I Will Find You

Chapter 9 – Saving You...

"Hey beauty, what are you doing in a place like this?" said a demon as he stood up from his chair and approached the hooded blonde girl who had just entered the poorly attended and dangerous bar. Raf frowned and tried to not show her fear however the way that demon was staring at her, actually...the way all these men in the bar were staring at her...hungry, dirty and dangerous looks...all of that made her very uncomfortable but she didn't want to show it...

"What's wrong? Cat got your tongue, sweetie?" said a devil who was right behind the angel, Basilisk sneaked out of the girl's sleeve and hissed protectively at the two, threatening to give them a poisonous bite..."Whoa calm down your little pet over there, darling..."

Raf was about to say something when a man with dirty brown, wavy hair approached the scene "What's going on here...?" all the men in the bar seemed to be scared just at the sight of the men, most of them returned to what they were doing while others remained in silence, not wanting to say anything, fearing for their life...

"We...we were just...trying to find out what this girl is doing here" finally answered the demon, yet he spoke very slowly, fearing that he could say something that would anger the man...

"In other words, you were messing up with my guest..." the man sighed disappointedly before snapping his fingers, a purple smoke surrounded the demon and when it disappeared, there was no longer a demon but a small rat instead...Raf's blue eyes widened in surprise and shock as she slowly looked back at the man, gaping...

"Now...let's go inside my office, my dear, it's more comfortable than talking in the middle of this mess" he put an arm around the angel's shoulders and guided her inside the office "I guess there is no need for formal introductions, I'm sure your boyfriend's mascot must have already told you who I am" he said glancing slightly at the coral snake who was wrapped around the girl's arm.

"Uh...yes...you are Conray...but we have never met before...how do you..."

"Know who you are? That's one of the many things I'm capable of my dear Raf" he closed the door of the office, snapped once again his fingers and the lights went on. Conray walked to his chair and sat down, signalizing then the other chair to Raf. The girl hesitantly sat down, she was very nervous and she didn't have much time either...soon Sulfus' judgment would start and she wanted to be there for him...

"Now, I can see that you are in a very rush and it's quite understandable, so let's just go straight to the subject. You came here to find out if there was a way to help Sulfus escape from prison...am I right?"

Raf nodded "Yes...Basilisk told me that you could help me...but at a price"

"Yes indeed, there is a price because all magic comes with a price, my dear. However to help you, I must do something to you, something that Sulfus himself wanted to make sure you would never find out, otherwise his efforts to protect you would be all in vain."

Raf blinked her eyes "So...Sulfus is indeed hiding something from me...everyone knows the truth but me?"

Conray nodded "Yes but you must know that they all accepted doing this to you in order to help you"

"What did they do to me...?"

"Raf...you didn't have any accident while doing a challenge with Sulfus nor you were in a coma in the last months. You have been abducted on the night before the return to your school..."

Raf's eyes widened "A-Abducted...?"

"Yes, your kidnapper was no one else than that angel who was obsessed with you" the angel was in shock but let him continue "The police of Angie Town began looking for you but only in your city, this because the guardian if the portal had said he hadn't seen you ever passing through the portal that leads to Earth, the problem there was that your kidnapper had distracted the guardian enough time for him and you, unconscious, to pass through the portal without being noticed by anyone."

"I s-see..."

Conray closed his eyes before he continued "The investigation went on for months but they never found you and ended up giving up, declaring you as dead. Sulfus however, had followed the investigation secretly in order to know how the process was going, when he found out that they had decided to give up on looking for you, he came to me in order to find out where you were."

"I-Is that why Sulfus no longer has got his powers...?"

"Yes it is, that was my trade with him. His powers in exchange of your location which he immediately agreed, I did not force him into anything."

Raf sighed and shook slightly her head "So...Sulfus DID kill my kidnapper...not because he was jealous or he didn't want him to come closer to me...but to save me, to save me from death"

"Indeed my dear...that's the truth..."

"But why would he make me forget all these things, why can't I remember anything that...that happened...?"

