Exiled: Angels and Devils

Beginning

"Forgive me, father. For I have wronged you. I disobe--"

"You disobeyed my orders! You mocked my rules!" shouted the great man infront of me. Cut me half words. That made me stumble a bit.

For some reasons, I don't feel like it is really my fault. In this life, there are just things that happened without you knowing it. Without you wishing for it. Without you in control.

Manipulating things is kind of easy, it is harder when things get to manipulate you. It is indeed the other story around. Those times when you get hopelessly desperate. Manipulated by feels, manipulated by love.

"I don't think that feeling love is a sin, Father. Maybe it is, but isn't it the most honest and realest feeling a man can feel?"

"Yes indeed. It is a great feeling. But the point is, You. Are. Not. One. Of. Those. Men. You. Are. Talking. About!" he massages his forehead as if calming and controlling whatever feels that might explode.

That hits me, bull's eye! I am not one of them. We are not one of them.

"Look, you know I only want what's best for you." calmly, he addresses. Concern is evident in his eyes. "But we cannot have any connections to the mortals. Especially, that connection you felt in there." pointing out where my heart is located.

Suddenly, his soft, concern and calm expressions harden. It hardens as if I have triggered something within him

"I cannot tolerate such failures like this, Crissaia." the way he hardly say those words as he close his eyes sent shivers in me "I hate to admit it, but you shall have your punishment like how it should be. A rightful punishment for a princess who disobeyed the king's rule."

My eyes widen. I don't know what to feel right now. The king, my father, is giving me a punishment because I neglected the rule he had made. I wanna protest, but I know I should not.

A bitter smile took place in my lips. So, this is what I get in loving someone, huh? Shameful.

Like my father said, we are not like them. We don't live like them. We don't feel hatred like them. We don't betray eachother like human usually does. And lastly... We can't be with them..

Angels just can't...

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Dark surface. Heavy atmosphere. Poluted air. Crowded places. Cruel beings. Poor animals. A place like gehenna wherein humanity lives. Living in a place like this is like living inside a labyrinth. Nowhere to run, hard to survive.

I breathed heavily as the words of my father echoes in my mind.

"You shall have what you've wished for. You will get to live along with the humans. Feel the life you would like to have. Be with the people who causes your defiance of me. This is your downfall Cressaia, claim it."

Earth is where I'll face my punishment. I shall live in here and think of what I have done. Dapat ay magtanda ako't pagsisihan ang mga kamaliang aking nagawa.

I thought it would be an easy punishment, but then I just ate my words the moment I get to experience my second night in here. I can hear nothing but the cries of misery and the laugh of evilness. I just want to run somewhere, somewhere like home.

"Babe! Come here!" sigaw ng pamilyar na boses di kalayuan sa aking likuran.

Higit dalawang buwan na nang ako'y ipatapon ng aking ama dito sa daigdig ng mga tao para sa aking parusa. I still can remember that moment when I crashed on it's hard land. I remember how that news spread in just a snap.

"A mysterious meteorite has been detected, landed near the shore of a secluded private beach. The said meteorite was never seen by anyone as the media reported that it was already gone right after it was detected."

Sa dalawang buwan ng pananatili ko rito ay ginawa ko ang lahat upang mahanap ang taong naging rason ng pag-suway ko sa aking ama. Nag tagumpay ako't nahanap ko siya.

Bahagya akong lumapit upang lubusan ko siyang masilayan. Ngumiti siya. I remember how that smile hooked my heart. I remember how it brightens those dark places. I remember how I used to love his kind.

"Come here. Hmm. I've missed you so much, babe." ngumiti siya sabay akap ng mahigpit. Sobrang higpit na para bang ayaw na niyang bumitaw.

Everything looked so perfect. No, I mean almost  perfect. As I search for him, I also found out the biggest part of my consequences.

"I love you." bulong niya sa malambing na tono.
"I love you too, babe." sagot ko.... sa malayo.

That should be me. It should be me. Ako dapat ang niyayakap niya. Sa'akin dapat ang matatamis niyang salita. Sa'kin dapat ang malalambing niyang galaw. Pero hinding hindi na mangyayari iyon ngayon.

I remember how my mother used to remind me all the time how lucky I am to be part of our kind. No hatred, no pain, no betrayals, no negativity. I just couldn't imagine myself getting hurt by someone, but now. I am not just imagining it, I already can feel it.

I felt how my heart just break. In this happy scenery, I felt sorrow. In this bright sunny sky, I felt darkness. I felt coldness.

"I love you too, baby!" maligayang sagot ng babaeng ako dapat. Ang saya nilang tingnan, na para bang wala talaga siyang nakilalang isang ako noon.

Huh! Who are you kidding, Crissaia? As realization strikes, a tear landed down my cheeks.

As I search for him. As I cherish all the memories I had for him. As I loved him in the dark. As I call for his salvation. As I am happily looking back to our memories together, he was just there. Happy, with someone, not me. He was just there, loving someone brightly. He was just there like a deaf who cannot hear my voice as I call for him. He was just there, making new memories without me.

He is there, standing, cannot recognize me..

Someone's POV

"Hey dude! How's it going? Still not dead, eh?" Dawson ask me from behind.

Looking at those two, happily celebrating in each other's arms, makes me want to puke. Fuckers! They look so fucking happy and what's that dumb thing again? Ah, yes! Inlove. Just... what the fuck!

Oh well, magpakasaya lamang sila hangga't kaya pa nila. Sooner or later, I'll watch him die. No, scratch that.

I will make sure he'll  die!

"Hindi pa. Just, not yet. Just wait a bit. Darating rin tayo riyan." ngumisi ako at tumalikod na.

Kailangan ko nang gawin kung ano ang nakatoka sa'kin. Torment and kill that person and anyone who gets in my way. As simple as that. That's just how we work, how a Devil works.