Chapter Eleven: Dark Intentions
"In a heart, there is two sides to every person, one of Light and one of Dark, with two separate paths, there is also a infinite ways to live that path, everything is decided by the choices we make in our lives and what will happen in the final outcome…"
Inside Dante's hideout, two dark individuals concoct a devious and immensely evil plot to eliminate Charles Barkin once and for all. One that will devastate him both body, and soul…
"Are we in agreement then Dante?" Jacob stood on the opposite of the muscular Rottweiler, holding a paw to him, grinning an evil grin.
Dante took Jacob's paw, "We are, when do we start?"
Jacob's bright green eyes flashed, "When we have his heart in our grasp…and, I know exactly where to start…." Jacob's features soon contorted into a demonic grin as their plan formulated further in his twisted and psychotic mind…
Hours later…
Charlie entered the hospital, carrying a single white rose in his paw, the delicate looking bloom was adorned in shimmering droplets from the morning dew. Around him, doctors of all breeds walked pass him, either chatting with one another or checking a patient's file, Charlie paid no attention, only the thought of Sasha on his mind. He walked pass the receptionist in front of Sasha room, and entered. To his surprise, Sasha's parents were in the room also, but also, Balto, in-between two beds with two separate people in them.
"Balto?" he spoke, Balto jumped a bit and looked up.
"Oh, hey Charlie…" his voice was rather sad, Charlie took a peak at the two people in the beds, Charlie gasped.
In the beds lie Jenna, breathing heavily, almost gasping for air, in the next was Balto's caretaker, Boris, the same way.
"Balto…" Charlie uttered, "W-what's wrong with them?"
Balto, looked at both of them, then back at Charlie, "That's what I want to find out…Jenna's parents are in the next room, the doctor is telling them what's wrong with them…" Balto looked back at the floor, sighing.
Charlie placed a paw on Balto's shoulder, his friend looked up at him with sad, yellow eyes, making Charlie's ears fold back against his skull.
"It will be alright man…trust me…" He said, trying to assure Balto. Balto smiled, but it was replaced quickly with a frown.
Charlie sighed under his breath, "I certainly hope so…"
Annabelle's Chambers - Heaven
Sasha sat on the steps that led up to Annabelle's desk, not even getting one brief moment of rest as her mind raced, the news of Jacob's apparently being dead for several years took its toll on her as she thought of many reasonable answers to how Jacob could still be alive after almost 70 years. She rubbed both her temples with her paws as a migraine started to bore into her head, no matter what answer she came up with, none of them seemed remotely possible. She stared down at a swirling cloud, watching as it showed her images from earth, her thoughts diverting to one another person, Charlie.
"Charlie…I miss you so much…" she felt a tear run down her cheek softly as the cloud revealed unto her Charlie kneeling over her hospital bed and gripping her paw, a white rose next to her pillow. She also saw her parents there, her mother looked as if Father time really took his toll on her, while her father face was dark and distant.
"Mom…Dad…I'm sorry…" another tear fell down her cheek and onto the cloud, where it dissolved right through.
Behind Sasha, the whippet archangel Annabelle was fervently searching through all her records, trying to find a clue to why Jacob's spirit had not been judged into Heaven or Hell, stacks upon stacks of books lay untidy on her usually very clean table top.
"This doesn't make any sense whatsoever!" she cried, breaking Sasha from her heart aching daze, she turned to the rather confused Whippet.
"What is Annabelle?"
Annabelle looked back at Sasha, only realizing just now that she has been there the entire time. She slams a book shut and throws it onto the messy pile of archives.
"Jacob's soul hasn't been judged nor even collected since his passing! I cannot find him anywhere in my archives, it's like his soul was revived!"
Sasha stared at Annabelle with sheer disbelief, "But, how could he revived if he died decades ago?"
Annabelle fell silent as she gathered her thoughts, Sasha grabbed one of her archives and flipped through the pages to find Jacob's life and gaped, "So…that's why he and Charlie look so much alike….there…there twin brothers?"
Annabelle's head perked up, "Yes, Jacob being born seconds before Charles, but Charles died before Jacob and his siblings, so they were alive by the time."
Sasha interjected, "Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, ok, Charlie was dead before his siblings were? How did he die?"
Annabelle sighed and looked at Sasha, "Charles was murdered by his ex-partner, Carface Caruthers and once he got into heaven, he plotted his revenge, Charles tricked me and stole his life watch by resetting it to exact his revenge and recruited his best friend Itchy."
Sasha interjected once more, " Wait, ITCHY? Charlie's best friend is also a-a angel?" her jaw gaped.
Annabelle answered coolly, "Yes, Sasha, Charles and Itchy are angelic agents sent by me to -" Annabelle's words were suddenly drowned by blood curdling screams from outside the main chamber and a corgi rushes into the room.
"Lady Annabelle! Someone has broken through the gates!"
Annabelle gasped, "Impossible! No one can penetrate the gates, Reginald! Gather the angels and-"
Suddenly a sinister voice interrupted, "Pardon my intrusion Annabelle…" In the doorway stood Jacob, only he wasn't "Jacob", a dark, evil aura surrounded him like his body were on fire and the flames were licking his body and yet not burning his flesh.
