Disclaimer: Nope, still not mine.
Together the two archangels untied Brennan's body and opened the gates. While, they knew exactly what they were doing, Booth had no idea.
Michael noticed his confusion and told him, "Her body being placed here was just to scare us. While an angel's mortal body can be killed, the spirit can not. Somewhere in here is her spirit, highly likely still being tortured by the demons here."
"I thought angels couldn't be hurt," Booth told him.
"They can, however, they just can't die." Elzix looked toward the moon, which had just started rising and said hurriedly, "We need to get in there and out. We only have a few more hours to save her, or we'll all be stuck in there for the next thousand years."
They all walked silently throughout the dark halls. Not even the archangel's light could penetrate the darkness here. Thankfully, the two seemed to know the way, so Booth followed. However, when they finally reached a great hall that was carefully lit with fires, Booth paused. He didn't even notice as Michael and Elzix went off into another hallway. Booth wandered along the wall: something had seemed to call him. He came across another room and peeked inside. Fire lined the outside of the room, and in the middle, was a large stone pillar surrounded by lava, a bridge leading to it, and attached to the stone was what looked like a demon. The demon was calling him. He turned around and finally noticed Michael and Elzix was no where to be seen. However, instead of going off into the only other hallway to find them, he turned back to the demon. The voice the demon had sounded familiar, though Booth could not place it.
The demon had tenticles coming from the back. It wasn't until the demon flashed with white energy did he recognize the demon. The demon was Temperance, transfigured by the demons here in hell. The tenticles were now easily recognized as her wings after the transformation.
Now, he that he stepped into the room could he understand her, "Booth! Help me out of here. You must hurry before the demons come back!"
He looked back again, but there was no sign of the archangels. Slowly, he walked forward, towards the bridge. It looked rickity and old, but once he put a foot on the first piece of wood, he knew it would hold his weight. He could see now that there was a crystal, blood red in color, stuck in her chest. As there was nothing else binding her to the stone pillar, he assumed the crystal was tying her to the stone.
"Hurry! Please hurry!" she begged, still struggling against the crystal's energy, the flashes happening much more rapidly now.
As soon as he reached the pillar, he grabbed a hold of the crystal. He gave it a tug, but it was in her body pretty tightly. He was preparing himself to pull harder when suddenly, he heard another Temperance's voice yell out, "No, Booth!"
He spun around to see a tendricle of light wrap around him and pull him away from the demon he thought was Temperance. The real Temperance was with Michael and Elzix, all who had just found him in the room. The demon screamed in fury, the scream was so high pitched, Booth thought his ear drums would have burst.
When the scream ended Michael immediately grabbed Booth's arm tightly, "Do you know what you almost set loose against the world?"
He shook his head, but when he looked at the demon for the last time, he remembered something he had once read in the bible as a kid. The devil had the ability to shapeshift into anything, from another demon to an angel. This demon was the devil, and Booth had almost set him free before he could be made sure he was trapped in hell for the next thousand years.
All he could say was, "Oh, shit."
Temperance grabbed his arm and quickly informed them, "It's getting close to midnight; we need to get out of here."
--What happened to Temperance--
She was lying in a cell, exhausted from their latest torture treatments. Teldramyst, it turned out, was a good friend of Wormwood. Together, the two of them had poisoned her mortal body, laughing as her as her body convulsed in pain, she dealt with hallucinations, and the taunts they would throw at her. To make matters worse, everything was completely dark. All she could see was her body, and it wasn't a pretty sight. She never knew if they were close by, waiting for the perfect time to hurt her further, or down the hallway, laughing with some other demon friends.
Brennan heard a noise by the door of her cell and attempted to stand, but was knocked down again forcefully. Wormwood and Teldramyst were back again. She felt someone kneel down beside her and tried to fight whoever it was, but in her weakened state, she couldn't do much. A sharp nail scraped down her cheek, and she shivered. The nail moved further down her body until it reached just above her stomach when it started to dig farther into the skin. Brennan attempted to stay silent, so they could not gain pleasure from her pain. However, she couldn't help but cry out when a liquid was slowly being poured onto her body that burned hotter than lava. Their laughs filled the room as her cries turned into a hiss. Suddenly the laughs were strangled as two beams of light filled the cell, and wrapped around their necks. Michael and Elzix rushed in, swords drawn.
Even though angels powers were weakened some here, these two were still not to be trifled with, and in the act of kidnapping Temperance, consider them trifled with. They fought, darkness and light connecting in battle. After what seemed like hours, but was actually minutes, Wormwood and Teldramyst were finally weakened enough for their souls to be captured and tied to the crystals that the archangels' blades created. Within seconds, both of the demons were stuck to the wall through the crystals and Elzix was kneeling next to Temperance, healing her.
"Where's Booth?" she asked once she was able to stand up again without risk of falling over.
Michael spun around and growled when he didn't see Booth, "Damn the devil. Booth must have fallen behind at the great hall!"
All three angels hurried as fast as they could back to the great hall. They just had to find Booth before he set the devil free. And their time was running out!
