[FFML] [ORIG] Angel Dawn, Chapter One

[Henry Cobb]

[ORIG] Angel Dawn, Chapter One
By Henry J. Cobb, all rights reserved.

I think that the characters and situations presented here are original, but
I owe a heavy debt to my influences.

Chapter one: "Dawn of the Hunt"

"Father?"  I floated into his study.  I could not sense anybody there, but
there was a trace of his presence.  I examined the trinkets he kept there
but then I drifted towards his scrying device.  It was on.  I projected my
senses into it.

It displayed a planet.  I recognized that it was Earth from the many
lessons we had been taught about that special world.  The focus was on a
city, filled with those humans.  I hovered for a moment and watched them
stir from their rest as they began a new day.  The city was lit only by
faint starlight and artificial lights, but this was no problem for Father's
power, which filled the scrying device.

I pulled back in shock then looked again and saw that one of the enemy was
there, on Earth.  Why hadn't the alarm sounded?  I extended my essence to
focus the device on the intruder, but it slipped off.  The enemy had some
sort of masking spell to hide themselves.

I looked around, but nobody else was nearby.  Fine, I could deal with this
myself.  Hadn't I trained for many years?  I floated into the device and
followed the threads of its focus.  I flew through its spells towards
Earth.