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Chapter 9

Ian's POV

She was asleep fast in my arms. I held her poisoned arm in hand and took a deep breath taking its sickening sweet smell of Susan the daughter of Lust. The woman I was supposed to marry but thank Lucifer my father broke that off. She was always getting into things she wasn't supposed to I couldn't stand that witch. She injected Sin into her veins and because she has no demon blood in her veins, the blood will kill her. The only person who could take it out is my father. Although he was deep in hell right now for business, he hardly ever came home to see my sister and me.

I sat up and gently put Lucy down on the bed trying not to wake her. I grabbed my black leather jacket and closed the door behind me.

"Where are you off to?" my sister asked me. By the look I must have gave her she must have realized that I was going to see dad. It's not that we had a bad relationship, it's just he's never here and he would never answer any of our questions about our mother and we can't help feeling he's responsible for her not being here. We watched over her store but always knew she was never coming back. I shut the door behind me and allowed my wings to grow and slowly my wings began to pick my body up and head towards the Reflectors Lake. It's the fastest way to travel through the dimensions to heaven, hell, and Earth.

"Ian, what brings you to hell?" my father asked not looking up as he cut into a thick blood steak that was most likely meat from a human.

"I have a friend that needs your help," I stated sounding gender neutral.

"The girl is going to die there is nothing I can do" he said mouth full. So much for keeping it gender neutral.

"But father she is going to die." I stated looking him in his black eyes.

"Oh, well."

"Father, I need you to save her. God dammit I need her. I don't know why but I do!" I yelled flipping the table above him and falling into a pit of fire.

"You'll get over her," he said looking rather distasteful that I had thrown his meal into the fire.

"No father, I won't." I said defeated falling to my knees. My chest tightened and it became hard to breathe. Her smile flashed before my eyes, her laugh rung in my ears, her lips, touch...

"Ian!"

Something wasn't right. Lucy wasn't okay. My breaths were uneven, my body was shaking, I paralyzed. I could hear the sound of something ripping before something cold and sharp striking my heart.

"Wake up," a voice whispered.

"Donovan don't do this to me! Please wake up," the voice begged. I opened my eyes and saw Lucy's crying face. I touched her cheek wiping her bloody tears, every time she cried her human body died a little.

"Lucy," I whispered and she looked at me funny.

"Did you already come up with a nickname for my baby? Donovan, what am I going to do with you?" she said laughing. Baby? Lucy was pregnant by who? She just called me Donovan, my father's name. Who is this?

"Who-"

"Come, we don't have time. We have to move quickly before Lust finds me. I told you she was trying to kill me but no you didn't want to believe me." She said pulling her black cloak over her head. She pulled mine up and kissed my lips. They were cold but sweet but oddly not as how I thought it would be.

I followed her through the woods and heard Lust's laughter behind us. What the hell is going on! I stopped yanking her to a stop bringing her right into my arms with the way she was holding me so tight.

"What is going on, who are you? Whose baby are you carrying? Why do you keep calling me my father's name?" I asked demanding answers.

"How hard did you hit your head Donovan? We have to go," She said trying to pull me forward but I wasn't having that anymore. Her eyes grew big.

"Ian?" She asked with a small voice and I nodded my head.

"Shit, Ian you're not supposed to be here. You need to leave." She said her pitch getting higher as she started to panic.

"I'm Lucilla's mother, Lucinda. I'm carrying Lucilla in my stomach but if we don't move now she will never be born." She cried and I didn't understand what was going on but I knew Lucy had to be born so I grabbed her hand and tugged it towards to woods to let her know I'd follow and ask questions later.

We heard a loud clap of thunder and lightning flashed before my eyes revealing a white Pegasus. A woman with blonde hair a crystal blue eyes was on a chariot coming down from the sky.

"Lucile we have to go, Donovan let's hurry the hell up. Lust is right behind us and bloodshed is getting worse." She said and I had to do a double take because it sounded just like my sister.

"Mom?' I asked and her eyes grew big as she looked a Lucy's mother.

"What is my son doing here? Ian you have to go back you're close to death this can't be happening." This was my mother, I hadn't seen her since I was a boy.

"My daughter was here a while ago to, Lust must have given her the kiss of death." Lucy's mom stated.

"Then that means the Oracle was right, Lucy is-"

"You think I don't know that? I gave up Donovan to make sure the prophecy came true." Lucy's mom said looking rather annoyed. Lucy's mom had a thing for my dad?

"So why did you kiss me?" I asked her and her face turned red.

"You kissed my son? You cougar," my mom laughed lightly.

