Jasper and the Shelter of Angels
CHAPTER 3
DOUBLING UP HIS EFFORTS, Jasper had to ignore the distractions of Angels and Demons so he could concentrate on learning to walk again. Already up and out of bed, he tried to walk with the aluminum walking support aid. His family finally left the hospital. Dr. Adams called Jasper to his office and sent for a wheelchair to bring him in.
Alarmed, the nurse said, “Oh, hey, Jasper, you shouldn’t be trying to walk unassisted.” The nurse’s surprise quickly turned to aggravation. “What if you fell and hurt yourself?” She rolled the wheelchair up behind him and supported him as he sat back.
“I won’t fall,” Jasper told her confidently.
“And I will try not to tell you, ‘I told you so,’ when you do. Now, I’m right behind you. Just sit back and you’ll be in the wheelchair.
“I can do it myself! I won’t fall! I’m not blind, you know!”
“Well, the doctor says you are blind, and the cloudy look of your eyes confirms your prognosis. You really think you can fool us? Give it up, Jasper. Besides, if all of my patients recovered as quickly as you say you have, I’d be out of a job.”
Jasper bent his legs slightly and waved his hands behind him until he found the arm of the wheelchair. Firmly holding on, he let go of the walker. The nurse helped to set his feet in the foot rests, and then she unlocked the wheels of the wheelchair and pushed Jasper out of the room to the doctor’s office. Two security personnel kept constant watch over Jasper and followed him as he was wheeled down the long corridor.
On the way to the office, Jasper saw more Demon activity. The Angels fought them off to protect Jasper while Starr whispered in his ear. “You mustn’t look surprised when you see devils at work. It is better for you that people think you’re blind rather than senile. Really, who would believe that you see Demons and talk to Angels?”
Though Jasper knew Starr was right, he couldn’t help but to be distracted by her presence and beauty. Her lips were lush and full as though naturally puckered awaiting a kiss and coated with a strawberry glaze. He watched her as she continued to speak, and while he didn’t listen to one word she spoke, he was captivated by the entrancing beauty of this Angel.
Starr realized Jasper was distracted and wasn’t going to answer her. “Just like a man to not pay attention.” She fumed adorably.
The others tried to shy away their giggling.
A door opened and the nurse wheeled Jasper in. Doctor Adams beckoned Jasper into his office. Looking past his patient, Dr. Adams silently nodded to the two security guards. They nodded back just to acknowledge their presence while taking guard positions just outside his office door.
“Thank you, I’ll take it from here.” Doctor Adams told the nurse smiling. The nurse politely smiled back and left the doctor’s office closing the door gently behind her.
Jasper could see Dr. Adam’s face looked heavy and the flesh of his distinguished features hung from his skull. It was as though the stress of the years had caught up to him. The doctor walked around behind his desk and flapped Jasper’s file down on it. Doctor Adams sat down in his chair as though he was heavier than he really was. “I’m sorry, Jasper. Today you’re not catching me at my best.”
As Jasper looked across to the doctor, he saw a Demon rise up behind him. The Demon had long black hair all over its body, yellow glowing eyes with red pupils and large claws.
“Ugly, isn’t he?” West said as he casually pointed his thumb at the stout little Demon. “This is a Scout, a type of childish Demon or Imp. They find weaknesses in people and report them to larger Demons and they also look for opportunities to complicate life for people with annoying distractions from putting an eye lash into someone’s eye to over reacting to someone’s comment. These demons are cunning and they strike when it’s least expected. It’s the only thing they’re clever at, but it’s often more than enough to start a chain reaction that leads to larger consequences.”
The Demon began to reach its massive claws over the doctor’s head. The long sharp claws phased into the doctor’s skull and slowly raked deep lacerations back through his crown.
The Doctor removed his glasses and set them on the desk-top. He then pinched the bridge of his nose, between his eyes.
Jasper was shocked. He looked at Starr, not sure how he should respond. Starr shook her head, ‘No,’ and placed her finger to her lips for him to remain quiet. She was under attack and locked in a sword fight which rendered her unable to come to the doctor’s aid.
