Hey Guys!
So I'm updating a little earlier this time because I have a lot going on in the next couple of weeks. I will try to squeeze another update in there too but it may not be for 8-10 days so please be patient.
I have a lot going on with the DJ stuff at the moment, I have clubs in Perth interested in my stuff plus I've been nominated for a music festival in Perth next month. So my laptop time is going less into writing and more into DJ stuff, sorry. Have to get a set prepped for the next month. I have been getting some questions too which is awesome, all I can tell you is there is a big twist at the end and it has to do with a reoccuring thing in the story, I won't say if it's a person or a word or a moment. I can tell you however that Hael, is a lot more than just a nickname for Chloe and Beca, it is a life raft to stop Beca from going off the edge and it keeps Chloe innocent. So for those who think Chloe is an angel, she isn't, she is just a normal human. It will pop up more as more starts to happen, and Beca will need everything she has to get over what happens after the twist.
Also I wanted to reiterate that the League of Angels assassins are given angel names so Amitiel's real name is Chloe, Azrael is Beca and so on. You will find out another angel's real name soon, know who? Let me know!
Anyways, worked out who the Rogue is yet? Is it Amitiel? Or is Beca being tricked? I can say that this Rogue has it out for Beca, so it is personal and it has to do with the twist and the reoccuring thing. That's all I will give you sorry but if you really want to know, the answer is throughout the story, just re-read and look for it.
Oh, also let's just say that the Bellas find out about Beca in this chapter, and when I say find out, I mean everything. How will they all react? How will Chloe react?
Beca wakes up with a groan, her arms still chained to the post. She feels Chloe's stare on her and looks up to meet the cerulean blue eyes of the redhead. Black spots danced in Beca's vision and Chloe saw that she had a black eye. All the girls quiver away when Raphael enters the room, walking up to Mary Elise's cage. Haniel and Raziel come in and open up the cage and pull Mary Elise out, not faltering when the girls start to cry out and Beca thrashes around as they chain Mary Elise to the ground.
"No! Let her go!" Beca yells as Raziel and Haniel move on Beca. They undo her chains and she drops to the ground. A knife is dropped next to her by Raphael. He kneels down next to the fellow assassin.
"Do what needs to be done Azrael." Raphael says as he steps away from her and grabs the flogger out of Raziel's hand before slashing it across the ground, making all the girls and Beca jump in place. Aubrey, Stacie and Chloe all fear for both girls, but Beca in particular.
"Take her life Azrael." Raphael commands and Beca picks up the knife, turning to her brother in arms.
"No." Beca replies as she throws the knife toward Raphael but he catches it and starts to laugh.
"I didn't think that would work. Raziel. Haniel." Raphael smiles as the two guards grab Beca and tear off her shirt and all the Bellas gasp as they finally see all of the scars coating her arms, legs, abdomen and back. It was then that they realized that this had been done to her for years, Stacie bows her head knowing that Beca was brainwashed and tortured into being an assassin for the group and Beca didn't even realize. Chloe took extra notice of how muscular Beca was under all the scars, a clear defined six pack and built up biceps, her shoulders clearly had been put through the brunt of her abuse but she still managed to look after them, they were toned, curling as her arms rotated. Chloe couldn't help but feel turned on by Beca's body however that feeling changes to despair and worry as Raphael strikes the flogger down across Beca's back. Beca cries out in pain but remembers quickly what she has to do. The flogger strikes her back again and she whimpers, closing her eyes. She knew that Raphael and Michael wanted her emotions off again so she could finish the girls. Raphael flogs her again and again she whimpers, not giving her leaders the satisfaction of having their weapon back.
"Azrael. You and I have been siblings for eleven years. The League has been your family. We know who you are. 'Ant malak almawt (You are the Angel of Death.)" Raphael tries to speak to Beca but Beca just looks up and glares.
"'Ana eizrayiyl lm yaeid. (I am Azrael no longer.)" Beca replies and this brings a dark look to Raphael's face. The Bellas also see the face and cower in fear.
"Very well, but you will be Azrael again. Put the girl back in the cage and bring Azrael with me." Raphael says as he leaves. Haniel and Raziel put Mary Elise back in her cage and grab Beca by the arms.
