A long time ago, demons and their human followers conspired together to bring the dark evils of hell to earth by creating a gateway. Their plan was successful but it didn't last long for the gateway was locked and sealed up by guardian angels and the only key to it the doors was hidden however while the doorway was open one demon managed to get out of hell and invade earth. A twisted, evil, and insane demon who brought chaos and misery every where he met. One of heaven's finest guardian angels was assigned the mission to hunt down this demon and slay him.
But this demon could not be killed in the way of any normal demon. He could only be defeated by the seven elements of virtue. The angel himself was the element called The Sky of Hope but he alone could not defeat the demon, he needed the other six. The Fire of Forgiveness, The Air of Humility, The Water of Wisdom, The Light of Charity, The Earth of Justice, and The Ice of Prudence. With these elements combined the demon would lose all power and would be forever banished back to hell.
So the angel's mission was this, he had to keep the demon at bay while searching for the six people who represented the remaining elements.
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Manny rushed Frida back to the organization to get help. She was alright just stunned and covered in slime, so they took her to the church where Sister Nora and some of the other nuns bathed her and washed away the slime. Manny's body had slime on it too so he had to be bathed as well but he could do that on his own. Frida was placed in the infirmary after that. She was still unconscious which was worrying Manny.
"She's been out for hours." He said looking at her as she was lying in bed.
"Don't worry Manny." Gardner assured her. "It's only because she's human, the demonic slime had a stronger negative effect on her than you. She'll wake eventually."
"Hey before that gunk tried to swallow her she did something pretty weird."
"What?"
"These marks started showing up on her body."
"Marks? What kind of marks?"
"I don't know I didn't get a good look but I think they were crosses."
"Crosses? Are you sure?"
"Well I don't know but it looked like it to me and then she started glowing in this bright light that almost blinded me and made the slime pretty pissed."
"Oh no."
"Do you know what she did?"
"What you had just witnessed was heaven's light. A defense method that angels use against demons when it's needed."
"Why would an angel need to defend itself? They live in heaven, the ultimate paradise where everyone is so good and sweet and evil doesn't even exist. Oye! Sounds boring."
"Ever heard of guardian angels?"
"Once or twice."
"Well they're angels who are assigned to watch over certain humans and to do that they must go back to earth where they are in danger of being attacked or killed by demons. When an angel is in grave danger and there is no escape their soul will give off a powerful light that will destroy anything un holy. It's called heaven's light and usually only angels have it but holy people like Frida and Analia can use it as well."
"I never saw Analia use that."
"Well some humans like that rarely or never use it, in fact I'm surprised Frida was able to use it. But because she's human the force will cause a great strain on her body and it's difficult for her to control it. To be honest I'd rather her not use it because the light could leave her body greatly damaged."
"Can she control it?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because she's a human and unlike angels who are truly good and have no evil in their soul humans do. Every human born on earth has the prospect of being good or evil, becoming an angel or a devil after death, to be holy or un holy, so because of that the light is compromised. It can't kill the human because part of it might be good and do great things for the world but it can't leave it unscathed because part of it might be evil and could abuse the power. So the light chooses not to destroy the human body but rather just to exhausted it."
"Will it hurt her?"
"No it will only cause her to get really tired and maybe pass out for long periods of time. Which is why when she wakes up we need to find a way for her to contain it just in case it happens again. That aside did you find out anything about the slime?"
"Not much only that it tried to eat Frida and then it retreated down a port hole."
"Hmm...We better get Dipper."
Unfortunately for them Dipper was busy at that moment. He and Pacifica were following Gideon. According to what he told his followers in church he always went to the grave yard to conduct prayer and ceremonies of redemption but Dipper didn't buy that for a long shot. So after his session, he and Pacifica followed him to the grave yard.
They watched him kneel before a tomb and whisper words.
"See? He's just praying." Pacifica whispered. "I told you he wasn't a secret devil worshiper."
"Don't believe everything you see." Dipper whispered. "What he's saying aren't prayers, it's Ancient Latin."
"Well maybe it's prayers in Latin."
"I took Latin for three years and if I'm correct he's speaking words to summon something. Look."
When Gideon finished speaking the tomb opened to reveal a stairway leading underground. He walked down the stairway, Dipper and Pacifica followed after him as quickly and quietly as possible. Reaching the end of the stairway they found a bunch of underground catacombs.
"Creepy." Pacifica shuddered. "Do we have to do this?"
"No not unless you want that angry ghost to kill you in the next four months."
"Ugh! It's so dark and cold in here."
"Hang on I think I have a match."
He struck a match against the wall, sparking a little light which revealed that they were in a room filled with bones, skulls, and skeletons scattered across the floor. Pacifica almost screamed in terror but Dipper quickly covered her mouth.
