“I’ve never
seen something like that before” Grigori said. He spun around on his heel and
pierced me with his deep brown eyes, “how did you do that?”
I looked from
him to Ariel to Zadkiel and waited for one of them to make a move, but all
three stood their ground. Ariel looked more frantic than before. Her hair had
puffed up around her head, slipping out of the braid and resembling a frayed
mop rather than a rope, which gave her an altogether mad scientist appearance.
“I asked you
how you did that demon” Grigori
growled at me.
“I did it
because I could. There’s a lot more that I can do that I bet you’ve never seen
before” I replied, my voice cold as ice. I was still holding onto the mass of
darkness around Izzy and Travis and it was taking its toll. Anything I said
from now on would have to be a perfect bluff because that force field was
draining the last remains of my power.
“You said you
wanted to talk” Sebastian interrupted mine and Grigori’s standoff, “so talk.”
His clipped tone had finally seeped through and I could tell that losing all
three of his friends in the space of one minute had really pissed him off and
ground him down. We both knew that we could die, but if I knew Bas well enough,
he’d rather die angry and fighting than desperate and fighting.
“What are you
doing?” Ariel asked after a long stretch of silence that involved all five of
us exchanging mixed glances.
“Yes, what is
it that you are doing exactly?” Zadkiel chimed in. He had continued to smile
despite the fact that the situation had escalated to preposterously tense
proportions. Maybe that was his way of easing his stress? Or maybe he was just
manic.
“That” Grigori
pointed at the expanse of cleared land that stretched out to our left.
“What the fuck
does it look…”
“We’re cleansing the earth” Sebastian
interrupted me. His eyes locked onto mine for a split second and they flashed
with a warning. I ground my teeth in frustration. We were in an impossible
situation and all he wanted from me was to keep my mouth shut? He had another
thing coming.
“Why?” Ariel
asked.
“It’s what we
were made to do” Bas said slowly. The confusion that was emanating off the trio
was palpable, even Zadkiel’s smile faltered.
“We know what
you were made to do, to ravage humanity and feed on their blood” Zadkiel said
after a moment’s pause.
“Blood? You
think that we’re what? Some kind of vampires?”
“You could be.
How do we know?” Grigori chimed in.
“As Earth
Warriors we were created to cleanse the earth’s surface of all harmful properties.
To bring it back to a state of purity” Sebastian said quickly before I could
pick another argument with a ten year old.
Both Zadkiel
and Ariel exchanged glances that made a shiver run down my spine. They didn’t
believe us. They actually thought we were crazy.
“So let me get
this straight. You think you three are angels, sent from heaven?” I said
cautiously. You never knew how real crazy people would react.
Ariels brow creased and Grigori sucked in a
large breath of air in preparation for what looked like an outburst. Before he
could erupt though Zadkiel placed a hand on the boys head and a shower of
sparks rained down over him. One moment he looked like an overripe beetroot and
then he was simply calm. He blinked a few times and wiped a hand over his eyes
as if rubbing away the last remnants of sleep.
“We serve God”
said Zadkiel with an air of iron certainty, “It doesn’t matter who you are or
what you are doing because you are not one of God’s creatures. We’ve witnessed
your kind before, murdering and vandalising cities. The only reason we agreed
to speak to the both of you is because we have not witnessed this before” he
swept his hands around him. I shot a look at Bas. How many cities had they been
to where Earth Warriors had gone rogue and abused their powers? Were we truly
the only ones who understood our destinies?
“You’re lying”
I said. I wanted to sound indignant, but my voice quivered. Throughout all of
the time that I had spent analysing our situation, thinking of theories to
explain what was going on, I always thought that there was someone out there
who had come to the same conclusions as I had. To think that I was the only
one, that Bas and I were the only ones to realise what our destinies were was
something that I couldn’t get my head around.
“We’ve met one
other Earth Warrior who was as twisted as you describe, but that was just one!
We were given the power to cleanse, to destroy…” I faltered again and I knew
that they could see it. We had been given the power to destroy and kill and
that was something that I couldn’t deny. The Mother’s plan for the rest of
humanity had always been death. It was only recently that we had come to
embrace a new reality, one that didn’t involve genocide.
“You are
demonic monstrosities. You were given the power to kill and we were given the
power of the Lord so that we could stop you, and we will” Zadkiel said
vehemently, “we will stop you.”
“If you know as
much as you say you do, then you know that you cannot fight us without
destroying yourselves” Sebastian said.
“We cancel each
other out” I added just in case they didn’t quite grasp the situation.
“We are not
afraid to die” Ariel spat at us, “In the name of the Lord we will smite you!”
With those last clichéd words she lunged at Sebastian.
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