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The forbidden mission

I was awakened by a crashing sound, someone had turned the so even with my eye. My sight went red then orange then a soft yellow. I slowly opened my eyes, to find that my brothers were standing in front of the bed. I quickly pulled the blanket up to cover myself it was not the first time they'd seen me naked. However, I didn't want to know about my latest failure, but I could see it in their eyes. That they had seen me covered in bite marks, Brodie covered his mouth. While the others just looked pissed off.
"What has he done to you?" Kelvin grumbled.
Before I could answer, the door opened, and Desmin was standing. He was in shock, he sprinted a crossed room to me. He softly grabbed my wrist and said,
"Who did this to you?"
"You did, or your vampire part did this to me he only stopped because I said there wouldn't have any more of my blood ever again if he took it all then," I said.
My voice was weak, but I didn't doubt that everyone heard it. I don't know what happens next, but somehow I ended up in Samuel's arms. With both Brodie and Kelvin in front of us; blocking Desmin from me.
"What???"
That was all Desmin could say, he didn't seem to believe what I had just said.
"She will be coming home with us, and you will not follow us or see her until we deem fit" Brodie calmly said
He just nodded, great just what I need my boss following the orders of these bozos. I tried to move so I could see Desmin who was looking at the ground. Just Samuel was beginning to take me away Desmin seems to reconsider, his eyes went black, and he blocked Samuel from leaving. Then without a word he had Kelvin in a headlock with one arm while the other hand was on Brodie's head preventing him from attacking.
"If you don't let Rita go and leave I will drain both these two here, then rip out your eyes so you can watch as I drain the life from you. And I know that there is nothing Rita can do to stop me right now so you will lose."
The way he was talking reminded me of the other Desmin the one that bit me repeatedly. I had no choice but to let him I started my body heat up, and the next thing I know is that I'm floating again. I managed to be able to move this time, and I floated over to Desmin and slapped him.
He was shocked that I would say do like that, and he let go of the boys who ran behind me. I felt my eyes narrow and said.
"I don't know what you planning to do, but I do know one thing if you ever threaten these boys again I will become your worst nightmare."
With that, I had enough, so I punched him for trying to drain my blood and threatening the same to my brothers and floated out of the room and the house. I followed by the boys, and we left Desmin standing there with his mouth left open.
We ended up, back up at my apartment where the boys stood guard while Brodie cooked food then he laid down next to on the bed he stroked my hair and said.
"I'm so sorry, that Desmin did that to you and that we weren't around to protect you."
I just rolled my eye and said.
"If not, your job or anyone's job to protect me. It's my reason to keep myself alive not yours, Samuel, Kelvin, or Desmin."
When Brodie had come be brought in a ham and cheese grilled sandwich. I knew I was stuffing in my mouth, as he shook his head.
"Anyway, I did some research on that Gatekeeper thingy. As it turns out that Deena was, suppose to be a gatekeeper of one of the gates of hell it was believed she was at gate number 1. Both Debra and Brain are from this gate. They escaped when Brain made with Deena that she would give up the power to protect the gate for the safety of Desmin who was relentlessly perused by the Demon who had fallen in love with him. The things are that he didn't return the feeling to that demon and it became jealous and started to torment him and Deena. "
Well, I guess I made some scent,
"But Why am I the next gatekeeper?" I asked
"I believe it has something, to do with the fact that Desmin chooses you."
"Desmin?"
What does this mean?
I don't like it, this all happens because Desmin had chosen me to be his partner. I guess I still tried because I could barely keep my eyes open anymore.
It has been a week since I was attacked by Desmin. I think the boys had stopped Desmin from coming to see me, or that he was so ashamed of what had done, so he hasn't come. He does send flowers every day, but the boys chuck them they think before I can see them I do always manage to see them.
They first insisted that I stay on bed rest for at least a week, but I hate it sitting in bed doing nothing. Every time, I was out of bed one of the boys would lift me and carry me to bed and stay with me for an hour or two to make I wouldn't leave my bed again. When they were sure, I wasn't leaving they stroked my hair and told me to go to sleep.
Boy, I hate it, I finally convince them to let me have some paperwork. As I was going through them, I realized that Madam Red hadn't been seen in public for a while. Therefore, I had arranged, to donate some money to Saint Paul hospital for children. After many phone calls and emails had been sent around, I had organized the whole thing, for two days after I had started it. It felt good to do something productive instead of sitting on my but doing nothing. I know it means going through the fan fair of being Madam Red, having everyone be nice to me, or trying to sell me something but it's better than nothing.
Since Desmin had made sure I couldn't go on a mission without him or his permission. I might as well take a break from it. I don't think it is what I need right now with finding that: my family is coming back from the orb, the thing that happens at the party, having Brain obsessed with me, Debra still wanting my body for her plans, she also wants to make me watch the horrors she had a plan. Besides, being told that I have been selected to be a gatekeeper of hell it, seems that I have one hell of a life installed for me.
