Strange things do happen…
Chapter 3
Rezuiel darted to the left startled by the arrow. Just after that another arrow slices through the air heading for Rezuiel's right wing. Acting on instinct she pulls both her wings in. Realising that she could turn her mistake in to an advantage she keeps her wings pulled in allowing herself to plummet toward the ground. Waiting until she is about 10 meters above the ground she unfurls her wings and flaps them down hard shooting herself back into the air, only just avoiding another group of arrows.
~Well at leased I've got one thing in my favour it stopped raining… then again that's good for them as well~
Zigzagging as she ascends she pulls up to a good height and flies back and fourth in random patterns.
~I need to get passed them to get in to the main building~
Another arrow slices the air next to her right side.
~I need to move faster, then they won't be able to target me~
Rezuiel pulls up and hovers for a moment before curling in her wings in a planned move. This time as she gets closer to the ground she opens her wings at an angel and doesn't flap them this allows her to glide at quite a high speed and low to the ground. She can hear the muffled thump of arrows hitting the rain soaked ground.
~They're still too close, need to move faster~
As she gets closer to the wall of Raziel's stronghold she calls up her shield by holding her arm out in front of her and saying the word wisdom. She pulls away from the ground and flies straight up the castle wall, using the shield to deflect any arrows, she reaches the top of the wall and over shoots it. But because the shield only covers her body from the front her wings are now exposed and the archers take advantage of this letting off a barrage of arrows. Fortunately or unfortunately only 2 of the arrows strike home, both in Rezuiel's right wing. The sudden pain causes her to drop down landing behind the archers.
~Gods I shouldn't of left my wings unguarded~
One of the guards pulls a sword out of its sheath and moves toward Rezuiel.
"Please don't, I bring news of Raziel" she yells pulling Raziel's sigil from round her neck. Upon seeing this, the guard stops.
"What do you know of Lord Raziel, how do we know you didn't kill him" the guard asks tensely.
"Look I'm only trying to help" Rezuiel says as she reaches to get the message out of her pocket seeing her move the guard tenses and moves to ward her. "Wait I'm only getting a message from Raziel"
But it was too late the guard had already made the move to attack her. As Rezuiel dodges out of the way the message, sticking half way out of her pocket falls to the ground landing by Raziel's sigil. As she gets to her feet she wills herself to change form. The guards watch as her form shifts, her hands become fists and then paws, the legs shorten, her feet shrink back into paws, her knees move to bend in the opposite direction, and her face changes to become that of a wolf. The jacket she was wearing also changed shape to fit her new form.
"Give that to Metlock and tell him that I'm Rezuiel"
Rezuiel runs past the startled looking guards and jumps over the wall using her left wing to semi-glide to the ground. As she lands she stumbles, after composing her self she moves off, Her injured right wing dragging along the floor kicking up a small trail of dust and leaving a small amount of white blood.
"Sir shall I stop her?"
"No let her go, you are in charge while I take this to commander Metlock."
1 Back at Rezuiel's home
Raziel suddenly jumps awake as a sharp stabbing pain assaults him.
"What the… argh" Raziel cries startled by the first pain then by a second.
The pain felt like it was coming from… his… wings.
"What…?" he had to look round and see if he had wings, the pain felt that real.
"If it wasn't me then… it must be Rezuiel!" Raziel pulls himself in to a sitting position "REZUIEL ARE YOU HOME" he yells
~Oh gods they must have attacked her… she had my sigil they shouldn't have. Unless they thought she attacked me and the others, then took my sigil as a trophy~
Turning to look out the window he hopes to see her either on the ground or in the air, instead all he can see is the thunderstorm starting to rage again.
"Please Rezuiel hurry back… let me know that you're OK," Raziel says out loud hoping that it will help.
Back with Rezuiel
Rezuiel can see her home in the distance. Knowing that she needs to bandage her wing she manages to find a little more speed, she still hadn't removed the arrows and the kept catching on things, but she couldn't as that would increase the amount of blood she was losing.
~I'll have to ask Raziel to help me remove the arrows, if I pull them out myself I could tare the wounds, make them even worse~
Rezuiel's legs give out as on of the arrows catches on a low lying branch, she only allows herself to lay there a second then forces to get up and carry on.
