Angel Among Us
A Covenant fanfic
Chapter 9: Past Demons
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4 days later Friday morning, Reid was walking through the cafeteria with a breakfast sandwich and orange juice and sat down next to Angel, smiling at him discreetly.
"Guess what I came across yesterday." Reid said in a knowing smile.
Angel smiled in response to Reid's joyful energy while he at his apple and banana. "What?"
"A little witch that can sing." Reid said softly.
Angel was surprised to hear this. "….You mean you-"
Reid grinned. "Yep, I heard you before I left school," Angel began to blush as he turned his head downward.
Reid chuckled at this. "What are you embarrassed for? It was incredible."
Angel looked up then, blush receding. "…...Really?"
"Yes, really, are you kidding? Sounded like someone left the radio on,"
Angel grinned, feeling flattered. Telling by his expression, Reid guessed he wasn't use to hearing he was good at it, if at all.
"Has…has no one told you that?" Reid asked in surprise.
Angel shook his head. "I never sang in front of anyone. I always did it when I'm alone."
"Well, with a voice that good, you should at least sing in front of me. Your voice is too beautiful to keep it to yourself forever."
Angel giggled. "Okay."
They ate in content silence as they watched the other students around them. It was good to have things back to normal.
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After school, Reid and Angel were cuddling at Reid's house (childhood house) in his room. They sat up on his bed against the headboard, Angel against Reid's chest, facing toward him, Reid's arms around him. They were just relaxing and talking every now and then.
"Reid…?" Angel asked as he looked up at him from his place flush against his chest.
Reid's head was against the headboard on his pillow with his eyes closed while he responded. Not sleeping, just relaxing.
"Yes, baby?"
"How are you doing? I know Chase really got to you and all." said Angel softly.
Reid breathed audibly and opened his eyes in thought. "Better now that he's not around anymore. As long as no one tries to take you, I'm fine." He smiled down at him in assurance.
Angel was pleased with that and smiled back, cuddling closer to him and nuzzling his face against his chest. A minute later, Angel felt a surge of energy and got the urge to draw.
"Hold on a sec. I…have to do something." He said as he sat up from Reid's arms, got off the bed ad walked over to Reid's table that had a notebook and a cup-like container for the pencils.
Reid watched him in confusion. Angel took the notebook and a pencil back over to where Reid was, climbed back on the bed and leaned against his chest again, this time his back against him. Angel then felt the strong energy take control of his hand and made him begin drawing something.
"What's going on?" Reid asked.
Angel answered him as he paid attention to what the magical force was making him draw.
"A psychic drawing."
One image was of an eye, but not a human eye, it was skeletal. With everything of it shaded in except the glowing eye inside the skull. That communicated that the eye was white. Another image showed a cave. A cave in which seems very familiar. Then the magical force made him write words near the two pictures such as; awakened, danger, spell broken.
Reid was looking at it over Angel's shoulder and tried to place the words and pictures.
"Awakened….danger…..spell broken…..what does that mean?" Reid asked Angel.
Suddenly Angel understood. The familiar cave, the skeletal eye, those words…paired with that regular vision he had before Chase even came to town. It was of a white skeletal eye and showed a magical surge go through a field.
"No…..." Angel whispered in dismay and fear.
Reid gazed at him curiously. "What? What's wrong?"
Angel swallowed thickly, putting the paper and pencil down and cuddled close to Reid again, burying his face against his chest. Reid held him close and rubbed his back soothingly.
"Babe, what is it? Talk to me." Reid coaxed again.
Angel lifted his head up and met Reid's eyes. "Pious…..he's back."
Reid furrowed his brows in confusion. "Pious? Who's that?"
Angel had a knowing somber expression. "A very evil, dangerous demon."
Reid's eyes widen in shock. "Demon?"
"I sealed him away. The psychic drawing is saying the spell I bound him with has broken which caused him to awaken. That means danger to us and everyone else." Angel then got up from the bed and stood up beginning to walk to the room door.
"Where are you going?" Reid asked as he got up to follow him.
"Downstairs to gather my stuff so we can get the others. There must be a meeting about this now."
They called their friends and told them to meet them at Angel's place pronto.
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"A what?" Kate questioned.
She along with Sarah and the sons, and Angel and his two friends were gathered in Angel's room discussing the new threat.
"A demon. A real nasty one too." Eddie stated reliving flashbacks.
Angel breathed audibly, hating to mention the wretched monster.
"His name is Pious Augustus, a human turned demon eons ago from touching an enchanted ancient artifact. A year ago before Chelsea, Eddie, and I moved here, I was found and attacked by Pious. He has a grudge against my family line, due to having problems in the past with them trying to stop his evil plans of taking the book of Eternal Darkness and conquering earth. He thought coming after me, the youngest with magic that's alive, would be good revenge. He made a point that he wouldn't stop hunting me until I was dead and he got the book. Once Chelsea and Eddie heard about it, they decided to help protect me and the book, and take Pious down. We didn't manage to kill him since he's a bit too strong for only one person to kill him, but we were able to contain him."