"But I do believe you were speaking of this unfortunate soul." a sinister smile broke on his evil face, "Jacob" rose a paw and sent forth a blast of fire straight into Reginald, blasting him past Sasha, who cried and hid behind the pile of books for defense, and into one of the shelves, they collapsed onto him, knocking him out in an instant.
Annabelle rose defensively, "What is the meaning of this atrocity!", her once delicate and kind voice became demanding and infuriated.
"Jacob" only laughed, "Come now Annabelle, is that anyway to talk to a guest! For I have come bearing gifts!" Jacob tossed something covered in a moldy cloth at Annabelle, which she caught skillfully and uncovered the destroyed still shimmering remains of Gabriel's Horn within it, Annabelle was suddenly shaking in both sorrow and fury.
"I believe your heavenly agents on earth were searching for that?"
Sasha peeked from behind the books and saw the destroyed horn in Annabelle's paws, she saw the once gentle angel shake in what seemed to be of fury.
"You steal a holy relic…" Annabelle spoke softly, anger was dripping from voice, "Then you use it to break into a pure soul's paradise and home….", Annabelle placed the pieces of the once pristine Gabriel's Horn on her desk, "Then you wreak havoc and cause devastation to these souls?" tears fell from the whippet's eyes and onto the clouded floor, where it dissolved. Sasha looked from "Jacob" and then to Annabelle.
"Then you destroy the most beautiful and delicate relic of a high angel and throw at us like it is nothing but dirt…" Annabelle looked up at her adversary, and in a flash of light a beautiful and enormous lance appeared in her paw. The lance's tip was a golden arrow with two pure white angelic wings protruding underneath the arrow, it glimmered in the light.
" I WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO CONTINUE THESE ATROCIOUS ACTS!" she glided in a blink of an eye at "Jacob" twirling the lance around her skillfully before slamming the right wing side down onto his face to which her quarry summoned a blade made of pure darkness and defended himself with the wicked sword, the power of both hits sent forth a shockwave that blew Sasha into a wall, creating an a small crater where she hit.
She cringed in pain as she gripped her shoulder, and could only look on helplessly at the struggle.
Annabelle struggled to force "Jacob's" paw down, but his grip stayed strong and firm as he stared into her eyes, with his own bright green eyes and in a evil, cold voice he spoke, "Remember me?"
Annabelle gasped as a cold chill overcame her, she leaped away from him, a look of horror on her face.
"I-It can't be…y-you cant-"
Suddenly it felt as if the voice was right next to her ear, " But I am…"
Sasha cried, "ANNABELLE!" as the shadow blade plunged into Annabelle's back, causing a scream to break from Annabelle's maw, "Jacob" pulled the blade out of her and caught her, whispering into her ear, "Farewell…" and he let her drop to the ground, her body glowed softly and vanished in small sparkles of light, not even touching the ground, and the lance dropped onto the ground in a silent clang and shattered into several shards of light.
Sasha just stared at what just occurred, gripping her shoulder, she was speechless. Tears suddenly fell from her face as she saw the last glimmer of what use to be Annabelle.
"Well…I believe its time to…break this charade…" spoke "Jacob" as the blade vanished from his paw, and suddenly his features and form seemed to melt into gaseous darkness, Sasha stared in horror as a tall, towering figure stood above her, his tail suddenly wrapping around her neck. Sasha gasped and choked as she rises from the ground, trying to pull the tail's coils off of her. She opened her eyes, only to meet two sinister, green eyes.
"Hello…Sasha…" the darkness melted off of him to show his features, deep crimson fur and a large cat's head, a deep blue robe graced his body.
Sasha tried to pull the cat's tail off of her, "Who-Who are you?" she demanded and suddenly the tail uncoils from her neck and allows her to drop onto her knees as she gasped for breath, clutching her throat and looks up at the cat, fearful.
"Just call me…Red…" Red's crimson claws rose and suddenly surges of dark electricity shocks every vein and nerve in Sasha's body causing her to scream in horrible and torturous pain.
Back on earth, Sasha's unconscious body was having the very same effects, her body thrashed and yelled indescribable pain and agony. Charlie yelled, "SASHA! SASHA!" as he tried to shake her awake, she continued to scream and thrash as if she were being shocked to the very core. Sasha's parents screamed for the doctor, Balto rushed to Sasha's other bedside and shook her along with Charlie trying to wake her up from some kind of horrible torture. The doctors rushed into the room, holding a large syringe, filled with the fluids they thought would calm her body.
"SASHA WAKE UP!" both Charlie and Balto cried and suddenly Sasha's body shot into the air just as the doctors were about to stick her with the needle, she floated in mid air, eagle spread as she gave a final gasp for air and her body fell back onto the bed. The doctor dropped her syringe and fainted, Sasha's mother downright dropped into her husbands arms. Dead silence enveloped the room, Charlie and Balto stared at eachother, panting softly, Balto placed his ear to Sasha chest as Charlie looked at Sasha's now calm features, Balto's maw opened to speak, when the heart monitor spoke for him...
A shot went through Charlie's heart as he suddenly stared blankly, his eyes gloss over and he clutches his heart as if in pain.
Sasha's heart on the monitor, was flat lined...
(Ok...I know what is coming next, MANY MANY FLAMING! But please, there is more to come, so continue reading, I will be updating A LOT more frequently as of now for the entire summer!)