Chapter 5: Palm Spike
"Thank you." muttered Phoenix, before she had a chance to fall to the ground, she felt a pair of arms grabbed her.
She fell unconscious in his rmbrace.
Boris cringed in regret when he got a good look at her wings. It was a prie he had to pay to save her from her inner darkness.
Boris had his hand hovering over Phoenix's chest, preparing to launch a palm spike to her heart which hung a few inches above her kidney on the same side. As he begins to fire, an outside force stops him.
He knew who it was. "Darn it, Phoenix."
What's happening to me, he thought to himself. Back in his younger days, he killed anyone that got in his way, without hesitation. In order to secure his species' survival.
But now...
Was he going soft? Was it because of him getting older, or could it be his human form. Whatever the case may be.
What is that feeling, where two people meet for the first time? Was it love? How is that possible, emotions were foreign to us. We were after all a predatory bunch that devour planets, til there was nothing left of them.
Yet, this being laying on the floor was stirring, something inside of him.
Am I truly ready to sever my ties with her? The only thing I cared about, before I meet her were my pets, who I had since birth.