Chapter 4: A Romantic Ambush
Lapis was enjoying herself on Earth. It was the most breathtaking places she had ever been. She had picked a small bouquet of wildflowers from the meadow and was inhaling the rousing aroma, letting the satiny petals caress her face.
"Who knew that flowers on Earth could be lush and beautiful?" the young angel breathed.
"Oh, all the flowers on Earth and Heaven can't hold a candle to your own immaculate beauty." Peridot's voiced purred from the tree Lapis was leaning against.
"Who said that?" the new arrival stiffened.
"You don't need to know." Peridot simply answered.
"Yes, I do." Lapis insisted.
"Trust me." Peridot told her. "If I showed myself to you right now, you'd fly away in a heartbeat."
"Are you a demon?" she inquired.
"How could you tell?" the demon's voice asked. "For all I know, you've probably never even seen a demon before."
"Well, I know that demons are the opposite of angels." the young angel responded. "So, if angels are feminine; then demons must be masculine. I could tell by the deepness in your voice."
"Huh, you're smarter than you let on." Peridot said, sounding impressed.
"So what's your name?" Lapis asked the masculine stranger.
"Peridot." the demon answered. "And you?"
"I'm Lapis Lazuli." the new arrival replied.
"How long have you existed?" Peridot inquired.
"Just a couple days." Lapis responded.
"And I'm guessing that this is the first time you've ever been to Earth." the demon hypothesized. "I was watching you from afar. Although, seeing you from a distance is a poor substitute from actually looking you in the eye. It would really nice to see all of you."
The young angel thought for a little while. And then, she stood up from the tree and into the sun.
"Come into the light so I can see you." she requested, much to Peridot's surprise. "I promise I won't run away."
The dark figure did what she said and revealed himself to her. Now Lapis could see that Peridot was about as tall as her with yellow-green skin, plus a matching tail and chartreuse hair with a grayish tinge. He also had forest green eyes with black sclera along with bright green shorts, blackish-green horns, black growths with claws for arms and legs, and green wings.
Peridot and the young angel stood there frozen, gazing into each other's eyes. For some reason, Lapis didn't feel afraid to be in this demon's presence and Peridot didn't want to hurt the young angel. Both of them felt their faces heat up as they both blushed. Lapis could feel her heart racing, but in a good way as she and the demon joined hands; their fingers intertwining.
The two beings wished that nothing could spoil this magical moment, but no such luck. The other five demons from Peridot's group jumped out and startled the spacey angel and demon.
One of the demons looked a lot like Peridot except his hair was styled to look like a square. Lapis wondered if he could be Peridot's brother or something.
The smallest demon had short cerulean hair, pastel blue skin, and a matching tail with a grayish tinge. He also had neon blue claws, ripped denim shorts, blackish-blue horns, navy blue eyes, and light blue wings.
The second shortest demon had scarlet skin with a matching forked tail, brick red eyes, and an afro of dark maroon hair. He also had blackish-red horns, a burgundy vest over black pants, a dark eyepatch covering his right eye, and red wings.
The medium-sized demon had messy dark red hair in pigtails, dark majenta eyes, and a pink complexion with a matching tail. He wore baggy majenta shorts with suspenders, pointy dark pink boots, blackish-pink horns, and pink wings.
The tallest demon was the most muscle-bound of all. He had bright amber eyes, yellow-orange skin with darker orange stripes, wild white hair, and a brown bovine lower body with a matching tail and orange hooves. He wore an orange loincloth tied with brown rope, blackich-orange horn, and dark maroon wings.
"Oh, I'm sorry." the blue demon said sarcastically. "Were we interrupting something?"
"Lay off, Aquamarine." Peridot told him.
"Well, well, well." the muscular demon drawled. "Looks like we're bringing us home an angel tonight."
"You know, a pretty little angel like yourself shouldn't be wandering around Earth all alone." the pink demon admonished Lapis in an almost seducing tone.
She backed away from the frightening ruffians, trying to extricate herself from the fearsome gang. But, she tripped on a tree root and fell on her bottom. The whole time, Peridot was hanging back and didn't want any part of this.
"Leave me alone." the young angel pleaded while sobbing, tears spilling out of her eyes. "Please don't hurt me!"
"We've got ourselves an angelic crybaby, boys." the square haired demon declared teasingly.
"You've got that right, Squaridot." agreed the red demon as the other demons (except for Peridot) laughed at the angel's expense.
Lapis noticed that they were distracted and use this as an opportunity to make herself scarce so that she could find her friends. As quickly as she could, she bailed from the pack of demons. Of course, they didn't notice that she was gone until it was too late.
"There she goes!" the red demon cried out, pointing at the fleeing angel.
"She got away!" Squaridot complained.
"She won't evade us for long." the brawny demon assured his group, revealing a bottle of purple powder inside. "If we can get her to take a whiff of this sleeping draught, we'll have in one place again and she'll be ours for the taking."
"Good idea." Aquamarine said as he was preparing to give Peridot the bottle. "Peridot, go after her."
"Oh, I would, but uh I'm... not a fast flyer." the younger green demon lied, making up some excuse to avoid hunting down the beautiful angel.
"Ugh, fine!" the blue demon groaned. "Spinel, you go track her down."
"Will do." the pink demon agreed as Aquamarine tossed him the sleeping powder.
Meanwhile, Lapis was flying as fast as she could to get away from the hostile demons and reunite with her buddies. Unfortunately, her two friends were nowhere to be found.
"Stevonnie! Garnet!" she called out. "Where are you?"
That was when she saw two faint figures in the distance. Maybe they were Garnet and Stevonnie looking for Lapis, who probably already figured out that she was missing. She was about to approach the two angels when she heard a rustling sound from some bushes.
"Hello?" the young angel said skeptically as she advanced towards the bushes. "Is somebody there?"
"Peekaboo!" Spinel hollered, jumping out from behind the bushes and showering the surprised angel with the sleeping draught.
Lapis coughed to get the powder out of her lungs, but it wasn't enough to save herself. A warm sensation overtook her as the sleeping powder began to take affect. Her eyes drooped shut and she collapsed onto the grass, just after the last thing she saw was the pink demon's conniving smile.
Garnet and Stevonnie watched the events unfold from afar with horror filled looks on their faces. Immediately, they rushed to go find help.
Peridot and the other demons caught up with Spinel and found the frail looking angel sound asleep. Squaridot forcibly picked up Lapis by her shoulders, a black, smoking excrement staining them from the demons hands.
"What do you think we should do to her first?" he asked his fellow demons.
But, none of them ever got the chance to answer because Stevonnie, Garnet, and the angels' Earth guide had detected the demonic pack.
"We are so busted." Aquamarine commented under his breath.
"Be gone, you vile creatures!" Blue Zircon demanded. "Harassing angels is one thing, but attacking new arrivals is quite another!"
"Toodles." said Spinel, giggling nervously.
The demons dropped the unconscious angel and bailed from the scene, Peridot looking back at Lapis with a sad look on his face.
"Lapis, wake up!" Garnet told the new arrival, trying to shake her awake. "She must be under the effects of some kind of sedative."
"What's that on her shoulders?" Stevonnie asked, pointing at the black gunk that was on the young angel.
"It's demon dirt!" Blue Zircon answered in alarm. "Those heathens touched her. We'll need to gather all the other angels back! We must get Lapis back to Heaven and into a bath of Holy Water right away!"
She picked up Lapis in a bridal style and flew off with her two buddies to regroup the other angels before heading back home.
The blue-haired angel may have been in a critical state and gone through a scary situation, but she also now had an exciting memory with one demon who was not like the others. And she hoped that her first encounter with him would not be her last.