The night spoke of darkness and sorrow. Something no being ever thought would happen. Human and non human alike.
Non human?
Yes, that was what these specific beings were. They were angels. Angels that guarded mortals...
The gods that die.
They prepared them, protected them and stood for them. They never left their duty and they were so close to their masters - the gods that die. They taught them and laughed with them and sometimes if need be, possess them.
Most people saw their angels face to face when they were little and that meant that the guardian bond was strong. Some met theirs at the age fifteen. And late mortals saw theirs at age eighteen which of course was the last.
This day was so strange and dull of life. No angel could believe or would ever believe that this kind of thing could occur.
Treason.
They had all left their duties to witness the punishment this particular angel would face.
Lucille.
She was the quiet angel no one ever noticed. The angel that minded her business and had few or no friends. She was just assigned her mortal few days ago and when they asked how she felt, she just shrugged.
Like normal Lucille would do.
But here she was being dragged out like a slave, she was bleeding from everywhere and looked ragged. She was being dragged to the front... The high pavilion.
The immortals jeered and booed at her as she was chained. Now the question was, what did she do?
How could someone so reserved do something so terrible? Treason?
But there was and is always a common saying, ' the most dangerous people are the quiet ones'
That was it. Because no one knew what they were thinking.
"You, De Lucille Von , angel of the green gate has brought shame upon this large clan of angels", the head of the angels, Nathaniel said.
" How dare you plan to take over the green gate? The gate that leads to life? That is treason and now you shall face the music", he said looking at her in the eyes.
This Lucille was a quiet and loving angel, she did her work diligently and very well, but why did she plan to do such thing?
If it were the other gates she planned to take over, it would have been better. The green gate held mysteries and truths. It held life to it's fullness and most of all...
It held power.
Power that no man could explain. But how could foolish human wisdom explain such thing. The angels and lower gods could not explain it. If anyone planned to go near or went near it, that being would be eliminated and scattered into pieces.
So they had protectors. People who protected this gate. She wasn't so special like a protector, she was just the person who fed the protectors and did whatever they told her to do.
"I can explain myself", she said weakly, but no one heard her or acted like they did.
She had heard that calling again. The last time she heard such calling was when she was a young angel. It was calling her telling her that she was the key and the guardian who would open the gate.
No one could open the gate, it was the only locked gate in their realm. No one could come close because only then would they be eliminated and scattered.
But each time she served the so called protectors, it always called her by her name, Lucille Von. And it dragged her towards it...
That was what she wanted to tell them, but who would believe such fairy tale. Who would believe she was the guardian of the gate or that she was like a key... Not even Nathaniel.
She, De Lucille Von, stared at Nathaniel as he looked at her pitifully, he could not believe it that she wanted to go near the gate. That she challenged the protectors of the gate.
"You shall hereby be sentenced according to the angels code of conduct", he said and a book that was so large and full was brought to him and held out so he could read it out.
The pages turned by itself and she was brought forward by the punisher's servants...
The punisher.
That was the first time she had ever seen this particular angel that screamed no other thing but death and retribution. He was dark and was partly angel partly horse. He held a strange staff that looked like a sickle and had words written in the adamic language.
Punishment and death.
That was what it read.
The punisher came forward not smiling. He never smiled no matter what the situation was. " She has committed a serious offence of treason", Nathaniel started. " According to our book of law, the angels code of conduct, section IV number 804 which stands alone , anyone who commits the treason of going near the green gate or challenging the protectors of the gate will bear these punishments ", he said and looked at the punisher.
The punisher came forward with his staff that looked like a sickle and bore that name written in the adamic language.
"You shall bear the face of an anti angel and restricted from entering the heavens till you go round the earth in search of your human, only then can you be allowed", he said with a voice so hard and rough.
He did not tell her that even if she found the human she was to bond with, she still wouldn't be allowed to come till she accomplished her mission as an angel.
Not much angels were born with a mission, but, she was. And no one knew her mission because it was vague and uninterpretable.
The anti angels, demons. Angels thrown down from the heaven for the sin of disobedience and treason.
The punisher stretched his staff on her and she began screaming. It was painful and a real torture. She gave a long piercing scream then stopped.
Let it go Lucille.
Let it go.
And her punishment was given to her... She was going to be the first guardian demon in the history of humans...