The Seeking (#Wattys2015)

Chapter 11

I'm crouching coughing up a lung and struggling to breathe. Where am I, I take the time to absorb my surrounding. It feels like I'm standing on cold glass, I'm surrounded by a grey fog, the air is extremely thick and it's uncomfortably humid for it to be so old. There's a filtered light coming through the fog. Like a moth drawn to a flame Im attracted to it, I take a tentative step forward, before continuing on following it.
Gabriels POV
All I could do was break as I watched the life leave her for a second time in my lifetime. Maybe shes in heaven right now, maybe she's an Angel and she's waiting for me up there.
"We need to finish what we originally came to do" Michael says his hand clasps on my shoulder. I look up him, he tries not to show it but losing her again is taking a toll on him also. I stand up from the alter and pull myself together if not for mankind and my brother, then for Anaita. I embrace Michael and we take a moment to grieve together. Placing my hands on both of his shoulders I look in eyes.
"Brother we need to go, but we must rest first" I say finally finding my words. We make our way back to find the pack house is in utter chaos. Irritated I have no patience for this, I release more power and speak. "Silence," my voice booms off of the sky and everyone is looking up at me in awe with their heads bowed, "To of your future leaders have been lost today, but know my brother and I will everything in our power to bring them back, until then you still have your previous leaders they will obtain control and lead you, respect them, for they are grieving the loss of their children." I finish and go upstairs locking myself in my room. I destroy everything in a fit of rage, and all asleep on the cold hard floor.
Calla's POV
Ive been walking for miles and it seems like the light is just getting further and further away. I'm about ready to give up when I hear a voice.
"Why give up when you've come so far my child?" The voice fills the void I'm in along with the void inside of me,I know that voice.
"God." I acknowledge him even though I cannot see him, and kneel down on one knee, my right arm across my bent knee, while my left fist is placed on the ground next to my knee that is touching the ground and my head is bowed. This position seems so familiar like I've done a million times before.
"I see you're still drawn to the light." He states thoughtfully.
"As will I always be."I say calmly.
"Then what was that display down there on earth with Ana-Lia" He growls probably frustrated with my ignorance to my own fault.
"I couldn't control it." I whisper tears welling up in my eyes at the thought of my lost best friend.
"No you we're looking in all the wrong places for help, and you were shutting the wrong people out!" He chastises me.
"I was scared, confused, hurting, and lost" I cry out "those dreams they broke me!"
"And how do you think Ana-Lia feels?!" The thought of her going through that makes my stomach heave.
"I knew it, I knew it. But she doesn't have wings." I say trying to make sense of the confirmation.
"Those dreams we're both of your futures, yours if they manage to drag you down and hers if she were to see Loki without knowing who he truly is." His voice wavers and I immediately pick up on that, he did it on purpose it's a hint.
"So it's my fault, because I didn't tell her." I say realization dawning on me.
"She forgives you as you need to forgive yourself, now my child," I feel his presence become overbearing and know he's standing above me. I dare not look up. "It is time for you to choose, The light or The Darks which one will you let drive you which will you give yourself completely over to?"
"The Light." I say confidently without even thinking about it.
"Very well." I feel a blazing heat in my heart as he touches my chest, purifying my soul. It begins to feel painful as if I'm losing apart of myself, like I'm being ripped apart. I let out a scream. Slowly the pain eases away and Im left on my knee's panting and covered in sweat. "You've given over to your light, but the dark is still there seeing as your father is a part of you just as your mother. You can control and use the darkness but it can never again control it, it can never again dim you light." He finishes holiday out his hand for me to take and I do. He pulls me up so that now I'm standing in front of him. "My beautiful Anaita," he strokes my face tenderly like a father would his newborn baby, "It's been 3 earth days since you're earthly body has died and as I as I would like, I'm afraid you can't stay here. Gabriel is going mad thinking he failed you again, and many other things are falling apart. And I believe you have a best friend to save." My heart leaps at the thought of Gabriel and new determination is set in me at the mention of the world is chaos and my best friend. I nod my head before speaking.
"I'm ready." I state looking at him almost expectantly.
"Well child what are you waiting on me for fly." With those words my wings unfurle and I'm taken aback by their beauty, they're a warm off white with the perfect mixture of gold and silver flecks on them. "Enough admiring yourself, you have a duty fulfill." He scolds me, I wrap my arms around him in a hug before getting a running start and flying.
It seems like my spirit known where to go because I'm back I'm my body in record time. I open my eyes with a gasp, adjusting to be back on earth I stretch out my limbs slowly working my way to standing. After about twenty minutes I'm perfectly fine in my human body again. I want to try something, but have no idea how to do it. The last time I brought I my wings it was because of God's command, but how do I do it with out that push. After ten minutes of straining and try to force them out I realize that it's not entirely a physical thing it's mental and spiritual to. With that revelation I close my eyes and concentrate on the golden heat lying dormant in my veins, and focusing on what I want to happen seconds later my wings are out. I smile and continue practicing unleashing and retracting my wings until it's second nature and I can call then out without so much as a second thought. I take a step out of the Temple and look in the direction of the pack house, I sigh and make my way down there wondering all the while why I wasn't buried somewhere or something.