I'm kind of annoyed at the moment, so I have a plan on what's going on in the chapters but I don't have a play by play for specific details for the chapter, so I apologise is it's repetitive or confusing.
Cat's POV.
Sophie and I both dived out of everyone's way, managing to slip through the gaps between the angels. Unfortunately for us, Zach had more angels then expected and they were all running towards us from all directions.
"Solutions?" I asked Sophie
"Um…" she replied
"Can we please make some mischief now?" I questioned, she hesitated before sighing
"Sure, why not" she allowed. I launched at the angel in front of me, he aimed a punch at my head but I grabbed his wrist and flipped him to his back. I felt sharp pain go through my back as another kicked me. I took one step before doing a hand stand and kicking the angel back again. Sophie, as usual, looked like she was dancing, though every now and then an angel would land a hit on her too. I could tell straight away they were stronger then humans, like Sophie had said, they could withstand more of my hits then a human could and when they hit me, I actually felt it. It was like fighting a human-vampire kind of thing, the strength of a vampire but no more then a human.
"Their faster then humans too" Sophie admitted
"Really?"
"Of course you wouldn't notice" she grumbled
"I noticed that they take more hits then humans" I said as I dodged a punch to the face
"Well, lets see how quickly they heal shall we" Sophie offered, she grabbed an angel and as she threw him over her head as his arm began to turn blue. He flew through the air before crashing into a building and grabbing his arm, the blue slowly turning normal again. I was grabbed from behind and I immediately began to raise my temperature, the angel quickly released me with a cry. I flipped a few more angels onto the ground but there was so many that quite a few got their hands on me, trying to pin me down. I glared at them all and electrocuted ever single one of them, causing them to fell to the floor unconscious. I waved my hands and the near by tree branches moved down to grab a few away from Sophie as she was surrounded, the tree threw them through the air, smashed them into the ground and walls, knocking only a few out. Sophie waved her hands and the air was filled with the sound of water as some from one of the clear ponds dived down from over a building, surrounding a few angels before the water froze solid. A few managed to break out of the ice, but the water left on them made them vulnerable and they were electrocuted as I gracefully hit them all. I turned around only to see more angels approaching us.
"Jesus christ how many of these guys are there?"
"Probably a lot" Sophie groaned annoyed. I looked at them all before I felt a hit to my head, I turned around and one of the angels suddenly grabbed my arm. Before I had time to react I was thrown up forcefully into the air.
"Soph, do these angels know we can fly?" I wondered
"They followed us to Miami and we flew then so probably. But remember, they fly too" she warned
"Yeah but they're probably not as fast as we are" I reminded her. I floated in the air and I could just see the irritation growing even more in Zachariah's face. A huge wind spread out from Sophie and pushed all the angels around her away and she joined me in the air.
"So, I say we get moving" I decided
"Agreed" she nodded and we turned around and flew off at top speed, following the direction of the exit compass.
"So much for being stealthy" I said over the wind
"Hey, there are so many eyes in this place, it was bound to happen some time" Sophie admitted. We both turned to look back to see the angels, and Zachariah, chasing us through the sky.
"Great, why does everyone have to be able to fly?" I complained
"Well, let's see if they can keep up" Sophie grinned as she took my hand. I smirked before suddenly shooting off through the sky, dragging Sophie with me.
"Don't go to far, or you might pass the exit" Sophie warned, I looked down at the compass
"No, it's still pointing forwards" I assured her. Sophie turned to look back
"Well we've lost them —" she began
"For now" I mumbled
"— so you can slow down" Sophie insisted
"If I did that, they'd catch up to us" I believed
"Maybe, they'd have to find us first" Sophie shrugged
"Wouldn't be difficult seeing as we're still going in the same direction as before" I rolled my eyes
"Fine, just don't pass the exit" she warned again
"I wont" I muttered looking back at the compass.
"Hey, Cat, any idea what this doorway will look like to us?" Sophie wondered
"Well what do you imagine it'll be?" I wondered "Cause I'm thinking of some fancy golden gates"
"That's just cause that's what you've been told" Sophie sighed "Plus, gates will only let us out, I don't believe they'd take us down"
"Well, if everyone sees the door by what they think it's supposed to be, then it all comes from the imagination right?" I thought
"Right?"
