Ahe'ey - 1 Beginnings (5 page)

Where are you? Sky thought, waiting for her cousin to jump to her rescue, but as she looked back once again, he was gone. Biting her lip to contain the pain in her leg, she jumped between two of the men, using her small size and flexibility in her favour. The Hu'urei turned to face her. She curled her body, rolled to a standing position and jumped high. The Yi'ingo swung her sword from left to right and decapitated the men. She trembled with the adrenaline that rushed through her body. It was the first time she had killed a human being. 

Gabriel, where are you? Tears flooded her eyes as she faced the final Hu'urei, the largest of them all. The enraged man looked at the dead bodies of his companions. He locked his teeth so tight that the veins in his neck promised to burst at any moment. The man that lay on the ground bleeding from an open wound in his gut screeched like a pig. The high pitched noise was unbearable. Sky looked up to face her standing opponent and locked her eyes with his eyes. She recognised him as the leader of the group that had kidnapped her mother and sister. She at him and jumped to the left to bury her sword in the heart of the man that lay on the floor. She killed him instantly. She dipped her hand on his wound and licked the blood. Once again, she sank her hand into the blood and used four fingers to paint lines on her face. Sky's defiant eyes locked on her enemy. Iblis took a few steps backwards, shaken by the fearlessness and savagery of the girl. He sheathed his sword and ran in the opposite direction away from her. 

Sky grabbed her stomach and threw up. Her body trembled, and her mind raced. She feel to her knees and lay on the ground between the corpses of the three dead Hu'urei. The young woman burst into tears shaken by the experience. She felt abandoned and betrayed by the only person in the world she relied on. 

Sky and Gabriel never spoke about that event. On that day, Sky's grandmother, Amalia, the Queen, took Sky back to Yi'ingo. A year later, the young woman became their military leader and commander, leading them into battle against the Hu'urei.

On the same day that Sky left Ange'el, Gabriel's parents sent him to New York City. The young Ange'el emerged from the Bethesda Fountain on the last full moon night of nineteen eighty-four. 

THE END