Nodding to comply with her, Jasper tried not to say a word as the doctor lowered his head in pain and dropped his fist to the solid desk-top. “This head-ache is relentless,” the doctor said. “Please bear with me a moment.” Doctor Adam’s slid open a desk drawer and fished out a small medicine vial. He popped the lid off and tapped out three capsules. Tossing the pills into his mouth, he swallowed without water to wash them down. “It will pass shortly.” He whispered. Behind him the Demon chuckled and clawed at his head some more.
Joel entered the office through the wall and punched the detestable hairy Demon right off Dr. Adam’s head with a flaming fist of white fire. The Demon was thrown through the bookshelf and the wall behind him. Of course, throughout the scuffle, the wall wasn’t damaged. Joel smiled as he turned to face Jasper. “A single Demon of bitterness can implant his poisonous delusions into many people at one time by sending, what you would perceive as, bolts of ecto-slime through your entertainment technology. The ecto-slime is like a sticky secretion that functions spiritually like a seed desensitizing people as it grows. Every human carries Demon Scouts, and other Imps, within them.” Then Joel winked and nodded his head just before he dived through the wall, phasing into it like an apparition to chase after the hairy Demon and drive it away for good.
Taking a deep breath, Dr. Adams seemed to have shaken off the head-ache for the time being. Looking up at Jasper with heavy eyes, he smiled. “You see? Much better.” Opening the folder on his desk. Dr. Adams began reviewing his notes and speaking to Jasper about his prognosis. Jasper, however, was having difficulty focusing on the doctor, as he constantly shifted his milky eyes this way and that watching phantoms of good and evil dart around the room.
The Doctor stopped speaking in mid-sentence when he noticed Jasper wasn’t paying attention to him. Clearly he was looking at something else in the room.
Doctor Adams turned in his swivel chair to examine the office for himself. He half expected to see a fly buzzing around but there was nothing. “Jasper, are you even listening to me?”
Jasper, who missed the question, was pre-occupied with all the intense fighting taking place. Observing Demons battling Angels, Jasper instinctively ducked and dodged to protect himself from arrows and other brutal weapons of the enemy. The two leagues of combatants from Heaven and Hell marched their intense battle right through the doctor’s office. Jasper’s eyes opened wide to take in the terrifying parade of wraith-like spirits of life and death.
Joel flew across the ceiling and over the doctor’s desk, “Ask him to read Ephesians chapter six verses ten to thirteen!” he called to Jasper.
“Ask, wha?…” Jasper managed to reply.
“It’s in the Bible!” Elana exclaimed like reading the Bible was of some sort of urgent importance.
“Ephesians chapter six verses ten to thirteen.” Joel repeated in earnest.
Jasper took a deep breath and through the surrounding chaos he spoke loudly, his words tumbling out of his mouth rapidly, “Please doctor! Read Ephesians chapter six verses ten to thirteen! It’s in the Bible!” because the doctor remained sitting and glaring at Jasper with his fingers linked together, Jasper added, “Come on! Hurry up! Get going! Go, go, go!”
The doctor just looked at Jasper for a moment with a coy look on his face. He was surprised by the particular, strange outburst, and usually he was the kind of person to entertain mental patients to calm them, but the request wasn’t only mysterious, it interested the doctor. Before drawing a final conclusion of Jasper’s mental health, Doct
or Adams wanted to find out if this would be worth his time at all. “I know, Ephesians is in the Bible.” He turned on his swivel chair and dug around in his book shelf behind him. “Ah, here it is.” He blew the dust off the top of his Bible. “Okay, let’s see here, Ephesians, Ephesians, and Ephesians. Right, here it is! Chapter six you say?”
“Verses ten to thirteen.” Jasper added like his life depended on it.
“I’m curious to find some sort of insight to your problem.” The doctor said playfully, then he changed his expression, shaking off the playfulness in place of a stone cold frown. The doctor began to read when his bi-focals slid to the end of his nose, “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the Devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the Heavenly realms.” What Jasper saw; the battle of righteousness taking place around him and the weaponry used, was shimmering smooth steel against fangs. Words people spoke influenced how the battles unfolded. Claws along with the powers of darkness were pitted against the strength of the Angels as they battled in connection with what was being read. The display of spiritual battle, revealed in such clarity, was something Jasper had never dreamed of before. It drove a message deep into his heart about good and evil. He would never forget this experience. In that instant, Jasper knew he would be changed forever more, because what he spoke could so easily affect spirit in such a way he never fathomed.
