Thanks for all the amazing reviews! I was a little cautious to post this story at first, as Feathers and Jiah are my own characters, I wasn't really sure they would be accepted, but, you guys haven't really mentioned anything bad about them so, thanks! Oooh, nearly forgot, this chapter has one little bit of Michael and Lucifer, and a mention of God!Chuck. (he will appear for a good few scenes in the next chapter…hope you awesome people don't mind)
FeathersMcStrange: Ah, Alice, my dear name twin! Thanks for the review! Oh, I know, It doesn't look very good does it? I love the random banters between Gabriel and Jiah too! And yes, he is very awesome! I am quite proud of what you and I have made of the little lightning spark.
Keacdragon : You did? Wow, great minds think alike! Just because I beat you to it doesn't mean you shouldn't write one! I'd be happy to read it! Thanks for the review!
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In about half an hour, the theme park had been evacuated, homeland security had been called, and Gabriel was feeling like a complete idiot. He looked over at Feathers, trying to ignore the screeching of wheels as vans and squad cars pulled up.
"Sorry." He mumbled again for the gazillionth time. Feathers wasn't listening. She was pressed against the wall, holding Jiah close. Balthazar was holding onto his brother tightly. Wincing when some men got out of the cars, pointing guns and shouting things.
"G-Gabriel…"
"Hush, Balthazar…"
"Someone get the Army on the phone!"
"Scott, get the tranquilizers ready!"
"tranquilizers?" Jiah whispered. "Fervailia…."
Feathers looked down at him. "Don't worry…we're going to get out of this."
"Gabriel I want to go home!" Balthazar whispered. "I want Daddy…"
"I know kid…hush now."
A man walked up to them slowly. He was in a lab coat, which obviously told Gabriel that he was a scientist of some sort. And, judging by the look of amazement on his face, they were going to be the new experiments.
The man rubbed his hands together, and Balthazar gulped loudly, hiding his face in Gabriel's side. "D-do you think he's a mad scientist?"
Gabriel didn't answer that. He just pushed his little brother behind him. Making sure he was standing between the scientist and the others. Seeing as his wings were already in perfect view he didn't hesitate to spread his wings out threateningly. But, to Gabriel's sheer annoyance, the man just paused, and wrote something down on a notepad, muttering something about wing span to himself under his breath.
Gabriel felt his wing feathers bristle with anger. He had half a mind to punch the man, but froze when he saw the man pull out a gun.
"Gabriel!" Balthazar whimpered.
Three over men advanced behind the first. Every time they took a wary step forward, Gabriel took a step back. Dragging his little brother with him. Balthazar peeped out from Gabriel's side. Brown eyes widening when he saw a man walk straight up to him. The next thing Gabriel knew, Balthazar was being roughly yanked away from him.
"Gabe!" The fifteen year old shouted.
Jiah ran forward "Balthers! Oi! Get off 'im! "
Gabriel grabbed his little brother and yanked him back, shouting a threatening "Back off!" to the man.
It all happened so quickly after that. A gun shot was sounded, and Gabriel heard Feathers scream. He whirled around.
Those bastards better not have hurt her…
But she was fine, she had one hand clamped over her mouth and she was staring at him in fear. That was when he noticed that he had a dart sticking in his neck. Grunting in pain, he pulled it out. He turned and glared back at the humans. Well, he tried to glare. It was a little hard when his vision was swimming and he had the sudden feeling that he was teetering over the edge of a cliff. And it was at that very moment that he became acquainted with the cement floor.
Balthazar watched his elder brother fall with wide eyes, he felt Feathers grab his arm and pull him back. For one horrible moment he thought his big brother was dead, but then he remembered the humans talking about tranquilizers. But either way, this wasn't good.
Not at all good.
…..
Lucifer looked up from his magazine on weapons when he heard Castiel totter into the room. The 28 year old sighed. "What do you want now?"
three year old Castiel looked up at his elder brother slowly.
"When will Gabey and Feathers get back?"
"I don't know when Gabriel and Fervailia will get back. Honestly child, you need to call people by their real names, not shortened ones or nicknames."
Castiel dipped his head. "Sowwy."
"Lucifer, do leave the boy alone. He's not the most confident speaker yet." Michael said, as he walked into the room. He stooped down and picked Castiel up, ruffling the cherubs hair. "Are you little one?" he asked, chucking the boy underneath the chin.
Castiel giggled loudly. Michael laughed a little too, before looking back at his other little brother. "What's the matter?"
"He's whining on about Gabriel and Fervailia. Something about them not being back. Where did they go anyway?"
Michael paused, frowning slightly and looking up at the clock on the wall. "They left this morning, I think they were taking Balthazar and Jiah out to some theme park of sorts….when were they meant to be back?"
When Lucifer didn't answer, Castiel did.
