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Fallen Angel
The Beginning of the end.
Tyson, as he was lying next to Kai one night, realised how horrific it must be to lose the person you love, the one closet to you, the one that you would die for. If Kai had gone through that before Tyson had come, how awful it must have been. Tyson wanted to cry any time he thought about not being able to hold, touch, see, or do anything with Kai. Kai was his life, not only a part of it. He always has been, like a place in Tyson's heart had been waiting for him to fill it. Now he had, Tyson didn't know what he would do when it was empty again.
Kai rolled over and muttered something in his sleep.
"What?" asked Tyson softly, who had talked to Kai in his sleep a few times now.
"I don't want to," he repeat, louder.
"Do what my Fallen Angel?" asked Tyson softly, stroking Kai's hair out of his face.
"I don't want to," he repeated, loudly, he was almost shouting.
Tyson sat up carefully and looked at Kai's face. Tears were leaking from his eyes but his face looked angry.
"I will never do it!" Kai yelled, "You can't make me!"
Kai's face softened and he stopped moving. Tyson tried talking to him more but it didn't make him talk; he just curled up in a ball and Tyson heard him sob. Tyson put his arms around Kai's shoulders and slept with him, trying to comfort him, but feeling he could never really make him feel better. He felt helpless and it didn't leave for a long time.
Tyson woke up with his head under a pillow, which for some reason was at the end of the bed. He sat up and hit his head of something hard. He fell back down, clutching his forehead. He opened his watering eyes and saw Kai grinning.
"Sorry," muttered Tyson propping himself up on one hand; keeping the other on his throbbing head.
"Oh no, I didn't feel a thing," Kai tapped his head, "hard as rock."
Tyson just smiled and then looked around. Outside the day was wonderfully bright. The sun shone in a faultless sky and there was even a small bird sitting on the windowsill.
"Look Kai," said Tyson putting his arm around his lovers shoulders, "a sweet little birdie."
Kai obediently looked then picked up Tyson's shoe and threw it at the bird, making it fall.
"Why did you do that?" asked Tyson, "it hadn't done anything."
Kai turned around in Tyson's arms and smiled, "I was jealous."
"Of what?" asked Tyson, pulling Kai into a hug.
"It's freedom," replied Kai, burying himself in the sanctuary of the embrace, the safety they both felt.
Tyson sat there and stroked Kai's head, trying to comfort him but deep down, wanting comfort, needing comfort. He couldn't give what he didn't have.
Kai seemed to feel this and stood up. He walked across the room and stuck his hand straight through a painting.
"Kai!" Tyson called, standing up and running over, "don't do that!"
Kai waited for Tyson to get there and Tyson realised that behind the painting it wasn't solid. Tyson suddenly became aware that he was in his boxers and Kai was fully dressed.
"Sorry," mumbled Tyson, blushing.
"S'kay," replied Kai winking, "nothing I haven't seen before."
Tyson blushed more but allowed Kai to continue doing whatever he was doing.
Kai then pulled his hand out and there was a large knife there. It was truly beautiful. The blade looked as if it was made out of glass, with swirling black inside. The handle was actually half-black, half white, spiralling round and around.
"This," said Kai slowly, handing the knife to Tyson, not holding the blade but making sure Tyson didn't either, "shall be your weapon against Demons."
Tyson didn't reply immediately, he just held it and stared at the blade. The contents had turned a crimson colour with streaks of blue through it.
"What….?" Tyson asked, but he didn't finish it.
"This," said Kai, staring at the blade, "is known as Devil's Purity. It was supposedly crafted by the High Demons themselves. The colour reflects the person, or creature, holding it."
"What does it mean for you?" Tyson asked, tearing his gaze away and sending it to Kai, "what does it mean for me?"
"Well, the black for me means that I am troubled, right down to my soul, but the glitter in it means that I am also partially content," Kai explained, "Your one is very unique. It has two colours. You're red means in love, in true love, the once in a life time kind. And the green means that you are arguing with yourself, deep down."
Tyson just stared and tears came to his eyes, "so you don't love me?"
"No, no, no," said Kai quickly, taking Tyson's free hand, "It only tells you your most powerful feeling. When I held it, I was thinking about all the things it had slain. Look."
Kai took the knife back, "I am thinking of you."
The knife turned red again but there were still black flecks running through it. Tyson almost fainted with relief. He started sobbing in Kai's arms and he didn't even know why.
Kai pulled away after, for Tyson, what felt like a few seconds.
"I need to tell you something," Kai said, and Tyson saw sorrow flash over his face.
"Anything," said Tyson, holding Kai's face in his hands and kissing his nose, "Anything."
