The Eyes Of Death

Chapter 12: First And Last

"I am looking for a man named, Azrael. Is he here?"

Wondering though, I still answered her. "As of now, he's not here. I'm also not sure when he will be back."

Her face become sad. "Is that so? All right, uhm, still thank you", she said to me before she walked away.

I stared at her as she moved farther and farther away from me but I noticed something strange about her.

I saw a white-like aura surrounding her. I last saw such a scenario when I first had a vision.

I remember the time when I woke up from my sleep after touching the case files and evidence which me and Jayden should throw away.

I then saw the body of a man which was filled with black aura.

Isn't it, the woman I talked to earlier was also being possessed by a spirit?

I looked at the photo I was holding. It was a picture of Azrael, it seems like it was only painted but I can really distinguished that it was him based on the details.

I then grabbed my head when it suddenly hurt.

~*~

"Sibylla!", a man calls to a woman. My eyes widened. Is that Azrael? Isn't this my vision? Why is he here?

"Why? What is it?", the woman asked.

That woman, is it me or I just look somehow like her?

I mean some features are the same just like our eyes and lips. And her name, Sibylla? As I remember, that was the name of a woman with the same ability as me. Is that really her?

Azrael smiled. "Just stay there, don't move, okay?", he ordered the woman.

He was holding paper and a paint brush. "Are you painting me?", the woman asked him.

"Yes, just be steady. Don't move so I can make it as perfect as possible."

The woman followed him. Soon, Azrael was finished.

"Look at my work, don't you look like that?", Azrael asked happily while holding his work in front of the woman.

The woman laughed weakly. "It is beautiful but maybe you just need to practice more", she replied.

Azrael pouted and look at his work sadly. Later on, his eyes turned into black but it suddenly disappeared as well. The woman noticed that.

"Got work to do?", she asked Azrael which he nodded as an answer.

"Take care", said by the woman and waved at Azrael before Azrael disappeared.

She looked again at the painting Azrael had made and smiled.

She then took a paint brush and paper and began to paint.

~*~

I was immediately brought back to reality. I looked around and noticed I was still standing and I was still staying where I was before.

That was new. I did not sleep? Maybe I am now slowly getting control on my own ability so it turned out like this.

I looked again at the photo I was holding. So this was painted by Sibylla? And, she knew Azrael and they both seem so close. What may be their relationship?

I need to ask Azrael about this.

I hid the photo in my pocket and started walking back inside the house.

~*~

Third Person's POV

"Azrael, we know Ainsley is important to you and she quite resembles someone but hindi mo mapipigilan ang war sa pagitan namin at ng mga demons. We need Ainsley because she may be our ace", said by Gabriel.

Azrael didn't seem to hear what his friend was saying. He knew the messenger of god was here now to tell him that they wanted to get Ainsley from him.

"Why do you really want a war? And Ainsley is not a weapon that you can just use and throw away when it runs out!", he said angrily.

"You know we won't do that. Yes, we want Ainsley to be our weapon but isn't it for the whole world's sake?"

Azrael shook his head. "For the whole world's sake or for you, archangels' sake? You know you are the only one who decides that. When God finds out about the war you are starting, I'm sure even you will lose your place. "

Gabriel could not answer.

"No matter how hard you try on me or Ainsley, she won't take sides with either of you", Azrael seconded.

"Is she just that important to you because she looks like Sibylla?", Gabriel asked stopping Azrael.

"Don't mention her to me", he threatened Gabriel.

"Are you still mad at her? But you seem to miss her", the archangel teased.

Azrael did not answer. He was about to leave when he heard another word from Gabriel that surprised him.

"Did you know that Sibylla's spirit didn't actually entered the hell fire at that time?"

He turned to Gabriel but it was gone. In just a few seconds, he returned to their meeting place.

"You're surprising Azrael. All of a sudden you'll just appear out of nowhere", Jayden said in shock after Jayden appeared in front of him.

