Worried

I sat down next to Zayn on the bed and put my hand on his shoulder. He had been so weird all morning. He's been thinking way too negatively lately. Even now I got no answer. I shook him and then stabbed him in the side with my finger.

"Please answer me," I hissed, whereupon he slowly raised his head.

"Do you actually realize what kind of enemy we have with my siblings?" He mumbled apparently completely impotent. Ah, so that's what it was about. He was afraid!

"Of course I know," I replied, caressing his cheek. “But should I mop up for that now, like you? Certainly not, my angel. And now get up, you can't spend the whole day in bed. "

Suddenly he grabbed me and pulled me towards him.

"I can do it with you," he breathed into my ear with a smile. I kissed him for a moment and then looked at him with raised eyebrows. 

"What do you think of it when we train? Then both of us will surely change our minds. "

He eyed me skeptically, but after a few minutes he let me pull him out of bed.

"I don't feel like it, but maybe you're right and it really distracts us."

He sounded grumpy, but I smiled and pulled him along. Halfway through we met Ezekiel, who eyed us confused.

"Why so motivated?" He mumbled when he noticed Zayn's gaze.

“I suggested training. How about if you come with me That would be exciting. ", I replied with a broad grin. He looked at his brother again, eyebrows raised. 

"Are you serious?" He breathed in disbelief, whereupon Zayn rubbed his temples.

"I'm afraid so," he growled. For good things, I also took Zayn's brother by the hand. 

"Well then, let's go."

Both were annoyed, I could clearly feel it, but Zayn's smile didn't escape me. He was glad that I didn't lose my optimism, despite the countless events. And that's exactly what made me smile. 

"Little one, you will seriously injure yourself!", Ezekiel finally shouted to me when the three of us were facing each other several meters apart. I clicked my tongue.

"Are you underestimating me again?" I whistled. The siblings exchanged a look I couldn't read. 

"Come on, I'll attack!" I asked the two of them. The two of them couldn't be told twice. The two were already rushing towards me. 

I still didn't think it was a good idea, but of course Ezekiel and I didn't want to refuse her this request. I stormed up to the girl and faked an attack while my brother stayed close to me and carried out the actual attack. Nyria grinned and seemed to have figured out our plan long ago, because she moved to the side. Fatal error! I raised my fist and aimed precisely at her stomach. This time I wouldn't hold back. She wanted to understand that this wasn't a game. Fighting wasn't fun and that's exactly what she didn't seem to have realized. She only blinked briefly and did not move, but she fended off my attack seemingly effortlessly. I looked down and saw her hand clutching my fist tightly. I raised my eyebrows in surprise. Physically she was definitely not as strong as I was, so which of her skills was she using right now? She acknowledged my look with a wink. It went back and forth for a while. She pushed me back a little and I pushed her. In that time Ezekiel sneaked up on Nyria from behind. Fire formed in his hand and he too took off with full force. Both he and I petrified when a wall of water formed directly on Nyria's back. The fire in Ezekiel's hand went out with a hiss. What remained was a laughing Nyria and a perplexed fallen angel. "Are you training in secret?" I growled and finally pushed the girl back. She staggered, trying to find her balance, but couldn't and fell on her bum. At the same time, my brother and I rushed at her again. She woltle to the side and then it started. Energy formed in both of her hands, black energy that grew into flames and shot straight at us from one second to the other. It all happened so quickly that neither my brother nor I could really evade it. Black flames hit my shoulder and the pain was so incredible that I almost screamed. I went down on my knees, growling. From her eyes I could see that she would like to take care of me, but Ezekiel got off much more lightly than I and was already walking towards her again. A real hail of fists fell on her, but she parried every blow. No sooner had she fended off a blow than it was already handed out. And not hesitantly. Both of them received a damn hard blow every now and then, but then there were also kicks. More minutes passed and fire came into play. I was still crouching on the floor, those black flames were really bad when I suddenly saw a flash of metal between the two. One of the two was carrying a knife? Who? And why? Apparently it belonged to Ezekiel, because suddenly Nyria grabbed it. Then everything happened very quickly. Apparently Ezekiel no longer had control over his body because he went down on his knees, growling. He couldn't get a sound out, and as I realized, Nyria was manipulating him. Laughing softly, she grabbed him, then held the blade to his neck. Gripped so tightly that the knife already made a good cut in my brother's throat.    

"In a real fight you would have a problem now.", She breathed and showed a bright smile. My own strength had already dropped a lot, but I still fell back on my strength reserves. I tried again, firing heavenly fire. She was distracted by Ezekiel, but managed to use fire as well to keep my flame off. And all of this without looking up. Gasping, I gave up. She actually won. Laughing to myself, I shook my head. But after a few moments I noticed that Nyria was staggering. Before I was on my feet, she fell over, right into Ezekiel's arms. 

The voices I heard came from far away, but with every second they seemed to come closer and to become clearer. There were definitely two men talking to each other. Or rather, discussed with one another. My body didn't want to react yet, so I didn't do anything and instead just focused on what I could hear.

"And which of us did she get worse?"

My ears didn't seem to want to work properly yet, but when the other answered I knew that Zayn must have just spoken.

"Hm, the black fire you got was really bad, but my internal injuries are not entirely without. Your girl has a damn hard hit! "

The corners of my mouth would probably have twitched now, but I couldn't feel anything. Nothing but a tingling sensation in the fingertips.

"Nice that you noticed. I'm pretty sure that she's training secretly, I can't explain her sudden strength any other way, ”was Zayn's answer. Inwardly I smiled. Oh yes, I had trained. And how! Mostly at night when Zayn wasn't around and I couldn't sleep. I didn't want to be weak and helpless. And I didn't want Zayn to worry about me. Those were the only reasons I wanted to be trusted with my fists out. Suddenly the voices faded again. Only now did I notice how much my head was buzzing. Oh exactly what happened? I won the training match but then? Did I collapse? No wonder that I couldn't feel anything, I had to be completely drained. But as the voices faded, the pain got worse. After a few minutes it got so bad that I doubled over, moaning loudly. Did I have any internal injuries? My entire chest hurt, as did my left kidney. Hesitantly, I opened my eyes, whereupon I immediately looked into Zayn's worried face.