Grief

Black had two friends. One was named Beauty, and the other was Bartholomew and his little brother, Tyke.

They were all the same alien fairy-like Species called a "Drew."

On her planet, it was a giant angel who'd lost everything, and she had to finish it because it would have all she loved.

It already took two lives from her.

Flashback...

Black and Appolyon were fighting the royal palace guards of her kingdom, but Black was confused about how this could happen since the royal family was usually good to her.

I mean, she's been a warrior before 13, but she's survived. They were still nice to her on an individual level.

Black is armed with a sword and her powers. So is Appolyon. All guards have the same.

Black deals a Bruised Left Wrist to Guard.

Guard Arzu deals a Shallow Cut on the Right Shoulder to Black.

Black deals a Miss (lost projectile) to Guard.

Guard Qhetul tries to deal a Shallow Cut on the Stomach of Black, but Black Deflected Guard Qhetul.

Guard Ohnoll deals a Deep Gash on Left Forearm to Black.

Black deals a Bruised Left Thigh to Guard.

Guard Bheiphrads tries to deal a Deep Gash on the Right Forearm to Black, but Black Deflected the Guard.

Guard Scregne deals a Shallow Cut on the Cheek to Black, so Black deals a Bruised Head to Guard.

Guard deals a Shallow Cut on Left Bicep to Black.

Black deals a Bruised Left Wrist to Guard.

Guard deals a Shallow Cut on Right Calf to Black, so Black deals a Bruised Head to Guard.

Guard deals a Shallow Cut on Chest to Black.

Guard deals a Shallow Cut on the Back of the Head to Black.

Guard deals a Shallow Cut on the Stomach to Appolyon.

Appolyon deals a Deep Gash on the Right Bicep to Guard.

Guard deals a Shallow Cut on the Right Hip to Appolyon.

Appolyon deals a Shallow Cut on Chest to Guard.

Guard deals a Stabbed in Neck to Appolyon.

Black deals a Shallow Cut on Chest to Guard.

Guard deals a Deep Gash on Left Calf to Black.

Black deals a Deep Gash on the Right Thigh to Guard.

Guard deals a Shallow Cut on the Forehead to Black.

Black deals a Deep Gash on Back to Guard.

Black deals a Shallow Cut on Neck to Guard.

Black deals a Shallow Cut on Back to Guard.

Guard deals a Stabbed in the Calf to Black.

Black deals a Shallow Cut on Left Bicep to Guard.

Guard deals a Deep Gash on the Forehead to Black.

Guard deals a Shallow Cut on Left Forearm to Appolyon.

Appolyon deals a Broken Right Shin to Guard.

Guard deals a Shallow Cut on the Stomach to Appolyon.

Appolyon deals a Broken Rib to Guard.

Guard deals a Deep Gash on Left Bicep to Appolyon.

Guard deals a Shallow Cut on Cheek to Appolyon.

Appolyon deals a Broken Left Knee to Guard.

Guard deals a Shallow Cut on the Right Shoulder to Appolyon.

Appolyon deals a Deep Gash on Left Bicep to Guard.

Guard deals a Shallow Cut on the Right Shoulder to Appolyon.

Appolyon deals a Deep Gash on the Back of the Head to Guard.

Guard deals a Deep Gash on Left Thigh to Appolyon.

Appolyon deals a Gash/Bruised Right Hand to Guard.

Guard deals a Deep Gash on the Right Thigh to Appolyon.

Black deals a Block to Guard.

Guard deals a Deep Gash on Left Bicep to Black.

Black deals a Stabbed in the Stomach to Guard.

Black deals a Shallow Cut on Neck to Guard.

Guard deals a Deep Gash on Left Bicep to Black.

Black deals a Shallow Cut on Left Hip to Guard.

Guard deals a Deep Gash on Cheek to Black.

Guard tries to Stab her In the Heart, but Appolyon blocks the Guard.

Bheiphrads ran off to safety, no longer wishing to fight, when he saw Appolyon glowing, ready for his final attack.

