Book one: The Misfortunate One
  • Andrea then took off with Reyna, who was stunned to see her aunt in the flesh. "A-Auntie..."
  • "It's okay Reyna, I've heard a lot not only from Stella but from others as well. You've gone through too much * to be neglected by your father. He really needs to learn to suck it up and deal with his own offspring."
  • Reyna frowned as she looked up at her aunt. "I'm the only one he has left...he had me kill my elder sister Luma years ago."
  • Andrea stopped walking as she heard her niece speak. “Come again Reyna?”
  • “My...My father...He...He had me kill Luma.” Reyna said sadly
  • Andrea balled her hands up and shook her head. "I can't believe that *! Mother and father never raised us to kill family, he had no right to have you kill her. What did she do that made him have you do that?"
  • Reyna frowned "she had placed me with the dragons where I lived for years training with them."
  • Andrea couldn't believe what she was hearing. She motioned for her to follow her and they went into a room that Reyna had never seen before. Waiting for them was Stella and a silver haired male with golden eyes. Andrea shut the door after Reyna came into the room.
  • "Lucian, we have a problem with zavier. He's been going against mom and dad's teachings. I think we need to do something about it before Reyna gets killed herself."
  • The male looked at Andrea confused. "What do you mean by that?"
  • Andrea told Lucian what Reyna had told her which made his eyes widened in shock. Lucian was stunned to hear what had happened. "Reyna, have you ever asked your father why he never took you back home when he found you?"
  • She nodded her head before she looked down. "I have. But he always avoided the subject."
  • Lucian went up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry you had to deal with having my * elder brother as your father. Tell me, has he ever done anything with you, Reyna?"
  • She shrugged a bit. "Not really, he tests me to see I'd I'm learning things but other than that not really."
  • Lucian rubbed between his eyes before he sighed out. "He's an * for sure...well you're going to learn a thing or two from Andrea and I with stella"
  • Reyna nodded her head. “Alright, So what exactly are you going to be teaching her and I?”
  • “Family magic. Plus the laws that make up the kingdom, so that way you can call your father out.” Andrea said seriously
  • “What do you mean by that? What did Uncle Zavier do that was wrong?” Stella asked confused
  • Andrea sighed out and leaned against the wall. “The laws of this kingdom have a clause about the royal family and what goes on with them. Reyna I will say this right now-what you did to Luma was wrong, but you had no knowledge of that and were only doing what Zavier told you which I know he knows all of the rules.”
  • “He...He broke a law by having me kill her?” Reyna asked confused
  • Andrea nodded her head. “Yes he did. Not only that but he was a complete * for allowing you to be around the dragons. He knew where you were and yet he never once took you back home rightfully. So far from what I’ve gathered he has two offenses against the kingdom.”
  • Reyna frowned a bit as she looked down. “Papa wanted me to be a weapon of destruction so he could have me kill my mother-an angel who had raped him.”
  • Andrea and Lucian looked at one another before Lucian looked at her sadly. “Your mother is an angel? When did that happen?”
  • Reyna looked down sadly. “From what papa told me, when the war first happened. Apparently he took her to his realm to patch up the sword marks on his arms and his torso before he ended up sleeping with her against his will.”
  • Andrea and Lucian knew something was up and Andrea went up to Reyna. “Come with me, I need to see something and it involves you so you need to know the truth as well.”
  • She nodded her head before she left out with Andrea down four different halls before she went down a large case of steps. They then went past cells that were empty before they reached a large iron door. Andrea then looked down to Reyna. “This is the room of memory, everything that has happened to every demon can be seen here. It’s also where things that were taken out of memory are placed.”
  • “Why are we here though?”
  • “I don’t believe what you told me, an angel getting the better of my brother in his own realm? I can’t fathom what dawned on him to place her in such a place.” Andrea said before she opened the doors with ease.
  • They went in and Reyna was able to see the memories of all of her uncles and cousins as well as her own. Andrea then took her to where her fathers were and she went searching through his past memories until she found what she was looking for. Andrea and Reyna saw how Zavier first let the wraiths out before going toe to toe with Emilia.
