I Will Find You

Chapter 6 – The Decision

It had taken long minutes, maybe an hour, for Raf finally to calm down from her cry on Sulfus' chest. His shirt was now completely wet due to her tears but he didn't care about it, there were more things to worry about than a simple wet shirt...he finally had saved Raf, he had her in his arms now sleeping but not peacefully...he looked behind him to look at the corpse of the angel...what was he going to do...not just with the body but also with the fact he now didn't have powers, how was he going to explain that to everyone when he showed up at school with Raf in his arms?

He would have to hide a few things...but he would think better on it later, he had to take Raf back now. The boy took off his jacket and covered the angel's almost nude body. He couldn't help kiss her forehead. He picked her up in his arms and began walking away from that place; it would take a while to arrive school because now he didn't have his powers or his wings.

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"What do you mean Sulfus is missing?!" yelled Temptel "We don't need more people to go missing!"

"Well we told him about the police closing Raf's case" started Cabiria "And then he run off and since then, we haven't seen him, we have looked every single place of school."

"And the places outside school?"

"We did as well" said Kabale "We checked the beach, the mall, the park, everywhere, he is found nowhere!"

"This is not good..." Temptel sighed "Alright, come with me, we need to report this to Arkhan"

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Arkhan sighed, he just couldn't believe in what Temptel had just told him! Sulfus was missing too! First Raf and now him!

"You three are sure that you have no idea of any place he could have gone?"

"No, as we said we have checked every place inside and outside school, we can't find him!"

Miki put her hand under her chin; she had a thoughtful expression on her face "What if..." they all looked at her "You said that he went missing right after you told him that Raf's case had been closed right? What if he isn't missing at all? What if he has gone looking for her?"

"It's not a possibility we can exclude...it has been always clear as water that Raf and Sulfus never forgot the feelings they had for each other..." said Urie

"You are right halo head...and ever since Raf went missing that Sulfus has been acting really weird, he no longer made fun of you, he no longer felt like hanging out with us and he locked himself a lot in his bedroom..." said Cabiria "Clear signs that he was suffering in silence for Raf's disappearance..."

"And maybe he was doing something else..." added Miki

"Like what?"

"Like searching for Raf on his own..."

"No that's impossible, none of you has assisted any of the meetings we had with the police of Angie Town and we had guards outside the doors to make sure none of you spied!" said Temptel...Miki was about to answer her response when suddenly all the mascots came out from their hiding spots, flying next to their owners as if transmitting a message

"For the horns of the devil, they all have received a message from Basilisk saying that Sulfus is about to arrive to school and...he has got..."

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"Raf!"

The six eternals run to their friends who had just arrived the main hall of the school, Raf was still sleeping in Sulfus' arms, her face was covered in sweat and her forehead frowned, she might be having a nightmare...

"Oh my god...you...you found her!" said Urie "But...but how...and...and where?!"

"And most of all why are you in your human form?"

Sulfus sighed at the questions "I will answer all of your questions but right now we need to take her to the infirmary, she needs help" the eternals nodded and helped the young ex-devil fly towards the infirmary on the next floor. Once they arrived there, waiting for them were the two teachers and the angels' doctor, the three told them to stay outside while they took Raf inside the infirmary and took care of her wounds.

About an hour later they came out and Sulfus knew it was time for him to explain everything to them...but he first he wanted to make sure Raf was out of danger.

"How is she?" asked Urie before Sulfus could do the same

Arkhan sighed "She is pretty damaged...unfortunately Raf has suffered several wounds and was also raped and tortured a lot...we managed to heal her the best we could and those wounds should begin healing soon but.."

"But...?"

Temptel went on "Her physical wounds will heal but we can't say the same for her spirit...she moved a lot when we touched her as if trying to run away from us and kept mumbling things as for us to get away, to not touch her and all...she might be traumatized for the rest of her life"

Sulfus sighed and sat down on the chair, putting his head between his hands "This is what I feared...she acted the same way with me when I saved her, she thinks we are all her kidnapper and that we are going to hurt her..."

"You are right and speaking of such, start speaking boy, you have got a lot to explain!" said Temptel

The boy passed a hand through his raven blue hair and sighed once again...how could he start this..."Alright...for the past months I have followed the investigation of the police in Raf's case, I felt that something was missing, something that they weren't finding out and of course they wouldn't believe in the suspects of a devil..." he still wasn't going to tell them about this dream which were what lead him to Raf..."So I began doing my own search, my own theories and every time the police came here, I would send Basilisk to spy on them and then he would show me your conversations"

"When they decided to cancel the investigation...I became...desperate, it was like they were doing any kind of efforts to find her and I wasn't going to let her sink into oblivion, she might not mean anything to them but she meant and means a lot to me and I knew she was in danger...so I...I made a pact with someone, my powers in exchange of Raf's location..."

"Who is this 'someone'?"

"I'm not telling...all you need to know is that I no longer have got my powers but I found Raf...it was an angel who had kidnapped her" he eyed Raf's friends "That angel..." the girls' eyes widened in surprise...

"And what happened to him?"

He sighed, there came the hardest part..."I...was planning on just fighting him, knock him unconscious and take Raf out of there...but I...had kill him...if I hadn't done it, Raf would be dead..."

Temptel shook her head "I can't believe this...Sulfus you DO know that you are in trouble, don't you? They will eventually find the body and you will be accused of murder!"

Sulfus growled "Don't you think I'm aware of that?!"

"The only thing that can save you is Raf telling everything that happened and then they would obviously see that what you did was to save yourself and her" said Cabiria

"No...I'm not doing that to Raf, I'm not going to force her to remember the moments she has lived in the last months by the hands of that bastard" he said in a decided tone

"Then how do you expect to save your ass?!"

"I'm not..." he looked at them "I will do all the time I will have to do for having killed that angel...as for Raf, I think the best for her is if someone makes her forget everything she has lived in those months..."

TBC...