Appolyon deals a Bruised Left Arm to Guard

Guard deals a Stabbed in the Eye to Appolyon.

Appolyon exterminates all 23 of the attacking guards instantly, using his superpowers as black shields herself. Appolyon is tired of this and heals Black, and then Appolyon runs to get his adoptive daughter, Beauty.

When he found Beauty, she had tubes from her armpits, elbow pits, knee pits, thighs and ankles, and even her wrists.

One was even connected to Beauty's neck.

Two were connected to the palms of her hands.

God had released her safely and healed her.

Appolyon grabbed his daughter and gently held her close to him because he had super strength and did not want to hurt her. Black helped carry Beauty out, but more guards came, and Appolyon yelled, "God has blessed me with Beauty, and I will not let her go! Go, get her out of here!"

Black carries Beauty into the throne room.

Beauty stood on her feet after Black put her down, saying, "Head to the safe room." Beauty took off to the safe room.

Black was about to follow her when a team of 2 guards ambushed her, and she had to fight to protect Beauty.

Black deals a Broken Rib to Guard Dimier.

Guard Dimier deals a Shallow Cut on the Right Forearm to Black.

Black deals a Broken Right Collar Bone to Guard Dimier.

Black deals a Gash Right Knee to Guard Dimier.

Guard Dimier deals a Shallow Cut on Left Calf to Black.

Black deals a Block to Guard Dimier for 0.0

Black deals a Broken Right Femur to Guard Dimier.

Black deals a Broken Right Collar Bone to Guard Dimier.

Guard Dimier deals a Deep Gash on Back to Black.

Black deals a Bruised Left Collar Bone to Guard Dimier.

Black deals a Block to Guard Egvail with their swords.

Black deals a Deep Gash on Left Forearm to Guard Egvail with a sword.

Guard Egvail deals a Shallow Cut on Left Forearm to Black with a sword.

Guard Egvail deals a Block to Black with his sword.

Black deals a Deep Gash on Left Forearm to Guard Egvail with lightning.

Black deals a Deep Gash on Left Bicep to Guard Egvail with lightning.

Guard Egvail deals a Block to Black with their swords.

Black deals a Bruised Left Arm to Guard Egvail with lightning.

Guard Egvail deals a Shallow Cut on the Right Hip to Black with a sword.

Black deals a Bruised Right Arm to Guard Egvail with a sword.

Guard Egvail deals a Shallow Cut on the Left Shoulder to Black with lightning.

Guard Egvail deals a Shallow Cut on the Right Forearm to Black with lightning.

Black deals a Block to Guard Egvail with their swords.

Guard Egvail deals a Block to Black with their swords and

Black deals a Broken Right Hand to Guard Egvail.

Guard Egvail deals a Shallow Cut on Neck to Black with lightning.

Guard Egvail deals a Shallow Cut on Neck to Black with lightning.

Guard Egvail deals a Deep Gash on the Right Thigh to Black with lightning.

Black deals a Block to Guard Egvail with their swords and

Guard Egvail deals a Shallow Cut on the Back of the Head to Black with a sword.

God heals Black of her injuries, and Black just uses her powers to electrocute them both.

Black ran to find Beauty after hearing her be injured.

Beauty is stabbed in the stomach, and Black carries her to an infirmary. Black prays for God to heal Beauty's wounds, which he does. Black gets Beauty up, ready to leave with her. Black carries Beauty out of there, but they're ambushed again, but Black is prepared and stabs them with a lightning bolt from her hands. Beauty gets up and uses her powers of light to blind them as Black protects her eyes by closing them. She even builds a black shield around herself.

Beauty says, "No need to kill them. They're blind." Then Black and her carry on.

More guards were waiting when they got to the castle's exit, and 56 attacked them.

Black and Beauty were fighting the King's guards. Beauty was 13, and so was a guard named Guard Krogmin.

Guard Krogmin deals a Shallow Cut on Left Bicep to Black.

Guard Krogmin deals a Deep Gash on Back to Black.