~Homes not far now I can rest when I get there. It's warm and dry and Raziel is there~
Rezuiel allows her mind to wander to this handsome stranger. She liked him she couldn't deny that, and she also liked the fact that he hadn't attacked her when the first met.
~Then again he hadn't been in any state to move let alone attack me. I hope he doesn't change his mind when he gets well~
Rezuiel hadn't been concentrating and therefor hadn't realised that she was home, her mind was that far away that she almost ran into her front gate.
As she steps through she pulls herself on to her back legs and shifts back into her humanoid form.
~Home at last~
As she looks to the room where Raziel is supposed to be sleeping, she sees he is looking out the window his face showing concern.
2 In the house
~She's home I must have been wrong~
Raziel hears the front door open then close and a tired looking Rezuiel comes in, her right wing hanging down while her left one is curled up.
"Are you OK?" she asks Raziel
"Yes, but I'm the one that should be asking that question. What happened to you out there, I felt as though I was being stabbed in the wing even though I don't have any."
"Your guards thought I'd make good target practice." Rezuiel replies turning to show Raziel her right wing "I need your help to get these arrows out."
"Me!" asks a startled Raziel
"Yes, you" Replies Rezuiel
"What can I do? I'm not trained as a healer"
"All I need you to do is to remove the arrows, if I try to do it myself I could tare the wounds even more."
"What about after that?" Raziel asks
"Nothing I should be able to clean and bandage the wounds myself. But if I pass out then you'll have to do that as well."
"OK I should be able to handle that." Raziel says unconvinced
"I'll just go and get my things" Rezuiel says as she stands up and leaves the room again.
~This is just grate~ Raziel starts berating himself ~First I fall on her and nearly break her arm, then ask her to take a message, tell her she'll be safe and get her shot ~ Raziel lays his head in his hands and sighs, when Rezuiel walks in this is how she finds him.
"RAZIEL" she cries moving quickly to his side "Are you OK?"
"No, I don't think I've ever felt worse"
"Why, What's wrong? Maybe I can help." Rezuiel replies concerned
"No, you can't, but I can. I feel bad because all I've done is cause you problems, you'd have been better of if we'd never met"
"What do you mean?"
"Well to start with you bring me here then I fall on you and nearly brake your arm, then I ask you to take a message and you get attacked by my own people. I'm going to make it up to you… I promise" Raziel swears solemnly
"You don't need to do that" Rezuiel starts to say something else but Raziel interrupts her.
"Yes I do."
"No you don't even though all this happened I'm not upset about anything. If it hadn't happened I never would have met you." Rezuiel says kindly
"I'm still going to repay you for everything you've done"
"We'll see but first things first lets get my wing fixed and you well again." Rezuiel replies in a way that bodes no argument.
Rezuiel moves over to the bed and sits down next to it, laying her wing on the bed in front of Raziel.
"Are you sure you want me to do this?" asks Raziel nervously
"Yes I can't do it myself, just be careful not to tare the wounds" replies Rezuiel trying to reassure him
"Have I told you how to clean and bandage my wing?"
"No, what do I do?"
"To remove the arrows just snap off the heads and pull them out of the wounds. After that wipe the wounds and sounding area with that cloth, don't worry it's a blend of oils not water. Then fold the wing closed and bandage round that."
"Anything else?"
"Yes make sure you wipe both sides of my wing and try to get the fur to lay flat. OK."
"Yes, are you ready"
"Yes" Rezuiel closes her eyes and prepares herself.
Raziel takes hold of the first arrow and snaps it, Rezuiel cries out and collapses. Raziel quickly grabs her shoulders and lifts her on to the bed.
~Well at least she won't feel me remove the other arrow or clean and bandage her wing~
Raziel rolls Rezuiel over on to her front and removes the other arrow. He then wipes the wounds on the outside of her wing with the cloth as he flips her wing over he feels how thick the skin on her wing is. After wiping the other side of her wing Raziel gently folds her wing and bandages round it.
