Chapter 7 - chapter 7

Chapter 7
I gasped. He wasn’t old like I thought he had been. He looked at the oldest, seventeen. His longish black hair flopped over his brown eyes. He was...cute...I admitted to myself hesitantly.
His brow was furrowed, worried.
He looked down at me when I gasped and realized his hood had fallen off. He cursed softly and pulled it back up.
I looked down embarrassed. I hated this guy. He had drugged me and was completely rude and obnoxious. So why did my stomach drop even farther than it had when we took off from the ground?
“Sorry.” He muttered angrily. “That wasn’t supposed to happen,”
“Oh no, it’s ok!” I protested before I realized exactly what I had said. “Umm...I mean it’s ok, because I...uhhh...like seeing people’s faces when I talk to them.” I backpedaled, inventing wildly.
He stared down at me again, hovering in midair, his huge wings flapping steadily, keeping us in place. After a few seconds he smiled and pulled the hood back down.
“There.” he said and continued flying.
Much to my annoyance, I blushed.
We continued flying upwards and he continued to look worried. I finally gathered my courage and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“This might hurt...” he said with his eyes trained on the sky.
I followed his gaze and saw the same bright blue sky that I had seen down on the ground. “What will?”
“This. Prepare yourself,”
I looked around, panicking. Wondering what exactly was going to hurt so much.
We then crossed over some invisible barrier and suddenly I knew what he was talking about.
Pain. Greater pain then I had ever felt before. Including the time I had to re-enter my broken body. I felt like a flaming dagger was being dragged across my entire being. All around us there were swirling black and gray clouds and smoky figures lurking in the corners of my vision. I remember screaming as the pain got worse and vaguely registered D.B.R.G. pulling me closer to him and wrapping his arms around my back.
Then it was over. I collapsed onto D.B.R.G. and breathed shallowly.
“You’re really heavy you know,” D.B.R.G. laughed in my ear. I bit back a smile and sat up, hating myself for being weak in front of him. I didn’t know why I was so embarrassed but I was.
“Sorry.” I panted shortly.
He set me down frowning. “Don’t apologize for something that isn’t your fault.”
“Sorr-” I started but stopped at his glare. “Ummm...Ok.” I said lamely.
“Now...Get up.”
“Ok.” I muttered.
I struggled a little getting to my feet, but wanted to stand without his help. At least I hadn’t fainted again. I still had my dignity.
I stood and walked a few steps, and tripped over my feet. So much for being dignified.
I guess D.B.R.G. caught me because instead of hitting the ground I was stopped by his hands and was looking up into his face.
My own face, I’m sure, turned bright red and I nearly tripped again trying to get away. I brushed myself off and glanced up at him. He was seemed to be choking but with closer inspection I realized he was trying not to laugh at me.
Chapter 9
It started raining as we walked together across large, grassy, rolling hills. It felt like something out of a Charlotte Bronte book. It was so cold I wondered why it wasn’t snowing and I shivered in my short white dress. D.B.R.G. noticed and took off his cloak and wrapped it around my shoulders.
“Thanks,”
“No it’s my fault. I forgot to get you the proper clothing for this level. It’s always cold here.” He himself was wearing a long sleeved blue shirt with long black pants and large hiking boots. He looked warm enough.
I pulled his cloak closer around myself and shivered again, flicking rain out of my eyes impatiantly.
“So what exactly am I going to learn here? And who’s going to teach me? And where are we? And-”
“Hey, one question at a time!” I paused, waiting expectantly.
He sighed and pushed his ink-black hair away from his eyes.
“You are going to learn the entire history of Heaven, Earth, and Hell.”
I looked at him horrified.
He laughed at my expression.
“Just how long do I have to learn all of this?!”
“Not long...” he trailed off looking worried again. I was worried too. I had always been bad at memorizing dates and random facts.
“And as to who will be teaching you, that would be the Second Council Member.”
“Does this person have a name?” I asked annoyed.
“Yes.”
I waited.
“As to where we are,” he continued ignoring my incredulous look, “Second Heaven.”
And that was all I could get out of him.
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I stopped, staring. We had just come over a particularly large hill and sitting there in the middle of the moor was a huge mid-evil castle. It was tall, wide, and gray. Complete with a moat and drawbridge and small red flags flying from large towers.
“Ummmm...wow.”
“Well come on!” D.B.R.G. said gesturing impatiently. I walked down the hill, almost tripping on the long cloak.
We walked up to the castle and since the drawbridge was down, we crossed the moat, the rain still falling into the water, making little ripples in the muddy liquid.
D.B.R.G. knocked three times on the huge wooden door.
He turned back to me.
“I’m going now. Uh bye.” He said.
“What you’re just going to leave me?!”
“Yeah I have to go do my shift.”
“Fine. If that’s more important than I am...” I said glancing up at him. He looked uncomfortable.
“Uh it’s not that...I just have to...Ummm go.”
“Fine. Go.”
“Ok. I will.” He shook open his wings and took off, droplets of rain falling from them and onto me.
“Wait!” I yelled up at him. He paused. “I don’t know what to call you! What’s your name?”
He stared down at me for a second.
“Mark. My name is Mark.”
“Mark,” I repeated to myself. “Ok! Bye!”
“See you soon! Good luck.” He then folded his wings and dived down into the ground and vanished.
I stood there slightly shocked. I bent down and poked the ground to see if I could go through it too. It was solid. I couldn’t.
I sighed and turned back to the door. I heard footsteps and waited to meet my teacher.

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