"So if we picture something and believe that's what the door looks like then that's probably what it'll be." I grinned
"Alright, if that works, we'd need a really fast way out of here. What's the fastest way down you can think of?" Sophie questioned
"Why you asking me?"
"Cause you're the fast one remember, you'll know a fast method" she reminded me, I groaned but thought
"An elevator wouldn't be fast enough, and stairs are totally out of the question"
"An actual door wouldn't lead us down" Sophie added
"An escalator?" I offered
"Might not be fast enough" Sophie shook her head. I bit my lip
"There's gotta be something…" I muttered.
"Uh, Cat" Sophie began
"Yeah?"
"You were right about slowing down" she admitted
"I didn't slow down…"
"Yeah, you did, and now, they've caught up with us. And they have weapons" I turned to look over my shoulder
"What, don't they have some sort of powers, why would they need weapons?" I questioned
"Remember what Esther said, about certain creatures needing certain methods to kill them" Sophie remembered
"But they don't know how to kill us, and I'm pretty sure if they wanted us dead, they would have done it before" I admitted
"Yeah, well, I bet even Zachariah has a limited patience, I think he might be over it"
"Great" I grumbled "We've pissed off the one in authority" I smirked
"We're still going the right way, right?" Sophie asked, I sighed and rolled my eyes but looked at the compass again
"Yes, we're still going the right way, will you cam down" I assured her
"It's a little difficult" Sophie admitted
"How?" I questioned. Suddenly something went whizzing past me and exploded in the air, causing me to dodge past it.
"Holy shit" I swore "What was that?"
"They're firing at us!" Sophie informed me
"Oh great" I released Sophie's hand and we both shot off through the sky. Several more of the exploding bullets were sent at us and we dodged them all, though it was difficult when there were so many.
"Any idea what these bullets are made out of?" I questioned
"Not sure, but I think it might just be some sort of energy" Sophie answered
"Energy?" I wondered
"It's only a guess" she shrugged
"Well, let's see if you're right" I turned around and held up my hands, several of the bullets coming towards us stopped. I smirked
"Nice guess"
"Thanks."
"They're basically just heat" the bullets shot back off towards the angels and they all scattered in order to avoid them. A few were hit and the angels fell to the glass floor several feet below. A few capable angels flew after them to help while the others decided to fire more bullets at us.
"Think you can create a tornado up here?" I shouted
"Are you stupid?!" Sophie accused
"Well up here the tornado should only effect heaven, not the earth" I thought
"It's heaven! Nothing bad is supposed to happen in heaven, it's a perfect place remember" she shouted at me
"I'm sorry, but this looks like bad to me" I said as I stopped more of the heat bullets, still flying backwards as I did. "So obviously, bad can happen in heaven" I convinced, Sophie groaned but held her hands out and began to spin in the air. I immediately flew above her as the wind began to gather and swirl around us both. It didn't take long for a tornado to form, but it continued to grow in size and strength as Sophie continued to spin around. I struggled a little to hold up against the winds so I flew up towards the eye where it was safer.
"I wonder how well an angel can withstand this" I muttered. A normal tornado I believed would be like a breeze to them, but one of Sophie's tornados was different; they were a lot stronger. The angels seemed to realise this fact, unfortunately they realised a little too late and as they tried to turn and fly away, the tornado sucked them all up. The angels spun around and around in the tornado, and even when Sophie stopped spinning and joined me above the strong winds it continued to spin. It began to move off in the opposite direction Soph and I intended to go, taking the angels with it.
"Come on, before they either get out or the tornado disappears" Sophie advised
"I'd like to see them get out of that" I scoffed, Sophie rolled her eyes and grabbed my hand, flying off and dragging me with her. We flew for a while, passing several buildings below, though everything was the same in this place and it seemed like we were going in circles.
