CHAPTER FIFTEEN

A few days later as a normal day to Aurora and the others include Anael. She didn't report him of what he's doing to her the day before in the girl 's restroom; her mind is still thinking about who Anael and Laurent Danford are. The question is who are they? almost blown her mind she sank on her chair without a loud sighed. "Are you alright?" her eyes slowly drag to Laurent. "What?" he said with a smile.

"I'm cool. I'm fine. Need a rest, think.'' She lied. He nodded and let her be with her own dream. Minutes later a History teacher named Zbornak burst inside the classroom with a smile as he put all his books on the table. Aurora sighs again, sits back and relaxes and looks at him.

"Morning class," he continued. "Today we gonna learn something to make all of us realize what our life is for." he stares toward his student, all the students looking at each other's faces for no reason. "Our life. Which means like Earth, Heaven and Hell. Sin, repent." one of the students raised his hand. "Yes!?"

The student smiled. "This is History class Mr. Zbornak. Not a church lesson.''

"I know. What about Pompeii?"

"What about it?" The student sank on his chair waiting while the others learned their bodies to the front , touching their chest on the table, also waiting for the stories their teacher would present.

Zbornak nodded. "I'm not talking about Pompeii. I would like to touch this lesson about -- " before he could said more word, Aurora raise her hand as sudden. "Yes, Miss Fernandez."

"Can you tell us about the Angel?"

"Why do you need to?"

"for History. Nothing more." she said in whispers. Zbornack nodded with a smile and began his teaching about Angel. Moments later she felt someone tapped her arm and she looked like it was Laurent who woke her.

He smiles and whispers. "Tonight at 10. I'm gonna show you my secret place I've found in the woods. I believed no one knew that place existed till now. I wonder why. I marked that place as my territory." he smiled again. "Would you like to come with me tonight, Aurora."

"Yes. I would love to see it. Tonight."

Don't know -- can Laurent Danford see Michael standing right behind her hearing them but feels Laurent eyes can see him pretending not too. Tonight is tonight. Michael and the brothers must prepare. A war between the brothers.

At 10 after, the two couples walk into the woods. Laurent held her hand and led her the way toward his secret territory. Her hand suddenly cold as he held her, something is not right. She can see his hand slowly turn to pale then bruises icy cold hand like a dead body but his other skin is normal. In a minute they arrived and he was brought inside. "What do you think?"

"I've never seen this place before. Since when this place do exist. House. I've never seen this house abandoned for over a year. I don't know but cool." she look at him but he suddenly disappear from her sight. All this moment she been talked by herself. Where the hell he's going. "Laurent!?" she called out. "It's not funny okay. Where the hell you hiding!?"

In the second he's out of nowhere with an evil smile and grin she has never seen. He stood in the middle of the room, both of his hands were inside his pocket pants. "Such a beautiful creature and beautiful name, Aurora." he grinned again. "Pity to live like this. He's too out of sin. If he's full of sin I drag him with me." he chuckled.

"What do you mean drag my father with you. What are you talking about? '' She breathed. "You scared me, Laurent."

He grinned. "Oh, as I know you are never afraid of anything, Aurora. Why tonight? why suddenly.'' His grin showed his unnatural teeth that she had never seen before; something. Nor blood or -- but sharp teeth and black thicker liquid out from his mouth. Suddenly his face slowly changed from prince charming to dead corpse. "Scared huh."

"I'm not afraid of you because I know you weren't you." she slowly backed away. "Laurent Danford I knew wasn't a shrimp person; he had been allergic since birth, and he came from Religious family and you barely touch one of them nor to step in. And you are not him."

"Brava, how interesting you know about me."

She cried. "What have you done to him!?" Before she could scream out of his face, a brilliant spectral light pours into the empty house. Aurora is blinded. A dagger showed up out of nowhere flew right in front of her eyes then stabbed straight through Laurent's chest and his scream was enough to split the house and earth into two pieces. A dark mist covered with fire touches his whole body and guides him into disappearing. And then she looks up to see... The dark Silhouette of a man approaching from out of the spectral light. A man with wings.

Aurora's eyes grow wide as the fierce angel steps into the house. But this looks like the angel she saw before. This is a creature built for war. Rough hewn, battle scarred. His body armor makes him appear disturbingly insect-like. His wings are not feathery or gentle. Rather they are hard, mechanical, and organic machines. The angel's wings retract with clockwork-like precision. And now that we see his face clearly, notice his striking resemblance to Michael and Anael. Might even mistake them for brothers. GABRIEL.

