Mark of a warrior

chapter 15

I wiped the sweat off my forehead and drank the last drop of water from my bottle as I arrived at the beach. I had just run all around the whole city and I felt like I could do it all again, must be another positive that comes with this whole thing.

“Lex!” someone shouted from behind me.

“Wha- what..do…you want?” I said in between breaths as I turned around to look at Raph.

“You ok? It’s just last time I saw you worn out on the beach you had been playing with your powers. I'm just checking you’re ok” he said, scratching his neck nervously.

“I'm fine, just went for a run. The question is, are you ok?”

“Fine, fine just Raguel wanted to see you” he quickly said before running away. Strange, must be something important if it can make Raph act weird.

I jogged quickly back to our house and jumped in the shower, as I don’t want to talk to the leaders covered in sweat. I let the hot water run down my tired body and washed my disgusting, sweaty hair. Getting out I wrapped my soft warm towel around me and walked to my room to change into a t-shirt and skinny jeans. I put on a little mascara and some lip balm after I dried my hair.

I decided to give my wings a stretch and flew to the marble building where the leaders stay. The fire from my wings probably got a lot of angel’s attentions but they might as well know what I am. I folded my majestic wings into my back and walked past the guards to the main room.

Raguel walked stood up as I stepped into the room with a serious look on his face.

“Nice to see you again, Raguel. What’s all this about then?”

“We have been told that you have spoken to Abaddon, is this true?”

“Yes, it is true” since when did I speak formally.

“What did you speak about?”

“I don’t know just stuff…” I don’t know whether to tell them or not. Should I tell them about how I didn’t feel at all threatened by him? He is just like me, well a demon me, he didn’t choose this he was just born like it. Wait, why am I feeling sorry for him? What is wrong with me?

“He told me some things about his army”

“What did he say about his army?”

“He has about 100 demons but there are some rebel demons who don’t want Abaddon to kill us” I said and slowly started to walk away, I have said all I want to say but I have a feeling they won’t let me go yet.

“Anything else” Raguel questioned. I could tell he knew I was hiding something.

“Nothing, I will try find out more later but right now I need to go training” I could feel their stares on me as I walked out the room and past the guards again.

I started to run to the beach hoping no one would stop me on the way; I’ve had enough of that.

Getting to the beach and landing on the soft sand was a relief. I took my time and calmed down as I lay in the sand thinking about what I'm going to do.

“I won’t make any sounds and I will just watch and listen to see if I can find anything out. I won’t talk to him, he is my enemy” I told myself to help get my mind straight. This demon has destroyed my life; I was never like this before I found out about this side of me.

I did like I did before and closed my eyes. I thought about Abaddon and welcomed the strange weightless feeling I get as I travel to the underworld. This time I landed not inside Abaddon’s house but outside in a large flat area. This was definitely not what I was expecting. I was expecting the underworld to be all dark and red and dusty but it looked like any normal city. To my left I could see a long road surrounded by normal looking houses and shops, to my right a large hill with a medieval looking castle at the top, I could see fire at the entrance and crow-like creatures flew around it. Well it was normal until I saw that, I'm guessing that is where Lucifer lives. Stone steps led all the way up the hill to the castle. I looked up expecting there to be a normal blue sky above me but again I was wrong. There was no sun or moon just black, it was never ending darkness yet it still seemed like day.

I finally looked straight in front of me and my eyes widen as I see demons training and fighting each other. Their fighting looked sloppy and there was no technique behind it but there were a few in there that looked good.

I took this as an opportunity to actually look at the demons, the only demon I had ever seen before was the one that attacked me and I was too caught up in trying not to die to look at him. Many looked human but if you looked closely you could tell they were far from. I focused on one of the more good-looking demons, he had black hair, which was spiked, a bit of stubble and blood red eyes. He was packed with muscle and was fighting quite well, he looks like he’s been training his whole life. He was wearing a tight black t-shirt, which he probably wore just to show off his muscles, some grey jogging bottoms and black combat boots. He looks like any normal hot guy apart from a scar going right across his face starting from his cheekbone to his chin.  

I walked closer through the crowd of demons and saw Abaddon in the centre talking to the girl he was talking to the first time I saw him, Lilita. I walked close enough so I could hear them and not get knocked over by the fighting demons.

“They are doing well; the angels won’t know what hit them. You don’t have to worry about her; you are powerful enough to take her. Just remember, you have all these demons ready to fight with you and they will happily die for you if it means you win” she said, pride clear on her face.

“I know, I know but it doesn’t matter about them, I'm not even sure the angels have an army, what matters is whether I win against Lex” he lowered his head and walked towards the steps to sit down. I got closer and took advantage of them not being able to see me as I sat a couple of steps higher.

“You will win, I'm sure of it” she wrapped her arms around him and he did the same as he kissed her forehead, I still find that weird.

“OK, thank you, for everything you’ve done for me”

“Whatever happens tomorrow just know I love you know matter what” she said and gave him a quick kiss. Well I need to leave right now if they are attacking tomorrow. I thought of the beach again and I opened my eyes to find myself flat on the ground. I got up, brushed the sand off me and ran as fast as my long legs would take me towards the city to tell the leaders.

They would attack tomorrow and I could die. All I know is my life will never be the normal again after we fight, if you could call this normal.