Death's a Bitch REPLACEMENT

Chapter Thirteen: Heaven

Longer chapter :) 

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~~ Death's Point Of View ~~

I sat up suddenly my breathing heavy, skin soaked in sweat. I had a nightmare, well not a nightmare more of a memory replaying in my head; the memory of Decker.
I shook it off quickly and found my phone. It was 5:32 in the morning, instead of going back to sleep I wandered to the gym.
"Death?" a familiar voice said
"Camael" I replied "I haven't seen you since... I can't even remember its almost if you were forgotten and now you are just making yourself present to show us you are actually still around"
"Well you haven't actually been awake"
"Good point, why are you up so early"
"I like to keep my training up and usually no one is up at this time so I'm free to train by myself"
"Would you like a partner to train with? Its better when the target attacks back"
"Very well Death"
"I'm not holding back"
"I wouldn't count on it" he said with a smirk

An hour later we stood there clothes ripped, skin torn, breathing heavy and drenched in sweat.
"You are actually a challenge" I said between breaths
"I think I just died all over again" he said walking over to the empty bench and sitting down looking exhausted.
"If you died I would know, trust me"
He sat there taking mouthfuls from his drink bottle I mentally cursed to myself wishing I had one right now.
"How does Ashton do, up there I mean"
"He does alright, he will be better this time since they pushed him last time. Why don't you join me this time? Come watch him, bring Cupid back; it's been a while as he hasn't returned to heaven in a while"
"He hasn't? Why?"
"It could be your strong beliefs of the elders rubbing off on him"
"When's Ashton's next test?"
"Today, two o'clock"
"I'll be there" I said stubbornly.

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"This was a bad idea" I muttered to Cupid beside me
"You think?" he said back feeling just as awkward as I did.
Everyone and I mean everyone was looking at me. It was like those stupid pictures you hung on your wall where the inspirational quote said 'dare to be different' and it was a field of flowers all the same colour except for one. I was that one flower, my black clothes contrasted the white, even Cupid ditched his normal clothes for a day to fit in.
The testing arena wasn't what I expected; it was built like the old coliseum. Except complete and white, the elders sat on their high seats one end of the oval looking down at Ashton who stood there in the typical heaven cloth draped around his muscled body. The rest of the population filled the seats watching this all of them talking badly about his last test and giggling away.
"Death" Cupid said snapping me out of the thought of punching that chicks teeth out.
"I'm fine" I barked back
"We don't have to be here, we can go back"
"no we have come this far" I said making our way to our seats
"Look at her" I voice whispered a few rows above me "She's an abomination to this world, at least if Aiolos takes over he will be pure"
I spun and faced the girl who said it her face holding nothing but shock realizing I could hear her. Cupid was talking beside me but I was focused on her, I began to climb over the seats getting up on her level anger flooding my body.
"Death" Cupid snapped pulling me out of my state
"What" I said through gritted teeth still looking at the girl. She looked as if she was border line with crying or shitting herself either way she was close to letting it run.
"Death, not here you will-"
"Desdemona" a deeper voice cut him off. The only assholes who used that name where the elders.
I spun around a fake smile plastered on my face "Raphael, good to see you again" he had his wings out and was just floating there, arms crossed against his chest.
"Is there something wrong here?" he asked
"I was about to comment this girl on her lovely hair" I lied through my teeth
"I do suggest getting to your seats as it is about to begin" he said and he was gone. I stubbornly gave the girl one last death glare and wandered to where Camael was which were a few seats below the elders.
"Don't ever make me come to these ever again" I snapped to Camael
"Why is that?"
"Because I'm the talk of the town; I can hear everything everyone's saying and I can't touch them"
"Relax, it's probably their first time seeing a fallen"
"I'll relax when they are dead" I snapped
Camael never got a chance to reply as someone's voice came across massive speakers.
"Good Afternoon Ladies, Gentlemen and Children. The elders welcome you here today to watch an Angel in training, this angel hasn't had any normal training like ours do up in heaven, no, no, no, this angel has been trained by the fallen we call Desdemona"
Gasps admitted throughout the crowd.
"Seriously?" I said bluntly
"Yeah they don't exactly sell you as a trustworthy, amazing angel up here" Cupid said blankly
"But don't you fear my people" the announcer's voice cut through the chatter "This Angel is still pure, he still follows along with us in heaven"
The chatter picked up again all relieved sighs and comments on how trustworthy he will be.
"So" his voice went again "Let's see how he handles our tests, let the match begin"
A massive siren went off and five soldiers arrived on field swords in hand shields up. Ashton on the other hand had nothing.
"How the fuck is this fair?" I spat
"An angel must be prepared for anything. Even if they are not equipped with weapons"
One of them ran at him, throwing their sword down skimming past his shoulder as he dodged. The dodge caught him by surprise because Ashton managed to kick him down and grab his sword, running to the next solider and taking him down in an instant.
"Why is he just pushing them down, why is he not decapitating them?"
"He's not allowed to kill them. He must simply play out the sequence as if he were to kill them"
"oh you guys are fucking pussies" I snapped my mood nowhere near improving.
He had defeated the five soldiers and they picked up their shit and walked off out of the arena.
"It appears that was no challenge for our young angel how will he do with slaying a deadly beast?"
Gasps came from the crowd as the arena plunged into darkness.
"Now my people, keep in mind, we can see everything but he can see nothing"
The arena moved around Ashton as he stood just below us, walls where escalating out of the ground and in the centre of the walls was a hell hound. It was bigger in size and was made to look nastier than they normally are. I sat there laughing at their deadly beast.

