19 Days Until Extermination...
"There's another target that I'm after," Arackniss said, before aiming his gun at Anna's head. "I'm actually here for you."
"Are you kidding me, right now?!" Anna shouted. Neither Alastor nor Angel moved, fearing that Arackniss would fire the gun before they could get to her in time.
"Who hired you?" Alastor asked.
"Who else, do ya think? The big headed TV and pimp rat," Arackniss told him.
"Vox and Val?" Angel smirked and snickered. "Huh, I guess they're still pretty pissed."
"Well, pissed or not, I've still got a job to do," Arackniss finger was almost pressing slightly on the trigger, ready to go off.
Alastor saw his shadow appeared behind Arackniss, underneath him, waiting.
"Well, then, you're going to fail miserably," Alastor snapped his fingers, signaling to someone one. Arackniss noticed that something was up.
"What the hell are you talking about?-" Alastor's shadow grabbed Arackniss by his feet, making him lose his balance, firing the gun off in the air, instead. Quickly, Angel tackled him down onto the ground and knocked the gun from out of his brother's hand. He used his arms to pin Arackniss down.
"Get off of me, Anthony!"
Angel laughed. "How does it feel to be on the bottom?"
However, Arackniss freed an extra pair of his arms and punched Angel right in the chest, right where his unhealed injury was. Angel groaned and stumbled back. Arackniss got up but was subdued by Alastor's shadow as it wrapped around him.
"Let me go!" Arackniss growled, struggling to break out from the shadow's grip. Anna noticed that there was something wrong with Angel.
"Angel?" she asked concerned. He started to sway a little as everything he saw was spinning violently around around him. Angel felt his chest starting to burn more and more as if it was on fire. Anna screamed as she and Alastor saw the spider demon fall onto the ground.
"Angel!" Anna shouted and ran over to him, as did Alastor, confused. Arackniss watched, confused as well. Anna tried to shake Angel awake but received no response from him. Alastor noticed that Angel was gripped his chest tightly with his hand. Anna looked down to where he was looking at as well and pulled Angel's hand away from his chest and buttoned his suit. Alastor's and Anna's eyes widened as they saw Angel's injury.
"I thought that it was healed?!" Anna shouted, worried. She turned to Alastor who looked troubled as well. "I thought you said that if a demon was struck with a exterminator's weapon it'll take awhile for them to heal. It's been past a week!"
"It is true that I said that but, I didn't know the severity of this," Alastor told her.
"He's dying," Arackniss told them.
"Don't say that!" Anna shouted at him. "That's your brother and you don't care for him? No wonder he doesn't talk about you!"
"That selfish bastard left us! If anyone's to blame it's him!" Arackniss shouted.
"Angel only took those drugs to escape from his mafia life! He wanted no part in it!" Anna shouted at him. Arackniss frowned, staring at her silently.
"Let's go back to the hotel and ask the angel for some explanation for this," Alastor told Anna.
"What do we do about him?" Anna asked, pointed at Angel's brother. Alastor smirked which sent a cold shiver down Arackniss spine.
"We'll take him with us, of course!" Alastor answered.
Alastor and Anna walked into the hotel, supporting Angel as they did. Alastor's shadow was dragging Arackniss still bound to it, following them inside. The spider's face was sliding on the floor, scuffed up with road burns and scratches as well. Husk saw the two as they came in.
"Al, is that you? You look different?" He said before he noticed Angel right away and immediately swooped right in front of Alastor and Anna, landing right in front of them.
"What the hell happened?!" Husk demanded. Then he noticed Angel's brother lying on the floor behind the two. "Did you do this?" He growled.
"What's with all of the shouting?" Vaggie asked as she and Charlie walked into the lobby along with Niffty and Baxter and Michael. They noticed Alastor's new look, and didn't recognize him.
"Al?" Charlie said in disbelief.
"I can't believe what I'm seeing?" Vaggie asked, in disbelief as well. "Is that you?"
Then the group noticed Angel who was unresponsive in their arms.
"Angel?" Charlie asked when she noticed that something was wrong. "What happened to him?"
"He just collapsed right after his brother punched him," Anna started to explain.
"You bastard!" Husk shouted, ready to assault Arackniss. But, Alastor's shadow held him back.
"And that's not all, it seems that our dear Angel has been keeping a secret from us," Alastor explained to the group. "His injury, that Gabriel inflicted on him, as not been healed."
"WHAT?!" Charlie and Vaggie both exclaimed at the same time, shocked. Niffty clutched Baxter's hand tightly, both startled by the news as well. Michael had an unsettling look on his face.
"Can't you do something?" Anna asked Michael. "Can you help him?" Everyone turned him waiting for an answer.
"It is something that is out of my power to do," he told them.
"Then what good are you?!" Husk growled, frustrated.
"Husk, calm down. There's no point in getting angry," Anna told him.
"No point? Angel's fucking dying over there and there's nothing that can be done!" Husk shouted at her. "I have a right to be angry!"
"Husker, I am going to ask you to calm down as well," Alastor warned him. "Unless you want to be in "his" situation as well?" Then gestured over to Arackniss, still lying on the ground bound by his shadow, who was pulling out some of his furry hair.
"You bastard," Husk growled at him. Alastor smirked.
"Try me and find out," He taunted. Charlie turned her head towards Michael.
"Come on! There's gotta be something!" she asked him desperately. "ANYTHING!?"
"Well, there's one thing that could work," Michael mumbled. "But, no, it'll be a miracle."
"What?" Anna asked.
"Does he have any relatives?" Michael asked.
"Well, he's his brother," Anna pointed out to Arackniss on the floor. "Angel has a twin sister but he doesn't' know where she's at."
"Any other relatives?" Michael asked.
