Archangel

...Where is the face inside me...

This House Is Not a Home

Part 2

I traveled through the House till I reached Simon's office. There were no guards which was fine with me. I burst through the doors and crossed the threshold. "SIMON!" My anger was a thick coating in my voice. Powerful, strong, mad!

The leather chair spun around to reveal who was sitting in it: Kevin. He smiled and laughed. "Eva, nice to see you again."

"Where's Simon?" I demanded from him.

Kevin shrugged his shoulders. "Gone. He left hours ago. Out promoting OTHER. You'll just have to wait until he gets back."

"I'm not waiting for him anymore. I'm done trusting him. I'm leaving all this," I replied coldly.

Kevin laughed again. "Leave? Oh Eva you can't leave. You're part of the family. You don't walk out on family."

"I'm walking out on this one," I turned to leave when Kevin rose to his feet, frowning.

"You're one of the others, Eva. Leave and you'll be entering a world that will never understand. Your anger will drive you to kill and you won't be able to control it!" replied Kevin in a threatening voice.

I smiled, my back to Kevin. "You see, Kevin…that's where you're wrong." I looked over my shoulder at him. "…I'm nothing like the others."

Kevin angrily tore out a handgun and fired a single bullet at me. I jumped out of the way and landed a few feet away, facing Kevin. I kicked the handgun out of his dirty hands, hearing it drop to the floor. He went to pick it up but I grabbed him by his locks of sandy blonde hair and drove my knee into his face.

He fell back and his head slammed against one of the office walls. The windows shivered in protest but did not break. Blood trickled down Kevin's head where his head had hit the wall. His eyes were alive in rage! Ha, so was I. "You're making a mistake."

"My life is a mistake," I hissed in reply.

"GUARDS!" cried Kevin.

The doors to the office burst open as five highly trained and armed men ran into the room. All of them were surprised to see me.

A small smirk crossed Kevin's face. "Get her."

The guards charged at me. I spun to face my attackers. I leaped up into the air and kicked two guards in the face. They went down. As I landed one guard tore out a black taser stick. He drove it into my side. I cried out in pain before kneeing the guard in the nuts.

The remaining two guards drove their handy taser sticks into my stomach. I doubled over, not able to stand after all that electricity being pumped into me. The two guards kicked me till I fell to the ground. They continued to kick me while I laid on the ground, helpless.

Now was the time I wished Blade was here…

Kevin rose to his feet. He laughed coldly at my pathetic state. "You fool. Your uncle has given you so much…you give him nothing in return."

He was right. Of course he was right because he had been in on the whole thing. He knew the truth and all I knew were the lies. Those false comforting lies. False hope. False light. False love!

Kevin brushed a few droplets of blood away from him with the back of his hand. "Lock her up for the time being. Simon will tell us what he wants to do with her later."

The guards reached down to pull me to my feet when suddenly they flew forward and crashed into Simon's desk. Kevin backed up a few steps as he searched for the cause of this. His eyes hardened as he found the annoying employees that worked for Charlie he had hired to get OTHER back.

The guards rose to their feet as Kevin looked from the angels to me. Everything clicked as flames danced in his mad grey eyes.

"Get rid of them!" ordered Kevin to the guards.

The guards charged at the angels. I remained motionless on the ground yet I heard everything. The guards were getting a good beating. I wanted to laugh but my thoughts drifted back to Kevin…and Simon.

My eyes snapped open. They were no longer their natural blue sapphire state, but two black stones. I picked my head up as I watched the last two guards hit the floor and remained there. My finger tips morphed into sharp black talons as my skin turned deathly pale. Inside I could feel my bones and muscles changing around to fit my new monster like appearance. My normal midnight black hair became a crimson red color. Finally my teeth became sharp wolf-like teeth, able to rip meat off a bone.

Kevin did not see me change as he was too worked up in trying to kill the angels. "You annoying little-" I jumped to my feet and stood nearly two feet away from Kevin. Kevin eyes widened as I let a low growl escape my lips. I lashed out at Kevin, letting my talons scratch against his right cheek. He stumbled backwards as blood dripped from the deep scratch wounds I had inflicted on him. He looked at me.

I roared and jumped onto Simon's desk, hearing it give way and crash to the ground. Kevin ran out of the way and scooped up his handgun. He spun and shot off several bullets at me. I did not move fast enough as five bullets ripped into my shoulder and torso. Blood poured from the bullet wounds as Kevin lowered his weapon. I looked down at myself as I watched the crimson red liquid begin to stain my shirt and stream down my body.

