THE SPLIT ANGEL

Episode 3

/Axel’s/

For years I’ve been training, training to get into the college, proved myself as someone relevant, prove myself to be a warrior like most angels my age but I was stopped from going to college for three years, my mother afraid I would be exposed, she believed I was the king’s bastard because I have angelic powers over all liquid, water in all forms, a gift that only the throne successors have, the queen and two of his daughters, Princess Angelique and princess Angela, princess Angela according to the story going around the kingdom was banished from the kingdom because she put everyone in danger while grieving the loss of her son and that of her mate who also turned out to be alive, the angel royal family is so messed up, but none of that is my business, my favourite royal family member, princess Ruis and my favourite teacher helped me get into the warrior academy, convincing my mother that I was going to be fine, I don’t know how she did it but after passing the test and being enlisted, I feel great except for the fact that my mating dreams which had started for some months now, just seem to be getting worse and worse, and today…I woke up with my bed drenched of my own sweats, I was so close to having her, her bottle green eyes taunt me every night.

Her soft touch, curly sleek hair, sweet scent of flowers, her almond skin tone, she was definitely from the Prasinos family, I’m sure of it but is she a higher or a lower angel, that I wasn’t certain and I haven’t heard her tell me her name, why was she taking so long to reveal herself I wondered while recalling her petite body, her small but strong firm, she wasn’t too tall or too short, she was petite, she wasn’t exactly like most angels, not enormous in all ladies features but she was well proportioned, her burst stood firmly at her chest, I can still remember the feel of them in my hands, the way her hair had felt as I held a handful of them, her moans and whimpers of lust wanting me to stop the raging fire in both of us, it might be unusual that despite the littlest details I was able to grab from her I still haven’t manage to know what her name is, I groaned moving around in my stack bed, my adoptive mother is a lower angel from the Nero whose husband left her the vine plantation, a place have learn to call my home.

Now that I am going to the college, I wonder how she will cope, she has grown dependent of me over the years, though she banned me to use my powers outside the house for the fear of being discovered but I still use it to help her harvest the grapes most of the times but the past few days while training in the vineyard, I always feel the strange presence, an aura…powerful but warm watching me and I would look for the such immense power and wouldn't find it, until yesterday, I had been so close to knowing who she was but she flew off and I would have followed her but I don’t know how strong she was and don’t want to be exposing my powers either.

“Mother, you’re looking at me strangely” I complained after mother had her eyes strangely concentrated on me while having my breakfast in our little dining room since our cottage wasn’t so big but it was big enough to provide the shelter and warm we needed. My brother like most people from the Nero family had warm blue eyes, her hair was short and pulled back into a bun, she was 68 but age is insignificant here in the angel realm, I wonder how it is in the other realms, my mom wasn’t slim but not fat, just chubby.

“Yerin, do you really have to go to the college, you could stay with me here until you find your mate, get together-

“Mother I know you want such simple life for me” I cut in abandoning my breakfast of oat.

“But you know, I’m way more than that, I was born to be a warrior, I was born to fight and conquer son mother stop trying to stop me, I really want to be a warrior” I pleaded and she sighed exasperated before she nodded.

“Since you can't bring much with you to the college, at least take this shawl with you, I knitted it for for you” She smiled giving me a deep blue knitted shawl.

“Take care of yourself and be a good boy” That was the last thing she said to me before I left our little cottage, sprouting my wings while heading to the academy, I was so excited for my first day that I almost bumped into another flying angel.

“Hey, watch where you’re going” the man shouted as he flew past me in a dash.

“And I think he really needed to slow down” I thought before continuing my journey down the sky pedestrian side then branched and fly straight don immediately I sighted the college, I saw a lot of new students like me landing from the sky, letting in their wings and walking through the gate, I felt my heart swell.

“New students please come this way” Few students whom I assume to be seniors dressed in while led us down a long path towards a standout building different from the long, school build in a circle form, it’s huge, I thought realising those tiny looking rectangles was actually windows.

“Wow” I muttered following the traffic of new students and eventually we were led to the hall and made to stand neatly in rows and column and soon the administration and the important members of the school board started to walk in, then the headmistress who was a princess by the way, walked to the largest wooden chair placed on the platform raised above the floor where we the new students all stood, the seniors started lining at the side, even after the all the exquisite organisation and perfect arrangement the headmistress seems to be looking around.

The princess was dressed in long purple dress which was adorned with leather armour at the top, her hair was packed with beautiful adornments like silver and dropping pearls, she carried herself so elegantly like the head of the administration and also like a princess that she was, everyone started to notice her hesitation to begin the event of the day as she kept looking around and eventually, her eyes landed at the entrance of the hall where some students, which by the mode of dressing you could tell they were seniors of the school but one in particular, that blonde hair, that smug smile, that piercing blue eyes, that aura…the princess, Princess Angela, the headmistress had an annoyed look on her face but she let her and the group she was with walked to where the other seniors were all standing but one had my heart racing, the princess group where known all over the city.

They weren’t just some elite group of phoenix angels, they were also know as one of the most important group in the kingdom, for their bravery, courage and power, they were known for bring the youngest group of angels to ever left for the human realm, more like allowed into the human realm and they survived too and the most captivating thing about all of this was the fact that my mate stood amongst the princess group, her bottle green eyes that hold a mischievous gleam to it, the angel that torture me every night, filling my nose with her scent of flowers, rain and wet trees. I groaned as my body reacted to her mere presence on the platform.

“Our mate?” Erin my phoenix beamed in my head with excitement.

“Yes, I can’t believe she’s a phoenix angel, and I can’t believe she’s in one of the most respected

group in all of Angel bay, she was looking at me too and she seem rather shocked, me too…I am shocked.

“Hi” I whispered and she smiled before looking away.

“Yerin Nero” My name called again, louder immediately drawing my attention, I turned towards the senior calling our names and quickly walked up to her.

“Please fall into your group, you are group by families” She explained what she noticed I had missed while staring at my mate and eventually I moved towards where the other Nero students were all placed, the whole swearing in and registration took me 3hours so, I lost my mate in the process of trying to settle down, we were moved to pick gears, new clothes, new bags, our dorm room was also assigned to us, after everything was over and I finally settled in my dorm which had a student of six in it, I rushed back out to look for my mate, we were given the first day to settle in but I wanted so much to see her again but by the time I left the male lodge and returned to the college courtyard she was gone, there was but I saw some seniors around so I decided to ask.

“Hello” I approached two senior of the college.

“Hi, can we help you? Are you lost?” One of the male angels wearing a very long hair asked me and I shook my head.

“The princess group, princess Angela’s group…I’m looking for one of the members” I know the way I put the question was absurd but I just have no better way of putting it but the seniors gave me a weird look instead.

“Um, she’s from the Prasinos family, has short hair, green hairs, petite-

“Rose Prasinos, why are you looking for Rose Prasinos?” They narrowed their face at me.

“I…I really need to see her-

“Rose seems to have a crush” The other male whose hair was in braids laughed.

“We don’t know where she is, they probably retired to their private quarters but you’ll find her by dinner, they come to the dining hall at least, didn’t know why they weren’t built a private eating hall, that why we can have some peace” The one with the straight dark hair said with a sigh and I nodded before I watched them walk away with the princess always stealing attention in the dining hall, how weird I thought returning to my dorm to have proper change of clothes and when it was time for lunch, I practically raced over to the dining room, I haven’t even gotten the time to know my roommates yet and for 10 straight minutes after getting my rations, I had waited, waiting for when she would make her appearance and when she finally did, I was awestruck.

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