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Dark Angel Part 9
Date: 10/28/2015, Categories: Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Author: Levanahyll
... night. You did not have this last night. What happened?” She brushed his hands away with a scowl and rose. Ashriel scowled when she reached for Seth. “I want to go home, Seth.” “No problem,” the weretigri looked behind Ashriel, “I think.” Ashriel turned once more to regard the cyborg Seraph. His eyes were on the ground, shoulders slumped. It was Gareth. It had to be. Or Garethiel had gotten someone else with child. That was possible. Ashriel took in the color of the cyborg’s skin and his eyes. It was a lighter shade than Anniel’s and the eyes were a definite mix between Annie’s golden eyes and Garethiel’s blue ones. Ashriel stood and approached him. Cyneolle raised his face and scowled. “Come with us,” Ashriel said. The cyborg’s face registered surprise before closing up again. “My people need me.” Ashriel stepped closer, his eyes narrowed. “Your mother needs you,” he whispered. Cyneolle flinched and scowled. His eyes went to Anniel and his scowl faded. “Mother?” “I think you’re Gareth.” Cyneolle stared at Ashriel again. “That name does not sound familiar to me.” “Aren’t you curious? Wouldn’t you want to be sure?” Cyneolle watched Anniel talking with Seth. “And if it isn’t true, she will suffer the loss of her child again. I do not want to put her through that anymore.” He glared at Ashriel. “You have touched her again, by your own admission. She said the father of the child she carries has dark hair.” Ashriel blanched. “So you are not the father.” He fingered his locks, ...
... remembering that Natanael had made him blond. Ashriel shook his head. “This isn’t the natural color of my hair. My friend lightened it so…” It didn’t matter why. Anniel was pregnant with… “Why is her belly so big when it wasn’t that way last night?” “She inhaled the toxins in the air. Her entire system became contaminated. In order to keep her from turning into a rager, Chameleon pumped her full of nanobots. She was repaired and restored from the inside. The nanos accelerated the growth of the embryo to help stabilize and strengthen it. They purified its blood choosing the strongest genes. She carries a full Seraphian female within her.” Ashriel’s knees almost gave out. “Full Seraphian?” “Yes.” Cyneolle’s eyes looked at Ashriel’s black wings. “Full Seraphian blood.” Ashriel swallowed. Seraphians were a mixed race. They carried the ancient genes of the wingless natives and the genetic traces of a divine entity, Ishtabiel, the legendary mother of the winged Seraphs. Only she had full Seraph’s blood. Reapers were the only ones closest to having the purest of blood. Ashriel turned tear-filled eyes to Anniel. Within her womb she carried another reaper. Once the high priests and priestesses in Angelos found out, they would come and take the chickling away. Anniel would lose her second child to the holy sect. *** Anniel was livid with Ashriel. How dare he ask her who the father of the baby was. Typical male. She wanted to scream, rant and cry. She was glad she couldn’t see, because she ...