SCP-035 POV
There were three person on the roof of one of the buildings.
“Asaph, Asaph, what have you done…” I said looking at her.
"Sorry boss, I understand that you are stupid but give me another chance" she said hoping that she will have another try, naive.
"Asaph, not only did you lose to three demons, but you lost the crystal without which we won't be able to get to earth, I'm disappointed in you."
"I'll return it, I promise," she said.
"You already promised me that you would get Goetia's body last time and what happened?" She sat on the edge of the roof and looked down at my words, not knowing what to say.
"And I thought that you were special Asaph, but looking at the wounds you received, I can confidently say that I was wrong. And I do not forgive mistakes and anyone who makes them is kicked out of my team." I slowly approached her. She raised her head and looked at me with concern.
"I am grateful for all the help you have brought me, but I do not need those who cannot complete my tasks. So…" Asaph was already ready to stand up, but she wanted to hear what I would say next.
"Our deal is cancelled Asaph, goodbye." Before she wanted to get up, I kicked her, and from surprise she couldn't open her wings and fell down.
I looked down and saw that she couldn't open her wings and fell straight to the ground.
"Hmm funny Asaph, if you think about it, you fell for the second time." I thought to myself "But you knew that I don't tolerate those who fail their orders." I wanted to see how the sinners would find her and what they would do to her, but I didn't have time for that.
"Let's go, Old Man, we have nothing more to do here, we got rid of the unnecessary cargo, now we need to find a way to somehow return to earth" The old man left through the earth and I went to the door through which I would leave.
It's a pity that I won't be able to see what will happen below.
Asaph POV
(After some time)
Pain…
Why is that? Why?
Everyone I start to trust betrays me.
Mask, Heaven, Vaggie and… Me?
No, how can I betray myself, I am strong?
No, I'm too weak - I couldn't learn the lesson about not trusting those you trust. This is the second time I've made this mistake.
But I only wanted good, I didn’t want these exterminations, and the heavens began to clean up and became bloodthirsty, and I am better than them…
But without noticing it, I started killing innocent people and demons in hell along with the mask. I hated my sisters because they killed, now I'm no better than them.
Am I a murderer?
(He asks)
"Hey, what are you doing, bitch? Why are you lying on the ground?"
"I opened my eyes, I'm lying somewhere on the road in Imp City, I feel a lot of pain but I have to get up to find the mask.
(CRUNCH)
I fell again, unable to get up and activate my wings, I have to continue.
"What are you doing to her?" the sinner asked me, I looked at him and turned away from him, I must continue.
"Don't ignore me, is your tongue bitten off or something" I didn't care what he said I needed… "What am I going to do next?" I thought, not knowing what to do, even if I find a mask I won't be able to kill him.
Suddenly the sinner moved his hand into my neck "Speak or I will force you and…" "SHUT UP!" I was able to activate the wings and remove him with them, he flew away several meters "I'm sick of it."
After that he looked at me with fear in his eyes "You… YOU ARE AN EXORCIST!" he shouted and walked as far away from me as possible, shouting "EVERYONE WHO HEARS ME IS AN EXORCIST HERE IN HELL!"
I didn't care what he said, even though I was able to open my wings, but that doesn't tell me what to do next in life, I have nothing to do next. Maybe the only way left for me is to die.
"Hey, were you the one shouting that there was an exorcist here?"
Several sinners came to the scene. "Yes, there she is!" The one I threw back with my wings shouted. "I don't know why she's lying there, but she was able to hit me with her wings, but after that she stopped reacting to me."
"Hmm, I wonder what she's doing here? The extermination is still far away and she's still wounded." One sinner asked but another answered "What difference does it make, she's wounded. If we can kill the exorcist we'll be the most popular sinners in hell!" He started to approach "What are you doing?" One of them asked "I'll try to remove her" He walked up to me, took out a knife and pointed it at me.
(Backstab)
I was in pain but maybe I deserved it, I killed many innocent people I am no better than them and death from them is probably the best thing that can happen to me now. "See, she does not react, so we can calmly kill her" He said. I do not know if they can kill me but I hope so.