  • "You know for an angelic woman, you fight with the spirit of my kind. It’s rather ironic to say the least.”
  • “Shut up you demonic trash!” Emilia hissed out
  • He laughed and smiled at her. “Really now? And here I was going to say even though you have the traits of a demon you have the beauty of an angel...but maybe I should have started with that first.” he teased
  • Emilia’s eyes widened as she heard him speak. “LIES! YOU’RE A SICK LIAR!”
  • “I am not-you don’t know me, and I know at this point you never will. All time for cease fire has passed, I refuse to kill those who are supposed to be family. So let's see how you do in the realm of fears and illusions.” He said as he had a tight hold on her arms and took her to a dark realm
  • Zavier was then seen rushing to his chambers where he took his armor and his shirt off as he hissed at the pain he felt. "* my life that * got me good. At least it wasn't close to my heart."
  • Zavier sat on his bed as he tended to his wounds, as he finished he saw Emilia come into his room-lust struck as he went to tell her to get out she tackled him down onto the bed with a flirtatious giggle. "Don't worry love, I'll take good care of you."
  • Andrea couldn't believe what she was seeing and covered Reyna's eyes. Andrea couldn't believe that when her brother was weak and wounded an angelic being had raped her elder brother. It *ed her off and she quickly went past it all before she uncovered Reyna's eyes so she could see the truth about how her mother saw her. When Andrea stopped the memory sphere it was when Emilia flew towards the forest and kicked Zavier in the gut making him be back first against the ground.
  • “HOW DARE YOU IMPREGNATE ME YOU DISGUSTING DEMON!” She yelled angered
  • Zavier just stared at her before he spoke, floating above tree tops. “How do you know that it’s mine?”
  • “You were the last person I was around! I knew something was wrong when I saw that illusion of my husband! He’s dead and you are not! So you take care of her! I cannot!”
  • “This child is yours, you willingly did things to me without any protest.” He stated with a shrug
  • He was then given the young baby girl in a red blanket. “Take care of that thing, it’s not my responsibility to take care of that.” She hissed out coldly
  • At that time, Emilia's siblings flew from the kingdom and stopped when they saw Emilia conversing with a demon of all people. Her four siblings went up to her confused as her younger brother’s kept a hand on their sword as they went up to their eldest sister.
  • “What’s going on here, why did you leave like you had?” Rosso asked confused
  • “This thing raped me and made me give birth to his spawn!” She hissed out angered
  • “Ouch, double whammy on that. First I never forced you to do anything, you did it all on your own, secondly this wouldn't have ever happened if you hadn’t killed my younger brother in cold blood like the sick * you are!” Zavier hissed out insulted “A life for a life, so you take care of your child.”
  • “It’s yours too!”
  • “You birthed it so it’s yours, demons aren’t allowed in the ice realms, our blood would turn to ice and we'd die. You of all people should know this. You can teach your daughter all she needs to know how to be an angel then have her kill me if it’s that much of a problem.”
  • “Well this is rather confusing...wait demon you said she killed your brother out of cold blood? That’s not what we were told.” Rosso stated
  • “It’s the truth, all of us wear memory sphere’s in case there are problems that arise.” He stated before he took out a dark blue sphere. “This was Bram-the male she killed, last’s memory sphere before his death.”
  • Zavier then activated it in his palm before the other angel’s saw that Bram was watching Zavier talk with Richard as he heard the sound of wings flapping until he saw Emilia. Instead of speaking up he pushed his eldest brother out of the way as his eyes went white as the last thing he saw was the cynical look on Emilia’s face as she killed him. Rosso knew that Emilia was prone to fighting people that had started confrontations with her-but it was easy to see that innocent blood was spilled that day.
  • Emilia’s eyes widened as she saw that instantly all of her siblings went against her, placing either their bow or sword to her. “How dare you! This is treason!”
