Okay so a bit of an overwhelming response to the last chapter. However thankyou for not murdering me haha.
Let me make it up to you all.
Beca walks into the room holding the Bellas. Raziel and Haniel shortly behind her holding Stacie, wrapped in a sheet. Beca points to the ground in front of the cages and the two followers drops Stacie's body on the ground, removing the sheet. Aubrey breaks down in tears, falling to the ground. The rest of the Bellas start crying also, Chloe looks to Beca in disbelief. Stacie was covered in blood, her complexion white as a ghost.
"Michael needs you. Go, I'll take care of the rest of them." Beca says to Raziel and Haniel. Raziel holds out the keys and Beca takes them before the two assassins leave the room. Once they are gone, Beca runs to the cages and starts unlocking them all, letting all of the Bellas out. Chloe immediately running over to Stacie. Aubrey's being last, when Beca opens it, she is met with Aubrey's hand, slapping her across the face.
"You killed her. You bitch!" Aubrey continues her assault on Beca before the assassin gets her under control.
"Aubrey stop!" Beca says and Aubrey stops as Stacie sits up taking a deep breath, sucking in as much air as possible.
"I didn't kill her." Beca smiles and Aubrey runs over to Stacie and hugs her before planting her lips on hers. The Bellas all smiling at the exchange between the two, excited to see both Stacie alive but that the two had expressed their feelings for each other. Chloe turns to Beca from her knelt position.
"But how? I checked her pulse. She didn't have one." She asks and Beca smirks, holding out a small empty vial. All the Bellas watch intently as Beca starts to explain.
"What do you need from us?" Stacie asks and Beca turns to Stacie.
"Trust." Beca replies before stabbing Stacie in the chest.
"Michael wants you all dead." She adds before pulling out the knife, Stacie opening her eyes and feeling around her chest for the stab wound.
"What the hell is this?" Stacie asks, her hand on her chest where Beca had supposedly stabbed her. Beca smirks, holding the knife up and pressing down on the tip, creating a little prick in her finger before the blade slides down into the handle.
"It's a trick blade, use this with a few bloodbags, the tip will pierce them enough to make it seem like you are bleeding. However, they will check your pulse so you really do need to die." Beca replies as she pulls out a small syringe and Stacie backs up, her fear of needles kicking in.
"I know, I know but I can't leave this room without you dead so as hard as it is right now Stacie, I need you to trust me. I need you to trust that I am going to get you and all the others out of here. Alive. None of you will be hurt or die I promise." Beca adds, taking Stacie's hands into hers, being careful of Stacie's broken wrist. Stacie looks deep into Beca's eyes before nodding.
"This is Rhododendron Ponticum, it's extracted from a flower. In a controlled and careful dose, it will cause your heart rate to slow right down to the point you're classed dead. When I inject you, you will feel fatigued and cold, when you pass out, I'll do the rest. It's only a small doze so you'll wake up again in about ten minutes. Just trust me and I'll get you all out of here." Beca reassures and Stacie nods before hugging her best friend. As Stacie pulls away, she holds her arm out and Beca carefully injects Stacie with the drug. It takes a couple of minutes before Stacie starts to doze off. When she does, Beca goes to work, applying the fake blood and everything else before whistling out for Raziel and Haniel. They enter the room and check Stacie over before grabbing the sheet and carrying her out, Beca following.
"Okay now I need you all to do as I say if we are going to get out of here alive. Exactly as I say, got it." Beca orders and all the Bellas nod except for Aubrey. All the girls look to the blonde.
"Aubrey?" Chloe asks and Aubrey shakes her head.
"I'm still trying to wrap my head around all of this. Who are you? What are you?" Aubrey asks and Beca takes a deep breath.
"My real name is Beca Mitchell okay? When I was 9 and my family died, I was taken in by the League of Angels, a group of assassins. I was given the name Azrael which means Angel of Death, I have hundreds of kills to my name and I am the deadliest assassin alive so right now, I am the best chance you've got of getting out of here alive, got it?" Beca states harshly and Aubrey immediately shuts up and starts nodding.
