Hi. It's me. I know, many of you have probably envisioned my death in several interesting yet torturing ways, as I have not updated, mainly due to finals and a Christmas vacation and I couldn't take my laptop with me, but that's still no excuse. There's still a couple chapters to go in this story, although it may evolve more, because while I may have had a bit of writer's block for this chapter, I've got some ideas for the others. Now, I will not be surprised if any of you flame me. In fact, you probably should. I may not be the worst updater in the history of worst updaters, but I should've tried harder to not let you guys down. So, I'm curious, do you guys still want me to continue this story, even though my updates will probably be off? Thanks, reply in a review, if I get at least three reviews that want me to continue, I will. So here's the next chapter of Fallen Angel!
Summary: Kurt is a Fallen, an indescribably beautiful race of demon–angels. Kitty is a fledgling priestess with a hidden power. Kitty knows that Kurt isn't her enemy, but can she prove it?
Fallen Angel
10. Escape from the Pit, and the Realization of a Trap
Kitty stared at Kurt. "Kurt…?" He wasn't just a hallucination, right?
He turned to look at her. "Kitty? You are really here?"
"Yes," Kitty said, wondering what he meant by 'really' here.
"You should not have come…either of you…don't you see?" cried Kurt in dismay.
"What do you mean?" asked Kitty.
"He means, it's a trap," said Sparks, stepping from the gloom of the pit's edges.
"A trap?" Kitty wracked her brains. "How could this be a trap?"
Sparks rolled her eyes—a very creepy thing to watch, in Kitty's opinion—and muttered, "Don't you get it? He's the bait—" she pointed at Kurt "—and we're the most powerful Fallen at Treehaven. I think Fervior has maneuvered us quite well to get us here without us realizing it. He's cornered us, and now he can just pick us off one by one!"
Kitty's heart seemed to stop at her words. "Is there any way to escape?" she questioned Kurt.
"I've tried, but so far, no good," he replied, sitting on the floor.
"Sparks, do you think we can escape before Fervior notices we're here?" Kitty turned to the blind Fallen.
The part-fairy laughed a harsh laugh. "If we get out of here—which isn't possible unless we do something really noticeable—he'll be bound to notice us, if he hasn't already."
"Well, we might want to escape quickly then!" Kitty leaned against the wall, thinking, until a spider landed in her lap. "Spider!" she shrieked and ran to hide behind Kurt, who laughed softly.
"They won't hurt you, you know."
"They're creepy and crawly and they spin webs and—ugh!" Kitty shuddered.
Sparks rolled her eyes again and was 'looking' up at the electrical net.
Kitty looked up too, forgetting for the moment that a spider was spinning a web over her head in the light of an idea. The way the light was shooting across the top of the pit…that meant that there were mechanisms either in the wall or above the pit, sending out the electric beams to the other side.
"Kurt?" she asked.
"Yah?"
"Do you think if we send enough power into the mechanisms that control the electric net, they'll explode due to the overload in electrical current?" She thought it seemed like a pretty good plan…except for one thing.
"Where would we get the energy required?" Sparks pondered.
"I don't know…" responded Kitty, thinking. "Wait! I have an idea!"
"What is it this time…?" asked Sparks, grumbling and getting up to lean against the wall.
"Do you think my elemental energy would be enough to overpower the net?"
"Maybe, if you had enough of it…" surmised Kurt. "But you can't summon your power…can you?"
"Not on command yet, but I know a way to get it to work…I think…" Kitty said, smacking her fist against her palm. "Sparks!"
"What…?"
"The dragonfire you gave me…will it be attracted to the heart of the dragonfire?" Kitty was waiting for them to see her plan.
"Yeah, but… Hmm…" Sparks thought. "Since you absorbed it…you believe it will draw out the rest of your power?"
"Yes!" Kitty grinned.
"This crazy plan of yours…just might work…" Kurt glanced up at the electrical net.
"I know, right?" Kitty smiled. "All right, Kurt, since I don't know if this will exactly work the way I planned it, I want you to be ready to put up a barrier."
