Heya Readers! Last place we left off, Angela had gone to meet with Diablo and Seth for what would be considered the final goodbye, yet fate had other plans!
Chapter Thirty-Two
Goodbye Angela
Seth cradled Angela close to him as he wept, he couldn't believe that his dear friend had been struck down by a car and killed.
"I'm so sorry Angie…" he sobbed "I didn't mean for this to happen... I should have come to you instead…then you would have been safe!"
Diablo knelt opposite him equally saddened as well as guilty over what had happened, he thought back to when he first saved Angela from that mugging drug addict, then their accidental meeting at the Falls then their other meetings that followed afterwards, and now it had come to this.
He never meant for it to happen, and he had caused her so much hurt, and now he had unwillingly led her to her death.
A couple of tears fell from his eyes and rolled off his beak.
As he looked at the young woman's pale face and her blood-stained hair, he wasn't sure what to say to the devastated Seth, but he knew they had to leave before the humans investigated the crash.
Picking up his walkie talkie he radioed the other Disciples.
"Samson, this is Diablo, over!" he said in as much a controlled voice he could muster.
"Samson here boss, over!" Samson's voice was heard "Are you alright?"
"You need to get to the baseball field right away! Bring the others along with the water! Over"
"Right away Diablo! What do you need the water for?"
"Just get over here!" Diablo ordered "I'll explain when you get here! Just hurry!"
"Alright Boss, roger that!" Samson replied, "Over and out!" he switched off the walkie-talkie and looked at Seth.
"The others are on their way." He said, "But we can't stay here, someone will have heard the noise of the car and the cops will arrive!"
Seth looked up at Diablo.
"What about Angie?" he asked between sobs.
"We'll take her with us!" Diablo said placing a hand on Seth's shoulder as well as stroked Angela's face "The others are coming; they have the water with them."
Seth nodded and stood up, gathering Angela up into his arms despite the pain he felt in his wounded shoulder.
"Do you think we can save her? Like you saved me?" he asked hopefully.
"I hope so." Diablo replied, then both mutants then looked over at the crashed car and Diablo glared before walking over to the car and looking inside.
Seth meanwhile ran into the shadows to wait for the other Disciples.
Diablo looked in through the broken windows and he saw two young men, both looked no older that sixteen.
He noticed they were wearing street clothes and the passenger had a bottle of whisky in his hands.
Diablo glowered.
"Drink drivers or most likely joyriders!" he snarled as he smashed the side window.
"Diablo!" the raven turned around and he soon saw Samson running over along with Lamia and Rex.
Chastity, Regan and Ravage soon arrived, landing onto the road.
"What's going on?" Samson asked then he saw the wrecked car "What happened?"
"Where's Seth?" Chastity asked.
"Over here!" Seth called out to the dove.
Diablo frowned.
"Chastity, go to Seth!" he ordered to which Chastity nodded and ran over to the Oryx and Diablo looked at Samson.
"You and Rex get those boys out of the car!" he said, "They're coming with us!"
Samson and Rex nodded and turned to the car.
Meanwhile Chastity ran over to Seth, followed closely by Regan, Lamia, and Ravage.
"What happened here?" she asked then she gasped in horror as she saw Angela in Seth's arms.
"Oh my God!" she cried "The girl?"
"She was hit by that car!" Seth sobbed "Ploughed straight into her!"
"Oh my…that poor girl!" Ravage exclaimed.
"Is she still alive?" Regan asked fearfully.
"Let me see!" Chastity said as she analysed Angela in Seth's arms.
At the same time, Samson and Rex had managed to drag the unconscious young men out of the car and carried one each.
"Uggh! The smell!" Rex growled as he tossed his head in disgust "Both are no doubt intoxicated!"
Samson nodded in agreement as he wrinkled his nose.
"Drink drivers!" he spat "Selfish and stupid!"
Diablo glared.
"Those two are going to have a right sobering up experience when they come to!" he snorted then looked to where the other Disciples were with Angela.
Chastity was looking over Angela and she looked grim.
"She's in a very bad shape!" she said, "She's suffered broken bones, and her neck is snapped, no doubt there's damage to the brain, if by a miracle she did survive, she'd be a vegetable."
Seth sobbed.
"Oh Angie." He wept.
"Unless she has the water, she will not live." The Dove continued "We have to get back to our hideout!"
"Here! I'll carry her!" Ravage offered holding out his four arms, and Seth though reluctant handed Angela too him.
"Be careful!" he said.