Dr. Adams read on, “Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything to stand.” The doctor lifted his eyes to look over his bi-focals at Jasper’s face.
“That was great, Doctor. Thank you.” Jasper said with sincerity. Out of breath by his experience of insight, Jasper remained restless in his chair.
“Did you even hear a word I read?” Dr. Adams grew tired and frustrated. As Jasper continued to look all around the room as though watching flies swarming about, Dr. Adams could see clearly, there was nothing really there.
“You know Jasper, it’s rude when you don’t pay attention. I’m trying to provide a service here for you.” Jasper felt like he was living in two worlds at once. While the doctor continued to speak critically, Jasper tried not to pay attention to the Angels clashing swords with Demons.
Suddenly, a giant beast thundered its way into the office with an explosive, menacing roar. Jasper covered his ears and was shaken by the creature. His entire body shook from the creature’s penetrating noise only the sound was heard inside his head, not outside. Covering his ears did little to quiet anything.
Elana flipped through the air as she entered the fray. Her weightless cartwheels were like a mosaic of feathers that distracted the Demons before her sudden advance of flashing silver blades carved their way through. The grotesque creatures of darkness attempted to retaliate but the confidence and skill of the Angels dominated.
The doctor stopped lecturing Jasper and just looked at him for a long moment. Rising from his desk, the doctor walked around to Jasper. Suspecting Jasper had some form of schizophrenia, Dr. Adams knew it was also possible that his patient was just acting out from a history of problems. Checking Jasper’s pulse he found the man was truly panicking. Scribbling down a note in Jasper’s file, Dr. Adams wrote, ‘Jasper was left with contusions of the brain which supported post-traumatic stress disorder.’
When the doctor grabbed a tool to examine Jasper’s eyes, Jasper’s mouth dropped wide open at what he saw. The huge warty beast grabbed Taila out of the air. The beast opened its incredibly large mouth to devour the Angel. Taila shrieked at the sight of teeth the size of zucchinis and sharpened like needles. The teeth lined its entire mouth.
When the doctor attempted to open Jasper’s eye and examine the glossy pupil, Jasper threw his head back and screamed in terror. The security officers entered the office and tried to restrain Jasper and calm him down but Jasper’s struggle only escalated as he shouted for the other Angels to help rescue Taila from the clutches of the beast.
At Jasper’s call, Joel, Wilson, Starr, Roger, Elana and West appeared side by side in force. Jasper’s body tensed. The anticipated suspense of the Angels facing-off against the menacing Demon threat, captured his complete attention.
Dr. Adams held Jasper by the shoulders and tried to calm him down while each of the security guards pinned down an arm. Jasper tried to rise out of his wheelchair to see around the doctor who blocked his view of the Angels. Unable to move, Jasper tried to point out the beast, though he knew how blind the doctor and guards were to the battle raging around them.
Effortlessly, the beast tossed Taila into its massive mouth. Joel followed, leaping up and standing on the bottom jaw of the beast. With his feet between the long sharp teeth, his hands curled around the fangs of its top bridge of teeth. Joel strained and flexed with all his might to keep the great mouth open wide.
From within, Taila struggled to crawl out of the putrid mouth of the creature. The strong tongue thrashed and swung about under her.
Wilson and Roger flew at the reptilian Demon to restrain the strong arms of the beast. Other Demons came piling in on Joel like the tackling of many football players. Their eyes were crimped with rage and purpose. Flapping their tattered leathery wings with excitement, the flying Demons attacked. Joel’s body lit up and solidified. Becoming like a statue under a pile of Demons, Joel’s form didn’t budge. The Demons were upon him, punching, kicking, teeth gritted with inhuman eyes shrewish as they pummeled him.
West, Starr and Elana flew in and shot light out from the palms of their hands. The blasts of light repelled the Demons, pushing back their darkness. Gritting his teeth, ready to be shot at also, West spun out of flight to dodge the onslaught long enough to get out a few more shots at a Demon group as he passed by quickly. Many of the monsters went down.
