The bar doors swung open, Snow walked through and headed to the bar, her clothes tattered and small cuts around her body indicated she had been in a fight. Some thugs tried to jump her, but she was too fast for them. “Need to clean yourself up missy?” asked the bartender. Snow immediately woke from her trance, “Ahhh…yeah” she spoke in a dark tone. The last few months in snow’s life had been harsh, one of her closest friends had turned her in to the authorities, there was a giant reward on her head and snow felt like she couldn‘t trust anyone anymore.

She walked into the small wash room and cleaned the blood from her wounds and hands, she watched as the candles flickered in the corner of the room. The was a draft coming from the window, and then the candle quenched. She walked back into the smoke filled bar. I need to get out of here, she thought and she headed upstairs to the inns.

She climbed out the windows and up one of the drain pipes to the roof, the wind blew wildly and a chill shot up her spine. She was so bored, she needed something exciting to happen, she secured her Chakram onto her belt, and sat there looking over the small town.

The city of Lómëdor seemed rather dark, and the winds strong. Through the city streets a group of maybe eight bandits were on the run from something or someone. Each of the bandits had a bag filled with differents riches. A shadow then came over the small group, the shadow had large wings and it was clear whatever was making it was following the group. Thats when one of the bandits yelled out, "Dammit, He is still after us, RUN!!!" The figure making the shadow from the moonlight then lowered down closer to the bandits, his wings beating harder into the night air.

The being after them was an Arch Angel by the name of Zenith Meria, one of the most Holy beings within Arda. He was someone that hated crime and in turn took ut upon himself to help the gaurds of each city stop those doing the crimes. Tonight of course he was after these bandits. Zenith had glimmering golden armour all over his body, each part of the armour had a rune upon it that meant if evil was to touch the armour they would be burned. The same rune was also on each of his weapons. The weapons Zenith had were a Resplendent Countering Longsword, a Holy Blade, a Blade of Balance, a Shadow Dagger and also a dagger made from a tooth of the Goddess of Chaos.

Yes it was clear this angel was a powerfull warrior, and the thing most dangerous about him was his vast amount of spells that he had within him. This was something most people never found out until it was to late of course.

The angel drew in closer to the men and suddently a large magical net appeared above them falling on all the men and wrapping around the bandits. Zenith then stopped in mid air and waved his right hand up, the net flying into the air and hooking onto a large spike on the wall. He then left the men there for the gaurds to tend to. Once the men were taking care of Zenith flew onto the roof of a high building close to Inn and perched upon it.

Looking towards the Inn he seen a young woman, but as of yet the angel said nothing to the woman, he just locked onto her movements incase she was in the middle of trying to commit a crime that Zenith would in turn have to stop.

Snow was in a deep trance everything about her past started to swirl around in her head, the cold night air reminded her of when she was a young child, she remembered seeing her sisters face, as she stood over the dead bodies of her uncles crew. Something told Snow she was being watched, she hated the feeling, did this person know about her being wanted. She reached into her backpack and pulled out a pair of short claws. Strapping them on with ease, she flexed her fingers. And stood on the terracotta colored roof.

She stood just at the edge of the roof judging the distance between the roof and the floor, and also the width of the alley below her. It looks just about right, I’ll make it, she thought giving one last look behind her and jumping down, her hands still gripping the side of the roof. She pushed herself backwards and extended her claws out, sparks flew out from the side of the wall, she then stuck her heels into the brick as she saw she was falling too fast, She gave a look up and saw the claws had chipped away at the brick.

She dropped down when she three-quarters of the way down. The claws at the end of her fingers were roasting hot, she quickly took them off and shoved them into her bag, as she began to run down the dark alley.

Zenith had stopped a great deal of crimes within this fair city, yet for some reason he did not think this woman near the Inn was a true criminal. Zenith then seen her running and he then went after her, soaring through the air once more and he headed after the woman. His wings beat into the air and he soon seen the alley in which the woman was heading down and Zenith used his power to teleport infront of her. He had not drawn his blades yet but still he said to the woman, "You do not have to run from me. I will not attack unless you attack me first. My name is Zenith Meria, A Divine Protector of the Goddess of Life. Im here to help, If you need it of course?" Zenith knew it was a long shot but he still had to try.

The angels wings were spread out into the wind as he looked towards the woman hoping for an answer. It would be worse if the pair were cornered by a group of bandits as Zenith did not like to kill when it could be avoided. The only people the Arch Angel had killed were beings of pure evil within Arda. Beings that had not been able to convert to the ways of Holiness, or atleast fight for good.

The young angel then heard something moving on the roofs of the city, he had to be ready to battle and hoped that this new woman would be fighting on his side and not against him.

