The comedic Tragedy of Asmodeus and Raphael

Chapter 6

Elizabeth zipped on the worn old dirt road, the forest surrounding her. Lilly was holding on to her so tightly that if she had a normal body, it's breathing would be severely restricted. The electronic voice gave one last direction, "In 500 feet, your destination will be on the right." Indeed, it was. Elizabeth could hear the faint sound of EDM and see some cars sparsely parked, getting closer and closer together the closer they got to the house.

Lilly couldn't see anything, she currently had her face hidden in Elizabeth's shoulder. She was terrified. Liz would have to keep that in mind next time, human terror always left a bad taste in her mouth and was generally unpleasant.

"Lilly?"

"Yeah?"

"We've stopped, we're here. You can let go now."

"Oh. Sorry." Lilly untangled herself from Elizabeth and (with Liz's help) hopped off the moped.

Elizabeth cast a miracle to make sure nobody notices her vehicle and walked with Lilly to the front door of the blaring house. Lilly could have pointed out that the song that was greeting them was Lake Zurich by Gorillaz. The pair entered and immediately Elizabeth could detect the thick miasma of alcohol, hormones and other... questionable substances created by the mass that was the hoarde of teenagers, it rank of sin. All Lilly could sense was highschoolers who don't know how to use deodorant.

"C'mon, I'm sure there's a dance floor, let's cut some rug!"

Elizabeth was too distracted by silently removing all the ethanoyl from the nearest punch bowl and didn't notice that Lilly was gone.

Wait.

Where's Lilly?

But it was too late, she was already lost in the sea of humans. She tried shouting for her, but her voice barely carried a foot over the mass of teens and the loud music.

"Pipe it down, Dahmer!" A random person called out, Elizabeth was panicking now. Her cries were getting louder and more frantic until...

Someone grabbed her hand.

She immediately yanked back but the grip was too strong. She started to struggle, she couldn't see who was tugging her until a voice started.

"Liz, it's me, calm down. I found the dance floor, let's go"

Thank you Father, it's Lilly.

The arm started dragging her to what Liz thought would be a dance floor. She allowed herself to be tugged along like a ragdoll while she thought about how she did not want to dance. That was, until, the arm dragged her into a dark room. Elizabeth still couldn't tell who the person was, all that she knew was that her ears deceived her. It all changed when said person finally turned the light on.

It was Adeline.

"Foul Demon of Hell! My human could be in danger! What is this foolishness, I don't even want to know, do not disturb me for the rest of the evening you worm. I bid thee not farewell, inse-"

Elizabeth stormed towards the door when the strange and terrifying sensation of a demonic miracle was placed upon her. She was teleported right where she was a few seconds ago, before she stormed off. She stormed again and was teleported again. This was repeated a few times.

"I can do this all night." Ade said, flatly.

"Yeah, I know." Elizabeth spat. She got teleported a couple more times before she stopped, arms crossed and in the most intimidating pose and expression she could muster.

"What do you want." She hissed.

"Just to talk."

"Yes, and?"

"About... Stuff..."

"Listen. I actually have a job down here, and I need to do that, kay? You are Wasting. My. Time." She spoke slowly yet harshly, like Ade was a child that needed to be explained what they did wrong, and started to walk away, again.

"Wait, I actually need to talk to you, it's really important!" Ade didn't teleport her that time but instead put her hand on Elizabeth's shoulder.

That was a mistake.

Elizabeth turned her aura up as high as it could go without catching anything on fire and tore Ade's wrist from her shoulder. The skin to skin contact of her vice-like grip on Ade's wrist was scorching as the demon's skin almost melted from the force of the heavenly grace. It almost hurt as much as when she fell from her own grace.

"OKAY! Okay! I just wanted to say sorry and talk abou-"

Everything stopped.

Elizabeth turned off her aura like flicking off the lights and then raised her head, looking at nothing in particular. Ade didn't have to ask, the emotions were radiating off the angel so clearly that Ade could practically hear the alarm bells coming from inside her head.

Her human was in danger.

Elizabeth silently dropped Adeline's wrist (which was a little mangled from feeling the intensity of unfiltered angel grace) and walked out of the door, using a miracle to slam it open. Ade didn't dare stop her. There was nothing you could do to get in between a Guardian Cherub and their human, lest you want to be immediately atomized. Nevertheless, she still followed behind, she loved a good celestial brawl.

With a gesture, Elizabeth used another miracle to split the crowd to get her a straight path to Lilly. She was currently in the arms of a stranger with green hair that was trying to carry her out the back door. She pointed at the person and they froze, their vessel willed into submission by pure, Angelic will. They also had a very frightened look on their face as a not-so-happy Angel barged towards them, glowing with the fury of the Cherubim. Lilly was shrugged to the ground, barely conscious. The green-haired person braced themselves as Elizabeth got close to them, so close. They were face to face, Elizabeth slightly above eye level and with an indescribable look on her face. She raised her hand.

And touched their face.

There was a sizzling sort of sound and the villain would have screamed if Elizabeth didn't use another miracle to silence them. She has used a lot of miracles and was starting to get very tired, but she couldn't show it. She removed her hand, a nice line burned into the person's skin on their left cheekbone.

"So you're the one causing trouble."

There was silence, one person shouted "Whoa! Dahmer's gettin' some action!" They were in a compromising position, but nothing about it was comfortable for either of them. The crowd went back to not caring as Elizabeth leaned in close to the demon's ear, casting an uncomfortable heat on their cheek.

"Hello, Jalvoz, if your little imp brain couldn't get it through, this area is protected. And, for your information, the human you just tried to kidnap is under the protection of a Cherub. You are not welcome."

She gave one last haunting look and stooped down, scooping up Lilly. She never broke eye contact until she turned around and spoke to Ade. One last, finalizing phrase.

"Deal with that."

Ade didn't need any explaining as she walked over to the offending demon and teleported them both away.

Elizabeth used yet another miracle to part the crowd and strode out, Lilly hanging limply in her arms. Her breath was shallow, something was wrong. Elizabeth exited the house and went to her moped. She then realized that she couldn't ride with Lilly in this state. She was out cold, and would surely fall off the vehicle if Liz even attempted to drive. She couldn't miracle too far, she was so tired. It was a chore to walk straight. Auntie's was too far away and she would surely be seen. Elizabeth started to panic, every possible solution being quickly met with a denial. She almost dropped Lilly in her daze.

Then, an idea.

It was impossible! Surely she would be caught! But alas, everyone was in the house. Nobody would see her. She knew her own home was only about twenty miles away, she could teleport about ten.

And fly the rest of the way.