Vaggie POV
"So Charlie, I hope our second hotel commercial doesn't get trumped by another new one this time." I sat on the couch with Charlie, waiting for our hotel commercial to be shown on TV.
"Yes Vaggie, I can't even believe that they'll finally show it," Charlie said, anticipating that after the advertisement, many people would go to her hotel.
We waited a few minutes before it was supposed to be shown.
"So right now it should come…" Charlie didn't have time to finish before it happened.
"Breaking news with…" "Fuck," I shouted in front of the TV.
"Vaggie calm down" Charlie replied "Charlie our commercials are already being interrupted for the second time, I'm tired of it." She answered her.
"No big deal, they'll show it another time, since it was interrupted by the news, it means it's something important," Charlie replied, I wanted to argue that it wasn't so.
“What could possibly be important…” I fell silent when I saw what they were showing there.
"There's an exorcist on the streets of Pentagram City." "What? It can't be!" I yelled at the TV. "It's impossible. The extermination is still far away. Where in Hell would there be an exorcist?" Charlie asked.
"We're afraid it's getting too close to her, so we're filming from the roof, there she is down there." I watched as a bunch of sinners beat up an exorcist, it's strange why she's in hell and not resisting?
"We know why the exorcist is in hell but we hope that…" For a second the exorcist's face was visible and when I saw it I fell to the ground.
"Wegii, what's wrong with you?" Charlie asked anxiously. "She… Charlie, I have to go!"
"Really there?" Charlie asked. "I'll go with you." "No Charlie, it's personal, I'll be right back." I left the hotel taking my gun and phone with me.
"What is she doing here?" I thought, because several years have passed since she was banished from heaven to earth and why is she now in hell.
"And why did she allow herself to be sinners?" I know that sinners can't kill an angel but she can still have her limbs torn off, so why does she allow it?
I need to find Asaph and find out the answers to my questions.
Asaph POV
Pain and suffering
This is what is happening to me now, and I deserve it. I am being torn to pieces by two sinners, others are just watching, but the main thing I care about is that they kill me.
"It's strange somehow, we've already cut her so much and she didn't even make a sound," asked one sinner. "What difference does it make, if she doesn't resist then this is our chance." Answered another.
I was already ready to die at their hands, but I heard a voice, a familiar voice.
"Step back, everyone," the one with one eye shouted.
"Um, who are you?" asked one of the sinners.
"This voice, it's familiar to me, but where have I heard it?" I thought about it.
"I recognized her, it seems she knows the princess of Hell, I think her name is…" Before he could finish speaking, I remembered whose voice it was.
"VAGGIE?" I opened my eyes as she stood nearby, this can't be true.
"Um, what's going on with her?" The sinner asked. "RUN!" Vaggie shouted to the sinners. "And why should we do this if we…." He didn't have time to finish what he wanted, I threw everyone who was near me with great force using my wings.
"So that you have a chance to survive!" I answered with a scream. They started to run as far as they could and I turned around and saw the one I never expected to see here.
"Asaph, why are you in Hell…" Before Vaggie could finish speaking, I interrupted her.
"Why Vaggie? Why are you here? And why did you come?" I said to her.
"I didn't want you to be expelled from Paradise." She replied.
"I don't believe you after everything you did to me!" I shouted at her.
"Asaph, I really didn't want this…" "SHUT UP!" I turned her into a scream. "I don't need your excuses anymore. The only thing that can relax me now is your death!" I said.
"Asaph, I understand how you feel, but we can talk."
"Oh no Vaggie, the time for talking is long gone, now is the time for my revenge!" I opened my wings and began to fly towards Vaggie.
"It's not too late to talk, Asaph," she replied hopefully. "Shut up and fight like we were taught." With these words, I attacked her.
I hope that this time luck will be on my side.
From 3rd person POV
Two angels were fighting each other in Pentacle City. One of them used a spear, the other used her wings and sword.
