Life Beside You

Part 12: Angel's Blood

"Ok.. ok Sapphire. You see, many generations ago.. Your father, Chad's, grandmother, Annie, married you great grandfather. However, Annie soon realised that the man she married was far from who she thought he was. He was Gabriel, an angel sent to earth to keep things at peace.

However, this arrangement was only temporary.. and... Gabriel left your great grandmother. He would visit from time to time, but because the angels weren't allowed to keep in touch with people of earth, God noticed their arrangement. He was deeply angered as now the people of earth would know what he had tried to keep secret and anonymous all these years. God banned Gabriel and his friends from visiting earth ever again. Annie had not lost all of Gabriel though. She had their child growing inside of her, Chad's mother. She was going to be half Angel, half human- except she came out fully angel.

This upset Annie but she loved Chad's mother with all her heart. Up until the day she died, in fact. Chad's mother was soon to marry Chad's father- a full-blood werewolf, and they had Chad who was fully human. They assumed the Angel bloodline had been lost.

But then you came. We all feared you'd be Angel- as we knew both twins were human, and the Angel gene had skipped one generation, come back the next. And here you are now. An angel, with the tiniest werewolf gene inside of you. You are not at all human. Not even one percent."

A angel huh? Interesting.. but no human? That was worrying. I could fly... to where we were now.

Where were we exactly anyway?

"Mum, where are we?" I repeated my thoughts.

"Sapphire, you took that quite well.. Ok. We are probably at the temple of the angels... and we're unwelcome too.." I looked at her line of sight, where some white- clothed people were approching us. They seemed to be gliding somehow across the ground. A few had golden wreaths around their hair- and their skin was clear. They all appeared to be in their twenties.

"What brings you here?" An angel asked, "Only angels have access to here. Tell us of your method of transport. We will have to punish the angel who betrayed our whereabouts.

Amethyst and Topaz were hardly shocked at all, clearly, and they looked at the angel who spoke with narrowed eyes.

"Ruby, we'll have none of that. We have discovered a new recruit. Her name is Sapphire." Amethyst gestured to me. 

"How do you know I'm an angel? Who are you?" I asked Amethyst and Topaz, "Why do you all have the names of gems?" 

"We'd better go to the leading tables.. teleport all humans off the base." The angel named Ruby shouted.

Some angels came out of nowhere with small black devices in their hands, and my backup team and mum dissappeared.

The angels, including Amethyst and Topaz, led me away from the spot, and shocked me just followed them like a lost puppy. We came to a white temple. Two angels guarded it, with little golden rings with wings on their feet. I'd heard about this types of angel.. messengers, I believed, from reading the books 'Halo' and 'Flight of the Fire Theif'. I was a bookworm, so I did remember some information from the book.

They were pretty accurate actually, and this led me to think about whether the authors had a clue about the existance of angels. Had there been sightings? What other supernatural creatures were out there, if there were werewolves, vampires, angels? Were there the bad version of Angels out there? Were there devils?

I followed the angels into the temple. We all stopped at one golden door. 

"We cannot go any further. Wreaths, escort Sapphire into the room." The angels I had seen with golden wreaths around their heads took my arms and led me past the golden door.

This room really was something.

The floor was completely coud, chandeliers hung from the ceilings, and floor to ceiling pillars lined the edges of the room. Marble steps led to a round table, where angels sat, staring intently.

"Sapphire. Do you recognise your great-grandfather among us?" One angel sitting at the table asked politely.

I felt a pull towards one of the angels. He was too young to be my grandfather, though, so I said:

'I do feel a pull, but he can't be my great grandfather Gabriel because he's too young." I answered truthfully.

"Oh dear, dear! How is she meant to be an angel?" One of the angels said, pointing and laughing at me.

To my horror, the guy I felt a pull towards got up, pointed a finger at the angel who had spoken and said:

"I declare you a posession of evil. No right-minded angel insults another of her kind. Indicolite Verdi, you are sentenced to hell." 

A trap door opened beneath 'Indicolite's' feet and she fell down, screaming and shouting. Silence fell upon the court.

"Anyone else want to insult my great granddaughter?" The guy said, getting up and walking to me, putting an arm around my shoulders protectively.

"No, sir.." All the angels muttered. I turned to Gabriel and smiled at him:

"Hello Gabriel!" 

His powerful gaze softened as he looked at me and said, "Welcome back, young child."

He looked away, muttering a soft: "Welcome back."