Chapter 5: Cat and Mouse

"Please let me go!" cried the Angel as sharp metal claws dug into his flesh.

He cried in fear as the metallic coloured Dragonoid dropped him from a great height above New York City. He saw the buildings quickly get closer to him with the seconds that passed. He was about to close his eyes when he noticed that he was about to be impaled by a pole that was reaching up to the sky, but he was suddenly stopped.

He dared to look up to see that the Dragonoid, the Dragonoid who had been killing Angels as if they were nothing but lowly apes. He had to wonder if the Dragonoid had been doing what they were doing to him to the other Angels when they were getting killed. He feared the idea that he was nothing more than a toy for the mechanical being that had been until recently thought had been nothing but a story to keep fledglings in their beds at night.

The Dragonoid bared it massive teeth in a smile. A smile that it could not make with no flesh that covered its metal skull. Its green optics glowed brightly with the next Angel that it was going to kill. "I thought you had ask to be let go?" the Dragonoid spoke with the same voice that Hazel had spoken in. The Scottish accent that Hazel had was only strengthened and also sounded more mechanical than ever before.

The Angel had remembered all to clearly what happened. He had watched as Hazel's appearance simmered and twisted into the appearance that he had found to be the human alternative mode of Nightshade the leader of the Elemental Guardians. She looked so annoyed it reminded him of why the Dragonoids had always been terrifying to them. He was a good solider who had been told never to give in to the enemy and at the moment Nightshade along with the other Elemental Guardians where there enemies.

"I am so sorry for that little baby!" sneered Nightshade. She was still hovering above the pole that he would have impaled if she had not caught him at the last moment. "I didn't mean to scare you! But if you don't tell me what I want to know! Well then things are going to get bloody very quickly!" she snapped as she released two claws that were keeping him in her paws.

Nightshade laughed when the Angel turned around and grabbed onto her paw. He tried to unfurl his wings but the tight grip she had on him did not allow enough space for the wings to come out and help the Angel get away from her. Locking her paw into its current position her gears prevented the organic creature from moving. "Now you are going to be a good little child and get Michael for me!" she said.

"I will never help you! We are going to make a better world, but first we need to destroy this world!" the Angel shouted back at Nightshade. He felt his Vessel's heart suddenly pick up in speed when he saw the glint that came into Nightshade's optics. "I will not be a traitor to my leaders!" he screamed. Again that was the wrong thing to say.

Nightshade let out a growl that vibrated right through the Angel. "Good choice! You will help me in bringing Michael here as I want to speak to him! But don't worry you wont live long enough to be classed as a traitor. Just a pawn like the human that you are wearing!"

The attack that came after that came with no warning. Sharp claws along with black lightning bit into his flesh causing more screams to escape from his mouth. The attack didn't stop as he felt Nightshade drop down towards the ground at speeds he never experienced. He searched his Vessel's memories in hopes of finding if the body had survived something similar but it had not.

The last thing that he felt before he blacked out was glass biting into his open wounds and him landing heavily on a metal surface.