A/N Helloooo everybahdie.
I feel bad for not updating this story in awhile. So here's chapter two. c:
"Wake up!" The head angel called throughout the entire dozing dome. He pounded on every last door, startling every last poor winged man awake. He shot quickly through every level of the dome until no door was left untouched. "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" Takahiro shouted repeatedly, on each knock, between each knock, and then some.
All at their own pace, the angels popped out of their slumber and their rooms soon after. They strenuously flapped their wings down to the main hall, presumed to be where they met during potential emergencies such as this one. Misaki was the last to poke his head out of his door. He yawned cutely before rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
"What's going on?" Misaki asked tiredly.
"I don't know," a passing Shinobu replied. "But it sounds urgent. We should hurry." The dirty-blonde haired angel sped off in the air. Misaki let out of a small gasp before his expression conveyed a state panic.
"Wait!" he reached out an arm in an informative gesture. However Shinobu did not seem to hear him as he kept flying away speedily. Misaki turned back to his bedroom, considering changing clothes before leaving. All the other angels had zipped away in their night attire, so Misaki paid no mind to his current appearance, which was simply a plain white silk robe which had a rip in the back to free his small wings, with white silk pants underneath, white socks and white slippers. He tied the rope around his waist firmly before taking off to the main hall on foot. He was only halfway there by the time every other angel in the overworld had already arrived and had been seated in their empowered cathedra around the pearl table.
"We've found a massive implantation of the demon's underground 'spy' weeds," Takahiro explained to the elders. "And I think I know who put them there and where to find them."
"Shouldn't we leave it alone?" A disturbed Hiroki imputed. "I mean, that could be a really dangerous risk."
"We've been leaving it alone too long. This is the fifth time in a month they've tried to pull this trick. And if I hadn't of found them all five times, they would know all of our secrets. We can't let that happen. We can't just sit around here and wait for them to do it again. They need to be stopped. I need a group of elite volunteers to come with me to help put a stop to it."
"And where exactly would we be going?" Shinobu asked, tapping his finger on the table.
"To Nihon Hikui."
Every present angel gasped in surprise.
"That's suicide, Takahiro," Hiroki commented.
"Not if we stand together as the guardians we were meant to be," the raven-haired angel countered. "It's do or die, kill or be killed. So, who's with me-"
"Nii-chan!" Misaki busted through the front doors quite gratingly. He waddled over to his brother, tired and out of breath. "I'm here! What did I miss?"
"Oi, Misaki," Takahiro hushed his younger sibling, his eyes going bitter. "You're not supposed to be here. Now run along."
"But I want to help," the teenager said. "I can be useful to you if you'll give me a chance!"
"You can't even fly. How are you planning on getting there?"
"I'll walk," Misaki answered.
Takahiro pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration. "Misaki, you can't walk down to Earth, and then below and beyond it. Your place is here in Nihon Takai, watching over the royal metropolis while I'm gone. You can't tag along in a dangerous mission like this."
Misaki's face winced in impairment. "But-"
"No. You're staying here, and that's final."
The flower looked down at the ground in defeat, slumming his back and shoulders. With a loud sigh, Takahiro turned back his attention to the gathering.
"Now. Who is with me?"
Several guardians raised their arms high in the air, including Hiroki and Shinobu. They all understood the necessity of this journey and were all willing to put their lives on the line for the sake of their kind.
"That's a good enough team," Takahiro commented, satisfied with the number of volunteers. "Those who stay behind. . . watch after Misaki."
The younger angel looked up from the ground to glower at his older brother. He had several snickers coming from the angels sitting across the table. He then turned his head to glower in that direction.
"Let's get ready to go," Takahiro said.
"Well, this is interesting news," a certain malevolent leader of the demon clan observed as he watched the angel guardian's discussion about the invasion. "Good thing that delinquent Takahiro hasn't spotted our sophisticated implantation underneath their pearl dome."
"So, what should we do, father?" Haruhiko asked in an equipped stance.
"Well, welcome our upcoming guests, of course," Fuyuhiko clapped his hands together. "We can't have them snooping around our lands and killing off our soldiers, now can we?"
"No, sir."
"Good. Then go prepare the army for the angel's arrival."
"Yes, sir." Haruhiko flew off to fulfill his father's commands.
The demon master sat silently, anticipating something else to happen. When it did not, he rolled his eyes in annoyance. "That means you too, Akihiko."
Akihiko, not sitting too far behind his father by the fireplace reading a book, reached up to remove his glasses from his face. "What?"
"You know 'what.' Those guardians think they're going to invade our territory. So go prove them wrong."
Akihiko put his book down and groaned, leaning back in his seat.
"Father, I've already told you that I'm not interested in staying in line with our. . . 'family business.' I have my own things I'm more interested in doing."
"Do you want to be killed by those Takai scum?"
Akihiko huffed. "No."
"Then get your ass out there and fight."
Cursing under his breath, Akihiko stood up and zipped off to join his brother. Fuyuhiko scoffed.
"Damn Pisces."
Meanwhile, the guardians themselves were fully prepared for their trip. Takahiro led them into the sacred pool at the center of Nihon Takai.
"What are we doing?" Shinobu asked, rubbing his eye with one of his fists.
"Teleporting there," Takahiro answered simply.
"But you told Misaki-"
"I told Misaki what he needed to hear to get him to stay. There's no way in Nihon hell he's coming along on this trip. Now come on, everyone get inside so we can get going."
Shrugging it off, Shinobu and the other angels proceeded to climb inside the spiritually active water and focus their energies on transporting them to the underworld. Little did they know they were being watched by a certain curious teenage angel.
A/N Well there's chapter two of Angels and Demons. It would be longer but there's a tornado warning, and uh, the lightning is starting to make my computer light up, which I'm gonna take as a sign to get off of it. c:
YaoiKnights: Okay! ^^ Hehehe.
123brisakurai: Thanks, isn't he? I love that mindset of Misaki. It's my favorite of all the different ones that exist. 3
Butterfree: Thanks a bunch! I don't know how I came up with the idea, but I hope I can explore it as I write. Thanks for being interested 3
KyoKaraMaohGirl: Ahhhh! o: xD Well here's a late update for you! I do plan on continuing this story. I've got it all planned out. ^^
Alana-kittychan: Oh he will :) he will indeed. Heheh.
TBC!
-Tiny