"Shh! If he catches us we could be next." He whispered.
She nodded and they continued walking further down. The whole time they were down there Pacifica was walking very close to Dipper, clutching his arm which made him slightly neverous and blush once or twice.
"Um...You sure are standing very close to me right now."
"Hey if you got a problem deal with it! I'm scared okay?"
"I must confess this is the most a woman has touched me in a hundred years."
"Don't be creepy."
They soon discovered an alter that stood before a mosaic of a giant flaming eye with several idols standing below it. There were also shackles and chains connected to the walls and different types swords and daggers. They saw Gideon place a human heart on the alter began chanting words in Latin. A flame rose up and from it came a triangle shaped demon with one eye.
"Oh my God." Dipper gasped in a whisper.
"We need to leave now." Pacifica whispered.
"Not now."
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Please! I'm scared!"
Dipper hesitated, he didn't want to leave not when he could kill the bastard or at least get proof that he was a monster. But Pacifica looked scared to death so for her sake he decided to leave. Shortly after they left he finally received the message from Dipper and Steven.
"This better be important." Dipper complained. "I was hot on a trail that would lead me to some great evidence."
"Nice to see you too mate." Steven said.
"Sorry, it's good to see you guys." He said as he Steven gave each other a brief manly hug. "So what's the emergency?"
"Have you heard about the weird slime oozing around?" Manny asked.
"Yeah I thought it was spilled tar."
"Guess again because it's been attacking people, causing accidents, making people act weird, and it tried to eat Frida."
"Oh well that's definitely not what tar does, okay show me where this happened?"
They gathered their tools and went to port hole where Manny saw the slime go down. Using a power drill and some of the other tools the brought they began to drill and dig a deeper hole. Dipper then lowered a reading meter down there to figure out how much of whatever it was, was down there.
"Whoa! These readings are off the chart." Dipper said looking at the meter. "According to my calculations it would seem that the slime is hiding in the sewers."
"Figures." Manny said. "Anything slimy always goes to the sewers."
"I'd like to get a sample of that slime."
"How you gonna get it?"
"Someone needs to go down there and get me a little of the slime."
"Well who's going down to get it?"
Then they looked over at Steven and smiled.
"Oh no! Not me!" He said backing away. But they lassoed a rope around his waist and hooked the other end to a machine that would lower him down. "Why do I have to go down and get it?"
"Because you're bigger and stronger therefore you have a better chance of surviving any danger down there than we do." Dipper said as he began lowering him down.
"You see anything down there?" Manny called.
"No! Just darkness...No wait a minute! I see something!"
"What?"
"Holy mother of God! I think I just found the honey pot!"
"Can you get a sample?" Dipper asked.
"I'll try." He said. "Okay I got some. Bleh! Oh man this stuff is gross. Alright guys now pull me up...Hey what the? What is this? Hey get away from me! Ahhhh!"
"Steven are you alright?" Dipper called.
"It's trying to eat me alive!"
"Oh crap! Pull him up!" Manny shouted as he and Dipper started to pull the rope up. Suddenly they felt something on the other end try to pull the rope back. "Whoa! Looks like this stuff really wants to eat him!"
"Hold on Steven!"
SNAP!
"Uh-oh!" They said. They quickly began pulling the rope back up only to find the person on the other end was gone.
"Steven!" Dipper called. "Are you still alive?!"
No answer.
"Oh well Steven's dead. He will be missed." Dipper said walking away.
"Hold it wolf boy." Manny said stopping him grabbing him by his shirt. "Something tells me he's not dead just yet."
"I'm sure he is."
"Only one way to find out. We're gonna have to go after him."
"You mean go down there? Into the sewer? You can't be serious."
"Dipper hold your nose and be prepared to take a long shower tomorrow because we're going in."
"Oh man."
They climbed down the port hole and Dipper began tracking Steven's scent. Soon the came upon a huge wave of slime that had Steven floating around inside of it. He looked like he was still alive.
"Okay now how are we gonna get him out?" Manny said.
"Well we could go back and get that rope and then have one person tied to the rope go into the slime and pull Steven out while the other holds the rope."
"Okay but for the record you're going in."
"Why me?"
"Because I've already gone swimming in that crap to save someone. It's your turn dog."
"I am not a dog!"
"Whatever let's just do this."
Manny tied one end of the rope to Dipper and held on to the other end while the werewolf boy dove into the slime and began swimming around, searching around for Steven. When he found him he grabbed him and tugged on the rope. But when Manny tried to pull them out of the slime tried to pull back and swallow both of them. Manny wanted to set the slime on fire and end it already but he couldn't risk burning Steven and Dipper to a crisp.
