Thanks still to Final Stand for his madness and Shyquash for his editing all further mistakes are mine. Please comment it is the only way I can improve.
I am lying on my back when I come to. Azrael is on top of me kissing me still until a furious Ashley comes up behind her and hits her upside the head with a jumbo adjustable wrench knocking her off me. Ashley quickly stands over me like some mama bear protecting her cubs. She's kinda a humorous sight, this five foot three inch blond kid who cannot weight more than one hundred lbs soaking wet. She drops the wrench and grabs her knife in one hand and phone in the other. I need to put a stop to this before it gets out of hand.
I stand up and try to put my hands on Ashley's shoulders to let her know that I am ok, only to go right through her. It's like she can't feel me or like those movies where ghost could not touch the living. Ohh shit, don't let me be dead. I look down and yep my body is still on the ground. I know that I'm not dead because I'm doing my rendition of the Harlem Shake. My body flops like a fish out of water, well if that fish was lying in a puddle with an electric current in it. Well, I guess I am not dead.
"Bitch what the fuck did you do to him? Come any closer to him and I will cut your skank ass."
Ashley's pissed like I have not seen her in a long time. If I'm not dead, why can't I touch her. Azrael rebounds quickly, coming up and towering over Ashley.
"He is fine little one, just the transfer is affecting him in a ... strange way."
Ashley's not listening at all, she's already on the phone with 911 calling an ambulance. So here I am, with my thumb up my ass, Ashley freaking out and Azrael being held at knife point. This day seems to be really going well.
"Human, understand he will be fine and he needs me close to him now" Azrael starts moving towards me. She doesn't make it far before Ashley stabs her twice where her liver would be, just like I taught her.
"You sarding cunt" screams Azrael as she changes.
Soon Ashley is confronted by a very pissed off Azrael, wings spread, her claws out but she seems not to be able to move. Like something is holding her from attacking Ashley. She lets out this roar and I can feel how pissed off she is.
"Ohh Fuck what are you?"
Ashley looks scared but she doesn't not move away from me.
"I am his wife and as you are his child. You will listen to me."
Before it could get any worse here come the sirens. Azrael starts changing back to her human form. The effort brings her to her knees but she seems healed afterwards, the knife wound completely gone. Her clothes though are a wash, the shirt is ripped and her jeans torn where her legs and feet have changed. She quickly grabs her jacket and zips it, her tits squeezed together very nicely I must say. Way hotter than one of those pretentious Abercrombie and Fitch ads you see.
As the EMT's come in to do what they can for my flopping body, I get to take a look outside and it's not what I expected. I quickly walk past them and out the open door, although it's not past, I walk right through them. Now that is disconcerting, it doesn't feel anything different than walking to the fridge for that half gallon of Ben and Jerry's at two in the morning.
Instead of seeing bayou or a parking lot or any of the other things I expect to see, it's just a blasted landscape. It's a desert with nothing around me, just my shop and then nothing. Soon the paramedics have me out the door and it looks like they went out my shop into nothing. When they lift my body into what I assume it's the back of the ambulance, it becomes a shape. It was not there one second and then there it is. Being away from my body is not the world's best idea I surmise, so I quickly try to get back in.
They have me strapped down and I'm still flopping. I notice that both Azrael and Ashley are in the back, which I guess is odd. I thought only one person could ride in the back, at least that is the way it is in the movies, but this is not the movies but an odd situation, to say the least. The medics are working feverishly sticking things in me speaking med speak and doing their thing.
Ashley has such a sad look. She reminds me of when I found her all those years ago, huddled in a corner of my shop. I lean forward to try to comfort her, totally forgetting that I can not touch a damn thing.
"Please don't die Chris, don't you fucking leave me."
She just keeps repeating it over and over. I know that if I do live through this she's going to kick my ass... hell I might just let her. Azrael is sitting back, watching the medics work. She rolls her eyes and is about to say something when Ashley snatches her back without even looking at her.
"I will fucking stab you if you let one word come out of your mouth bitch. Let them do what they have to, you hear me. I will fucking gut you."
Azrael looks at Ashley for a second and then just sits back. I swear that I see a little smile cross her face.
Something compels me to look out the window and instead of a vast expanse of nothing I see a grass plain. It is beautiful and I can feel the sun on my face and lean down and touch the grass. I am in no way the outdoors type, but I can appreciate the beauty, until it dawns on me that I am no longer in the ambulance. Well my body may be, but I am no longer with it.
Shortly after a piercing scream followed by a loud cacophony of noise follows. Of course I have to be the white guy in a horror movie and go towards the chaotic sound; my mother is probably rolling over in her grave. The sight that greets me can only be called something out of a movie directors wet dream.
It is a battle. Not a normal battle where there's guns and bombs and artillery. No, this is some shit straight out of that movie Kingdom of Heaven or Troy. Vast armies colliding axe, sword, and bow against shield. Some of the combatants have wings, some don't but all look the same, to the point that I cannot tell who's against whom. I walk closer to the battle, the warriors moving through me as if I'm not there, and that suits me fine. I continue moving through the field noticing how none were given quarter. There is no mercy asked or offered and no one runs from the field. This is totally different then what I have seen of combat. More as if two fanatical factions met, instead of proper soldiers.
I keep walking and somewhere around the middle of the melee a tall woman with wings is handing out asswhippings like Halloween candy. She's huge, over seven feet tall and clad in some glowing armor. She has large wings out her back, but not like Azrael's, no these were feathered and white as a dove's. Her features are striking, golden skin with hair the color of obsidian in a high pony tail. On her head is some weird metal piece, I think it's called a circlet.
She wields two axes with blades on both sides of one end. Now I wish I would have paid attention when my grandpa was trying to teach me about all that old weaponry and shit. The edges of the axes glow white like the inlays of her armor. She wades into groups and slaughters without compunction heads, limbs, whatever she can reach to cut. Not even her enemy's armor or shields stand in her way.