I better do start research on what that means a gatekeeper of hell doesn't seem like a job I want. However, I'm getting the feeling that just something I can't say no to. I sighed and opened my trusty blue laptop. Opened up Google Chrome and typed "hell gatekeeper."
At first, I didn't, anything that seemed useful just about games and geek mythology for some reason that didn't feel like what I was looking for. Therefore, I looked at the related searches and found that there are seven princes of hell. This sounded interesting and kind of feels the right way to go. What I found out was that there as it said there was seven Demon Prince which conscience with the seven deadly sin one for Demon:
Lucifer=pride
Mammon= greed
Asmodeus= lust
Leviathan= envy
Beelzebub= gluttony
Satan= wrath
Belphegor= sloth
They seemed to own their gate or section as you would put it. That was all I got before all three of my brothers came rushing in. Samuel slammed my laptop screen; I hope he didn't break it.
"What the hell man?" I yelled.
"You organized a Madam Red outing without consulting us," Kelvin said
oh that, why would they be mad about that?
It just means that I feel ready to get out.
"You just nearly had all your blood sucked out of you," Brody said.
As he stroked my face, I shook my head Brody put his hand down.
"So it has been a week since that and I need to get out of this flat and my bed," I said
It was more like yelling at them, so they were kind of backing away slightly. I took a couple of deep breaths; I need to cram myself down. I like felt something was changing inside of me, but other than that felt fine. Now this was, peculiar I have felt this before, but it was when I was trying to move my blood around or do anything supernatural. Of late, it seems to me like something was stopping me for use it or preventing it.
A few days later, we were standing in front of Saint Paul's Hospital for children. I standing on the stairs in my Madam Red outfit in my hands one of the big novelty checks saying that I'm giving the hospital 1 million dollars. There is no real reason that it was 1 million, it is just what I wrote on the check. That I had given beforehand, this whole public thing is just for show good PR I guess, and that is what the Red industry needs. After what my family had done to Red Industry needs all the good RP it can get. I sighed smiled, and waved as a bunch of photos was taken. About two hours after it had started it had finished.
As I sat down in the limo, I started to feel dizzy. I fell in the car, just before my head smashed on the floor of the car. My head was caught; I didn't see who it was.
I opened my eyes, this time I didn't wake up at that rock place where I kept running into Brain and Deena. It was a soft place and all white, I felt safe here like there was nothing here that could hurt me here. Then all of sudden, I had a spike of fear go through me then it became unbearable I couldn't shake it off, but I didn't even know why it had started. I saw a shadow approaching me, I felt myself curl up in a ball was I scared of what approach me.
It seemed to take forever, to move from the point to where it was to where I was. I didn't like the feeling figure had put in me. I don't know how I knew this, but the feeling hadn't been generated in me. It came for him, was he trying to make me scared of him. I stood up and completed the distance between us.
It turned out to be a male soldier; I could see that his face was scary. His uniform was a toga completely white well except for the golden vine, around his waist with a golden hoop on the side. It reminds me of what I was wearing after that indecent at the party where the light entered my body and was floating.
I have the feeling that I should be bowing, but I refused to bend to what he wanted. I am not a puppet for him or anyone. I am in control of my life, no one else is. It was strange that I would think of something like that.
We both stood there staring at each other not saying anything just standing there. The person narrowed his eyes
"What going on here?" I yelled.
Now, why I was yelling at him?
I don't even know who was standing in front of me. Was it because of his stare or that narrowed his eyes with judgment? He didn't like what he saw; in return, I wasn't entirely happy with what saw in front of me. He opened his mouth, rubbed his chin, and said
"Well, this will make things interesting."
It seemed like, to be talking to himself than to me. I don't like this, this time I decided to ask a bit nicer than I did before.
"I'm sorry about my behavior before, but I would like to know, where I am? Or what going here? I would also appreciate it if you could start with your name so I know what to call you while we speak."
I had also placed my hand out to shake his, this is what Brody had said was the thing to do. When you meet someone, I think.
"Ahh well, I guess we can start with introductions. My name is Gabriele and where you are? This is heaven. As for what going on here is something that we don't even know was something that wasn't planned?" he said
he had also taken my hand to shake it while I looked around. So, this is what they call heaven then white, not what I expected then again I didn't get here so I don't know what I was expecting.
"What do you mean wasn't planned?" I said
"Well I don't know how to start," he said.
As he did, he scratched his head and looked a little confused.
"Well, I guess to say that you had great things that were planned for your but a mistake happened and no one knows what going to happen with you. You have done things that were never expected of you like kicked out Debra, which is no easy feat. It is impressive, then you have changed a company that was created to destroy thing to a company that not only help but also saves other people's lives that again is no easy task."