"Gabey said that they would be back by the time that Joshua watered all the flowers in Eden….he's watered them all five times now."
Michael froze, doing some quick math in his head. "…Eight…eight hours…They're eight hours late."
Lucifer, who wasn't particularly cool with Fervailia and Jiah living with them, rolled his eyes and looked up from his magazine again. "Michael, Gabriel and Fervailia are in love with each other, one of the cupids said so …they're probably out doing something."
Michael tutted at the comment his little brother came out with, but replied with "And what of Balthazar and Jiah?"
Lucifer slapped his magazine down on his knees and let out a little huff. "I don't know, do I? the little brats cause enough trouble here, they're probably running around that worthless lump of rock with all those hairless apes."
Castiel donned a confused look. The three year old even went as far as tilting his head and saying. "I like the humans…"
Lucifer made a disgusted noise and picked his magazine back up again.
"Michy?...the humans won't have hurt them would they?"
Michael sighed, and walked out of the room, carrying Castiel on his hip. He was heading for their fathers study; figuring that this was something their father should know about.
"No Castiel…of course they wouldn't have hurt them. I'm sure Gabriel and the others are perfectly fine."
….
"Gabriel wake up…please wake up…." Balthazar whispered shaking his brother lightly. "Please…"
Feathers looked around the glass room again. Not that there was much to look at. The scientists had injected them all with something, and when Feathers had regained consciousness, she had found that her wings were in perfect sight. As were Balthazar's and Jiah's. They were trapped in what appeared to be an extremely large glass box. That was what it felt like anyway. A few scientists had been tottering around for the past couple of hours. Clicking things into computers and laptops.
But there was one man that Feathers had her eye on. A tall, skinny man with a dark mop of hair and a harsh face. A man who all the other scientists appeared to respect…or was it fear? All she knew was that he went by the name of Kruger.
Gabriel's eyelids fluttered open. He let out a low little groan and held a hand to his head.
"What the hell did I drink last night?"
And then it all came rushing back to him. He sat up like a rocket, chest rising and falling heavily. He looked around wildly, eyes searching for his family. He breathed out a loud sigh of relief when he laid eyes on them. "Balthazar!" He said between harsh breaths, as he pulled his brother to him.
"Are you alright?"
"I'm fine!" Balthazar whimpered, but Gabriel felt his little brothers wings shudder underneath his arm. Balthazar was anything but fine. Gabriel looked over at Feathers, who was cuddling her own little brother close to her. "Y-You ok, babe?" He asked, smoothing his hand through Balthazar's short sandy hair.
"Yes, but what about you? You've been out for hours!"
"I'm fine, hun…You can't get rid of me that easily"
Jiah's eyes widened. "G-Gabriel….look!"
The older angel looked over at where the young angel of storms was pointing. A man had walked into the room. Feathers winced. Kruger.
A small weedy man with glassed the size of the moon walked up to him.
"Sir, all the preparations are ready for the independent tests, just call on one of the men when you're ready and we'll take one of the subjects out."
Kruger nodded. "Good. On my word, yes?"
The smaller man nodded back and propped his glassed back up his nose. "On your word."
Gabriel scowled. He didn't like the look of this guy. He reminded him of Virgil. And Virgil ended up being a dick anyway you turned him. So Gabriel was thinking that this guy was no different.
Kruger studied the family in the containment cell. He found in amazing how the older male was so protective over the younger ones.
What peculiar creatures they are.
Kruger bit down on the top of his pen. "Interesting…Very Interesting.." The other scientists looked back at the family.
"Let us go." Gabriel growled. Kruger blinked a few times in amazement. And some of the other humans started talking amongst themselves in shock. After a few moments Kruger jotted something down on a notepad. He turned to one of his workers. "They appear to have their own language."
"What?" Gabriel seethed. "Listen, buddy-" His voice was getting louder and louder.
"Gabriel…" Feathers said in a fearful voice. He looked over at her. She was pale and shaking, clutching Jiah in her arms. "Just let them do what they have to do." She whispered in a voice that only he could hear.
Balthazar's breath hitched slightly as he buried his face in Gabriel's shirt. Gabriel ran his fingers through his little brothers hair; his eyes never left Kruger.
The human spoke into an odd voice recording device.
"Subjects appear to be some sort of family or pack of some description…The oldest male subject appears to have some sort of …relationship, if you will; with the female subject. Perhaps the two of them are mates."
Some of the other humans exchanged glances when they saw Balthazar and Jiah gawp at each other and say, in disgusted tones:
"eeeewww!"
Gabriel rolled his eyes.
Kruger continued.
"The two younger male subjects appear to be close to the elders…perhaps they are the older subject's offspring…the injections I carried out are working, thus making my hypothesis correct. All four subject's wings have been unfurled to their full capacity and are completely viewable. Whether or not the subjects are, as my comrades predict, angels , is still a mystery to me at this exact moment."
