Chapter 10: An Enlightening Occurance

Hey guys, sorry about the wait, but I was finally able to come home for the weekend and spend some time with my family. Now that I am back, here is the eleventh chapter of A Demon's Angel.

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~Joyce Brothers

Without further ado, here you are.

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"Pheobus! I'm back!" I called out as I entered his home through the door that led to his shop.

"How did your brother's little mission go?" he asked as he brought out tea and sandwiches.

"Well, we found out that the Viscount wasn't Jack the Ripper."

"We?"

"Yeah, uh, I was the bait." He instantly froze in place while his face formed a cold emotionless mask.

"You mean to tell me that because the Viscount likes women, you were to be the bait?" I hesitantly nodded at his scary facial expression. He then began to shake angerly and pace while he pushed his hair out of his yellow-green eyes that clearly showed his anger.

"Pheobus, it's alright. I'm safe," I assured him as I walked up to him and wrapped my arms around his waist to stop him from moving. I could feel his coiled muscles relax at my touch until he snaked his arms around me to hold me close to his chest.

"I just don't know what I'd do if you were killed," he whispered into my ear.

"You don't have to worry about that Pheobus. I'm hard to kill."

"That doesn't mean that you can't die," he retorted back with a soft snap.I said nothing while I gently and slowly led us the the love seat so that the both of us could sit down. Pheobus of course sat down and pulled me into his lap so that I straddled him and our foreheads touched. A sigh of contentment left his lips at our closeness so I stayed where I was and let my mind empty of its thoughts as I felt a warm energy around us that gave me such comfort. This feels so peaceful. Little by little I could feel something grow in my mind until I felt a presence in my mind different from the voice that was already there.

Hello, I said hesitantly.

Hello my dear Ariel, came Pheobus's warm voice. I instantly backed my forehead away from his and would have fallen off his lap if he wouldn't have caught me around the waist. Calm yourself Ariel. It is only me.

How are you in my head?

I am a shinigami and you are my mate. What just happened when we touched our foreheads together was mental bonding that a shinigami shares with their mates.

You're...a death god?

Exactly.

If you're a death god, where is your scythe?

I keep it put away because I am a retired shinigami.

How am I your mate?

It's very simple. You were born my mate so you will always be my mate. We shinigamis only get one.

So that's what you freaked out so much earlier.

Yes. I've waited centuries for you to come into my life, and now that I have you I am not letting you go. At his words I felt a warmth spread in my heart.

I...I don't know what to say.

You don't have to say anything. I am content with you beside me. There is no rush into anything. Another pang of warmth pleasantly heated my heart as I lay my head against his chest. Ariel, why don't you stay here for the day?

I'd like that. I could sense a smile that tugged at his lips when he put one arm around me and held me tightly to his chest while his other hand pulled my hair put of its updo so that he could run his fingers through my hair, his nails scraping lightly against my scalp. A sigh of happiness escaped my lips as I settled comfortably in his arms and fell asleep.

I don't know how much time had passed when I was shaken awake by Pheobus.

Wake up Ariel. I believe your brother is here. I slowly sat up in his lap to yawn into where his shoulder and neck met. He shivered underneath me while he helped me to my feet. I will see you tomorrow.

Wouldn't miss it for the world, I replied back as a soft smile touched my lips. His own smile was showing as we left his home to enter the parlor part of the building. Just like he said, my brother stood in the entrance of the parlor dressed in clothes that looked like they belonged to a child on the street with Sebastian by his side.

"Where are we going?" I asked when I saw him.

"We have to check on the next victim on the list," he told me. Through our mental bond, I could feel Pheobus get angry.

I don't want you going.

If my brother is going, then I have to go. I need to protect him.

It's you I'm worried about.

I'll be fine Pheobus. Trust me. He said no more after that so I gave him a hug before I flitted over to my brother's side.

"I'm ready to go if you are," I told him.

"Very well. Good day Undertaker."

"Good day Earl," Pheobus answered back with a tint of sadness in his voice.

Ariel, if you need me, please call me and I will be right there.

I will Pheobus. That's a promise.

Good.

My brother, Sebastian, and I then left the shop to walk to the next victim's house where we waited around the corner of the house so that we could see anyone that could want to get to the house. All the while that we waited, I couldn't help but feel that there was something wrong in the house. I felt like I needed to be in there. So that is what my feet did without much thought, they carried me from our hiding spot to the front door of the house.

"Ariel!" my brother exclaimed after me. I paid him no mind as I ripped open the door to see the murderer slit the throat of the victim. No, I shouted in my head as I launched myself at the murderer. It seemed that they saw me for with a flick of their hand when I got close, I was thrown out of the house to hit something hard. Arms came up to catch me before I could fall to the ground. I looked up to see the forever emotionless face of Sebastian.

"Ariel! Are you alright?!" demanded my brother.