  • “You killed an innocent Emi! You know father and mother would scold you for that! Demon or not! He did nothing to you to deserve such a death!” Esta hissed out coldly
  • “The child that is in the demon lord’s arm-is it yours?” Rosso asked
  • “No...I never wanted that thing!” Emilia said shaking her head “I was raped by that man!”
  • Zavier scoffed. “No you weren’t, I did no such thing.”
  • “Yes you did!”
  • Zavier then took out a dark green sphere. “This is one of mine, I can show you all what has come to pass for this child to be here.”
  • “Please do, we need to know the truth and we cannot trust our hot headed sister.” Melo said nodding his head
  • He activated it and with it, the four of them saw that Emilia came into the room as he was mending his wounds. When she saw him, she instantly kissed him and forced herself upon him. Whenever he tried to get a word out she would shush him by placing her lips against his until she lied unconscious on the bed that was in the room.
  • “See I did no such thing to her. Though it could be debated if she had done so to me.”
  • Rosso rubbed between his eyes with his freehand before sighing out. “This is a * storm...and Emilia is supposed to be the eldest here? So here’s what we’re going to do...If it’s alright with you I’d like to take care of this as per-Angelic rules.” Rosso stated to Zavier
  • “That’s fine with me.” Zavier said with a nod of his head.
  • “Cool, Emilia Estella, if you do not take responsibility for your child I will have no other choice but to kill you where you stand with the others here. With that you will forfeit your title as queen and commander.”
  • Emilia narrowed her eyes glaring at Rosso. “You wouldn’t DARE kill me Rosso!”
  • Rosso placed his blade up to her neck. “You’ve already crossed two lines, wish to make it three?”
  • Emilia looked to her youngest sister Malia. “Please...don’t let him do this! Zavier tricked me! I was raped just as you had been when you birthed your first son!”
  • Malia growled and pulled her bow back hastily. “Don’t joke around Emilia! We all saw what happened! You are the one at fault here, not him! You make me beyond sick! You aren’t anything like me!” She hissed out coldly
  • She then looked to Melo. “Melo?”
  • “Save your breath *, you did this to yourself! Be honest with yourself!” Melo said as he pulled his bow back as well.
  • Emilia began to tear up as she felt betrayed by her own siblings. “T-This isn’t fair! I never wanted to be around a demonic male like him...he put me up to it! He had to! When I saw him ,he didn’t look like himself! He looked like my departed husband!”
  • “The place that you were in was my realm-the realm of illusion and fear. It’s a toss of a coin on what you get. Just it wears off when you meet face to face with me." Zavier said with a sigh
  • Emilia looked at Zavier shocked. "You tricked me! You had to have! There's no way in hell I'd ever be able to see him again like that!"
  • "How would I ever know what your beloved husband looked like? I never met him-I can only do illusions of things I've seen personally." Zavier said shaking his head
  • "Y-You have to be lying! I never wanted that kid! I never wanted to birth anything with the likes of you!" She hissed out coldly
  • "Then what will you do with your child? You obviously are up in arms about it." Zavier stated
  • "It's your child too!" She repeated "you take care of it!"
  • Zavier sighed out before he looked at the four angels that were threatening Emilia. "Let her live, if she doesn't wish to be part of the life of her daughter-then so be it. I will raise her and when the time is right my daughter will do what it takes to take you down and do what is right."
  • Emilia's eyes widened in shock. "You will not kill that thing while it's still a baby?!"
  • Zavier held the infant close to his chest. "The child has done nothing wrong, you have no right to shed the blood of an innocent child! I will name her Reyna, Reyna will be brought up and live the life of a demoness. She will be taught that your kind is the root of all evil. She will know what has come to pass and all she needs to know to overthrow you and your beloved kingdom. With the blood of an angel and demon she will be the perfect tool to do just so. I hope you realize what you've done, Emilia Estella, you are in fact the queen of Ignorance and denial. In years time you will see your daughter again-I hope you are ready for the anguish that will come your way."