"Now I need you all to get back into your cages except Stacie, Aubrey and Jessica." Beca orders and the Bellas do as Beca asks. She holds out a tube of fake blood and asks the free girls to lie on the ground.
"I need you three to hold your breath for a long as possible and pretend you're dead when the others come in." Beca continues before turning to the Bellas in the cages.
"If any of you are squeemish with blood and killing then close your eyes or look away when Raziel and Haniel come in okay?" Beca asks and all of them nod, Beca hoping they all turn away so they won't see Beca in this darkness, the killer, Azrael.
"Who are Raziel and Haniel?" Cynthia Rose asks.
"They are enforcers here, they dish out the punishments, they gave me all my scars. I trained with them, they are like brothers to me but I am like one of the lieutenants so I'm their boss, they follow my orders. I have two options when it comes to getting you guys out of here, I can sneak you out or fight your way out, I'd much rather not have to kill my brothers and sisters but the hierarchy all need to die, including the leader Michael, second Raphael, third Gabriel who I treat as my real brother, Uriel who was my mentor and friend, Zaapiel and Puriel especially." Beca explains before turning to Chloe when she speaks.
"Your father was trying to do the right thing but it wasn't me who killed them, they fell under another assassin's blade after your father was appointed his position. Their names are Zaapiel and Puriel, they were ordered to change their faces and kill your parents to pose as them. When I tried to kill them, I had no idea that they already had the antidote in their system to counter what I got them with, your parent's real killers are still here and I'm going to avenge your parents for you. This was the Leagues plan all along. They are trying to start a war and take over Israel before launching a full scale League attack on the US. I've killed hundreds, so have the others in hierarchy, that's probably… about 1500-2000 between seven of us who are still alive. Imagine what 55 or well 57 including Puriel and Zaapiel and not including me can do because that's how many are in the League, a lot of people WILL die. We are highly skilled and highly trained, guns, knives, poisons, fighting. We camouflage in as civilians and kill whoever Michael dishes out, good, bad, he gives out the order and we follow him because that what he has made us do, follow his orders, like soldiers. No army would beat us, no one could find all of us, they wouldn't know how many we had, it would be a massacre. I have to cut the head of the snake." Beca continues and all the Bellas drop their heads.
"You are all named after Angels?" Jessica asks from her spot on the ground.
"Yes, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel you should all know from the Bible, I'm Azrael. All our names match our skill levels and personalities. I had a friend named Amitiel, means the Angel of Truth because she was always honest." Beca explains and Chloe remembers back to Beca saying that she hadn't had a friend in a long time.
"What happened to her?" Chloe pipes up and Beca turns to her, staring deep into her eyes.
"I killed her." Beca answers before turning back to her task, once she has completed her plan, she quickly moves over to Chloe's cage.
"Aubrey is still in shock about what is happening so I am asking this of you. I need you to promise me something. I need you to promise that if I tell you to run or go that you will get all the girls out of here. With or without me." Beca says and Chloe questions before realizing what Beca is asking.
"No I can't, not without you." Chloe starts to gather tears in her eyes.
"Promise me." Beca asks again and Chloe takes a second to collect her thoughts before looking back to Beca and nodding.
"Okay, now we are in Israel, this is the home of the League so when you get out, you will find two vans okay? One of these vans will take all 8 of you, plus me if I'm there. Take one to Jerusalem and get flights back to the US, ask for a guy named Alek and tell him Azrael sent you and that you are her taw'am alrruh. Tell him you are going to Barden and he will get you all on a flight without your passports and past US customs, it's how the League moves around all our weapons and things for kills, I haven't had a passport in years. Take this and get back to the university, buy anything you need on the way, clothes, food, fuel, anything. I don't care how much you spend, most targets I've had are high profile and are million dollar bounties. If I'm not with you, I need you to be in control of all this okay?" Beca explains and Chloe nods again. Beca leans forward and puts her lips to Chloe's and Chloe immediately responds, the back of her mind niggling away that this felt like a goodbye from the assassin. Beca pulls away.