Ravage nodded then turned around to face Diablo, Samson, and Rex with the two young men in tow.
"Are those…?" Chastity asked to which Diablo nodded.
"They were in the car!" the Raven confirmed then opened his wings "Quick, back to the hideout before the humans arrive!"
The other Disciples agreed, and Chasity and Diablo took the two young men and hovered in the air.
Regan followed them into the sky whilst Lamia, Seth, Rex, and Samson ran on the ground.
"I hope we can save her!" Seth murmured as he sprinted away with the panther, Eel and Doberman back to the hideout.
No sooner did they arrive than they went down into the basement and Ravage lay Angela on a sleeping back whilst Chastity studied her more.
After Diablo told her the whole story, Chastity sighed sadly.
"I'm so sorry that happened." She said as she looked at Angela again "But don't blame yourself."
"The only people to blame are those stupid idiots!" Ravage growled as he looked at the young men laying in the corner with Samson and Rex tying them up.
"How could they have done such a dumb thing?" Lamia asked furiously.
"I don't care how or why they did this!" Seth snapped "I just want to know if we can save Angie!"
"We can." Chastity said "We're not too late! The water!"
Samson instantly handed the dove the water and Diablo and Seth look one last long look at Angela's features.
"Forgive me Angela." Seth whispered.
Diablo took in Angela's features then looked at Chastity and nodded giving her the okay to give the young woman the water.
The dove nodded back and tilting Angela's head back she poured a small amount of water into her mouth then made sure it went down her throat.
"Please work." Seth prayed "Please!"
Chastity stepped back and told everyone else to do the same, and Regan clung onto Diablo.
Lamia bit her lip as she watched, yet for a few seconds, nothing happened.
Diablo blinked and a lump formed in his throat as he wondered if it had been too late, and Angela was dead.
Seth's heartbeat like a drum in his chest, so hard it hurt, and his stomach plummeted as he watched Angela's still form.
Samson and Rex also watched from their positions in front of the two captive men and they looked at each other in worry.
"I think they were too late." Rex lamented and Samson hung his head sadly as he looked at Diablo and Seth.
Just then, Angela's body jerked and shook, and all the Disciples watched in shock and wonder as Angela's body convulsed then began to change!
"It's working!" Chastity cried triumphantly.
Regan hugged Diablo tightly in fear, even though she had seen mutations before, it still scared her.
Diablo hugged the young bat close as he watched, and relief swept over him.
As Angela's body convulsed, he saw small brown feathers start to emerge from her exposed skin then her mouth and nose began to connect.
Seth also watched and blinked as he took it what was happening before him, and he began to think of his own mutation.
Before long, Angela's body flipped over as something started to emerge from behind her and her coat and top was torn off as two large brown wings appeared and opened.
Angela lay on her front as the mutation was completed, then her body stopped moving and she lay there on the ground unmoving.
Seth stared at her then he rushed forward before anyone could stop him.
"Angela?" he knelt and touched his friend's shoulder "Angela? Are you alright? Wake up! Wake up!"
He turned her over and he saw Angela's features.
Her human face was gone and now he looked upon a brown and tan coloured feathered face and a curved beak instead of a nose and mouth.
"What is she?" Regan asked curiously.
"Another flyer!" Ravage quipped.
"A falcon of some sort!" Lamia volunteered helpfully.
Diablo said nothing as he walked over and looked Angela over.
"Angie?" he asked "Angie?"
As the Raven and Oryx spoke to Angela, she slowly opened her eyes.
"Huh? What…what happened?"
"Oh, thank Moses!" Seth breathed then hugged Angela "Oh thank goodness you're alright...I... I thought I'd lost you!"
Angela blinked as she looked at Diablo and Seth.
"What's going on?" She asked "The last thing I remember was a loud screech, then something hit me…then…then…"
"Angela." Diablo said "Look…I need you to be calm and listen, okay? You need to know that…" he paused as Angela stared at him then Seth then she looked down at herself and saw her hands.
As she did, her eyes widened as she saw they were yellow and scaley and brown feathers adorned her arms!
"What the fuck!?" she cried then looked at Seth who looked worried as well as scared at her reaction and he only knew too well how she was feeling.
'Angie…" he said.
"What did you do to me!?" Angela cried then she shrieked as she shut her eyes and clenched her fists "What have you done to me!?"
So The Disciples have brought Angela back to the Hideout and they've given her the magical water and she's mutated! Yet she's not taken too well to it! Not surprisingly!
How will things go from here? Well you'll have to tune in to find out!