The Prophecy

High Angel

"Athena!" Maxx's voice rang out as a force field formed in front of me.

I looked up to find Ebony staring at me directly in front of the transparent field protecting me. She cursed under her breath and turned sharply.

"What is wrong with you?" She shouted at Maxx. "We are the same. We are both Fallen, yet you protect this girl! She needs to die!"

"I will not allow you to cause her harm. Athena is under my protection. I don't care that she's Pure and I'm not. That will change." Maxx spoke strongly and with conviction. He's going to become Pure again. For me.

"Maxx!" I smiled at him. "Your timing was perfect!"

"What? No 'I love you, Maxx'?" He smirked at me.

"Shut up." I rolled my eyes. "But what about Malik and Michael?"

"Michael's taking care of my twin. You know, making sure he's entertained while I take care of my baby."

"Ebony." Kylan approached the small girl. "Athena is on the right side. You'd be smart to take the brighter path like I did."

"Kylan! Stop it! I don't want your 'brighter path'. I quite like the dark road. I'd rather be a demon than a boring Pure."

"What are they talking about?" Maxx looked towards me.

"Oh yeah. I rebuked a demon. Ebony is mad that I turned her demon boyfriend into a Pure, when all I did was give him a choice. He's the one that chose to be Pure." I explained.

"You rebuked a demon! Athena! Only the highest angel authorities can allow a demon to make a decision to become Pure! Do you know what this means?" Maxx looked at me proudly.

"No. I really don't. I'm still kinda new at this angels and demons thing." I shrugged.

Ebony commenced to shake. "He's right. I hadn't realized that before. What's wrong with me? I sincerely apologize, my lady. Please don't kill me."

"Why would I kill you?" I asked her gently. "There's only one person that I may kill, but only because it's my destiny to."

"My lady, do you not understand? I tried to kill you. Under normal circumstances, I would be punished severely."

"What's with this 'my lady' junk? I'm not a noble or anything like that."

"Actually, you kind of are. Not even archangels are granted permission to turn a full demon into a Pure. Only High Angels are able to do that." Kylan told me as Maxx's force field disintegrated. "There's only ten of them...or eleven now."

"Really?" I looked at my hands. "So I'm a High Angel? I'm not sure I fully understand."

Ever since the beginning of the entire universe, there have been ten High Angels. The same ten. They never died, and never will, and there's never a new one. Never a new one until now, that is. My daughter, you have no idea how proud of a father I am at this moment. My baby girl was chosen to be a High Angel. High Angels are almost the equivalent to gods in most religions. The ten of them just appeared and created everything. They are the ones that write destiny. This moment was already known to them before you were even born, my girl.

"I'll explain in further when we get this prophecy junk figured out." Maxx promised.  "Now come on.  Michael needs us."

I ran up to him.  When I got close to him, he grabbed me wrist and pulled me into a hug.

"I love you." He whispered in my ear before kissing me deeply.  "I was so worried. I know how Malik can be."

"I'm fine. I...I love you too." I looked into his eyes as our foreheads touched.  "We should go help Michael."

Ending our hug, we run up the stairs to find Malik making his way to the stairway. "My queen! What are you doing here?"

"I'm. I'm not your queen, nor will I ever be." I scowled at him.  "Where's Michael?"

"Yeah. He kind of passed out." The demon shrugged. "Should be fine."

Malik thrust his hand out towards Maxx. Maxx collapsed to the cold ground after shouting out. "Gah!"

"How dare you!" I shouted out, flames forming on my hands. "He's your brother!"

"The thing about men is, we can be very passionate. Sometimes, we'll do whatever we need to in order to gain what we want." Malik started to walk towards me. "You see, Athena, what I want...is a queen, but not just any queen. You. I am a man after all, so I obviously want the most beautiful girl, which is a description I would definitely give you. And what king doesn't want a bold wife? Another way to describe you. It's simple. You have the exact qualities that I look for in a bride. My bride."

"You're forgetting one thing. A bride should love the groom more than any other man. I do not feel that way toward you. The only man I would think about making my groom is Maxx. I would give up anything for him. My life if I had to."

"You'll learn to love me. It'll come eventually. Besides, what girl doesn't want to be part of a fairy tale and become a queen?"

"I gave up on having the perfect fairy tale life when I was about four.  I'm a realist.  Fairy tales don't always come true.  I'm just lucky to find a guy that loves me as much as Maxx does.  There's a concept you won't ever understand until you start showing people some respect.  You never know who you could be talking to." My body began to glow as I rose into the air.  "Look at me.  I'm small, and you'd never guess that I am a High Angel.  I can purify anything.  Even full blooded demons.  Did you recognize that portion of my essence?"

The light that my small body emitted grew and grew.  It became bringing.  Suddenly, it disintegrated, and you wouldn't believe what happened.