I interrupted him by saying
"That wasn't me, I didn't do anything. I didn't kick Debra out she was ripped out of me by the vortex, and with that whole company, the thing was because of Kelvin. I gave the company over to him and let him do what he wants I just sign the paperwork and go where I'm told to go."
"You and I both know that is not true, the vortex helps you get rid of, but you gave her the push she was there for the vortex to take her. You read every single contract before you sign them to make sure you don't get screwed over."
"Well might be true but that's what anyone would do given the situations that I was in."
"I don't believe given the situation that you found in most people would curl up and go into a deep depression."
"Anyway isn't all this besides the point of my questions why am I here? And what going on? And where am I?"
"Well, that does explain why you're here because you were already supposed to be here. As for what going on originally, you were going to be one of the gatekeepers of heaven but the people that were that claimed to be your parents made sure that wouldn't happen when they put Debra inside of you."
I frowned at the bit claimed to be your parent, are they or aren't they?
He chooses to ignore the face I made and continued answering my questions,
"As for where you are this is the gate you were supposed to guard, but now that the job has been given to someone give else because we now need the strongest to go down to hell. You had proved yourself worthy of a gate when you fought to remain human when Debra was in your body trying to take control of you. I'm I know this a lot to ask, but we need your help you already accepted the light we sent to find you. This will make your life harder, but you will have the help you."
Then I saw, Desmin, Brody, Kelvin, Samuel and 1 other person that I didn't know I believe that I had also seen Deena. They all seemed to rise from the ground as if it was made of nothing then air. As soon as Desmin saw me, he ran towards me, but my brother stopped him. I shake my head, even in my dream those four still don't along.
It kind of brought a smile to my face, this was a lot to take in I pinched the bridge of my nose and rubbed my eyes. I took a deep breath and said
"let's get this straight, originally was to be a gatekeeper of heaven but because of what happened I'm now a gatekeeper of hell, and that is an improvement."
I could feel that I was getting mad. It was the kind of anger I used to have when Debra was in me. This isn't right; I thought that I wouldn't have this feeling again. I bit my lip, to stop myself from doing something stupid. That action itself was probably stupid, I thought as I could feel the blood dripping down my chin. I wiped it away with what I thought was going to be my shelves of the red overcoat but it turned out to be just my wrist. I looked down and saw that I was wearing the same thing as Gabriel. Oh, hell I thought as Gabriel said,
"It is not an improvement, but it should give you a good place in your afterlife. I know that is not something, that you care about, but we are in dissipate need of your help. We have tried to hold off on using you, but the thing has become dire."
"What do you mean dire?"
"Well, ever since Deena made a deal with Brain, the other demon has started to think of ways to trick the other gatekeepers into leaving the post or duties then the demon would escape. That when they would wreak havoc."
"Well, that does sound bad but what does have to do with me?"
"We think it time to employ your services, you can either hunt the demon that has escaped Hell's gates, or you can stand guard at one of the six gates."
"Six gates??? But there are seven demon princes" I said
"you don't know much but that is true there are seven dark loads, but only six gates since the Prince of Gluttony and Greed are pretty the much same thing, so they get one gate. However, for those six games, there are six levels inside that are for the crime that has been committed. Then in those, there are six districts they are the severity of the punishment for that crime that was committed."
so 666 was real then; six gates, six levels, and six districts that what it stands for.
"So, you want me to either hunt down the demon then return them to the Hell Gate they belong to or stand guard at one of those gates."
I stopped to take a breath and to think about what I was going to say next,
"Well I don't like standing still for too long, let's just if I do that I might get killed. So I guess guarding is out, but I do like hunting things so I guess I could give that go" I said
Gabriel was smiling as if I said something that made his day, I looked around at my friends and family. I saw that my brothers were still trying to stop Desmin from getting to me.
"How would I know what to find a demon or what gate to take them to or what level or district they belong to"
"I will take you on your first mission, and show how it was done."
He clicked his fingers and everyone else that was there disappeared. Leaving just him and I standing there looking at each other.
"When?" I said.
With that, he was grinning as if this was the question he was waiting for.
"Now, if you like."
With that I was smiling, the thought of going on the hunt excited me just what I need after all the bed rest that I was forced to have to take. It is also not like my Bossman is going to let go of any missions without passing that stupid test that he had put up.
"Well first off, let's get inside your heaven so we can get you geared up," he said as he turned.
He started to walk back the way he had come I had to leap to catch up to him. Besides, said,
"Geared up what's wrong with the gear I have?" I asked
"Well the weapons you are made to fight lesser demons the Demon that you will be fighting will eventfully you will be fighting the seven princes of hell they were the first to escape but are the hardest to return to help."
