The Protectors

An hour later in a large expensive looking loft a loud male voice rang through the large living room

'Andy you cannot be that reckless an entire clan of daemons all by yourself are you joking and with no back up AND WITHOUT TELLING ANY OF US WHERE YOU WENT ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!'

"Calm down georgie I was just blowing off a bit of steam besides-"

"no " georgie or (as he was known to everyone who wasn't andy) george interrupted "a bit of steam?! Are you kidding me you realize you killed twelve of the most terrifying beings on earth that by the way were not supposed to kill were supposed to leave creatures like that to the protectors'

'Yeah sure' andy scoffed 'because they do such a great job with that. there were literally twelve daemons roaming around the lower grid for months and nobody did anything why do you think I stepped in? Besides I got twelve new bottles of daemon essence which I know we were short on'

'Ugh you know andy life was so much simpler before you found all of these ways to bend the rules just because you've got powers does not mean you can ignore the laws that have kept our world safe like what if you were noticed by a human'

"Ah you know humans are too oblivious to notice anything that doesn't have to do with food or television besides I know you love my rebellious spirit georgie now if you dont mind Im going to bed because you know killing twelve of the third most powerful beings ever to grace this earth really takes it out of ya" winking slyly to her annoyed mentor she sauntered off to a door that looked suspiciously like a prison door and after unlocking about thirteen locks slipped inside. Glancing around her room she sighed heavily not used to the emptiness. Walking into her bathroom she conjuered a bath and started pouring a mix or what looked like herbs and oils into it. she began to undress cringing everytime her tired muscles tensed examining her bruises in the mirror wincing as she massaged a healing salve into the purple and blue skin on her muscular abdomen. When her bath was ready she stepped in and lowering herself into the scalding water she let out a large sigh at the relieving feeling or warmth penetrating her sore muscles leaning back she thought about what georgie had said and the craziness that was her life.

The next morning she was awoken by her lovely cat merlin though to be fair merlin was more of a panther than a house cat but she was immortal she was allowed to make her cat ten or fifteen times larger that it naturally was merlin as usual was pushing his damp nose onto her cheek reminding her that he was the boss and the boss was hungry. She sat up in bed laughing slightly in her choice of pet and scratching her sweet baby behind the ears. Flipping back her covers she got out of bed and left the sanctuary of her room for the hectic morning kitchen. You see Andy lived with twelve other people the first was george who was the oldest at 4893 and was known as the guardian, then there was luke who was the youngest at only 300 barely an adult by immortal standards and in between was Jamie at 467, Dylan at 540, Kim at 683, Dem(short for Demeter) at 984, Ana at 1253, Sammy at 1579, Donna at 1778, Sophie at 1955, Charlie at 2024, Andy(short for Andromeda) at 2333, and last and most boring (by Andy's standards) was Min at 3345. So as you can imagine mornings were hectic with thirteen people trying to eat at a eight person dining table. As she walked in for the first time ever the kitchen fell totally silent having shoved a piece of toast in her mouth she looked around "what" she she said the toast muffling her words but the sentiment was conveyed.

Luke was the only one who spoke "is it true that you took down 12 daemons by yourself?' his eyes slightly wide "mhm" was her muffled reply, she swallowed her toast and looked around everyone was looking straight at their food "seriously what's going on Andy?' asked charlie worry filling his eyes " you've been different since we lost pers."

Tension filled the room seeping into every crevice as Andy's face hardened and her normally bright green eyes turned dark "yes well people tend to change when their best friend is killed by beings that are supposed to protect us ' wincing at her harsh tone Charlie continued "no i just mean you've been so reckless you know this could get you in big trouble with the "protectors"" he said putting the name that pretty much all smart immortals hated in quotations "yes charlie im well aware but they just let that clan of barf bags roam free i watched them for almost a month do you know how many humans they drained of life it was disgusting and the so called protectors did nothing! what was I supposed to do?"

