Freedom for an Angel

Chapter Six

Tempest

I apologized to Storming Lies for what happened. I'm still unsure what exactly is going on. But Vitani, Storm, I agree for one to unwillingly force a switch was never good. Storm was ok with the switch now. Confused but still let it happen. That feeling of darkness and dread came over me. This feeling only came once before, but I was too young to completely know the entirety of these heavy feelings. That feeling of hopeless and danger is getting worse the closer to our office we get. Shane was watching me closely, wondering why we had changed so suddenly. I was too focused to explain everything right now. "Shane slow down, Something's wrong in the office but I can't tell what." Shane slowed a little too late as something appeared in front of the car.

She spoke clearly "I'm not a what, children, I'm a who." Getting out my bows and arrows responded to the danger without my call. She frowned at my defensive stance, it seemed to annoy her. "Child, why do you stand that way? I'm not here to harm you three. I'm your mother. I'm hurt." Sometimes it sucks having three people in one body. Because I proceeded to get a headache from their screaming. I replied to her "My birth is unknown to every god, goddess and the moirai. How exactly are you, my mother? We look nothing alike." She chuckled "I can change my appearance, daughter. I'm Lamashtu and I gave birth to you. I hid you, or so I thought. I'm not sure how...."

She trailed off while gesturing to us "You ended up tied to those lowlifes but I can undo it." She smiled gleefully. I could feel Storm and Vitani looking at each other and my sense of danger was hitting all-time highs and I was not a fan of it. "What, you don't seem happy daughter." "I'm not. We can't be and won't be separated. She frowned once again. She leaned forward, placing her long ugly fingers on the hood, using her nails, clawing the hood. She said "We'll see" and disappeared. My danger went down but not my panic. Storm, being the most protective out of us, decided that she was going to cause problems of her own against the strange woman. I'm a little worried as Storm can make the goddesses and gods of Chaos look tame.

Shane watched this happen with sharp attention growing tenser with every passing moment. Something told me he was exceptionally pissed off with the supposed mother of mine's threat. "Shane, come on, let's continue to the office." Which Shane only nodded as he was too angry to speak. Shane's eyes started to change, getting brighter and his fur started to show in patches. I ran to his side of the car to try and calm him down. Rushing into his arms, he crushed me into his chest, making a sound between a snarl and growl. His chest rumbled deeply as his tiger instincts slowly took over. He nuzzled my neck while his hands searched for injuries, even though I wasn't in a battle. He seemed satisfied and just embraced me tightly.

We stood there quietly embraced, calming each other. Us girls were secretly scared. She wasn't the first god we encountered. But she was the first to have recognized all three of us. I don't believe that she is my mother, but she still knows and that's a threat to all supernaturals. Storming Lies can't show her true nature as evil will come for her. All three of us cant't be exposed as the high-powered council can't stand to be outpowered. For some reason we were combined but don't remember why or when nor how. Leon might know something, as he is sixteen years older anyway. We'll ask him when we see him again. Jumping out of my thoughts, I nudged Shane back so I could see into his eyes to make sure he calmed down but he wouldn't look me in the eyes.

Shane looked away almost ashamed, but I looked closer and saw the cutest shade of golden pink on the tips of his ears. I giggled and pecked his cheek. He turned red. So cute. Shane mumbled something about being mean and when I said "what"? His head snapped to me and repeated "what" like a parrot. I asked him to repeat what he mumbled about but he denied it. Like he didn't know what I was talking about. So I muttered sure ya don't. I totally believe that. I wouldn't tell him that just yet, but I adore a protective guy. He just doesn't want to admit we might have something there. He's twenty-eight and has been searching for his life partner since he was sixteen.

Storm's kind won't have a partner for life, so she's out. But Vatani and I, Tempest, are still looking for our partners and being in one body makes it pretty hard to sense your partner like a normal creature could. That doesn't mean we haven't tried. Each of us have wondered in and out of other gatherings disguised no less. But no luck. We didn't pick up on anything so we gave up. Our partners would be our shields and we would be their swords.