CHAPTER 28
Now I will not only place the warning below in this Chapter but in Chapters 29 and 30 (and that may be the last Chapter until the sequel).
WARNING: THERE WILL BE NAMES OF REAL DEMONS IN THE NEXT TWO CHAPTERS (29&30). DO NOT AND I REPEAT DO NOT SAY THE NAME OF ANY DEMON OUT LOUD OR YOU WILL GIVE IT POWER OVER YOU. PLEASE DO NOT DARE, WHETHER YOU BELIEVE OR NOT, YOU HAVE NO POWER OVER THE SUPERNATURAL. THESE DEMONS DO EXIST AND ARE READY TO BE SUMMONED AND MAKE FOOLISH HUMANS (POSSIBLY YOU) SUFFER FOR THEIR STUPIDITY. IT MAY OR MAY NOT CAUSE HARM TO YOU BUT YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED OF THE POSIBLILITIES.
The demons are going to be in bold print, if you do not trust yourself to not do anything stupid, skip over the name. :)
Troy flew over the gates of heaven with a deafening force. He landed bringing Gabriella down to the soft clouds below them and she collapsed at his feet sobbing, "Troy what's going on?"
He picked her up and carried her in his arms, running through the soft pillows of clouds, his feet burning him and feathers from his wings falling as he ran, Heaven was trying to destroy him.
He finally got to the palace, worn and his wings sore he stopped and climbed the stairs then entered the building.
"Raphael!" he turned himself around and entered a corridor. "Uriel!"
"Troy, you can't be here!" he turned and faced Gabriel.
He fell to his knees and laid Gabriella on the floor. "I didn't know where else to go. Someone was in the house, Gabriel. And she's losing blood, please just help her and I'll leave as soon as possible."
Gabriel nodded and looked around then bent to touch Troy's wing. Troy hissed at him, the burn mark from Gabriel's fingers appeared quickly. Gabriel frowned. "Your wings look bad, let us fix them for you."
"I can't I'm in pain and I have to go home, I have to fight this thing."
"Home is a strange word, Troy."
"That's where she is." Troy said softly and placed a kiss to Gabriella's forehead then both her wet cheeks, "Bring her to me please?"
"Troy, don't go!" Gabriella cried out.
"He has to." Gabriel answered for him, watching Troy turn and leave.
"Mea?" Troy entered the house and searched for the girl he had once called his best friend.
"It's just you and me, Abaddon."
The voices tried to mend themselves into one, to hide their identity but Troy already knew it was the twin demons. Troy's eyes darkened , his wounded wings expanded and he turned swiftly.
"Leave this house. Leave our battle to the day of the war. It's coming close and you wont have to wait much longer."
"How can it be so soon if you and Azrael haven't conceived yet?"
"Azrael and our conception of any child has nothing to do with our battle on that day."
"You are wrong, the heavens are planning to have a child defeat me, there are traitors in the good you call holy!"
"There is always a Judas that falls from the glory of God, you stupid demon, but one always forgets that Judas was a liar."
"Ah, correct as always, Abaddon. I'm going to have to reevaluate my sources."
Troy laughed, "It was nice seeing you again, VEROS-LYKKAH, it's been a while."
Troy made a charge at the demon hissing and bearing forth his humongous and enlarged canines. VEROS-LYKKAH began to run and Troy followed him outside and in the forest not realizing that he had dropped the most important item his entire well being depended on.
The key.
Michael took a seat by the Angel of Harmony and draped an arm around her chair. They stared at the sleeping Gabriella and remained quiet, unspoken thoughts hanging in the medical room of God's mansion.
"How is she?"
"She's doing fine, the bullet went straight through her shoulder blade. The wound started to mend themselves and we were able to break the bones again and reset them."
"Sounds like it hurt."
"She didn't feel a thing." he reached forward and held his goddaughter's hand. "It was scary though, hearing the bones break."
"You of all angels shouldn't be afraid of anything." she still sat stoically watching the sleeping angel in front of her.
"She's my heart, if it has anything to do with her I'd lose my mind." he leaned and kissed Gabriella's knuckles.
"Hmm." she shifted away from him a bit.
"Charmeine, where were you?" Michael turned to her.
"Carrying my things back to my room." she said softly, "I packed last night and left first thing this morning."
"Oh."
"It was for the best. I can't stay somewhere I'm not wanted." Mea said a bit harsher than intended. "It's time for me to go."
"I think you are completely right." he said and watched her leave, "Close the door please."
She slammed the door behind her and Michael sighed in defeat. There were times when he wished he knew what went on in everyone's minds. Everyone deserved to be happy.
"Why is she so upset?" Gabriella asked tiredly, she rubbed her eyes, and turned to him.
Michael smiled and tucked hair behind her ears, "Just concerned probably."
Gabriella looked around the room and laid her head back on her pillow, "Where is Troy?"
"I don't know, he couldn't stay because he was in pain and had to go. You'll see him soon."
"Why was he in pain?"
"He's not allowed here don't you know?"
"Right." Gabriella sighed and fiddled with the IV coming from her arm. Then she finally tugged at it and it popped out of her arm. "Don't do that."
"I got to find Troy. He's in trouble." Gabriella swung her feet over the side of the bed.
"Gabriella you are hurt, he left you here to get better and told Gabriel to bring you back to the house." Michael shook his head watching her, "You're thinking irrationally, Troy is fine."
Gabriella turned with deep violet eyes, "Don't tell me what's irrational, Michael." The long white shirt she had on barely came past her thigh.
"Something is wrong I feel it." She rubbed her stomach, trying to settle a sick feeling that came over her.
Something wasn't right. She began to sway and fell backwards on her behind.
"Oh, come back to bed, love." Michael helped her up, "Troy can handle himself, we're talking about the monster Abaddon."
