Special thanks go to Redaura for her idea for Damon's ultimate fear
We heard clapping before Raziel made his appearance. He still looked corrupt, he still looked scary but DANG was he hot!
Angel was on her feet before Keegan could stop her and attempted to hit the Shadow honcho. What I mean by "tried" is, she lashed out at Raziel only to have her hand caught millimeters from his face and her arm jerked up straight, lifting her off her feet so that Angel and him could look eye to eye.
"You must be Angela." He told her, ignoring that Keegan and I were even there. "You look much like your mother." He began walking off with Angel forcing Keegan and I to follow.
"I can see why the jinn did not wish to lay a hand on you and simply dropped you into the Oubliette." Raziel told her and trapped Angel's other arm with the other as it whipped out to strike him. "Same hair, same eyes." He ran his free hand lightly over Angel's body and received a kick to the groin that freed Angel.
"Same body." Raziel continued once he recovered enough to talk. Angel just glared at him as the dark angel continued, "If I did not know any better, I would swear you were Ariel and would whisk you away."
"Why?" I asked interrupting their moment. Raziel turned and in a blink was circling me. Eek
"Lady Ariel received many honors during her stay." He whispered seductively to me, "The honor of invulnerability to any harm. The honor of being my slave and I to her."
I puzzled over that last remark as I began falling under his spell.
"That too can be your honor." He whispered in my ear suddenly behind me. "I've only been slave to one and she wasn't much a master. Are you?"
Danger, danger dumb blond! My mind howled.
"Imagine what all I could do to you." Suddenly he was in front of me, capturing me with his gaze. "Imagine what you could do to me. Rip my heart out. Love me. Me love you."
Love Raziel, a dark part of my mind tempted. And be loved too. Imagine the power you would hold. Never to be bound by anyone but him! Not your parents. Not Keegan--
My gaze slipped from the seductive angel to Keegan's silent and unmovable gaze. He stood, holding Angel effortlessly back despite she had a vampire's huge strength, and only stared back at me. Leaving the decision of whom to choose up to me.
He always left it up to me and took action to see my decision stayed. Little things like clothes and bigger things like my happiness.
Always me, the lighter side of me whispered happily. I pushed myself angrily away from Raziel and glared at him as fiercely as I could.
"I don't think so Mr. I am-a-walking-feather duster, uh man" I snapped faltering at the last moment in blond stupidity and maybe more. "I'm not gonna love some dude I just met, especially a whacked dude like you."
Raziel simply sighed and looked mildly tried, "For now I'll concede to defeat, but I will win in the end."
"Funny, I heard Julian tell that to Jenny many times." Keegan retorted viciously and smirked.
Raziel didn't spare him a glance and merely grasped my hand and kissed my knuckles vanishing from sight.
"That guy's creepy." I said rubbing my hand where he kissed me and turned to my friends.
Keegan nodded as Angel looked at the two of us in outrage as a wisp landed on her brother's shoulder and whispered something in his ear.
"Come on, the wisps spotted Damon." He told us and took off past me. Angel shot me a strange look before following Keegan.
The closer we came to where the wisps saw Damon the more quirky our surroundings got. The vine covered walls changed slowly from stone into bright emerald green hedges with dainty red flowers sprouting from them. The sky changes from a sick yellow green into a beautiful blue with fragile little clouds scattered throughout.
The wisps even changed their light and appearance from the nasty looking sprites to elfish looking fairies surrounded by a pastel green light. Their claws did not disappear.
I began to realize when Keegan, Angel and I passed a deck of cards painting roses red that Raziel was picking my brain for fun little tidbits. Like a few scenes from Disney's Alice in Wonderland, a favorite cartoon of mine when I was young.
I am seriously getting creeped out, Angel said when we passed the Mad Hatter's tea party. I hated this movie. Branton made me watch it all the time.
"Just pretend we're all Alice's in Wonderland." I told her. "It'll make things seem less creepy."
"Don't say that." Keegan replied briefly smiling. "Raziel might get the wild idea of stuffing me in a dress." Angel and I giggled at the picture he presented.
In the distance near where we heard the Queen of Hearts's battle cries of "Off with their heads", I spotted a crow patiently waiting for us. When we drew closer, it flew up and landed on Angel's shoulder.
Damon? I heard Angel ask the bird. What are you doing in that form.
I sensed a brief smile pop up in his telepathic voice as he replied. I blended a lot better this way. Mad Hatter, bird, you know.
Keegan was trying not to smile, "You're hiding something."
The bird cawed at him and Damon replied. No I'm not.
"Yes you are so why don't you just come out with what our host has done to you or I'll turn you into a shroom." Keegan replied with a very sinister smile only he could pull off and make me shiver.