"You know, I feel like we've been flying for ages" I finally realised
"Probably almost gone around the world" Sophie shrugged
"No, it would take us longer to do that, remember it took us three hours to cross the United States" I reminded her
"And how long have we been flying for?" she wondered
"As if I'm keeping track"
"Exactly, we could be in Russia by now or something" she sighed
"Unless we're going the other way, then we could be in Europe" I shrugged
"Well if we keep going in a circle we're eventually going to end right back were that tornado was" Sophie admitted as we came to a stop. I took a look at the compass again "Well it says to keep going this way" I pointed ahead
"I just had a thought" Sophie groaned annoyed
"What?" I dreaded the answer
"The exit is probably on the ground and we're travelling in a circle, what if it's always pointing that way because that way's all we can go" she though
"We can go the opposite way as well. I think if we passed it the compass would point the other way" I shrugged
"Unless it's a dud"
"A dud? In heaven?" I wondered "Doesn't sound right" she shrugged
"Being attacked by angels doesn't sound right" she admitted
"Good point" I nodded "But we can't go back down, we might be spotted, and then we're in more trouble"
"All we've been doing is running, and we haven't found anything. Have we passed our phones yet?" Sophie wondered
"Oh, I forgot about those" I mumbled
"Of course you did" Sophie muttered putting her hands on her hips.
"Why don't you whip us up a cloud?" I offered
"For what?"
"Us to hide behind, we can get closer to the ground that way" I explained, she looked at me for a while. I knew that look; it was the look she gave me when she was annoyed at me but I had a good idea, and she just didn't want to admit it. She let out an annoyed sigh and a cloud did appear below us.
"See" I smirked, but she didn't respond so I rolled my eyes and we headed towards the glass floor of heaven. The trees and buildings grew bigger and we could see the earth below the glass floor again.
"Woah woah," I muttered and Sophie stopped the cloud as I looked at the compass
"What?"
"It moved"
"What moved?"
"The needle" I showed her the compass and she saw that the needle was no longer pointing at the 'E'
"But, we haven't moved?" Sophie questioned
"No… but maybe the exit did" I thought "That could explain why we've just been flying around, we've been chasing the exit?"
"Sounds like something that'd happen to us" Sophie grumbled, annoyed "But why would the needle have moved now, all we did was go down?"
"Maybe it's because we got closer to it, by going towards the ground we got closer to the door and it kind of activated the compass somehow" I shrugged
"You're saying it wasn't working before?" Sophie asked
"I hope not" I muttered, biting my lip.
"Typical" Sophie sighed annoyed.
"Well, come on, let's keep going" I urged and the cloud continued to descend.
Third Person's POV.
"I don't even know what I'm looking for" Sophie confessed as they looked at the ground "A hole in the floor, an actual door, some sort of beacon?"
"Well, I don't think the angels would like to make the exit extremely noticeable when we're trying to find it" Cat admitted
"Well did you think of something for it to look like?" Sophie questioned
"I did" Cat smirked. Sophie rolled her eyes and looked back at the ground
"Oh my god"
"What?" Cat asked
"Look" Sophie pointed to a big field like area a little to their right. "Are those… animals?" Sophie asked and looked at her sister.
"In heaven?" Cat wondered, Sophie shrugged "Well lets go take a look" Cat decided and she jumped off the cloud and fell towards the floor
"What about being seen?" Sophie questioned, she groaned but followed Cat towards the field.
"This has to be the only place I've seen up here that's actually got grass on the ground" Cat smiled when they landed
"I'm surprised that's all you notice" Sophie muttered looking at the animals in front of them with shock.
"Why?" Cat asked, she looked up and her jaw dropped. In front of them was a heard of deer, only they had wings and their hind legs were that of a bird. "What the hell is that?" Cat questioned
"Peryton" Sophie muttered
"Per-what?"
"They're a mythological creature from Roman mythology. It was said that they were creatures of atlantis, but there was an earthquake that destroyed the city and the Peryton escaped by flying away." Sophie explained
"Well, I guess if they flew high enough this is where they'd turn up" Cat muttered looking at them all "Hey, have you noticed their shadows?" she wondered
"Yeah, that's a worry." Sophie admitted
"Why?"
