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Chapter 24: The First Sight of the Underworld

Era's POV

As soon as we entered the Underworld, I was dragged out of my cage and thrown into a room. I was surprised I wasn't thrown into a dungeon or something but it still might as well have been with unbreakable, locked doors.

But the room I was in was an actual bedroom in looks. A queen sized bed with black sheets and pillows. The walls were black as well with red outlines and black and red checkerboard designed tile floors stood beneath my feet. I turned to the singular window in the room and found, just like the doors, were locked.

I tried to use an attack to break the window but the window did nothing but rattle. I knew I was seriously weakened from being in that Demon Cage for so long. Not including the fact that an angel is at their weakest when they're in the Underworld.

Suddenly the door to my room opened and a couple demons ran in and one dragged me to the bed. The other quickly locked my arms and legs spread open to the four corners of the bed with demon chains.

I yanked at them as hard as I could but I couldn't break them, not that expected to with them being demon chains. The demons walked out with that. I felt a fearful tear escape my left eye as I thought, 'Yusei, help me. Please…'

Third Person POV

Yusei stood on a rocky cliff looking out at the vast world below him. 'So this is the Underworld, huh?' he thought.

A lot of the area was just rocks and lava. There were a few houses here and there but everywhere near the rocks were people in chains. They were using pickaxes to destroy the rock, looking for something that Yusei didn't know. The people were malnourished by what Yusei could tell with their boney, thin structure and he could see scars along some of their bodies. He then noticed a better shaped man with red eyes and black hair stand over a fallen slave. He raised a whip and slapped it down on the slave's back. Yusei was horribly tempted to go and help but he knew this was the Underworld and he would be at his weakest here. He also knew he needed to save his strength for getting Era out.

He used his locket and a line directing him to Era appeared. He silently took off in flight at the highest he could go in the air so he would be easily seen. He felt saddened as he looked at the number of slaves compared to the number of slave owning demons hurting some weakened, fallen slaves.

'If only I could help them,' Yusei thought.

He looked back ahead to where he was going and saw a castle in the distance of which the line was directing him to. As he got closer, he hid behind some rocks. There we several demons guarding the perimeter and Yusei knew there was no easy way through.

'If I'm seen by them, there will be no way for me to get to Era,' Yusei thought. 'But I can't wait until nightfall. I don't think Era has that kind of time.'

He then thought of something. A demon's mind is easy for an angel to manipulate if they're weak and from what Yusei could tell, these demons were weak. He looked at one and used a spell to control the demon and make the demon say, think, and do things.

"Hey, guys," called the demon as he ran up. They turned to him. "There's a slave problem on the west side. We need some help to round them up."

"Alright, let's go," they agreed and flew off and away from the scene.

Yusei hurried through the perimeter and into the castle. He could feel the overwhelming amount of dark energy surrounding this place. It was bad enough outside but in the castle… there was no calculating how much darkness was in here.

He silently slipped by guards and around the castle. But this place seemed like a maze and was unending. Yusei stopped at one door that was guarded by two demons. He hid behind a statue as Brehnam walked up to it. The demons bowed.

"How's our…" Brehnam paused looking for the right word, "guest doing?"

"Struggling to break her bonds, sir," one answered. "But she will not succeed, I can assure you."

"Good," Brehnam responded. "It'll make it all the easier to weaken her soul and break her."

"Sir, if I may ask, how do you intend to do so?" one of the guards asked.

"How I choose to do so doesn't matter. What matters is that the Guardian Angel of Light's power is destroyed with her hope," Brehnam stated. "Let me inside. It's time I get my revenge."

"Yes, sir," the first one agreed and the two opened the door. Brehnam walked in before the door was closed.

"The next time you try to do this alone, I'll be the snot out of you,' came a whisper being spoken in Angelic. Yusei turned to see May appeared.

"May," Yusei greeted. "What're you doing here?"

"What do you think?" May replied sternly. "Helping you get Era back."

"Are you sure you can?" Yusei asked.

"Hey, newbie, who's more experienced here?" May replied. Yusei rolled his eyes. "What do you have so far?"

"Era's in that room right across from us," he replied. "We need to get in there."

"Yeah, we need to save your mate," May agreed.

"Mate? We're only a couple right now," Yusei responded.

"Uh, not quite. We learned about it after going through some of Izoa's old personal items. It includes how he changed the information of the textbook's definition of a male angel wrapping his wings around a female," May began and Yusei looked at her, prodding for more information. "According to what Izoa took out, when the two angels get close enough, the male will naturally and not completely consciously wrap his wings around the female as a sign of protection. But it is also the sign that the two are mates for life. In human terms, mating is the same as marriage."

"Like demons making attachments?" Yusei responded and May nodded. "So are you really saying me and Era are mated for life and are basically married?"

"Yes," May answered.

Yusei shook his head to clear his thoughts. "We'll talk about this more after we save Era," he told the other angel. May nodded again and jumped out before Yusei could say anything.