I had stopped walking; hell, I had even stopped breathing. I'll be fighting the seven princes of hell, how am I supposed to fight the seven princes of hell when I can't even keep Desmin from drinking my blood?
I looked at him, to see if he was joking. It saw clearly that he wasn't, when he turned to face me he said
"Don't worry, you will be trained. I will be training you because this is very important to us. You will also need a team of about seven a person, one each for sin to help for your battle with the princes you will lean on them when it comes time to fight the princes."
I tilted my head to the side, seven people, great I have to meet new people. I'm not a social butterfly this is going to be interesting.
"Don't worry, you have already met five now six of them."
I frowned at six of them already, I guess my brothers and Desmin there four but who were the fifth and sixth person.
"It's the people that were here, before."
"Deena, how is Deena one of the people I need?"
"We will discuss that late, right now we have other things to deal with" he finished
I looked around to see where we had ended up, I saw this tall gate made internally out of pearl and gold, there was a guy with the same outfit we Gabrielle, and I were. He was standing behind the big wooden stand podium with leave etch into the side of the legs of their white tough but soft marital that joined the legs together. On top of the podium, was this one gigantic book with a dark red ribbon as a bookmark with glamorous white with a hint of yellow in it white on the blank spaces on the page that were opened.
As we walked past the gate, Gabrielle put his hand on my shoulder and nodded as we passed the gatekeeper.
"Gabrielle," he said as he nodded
"Alexander" Gabrielle returned
He pushed me to the gate and put his hand on the gate it slowly opened with the sound of the choir. Of course, there is a sound of a choir when the gate opens this is heaven after all.
Gabrielle just kept on pushing me,
"Hey you don't have to keep pushing me," I said
"well, I'm sorry we don't have time for you to go sightseeing we have a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it in."
I sigh and let him push me to a black door, which had forbidden entry signs all over it. The door and we entered it, at first it was all dark black so I couldn't see anything. I heard what I think was a click, then the light flickered on but it isn't the type of light to blind you when it first came on.
I smiled as all these weapons came to view, blades, swords, and shields. I couldn't help myself, I said
"What is a Roman gladiator now?"
I meant it was a joke, but I could see it in his eyes that Gabrielle didn't take it as a joke. He just moves on and said
"We have any weapon you might want or need right now this room is set to my preference because you haven't registered or entered the room before."
Now I can see why my little remark hurt him before I bowed my head ashamed of what I had before. Now let me think what my favorite weapon defiantly my daggers. I never leave anywhere without them, I don't remember where I got them. It's kind of like I always had them. Anyway, how I opened my eyes, and they were there in my hand. I could feel a smile come on my face, it always seems to come on my face when I am close to these. I looked at him and said,
"These are the only weapons I fight with I'm sorry, but I will not fight with another but these."
I showed them to him, he just smiled and said
"I understand that a warrior attachment toward their weapons, I guess we can make them holy, but that means your going to part with them for at least three days."
Three days without my blade is not a good idea especially now with Desmin training me. I frowned; I don't like the idea of being without them.
"It's okay, I won't take them away straight away because today we are hunting a lesser demon."
A lesser demon, I can't even take a vampire down without my brothers.
"I will help you, tonight to show you how to classify a demon."
okay then, I nodded. He tapped his foot three times a hole appeared under me Gabrielle grabbed my hands and pulled me to him. He opens his wings, we softly floated down to earth.
We had landed; in front of a bar, called Blue coconut. While we stood in the line, I realized that I was no longer wearing the toga. I was now in a strapless keen-high dress red dress, with fishnet stocking and dark red stiletto I could defiantly do some damage with these. I looked over at Gabrielle and saw that he was dressed in dress pants and a green silk top.
"You know, I looked like a hooker, and you're my pimp," I said
He laughed and said
"I guess your right, but we have to blend in beside we have to get the demon's attention somehow."
"I'm not a hooker," I said a bit louder.
"I'm assuming, you have done some undercover mission before?" he asked
I nodded
"Well just think of this like that you're on an undercover mission, besides you look good as a hooker."
I'm not sure, how I should take that should I be offended that he just called me a hooker or as a compliment that I'm good at being undercover. I decide to pretend that hadn't heard that, as was got closer I asked him who we were looking for. All he told me was that the demon likes to kill hookers not before he hurts them hideously. That made me worry this demon enjoys playing with hookers then hurting them, and then finally killing them, right now, I'm looking like one right now. I couldn't feel my blades close by.
Gabrielle seems to notice what I was thinking, he smiled and gave me a red clutch I quickly opened it. I saw my blades, I was smiling by the time we reached the bouncer at the door.
"Name?" he said
"Clair Virk, and Nathan Arden," I said