The Beautiful and Divine

Chapter Ten: Don't Forgot Where You Belong

I poke my arms through the rusty metal bars to keep my already fragile form from falling. My body is very unsteady right now I can barely keep my legs from collapsing on me. Even when I quake, those wildlings still turn to me for leadership.

I hear the three teens rise off the dirty ground, "Your pure light is almost gone Jade, what are we going to do when you are fully mortal?" the youngest fate asks.

"I don't know, all I do know is that I can't bend to F.E.A.R." I turn to look at the black haired girl, "We all thought that till the trails started." she mumbles.

"The trails?" I question stitching my eyebrows together, "We all went through them. Even if you only complete the first trial, you still have done better than anyone we have met." Atropos says looking down.

"There were others before me?" I quiz, "Tons, we have lost count of how many by now. My sisters and I have said goodbye to a heap of fellow wildlings for there to be any survivors." Atrop sighs.

My stomach turns, how they are not reacting to their youngest sibling talking about death isn't very comforting. The solemn look on her face shows just how bad she feels about what happened.

"Did you cut their thread?" I ask remorsefully, "In a way, yes I felt each death, the next always worse than the last. I experience how they died without dying myself. Am I cursed?" Atro starts to cry.

"No, don't say that. It can be a blessing in disguise hon, you think that me being an angel I haven't had to do terrible things? I don't have to like it, I just accept it." I confess one of my many wrongs, "Like what?" the ebony haired girl sniffles.

"It was many years ago in the land of Egypt, the other angels and I had to carry out an order to kill every firstborn child. Whose door wasn't spattered with the blood of a lamb many children lost their lives at our hands that night. I tell myself I was just following orders but, I still think about it." I sigh heavily, looking back to the teens.

Their faces line with slight horror, Clotho walks up to the blockade between us. Reaching through and pats my shoulder, a lump forms in my throat.

I swallow it hard, "I'm sorry you had to do that." Clo comforts.

"Don't defend me." I sob, "It's not your fault Jade! If you were ordered by God to do it, there was a reason it's a trail of faith." Clotho states.

I twist my body to face the young girl I hug her tightly through the cage wall.

"Thank you." I whisper, "For everything." I finish.

"Welcome, we have to support each other if the four of us will make it out alive." Clo announces proudly, "Ya, right now my emotions are a mess." I say honestly stepping back. 

"It's only the human thing to do." The blonde says I have an idea!

I will act human, be afraid and bow to F.E.A.R only to return and strike back! I have to make it through the trails without fail I must for Ezekiel and Harry. I look back down the black tunnel searching for any sign of those demons who call themselves priests.

"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (Quoted from Matthew 10:28)" I declare, the fates chant it with me.