Flashback (continued)
"Crap," Adrian mumbled, looking at the creatures running toward us. They stampeded towards us, trampling anything in their way and making the ground shake. As they got closer, we saw how deformed they looked. Their eyes were sewn shut with bloody stitches and their flesh was rotten and burnt in the most horrible ways possible. "Run!" Adrian yelled, starting to run towards the path again. I sprinted after him, tackling and pushing him into a mess of bushes.
"What are you thinking you idiot? They can hear you, not see you! Their eyes are sewn shut!" I hissed, glancing up at the mob of approaching creatures.
"Oh, ya," Adrian mumbled, his face white but strangely calm despite the situation.
"Shhh! You need to keep quiet and follow me," I ordered. I picked up a large rock, spread my wings, and silently flew over to the other side of the castle.
"What about me?" Adrian yelled, then shrieked again when he saw the creatures running towards him.
"That idiot," I mumbled, dropping the rock. The rock hit the ground with a bang and the creatures darted towards it, forgetting about the man they had been about to find. I quickly flew back to Adrian.
"Oh thank g-" was all he was able to say before I tackled him again, not feeling bad in the slightest when he let out a grunt of pain as he hit the ground.
"You are such an idiot! I told you to keep quiet! You almost got yourself eaten or something!"
"I'm s-"
"Come on! Those creeps won't be distracted for much longer." I grabbed him by his shirt and flew back up into the sky again. "Now, where is the entrance nearest to the staff?"
"That window," Adrian mumbled, pointing to the largest nearby window. I flew towards it, the hot wind blowing my hair back. It took me only seconds to reach our destination, my wings carrying Adrian and I at incredible speeds. "How are we going to get in? Every entrance is always locked and I-" Adrian started to babble until I just threw him into the window, grinning slightly. The red glass shattered and Adrian screamed from inside, but he didn't sound like he was in that much pain.
"Oh shut up, you big baby," I giggled, flying threw the broken window and landing gracefully.
"You just threw me through a window!" Adrian yelled angrily, his expression indignant.
"I've done worse," I replied with a shrug, my wings disappearing into my back once more. Quickly, I scanned the room we were in, trying to find the staff. The walls were a deep red, the whole room gorgeous with glass squares on the floor. The only odd thing about the room was the flames shooting up all around us and the windows fading away to nothingness.
"What the-" I started, almost getting burnt by a new flame as I tried to go to where the windows had been.
"It should be somewhere over... Here it is!" Adrian yelled to me, distracting me.
"Where are we, exactly?" I asked him as I cautiously stepped around flames to get to him.
"It's some type of burning room," Adrian replied distractedly, examining the floor.
"Really? I had no idea! I thought those flames shooting out of the floor were harmless rays of sunshine."
"Ugh, whatever," Adrian said, "come over here and make yourself useful."
"What do you want me to do?" I stared at him as he tried to pry open a glass plate off of the floor, not sure what he wanted me to be doing.
"I think the staff is under here," he grunted, "I need you help me pull this up."
"How about we try this?" I smirked, opening the dimensional portal to my guns. Each angel had one since it was part of our training. Easily, I pulled out a semi-automatic shotgun and aimed at the glass. "I'd move out of the way if I were you," I warned, pulling the trigger a split second later. The delicate glass shattered and flew in different directions, none of the shards even touching me.
"Holy crap, you could've k-" Adrian stammered, jumping back.
"Killed you? Last I checked, you're already dead, remember?" I smirked, putting away my gun. "Well? What are you waiting for?" I asked, gesturing towards the shattered floor.
"Oh, ya," he jumped to the now-shattered floor, digging deep into it. After a few seconds of digging through glass shards, he pulled out the staff, his hands not damaged at all.
"Woah," I gasped. The staff was beautiful. It was about four and a half feet tall, crafted completely out of gold with two ropes of silver twirling around the middle in a spiral pattern. At the top, there was a large ruby connected to the bottom by four thin, gold cords twirling around it. The whole staff radiated power.
Adrian stood up slowly, looking around the room.
"Where did the windows go?" Adrian asked, frowning.
"They disappeared into the walls," I replied, looking towards the last place I had seen the window.
"Crap," he mumbled.
"We have no way out, do we?" I asked.
"Nope."
"You are such an IDIOT!" I yelled, pushing him backwards. He fell into the broken glass panel on the floor. I waited for him to return but, after a few minutes of him not doing so, I began to worry. "Adrian?" I yelled, he still didn't respond. "Adrian?" I yelled again, sliding into the opening in the floor. It lead to a small, white room, with only a ladder going down. My curiosity got the best of me and I climbed down the ladder, the sounds of the flames from the strange room slowly fading. The ladder brought me to another room with only another ladder going down. "Adrian?" I called again, before someone grabbed my shoulders.
"Boo," Adrian laughed.
"You jerk," I chuckled, punching his shoulder. "I was so worried about you."
"Why? As you said before, I'm already dead." Adrian smiled. "Come on, this is the way out," he smiled again and started to climb down the next ladder.
After many series of ladders, Adrian and I made it out of the burning room and out into the garden that we were in before. The creepy, burnt men were gone, but the dead and poorly tended plants remained.
"Come on, lets get out of here," I said to Adrian, picking him up as I spread my wings. It was easier to leave the castle than it was to get there, because all we had to do was fly up.
"Are we really going to heaven now?" Adrian asked, some of his previous excitement resurfacing.
