Chapter 4: "The boundaries which divide life and death are at best shadowy and vague.  Who shall say where one ends and where the other begins." -Edgar Allan Poe

As we stepped out into my home town I saw it. I saw him, bexley, he was sitting next to his mom in her car and I noticed they were in a line of cars, all with their hazards on, it was a funeral procession; MY funeral procession.  Just then Dagon grabbed my hands and looked at me.

“You know them don’t you?” he said in a calming voice, I nodded “it all feels very weird doesn't it? I mean seeing your funeral.”

Lenore spoke up “Why does it matter? I want to try out these things!” she started swinging around her twin swords.  

“Stop swinging those around like that! You're gonna hurt someone!” I called as Lenore stared at me in confusion.

“We’re dead,” she responded.

“IT'S STILL A REAL WEAPON” I yelled back, “We don’t know if it can hurt us, it is made to fight angels and demons and-” just then I heard the scraping of tires on the road trying to come to a stop and then the sound of 2 cars colliding.

“HELP! HELP!” It was Bexley’s mom “My son! He’s not responding to me, I - I can’t feel his heartbeat!”

“BEXLEY!!!” I yelled and I turned to Lenore and Dagon. “We have to help him!” me and Dagon started to run forward to help, then Lenore grabbed our arms.

“We can’t help him, it's not our job” then out of nowhere a weird angel started flying above the car.  This angel I call it weird because it had 5 sets of wings attached to not a body not a head, no.  One giant eye and the inside of the wings had eyes all along the top of them.

“What the hell is that?!?!?” I asked.

“An angel . . .” Dagon observed.

“What kind of -”

“It’s a biblically accurate angel and I think that's what we have to drag to Satan”

“Why are we the only ones that see it?”

“Cause we're dead, idiot,” Lenore commented. “Well? What are we waiting for? Let’s attack” and then she went charging in to fight it.  

“Wait, we can't just go charging in, I don't even know how to use these!”

“I thought Satan said you would know!”

“Well I know how you read tarot cards but this deck only has the greater arcana cards and I don't know how to use them in a fight”

“Well what does this card mean?” Lenore showed me the card Last Judgment.

“The card means knowledge” I said quickly and grabbed it back from Lenore all of a sudden I knew exactly how to use the cards and what to do.  Then the colorful card depicting an angel and a group of people turned into shades of gray. “Huh that's weird”

“What?”

“Well I know how to use them now and I have a plan but-” I showed them the card “I don’t think I can use this again”

“I’m kinda shocked it’s still just flying there,” Dagon noticed then it turned and looked directly at us “oh shit I think it just saw us!”  He quickly covered his mouth realizing he just cursed in front of Lenore who is a child.

“Dagon, I have heard more curse words than you think.  And come on kit what’s that plan?” Lenore yelled frantically.

“Ok so we have to blind it. Everything it does is sight based so if it can’t see us it can't hit us” I quickly explained.  Dagon and Lenore nodded, then they charged as I flipped through my deck of tarot cards and found The Hermit.  Under normal circumstances the card would mean self reflection but here it’s a card of invisibility.  I also looked for part of the knowledge I received: how to use the wings that I apparently have.  I grabbed the hermit card and turned invisible.  Then I attempted to fly right in front of its main eye, and it worked surprisingly.  So, I threw a dagger at it.  Then in creepy synchronization the rest of the eyes moved and looked directly at me. Oh no. I knew that was bad the second it happened but before I got a chance to respond I was wacked out of the sky by one of its wings. As I fell I was so freaked out and painiced that I couldn't fly.  I almost hit the ground and I don’t know if it would have killed me again or not either way it would have been painful, But just as I was about to hit the ground Dagon caught me.  I think I blushed.  I really hoped he didn’t notice that would have been embarrassing. 

“Come on” I said, jumping up out of his arms to prevent further embarrassment. “We still have to drag that thing to Satan,” 

“We can’t reach it!” Dagon explained.

“Uh” I looked around “Get on my back”

“What?” 

“If you get on my back I can fly you up there” Dagon mouthed and Oh and then nodded in agreement.

After he got on my back he looked over at Lenore “Lenore still can’t reach it” I looked over at Lenore and she was still trying to jump up and hit the other eyes so I grabbed the fool card allowing me to manipulate the laws of gravity.  I threw The Fool card at Lenore.  She was then able to fly up and slash more eyes with her twin blades.  

“Problem solved now let’s go” I yelled then noticed the eyes near Lenore glowing a golden yellow color which did not look good “NOW!” Dagon hurried on to my back and just in time we shoved Lenore out of the way, it was a good thing we did because the light that shot out of its eyes lit a building on fire.

A random man saw the building on fire, shrugged his shoulders and said “Eh global warming” then walked off.

I flew up and slashed more with my daggers while Dagon slashed the last set with his scythe.  Him and Lenore turned to me.

“What Now?” Lenore asked.  I looked at it and noticed it was flapping its wings like it was trying to hit someone except no one was there for it to hit.  Then it started shaking its wings which didn’t seem good and then arrow-like feathers shot out from its wings in all directions.

“DUCK!!!” I yelled, Lenore jumped behind a car and I pulled Dagon into a nearby building with me.  The feathers just stabbed themselves into the closest thing in its path.  

“So,” Dagon continued, “How do we kill it?”

“I don’t know” I looked around and I noticed what seemed to be a floating glowing semi transparent figure that looked like bexley right behind it. “what if -“

“What?  You should probably hurry before it attacks again” it was still flapping its wings trying to hit something.

“What if we don’t have to kill it?”

“What do ya mean?” Lenore asked.

“You see that person right there that’s bexley the one who the angel came from. What if we just grabbed his soul?”

“Kinda wanna kill it tho . . .”

“I mean u can try but if you die -”

“We’re dead we can’t die” She observed I rolled my eyes and she ran off squealing and clapping.

“It can't see you but look at what it's doing be careful!” She gave me a sarcastic thumbs up then apparently that anti gravity spell I guess you could call it was still working because she was able to jump up and stab it from behind just as she was knocked out of the sky by one of the wings THAT I TOLD HER TO BE CAREFUL AROUND.  Without thinking I tried to run and grab her but she hit the ground a few seconds before I could get to her.  She got knocked out and probably broke a few ribs in the process.  I picked her up and turned around to see Dagon right there.

“What should we do?” Dagon asked

“Ummm” I looked around and saw bexley’s ghost slowly floating down but no sign of his angel thing “Let’s grab Bexley then go back to Satan, so Dagon hold her” I handed him Lenore then flew up and grabbed bexley’s soul.  “Now,” I held up the devil card out of my deck and grabbed his shoulder, bringing us back to hell.