Many tests passed and Ashton was passing all of them. The announcer was disappointed nothing could take down this boy, as he would love to gloat that I was shit at training. He was coming up to his last test.
"The final test my subjects, can he defeat an entire army"
"what" I snapped, it was like the first test, he had no weapon, he was worn out from all the previous tests and had a shit load more people to take on.
"Explain to me how this is fucking fair" I snapped at Camael who shared the same shocked face as Cupid
"This wasn't on the list of tests, they must have just added it in"
"This is fucking ridiculous" I said sitting upright in my seat.
"He will be fine Death" Camael reassured me
he actually was doing fine; he fought off most of the army he was getting down to the last quarter of them.
He fought them the way I had taught him; he elegantly made his way around 'killing' the people not wasting time and keeping his guard up.
That was until one of his dead opponents didn't stay dead.
"Do you see that" I said elbowing Cupid in the ribs.
One of the previous soldiers had stood up again and was running towards Ashton. He had his back to him dealing with the others unaware of what was happening.
"He shouldn't be doing that" Cupid said noticing what I saw
"I have to help him"
"you can't interfere" Camael said but it was too late. I was gone; I jumped down off the high wall of the coliseum and caught myself inches from the ground with my wings. The crowd all gasped seeing them.
I called my scythe to my hand and took out the guy running up behind Ashton. With one swoop his head rolled along the ground, the crowd went silent. The soldiers stopped attacking and stood back a couple of steps. Ashton seemed shocked.
"Obviously" I yelled my voice echoing the walls of the coliseum "this one doesn't know how to act dead, so I thought I would help him out"
chatter picked up throughout the crowd as I let the words sink in.
"Desdemona" Gabriel's voice said as he got off his chair and flew down "What do you think you are doing"
"Evening up the odds" I snapped holding my scythe tightly in my hands "anyone else" I yelled to the crowd of soldiers
They all stood back shaking their heads, the 'dead' ones continued to play dead laying on the ground.
"How is this fair?" I snapped at Gabriel "one angel, hardly trained without an angel weapon of any sort against an army?"
"Do not question our ways fallen" he said bitterly looking at my pitch black wings
"Don't you dare think about it" I snapped "you cannot take these from me"
"Guards" Gabriel snapped "take her to our quarters, we must have a private word with her, bring Aiolos, Camael and Cupid as well"
"As you wish" they said in sync
"Don't you fucking touch me or you will end up like that guy" I snapped pointing to the decapitated head on the ground.
"Use angel bonds, Death if you resist you will have a far worse fate than a friendly conversation" Gabriel threatened
what did I do your wondering?
I let them bond me up and drag me away. It's not like I could do anything anyway, they could end me and that would be it.

I was dragged into a very familiar place as they all sat on their high ass chairs looking down on me.
"Desdemona" Michael scolded "What were you thinking?"
"I wasn't really" I said bluntly
Michael seemed stunned with my answer, probably expecting me to beg for forgiveness
"You ended a soldiers life"
"He would have got your precious gem over here if I didn't stop him, who would you rather dead a silly little soldier or my replacement?" I snapped
"Death" Cupid said softly "maybe calm down a bit they are the elders"
that did the opposite then calm me down.
"Do not speak to us like that fallen" Uriel spoke up standing from his chair
"you spit the name fallen at me as if it was my fault, you are the ones who did it, too high and mighty to even care how it would bite you in the ass"
"Enough child" Michael cut in again "you have disrespected us to many times, we allow you to get away with it unpunished but you continue to be a nightmare for us. Camael"
"Y- Yes sir" he said steeping forward
"has the boy learnt to reap yet?"
"I'm afraid not sir, they have been training to defend himself in the field first just in case the worst happens" he lied
"Looks like we can't get rid of you just yet, you will teach the boy to reap then Camael will report the news back to us, then we shall decide if we need you anymore or not"
Angry was an understatement... I said nothing I sat there and said nothing because I knew I would get myself in deeper shit than I already am.
"Cupid" Michael said turning his attention towards him rather than me.
"You will remain in heaven to do your job, you are not to see her anymore as I can tell she is poisoning your mind"
Cupid fell silent his eyes flicking to mine in plea
"You can't do that" I snapped at Michael "he needs to be on earth to do his job"
"Not anymore he doesn't, we are trialing the cherubs"
"Cherubs?" Cupid asked
"a smaller version of an angel specialized in this field of work"
"You are replacing him" I snapped rising off my knees to look Michael in the face, I didn't care if it was disrespectful at this point I would have to be dead not to fight. You could mess with me and I'll take it mess with people who are close and all hell will break lose.
"He is not being replaced child" he spat "we simply must separate Cupid from his soul mate as she can be a distraction"
Cupid fell awfully quiet suddenly looking to the floor.
I looked at him desperately trying to communicate through our eyes but he wouldn't meet mine, he continued to look down.
"Camael, get Lucifer up here to take her home, I don't trust her out of the bonds with any of my angels"
"Yes sir" he said exiting the room.
"Do we get to say goodbye to him?" Ashton asked softly
"Why Aiolos? You will see him next training meet"
Why the fuck does Michael's tone change for the golden boy over there, he treats him like a damn china vase or something.
"It will be some time before then, I'm use to Cupids company everyday so it will be a bit different" Ashton lied
"I see, very well, Desdemona you might as well say goodbye too, Camael will take you to a room while you wait on Lucifer"
I nearly choked on my spit, they were letting me go as well.