Beauty prays for God to heal Black, which he does as she tries to reason with her boyfriend, Guard Krogmin.

Beauty says, "Why are you doing this to me? We were in love! You can't let them do this to me. You guys know exactly what the King is doing to me! You know what he did!"

Guard Krogmin paused for a bit, then said, "I have to. The King's voice to us is like a god to us. That's how we were trained as guards."

Beauty yells, "But he's not God!" Crying, hoping he'll listen to her because she loves him.

Guard Krogmin says, "I'm sorry, but It'd be evil to disobey King Khaqnots," In tears.

Guard Krogmin hits Beauty in the head with lightning saying, "This may knock her out."

But, unfortunately, the lightning fried Beauty's brain. They needed her alive to harvest her blood to inject Guards and the King with her powers. Beauty died on the spot. Guard Krogmin never meant to kill her. It was an accident.

Black is held back by guards who pin her down as they clamp electric shockers to her wrists, electrocuting her.

The King checks Beauty's pulse, then yells, "Get her to the infirmary. We need her blood!" In a panic, the King, Khaqnots, says, "You may have killed her! You should have shocked her heart, you idiot! Her brain is the powerhouse. If you get that, she's never gonna be able to be revived!"

Black panicked and began to try and break free, but the shocks were too powerful and blocked her sense of thought.

Black yells, "Why are you doing this, my King? I didn't do anything to you. She didn't either! She was so nice! She was so sweet! What's wrong with you?!" Bawling.

The King says, "I must provide what's needed for my country."

Black is in shock. Appolyon broke free of the guards and just slaughtered through them all with his powers, ran to the exit, then yelled, "Where is my daughter, Khaqnots?! Where is my child?!" In terror.

Black was freed by him. The King says, "She's in the infirmary." Appolyon looks around for her and finds her dead in the infirmary, saying, "Baby? You're okay!" Then he felt her pulse and felt none, he listened to her heart, but there was no beat.

Appolyon shrieks in terror and cries out to God, "WHY?!"

Appolyon lost it and began to kill all the nurses in the infirmary who were just trying to save her daughter and had nothing to do with her torture.

Black freaks out in tears.

Appolyon ran outside to cry.

Appolyon looks at the King and says, "I hate you!" Then kills him in an instant by tearing his heart apart. Guard Krogmin ran off to safety. Black just cried. Black looked around, and she saw a scary sight. Black saw Appolyon turn 30 feet tall.

Black yells, "Appolyon, what are you about to do!" Appolyon stepped on the castle, killing The Queen inside. Black yells, "Appolyon?! Appolyon, stop. What are you doing!? This isn't what we came for!" Appolyon yells, "She's dead. What we came for is dead!" In rage and devastation that this was all for nothing.

Appolyon rains fire down from Heaven. Beauty was a different race from Drew. Black was a "Drow," while Beauty was a "Draw." Draws have white skin, and Drows have pale skin.

Appolyon was angry at all Drows because not all were the kindest to Beauty, as the two races had a conflicted past. This was the killer of the race. Racism.

Appolyon yells, "These Drows are awful, terrible, sinful people and deserve to die off!" Appolyon just randomly hit the Drows with giant fireballs.

Bartholomew was running through the streets when he saw his brother, Tyke, about to be hit by a fireball.

Bartholomew, a 12-year-old, pushed Tyke out of the way and got drilled instead. The luminaries had meteors in them. Bartholomew died.

His brother, Tyke, was 8. Tyke had ice powers and blew ice breath on the fire to put it out, moved the boulder off of Bartholomew, and then cried when he saw his dead big brother.

Tyke takes his brother to the hospital and shields people to protect them, but after shielding 45 people, the fireballs keep killing people, so she shields the entire country of Drews.

Black created a shield around herself through her current Shield and patched it with each movement through the Shield covering the country.

Black made her Shield create a big black body to try to reason with Appolyon.

Black says, "Appolyon, don't do this, this is bad. This is very bad," being only a child.

