Miracle of Love
Chapter 1 – The curse and the miracle
A night...it was just a night, but a night special for the two...both knew it shouldn't happen, both knew they shouldn't do it, both knew it was wrong...both knew...it was a sacrilege...just like their love...but in the end this love had defeated all those reasons from before...and in their human form they let all the passion go out. That night could be their last night together, after that their diplomas of Guardian Angel and Guardian Devil would be in their hands and then...both would return back to their respective cities and probably would never see each other again (PS: I forgot to tell, in this story our protagonists don't know yet about the existence of the Path of Metamorphosis). But even if their love was destined to die like this, that night would be in their minds for all eternity, it didn't matter if in the future they would marry and even have children with others...that will be an eternal memory...
But things didn't go the way they were planned...because something was created in that night...
"How could this happen?!" yelled Arkhan, his voice echoed through the whole room, they were in the Chamber...which meant nothing good had happened...and yes...for most eternals it wasn't a good thing...can you now guess who are sitting on the chairs of the middle of the room? Yes, them...
Raf and Sulfus...
"Do you seriously want me to tell you how it happened...?" repelled Sulfus, his voice tone was very ironic and not happy at all, his arms were crossed over his chest but just then he looked at the Angel sitting next to him and his eyes softened...in a way he felt culpable...he felt culpable because she felt culpable...damn what a game of words...Raf was looking down, the hands on her legs...damn it he wanted to hug her but he couldn't!
He sighed...he knew Raf didn't regret their night of love, neither he did! It had been the most beautiful night for both of them...but the consequences had been too high and serious...and he still couldn't figure out how Arkhan and Temptel had managed to find out either about their night, either about the secret only both of them knew...but then it hits him! Of course! Their mascots! It wasn't the first time those two spied on them through their mascots! Now everything made sense...damn it...
"Stop with the jokes Sulfus!" scolded Temptel, the devil huffed and didn't say anything else..."Are you two aware of the gravity of the situation?! This is more than a sacrilege! It's...it's...!" she couldn't even find the correct word to describe the situation...
"I'm very disappointed, Raf...how could you get pregnant with a Devil's child, I wasn't expecting this from you!" said Arkhan which only gave the poor angel a huge will to cry, to run away from that place and lock herself in the bedroom for all eternity...
On the other seats, their friends just didn't want to believe in what was happening...Andy, Raf's youngest sister, didn't want to believe in what was happening to her sister...
"No...this can't be happening..." murmured the girl putting her head between her hands, her friends, Naomi and Marrie sitting next to Andy were trying to comfort her although not even them could find the right words to do it...
Sulfus on the other hand turns his fists into balls...seeing the reaction of their friends and the pain Raf was feeling...he stood up suddenly from the seat and looked at the teachers angry...
"Enough!" yelled the devil "You don't know anything else to talk about than the damned sacrilege! Professor Temptel you always say the rules are made to be broken but instead you are always reminding us of the damn V.E.T.O and the sacrilege! I'm tired of all these rules! Yes me and Raf made love, yes she is pregnant and so what?! Have we caused the end of the world? Have we caused an earthquake? No! Yet you are here, talking as if we had!" everyone looked at the young devil a bit surprised...
"You're right nothing happened but this won't erase ever what you two did, even though you were aware it was wrong!" continued Temptel, then she looked at her colleague who nods, not too long later she did the same...
"We have no choice. Raf you must abort" said Arkhan without evasion, the angel once she heard that raised her head with eyes widen, Sulfus was shocked as well...well everyone was! They weren't expecting the two teachers to order something like that! Let alone an angel like Arkhan! Yes sure, that child to their eyes was an error...but...to abort...? Instinctively Raf put her hands on her belly as if wanting to protect her child...and that was exactly what she wanted...
"No!" said Sulfus "You can't force her to abort! It's her body, it's her who must decide what to do and not you! What she has inside her it's OUR child, not yours!"
"I beg you..." finally the blonde angel spoke up for the first time, everyone looked at her, tears were falling from her eyes as she stared at the teachers, she stood up from the seat "I beg you don't force me to abort...I...I can't do it...I can't..." her hands were still on her belly...
"I'm sorry Raf, but I have no choice" disse, decided, the professor
"No-" the poor girl didn't have the time to finish the phrase because she suddenly faints, Sulfus barely had time to catch her in his arms.
