Death's a Bitch REPLACEMENT

Chapter Eight: Extraction

~~Ashton's Point Of View~~

"Why hasn't she waken yet?" I pestered Ajax for the third time in the last ten minutes.
"Patience boy I am doing what I can" he said in an irritated voice.
His daughter Lacy was here, she was probably a few years younger than me still in her mid-teens. She's been sitting there for the last hour reading a book, well not really she's been chewing on her tongue and playing with a single strand of hair all while staring at me. Honestly I was beginning to get uncomfortable.
Death's body lay on the medical room bed as Ajax muttered spells under his breath. Her featured seemed peaceful as she rested in her deep sleep. The hole in her body hasn't healed the slightest, the bleeding has slowed pretty much has stopped but that's because of Ajax putting his spells all over her. It's been three days and she hasn't woken, hasn't healed. Ajax said it would take time because it was an angel's instrument and they can take ages to heal, some might not even heal at all.
"Father is the best at what he does" Lacy said in an innocent voice
"So I've heard" I said bitterly
A sad look crossed her face but then was pushed aside almost instantly.
"You must be hungry, let me fix you and father something to eat"
She stood up quickly and fluttered out of the room.
The next person to walk through the door was more irritating then Lacy.
"Ajax" Cupid said laying eyes on Death "is she okay? Will she be okay?"
"It's hard to tell at this point" he replied before turning back to his charting
"What happened to her?" He asked Ajax again
um hello does he not see me here? I could have answered his questions without disturbing Ajax.
"Why don't you ask Ashton" Ajax simplify said gesturing behind him
"Ashton" Cupid said in a happy tone "I didn't see you there"
That got on my nerves more than it should have. God this prim proper lover boy got on my nerves
I just death glared at him until he spoke again
"What happened to her?"
"We were training and she got her scythe in her stomach"
"What?" he said surprised
"Yeah your girlfriends reactions weren't fast enough" I snapped quickly before I could even think about it.
"Girlfriend?" Cupid said with an awkward laugh "She's far from that, she hates my job and I hate hers, yet we push it aside and are friends. Trust me I see her more as a sister than anything, we arrived in heaven together and were chosen to help the elders together"
It felt as if a weight was lifted off my shoulders, I don't know why it impacted me anyway.
"Plus" cupid added "She's already got a soul mate, bond, partner for life; whatever you want to call it, she doesn't want to believe it but she has one"
"You know who it is?" the question flew out of my mouth before I could stop it
"Yeah, but I can't do anything but help them get together; without them knowing. Although it seems as if my brotherly protective side is getting in the way"
I sat there contemplating what he said. She already has a soul mate, why did I care? I don't. Get it together Ashton

"I'm going to find Lucifer" I said standing and walking out of the room. I past Lacy in the halls.
"Ashton I have –"
"I'm not hungry, thanks though; Cupid is in there he might be"
"Cupid?" she said excitement in her voice
Why does everyone love this guy?
She whizzed off down the hallway towards the medical room.

It wasn't long until I ran into Camael
"Aiolos" Camael said "we must tell the elders about Death they will find it suspicious that you haven't learnt a great deal this week"
I asked Camael not to tell them as I can't imagine it would end very well.
Suddenly I got an idea
"Give me a couple of hours to sort something then if I can't we go to them"
"Very well then" he said looking over to a still Death on the bed.

I was gone in a puff of black smoke; I had teleported to a very familiar office.
"Ashton" Lucifer said surprised standing up from his desk; his face was pulled into worried glance showing a much older looking man.
"Has she woken yet?" He asked
"No, I have to ask something" I said shyly.
Why was I so shy around him?
"What is it? as you can see I am very stressed balancing my work with hers"
"I want you to teach me how you taught her, at least enough so I can reap and succeed then you have a weight off your shoulders"
"We won't have enough time, she's a strong woman she will be up and throwing insults at people in no time"
"And if we don't? Camael has given me a couple of hours to find a solution to this problem before he goes to tell the elders"
"He can't" Lucifer snapped throwing his fist down on his desk "He can't, it's been too close to her last mishap they will do something to her and I can't imagine what it would be, normally she loses he ability to fly for a few years but this time, now that you are on the scene I don't think they will have the same idea, they can get rid of her now. You can take her place; I would have to train you as I did with her"
"They can do that?" I asked
"They can do anything they please, but they needed her to do that job so they couldn't get rid of her but now... now they have you"
"Train me" I said more stern then before.
"Fine, annoy me and you will see something worse than Death"
I gave him a worried look suddenly remembering why I was so shy around him, he was fucking scary.