"You have to save her!" I shouted instead. "She hasn't got much time left!" However by the time Ciel got to the door, I could not feel the life I had felt earlier in the house. Upon seeing the mess inside Ciel came back to stand with Sebastian who had jumped back a few feet form the door.

"That's quite a mess you made, Jack the Ripper," Sebastian said as someone began to exit the house. "Or should I say Grell Sutcliff." My eyes widened in shock at the sight of Grell covered with blood. He was the one who killed all of those women. The kind, gentle person who I had talked to in the garden?

"Y-You have it all wrong," Grell protested. "I heard the scream and ran over here, but she was already..."

"I think that you can stop playing innocent in that body Grell," Sebastian told him. In that body, I questioned in my head. "This is the first time I've met someone like you in the human world." Human world? What the hell is going on?! "You performed the role of 'harmless incompetent butler' quite adeptly."

"Adeptly," Grell echoed before he smiled with shark like teeth. "Do you think so?" Then he untied his hair from the ribbon as well as take off his glasses. "That's right.I'm an actress, honey. And I'm absolutely first-rate." While he continued to speak his hair went form brown to red and his eyes changed into the yellow-green that matched Pheobus's. He's a shinigami?

"You're a shinigami?" I voiced out loud against my better judgement. Everyone looked at me in surprise.

"Oh, how do you know of my kind?" Grell inquired with a raised eyebrow. I kept quiet while I mentally scolded myself for saying that out loud.

"Ariel?" Ciel said to me in confusion. I still kept m mouth firmly shut as Sebastian and Grell began to talk again.

"Let's just say that I fell in love with a certain woman," Grell told us in response to Sebastian's question of why a shinigami was acting like a butler. A certain woman, I wondered just as Sebastian voiced it.

"You don't need to ask, do you," came my Auntie Anne's voice. No, not her, I pleaded in my mind.

"Auntie Anne," I whispered in shock.

"I didn't calculate on anyone being able to see Grell for what he is," she told us.

"Naturally you were on the initial suspect list," Ciel informed her. What?! Why was I not told?! Why did it have to be my Auntie Anne?! I was slowly freaking out in my mind until I heard the strangest sound. When my eyes focused, I could see some kind of strange contraption that had blades that spun very fast. My eyes widened as I jumped back from its reach along with Sebastian.

Pheobus! It's getting weird over here!

I'm on my way.

"Wh-What is that thing?!" Ciel yelled.

"It's a shinigmai's death scythe," I explained to him. "It's what a shinigami uses to harvest souls."

"Very good Ariel," Grell congratulated me while Auntie Anne looked at me with surprise. "I still wonder how you know this." I again stayed silent while Grell shifted his attention back to Sebastian until they began fighting.

"We've now become a guard dog and its prey," Auntie Anne said. "If it's hunt or be hunted...," she continued as she pulled out a knife form her sleeve. "There is only one choice!" She then ran at us with the knife which spurred my instincts from training with Sebastian to kick in. I quickly darted forward to elbow her in her stomach to loosen her hold on the knife then was able to flick my hand so that the knife went flying elsewhere.

"Auntie Anne, look at us," I pleaded. "It's Ariel and Ciel. Your niece and nephew." All she did was look at us with dead eyes. "Why are you doing this Auntie Anne?"

"A child like you would never understand," she seethed as she clamped her hands over my throat and pushed me back into a wall.

"Ariel!" Ciel shouted in alarm while making to hit Auntie Anne.

"Don't Ciel," I told him. "I'm fine."

"You," Auntie Anne began. "You. You should have never been born!" It appeared she had another knife on her for she now raised it to strike me.

"Ariel!" Ciel and Sebastian exclaimed in unison.

"Sister," I heard her say softly. My eyes softened at her words as her hands went to cover her face with Sebastian behind her.

"Stop Sebastian! Don't kill her!" I ordered him. He instantly froze at my command and went to hold his blood soaked shoulder.

"Hurry up and kill them," Grell called over to Auntie Anne who uncovered her face.

"I can't. I can't do it after all. I can't kill them," Auntie Anne cried softly.

"You're saying that now?" Grell questioned. "You've sliced so many women to bits. If you don't erase them, they'll erase you."

"Auntie Anne," I tried again.

"But," she said with her back to Grell, but I could see him ready his weapon to attack her so I hastened to trow myself in front of her. "But these children are my-," She was cut off by the sight of Grell's death scythe burrowing itself into my chest.

Ariel! I heard in my head as well as Ciel, Sebastian, and Auntie Anne shout my name. Grell pulled out the scythe from my chest only for me to fall back into the arms of Sebastian. Grell spared me only a glance before he stabbed Auntie Anne through her chest.