"Raf!" the friends and sister of the angel stood up from the seats and flew towards her
"It was probably the nerves" said Urie once she checked and made sure Raf's pulse was okay
"It was your entire fault!" said Sulfus looking again at Arkhan and Temptel, those were about to reply when suddenly the doors of the Chamber opened. Everyone raised their heads to see who had entered...it was nobody else than a Seraph and a Malebolgia, the messengers of the High and Low Spheres, everyone now was wondering why they were here...probably because of the new sacrilege...
"Professor Arkhan, stop, we have got a message of the High and Low Spheres" said the Seraph, everyone now feared the worst...
"We are already taking care of everything, the High Spheres don't need to worry" said Arkhan however the Seraph raised his hand
"Silence and hear professor" he walked towards the poor fainted Angel, still in Sulfus' arms and surrounded by her friends and sister, Sulfus became tense as the Seraph approached..."I have no doubts that you must be the father of the creature she has inside her, am I right?"
Little by little the boy nodded, still not very convinced, the Seraph stared at the professors "This girl won't abort" everyone in that room remained shut but also surprised, shocked...
"How come?!" said Temptel
"The Low and High Spheres have spoken up!" said the Malebolgia "They sent us here to say that nobody shall touch the creature inside that angel."
"How come not? I thought aborting was the first thing the High and Low Spheres would think of." Said the angel's teacher
"Indeed it was. If it wasn't for the threat that's coming" continued the Seraph
"Threat...?" murmured Temptel
"Reina has escaped..." said the messenger "And this time it wasn't their fault" continued as he looked at the couple "Reina has become strong enough to escape from the Limbo...and the Low and High Spheres have discovered something terrible, a threat for all eternals..."
"And that would be...?"
"A curse...a curse so strong that will make us forget everything we are, this curse will take all the eternals to a dimension where there is no magic, let alone a way out, nobody will remember that in the past was an eternal, time will freeze, the only one with power will be Reina...she will make us all suffer for all eternity..."
"Oh no that's terrible!" said Dolce
"Is there something we can do to stop this curse?" asked Cabiria
"Unfortunately no...but there is something we can do, to have at least a hope of salvation...and it's that what she has inside of her..." said the Seraph as he pointed towards Raf, everyone stared at her
"Are you saying that the creature half angel, half devil will be our salvation? How come?"
"This creature has got powers either from an angel, either from a devil, it a force very rare and very powerful that can save us all..." continued "But unfortunately its powers will only begin having effect after 10 years..."
"10 years? I don't understand how my child can save us all after 10 years if surely very soon we will all be swallowed by the curse?!" asked Sulfus
"Because your child won't be caught by the curse..."
"How come?"
"In this very moment its being built a portal that will save the small creature"
"Are you telling me that I will have to put my child in a portal by himself?! Without anyone to protect him in the next 10 years?!" Sulfus didn't like very much this idea of leaving his child alone...especially because he himself once he has been swallowed by the curse wouldn't remember he is a Devil, let alone that he has a child...
"The portal only has got magic enough to accept one person inside of it...that's why Raf, still pregnant, will be the one going through the portal. Surely she will be able to take care and also train your child by herself, so once the child completes 10 years will be able to save us all"
"And are you sure the portal will be ready before the curse arrives...?" asked Arkhan
"Very sure" said the Seraph...who wasn't very convinced by this whole plan was Sulfus...he didn't like at all the idea of leaving Raf alone with their small child in her arms...but it was the only way...
An hour later, Raf finally woke up from her sudden faint...Sulfus, her friends and sister were all by her side when she finally woke up, now she was in her bedroom
"Welcome back to the living world, sis" said Andy with a smile on her lips
"Where am I...what happened?" asked the Angel, confused
"You fainted, you got too much nervous for your condition..." answers Sulfus
"Condition...then the baby...did I abort...?"
Sulfus shook his head "No, you didn't abort, our child is still alive"
The girl sighed "Thank god...but then...why didn't their do it?"
Sulfus looked at Raf's friends and sister, those instead understood the message and left the bedroom, leaving the Devil to tell the whole story to the girl. And that's what happened, Sulfus told her everything that the Seraph and the Malebolgia told them, Reina's curse, the loss of memory and the salvation...
"I see..." said Raf...but she looked depressed
"Raf neither I like the idea of being away from you and our child...but it's the only way..."
The girl shook her head "No...it's not just that..."
"Then what is it?"
"They only allowed us to have this child because it's a salvation! Not because we can raise it with love and together, they only allowed us because they want to use it as a weapon to fight Reina!"
That's right...he didn't think about it...the Devil looked down..."You're right..."
