The glimmer of sunlight coming in through the high arched windows of the court room blinds me. When you think about it the sun holds it’s own sense of vanity, it can be immensely beautiful but as soon as you look at it, it forbids you from staring any longer, the white coated walls don’t help my eyes out one bit. I’m about to raise my hand to shade my eyes from the glaring sunlight when the judge sitting directly in front of me, as if reading my thoughts, snaps his fingers and all four roof to ceiling windows are adorned with wooden blinds. I lower my half raised arm back to my side and prepare to hear my supposed charges. I look down at my feet as the judge proceeds.
“Miss Azalea Chain, you are being charged for conspiring against the Heads of Government and for killing two unarmed angels in the process.” Judge Heverson states sternly and clearly “Do you plead guilty?”
“I admit to one of those crimes.” I tell my feet,
“Look up Miss Chain, God is watching you, there is no point in stalling.”
I look up with a shrug and say, “I admit that I conspired against the Heads of the Angel Council,” I pause to choose my words carefully “Lucy and Verona Danome are two conceited and devious angels, if that’s what they really are, and everyone seems to be blinded by their lies. God” I point up to the domed roof “Wouldn’t have appointed those two twits with such a job that puts our lives in their impure hands.”
“Miss Chain?” I realise I’ve looked away from the judge and I’m now looking at the people watching my trial, all of who have their jaws hitting the ground. Red faced, I turn around steadily to face Judge Heverson. “Are you finished?”
I nod, too fast to mean anything.
“I, and everyone else in this room, did not require a lecture from a Gamma Angel about God. We cannot obviously contact him but he has made his mind up about who should be in charge in his absence over us.” He’s using more hand gestures now “You and all the other angels, whether they are in the Alpha, Beta or Gamma tier, saw the sacred card fall into the Divine Challis and watched it spit out the names, Luciena and Verona Danome.”
“I saw them both enter a warehouse with two demons.” I blurt out without thinking, “Their skeletal wings proved it!”
“And when did you see this?” Heverson asks.
“On one of my rounds in Los Angeles, I-” I start,
“So, you also admit that you postponed your duties as a guardian angel to please your own curiosity?”
“Well no. I mean, I-”
“I think I’ve heard enough, you seem quite honest so we will take into consideration the fact that you didn’t kill anyone-”
“Because I didn’t.” I say spitefully, unnatural for an angel but I think it feels right,
“As I was saying.” He looks like he’s losing his patience “We will temporarily banish you from the Heavenly Premises and you will become a wanderer angel until your case has been throughly examined.”
My mind orbits my head once and I splutter “You’re doing what?”
“Would you like me to repeat your sentence?”
“No!” I raise my voice “You cannot banish me from Heaven!”
“It’s only temporary Azalea.” He tries to console me. But it isn’t enough, he’s crossed the line. I lunge at Heverson with white wings outstretched and I would’ve grabbed hold of his neck if the guards, stupid Beta Angels, hadn’t tackled me over. I didn’t even see his look of petrification. I start to laugh because I know it’s only a dream. Right? I have to wake up, watch, I bet I’ll wake up and my room will clear into my vision. I keep laughing whilst being dragged into an equally bright side room and I stop when the butt of a white and gold gun descends toward my head.
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Heaven on Earth: Terminus (Book 1)
Avventura"Coincidence follows the laws of fate." The first in a trilogy of action packed, teen fiction books based on Angels, Demons and myths. After some controversial events in Heaven, can Azalea Chain's contentious views be seen as the truth and can she...
