: Heaven
Yellow he was surrounded by yellow.
He had to get back to her he just had to.
"Why do we have to keep him here?" Said the tall, currently disgusted, figure who was named, Jackson. Of course Jackson was still blood stained and impaled in the eye due to how he had died. The blood would go away in time. Jackson was a tall man who wore a black coat, a white cravat at his neck, and a yellow and orange sash.
"Because he's a token, a beacon even, showing the bots what they did, what they brought upon another." Said the smaller figure Jackson was standing with. He had asked her why Jeff's soul had to be resting in a small glass box. The small figure he was with had short, black hair and a golden crown hovering over the left side of her head.
"But why him?" Jackson said with anger. The short girl just looked up at him and walked to a desk where behind it stood rows of cabinets. He followed.
"Because he was affected the most and he will continue to be."
Continue to be? Jackson thought but he figured being trapped in a glass box was what she meant. That or whatever they were going to do with him.
"I just feel like…" He looked back at the box with Jeffrey inside. Jeff's eyes were open and vacant. "Like you trapped the wrong damn person." Of course, Jackson was thinking of someone else.
"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't, but for now I don't know what the box will do and we need to observe it and him."
Jackson didn't want to watch him. He wanted to go back to earth and see what's been going on so badly. "Will do." He stated.
"With what happened I'm not sure I can trust you anymore."
Jackson glanced at her. Did she really just say that? She didn't mean it. It was just one flaw… One-big-flaw...He'd probably wouldn't get another chance anymore.
What was he thinking?
This was Marlene he was talking about. She had sent him and she has always been sending him through various mission. She would never lose trust in him. That's why he had gotten a second chance by watching Jeff in the glass box and making sure he doesn't run away or to make sure he doesn't die in it. Jackson guards hell, with this it would be easy to show Marlene how he could be trusted, and maybe she'd let them go check out the pizzeria after this like he'd always dreamed of. But for now to achieve that he'd need to watch this stupid anger derived-
Floof
It was a noise that went through both of their hearts. That was a noise they were both all too familiar with. A noise that the clouds they called home only made,
when something fell.
Jackson ran over to the edge of the cloud and saw an orange figure get smaller and smaller. His breathing got faster and he turned to Marlene who was holding the door to a tiny vacant glass box. She turned around.
"Get him." Was all she said and Jackson leaped off the cloud and wrapped himself in his massive white wings. Jackson ripped through the sky at high speeds, plummeting with his wings folded back. All he could hear was the wind rushing around him. A black force was swimming and dancing around him leaving a black streak in the sky. He tried to push himself forward as the boy was now getting closer and closer to the earth.
For a frightening minute Jackson thought he wouldn't reach him. But Jackson froze when he heard a boom behind him followed by a close zip like electricity. Jackson faced back up to heaven to see what had made that sound and he could see a green ring of force expanding and fading and a single green vibrant streak in the middle.
What in the world? He followed the streak with his eyes until it lead him to the green force beside him. It almost frightened Jackson because it was inches apart but the thing seemed to see Jackson and it glided away from him, giving them space.
The green started to clear up and Jackson could see the guy that was flying next to him. He looked the same age as Jackson but he was more formally dressed with a green suit and a tiny rounded top hat, he had rich gold hair and stitches across his face and under his left eye. He winked at Jackson and Jackson's wings faltered, something Jackson saw the other didn't have. Faltering had caused Jackson to open his wings and get thrown behind him like a parachute but he caught up with the stranger and Jackson felt the urge to… Race this new-comer.
Marlene hurried to looked over the spot where Jackson had taken flight before she had sent the other. The two streaks seemed to be going at the same pace but it was impossible to tell. Marlene hurried back to the desk. Grabbing a pencil she sketched out binoculars which appeared in thin air and she ran back to the edge. She looked through and saw black and green flashing rapidly from the one lens to the next. She zoomed out and saw that the two were swirling around each other right on top of Jeff like a drill. But then suddenly the two reared far from each other and then smashed and merged into a bright flaming ball that was being brought back up at a fast rate. Marlene took off the binoculars as they blasted high over her head and when it fell behind Marlene an orange pulse spread out like a ripple below with a muffled boom. Jeff made it.
Jackson grabbed his aching head and looked over to the other man who was picking and examining the yellow tufts of cloud that had stuck to him on the landing.
"You mind telling me who this delinquent you sent after me is?" Exclaimed Jackson who had collected himself and was heading over to Marlene for an explanation on the guy who ruined his mission.
"Delinquent?" Said the other guy "You should take a look at your bloody self! This dear here created me not just for hunting yourself down."
"British?" said Jackson looking at Marlene,"You made the damn guy British?"
"Look you weren't going to make it if Jeff fought back and I need someone more capable of handling them so I made Liu here," Cocky bastard bowed. "to handle the situation but now the maniac is loose as a ghost in the world, but I of course can fix this." They were both being a little cocky. Marlene was reaching under their desk and seeing that she wasn't looking, Jackson shot a nasty look at Liu. Liu winked at him again but this time throwing a little kiss motion.
Jackson then flinched in pain at a blinding sea of green light that was burning him slightly. It was hard for him to look at. Marlene held a sword that was like a wide triangle with a big slit in the middle. She held the handle and I looked a little heavy for her. Jackson ripped his stare from the sword to look at Liu and his reaction. Liu was standing up stoutly. The light faded, Jackson fixed his shaken self while he watched Marlene put the blade in a green drawstring bag. "This blade is made to reap the souls of the dead and cannot be seen by most mortals but the presence of it gives what they call 'the heebie jeebies', one of you is going to have to go to earth and take Jeff's soul with this blade but in order for me to be able to retrieve him the wound must be made where he had died first. So you'll have to strike him in the stomach."
Go to earth. Jackson was ecstatic, he'd not only gotten a mission but he was also finally able to see what was going on down there. He went to receive his pack with the blade that would let him see the place that he'd-
"Liu." Marlene said. "You will have to go and bring back Jeff." Jackson was crushed.
"What do you mean Liu?" He said "You'd just made him and-"
"And I made him for this purpose."
Liu happily put on the backpack. Marlene looked up at Liu. "Liu, this is extremely important and I am trusting you to bring back Jeff to me you got it?" He nodded and Marlene embraced him. "You come back too alright?" He nodded once more and his force pushed him off the cloud and he fell. Marlene watched him go at a leisurely pace. She looked to the left to face Jackson before she could see Liu break earth's barrier.
"And Jackson I-"
"Jackson?"
A blast sounded. Then seconds later another one did.