Fallen From Above
Summary: AU, In the town of Amity, stories of winged beings are passed down from generation to generation. One stormy night, Sam manson finds a wounded creature that strongly resembles what she has only heard of in myths, an angel. After nursing the winged mystery to health with her friend Tucker Foley, the angel reveals himself to be 'Prince' Daniel, but who is this powerful prince and why is he being pursued by these strange characters?
Chapter 7: Mystery
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Danny Phantom, just the Fanfic
Danny remained silent and still as two of the Angels came forward and bound him in thick ropes, making sure to tie his wings together with strong cords. After tightening the ropes, they began to drag the unresisting Danny to the bottom of the valley.
"Danny," whispered Sam as she lunged after him, but two other Angels noticed her intentions and grabbed her by the arms, holding her back.
"What do we do with them?" murmured one of the Angels who was holding back the struggling Sam.
"...I guess we take them along, there's nothing else we can do," said the other.
Sam and Tucker were guided down the steep slope of the valley, following Danny. As they walked, Sam desperately tried to reach for her bound friend, but whenever she lunged for him, an angel would hold her back. Once, Danny turned his head and gave her a grim look and shook his head slowly, Sam could see the silent message in his glowing eyes: 'Don't say anything, and don't struggle'.
Once at the bottom of the valley, Sam saw that the small creek of fresh water at the bottom of the valley actually came from a small cave in the side of the valley that Sam hadn't noticed until now. The water trickled out of the dark seemingly endless opening and into the sunny valley. The angels pushed Danny into the cave that was the origin of the brook and Sam and Tucker followed. Some of the Angels stayed behind and watched, but most of them followed the small caravan consisting of Danny, Sam and Tucker into the cave.
Water sloshed around Sam's feet as they waded through the water, and with every step they took, the water just got deeper and deeper, the current got stronger, and the cave got darker. As the light in the cave dimmed to almost complete darkness, Sam noticed that some of the Angel's eyes began to glow, but none of the lights were as strong as the piercing neon green glow that Danny's eyes cast off the moist stone walls. Tucker whimpered in fear as they travelled farther and farther into the cave, but Sam remained silent, on the outside, she looked meerly bored, but on the inside, fear and confusion boiled and rolled inside of the young goth human.
What's going to happen to us? thought Sam fearfully, they had come to this place so they could be safe, but now it seemed they were in a worse predicament than they already were.
"... everything is going to be all right child," whispered a comforting femanine voice. Sam turned her head around to see a beautiful female angel with glowing gold eyes and light blonde hair in a bun at the back of her head. Her wings had a random arrangement of orange, white, and pale green feathers, and she was wearing white clothing with shining gold thread laced in designs of feathers, clouds, eyes, suns, and birds across her body. Whenever the angel moved, the threaded designs shimmered and shone, making the designs to appear as if they were alive and moving. As Sam stared into the female angel's beautiful gold eyes she immediately felt at peace, like nothing would ever trouble her again.
The female angel smiled at her and brushed a few strands of her black hair out of Sam's face.
"My gift enables me to sense and manipulate human emotions dear, and I sensed you're distress," said the female angel. "But I assure you, child," She continued. "Our chief judge is fair and just, we do not harm humans here, I know you probably don't trust us since the only one of our kind you have met was Phantom, and I am dreadfully sorry that the first Angel you met was that horrible Venrick of outsider desent." As the golden eyed female angel spoke these words, a few of the Angels spat into the creek water at their feet.
Sam was confused at what the female angel had said: She had a gift? That allowed her to sense and manipulate human emotions? Did all Angels have a gift? What was a 'chief judge'? Who the heck was Phantom? And what was a 'Venrick'?
The golden eyed angel seemed to sense Sam's confusion and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Everything will become clear soon child."
As Sam turned to face the front again she thought again about what the female angel had said, she realized that 'Phantom' must be Danny. But she was still didn't understand the rest of what she had said and what 'outsider decent' was.
Eventually, the cave opened up into a large cavern glistening with specks of white light on the rocky ceiling and stalactites. The creek cut through the middle of the cavern before dissapearing into antother tunnel. On the sides of the cavern were ledges and outcroppings of rock, many of the Angels left and flew up to these ledges and and perched on top of them to watch the scene below. In the center of the cavern was large stone throne, carved with drawings of birds with a variety of jewels set in the throne. Sitting in the throne was an Angel with light electric blue eyes (that do not glow) that seemed to stetch on for eternity if you looked inside their depths. The Angel's hair was a silvery gray including his neatly trimmed beard and his face had a few faint wrinkles etched into his pale and friendly-looking face, (this suprised Sam, since this was the only angel she had seen that appeared the be somewhat old). His wings were a silver-white, and he was wearing a white, gray, and blue cloak. His stature was tall and proud, and he seemed to be hardly affected physically by his age.
As Danny neared the older angel, the older angel's expression changed briefly to shock, sympathy and... regret(?) before switching back to his normal expression.
Sam and Tucker were stopped at the entrance of the cavern, while Danny continued to walk forward towards the older angel, being dragged by the ropes tied around his arms and wings. Once Danny was about eight feet from the throne, one of the Angels carrying a spear swept his spear under Danny's feet, causing him to trip. Danny fell pitifully to the ground with a painful 'oof' and laid there, helpless, since the ropes prevented him from getting back onto his feet.
Sam bit her lip at the sight of her new friend being treated so bitterly, but she remembered Danny's advice to stay silent so she managed not to say a word or run to his aid.
The older angel stood up from the stone throne and made his way over to where Danny lay facedown on the ground, his eyes trained on the rocky floor.
"...You've returned..." said the older angel as if he could barely believe his own words.
Danny didn't respond as he continued to stare at the floor.
"... What is the reason for this?" the older angel asked after a moment of eerie silence throughout the cavern.
Sam saw Danny raise his white-haired head and turn to look at her and Tucker.
"Them," he answered simply.
Sam was aware of the older angel staring at her and Tucker, but she just ignored him as she looked at Danny helplessly, feeling the desperate need to run to his side.
"The humans?" said the silver haired angel, from the tone of his voice Sam could tell that he obviously didn't understand.
"...The Guys in White came after me," said Danny, ignoring the many gasps as he mentioned the 'GiW' and continued. "-And the humans were in danger..."
The older angel nodded in understanding.
There was another silence but it was broken as one of the angels on a rocky ledge above bellowed at the top of his lungs: "What about his punishment! He must pay for his crimes! We warned him of the consequences of returning to the Tribe, and now he must face those consequences!" Many other Angels roared their agreement, but Danny's face was unreadable.
Sam looked behind her at the golden eyed female angel that had spoken to her earlier.
"What are his crimes?" asked Sam.
The female angel hesitated for a moment before answering simply:
"He was born."
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