A shroom would be better than what the drag queen did to me, Damon answered puffing up his feathers in agitation.
"Just because the guy is wearing a kimono doesn't mean he's in drag." I said feeling it was up to me to defend Raziel's taste in clothes. Keegan and Angel cut their eyes to me.
"Why do you care what our host wears?" Keegan asked quietly.
"I don't." I said quickly. "What I mean is the guy could wear nothing at all and—okay not something I want to picture right now." I blushed and tried again but Keegan silenced me by addressing Damon.
"What did you say to Loki's right hand man?"
Something about how stupid he looked in a dress and something concerning the events of his conception. Something involving a bird and a--
Angel cut him off not even wanting to go there. So what did he do?
Damon launched himself off of his girlfriend's shoulder, transforming back into his human form.
Keegan began coughing trying his hardest not to laugh. Angel, the master of calm, just stuck her hands on her hips with a snort. I just stood there with my jaw hanging to my knees.
It was the wisps that started laughing.
"He's got the Goblin King's hair!" I exclaimed finally cracking up.
Damon groaned and shook his head sending blond spike and hair standing almost a foot from his head everywhere.
Keegan was rolling on the ground laughing as the Creeper and Lurker mysteriously appeared. The two animals took one look at Damon and busted up laughing, joining Keegan on the ground.
"It isn't funny." Damon snapped as Angel finally broke down and smirked.
"You never liked that man's hair in the movie." Keegan howled, "And now Raziel's stuck you with it! Haha!"
Keegan, let's try to figure out how to get out of this hair brain deal, Angel said which made Keegan laugh only harder at the unintended pun.
"Okay, okay." He said as we both attempted to calm down. He chose the method of avoiding looking at Damon and began pacing trying to puzzle this out. I chose to watch him.
"Apparently you had some little fear of having a" Keegan cleared his throat trying not to start laughing, "Badhairday" he said as quickly as possible.
He sighed as the wisps, plucked at Damon's locks "So the only thing I can think of is dealing with the fact you have David Bowie's hair." Keegan began snickering when one of the wisps placed a strand of Damon's hair on their head and began head banging to a butchered version of We will rock you.
Damon swatted the annoying thing away, causing the other wisps to go "Aww"
"I am not just going to deal with this *mop*" he growled trying to yank the spikes and extensions out.
Angel gently took his hand and caught his gaze with her own, "I think you look sexy."
Everyone was in a daze for a few seconds at hearing Angel's voice. Keegan and I froze. The Creeper and Lurker paused and even the wisp paused, causing them all to fall to the ground. But each of us was captured by the pure and uncontrolled hypnotic quality of Angel's voice.
So much, that Damon accepted his hair and broke the curse returning his hair the way it was before.
Keegan shook his head as each of us was freed of Angel's power. "Next time warn people you're about to do that." He snapped as his sister ruffled Damon's hair playfully.
Next time, don't laugh at my honey, she replied demurely and Damon kissed her.
Keegan laughed and ruffled Damon's hair. I took that time to slip away before anyone noticed.
I remember Madelyn describing her own depression as a storm inside her. At that moment as I strolled past the Queen of Hearts, I knew what she meant.
Sadness threatened to overwhelm me in the crazy, yet beautiful setting. I was confused as to why I could be sad in such a funny place. Was it because of Keegan? Or was it because the love I felt for him wasn't returned?
I watched cards dance with woodland creature and tried not to think of dances that Keegan and I shared in the past. How he felt and how at peace I was.
"Piper?!" someone shouted and it was then I decided to do something. I dashed into a bunch of bushes and hid as Keegan walked past me with tiny wisps trailing after him like a natural aura of power. I watched him be met up with Damon and Angel as they all searched the zany environment for me, or sign of me.
"Where could she have gone?" Keegan asked breathlessly as if he'd been running.
I saw Angel bite her lip and shook her head.
"You think that weirdo Raziel has her?" Damon asked and received a slap across the chest from his girlfriend.
"I hope not." Keegan said quietly as Angel gently put her arms around him.
I'm sure Piper's fine. She told her brother as he stared off distantly.
"She's dealt with getting captured by witches, having a best friend with ultimate knowledge and another being a half vampire." Damon told him and shrugged, "Getting through this place on her own ought to be a breeze."
Keegan turn a hard glare on Damon and walked off angrily.
We ought to follow him and make sure he doesn't get into trouble, Angel told her boyfriend.
"Or trouble doesn't find us." Damon added as him and Angel followed Keegan away. Once they were out of sight, I crawled out from hiding space and sighed.
