Angel's Child

“Where is she?!” Leo called, following his niece as she ran ahead of them.

“The water tower! She needs our ‘elp!”

Artemis sped up, feeling her wings push against the inside of her shell.

“This way!” Izzy called, jumping up to the fire escape of a building.

Leo and Artemis followed as fast as they could, and all three reached the top at roughly the same time...

To see Angela sprawled on the floor, her legs replaced by a fish’s tail…

“Angel?” Artemis wondered, and her worry spiked when she realized her daughter wasn’t moving…

“ANGEL?!”

But the Mystics got in the way, though they cowered under the Avatar’s heated glare.

“Get away from my daughter…” She growled.

“No. Our master has been waiting for her far too long.”

“You’re master-?”

Crimson eyes widened.

“NO! Don’t you even DARE-!!”

But they were gone, Angela with them.

Izzy was confused beyond belief.

“Who were they?”

“Not now. What happened to Angela?” Leo demanded.

“Um…”

“Let’s take the explanations home.” Artemis intervened.

As they headed back to the lair, they didn’t see Light sneak out of the shadows, following her owners scent…

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Waking up was NOT something she had really wanted to do…

But she felt cool and wet and ALIVE…

‘Wait, how’d that happen?’

Opening her eyes, she realized she was in a tank, and she immediately jerked off the bottom.

“Oh for the love of-! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS FOR?!”

Now clearly ticked off, she froze water around her fist and punched the glass.

It cracked a little, so she pulled her fist back for another strike…

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you…”

She paused, eyes narrowing on the man that walked in.

‘Where have I…?’

She remembered now…

He had been in the car she’d jumped over almost a month ago.

‘Guess he DID see me…’ Angela thought bitterly.

“What the hell do you want?” She demanded, not in the mood for formalities.

“Why, you of course.”

Now THAT confused her…

“Me?” She wondered, blinking.

“Why me?”

“You don’t know?”

Angela was caught off-guard by cuffs around her wrists, and the water drained out before he stepped inside.

“You’re a beautiful girl, Angela…”

She pulled back as he tried to touch her cheek…

“How do you know my name?”

“You didn’t know? Keishi works for me.”

Her eyes narrowed, and her scales rippled in anger.

“So that ambush was your idea…”

Her voice was dark with rage, and she could finally ignore that heat building up under her skin.

“What made you think that? He suggested it.”

Her heart cracked again, deeper than before, and she pulled back farther.

She felt something dark there, and her eyes narrowed.

“Why exactly do you want me?”

“Like I said, you’re a beautiful girl…”

His hand traveled down her neck, and she tensed when she realized where it was going…

Her fin snapped up out of reflex, and the scales sharpened enough to cut the back on his wrist.

Startled at the sudden attack, he pulled back, looking her over as she scooted back farther, fin still stiffened dangerously.

That look in her eyes…

It reminded him so much of her mother.

That fire was still wild, untamed…

He’d seen Artemis almost two months ago, and not directly.

Noticed the change in her eyes.

They weren’t as wild, as dominating…

In a way, her chosen mate had done what he’d wanted to do since before he’d met her.

Tame her, dominate her…

The chance with the gold-masked turtle might have been gone, but there was still her daughter…

But there were differences.

Air and water may be adaptable spirits by nature, but they could rage dangerously.

Hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, floods…

He’d have to tread carefully.

More carefully than he had with Artemis.

“Now, don’t overreact…”

“OVERREACT? You were going to grope me!”

She ignored the fact that she sounded like her father, and her eyes narrowed.

“I’m not the kind of girl that just lets people touch for the hell of it!”

“Then let’s make a deal…”

She looked untrusting, wary…

“What kind of deal?”

Before the man could reply, the door opened.

“Master?”

He seemed a bit annoyed at the interruption.

“Yes, Karai?”

“It seems that you’re busy…But shouldn’t we interrogate her beforehand?”

“…I suppose so…”

He stood up straight, and Angela was ready to say something when a large form rumbled in…

‘Oh crap…’

It was Hun.

‘I’m not going to like this, am I?’

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Light lifted her head from the ground, looking around.

Her sensitive ears twitched, listening to the sounds of the city…

If she concentrated hard enough…

“OVERREACT?”

That was her mistress’s voice…

Crimson eyes narrowed as the husky zeroed in on the location.

In a blur of white, she was off.

You don’t mess with a dog’s owner unless you’re ready to get bitten.