Wilson and Roger worked to keep the strong arms of the beast restrained. Overpowered by the beast’s strength, Roger lost his grip. The muscled black arm was freed and moved so fast it blurred passed everyone’s view, swatting Starr. Fierce rage was unleashed as the Demon aggressively attacked. Starr flew back across the doctor’s office, and vanished as she phased through the far wall. Recovering quickly in the next room, Starr frowned with determination. The wings at Starr’s back flapped for the stability to regain balance and posture. Spinning, Starr circled back toward the beast. Exploding from the wall with outstretched fists, she darted ahead and rammed into the beast. Colliding with the creature so hard, Starr caused Taila to pop right out of the Demon’s mouth and be spat out past Joel.
Joel let go of the monster’s mouth and dropped back. Wilson leaped forward at the beast’s face with great beams of Holy light shining and fizzling off his steaming clinched fists to avenge his friend.
The creature’s dark red eye opened wide at the sight of the light. When the white beam of Holy light made contact with the creature’s single red eye, the creature backed away in pain. Roaring at a higher pitch of turmoil, its ghastly shriek filled the room, followed by a rising howl. Bounding away with heavy steps, thumping the floor boards and causing them to crack under pressure, the creature escaped through the office wall and charged down the hall.
The Angels stood together in a circle back to back and eyed the Demons, warning them to keep away. The grotesque looking Demons understood the power of the Angels and cowardly stepped away slowly.
After the excitement died down, Jasper began to relax. The security men bound Jasper to the wheelchair. When Jasper focused on the living, he found there were three other doctors with him in the office. The doctors cross checked the straps that held Jasper’s wrists and ankles to the wheelchair, then they wheeled him out and took him from Dr. Adam’s office.
Gagged and delivered to a maximum security wing of the hospital, the specialists meticulously
checked Jasper from head to toe. After sedation, Jasper’s body had been put through a CAT scan. They spent hours poring over the results and talking, trying to determine what exactly was wrong with Jasper.
The doctors didn’t have enough evidence to list Jasper as clinically insane, and there was nothing in his prescribed drugs to cause hallucinations.
Returning to his bed under tight bindings, Jasper slept off the affects of the drugs under the close watchful eyes of the medical security personnel and the Angels.
The Demons disturbed Jasper so much, that even when he closed his eyes, he could see them. This kept him awake well into the night. Jasper, tied down on his bed, would see real Demons lurking around him like predators. They looked for opportunities to strike as they did with all of the humans. What caused the Demons to flee was when Jasper prayed, out loud or silently, along with the Angels. Praying also drove the haunted and chilling sensations away, also.
Grateful to have the protective Angels nearby, if for no other reason than to cause the Demons to depart, Jasper thanked his Seven new friends. In return, the Angels comforted him.
When he stopped praying, it was never long before the Demons returned, peeking at him from the shadows, around corners, from within cabinets and behind curtains. Jasper didn’t want to admit it but while he was in bondage, the Demons haunted him. It was better people couldn’t see the Demons as he could or the world would be a very different place. ‘How would anyone accomplish anything with the fearful distractions of these wild and wicked night crawlers?’ Jasper thought as he felt his stomach tighten.
Waking up from his bed the next morning, Jasper found he was surrounded by a group of tall handsome people.
“He awakens,” one of the pleasant young folks spoke.
“Greetings, Jasper. Are you awake?” another asked in a kindly manner.
“W-who are you?” Jasper asked, unable to recognize any faces. He thought it was because he was still waking up. “Where are the other Angels?”
“That isn’t important right now. We need you to tell us your tale. We desire to understand how it is you are granted capabilities to see and hear those of us who are of spiritual existence.” When Jasper realized these were Angels also, just as beautiful and omniscient as his first Seven friends, he smiled with delight. Though no wings could be seen at their backs, the six of them were dressed in formal, black attire.
“Would you tell us?” Pleaded a very beautiful young female Angel, batting her bright blue eyes. She untied Jasper’s bonds seductively. Though Jasper liked the attention, he felt odd to receive such affection from a stranger. At the back of his mind, Jasper felt something wasn’t right. He wondered if there was just something they wanted from him.
Jasper was about to say something and give these odd Angels what they wanted when the original Seven Angels entered the room. “Oh, meet my other Angel friends.” Jasper told them. “They know my story and can answer your questions.”
There was a great chill in the air as the two groups found themselves locked in awkward tension.
