The Jewels; Mother of Pearl (#ABA2017)

Chapter Thirty Nine

"Oh God..." Lola mumbled.

Annika and Lola turned their heads over to the scene before them; their bodies hidden by the walls that surrounded the city.

Dark Angels littered the outside of the town, appearing and disappearing behind bushes and trees.

"Don't bother," Annika informed as she pulled her whole body back to the wall and leaned against it, she pulled out a gun, "even our Gods know better than to come here." The gun clicked as she loaded it as she grabbed Lola and pulled her towards her now outstretched wings and cocooned her in her wings before starting moving.

Lola softly fiddled with one of the feathers that tickled her nose as they waited.

There was suddenly a loud horn, followed by singing and humming.

The music sent chills down Lola's spine as she remembered them attacking her.

Annika's grip tightened around her gun as the singing continued and fog filled the streets. "Step one," she whispered as Lola noticed a swishing of a Dark Angel going past, "we need to stop the Dark Angels from painting blood on the doors."

The feather Lola was fiddling with was suddenly flicked from her fingers by Annika. "How do we do that? They've already started that."

"This is where we use their fog against them," Annika informed smiling.

*

The fog was still thick as the Dark Angels continued to sing and hum. They hid among the fog, their long, sickly thin beings looking like pale, elegant bodies. People's lights went off as the fog rolled in and all curtains and doors remained closed.

The stars disappeared from view and what remained of the moon was lost in the mist of the fog.

"So do we start with this street?" one of the Dark Angels asked as they softly landed on the ground, making a small circle around them.

"Yes, Mistresses' orders,' another replied.

"Then let's get this over with, the last thing we need is to get attacked by those things," one of the Dark Angels informed.

"Or one of the trolls," another sniggered.

They all started laughing, "like those things would cause any deliberate damage."

With that they each stalked off to the nearest house.

One pair of Dark Angels walked up to a door and put their hands up against it, it's wood was cold to touch. One Dark Angel leaned against the wall while the other continued to charm it with human blood.

"This is all a waste of time, we should just get the trolls to break the doors down and do it ourselves," they complained as they sighed. The trees softly swayed in whatever wind there was, the Dark Angel shivered.

The other one scoffed, "you wanna tell Mistress Elinor that?" she asked as a red mark started to appear on the door, there was no answer. She chuckled, "yeah that's what I thought."

"That's what I thought too," Annika informed.

The Dark Angel went wide eyed as she turned around, only to have the barrel of a gun shoved in her face.

*

"Now we won't get them all, so that leads to step two," Annika informed as she spread open her wings and used them to glide and jump to the top of the wall, Lola being held effortlessly in her arms, "we'll have to get rid of the trolls and distract as many Dark Angels as possible," she informed as she landed elegantly on her feet.