The Devils Angel
Chapter 1
The Dawn of a new day
It was a cold and windy morning on the beach in Port Arrow; As Diana sat and watched the waves roll in from the unforgiving ocean. The day was foggy and humid and even though the fog was hard to see through Diana could see a man standing in front of the waves throwing stones into the rough water. Diana got up slowly and walked down the beach towards the mysterious figure, as she got closer she swore she had seen two white gracefully curved arches that looked as though they were wings, as she went to the spot where the mysterious figure stood she wondered where he had gone the only way forward was into the ocean and the way back was up a rocky cliff face, how did he get away so fast. She stood there for another hour watching the storm roll in and covers the sun. "I better get home before it begins to rain" she sighed loudly.
Diana trudged up the sandy path; along the darkened road till she came to her Aunties house she walked up the polished steps opened the beautiful oak door and stepped into the oddly coloured hallway.
"Aunty I'm home" Diana called,
she walked down the hall to the kitchen "Hello darling' how was the beach today, not so great I expect because of the storms eh?" replied her aunty
Diana looked at her Aunty with adoring eyes at her pale blonde hair, sapphire blue eyes and wrinkles, "Yeah I guess I saw a figure on the beach he was kind of tall... I saw his hair though it was dark black" Diana told her aunty.
Her aunty thought for awhile "hmmmm... you know who that could it could be the Rochester's kid, his names Connor, very smart kid but kind of out of the sorts if you know what I mean, In other news Diana all your school books are in your room."
" Diana walked through the house to her room after chatting to her aunt about the best way to cook pasta; she walked through the polished oak arch and stepped into her cream coloured bedroom.
She looked across the room to her bedside table and spotted the picture; she walked swiftly and quickly picked up the photo of her parents and herself on the cold morning on the day they died. She remembered that day like it was yesterday when they were driving down the highway when a semi hit the side of their car injuring her and killing her parents almost instantly. Diana came out of the crash with four broken ribs, a broken leg and a head wound, she was lucky. All was silent while Diana thought of the day her parents died,
"Diana Dinner it's your favourite spaghetti with meat sauce" yelled her Aunty from the dining room, Diana sighed slightly she didn't like spaghetti that much ever since the day her cousin told her it was made of worms.
Diana walked back through the house to the dining room, she sat down at the mahogany table just as she had sat down her aunt came out with two bowls of piping hot spaghetti with meat sauce on the top of it, her aunt placed the bowl on the cream coloured place mats and made her way to the chair across from Diana. Diana looked at the food and turned a lighter shade of pale. "Diana you look pale are you alright?" inquired her aunt while getting a fork full of spaghetti and bringing it to her mouth, "Aunty no need to worry about me I'm fine just not that hungry that all" replied Diana on a sigh. Dinner was over just as soon as it began, her aunt collected the plates and left the room slowly leaving Diana contemplating what she would do the rest of the night, Diana left the dining room and made her way down the hall to the bathroom and walked over to the bath and turned the taps she let the steam touch her nostrils, she turned around and saw a framed mirror she looked deep into her eyes and saw her pale brown hair and beautiful sapphire eyes, just as she looked deeper into her eyes she turned around and began removing her clothing and stepped into the bath and took a moment to take in the heat of the bath then laid back on the back of the bath and laid her head on the cool headboard, she closed her eyes and fell into a deep slumber.
Diana woke to the faint sound of knocks on the door
"Diana are you ok in their?" her aunt asked softly her brain hazy with sleep she looked at her fingers and saw the wrinkles forming she sighed sadly crap how long have I been in here
"Diana" her aunt called again "It's ok I'm fine aunt I just fell asleep sorry" Diana replied embarrassed.
Diana slowly stood up in the hot bath as she heard her aunties footsteps receding, Diana stepped out of the bath and wrapped a towel around her soaked body and picked up her clothes and made her way along the hallway to her room she stepped in and quietly closed the door she put her old clothes in an old basket and walked to her wardrobe to pick out her pyjamas they were a pink short sleeved top and blue short pants.