"Well, it's said that the Peryton will cast the shadow of a human, until it kills one, then it gains it's own shadow"
"So… they're killers?" Cat wondered
"Only once, but yeah, and considering these all have a human's shadow we might be in trouble" Sophie explained
"Well, we're not exactly humans, we might not count" Cat hoped
"Let's hope so" Sophie nodded
"I thought Heaven hosted dead people and angels, not animals" Cat wondered
"Well, every myth was created somehow, usually by a legend, guess they all had to end up somewhere" Sophie shrugged
"Well, I suggest we leave before they decide to kill us" Cat offered
"Good idea" Sophie agreed and they flew back into the air. They looked around the field and noticed that there was more then just Perytons.
"Those Peryton things aren't the only things here" Cat noticed "Look" Sophie followed Cat's indication and saw a heap of other flying animals
"Think all the animals here have wings?" she wondered
"Probably" Cat shrugged "What are they?"
"Dunno" Sophie admitted
"Well lets see" Cat smirked and she flew down towards them
"What if they're killers too?" Sophie asked while following Cat. "You do remember we're meant to be looking for a way out, right?" Sophie reminded her when she caught up
"It's not like we're in any trouble right now" Cat smiled "Don't you wanna see?"
"I would like to know what else exists" Sophie admitted
"Probably everything that goes bump in the night" Cat shrugged, Sophie rolled her eyes before looking back at the field
"Woah" she muttered Cat looked at her surprised before following her gaze, they stopped
"Awesome" Cat thought
"Are those… hippogriffs?" Sophie questioned
"I think so…" Cat nodded "Are they dangerous?"
"Don't think so, they're omnivores, so they eat plants and meat, but they're apparently very loveable and said to be very good steeds or pets. You know they're meant to be able to fly as fast as lightning" Sophie explained
"Isn't that just as fast as light?" Cat wondered, Sophie shrugged
"Alright… well lets take a closer look" Cat smirked and landed on the ground. She walked up towards one
"Cat, be careful!" Sophie ordered, landing behind her
"Calm down, I'm an animal person remember" Cat waved her off. She stood a little more then a metre away from the giant eagle-horse and it looked at her for a while, almost as if it was examining her. Cat very slowly took a set forwards before pausing for a second as the animal continued to watch her. Cat slowly approached it until she was standing in front of it. Sophie held her breath as Cat reached up to touch it's beak, it snapped at her for a few seconds before it seemed to clm down and pressed it's head into her hand. Cat beamed before she stroked it.
"It's so soft" she turned to Sophie, Sophie let out the breath she was holding in and slowly walked up to it. The beast took a step back but Cat reassured it before Sophie reached out to touch it too.
"Huh, you're right" she smiled
"I want one" Cat decided
"Well you can't have one, where are you gonna keep it?" Sophie wondered
"I'm sure we could get an extension put on the house" Cat shrugged
"Someone might see it. Sorry but no" Sophie ordered, Cat pouted at her but Sophie wouldn't budge
"You're so mean" Cat huffed as she hugged the hippogriff.
"No I'm practical, imagine if someone saw it?" Sophie explained, Cat sighed
"I know" she muttered "Then we're gonna need to find a way to sneak back into heaven after we leave, that way we can come back and say hello" she grinned
"Right, cause that's a smart idea" Sophie sighed
"Hey, after this we'll know where the exit is and it wont be as difficult to get out" Cat shrugged, Sophie rolled her eyes
"Still doesn't sound smart" she thought
"Who said we had to be smart" Cat smirked, Sophie sighed and put her head in her hand, shaking it. She suddenly froze and slowly raised her head, Cat noticed
"What's wrong?" she asked, her question was answered when something suddenly hit the ground next to them, causing the grass to go flying and spray the girls. It frightened the hippogriff and the others around them, causing them to rear up and flap their wings. Cat was standing to close and the hippogriff scratched her arm
"Shit" she muttered
"You alright?" Sophie asked
"Hopefully. What's a hippogriff's scratch like?" Cat wondered
"I think it's just normal" Sophie bit her lip. Cat nodded and looked up, the sky was covered in more angels, though now, they didn't just have normal weapons, they had cannons.