"Well, duh. I told you once you proved your worth I would take you," I responded, smirking.
"Wow," he sighed, "I never thought this day would come."
"Well, here it is," I replied, grinning.
Once we made it past the magnificent gates of heaven, I brought Adrian to the Head Angel Office. Before we were called in, Adrian pulled me to another side of the room.
"This is a thank you, for bringing me to heaven," Adrian smiled, putting a necklace that looked like a key. It was gold with a heart on the top. On the heart, there were flowers engraved into it. Adrian wrapped it around my neck and quickly did the clasp. The whole time, I couldn't think of anything to say.
"I... Thank you," I eventually stuttered. Before any other words could be exchanged, we were called into the Assistant Head Angel's office.
We were thrown out of the Assistant Head Angel's office. She did not believe that Adrian was innocent. All she did was yell and scream about me bringing a 'devil' to heaven. She didn't even care about my power. As we left her office, Adrian was continuously mumbling,
"I can't believe I thought this would work. I knew I shouldn't be so optimistic about this. Why am I so stup-"
"You're coming with us," two very strong men said, grabbing us by our arms. I squirmed away out of sheer habit, causing one to pick me up and throw me over his shoulder.
"I am NOT a sack of potatoes! I am an ANGEL! Put me down this instant!" I yelled as they brought us to a dark room. "Where did they take us?" I asked Adrian, but got no response. "Not this again," I mumbled. Out of nowhere, a bright light flashed in my eyes.
"Do you know what you've done?" a deep voice boomed and echoed around the room.
"Huh? Who are you?" I asked, confused.
"You've brought a devil, one of our sworn enemies, to heaven," the voice yelled, ignoring my question. "Now, they can find other ways up and completely destroy us!"
There is a normal talking volume, I thought to myself, but I didn't say that out loud.
"He's not a devil! And he's not supposed to be in hell!" I snapped in reply. "He was supposed to be up here! I saw it! In his eyes. I saw truth."
"I don't care what you s-"
"He helped me get the staff!" I opened my gun portal, pulling out the staff we had out there earlier for safe keeping.
"The staff?" the voice asked. "Let me see," a small man came running into the room. He had a higher pitched voice and his chocolate eyes took up more than half of his face. He looked as if he was my age and his hair was black with blond streaks in it. "Well? Where is it?" he asked.
"Wait, you're the booming voice I was talking to? How old are you?" I looked him up and down, my confusion only growing with each passing minute. There was so much about Heaven that I still didn't know.
"Of course, doesn't it suit me? I'm the Head Angel and was eighteen when I died." He smiled like that was a good thing. I nodded, slowly. "Alright, now, gimme the staff!" I showed him the staff, but as he went to grab it, I pulled it back.
"You're not touching this unless you allow Adrian to stay in heaven," I demanded. He thought for a moment, then said,
"Well, how can we destroy it?" I smirked, crossed my arms and then said,
"It-... Well, I actually don't know... But Adrian does," I said, looking at the door, "Where is he, exactly?"
"Oh! He's right over here," he waved his hand and we walked out of the room. We walked to the gate and found Adrian standing there, waiting for us with his arms crossed in impatience.
"Good, you're all right," Adrian said, relieved.
"Why wouldn't I be? I am an angel, aren't I?" I said. "Anyway, they want to know how this staff can be destroyed," I handed him the staff and he took it, reluctantly, as if the metal pained him.
"You just stick it in the ground where the power source is highest and... and you touch the red jewel at the top."
"Let's do it then," The Head Angel said.
"Really? You're not going to think this through? What kind of battle tactic is that?" I asked.
"Of course I thought this through," he looked at me as if I were the biggest idiot that ever set foot in any realm. "Once we destroy their power source, they can't fight back. This staff is important, without it... They would be almost powerless." I just nodded.
The Head Angel told Adrian and me to put the staff at the gate. The gate was extremely magical. It was golden and looked like a million silver and pearly vines and branches twirling up into the endless blue sky. The power source was the gate because of what it meant. The gate meant hope. Hope for those who died. Those that were good for their whole life. They knew that, as soon as that golden gate came into view, me being able to validate this, there was a sense of power, peace, and control.
The gates slowly opened and Adrian and I stepped outside. He pushed the staff into the ground and the ruby on top instantly lit up. He looked at me, I nodded to tell him to go on. Slowly, he pressed his index finger on the ruby. A fire shot up from where the staff was and it disintegrated.
"Is it-" before I could finish my sentence, the ground began to shake and what looked like millions of the men with their eyes sewn shut crawled up from where the staff was. They stampeded through the wide-open gates, trying to attack everyone.
The Angels and other soldiers were able to destroy the men. It took three days.
HEEEEEEEEEEY GUYS! I'm soooooooo so so SO sorry for being all MIA lately...
This chapter is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LONG! (good? bad? review and tell me!) BUT I finished the flashback! Yay back to Hook *drools* Oh and about the staff, there will be a picture of it in my bio and (if you don't already know what he looks like) a picture of "Adrian" will find its way there too. AND THE LOCKET.
I've been working on my NHD website (EW) and I got sick (don't ask me how). I lost my voice :( which sucks... A lot... Oh and I saw Frozen this weekend! I want to start a fanfiction about that (don't worry I will keep this one going, When you fell is my top priority when it comes to fanfiction). I loved that movie sooooo much! If you want to talk about it PM me!
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