Diana picked up her favourite book, and began reading the same chapter she had read five hundred times before, the book of Angels. Diana got up and got into bed and fell into a deep slumber. In the dream Diana and her Parents were laughing and having fun then all of a sudden Diana looked to the right and saw the semi hit the side of the car almost splitting it in half, Diana woke with a start sweating and panting she turned and looked at the clock it said 7:30am
"crap" enthused Diana she jumped out of bed and ran to the closet and picked out a black top and a pink sweater with some jeans, Diana walked out of her room down to the dining room where on the table lay bacon and eggs and fruit salads, Diana sat at the table and started to serve herself the food as her aunty walked in
"Good Morning Diana How did you sleep?"Asked her aunt enthusiastically
"I slept fine the bed is very comfortable thank you Aunt Joe" Diana said as she flashed her aunt a small smile
"so Diana excited for school? First day of year 11 in a new school you must be excited" smiled her aunt
"Well I'm not so sure I don't really enjoy school anymore" replied Diana quietly "oh right I understand" replied her aunt tonelessly.
Diana finished her breakfast and walked down to her room to grab her bag and books and walked silently out of the house and down the street to get to school, as she walked through the school gates she notices a sea of faces staring at her as if she's a new specimen, she walked to the office as she walked in the Principal walked out,
"Hello you must be Diana" she flashed a toothy grin and held out her hand
"Yes I'm Diana" replied Diana softly taking the hand and shaking it briskly
the principal passed Diana her map and timetable then sent her to her first class, History she walked into the class room that was painted in an odd shade of green and walked to the back seats and sat down, she put her book on the desk and brought out a pen and faced forward and saw a man who looked vaguely familiar the boy turned and flashed her a grin of his pearly white teeth and hazel eyes, she looked at him curiously as he looked her up and down then turned away Diana felt herself going red of embarrassment, a lot of boys had looked her up before but not in the way he had. History seemed to go on forever for Diana the teacher went on about Hitler and the holocaust Diana looked around she saw five boys and four girls most focused on what the teacher was talking about others passing notes and whispering.
The boy in the front was focusing on the blackboard interested in what the teacher was writing, all of a sudden a loud chiming ring went off the bell had rung finally, the teacher dismissed them all and they filed out the door one by one. Lunch in the cafeteria was crowded but it felt so isolated, out of nowhere the boy from history approached
"Hello I'm Conor from history class" Conor said as he flashed her blinding smile
"Um... Hello I'm Diana" Diana replied slowly
"So Diana would you like to come sit with our group?" asked Conor while smiling
"Sure I'd love to"
replied Diana giving Conor a small smile, Conor escorted Diana to the wooden picnic table across the field Diana stood in front of the table and looked at the boys and girls sitting at the table eating and drinking and laughing together, the girls had beautiful blonde hair that sat just below their shoulders except for one who had brownish gold hair which sat just below her neck, the boys had slick black hair all ruffled and messed up, the girls looked up at Diana and smiled boldly as Conor appeared beside Diana suddenly
" Diana I'd like you to meet Serena, Shannon and Nicole and Matt, Mark and Sean, if you'd like to know Matt, Mark and Sean and I are brothers" said Conor as he made a hand gesture towards the group Diana nodded slightly and introduced herself
"Hey guys I'm Diana Thomson" they all looked at each other with slight frowns on their faces.
