Devils Roses 05 - Death

cope. I cover my breasts and sob. Aleks looks frightened.
    "I am the real devil, Aimee. I was sent with the mission of keeping the balance. I've always had the ability to create an army of darkness. An army of beings so strong that there is no force that can kill them. But all of my brother's have betrayed me. All of them. It was always a losing battle. I just didn’t see it. Like Jonathan said, always the last to know." She strolls to where Aleks is. She looks at me, "I have never done it before. I needed to be sure." She punches Aleks in the face hard. She grabs his mouth and plants a kiss on him. They flash and wink and then they're back and he is on the ground "Lorri, what the hell?" He growls at her.
    She stands back and watches us changing and touching ourselves. Lucas and Ben creep back on the balcony.
    She points at them and wags her finger.
    I run to Aleks and hold him close. His warmth sends chills across my naked skin.
I look back at her, "Why would you do this to us?"
    She shakes her head, "It's too late." She winks and is behind Aleks. She snaps his neck. He drops to the ground. I scream.
    His neck starts making popping sounds. She sighs, "I have failed. You are plan b." She winks and grabs the wolves and winks them away.
    Ari is crying and shaking. She turns to face me. I am covering Aleks with my naked skin.
    My wings feel the breeze in them. They feel the way my arms or legs do. I can feel every feather.
    Giselle is spinning like a dog trying to catch its tail.
    Shane starts to smile at Blake who is jumping and flapping the wings like a bird. Shane's start to twitch.
    Ari is shaking and trembling until Lucas's dead body is dumped next to hers. Then Ben's. They are in naked human form. Ari is shirtless and covering herself, sobbing into Lucas's bare skin.
    Lorri is back. Marcus steps forward, "You had this all along? Why didn't you use it?"
    She shakes her head, "I couldn’t. It was the emergency hatch. Once pulled it couldn’t be un-pulled. These cannot be unmade. There is no destroying them. No hellfire. No magic. No angel. No nothing. They're completely indestructible. God's last stand against it all. Do you have any idea the kind of power that is to bestow upon someone?"
    He laughs and points, "You chose this group? These people?"
    She nods, "I have. They are called redeemers. They can redeem a soul and send it back to heaven. For every soul they save, the balance will tip slightly in the favor of the light." I catch the stolen glance she sends me. I know what she wants.
    Aleks starts to stir. He wakes and screams. He flashes away. We all have our safe haven we go to when we're scared. He and I share the same one.
    Lorri points, "These are true angels. How I was before I fell."
    Marcus sighs and looks at Giselle, who is still moving in a circle trying to touch her wings. "This is the best you had to choose from?"
    Lorri laughs, "Yes. No human or immortal has lived through what they have. Except you and I buddy."
    He puffs his chest out, "I'm one of them."
    Lorri gives him a look and rolls her eyes, "I trust them. Completely."
    Shane looks back at Lorri, "What do we do now?"
    Lorri looks grimly at us all, "Prepare. You can feel pain. You can bleed. You can suffer. She will try to make you live through all of those things. She will try to make you join her. She will have things equally as strong as you are."
    I glance at Ben's twitching body. Lucas wakes with a start and screams. He tries to phase but instead his wings shoot from his back.
    Aleks is back. His huge beautiful black wings look amazing on his strong thick physique.
    Blake tries to see things through his glasses and then takes them off. He puts them in his pocket, "So you made us into angels of darkness, but we are good?"
    Lorri nods, "You are what you want to be. I have given you the ultimate immortality. You will live forever. With that come horrible amounts of responsibility and terrible things to cope with."
    Blake looks upset, "Alise?"
    Lorri nods, "She can't ever know."
    He looks heartbroken but nods, "Well, we all know her."
    I glance at Hanna and realize my hatred is gone. I just see the sweet girl she is. Has always been. She holds her hands over her breasts and shakes her head, "My Siren? My beast?"
    Lorri shakes her head, "Gone. You can all wink but no more wolves, no more blood lust or succubus powers. Nothing but the pure power of God."
    I cross my arms over my chest and shiver, "It's too much. You've made a mistake. We