  • Reyna frowned as she heard the cold hurtful words that were spoken from her mother, she had been told that her mother was a cruel and disgusting woman-but she thought her father said what he had to make her want to kill her mother. Not that it was actually true, knowing the whole truth made Reyna no longer want anything to do with either one of her parents. Her father never truly loved her and neither did her mother-it made her feel like she truly was just a weapon of mass destruction. Andrea shut her eyes and calmed herself before she looked down to her niece.
  • "I know this must be hard for you to grasp sweetie, but I'll be sure that things are done right. Let's go somewhere together."
  • "W-What about what you were planning to do with Stella?"
  • "Lucian can teach our daughter without me, I need to know what has happened while Lucian and I were gone. I am the only one of the eight of us that your grandmother birthed that has the brain to question everything and read up on everything about the laws of the Kingdom. Your uncles and father have no clue that I have-so keep that to yourself alright?" Andrea said with a grin
  • She nodded her head with a small smile. "Okay, I will."
  • "Good. Now we need to go to the court house within the kingdom. There's a few things that you and I have to do there."
  • Reyna gave her aunt a small nod of her head before they left the large room, when they got to the main hallway they saw that Zavier was looking for something only for him to stop when he saw that Andrea was still taking Reyna around. "What are you doing with my daughter?!"
  • "Giving her the knowledge you refuse to give her! Sure reading and writing are necessary but so is knowing the laws of the kingdom! I realize you never gave a damn to learn much about them but that doesn't mean that she must be ignorant to them!" Andrea hissed out coldly "And I wouldn't be calling her your daughter if I were you, you haven't shown her any redeeming quality a father should have! The way you treat her is cruel and unfitting for a girl her age! She's dealt with enough as it is! She doesn't need you being a complete *wad just because you feel like it!"
  • Zavier looked at Reyna and motioned for her to go to him. "Come here Reyna."
  • Reyna shook her head and hid herself behind Andrea. "No."
  • Zavier was stunned to hear that his daughter was defying him. “What do you mean no? Come here right now Reyna!”
  • She shook her head quickly before completely hiding behind Andrea. “You don’t love me! You don’t care about me just like my mother doesn’t! I’m nothing to you aren’t I?!”
  • Zavier was silent as he heard his daughter speak, he couldn’t believe what he was hearing out of her. “Don’t you dare talk back to me! Get from your aunt and come here right now young lady!”
  • Reyna shook her head once more. “No! You can’t make me!”
  • Andrea couldn’t believe that her elder brother was being such an *. “Listen here Zavier, before you go and try to dictate the life of your daughter. You might wanna sit your ass down and think about whether or not you’ve actually been a father to her or not. Figure out in that head of yours whether or not it was something on your part that made her be as she is now. Teens don’t rebel from their parents out of thin air.”
  • Zavier glared at Andrea. “Shut the hell up you stupid woman! You have no room to talk! Who the hell gives birth to a child in a forest?!”
  • Andrea glared at Zavier. “Excuse me? What the hell did you just call me, you pathetic worthless piece of *?!”
  • Zavier got his sword out. “You heard me Andrea! I know you aren’t hearing impared!”
  • Andrea got her two swords out and went straight for her elder brother as Reyna quickly bolted past her father and aunt to the throne room. She saw that Nile and Dex were there. “Uncle Dex, Uncle Nile. Aunt Andrea and papa are fighting in the hall”
  • The two older males looked at one another before they looked at Reyna. “Stay here, we'll deal with them.”
  • Reyna nodded her head before she just sat on the steps to her father's throne as she let out loud sobs as she placed her hands over her face. It wasn’t long before Lucian came into the throne room with Stella only to see Reyna crying. He went up to her and knelt down to where she was. “Reyna what’s wrong?”
  • “I...I caused a fight between Auntie and my father. What to do or what to feel. I feel like bad things always go around me!” She said sadly through her sobs
  • “Zavier has always butted heads with Andrea, you have nothing to concern yourself with. I know things will be better, where did Andrea take you anyways?”
  • “S-She had me watch what happened to have me be born and what happens afterwards. I know for a fact that my mother never wanted me...and now I’m starting to think that my father never wanted me either.”
