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Nikomas was the first to hear the door break down. She had been sitting in the kitchen, reading the paper with a mug of warm raspberry tea, when the angel heard the loud crash of the door flying open from the front hallway. Standing up immediately, she snatched a long slicing knife from the counter, edging cautiously to the simple door frame separating the kitchen from the hallway, peering carefully around the frame to see the strange woman in her hallway.

After a moment, she leapt out into the hallway in a flurry of feathers. Dark wings outspread to give herself a more immense and hopefully daunting look, the knife held at the ready in her dominant hand. "What do you want?" She asked, her voice soft in the silence after the door opened.


Blackfell was upstairs in his mother's room, browsing the internet on the old desktop that was the only household computer. He had heavy-set headphones on, listening to music and so didn't entirely register the loud racket downstairs. What it sounded like to him was maybe a chair falling over, which wasn't exactly uncommon.


The water girl, though, heard it from her room. Aqua was very confused, to say the least, and ventured out to the top of the stairs, squatting down on her knees to look down in the front hall. "What's going on?" Her sea green hair was falling well past her feet in curls around her on the floor.

Niko's violet eyes flashed in anger and defiance, and her response was to tighten her grip on the kitchen knife, a small fireball starting to form in the palm of her other hand. "Aqua, go back to your room sweetie." She called up the stairs, not turning her head to look at her daughter, her voice only letting calmness be heard, though her muscles were tightened to spring, her mind screaming in protest and remembering what she and her son went through.

Aqua obliged, very unwillingly though. She slowly backed up, only leaving because her mother ordered her to. Instead of returning to her own room, though, she fled to Nikomas's, where her brother was still typing away on the computer.

Once Aqua had disappeared, Niko's full and complete attention was on the stranger demanding her son. "What do you want with him?""


"'Fell! Mamma's in trouble!" Aqua cried, flinging her arms around Blackfell's neck, taking him by surprise and causing herself, him, and the computer chair to all fall down on the floor with a clatter.

Shaking himself out, a few loose feathers and bits of down falling lazily to the floor. "Whoah, whoah, hold up, what?" He grabbed her by the shoulders, shaking her to get her to stop jabbering. "What's this about mom?" Blackfell asked, on instant alert now.

"Some woman busted the door and is asking for you. She said 'give him to me, and I'll go quietly'. You're not gonna leave again, are you 'Fell?" Aqua said in a rush, clinging onto him while salty tears started to form in her eyes; she couldn't bear him and Niko leaving again.

Niko dodged out of the way, barely in time to avoid the kick. Liet's toe got the knife, though, which went flying and landed on the stairs with a clatter. Letting a snarl come up from her throat, she threw the ball of fire from her hand towards Liet, pitched like a baseball, adding flames behind it to add to the force of it aimed at her torso.

"Try me." She growled, making a dash right behind the fireball, hurling a punch towards the other woman's face, her wings flaring out behind her.


Blackfell could hear the voices downstairs, a little yelling, and soon the sounds of fighting. Motioning the tearful Aqua to be silent, he crept out the door, hearing the sounds more loudly now. Wiggling a finger at Aqua to approach, he held onto her with his hand at the nape of her neck. "Go back to your room, and stay there. Okay?" He whispered, not wanting to be heard by whoever it was downstairs.

Aqua nodded mutely, tears tracing down her cheeks before disappearing back into her skin. Without another word, she started crawling down the hallway, her long hair a blanket shrouding the rest of her.

Turning back to listen to the fight, Blackfell crawled across the hallway towards Sere's old bedroom, with a window above the front doorstep. Running silently to the window, he opened it slowly so as not to make it creek. Hopping onto the windowsill, he jumped out, unfurling his wings a little to make a soft landing in the doorway, at the back of the strange woman. "Hey! Get away from her!" He shouted, raising his voice in the hopes of surprising them, his legs bent slightly and ready to leap in the air.

Niko's fist kept flying as Liet turned to avoid the burning fireball, her punch connecting with the woman's shoulder as she faced Blackfell. "Pay attention to me!" She said angrily, grabbing Liet by the shoulders and attempting to spin her around to the angel again.

Blackfell only saw the fireball flying at his face. Ducking hurriedly, he couldn't avoid some of his hairs getting singed, but the thrown fireball caused him to lose his defensive position, crouching down and unprepared as he tried to brush the soot off his hair.

Blackfell jerked backwards as the woman grab ahold of him, and immediately started writhing and struggling like mad, flapping his wings while shouting and kicking, his hands trying to make her fingers losing their grip. "Get offa me!" Was the only intelligent shout that could be heard from him.

Niko lost her balance as Liet wrenched herself out of the angel's grip. Stumbling from the sudden loss of what she was putting her weight on, she fell forward and landed on the ground. Struggling to get back up and on her feet, though, she got entangled in her own wings, a few black feathers littering the floor as she slowly managed to get up, just in time to see whatever rune it was that Liet had had start to work.