Tainted - Aurora Kryan (best way to read books TXT) 📗

Hanna. That’s what her name is. I starred at her face. It was beautiful, the angles of her cheek bones made her look like a goddess. The pure white eyes and black lips with a white bar on the bottom were standard for female Reapers. Her black curly hair was held back by a blue ribbon but a few strands escaped n framed her face.

The top she wore was like a corset with long trail sleeves. And her black shorts were covered with a black cloth that went to her mid thigh. The inside of her sleeves and cloth were blue like her ribbon. And she had on high heels that wrapped around her calves. Her four black feathered wings unfolded slightly. She really did look like a dark goddess.

“Your right Bryden, come on Mikhail we will discuss your rude behavior in the parlor.”

“No tainted are not allowed into the mansion and she’s no exception.”

Mikhail spun back to me and swung at me again I didn’t have time to summon fallen angel but I didn’t have to. Bryden had wrapped his scythe’s endless chain around Mikhail’s arms so he couldn’t move. And Hanna was in front of me with her scythe holding back Mikhail’s from decapitating me.

Her wing blocked my view of Bryden and his scythe but I could see hers. It was kind of like mine. It had the standard straight staff and sickle but then it had the hook like back sickle and the curved weapon on the end of her staff.

“Dismiss cleaver now.”

Boomed Bryden at Mikhail. I felt like if he didn’t listen he was going to be thrown over a shoulder and hulled off. He glared intensely at me and flexed his arms to see if he could move enough to get away. But he couldn’t even move in his father’s binding chains. He finally gave in and said.

“Dimissa Subtilis.” (dismissed cleaver)

He stomped off into the house grumbling about tainted being horrible creatures. Bryden shook his head in disapproval. That’s when I got a look at his scythe. It was like a mini double scythe there was one in each hand connected by a black chain. I had a chance to look at him to since I wasn’t as guarded from attacks. He was just wearing black jeans, a silver skull with black diamond eyes and his feet were bound with black cloth like a kick boxers.

His six wings moved restlessly as he starred at his son. When he faced me I saw his eyes were pure black like always and he had that black bar on his lip. His hair was medium length and framed his face making him look young. When Hanna spoke she sounded distressed.

“Travis will you please make sure he doesn’t break anything?”

“Yes my lady, Dimissa Puresidio.” (dismissed guard)

Travis dismissed his scythe and jogged after Mikhail in the house. But he was to late I heard a distinct sound of glass crashing several times before Travis made it to the door.

“Dimissa Morte Perptue.” (dismissed endless death)

“Dimissa Regina Atra.” (dismissed dark queen)

Bryden walked over to us slowly as he dismissed his scythe. Hanna dismissed hers and they hugged. Hanna looked at me then and smiled so lovingly it was like I was her daughter and had always lived with her. She extended an elegant hand covered in black fingerless gloves like Mikhail, Bryden’s and mine.

“Reaper princess Bayne Black, my daughter would you please allow me to show you your home.”

I smiled at her and took her hand. She led me into the mansion through a side door I hadn’t seen before. It was on the tower to the west, the door might have been hidden by a bush but it was beautiful, made of stained wood with an intricately designed black iron handle and accents. She let my hand drop because the winding stairwell was very narrow. It would have been really dark if the lights hadn’t been turned on. They were made to look like hanging lamps but it was obviously they were electric.

“Sorry I didn’t take you through the front but Mikhail is so upset that I don’t think it would be a good idea. So I’m taking you to your room we just finished redoing. It was my library but Bryden told me what you liked so we had it redone and some of your things put in. oh I hope you like it.”

“Of course I will and thank you for giving me a room.”

She turned her head to smile at me. We had finally reached the top and she had to open a door that looked just like the one outside but bigger. She walked into the room and I was stuck at the door taking in the room. It was amazing the walls were black with red trim. A black fan with red gothic designs on it and black gothic lights hung in the middle of the ceiling.

To the left of the door was a bed with three pillows on it and my dragon comforter. A lamp with the same design as the fan lights sat on a dark wood table by the window seat. Hanna walked over to the window and shut it and letting the curtains hang, they were black. She picked up the books that were on the table.

