Frozen in time, the days that passed by seemed like a fraction of a second before Portia and Skylar were vomited out of the creature, and they looked at the feet before them, showing...
"Father?"Skylar called.
He looked very different.
His wings were even darker in colour and were covered in black, flame like vapour.
His eyes were black as well and he had a tail now, like that of a black wolf.
"What happened to you?"Skylar asked.
"I found my redemption, my true form."He said.
"Father, this isn't you, you aren't a Tedaphim."
"Yes son, I am..."
A Tedaphim was basically the opposite of a Seraphim.
Instead of white wings, they had black ones, though sometimes, the deception they possessed gave them the look of a seraph.
Seraphim were the purest of all races, being formed only of the pure heavenly flame of reincarnation from the Phoenix.
Tedaphim on the other hand, were from several different heavenly flames, creating an impure and evil creature with enormous destructive power.
Due to this, the one who owned them; The tailed fox, cursed them and threw them down towards the Nether realm, where they became Demons.
But this only made them stronger, to the extent they broke free of their chains and went out to corrupt all worlds, destroying everything and dominating over whatever remained.
This let the Phoenix send down her purest race to go to war against the most impure.
The Seraphim won and destroyed them all, or at least, that was what everyone thought.
Tears filled up in Skylar's eyes as Portia looked, terrified and confused.
"How? Why?"He asked.
"Well it's simple..."He said,"...not all the Tedaphim were destroyed during the war, the Seraphim spared some of them, when they were polluted themselves, seduced, they procreated with them then destroyed them, then left without making sure they were all gone. Your mother was a pure Seraph, I am an impure Tedaph and you, are a fusion of both."
"No, I'm not!"Skylar yelled.
He chuckled and walked closer to him then said,"Yes, you are, and it is true that I wanted revenge on you, but now... I'm going to use you."
"Leave Skylar alone!"Portia yelled.
"Why? You want to go first? You are just as useful you know...if not more."
She held Skylar's hand, he knew exactly what she was thinking, then she closed her eyes as an explosion of electric charges burst forth from them, then they vanished.
Skylar's father grinned, then flapped his wings and vanished into the sky...
***
Dozens of families back in the city, whose homes had been destroyed by massive earthquakes, mourned their loved ones.
Many of their children and wards just got up one night and activated their monster form, before going South and from there, they never saw them again.
About a week and a half had passed and Kofi hadn't seen Portia or Skylar once.
"Maybe they were the reason so many people vanished."Nymphus said.
Kofi looked at his father behind the glass.
Kofi had never forgotten what everyone told him, especially Portia, for some reason, her words made more sense to him than even his closest and only friends', so he decided to pay his father a visit, after five years.
His father had indeed changed, and seemed to have forgotten what he did, but was ever so happy to see his only son again.
Kofi, on the other hand, stayed cautious.
After his first visit, because of his father's feigned innocence, he decided never to go back, and here he was, on his fifth visit that week.
His father was bonded to a Water nymph which gave him his inhumanely beautiful features, beautiful as some of them, gave him a slightly female look, but the full heart of one as his was of gold.
Kofi then asked,"But what would they want with them?"
"I don't know..."His father said,"...but we'll have to find out another day."
Kofi looked around as electric arcs jumped between his fingers, then the clock went backwards by a few minutes and the video cameras showed a video of him leaving.
He looked back at his father with a smirk, but his father didn't return the expression.
When Kofi asked what was wrong, his father said,"You have to leave."
"Psst, why?"Kofi asked with a confused chuckle.
"Son, I don't want you to end up in here like me, I'm sorry for whatever I did but, I don't want you to act the same, please."
Kofi looked at his father, who looked at him with pleading eyes, then frowned and stormed off.
***
An explosion occurred and Skylar was thrown hard, into the rocky ground.
He crashed through several trees then slowly got up to see Portia in a sort of mist of swirling black mist, holding her in an immobilised, coma like state.
"Let her go!"Skylar yelled.
"Aww, but I thought you called me to come, now..."He said, taking out a feather,"... I'm here to stay."
Skylar yelled as one fibre from the feather detached and flew into her ear and Skylar yelled her name as her eyes darted open.
The black mist around her started swirling faster as she landed and her eyes turned black, with a deadly, black vapour like, aura emanating from her.
Skylar was horrified as he yelled,"I'll kill you!"
"No, you're going next."His father said.
Before Skylar could react, a fibre had flown into his ear then he struggled and gripped his head, hard then slammed his palms into the rocky ground, cracking it.
He squeezed his fingers, crushing the rocks beneath him, as his six wings darted out, white as snow, then the feathers began to turn grey and black like a rust was spreading allover them, making the feathers have black edges, changing in a slow grey gradient to the thin white centres.
Flames of white and black began to burn all around him, burning and repairing the landscape for kilometres around, while five, black, grey and white, fox like tails grew alongside a ten meter long tail of large feathers, which grew like those of a Violet wood hoopoe, with the ones on the edges much shorter than the ones in the middle.
He let out a roar which shook the ground then his father looked around, as if he was hearing someone speak.
He grunted and mumbled then said,"I hate to leave you two like this but I have other things to do, so, see you again son."
He snapped his fingers, then Portia woke up with a start...