"Foolish boy!" The slime gloated. "Give up! Those two are as good as eaten!"
"Sorry but I'm not one for giving up."
He tightened up his grip once again and using all of his demon strength he pulled as hard as he could until at last he pulled them out. Then he sent a fireball right into the slime burning it to ash.
"You two okay?"
"We're good." Steven said holding a thumbs up.
"Well that's one slime problem taken care of."
"But something tells me there's more from where that came from." Dipper said. "Whatever we're dealing with it's big and we're gonna need more than three of us. Steven you think you can try to get Connie back?"
"I don't know I haven't heard from her in months. I mean I hear she's working at some club though I don't know if I can talk to her. But I'll stop by and see if she'll help us out."
So while Manny and Dipper began looking into the slime's D.N.A Steven went downtown to look for Connie. At one of the clubs, Connie was wearing a flowing, silk,green skirt and a matching tanktop. She was bare foot with bells on her ankles and her was down. She waited patiently for her boss to announce her as the next act.
"Ladies and gentlemen." He said. "Put your hands together for the most charming dancer in Maine. Connie Maheswaran."
The lights dimmed and exotic music began to play. She stepped on to the stage and began to dance in a mesmerizing and graceful way. She moved her hips to the rhythm and her feet moved so delicately across the stage that when she danced it almost looked like she was flying. The audience ooed and awed at her performance. She definitely wasn't called Maine's most charming dancer for nothing.
"Boring!" One rude customer who had too much to drink called out. "Shake it up a bit! Drop the dress will ya?!"
Connie scoffed and ignored him.
"Hey don't ignore me ya dumb broad! I'm talking to you!"
"Sir I think you should leave." The bar tender told the drunk man.
"Out of my way pipsqueak!" He said shoving the bar tender into the back causing a loud crash and some bottles of beer and booze to break. Some of the other customers got up and went to help him unknowingly making it easier for the drunk man to get close to the stage.
"Can I help you sir?" Connie asked annoyed.
"What makes you think you can ignore me? You think you're better than me?"
"I think that you've had way too much to drink and that you should leave before you get yourself into serious trouble."
"Dirty slut!" He got up on stage and smacked Connie, knocking her to the floor. Before she could run away he pulled her back up and began to drag her outside. Other people tried to stop him but he pulled out a knife. "Come near me I'll cut your throats!"
Everyone froze in fear of getting stabbed and did nothing as he dragged her outside into an alleyway. He pinned her to a wall, she struggled to break free but he was too strong. He had just started using his knife to cut the threads holding her corset when something grabbed him and started slamming his face against the wall repeatedly.
"You should know better than to treat a lady that way." She heard a familiar voice say.
She looked to see her dear old friend Steven standing across from her teaching that drunkard a good lesson.
"Steven?"
"Hey Connie. Miss me?"
"Thanks a lot!" She said sarcastically. "Just what I need another guy thinking I'm weak and pathetic."
"Um am I missing something here? Usually people are more grateful when they get rescued."
"Well I didn't want to get rescued! I wanted to save myself! But thanks to you there goes my chance of proving that I'm not weak."
"Connie what's wrong with you? You've never been this upset about me helping you before."
"I'm sorry, I'm not mad at you I just...Forget it. It's nice to see you, I'm really glad you're hear."
They hugged.
"What are you doing here? I thought the city forced you into hiding?"
"They did but something bad and paranormal has happened so the new mayor wants us to fix it. As for me I wanted to see what you were doing. Wanna get out of here?"
"Sure but what about him?" She asked pointing to the guy passed out, drunk, and bleeding.
"Eh...He'll be fine. So what have you been up to?"
"Well in case it wasn't obvious I've recently become a dancer for this club. It's not so bad because they pay me well and I like dancing but there is the occasional raving drunkard who wants to get in my skirt."
"Good thing I was here to stop this one huh?"
"Don't get too over confident. I could've handled him."
"I don't doubt that but there's nothing wrong with a little help? Speaking of help you interested in helping solve a case of supernatural slime."
"Does garlic kill a vampire? I'll get my things, I really miss the old business."
They went back to her apartment where she changed out of her costume and into her regular clothes. She then packed up her things and weapons went with him back to the organization where Dipper had spent three hours studying the sample of slime Steven had manged to grab.
"Well what have you got?" Manny asked him.
"This isn't slime." Dipper said. "According to my calculations it's blood."
"Blood? You sure?"
"Positive. The slime is full of blood cells and iron but what I found very interesting is that it also contained dead skin, bones, and soil from graves. This blood definitely didn't come from a human being or an animal at least not a normal one."
"Where did it come from?"
"My best guess would be a demon but what kind of demon would let himself loose so much blood?"
