The Devils Son: Afterlife

2. The Forest

Seconds later I feel this intense pain in my upper back then suddenly big white wings expand out of my back.

I jump off the couch trying to look back at them. Why do they hurt?

"They are beautiful" Pete says standing and feeling the feathers. It's a strange feeling as if he was petting my arm of leg?

I try moving them and they automatically respond, like moving my arm. "How do I make them go away?" I say feeling them

"I have no idea" Pete says still ogling over my wings

"Why does it hurt when they appear?"

"Your growing 2 extra limbs when you bring them out, I imagine it should hurt. I'm sure you'll get use to it" He says smiling.

"Well I suppose we should go" Pete says now walking towards the door.

"Wait! What about my wings how do I get them to go away??" I say stopping him.

"I don't know how to help you, but the place I'm about to take you will know" he says opening the door

"But I didn't see anyone out there with there wings out everyone will stare at me" I say running over to him and grabbing his arm to stop

"It's fine, I'm sure your not the first new angel to not know how to do it" he says grabbing my hand and pulling me along behind him as we go back out to the main building.

As we walk down the stairwell I can already see people stopping and staring at me. Fuck me. No one else has there wings out I'm the only one? Maybe none of these people are angels? God I hope angels just have there wings out all the time and I'm just being an idiot.

We walk out of the building into the sunlight and more and more people continue to stare at me. After a while everyone starts to fade and we walk into the blank white space again.

"Where is everyone? Shouldn't there be billions of people here" I ask Pete as we walk

"Most prefer the garden, when you enter the garden it takes you to people you know from your life but the further you walk the more you see, billions of soul are there at all times" he says as the ground starts to turn into grass. The further we walk the more we walk into this Forrest before we stop in-front of this massive Steel gate.

"Well, This is where I leave you" Pete says turning to me.

"What? Why?" I say looking through the gate at the path that continues through the Forrest before turning out of sight.

"Only angels can pass through these gates" he says before grabbing the gate. He tries pulling on it but it doesn't open.

I walk forward and as I grab the gate and it opens up for me like magic. I look over at Pete and he just nods his head encouraging me to enter. I look back at the path before I start walking in. As I walk further down the path I keep looking back at Pete as he smiles from the outside.

As I make my way around the bend and out of sight from Pete I can see where the path opens up into a huge field that wraps around a large body of water, As I walk out into the opening I see angels everywhere.

In the sky angels are flying around, they appear to be playing a game of some sort. On the ground I see them walking around or in groups, some also playing another game kicking around a ball on the ground. I notice that only a few have their wings out, turns out I'm just an idiot and can't figure out how to make my wings go away. Great.

A girl with brown hair, wearing a faded green tube top looking piece and what looks like underwear in the distance walks towards me with a smile plastered on her face. Now that I look harder almost everyone is wearing the bare minimum, all the guys are just wearing shorts and nothing else?

"Welcome" she says as she walks up to me.

"Hi" I say shaking her hand.

"Jessica" she says smiling.

"Charolette" I say still looking around at all the beautiful people. Why are they all so perfect?

"I'll show you around" she says smiling. She seems very friendly, is she a leader or something?

As we walk across the field to the right there is another path that leads away from the field into the Forrest again. We walk along it for just a little over a minute before it opens to this big open wooden lodge looking building. We walk up the main steps to the deck that wraps around the huge building. It's completely open, there is no walls just wooden pillars holding up the roof. There is hundreds of single cot like beds just laid out in rows with angels walking and laying around. We walk in down a row all the way to the end before she stops In front of a bare cot with nothing under or around it.

"This is yours" she says smiling. "This is where we sleep, if you want. You don't technically need sleep, meaning it won't kill you obviously if you chose not to, but it makes you weak. As angels we all sleep but like I tell every new angel you don't have to but it's highly recommend. Other than this we have that field you saw and a shower area down there" she says then points out in the direction behind the building. "this is where we train and live basically until we are called upon" she says. A moment passes before she suddenly walks away leaving me completely alone?

I look around and there is people wondering around everywhere. If I had to guess I'd say there is about 200 to 300 cots laid out.

"Really flex your upper back muscles to get them to go away" I hear someone say from behind me, I turn to a perfectly sculpted man with brown hair laying in his cot watching me.

"What" I say forcing myself not to look at his body.

"Your wings" he says sitting up.

"Oh" I say and I flex my back muscles and sure enough they go away painfully. I'm so stupid.

"Thank you" I say before sitting on my bed.

"Luke" he says grinning.

"Charolette" I say giving him a small smile.