"Oh great" Cat complained
"Come on" Sophie urged Cat as Cat was holding her injured arm, the blood spilling over her fingers and staining her top. Sophie pulled on Cat's arm but Cat hissed in pain
"Well we need to move" Sophie answered as several more shots were fired at them. Sophie held up her hand and stopped them all with her gravity, extinguishing them all.
"Fine, but don't pull on my arm" Cat ordered. They turned to move but were stopped by the hippogriff that stood in front of them, it crouched down and the girls looked at it shocked. They looked at one another before grinning and climbing onto the animal's back. The hippogriff stood up and roared at the angels who were looking at them all stunned as the animal flapped it's wings and shot off into the air.
"Think it'll take us to the exit" Sophie asked
"No idea, let's ask it" Cat decided and she leaned forwards to whisper in the hippogriffs ear.
"Can you please take us to the exit of heaven?" she asked kindly. She hippogriff let out a type of chirp and shot off at top speed. The angels continued to chase, though they weren't nearly as fast as the hippogriff
"Alright, I agree, I want one too" Sophie smiled, Cat giggled before ducking her head and pushed Sophie's down right as one of the cannons sped right over their heads.
"Shit" Cat muttered
"You gotta do something" Sophie ordered
"Me? We're in your element" Cat reminded her, talking about the wind
"But it didn't do a very good job"
"It did enough of the job" Cat admitted
"Well, I'd rather really have some lightning right now" Sophie said fiercely. Cat huffed and steadily stood up on the hippogriff's back. Sophie leaned to the side and Cat stepped past her, the two switching spots. Cat raised a hand and the sound of thunder clapped over the sky as dark clouds formed above them. Lightning flashed and lit up the entire sky before Cat pointed her hand at the angels and the lightning struck down on them. Many of the angels were fried and covered in charcoal. Other's hair frizzed up and they twitched as the lightning sparked through their bodies.
"Guess their not so invincible" Sophie smirked
"Never thought they were" Cat admitted. The angels fell from the sky as they struggled to avoid all the lightning. "It's a shame they have those cannons, all they're doing is attracting the lightning" Cat confessed
"You know Heaven's going to completely hate us after this" Sophie realised "What if we go to hell?" she worried
"We have to die first to do that and it doesn't seem like that's gonna happen" Cat confessed "Plus, I'm sure that if we just get rid of Zachariah none of this will matter anymore"
"Have you noticed he's not here?" Sophie asked as she looked over her shoulder
"Yep, I was trying to hit him before realising he wasn't even in the vicinity for me to hit." Cat complained
"You know that can't be a good thing" Sophie worried
"Then keep an eye out up ahead, incase he pops up" Cat ordered, Sophie sighed but returned her attention to ahead of them.
"Are they even fighting back?" Sophie wondered, having noticed that there were no more cannons being fired at them.
"They don't have the chance too" Cat admitted smirked, Sophie rolled her eyes by smiled.
"Uh oh" Cat muttered
"Oh don't say that" Sophie whined before turning around, behind them was Zachariah, only he had several other angels around him, all holding what looked like missile launchers.
"That shouldn't work?" Sophie questioned, confused as to why Cat was worried.
"Yeah, but…" Cat began, Sophie watched as several more angels appeared, all with the same weapon, putting the number up into the thousands.
"Oh, shit" Sophie mumbled "Do we know how they work?"
"You're the geek?" Cat questioned
"But you deal with machines and electrical stuff" Sophie reminded her, Cat sighed
"It'll either be searching for a heat signature or power. But considering we're in heaven…"
"That might mean nothing" Sophie sighed
"Well, only one way to find out" Cat shrugged.
"And what's that?" Sophie asked, just as she did the angels fired the missiles at them. Cat braced herself and just as the missiles got close she jumped off of the hippogriff's back and flew off away from them. Every single missile turned away from the hippogriff in order to follow Cat.