"No! Auntie Anne!" By now Pheobus was here and he was glaring daggers at Grell, his hair now out of his yellow-green eyes with a long scythe that had a skeleton made from the metal near the blade. I tried to pull myself up to go to her, but Sebastian held me firmly in place on his lap on the ground. "Ciel, bring Auntie Anne to me." He was quick to scramble over to our aunt and bring her to lay beside me.

"I'm so sorry Auntie Anne," I burst out. "I tried-"

"It's alright Ariel," she assured me with a hand to my cheek. "What I need is for you two to forgive me."

"Already forgiven," I told her.

"I forgive you Madame Red," Ciel choked out.

"Then I can be at peace," she smiled before long rolls of film came out of her chest.

"What are those?" I wondered, feeling my life slowly drain from my body. I didn't get an answer.

"Ariel, you need to drink this," Sebastian demanded as a bleeding wrist was put to my mouth. I instantly protested as I tried everything to get off of his lap and away from his bloody wrist. There is no way in hell I was drinking his blood!

Drink the blood damn it! came into my mind through my mind in the voice's voice as well as through Sebastian's mouth. Sebastian is the voice in my head?! I made to open my mouth to question him, but he used that as an advantage to put his wrist to my mouth so that the liquid could run down my throat. Again I struggled until I couldn't anymore and all I could do was stare up at the film that came from Auntie Anne that had to have been playing her life. I saw how she used to hate her hair and how she fell in love with father to us, then her accident which left her without a chance to bear a child. Oh Auntie Anne.

"I thought you said that your blood would heal her," Ciel snapped at Sebastian as I kept getting weaker and weaker.

"It should," Sebastian replied, a wild look settling in his eyes. I slowly turned my head to look over to where Grell and Pheobus was to see that another shinigami was there and he was taking Grell away.

"Ariel," Pheobus uttered when he sped to my side once he felt how I was slipping away. "Let me try." He cut his palm like Sebastian had done to his wrist and he held his hand to my mouth.

This is disgusting, I told the both of them seeing as I was too weak to try to fight the hand off. A small smile lit Pheobus's lips at m comment while Sebastian looked like it was the end of the world. Oh lighten up you two, I'll be fine in a few days. I just need some rest.

"Ariel, why?" Ceil sobbed as he watched me get weaker still. After some time Pheobus pulled his hand form my mouth with a worried look on his face.

"You all worry too much. I'll be fine after I rest."

"No, you need to stay awake!" Ciel exploded with panic. Both Pheobus and Sebastian were beside themselves not knowing what to do. I gave them all a smile as my eyes started to drift closed. "Stay awake Ariel!" Despite Ciel's demands, my eyes closed as I took what felt like my final breath.

When I opened my eyes, I was blinded with light from all around me. Blinking rapidly I felt my eyes adjust for me to see a kingdom of white, silver, and gold all around me the sparkled in the sun. Where am I, I wondered to myself as I was drawn inside a huge castle that gave off the feelings of safety and welcome. It's all so beautiful.

"As it should be," came a deep male voice from my left. I spun around instantly only for my eyes to fall upon a man that was taller than Sebastian or Pheobus with pure white hair that fell down to his ankles, tan skin, and dressed in royal looking robes.

"Who are you?" I asked when my eyes caught his golden ones.

"I am God," he explained. "I was wondering when I was going to be able to meet you little Ariel."

"I died?" I gasped in shock. What about Pheobus, Ciel, and Sebastian?! I told them that I would be alright!

"No, dear child. You did not die."

"Then why am I in Heaven?"

"Because you are an Earthbound angel."

"But if I am an Earthbound angel, why am I in Heaven right now?"

"All Earthbound angels loose their power every once in a while, so I make it so that they are able to come back to Heaven so I can give them their power back." My mind spun at all the information that I was getting.

"What happens when I get my power back?"

"You will once again be part of the angelic song you used to love to sing, you will get your power back over the elements, and you will get your wings back."

"Wait, what do you mean 'that you used to love to sing'?"

"Your angelic soul has been passed down from person to person when the previous host died. When you had your powers in your past lives, you so used to love singing with the other angels."

"How do I get my powers back?"

"That is easy. Come here child." I stepped forwards hesitantly as his left hand began to glow with a silver light. He then lifter his hand to put in on my forehead where the light went into. A gasp of surprise left me as I was flooded with power and the scenery around me began to fade.. "Now you have your powers back, but I warn you that you might have to cut your skin of your mortal body to let you wings out."

"Will I be able to talk with you again?"

"Anytime you pray or fall asleep child," was all I heard before I fell back into my mortal body.

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Hope you guys liked this chapter. Towards the end I was running out of steam, but now I have this chapter up for you guys. I was going to leave it as a cliff hanger when Ariel passed out, but I decided not to since I didn't put up a chapter next weekend. As always if you have any questions or comments, please leave a review. Remember reviews are magic!

-White Wolf