“Vampire Queen Maria sent over your books and things these are the last ones I haven’t gotten on the shelves.”

Shelves? I looked to the right and on the wall were my dragon posters and on the floor my Washburn guitar with my black saucer chair folded up beside it. Closer to the door was a closet, I walked over to it and opened it and walked in all my clothes were there.

“Do you like the closet? I know there’s more than enough space in there but I was hoping maybe we could go shopping sometime and get to know each other.”

“I’d love to.”

She was so nice to me she sounded like a friend more than a step mom. I was turning to leave when I noticed a mirror on the back of the door. I shut it slightly and I saw how much I looked like Hanna. I had never looked much like Maria but standing next to Hanna it was obvious where I got my looks because she and Bryden had similar facial features. I turned my head to get a better look.

Our face was the same but unlike her curly hair mine was spiky and had trails in the front. They were bound by white fabric. My outfit consisted of a black corset with white string in the front, a black skirt that went to my knees and had a designed ripped pattern at the bottom.

I also had on a white bleat that held black diamonds angling down on side. My feet were like Bryden’s no shoes just biding like a kick boxers. And the fingerless gloves finished off my outfit. I folded my single pair of wings close to my back and opened the door again.

“I didn’t see any shelves.”

“There on the first floor of the tower.”

“But isn’t this the first? I didn’t see a door on the way up here.”

“That’s what the stairs are for.”

She walked to the middle of the room under the fan. I didn’t see any stairs either she pulled back the corner of a pretty red and black carpet. There was a trap door under it that she lifted up and then I saw the stairs. She flipped a switch and the stairway light up. She began to descend the winding stairs; they weren’t as narrow as the others so I could almost walk next to her. It wasn’t a long walk and there was a door at the end like the other two it was stained and had black iron accents and handle.

“This is where your books and statues are kept.”

She flipped on another switch and it had the same fan and lights as my room. The walls were lined with shelves my books and dragons were on them. The ones with my dragons had glass on the front, which was half of the shelves. There was a gap in the shelves at the front of the room where another door was and a gap at the back off the room. It had a red window seat but there was no window just a brick wall.

“There is a window there; it’s just one way and behind a panel. If you push on the left book case and the bottom above the seat it will click. Push it back and there’s a button. Push that and the panel goes up revealing the window.”

“Wow that’s really cool but kind of odd for a library to have don’t you think?”

“Yes it is weird to have all the secret passage ways and such but Mikhail loved to explore as a boy and so we put things in like this for him.”

“That was cool of you guys.”

She smiled in response. I tested the window panel. And it did move when I pushed the button. I saw the back yard which meant this was the back of the tower. The winding stairs had me all confused. I was going to shut the window but Hanna hadn’t told me how. So with a guess I pushed the button again and the panel came down.

“Very good, now if you want to go to the roof there is a ladder in the closet ceiling. I would show you but I have to go tend to something’s. This door leads to the west hallway; if you follow it all the way down it joins to the main hallway. And that will lead to the main entrance if you need help ask Henry. I guess you could call him our butler.”

She was telling me all of this as she opened the door. She stopped and came back to hug me.

“I’m so glad you came here Bayne.”

“Me to mom.”

She squeezed me and left.

Wolf Tainted

“Get down there wolf tainted.”

“My name is Beowulf not wolf tainted!”

“Shut up I don’t care what you are called it won’t matter in a month at the blood festival.”

The vampire guard shoved me hard down the stairs and I hit them repeatedly on my way down. I felt my ribs fracture and by the time I fell down the twenty five steps, yes I counted them, my ribs had begun to heal, bonus for being half werewolf. When I stopped rolling the guard came over and drug me to the end of the damp basement and let me drop to the floor painfully hard. I heard chains rattle n then clicking.

“You’re going to love it down here tainted”
“Beowulf.”

I stayed on my side drawing my arms in to me that’s when I saw heavy chains on my wrists. I started to shake I felt my eyes shift and my body burst into white crystals as I lunged full force for the vampire. He jumped back to the bottom of the steps he was almost in biting distance.

In five more inches I would have him and then I went down hard on the floor face first. I yelped