"Their heat signatures" Cat smirked
"You're insane" Sophie sighed
"Only sometimes" Cat admitted. She weaved around and twirled through the air as the missiles chased her. She turned around, flying backwards, and several orbs of electricity appeared around her before they shot off to counteract the missiles, causing them to explode on contact, along with several others surrounding it. Cat smirked
"These are nothing special" she muttered. Before continuing to avoid them, Sophie stood up on the hippogriff's back and raised her hand, as she did a bow made of ice appeared, she pulled her hand back and an arrow, already set up in the bow, appeared too. Sophie took the bow and arrow in her hands and focused on a missile. As she did several more arrows appeared around her in the sky, all ready to strike. Sophie released the arrow and it, plus the others, shot off through the air towards the missiles, each one collided with a missile, causing them to ice over, and either malfunction and fall to the ground or explode. Cat smirked at her as more of her electrical orbs did the same. With the two girls working together to destroy them, the missiles soon were all useless, either in pieces on falling to the ground below. Cat gave Sophie a thumbs up who did the same
"Nice" Cat grinned
"Right back at you" Sophie smiled. They suddenly heard a gun shot and Sophie felt a huge pain in her side. She gasped and Cat was at her side as she almost fell off the hippogriff's back.
"Hey, you alright?" Cat asked worried
"No! I was just shot" Sophie answered, her hand over the wound. She removed it before they took a look at the wound. It had already begun to heal but the blood was covering the hippogriff's feathers.
"Shit" Cat muttered
"You know what, I'm getting sick of this" Sophie admitted "I really, just want to go home"
"I know how you feel" Cat nodded as Sophie sat up, hissing in pain as she did. Cat stood up and turned to the few angels still chasing them.
"Time for them to burn" she decided and she flew up into the air, above the hippogriff.
"Uh oh" Sophie smirked with a wince. Cat's body ignited into flames as she raised her arms. The flames around her grew bigger and bigger, with Cat in the centre, until the fire made a shape. It looked like a phoenix. Cat thrusted her hands forwards and the phoenix cried before soaring off at the angels. The angels stopped and scattered at the firebird approached them, snapping its beak down on them, leaving flaming bodies falling towards the ground. Cat landed back on the hippogriff and sat behind Sophie panting. Sophie looked at her shocked
"How did you do that?" she asked
"I, have, no, idea." Cat admitted
"Are you alright?" Sophie wondered
"I feel drained" Cat answered
"That must have taken a lot out of you" Sophie muttered as she looked back at the bird still attacking the angels.
"At least it slowed them down" Cat huffed, Sophie looked at her sister again, a little worried before the hippogriff shot off.
Zachariah was shouting at the angels around him for letting the twins escape yet again.
"But sir, how are we meant to defeat that?" one of the angels questioned talking about the phoenix that had finally diminished.
"I don't care, just catch those two girls!" Zachariah hissed through his clenched teeth.
"Why are they so important anyway? Did you get information out of them?" another wondered
"They're criminals" Zachariah said
"How? This is the first time they've even been here?" someone asked
"Isn't it obvious, they're the children of heaven's most wanted" Zachariah said. He hadn't explained the entire situation to his 'minions', he had told them they had needed to catch the twins, but that they were no where near normal. "I want those girls, back in confinement immediately" he yelled, the angels all departed to follow his wishes while Zachariah raged to himself.
The hippogriff finally landed and the girls climbed off its back, both a little wobbly as Sophie was still wounded and Cat hadn't gained all her strength back yet. They looked around, the area was empty, not a building, lake, tree, bush, angel, field or even any animals in sight, just the glossy, transparent floor.
"I don't see an exit?" Cat questioned
"What does the compass say?" Sophie wondered, Cat pulled it out of her pocket and looked at it. She frowned, the needle was only spinning around and around and around.
