Red: descended

CHapter 1. The fall.

          November 3rd 1969, a man named Henry Lennox was driving alone on an abandoned back road it was  almost midnight he was drunk and decided to head home, what happened next would change everything for him and for the world, While trying to light a smoke and changing the radio station at the same time, his faded red kombi ran off the dirt road and crashed through a fence,Thanking god that he was still breathing he got out of the kombi to see what damage he and the fences had done, As he walked around the kombi he saw no damage,"Well what do ya know, this is my lucky night" Henry said surprised, Just then as if god had turned on the lights, the sky lit up like a weapon had gone off, The ground started to shake and the air was hot, it burned at the back of his  throat and his skin burned, his hair stood on end, suddenly quickly as the sky lit up it was dark again, still shaking he got back in his kombi and got back on the dirt road, He had only driven about 5 meters or so from where he had crashed, when he slammed on the brakes, there standing in his headlights wearing a white and silver helter neck dress with long red hair and covered in blood and a small  silver chain around her neck was a sight to behold, She was standing there staring at Henry, her eyes we're red and her skin was bruised and broke, blood ran down her back from a massive gash, made by what Henry assumed was from a sword but the thing that got henry's attention was that she, She had wings  long white soft beautiful wings she was an angel, She turned and looked to the trees and As if by magic she was joined by 13 other individuals also with wings and ranging in height and skin colour and sex, All wearing white and silver clothing, they all had battle wounds and Henry was scared but that would soon change.

PRESENT DAY... 39 years later!

Standing by the sided of the road in the rain for what seemed like ages an older man waited, He seemed to spend his whole life waiting, Finally a black car pulled up and he got in, he glared at the driver. "What took so long?" the driver cleared his throat.

"Um well sir, there was a delay" The driver said nervously. 

"Yes, I can see that, your over 15 minutes late... why?" He asked.

 "Because sir, we had a problem" The driver said.

 "Again she's really starting to get on my nerves, Very well let's not waste any more of my time! I do have a company to run" the man said, as the car left the curb.

A couple of moments later they drove up a long drive way and pulled up out side of a huge manor and next to it stood the Lennox institution, The manor and the institution were at the end of a cul de sac which had a giant iron gate locking the world out and keeping in whatever was inside in, Henry Lennox was now a very rich and very powerful man  He had spent the last 39 years alone, as his wife had died, he only had his secrets to keep him company, As he got out of the car his secretary, Jane handed him a large manila folder Henry  walked up the marble stairs to the two gothic, iron doors that made up his front door,They opened and he walked inside The manor was massive, it had three levels and a basement. He stepped into the elevator and pressed a button marked with a big red G engraved onto it, The elevator doors open and a few moments later Henry stepped out, still carrying the folder, he headed down two more flights of stairs to a facility that looked like something out of Star Trek, A large glass door opened upwards and he walked through there in front of him was Along the hall on every side was 14 clear doors of glass rooms, seven on each side all numbered 1-G to 14-G, As Henry walked down the long hall, the dark rooms lit up, he finally stopped at number 13-G,"So you're being difficult, again?" he asked A figure sat on the king-size bed, getting up bare foot and wearing grey track pants, a white singlet, She walked towards the glass that separated her and her captor, placing her hands on the glass she glared at Henry, Her red eyes burned through him, touching the tip of his soul, suddenly she spoke "Difficult... me? Hardly, I just decided that I didn't want a large needle sticking it to me" She answered sweetly Henry smiled an evil smile. "My dear Rhemiel, you're my animal and I'll stick what ever I want inside of you!" he exclaimed, as he turned to leave she spoke again"Do you know what happens to animals when you keep them locked up and tortured?" she asked He stopped "They get even'' then she  disappeared into the darkness of her cell,He made a huff noise and left.

A couple of days past and Henry stupidly had forgotten about Rhemiel's words, She sat on her bed drawing, the light above her started flashing red, this indicated that she was about to be taking to the labs to be harvested, She hopped the bed and stood on a red mark on the floor, claps locked onto her ankles and from the roof, chains of iron wrapped around her body burning her skin, The chains yanked her to the cold floor and she went down like a tone of bricks, The ground shook the glass and the walls, alerting her fellow captives, they all stood up from their spots and stood at their glass walls, One spoke to Rhemiel"Be strong" a single silent tear fell down her face, like acid it hit the ground  the first doors to the long hall opened, four big men enter caring cattle prod's and wearing iron, They walked past all the numbered rooms with 13 red eyes glaring through to their souls they knew what these armed men were going to do too their family, to her, Still anchored to the ground Rhemiel's glass door opened and the armed men enter, the leader spoke " it's time" They surrounded her and pointed the cattle prods at her without warning, she let out a loud scream as the electricity ripped open her skin, her blood broke through, grates in the floor opened up underneath their feet and collected the precious blood, Finally they stopped, she stopped screaming then the floor opened up and  separated.

Below in the labs, Henry was watching as the blood separated in to vials, labelled with different numbers, each number indicated a company and or a disease, As the floor reached it's holding spot the men stood guard and didn't move Henry, without turning around started speaking directly to Rhemiel, "My dear, I hate doing this to you, to all of you, but what runs through your veins is liquid gold and has made me a very, very rich man and it pain's me to see you suffer but your suffering is for the good of mankind and to keep me rich of course, now let's take some DNA samples" Henry said confidently, Carrying a long needle he walked over and dug it straight in to her hip she screamed, then stopped screaming and glared at him like she did before and started laughing and still few the pain "Henry  you rich, dumb fool, I'm going to kill you" She said, still glaring into his eyes Henry stopped, then stuck the needle in deeper, she flinched and grit her teeth, keeping the screams back and her tears in she spoke again "Did you hear me? Are you listening, Henry? I'm going to kill you, one day, somehow, some way, I wil kill you" Henry put down the needle and hit her three times in the face He stopped and knelt down and whispered in her ear "you listen bitch, you'll burn before you get the chance" He stood back up and gave her a swift hard kick "send her back up, we're done here" A lab tech spoke "but sir forgive me, we are still testing" Henry looked at the young lab tech "I said were done" Henry left as the floor went back to its position, once in place the chains slipped away and the cuffs released, trying to stand up in vain she just laid on the cold floor crying.

The good thing about being what they were, Rhemiel's body could heal itself, but after 39 years of the same thing, all their bodies retained the scares, reminders that there is evil in this world, the world their father had created, this world they loved, In one of the other cells laying in the dark on his bed, was Michael the leader His heart was heavy with guilt, as it was his very actions 39 years ago that put them all of them in their current position, All though the others did not blame him, he was responsible no less, Now with Michael's actions he broke god's heart, Their link to heaven was severed, Michael had cast himself and 13 others out of heaven, his unit of Archangels fell because of him.,Suddenly a flinch broke his train of thought, he sat up like a solder,  swang his legs to the floor and got up off the bed in one movement and without moving stood at the glass wall,In the next cell was Gabriel  she had Michael's love, Gabriel reached out and touched the glass as Michael did they had matching scars but on opposite hands, his on the left hand hers on the right,"What is it?" he asked in his head "It's time! We leave, all of us tonight" Gabriel answered "You understand Gabriel, if we do this, we'll have to hurt or kill some of these men?"  "I know...we all know but what choice do we have? It's been long enough" she responded with sadness in her voice "Very well, tonight" Micheal went back to lying on his bed. He picked up the book he had been trying to finish for the last six years, he was in his own words a "slow" reader.