  • “What makes you think that he doesn’t want you?”
  • “Something Aunt told me.” Reyna said sniffling a bit “S-She said that if papa actually loved me he would have taken me from the dragon's den. If that’s true...then I shouldn’t have had to kill Luma and I wouldn’t be the black sheep of this family. I ...I really feel like I don’t belong here.”
  • Lucian looked at Reyna sadly before Nile and Dex came back with Zavier dragging him by his arms. Reyna got up as she moved out of the way only for Nile and Dex to throw the elder male onto his chair. “Get your * together Zavier! Look at what you’re doing to your own damn *ing daughter!” Dex said as he placed Reyna in front of him.
  • Reyna looked down sadly and away from her father. Zavier looked unamused. “What about her? She’s just being over emotional.”
  • Dex couldn’t believe what he was hearing and looked down at Reyna. “Take Stella and go to the library. I don’t want either one of you to hear what is about to happen here.”
  • “Yes uncle.”
  • Reyna took Stella by the hand and quickly took her to the library before they both heard the sound of glass shattering and loud screams. Reyna fell to the ground as she placed her hands over her ears as she sobbed out once more. “I hate this...I hate this so much!”
  • Stella looked at Reyna sadly. “Cousin…”
  • Stella then went looking around hoping to find Avery still in the library. Which he was, he was reading a book. Stella got his attention before she frowned. “Reyna is by the door to the library crying...Help her please?”
  • Hearing that Reyna was crying he shut the book he was reading and he went to where Stella said she was only to see that Reyna was clawing at her clothes as she sobbed out. Avery bent down to where she was and hugged her tightly. Reyna instantly hugged him tightly. “A-Avery…”
  • “It’s okay, you don’t need to hide yourself princess.”
  • “I...I don’t want to be in this kingdom right now.” She said sadly
  • “Then let’s go to Oakheart, you are always welcomed there.”
  • She nodded her head before Avery activated the mark on her arm. The two of them then left out together, they landed four miles away from the castle. Lou noticed that the two of them were in the kingdom and flew down to talk to them. “Well I never thought I’d see you two so soon.”
  • “This is for her sanity father.”
  • Lou looked at Reyna curiously. “Is that true?”
  • She quietly nodded her head. “It is.”
  • “Let’s get you to the castle and you can explain everything Reyna.”
  • “O...okay…”
  • When they reached the castle, Lou took them to a large room where they were able to sit down comfortably. Reyna sat by Avery and snuggled up rather closely to him holding onto his arm tightly-not wanting to let him go. Even though she worried her angelic side might show and hurt her. When they were all seated Lou looked at her seriously. "Now explain what is going on Reyna, I thought you were on good terms with your father and uncles. Or has something changed in the last year that I don't know of?"
  • "T-Things have changed." Reyna said sadly
  • "Okay, explain."
  • "My aunt Andrea and Uncle Lucian were turned into cats by death. Once they turned human a few hours ago-well things started to turn for the worse. My auntie began speaking to my dad about how he wasn't being a good father to me because he never spent time teaching me anything like their parents had. I didn't think much of it since I was used to being pushed to the side, but the more I thought about it-the more I thought that my auntie was being realistic. My father has always pushed me onto other people, I've never really spent time with him." Reyna said sadly
  • Lou looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "That isn't parenting if he just pushes you onto other people."
  • "My auntie thought the same thing, she took me to a room in the cellar that had the memories of all of the royal demons in it. She apparently didn't believe what happened to father so after looking through not only how my parents ended up being around one another-but how I ended up around my father instead of my mother." Reyna said sadly, she then let go of Avery as she felt herself become depressed over the thoughts that overcame her mind. She honestly believed that what had happened to create her was a complete mistake. Her mother never wanted her since her birth and her father wanted no part of her growing up, it was rather obvious to see that she wasn't really needed by either one of her parents which was something she had feared since she was just a child, but knowing that her fears were just mere truths it hurt her to know that she'd never be able to be loved by those whom gave her life.
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Chapter Eight