Poppy Playtime ~ An Angel's Bleeding Heart

Chapter 14 : The Miracle of Science

His Angel still said nothing as he is still carrying him up and out of the elevator they just escaped from.  Dogday, though still in nauseating pain, was oddly comforted by his savior's presence.  And why wouldn't he, Poppy's Angel could have just left him there, let the tiny critters feast on his insides and use his husk as a puppet.  It is what Catnap wanted, it was how it was designed, the whole ordeal was a trap from the start, and he should've known better.

He thought when that monster left the cell door open it was just a way to cruelly mock him for his state of being, a chance at freedom just hanging right in front of him but he himself was just too weak to even pull the leather straps off himself.

But the moment when Poppy's Angel showed himself, he almost knew that Catnap was lurking nearby.  There was just no way that that thing would let someone like him slip by, into his own lair, his torture chamber.

He thought he will die there.

But yet, here he is, carried in an Angel's arms.

It was almost surreal, how he ripped his bindings down, carried him through the maze, and finally being confronted by Catnap himself.  And then, when everything seemed lost, that...thing appeared.  He thought he was seeing things, but the way Catnap and the lesser critters looked at it, he knew he wasn't hallucinating.  It was just so jarring seeing how Catnap reacted to it, he was just as shocked and awestruck as he was.

And nothing compared to when the Angel roared at his tormentor, and sent him across dozens of feet in a single hit.

Now Dogday knew that humans aren't that strong, especially compared to the bigger bodies, so where on Earth did he get such strength?  It was then that he remembered the second before the punch, the winged thing gripped him on the shoulder.  As if, it was supporting him.  Is that how Poppy's Angel gained such absurd strength?  That being just came in, helped, and then left once the deed is done.  Was that just a spontaneous occurrence, or maybe, maybe was that thing there the whole time?

Well for whatever reason, he is free!  And he has whatever god there is to thank for it.

Soon enough they had both reached the end of the tunnel leading out of the Playhouse.  And for once, Dogday lovingly embraced the fake sunlight of the Playcare's "outdoors".  His Angel then carried him towards the center statue, its figure bringing haunting memories of the old days.

The Angel then gently let him down, with his back against the stone wall, and then took a seat beside him.

After a moment of silence, Dogday then finally speaks.  "Angel.  I...I don't know how you did it, but from the bottom of my heart, thank you.  I have no idea how long I was down there, but you..."

Dogday then noticed that Gabe wasn't looking at him, not even listening.  He is still in that same dazed trance since he knocked Catnap out.  The Angel just looked straight ahead, his eyes tired and batted breaths riddled with exhaustion.  Gabe then looked down at his hands, blood still coating them, but now have darkened and dried till some are falling of in thin flakes.

He was shaking, trembling.

"Angel?"

Gabriel was then snapped out of his stupor once Dogday's voice overpowered the noise within his head.  He then looked back up to the giant plush, though his expression is plastered as a smile he can tell Dogday is concerned about him.

"What is wrong?"  He said.

Gabe didn't respond right away, he was still gathering his thoughts and bearings as he gazed at the bigger body Dogday sitting near him.  "I'm fine."  He finally said.  "I'm fine."