"Will do."
"Sparks, can you summon the heart for me?" Kitty looked at the Fallen girl. Slowly the redhead nodded, putting her hands together, the tiny, pure light appearing.
Kitty directed her to put her hands in front if Kitty's, and waited, feeling the tug of power as the dragonfire within her became drawn to the heart held in Sparks's hands.
She felt the white light seeping slowly from her fingertips to form a small sphere. "Come on…" she grunted. "Hurry up…!"
She crouched there for who knows how long, her legs going numb, watching the orb of power grow as the light from the heart of the dragonfire dimmed. When she had a sphere about the size of someone's head, Kitty called, "Do you think this is big enough?"
"Yeah!" called back Kurt. Kitty stepped back from Sparks, telling her, "You can put the heart away now, I think I'm good!"
She aimed at the ceiling of the pit, the electric net still plainly visible despite the bright light from her ball of power.
Kitty released it, watching in fascination as it spiraled upwards, slamming into the net with a buzzing noise. Small explosions of smoke appeared at the edges of the pit, the electric net was fading; then it was gone. Kitty leaped into the air, flying out through the hole, Sparks and Kurt following.
Kitty remembered the room—the same greenish light as the hallways, the big iron door, the rubble strewn about the corners of the room, and Kitty could see the edge of a twisted metal structure.
She, Kurt and Sparks stood at the edge of a crevice, one that she hadn't noticed before, yawning across the ground into an abyss, stretching from either side of them.
"See anything? Like anything that looks like trouble?" asked Kitty to Kurt—it would be rather pointless to ask Sparks and she was fairly certain the other Fallen would probably stare at her for a looong time and most assuredly creep her out big-time.
"No. Nothing. It is…strange…" he replied, peering through the gloom.
"I don't see anything either… Sparks, can you hear anything unusual?"
Kitty waited impatiently while Sparks tilted her head, listening. "Nothing…" she said.
"Crap. Well, what do we do now?" asked Kitty. "I mean, don't you think Fervior would've noticed us, if he was here?"
"Maybe he's biding his time?" suggested Kurt, looking a mite confused. "Maybe he hasn't found the right moment to take us out?"
"When we were all gathered in the pit like that, don't you think that would be the easiest time to kill us, picking us off one by one?" Sparks retorted.
"True… Shouldn't we be trying to get out of here?" Kitty mumbled.
"Do you remember the way?"
"No…"
"Then we have to try for it from here. Are there any vents above us?" asked Sparks
"None, except the one that leads to the other side of the door, I'd presume," said Kurt. "There aren't any over there either…"
"Looks like we're stuck," commented Kitty.
"Hold on…" Sparks put her hands up. "Something's coming…"
Kitty whirled, expecting to see an animal of some sort leaping at her, snarling, but there was nothing. No sound, no movement. Except for… She bent and put a hand to the ground. It was vibrating, thrumming, like something under the ground was coming their way.
"Wha—!" Kitty never got to finish her sentence, as the ground beneath their feet heaved, throwing them out into the air over the abyss, and before even one could spread their wings, they were falling into the immense black darkness.
Kitty tumbled against the side of the rocky cliff, trying to cling to some sort of handhold, but the walls were smooth and offered no support. Then she attempted spreading her wings—but with a terrible realization, she felt the muscles in her back constrict and her wings trailed limply behind her with no way to stop her fall.
And, just as she could not fly, she knew that Kurt and Sparks too, would not be able to use their wings.
She could just barely see beneath them the shine of something moving at the bottom—a river! She curled into a ball, managing to fold in her wings slightly, hitting the water hard, and watching as her last glimpse of light spiraled away into the darkness of the roaring, icy water…
So, that is the next chapter. Remember, I welcome reviews - if there are any of you left - and please tell me if you want me to continue the story - and not just because I left it at a cliffhanger, okay, people? Yes, go ahead and rant about my non-updating-ness if you want, I really don't care - I deserve it. I will be typing up the rest of the story on my computer for myself to read if you all tell me not to continue this. Thanks!
~ Shadey