~I need to do some thing to repay her~
Raziel moves over to the chair next to the bed all the time thinking ~How can I repay her for her kindness~…
To be continued…
Sorry this part was so long in the making but I got stuck with exams. Part 4 will be up with in the next month. Tell me what you think, I've got a new e-mail address Rezuiel@hotmail.com so try it out
Rezuiel the Soul Guardian
Chapter 3
Rezuiel darted to the left startled by the arrow. Just after that another arrow slices through the air heading for Rezuiel's right wing. Acting on instinct she pulls both her wings in. Realising that she could turn her mistake in to an advantage she keeps her wings pulled in allowing herself to plummet toward the ground. Waiting until she is about 10 meters above the ground she unfurls her wings and flaps them down hard shooting herself back into the air, only just avoiding another group of arrows.
~Well at leased I've got one thing in my favour it stopped raining… then again that's good for them as well~
Zigzagging as she ascends she pulls up to a good height and flies back and fourth in random patterns.
~I need to get passed them to get in to the main building~
Another arrow slices the air next to her right side.
~I need to move faster, then they won't be able to target me~
Rezuiel pulls up and hovers for a moment before curling in her wings in a planned move. This time as she gets closer to the ground she opens her wings at an angel and doesn't flap them this allows her to glide at quite a high speed and low to the ground. She can hear the muffled thump of arrows hitting the rain soaked ground.
~They're still too close, need to move faster~
As she gets closer to the wall of Raziel's stronghold she calls up her shield by holding her arm out in front of her and saying the word wisdom. She pulls away from the ground and flies straight up the castle wall, using the shield to deflect any arrows, she reaches the top of the wall and over shoots it. But because the shield only covers her body from the front her wings are now exposed and the archers take advantage of this letting off a barrage of arrows. Fortunately or unfortunately only 2 of the arrows strike home, both in Rezuiel's right wing. The sudden pain causes her to drop down landing behind the archers.
~Gods I shouldn't of left my wings unguarded~
One of the guards pulls a sword out of its sheath and moves toward Rezuiel.
"Please don't, I bring news of Raziel" she yells pulling Raziel's sigil from round her neck. Upon seeing this, the guard stops.
"What do you know of Lord Raziel, how do we know you didn't kill him" the guard asks tensely.
"Look I'm only trying to help" Rezuiel says as she reaches to get the message out of her pocket seeing her move the guard tenses and moves to ward her. "Wait I'm only getting a message from Raziel"
But it was too late the guard had already made the move to attack her. As Rezuiel dodges out of the way the message, sticking half way out of her pocket falls to the ground landing by Raziel's sigil. As she gets to her feet she wills herself to change form. The guards watch as her form shifts, her hands become fists and then paws, the legs shorten, her feet shrink back into paws, her knees move to bend in the opposite direction, and her face changes to become that of a wolf. The jacket she was wearing also changed shape to fit her new form.
"Give that to Metlock and tell him that I'm Rezuiel"
Rezuiel runs past the startled looking guards and jumps over the wall using her left wing to semi-glide to the ground. As she lands she stumbles, after composing her self she moves off, Her injured right wing dragging along the floor kicking up a small trail of dust and leaving a small amount of white blood.
"Sir shall I stop her?"
"No let her go, you are in charge while I take this to commander Metlock."
1 Back at Rezuiel's home
Raziel suddenly jumps awake as a sharp stabbing pain assaults him.
"What the… argh" Raziel cries startled by the first pain then by a second.
The pain felt like it was coming from… his… wings.
"What…?" he had to look round and see if he had wings, the pain felt that real.
"If it wasn't me then… it must be Rezuiel!" Raziel pulls himself in to a sitting position "REZUIEL ARE YOU HOME" he yells
~Oh gods they must have attacked her… she had my sigil they shouldn't have. Unless they thought she attacked me and the others, then took my sigil as a trophy~
Turning to look out the window he hopes to see her either on the ground or in the air, instead all he can see is the thunderstorm starting to rage again.
"Please Rezuiel hurry back… let me know that you're OK," Raziel says out loud hoping that it will help.
Back with Rezuiel
Rezuiel can see her home in the distance. Knowing that she needs to bandage her wing she manages to find a little more speed, she still hadn't removed the arrows and the kept catching on things, but she couldn't as that would increase the amount of blood she was losing.
~I'll have to ask Raziel to help me remove the arrows, if I pull them out myself I could tare the wounds, make them even worse~
Rezuiel's legs give out as on of the arrows catches on a low lying branch, she only allows herself to lay there a second then forces to get up and carry on.