"It's not working" she admitted, Sophie took a look
"Well, if that happened on a normal compass it would mean…" Sophie began
"That we're in a magnetic field. But this isn't normal?" Cat reminded her
"Well it's run by some sort of pull or magic, so this must be the heart of it all, or at least there's a lot of interference here" Sophie shrugged
"Well, I think an exit out of heaven would create a huge interference" Cat thought
"But… where is it?" Sophie asked, Cat shrugged. "Well we need to find it, we only have so long before Zach catches up again" Sophie worried
"Wait… the door it meant to be what ever the person imagines it to be like right?" Cat wondered, Sophie nodded
"That's what Esther said"
"Well, then, lets imagine it" Cat decided, Sophie gave her a weird look "It can't hurt to try" Sophie sighed and shut her eyes. Cat smiled and did the same
"Think of this" she said and opened her mind to Sophie
"Why?" Sophie questioned looking at her confused
"Cause it'll be a fun and fast way down" Cat smirked, Sophie rolled her eyes but listened to her sister. They stayed still for a few minutes, their eyes shut and the hippogriff standing behind them patiently. The ground began to shake and not to far in front of them the ground began to open. A wide circular hole appeared, having about a 2 metre wide diameter. A pair of rails appeared as well as a sort of golden doorway. There was a small platform leading into the hole which then dropped off the edge and spiralled down towards the ground below. The doorway was a slide. The twins opened the eyes after the ground stopped shaking and looked at it wide eyed
"Hey it worked" Cat smirked, Sophie sighed but nodded
"Nice thinking" she complimented
"Thanks" Cat smiled proudly
"Don't let that go to your head" Sophie advised. Cat shrugged and turned to the hippogriff
"Thank you so much, we couldn't have done it without your help" she said petting the big flying creature. It lowered it's head for them and Sophie thanked it also before they took a few steps back. The hippogriff spread it's wings and took off into the sky, soon becoming a black spot and disappearing.
"Alright, let's get back to earth!" Cat cheered and she turned towards the doorway
"Any idea where we're gonna come out at?" Sophie wondered
"Not a clue" Cat grinned "I'm just glad that soon we'll be back home and I can see Jake again!" she cheered
"Alright, well how do you suggest we go about doing this?" Sophie pointed at the slide "Cause I am not going down on my ass"
"Why would you do that, we're not five" Cat grinned and rubbed her hands together. She pulled them apart and in the space between them, a board made of metal formed. Sophie looked at it surprised
"We'll skate down!" Cat grinned, extremely excited. Sophie sighed
"I'm never putting you in charge of anything again" she decided but created a board out of ice anyway.
"Bags going first!" Cat ordered and she placed her board on the edge of the slide and looked down "Oh this is going to be great, Sophie do you have a camera cause we totally need to video this!"
"Do I have a camera? Sure I'll just take out my phone and… oh wait, I don't have it" Sophie reminded her twin sarcastically.
"Well that's just annoying" Cat complained
"Just go" Sophie nudged her sister and Cat placed her feet on the board and more metal strapped her to the board before she leaned forwards and tipped the board down and off the platform, beginning her descent down towards the earth. Sophie jumped on her board, the ice strapping her feet in, before she waited a few minutes, listening to her sisters cheers, and followed her down the slide. Cat laughed and cheered as they spiralled down, Sophie laughed at her and couldn't help but keep the smile off of her face either.
"Alright, say it, this was a good idea" Cat convinced.
"Fine, it was a good idea" Sophie admitted with the roll of the eyes. They slid down through the clouds, occasionally looking back at the glass floor of heaven. Though, after a while, they could no longer see it, like it had disappeared and it no longer existed.
"Guess you can really only see it from the other side" Sophie shrugged when Cat questioned this.
"That explains why you don't see the sky shinning" Cat sighed
"You think if we flew back up one day we'd come to the glass roof?" Sophie wondered
"Dunno, but isn't it weird to think the entire world is actually trapped in a glass sphere?" Cat questioned
"I wonder how we made it to the moon if that were true?" Sophie smirked
"Be kind of weird if we were trapped in a bubble" Cat confessed
"Oh well, think you can go faster?" Sophie asked
"I thought you'd never ask" Cat smirked before she shot off down the slide, Sophie right on her tail. They were only about half way down, and it took them quite a while to get even near the bottom. It wasn't until they'd been sliding for an hour or so that the earth began to become clearer.
"Oh! Solid ground! Dirt, plants! I'm so looking forward to it" Cat cheered, Sophie rolled her eyes
"It's only been a week"
"Only? It's been a full week!" Cat scolded "I've been away from my element for a whole week"
"Hey, I've been away from both of mine for a whole week" Sophie reminded her, Cat sighed and looked back below them. She frowned
"Oh man" they were heading straight for the ocean "Of course the exit comes out to the middle of the ocean!" Cat complained
"Explains why no one's ever tried coming up the exit" Sophie beamed as the water got closer and closer. Cat angled her board and began to slow down as the blue surface got closer.
