Nightwing Ch 10

The Vampyrum prince watched his mother and the Brightwing fly off, glaring at his followers. "Go back to your posts, traitors..."

Siyamak took roost inside his own personal chamber and sighed. "How could they?! Blaming someone they don't even know!"

A small purple Vampyrum flew towards him and smiled, "Hey there, brother!"

"What do you want, Konane?" he growled.

"Can't I roost with my brother?"

"Let me think... NO!"

Konane scoffed, "Like it or not, I'll keep you company even after what the others have said."

Siyamak grunted and folded his wings, he glanced at his sister every once in a while, noticing a smile growing on her face. "What?"

She giggled, "You like that Brightwing, don't you?"

The Vampyrum growled but stuttered, "Are you out of your roost?! What has gotten onto that puny mind of yours?! She helped me get back here from the humans, so I thought that I would repay her by helping her find her own colony. But what she doesn't know is that I will eat her myself once we go on her 'so-called' flight!"

Konane gave him a sly look, "You're lying. You lie!"

"I'm dead serious, sister!" he snapped his jaws at her.

"How can you eat her after how you protected her from our subjects trying to sacrifice her to Cama Zotz? I saw your face."

Siyamak looked away from her, "You're just imagining things..."

"No, I'm not. You like her, brother." Konane teased. "I know you're waiting for the mating season to come and ask her to become your mate--"

"I SAID SILENCE!!!!!!"

Konane kept looking at Siyamak, a bit stunned at his outburst yet happy. He gave her the message without even telling her.

Voro giggled a bit before going back to her roost near the small Brightwing, the young bat stared at the ghostly wings and kept her distance from the Elder. Voro smiled, “Don’t worry, little Brightwing. I’m not going to harm you.”

Tifa gave a small smile yet bit her lip. “Sorry… I’m not used to… big bats…”

“I understand.” Voro said, “I’m surprised you made it here with my son.”

“Wh-why is that?”

The ghostly bat chuckled softly. “My son normally kills and eats whatever he gets in his way, except for his subjects or family. I was sort of shocked when I saw you fly in here with him.” She glided towards a small rock near the stone wall. “You see, my son is… different that the other bats. None of them have the dark fur he has or the colorful fur on his face.  Many didn’t want to get near him; they thought he wasn’t normal, for being born from a family with light fur.”

“Oh…” the Brightwing thought everything over, “I sort of thought he was…”

“Go on, you can say it…”

“… Well, a monster…”

“That’s nothing compared to what the others say about him.” Voro muttered. “Brightwing, something about you made him a whole different Vampyrum. He now has the spirit of a wild beast who would sacrifice himself for an innocent.”

Tifa looked up to her, “R-really?”

The white bat nodded before using her claw and tapping her skull softly, “I know things normal bats do not understand.”

She flew down and told the Brightwing to do the same, the small bat obeyed and landed near her. “If it’s not much to ask of you, would you stay with my son until he changes his ways?”

Tifa stuttered with her answer before explaining to the white bat what she wanted to do.

“You want to find your colony? Other bats don’t normally come down here to the Jungle thanks to the other Vampyrum. But if you go north of here and pass the human city you may find them with your sound map.”

The Brightwing smiled, “Oh, thank you very much!” She wrapped her wings around Voro unexpectedly, “S-sorry…”

“It’s alright,” she replied as let the young bat fly away, “I just hope Siyamak see’s the good in you…”

Tifa gave effort to every wing beat she made; she couldn’t wait to tell the black bat about his mother’s plan to get her back home. But thoughts of the time she spent with him made her think over what Voro asked of her.

He saved her…

She felt like she should do his mother’s favor in return…

But how?