Snow stopped the moment she saw him in front of her, after she heard him say what he did she let out a sigh of relief, perhaps he doesn’t know who I am, she thought as she now seemed more relaxed. “I am beyond help.” she said coldly, it was easy to tell there was sadness in her voice. Snow also heard the noise coming from the roof. She glanced up and saw shadows passing. Something’s not right, she said to herself. There was mumbling going on up there, about what was the question.

Another cold chill shot up snows spine, which usually meant something bad was about to happen. She glanced at the angel, obviously a good lawful person, She wondered if he could fight and if so how well. She turned her back to him and watched as three shadows flew down in front of them. Snow glanced above the frame of her black glasses and waited to see what would happen next.

Looking towards the woman Zenith heard the woman say she was beyond help, hearing this the Angel let out a small sigh and said, "Nobody is beyond help Miss. Once i was lost within the darkness of this world. I would kill just for the hope of getting to my brother. I was then taken in by the Keepers of the Sacred Deep and have in turn become a Holy warrior of Arda. I life to protect the light and I would like to help you in anyway that I can." Soon Zenith could feel the evil within the town become stronger and soon three shadow beings had jumped down to face him.

The three shadows circled around the angel ready to attack him, luckily Zenith had Salvation and Judgement in his hands. All three of the beings jumped towards Zenith and the angel circled round slicing his blades through the air. His Holy blade burned each of the being badly, as did his Blade of Balance. Zenith then leaped into the air as the sky above grew somewhat darker. Soon three large bolts of lightning came down and crashed into each of the shadow beings sending back to the realm they had come from.

Zenith then once more landed on the ground, he quickly looked up to see more shadows running down the walls of the alley. The angel then turned to the woman and said, "These shadows may be weak, but they are coming in great numbers. If you are willing to help my battle them, then let us get into a more open area so we are not trapped Miss." Two more shadows then jumped to Zenith, but his blades this time cut through the beings as Zeniths bless weapon spell took effect. He then backed up till he was next to the woman and looked at her quickly awaiting on her reply.

Snow watched as more and more shadows, seemed to appear from the darkness. She looked over at the angel next to her, “Sure, I’ll help, but just one thing, enough of this ‘miss’ business. Call me snow!” she told the angel. And proceed to break through the darkness that made a shadow like wall in front of them. Snow was so confused about herself, should she chose a path of evil or good, every now and then she seemed to slip to one side. She never seemed to talk much to anyone any more, not since her friend betrayed her, she felt so alone.

As snow ran ahead of the shadows, she came to an iron gate. Blocking her way to the main road. Snow looked around to find any support that could help her over. And then saw a rusty hook sticking out over the gate. Perfect!, she thought. She unzipped her leather jacket, swung it over the hook and pulled herself over. She landed gracefully on the other side and waited for the angel to catch up with her, watching as the shadows came closer.

Zenith nodded to the woman and said, "Very well Snow. Lets go." He then seen her start to run to a more open area and Zenith soon followed her, holding back the darkness as he did so. Zenith held his blade tight within his hands, soon he seen Snow ahead getting over a large gate, atleast the pair were getting to a more open area to battle. However the darkness was putting up a quick attack towards Zenith as a wave like form of pure darkness headed towards him. What these things were he did not know for sure, he had never faced anything like this before but if they were fighting darkness then light should help win the battle.

With this in mind Zenith jumped away from the darkness wave and shot three blasts of Holy energy towards the form of darkness. Once all three blasts smashed into the darkness Zenith heard a loud scream run through the area around them. Thats when Zenith raised into the air and over the gate landing near Snow. He then said to her, "This thing seems to have more power than i thought. Area ideas then Mis.... I mean Snow!" Zenith then awaited on the reply of Snow as he got ready for another attack on the darkness.

Snow thought for a moment as she zipped up her jacket again, she took about seven steps backwards, and waited as the darkness shot closer to them. A smirk crossed her lips, this had to be planed just right. She watched as it came just beyond the gate, and then quickly said “Light”. A glow covered her body and she saw the shadow seemed to fade away slowly. She turned to Zenith, “Do you have any idea what that was?” she asked calmly, as the glow on her body also seemed to fade, and she went back to being her depressed self. She had faced worse demons in her life, but something in the back of her mind told her it was all too easy to beat, there was a possibility it could return again.

The night air still sent a cold chill up her spine. She remembered the angel speak of protecting the people of Arda, she laughed at the idea. She was exactly the opposite, paid to kill the people of Arda and also a wanted criminal. Well at least he doesn’t know that, she thought.