“These are no friends of yours, Jasper. Nor are they agents of the Almighty.” Wilson spoke loud and clear as he began to explain.
“By reputation, they are; ‘The insufferable six.’” Joel pointed at them, his finger crackling and sparking with electrical energy.
Elana stepped right up to the female leader who had untied Jasper, “Greetings, Morbidant.” Touching her fore-head, the brave Elana then said, “Now Jasper, look upon the true form of your new friends.” The deception, so convincing, was shattered and the body of the gorgeous woman in black morphed into a detestable, evil form. Elana turned to Jasper with a look of vast wisdom in her eyes.
Crouching forward, the vicious Demon began to cower and tremble pathetically, like she had just been victimized. The other Dark Angels remained beautiful and shouted accusations at the original Seven. “Look Jasper! We aren’t evil! It is your friends who try to make Demons out of us.”
“Join us, Jasper!” shouted another one of the Angels dressed in black. “Before it is too late!” he held out his hand, expecting Jasper to take it and choose their side.
Wilson made large circular motions through the air as his fists caught fire. Punching in the direction of the Dark Angels, fire balls launched from his fists, hitting two of them. The fire consumed their disguise, only to expose their hideous true forms.
West smashed his fists together and a tornado of wind swirled into existence that stretched out like a tentacle. It quickly grabbed hold of a female Dark Angel and spun her around until her real form was exposed also.
Roger took hold of the hilt of his sword from his belt. In his grip the hilt activated a blade of water that was in such motion it could cut like a laser. When he pointed the water blade at the Dark Angel in a window-guard stance, the blade of water launched like a rocket, splashing against the Dark Angel’s black suit. The suit disintegrated. The beautiful disguise melted away with the water. Only the hideous remains of the creature, which marked its fall from grace, was left. When Roger looked at the creature, he crinkled up his nose and said, “Detestable!”
At the same moment, Joel took hold of an arrow of ‘good will’ and propelled it from his flexible golden bow at the last remaining Dark Angel.
With her deception compromised like the others to reveal her true morbid form, what remained were Six Dark Angels, exposed in their true nature; hideous, vicious and Demonic.
Taila and Starr stood on either side of Jasper, stretching out a wing to shield and protect Jasper from an imminent retaliation.
Elana flew to Jasper and placed her small warm hand gently to his fore-head. When she removed her hand, Jasper found he had knowledge of the Insufferable Six’s identity.
When Jasper looked at the first of the Dark Angels, Elana said, ‘This female Demon is Morbidant. She’s the leader of the Six. Looking like a twisted and pain filled body with the skin as rough as black charred wood and horns of ivory, Morbidant is extremely dangerous; able to control darkness and shadows, conjure up ‘Shadow People’ and influence dark emotions in her enemies to weaken them.’ When she looked at Jasper, he felt she violated his spirit with the gaze of her green glowing eyes alone.
‘Diolucious; another unattractive female. She appears to be a sick skeleton with translucent, wrinkly skin and a mess of hair, so thick, it looks like a pile of dried tree branches on her head. She’s rumored to be a sneaky archer, who’s skilled at shooting small arrows and darts of accusation, gossip, slander and fault finding. You can see her eyes are beyond the grave; dark, hollow and grievous.
‘The very short female, Krustatious, resembles a Demon Imp Scout, only she is the commander of the little varmints. She gives Scouts the powers of confusion, anxiety, rejection, bitterness, impatience, unforgiveness and lust.
‘A large awkward Demon, Wengroangrinch, is a male with an equally large fore-head and a protruding spine of bony spikes. He is also a telepath who extracts and exploits human’s secrets with a mix of confusion. Using his keys to gain access to the bodies of living humans, he has them possessed by notorious Demons.
‘The masculine Viking warrior, Vyxcious is a giant amongst the others; a hulking warrior who stepped right out of the field of battle exposing the memory of his chipped armor and open cuts. Vyxcious had an ability to sprout thorny vines from his hands that instantly grow and stretch to entangle, ensnare, whip or constrict his victims.
‘Gewgaw; a slimy reptilian male who has the ability to shoot ectoplasm, or what he calls; ecto-slime from small slits on the palms of his hands. His mandate is to make all straight and narrow paths and bridges, so slimy travelers will slip away from acquiring their goals in life. From the ecto-slime, countless slimy snakes spawn and manifest injecting poisons into anyone who crossed them.’