"I love you Chloe Beale, I'm so sorry I kept all of this from you, I didn't want you to see me as a monster and I was trying to protect you from all of this." Beca states outright and Chloe smiles a little, reaching out so her hand caresses Beca's cheek.
"I understand why you didn't tell me, I mean it's a lot to take in but I love you too Beca Mitchell." Chloe replies bringing a genuine smile to Beca's face, something Chloe and the Bellas had never seen before.
"Now let's get you guys out of here." Beca says as she goes over the final parts to her plans with the Bellas.
Beca stands up and starts cleaning her real knife of all the fake blood, she whistles out for Raziel and Haniel and they appear in the room about a minute later.
"The bodies are starting to pile up. Get rid of them." Beca says in her Azrael tone and both the assassins nod before moving past her to check the bodies over. She looks to the Bellas in the cages to see that they have all turned away from her like she asked. She flicks her knife around in her hand and moves behind Haniel, stabbing him in the back of the neck, as Raziel realizes what is happening, he stands up but Beca rips the knife out of Haniel and slices it across Raziel's throat. Both her brothers fall to the ground, trying to call out but can't due to their wounds, they only cough up blood. They both look up to Beca and she feels bad but she knew it had to be done.
"I'm sorry my brothers." Beca states sadly, dropping her head as both assassins take their last breaths. Beca bends down next to them, closing each of their eyes.
"Albaqi fi salam 'iikhwani fi alssilah (Rest in Peace my brothers in arms.)" She says before looking up to the ceiling, hoping if there were a God that he would be listening.
"Yaghfir dhunubihim li' annahum llaysuu lahum. (Forgive their sins for they were not theirs.)" She adds before standing up and grabbing the sheet used to carry Stacie and covering them. She tells the Bellas it is safe to look and they do, only seeing the outline of two bodies under a sheet, small trickles of blood starting to seep through. Beca was standing next to them, cleaning her knife. The girls laying on the ground take in deep breaths before sitting up. The Bellas in the cages come out and Chloe notices the sad look on Beca's face as she gazes down at her dead brothers. The redhead putting a reassuring hand on Beca's shoulder, telling her that she did what she had to and that it was going to be okay. Beca then turns to the Bella's and pull three of her throwing knifes out of their sheaths, handing one to Jessica, one to Stacie and one to Fat Amy.
"These are throwing knives but they work as regular knives too. If you really need to throw them, they pull to the right slightly so aim accordingly. You can either throw by the handle but throw with force or throw by the blade, I prefer by the blade, but that's just me. Jessica and Stacie, you are behind me and Fat Amy, you are at the back of the group. You see anything dressed in black then throw unless I whistle like this." Beca says before demonstrating the whistle. Chloe takes a hold of Stacie's knife and runs her finger along the delicate yet direct carvings in it. She notices the Arabic carved in it but can't read it.
"What do these carvings and the Arabic mean? Chloe ask quickly and Beca turns her head.
"The carvings represents dark shadows and the Arabic on the blade is part of the League's creed, 'Forever in the shadows,' the Arabic on the handle is my name, Azrael. I made all of them." Beca answers and all the girls gape at the fact Beca made all her weapons. She pulls out one of her swords that the League knew as the mythical 'Sword of Azrael'.
"All my weapons have the same carvings and Arabic, except this one, I added something extra to this one not long ago." She adds, showing Chloe who looks to her. Her eyes asking what it meant.
"It means Kalu or in English Chloe. My friend Amitiel that I killed, her real name was Chloe too so it has double meaning. You and her." Beca explains and Chloe smiles. Beca returns the smile before opening the door and the Bellas file out in their formation behind Beca. All of them ready to escape.
There you go. Stacie is alive and well and the Bellas are now on the escape.
Why on Earth would I kill Stacie? She is one of my favourites in this story! Beca always has a plan and yes for those asking she is back!
Who is excited for Pitch Perfect 3 in December? I know I am, I just hope that BeChloe finally happens, like it HAS to happen!
Anyways, I'm signing off now so until next chapter.