Like it or not, I was now on my own.
We heard clapping before Raziel made his appearance. He still looked corrupt, he still looked scary but DANG was he hot!
Angel was on her feet before Keegan could stop her and attempted to hit the Shadow honcho. What I mean by "tried" is, she lashed out at Raziel only to have her hand caught millimeters from his face and her arm jerked up straight, lifting her off her feet so that Angel and him could look eye to eye.
"You must be Angela." He told her, ignoring that Keegan and I were even there. "You look much like your mother." He began walking off with Angel forcing Keegan and I to follow.
"I can see why the jinn did not wish to lay a hand on you and simply dropped you into the Oubliette." Raziel told her and trapped Angel's other arm with the other as it whipped out to strike him. "Same hair, same eyes." He ran his free hand lightly over Angel's body and received a kick to the groin that freed Angel.
"Same body." Raziel continued once he recovered enough to talk. Angel just glared at him as the dark angel continued, "If I did not know any better, I would swear you were Ariel and would whisk you away."
"Why?" I asked interrupting their moment. Raziel turned and in a blink was circling me. Eek
"Lady Ariel received many honors during her stay." He whispered seductively to me, "The honor of invulnerability to any harm. The honor of being my slave and I to her."
I puzzled over that last remark as I began falling under his spell.
"That too can be your honor." He whispered in my ear suddenly behind me. "I've only been slave to one and she wasn't much a master. Are you?"
Danger, danger dumb blond! My mind howled.
"Imagine what all I could do to you." Suddenly he was in front of me, capturing me with his gaze. "Imagine what you could do to me. Rip my heart out. Love me. Me love you."
Love Raziel, a dark part of my mind tempted. And be loved too. Imagine the power you would hold. Never to be bound by anyone but him! Not your parents. Not Keegan--
My gaze slipped from the seductive angel to Keegan's silent and unmovable gaze. He stood, holding Angel effortlessly back despite she had a vampire's huge strength, and only stared back at me. Leaving the decision of whom to choose up to me.
He always left it up to me and took action to see my decision stayed. Little things like clothes and bigger things like my happiness.
Always me, the lighter side of me whispered happily. I pushed myself angrily away from Raziel and glared at him as fiercely as I could.
"I don't think so Mr. I am-a-walking-feather duster, uh man" I snapped faltering at the last moment in blond stupidity and maybe more. "I'm not gonna love some dude I just met, especially a whacked dude like you."
Raziel simply sighed and looked mildly tried, "For now I'll concede to defeat, but I will win in the end."
"Funny, I heard Julian tell that to Jenny many times." Keegan retorted viciously and smirked.
Raziel didn't spare him a glance and merely grasped my hand and kissed my knuckles vanishing from sight.
"That guy's creepy." I said rubbing my hand where he kissed me and turned to my friends.
Keegan nodded as Angel looked at the two of us in outrage as a wisp landed on her brother's shoulder and whispered something in his ear.
"Come on, the wisps spotted Damon." He told us and took off past me. Angel shot me a strange look before following Keegan.
The closer we came to where the wisps saw Damon the more quirky our surroundings got. The vine covered walls changed slowly from stone into bright emerald green hedges with dainty red flowers sprouting from them. The sky changes from a sick yellow green into a beautiful blue with fragile little clouds scattered throughout.
The wisps even changed their light and appearance from the nasty looking sprites to elfish looking fairies surrounded by a pastel green light. Their claws did not disappear.
I began to realize when Keegan, Angel and I passed a deck of cards painting roses red that Raziel was picking my brain for fun little tidbits. Like a few scenes from Disney's Alice in Wonderland, a favorite cartoon of mine when I was young.
I am seriously getting creeped out, Angel said when we passed the Mad Hatter's tea party. I hated this movie. Branton made me watch it all the time.
"Just pretend we're all Alice's in Wonderland." I told her. "It'll make things seem less creepy."
"Don't say that." Keegan replied briefly smiling. "Raziel might get the wild idea of stuffing me in a dress." Angel and I giggled at the picture he presented.
In the distance near where we heard the Queen of Hearts's battle cries of "Off with their heads", I spotted a crow patiently waiting for us. When we drew closer, it flew up and landed on Angel's shoulder.
Damon? I heard Angel ask the bird. What are you doing in that form.
I sensed a brief smile pop up in his telepathic voice as he replied. I blended a lot better this way. Mad Hatter, bird, you know.
Keegan was trying not to smile, "You're hiding something."
The bird cawed at him and Damon replied. No I'm not.
"Yes you are so why don't you just come out with what our host has done to you or I'll turn you into a shroom." Keegan replied with a very sinister smile only he could pull off and make me shiver.
