SUPERNATURAL FURRIES
Chapter 22: Lazarus Rising
On the side of a road, an arm reached out of the ground. Renamon climbed up out of the ground. She looked around. Was she really back on Earth? Had she really gotten out of hell?
Renamon ran to a café. She grabbed a crow bar and entered the store and grabbed a water bottle and drank it.
Renamon knocked on the door of Fox's house. Fox appeared.
"Renamon?" said Fox.
"I'm not some ghost or shapeshifter or demon," said Renamon.
"How…" said Fox. "I thought you were dead! Lilith's hellhounds killed you four months ago?"
"Four months?" said Renamon. "It was 40 years!"
"I guess hell has a different time of its own," said Fox. He threw salt at Renamon. No effect. He gave Renamon a glass of holy water. She drank it. No effect. He held out a silver fork. She took it. No effect.
"How did you get out of hell?" said Fox.
"I don't know," said Renamon. "One minute I was being torn to shreds on hooked chains, and the next I was climbing up out of the ground."
Fox dialed a number on the phone. "Krystal? It's Fox. You'll never guess what."
"Are you sure it's her?" said Krystal.
"I tried everything I know and she's not a demon, shapeshifter, or ghost."
"I'll be right there," said Krystal and she hung up. She turned toward the demon she had imprisoned. "Where's Lilith?"
"SUCK IT!" said the demon.
Krystal raised her arm and exorcised the demon with psychic power, the demon falling out of his host's mouth in the form of black smoke.
"Good work," said Ruby. She was now possessing the dead body of a girl with dark hair.
"Who could have brought you back to life?" said Krystal, moments later when she was at Fox's house with Renamon."
"I did," came a voice. A man with dark spiky hair and a gold trenchcoat appeared.
"Who are you?" said Renamon.
"I am Castiel," said the man. "I'm an angel of the Lord."
"There's no such thing as angels," said Renamon.
A light shone in the room, and as long as it was there they could see two gigantic shadowy wings.
"Why did you bring me back?" said Renamon. "All the people who made deals and went to hell, why me?"
"Because God said so," said Castiel. "The superiors said he wants you alive for some reason."
"And what reason is that?" said Renamon.
"Because you can help stop the Apocalypse," said Castiel.
"Apocalypse?" said Fox, Krystal, and Renamon at once.
"Lilith has begun breaking seals," said Castiel. "Lucifer is locked up in a cage in the deepest and worst area of hell. Hourglasses full of bugs, and that sort of thing."
"The Shadow Realm?" said Krystal.
"Yes," said Castiel. "There are 600 seals, but only 66 need to be broken to set him free, and Lilith has already broken two."
"We've got to stop her!" said Renamon. She turned toward Castiel again but he was gone.