By now the entire table was staring at her in surprise not expecting such a passionate answer

But Mine was the first to speak up (unfortunately in andy's opinion) " why do you care for humans so much it's not as if you have to step in to protect them that's the protectors job hence the name besides who cares if a few humans die they would have died anyway just a bit later.'

"Wow min once you hit 3000 you became a real hard ass since when is being a compassionate being who cares about others so rare?" Came Andy's heated reply " I'm just saying you chose to get yourself into trouble all the time and we worry about you" at this the entire table shook their heads "well that's very nice but i'm busy trying to drown my heartbreak in violence and if that gets me in trouble with the douchebags then so be it maybe it would be interesting to see how they would try to kill an immortal seeing as their so against magic and all of that B.S."

At this andy grabbed the bag of cat food and walked out of the kitchen leaving her housemates speechless.

Returning to her room Andy finally let the tears come it had been awhile since she let herself cry and thinking about her best friend who had been killed by the so called "protectors" while trying to save some humans from an earthquake

Slowly getting up from where she collapsed on her bed she poured merlins food into his bowl and put it on the top shelf of her tallest bookshelf. She decided to spend her day in her room reading, kinetting and overall feeling sorry for herself. Unfortunately her riveting plans were ruined when a harsh knock sounded against the thick wood of her bedroom door. Jumping up to answer the door she padded over in her fluffy socks and unlocked all thirteen locks, as ahe swung open the door she let out the most rank stream of curses anyone's ever heard.

Glaring at the two large muscled men with the tell tale sigil of the protectors branded onto their shoulders "What the hell do you two meatheads want?" she questioned "Ma'am" they replied "We need you to come with us now please." Andy rolled her eyes " And why exactly would I do that" she sassed. "If you don't we're afraid we've been ordered to use force to get you to cooperate."

"Lovely" Andy said scoffing "Fine I'm coming but at least let me get dressed first, or am I to hold council with the protectors in my jammies?". Uncomfortably the two large men glanced at each other suprised by her brashness "Uhm go ahead ma'am". Rolling her eyes at her obnoxious visitors she pranced back into her room. Minutes late she popped out of her room and sighed "let's go" she was warmly dressed in a thick cream colored sweater with a blue scarf and warm black leggings with her black heeled boots clicking with every step she took, she had only been to the island that the protectors lived and trained on once, when perse died the protectors let them hold the funeral there in the large sanctum in their training arena, it was the only good thing the protectors had ever done in Andys opinion.

With a flash Andy and her two guards were in front of a curved bench where twelve stuffy old white people sat or at least thats what Andy saw. Before any of them had a chance to speak Andy snarkily asked "Do and of you want to tell me what I'm doing here or did you just feel like disturbing my day off?" she could feel the annoyance rippling off of them with a self- satisfied smirk she sat back in the chair she has summoned for herself. Then finally one of the oldest ones in the middle of their congregation spoke "Day off indeed little Bruxa, care to explain why you illegally killed twelve daemons this morning because, as I'm sure you're aware, killing daemons without at least permission from this council is a punishable offence" smugly he sat back in his big chair smiling. " Yeah about that y'all are completely bonkers if you think i'm going to let twelve daemons run around draining humans and being overall assholes" Andy explained as if they were the stupidest beings on earth "but honestly I wouldn't be surprised if you all have finally gone crazy" she continued "After all you all are getting pretty old and you know how terribly fragile human minds are even with your so called gifts which, is just advanced science yet you pretend to better than actual supernatural creatures who have abilities you couldn't even dream to recreate. so" she began after her angry tirade "Why don't you explain to me why you let twelve daemons run around murdering other humans?" she asked before one of then could answer she continued "Maybe being so separated from your race has made you insensitive assholes but I don't know what do you think?" Once she finished she stared at them breathing heavily not realizing how much pent up anger she had towards the beings that were supposed to keep other humans safe. But watching their faces she knew she had crossed a line and while they may have been annoyed by her breaking the rules now they were straight up pissed at her. And they were not going to take it easy on her ruling.