Awakened

Ch 19

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Afriel stared at me in shock and disbelief, "No..." She murmured. "I nodded my head, "Trust me," "I do..." Afriel whispered. "Yet we need proof.." She looked in my warm brown eyes and I sighed. "A feather can reveal a thousand words," Afriel's ocean blue eyes widened as the curves of her mouth turned upwards. "OF COURSE! Every Angel feather holds a certain memory! If you pick the right feather, it will show what you saw which will provide evidence to send him to Hell!" Afriel jumped up and down as she pieced everything together. "Luckily I know which feather! Unfortunately, feathers are so painful to pull off.." I gulp. *

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I looked at Georgia. "Okay, we find him, put a stop to this, and then hopefully everything will be fine?" I asked more to myself than Georgia. She nodded. "Lets go" I spread my wings and so did Georgia flying up high into the sky, banked hard to the left towards the castle. We stepped down at the castle doors and opened it. As I did guards surrounded us pointing their swords at us both. I gasped and Gabriel snickered. Georgia looked down sadly and her eyes showed that she gave up, we would never prove what Gabriel did. Gabriel looked at me. "Take them both to the cellars" He said. As one of the guards came to jab me with its pointed sword a yellowish bubble formed around me lifting me up in the air creating a shield. I summoned my crown on my head and I lowered back to the ground, shield still around me. "You shall listen to your queen" I Turned to Georgia "And your princess" I said. Realising their mistakes. The guards lowered their weapons and bowed.

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I slowly closed my eyes as Afriel tried to defend me. What was the point. Everything was silent as we stood there awkwardly. I finally gathered the courage to look up. my fists clenched as my brown eyes stared ablaze into Gabriel's. His eyes widened in fear. My crown spat flames at him ferociously and my eyes reflected the stunning blue fire. My hand shook in determination as i reached for my wing. My fingers glided through my silk feathers until a rough one came in contact with me. Rough feathers meant dark memories. I closed my eyes and yanked the feather off my wing. I screamed in pain and my knees gave out as Afriel grabbed me, bringing me back up. The feather swayed in the breeze and I held it towards the sun that was slowly moving behind the clouds. "NO!" Gabriel yelled. But it was too late. The sun kissed the feather and it blew up into a thousand golden sparks. These sparks surrounded me, Afriel, Gabriel and a few guards. Gabriel was at crying point right now and I smirked. We were engulfed in a memory. A memory which I pushed back. This memory could ruin Gabriel's life. And because we had guards as witness, they would send him into... Gosh knows where.

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I looked up and saw with my own eyes along with the guards the memory Gabriel tried so deeply to hide. As a few seconds passed, darkness surrounded us and I gasped along with the rest of us in the room. The dark light slowly faded in we were in the corridors of the kingdom, light spilling into the hall from the open window, blinds pulled back. We heard a girl giggling and I along the rest turned our heads and saw little Georgia running along the halls, obviously happy. She ran past us not sensing us there and we followed her. Little Georgia abruptly stopped in the hall with a before a door slightly ajar, voices inside. We looked closely to see who it was and we gasped. Little Georgia peeked her head through listening and looking on what was going on. Gabriel was standing there opening a dark portal. I held my breath while my heart got caught in my throat. Azarel, Lucifer's greatest demon as A collector appeared through with other demons behind him. Azarel spoke. "Remember, keep your promise, don't tell anyone we were here". Gabriel nodded. Then the demons transformed into our palace guards like nothing. To the side of me, little Georgia gasped. Gabriel and Azarel turned and saw her. Georgia ran. But was too slow. Gabriel grabbed her and swiped his hand along her forehead removing her memories. He then opened another portal to earth and chucked Georgia through making her land on someone's doorstep. I cried out to her and the guards behind me stood there dumbfounded. Gabriel turned to Azarel. "She will never remember, and I will keep it that way"

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Tears spilled down my cheeks as i rewatched my greatest fear in action. The nightmare that I always had, from 3 to now... The memory faded away and in a split second, two guards gripped Gabriels shoulder. "We will report him and the court will deal with him. I stored that memory in an empty feather so the court can see it as proof. You two hurry along now." The first guard explained with a firm tone. Afriel straightened up, "I call to disagree! As your Queen I have a right to-" Afriel spoke on but I zoned out. They better do something awful with him. My eyes drifted around the room. Afriel argued on with the first guard and he stood there, frozen in shock. The second guard stared dreamily at Afriel. I snorted and eyed him, "Please don't even try..." He turned bright red and cleared his throat. Afriel stopped talking and looked around puzzled. "FINE! let's go Georgia!" She rolled her eyes and we grinned at each other. We ran outta the room, giggling. "Wanna play hide and seek!" I chimed. "You sound like a baby again! Well why not!" She poked her tongue out and I giggled. "I'm hiding!"

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I giggled with her. "Okay i'm counting!" I squealed and turned around to face the wall counting to ten. "1,2,3...10! COming ready or not!" I shouted, so Georgia could hopefully here. I walked along the corridor sensing Georgia's presences nearby from my crown. Georgia is definitely around this corner. I turned I stopped dead in my tracks, stunned, eyes growing wide. Gabriel was holding a knife againsts Georgia's throat. Guards dead behind them all. He killed them all. The sudden overwhelming feeling that my sister and best friend was going to die hit me like a boulder. As I was about to summon my power Gabriel spoke. "Only you can stop my punishment, your Majesty" He said while adding a snicker when saying majesty. "If you don't stop this, Georgia will die, it's really up to you"