"Once, when I was a few hundred years younger, I visited a village." Kai said, looking down at the ground.
Tyson took his hands and nudged Kai's chin with his nose, "go on my fallen angel."
Kai smiled slightly, but I fell quickly, "I was sitting in a tree and there were some young children, only four or five, playing."
Memory:
The children ran in a small circle, chasing each other in a game that had neither a point nor an ending. There were around five.
"Children," Kai called, "come; I have something to tell you."
They all ran over, excited by the youthful stranger.
"What is it?" the eldest child asked, "What is your story?"
"I am an angel," Kai whispered, loud enough for all to hear.
"I don't believe you," the eldest replied, "prove it."
"Sho uz oor whins," said the youngest, which translated as 'show us your wings.'
Kai nodded and stood. He unveiled his wings and beat them lightly, making a gentle breeze blow at the children.
They giggled in delight and ran to feel his wings.
"Why oo wanna see uz?" asked the small boy.
Kai picked him up, liking his innocence. He flew a few feet in the air with the boy in his arms and spun around. He grinned in delight and held on tight.
"What's you name?" asked Kai, poking his nose gently with his finger.
"Me Tala," replied the boy, then sucked his thumb nervously, "My mummy and Daddy are dead…will they be in heaven?"
Kai was shocked slightly then smiled, "With all wonderful people."
The boy hugged Kai tightly around his chest, "Can I stay with you?"
"Don't you have anyone else?" asked Kai gently.
The boy shook his head and his hair fell about his face. Kai tenderly stroked it back and then admired his red hair. He also had the most beautiful, deep blue eyes.
"Ok then," Kai decided putting the headband around Tala's head to try to hold back some of the hair around his eyes, "You will be my little cherub."
The boy smiled in sheer glee and leapt down, "I will go get Snuggle-But and I will be right back."
Kai smiled as he left and then he remembered the other children. Kai paused, thinking about what to say.
"Do you want the best advice you will ever hear?"
"Yes," the children chorused, "Please?"
"Beware the hand of God," Kai stated, "Tell Tala that and tell him I will be back at nightfall."
"We thought…" the children began but Kai had begun to fly away.
Kai sat up in a tree and watched the children run up to their parents, who were doing odd jobs, but most around the same place. They all ran in a group and up to an elderly woman.
"My my," declared the Woman, "What is it?"
"Widow Ellin!" said the eldest child again, who was Mariah, "we heard some great advice from an angel!"
Tala was behind them and the widow noticed him holding his prized possession; a smelly, dirty teddy bear known by him as Snuggle-But.
"Really," said Widow Ellin, picking up Tala and putting him on her hip. It was clear from her voice that she didn't believe them, "what was it?"
"Well," said Mariah.
"No," Widow Ellin silenced her, "Tala, what was it?"
Tala looked around him awkwardly, "He was very nice, and pretty," Widow Ellin chuckled, though when Kai thought about it sounded more like a cackle, "and he said to Beware the hand of God."
"Is this true," Widow Ellin asked the children, putting down Tala warily.
"Yes," said Mariah, and only one other child agreed; the rest laughed as if it was a joke and ran away. However, Tala, Mariah and the other boy stayed and refused to lie.
"THESE CHILDREN ARE POSSSESED!" Widow Ellin bellowed suddenly, "Kill them, burn them, destroy them!"
Kai almost fell out of his viewing point, up a tree. He wanted to leap out and save Tala from the adults now swarming around them and carrying them away.
"ANGEL!" Tala screeched in terror, "SAVE ME!"
In a moment, Kai thought, I need to think for a second my cherub.
A plan formed in Kai's head; to snatch Tala just before they burnt him and other children but Kai would take Tala with him. To show those dense villages that the children weren't lying and make them think twice before believing some doddery witch. And that was the plan.
It was beginning to get dark and Kai saw some villagers begin to group around an open space. Kai took up a position on the top of a near by house, out of sight.
"Put the fire wood here," one gruff man ordered. The others obeyed quickly and began to set it up with three spikes sticking out from it.
Around ten minutes later a larger group of women came, holding torches. At the back were three men, each holding a struggling child.
"Tie them up!" ordered Widow Ellin
Kai perched up on his feet, preparing to save them. He saw them tie the children to the stakes with thick rope. A minor annoyance for the strength of an angel but still an annoyance.
The villagers crowded around and the sobbing parents of the children were at the edge, holding each other close; as if trying to block out their children's cries for help by crying louder.
Kai moved slightly closer as the elderly woman declared that the devil himself had possessed the children. Kai actually preferred Satan to God: much more humble and not corrupted by power. The only problem is that you couldn't trust him as far as you could throw him (which you couldn't do, but if you could) and he had a hot temper.
