Chapter 3
1197 Words
All of it, It still can't sink in. But the thing is, why do they know me? And worst, I am a Colonel in some sort of alliance.
This is hundred percent confusing.
I feel like I'm in someone else body and identity. But my name is still Lucia, right? Is it because I was summoned here through what Angelique did with the book?
But Angelique, she said I should find her.
"Colonel" Dark suddenly snapped me out in reality. "We're here"
I take a look around and saw the City they're protected from any invasions.
"So this is the Underworld" I whispered.
It isn't a normal city, the thing is there is no living thing that you can see in a normal world. It was just houses, buildings, factories, and most of all are the dead sky.
"Devils live here, working just like humans, serving the law and punishing the sinners.."
Law? Sinners?
"I guess you're exhausted, it's better if you rest. That's your unit" Dark pointed me the house that stands alone in the middle of two dead trees.
"That's where you live, with your slave"
"Slave?" I hope he's talking about a maid.
"Oh, I guess you two had not met yet, since you really don't go home. You're always at the headquarters doing your job" Dark brushed his hair using his fingers. "I guess it's been a long time"
"Right... I'll go in now," I said before he could say crazy things about me.
I'm so tired that I just want to take a rest so that I can start finding Angelique sooner.
"Get well soon," he said before I entered the house.
My calculations were all wrong, I'm certainly in another life or whatever. And when I'm finally in, I was shocked at how messy my house is like a hundred percent mess. Though I'll endure this, for now, I'm so tired and my body aches.
"Hey"
I flinched as I heard a voice.
Shit, is that a lost soul or what?
"Hey!"
I turned my gaze over a girl with metal chains on her neck as if she's literally a slave.
But she's not a literal slave because of her pose right now. She's crossing her arms like she's waiting for me the entire time.
"It's me"
now I knew it.
"Angelique!"
"Bingo"
-
"Okay so you're saying that you are a Colonel and that you are my owner, I am your slave. Then there's this Devil Corps, Devil's Army, and the lost souls which are invading this city?"
I nodded as Angelique repeated the words I said, this is all hundred percent unbelievable after all. Even if I will write a school report about this when we get back in the middle earth I am so sure no one's gonna believe me.
But first thing, we have to survive.
"So I'm a slave huh, how unlucky" she stated while touching the chains on her neck.
"It would have been better if you're in my position"
"Hey" she sat down beside me and pat my head just like what Phoenix used to do when I'm feeling down. "We just have to find Phoenix and get out of here, together"
"Do you know how to get back there?"
"For now I don't have any idea, that is why we'll find Phoenix because for sure she knows, I'll also investigate around of what's going on with this place, we're not safe if they found out that we are from another life"
Angelique is right, I'll just trust her.
"Rest for now" she grabbed some cloth somewhere and placed it on top of me.
"Yeah, I guess I'll slee-"
"Wanna hear a story Lucia?" an old woman whispered to a sleeping baby inside a cradle.
She then grabbed a book on the shelf inside the room, she opened it slowly as if she doesn't want to leave any crumpled marks.
"Long ago Heaven and Hell are united, but not until one of the Angels betrayed the God. The Almighty cursed the Angel and sent him to Hell, but not to suffer, he ordered the fallen angel to rule the Underworld and punish the sinners eternally, but the angel thought.. that this is also a punishment for him" the old woman gasped. "He can't go to Heaven, he can't talk to the Lord God not even with his brothers, he is all alone in the depths of hell"
"Million years had passed, a divine virgin suddenly appeared in the underworld. They fall in love with each other, but his brother Michael found out. God ordered the Archangels to eliminate the divine virgin, to stop the fallen angel from causing a war between the two holy places. The angel got angry and bleed himself to death, his blood flooded in hell and every sinner cried and was burned"
"With the pure blood of the fallen angel, seven devils had risen. They promised to get revenge from heaven, so they will find the divine virgin until it reborn"
"Lucia, they will find her"
"They will find me"
"They will find you"
"Lucia!"
"Lucia!"
I gasped and woke up with Angelique's voice.
I quickly flinched as I saw her holding a knife in her hand while facing the front door.
"Someone's there, someone's coming" she whispered through thin air.
Shit, are we in danger?
I quickly grab the empty vase beside the window, and held it tight preparing to smash it to whoever on earth is there.
A few moments later, we heard a knock.
"Lucia?"
Wait.
That's Dark!
"Hey, put it down. The voice is familiar, I know him" I whispered to Angelique.
She hesitated at first but then put the knife down and hide.
I immediately opened the door and saw Dark's pale face smiling in front of me.
"Are you ready?" he asked.
"Ready for what?"
"Haven't you heard? The Seven Princes are back"
-
"Are you sure you're not coming with me?" I asked Angelique while changing my clothes inside the room I owned.
Dark is already inside his car waiting for me, and Angelique is just starring.
"Nope, I'll roam around later. And it'll be tough if I'm with you" she replied. "Just unchain me for now"
I nodded as a response and handed her the key to unchain herself and after that, I look at myself in the mirror. My face is still what it is, and I just realized that I had this tattoo on my tummy part.
I look like some sort of thug.
"Careful on your way there, we can't trust anyone right now" Angelique stated while also changing clothes.
She's right, I can't trust anyone. Not even Dark.
- Writer
