The Demon’s Bride

In the past Elise, who had grown up feeling herself close to Church could never believe angels could kill humans. Angels are holy beings and they were born to protect humans, yet now she learned that Angels could also harm people, "Have you ever seen and Angel who killed someone before?"

Ian brought a blanket on his side to drape it over her leg, while answering to her question, "I have seen it. You have heard from the chick about Death Angels, remember?" she nodded her head. 

"I remember Hallow told me that they don't have mind like other Angels. Is that why they could kill humans?" because they don't feel emotion, they wouldn't feel guilty to kill people, is that what it was?

"They are similar, but higher level Angels do have a mind of their own. They are, however, weird," Ian spoke with a slight familiarity as if he had seen them before that Elise noticed for a few times. He had also spoke. about Heaven, thought Elise. "If your memories are indeed erased, we could suspect that the higher level Angels were the one who erased your memories. Do you remember anything weird about Elena?"

Elise was about to pull her brows and recollect her memories when Ian said, "If you feel pain stop remembering the memory. I am worried that you feel pain in a place I cannot see or healed."

Elise smiled at his concerned before she carefully look back on her past with Elena. "I don't remember her behaving differently from others. Elena was the second daughter of Karen. She was a bit timid but a friendly person. I only remember playing with her, but she don't seem to be anywhere close to strange." But then Elise wasn't sure of it too much, her memories had been altered and she could perhaps pull the wrong memory, deceived by the magic. "You told me earlier that you have seen an angel who killed a human. Why did they kill them?"

"A mission, that was all I have been told," Ian answered her, remembering the past when he had met a particular angel, "Angels have a stricter rule than Hell does. They cannot disobey what Heaven told them to do and if they do, that would earn them a punishment. Not all punishment have been great. The higher your offense was, the higher punishment you would receive."

Elise was curious, "What punishment do Heaven and Hell have?" she wondered what would Angels and Demons would be punished at as she had never heard anything about punishment being there in both Heaven or Hell. Hell, is place for humans to be punished but not Demons that add more to her question.

"It differ for Demons and Angels, but there is one punishment that stay similar on both sides," Ian saw Elise's eyes that had shed tears before bringing a little crinkle of curiosity, "It's a punishment to rip their own wings. This is a form of punishment of a higher level, only done when the being is suspected of a high crime."

Elise winced at the mention of ripping their own wings, and she frowned, "Why do they have to go so far?"

"Because in Hell and Heaven there are no jails. They believe for angels or demons to study and rectify their mistake is through pain. The pain is immeasurable for both Demons and Angels. And when an Angel or Demon lose their wings, the punishment don't end there," Ian's eyes turned cold and his expression darkened, although there were no pitch-black wings or horns on his head, Elise could almost feel that his demonic side appeared on him. "They would later then feel a worse pain when the wings they lost grew again."

Elise doesn't have wings, but she could feel how painful it was just by the words Ian said as his words bear so much impact where she could almost imagine the pain. Wings for angels or demons are like a limb of their own, it was not different than losing a hand or a leg, and the punishment was even worse as the person had to rip their own wings. She can't imagine anyone ever going through the pain, and how painful it would be.

"It must have hurt," she whispered, and Ian looked at her, for a moment he stared at her features, taking in her concerned expression before smiling. 

They have talked too far away from their case, and Ian brought back the talk, "We shouldn't keep our option only on Demons or Angels. It could be one of them or even both. All possibility is there," and she agreed with Ian's words, there were other beings like corrupted angels and Relics that they have to be aware of. "What else did you talked with Karen?" Ian asked her.

"That was all that I talked with her. But there was another strange thing. Karen said that she met a person who could some sort of tell a future. The man told her that Elena would die and that I held so much power in me. He introduced himself as Gabriel," when Elise looked at Ian, she saw him frown, a look of narrowing came on his eyes as she told him the man's name. "Do you know him?"

"I'm not sure if the person I know is the Gabriel the old hag mentioned, but there is one Gabriel in Heaven, the angel," Ian raised his index finger, folding the rest as he pointed up toward the sky, "But Gabriel is a common name. It could not be him or it could be him."

Elise felt somewhere her breaths shuddered when she thought of a real angel stopping to mortal's world, it felt unreal because to Elise Demon was close to be realistic than Angels, who had only been mentioned in the Church. "Do you think you could find out if the man was Gabriel, the angel?"

"That would take a long time, Angels don't usually come upon," Ian answered, although he knows a way, that would mean he need to separate from Elise, but after seeing today there were Relics hunting for her as if she was the most prized prey, he knew he couldn't leave her alone. He had left only for thirty minutes when Elise had to kill the Relic before. "I will try to find a way."

Elise nodded, taking a breath to calm herself she then asked, "What did you told the Church member about my aunt and the Relics?" If Elise was on Ian's spot, having to tell lies about her aunt and the two bodies, she didn't know what to tell them but seeing how he had come back without problem, make her wondered what did he told them.

"A story that I made on spot," Ian smiled, twisting his lips. "I told them your aunt invited one woman who is a dark sorceress like her which then I burn on spot before finding the coffin. For now we know that dark sorcerers possibilities have corrupted angels amongst them, while Relics work for themselves to exterminate Demons."

Elise nodded but then recalling the casket on the basement of her aunt's house made her to remember about the body of the boy that had gone missing. Who took the body? and why?

"Are you okay? You can tell me if you are not," Ian then said when taking her hands to him, "I'm sorry I made you to dirty your hand."

"You didn't," Elise said, "I thought I was wrong to kill a person, but it was to safe myself. It maybe not right but I don't think it is too wrong either." Elise wondered if it was because Ian had killed people that he could accept her who had killed someone. If it was another person, she knew they would judge her as how she experienced in the past.

"I know it would be hard for you but you are not wrong. The Relic had what coming from them. When one kill another it is only a nature rule to be killed. It is also a nature's rule to kill and protect yourself, what you did today is not wrong, it is right."

"I... se...e," whispered Elise when suddenly her eyes were closed and her body tilted forward, about to fall. Ian's eyes shifted fast and he quickly reached out her hand, holding her wrist to prevent her from falling. Bringing her to his hand, he frown when seeing how Elise's eyes were closed shut.

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