Bent Halo

Chapter 2: First Earth Day

I walk over to Andrew the next day, even though there is no darkness in heaven it gets brighter each morning. 

"Hey, you ready?" Andrew asks.

"Yep. Wait... do I get a cloak?" I question.

"Uh.... no. You get to wear modern human clothes! Isn't that exciting?" He mocks me.

"I won't be invisible like you?" I pout.

"You'll only be invisible when you use your wings and no one will see them either. "

"Oh..." He hands me a grey hoodie that matches his cloak. "How do we even get to earth?"

"With this." He flys over to the spring and a door appears. "You coming?"

We walk through the door and the wind pulls us down. "WHAT'S HAPPENING?" I yell over the roaring wind. Andrew doesn't answer me. I start to freak out, but then I feel my feet touch solid ground. "Oh..."

"HAHAHA...You make me laugh Gissella." Andrew says smiling. 

"Ha. Ha. Ha." I say, my tone is sarcastic.

"Look over here. Do you see that?" He asks, pointing to a passerby.

"It's a down arrow," I note.

"I would tell you 'just like practice', but you were horrible, so do the opposite of practice. HAHAHHA..."

"Shush they'll hear you..." I mutter.

"No, they'll hear you," he retorts.

I walk behind the person and grab my dagger. The person stops walking and starts to talk.  Are they talking to me? I see a white piece of plastic in their ear and hear a voice coming out of it.  Curious, I pull the string that is attached to the plastic and it falls out.

"HEY, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" The person yells, turning around. Seeing my dagger, he backs away, turns around and runs.

"WAIT, I HAVE TO KILL YOUUUU!!!!"

"Oh. My. Goodness. did you really just shout, 'I have to kill you'? You are such an amateur. I'll get him, stay here." He jumps up and he's gone in a blink of an eye.

"Hmph."  I wait where he told me too, but it starts to get boring so I decided to look for him if I couldn't find him I would return back here. I fly over a building searching for his grey cloak.  Instead, I find another person with a mark. "This is it, I can prove my self-worth." A grab the smallest dagger, so the person wouldn't see it. Their mark, up arrow.  I say the command in a low voice,  sneak up behind them, and grab their arm. I push the little dagger into their hand. The person slumps down onto the floor. I see their soul fly up into a beacon of light.  

"What are you doing?" It's Andrew.

"I did it! I sent this person to heaven, without hurting them!"

"That's great. But you aren't where I left you, and something could have gone terribly wrong." He says calmly.

"I-I... I'm sorry."

"You should be. Now let's go." He grabs my arm and starts tugging me away from the body. He leads me to another hidden door. "This door will keep us safe from the demons.  You know about the war right?"

"Yeah..."

"The demons could kill us, so if we are in this door they can't touch us," Andrew says knowingly. we walk into the door and it closes automatically. "From here, we can see the earth, but the earth cant see us.  Andrew walks over to the far side of the room and an operating desk appears. "We can move the room to where ever we want by putting in coordinates. I think we should go to the hospital, there are a lot of marks there."

"What is 'the hospital'?" I ask confused.

"Uhhh... It's where we are most needed, I should have taken you there first, but whatever. The hospital is where sick people are, they are close to death. Also... I forgot to tell you one small thing..."

"What?"

"Please don't kill anyone with a small mark, it means they are going to die so we watch them, if they have a big mark then we have to kill them, okay?"

"WHAT! WHY DID YOU JUST TELL ME THIS? I JUST KILLED A PERSON WHO DIDN'T NEED TO DIE???"

"Yes..."

"ANDREW!"

"Well, we better go to that hospital now." Andrew types in some coordinates into the control pad. And the room teleports into a bigger room.

"So, you and I are going to fly into the nearest open door okay?" Andrew says.

"Whatever."

"Now!"

We fly out of the invisible room into the hospital.  Andrew points to an open door and we fly in. "stay in the air, so if someone flys in they won't see you." Andrew says as he lands on the ground. " This is a kid?" Andrew asks confused.

"Look how big there mark is!" 

" What is wrong with him?" Andrew says as he walks over to the end of the kid's bed. He picks up a clipboard. "Oh no... He's got cancer."

"I don't want to kill a kid."

"We have to. He is suffering, and besides look at his mark, he'll be going to heaven."

"I don't know, Andrew... look. Who are they." I say as two more people walk in, neither have marks.

"Those must be his parents."  

"Their crying... I don't want to do this Andrew, let's go to a different room, please?"

"We have to, they'll understand... Everyone has to die sometime."

"Please?"

"I'm sorry Gissella. If you need to, you can go back to the invisible room while I do this."

"No... I'll stay..." Andrew takes out his scythe and says the command. He ever so gently places the tip of the blade on the boy's forehead, and the light appears. " How..."

"Let's move on, we have more work to do."