"Maybe he's dead." Steven suggested.
"No. Demon's blood isn't like regular blood. When separated from it's body demon's blood can develop a consciousness of it's own at least as long as the body it came from is still alive. If the demon who's blood this came from was dead then it wouldn't have been able to move and think on it's own, it would've just been regular, in animate, blood."
"So this stuff is alive?"
"Yes and like the devils they came from they can influence people to do bad things."
"So that explains why people are randomly turning evil." Manny said.
"Though what I'm confused about is normally demons wouldn't let this much blood bleed out unless they plan to use it some way."
"How could a devil use it's own blood to help it by having it bleed out?"
"I don't know, it might help if we knew what kind of devil it came from."
"And how do we figure that out?"
"Well we should probably look more into it's sources. Which means we are going back to the sewers and to look around in other areas where the slime or actually demon's blood has attacked."
They went back to searching the sewers for further clues but all they found was slime residue. After that they began investigating other places where attacks had happened in town. Most recent were the super market, the school, the bank, and the museum. They split up and began to ask the clerks, teachers, bakers, students, customers, and any other witnesses to the attacks if they saw or knew anything. Most of them didn't have anything to offer but the usual. They saw the slime and ran away.
"Excuse me sir!" Manny called to the man who ran the local museum. "A moment of your time please."
"What do you want?" He asked annoyed.
"Sorry to bother you but I have some questions about the recent incident."
"Incident?"
"Yes I was told that your museum was attacked by the strange slime that has appeared in town."
"Well I don't know where you got that information but it is entirely false."
"Are you sure sir? Because several people have pointed out-"
"We'll they're either mistaken or they're liars!"
"I don't think so because the slime-"
"This slime does not exist! If anything it's just spilled oil or tar that people are over exaggerating about."
"But sir it's all over the newspapers and it's been a topic on the radio for a week."
"Rubbish! Nothing but silly superstition and- Wait a minute do I know you from somewhere?"
"Uh no."
"I know! I've seen you in the newspaper! You're supposed to be that kid who's half demon."
"Oh? What gave it away?"
"Can you do me a favor and stay away from my museum with your absurd act."
"Excuse me?"
"Look my museum is a building of fact, reason, and truth so I don't need fake charlatans like you and that fat oaf coming around here, confusing my employees and my customers with your ridiculous ideas about vampires, demons, monsters, and other nonsense."
"I don't think you understand what we do. You see there are supernatural things in this world and some of them are very bad so it's up to people like me to get rid of them, understand? This slime is a super natural bad thing which I've been told has been here now could you do me a favor and tell me what you know."
"I know nothing about what you're talking about nor do I believe any of it! Now if you're done wasting my time I'd like you to leave before I call the authorities!"
"What am I doing wrong?"
"You're trespassing on private property!"
"Private property? It's a public museum! Nothing is private if it's public!"
"Not after hours, we're closing now get out of here!"
"Fine!"
Manny walked away but not before sending a small spark of fire to singe a part of the man's hair off. Then ran off snickering deviously.
"Ahh!"
"He,he."
"You're not supposed to do that!" Gardner scolded.
"Do what?"
"You know what! I saw what you did. Manny if you want to be accepted into society you can't just set fire to anyone who makes you angry."
"Why not?"
"Because it's not what decent people do."
"In case you haven't noticed old man I'm not a decent person. I'm not even a whole person."
"Nevertheless you need to control your temper if you don't then we'll have no choice but to lock you up again and we both know you don't want that."
"Don't you threaten me old man."
"Then behave and I won't have to. You can't keep doing this Manny, this behavior is one of the reasons you and Steven were forced into hiding. You need to control yourself."
"I'm in perfect control."
"When you want to be but when someone makes you angry you let your rage control you which is a problem. There is nothing more dangerous than a devil's temper especially when it's uncontrollable. You're a good kid Manny but I expect you to behave better and to control your temper."
"And what makes you think I can do that?"
"If your father a full fledged devil could control his temper and show tolerance to humanity then I'm sure you, his half human son can too."
"Well I'm not my father!"
"I know that but you know both your father and your mother expect better from you. I hope you don't disappoint them."
"You shut up about my parents!"
"I don't mean to offend you I only want to help."
"Well you've helped plenty."
"I see that you're going to have to learn this lesson on your own. Anyway I have to be at a meeting tomorrow I hope you and the others have better luck."
He then went to a car that had pulled up for him. Manny couldn't help but growl a little. He hated hearing people talk about his parents and he would never admit it but Father Gardner was right. If his parents were still here they would've scolded him for spitting fire at that man. Still that didn't give him the right to mention them like that. He quickly calmed himself down and went to join the others.