I felt the pain suddenly leave me as I felt my skin stitch itself up, healing my bullet wounds. I slowly turned to face Kevin who watched the blood stop bleeding and the wounds healing. He looked astonished. I guess Simon kept secrets from Kevin as well. Too damn bad!

I lunged at Kevin as he fired off the remaining round. I tackled him to the ground not caring at three new bullets that now were lodged into my lower stomach. I clawed at the bastard as blood flowed from Kevin's wounds, soaking his hands and his suit.

Kevin slammed the gun into the side of my head. I rolled off him and stopped moving for a second as I tried to gather up my lost strength. Kevin got to his feet as he quickly reloaded his gun. "No more games. If you aren't with us you're against us. Now die!"

I jumped to my feet but not fast enough as Kevin shot three painful bullets into my back. I gasped in pain and ran towards the wall. As I ran I saw the angels, my previous enemies, watching me. Dylan pulled out a silver object and threw it in my direction. I caught it and ran up the wall as more bullets flew beside me.

I ran all the way up the office wall and pushed off and flew all the way across the room. I grasped the silver object tightly in my hand as I landed gracefully beside Kevin. He stood next to me but not facing me. In one swift movement I tossed the silver object into my other hand and drove it into the side of Kevin's head. Blood spurted out as his grey eyes widened and died.

I turned the metal object and pulled it out of Kevin's head as he fell to the ground, dead. I remained tense, awaiting another attack from him but nothing happened. I took a better look at the silver object and almost laughed. My silver pocketknife. It was now covered in Kevin's filthy blood but I could always wash it off later.

I turned my back to Kevin's corpse and locked eyes with the angels. I was still in my monstrous form which was pretty scary. Oh you know that already? Well I was just restating it. I waited for the fear to develop in their eyes but oddly enough it didn't. That confused me beyond belief. Didn't they just see what just happened?!

"So you're the weapon," said Alex breaking the silence that hung over us.

"Ta da!" I replied in a monstrous voice.

"How?" asked Natalie.

"I always was the weapon. The tests…was my survival. Simon and Kevin just needed enemies for me to defeat," I lowered my silver pocketknife to my side. I wasn't going to use it at all for the rest of the day. Kevin's blood felt cold on my pale hands. So he was cold blooded.

A dozen of guards charged into the room and stopped dead in their tracks when they saw Kevin dead, and what I was. Blade pushed through the small crowd of guards and made his way to the front.

Blade looked at me as he saw the blood on me. "Archangel? What the hell did you do?"

"Sorry Blade," I felt hot flames dancing in the palms of my hand. I looked down and saw red flames dancing in my palm of my hand. I grasped the ball of fire and threw it at the doorway. The guards jumped out of the way or ran out of the office. The wall burnt up rather quickly and soon fell away. I heard the house give way and knew I had to leave. I looked over at the angels. "Follow me!"

I sprinted out of the office and heard the angels following. I threw balls of fire at all the groups of guards to scare them away. I didn't have time to deal with them all. I ran down many confusing hallways and occasionally looked over my shoulder to make sure the angels were following. They were.

I rounded a corner and saw the front door. I ran as I heard walls give way and the ceiling above come down further inside the House. I ran at inhuman speed and kicked out at the doors, breaking them instantly. I ran out of the House along with the angels as the House finally gave way and the whole damn building fell to the ground.

I halted and spun around as I watched dust fill the air and feel the heat of the flames I had caused, hit my skin. I waited for the dust to settle and when it did I solemnly bowed my head. The House was nothing more but broken pieces of walls and rumble. Shards of glass littered the ground and small flames ate up whatever was left. I lifted up my head. My eyes returned to their normal blue sapphire state along with the rest of my body.

I slid my silver pocketknife away as I turned my back to the remains of the House. I watched the angels who were looking at me. I walked towards them and they did nothing but watch me. How odd…no not anymore. I stopped walking when I was a good two feet away from them. I pulled a small piece of paper out of my pants pocket and shoved it in one of the chicks' hand. I think it was Dylan's. "The game's not over."

I gave them no time to respond as I walked past them and took off at inhuman speed. Thankfully I did not have to change into that monster to do so. I left them standing there. There was no reason to kill them anymore. They were somehow on the same side as I was. We had been pawns…but now I'm a knight and I'm the one going against Simon. This wasn't over.

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