A shroom would be better than what the drag queen did to me, Damon answered puffing up his feathers in agitation.
"Just because the guy is wearing a kimono doesn't mean he's in drag." I said feeling it was up to me to defend Raziel's taste in clothes. Keegan and Angel cut their eyes to me.
"Why do you care what our host wears?" Keegan asked quietly.
"I don't." I said quickly. "What I mean is the guy could wear nothing at all and—okay not something I want to picture right now." I blushed and tried again but Keegan silenced me by addressing Damon.
"What did you say to Loki's right hand man?"
Something about how stupid he looked in a dress and something concerning the events of his conception. Something involving a bird and a--
Angel cut him off not even wanting to go there. So what did he do?
Damon launched himself off of his girlfriend's shoulder, transforming back into his human form.
Keegan began coughing trying his hardest not to laugh. Angel, the master of calm, just stuck her hands on her hips with a snort. I just stood there with my jaw hanging to my knees.
It was the wisps that started laughing.
"He's got the Goblin King's hair!" I exclaimed finally cracking up.
Damon groaned and shook his head sending blond spike and hair standing almost a foot from his head everywhere.
Keegan was rolling on the ground laughing as the Creeper and Lurker mysteriously appeared. The two animals took one look at Damon and busted up laughing, joining Keegan on the ground.
"It isn't funny." Damon snapped as Angel finally broke down and smirked.
"You never liked that man's hair in the movie." Keegan howled, "And now Raziel's stuck you with it! Haha!"
Keegan, let's try to figure out how to get out of this hair brain deal, Angel said which made Keegan laugh only harder at the unintended pun.
"Okay, okay." He said as we both attempted to calm down. He chose the method of avoiding looking at Damon and began pacing trying to puzzle this out. I chose to watch him.
"Apparently you had some little fear of having a" Keegan cleared his throat trying not to start laughing, "Badhairday" he said as quickly as possible.
He sighed as the wisps, plucked at Damon's locks "So the only thing I can think of is dealing with the fact you have David Bowie's hair." Keegan began snickering when one of the wisps placed a strand of Damon's hair on their head and began head banging to a butchered version of We will rock you.
Damon swatted the annoying thing away, causing the other wisps to go "Aww"
"I am not just going to deal with this *mop*" he growled trying to yank the spikes and extensions out.
Angel gently took his hand and caught his gaze with her own, "I think you look sexy."
Everyone was in a daze for a few seconds at hearing Angel's voice. Keegan and I froze. The Creeper and Lurker paused and even the wisp paused, causing them all to fall to the ground. But each of us was captured by the pure and uncontrolled hypnotic quality of Angel's voice.
So much, that Damon accepted his hair and broke the curse returning his hair the way it was before.
Keegan shook his head as each of us was freed of Angel's power. "Next time warn people you're about to do that." He snapped as his sister ruffled Damon's hair playfully.
Next time, don't laugh at my honey, she replied demurely and Damon kissed her.
Keegan laughed and ruffled Damon's hair. I took that time to slip away before anyone noticed.
I remember Madelyn describing her own depression as a storm inside her. At that moment as I strolled past the Queen of Hearts, I knew what she meant.
Sadness threatened to overwhelm me in the crazy, yet beautiful setting. I was confused as to why I could be sad in such a funny place. Was it because of Keegan? Or was it because the love I felt for him wasn't returned?
I watched cards dance with woodland creature and tried not to think of dances that Keegan and I shared in the past. How he felt and how at peace I was.
"Piper?!" someone shouted and it was then I decided to do something. I dashed into a bunch of bushes and hid as Keegan walked past me with tiny wisps trailing after him like a natural aura of power. I watched him be met up with Damon and Angel as they all searched the zany environment for me, or sign of me.
"Where could she have gone?" Keegan asked breathlessly as if he'd been running.
I saw Angel bite her lip and shook her head.
"You think that weirdo Raziel has her?" Damon asked and received a slap across the chest from his girlfriend.
"I hope not." Keegan said quietly as Angel gently put her arms around him.
I'm sure Piper's fine. She told her brother as he stared off distantly.
"She's dealt with getting captured by witches, having a best friend with ultimate knowledge and another being a half vampire." Damon told him and shrugged, "Getting through this place on her own ought to be a breeze."
Keegan turn a hard glare on Damon and walked off angrily.
We ought to follow him and make sure he doesn't get into trouble, Angel told her boyfriend.
"Or trouble doesn't find us." Damon added as him and Angel followed Keegan away. Once they were out of sight, I crawled out from hiding space and sighed.
Like it or not, I was now on my own.