Iohanna woke up from her long sleep and frowned. When was the last tome she had a long sleep? She looked around the room she was in and slowly the image of the dark room filtered through to her brain. The long sleep had done little for her dulled senses. Almost 60 years ago Father had asked the youngest Archangel to patrol the outer skirts of the universe. Nothing had happened for about 30 years. Then she had found what she thought was a small pack of Icarous. These are creatures that look like seahorses, but are rather stupid. She could have easily taken care of those herself. With drawn swords she had gone into the encampment, only then did she discover that it weren't Icarous. It was a rather large pack of Tullions. Tullions are vicious beings, they look like humans only have four arms and are trained fighters. She managed to take down a few, before she was captured. They put her in a cage without food or water. Since she was an Archangel she couldn't starve to death or die from dehydration. However the pain was still there. Soon they would move on to pulling nails. After that they would just cut and slice into her until she lost unconsciousness. when she woke up they would start on her again.
But now after all those years she had had a long sleep. Her body even had began to heal some of the wounds. They had moved her from room to room over the years, partly because the whole encampment moved through space. She looked around the room she was in now. In front of her was a table full of all kinds of knives and other torture devices. Although there no longer were any pliers for pulling out nails, since she didn't have any left. But other than the table and her there was nothing else in the room. More importantly, noone else. She continued scanning the room, while the realisation slowly got through to her. This was her chance to escape. After the almost 30 years of non-stop torture she finally had a moment alone.
Eventhough she is an archangel her body is weakened. There is no way she is going to break the iron shackles around her writs and ankles. Let alone the empyrion steel pins that are keeping her wings trapped to the wall. Luckily the shackles left some room for movement. With one foot she reached for one of the knives. Reluctantly it came within her grasp. After only a few tries she succeeded in getting the knife between the metal and her ankle. Using the knife as a lever the shackle sprung lose. It was only a matter of time before she was free of all 4 shackles. The only thing that was preventing her escape now where the empyrian steel pins. Wrecking her newly motivated brain for a solution, her eyes fell upon the bundle of chains at her feet. Using one of the chains as a lever the pin flew out of the wall and out of the angel. Iohanna let out a scream as the steel ripped through her wing. She stared at is with disbelief as her whole body shuddered from the sudden pain burst. Damn empyrian steel Iohanna thought to herself. The place were moments ago the pin was, now revealed a hole with blood oozing out of it. Her heart contracted as the listened to the silence wondering if her scream had made her attempt of leaving futile. But nothing stirred in the shadows, so she began to scrape all the pieces of strength together and yanked the other pin out of her wing and wall. It took all her self-control, but she managed to keep the screams and tears in, knowing she would have to let them out at another time. Perhaps Father could help with that.
Flapping her wings she wasn't content with the result. Because they weren't pinned in her back, she could fly with them. But the blood would leave a trail behind that wasn't hard to follow. Even the Tullions that were torturing her could follow it. She tore of a piece of her shirt. It will have to do as a bandages and continued to wrap it around her injured wings. Peeking around the door she found the corridor was empty. There were however voices coming from one of the rooms.
"We moeten nu aanvallen, nu Michael en Gabriel afgeleid zijn door Lyrea"
"Maar we weten nog steeds niet waar de andere aartsengelen zijn"
"Tegen de tijd dat wij bij de aarde aankomen is het al te laat voor hen en hebben wij het paradijs"
It was a strange language they spoke. It had been a long time since it had last been spoken. But remembering the words Iohanna translated it:
We have to attack now, while Micheal and Gabriel are distracted by Lyrea
But we still don't know where the other archangels are
By the time we are on Earth it will be too late for them and we have the paradise.
It didn't make any sense. All kinds of questions where spinning through her head. Who is Lyrea? Where are the other archangels? Why are they attacking Earth, while they know Father protects is? Dizzy from all the questions she turned around to the open window and flew away. Flapping her wings more often than she was used to doing, due to the injury. She flew until she was on one of the moons orbiting the planet on which was held captive. Looking around for any indication to where she was. Seeing the purple and grey planet beneath and the blue moon orbiting it, she immediately recognized it as Anawa. Which means that in her current state she is about a 3 days journey from Heaven. While sighing she stood up and started her journey. Why wait to leave until they discovered she was gone.