Zenith then seen Snow back away a few feet as the darkness drew neither to her, she then cast a spell to make her entire body glow with light. Yes, Zenith knew the spell well as he too also knew how to cast it. It seemed as thought the darkness hated the light as it soon vanished, Zenith then heard snow ask if he knew what it was. Quickly the angel looked at her and said, "Sadly I dont. But im sure we have not seen the last of it Snow. I can see this thing coming back soon." His eyes then looked back to the place where the darkness had come from. Maybe something would be found in that direction.

Zenith took his Helm out of his travel back and slowly placed it onto his head. With his helm now on the rest of Zeniths armour seemed to link together into one with no gaps at all. He was now totaly ready for battle if there was to be another one. Zenith then once more looked at Snow before saying, "Maybe we should look at the place the shadows came from, we may find the source of them. If not then we might still be able to find some kind of clue to where they came from." Zenith then walked back towards the locked gate with a smirk under his helm. He then brough his Holy Blade down ripping through the lock of the gate so the pair could go through.

“Good point” she said firmly, she then looked on as he slashed through the gate. What makes you think you can trust him?, came a voice from inside her head. Snow ignored it at first but what that voice said seemed to get to her. Remember the last time you trusted someone you were arrested, and not only because your skills had failed you but because your so called ’friend’ turned you in for ten thousand gold, your not even worth half of that. came the voice again. Snow never answered the voice, but it was starting to get to her. Snow looked to be lost in her thoughts as she walked through the slashed part of the iron gates. A powerful gust of wind blew down the dark and dismal alley, and a few moments after that it started to rain.

“Great” said snow in a sarcastic tone, the drops of rain washed away any blood that was weeping from her wounds. She looked up the cobble stone alley and saw another shadow, but this one was of a man, not like the shadows before. It continued to walk down until it passed snow. The man was wearing a black hat and trench coat, and light gray boots. He banged into snow and in the process handed her a letter, which she in turn shoved in her pocket and walked on.

Zenith looked back to Snow to see if she was coming only to see her standing looking lost within herself. He slowly shook his head and continued on, a figure ahead of him could be seen but it was not one of the shadow beings so it was fine. Zenith then seen the figure start to walk towards both himself and Snow, he also seen that Snow had now also walked through the gate. The angels grip tightened on his blades as the man drew closer, only or him to pass by both Zenith and Snow. Zenith then turned to Snow and said, "Friend of your? I wonder... he could be behind the shadows...!" The angel then turned back to look up the alley once more.

It seemed to get darker alot quicker than normal. Forgetting his question Zenith walked forward into the alley. He then soon got to the end of alley and looked right up the wall that the shadows had come down from before. Zenith then thought to himself, "The darkness, why is it so powerfull at this place. Just standing here i can feel the power of darkness streaming around. There has to be away to stop, and soon!" Small movements could be seen above the alley, and Zenith was sure that the pair would be able to find something soon.

“No he isn’t” she replied softly to the angel, answering both of his questions, she had a fair idea what was in the note, it either had something to do with her next victim or, well she didn’t know what else it could be. She glanced back to find the man had gone, vanished into darkness. She walked on at a quicker pace until she caught up with zenith. The rain seemed to get heavier as they walked to the end of the alley. “This could be an Illusion” she said looking up above the alley walls, she could feel the darkness wrapping around her, she felt a strangling feeling around her ribs making it hard for her to breathe. Or maybe it’s not, she thought as she felt her lungs burning for air.

The force of darkness around her got tighter and tighter, she bent over in pain. Snow felt herself being risen into the air, just five or six feet off the ground, then she was thrown over against the alley wall. She hit the ground with great force and gasped for air.

The rain continued to beat down upon the armour of Zenith as Snow spoke to him, what she said might be right. This entire place could be no more that an illusion set to distract the angel, and also Snow. Zenith then scanned the wall once more but his eyes soon fell onto Snow, she seemed to be in great pain and Zenith did not know what he was meant to do in order to help her. Before he had much chance to react he seen Snow raise into the air and get thrown. Once she had landed back onto the ground the angel ran forward and placed his right hand onto her cheek saying, "Miss Snow, Are you ok? What just happened?" Although Zeniths attention then got caught by something else moving.

There was a large shadow figure above the pair on the roof of a building looking down to both Zenith and Snow, there was something different with this figure than the other shadows they had faced. He seemed to hold more power, and one other thing was shown to both Zenith and Snow that was different, this shadow could talk. Its words were, "Mortal beings, you have crossed my path to much these past years. My kind will soon rise again, and you shall be the first slain... the first to become my new shadows. Your time is now!" Zenith then turned back to Snow to see if she was ok, although yet he did not know what to say to this new shadow.