The Eyes Of Death

Chapter 10: Another Fallen Angel

"Are you the woman with the eyes of death?"

I stepped back to see who I had hit and I was stunned when I saw a beautiful woman standing in front of me. Am I not dreaming? She is so pretty.

"Uhm, hello?", she called her attention to me and waved her right hand in front of me.

I went back to trance because of what she did. "Yes?", I asked.

She just smiled at me and shook her head before leaving.

I then remembered what whe said a while ago. "Are you the woman with the eyes of death?"

My eyes widened and I looked for that woman but I could no longer find her.

How did she find out about my ability? Did Azrael know her? Is she one of the angels or one of the demons who sided with Lucifer?

I went back to Elinora because I didn't find any other information or anything that could help us.

I first saw Mason holding a broken lamp. He brought it in front of me and looked at me and smiled.

"What's that?", Madison asked her twin.

"A lamp, obviously?", Mason replied sarcastically.

Madison rolled her eyes at her twin. "I mean, what's so unique about that lamp, except that it is broken?"

"Oh, because the fishermen I talked to said that they saw that along with the previous corpses", Mason said.

Mason look at me like he is trying to told me something which I figured out right away.

I touched the lamp and my ability suddenly awakened.

~*~

"Have you lowered the net?", A man asked his companion.

"Yes, we'll take it again later", replied by another.

They floated while waiting for the fishes that will be caught in their net to increase. After a few minutes they decided to lift it but they noticed something strange.

"Why is it so light?", A man asked.

When they got the net out, they saw that there is only a few fishes that had been caught.

"Why is it like this? Are the fish sick now? It wasn not like this before", the man said.

They could do nothing but to go back to the shore and tell their comrades about the bad news.

A man started the engine of the boat but it seems like they already run out of gas.

"What an unlucky day", he said annoyed. “We don’t have gas, bro”, he told his colleague.

"What? Let us just paddle back", he ordered.

They took their oars and paddled home together.

Suddenly, they heard a melodious hum in some part of the ocean. They stood up in shock.

"Hey man, did you hear that?", a man asked anxiously.

They looked around but they didn't see anything strange except that sound that got louder and louder every second.

A man's eyes narrowed as he noticed the sea. "B-bro, there's a w-woman", he said terrified.

The woman smiled at them before diving into the sea.

They roam their eyes around the place and carefully observed the movement of the sea until suddenly ...

"Sh!T! Carlo!" The man shouted at his friend who is now fighting for his life to get out of the water.

Things went so fast. He reached for the hand of his friend who was now struggling to get back into the boat.

Just a few seconds passed, the sea water was filled with blood and his friend stopped moving.

He was nervous and scared when he saw that his friend was lifeless.

Soon he heard the catchy hum again.

"Who are you?! What do you need?!", he shouted.

He heard laughter in the distance. "You. You are what I need."

The next thing I saw was far more devastating that I don't want to see it.

~*~

When I opened my eyes, I immediately saw Azrael staring at me.

He was surprised to see that my eyes were already wide open. He straightened up and averted his eyes from me.

"What are you doing?", I asked.

"Nothing", he replied.

I just shrugged my shoulders and never spoke again.

I rolled my eyes all around but I couldn’t think of where I was.

"Whose house is this?", I asked Azrael.

He stood up and straightened up before he answered. "We also don't know. But when a fisherman offered us this house, he said you already knew the owner", he replied to me.

Huh? Astonished, I looked at him. "Seriously? I haven't been here yet and I only knew some very few people. I'm sure I don't know the owner of this house", I explained.

"Don't think too much about it. This house is not haunted and the people who work here are kind so it's okay", he told me.

I got up and left the room. I felt Azrael follow me.

I roamed my eyes at the house and was shocked by its visuals and structure. The house was so large and the owner was obviously wealthy. As far as I can remember, I know no one who is rich, except Jayden.

I also notice a trident, unique seashells and pearls inside the house. This house isn't ordinary. Who might own it?

I suddenly remembered the way Azrael had been staring at me before. I turned to him and saw that he was in a deep thought.

“Did you read my mind earlier while the vision was playing in my mind?”, I asked him.

He stopped and nodded quickly. "A-ah yes. I-I'm reading your mind", he replied.

I approached him and placed the back of my palm on his forehead. I look at him worriedly. "You are obviously not sick. Are you seriously okay?", I asked.

He removed my hand and walked ahead. "I'm fine", he answered back.

We left the house and I saw Mason preparing the boats.

"What was that for?", I asked them.

Elinora sadly approached me and clung to my arm. "They plan to capture the mermaid. And they plan to take us with them."

"All of us? As in, everyone?", I asked all men. "Even Bliant?"

"Bliant is not coming. Still, a back up. You are too but you will be near us. We plan to burn his body", Jayden explained to me.

"We will tie her up in our boat then after that of course we will escape with the spare boat that you will guard. Then boom!", he continued.

“But I think it wouldn’t be that easy”, I said.

"I already told them about that. It's hard to catch a creature that doesn't want to give up ", Madison said.

"And, according to my vision. She is far more capable than us. Maybe, she is as strong as Azrael. Five times more difficult than Maria's case", I warned them.

"Ainsley is right. When I read what was on her mind, that creature is somehow familiar to me. Then I remembered my fellow fallen angel, Vepar. But she is not that brutal, she only commands the storms and seas and can make a human die with a gangrene but she can't eat internal organs. Only to think of it, it makes her disgusted. It's impossible for her to do it but the murderer's appearance is somehow close to her ", Azrael explained to us with more details.

"Maybe she had a child? And that's her child doing it?" Azrael think about what Elinora had said.

She has a point. Maybe Azrael didn't know that Vepar had a child. Or maybe, Vepar had a child with a demon and that is the reason for it's evil energy.

It was getting dark so they decided to just follow the previous plan. But this time, Azrael will only fight for it himself while Jayden and Mason will be his standby. And us, me together with Elinora, Madison and Bliant remained a back-up on land.

I am so bothered when I do not know anything to do with the situation. I was nervous for all of them. I need to think of a way to help them. But how?

I eagerly told myself that Azrael is the angel of death. He is the death himself so he will not die. But I was still very nervous.

I immediately remembered the house I had stayed in before. I saw a trident there. A very unique one. Maybe it had something to do with what happened.

Azrael also said, Vepar is a fallen angel who can control the seas and storms. And as far as I can remember, on our English class when I was in highschool, Poseidon, the God of the Seas controlled the storms and sees using the trident.

Oh Ainsley! That's right! Maybe the owner of the house was Vepar all along?

I hurriedly ran back to the house. I even heard Elinora calling me but I didn't look back. I only give all of my energy until I reached the house.

When I got to the front door of the house I heard a crying and a sad melodious hum.

The melody was just like in my vision but it's sadder than the first one. Eventhough I am terrified, I managed to walk inside. But I was shocked when I enter the house. I saw a woman crying. But what's more shocking is that I could recognize her.

She's the woman I met earlier!

She stopped crying. Her eyes was filled with tears but that tears turned into pearl. She is still as beautiful as I met her but why is she crying?

She looked at me and analyze my face. "Sibylla?"