Chapter XI: Your Guardian Angel
"Wait! Alister! Will you stop for a moment, please?" Arielle said as she followed Alister heading into the Alliance.
Alister suddenly stopped from running, he stood still on his ground as he waited to Arielle to reach his whereabouts and he turned around and look at her in the eyes with a mourning looks of his face. She can see the anger that he felt so bad for knowing that whoever those who has the courage of trying to do the right thing has now accused into a fugitive and ended up in the situation he doesn't deserve. An extreme guilt that he felt because of leaving Dante as he knew it already on being there at the situation of dying alone.
"If he died, it's my fault. I don't wanna add that into my nightmares. Please don't stop me." Alister said.
"But, I can't afford to lose you... I can't afford to lose you both on the same day, we still have a lot of demon to contain. The world is counting on us right now, because no one is brave enough like you, like Dante, Peebles and Luther to commit into this kind of quest." Arielle replied, as the sincere looked in her eyes contacted with Alister's eyes like she was telling him something that cannot be said by words.
Alister hugged her, squeezed her tight into his cold body and kissed her on the forehead, as he tried to tell her the things that can only be felt by the hearts.
"I'm sorry but I have to do this, whatever it takes to save him." Alister said. He hold both of her arms and pushed her towards the tree behind them and then he tied her with the vines in it, as she saw how desperate Alister was of saving Dante. Alister resumed running into the Alliance. Arielle's heart broke down because of the decision that Alister chosen. She can't believed how committed Alister on saving their friend Dante.The only thing what Khael tasked her to do was to take Dante into a safer place until everything of this unexpected happened.
She was supposed to used on not to feel this kind of emotions before because Someone ordered her to not to, but this time was different.
It was a brunch when Alister made into the Alliance. He was standing right next to an oak tree near at the Westpass gate, thinking on how to passed the knights guarding in it. Since he didn't have to worry about the sacred vanguard because he can pass in it with his guardian amulet that's why he was just planning his move on how to take down those six knights in there. First, he took down the knight up on the archer tower with his supernatural strength, he grows up one of his sharp claw, cut it off from his fingertip and with all of his strength, he throw it up to the knight guarding the archer tower as it pierced into his head that caused of his death. And now, he was safe from the trumpet being blown up in the tower. After that, he charged into the five knights on the gate. The older knight that was telling him to stop of where he's at, he charged into him first and he choked him and throw him down on the brick pathway of the gate that turned the old knight unconscious. Alister doesn't want to kill anybody except on the one in the tower, he don't have a choice for that. The remaining knights attacked him with their silver claymores as it sliced and hurt Alister. The knights were ain't like an ordinary knight who can be easily defeated as Alister underestimated them. Incision wounds of Alister he got from them were slowly healing because of the silver. He didn't want to kill them but the knights think of him was a monster. Dark lights were coming out of his body, demonic aura of a vampire as he activated his killing instinct. Everytime the knights draw their swords to him, Alister evaded it in a great speed and coordination of his combat skills. When the four knights were attacking him together, draw their swords up, down and sideward towards him, Alister doesn't bother as their speed were unmatched. After the knights got exhausted, Alister took his advantage to take them down. With his super speed and strength, he slitted their throats using his sharp claws and on the last one was too unlucky as he bit him and drained the blood inside of him with his vampiric fangs as it helped Alister to get more stronger and enhanced his wound-healing ability more faster than the usual.
The coronation of Lucius as the new king of the Alliance has already done too early at the abbey in the capital city near at the arcane tower and the Capital Castle where a lot of people gathered there to witness it and the bad news announcement of the dead former King. People were wondering why does the throne wasn't passed to Lucius' father? It's simply because Lucius detained his own father down in the dungeon at the Westpass three weeks earlier as his plan of taking over the throne was well executed through the help of Hades, Zeus's brother. Hades was one of the grand magus of the Alliance who mastered the element of fire and dark magic such as summoning monstrous creatures, assassination through shadows and also he mastered the eternal youth as he got stuck in the age of his mid thirty's, long black hair, beard, and a sharp, terrifying looks of his reddish-brown eyes that matches to his dark, thick eyebrows in a dusty black coat and a scepter with a figure of a vulture's head carved on its handle.
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It was a little bit late when Alister reached at the Capital, the center of the Alliance Empire. In the wide townsquare of the capital, a gathering of crowd surrounded the place as Lucius and his subordinates were conducting an execution of Dante in the center front of the townsquare as Dante was kneeled down in the pillory, a device made of a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands. He kept on turning himself into a werewolf but he can't because he was locked down with it so hard that made him not be able gain enough strength from morphing.