"There is one." Arackniss answered. Everyone turned to him, staring at him silently. "If you let me go, I'll call him in."
Alastor laughed. "Right, do you think that we're dim witted to fall for that?"
"Let him go." Anna told him. Alastor's eyes widened and he quickly turned to her.
"What?! No! Are you crazy?" He shook his head. "Have you forgotten what he was going to do to you earlier?"
"If this is the only way to help Angel, then I'll take it," Anna told him. Alastor stared at her for a moment then sighed. He snapped his fingers, signaling for the shadow to release Angel's brother.
"Glad that we came to an agreement," Arackniss said, rubbing his wrists. "I'll make the call now." He reached into his suit and pulled out his phone and dialed it. It rang a few minutes before it was picked up.
"Pops, I didn't do the job. BUT, if you let me finish, it's Angel...I need you to come over. He doesn't have much time. "
Later that evening, Angel was placed on a bed while everyone gathered around in the room watching for amy signs of improvement. But, nothing. In fact, he was getting worse. The injury had started to spread throughout the spider's chest growing bigger and bigger with each passing minute. It was purifying him from the inside out. Baxter had been monitoring him, trying to slow the process.
"What's taking him so long?!" Husk demanded, snapping his towards Angel's brother. Arackniss was leaning against the wall on the far side of the room away from everyone.
"He'll be here." He replied. Soon enough, someone came in through the door and stepped into the room, along with Charlie and Vaggie who showed him in.
"Nice of you to finally show up, Henroin." Angel's brother remarked. Henroin narrowed his eyes at him, glaring at him until he saw Angel on the bed.
"What's that son of a bitch done got himself into now?" He questioned in a dark gruff voice.
Heroin looked a lot like angel and his brother but more fluffier and furrier hair covered throughout his entire body and was a lighter shade of grey. He was tall in height and had a bulky body structure, long dark wispy eyebrows. The spider was wearing a dark grey fedora and tie and suit that had some hair sticking out through it. Apart from Angel and Arackniss, their father had four arms and four legs but a long scorpion tail protruded from behind him.
Michael stepped up to him. "Good! I'm glad that you're here!" He smiled. "Now we can begin with the process!"
Heroin glared at the angel with a dirty look. "Who the hell are you?"
"Uh," Michael stammered nervously. He backed up feeling intimated by Heroin's gaze that he was giving him. Charlie stepped in to help him.
"His name is Michael. He's my uncle and we need your help," She explained. "Angel is dying from his injury that was caused by an exterminator."
"That's right! And I need you and your other son to help," Michael finished.
"What do we have to do?" Arackniss questioned.
"Talk to him." Michael replied. Both Angel's brother and his father gave the angel baffled and disbelief looks.
"Are you shitting me right now?" Heroin growled in annoyance.
"No! Not at all!" Michael smiled.
"Just do it, please!" Anna insisted. "He's my friend. He's important to me and I can't lose him!" Both Arackniss and Heroin sighed. The two of them walked over to the bedside standing next to Angel.
"Hey, screw-up, I don't know if you can hear me but you better snap out of this," Heroin started.
"'Tony, got a lot of people here who are you and I don't know why they would. But, they need you to wake up and fight this..." Arackniss felt his eyes starting to burn. He hated to feel weak in front of pops. But, this was like an instant flashback back when they were alive.
We can't lose you again.
All Angel saw was darkness as it consumed him. He felt numb and paralyzed. He couldn't move his arms and legs. So, this is it then... As he felt himself drifting farther and farther, Angel heard voices that he couldn't quite make out what they were saying.
"You can't go out like this!"
"I need you!"
"Don't leave us!"
"We're losing him!"
"Angel!"
Angel frowned as he wished that the annoying voices would shut up. But, they kept on getting louder and louder.
"Anthony!" Angel heard someone call out to him. He felt someone grabbing his hands. Angel opened his eyes. He was shocked to see a female spider, but also appeared human somewhat, in front of him, who looked identical to him. Her hair was in a pony tail with a headband, bigger eyes with pink spots, like his, under hers. She was wearing a dark padded suit with sleeves that extended to the palms of her upper hands, pink and white stripped gloves, boots and leggings.
"Molly!?" Angel stared at her in disbelief and in shock. "Is that you?"
"Who else would it be, Tony?" She smiled.
"I can't believe this," Angel stammered, still in shock. "How? Where were you? Where are we? Where am i?! Oh no, is this double hell?!" He screamed. Angel was met with a sharp sting as Molly slapped him.
"Whatcha do that for?!" Angel hissed, rubbing his cheek.
"You were panicking," His sister told him. "No, this isn't double hell. We're in purgatory."
"You've been here this entire time?" Angel questioned. "Why? Why didn't you come and find me? Or any of us?"
"Believe me, I wanted to, but I couldn't," Molly told him. "I was told to wait here for you. And now you're here! We can go see mom!" She smiled and hugged him tightly. Angel frowned, confused.
"Wait, who told you that?" He questioned.
"I did." A calm voice echoed in the darkness. Suddenly, Angel and Molly were both engulfed by a bright light. Angel quickly hugged Molly not letting go off of her, while she did the same, scared to lose each other again. As the two opened their eyes and adjusted to the light, they looked around to see that they were in a giant golden mansion. The two saw outside other buildings made out of gold and clouds.
"Where are we?" Angel murmured.
"Where else would you be?" The two heard the same calm voice again. They looked up and both were taken back to see a tall strange man staring down at them, as he sat on a throne, smiling. He almost looked alien, pale, beautiful, pristine white skin, but also human, aside from no nose. He was wearing a white top hat and a white suit with golden linings and gloves. Multiple eyes stared down at the two twins, watching them.
"We have a lot to talk about."