Strange things do happen

Strange things do happen

Chapter 2

You won't understand any of this if you haven't read the first part.

Rezuiel the soul Guardian

Raziel lay back and let Rezuiel finish bandaging his burns. The gentle pressure of the bandages and heat of the oil was actually comforting, rather than being painful as Rezuiel had said.

"That's them all" said Rezuiel

"Thank-you Rezuiel"

"Now lay back and get some rest. If you need anything just yell other wise I'll be back in a couple of hours to change your bandages" said Rezuiel as she disappeared round the door frame leaving the door open.

Raziel closed his eyes trying to get some sleep but found he couldn't, not while his brothers and clan would be worried about him.

"Rezuiel" shouted Raziel

"Yes" replies Rezuiel

"That was quick" said a shocked Raziel

"I was walking passed" Says Rezuiel as she walks into the room. Raziel can see that she has a bandage round her right arm.

"Is your arm broken?" asks a worried Raziel ~She's done so much for me and I repay her by breaking her arm~

"No, Just sprained. What did you want?"

~That's a relief thought I still feel bad about hurting her~

"Raziel, you ok?" asks Rezuiel waving her hand in front of his face

"Oh Yes sorry, I wanted to know if there was any way of contacting my brothers and clan, I can't rest knowing that they are worried about me"

"The only thing I could thick of is for me to take a message, but darkness needs some rest… I could fly there and deliver it myself, plus they wouldn't be able to follow me back" replies a thoughtful Rezuiel.

"Could you, but if your going to be in any danger then don't do it. You've done enough for me already" replies a cautious but hopeful Raziel.

"Do any of the vampires in the clans have wings?" inquired Rezuiel.

"No" Replied a puzzled Raziel

"Then I'll be fine I can always fly away if there's any trouble, Besides they'll all be inside due to the rain. You Write the message while I go get ready" says Rezuiel trying to reassure both Raziel and herself. ~Raziel's the first vampire that I've met, I'll just have to act the same as I do with him and hope it works~

Rezuiel hands him a piece of paper and a pen before grabbing her jacket and leaving the room.

TO: LOARD KAIN, MY BRETHEN AND MY CLAN

I AM STILL ALIVE, AND AM UNDER THE CARE OF REZUIEL STAR A SHAPE SHIFTER VAMPIER CROSS. I WILL BE RETOURNING WITHIN A WEEK OR TWO AFTER MY WOUNDS HAVE HEALED. UNFOURTONETLY THE GROUP OF FLEDGLINGS THAT WERE WITH ME HAVE ALL LOST THEIR UN-LIVES THOUGH THEY ALL FOUGHT VALIENTLY. I WILL ELABERATE WHEN I GET BACK.

RAZIEL

"Raziel are you finished" asked Rezuiel as she walked in to the room.

"Just, I can't thank you enough for all the help you've given me" says Raziel handing the piece of paper to her. Rezuiel then tucks it down into a pocket, on the front of the jacket she's wearing, which she then zips up. This jacket is different from the other one; it's made of leather and has two slits in the back, which start just below the shoulders of the jacket and go right down to bottom with the middle part hanging lose. These slits are for her wings to go through and the middle part is held in place by a belt, which goes round her middle through two lopes on either side.

"I'll be back in a couple of hours at the most" Says Rezuiel as she walks out the door. A moment later she sticks her head back around the door frame.

"Erm… Which way do I go?" asks Rezuiel feeling stupid

Raziel laughs and says "Just head north-west from here and you'll come to my clan territory. Take my sigil with you and ask to speak with Metlock, my second in command, show him the sigil and give him the message then he'll take it to Kain and my brothers."

Rezuiel reaches down beside the bed and pulls Raziel's Clan sigil of his shoulder armour; she then wraps it round her neck like a scarf.

"It should be safe there. I'll see you later" Says Rezuiel as she disappears round the doorway again.

"Good luck" Replies Raziel

Rezuiel goes out to the front of her house.

~I hope he'll be all right~

Rezuiel unfurls one of her wings bending, stretching and flapping it, she then repeats the process with the other wing.

~Stiff as hell. I really should try to use them more, it must have been three weeks since I last flew~

Rezuiel jumps up in to the air and flaps her wings down hard, but quickly falls back down to earth, landing in an undignified heap.

"Let's try that one again, staying up in the air this time" She says to no-one but herself

~I need to get higher. Maybe if I act like I'm going to jump out of water, but push of hard with my legs as well, then spared my wings as wide as I can. I just might catch enough air to keep me air-borne~

This time Rezuiel crouches down, and pushing as hard as she could, with both her legs and her wings, she shoots in to the air. Then spearing her wings as wide as they can go they catch the air and she feels the reassuring sensation of the skin on her wings being pulled tight by the wind. Rezuiel then beets her wings up and down again gaining altitude, she then pulls the tips of her in a little to control the rate of her accent and just keeps flapping them. She keeps on gaining altitude until she is a good three hundred meters above the ground. In the distance she sees the castle like structure of Raziel's clan territory.

~That must be the place~

Spearing her wings out wide again Rezuiel increases her pace eager to get out of the bad weather and back to Raziel.

Back at Rezuiel's home

Now Raziel felt even worse than before, though he didn't doubt Rezuiel's abilities, the weather was horrendous.
~So now I'm worried about Rezuiel as well. I shouldn't, she can take care of herself… so why can't I shake this horrible feeling.~

Raziel sits up straining, the burns contorting painfully.

"My territory isn't far from here, she should be back soon. I should just take her advice and get some rest" He says out loud trying to reassure himself.

Raziel lies back down, closes his eyes and slowly drifts of to sleep. Wishing he was back in his own territory, or that at least Rezuiel was here.

In the air

Using one of the updrafts that are common in the area, Rezuiel soars another three hundred meters into the air. All of a sudden a gust of wind finds Rezuiel off guard, catching her in the back it knocks all the wind from her wings.

~Oh shit. I should of being concentrating

The ground is coming up to meet her at a dizzying rate of speed, when she senses another updraft, this time from an abandoned mine shaft. She fights the downdraft and manages to push her right wing into the Updraft. This stops her head long decent toward the ground, but causes her to flip over and start to tumble in place. Rezuiel pulls the tip of her left wing into the updraft pulling her entire body into it. After allowing it to take her back up to four hundred meters she angles the front of her wings down and flaps them, breaking out the side of the updraft. After dropping a couple of metres her wing have sufficient air in them to support her weight again, so Rezuiel turns back toward Raziel's territory.

~Well there's the day's excitement over with, better make that the week's excitement over with~

When she's twenty meters away from the castle, Rezuiel pulls up hovering in the air looking for a good place to land.

~This place definitely wasn't designed with me in mind… how selfish of them~

Rezuiel chuckles at her own sarcastic remark when he next thing she knows an arrow is skimming the air next to her head…

To be continued…

Well that's it for chapter 2 a bit short I know but the next part will be longer. But they say it quality not quantity. Well give me your views good or bad… until next time!

susan@sdunnicliff.freeserve.co.uk

Rezuiel the Soul Guardian