"This man you are seeing here, was the man who's responsible for the death of one of our greatest legion commander. But that was not the only thing he did wrong, he also possessed the power of a demon, a blood of a werewolf running through his veins. He's a threat to humanity!" Lucius uttered in front of the crowd, convincing them that Dante was a great threat.
"Kill him!" a man from the crowd shouted.
"Kill! kill! kill! kill..." the crowd chattered.
In the middle of the crowd, Dante's mother, was there, struggling to get her way to him as Edna held her hands tight while feeling her conscience and guilt of betraying her childhood friend for gaining some empire's glory, she held her tight to kept her from reaching to Dante. She was so much in pain upon seeing her son there being sentenced to death.
As a king, Lucius gave his command to the man standing behind the pillory where Dante was being locked, an executioner, holding a massive silver halberd or a double bladed axe that was perfectly made for executing demons. The executioner raised his hands as he hold the axe on it pointed down directly to cut Dante's head, but suddenly, without hesitation, Alister attacked the executioner. The axe that the executioner was holding was thrown away as he attacked him and sucked up the blood from him that cause of the executioner's death. The crowd of people was shocked, started to panicked as they scattered around the place running when they saw Alister that was on his vicious self completely. His eyes turned red, vampire fangs were shown out everytime he speaks as his skin turned more pale and his sharp vampiric claws.
After Alister killed the executioner, the Alliance knights surrounded him and attacked him with their silver claymores. Before the knights reach to him, he released Dante from being locked up from the pillory. In just a matter of seconds, Dante shifted into a seven foot werewolf. His eyes turned bluish-black, a signs that he has now have the control of himself while he was in his werewolf form. Furs grew up to his body as his clothes ripped off and as well as his claws grew up to his paws. Sharp werewolf fangs were shown out as he growled horribly.
Knight were so hesitant to fight but they don't have a choice but to obey the command of Lucius. Knights attacked Dante and Alister with their silver claymores and spears. Alister picked up the dead executioner's axe and threw it towards the incoming attackers as it cut the first knight's body into half and because of an extraordinary force that was used to it, it continue to pierced into the knight's stomach at the back of the first knight that was cut off in half, penetrated into his armor. Dante fought his attackers barehanded using his claws and super strength and speed. Heads were getting cut off and throats were getting slitted gruesomely, claws penetrated through the chestplates as blood spills throughout of it and he boomeranged some of the weapons back to his attackers. The townsquare was covered in blood, it was a carnage. After Dante finished fighting his attackers, he quickly reached to Lucius' whereabouts as Lucius held his mother pointing a dagger on her throat. Dante stopped, he doesn't have any choice but to stopped as they knew that family was one of his weaknesses. Dante stood still until suddenly Edna casted her enormous fire magic to him as it made him blown away as Dante fell into the fountain statue in the middle of the townsquare. Before Dante got completely stand up, Lucius wrapped him with his huge vines magic coming out of the ground and there was a woman from out of nowhere suddenly picked up a sword and stabbed it to his back. Dante growled ferociously, agonizing the pain of a silver claymore pierced through his body. After the woman stabbed him, she cried which that gave her a satisfying feelings of vengeance she thought it could be, it was Jamarion's fiancee. When Dante looked at her, he always felt a heavy guilt inside, so,he just accepted being stabbed by her and just think that he deserved it.
Edna held and pulled the woman out in the middle of the battle together with Dante's mother and she detained them inside the carriage and took them into Cassemere.
Although Alister handled his attackers pretty well, but he still got wounded with incisions from the silver weapons of them and it made him to feel some pain time and time. It is the wounds that made him feel exhausted. One skilled knight has finally stabbed him a sword into his stomach but Alister still remained vicious. Alister held the knight's neck with his supernatural strength, cleared the armor clothing from it and drained the blood out of him and after that, the knight died in blood loss and Alister pulled the sword out of his body. He kneeled down after taking that, as he felt a great amount of pain from the silver and his dark blood dripping on the brick ground-floor.
Arielle came along, stood at the wide hallway at the west side of the townsquare as she watched the mess and the chaos in the place.
Still, there's a lot of knights that were surrounded them. As Arielle saw the two, wounded, weakened and helpless.
"Forgive me for leaving you there last time. If... if I tried to fight back with you that time, maybe this would never happened. I'm sorry if I became a coward. But now, I'm here to fight with you... I guess this would be the end. Atleast I tried to save you, though things didn't worked really well. If you die, then we die together! Because you are my friend! I'm so glad to know you, BROTHER." Alister looked at Dante and smiled and said it to him as it eased him from the heavy feelings he felt at the time they abandoned him. Dante felt gladly to have someone to fight with his side, he reminded him of Jamarion.
