A new chapter. And here come some answers. I will be dividing this episode in two chapters because of story progress. So, here you go.

I do not own Blue Exorcist

Heaven Hears No Angel

Chapter 4

Rin p.o.v.

I'm walking through that colorful corridor of the exorcist cram school. Gabriela is walking beside me, and I'm starting to get annoyed by the silence between us. It's not uncomfortable silence, but I just really like talking to her. She seems kinnda out of herself today. And pale. Wish I knew what's that all about.
"So, what are you doing here? I mean, you're not a student, right?" I ask, trying to fill the silence.
She paused before she answered. "No, I'm just here to look over something."
"Rin, do you-"
"Shiemi? What are you doing there?" I notice Shiemi lying or sitting on the floor. Looks like she tripped and fell.
"Nothing at all!"
She answers quickly, picks up her stuff and runs away. I look after her, then back at Gabriela who is looking at the floor. She's shaking.
"You okay?"
She looks at me and puts her hair behind her ear. In that small moment she looked so fragile. She looks at me seriously.
"Rin, have you ever ditched class?"

"Now, we still have three weeks until summer break. Before that you will have your Exwire authorization exams."
I listen to Yukio and focus as much as I can. My hair is put up by the hair pin Suguro gave me.
"A squire? What's that?" I ask Shiemi, who is sitting next to me
"It's Exwire. It's the name for exorcist candidates."
"If you become Exwires you will have more practical trainings, so the exam isn't going to be easy. Therefore we'll be going on a week-long training camp next week."
"Training camp?" I repeat Yukio's words
"The training camp isn't compulsory, so please mark down your attendance, and what field you want to advance in as your Meister on this form."
Yukio hands us out some papers, and to be honest, I don't understand shit that's written on it.

"Hey, what's a Meister?"
I walk up to Suguro and the rest of the group and show them my paper.
"Ha?"
"Tell me… please." I muster out a nice please.
"You want to become an exorcist and you don't even know that? You're taking this too far!" Suguro says in some sort of strange disbelief.
"Meister is a necessary qualification for exorcists." The bald boy with glasses answers. "It's a title given to those who are skilled enough. Knight, Dragoon, Tamer, Aria and Doctor are the five classes. If you get a title in at least one field, you become an exorcist." He explains.
"I see. I think I get it." I sit next to him.
"Hey, who said you can sit down?"
"And the fighting style of each Meister is very different."
"I see. Thanks Konekomaru!" That is the name of the little bald boy who explained everything. "What are you taking?"
"Shima and I are aiming for Aria."
"Aria?"
"Aria's fight by reciting the Bible and other holy scriptures."
"Bon is overdoing it again, he's taking both Aria and Dragoon." Shima says. Oh, Bon is some nickname of Suguro's? I might use it too!
"That's amazing Bon!" "Don't call me Bon!"
"By the way, Mr. Okumura is a Meister in both Dragoon and Doctor, too.
"Mr. Okumura is just a big show off."
I get startled by a familiar girl's voice and look up from my paper to see Gabriela leaning on the table. When did she enter the classroom? The others notice her as well and Bon seems to blush.
"I think he's amazing." I say to her.
I look at her. She looks a lot better ever since we separated in the hallway. Not so pale anyways. And she's smiling.
"What should I take? To begin with, what's a Dragoon?"
"You're seriously annoying!" Bon slams his hands on the table. "Dragoon Meisters fight with guns. Knights fight with swords."
"I love that you're acting all tough, but answer his question anyway." Gabriela laughs at him. "Who the hell are you anyway?" "My name is Gabriela. We didn't have time to meet before, Bon." "Don't call me Bon!"
Wait, she knew all that info about him, but she never met him… Wait.
"Did you just say swords?"
"Yeah, the Meisters that fight with sword are called Knights."
"Then I'm taking Knight!" I say as I circle the Knight note.
"Speaking of witch, you're always wearing a sword with you." Konekomaru says.
"It's like a keepsake from my dad."
I look at Gabriela and I feel like that warm smile on her lips is something no one else but me should see. Wait, what the hell and I thinking about?
She stands up straight and looks at me.
"So, you ready?"
"For wh—Oh, yeah. Let's go."
Before class we were talking and she asked me to ditch class so she can show me something very important. I said I would do it, because her face was really serious. Like I have to do it, no matter what I say.
I stand up, wave at the guys and leave through the door, Gabriela following me.