"Oh my god!" she gasps, suddenly Anael shows up beside her, her eyes grow wider. "What the hell." Gabriel raises a massive, ferocious, strangely mechanical looking mace in his powerful hands. And the world returns to normal speed as Gabriel brings the mace arcing down at Aurora. She rolls! CLANG! as Anael pushed her away. The weapon just misses her, hitting the floor in a spray of sparks, literally cracking the ground. Gabriel brings the mace up again. Aurora won't be so lucky twice.

Anael and Gabriel square off in the house, not like enemies, but like brothers on opposite sides of a terrible family conflict. "I knew you sent Lucifer's son down, Gabriel. You were always so eager to please Him to get me."

"Unlike you." noticing Anael's scars. "Pity about your wings. They would have helped you now."

"To not feel their burden -- is a dream."

Gabriel smirks. "You think you can defy me and not pay the price?"

"You want me Gabriel not hers. Is it me you want and I'm here for you."

Gabriel grinned. "Yours is a fool's sacrifice. You can help her but she won't escape."

"And neither will you, brother." Anael slowly approaches Gabriel. "I'm not running anymore." Gabriel hesitates, doubt clouding his face. This was not what he was expecting. "Let me. You don't need to do this. There's another way. You can't keep me and her apart."

A beat, then Gabriel's expression hardens. "There is no other way --" He pulls back from Anael, raising the mace. Long deadly sharp spikes burst from all its sides as if it wasn't bad-ass enough. And the fight begins. Aurora ran out the house as her eyes were still locked on them, she backed away and back away till her back leaned into someone's chest. She jumps to see Michael behind her.

"I demand the answer." she cried. "What the hell is going on in here!?"

Michael slowly approached her. "You. Because of you my brother fought. I cannot stop Gabriel because of his unsatisfied matter. Truly to tell you, Aurora.'' She looked at him. "Have I ever mentioned to you who the person should protect you from harm and everything?" she nodded but still not believing it was him Michael mentioned about. "That is my brother. Your English teacher. His name is Anael. He was sent down to earth because of you. His love toward you never ends, he makes his promise to God to be blessed to have you in his arms but it seems you hate him for nothing. He'll do everything to make you remember him but you just can't. He also begged God not to send you down to earth because of his love toward you, he wanted you to live with him in Heaven before you were born but -- who can disobey God's order."

"I don't understand. He -- he's the Angel? My teacher is an Angel. Because this fight is all of this because of me!?"

Michael nods. "All of this because of his love toward you. Only he can explain it to you." his eyes locked on two of his brothers. Gabriel flies into a wall in an attempt to crush Anael. He fails that but succeeds in leaving a massive dent. Gabriel runs/flies for the opposite wall. This one doesn't hold and the two enemies crash through it into the bathroom. Unbelievably Anael is still holding on. Gabriel is up. He thrusts himself back into the bathroom mirror. It shatters painfully behind Anael.

Gabriel rages out of the bathroom and into the hallway. Anael continues to ride him like a wild bull. Gabriel slams Anael into a wall once more. It's a brutal struggle. Gabriel spots his mace sticking out of the wall within arms reach. He grabs it, holding it futilely in front of him. From this angle he'd never be able to hit Anael with it. Gabriel's strength is giving way. Anael is winning. Gabriel lets out a tremendous roar and plunges one of the mace's long spikes into his own stomach. Angel's eyes go wide with surprise, his grip loosens. Gabriel has run them both through.Gabriel rips the mace from his body and stumbles forward. Blood pours from a huge hole in Anael's chest. Right through his heart.

Gabriel looks down at the hole in his own belly. Not nearly as bad as Anael's. Apparently there's not a lot of blood left in this guy. Anael falls to his knees. Weakening. Gabriel looms over Anael. Anael looks up at him, blood leaking from his mouth.

"You always wanted to live like one of them. Now you'll know how it feels to die like one of them." Gabriel raises the mighty mace above his head. Anael closes his eyes. Submitting. The mace comes swinging down. Suddenly he hears Aurora screaming outside the house. His eyes drag on her with a smirk. He looms over her; Michael quickly shields her with his wings and makes Gabriel stop attempting to kill her.

"That's enough, Gabriel. Enough! No more blood from my brother dropped more on this earth." said Michael as Aurora hid back at his wings she looked at Gabriel without his notice then her eyes dragged to Anael. He slowly leaps up from his fight stand between the holes of the house, clamping his flat belly and all over his body filled with bruises and blood. She felt sorry for him. Because of her everything is chaos. "He need to speaks with you of what you did."

"I will." he turned to look at Anael behind. "And he's coming with us."

Michael nods. "He will. Because it is his time. But first -- let him speaksto her for a while then I came for him and no more trace or living Angel in here."

"So be it."