33 Days Left Until Extermination...
Gabriel stood in shock as he dropped his sword. His whole body was trembling as he looked down at his hands.
"What have I done?" he whispered in horror. He looked over the edge to where Michael had fallen, down towards the city below. He was he going to cover this up? How was he going to explain this to everyone, including father? No, it had to be done. Michael would have been an liability. Gabriel nodded his head. He had done the right thing. Michael was just like that traitor, Lucifer. He had to do it! As Gabriel was in deep thought, he didn't see that someone else was approaching towards him.
"Hey, Gabriel!" he heard them call out to him, making him jumped, startled. Gabriel quickly turned his head, panicking, to see another angel as they walked over to him.
"Ariel," Gabriel answered, trying to remain calm. The angel before him was a female with a rounded face, short brown hair, shady dark blue eyes, wearing dark purple eye shadow.
"Why so jumpy?" Ariel smirked. Gabriel narrowed his eyes, frowning at her.
"Why aren't you at your post?" he questioned.
"I decided to take a little break and wanted to see my two favorite brothers," Ariel replied. She looked around. "Where's Michael?" Gabriel grew tense, trying to think of something then he answered her.
"He attacked me!"
Ariel stared at Gabriel in shock and disbelief before laughing. "Gabriel, Michael couldn't even harm a fly even if he wanted to!"
"I'm serious!" Gabriel shouted. "He headbutted me and was about to attack me with his holy weapon!" Ariel looked at Gabriel, who looked like he had been in a fight. She was that a bruise was beginning to form on his forehead, with a little bit of swelling on his left eye. His face had a few scratches as well. His uniform had some rips and gun shot holes.
"I just find this hard to believe that Michael would do this," she murmured still unsure.
"Please, believe me sister. I wouldn't lie to you," Gabriel pleaded. "And there's more that you should know."
"What?" Ariel asked.
"I've learned some troubling news while I was out scouting," Gabriel explained. "Our former brother, Lucifer is creating an army. They are taking residence in a hotel down there. They are planning to over throw father again."
"What should we do?" Ariel asked, worried.
"Give me some time to recover and then we'll take care of this ourselves together with my army." Gabriel told her.
"Okay, I believe you," Ariel agreed as she nodded. "Just let me know when you are ready."
"I knew that I can rely on you, Ariel," Gabriel smiled.
Back down in the city, Charlie helped Vaggie up, while Alastor was tending to Angel and Husk with their injuries. As Alastor was finishing with Husk's wing, stopping the bleeding, he turned his attention to Angel, seeing the nasty wound on the spider demon. Alastor tried to heal it but he was almost as his limit as well. The wound was only finished halfway healed.
"It's fine, Smiles," Angel replied. "You've done enough. My body will do the rest on it's own."
"I'm just glad that it's over," Anna replied. "That was way too close. I ever thought that angels could be this strong."
"Well, you've never been through an extermination to see it happen," Charlie said. "This is why I want to save my people so they won't have to suffer anymore."
"Can we go back now? I've had enough excitement for one day," Baxter asked.
"Me too," Niffty agreed.
Suddenly, just as everyone was about to leave, Anna looked up to see something falling. It was a person. It was head straight towards them, fast.
"Uh, guys, I think that we should get out of the way," she called out.
"What?" Charlie asked.
"Move!" she shouted as she pushed everyone out of the way just as the person crashed, slamming into the ground, hard. Anna screamed it nearly hit her but Alastor pulled her out of the way just in time.
As everyone stood up to see what it was, they saw a large crater in the center of the street from where they were standing. Anna walked over to the edge of the crater and looked down to see that it was another angel. Everyone else walked over as well, seeing him.
"Oh great, another one." Vaggie groaned.
"Wait, he's hurt." Charlie said as she noticed that he was hurt, seeing a huge gaping wound on the angel chest. His left wing was torn and damaged as well. She jumped down and picked him up and jumped out of the crater and laid him down on the ground as everyone gathered around.
"We need to help him. Alastor can you heal him?" Anna asked.
"Are you insane?" Angel asked in disbelief.
"What?" Anna said.
"If we help him, then what's to stop him from waking up and attacking us?" Vaggie asked.
"I don't want to get my ass kicked again, one of them was bad enough." Angel added.
"It's probably a trick," Niffty added as well.