"I thought he was Donovan, he had such a horrible fall catching me. I thought he died. I'm sorry." She said with tears filling her eyes.

"Aww don't waste your human life crying, it's okay. I know you two love each other and if it weren't for the fact that our children were destined to be counterparts, you two would have gotten married eons ago." My mom said turning her head hiding the pain. She looked at me with a weak smile.

"I'm guessing this is the first time you met me huh kiddo?" She asked me, and I shook my head no.

"Not for a few centuries, dad won't tell me and Syd why though. Last I saw you was when I was like five.

"Yah, I was afraid of that." She said before giving me a tight hug. A huge flame flew over our heads hitting the path in front of us and setting it ablaze.

"Whatever happens to me, make sure you don't blame it on your father. We made sacrifices so you could be with her." My mother said looking at me in the eye. She whispered something in my ear and everything went black.

What did this mean? Lucy is my counterpart? She's Love. I the devil Envy. Ever since I was little I had always been envious of my sister. I hated her so much as a child and it had only been recently that I had started to ease up. Was that because Lucy was in Nevell? My sister Syndey was the devil Pride and she too only recently started easing up so that would mean that her counterpart Humility was near. That's impossible though she's been too prideful lately so something must be wrong.

I know that angel that Lucy was protecting is the devil Anger and that guy she married is Patience. Lust, lord knows she hasn't eased up at all meaning she hasn't met her counterpart yet. The Earth doesn't have much longer before their end is near, if we succeed then we give the humans a few more millenniums before God brings them to his kingdom. The story of The Seven Devils were written Eons ago in the Book of Abres, the only place that book would possibly be found is in the Library of Mazes. That place is impossible to find unless God allows you permission to enter.

A bright white light hit my eyes before I was able to see my father in front of me. "Ian, I thought lost you." He said squeezing my shoulders before holding me in tight hug.

"Ian?" I turned my head to see Lucy holding my hand. I brought it closer and the black veins were no longer pulsing through her veins. I couldn't believe that I had actually found my counterpart, my soulmate. Lucifer had told me there was a higher chance of me never finding her considering I was one of the Seven Devils that carried Sin. In fact I haven't seen Earth since I was a boy, whenever I visited I filled those around me with Sin. It was a horrible knowing that you were driving people mad with envy as long as you were around them. When I was younger my envy was with angels but at the same time my sister. That all changed the day I lost my human body.

I pulled her hand closer towards me. I needed to tell her how much she meant to me before it's too late.

"Lucy I love-"

Lucy's POV

(Dream/Flashback)

"Lucy you can't be showing how smart you really are you're risking the lives of all of us of Leah." Justin said to as I crossed my arms. I was stuck in a five year olds human for and it was maddening.

"But Justin these humans are so stupid how do I just hold back my brilliance I'm superior over them. If we were to show them who we really were and what we can do think of it! They would bow at our feet, worshiping us." I said trying not to pull my hair out. I had left my family to do this job and I loved it and hated it all at the same time. I loved being on Earth but I hated how humans acted sometimes, they always seemed to ruin things for themselves.

"It's not us they should be worshipping but the son of Lord because they would have all been condemned to hell had he not been sacrificed. He saved their lives." Justin said like I didn't know already.

"So could I! I have been here for over a month and figured out how to cure cancer, AIDS, and every major disease that's killing them that has no cure. Jake figured all that out the first day he got here. We can save their lives and not even make them worship us they would be willing. In fact there were a few humans that had the cure for their pain instead of their lives but they weren't telling anyone. But nooo, humans are to be watched, we don't interfere."

"Leah is not to know who any of you are or your true abilities. You're lucky He hasn't sent one of his other angels to replace you or shut you up. Don't step out of line." Justin stated.

"So were supposed to watch mankind destroy itself? It's been crumbling since long before the His son saved their souls. Why can't we ease their suffering?" I asked. I truly did love all the humans, as much of a pain in the ass they were, and wished I could help them.

"Because that's not the plan. Why save a life not estimated to live that long when they have forever afterwards?" Justin had a point but didn't seem to understand my standpoint. I huffed. This conversation was going nowhere. We could purify all the Humans and save their lives at the same time, why would God not want us to take their pain away? I walked outside and sighed. The wind flowed through me hair sending small chills down my spine.

I could feel each individual hair on neck stand as I got this thing called Goosebumps. The sunlight caressed my face and I could smell the rain miles away that was going to descend upon this area. The grass between my toes made me feel incredible. Heaven is beautiful, it's beyond that. Its colors aren't as elaborate as heaven, the smells, the taste, the feel, but on earth, the simplicity of everything was also captivating and something that could not be found on heaven.