"Stacie, tell them everything, including your dad, Denise and the Beales. It was me." Beca cries out as she is taken away, the Bellas all look to Stacie who drops her head, Beca killed her father but she knew that her father was a bad person, she knew that he probably did something bad to get onto the League's kill list. She had studied the League's ways, they only killed people that were doing bad things in the world. She also knew that Beca was not expecting any of them including her to make it out of the place alive.
"Stacie, what was Beca talking about?" Aubrey asks and Stacie looks down the cages to all the girls. She looks deep into Aubrey's jade green eyes before taking a deep breath.
"Beca is… Beca is an assassin for the League of Angels." Stacie confesses and Chloe goes into shock. Everything she had learned about in history, everything Beca had told her to pay attention to in class was about her.
"Azrael." She lets out and all the girls including Stacie look to her.
"All this time, Beca knew all of this amazing stuff about the so-called myth, the League of Angels, but she knew so much because it wasn't a myth, she was the myth. She is Azrael, the deadliest assassin of all time. She has killed countless amounts of people, no one has the exact number but they say it's hundreds." Chloe remembers back to her history class.
"She mentioned your dad, Denise and Chloe's parents, why?" Jessica pipes in and Stacie feels tears in her eyes before looking directly to Chloe.
"It was her. She killed them. The League ordered her to do it." Stacie says in a low, sad voice and Chloe loses focus of everything around her, replaying what Stacie had said in her mind. It was her. She killed them. It was her. She killed them. It then dawned on her. The girl that she was in love with killed her parents. Beca was an assassin and killed her parents.
"Chloe I'm so-." Stacie tries but Chloe cuts her off by putting her hand up, seeing that hand instantly shut her up. None of Bellas spoke but they all turned when they heard Beca screech from down the hall.
Beca takes a shaky breath before whimpering again, pulling against the chains holding her to the post.
"Turn it off Azrael." Michael orders and Beca considers it knowing how much pain she is in. She looks down at the knife stuck in her thigh.
"No." Beca replies and Michael scowls. He turns to Haniel and nods his head. Haniel opens the door and none other than James and Evelyn Beale walk into the chamber. Beca has to shut her eyes and reopen them just to be sure it's them.
"No, that's impossible. I… I killed you both. How is this possible?" Beca asks, looking to Michael, instead of a verbal reply, James Beale steps forward and plunges another knife into Beca's shoulder. Beca screams out in pain again followed by a punch to the face.
"Zaapiel." Michael says and James Beale stops his assault on Beca. She remembers back to what Amitiel said to her. 'They were named Lilith and Lucifer. Their names in the League were Puriel and Zaapiel. They were Michael's closest friends and his punishers before Raziel and Haniel. Their names literally mean angels of punishment!'
"Amitiel was right. You're Puriel and Zaapiel. Lucifer and Lilith. You killed Chloe's parents and disguised yourselves as them. It wasn't me." Beca breathes out as her whole world comes crashing down. If Amitiel was telling the truth about this, she would have been right about everything else and Beca killed her for it. Everything starts to fall into place.
"You wanted me to kill James Beale so the US started a war with Israel. You're trying to take the Prime Minister out and start World War 3 and with the League all out in position, they can take out the world's leaders." Beca works out and Michael looks to her.
"You really aren't as stupid as you look. Get the water. Move her to the table. Time to rebuild Azrael from the ashes." Michael says to Raphael, Zaapiel and Puriel. The seconds do as they are ordered by their leader, moving Beca to the table and strapping her down. Raphael stands behind her head with a wet towel while Puriel stands next to her with a bucket of water. Michael bends down and whispers in Beca's ear.
"I just wanted you to switch your humanity back off but now I'm going to rip it from you, piece by piece and you will kill every single one of your friends then I will make you kill the one who holds your heart, Chloe." Michael whispers and Beca starts to thrash around, showing she still had fight left in her. Michael begins to laugh before nodding to the two assassins. Raphael puts the towel over Beca's head and Puriel pours water, waterboarding the young assassin. Beca tries to breath but all that enters her lungs is water. She feels the darkness come back inside her, she wanted all the pain and torture to stop but her heart kept her fighting as it was Chloe who had it, not the League. They gave Beca ten seconds to cough out the water and take a few breathes before repeating, every time Beca feeling closer to what Michael wanted.