"Your next class is something you don't have to be at. You're not a Tamer."
"How do you know that?" I ask as I follow her trough the corridor. She turns and looks at me with a sad smile on her face.
"Because you are the son of Satan. Your blood can't call forth any demons."
"So Tamers can summon demons?"
"Yes. You get a paper with a summoning circle and put your blood on it, mutter an incantation and well if you have the talent of a tamer, a demon will appear."
"Oh."
"In order for the demon to listen to his tamer, the Tamer must have a strong will. And if you destroy the summoning circle, the demon will disappear."
"Easy as that, ha?"
"Yep. In your class, the tamers will probably be Kamiki and Shiemi."
"Just how do you know all that? How did you know about Bon if you never met him? Why do you not go to exorcist school? What rank are you? What did you try to do with my hand when I cut it?"
The questions just kept popping out of my mouth, and Gabriela listened to every single one of them, but never muttered a word. She comes to a stop in front of some door and pulls a key from her pocket. She puts it in the door, but before she turns it she turns around and looks at me.
"Rin, what you're about to see has to be a secret between you and me. Okay?"
"O-okay."
"Promise!" She says, her eyes pleading. What's wrong with her? Why is she so nervous?
"Promise."
She smiles, turns to the door and unlocks it.
She opens the door and immediately I get overwhelmed by a beautiful smell. She steps in. "Watch the stairs." I look down and see a giant staircase. It's dark, and Gabriela grabs a strange lantern that starts to shine the moment she touches it.
"Where are we?"
"We're going to the basement of a church. The church itself is destroyed, but the basement is intact."
I look at the walls as we keep walking down and notice drawings of all sorts of angels and wings.
"Why are we here?" I ask Gabriela who just keeps walking down the stairs in front of me.
"I'm going to answer all your questions. We're friends. I don't want there to be any secrets between us."
I gulp strangely.
We come to the bottom of the stairs and stand in front of a giant door. Next to the door is something like a list of names engraved into stone. I stand close to it. So many names, but all of them are crossed out with something sharp that ruined the writing on the stone wall. Right at the bottom of the list there are two names that are not crossed out.

Sabor Grigori
Gabriela Grigori

The name Sabor Grigori seems to be smeared in blood.
"Gabriela, what is this?"
"The list of names of Nephilim."
"Nephilim?"
"The crossed out are the ones who are dead. And the ones that are not… are alive."
"But what are Nephilim?"
She smiles and nods. She turns to the door. "Can you give me a hand. The door is heavy." I stand next to her and help her push open the door.
The inside is amazing! It's deep underground, but everything is lit up! And it's lit up by a strange type of white roses. I guess that's where the smell was coming from. The roses all grow by the walls, and the circular room is complete by the same drawings of angels.
"Well, here we are." I turn around and look at Gabriela. She seems to let of some strange yellowish light. The same as the roses. The same as the lantern.
"Why are we here?"
"This place was built as a sanctuary for Nephilim." "But what are Nephilim?"
"The sons and daughters of angels."
"What?"
She hands me the lantern, and the moment I touch it, it stops glowing and inside it is created something that looks like a blue fire. My fire. I look back at Gabriela, who now stands in the middle of the room.
"Nephilim are children of an angel father and human mother."
"What?"
"You didn't think that you're the only one, did you? If demons can have offspring's with humans, so can angels."
"But… Does that mean, you are… a Nephilim?"
She looks to the floor, then starts slowly unzipping her white jacket.
"Wait, what're you doing?"
"Get your mind out of the gutter Rin." She says with a smile.
She takes off her jacket. I see now that the bandages on her wrists go up to her lower arm. She smiles at me. "Well, here goes nothing."
She turns around. Her black shirt has a naked back. And on her back are tattoos of giant wings. Angel wings!
"Cool tattoo." I muster out.
"Haha, I wish it was a tattoo." She says, and suddenly I and surrounded by a grayish light.
In the middle of the room, stands Gabriela. With grey wings coming out of her back. "Whaaa…" Her wings are big, so big she has to raise them up in the air. But… Something is off. The wings are not like the ones in the stories. No, her wings don't glow. They are a dirty shade of gray, and look heavy. Like a burden. They are not as graceful as any of the paintings, nor do they seem complete. They look like they are missing some feathers.
"This is what I am Rin. Like you. Just the opposite."
"Um, so…" I am speechless.
She turns and finnaly looks at me with her black eyes.
"I am a daughter of an angel called Damian. And my mother is a human named Camilla. As a Nephilim, I get special powers. Like you."
"Like me?"
"Yes. You can heal your wounds at a super-fast speed. I can heal other people's wounds. You can read demons minds. I can read peoples pasts." She sits on the floor. I knew it, those wings are heavy. I step forward and sit next to her.
"That is how I knew about Bon." She says with a smile. "When you cut your hand, I tried to heal it. But because I'm half angel, my powers, even dough they are healing, would only hurt you. I wasn't thinking at that moment, sorry."
"No, it's… okay…"
"My rank is something outside of the rank list. I am a Grigori, as were all Nephilim before me. The Grigori operate directly under the Pope, and well, you could say that they are the highest command here."
"Wait, you are one of them?"
"All Nephilim are."
"Then you can boss around… Like my brother, all the teachers, and even Mephisto?"
"Umm, yes, I guess I can."
"Can you tell them to give less homework?"
She laughs.
"Sorry Rin, but in the words of Spiderman's late uncle Ben: With great power, comes great responsibility."
We laugh together. It's strange to feel so comfortable and calm with her, even dough I just found out about all of this.
"I will give you the key to this place." She hands me the magic key. I look at it now. It's prettier than the other ones.
"If you ever need help, a sanctuary, or you just can't find me… I'll be here."
"Thanks."
"So… now… You've got kurikara with you, right?"
"Uh, yeah, why?"
The strange rock music starts ringing again. Her cell phone. She stands up, her wings lifting up above her.
"Because this is the signal that our mission starts now."
"Say what?" She smirks at me then grabs my hand and before I knew it, we were flying at a speed that made my eyes hurt. We burst through the door, than up the stairs and end up at some clearing in the middle of long lost ruins. She holds my hand and we fly higher and higher. I feel like I'm just dangling like a keychain by the way she holds me.
"Rin."
"Yes?"
"Don't scream too loud."
She let's go of my hand. I yell out at her as loud as I can before something catches me. I look at that something. It's Hooka!
We soon caught up to her and I finnaly make myself comfortable flying on a giant demon dragon. I look to my left and there's Gabriela flying next to us, laughing out loud.
"DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN!"
"You screamed like a little girl!"
"It's not funny!"
"I guess you had to be there."
"I was! I was the one falling to his death!"
"And that's why it's so funny!"
"You're evil."
We fly a little more, and I must say that it's fun. We did looping's and races, but the fight was cut short when we reached a destination that was full of Coal Tars. And by all that is good and bad, it stinks!
"One more thing Rin."
"What?"
She stretches her arm in front of her and a giant sword(a zweihandler) appears in her hand.
"Don't hold back."
I smirk and unsheathe my Kurikara.
"You got it!"

