Chapter 3
Rafe raises his hand and a prism platform emerges and he tells me to sit down, I feel at the chair because everything's blended and I can't see a thing, I feel the raised spot and sit down pushing back my wings. I feel like I'm in college again with this ugly toga. Rafe shakes his head again and my toga changes into a leather coat, white vest, a red tie, jeans, an ugly brown belt, and jeans and spot-on boots. So practically, I'm dressed for Halloween. I touch the silver strand on my forehead.
"This is hair. I have silver hair"
"That's why you need to sit down"
"I'm seated" I mumble and he starts talking about a prism of four realms with earth in the nucleus, the sphere is more complex than I realize and all that lecture about how big the universe is.
The monsters I saw are fire wraiths, the second are water nymphs (highly deceptive and fascinating species if you know what I mean) I didn't know the rest of it because I'm too preoccupied with my extinction, Rafe snaps his fingers at me.
"You're not being attentive"
"I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the screaming" I tap my ears and Rafe looks around rubbing his head
"It's probably the gem sprites, they're in charge of the realm's precious gems and geological activity."
I yawn at that "This is all ABC shit, get to the part where I care"
Rafe shakes his head and I flinch hoping I wouldn't find myself in a bikini top, it looks like my fairy godmother paid a visit.
"You retain a very remarkable core that allows you to operate on several spheres with different elements and sub-elements"
"Hah?"
Rafe sighs "You can control two or three elements at the same time, your mom wasn't kidding when she named you Angel because you are one"
"Aw shucks, Rafe" I flip my hand at him pretending to exult in it, and rotate my finger for him to get to the point and he opens a portal and we're walking into a sphere where I see angels drifting about in the sky, of different sizes.
"You're in your undying phase and you're a patron on this viewpoint"
"I got stabbed on the foot"
"The other realms are threatening to break into the earth and conquer it and you are the key to opening that barrier that separates their realm from earth's...so, now that you're dead, they can get to you, luckily, I got to you first, huh?"
He nods waiting for me to agree and I'm laughing my head off at this fellow but then again, I have flaming wings.
"The world can go ahead and burn, I passed my prime hours ago"
"Time doesn't exist in this realm"
"And what's this realm called?"
Rafe looks like he's about to spill his guts and I'm waiting for an answer.
"Sapville"
"Oh for Pete's sake!"
"If you sign this contract, you'll be one of us"
The contract appears floating in his hand and I push the fountain pen away from my face.
"What's the catch?"
The PRO is, you'll be untouchable, you belong to SAP. The con...you'll remain a menace to other realms"
I roll my eyes, why do I feel like I've heard this before? I've been a menace all my life and a time comes when I can exert my revenge on those losers without actually lifting a finger. I rub my chin while Rafe waits.
"Let me think about it for a sec...NO"
Girl angel with blue hair dives and does this superhero landing on the floor and glares at me, what can I say, I've always been an SAP for pretty girls.
"I'm Catholic, lapsed" I lift my hand for a shake and her pale eyes move from it to my face then Rafe.
"This is him?"
"This is Amanda, she's one of the wardens on earth"
"Really, then you're not doing a really good job on keeping the planet safe with all those demons hangin' around"
She pulls at my tie and I'm choking, I meet her intense eyes.
"Are you telling me how to do my job?"
"No ma'am"
I straighten my vest when she lets go and the contract comes flying at my face, I push it aside.
"So where's the big man upstairs?"
"This is the realm of patrons, not a hierarchy."
He explains and Amanda's staring at me like I'm dead meat. I have something to discuss with the boss of this whole operation and so far Rafe seems like the only one willing to guide me, so everyone else has a role to play and I'm just drifting in a realm_ I would rather be drifting because this talk about world domination sounds entertaining.
"Do you have like a network for me to watch the whole Saga...in color?"
"Didn't hear what I said? I said they're coming to get you and as far as I can see, you're a FREE AGENT, get it? THEY'RE HUNGRY"
I nod in understanding, I admit sometimes I'm not the brightest bulb in the room but there's a euphoria that comes with knowing everything about absolutely nothing. Amanda shakes her head covering her face.
"Did you just call me to talk smack, am I getting paid, and thirdly...these pants are a little too tight"
So this isn't the Chosen One trope I hoped for, I'm just a thing okay a thing to cause massive destruction. I clap my hands together
"Who do I meet to set me up on this World Domination agenda?" Also another thing, I bluff all the time.
"He's a coward," Amanda says to Rafe
"I can hear you and you need to reexamine your dumb label. I'm done, I'm going back to earth"
I shake my head and walk away, freezing and waving my arms at the drop with nothing below. Stepping away from the ridge.
"You're on the edge of the prism doofus"
I thought the universe was indefinite but this "Prism" just crams it down to one small thing which is bizarre and yet so simple.
I look at Rafe and fling at the contract swarming around me "Take me back to earth, I wanna visit a guy and give him a piece of my mind"
"Angel"
"Let him go, the sooner he understands the gravity of this crisis, the quicker he will be to decide"
"As you said, Mandy, I'm a coward, I ain't cut out for this Fate of the World bullshit and as much I wanna join your pansy club but I already have one, it's called ME, adios"
"Wait, we've got an assignment for you"
I laugh, I don't want any job, not on this side of life or... death.
"What crazy-ass job do you have for me?"