Appolyon says, "This is bad? They tortured your best friend!"

Black says, "Appolyon, I'm a Drow, too!" Appolyon turned against her and said, "You don't care, do you?" Black says I do!" Black was inside the giant body-shaped Shield, but she wasn't nearly as big as it was. Black's natural body was the size of an average human child. The Shield she built was 30 feet tall to match his size and a human child's shape.

She created the Shield because she cannot become a giant but create giant shields. She can manipulate the shape of a shield and control a shield like a Green Lantern.

Appolyon yells, "You didn't even try to save her!" Black yells, "I DID!" In a rage at him for implying she wouldn't save her own friend after she desperately tried. This was a blow that she felt was too far; at this moment, she wouldn't be thinking about hurting him, just crying, so she cried.

Black yells, "Please, stop! Just stop!" God told him to calm down, so he just tried to say, "I can't!" But God calmed him down.

Appolyon says, "I tried to save her, too."

Black says, "Just calm down. Can I just hug you? Do you need comfort? I can give you that."

Appolyon says, "What is going to comfort me?"

God comforts him after this. Appolyon just sobs. Black asks, "Can I hug you?" Appolyon nods. Black manipulates her shield to make it hug him. He hugged the shield.

Black just nods, saying, "It'll be okay. We'll get through this."

In the aftermath, Tyke is waiting for the doctors to save his brother as the shield makes a black sky over the hospital walls.

Pregnant women have been moved underground with their children, toddlers, and babies.

Embryos are down there with them.

Tyke is told by a doctor that "We cannot save your brother." His mother bawls as Tyke sobbed, wondering, "Why?" Tyke tries to run upstairs, but the nurses stop him, so he doesn't get hurt. Tyke's mother is heavily pregnant with his unborn baby sister and brother, Tonya and Tony.

Tyke is enraged. Tyke saw Appolyon raise his hand, and the fireballs dropped. Tyke then became bitter at the Lord, believing God had unjustly had an angel attack the country. Tyke thought, "How can God have him attack us? Why did he have to push me out of the way? If it was something I did, I should have paid for it. But I didn't do anything. Why did God punish me? Now, we're all down here." Tyke began to hate God.

Appolyon was never told by God to do it; Appolyon was just an emotional wreck.

Tyke just yells, "I don't like God anymore!" As his mother says, "Stop that, it isn't God's fault. It's that demon in the sky's fault! That angel that killed him!"

Tyke says, "But God sent him!" Tyke held onto the anger phase of grief while his mom was steep in denial, thinking her son was alive. His mother, Zad, says, "Get my oldest son the treatment he needs. He is not dead!"

The doctor, Dr. Rievads, cries as he says, "We did all we could."

Zad shrieks in shock.

Black pulls Appolyon off the planet into space and delivers him to an angel in space, Jamaerah, who says, "Appolyon, come with me." Jamaerah grabs Appolyon's arm and says, "We need to go."

Black goes back home and morphs through her shield into the country.

Black says to the guard, Oried, "What happened?" The guard, Oried, says, "We need you." So he takes her to a house with a dying man and his dying child.

They were burned alive.

Black sees the body of Bartholomew carried out of the hospital, covered with a white blanket, which panics her into asking, "Who is that?" Oried knew this and covered her eyes, saying, "Heal these people." And when she got into the victims' home, she prayed and healed the father, At'oks, and his son, Bhinpholl.

Black immediately ran outside to tend to Bartholomew and saw his body burnt to a crisp when she lifted his veil and fainted.

At the hospital, Black woke up to the blue sky. She was no longer conscious of holding up the black shield, so it disappeared. Black had to pray for God to help her build a shield that could withstand Appolyon if she passed out in battle, meaning God had told her to hold it up if anything was going to go down.

God was helping her heal through the trauma.

Black looks around, saying, "Where are Tyke and his mother?" A male nurse says, "They're safe."

Black says, "I want to see my friends." Stregza, the male nurse, says, "Okay, when you're stabilized."

To be continued...