One of them spoke up, "You will answer for everything you did to me." Asaph wanted to hit another angel with all his might, but she blocked him.
"Don't you dare blame me for everything, Asaph, it was Adam who expelled you from heaven, not me." Vaggie replied, taking a sip of Asaph's drink.
"You know, you're right, you weren't the one who banished me…" Asaph said, Vaggie got hope after Asaph words, but it quickly flew away when she saw her cold eyes and facial expression that was impossible to read.
"But it was because of you that it all started, you told Adam that I was against the exterminations and that I wanted to tell all of heaven about them. So you must suffer punishment from my sword!" Asaph began to attack Vaggie again, and she gave the selection.
This continued for several more minutes, they were equal in strength, so it was not known who would emerge victorious from their battle, even for a moment.
Vaggie POV
"So when did you…" Before she could finish speaking, my phone started ringing.
I took off into the air and looked at Charlie's phone, I saw it in the contacts, I picked up the phone.
"Charlie, I don't have time to talk, I'll talk to you later," I replied before ending the call and returning to the fight.
But I saw that I fell to the ground and started shaking, I flew up and saw that she lay in the fetal position and was not paying attention to me, she was looking at the ground, it felt like she saw the end of the world.
This went on for one minute and after that she stopped shaking and started saying, "I remembered everything, Vaggie." "What are you talking about?" I asked her.
"I remembered every second of that moment…" She stopped talking and gave me the opportunity to answer, "Which moment exactly?" Not understanding which one she was talking about.
"WHEN I WAS DRIVED OUT OF PARADISE!" Her scream made me fall to the ground.
"I remembered everything, how you, Adam, Sera and Lute looked at me before you begged!" She began to slowly approach me with her wings.
"Do you know why?" She asked me, I didn't have the courage to answer her.
"Because the last thing I heard before I was banished was the sound of bells." I realized that because Charlie called me, Asaph remembered that moment.
"You will be the first of the four to receive Vaggie's due. I will show you my ability that I have been able to do for all this time."
Asaph took off into the air and many wings began to grow from her, I tried to run away but my legs did not obey me, she made a flying ball from her wings and she was inside. The ball flew up to me and began to embrace me with its wings inside.
"Please don't do this Asaph" I screamed at her, but she didn't listen to me and slowly began to absorb me inside, I resisted but it didn't do anything and only accelerated the process.
And when it closed I found myself inside a ball of feathers.
Vaggie POV
I found myself inside a ball of wings, where Asaph was in the center. She didn't move and as soon as I thought about it she started talking.
"Why Vaggie…" Asaph started to say. "Why did you just look at me when I was banished and why didn't you do anything to prevent it, we were friends after all?" I didn't know what to say. She was right in everything she said and I couldn't deny it.
"I was an idiot who believed in Adam's ideal and thought I was doing everything right, but now I see who he really is after everything that happened to me." I answered her.
"Do you think that if you apologize now, I will ask you?" Asaph answered angrily.
"No, you have every right to be angry with me and even kill me, but I remember what you were like in heaven, you were kind," I answered, hoping that she would remember who she was.
"Vaggie, the Asaph you knew is no more, there is only the one who wants to take revenge on all of heaven." Asaph answered me calmly.
"But now I see in your eyes my old friend who believed in good, and I believe that she herself understands it but does not want to admit it." I responded to her statement.
Asaph was silent for a few minutes after this answer, but after that she asked, “Why did you send this to me?”
"I wanted to help you, I saw how they wanted to kill you" Asaph started laughing after such a statement "They wanted to kill? Hahaha. I wanted to die myself, if they attacked me without my desire, then they would all die." Asaph continued laughing.
"But why?" She asked, not understanding her desire.
Asaph stopped laughing and replied "It's very simple, I had no desire to live." She paused for a moment and tears began to flow from her eyes "It's all because everyone I loved betrayed me. I have no one left for whom I can live and believe in the future." She curled up into a fetal position and began to cry even harder.
"No, that's not true, you can still find those you can trust," I answered her, disagreeing with her opinion.
"Vaggie, do you believe this yourself?" she asked me.
