Ramshackle's Angel

48

Not long after she announced that and went to hell, Lorelai soon came back, pushing a wooden box in front of her.

"Let me out!" A voice demanded as whoever was inside started banging on the box, nearly tipping it over.

"Uh, sis?" Xander asked, his body tensed.

"This is going to be a little sad" she warned before she clicked the latch and ripped open the box.

Ditch got out the box as fast as he could, but Lorelai immediately materialized his spirit chain and pulled him back before he could get far.

"I will have so many demons on your ass!" He snarled threateningly but kept getting pulled back by the cambion angel.

"Hey! Behave!" Lorelai ordered him, making a small red and pink flame appear in her free hand as she aimed it at him.

Ditch stop his struggles and went to silently glare at Xander.

"What is he, a heartless?"

"Yeah."

"And your trying to train him?"

"I'm trying to" Lorelai replied with a roll of her eyes, slightly angry that she wasn't having much luck in the training department.

"I don't believe it. Spent most of my life avoiding this asshole and your carrying him around like he's a chihuahua in a purse" Vinnie said as Ditch tried break the chain with his teeth with no avail.

But when he heard what she said, he stopped and slowly turned around to face her.

"Do you want to throwdown, lovely?" He growled, holding his arms out in a "come at me bro" motion.

Lorelai sighed before she made the chain disappear from his neck.

"Look, I'm sorry about everything. You know, but if you don't do anything bad, I won't hurt you again" she promised as Ditch slowly looked at her.

"Okay? I'm not going to hurt you again. Just tell me what these symbols mean, please?" She asked him, tapping one of the symbols on the wall with a innocent and breathtaking smile.

Ditch looked at her for a moment before he sighed.

"Alright" he agreed and stepped closer to the wall, taking in the sight of the black, bold symbols.

"Uh. Oh, I know that. That's the language of the elders. Oldest demon language out there" he said.

"Can you read it?" Stone asked.

"Yeah it says-"

The root of evil shall rise again.

"It's talking about Roo" Xander said.

"Who's Roo?" Skipp asked him, a little scared to find out.

"Okay, you know the story of Adam and Eve? After Eve died, she went to hell and became Roo because she introduced sin to the world. She became the root of all evil" Lorelai explained.

From hearing this, something clicked inside Stone's brain.

"Oh no" Stone said, realizing something.

"What is it?" Lorelai asked after she thanked Ditch and sent him back to hell.

"Last night, I saw Victoria and she said "I shall rise again" and now this? That can't be a coincidence" he told her.

"Your point?" Vinnie asked.

"What if Victoria is Roo?" He asked, making Lorelai and Xander freeze.