I walked down the green path alongside the highway. I could hear the lightening in the distance but it didn't scare me. Zeus was doing his daily list given to him from God. Anyone who was to die by lighting at Zeus's hands was orders from God.

A van pulled up next to me asking if I needed a ride. I told him no thanks. Why would I want to be given a lift by scum? What he did next I wasn't expecting putting some cloth around my face and before I could react the lights went black.

I could hear the tires going over the road. The gravel underneath this struck seemed to never end. My eyes were covered by cloth and my hands were bound by rope behind my back. I pulled on them and even though they dug into my skin causing me pain I could hear the fibers ripping and I knew if I pulled hard enough it would break. But I didn't want it to break. I layed where I was, waiting patiently. This man must die. The van stopped and I could hear him turn off the car and get out. He opened the door and I could hear the rain poring. He lifted me up still assuming I was asleep. I felt the cold droplets padding violently against my dress. We entered a building and it reeked of blood, sweat, and tears.

I was put in a room with bright lights and thrown on a table my eyes flew open but I was already injected with something. Damn this Human body for being so weak. My vision was blurry but it looking like I was on an operating table and they were doing something to me. They threw me in a cage as the medicine wore off. They weren't expecting the medicine to wear off so suddenly but they didn't know and what they don't know won't kill them... yet.

I looked around and there were children all around seven years old. They were skinny, frail looking, bleeding or passed out. What is this place? Apparently I asked out loud because I got a response from the cell next to me.

"We're being sent out for multiple reasons; to be adopted by strangers who purchase us, become slaves or servants, sold to sex trafficking, or dissected." The girl next to me spoke, she was skinny and sad looking. Dull brown eyes, light brown hair and a splash of freckles defined her face. She held an apple out to me.

"You're going to need all your strength when they come back and test you. If you're lucky and smart they won't put you in trafficking like they did to me." She said turning and showing me a weird looking tattoo. "I'm Sharon."

"How old are you?" I asked eating the apple.

"Twelve she said making me nearly choke." My eyes grew wide and she turned her head in shame.

"My daddy raped me and sold me here saying I was a slut and deserved whatever they would do to me." She said tearing up. Such sick humans. Why does God punish this girl and let the father live?

"I'll get you out of here." I promised and I saw a flash of movement. It was a shadow but it was gone before I could see. I pulled out of the rope I was in and my wrist dripped with blood. People in white lab coats came to my cage and unlocked it. I lunged at them knocking them down trying to run to the door but allowed them to capture me. I didn't expect another syringe this one with higher dosage. I woke up to a light in my face and tried to move but my hands were strapped. I turned my head and could see out the door.

Someone was picking a lock to a cage and letting people out. He had icy blue eyes and black hair with dark pink lips and creamy white skin. He put his finger to his lips signaling me to be quiet. I looked up to the bright light. A boy no older than thirteen is helping people? Was there hope for humanity?

The man was drawing out my blood and furiously scribbling in his notes.

"How do you do it?" He looked up at me and smiled. "You're quite different than the rest of them." Something about the way he smiled made me shiver and not in the good way.

"My body was made that way." I said while looking at the last kids that appear to be leaving.

"Ah but it wasn't born that way. You were created. What was your maker or scientist? What experiment name are you?" He asked me.

"Why are you doing this to these children? You disgust me." I said spitting in his direction and he slapped me. That actually hurt a lot and if I was in my true form I wouldn't have felt it.

"How dare you disrespect me!" He roared there was a crash outside and his head whipped that way. He ran out and I tried pulling out of the restraints. I was able to angle my hand enough to get it out and I started freeing my other hand when I heard a scream and then a gun shot.

I could smell the salty copperiest of the blood. I released my restraints when I heard five more shots go off. I ran into the room and Sharon was on the floor bleeding as was the boy that was saving everyone. He looked furious. His breathing started getting harder and white wings mixed with a little black started ripping from his back and little horns protruded from his head. The girl and the man looked at him in horror.

"I knew you were real. Please forgive for all this was done for the Lord." The man said on his knees bowing at the demon Halfling. He scratched his cheek bringing his face closer to him. I knew what was going to happen if I stayed still. I jumped and tackled him.

"Don't!" I screamed and his eyes flared red, pissed I had stopped him.

"He deserves this! He will make a fine meal for my father," That was when I finally understood what Justin meant.

"It's not our place to serve judgement," I said and his eyes softened returning to icy blue.

"The words of a true Angel." He said realizing what I was. I blushed and looked away. A shot rang through the air as we turned towards the man with a hole in his head and the wounded girl dropping the gun. No. This wasn't right. The Halfling, half angel half demon, went near her to grab the gun and she jerked back.