"Then why would this angel just fall out of the sky and land right in front of us, hurt, right after Gabriel left?" Anna questioned. "I doesn't make any sense." Everyone thought for a moment in silence as she continued. "Plus, maybe we could use him to help us with the hotel."
"That's actually, not a bad idea," Charlie agreed.
"Well, as long as he's tied up and confined, so he can't hurt anyone, and find out what his motives are, he can stay." Vaggie replied. "But, he's your responsibility." Anna nodded. She turned to Alastor.
"Heal him," Alastor groaned.
"Cher, I've almost used up all of my strength. I'm not sure that I'll able able to heal him completely."
"Just do what you can." Anna said, softly.
Alastor turned to the fallen hurt angel then knelt down and started to heal him. The gaping wound on the angel's chest slowly began to mend, closing up, until it was completely healed. However, his wing was unable to be healed as Alastor felt the last of his magic beginning to slip through his fingers. Anna quickly caught him as Alastor almost fell backwards from exhaustion.
"There, it's done," Alastor said, tiredly.
"You've done wonderfully," Anna smiled. "How about when we get back to the hotel, I'll fix up some jambalaya?"
"You've read my mind." Alastor agreed, feeling hungry. He could use some meat right about now.
"I'm starving!" Angel exclaimed.
"You can have some too Angel, as well as everyone else," Anna snickered. But, she stopped when she noticed that there was something strange happening to Alastor. Everyone one else noticed as well.
"Alastor, your hair!" Charlie exclaimed.
"What are you talking about?" Alastor asked, smiling confused. "And why are you all staring at me like that?"
Anna picked up a shard of glass, carefully, holding it up in front of Alastor. Alastor couldn't believe it himself as he stared back into his own reflection, like a deer in headlights. His hair was now brown, instead of blood red, but also tufts still sticking out like a deer's on the top of his head.
It was late in the middle of the night, everyone had gone to sleep, resting from the battle. Ever so often, they would take turns watching over their unexpected guest, who was now tied up and being confined in a locked room, waiting for the angel to wake up.
In Angel's room, Angel was lying in his bed while Fat Nuggets was sleeping at the end of it. He smiled as he rolled over on his side, expecting to feel warm fuzzy fur next to him. "Hmm," Angel groaned, sleepily. "Morning, Husky." But, he only felt strange leathery velvet skin.
He slowly opened his eyes only to be met with the color white. Angel immediately sat up with a shocked look on his face. He tried to pinch himself to check to see if he was still dreaming. Nope, he was wake. Sleeping, in front of the spider demon was an unfamiliar middle aged man with slicked black hair with a few grey streaks, while at the top of his head were two black cat ears. Angel nearly drooled at the sight of the man's well toned naked less furry body. He even had a black tail that was slowly swaying side to side as he slept. He had been redeemed.
"Husk?" Angel asked.
"What?" the former cat demon grumbled, sleepily.
"I don't want you to freak out but, your wing's grown back.-"
"And what else is new?" Husk asked.
"It's white and you're a lot less hairy than I remembered from last night-" Angel smirked, but still in shock, and continued. Husk immediately woke up as he sat up on the bed. "Your other wing's that same as well."
Husk folded his wings closer to him then stretched them out. Just like Angel had said, his wings were now pure white with feathers. Husk looked down to see his other wing lying on the floor. He looked back at Angel only to be met with different colored human-like eyes, one light blue and the other light pink.
"Kid, I'm not the only one changes," Husk murmured. "Have you looked in the mirror?"
Angel looked at him confused then stood up and walked over to the mirror across the his room. He saw that his other eye had changed as well, both now completely different colors.
"HOLY SHIT!"
"I know, it's unbelievable," Husk replied in shock. Angel looked back into the mirror, however, he noticed that something was off.
His wound hadn't healed.
It was still the same as it was before.
Fear began to build in Angel as he began to grow nervous and uneasy by the more he looked at it. He tried to stop himself from panicking, in front of Husk. It was fine. He was fine. It'll go away eventually.
It will...It'll just take a little more time that's all!
"Hey, what's wrong?" Husk asked, sensing that something was bothering him. Angel laughed, turning around to face him.
"Nothings wrong! I'm just so fucking happy right now!" he exclaimed, jumping onto the bed, landing right on top of Husk, body slamming into him, while waking Fat Nugget's up as well.
It'll heal up eventually, right?