"I'm tired of all of this Sulfus...I'm tired of always being forced to do what they want and nothing of what I want to do! I want to have this child because it's a symbol of our love...and not because it can save us all..." the boy hugged her and tried to comfort her...but he knew well it wasn't possible...not even he was able to comfort himself...
The months went on, months very hard and complicated for Raf...because the child...the Angel was pretty convinced it was going to be a girl...because the baby girl had two natures completely different, the poor girl suffered a lot, she lost all her strength, she barely could talk without screaming in pain...nobody liked to see her like this...the girl wasn't able to continue like this and was forced to go through the rest of her pregnancy in her human form...laying on the bed, without being allowed to move...
"Raf what are you doing?! You should be in bed!" said Sulfus once he entered in the bedroom of his girlfriend and see her not laying on the bed but sitting by the window instead, she seemed to be paler...
"That's...what I have been doing for nine months...I'm tired of being locked in this bedroom..." said the girl as she caressed her huge belly...Sulfus sighed, he let the tray with food on her bedside table and walked towards her, he knew she was perfectly right, he put a cover over her shoulders, after all it was Winter and it was cold...
"Andy gave me this, she said she did this for our child" said the devil as she put something in Raf's hands, it was a blue cover, the girl opened it and saw the baby's name embroidered on it...she smiles, this would be the cover where her baby girl would be once she was born...
"It's beautiful..."
"Come on, you should eat something" said Sulfus as he helped her up from the seat
"The portal...?" asks the girl, worried...she had a weird feeling about today's day...
He sighed "It's not ready yet..." she too sighs...why was it taking so long...suddenly the girl feels a chill through her back, stops walking and looked outside the window "What is it?"
"L-Look outside the window..." Sulfus frowned and approached the window, his amber eyes widened once he saw it...a dark cloud, darker than the night's sky was covering the whole city, no, that wasn't a normal cloud...it was...
The curse...
"Sulfus!" he hears Raf calling him, he turned around and saw his beloved who had a hand on her stomach, a scared look on her face...sweating and had a hard time breathing "The baby...I think...I think she is coming..."
~*.*~*.*~
Perfect...very soon her revenge would begin...the curse was only the beginning of the infernal life that, from now on, the lives of all eternals would be...they would all be in her hands...
~*.*~*.*~
"Oh my god what's that thing approaching?!" screamed Dolce once she looked outside the window of her bedroom, she was together with Urie, Miki, Marrie and Naomi.
"And it's not just that, take a look over there!" Miki pointed towards another place, everyone looked
"The Pherox! So this means that..." said Marrie
"...that cloud is the curse!" completed Naomi
"Girls!" Andy came in the bedroom, she looked worried, scared..."It's Raf! The baby is coming!"
"Oh god right now?!" said Urie, right this wasn't the best moment for the little one to be born...as a matter of fact the labor was settled for the next week! "Alright, Miki, Dolce, Marrie and Naomi you come with me, we must try to stop Reina before she reaches Raf. Andy, you go to the Challenge Room, we must know if the portal is ready!" the angels nodded.
~*.*~*.*~
A desperate scream and full of pain echoed through the whole bedroom, Sulfus didn't know what else he could do! His child was about to be born but Raf refused to push because she knew what would happen if the baby was born before.
The Devil spread some cold water through Raf's forehead and was trying to calm her down but the pain was too much, even more now that she was weak and in her human form, without strength to go back to her eternal form
"Come on Raf, you have to push!"
"No!" cried the angel "I can't...I can't have the baby now!"
"The baby is almost out Raf! If you don't push, she can die!" in that moment Andy came in the bedroom, running
"Guys! The portal is ready!"
"It's too late!"
Raf screams in pain as she doesn't have another choice but push and make her child come into the world...and finally happens...the cry of the baby girl didn't stop as she was put in the arms of her weak mother. She was too weak to be able to talk...but still she managed to whisper "Melody..."
The small hand of the newborn girl grabbed tightly a bit of her blonde hair. Raf moves her hand to caress the little piece of blonde hair on her daughter's head, a small smile appeared once she saw how she was...small sea-blue angel wings where on her back and small horns of the same color on the top of her head, she was a mix of them...
Sulfus gets on his knees so he could look better at his beloved and daughter. Andy sat by the end of the bed, looking at her sister, worried because she was too weak...
But then something lights up on the green eyed angel as she looked again at Raf, Sulfus and her niece..."Raf...Sulfus..." both looked at her "The portal...it only takes one person..."