"If I didn't believe, I wouldn't be here now. I understand your emotions now, I had them too when I was banished, maybe I would have stayed like this if it weren't for Charlie." Asaph looked at me in surprise.
"Charlie… Princess of Hell?" she asked me.
"She is the one, if it weren't for her, I might have stayed the way I was. She made a hotel that helps people like us, a chance for redemption. I understand that they have no right for you to believe me, but believe me, she will help you."
"Swear," she shouted at me.
"I swear by what I got." After that, she began to remove her wings and I was able to get out of the ball and we found ourselves in the city again.
She fell to her knees. She cried even harder. I came closer to her, putting my hand on her shoulder. They began to look at our sinner.
"Kill her!" "She's wounded, this is a chance" they shouted at me. "SHUT UP!" I shouted to everyone who was nearby and then looked at her.
"Asaph…"
"No, they're right, kill me, I deserve it." She answered me.
"See, she wants it herself…" "I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP!" She started yelling at them again.
"They are wrong Asaph, you still have a reason to live."
"No Vaggie, I lost everything I had and knew, including myself, I don't want to chase the dream of living because I don't deserve it." I listened to her silently.
Asaph looked up, meeting my eyes. "I have made many mistakes and death will be a lesson to me."
"No, that's not true," I was surprised by such a statement.
"Vaggie, we both know that this is so and death by your hand would be an honor."
"Asaph… I don't…" But she interrupted me. "Take your spear in your hands and hit me with it, please." I started shaking from her request, but it was clear from her eyes that she didn't want to back down.
I bowed my head and took the spear in my hands and already began to aim, but she began to speak.
"Vaggie, can you please tell me my last request before I die?"
"Of course," I answered sadly.
"Promise me that you will never betray or kill the one you love." This was her last wish and I could not refuse her.
I nodded slowly to her, "I promise," I answered her before…
"HIT"
I pierced her chest with a spear, she fell to the ground and did not move, golden blood began to flow from her wound.
"I'm sorry." I said it out loud, I took her body in my arms and flew into the air with her on my wings.
"What was that?" the sinners said among themselves, but I was already sick.
The most important thing for me now is to return to the hotel.
Asaph POV
(After some time)
I woke up and saw myself in some room on a bed, my wounds were wrapped in bandages and next to me on a chair sat the one whom I had recently wanted to tear to pieces.
"You're finally awake." Vaggie replied with a smile.
"Where am I?" I asked her, not understanding anything.
"You are in the hotel now, I brought you here after the battle, Charlie and I wrapped your wounds so you could heal." Vaggie said.
I looked at her silently for about a minute and asked what I really wanted to know, “Why?… Why didn’t you kill me?”
Vaggie replied with a small smirk, "Because I promised my friend not to kill or betray those I love."
"Be careful what you wish for." I thought that because of my desire I wouldn't be able to be punished, but then Vaggie started saying, "Asaph, I know what you're doing now, but give Charlie and the others a chance, they'll help you, I promise."
I wanted to get up but I felt a very strong pain in my chest and I lay down on the bed again. "Your wounds haven't healed yet, so you need to lie here for a while." Vaggie answered me.
"I want to ask you the last Vaggies, why are you helping me so much, after all, I killed innocent demons." When I asked her this, she stood up and put her hand on my chest.
"Asaph, I have done no less evil than you and I have killed those who had a chance for redemption, I did not understand this then, but because of Charlie I understand now and she helps sinners and me to atone for my sins." Says Vaggie.
"And I also saw in your eyes complete regret for what you did, and if I had not given you a chance for redemption after this, then I would have betrayed Charlie in her principles and ideas." She took her hand back and began to walk towards the door.
I silently looked at her but she stopped abruptly "One more thing, when you can get up, there are clothes in the closet for you that should suit you, but it's unlikely that sinners will be for you if they see you in an exorcist uniform" Vaggie left the room but I continued to look at the door with only one thought in my head.
"Can I…. Redeem myself?" I thought for a few minutes before falling asleep.