The knights rushed towards them. But before they reached to them and get them killed, an enormous bluish white light suddenly burst, stunned everyone in the townsquare as it blared into the air that causes to seek their attention.
Bluish white light enlightened her eyes that made them too hard to look at her beautiful angelic face, the way her ash blond hair falls into her shoulder and huge white feather wings like a dove has. Her clothing, armor and robes suddenly replace by an armored white dress that matches to her flawless white skin tone and perfectly-shaped body. Everyone was fascinated by it until Lucius screamed and accused her as another demon as everyone who lives in the GreatLand has never seen anything like it before. The knights were rushing towards her but in just one powerful burst of light as she thrusted her fist into the ground with the power of magical force of light which that made everyone who's rushing to attack her blown away as they fell down on the ground hardly. She untied Dante from Lucius and she flew up and said, "I am the Angel of GOD! These people that you were accusing as a menacing demons were the one, and the only one who were brave enough of trying to find a way to fight the enemy and to cleanse this land away from chaos, Instead of you killing each other, I am asking you to hear each other's thought, help each other for the goodsake, and have a faith on HIM, since, now you know the truth." Arielle said to them and after that, she headed to Alister.
She picked him up and put her hands onto his face. She looked at him directly into the eyes as she reminisced into the time, the time when she first felt the forbidden emotions she was not meant to be felt to but she couldn't hold it up this time. On the ship when Alister saved her from drowning as he gave her the kiss of life under the deep sea. She also remembered the time when they sat together on the huge rock near at the shore. That was the time when Arielle started to feel love, and it was a demon she fell into. Knowing that to the rules of the Supreme God, the Creator of all the universe, as an angel, they were forbidden to fell in love as they swear an oath to served the Heaven and watch and guide the living creatures that God created.
"You're a demon but you didn't let it to define yourself of who you are despite of everything bad happened to you. I can see your pain every single time. I am willing to give up my angel's grace to fall in love with you Alister. I love you." Arielle sincerely said to Alister as she kissed him. Alister was somehow shocked and confused, but greatly fascinated after knowing the truth about her. Every physical pain that Alister felt as well as his wounds, suddenly gone away as Arielle healed her for the last time using her healing angelic healing power. "Because of this, Father will punished me, but it's okay, I can take it. If you have some time to look for me again, I'll be at the place where the day is always dusk, and I will not give up in there, I will not stop surviving until you save me."
"Why do all the people I want to protect suddenly disappear? or when you're not, you leave, why? I always dreamed about someone to spend the rest of my life, for a very long time, I've never felt this kind of feeling to be love by someone for a long time. I will find you, even if it will cost my life, I promise." Alister said his last words to Arielle as the blinding bright light from above the skies dragged her up.
Everyone watching it were stunned and somehow fascinated. For the last time, before Arielle got completely dragged up, she healed all the wounded and revived all of the dead knights back.
All of the Alliance knights were done of obeying Lucius' commands to them after knowing the truth. Lucius still insisted to command them to continue seizing Alister and Dante but the knights respected their rights after the Angel asked them what to do.
"She was right, all we need now is to create and build a unity, a real Alliance. Not just by the words itself and the power of the throne it gives. And now, we knew that there is Someone out there above was watching us." one of the Knight said to Lucius.
The knights calmly get up and returned into their respective homes and let Dante and Alister freely go away.
"Thank you my friend. This time, I will first listen to all of you and your thoughts before doing anything stupid. I'm really sorry for putting you into this." Dante apologized to Alister.
"It's alright my friend, atleast now we know what to do. Just help me find her. And after that, were gonna hunt down every demons in these land. For now, all we need is a regroup, we have to find Luther and Peebles." Alister replied.
"Yeah, I also have to get my mother and bring her to a safer place with us, I think they brought her to Cassemere." Dante said.
Dante and Alister headed their way into Cassemere, from the crowded city of the Capital, they travelled a road through a bushy plains and woods into the town of Cassemere. When they got in there, they saw Luther and Peebles along with Dante's mother, Maeve, as Luther and Peebles rescued her from being detained inside the carriage. They headed their way back into MoonGlade.
On that time Arielle got dragged by the light up in the sky, It was God... .
"My child, how could you disobeyed your Father?"
Arielle was punished by Him because of the things she did. Her soul was taken out of her vessel as her soul was dragged down into the place where the day was always dusk and her vessel or her mortal body was frozen in the ice, preserved, somewhere else in the far north where the climate was extremely polarized.