Mark stood up "Conor could I please have a word with you?" asked Mark politely
"Of course you can Mark" replied without his eyes leaving Diana. Mark pulled Conor a couple of metres away from the picnic table to the corner of a building
"Conor what do you think you're doing the Arch Angel won't be happy about this" Growled Mark sharply
"Mark, Diana holds the key to destroying the Temple of souls to put it more to the point SHE is the key to destroying the temple of souls" Conor said with a slight frown on his brow
"You like her don't you?" asked Mark slightly interested
"I.. I don't know her" returned Conor on a sigh
"Fine Lets go back" replied Mark tonelessly as he stared at Conor's confused face,
"Don't worry Diana they are just sorting out a few things" said Serena with a big grin on her face
"Oh well if you don't mind can I have a seat.." replied Diana with a small smile
" well sure any friend of Conors is a friend of ours take a seat" said Shannon with a sparkly grin on her face, Nicole looked up from the book she was reading and gave her a small smile then bit into a clean green apple, Conor and Mark returned with big grins, Mark went and joined Nicole in reading a book and Conor sat next to Diana
"So Diana what's your story?" asked Conor quietly
"Well I came from a small town in Queensland and right now I live with my aunt if you really want to know my parents died in a car crash" replied Diana , Serena and Shannon looked at each other with furrowing brows and Nicole looked up from her book looking stunned the boys just stared at her, Diana looked up at Conor who gave her a dazzling smile,
"I'm so sorry Diana" said Shannon as she broke the tension in the air
" Thanks but it was over two years ago now" replied Diana silence broke out among the group until Sean turned to Serena
"Serena what subject have you got next?" asked Sean
" hmmm I have Art" replied Serena looking at Sean intently Shannon turned to Diana
" Diana this weekend we are heading to the movies would you like to join us?" asked Shannon enthusiastically ,
"sure why not I have nothing planned this weekend" replied Diana shyly all of a sudden the bell chimed Shannon, Serena and Nicole stood up and began walking across the small field towards the Art building the boys stayed in their seats
" Diana are you coming?" called Nicole over her shoulder Diana said a brisk goodbye to the boys and walked over to Shannon, Serena and Nicole. When the girls were out of ear range, Sean turned to Conor
"Do you think she's the one?" Conor looked at Diana's back as she walked away "I don't really know but I would like to find out" replied Conor without looking away from Diana, Mark looked at Conor and studied him his possessiveness was overwhelming.
In Art Diana sat at a broad desk that had bits of different colours of paint and began to sketch something that looked like the catacombs, as she was working Serena walked over and looked at the sketch
"What is that your drawing Diana?" looking weirdly at the picture and going pale,
"I don't know it just suddenly popped into my head and I started drawing" without looking up at Serena and refocusing on her drawing Serena walked over to Nicole and Shannon
"Guys she's drawing the temple of souls, she's the one I know it" said Serena exasperated Nicole looked up from her painting
" Conor must know or he wouldn't have picked her, but the Temple of souls she's progressing fast" replied Nicole thoughtfully Shannon only but glanced at them but kept writing.
"This is so dangerous the demons could pop out at anytime and I don't have my knife" whispered Sean,
Conor looked across the dark planes and looked at Sean "I know that Sean." The School week came and went and Saturday came, Diana woke up about an hour from the movies
"Crap" she mumbled Diana got out of bed and walked to the wardrobe and picked out a medium cut dress and some flat shoes, then she put up her hair up in a loose ponytail that sat just under her shoulders, on her way out she picked up her house keys and called a taxi to the cinemas.
As she walked in she spotted Serena, Shannon and Nicole standing by the door
" hey guys where are the boys?" asked Diana, Serena turned to look at Diana and smiled lightly
"they are getting the popcorn and drinks and our tickets it's their shout this time, Conors been anxious to see you" replied Shannon brightly, Diana felt herself going red just when she was about to reply the boys came back from the food stand in jeans and white shirts, Conor appeared at Diana's side
"Afternoon Diana how are you today?" asked Conor slowly turning towards Diana "
Me I'm fine, so what movie are we seeing?" ignoring the question he picked up Diana's hand softly and traced the scar on her arm
" Diana did you hurt yourself?" Diana looked at his thumb tracing the mark
"No it's from the car cash" replied Diana looking up into his eyes Conor softly dropped her hand, all was silent as she watched his eyes
"Di, Conor lets go the movies about to start" called Nicole from the corner Diana snapped out of the trance and looked at Nicole then back at Conor throwing him a quick smile. Diana and Conor walked into the theatre and took a seat by the rest of the group as the movie began. Two hours later they came out
"well that was interesting not something I'd watch daily but interesting like I hate war but it's interesting" commented Nicole
"Yeah I know what you mean" replied Mark taking her hand and kissing it softly as she looked at him with a smile. Serena turned to everyone and remarked
"Its late I think we should all get going, Diana want a lift home?" Diana looked at Serena " Nah it's only a couple of blocks away I'll walk" replied Diana as she began to walk out as she was walking she called out over her shoulder
"Bye Guys" Everyone turned and waved at her and gave her a dazzling smile before all walking out to their cars.
