The Demon's Bride

Chapter 255: Dirtied Hands-III

Hallow didn't know who the woman was but this situation was wrong! How could a woman with an arrow going across her neck walk andy was still alive? But she smelled like death, thought Hallow to himself. It will be soon that the woman would meet death but what about him?! Grim reaper could not die but his body was now a body of a chick, dying was possible as his body as that of a mortal's now!

It didn't seem like Angelica want to waste time as she marched quickly in front of Hallow. With his last bits of power, Hallow tried to pull his scythe but whether it was because his physical body or if his ability had been sealed along with is body, he wasn't able to do anything.

God! Hell! Satan! Hallow called every name there is in his mind, hoping that someone could come and save them. He then turned to Elise, slapping his wings to her cheeks that barely did anything as his wings were made of but mostly feathers, he hope he could wake the girl while praying in his heart for anyone even a Demon to save them both.

While Hallow was in a pinch, Elise didn't know where she was. When she opened her eyes, she found herself in the middle of green field. Flowers bloomed everywhere beside her, surrounding her with a breathtaking scenery. Pushing herself to stand, Elise looked around. Where was she? She pulled herself to remember what she did and where she was before she was sleeping on the field only to remember nothing.

The sky was vividly blue above the meadow. It was warm, and the warmth beckoned Elise to stay in the place longer, but she felt like she was forgetting something— someone. There was something important she had to do, but what was it?

Unable to remember anything, Elise began to walk, the uneasy feeling in heart grew heavier when she pushed herself to remember what she had forgotten. There was something she had to do! It was important! and her steps that started with a walk turn to running. action

She ran across the meadow, unlike her first thought the meadow was wider. She had been running for minutes but?she can't seem to find the end of the meadow. Elise didn't know what she was running for, when she turned her head, she saw the meadow and the sky begin to crumble like glass and hat was behind the shattered sky was darkness. It didn't take long for the sky that was once blue turned red, the clouds had disappeared and what once sound like a wind turned quiet. The sudden silence was eerie and she stopped for a good one second to view everything around her changing.

Where was the sky? What was going on? Elise watched how everything was engulf by the darkness without a chance for her to make a run as all her surrounding faded to black. The air took a sudden shift to stifle her. She then remembered what happened before she fainted, but she didn't have time to think as the the air suddenly felt as if it had disappeared. The feeling of lacking of air was no less than the time she had hid inside the coffin before she was here. It hurt her and she tried to find a way to breathe.

From behind, hands begin to emerged from the darkness, touching her body and some on the side of her face. The hands were pulling her behind, deeper to be eaten by the shadow. Elise struggled to release herself. Was this her dream? But when she forcefully pulled her arm it was scratched by the fingernail of the hands, making her bleed that stung her. The pain felt real and she knew it all too well. Why would a dream be this surreal?

"No!" Elise shouted when the hand continue to push her to drown to the darkness. Struggling, she then saw a mirror formed before her. On the mirror was a girl with a long red hair, her eyes were golden like flame, and horns appeared from her head. It took Elise another moment to realized the woman with hands that pulling her behind that it was her.

But why a horn? and her eyes were not golden. What was happening?

"Elise!" shouted Hallow and the next moment Elise snapped her eyes wide, she saw Hallow across her face.

Elise pulled her hand to her head where she felt a pang of pain, "Why are you here?" was her first question. How long have she been unconscious?!

"No time to explain, that!" Hallow pointed his wings to Angelica. Seeing her aunt coming back to life defying death even when the arrow had pierced through her neck, made Elise's eyes to go wide.

"Why- how could that be?" she asked. Noting how the sky was still up and how there was still screaming in the back of her ear, it didn't seem like it had been more than fifty minutes since Elise saw her aunt died. But here she was, alive!

"Surprised?" Angelica raised both hand and Elise pushed herself together and stood up. She felt dizzy, it seemed that her memory wasn't complete as the only last memory she remembered was when she was strangled by a man. What happened after that she didn't remembered, but she could not see the two Relics anywhere which mean they have left or something else had happened.

"I didn't know a dark sorceress could come back alive," was this what Carmen said by seeing a person coming back to life? But something felt amiss.

"I never died anyway. It was to fool that stupid Demon that I died but it seemed he believed in it as I stopped my heart at the same time, you included. But that was close if I am not what I am now, I would have died." Angelica held her hand to the arrow from behind her neck and with a pull, she retracted the arrow from her neck. The wound then was closed.

"What you are? You are a human and a dark sorceress," Elise uttered, she used the chance to secure Hallow behind her feet, making sure he was there.

"That's where you are wrong," saying this, from Angelica's head horns begin to form which was straight and long. The horn was red in color and it was scaly. "I am an angel which why I don't die using a single arrow. It was a wrong choice for me to believe in Thomas. I didn't know he would betray me! But it didn't seem like he was smart enough to know that a mere arrow wouldn't kill me."

There were too many things going on at the moment and Elise didn't have time to dissect everything. She only knew that horns mean Demons, but then her aunt claimed she was an angel.

"I didn't know angels have horns, it is only Demons who have those, you are a corrupted angel," concluded Elise. Now it made sense to her. Her aunt's strange behavior when she was a child was brought up to this moment to show Angelica's true self. How long have she been hiding this? Does that mean one side of Angelica's parent was a corrupted angel?

"I am but you don't seem to be surprised by my horns," Angelica pulled her hand to her chin after throwing the arrow aside, "It's as if you have seen horns before..."

"I did, a beautiful black ones which are better than yours," answered Elise and it seemed her words did a thing to make her aunt frown. Since she was young, Elise recalled how her aunt hated people who are doing better than her and it seemed although she had aged, she didn't get wiser.

"But you also now about us, corrupted angel," whispered Angelica when it finally dawned to her, " I know now, you were there to kill Blythe with that Demon!" Angelica frowned, her anger subside to a state of thinking. "But there was an angel in the story that came with you."

Someone was there watching them when they were in the Church? asked Elise in her mind. The angel mentioned must be Ian at that time he had turned his wings white to prove a point to Blythe. Elise didn't know the part of Blythe dying, but she had seen it before from the death vision which didn't surprise her.

"Don't tell me you are that angel?" questioned Angelica, not wanting to believe it when from above they felt a large amount of wind blowing away whatever was bellow them.

Elise looked up when she heard the sound of flap, to see it was Ian who had come. Without spending another second, he came beside her taking her shoulders to embrace as his wings engulfed both of them inside.