International Legends

Chapter 47 - Jasper

My hands feel smooth, and I feel my fingers along the knuckles several different times. I touch my face, patting it, to feel real cheekbones. Is that, is that a nose?

It's a real nose. I have been blessed with real skin cartilage along the bridge of my nose, connecting my eyes to my forehead. Eyes. I know I shouldn't touch them, but I cannot help myself. Yeah, it kind of hurts, but those are my eyes.

Wow. It's as if I hadn't felt my legs in such a long time. I guess that's kind of what you get when you're a Death Angel - constantly feeling like you are a skeleton dissolves you of any real responsibility to stretch your legs out. I do so now. Damn. I stretch out both legs, feeling real calve muscles.

Freaking unbelievable!

Then the memory of Mom leaving me comes back, suddenly sending me into what feels like a crying spin. My mother is no longer with me. My father died defending my mother too. There will be no more love that is greater than that of my parents - except Arkethia and Kathair. Somehow, that love surprised me too. How cruel it must have been to be separated from each other for a seeming eternity. Lucky for my parents, however, they never had to deal with that reality. They were happy and devoted to each other.

There could be no greater happiness than what they had with each other.

Billy was the first one to wake me up. He smiled down at me, patting me on the back, and I got up.

"I'm alive," I say.

"Ugly too," says Billy. "Why on Earth would you want to be a human?"

I consider my words, but it's not that hard for me to understand. Truly? Cause God himself had no more need for demons. There was only one person that would come to take the Earthlings back to Heaven now.

"There'll be no more death," I say.

"Come again?" says Billy, snacking on a bunch of pecans.

Loba comes in, nearly knocking me over.

"Some form you got there Prince Jasper," she says. "You're gonna need to elect someone in your place if you're going to get that girl."

They all know who I am talking about, even though I am shocked. Apparently Genesis had been taking photos of her and I the entire time, showing off his son's new girlfriend to the entirety of my friends.

"She had always planned on coming back," says Loba. "Sophia the Nun and her, they knew what was going to happen."

I am crying now, as the weight of everything I had been through had suddenly been too much. I collapse from the weight of it, overwhelmed by the emotions that I have been experiencing.

"It's okay," says Billy. "God has given you an opportunity to make a different choice. To go ahead and live a normal human life."

I look around at my friends, who all smile back at me. My friends who fought on my side during the Apocalypse, who thought of the pain that I had been going through, and stuck with me anyway. I am more than lucky to have these friends. They will always be here when I need it, even if I am not entirely sure when that day will come.

...

Miami 2025

They had made a statue of David Juarez and had it placed in Little Havana for everyone to see as they passed by. This man had fought against monsters when nobody was looking, protecting the citizens of the city from death and destruction. Even when it was over and he was near exhausted, David was forced again to work with his girlfriend and fight off the the Zaffarian Mothership from coming in and invading Planet Earth.