"Hey, I wonder how many people have had to come down here in a thunderstorm?" Cat wondered
"Of course that's what you'd think of" Sophie sighed "And not the fact that we're almost back home!"
"We don't even know which ocean it is, we don't know how close to home we really are" Cat reminded her
"We will as soon as we get off this slide, so hurry up!" Sophie ushered
"I'm not crashing into the water!" Cat said stubbornly, Sophie huffed, her patience growing thin. The slide curved upwards at the end and Cat held onto her board as she flew through the air before it disappeared and she hovered in the sky. She moved out of the way as Sophie come flying past, only she dived straight into the water. Cat sighed
"Jeez" she muttered, Sophie reappeared and flew up, grabbing Cat's ankle and pulling her into the water. Sophie laughed, bubbles coming out of her mouth, as Cat looked around stunned. Cat glared at her before swimming up to the surface, Sophie followed her. Cat brushed her hair out of her face before looking up at the slide, Sophie appeared next to her and they watched as the slide ascended back up into the clouds, disappearing in a matter of seconds.
"That was fun" Cat smiled and looked at Sophie only to have a heap of water splashed in her face.
"This is great" Sophie laughed as Cat spluttered
"Yeah, totally, I can barely contain my excitement" Cat said in a monotone voice
"Oh come on Cat, we're back on earth" Sophie cheered.
"And in water" Cat added, Sophie rolled her eyes. "Come on, what's the bet that Zach's right behind us?" Cat asked, Sophie sighed
"Yeah, that'd be right" she complained
"So where are we?" Cat wondered, Sophie took a deep breath and disappeared under the water for a few minutes
"South pacific ocean" she answered when she remerged.
"Oh, so we're near home then. Are we closer to Australia or South America?" Cat asked
"We're in the middle" Sophie shrugged
"Awesome" Cat muttered and she flew out of the water, a heap of steam rising off of her as her clothes dried. Sophie joined her and pulled the water from her clothes before there was a bang and Cat was sent plummeting back into the water below them.
"Not again" Sophie complained as she looked up and there were more angels. "Don't you people have something better to do?" she yelled. Cat remerged and the water around her was bubbling "Come on!" Sophie decided and she grabbed Cat's hand, the two shooting off just a metre above the water
"This is your domain, why are we running?" Cat questioned
"Because I need them closer to the water" Sophie explained, they turned and watched as the angels flew at the water and then swooped to chase them "See" Sophie smirked. The girls stopped and turned to face the oncoming angels. Sophie raised her arms and a wave began to grow behind her, getting bigger and bigger until the same thing happened to Sophie as it had done to Cat; the water took the shape of a bird, a water bird. It soared off at the angels and Cat threw a ball of lightning at the water, causing the water to be highly charged.
"Come on" Cat took Sophie's hand and they flew off, Sophie was the same as what had happened to Cat, she was panting and feeling drained
"Damn, what the hell?" she muttered
"You've never done that before?" Cat confessed "It was like the bird was alive?"
"It was the same for your firebird" Sophie nodded "Something's off" she muttered as Cat soared through the air, still close to the water, causing it to spray the two.
"Think Zach did something else to us?" Cat wondered
"What? Make our powers stronger in order to help defeat him? Yeah right" Sophie explained
"Good point" Cat sighed. Sophie turned to look behind them
"Think they've given up?" she asked
"No chance" Cat grumbled "Seems like Zach's desperate to get us back up there"
"I'd like to see him get us this time. It'll be a lot harder to keep us 'contained' " Sophie confessed
"Yeah, I think we have the upper hand now" Cat smiled "But, how about we just concentrate on getting back home?" she decided "How long do you think it'll take to cross the pacific?"
"Only took us three hours to cross North America" Sophie smiled
"So not long at all" Cat smirked and she shot off through the air.
By the way, the line "Thank you so much, we couldn't have done it without your help" she said petting the big flying creature." marks 500 pages for this story! Isn't that awesome!