2 days later:
Aubrey looked down at her watch, Beca had been gone for 2 days and the blonde worried that she wouldn't see the small brunette again. Chloe had not spoken since Stacie had told them all about Beca. Stacie was quiet too, worried severely about her best friend. The Bellas had heard Beca's screams every so often over the 2 days and couldn't help but wonder if they had killed her. Right on queue, the doors open and Raphael walks in with Haniel, Raziel and Beca. Raphael points to Mary Elise in the cage and Raziel and Haniel pulls her out, Raphael handing a knife to Beca who spins it around in her hand. Stacie, Chloe and Aubrey all notice the cuts, bruises and marks that were the result of electrocution. They knew Beca had been tortured and they all felt terrible.
"Beca, please." Mary Elise begs, her eyes meeting Beca's but Beca's storm blue eyes just stare straight through her.
"Beca mitshil mat. 'ana eizrayiyl. (Beca Mitchell is dead. I am Azrael.)" Azrael says before plunging the knife straight into the centre of Mary Elise's chest. All the girls cry out, some from shock, some from sadness. Azrael lets go of the body and it falls to the ground.
"Alssamah laha bialmurur bisalam niran alhukm. arqud fi salam. (Allow her to peacefully pass the fires of judgement. Rest in Peace.)" Azrael says as she turns and leaves the room, leaving the girls to figure out what just happened and what had Beca become.
Stacie and Aubrey stare down at Mary Elise's body on the ground.
"I can't believe Beca killed her. She didn't even hesitate, she just did it." Aubrey says and Stacie looks to her.
"Beca is not Beca anymore. She is Azrael. They managed to do it. They brainwashed her again just like they did eleven years ago when they took her in." Stacie replies and all the attention of the Bellas falls on her, including Chloe.
"I'm sorry about Denise and Chloe, I'm sorry about your parents but this wasn't Beca's fault. This group took her in when her family died, they brainwashed and tortured her into becoming this weapon for them. She's been this way for eleven years, do you honestly expect that she would drop all of this for us? People that she has known for a few months. Beca killed my dad but I don't blame her. My dad was a criminal and probably deserved it, I didn't know what he did but I knew that it was obviously bad enough to get on an assassin's hit list. Denise's father was a criminal too, the League don't allow witnesses to live, Denise may have seen something and Chloe." Stacie starts trying to work through this in her head. Chloe stares directly at Stacie.
"Beca is so in love with you that she was trying to push you away because she knew this would happen. I confronted her after Semis and she said something like this to me. She said she hasn't cared about anyone more than she cares about you but that you deserve better than someone like her, you deserve to be with someone whom is as selfless as you are, someone who is as kind, caring and nurturing as you are. Someone who knows and appreciates your middle name like she always has. Someone who knows that watching all the crime and evil in the world breaks your heart. She said she was that evil, she said you deserve someone worth your grace, not an assassin who kills people hoping to change the world when really she is just making it worse." Stacie adds and it brings tears to Chloe's eyes. The redhead couldn't believe what she had just heard from her friend. Stacie hugs her knees back into her chest, resting her head on her knees to try and get some sleep.
"I'm sorry about your dad." Stacie hears Chloe whisper out, just loud enough for the brunette to hear.
"I'm sorry about your parents." Stacie replies before putting her head back down and closing her eyes and dozing off.
Sooooo... Please try very hard not to kill me. The Bellas needed to see Azrael for the first time, okay? So yeah don't kill me.
Also Beca knows Chloe's parents were really killed earlier by Zaapiel and Puriel and they took their place. Will she tell Chloe or will she let Chloe be mad because she thinks she deserves it? What do you guys think?
Let me know in your reviews and any questions that can be answered without ruining the story will be answered if you include them in your reviews.
See you next time guys where the next chapter will end on a cliffhanger. SORRY!
