Into the Spirit World
By Moony
Chapter 7
"What are you doing here?" Aisling yelled.
Sirius blinked. There was a boy who didn't appear much older than Aisling. He had blonde hair and brown eyes, and a wide, devilish grin. He was wearing green robe on top of a white shirt and shorts. He seemed to glow like Aisling did, and his cheeks were rosy too.
"What the hell is going on?" Sirius asked.
No one answered. Aisling was still staring furiously at the boy.
"This is my assignment! I wanted to help Sirius and James! Stop butting in to every single assignment I get!"
"Assignment?" James asked, raising his eyebrows.
"Yeah, it was an assignment to help us?" Lily asked.
"Oh now look at what you've done! You've screwed it up!" Aisling moaned.
"What? It's not my fault you had to blurt it out about assignments and stuff, you big blabbermouth!"
"Don't call me names!"
"Or what?"
"Or I'll hurt you!"
"Haha, as if you could."
"I could."
"Then do it. Give me all you've got," the boy said defiantly.
WHAM!
The punch had hit the boy square on the nose.
"Take that!"
"Aisling, can you please bother to tell us what the heck is going on?" Sirius asked.
"Well, I guess you have to know now."
She took a sigh.
"I'm an Angel-In-Training."
"A what? How come you never told me?" James gasped.
"Because, angels don't tell people they're angels of course! Anyway, so, I was almost done with training, and the last stage is when an angel earns their wings. This assignment was the assignment that would earn me my wings. To help you find the archway. But Sande messed it up! He always messes it up!"
"No I don't! You always mess mine up!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Uh-huh!"
"How much do you wanna bet?"
"Shut up!"
"Don't tell me to shut up!"
"I am telling you to shut up."
"You shut up!"
"You're not the boss of me."
"Yes I am."
"How?"
"I'm older than you!"
"By six minutes!"
"Wait – This guy, Sande, he's your twin?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah, unfortunately," Aisling said, sticking out her tongue.
All this time, Sirius's mother was silent. As Sirius looked, she almost looked… normal. Like a loving mother. She was thoughtful, and then she murmured, "Angels. Angels. So you know the way to the Living."
Sirius stared. Had his mother just murmured? Murmured instead of screamed? He blinked. This was unbelievable!
"Yes, and it's right behind one of these doors," Sande said, pointing around.
Sirius noticed that there were many of them. Each one looked exactly the same.
"Well, we can just go in every one of them," Lily said, "And see which one it is."
"There's one problem," Sande said.
"What?" James asked.
Aisling grimaced.
"Well, you see, you can only enter one, and then all the others seal up," she said.
Sirius stared at the walls. So it was only one. One chance. One wrong choice, and he could never go back. But shouldn't Aisling know? If she was an 'angel-in-training' wouldn't she know which door it was? After all, it was her 'assignment'. And the map thingy said that she and his mum was supposed to find it.
Wait – the map. Had that map been given to her by someone? Someone who was training her? If so, then was Aisling still hiding something? Was this boy, Sande, hiding something too?
"But you're the angel, Aisling. You have to assignment!" James said.
"Yeah, the only problem is, I don't know. I was just supposed to leave you here. Chan said 'something would happen' that would complete my mission."
"Who's Chan?" Sirius asked.
"The Instructor."
"So we're going to wait here for 'something to happen'?" Sirius asked.
"I guess," Aisling replied.
"This is insane!"
"I have a feeling it's that one though," Aisling said, pointing at the farthest one.
What a choice. If they didn't choose, they wouldn't make it. If they chose, they had a bit of a chance. But if they made a wrong choice, it was bye-bye to the Living. So heck, what were they supposed to do? And how long would it take for 'something to happen'? He was so close, yet so far! It was being on the threshold of victory and triumph, but there was one last obstacle they still could not overcome.
Sirius scowled.
"We might as well have something to eat," Lily murmured. She conjured the tent. "Everyone in!"
With looks of defeat, all of them filed into the tent, except for Mrs. Black.
"Mrs. Black?" Lily asked tentatively, "Do you want to come in?"
Mrs. Black seemed to pay no notice, but she stood up and walked to the farthest door.
"It is this one," she said loudly.
Ahh. I don't like this one very much. Too. Much. Bloody. Dialogue. -Moony