He slid down the roof and pushed himself against the wall.
"…and we must burn them to purify their souls!" declared widow Ellin.
"You need to be purified. Children are pure," muttered Kai to himself.
Kai leapt up into the air and silently hovered above the villagers, waiting for his signal.
Then he saw it, someone walking forward with a glowing torch in hand. Kai flew down, arms tight by his side. He was travelling so fast he had to open his wings out like a parachute just to stop in time. He kept his wings open to try and flapped one, powerful beat and blew out most of the torches.
"LEAVE THE CHILDREN!" Kai bellowed, "DO NOT HARM THEM! They have done nothing at all wrong!"
"They are possessed," someone called back, "By the DEVIL!"
"They are not nor ever have been," Kai said, trying to keep his voice calm.
He turned and broke the rope around Tala in a few seconds.
"You're safe now," Kai whispered in his ear, "I will keep you safe."
"Does this look like a possessed child!" Kai yelled to the crowd, "Does this child, who is more like a Cherub than a Demid (Demon under the age of ten. Btw he doesn't say this), look like it has the Evil of the Devil himself inside him!"
Tala was just sitting there, eyes still watering from the terror, looking as innocent as the day when he was born.
"Looks can be deceiving!" someone called. Kai identified it as Widow Ellin.
"Silence!" Kai yelled to the crowd as they all started to mutter in agreement, "I give you Gods word that they are not possessed!"
Everyone was silent. Kai slowly spun around, looking everyone in the eye. Just as Kai turned back to the original direction he was facing, he ducked. It was his instinct that made him do it but he wished he hadn't.
When he wasn't looking, Widow Ellin has gotten one of few torches left and had throw it at Kai. It went flying past Kai and landed on the pile of dry, extremely flammable sticks underneath the still tied children.
Then everything happened at once but it felt like it was in slow motion. Tala screamed, trying to get to his young friends. Mariah and the other boy screamed in sheer agony as they were burnt. The parents were charging at their children, trying to free them. Kai realised that his wings were on fire and quickly put them out. He them tried to get to the children but couldn't put Tala down with all the angry people around him. He tried holding Tala into his chest and to damp the fire with his wings by pounding the never dying flames, but this had no effect. Kai had to either drop Tala and fly through the flames, endangering both him and may potentially not get the child, or leave unharmed with a child.
Tala had stopped screaming but the children on the fire kept going, as if they no longer needed air.
"I need Snuggle-But," he whispered hoarsely, "I want to leave."
So did Kai, but his feet felt as if they were rooted to the spot.
"RUN!" Tala suddenly yelled in his ear, then clutched into Kai's chest.
Kai looked around and realised that everyone was blaming him. He let tears spill from his eyes and leapt up into the air, holding Tala close.
He looked down and realised that someone was throwing Snuggle-But in the air. Kai swooped and grabbed S-B (as he would become known later). Kai realised that it was one of the parents who had been crying. She bowed, smiling through her tears. Kai waved, smiling back, through his tears and then flew away and didn't stop until he felt like he would faint if he didn't.
The worst thing about it was not only that everyone blamed Kai, was that he did as well.
Tyson was silent. Letting the story sink in, the words mull over in his head.
"I think the reason," said Kai slowly, studying Tyson's face, "I liked Tala immediately was his innocence."
"What happened to him?" asked Tyson, finding his voice, "What happened to you?"
"We travelled," said Kai, reminiscing, "He grew up and his speech impediment lessened until it was just eated, runned, shooked and the like. Eventually it left him completely but it took some time…and a lot of chocolate!"
A small smile spread on Tyson's lips but faded quickly. Kai saw this and put the knife down, turning it a white colour. He put his hands on Tyson's hips and pulled him closer.
"What is it?" asked Kai, nudging Tyson's cheek with his nose, "What is wrong?"
"Where is he?" asked Tyson, "What happened with you and him? What aren't you telling me?"
Kai smiled. It was this part of Tyson that intrigued him. The part that saw past the what the rest of the world didn't. He didn't see masks or the second face of someone, he saw them.
"Do you want to know about my past, my relationships, my problems, my secrets?" asked Kai, trying to hide his smile.
Tyson smiled back and put his hand on Kai's cheek, rubbing his thumb up and down his cheek tenderly.
"Please," Tyson replied softly.
Kai paused, looking down, frowning. He then looked up grinning.
"I will," he said, licking Tyson's cheek, "Only after sex."
Tyson smiled almost as broadly as Kai, "Deal!"
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