Chapter 20
Luce's P.O.V.
I'm a little taken back by his words. Why would Lucifer, the devil himself, want to help me? I can't imagine that he feels guilty over the mess he created. He and The Throne. I feel guilty over blaming The Throne, but it's true. "Lucinda?" I look over at Lucifer, he wears an unreadable expression on his face, but the tone in is voice suggest that he is a little nervous of what my answer will be. In my mind I quickly weight the cons against the pros. "Fine Lucifer. You can train me, but nothing else. I don't want anything to do with you, you're the reason we're in this mess." My words are harsh, but true. I don't want anything to do with him besides this. Sure, one time long ago I had some feeling for him, but that was before he helped put a curse on my love for Daniel and then tried to erase history in a desperate way of trying to get me back. That didn't work.
"Alright Luce, whatever you want." His voice sounds equally as harsh as my did, but it's Lucifer, his voice sounds that way almost all of the time. "So when do we start?" I ask. "Now" He says and I only get a second to register the knife that is coming towards me. Instinct takes over and the knife disappears. I stare into the air where the knife just disappeared. Where were that ability when I were diving with Daniel to find the relic? The first question is followed by another, why now? Why do I get this ability now, why didn't it stay hidden? "That was good Lucinda, but you didn't control it. You went on instinct." Lucifer sounds disappointed and picks up a rock from the ground. He walks over to me and I look at him with suspicious eyes. "How did you think I would react? I don't remember this ability that well, I didn't even remember my ability with the light until just a few minutes ago."He looks at me with dark eyes and flips the rock over in his hand. Why isn't Daniel here? I don't feel comfortable with Lucifer here throwing things at me and expects me to burn them to ashes with an ability I can't control. This ability is wrong, no one should be able to control any element except The Throne.
"You're right, what did I expect? I shouldn't have believed that the third archangel would be able to do anything like this so fast. Silly me." Lucifer's voice is filled with irony and I can hear that he's mocking me. It hurts a little, but I know that I need to be a fast learner because I don't have the time. Every minute that I'm wasting allows the power to grow. "Throw it at me again." The words leaves my lips before my brain registers what I were about to say. He smiles and throws it at me. This time I try to reach inside me, to find that fire. The rock it's me on my shoulder and it hits me so hard so that I fall on my back. I didn't succeed, and the evidence of that is that I'm lying on my back in the forest with a bad pain in my left shoulder. "What was that?" Lucifer is hovering over me as he speaks and reaches out his hand to help me up. I don't take it and stands up. "I think it's disconnected." I say and try to move it, but instead a shooting pain goes through my body. "Well, you should have turned the rock into ashes." I glare at him and a small voice inside my head wonders how I would be able to turn a rock into ashes.
Lucifer doesn't give me a warning before he takes a few steps over to me, places his hands on my left shoulder and snaps it back in place. The pain shoots through my body once more and a little scream escapes my lips. "Now that that is done, let's continue." I stare at Lucifer but I can't see any trace in his face that he is joking. I turn around, partly to hide the tears that are forming in my eyes from the tears, and starts to walk in the direction to where Shoreline Academy is located. "Where are you going?" Lucifer's voice relive that he still stands on the spot where he stood when I turned around. "To Daniel." I say and continue to walk. "Are you giving up so quickly." I hear how he starts to walk behind me. "No, I just need a break. Besides I haven't spent so much time with Daniel these past days, I would like to do that before I clean up your mess."I hear how Lucifer is closing the gap between us and I start to walk a little faster. "O come on, you have spent like forever with him. Don't you want some more answers?" That catches my attention and I stop. "What kind of answers?" I turn around only to see Lucifer's face covered in a smug smile." You ask, I answer." He says. Though I really want to see Daniel, hear him saying that he loves me and that everything is going to be okay, I can't turn down this opportunity. "Fine. Is there a limit?" I ask and a uncomfortable chill goes down my spine when my eyes mets Lucifer's dark ones. He really look like the devil.
"No, feel free to ask whatever you want." I don't need to think long before a question pops into my mind. "Do you know why I control fire?" His mouth goes up in a half smile when he hears my question. "You could control the light up in heaven." He says with no emotion. "That doesn't explain why I can control fire, or why I didn't remembered it last time. Besides, none of the other angels have any ability near this. Gabbe could heal, but this is…" I can't find the words to describe what this is, and I crack my knuckles as I always do when I'm nervous or frustrated, a habit Daniel is not very found of. The thought of Daniel takes up my mind and I find myself wondering what he is doing right now, if he misses me even though it hasn't been more than a few hours. But I miss him, I always do and I can't imagine the day that I won't. "This is...what?" I can actually hear curiosity in Lucifer's voice. But I can also hear that he mocks me. "Wrong! I don't know, but it shouldn't be possible. Only The Throne should be able to do anything like this." Lucifer smiles a dark smile to me. "But your precious Throne couldn't prevent the power from growing, so made you were given a gift to help you fight it in The Throne's place." His words sounds like poison, but also they sound like they could be true. I mean how does it come that I have to do it. The Throne is far more powerful than I am and the chances of The Throne succeeding are far bigger than my chances. Could it be that I'm doing the dirty work for The Throne? But The Throne created me and she stands for goodness and for standing up for love and what's right. On the other hand she helped curse me and Daniel, and if what Lucifer says is true…
"Are you serious?" My voice is a whisper, if it's true it will change everything I always believed. It will change my opinion of The Throne, the reason to why I'm here. "I am. That old Throne don't want to go to war with the power she helped create. If the power were to expand and destroy earth it wouldn't affect her. Sure, her angels would be gone and so would her beloved humans be, but she would stay unharmed. Free to start over and create a new earth. I don't know what would happen to the power, but my money is on that it would vanish along with it's source of life." There's nothing in Lucifer's face or voice that suggest that he's joking, he is being deadly serious. My eyes waters, The Throne is betraying us! Her angels, her beloved earth and all of it's inhabitants. And she has the gut to give me some ability to control fire so that I have a slightly bigger chance of succeeding doing her dirty work. "How do you know this for sure?" My voice is shakey and my vision is a little blurred from the angry and hurt tears that are flowing down my cheeks. "I heard her say it. You know I have been up there a few times since the fall." His words sounds so surreal to me, I love The Throne and I can't, I won't believe, that this is the truth.
I swallow my tears a few times, clearing my throat so that I will be able to speak without sounding like, well, like a cryer. "I have more questions." I say and decide to put the thing with The Throne in the back of my mind. I don't care why she doesn't help with this, but the important thing is that someone does. That someone is me and I won't allow myself to fail, and I can feel a fighting spark come to life inside of me, a spark that I thought I didn't possess.
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