~Homes not far now I can rest when I get there. It's warm and dry and Raziel is there~
Rezuiel allows her mind to wander to this handsome stranger. She liked him she couldn't deny that, and she also liked the fact that he hadn't attacked her when the first met.
~Then again he hadn't been in any state to move let alone attack me. I hope he doesn't change his mind when he gets well~
Rezuiel hadn't been concentrating and therefor hadn't realised that she was home, her mind was that far away that she almost ran into her front gate.
As she steps through she pulls herself on to her back legs and shifts back into her humanoid form.
~Home at last~
As she looks to the room where Raziel is supposed to be sleeping, she sees he is looking out the window his face showing concern.
2 In the house
~She's home I must have been wrong~
Raziel hears the front door open then close and a tired looking Rezuiel comes in, her right wing hanging down while her left one is curled up.
"Are you OK?" she asks Raziel
"Yes, but I'm the one that should be asking that question. What happened to you out there, I felt as though I was being stabbed in the wing even though I don't have any."
"Your guards thought I'd make good target practice." Rezuiel replies turning to show Raziel her right wing "I need your help to get these arrows out."
"Me!" asks a startled Raziel
"Yes, you" Replies Rezuiel
"What can I do? I'm not trained as a healer"
"All I need you to do is to remove the arrows, if I try to do it myself I could tare the wounds even more."
"What about after that?" Raziel asks
"Nothing I should be able to clean and bandage the wounds myself. But if I pass out then you'll have to do that as well."
"OK I should be able to handle that." Raziel says unconvinced
"I'll just go and get my things" Rezuiel says as she stands up and leaves the room again.
~This is just grate~ Raziel starts berating himself ~First I fall on her and nearly break her arm, then ask her to take a message, tell her she'll be safe and get her shot ~ Raziel lays his head in his hands and sighs, when Rezuiel walks in this is how she finds him.
"RAZIEL" she cries moving quickly to his side "Are you OK?"
"No, I don't think I've ever felt worse"
"Why, What's wrong? Maybe I can help." Rezuiel replies concerned
"No, you can't, but I can. I feel bad because all I've done is cause you problems, you'd have been better of if we'd never met"
"What do you mean?"
"Well to start with you bring me here then I fall on you and nearly brake your arm, then I ask you to take a message and you get attacked by my own people. I'm going to make it up to you… I promise" Raziel swears solemnly
"You don't need to do that" Rezuiel starts to say something else but Raziel interrupts her.
"Yes I do."
"No you don't even though all this happened I'm not upset about anything. If it hadn't happened I never would have met you." Rezuiel says kindly
"I'm still going to repay you for everything you've done"
"We'll see but first things first lets get my wing fixed and you well again." Rezuiel replies in a way that bodes no argument.
Rezuiel moves over to the bed and sits down next to it, laying her wing on the bed in front of Raziel.
"Are you sure you want me to do this?" asks Raziel nervously
"Yes I can't do it myself, just be careful not to tare the wounds" replies Rezuiel trying to reassure him
"Have I told you how to clean and bandage my wing?"
"No, what do I do?"
"To remove the arrows just snap off the heads and pull them out of the wounds. After that wipe the wounds and sounding area with that cloth, don't worry it's a blend of oils not water. Then fold the wing closed and bandage round that."
"Anything else?"
"Yes make sure you wipe both sides of my wing and try to get the fur to lay flat. OK."
"Yes, are you ready"
"Yes" Rezuiel closes her eyes and prepares herself.
Raziel takes hold of the first arrow and snaps it, Rezuiel cries out and collapses. Raziel quickly grabs her shoulders and lifts her on to the bed.
~Well at least she won't feel me remove the other arrow or clean and bandage her wing~
Raziel rolls Rezuiel over on to her front and removes the other arrow. He then wipes the wounds on the outside of her wing with the cloth as he flips her wing over he feels how thick the skin on her wing is. After wiping the other side of her wing Raziel gently folds her wing and bandages round it.
~I need to do some thing to repay her~
Raziel moves over to the chair next to the bed all the time thinking ~How can I repay her for her kindness~…
To be continued…
Sorry this part was so long in the making but I got stuck with exams. Part 4 will be up with in the next month. Tell me what you think, I've got a new e-mail address Rezuiel@hotmail.com so try it out
Rezuiel the Soul Guardian
