Into The Devil’s Heart

Audrey arrived at Cannon’s mansion, it was as silent as a graveyard with only the sound of her feathers flipping. She lowers herself and stops in front of the mansion, eyes wandering around the abandoned house.

She takes slow and counting steps forward and enters the mansion, she doesn’t waste any time as she heads towards the direction of the room Baston was placed before the sudden attack.

As expected, Baston was still lying on the bed. He was as still as a corpse and one could assume he’s dead from how pale he looks.

The smell that filled the room made her nose twitch in displeasure but she didn’t stop, she didn’t run away.

Slowly, she walks to the bedside, eyes staring down at the man she used to fight with over silly things. Without realizing it, tears roll down her cheeks wetting the bed

She goes down and takes the sit by the side, her hands resting on Baston’s chest. He wasn’t breathing and neither was his chest moving.

She closes her eyes and starts murmuring words of incantation.

“Res tus me amohgma sure ba….”

She said it for a while, and a spark of light started forming on the spot where she placed her hands. It grows bigger with every passing second glowing up the semi-lit room. A purple light starts shining, replacing the white light.

She finished saying and seconds later, Baston took in a heavy breath, chest rising and eyes snapped open.

He lets out the air he’s taken in slowly as he blinks countless times to get used to the brightness of the room. His chest was still shining in the bright purple light mixed with white.

“A-au… ” He stutters in a cracked voice as he tries to call out to Audrey but his throat is too dry to let him speak.

“Shush, I’ll be back” Audrey helps him lie down and leave the room. Minutes later, she came back with a glass of water and offered him

Baston drinks as though he’s never tasted water for a thousand years now, he emptied the glass in a space of five seconds. He stares at Audrey pleadingly.

Audrey frowns at Abit, “Need more?” She didn’t know what to make of the look he was giving her.

Baston bobs his head in response, Audrey stares at him for a while before leaving to get more. She returns and hands him the water not bothering to help him like the first time

He accepted and gulped down the water, making sure no drop was left undrunk.

Audrey helps him and takes the glass from him, placing it by the side.

“Audrey?” He calls out, eyes staring at her with so many questions that he can’t seem to guess the answer.

The Audrey he knew then and the one he’s seeing now are two completely different beings. The Audrey he knew before going on a comma was a cheerful, innocent, kind, sweet, and simple person whereas the one staring back at him was lured with darkness and… And, light?

His eyes widen at the realization she is something he’s never seen before. It was written down in history about the first heavenly being that was tainted and aimed to be changed to bad but was unable to complete the process and was left in between.

But that was in the past, all is history. Staring at the girl he once cared for looking all chaotic and scary makes him gulp in fear… he fears that his life can be snapped from him in the blink of an eye.

“W-what happened?” He stutters

Audrey stands up and starts pacing back and forth the room, the warm temperature in the room becomes chilling and icy

“With you?” He finished audibly

Audrey stops before him and leans down, “Don’t freak out, promise you won’t?” She doesn’t want him fainting again.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

She has so many plans that she doesn’t wish to delay any more seconds talkless of a day

Baston nods without thinking. The look on her face says how serious she is and he doesn’t want to go against her. He can clearly remember she is the reason why he almost lost his life in the first place

“I killed him” she blurts

Baston’s frowns, “kill who?” He can relate but doesn’t want to

“Cannon, I killed h…” She was cut short

“You are joking, right? There’s no way the Audrey I know will do such a thing. She loves Cannon so much to even hurt a fur on his skin”

Audrey knew she’d have to face this, there was no way she could tell him without showing him else he wouldn’t believe

She takes the sit by the side of the bed, reaches for Baston’s hands, and handholds on it so tight.

“I can’t make you believe and I won’t stop you from judging me but… I will show you” she said and closed her eyes

“Close your eyes if you want to see what happened” she demands

Baston hesitated but closed his eyes, he couldn’t stop himself from wanting to see what happened.

The images of every scene came flashing in Baston’s head as though it were his memory, tears rolled down his face as he watched the scene play before him

“Don!” He calls out in a cracked and choking voice

Audrey let go of his hands, she watched him cry. Her heart breaks a thousand times over knowing how much he loved him.

“I’m sorry, it’s all my fault” Audrey finally broke down after all the holdback.

Baston turns to her, he feels even sorry for her knowing how much she’s had to give up.

He shakes his head in denial, “It’s not your fault, it’s theirs… They did this to him, they took him away from us”

“I’m sorry you had to face this alone” he apologizes.

“What happened to you? ” He asked eyes staring at every part of her body.

Audrey glances down at herself unsure of what to say, “I don’t know, suddenly developed wings and changed after I killed Wendigo ” she blurts.

“Wendigo?” Baston is amazed by it. Audrey nods in affirmation. Now he understands where that aura is coming from, it’s from the spilled human blood.

He glanced behind her looking for something which he couldn’t find, “where are the wings?” He asked in curiosity