Though the hospital room was less than ideal for the two forces to face off, the exposed Insufferable Six leaned forward and roared a terrifying battle cry. The Six fearlessly charged toward the Seve
n. The two groups unsheathed their swords and met each other at hand to hand combat. This was a game for the quick and the strong. In the eyes of the Angels of light, Jasper saw a reverence of mercy. They were almost reluctant to set their weapons against the Dark Angels.
The giant Vyxcious launched long twisted vines from his hands that wound around and constricted West. Stone-faced and hard-eyed, Vyxcious watched the Angels. He was a big, powerfully built Demon with a face sharply chiseled of granite and quick eyes. The Angels didn’t like the way those eyes fixed on them.
Gewgaw shot a splash of ecto-slime at Roger, coating him and pulling his weightless body down.
Wengroangrinch roared, extending his horribly disfigured face and large fore-head from his deep hood. While he roared his face disappeared and his haunting skull-face was all that remained. Directing his evil desire, he marked Jasper for possession by branding him with a red hot key. Demonic spirits swarmed Jasper’s body as they searched for an entrance point. It wasn’t easy as Taila and Starr worked feverishly to protect him with powerful beams of their Holy light.
Releasing a horde of Demon Scouts from her open cloak, Krustatious telepathically commanded them to attack. Joel and Elana sprang into action. From Joel’s fists came a line of flame and Holy Fire to cause the little Imp Scouts to scatter and retreat back into Krustatious’s cloak. Krustatious was about to leap when Elana lassoed her with the power of God’s love. The power of her silver lasso made Krustatious toil in her rejection of such pure goodness.
Wilson’s fists of fire flared up as he punched the light of God’s glory into Morbidant. Wilson looked like a small young boy against his tall assailant, but Wilson’s confidence and bravery made up for his lack of height and apparent age. As his light exploded over the darkness of the evil witch, Morbidant shrieked in anguish.
Diolucious shot dark arrows at the Angels to weaken them. Taila and Starr were hit and dropped down. A couple more dark arrows were shot at their leader Morbidant to strengthen her.
The heated glow of lava appeared in the black crevasses of Morbidant’s chard skin as she arose with her arms outstretched. Flame blasted out over her body as she floated over Wilson. “Does this situation remind you of a similar incident long ago, Wilson?”
Wilson looked away shamefully. He remembered how terribly they failed and how long it had been since they felt they could be trusted again. Wilson also recalled how he and the rest of the Seven vowed never to let such an embarrassment like that reoccur ever again. Wilson told her, “Since that time we’ve grown more powerful, Morbidant. Now we’re the word of God and you possess no power from your dark realm that is stronger.”
Joel shot an arrow at Morbidant’s shadow people, when he said, “It’s only when you hide from the light and glory of God that your veils return to cover you in shadow. We represent Spirit and Truth!” He felt a deep sense of satisfaction take hold.
Starr brushed at her hair and added to Joel’s statement, “Truth is never found hiding in the darkness; it seeks to remain in the light for all to see.” Her soft voice had no more tension in it, but her eyes were somehow troubled. Doves of light sprang out from the concealment of her wings and lit the entire room.
Each of the Insufferable Six shielded their eyes and coward from the great light. Morbidant shouted, “We will hide your light from the world and keep you all contained in this room! Whatever your mission is here on earth, consider it over!” A shadow of darkness sprang from under Morbidant’s cape and coated over the walls of the hospital room.
Vyxcious kept his eyes shut as thick thorn laden vines stretched from his large hands and crawled throughout Morbidant’s shadows. Gewgaw launched a spray of ecto-slime from the slits of his hands. With the three layers of darkness covering the walls, ceiling, and floor. The Angels could see that they might have difficulty freeing themselves, but they didn’t believe they were trapped.
The light of the Angels dimmed slightly and Morbidant told them, “We don’t have to capture all of you Angels. We only need to keep Jasper here. He is important somehow. That’s why you Angels are attached to him.” Then Morbidant addressed her lieutenants. “Come, let us replenish our strength and rest our eyes from the appalling light of these accursed Angels.” Sinking into the floor and leaving the hospital room, the Insufferable Six followed their leader.
