Ch. 2

Yes, I said it. We had passed another life-or-death test.

Our Headmaster at the Academy always gave us these tests to make sure we were always ready for an attack, and what to do in case we were up against an army, like we were today. But so far nothing really interesting had ever happened at our school. And our school was much different than any 'normal' school.

At the Academy, which it's official name was the Academy of the Gifted, we were the only six students here. Yes, the only ones at this specific school. There were more schools like this spread out around the world, unknown to normal humans but known to all of the Angels of the world, or at least everyone that was a friend to the Angels.

But enough about that, none of that was important to us. Nothing seemed to matter to us at the moment since nothing interesting ever happened around here. But one of our favorite things to do here was to hold a movie night almost every night, to keep things interesting for us. We each took turns on who got to chose the movie and tonight it was Basanti's choice, so well all knew it was going to be one thing: A scary movie.

So later that night when it was time for the movie to begin, she chose one about a trial of an excersism that went wrong and ended up killing the girl who was possessed. About half way through the movie, Edco and I snuck out of the room to go make us some more popcorn since we had devoured through the first three batches we made before the movie had begun.

As we started up the first bag in the microwave while standing in the kitchen, Edco suddenly smirked and looked at me. "So...what's going on between you and Amaya?" He asked, as if he knew something.

I raised an eyebrow, not sure on what had brought that on with him, but I answered honestly: "What are you talking about?" Well, it was honest at least.

"Haven't you noticed?" He asked, implying something that I had no idea about. So I simply shook my head, still confused on why he was asking that stuff. He shook his head, as if he was thinking I was an idiot. "Never mind."

"Ok..." I said, still confused as the microwave dinged, signifying that the popcorn was done. Edco grabbed one of the three empty bowls and took it to the machine as I stared off into a wall.

I blinked, thinking I saw a pair of yellow eyes staring back at me for a minute before I shook my head. I just zoned out...right? I looked back at the same spot as I jumped. There wasn't just one pair of eyes, now there were at least three sets of eyes now. "Edco?" I muttered out, my hands shaking as I gripped the counter behind me.

"Yeah?" He asked, pouring the popcorn into the first bowl.

"I'm just seeing those sets of eyes watching us, right?" I asked, swearing the sets of eyes were starting to multiply rapidly.

"What are you talking abo-" He started to say as he looked over at the spot I was staring at before he dropped the bag he was holding onto the ground, the fluffy pieces of popcorn falling out of the bag and scattering everywhere. "What are those things?"

"Not sure..." I said, the eyes still seeming to multiply as I glanced at Edco from the corner of my eye, seeing him shaking slightly as well. I mean come on, we've never experienced anything quite like this before, and we don't even know what those things were. I started to say: "Let's-"

"Run." Edco finished for me, before he and me turned, sprinting out of the kitchen and down the hall toward our movie room. But half way down the hall something caught my foot as I tripped, rolling on the ground as Edco continued on down the hall without noticing me. I turned around, seeing the yellow eyes that were on the wall but this time they had forms.

The creatures had yellow eyes with black shapes that looked like a pack of coyotes with yellow mane's like lions. These unknown creatures growled, staring to walk toward me as I stood up slowly, trying to back away as the animals slowly walked toward me. I stumbled backward again, falling onto my gludious maximum as the creatures growled, preparing to jump on me before a rush of air and sound blew into the one about to jump on me, destroying it. Before they could react I heard my name being called as something was thrown at me from behind, as I turned and it rushed into my hands but with my reaction I swung my sheathed sword around, hitting a creature away into the another one of its friends.

"Nice one," I heard Firth call from behind me as he rushed forward, sliding up next to me with Basanti behind him as they were heading the greenery, in which they would be in their element. "Clear us a way?" The sister twin asked.

I nodded as I unsheathed my sword, tossing its sheath aside before I rushed forward, swinging my blade rapidly through the things attacking us as they started to fall down like flies, dissolving into the darkness after every sword slice. Something was up about those creatures though, they weren't as reckless and wild as most of the demons we were used to training and fighting against for practice of situations of this stuff. Well, not this situation though.

We slowly fought our way across the long hallways of the Academy, the creatures still not fully committing on attacking us. I slashed one across its muzzle, before Firth jumped over another one as he dashed toward the greenery, Basanti hot on his heels. As they ran into the plants and trees of the green house, a few of the creatures followed them in, but I knew they'd be fine if they remained in their element.

I turned, slashing through another one of those things, before I ran down another hall, hoping I could catch up with someone to try and figure out where this attack came from and why it had happened.

...

Edco, Amaya and Chichi were going through the halls, clearing them of the creatures by means of sound blasts, water and whatever Teddy decided to throw at them, whether it be fire or lightning or anything in between.

While they were clearing the halls, they ran around a corner to find themselves facing a man in a large black cloak. On the back of the figure's cloak was a weird looking star, with its points in circle, that it looked like it was written in blood. At the bottom of the cloak as well it looked like it was torn a lot. Without even looking or turning around, the figure spoke slowly yet with power in his voice: "You three, where is he?"

"Who are you talking about?" Edco asked, confusion showing in his voice with a little uncertainty thrown in as well. He knew something was wrong, but he just didn't know what was going on quite yet.

"The Cursed Child." The figure spoke again, still not turning around to face them.

"What's the Cursed Child?" Amaya asked this time, and like Edco, not sure of what to make of this yet.

"The Child whose heart is almost eclipsed in Darkness," The figure spoke again. "He is the reason this specific place was formed."

My friends gasped. Edco stuttered out: "You don't mean?"

"Jolo..." Chichi whispered quietly, hugging Teddy tightly in her small arms.

"Jolon...No...I won't let you find him!" Amaya yelled, growing angry as the water she was using to fight with earlier was starting to form up again as she rushed toward him, water lashing out at him.

Before she or the water could touch the figure though, he seemed to smirk beneath his hood. "Found him..." He sneered before he vanished in a whirl of darkness.

The water that was around Amaya fell onto the ground as her shoulders fell as well, dropping into a stance full of sadness. "Jolon..." she whispered. "Be careful Fearless Leader..."

...

I ran down another hallway before I found myself surrounded by the creatures that were attacking this place. The weird thing about it though was that none of them were making any movement to attack me. They were just in a large circle around me. But before I could question further I felt something behind me. What I heard next made my spine shiver feverently.

"Hello, Cursed Child." A voice said from behind me. As I turned around there was a figure in a gray cloak, his face covered by a hood. "It's been a while, hasn't it?"

"W-who are you?" I managed to stutter out as I started to shake some, my sword arm almost threatening to drop my sword, but I held my grip on it. I also had this horrible feeling of dread I've never had before in my entire life. This person I was staring at was no normal person nor angel at all.

The figure started to laugh, first silently before it started to change into this huge, manical laugh that seemed to just flow out with darkness as I started to shake more. Whatever this guy was it definitely wasn't human or angel. "You want to know who I am, do you?" He laughed as darkness started to flow from his back, making two large razor black demon wings. "My name is Ezekiel." He said, removing his hood to show his pale skin, yellow eyes and long black hair. "The Angel of Death."

AN: Well this is a lot shorter than the last chapter but I still think it turned out well. I've had it written for a while but haven't put it up on here yet until now. But I would love some reviews and comments on this is anyone doesn't mind, so if you're going to do that, thanks in advance!

-D.o.t.F.O.