Walking through the Coal Tars, the smell gets even worse. They burn at my flame and disappear. And they touch Gabriela's wings and turn to ash.
"Look at front."
"OF! Disgusting! What are those!?" I ask as I pinch my nose.
In front of us were 4 really ugly and smelly creatures. And I mean REALLY ugly!
"They are Ghouls. Demons that possess human and animal corpses. That's why they smell like shit."
"Well, ew."
"Yep."
"So what do we do?"
"Fight them. Destroy them. You know the usual. Cut loose."
"Hell YES!"
I go to the front and as soon as one of them spots me, it begins to attack. I jump forward and slash it, its paw falls off. Man, are these things disgusting! The paw that has fallen off burns away in blue flames. It seems to have angered the demon even more and he lunges at me, but I cut through it. It lets out an awful scream and burns away. Great, one stench house down, three to g… Or maybe not. I look at where Gabriela was and see her stabbing her sword into the creatures back. She cuts it in two and the Ghoul turns into ash and disappeared. She stands up and waves her hair away and oh man… She looks so cool…
"Rin, behind you!" She yells.
I turn around and kick the monster with my leg. It flies away, and Hooka kicks it with its tail, direct at Gabriela, who acts like she's playing baseball and with her sword slashes the monster that turns into ash right away.
"We make a good team!" She yells.
I smile and turn around to look at the last remaining Ghoul. I look back at Gabriela and we smirk at each other.
I run to the left side of the demon and Gabriela to the right. At the same time we swing our swords down and the demon disappears in blue flames and yellow light. We look at each other and start laughing. I don't know why. I don't think she knows why we're laughing either. But we just had to.
"That was fun!" I say as I sit on the floor.
She stops laughing and looks at me sadly. What did I do wrong?
"Rin, now that you know, I need to ask you something."
"Huh? What is it?"
"Are you… scared of me?"
"Wait, what?" I stand up and walk to her, the Coal Tars slowly moving away from us and dispersing. "Why would I be scared of you?"
"Because I'm… Well…"
I smack her softly on the head.
"You hypocrite! Wasn't it you who said that it doesn't matter what you are, but who you are! How about you listen to your own advice!"
She looks at me and I see tears forming in her eyes.
"What- no wait- don't cry- I didn't… Did I smack you too hard? I did-"
And suddenly she hugged me. My blue flames didn't hurt her. Her wings didn't hurt me. It was strange. I didn't know what to do.
"I've been waiting all my life for someone to act like I'm normal… Funny how the only person who accepts me for who I am is also stuck by what he is…"
And that's when I hug her back.

We return back to the school just as the class ends. I look around and see Shiemi walking off with the other two girls.
"Looks like Shiemi became the follower of Miss Eyebrows."
"Miss Eyebrows?" Gabriela laughs. "Yeah, I guess Kamiki is Miss Eyebrows."
"Say, Gabriela, now that schools done for the day, do you think we coul-"
"You still have to do your homework."
"Oh come on!"
"Nope. But after you're done, I'll be waiting in my room with some new movies."
"Can't we watch them now and I do the homework later?"
"No, first homework, then fun."
"You're no fun."

And there it is. A new chapter. Tell me what you think about it. The riddle about Gabriela is still not over, but I revealed a lot with this.
Also something to the side, the theme that I have in my head when I write about Gabriela and I guess her theme in general is Silent Hill Shattered Memories Soundtrack "Acceptance". Listen to it if you want to understand Gabriela a little bit more.
Until next time :)