"Don't! Don't you dare come near me! You're a demon! Angels help people not help kill them. Get out." I was taken aback, she held the gun up between me and him. I didn't mean for this to happen.

"Leave and go to hell. This is your fault" She said. I started to feel my wings wanting to crawl out but a two arms covered my shoulders.

"If you do it while on Earth you'll lose your human body like I did mine." The Halfling whispered in my ear. The girl stared at us with a wild look in her eye. She dropped the gun and screamed at us to leave as she limped towards the gallons of gasoline cans and started knocking them down. The Halfling picked me up like a princess and carried me away and I could hear a sound of a lighter being turned on. I turned around and the building exploded with fire.

It was pouring rain and I could hear sirens in the distance. Your fault, your fault, your fault. It echoed in my head. She had looked at me when she said that.

Thunder rumbled above us we waded through the rain and walked soaking wet though the night completely lost yet somehow I knew where we were headed. I was put down on my feet as the Halfling knocked on the door in front of a shack. A drunken man opened the door and slurred asking what we wanted.

His red crusty eye, no doubt from the over indulged alcohol consumed stared at me up and down. His rancid breath coming out of his fuzzy five o' clock shadow and yellow teeth into our face almost made me gag. His protruding beer belly made it seem that a man could be pregnant despite nature's laws. He smiled and looked and me digging his hand deep into his basketball shorts touching himself.

"Want me to break her in?" He asked and a hand entered into his chest cavity grabbing his heart. He looked scared beyond belief and I didn't care.

"How dare do you speak to her like that!" the Halfling roared at the same time I screamed at him asking why he sold his daughter.

"She was a slut, just like her mother." He said quivering. I heard the Halfling whisper wrong answer before he ripped his slowly beating heart out of his chest. Lighting and thunder rumbled all around us.

Lucillia.

Everything was being seen in red. I saw blood everywhere. Monsters. Killers. Rapists. They needed to die. I would cleanse this filthy earth of the wretched souls and damn them to hell if God allowed me.

Lucillia.

There would be no more suffering and death.

Lucillia.

The Halfling touched my chin tilting it up kissing my lips. I let my eyes close but when I opened them again Jake stared at me in his true angel form. His arms were cut off and his chest hallow. There was a hole in between his eyes and blood dipped down his face.

No. This isn't real. I heard laughter and turned around. The scientist/kidnapper was there bloody holding a gut. Next to him Sharon's dad held Jake's heart in his hand. Beside them was an endless row of people bloody and dead.

We're not the monster you are! You're a demon not an angel.

I woke up with start. My chest was heaving up and down as sweat poured down my back. This wasn't just a dream, this was a memory. This happened over century ago when I was just given the job of protecting Leah and hadn't even met her yet.

Those eyes though. The Halfling was part Angel and part Demon, it was Ian. I knew those eyes and I didn't know it was him when I first met him but now. I don't know what to think.

"Lucillia," I turned and looked at and older version of Ian and with red eyes instead of blue.

"Ian?" I asked confused and he smiled.

"No, but I like the name," he said and then it clicked.

"Donovan?" I asked incredulously. What was going on?

"I thought you might remember me if I responded that way," he said smiling patting my head. How was he here? How did he remember that if I was as my mother in a dream? I'm so confused, what is going on?

"I'm Ian's father, I just took out the poison of Death from your veins so you might still feel a little weak. I did the same for Ian since your counterparts and when the poison spread closer to your heart it, spread to his a well. Actually almost lost you both." He said glancing down at Ian who looked so pale. Counterparts? What was he talking about? I was about to ask him what that meant when he called out his son's name.

I took Ian's hand almost out of instinct and realized how cold it was. His eyes flickered before opening his eyes and sitting up slowly.

"Ian, I thought lost you." Donovan said squeezing his shoulders before holding him in tight hug.

"Ian?" I asked wondering if he was ok. He turned towards me and brought my hand closer evaluating my arm realizing the black poison was no longer pulsing through my veins. He looked like he had seen a ghost. He held my hand tight as he looked in my eyes melting my heart a little despite that horrible memory.

"Lucy, I love-" he started before he was cut off by the opening slam of doors and Jake bursting inside.

"Lucy!" Jake cried out.

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Need feedback people. Seriously. Sorry for disappearing... again. Haven't given up hope for this story yet. Hope you enjoyed. I know it's been a while if you're confused reread the previous chapters or wait for the next one which should hopefully clear things up for you.

-LeXi :D

Shout out to ShadowRainbow and Frozen_In_Life for never giving up on my story even though I had almost! Love you guys!!!! :-*