"Please dearie, don't be mad at him, he was only protecting you as any good boyfriend would. You keep having nightmares, thinking that everyone around you wanted to hurt you, so in order to help you go on with your life and with no traumas, Sulfus decided that the best was to erase your memories of these months, that's the reason of why you can't remember anything that happened to you while you were held captive by that angel."

The angel sighed, trying to swallow everything that has just been told to her by that man...she ran both her hands through her face and hair before taking another deep breath, she opened her celestial blue eyes and stared at the men.

"I see that you do know everything that has happened to me, to us...I won't ask how you do because...I can see you are a powerful wizard...but since you know a lot, then tell me...there must be a way for me to save Sulfus from being condoned to a huge sentence for having killed my kidnapper...my words won't be enough, am I right...?"

Conray nodded "Indeed dearie, your words won't be enough, otherwise everyone, your friends and his friends, could prove that what he did was to protect you and not out of jealously as the others think by just stating what I just told you..."

"Then what can I do...I will do anything to help Sulfus...he has done so much for me ever since we met and I never repaid him enough...just telling him 'thank you' and 'I love you' aren't enough for me anymore..."

The man chuckled slightly "You two are without any kind of doubts perfect for each other..." he stood up from his chair and walked a bit towards the girl "You know, he told me exactly the same words to me when he came asking me for help in order to find you." This time he showed a sincere smile "This kind of pure love is very rare and hard to find, such determination and passion to help each other, not many would have the courage you two have..."

"Then will you help me?"

"Yes, yes I will. But you will have to pay me the same price that your devil did...and in exchange I will return to you, your memories of these months, that's the only that can save Sulfus from prison..." he looked at her in the eyes "And I can only return them to you if you are ready to accept them again in your mind...it won't be easy..."

The girl hesitated a bit, she wanted to help Sulfus more than ever but according to what Conray had told her, these memories were extremely painful...so much that Sulfus had decided to erase them for her own good...but it was now because of that he could go in prison...for a very long time...and he had done so much for her...no...she had to do something...

"I accept..."

~*.*~

The court room was in deep silence, on the left side of the room stood the high spheres, the seraphs and the angels that wanted to assist the judgment, among them were Raf's friends, Urie, Miki and Dolce. On the right side of the room stood the low spheres, the malebolgias and the devils assisting the judgment, among them were Sulfus' friends, Kabale, Cabiria and Gas.

In the middle of both sides where angels and devils were standing, was the judge, a woman with curly, dark brown hair and beautiful green eyes, she was wearing a long blue dress and a small silver crown on the top of her head. On her head also could be seen dark pink horns and a salmon colored halo. On her back were a salmon colored angel wing and a dark pink devil wing. She was no other than Queen Rayla (*), the queen of skies, the one who decided the fates of all angels and devils, the one who gave the birth powers when an angel or a devil were born.

In the middle of the room and also the center of all attentions stood the now human Sulfus, standing up and with his hands tied with the tight handcuffs. The boy looked worried, not because of the judgment, for he already knew what most likely would be his fate but because the most important person to him wasn't in there...his angel wasn't there for him, but she had promised...why wasn't she here...

'Raf...where are you...?'

TBC...

*Queen Rayla is my OC, she rules all the skies and as described above in the story she decides the fates of angels and devils, she also gives the powers to an angel or a devil that has been born but not the powers that are conquered with strength, dedication and love (for example she would have given Sulfus the power of Fire and Strenght, which are Fire Fly and Body Fly but the other powers were not given to him by her but conquered by him by himself).

The high and low spheres are under the orders of Queen Rayla and rule Angie Town and Zolfanello City however later on in another story of mine, Rayla gives birth to twin girls, an angel, Luce, and a devil, Lucifer, who should be the future rulers of Angie Town and Zolfanello City under the help of the High and Low Spheres and of course their mother.

The next chapter is the last one and is RATED M! Be warned! But don't worry, if you don't want to read that part, I will put that scene in bold so you can jump the scene if you don't want to read it.