cried out in fear.

"The Devil!" the cawing voice replied, "And I am here to punish you!"

Angela soon found her phone and she held it up activating the torch and she shone it towards the voice and as she did, she soon saw the face of a large black bird!

Seeing him, Angela screamed in fear and dropped her phone!

"Fuck!" The raven cursed as he turned to Angela, and it was then Angela fainted in shock!

The Raven cursed again yet he kept a hold of the mugger, and he wondered what to do, yet he didn't get the chance to decide before a voice was heard from one of the houses.

"Whose there? What's going on?"

"Fuck!" The Raven snapped before turning to the Mugger and took a good look at him before taking his talon and slicing his face on both cheeks making him scream in pain.

"We will meet again!" he snarled "I have marked you!" he then threw the mugger to the street before walking over to Angela and quickly moved her further into the darkness of the alley.

Seeing the human girl laying there, the Raven knelt down to pick her up before a beeping was heard from his belt as his walkie talkie went off and he quickly grabbed it.

"Diablo here!"

"Boss! It's Rex!"

"Report!"

"We followed them! We have their location!"

"Good Job soldier! Make note of the location, I will join you shortly!"

"Are you alright Boss?"

"I am, I will explain when I return! Over and out!" Diablo turned off his walkie talkie and looked down at Angela.

"I am so sorry." He said as he brushed a hair from her face "I didn't mean to scare you, I only wanted to stop that bastard from hurting you!"

He saw Angela's bag and he searched for clues on her home address so he could return her safely.

He looked in her bag and he came across some cards, cash as well as some personal details, and one that stood out to him was a photo of a young male soldier, or a pilot in uniform along with a young girl that looked like Angela.

Diablo studied the photo and looked back at Angela, both curious to why there was a photo of this man in her purse, and what relation he was to her.

As he was looking at the photo, he heard a groan from Angela, and he looked down to see the girl was starting to stir.

"Oh crap…" he thought, if Angela had been scared by his appearance just a few minutes ago, he felt it was best to get away before she woke up.

He dropped the purse by Angela's side then quickly opened his wings and took to the sky, as he did, he saw the mugger running away as fast as he could as well as the resident who had shouted out stepping out onto his doorstep to look around before retreating back into his house.

"Damn!" he cursed "I would have loved to have punished that sinner, but we shall meet again, I'm sure of it! And I can only hope that girl gets home alright!"

He hovered high in the air and kept his eyes on Angela below.

Meanwhile, Angela sat up after regaining consciousness and rubbed her forehead.

'What the hell?" she thought as she looked around wondering what had happened.

The last thing she remembered was being confronted by a mugger then seeing a Raven in the torchlight of her phone before passing out.

She felt around and soon found her purse and her phone, luckily nothing was missing apart from the few coins she had thrown down, yet her would-be-mugger hadn't taken a penny.

Angela gathered up the coins and placed them in her purse before standing up and walking out of the alleyway.

Little did she know that Diablo was following her from the sky, and she ran home as quickly as she could.

Up above, Diablo followed her until he saw Angela make it to her house and let herself in, and he landed on the roof feeling glad she had gotten home safe.

He then heard noises from a window on the right-hand side of the house and he crept over and looked down seeing a light turn on.

"Angie? Angie? What happened? Are you okay?"

"Mum! I promise you I'm fine!"

"You sure sweetheart?"
"Sure as sugar! I'm just tired okay, been a busy shift alright?"

"Okay Hun, I'll get out of your hair, but if there's a problem, please, will you tell me?"

"I will mum! I promise!"

Diablo listened for a few moments then he climbed down the side of the building until he was right next to the window, and he peeped over to see Angela walking around the room in her pyjamas and hoodie ruffling her hair and talking to herself.

"What the hell happened? What happened out there? It can't have been a dream! And no way a hallucination! It was so real!"

Diablo kept himself as hidden as he could by the window as he watched, and he saw Angela walk to the bedside table and hold up a framed photo.

"Oh Nigel, oh big brother, I wish you were still here,"

"Big brother?" Diablo said softly to himself, and he continued to listen.

"I don't know what happened to me tonight," he heard Angela speak "well, I lie, I do, but I can't believe what happened or what I saw…"

Diablo blinked as he continued to listen to Angela talk to herself.

"She had an older sibling?" he asked himself then he thought of Monalisa, and his heart began to beat faster as he continued to listen more.

In her bedroom, Angela walked around with the framed picture of her older brother and continued to speak to it.

"Nigel." She breathed "If only I could speak to you, and you could give me advice, tell me how to protect myself, I don't know what happened…." Angela began to sob "Oh I wish you were still here…. I wish you could hear me!"

She walked over to her bed, placed the photo frame on her bedside table and cried as she collapsed onto the bed.

"Nigel…. Oh Nigel …."

Diablo felt his heart ache as he listened to Angela's sobs, and he soon understood that she too was a grieving sibling, just like he had been along with his brother Jake all those years ago.

He sighed as he listened more to Angela's sobs, he wished in some way he could go in and comfort her, but he knew he couldn't because he knew the risks of doing so, and after the way she had reacted after seeing him, it was impossible.

He turned from the window and flew up to the roof again before perching on it and bowing his head.

"Angie…" he sighed "I know how you feel…"

So Angela was attacked on her way, and Diablo had heard the commotion and was able to save her, yet Angela was shocked and fainted at the sight of the sight of the Raven.

But Diablo showing a noble side had made sure she returned home safe and has learnt a little more about her, even if he did loose a sinner.

What will happen from here, well keep checking back to find out.