(Sam's POV)

I slowly open Blues door just to make sure he's completely safe before I leave. A small smile makes it's way to my face once I see he's peacefully sleeping under his blankets, face smushed by his pillow. I've been doing okay at this whole Guardian thing, Tara says I'm already getting way better than some. With that I close his door making sure not to make any noise and head back home.

I clench my eyes shut from the bright light, once the brightness fades I lightly blink my eyes open letting them adjust, I'm still new to this whole angel thing.

"Finally!" Devyn stands from where she was sitting. "Aaron's been getting memories back all day, and I heard the council talking apparently a demon was trying to come over here. Also did you know we get wings too??"

"What? We get wings!?" Wait what do we do with those?

"Yes! They told us when you were gone that once you unlock all your memories you get them, I'm so excited for that, have you seen the others wings? They're absolutely gorgeous! Oh also I'm supposed to be meeting with the demons again today, come with me to meet them please," she wines with begging eyes.

I want to go, I want to meet other ones that aren't Tara because she seems so strong yet comforting in a way. I want to see what others are like, I know I'm not supposed to be over there but what's one time?

"Okay."

"Wait what?! Are you being serious?" I laugh and nod at her reaction. She cheers and starts jumping around the empty white room. "I've only talked to one but she says others will be with her today."

"Her? Do you remember her name? Maybe it was Tara, you know the demon I told you about."

"No, her name was Xepher... Maybe Tara will be there today though," she shrugs. "It's just gonna be me and Elton going, so we should be able to sneak you with us just fine..." She rubs her chin as if in deep concentration trying to think of a plan. "I say we just wing it," she concludes after a moment of silence.

"You couldn't think of anything better could you?"

"Nope!" she laughs and grabs my wrist running out the room.

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"If someone finds us I am absolutely dead," I whisper as we all meet at the beginning of the tunnel.

"You're already dead bud," Elton quietly laughs, he swings a heavy arm over my shoulders. "We'll be fine, if someone sees you I'll take all the blame, alright?" I shake my head not wanting him to get in trouble for me, he's right we'll be fine.

"Okay then, lets do this?" Devyn asks looking to the both of us. Elton and I nod, his a bit more confident then mine. "In we go then!" She whisper-cheers and takes a step into the tunnel/halfway thing. Shouldn't it be more dark in here? We're literally walking to hell and the lights are still glowing white with all their might.

I take a small step behind Elton as we make our way through the entrance, I quietly close the white painted brick door behind me. My shoes crunch against the rough gravel filling the hallway with that sound. As we continue to walk I take notice of the way the lights are dimming to a warm yellow, the walls look more aged and there's writing and graffiti starting too.

It's almost as if the entire energy is slowly switching, from the creams and nature minimalistic look, to this edgy and aged one. Within ten minutes the lights are completely red but a darker red, blood red. The actual stone wall covered in drawings of all colors, they're so layered you can barely read most of them.

"We're almost there," Devyn says, her voice echos down the tunnel. Elton nods but I stay looking around, taking in all my surroundings. The walls are stretching out getting wider, the light gravel that was at the beginning is now long gone. Leaving the floor a black concrete.

"Um Dev," I grab her shoulder and point to the floor where fog is covering it in front of us.

"Oh it's always like that, I've found they're quite dramatic with this whole 'dark' thing, don't worry it gets completely cleared up once we're at the bars," she softly laughs and keeps walking.

"That's just scary..." I whisper moving to be completely behind Elton. The way any noise echos twice as loud is daunting, this entire place is making me almost wary. All the sudden the hallway ends, opening up to a circle shaped room, at the opposite side of the wall there's bars, rusted copper bars going up, but behind it just seems to be a black wall?

"They have a spell up so you can't see in there without their permission, give it a few seconds," Elton informs and walks up to the bars, Devyn goes too so I just follow behind. The blackness fades to these swirls that look like smoke before completely vanishing.

"Welcome back," a girl with bright red hair appears behind the bars.

"Hey Xepher, um here's the papers," Devyn passes her a couple pages, before we left she was given these from the inside of some very old looking book.

"Thanks," she takes them out of her hands quickly looking them over, a smile comes to her face once she sets them down on a side table next to her. "So you must be Sam?" Her gaze goes to me. "Tara was telling me about you, I wish you could have been one of us we're way cooler, no offense," she laughs.

"You're friends with Tara?" I step closer to her now feeling a bit more comfortable, knowing she's a friend of Taras.

"Yeah, she's around here somewhereeee," she leans back looking around the room.

Wow, it looks like the main room in where we live, the huge building with the high circular ceiling. But it's different in the way that the red and black walls have chunks missing and harsh edges. While ours are white and silver marble. Their floor stays concrete while ours is glass. There's no windows and ours is taken over by the light from them. Everything is so dark but it has character, you can feel all the events and things that has happened here. Ours is so crisp and clean but this, this shows centuries of life it seems.

"There she is, Tara!" Xepher calls to Tara who just came out of a room. Tara looks over, we make eye contact and she immediately smiles and starts jogging over.

"Hey," she stops next to Xepher.

"Hi, oh these are my friends Elton and Devyn," I point to the both of them, when I get to Devyn I notice her staring off at Xepher. I nudge her and she quickly looks over to me.

"Nice to meet you," she lightly smiles at Tara. Tara's response gets cut off by loud yelling, two guys come rushing in. One is getting shoved along while the other is gripping his neck tightly and pulling his arms back. I can't make out the features of the one getting pushed and all I can really see on the other is brown hair covering his eyes and red lips.

"Found him," the brown haired one looks over to Xepher and Tara. He blows the hair out of his face revealing the rest of his face, wow.

"Good job Colbs, give him back to the guards they'll lock him up," Xephers says looking to him.

The guy nods and tries to start walking again but the other isn't letting him. The brunette glares down at the guy, that I can now see has silver hair, the hand he has around his neck tightens so tightly that blood starts to collect around his many rings. The silver head guy cries in pain and let's him pull them into a room across from us, he kicks on the door and it quickly opens, I can hear the deafening screams and loud metal clashing but right when the guy hits the floor the door is slammed shut on it's own.

The brunette walks away like nothing happened, that's when I realized he's coming over to us. With Xepher I wasn't very intimidated but this guy seems like the real thing, if I was to picture a demon he would match it. Cold face expression, confident stature, and striking good looks that could lure anyone in.

"Guys this is Colby, Colby meet our angel friends," Tara introduces.

"You have angel friends now?" He looks to us, I sink into myself when his intense eyes look over me. His eyebrows scrunch together as he looks at my face over and over again as if examining every detail, his blank expression changes for a second as our eyes meet but I can't make out what it changed to seeing as it was too quick.

"Yes we do and I don't want to hear any snarky comments from you because you literally have no room to say anything about this subject out of pure irony," Xepher laughs, she shoves his shoulder and he cracks a small smile.

"Whatever, I'm going to go do actual important stuff," he smiles and rolls his eyes walking away. How does it work that a demon could have the most bright and beautiful smile I have ever seen?

"Don't mind him, he tries to act tuff but he's a complete softy. Anyways you guys should probably start heading back before both our councils flip," Xepher looks back to us. We all agree to that and promise to meet up again, well me and Tara will see each other in a few hours but no mind to that.

We say a few more words before the blackness comes back covering their home and we turn back to ours. I understand why Cora said they don't want me over there, I now feel so drawn to it, the place and the few people I've seen there. Whenever they have to go back over there I know I'll be coming with them.

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Wow after five chapters Colby's character is finally here lol, hope you guys enjoyed the longer chapter🖤 lots Of Love- B
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