The room was pitch black but Jasper could still see the light of the Angels who surrounded him. Silently, he looked at them and noticed, after all that they’d just been through, they remained peaceful. Roger said, “Don’t worry, Jasper. I’ll get you out of this imprisonment.” Roger took hold of the hilt of his sword and the water blade grew out from the hilt. Approaching the door of the room, Roger embedded the water blade of his sword into the wall around the door. Water sprayed back as Roger proceeded to cut a new doorway through the ecto-slime, the twisted and laced thorn vines and Morbidant’s shadow.
When he was finished, West inspected the cuts of Roger’s water sword. Not only were the cuts not deep, they didn’t penetrate the wall at all. West gave him a rakish grin, “It would appear you only made the walls wet.” The other Angels laughed and West added, “These walls haven’t been cut at all.”
“This isn’t Star Wars, Roger.” Joel remarked humorously, “And light sabers are very different from your water blade swords.”
“You guys have seen Star Wars?” Jasper asked.
“Come on, Jasper.” Roger purred with a big smile, “Everyone’s seen Star Wars.”
“Are the dark abilities of the Insufferable Six too powerful for us?” Elana asked.
“Don’t be so sure.” Wilson told her, “Ever since we returned, the Insufferable Six have underestimated us.”
“Move aside everyone!” West stepped forward, “I’ll take care of this!” From West’s fist came a powerful gust of wind that swirled into visual existence. Driving the tornado winds against the doors, West managed to physically blow the doors off their hinges in the material world.
The sound of the door being forced open alerted the hospital staff, along with the reappearing Insufferable Six. The Seven Angels flew into action to protect Jasper. Hearing the stir of people outside the now open door, Jasper sprinted to escape the hospital room. Bounding out into the hallway, Jasper collided with a nurse who was pushing a cart of sterilized medical tools.
“Hey, watch it!” The nurse exclaimed. Her cart had fallen over and the medical supplies spilled out onto the floor.
From down the hall a doctor hollered, “What’s going on down there?”
Jasper could barely see and knocked into everything as he struggled to get away from the approaching Insufferable Six. Without any reply to the doctor, Jasper turned to run away when the ill skeletal figure of Diolucious rose before him. Her mouth was open and her breath hissed out as she pulled back on her bow and took aim on Jasper’s Face. She was a hair-trigger of unpredictability. The look of her deep hollow eyes and scraggly hair spooked Jasper and he yelled as he turned away and ducked. Diolucious’s arrow hurtled toward him and narrowly passed over top of him.
Invisible to the doctor at the end of the hall, the black arrow found its mark in his chest. As Diolucious reached back to reload her bow with another black arrow, Jasper rose up quickly and lashed out, throwing a quick punch. When his fist passed through Diolucious’s head, she turned her face slightly and defensively. When she realized Jasper’s punch had no affect on her, she turned her face back and deviously smiled at him.
As Diolucious lifted her bow and arrow to shoot Jasper in the face again, only now at point blank range, Taila swooped in from behind the Demon archer. From the fiery palms of her hands she set Diolucious’s twig-like hair on fire. When Taila pulled back on Diolucious’s wrinkly face, they bent back and accidentally released the black arrow into the ceiling.
Jasper had caused quite the scene in the hall and nurses were concerned for the safety of both the patients and the staff. All eyes were fixed on Jasper and the people who were closest to him backed
away.
The doctor with the black spiritual arrow sticking out of his chest began to shout orders, “That’s it! We’re locking down this wing! Someone call for security! Meanwhile we have to clear this hall!”
Wengroangrinch stomped his feet down the hall with the sound of the rings of keys he wore on his belt, clinking to each of his clumsy strides. Placing a hand to the temple of his large head, Wengroangrinch affected Taila’s mind with turmoil thoughts.
Throughout the hall the weapons of the enemy caused glass to break and objects to become thrown like a haunting of violent supernatural occurrences. Jasper tried to turn and run again but a gurney obstructed his path. Frustrated by his sight, Taila moved quickly to escape Wengroangrinch’s telepathic hold and push Jasper’s chest as she made her way passed him.