"Where's that?" Caleb asked.
"16 miles east around the Rockport area in a cave." Chelsea stated.
"Oh, that's…." Caleb gave a surprised expression.
"That's not that far from here." Said Pogue.
"I had a vision a while back and a psychic drawing today stating that my spell was recently broken and he's awakened and released again. The vision showed it being caused by Chase's recklessness with using his magic. The energy from it interfered with my binding spell and caused it to shut down. Knowing how angry Pious is about me beating him before, he'll be mega pissed and make a B-line straight to me, and Chelsea and Eddie, too since they helped a lot. We have to be ready to defend when he arrives." Angel stated.
"Let us help fight him. You helped us a lot with Chase, now it's our turn to return the favor." Tyler said with a smile.
Reid grinned. "Yeah, together we can probably take him down for good."
Pogue and Caleb seemed to agree. Angel gazed at all of them in thought.
"With all five of our magic…..yes, it could have a chance at ending him….okay. Let's do it." He said in a smile.
Everyone cheered. They had a long and dangerous day ahead of them.
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A few minutes later, after putting his strongest protect spell on the book's hiding place and the book itself, they all huddled downstairs near the windows in the living room. Angel's mom came in from her room down hall and looked confused and concerned by everyone's tense, anxious body language.
"What's wrong? Isn't that Chase guy gone?" She asked. They all turned their attention on her.
"Yeah, Mrs. Diamond, but we got another problem." Eddie stated.
"What would that be that has you all so stressed?" Angel's mother, Ariel asked.
"Pious is back." Angel stated.
Ariel's face darkened with worry. "Oh no, not again. Drew!" Ariel went to get her husband. When she came back, Drew was with her.
"He's awakened? How?" Drew asked as they all continued to watch for Pious through the windows.
"Chase used his magic so much that it created a surge of energy that rushed through the lands and broke Angel's spell on him and the cave." Chelsea explained.
"He's here." Angel said with an ominous air as he stared out the window. Those who weren't looking out the window at the time, did then. What they saw was an armored (centurion styled) skeleton with a staff in hand.
"Ew…." Kate stated in disgust at the revealed decaying body of him.
"That's Pious?" Sarah asked in horror.
Eddie met Sarah and Kate's eyes. "Yeah, not very pleasant looking, is he."
"Sarah, Eddie, Chelsea, Kate, stay in the house. The rest of us will go outside and try to lead him away from the public eye and hopefully defeat him once and for all," Angel ordered before gazing at his parents.
"Mom, dad, are you stay?" He asked.
Ariel and Drew looked at each other, a silent conversation going between them before looking back over at their son.
"We want to make sure Pious doesn't come back, so we're going with you." Drew stated.
Angel smiled. "Okay. Let's go, then."
One by one, they all walked out the front door. Once Pious was near and saw the group outside, spotting Angel, he sneered.
"Wretched fool! You really thought you had seen the last of me?" He huffed out a laugh.
"This time what you will see is the last of you!" Pious growled.
"Come at me then!" Angel shouted. Then he turned to his friends and family.
"Let's go behind the house. We can't be seen if we're in those woods back there, hurry." He said to them as he got ready to run, the others following, Pious looming behind.
Once in the cover of the trees, they braced themselves to fight the ancient demon once he stood before them again.
"Trying to get away? Pathetic way of trying." Pious stated in dark amusement.
"Not what we're trying to do, but not like you would understand that, bone bag." Said Tyler cockily.
"What a big mouth….how about I take it off for you." Pious then formed a strong spell.
'Antorbok, pargon, pargon, regormor, pargon, pargon, Chattur'gha'
Red magic came flying at Tyler's face. Tyler's eyes widened in shock and changed them to black while lifting his hand in front of himself in hopes of decreasing the impact. Pogue, who was next to him had the same thought and acted the same time as Tyler to help him. They managed to ease down the attack and deflect it with their magic, but the force of the magic clashing together flung the two of them back a few feet and slammed them against a tree. Caleb and Reid went after them to check if they were alright. Pious laughed.
"Such Insolence. Face me, and you will surely parish!"
"Leave them alone, Pious!" Angel exclaimed as he started his spell. This one stronger than the ones he did in the past since this foe is much stronger than Chase ever was.
'Tier, pargon, pargon, aretak, pargon, pargon, Chattur'gha'
That summoned a big, red Horror.
'Attack the Liche and distract him, please.' Angel ordered the creature mentally. The Horror obeyed and went after Pious.
Pious looked up at the creature, preparing for what it would do.
