Dominion (Guardian Angels) - By Melody Manful Page 0,2
forgotten how to walk. This didn’t come as a surprise, because, most angels seized up when they saw me. Only a few were ever brave enough to try and fly away.
“I don’t bite.” Although my voice sounded annoyed, I wasn’t. “Look,” I said, and then made myself appear in the middle of the field. “It’s simple. You make teams and then—”
I was faster than the angel who flew into the sky. I was already in front of him before he could get away. “You’re a clever one, aren’t you?”
I shoved him. He plummeted toward the field. I hated when they tried to get away from me.
“Anyone else want to run for it?” I asked the remaining three. I smiled as they quickly shook their heads.
“Come closer then.” I flew to the angel on the ground, and this time, the three angels walked over to their friend. Their bodies quivered and tears filled their eyes. I started spinning the ball on one finger.
“Do you guys want to see a really cool trick?” I made the spinning ball leave my finger so that it spun in the air above us. “Don’t take your eyes off the ball.”
The angels slowly lifted their eyes. This time, I heard their hearts racing. I backed away from them, feeling their pain made me strong. With my eyes still on the spinning ball, I made it descend slowly between them. When it reached the position I wanted, a smile tugged my lips, and without a word, I hurled fire toward the ball. There was no time to scream. The moment the fire hit the ball, it exploded everything in the vicinity, leaving nothing but ashes.
“That was a nice game,” I said to myself as I took once more to the sky.
When I reached my house, I didn’t enter immediately, simply because I didn’t want to see my little sister, Valoel. My family and I lived in the Forbidden Forest. Well, it was more like I built a house in the forest, and because everyone was scared of me, they automatically called it the Forbidden Forest.
My family tagged along because of the saying, “Blood is blood.” I didn’t know what that meant, but through the years, I had learned to accept that it meant, “Gideon, we are going to annoy the hell out of you.”
I turned and looked around me. The place was quiet. Grands wasn’t a silent kingdom, there was always some sort of noise disturbing the peace. However, I assumed the Forbidden Forest was quiet because of me. Creatures were afraid to come to the forest because I lived there.
I breathed deeply before pushing open the door of our house.
Valoel hovered in midair, reading a teen magazine from Earth. To her, humans were the most fascinating creatures alive.
My little sister was a know-it-all smarty-pants whose purpose in life seemed to be annoying me to Hell. For some reason, she always seemed to know what I was about to do and what I was thinking. And to make matters worse, she had somehow turned my room into her private hallway; she passed through whenever she wanted.
I cursed the day she was born as I walked into the main room. My father, Eson, sat beside a flickering fire, and my mother, Gradla, sat on a chair beneath Valoel, who was hovering in the air. My family knew the only thing I did when they were home was ignore them, so they did the same whenever I was home.
“Son.” My mother stood.
Okay, so we were not doing the ignoring thing today.
“How–how was your day?” she asked.
I didn’t know why my mother even bothered speaking to me when she was clearly scared of me. I wanted to answer her, to tell her about my day, but how could I have said, “My day was awesome. I went to Earth and killed a little human boy and his guardian angel.”
Yeah, I was sure that wasn’t what she wanted to hear. So, I said what I always say, “Why do you even bother, Mother?”
I turned to Valoel when I noticed she hadn’t said a word. Perhaps she was finally scared of me, just like the entire race of guardian angels.
“So?” Valoel started. “Did you get me something?”
I really didn’t like her. Hoping to get Valoel to shut up, I created a flame in my hands and hurled it toward her, but it hit the ceiling. Valoel appeared at the other end of the room.