Diana turned down a dark alley when all of a sudden someone grabbed her she squealed softly the stranger reached into her pocket to get her wallet when Diana brought her knee up and kicked wildly the man winced and let her go, Diana tried to run home but her leg began to strain against the pain of kicking the man's shin, she headed for the main street and walked the long way home instead of walking through the alley ways when she got to the door she looked around and panted hard and walked into the house
"Aunt I'm home from the movies" called Diana
"Hey sweetie I'm in here" remarked her aunt, Diana walked into the living room and sat down in the chair. The silence was unusual but then again her aunt was sewing up some ripped pants.
"I think I'll head to bed Aunty Joe" said Diana on a slight yawn as she broke the silence of the room
"Alright night sweetie" replied her aunt absently as she kept on her eyes on her work. Diana walked down the hall to her room as soon as she walked into her room she walked to her cupboard and picked out her pyjamas that she would go to bed in she got changed into a pink singlet with lace ribbons and black short pants and got into bed and fell asleep.
Conor and Mark sat on Diana's roof watching and waiting for demons of the night trying to lurk into Diana's room. Mark broke the tension
"You like her don't you?" Conor thought about his answer and didn't answer for a moment
"Silence is Golden" replied Conor sternly
"Come on Conor just tell me" Mark persisted Conor didn't know what to tell him he did like her but.. What would he do?
"Fine I like her" replied Conor softly. Conor heard slow footsteps making their way across the backyard, Conor looked down and saw the demon he flexed his white graceful wings out then back in
"Shit" Conor mumbled, Conor jumped down lightly using his wings to gracefully land on the grass not making any noise, the demon hadn't seen Conor yet so he seized the opportunity he pounced on the demon, trying to hold it immobile unfortunately the demon punched Conor the demons powers intensified the punch as it connected with Conors jaw, Conor winced and punched the demon back the demon thrashed and brought out one of its swords the demon began to cut wildly Conor used his wings to jump backwards fast
"Fuck" Conor mumbled under his breath Conor sat back on his knees and kicked out his foot and tripped the demon the demon fell back with a thud, Conor punched the demon in the eyes which made the demon become immobile, Conor grabbed its arms and tied them with a special rope made from heaven and hell made into one, the rope was called Glory the demon screamed
"Arrghhh" the rope burnt his arms. Mark jumped down off the roof and landed next to Conor and the demon
"Thanks for all your help mark" Strained Conor as he held down the demon
"Oh no problem Conor" replied Mark with a smirk as he handed Conor the Knife, just before Conor plunged the knife into the demons throat the demon spoke
" You will not be around to protect her forever" Conor hesitated and winced at the thought of a demon getting to Diana, he plunged the knife into the demons throat slicing the demons black soul. Conor stood up
" Mark help me with the body please" Conor asked still staring at the black blood oozing from the demon, Mark and Conor picked up the body and took him to the black planes of Ismoria, they buried him and burnt his grave so he cannot come back from the dead to roam the earth as a spirit. Mark turned to Conor when the job was done
"We should go home now the job is done no more demons will attack her tonight" mark said to Conor as he stared at their work,
"I agree let's get out of here" replied Conor looking away from their latest job and staring up at the black night, they flexed their wings and jumped upwards, they flew fast and hard and stopped one more time to look at Diana's house then flew home swiftly.