Promises, Promises

[Nox]

As soon as Nox was off of the train he seized the power within. It churned like a fire storm ready to be unleashed, but Nox was unready to let it lose. He held the reins firmly in his grasp. The power would not overwhelm him. And he wouldn’t let Aria overwhelm him either. Keep her at bay. Don’t let her touch you he kept telling himself.

He watched the holo display in front of him as he walked. Her beacon moved around the block several times. She was getting antsy, Nox could tell by her pattern. He had to hurry.

She didn’t feel him coming and in the distance there was a blip of power too. He couldn’t make it out, too far, too weak, whatever Aria was hunting gods. That didn’t bode well for him.

Nox followed her pattern and when Aria stopped to corner her quarry he was watching from the shadows of a nearby building. The red light district wasn’t shadowed in the way a normal city street was. The red neon lights gave it not only it’s name but a distinct sickly hue of color.

Aria was sans swords which was odd. But Nox vaguely remembered her story about sliding it through Martin Borovsky’s body while he tried to kill her and Ascendancy. Why the Ascendancy trusted Aria was beyond him. Sure she looks sweet and innocent but she hasn’t been right in the head for a while - since before he’d met her anyway.

The other male god was somewhere near by but Nox couldn’t take his eyes off Aria to wonder where he might be. As long as he stayed away. This was going to be hard enough as it was without some gung-ho god trying to play hero for an innocent looking girl.

Aria pulled a silver tube from her pocket and Nox shuddered. He’d seen the woman holding something similar at him before. Fuck me! Nox didn’t wait to let her fry the people in her path, he plucked the device from her hand and tucked it safely in the kanagroo pouch of his hoodie where his wallet now safely sat with his hands on both. He wasn’t going to give Aria a chance to touch him. He drew up a wall of air between them. She wasn’t getting close to him.

The light in her eyes as she walked his way - no she wasn’t walking - she was stalking him. Undernormal circumstances that might actually be hot, but right now Aria was fucking scary. The lights only enhanced the devilish glare in her eyes. She was gone. The girl he’d become friends with was gone.

”You just going to kill innocents now?”


Aria laughed. ”Gods aren’t innocent. You know this. You are one.”
Aria nodded in the direction she’d come and grinned. ”Only play things until I can find the real deal.”
She waved her hand in front of her at Nox. ”Seems I have the real deal all wrapped up in a pretty red bow. Did the Atharim find you, Nox? They burn you? I might have helped there.”


Nox sighed. ”I know you did. I saw it before Dorian lost access.”


”Are you getting more people killed because they know you Nox? Just like Aurora.”
She laughed.

”Leave her out of this.”
There was a quiet echo inside his head ”Yeah bitch! I never did like her little brother.”