"Don't call him a monster." she said drowsily.
"He's what nightmares are made out of, Azrael. There is no other word." he grinned.
Too tired to defend Troy's honor, Gabriella fell back on the warm pillows on the bed. Michael took his seat again and sat back watching her fall back asleep.
He stared at the swell of her stomach and his eyes widened. No wonder Gabriella had felt such an attachment to Troy, it made him wonder if they knew.
Gabriel had never realized how heavy an angel could be until he had to fly light years with his little sister in his arms.
He landed and began to run towards the house and knocked on the door. "Gabriella, wake up."
"I'm awake." she said pressing her face closer into Gabriel's neck. He chuckled and knocked again. Mid knock Troy flung the door open and took Gabriella out of his arms. Gabriel shook his head at Troy's eagerness and followed them both up the stairs. When Troy finally laid Gabriella in the bed, Troy and Gabriel shared a look and Gabriel finally spoke up.
"How long have you known?"
"Noticed this morning."
"Does she know?"
"She doesn't have a clue. I'm waiting."
They both turned to look at her. She had fell into a deep sleep and Gabriel looked up to see a soft smile on Troy's face. "The time is coming Abaddon."
"I'm not worried, everything is falling into place." he said still staring down at his lover.
"I hope you know what you're doing, Troy." Gabriel shook his head.
"Trust me."
Gabriel nodded and turned to leave, "I'll write."
"Good night, Gabriel."
Troy waited until he heard the front door close and lock behind Gabriel and climbed into bed with Gabriella. He wrapped his arms around her waist protectively and placed kisses around the frame of her face and on her neck.
She began to stir and she smiled and spoke, "Troy."
"Hello, beautiful." he chuckled, "How are you?"
"Feeling a lot better. They said it's almost gone, just give it a few hours." she buried herself in his arms and then looked up and kissed his chin.
"By morning, baby. Sleep the drugs out of your system and we'll talk in the morning."
Her eyes popped open, she wasn't sure what woke her up exactly but she suddenly felt a bit sick. She slowly unwrapped Troy's arms and then noticed something vital was missing from his attire. The key.
She began to look down to see if he had put it on her or if the strap broke and tangled in the sheet. She stood and began to panic. What really woke her up?
She shook Troy but the shoulder, "Troy, wheres the key?"
He groaned, touché his neck and sighed, "Somewhere."
She left the room in haste and looked around the house, picking up her dagger and shoving it in her slipper then running out into the woods on instinct. Troy's t-shirt began to rise up and uncover her panty clad body and she realized she should have put on more clothes. And there it was, the key dangling on a branch, glowing from the jewels covering it.
She ran towards it watching the shadows and wrapped her hand around it before she was knocked to the ground. She stood quickly ready to fight and was knocked again but instead into the tree. Two separate cackling laughters emerged and she looked around seeing the key was a few feet before her she reached down and grabbed it, but fell face first.
"Show yourself coward!" she said wiping the blood from her nose.
A dark mist appeared in front of her and she began to stand facing it. "You want to fight? We can fight."
She suddenly felt the same anger and violent sickness she felt when she was fighting Mea and pulled the dagger from her shoe ready to use it.
The mist began to solidify into a carcass of dead flesh, faces appearing where faces should not, a putrid smell filling the air.
She threw the first punch but was quickly thrown in the air and tackled to the ground.
"You are a brave little bitch." the putrid breath and decaying liquid of the human body began to fall all over her face and she shoved them off and drove her dagger into one of the faces.
Then the personification of the VEROS-LYKKAH vanished and appeared standing above her then ran.
She chased after it but soon lost track and saw it had dropped the key on its way. She grabbed it and flew back to the house; tired and bruised she found her way up the stairs and dropped the key on the night table.
"Where did you go?" Troy pierced the darkness with his voice.
"To find your key." she entered the bathroom and looked into the mirror. Her usual brown eyes were a solid black she felt like she was peering into her own eye sockets.
Troy appeared behind her and seemed almost alarmed. He placed his hand on her arm, unable to look away from her image in the mirror and traced a trail to her hand and pulled her from the bathroom.
"Come back to bed."
When Blue hopped up on the bed, he sniffed around and mewled at his owners, who were sleeping like the dead. Troy jumped up and rolled his eyes.
"Dumb cat, don't you know not to wake anyone up at the wee hours in the morning?" he grumbled, he felt drained.
Rolling over he threw his legs over the side of the bed and stood and stretched before scooping the cat up in his hand and walking out the room. "Can't believe you have me up at this hour of day." he rubbed at his eyes and put the cat down on the kitchen floor before checking the food in the bowl and the litter box. When everything seemed fine, he glared at the cat and sighed before reaching down and petting it's head. "I'm such a wimp, I can't even yell at you."
When he stood and turned he smiled at Gabriella, who stood at the doorway as tired as he was, and took in her appearance. She had her hair loose and flowing and her skin a bit more pale than he was used to, purple eyes with dark bags underneath them, toes painted a dark pink which matched her chipping fingernails, and a glow that seemed to radiate off her entire body.
"Why are you up?" he asked coming around the kitchen island to greet her.
"You weren't there." she said in soft whisper.
He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her forehead then pulled back. "Come on lets go."
She reached up on her tip toes and kissed the hollow of his throat. "If we go back, I don't want to sleep."
Troy chuckled, "Yeah?"
She nodded and smiled before running up the stairs and into the bedroom, Troy followed suit and closed the door behind him. She raised her night gown over her head and Troy stood stuck to the wall, staring and unbelieving.
"What?" she asked with a baffled look.
Troy swallowed hard and bit his lip, canines extended and holding his breath.
Why is Troy in shock?
Rachelle
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