Angel Monarch

After Lucy's race changed she didn't have a transformation any more, but one of her new abilities made it possible for her to fly. Behind her back two dark wings appeared, they were made of black smoke and with them she could fly even faster than before.

There was also a sad realization within Sera. When everyone else left she tried to summon her own wings, but when they came out there was suddenly a huge amount of pain and she fell to her knees screaming.

Everyone quickly rushed to her to see what was wrong. Her wings were still in a mutilated state, they didn't seem to be able to heal... Whatever Azriel's sword done to them was impossible to repair even with Lucy's help.

Sera looked up from the ground and turned to see her wings. She was stunned for a second, but the pain was still there so she dismissed them.

With a depressed expression she stood up and began walking away. Bea tried to stop and hold her hand, but she just shook her off and without turning back she said, "It's fine... Just need to be alone for a while..."

She walked for a few minutes before finding a large rock that faced the sea. As the wind played with her hair Sera sat on top of it and shed silent tears for her missing wings.

It hit her harder than most things before, after losing everyone she ever loved in the ruins of Newber, that was her only crutch. The one good thing she came out with from that disaster, now... they were gone as well...

At some point she hid her face behind her knees, and sat like that for at least an hour.

She stayed like that until a large shadow passed above her and landed near the rock outcropping. Kastrel slowly walked to Sera and put his large head next to her. Without much thought she reached out one hand and began petting his soft feathers on his head.

Neither said anything for a long time, they just sat there listening to the waves moving in and out. When she seemed to be calm enough, he finally spoke.

"You shouldn't worry about your wings that much, when you evolve into an ascended they will grow back! And until then you just have to rely on me!"

Slowly Sera raised her head and couldn't stop a small smile to creep onto her face.

"I guess you're right... And when I will become an ascended like you, will race to see who's faster!"

They both laughed a bit, then headed back to the others. The group was currently waiting for the scouts to return and in the meantime they made a campfire on the sandy beach.

Silently Sera sat down next to Bea and Vicky, she also gave a small kiss to both of them, on the mouth for one and on the top of her head for the other. They looked at her with concern, but she just made a confident smile and asked, "So, what do we do until the others come back?"

The group members looked each other confused, and the first one to speak was Hellfire.

"Well, we thought to clear the island from any hostiles. While you were away James scanned for every monster in the proximity, there is less than a hundred and no corrupted."

It was Sera's turn to be confused.

"That's great, but who is James?"

All of them raised their eyebrows in bewilderment, except Clockwork who looked very embarrassed, and to spare himself for further shame he explained.

"I am James... It's just that I wanted to feel special so I used my title... But Lucy likes to use my real name, so everyone began using it."

Sera didn't fully understand his reasoning, but she always thought of her title as annoying and narcissistic. Gradually she turned her head towards Hellfire with a questioning gaze.

"Oh no! Don't even ask! I will still use my title as my name and nothing can change my mind!"

He turned his head away and crossed his arms, but his stubbornness didn't last long as Faith moved a bit closer to him. She whispered something into his ear that made him blush, and turned his breathing erratic. Then with a large sigh he stood up and lifted Faith into a princess carry. As they began to lift into the air he said, "My name is Leslie."

Then they were gone, leaving the rest of them in stunned silence.

'Why can they do it, but when I want to have time alone with Bea some monster attacks us?!'

The campfire was crackling next to them as they just stared speechlessly. After an unknown amount of time they began regaining their ability to speak.

"O–okay... So... You wanted to go hunting?" Said Bea not even trying to hide the blush from her face.

"Y–yeah... That was the plan..." James was in a similar state, the only one who didn't really care was Vicky. She just happily drew weird shapes into the sand.

"Well, I think we should just relax until the others return. Maybe even go for a swim, I never swam in the sea before... Technically I never even really swim in anything other than pools..."

Steadily James rose to his feet and while walking inland said over his shoulder.

"You enjoy yourselves! I need the essence and monster materials to get stronger!" Then he was gone as well. Only the three of them and the hippogryphs were left.

Sera turned to them with an excited smile and said, "So? Are you two up to some swimming?"

Vicky instantly jumped to her feet and shouted 'Yes!' over and over again, on the other hand Bea didn't seem too fond of the idea, but seeing her child's excitement she went along with them.

There was only one problem with their plan, no swimsuits. They had a couple solutions for this problem, for example Bea just simply wore one of her black colored sports bras with one of her shorts and Vicky just summoned her clothing item and wore that.

But Sera wanted to try out something else. She hid bellow one of Kastral's wings, he wasn't too happy to be used as a changing booth, but she didn't particularly care.

When she was fully naked slowly her armor began to weave itself into existence, but she didn't summon the full thing. There was only the upper part of the breastplate and the part of her pants which covered her most important place... It was basically a bikini.

Quickly she made sure everything that needed to be hidden stayed that way, then she walked out from the cover of the wing.

Bea's reaction was so funny she began laughing, her face was red as a tomato and her breathing uneven. With all her willpower she turned her head away, but her eyes kept glancing back onto Sera, especially her chest area.

Slowly she began walking towards them, then grabbed Vicky's hand and went towards the sea. Bea was rooted to the ground, her eyes watching Sera's swaying hips, gradually it climbed up just in time to see her head turn. With a small alluring smile she winked and motioned for Bea to follow.

Before she even realized her legs moved towards the pair and she began to hurry up as some liquid began to run down her leg. Needless to say that she was very horny and while walking towards the water she swore to punish Sera severely for pulling something like this.

When they reached the threshold of the waves Vicky instantly jumped in and began playing with the water while giggling. But the three of them didn't stop there and went further in.

Another problem arose though, Vicky never learned how to swim, so it was her parent's job to teach her this survival skill!

The water was cool, not too warm or cold and they conveniently forgot about the fact that it was the middle of autumn. That water in reality was near freezing, but their evolved skin only felt a slight chill.

They stayed where they could stand, but Vicky was a quick learner and soon they began swimming farther into the waves.

After spending hours in the water they started to get hungry and tired. On the shore they saw most of the group around the campfire, only two person were missing Will and Sarah.

When they were about to go to shore a large about 30 meter long dark shape passed below them. It was fast and barely noticeable, but a second later they saw it again as a large shark-like fin broke the surface of the water and began circling them.

The three of them went on guard and they were preparing to attack, when a laughing came from above the three. They looked up to see a woman made of water and wind fly in the air, she found the situation very hilarious.

"Stop it Will... I think you gave them a good enough scare..." The flying woman's voice belonged to Sarah and the three of them quickly realized that they were pranked.

From below the water the large shape moved and slowly shrank into his regular human form. Will's emotionless face was broken by a stupid grin, which made the three girls even angrier. Experience new stories on m v|l e'-NovelBin.net

Sadly he was a way faster swimmer than either of them, so no matter how much they tried strangling him wasn't an option... Until they reach the shore at least.