Camael soon returned to the room and was instructed to take us elsewhere until hell horns got his ass here. Once we were in the room I blew my top.
The coffee table that sat between the two expensive looking couches flew and hit the wall. I kicked it into a picture frame and the both smashed to bits on the ground.
"They can't do this" I snapped pacing back and forth pulling at the angel bonds around my wrist. "You have rights"
"Death" Cupid quietly said
"They can't, you can't just be taken out of your job like that you love it"
"They have a point Death" Cupid said snapping me from my rant "I have been distracted from my work"
"But you are out most nights"
"I'm not exactly working" he said pink flushing his cheeks
"Who is it? Anyone we know?" I asked getting off that topic
"I... um... yeah" he hesitated
"Who? I'll have to pass the message on to her so she doesn't grow suspicious of your absence"
this time Ashton spoke "Cupid why didn't you say anything before, we wouldn't have dragged you here if that was the case"
"I had to come anyway to update the papers. That's when they found out"
"Who is it" I pushed again but they both ignored me talking about the papers.
"Can you fuck up golden boy" I snapped at Ashton
He gave me a dirty look.
"Thank you, Cupid" I said directing my attention back to him "Who the fuck is it do not draw out the suspense even longer"
"Well its B-"
"Anastasia" Lucifer's voice cut Cupid off, he was angry. I saw Ashton take a step behind Cupid. I stood in the centre of the room looking at him as if it wasn't out of the norm.
"What the fuck do you think you were doing? Killing a solider, an innocent person, and Talking back to the elders, do you know how much shit you have gotten me in because of that. We now have a time limit to teach that boy to reap even though he already fucking knows"
"Thank you Camael" Ashton suddenly said "I know it must have went against everything in you"
He gave him nothing but a silent nod as Lucifer continued his rant.
"Before you had a small chance to carry on living after the boy took your job but now, now you are as good as dead" pain flicked through his eyes for a second
"Wait" Ashton interrupted "What do you mean she had a chance?"
"If you took her job she would most likely be left alone, but she would still have her curse but wouldn't be able to reap, she would become weak and be attacked by anything and everything. I wouldn't be able to help her because I'll be banned from it and you wouldn't do anything you will have the job to do. She's literally sentenced to... Well... Death"
"I didn't sign up for that" he said panicked looking at me then to Lucifer
"See why I hated you at the beginning"
"I can't go through with this" he said
"No one can outright kill there soul mate" Cupid said "our instincts put them before us"
"Soul mate?" Ashton and I said in sync
"You guys didn't know?" he said as if it was obvious "I already said to you Death"
"I thought you were talking about the angel bond not soul mate bond"
"She's my soul mate?" Ashton said obviously slow on the topic
"Fuck" Cupid said suddenly "I've technically broken the rules to my contract, I am not physically allowed to tell a couple they are soul mates they have to figure it out for themselves"
"I don't even like her" Ashton suddenly said
"So you didn't feel anything with that kiss?" Cupid questioned
He feel silent.
"That's what I thought" Cupid said pleased. Wait how did he even know?
There was a sudden knock at the door the cut us all from out rants
"The elders instructed me to tell you to all move along"
"I'm not fucking finished cunt" I snapped at the poor messenger boy
"Death" Lucifer scolded "Very well then, you can tell the elders we are on our way"
He bowed and walked off. I turned to look at Cupid one last time, at least for a while.
"Don't look so happy" he said with a laugh pulling me into a hug. I put my cuffed hands around his neck and pulled him closer.
"I'll be back in no time, a couple of months of solid work and no play and I'll be back out on the field"
"Death" Lucifer said in a softer voice "we have to go"
"Keep that boy safe, while I'm up here I'll see if I can find a loop hole in your contract" he pulled me in closer and whispered in my ear "Don't push Ashton away because of Decker, love conquers all he will step up when he feels he needs to. In the meantime live a little"
I backed away from Cupid contemplating what he said while Ashton said his good byes
Could I let someone in after centuries of keeping everyone out?
I guess that was for me to find out...

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Oh a lot to take away from this... 
Death is in deep shit and good old innocent cupid hasn't been to innocent after all ;)

Till Next time :) 

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