Page 1 of Wings of The Wraith
Chapter 1
Dante
“Hey man, look at thisstash.” Zeek cooed.
His eyes flickered from the luminous green he sported as he started to shift back from being a reptilian demon. Thank God, too, I was getting sick of his scaly skin. But scaly skin had brought us in a wicked stash.
Blood diamonds, actual blood diamonds. Not the worthless stones people used in the human realm for special occasions, but the sort that could be used to forge a weapon and make the wielder of the said weapon formidable.
Not that I needed it. I still had my angelic powers.
They never left me like I had expected them to when I was cast out of heaven.
I pushed the memory aside.
It was still hard for me to accept I was considered nothing more than a fallen angel. Those loathsome creatures who served evil.
I was not that.
There was nothing like me, and I took pride in it.
Zeek set the bag of diamonds on the table and took out a few. They glowed a dark red. The darker the color, the better.
“This will definitely be worth the hassle we’ve had to put up with over the last few months.” I smiled.
Zeek nodded in agreement. We’d lost a lot of men.
We travelled between the realms collecting priceless items, and sometimes collecting people that were hard to capture the usual way.
I guess I would accept the term bounty hunters. Or mercenaries. I would be either depending on the price.
Fallen angel though? Fuck no.
Those assholes wouldn’t know where to find a clue even if they were given one. Put simply, they followed sheep.
“What now?” Zeek took a breath and his skin flickered back to normal.
Normal as in he looked similar to me. Like a man. He was a shape-shifter who could have taken on any form he wanted, but he chose to look like a man. A man with shoulder length blonde hair, dark eyes, and a full beard.
In all the hundreds of years I’d known him, I’d never asked if that was the real him. His real self. I still thought it would be rude. Definitely rude since he was the one who saved me from withering away into nothing.
“I don’t know. We should take it to the mages, get them to imbue it so it can’t be tracked then we can forge the weapons. Hopefully save some of our guys.”
I wanted my guys armed with these weapons. As a leader I owed it to them to give them the best.
“The Mages? Really? After you seriously pissedheroff.”
I smiled at the memory of the beautiful Aurora. The mage who thought she could tie me down. Poor thing, and what was worse was she tried to curse me, but magic didn’t work on me. It never would.
The only thing that could harm me in any way was a wraith. Those demons, filled with pure darkness and evil, were the only thing that could touch me, and touch me they did, but something inside me was powerful enough to resist the darkness.
Just not powerful enough to resist it all.
Without warning I expanded my wings and Zeek jumped backwards.
“Holy shit! I wish you would warn me before you do that.”
“Why? Does it scare you?” I laughed.
