Angel Monarch

Alpha Team was about to retire for the day. Connor was already heading out the door, while leaving their recreation room he looked out the window. They were stationed on a pretty high skyscraper's top floor so nearly the whole city was visible from there.

He could see everywhere except behind the royal castle which even dwarfed this building. Seeing the magnificent shinning city always brought a smile to his face, but not this time. From here the campus grounds could be easily observed, as he stared suddenly he saw an explosion.

It wasn't huge, but still significant. It wasn't their job to be concerned for explosions and what not, but Connor had a feeling something wasn't right. The others had mostly left so he decided to just drive there and check it out.

When he got there he saw part of the dorms collapsed. Most of the fire was already put out and some of the dead were lay on the grassy ground a safe distance away from the building. Only on m v|le|mp|yr

Since Connor had a security clearance higher than most, he just went into the closed off area and approached one of the first responders. She had a military uniform on and judging by the silver star on her shoulder she was a regular officer. The woman saw him and called out.

"Hey, this is a restricted area! You can't be here..." The rest of the sentence stuck in her throat when Connor pulled out his badge. It showed multiple gold stars, marking him as an evolved special division leader. Her face went pale and she quickly looked away.

"I'm deeply sorry, sir! I was just doing my job and accept any punishment, even if it means getting court marshalled..." He cut in before the woman could say more.

"Don't worry about it. What happened?" The woman sighed from relief and happily dropped the pervious topic.

"We aren't sure. All we know is there was an explosion possibly from a bomb. We are still looking through the rubble, but at least 5 students are dead, even healers couldn't save them."

He nodded and began to approach the building, but suddenly there were wings beating and 3 young man plus 2 young woman dropped right next to him from the sky. He went on high alert, but quickly calmed when he saw their concerned expressions. One of them a tall man above 2 meters with demonic wings on his back asked, "What happened?"

Before the woman could try to send them away, Connor answered.

"We aren't sure, an explosion probably from a bomb."

The man nodded slowly and one of the woman spoke next she had black hair and dark eyes. Her whole demeanor radiated coldness and danger.

"How many dead and where are their bodies?"

"Five." Then Connor pointed towards the corpses. The woman didn't acknowledge his response and just ran to look at them, after a couple of seconds a shout came from her.

"They aren't here!" Suddenly the students collectively breathed a sigh of relief, but quickly grew tense again.

"That means they either haven't came back yet or they are still under the rubble!" Said the youngest of them a light brown haired nerdy looking boy.

"Who are you talking about?" Asked Connor, his voice was calm. The other woman answered.

"Sera, Bea and their daughter Vicky! Their room was right at the epicenter of that explosion!" As she said it they began to run towards the rubble.

'Right at the center? Is it a coincidence? Unlikely...'

As they ran towards the destruction suddenly the black haired woman stumbled. She began to hyperventilate and her voice changed, it sound higher like a child's.

"Hurry! They can't hold on much longer!"

It took a second for Connor to realize who was speaking. 'Its that girl Angel Monarch was protecting. She is their daughter? Aren't they a bit too young to have this much responsibility? Well, they did lead a small army of Evolved so I guess bringing up a child is much easier than that.'

While thinking he never stopped running and he was already at the edge of the destruction. The others were a bit behind him, so using all his power he changed the gravitational pull of the rubble. They lifted into the sky and below them there was a pair of broken white wings tangled in a bunch of vines. They were the only thing keeping the three girls alive.

A shadow appeared right next to them and took away the little girl. She was crying, and there were quite a few bruises on her, maybe even broken limbs. Then the other four arrived and quickly removed the pair from under the floating rubble. They were in a truly pitiful state, Angel Monarch's wings were broken and bloodied, same as her and Queen of Nature's body.

When everyone was a safe distance away Connor slowly put the rubble back onto the ground. It took a lot of essence, but at least the trio was alive. The healers were already there, Victoria was healed and holding onto the black haired woman for support.

Soon the other two were healed as well, but they didn't wake up. Holding onto their power and using every bit of essence took everything they had.

Connor was about to ask the girl what happened, but there were wing beats again. This time much bigger. On the ground next to them a massive black dragon landed, its eyes were dark gray and its bearing seemed to radiate the need to kneel before it, worship it. Of course every Transcended had this type of invisible aura of superiority.

Prince Otto looked around the destruction, then turned his draconic head and stared at the unconscious couple. Suddenly his form shrank and in his human form he approached the group standing around them.

While walking he called the captain of his personal guard.

"Yes, Your Highness?" His voice was emotionless, even though it was the middle of the night. Working as a personal guard meant he needed to be ready all the time.

"Bring some people and transport to the university dorms. We need to take some people to the royal castle."

"Understood!"

Otto hung up and finally stopped next to the group. The little girl recognized him immediately, she was smart enough to figure out what happened and why, but the others had no clue.

'They haven't got time to talk then. This will make the situation harder.'

But his concerns were unfounded, when he explained that this was an assassination attempt and they will live in the royal castle from now on it only took one word from Victoria to convince them, "Okay."

They knew that Vicky was smart enough to make a decision like this and also all of what the prince said made sense. They went out for a dinner together and suddenly after they come back there is an explosion.

Vicky also recounted the couple of seconds before the explosion and the beeping sound she heard. It didn't take a genius to figure out that there was a bomb under the bed.

Otto didn't share his thoughts of who could have put the bomb there, since they were out in the open. His main suspicion went to Victor, but he wasn't cunning or smart enough to try and pull something like this off. Which meant it was put there by some kind of loyalists of his father.

'I should probably call Sarah as well about our new guests.'

Walking away a couple of steps he began calling her. After a few seconds a very sleepy and annoyed voice answered.

"What is it?" Otto held in her laughter, the situation was very serious, but hearing her sister annoyed always brought a smile to his face.

"We are about to receive a couple of new guests." There was a yawn on the other end of the line.

"Why what happened? And who?" His voice lost all merriness and turned solemn.

"There was an assassination attempt on Seraphine and Bea. They survived barely, but they aren't safe here. Whom ever tried to assassinate them won't be able to in our own home so their whole group will be staying there."

The sleepiness from Sarah's voice full disappeared and a hint of anger took its place.

"Okay. Do you think 'he' figured it out and tried to do it?" Otto knew she was talking about Victor. He shook his head then realized she couldn't see him.

"No. If he would have figured it out, he would've attacked by himself and also we would be dead as well."

"Yeah. You are right. When will you arrive?"

"You have about half an hour to get ready." He said while grinning.

"I can hear your stupid grin through the speaker! You could have called me sooner, dammit." She grumbled something else as well, but it was too quiet for Otto to hear. If he had to guess her beautiful, smart and elegant little sister, was in the process of cursing him out, by every known and unknown vulgar words.

With a light chuckle he hung up the call. They waited for the transport to arrive, then headed to the royal castle, when they reached it a still sleepy looking Sarah waited for them. She actually managed to put on some nice clothes. The group was in awe the whole time while they walked towards their assigned rooms.

When they arrived all of them went into the room where they placed Seraphine and Bea. Otto asked them why and their only reply was, they will only leave when they ask them to.

Sarah and Otto were bewildered by this loyalty, they looked and each other, shrugged and decided to stay as well. Throughout the night they explained the situation and who could have caused the assassination attempt. When morning came the pair was finally starting to stir awake.