Tears began sliding down Raf's face as soon as she realized what her sister meant with that...
Melody had to go alone...
"Raf..." murmured Sulfus
The angel tried to calm down, she didn't want to scare her baby "You must...you must take her away...you must get her inside that portal..."
"I don't want to leave you here alone..."
"I stay with her" said Andy, Sulfus looked at her and nodded. Raf caressed her daughter's head before she kissed her there
"Goodbye my little girl..." the devil takes the cover with his daughter in his arms and runs towards the exit, he didn't want to look at Raf...he knew that sooner or later she would break down into a desperate cry as he escaped with their daughter...
~*.*~*.*~
"Shit!" said Sulfus, he didn't find a way out...he was surrounded by the Pherox! He knew well how dangerous those little creatures could be and couldn't allow any of them touch his daughter..."Fire Fly!" the fire hits some of the creatures but still wasn't enough...
Just then one of the Pherox jumped at him and bites the Devil's shoulder; it didn't have time to get all the poison into the eternal's body because he threw it away! "Damn it...very well...Iron Fly!" pieces of iron hit the Pherox finally opening a small path to the entrance of the Challenge Room.
He arrived to the Challenge Room and saw it. The portal. The only thing that could save his daughter from Reina's curse...but also the thing that would take her away from him...probably forever...
Sulfus looked down and stared at his newborn baby covered by the blue blanket that was in his arms...her name was embroidered there...: Melody..it was the little one's mother who picked up that name...the baby girl moved in her father's arms and very slowly opened her bright blue eyes, the eyes of her mother...in a matter of fact she was a copy of her mother! The only thing she had from him was his pale skin!
The sound of the Pherox trying to get in the Challenge Room echoed through the room...Sulfus knew he should hurry up or else they would get him and also her...
He looked back at Melody and leaned in to kiss her on the forehead; the baby yawned and touched with one of the small hands her father's face...
Sulfus showed a small and weak smile as if he didn't want to make her sad "Goodbye Melody..." and he puts her inside the purple portal, he took a few steps back as that thing started to bright a white light...and then it disappeared...together with his daughter...
The devil closed his eyes as a tear rolled down his cheek...
~*.*~*.*~
It wasn't easy but after having defeated the Pherox, Sulfus arrived to the bedroom where he had left his beloved and her sister...his shoulder hurt a lot...but he should get to the bedroom! But then...
"Andy!" he saw the girl sprawled on the floor close to the bedroom's door, she was hurt but still awake "What happened?!"
"Reina...she...she attacked us...I tried to fight her but...I don't know what kind of magic she used, but she defeated me in a blink of eyes..." but then the girl widened her eyes "Raf...Reina is in there with her!"
Sulfus also widened his eyes "Oh no..." he walked into the bedroom of his beloved and faced a terrible scene...Raf was sprawled on the floor, without moving, without showing any sign of life...and on the bed where he had left her...was Reina sitting down, with the Black Sphere on her hands, she had an evil smile on her lips...
"RAF!" the devil took his beloved in his arms and tried to wake her up "No, come on Raf wake up!"
Reina laughs "It's all useless my dear...she will never wake up"
Sulfus looked at her with a look of hatred "You..."
"Don't worry, in a few minutes you won't remember her, let alone that you love her..." she stood up from the bed "Now tell me...where is the baby..."
"I don't know what you talking about..."
"Don't lie to me little devil, I know perfectly that you two were going to have a child together, I spied on you all these months!" said the neutral "Now tell me, where...is...she..."
Sulfus smiles with confidence "You will never find her...she escaped...you will be defeated!"
"We shall see my dear..." suddenly the ceiling of the bedroom was destroyed due to the horrible wind caused by the cloud, Sulfus puts himself over Raf's body to protect her as everything flew away, the cloud began surrounding them
"Where are we going?!"
Reina laughs "To a horrible place...a place without magic...where the only happy ending will be mine!"
~*.*~*.*~
Meanwhile somewhere in the woods...a cry echoed through the trees...a blue blanket was laying on the herb, a small newborn was in there moving as she cried. She wanted her parents, she wanted a safe place...suddenly a shadow covered the light from the child, she opened her blue eyes and looked at the figure. That one after looking at the child for a while picked her up and holds her against the chest.
"Ssshhh, there, there little one...I know that you want your parents...but unfortunately there is no way to bring them back, at least until you have 10 years...but don't worry, I will protect you...I won't let that witch hurt you...I will protect you Melody..."
TBC...