Once upon a time there was a girl named Natalia. She was sixteen years of age with hair that was the color of Raven wings and eyes of the purest gold. People always commented on how beautiful her eyes are and she was admired by the girls of her school. But there's a secret she held: she's part elven. Her mom is a mundane, her dad a exile from the elves. He was a person of a high rank among the elves, which explains her golden eyes, not green. Her father had been missing for many years. Her last memory of him was that day, eleven years ago, when that drunk driver had hit her. By all accounts Natalia should have died, but somehow she had lived. She woke up in her bed afterwards, not knowing what had happened in front of her own eyes. In the morning, she found out that her dad had gone missing since that day. Even though she had been through such a tragedy she was adopted in by her aunt and lived a happy life. She had made many friends,but two of which were her best friends. Linali also a girl of sixteen years of age, with hair that was as black as the Midnight sky on a new moon day with tints of dark ocean blue and eyes that were the darkest purest purple. Then there was Kyle a boy of eighteen years of age, with hair white as snow and eyes of blood red. Although Natalia didn't want it to show she loved Kyle very much. He was the only boy that wasn't scared of her sharp eyes and sharper tongue, although there were times that Kyle's crimson eyes scared her with their vibrant intensity. His anger was always too strong. She wanted to save him from his anger but did not know how, she wanted to see him smile because she had only witnessed this once before in a photo of him before "it" happened.
Kyle had been softer, even somewhat kind, before that day that Natalia, Linali and Kyle had gone for a walk at midnight, just to show that they could be bad-ass, and Kyle (who had been walking about three steps behind the laughing girls) had vanished. Neither Natalia nor Linali knew where he had gone. They only knew that he had come back angry. Little did they know the horrors he had wittnessed. Fire and fear and laughter and insanity. The things that made up children's nightmares. Hell. Kyle often went back to the place where he had found the gates of hell, but it was never there again after that night, he never told the others what he had seen. Something within him knew it had been meant for his eyes alone; that in some sick and twisted way, it had been a gift. But gifts always had a way of becoming a curse, for one day when Kyle was waiting again, Natalia caught him watching for the gates. He stammered something about looking for something, but as he was lying, the Hellgates opened again. Kyle ran for the smell of brimstone and fire, addictive as heroin, but Natalia had beaten him there, falling headfirst into the flame, Kyle just behind. This had not been the return he had imagined.
They were falling for what seemed like an eternity, and when they finally stopped falling, Natalia looked around, and then at Kyle. She screamed. Beasts were gathered all around her, their eyes filled curious and vicious fire. They danced about her, curious and chattering, their black wings obscuring her view. When they took sight of Kyle there curiousity dyed down, and assumed that Natalia would be the new Queen of the Underworld to match the power of Kyle. The beasts bowed to thir new leaders, and they left them alone. Natalia turns to Kyle, and he smiles, both for her and for his newfound happiness, a tone that he hasn't felt in weeks.
"It's okay," he says. "This is home."
Even though Natalia loves Kyle, she doesn't belong in hell. She is half elven and needed sunlight to live.
Natalia told Kyle that she could not stay with him that she would die, and when doing so she saw somthing in his eyes she had never seen before, he was hurt. He grabed and kissed her quickly, the kiss tasted of sweet raw passion and Natalia felt as if her heart would stop right then an there. Before she could say anything the black winged beast where carrying her out of the gates of hell, before she left she heard Kyle say through his anger "You will come back, You will be mine"
Natalia was thrust outside the gate brutally by the demon. She streched out herhand to Kyle as the gate started to close. She couldn't even say goodbye to him and that made her tar into the space where the gate had been.
Blindly, she stumbled home through the night, dazed and grieved, collapsing on her driveway and ignoring the gravel that dug into her cheek. Slowly, her eyelids fluttered closed, and the darkness overwhelmed her mind as she slept. She awoke to sunlight and the smell of lilies, a sharply angled face with pointed ears hovering nervously above her.
It was her Father.
He looked so much more healthy than he had the last time she had seen him, his cheeks sunken and eyes dull. Now he fairly radiated life, his face a healthy tan and unable to sit still. Natalia then realized where she must be, and elven haven.