Once Tyler and Pogue recovered their energy, and Reid and Caleb helped them up, they got back with the others, but noticed Angel was gone.
"Where'd Angel go?" Caleb wondered.
"No, he didn't get hurt, did he?" Reid said in worry, looking around.
"He's fine," Said Ariel. "He's just…doing something, you'll see."
After a minute of Pious fighting off the Horror, he heard rustling behind him. He turned only to be met with a blast of blue magic which sent him flying to the ground a few steps away. Angel revealed himself from behind a bush and met back up with his group and the Horror.
"Thanks." Angel said to the Horror. The Horror acknowledged Angel before disappearing.
Pogue smiled. "I see what you did. The ol distract, attack strategy. Nice."
Angel smiled. "Thank you."
Pious got back up and shot red magic at Angel's turned back while the demon walked back to them. Reid seeing this, fear erupted inside him.
"Angel!" He shouted as he ran behind him to block the spell from hitting his boyfriend with his own magic, but Reid's spell was half late and some of the spell hit him, jolting him and Angel on their back.
Angel not being hurt at all, he quickly turned over on his stomach and looked around, spotting Reid in front of him looking pained. His parents were keeping Pious busy for now, the other three sons having their back.
"Reid! Reid, hey, are you alright?" Angel asked as he crawled over to him in distress. He laid his hand on the side of his grimaced face and caressed it gently. Assessing Reid's body, he noticed there was an oval spot of blood coming from the left of his chest just under the breast bone and was soaking his shirt.
Reid opened his eyes, looking up at Angel and gave a weak smile.
"You're okay….thank god." Reid said softly.
Angel huffed in frustration. "Yeah, but you aren't. How could you let yourself get hurt?"
"Anything to keep you safe." Reid then tried to sit up, but exclaimed in pain as his hands flew to the left side of his chest.
Angel quickly grabbed Reid and pushed him gently back down on his back.
"Gosh, easy, easy. Don't move." He said.
"I wanna…help." Reid breathed out.
"I know, I know, hold on." Said Angel before he held his hand above Reid's chest and casted a healing spell.
'Antorbok, pargon, santak, pargon, Mantorok'
Reid's wound was now gone, completely healed, he was still a bit exhausted, though, so Angel helped him up and supported him.
"Thanks, babe. That hurt like hell."
"No problem. Now, let's make Pious dust."
"I'm all for that." Reid stated as they went to the others in the distance.
"Hey son, how is he?" Drew breathed out, a bit winded from fighting Pious.
"He's okay. I think now is a good time to do the final plan since Pious is probably tired by now." Angel decided as he saw the demon's body language begin to sag as he took a hit from his mom's magic.
"Alright," Drew stated, then turned to his wife and the three sons.
"Everyone, over here!" Drew called.
Ariel, Caleb, Tyler, and Pogue heard and began walking over to them.
"What's up?" Caleb posed.
"Let's do that plan now where we all combine our magic. Pious will stand less of a chance of surviving since he's getting tired out." Said Angel.
Once everyone agreed, they all stood side by side.
Pious looked at them curiously. "What's this, a surrender?"
Angel huffed out a single laugh. "Far from it." Angel then lifted his hand and shot an endless stream of blue magic at him.
Pious holds his staff in front of himself and propels the attack. "Ha! Really thought that would do it?"
"No, but this will." Angel stated before Caleb changed his eyes black and held his hand out towards Angel's and added his stream of magic to his.
Everyone else did the same, adding their magic to Angel's. Once everyone did and 7 streams of magic was built into one, Pious' staff could no longer handle deflecting it, and it hit him full force. Pious yelled in pain as the magic reduced him to nothing. Nothing of him was left, they had won.
"Yes, we did it!" Angel cheered, still supporting Reid.
"Thank goodness. Are you alright, dear?" Ariel asked as she looked at Reid.
Reid smiled. "Yeah, I'm fine, thanks to Angel. I'm just exhausted from taking that blast."
"Let's go home. You can all rest there." Drew decided.
Once they got back to Angel's house and was greeted by the four humans, they told them that Pious was finished for good. They were overjoyed to hear this and they all took a well deserved rest.
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A few hours later when Angel and Reid got back to the Garwin household, they were back on Reid's bed cuddled up together.
"We need a vacation." Reid stated.
Angel giggled and kissed Reid. "Yes, that sounds nice."
Reid kissed Angel again. "And no evil motherfucker better be around or I swear to god…!"
Angel laughed louder and kissed Reid, longer this time.
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~End~
And that completes this story. If you're wondering what Liche means, I haven't gotten an official explanation, but telling by what all of them look like, I'm sure it means an undead being. Anyway, I hope this story was enjoyable for you. Tell me what you thought in the box below, so I know I wasn't the only one that enjoyed it. I hate enjoying things alone. Thanks for reading. See ya next story. ^ - '