Jasper was thrown backwards off his feet and landed in the seat of a wheel-chair. When Joel saw this he had a great idea to save Jasper. Though he was locked in battle with Gewgaw, Joel quickly created a distraction of fire and flew to Jasper. By causing the wheelchair to move forward, Joel steered Jasper down the hall, narrowly missing three security officers and other objects.
Spiritually, Joel and Jasper became prime moving targets for the dark Demons. Meanwhile, the other Angels saw what had transpired and took up new positions to keep Jasper safe.
At the end of the hall, Joel saw elevator doors begin to slide shut. He decided to push the wheelchair harder so Jasper wouldn’t miss his elevator ride. Jasper glanced back and saw the Insufferable Six charging down the hall behind him yelling with their shrill shrieking screams.
Vyxcious grew a quick long vine and snapped it like a whip, causing the wheelchair to be jarred to the left. Demon Scouts reacted to Krustatious’s instructions to slow the wheelchair. With the wheelchair covered with the menacing little Imp Scouts, Joel fought to compensate for the change in the chair’s direction and speed. When he saw the doors had closed too much for the wheelchair to fit, Jasper began to shout in fear of the impact. The momentum had built to a speed that Joel couldn’t slow-down in time before slamming into the closed elevator doors, but Roger swooped in beside Joel and together they wrenched the wheelchair into a tight turn. The new direction sent Jasper hurtling toward the open stairway.
Morbidant arose at the stairway door and threw shadows from her hands at the oncoming wheelchair, knocking Joel and Roger back. Jasper rode on right through Morbidant and down the stairs. Behind the wheelchair Wengroangrinch took control of it so the chair made the tight corner at the switch back and continued all the way to the next floor down.
Jasper didn’t need to see Wengroangrinch to know he was being pushed by the Demons. They caused havoc as they thrusted the wheelchair forward and drove Jasper to run into people. The wheelchair continued to pick up speed with such force Jasper didn’t expect. Not ready for what might happen next, speeding down the hall, Jasper was sent whizzing through the open doors of the cafeteria where the quiet eating area exploded into a world of chaos.
Coffees were launched from the hands of doctors and patients with the shock of Jasper’s explosive thunderstorm entrance. The Wheelchair collided with a long table launching Jasper out of the chair. He slid along the table-top headfirst. Jasper wiped out many breakfast trays before he finally squeaked along the surface to a stop. Standing up on the table, alert and defensive, Jasper looked at the Demons who filed into the cafeteria behind him.
The people who had their breakfast disrupted shouted at Jasper. They weren’t shy about voicing their aggravation, and they shouted all the more as the Insufferable Six attacked them. Stirring up emotions with their dark arrows, blades and poisonous shadows, Jasper could see how quickly his situation escalated his danger.
In a blink, the Angels flooded into the cafeteria with their goodness and light. Gewgaw trampled over the other tables, shooting his ecto-slime over everything and everyone. It even got into the customer’s food and drinks. Roger and Elana flew after Gewgaw to stop him but he was moving too fast. Leaping into the kitchen, Gewgaw contaminated it with his slime also. As a result of Gewgaw’s slime, anyone who ate or drank immediately spewed out their breakfast in utter disgust. Those who swallowed later had to be treated for food poisoning.
The cooks couldn’t see any change to the food at first glance but when a slice of bread was lifted from a sandwich, the contents under it squirmed, alive with maggots.
Jasper saw Gewgaw’s spiritual snakes slithering out of the customer’s mouths who ate. Meanwhile, Jasper was distracted by the fast pace, non-stop battle between the Angels and Demons. The people began to realize the presence of the paranormal as pictures popped off the walls and other items moved or were otherwise thrown across the room on their own.
When Wengroangrinch took hold of one of his keys, tabbing it into the back of a woman, he turned it which opened her up to the possession of a terrible Demon. In this case, it was Diolucious who took over the woman’s body. First, she fell to the floor and convulsed while laughing insidiously, but when the possession took, she rose up with an evil unnatural wickedness and screamed at the people. Everyone evacuated from the cafeteria in a mad rush.
Jasper also tried to leave amongst the people and in the chaos he grabbed the long white doctor’s coat from the back of a chair and threw it on. Disguised as a doctor, Jasper tried to disappear down the hall and become lost in the shuffle of people.
The Seven Angels remained behind in the cafeteria where they used their combined abilities to free the woman of her Demon possession.