Balthazar looked up at Gabriel.
"W-well, at least we left Cassy at home."
Gabriel tucked Balthazar's head under his chin. "Yeah…at least there's that.
"I want to go home…I want Dad…"
"I know you do, Balthers…"
Balthazar closed his eyes, hoping that by doing this the whole nightmare would just stop. "Why are they hurting us?...what do they want?"
" I don't know Balth…I don't know."
Kruger watched this with interest. He stroked his chin and muttered something to himself, before finally jotting down some words in a diary:
Older male subject is definitely the dominant of the pack/family, if they are called as animals seem to have the same close proximity as our own human family. What amazes me is the fact that from a distance, they must look and behave like ordinary human beings. Obviously, as they were discovered in a theme park this point must be valid.
But I do wonder how they will react to the experiments. I have some normal run of the mill tests to carry out, but also the odd one or two that I have only come up with due to the subjects and their amazing wings. For example, how much force it would take to break them, and of course if they are actually breakable. But I think I shall have to start with one of the young ones. The older male is causing too much trouble at the moment. And the female may just be the same. But I'm sure we can handle one of the young males.
As he finished jotting down the notes in his diary, Kruger waved one of the scientists over and whispered something in his ear. The man nodded and approached to the reinforced glass containing cell.
Gabriel got to his feet, pulling Balthazar up with him. He backed up to the corner of the cell until he was next to Feathers and Jiah, who were also on their feet.
"Can't you snap us out of here?" Feathers asked quietly, watching every move the man made.
"I've tried. Believe me, but my powers aren't working."
"So we're basically done for, then?" Feathers whispered.
"Yeah, pretty much…don't mean we aint gunna go down without a fight though."
"Gabriel!" Feathers shouted, Gabriel looked back over at the man, who was dragging Balthazar away.
"You take your hands off him!" Gabriel shouted running forward. The man paused, again in amazement of the language of Enochian. That gave Balthazar enough time for Balthazar to kick him in the…..well….in the balls.
Balthazar folded his arms proudly when he watched the man crumple to the ground. "That was for sedating my big brother." Balthazar then squared a kick right in the man's ribs, smiling again when he heard a sickening crack of bone and the man wheeze in pain.
"And that's for just being a bloody prick!"
Gabriel pulled the younger, British angel back. Even he was beaming with pride at how badass his little brother was being, Balthazar's actions had caused some more men to run into the room; Three of them ran straight for Jiah. But, five years of training to be soldiers had taught Balthazar and Jiah a few things about fighting. And in a few seconds, all three of the scientists were on the ground. Gabriel smiled. That's ma boy.
But these scientists were stronger, quicker…they were back on their feet in seconds.
"The girl! Get the girl!" Kruger shouted.
The men did as they were told. Taking Feathers by complete surprise.
"Feath look out!" Gabriel shouted, running forward, but snagging when two scientists caught him by the arms and pulled him back.
"Let her go!" Gabriel screamed, as he desperately tried to grab hold of Feathers hand. She was reaching forward too, desperately struggling against the men. Jiah wrenched forward in Balthazar's arms.
" 'Valia!" he cried. He looked back at Balthazar. "Let me go! They're going to hurt her!"
"Jiah you have to stay back….you have to…" Balthazar whispered, falling down as Jiah fell to his knees. "Fervailia! Gabriel, do something!" the boy screamed.
Gabriel pushed against the scientists. "Feathers!" She looked up, tears running rivers down her tanned cheeks. "Gabriel!"
Gabriel gasped a little when he felt a sudden pain in his neck. Kruger injected the serum into the angels blood without a second thought. Feathers let out a little scream when she saw Gabriel fall onto the floor. She looked up at Jiah, who was on his knees, watching in dismay as his sister was taken away from them.
"Jiah...stay where you are…"
" 'Vailia…" he sobbed. "Vailia please!"
But in no time she was gone. Taken from them. Jiah shook his head wildly. "Balth…they've got my sister. They've g-got my sister."
Balthazar didn't say anything to his best friend. All of a sudden he didn't feel like a hero anymore. He was shaking like a leaf and was as white as a sheet. Jiah pulled himself away, huddling in the corner with his knees brought up to his chest, and his head buried in his hands.
Balthazar dragged himself over to where Gabriel lay, unconscious. Balthazar shook his brother gently.
"Gabriel?...G-Gabey?..."
When he didn't wake up, Balthazar let out a little sob. "Gabriel wake up!...please wake up!" He crawled under his brothers arm, and buried his face in the side of the older angel's chest.
"I want to go home."
Balthazar closed his eyes.
"I want to go home!"
Well, there's chapter two, ya'll. :)
Chapter three should be up soon!
Thanks for all the awesome reviews!
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