Underground Angels

Chapter Six | Gabriel Goes All Ninja Again

Chapter Six

Gabriel Goes All Ninja Again

 

                  Not that Noel didn’t like seat warmers, but riding to school with Gabriel was getting kind of intense. He’d started running out of the easy questions, like ‘what’s your favourite colour?’ and begun with the deep ones. Noel was surprised he hadn’t asked her about her menstrual cycle yet.

As Noel flipped her calendar and studied a snapshot of the Great Hall at Hogwarts during Christmas time, something hit her window with a sharp ping! Choosing to ignore it, Noel began marking the dates of tests and exams while brushing her teeth. She had a spare few minutes before she had to go convince her mother that yes she could eat salad every day for lunch and go to school.

Ping!

“Hey, neighbour!”

Noel knew her name wasn’t neighbour, so chose to ignore the bumbling imbecile at her window.

Ping!

“Angel!”

Nope, not Angel either.

Ping!

 

“Noel!”

Satisfied, she walked over to her window and pulled it up “Good for you for remembering my name.” she said, crossing her arms “What do you want?”

Gabriel smiled and jingled his car keys “I’ll be out in ten, and nice Spongebob toothbrush.” He winked and closed his own window, leaving Noel fuming with embarrassment.

“It’s a collectable!” she called to his closed window, then slammed her own to hide her flaming face.

~*~*~*~

                  Gabriel always rode prepared, and had whole new round of questions for Noel; this time circling around her younger years. They were just getting into the terrible twos when the car went spinning.

They were on one of the back roads, and she assumed it was black ice as they slammed trunk first into a tree. “Was-was that black ice?” she gasped, peeking through her fingers at Gabriel.

Noel did not like what she saw.

He had that dark look again, the one from the kitchen and janitors closet. “That wasn’t ice.” He said, opening his door, which Noel realized had a huge dent in it. “Stay here and lock the doors.”

“What? And I’m fine, thanks for asking. Gabriel, where are you going – Gabriel – hey!” but he’d already gotten out of the car, and from out of nowhere the glowing blue sword appeared.

This guy’s a nut job she thought; leaning over to see him better I’ve been using a nut job’s seat warmers!

Just as Noel was about to unbuckle her seat belt, a huge furry beast fell from the tree above and onto the hood of the car, shattering the glass. Screaming, Noel backed away as the head of a lion and a goat peered through the broken windshield.

“Oh my stars!” she yelled, pressing herself against the seat. Through her fear though, she couldn’t deny the thing was butt ugly; it had the body of a lion, a tail of a serpent and the head of a goat growing out of its back – and lets not forget the udders hanging low, wobbling rather unpleasantly.

“Hey, ugly!” the two heads swivelled around and let out an ear piercing screech as Gabriel’s glowing sword went right through their necks.

The beast let out another screech just as it seemed to self combust, shattering into gold dust.

Gabriel slid through the windshield and kneeled on the seat, reaching for Noel; his sword had been tossed onto the snow, and he had a few cuts on his face and hands from the glass “Angel, you can stop screaming – it’s okay, it’s gone.”

Noel hadn’t realized she was screaming, but it dwindled down into a whimper. Gabriel’s hands reached towards her and she tried to turn away, but her seat belt held her.

“It’s okay Angel, you’re okay.” He grabbed some napkins from the glove box and dabbed her forehead.

“I-I…you…udders?” she whimpered, raising her hands and waving them about a bit “Are you sure you don’t role play?” she asked again, and he chuckled.

“Yeah, I’m sure. One of these days you’ll have to tell me what that means.”

He got out of the car to get his sword, and Noel wasn’t paying close enough attention to see were it went, just noticed it was gone when he came back.

“Now Angel, if anyone asks – we slid on black ice.” He said calmly, starting the car. It put up a bit of a fight, and made a few choking noises, but he was able to drive them to school, were a horde of teachers and an ambulance was waiting.

“How did they…?” Noel craned her neck to see more, and was surprised to spot her parents waiting on the steps, Bernie letting out a cry when she saw them.

“I called the school on our way over,” he said “You kind of zoned out there.”

Fiddling with the fur of her hood, Noel glanced at him “But the ugly thing-”

“Remember Angel, black ice.” He stopped the car and walked around to open her door, helping her out.

“Noel!” Bernie threw herself at her daughter, sobbing as she held her close “They-they told us you were in an accident!”

“I’m okay Mum.” She said, watching Gabriel over her mothers shoulder “It was…black ice.” Gabriel nodded at her.

“You’re bleeding sweat pea,” Mark said “Let’s get you over to the ambulance.”

Raising her fingers to her forehead, Noel was surprised that they came back bloody.

“Oh my stars.” She gasped – and then everything went black. Noel made a note to self as she lost consciousness to look up all the animals that had udders, because she was pretty sure lions didn’t.

A/N: Short but effective. 

Question: Thoughts on the big scary ass thing with udders? And why Gabriel is making Noel lie? Why is Noel such a wuss that she faints? AND do lions have udders? Udders creep me out.

Rose<3