CHAPTER NINE

"Mr Ryan?" All the students look at each other's face questioning where Anael could have been, yesterday he was here and now he isn't.What exactly happened here."Fernandez slept on the floor yesterday and now this? our teacher is missing."

The replacement teacher name, Mrs Smith smile laid down the book on the table she said."For a day that for sure all of you will meet him again, I'm just replacing his duty with nothing more."

"Did he say where'd he go?"

"I'm not quite sure. When he comes back you can ask him." She smiled.

Misty spanked her body on the chair, sometimes she looked at Aurora then back to her table. She looked up and raised her hand. "We missing him already we'll think." She chuckled, rocking her chair back and forth. "We wonder why he take his own leave."

At the same time in nowhere, Anael wasn't at school nor at his home. Somewhere where he could live in peace for a bit, a bit away from Aurora for her sake. He stands at the balcony in an empty cabin where the people never used anymore, the cabin too old, odd to rent for the vacation; the cabin pacing the view of the lakes and there's Michael with him alone.

"I can't go back to Heaven without my wings, Michael."

"I didn't force you to have your wings back then back to Heaven and leave all this thing you created to life for. If you did come back to Heaven I'm afraid just a door you could step through, not the inside."

Anael nods he takes a step out from the cabin he walks toward the lakes then sits on the ground memorizing the view he will miss if he is allowed to go back in Heaven without Aurora. Michael takes a seat beside him, his body is human like the others. "She still doesn't know who you are?"

"How can I convince her to love me the way I love her, Michael." He stares continue. "I can't force her to love me nor try to manipulate her mind or wash her brain. I want her to sincerely love me without being forced."

Michael tapped his shoulder with smile he said. "Gives her a chance I think, but the time." Anael stares at him again, continue. "But time won't allow you to wait for her to convince you of her love for you. Is like you waiting something that couldn't grown." He sigh. "Is she know you here with me?"

"I take my leave that's all I said and no she doesn't know where I'm going. Truthfully, she doesn't care where I go." again Michael tapped his shoulder. The two angels now pacing toward the view. "Beautiful isn't it, Michael?" He asked to hear Michael nod agree. "But no one is beautiful in Heaven."

The two Archangel suddenly hear the claps near them, the angels look at the right side where another Angel came to join them; it was Azrael. He's to form in the human body he'd smile approaching. "What an Archangel meeting here." He smiled again. "How fun it is. You know in Heaven we can do anything we want as His please."

"Anael can't get through it, Azrael. You knew it already." said Michael as he looked up at him.

Azrael nods. "My mistake. He is."

"Gabriel?" Anael looked at him.

"Haa, Gabriel. He won't stop talking about you. It makes me come down here doing my duties waiting for another death." He sighs. "How interesting taking someone's life without them knowing."

Michael and Anael nod their heads. "That's because each one of us is different. He'd create us in different ways and duties." said Michael continued. "We're brothers that's why. We live in the same place, Heaven."

"Well, enough chatting." Azrael chuckled. "Is that what human kind said?" Michael and Anael take a glance at him , confusing what he'd just said earlier. "Such a wonderful word I've been hearing these days, how the time flies, everything we see since and how they spoke kindly, the culture, what they wear. Years over years will change." Before Azrael could say more his wings suddenly flapped out from his back body he'd look up at the bright sky knowing another life should be taken by him. He smiled. "Are you coming?" He asked.

Michael and Anael look at him smirking. "I'll show you." He then looks at Anael. "Don't worry about you, Anael. Without your wings we helped you because we're are brothers." He smiled. Moments later three Archangel arriving at the place Azrael should take someone's life, his eyes looking round nothing he could be seen as the place completely dirty and smell like a rotten dead body, dumped light half of the room can see and it is called a house.

Right in front of the Angel eyes there is a mid age man wearing white coat from behind the Angel see; and there a little girl laid on top of the table crying calling for help. But no one can't hear her out as she is bleeding so much and her entire body is weak. "What that man is doing, Azrael."

"You don't know?". He said his eyes caught the little girl's eyes and smiled. "She suffered, Anael. I've been watching her since she was born. She's 10 and it is time I have to take her with me."

Anael looked at him. "She's just a little girl. What a sin she did."

"Not her." He pointed. "That man." He smirked and continued. "He's the killer. Didn't you see all around you where'd you be standing, Anael."

After the word Michael and Anael look around the room, the room which keeps the previous bloody marks on the ground and wall but shows none of the bodies and worst he's the terrible man. "Why he'll do that!?"

"For fun. Part of his routine. He slaves them like an animal." Suddenly Azrael stopped his word, pacing his face toward Michael and Anael, he said. "Why should I talk about this man's life when you two already know it?"

"I know everything but not Anael." said Michael. "Should you remember that Anael wasn't in Heaven. He's the fallen Angel."

Azrael rolled his eyes, forgetting already about Anael who now lives on Earth, he's sighing, his wings flapping again flapped. "She don't have much time to survive is time I do my job." He smiles approaching forward a bit beside the man who cannot see the three but the little girl can as her time has come, Azrael spoke to her.

"Are you ready, little one?"

The little girl cried and nodded her head. "Are you my Angel?"

"I'am. It's time. He is missing you, it is time you met Him in Heaven."

--- "Heaven!?--" the Little girl's lips stutter as she holds her pain.

Azrael smiled and cupped her cheek. "A place you belong too with the others, all your friends are waiting for you to come with me so then you can meet them there." Anael feel sad and cried think how this innocent child living like this, she deserved to be free, she deserve to be happy and she deserve for everything but why did God himself create this little girl faith as a victim toward this man like the others woman and little girl he slaves for.

"They are waiting for me." she asked, her eyes locked to Michael and Anael, she smiled. "Take me please my -- Angel." With a smile Azrael takes her life so easily, she now is among the others. "Please take me home my Angel." She holds Azrael's hand and smiles. "My soul is free from that man -- thank you my Angel."

Later at night, Anael returned to his home. Azrael went with the little girl back to Heaven. His eyes keep watching the Aurora bedroom window company by Michael on his bed. The family seems okay seeing the family having their dinner together with a bit of laughter and happiness, happy with it as long as Aurora can smile again. He sighs and leans his side at the window frame. "You didn't tell me what exactly happened toward that little girl's life."

"She's the victim like the others. Actually the man's name is George Harvey who coaxes her into his underground den. Inside, Cecilia becomes uncomfortable and attempts to leave; when he grabs her everything is too late." He breathed. "Too young to be a victim of George Harvey."

--- "Cecilia!?"

"Cecilia Brand. That's her name. The Brand's become worried when Cecilia fails to return home from school. Her father, Timothy, searches for her, while her mother, Abigail, waits for the police." Before that the three Angels find Harvey soaking in a bathtub. The angel seeing her bracelet hanging on the sink faucet near a bloody shaving razor, realizes she never escaped the den and was murdered by Harvey himself. After the Angel sees him stuffed Cecilia's body into a safe, takes the safe containing Cecilia's remains with him, Harvey drives up to dispose of the safe at a sinkhole dump site then dumps the safe in a sinkhole. "Don't worry. She still can watch over her loved ones from up there."

Anael snorted. "What about the others before Cecilia." He asked.

"You almost forgot who you are, Anael."

"I don't. Just. I wanna hear it again. I forgot the face of that man before I was called the fallen Angel by you." The angel learns that Harvey, who has now targeted another woman as his next victim, has murdered six other girls including Cecilia. "Why won't someone catch what he is doing?"

Michael nods. "He will. Someday. But not now. Guide by Him -- he will put Harvey in Hell,"