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"No Ashton, you don't just violently rip it from a person's body" Lucifer had me practicing on demons in hell, they weren't the happiest of souls to extract but it was better than innocent humans.
I was getting annoyed with Lucifer, he was a worse teacher than Death and that's saying something.
"You have to feel the person, and adapt it out of them. It's like a babies toy, you find the shape the block fits through and if none of them fit then it gets complicated and you have to mould the soul"
"a babies toy?" I said confused
"Anastasia should be teaching you this not me" he said irritated
"Why do you call her Anastasia?"
"Don't tell her I did" Lucifer suddenly said slightly panicked "it's her human name; I swear she will kill anyone who calls her that. The last one was her roommate and look how he ended up, decapitated in a church"
"Why does she not like her human name? I kept mine well kind of the Elders call me Aiolos"
"Her father named her I think, she loathes her father. Well did until she killed him"
I stood there silently contemplating her name
"Enough chit chat" Lucifer said suddenly "let's get back to the task at hand"
I stood in front of the next demon and he looked me in the eyes. Anger was riled up inside him but he couldn't do anything he was bound and his tongue was cut out he couldn't talk.
I began to pull at his soul; not physically it was all a mental thing. Embarrassingly I pictured a baby's shape toy, but his soul didn't fit through any of the holes so I began to mould it to shape. I was nearly there but I felt my mind slipping the soul was escaping back into the demons body, I tried my hardest to tightly hold onto it but it slipped from my grasp. My eyes flew open and Lucifer stood there looking at me
"You did well, that is normal to begin with you will get stronger trust me"
I was too pissed off to listen to him; I was so close yet so far away.
"Ashto-"

I was gone; I had teleported back to Death's house and stood in the hallway. I contemplated going to sit beside her but then Cupid would be there and I was not in the mood to watch his perfect smile spread across his face I was making my way up stairs towards the gym until I was cut off by a panicked Lacy
"Ashton" she yelled "Ashton, father needs you. It's Death"
I was in the room in an instant, Death lay there a pained look upon her perfect face she was still in deep sleep but something was going on even I could feel it.
"What is going on?" I said quickly
Cupid sat in the corner out of the way the same panicked look as Lacy across his face.
"Something is happening to her soul, there is a greater magical force inside her head I can feel them trying to either destroy it or take it"
"What am I supposed to do?" I snapped
"Extract her soul from her" Ajax said his hands flicking through pages "I can't find anything in the grimories about it. To keep her soul safe you have to extract it from her"
"I can't, I could kill her" I said
"She's dead anyway. You have to Ashton; you have to try" Ajax said panic laced his voice.
"I don't know if I can" I said
suddenly the room filled with red mist. Lacy must have told him what was happening.
"Ashton" Lucifer said "You can, I have seen you nearly complete extracting a soul, you have an emotional tie to her, you know her it will be easier to maintain, to mould t-"
"Fuck up about your baby toys" I snapped "I can't do it, I'll end up killing her"
I scream admitted from her. You could hear the pain she was going through just from that one scream. I could still hear perfectly fine so it wasn't an angel scream.
"You don't have much time Ashton" Ajax said
I had to do it, I had to save her and I had to do it now.
I climbed onto the bed straddling her and closed my eyes connecting with her, from the first sight of her soul I knew I was fucked.

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Extra Chapter because i was naughty and forgot to update!!!

Don't kill me please for the semi cliff hanger! i was going to be really mean but I wasn't! lots to take away with this chapter!! 

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