The man ignored him. He looked around at his comrades sharply and noticed Ainsley wss not with them.

"Where's Ainsley?", he asked.

"Ah, she come out first. Don't worry, she'll be back too", Mason replied while playing with his twin, Madison.

Ainsley entered the house just in time and was surprised to see Azrael back.

"Oh, you are here already? That was fast", she said to the man.

Azrael ignored the question. "Where did you go?", he asked as if he were a mother teasing his daughter who came home late.

"Ah just out there. Oh, by the way, someone gave it to me, an old lady looking for you", Ainsley said and handed the photo to Azrael from her pocket.

The man's eyes widened when he realized that he was familiar with the picture.

"You said, an old woman gave you that?", Azrael assured.

Ainsley nodded. "It is somehow weird. I saw a vision after I touched it, then, you were in that vision. And the weirdest part is, the woman who gave me that had a white aura. You know the aura of those who are possessed by a spirit? That's how it is. ", she replied.

~*~

Ainsley's POV

Azrael didn't finish what I am saying and rushes out of the house.

We all looked at him in surprise. “What did you said to him?”, Madison asked me and I just shrugged my shoulders.

"I'll just follow him", I said goodbye to them and started running towards Azrael's whereabouts.

He stopped in a bus stop which he think the woman was in.

"Sibylla! Where are you? Please just show up to me just once", Azrael shouted.

I approached him but he just kept on screaming which I cannot do anything but to let him.

"Azrael"

I was distracted by someone speaking right behind me.

She was not the lady I talked to earlier. She was a spirit and she looked exactly like the girl in the vision I saw.

She smiled at me and turned her gaze to Azrael, who I didn’t know why but he didn’t feel anything at all.

Azrael, the angel of death cannot see or feel just one spirit?

The woman hold Azrael's hand which only surpassed. I just stared at what she was doing because she looked like a normal ghost who is making her relative feel eventhough he couldn't see or even feel her.

"Azrael, Sibylla is here", I said to Azrael.

He looked at me and there I saw his eyes crying. "Where? You can see her? Where is she? Why I can't see her ?!", he asked me one after another.

I look at Sibylla. "You can use me to talk to him", I said to the woman.

Sibylla smiled at me and thanked me before entering my body.

I then felt that I was not the one controlling my body. So, this is the feeling of being possessed?

"Azrael", Sibylla whispered weakly.

Azrael look at me. "Is that you? Sibylla?"

Sibylla nodded. "Yes, it is me. Azrael, I'm sorry", she began.

Tears began to form in my eyes in which I assume is Sibylla's tears.

"I'm so sorry. When the God punish you for loving me, and throw you on the prison in hell, he also punish me. My punishment was that you can't see or feel me ever again", Sibylla explained to Azrael.

I felt my heart was stopped from that moment. Sibylla and Azrael were lovers? And Sibylla is the reason why Azrael was punished and become a fallen angel? Oh ny god?!

Tears just kept dripping from Azrael's eyes and he didn't speak.

"Then after a few months, I had an accident which led to my death. I thought you will be the one who'll get me but I was wrong, Lucifer did. There I realized that we will never meet again which made me feel lonely and it urges me to go to the hell fire to die for eternity and will never be resurrected again. "

"But you didn't", Azrael said that made Sibylla smile.

"I did actually, but I managed to escape cause if I die, I want to see you again. So I spend the rest of the years finding you, and now, I did", Sibylla said smiling.

Azrael hold my hand which made me uneasy but then I remembered it was Sibylla he was talking to.

"Vepar contacted me and told me you are here. Azrael, my last wish came true", Sibylla added.

"Yes, I know. But please don't leave me", Azrael pleaded.

"Azrael, I can't. I escaped the hell fire and it will haunt me forever. Now, I am fully contented that you are safe. You have my grand grandest niece who will take care of you."

"Niece?", Azrael asked confusingly.

"Ainsley. I was also shocked when I saw her with you but yes, she is one of my relatives."