Hey guys! Congratulations for Love-begits-love (her answer was Siren) and Little Dii's H (that wrote she is a bird that Jerry saves from Tom) both were wrong , but their answers are amazing and they must be very intelligent beings. You all had small chances of guessing, because I create my own mythology (sometimes getting ideas from Aztec, Buddhism or Christianity). I hope you enjoy this chapter!
The castle started to slowly disappear, transforming into old ruins, giving them a view on a cloudless sky. All the servants evaporated with white smoke. The only ones left were our heroes, the master and the woman. Master's hair changed from brown to gray and his face filled with wrinkles. His once noble clothes turned out to be dirty rags.
The women with white wings seemed to be an angel. There was however something terribly wrong with those wings. In some places instead of feathers were bare spots filled with dried blood. It looked like she was painfully peeled of quills. Her wings were huge, longer then her height.
She extended her hand in the mouse's direction and smiled delicately.
"Come Jerry" her voice was soft "A deal is a deal, we promise not to hurt you."
The cat shook of the shock and pointed the necklace at the winged creature. She averted her gaze to him, seeming a bit displeased.
"Tom" she said with a little more strength "I know it is not your fault, but your existence in this form is a terrible mistake."
"I don't know what you're talking about, you overgrown bird! Don't touch him!"
"Aren't you the one that agreed to give him to us in exchange for that toy?" she said smiling in a playful manner.
"You can't take him! He is not a thing!" shouted Spike who just came back to his senses.
"Of course not. We promise to take care of him better then Tom did. We will treat you as our most loved child. What will you do, Jerry?"
Tom wanted to use the power of the necklace on her (though he didn't know how it worked), but he was stunned when Jerry started slowly walking in her direction. Only Butch noticed that his eyes were glazed over and he acted as if he was under a spell.
The big eyed boy put his hand on top of her soft palm. Her wings moved, trying to embrace the boy. Suddenly Jerry was held from behind and strong arms distanced them from the bird woman.
"Don't ever touch her wings." The person whispered straight into his ear. Jerry recognized Jealousy's voice.
Before their eyes the woman started to transform into a young, teenage girl. Her blond hair broke the rubber band holding them and started to grow longer up to her feet, meanwhile changing color to light brown. Her suit was replaced with a simple white dress. Only her wings remained unchanged.
"Jealousy!" she beamed happily with her childlike face. "Haven't seen you around for a while!"
"Found yourself a new man again, eh?" said Jealousy with an undertone of irritation. Jerry was still in his arms.
"Just helping this poor thing! You know I'll always love you the most!" she giggled. Jerry reluctantly noticed that she had golden eyes, almost like Tom.
"I don't care about your stupid romantic life! Could you not interfere with my servants' task?"
"Servants!" said offended Tom. "We are not your servants! Would you kindly explain what the fuck is going on?"
He was completely ignored.
"So you came for the necklace? No worries, master will give it without problem. He just wishes for that kid."
"I promised them something for finding my lost treasure. Why do you want this weakling anyway?"
"Jealousy." She said with a wide smile. "Don't forget that you are not immune to my power. This time your brother will not save you."
Jerry was getting irritated. He was trapped in the god's arms. He still didn't know what was going on here.
"Jealousy" he looked up into the others face. He could have sworn that the evil twin wasn't so high last time they met. "Who is she?"
"This is one of the goddess. Innocence."
"Why is she doing this?"
"I am not completely sure, but she's a very emotional person. She takes liking to people easily, as a result of spending too much time in Love's company."
"Well, before we start talking for real I shell make you go to my side, darling." She was coming dangerously close to the mouse and the god. In a flash of light Justice appeared between them and Innocence backed out.
"Hello younger sister!" he said flashing her a smile.
"Is she afraid of him?" Jerry asked Jealousy.
"No, but her powers don't work on him."
"What powers?" Asked Butch that was closest to them.
"I can't tell you. You must remember her wings possess a frightening ability."
"Justice, you're right on time. Your insight could be useful." Said Innocence not losing her humor.
"What is the problem?"
"Omega promised us Jerry in exchange for Jealousy's necklace, but they refuse to fulfill the deal."
"Omega?" repeated startled Justice.
"That is not the issue right now. Who is right in this situation?"
"Well… I can't say anything without full information. What do you need Jerry for?"
The master that remained quiet and calm the whole time came forward to stand on Innocence's side.
"It will be hard to explain." He said looking at them with blue eyes full of sorrow.
"Try anyway."
"Maybe I should just show you!" Said excited Innocence. "Master will stay here and you leave one of your people."
Everyone, besides master and Butch walked closer to her. One big tear fell from her eye on the stone floor. It started growing bigger and soon they were all inside it. Disorientated they fell on the concrete. The bar told "Grim rose street".
"Where are we?" asked Tom.
"Silence. Just observe."
The master walked before them, not seeing them. He looked a bit younger. Suddenly, the scenery changed and they were inside of a flat. There sat a boy, about eighteen. He was slightly reminding Jerry.
"Hello son." Said the master entering.
"Hay dad."
"Did you pass?"
The boy became fidgety and paled.
"Sorry dad. I didn't manage…"
"It's all because you didn't study! I told you! You should have learnt instead of going out with buddies!"
The boy paled more and stood up. Without saying anything he went out of the flat.
The scenery changed again. This time it was a cemetery. Master was standing over a grave crying. A man, probably his friend put his hand on master's arm reassuringly.
"Come John, you can't stand here forever."
"Don't you understand?" Master shouted. "It's my fault! My son is dead because of me!"
"It is not your fault! You couldn't predict that he will run into that car!"
"So..." started Tom. "That man wants to get back…"
"His son." Ended Innocence. Suddenly she fell down to her knees.
"What's wrong!" shouted Jealousy.
"In the ruins… My… feather."
They were back at the ruins again. Butch was laying on the floor unconscious, and Master was smirking holding Innocence's white feather.
"What the?" asked Tom.
"He is not a human." Said Justice.
"How?" said Innocence laying on the ground.
"Oh, quite easily dear sister. I was not very happy when they assigned you the 'wings of devotion'. They babbled something about you being the most responsible and that crap. So I used your pity on a man who deemed himself guilty for his son's death. Finding that man wasn't hard, and disposing of him was child's play. I found out that when you use your other powers, we can touch your feathers. In the meantime Jealousy lost his necklace and this animal-humans appeared. I find it useful to keep on track you know. It was easy to organize everything so I could get what I want."
"Who's that man?" Jerry asked.
"God of deception." Answered Justice. "You old coyote, what do you want to do with this feather?"
"Isn't that obvious? I can easily make everyone my servant with this! And even if I'm planning something different do you seriously think I would tell you the truth? You're so naïve Justice!"
"Remember that I don't react to that power!"
"Oh, right. So I must hurry up and kill you."
He started going in our direction but Jealousy stood on his path.
"Oh, envious of your twin? Would you like to die first?"
"I would not count on that." Said Jealousy smiling deviously.
The trickster fell unexpectedly. Behind him stood Nature holding something that looked like a baseball bat.
"I knew there was something fishy about this case." She said taking the feather and giving it to Innocence. "You are too easy to trick, sister."
I hope to get at least six reviews for this. There are a lot of questions to be answered and I don't know if I'll answer them all in the next chapter but feel free to ask. I'm deeply sorry if I didn't answer some reviews but my computer doesn't accept this site recently. Well, till next time! Oh, and the riddle this time is to guess what god is tied with which mythology?