A brunette with long brown hair laid down on wet grass, choking as a man with long fangs tried to lean down and bite her while he strangled her. A vampire.
"LIT-TLE HELP, JAY!" Manny choked again, trying to kick the vampire off of her.
This Jay guy just sat on a gravestone in the graveyard, watching bored like and sipping his beer bottle miserably. You see, Jay was a guardian angel, no you couldn't see his wings and yes you're right, he definitely doesn't seem like an angel by the drinking and just watching a girl being choked to death.
From behind the vampire, someone hit the back of his head with a bat. How Ironic. The vampire stumbled a bit, let Manny go then turned around to a guy with bleached blonde hair and too many ear piercings. This was Spinner.
"Manny get the stake!" Spinner yelled at her and the vampire lunged at him now, grabbing him up against a tree hard.
Jay finished his beer and just continued watching before glancing up at the sky and sighed shaking his head. Why? Why him?
Manny tried running behind the vampire who held Spinner up and he easily shot his elbow back and knocked her out.
"Ahh!" Spinner cried when the vampire leaned down by his neck, fangs baring and they just pierced his neck before he was thrown off of the boy without completely biting him.
The vampire was thrown so hard back he landed into a gravestone and it broke it half, it growled and crawled up, looking at its attacker. Jay was lighting a cigarette and looked back at the vampire as well annoyed, like he had better things to do as well tonight. . He flicked his cigarette as the vampire went at him and Jay grabbed his throat, so hard that the vampire screamed until it's neck burst and his head turned into ash, then his whole body.
Spinner stood behind Jay, still on the tree and holding his neck, "Jesus I was bit! He bit me!" he pointed at the dust on the ground.
Manny had got up and dusted her knees off, still holding her stake, "Thanks for jumping in at any time Jay." She snapped at him but couldn't help admire him as he grabbed another beer from his 6 pack and opened it.
He shrugged, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." he taunted.
"That's far the point." Said a voice in the shadows and came into focus, an older man with a stern look and orange hair, "They needed help and you didn't help them!" He was tall too, glaring down at Jay who was an inch shorter but not one bit intimidated. Jay could snap them all in half in just mere seconds if he wanted to.
The tall man was Snake, father of Spinner, care taker of Manny but that was a long story.
"They want to be hunters right?" Jay snickered bitterly and said, "Then maybe you should learn how to fight them off yourself."
"How would you feel is they were to die-"
"He doesn't care, Dad." Spinner said while rolling his eyes and just gave Jay a 'what?' look when he took one of Jay's beers for himself.
Jay snickered, shaking his head and with that, he turned to walk home. Manny watched as he left, with the other two guys who shook their heads but nodded, expecting this out of Jay.
"Lets go home." Snake said.
"He cares." Manny insisted while standing between them.
Spinner snorted at her, "Get over your crush Manny." He taunted before leading them home, Manny wasn't his sister, but Snake took her in when her mother was killed by a pissed off ghost that happened to be her father. Manny's been around the supernatural since she was born.
So heres the story, guess it starts with Jay since he's more than 100 years old, yet looks 24 and charming as ever. He was once an angel..yes, the type of Angel who once lived in the Kingdom heaven of God.. but then when God's son Lucifer turned his back..Jay was one of the angels who agreed with him. Jay agreed with Lucifer; God wanted them to love humans more than they loved him and another.. why? When all the humans just killed another off, cared for nobody but themselves and destroyed the world they built with war and vandalism. It was a joke to ask the angels to love humans when all they did was hurt and take things for granted , and didn't even believe in God or Angels, half of them didn't at least.
So yes, Jay had followed Lucifer along with 2000 other angels and it had turned them to Fallen Angels, Angels who were stripped of their white golden big wings to their now big black feathered wings that they could hide now and then when walking the earth. But now Jay was a guardian angel, and though a very important part of his story, he doesn't like to tell it..and it's been a mystery to anyone whose ever figured him out. I mean, it was a slim chance for a fallen angel to ever get a second chance from God and even thought Jay's never met God himself, he for some reason changed him back into an Angel. A guardian Angel.
Now his duty was to protect humans, the earth and fight demons..and he did, when forced..just like a moment ago but he didn't seem so into it. He hated being on earth, hated humans, hated everything really.
...with reason. But that wasn't time to tell yet.
1 week later...
Riing, riiiing, riiiiing,
"What?" groaned Jay into his cellphone, in his room dark, just asleep two seconds ago. A naked brunette lay next to him, still passed out.
Jay sat on the side of his bed, feet on the ground and phone to his ear. He kept his eyes shut, running his fingers through his hair.
"I know this might be TOO much for me to ask." Came Snake's taunting voice, "But we need your skills of information."
Jay bit the end of his tounge and glanced up at the ceiling, "Do I have to meet you somewhere?" he asks annoyed.
"No." Came Snake's reply, "Just go to your fax machine and tell us what this symbol is."
Jay sighed but did as told, wearing just black pants and showing off his lean muscels as he walked to his fax machine in the other room , the paper printing.
Snake spoke as Jay waited for it to finish, "I've dealt with demons, vampires and ghosts..but I have no idea what this is."
Jay leaned forward to his phone printing out a page and grabbed the paper. He was actually was a bit curious as he flipped the blank page to the page of the symbol. It drew a hook, with two dots on each side, one side dripping blood it looked like.
"Jay?" Snake asked, waiting for a reply.
Jay even stared down at the paper, an unreadable look on his perfect looking face, but his eyes said it all, cold as ice.
"Jay if you just left the phone on and went back to sleep again I swear to God-"
"I know what it is." Jay spoke up, cutting Snake off and sounded very serious, "I'll be over in 5." He hung up and vanished.
Angels could do that, vanish when they needed, and appear in the very place they wanted, and there Jay was already, in a dim lit diner with a fitted black shirt and dark jeans, his hair messy but stylish, a light brown. His 3 day unshaved face was a little scruffly.. It was 4am, but there the 'scooby gang' sat in the booth. Manny and Spinner sat across from Snake, trying to go over a bunch of symbols in old books before they looked up shocked.
"Wow I thought he meant 5 minutes not seconds." Joked Spinner and looked to his Dad, "I still can't get use to it and it's been a year." He joked.
"Year and a half." Mumbled Manny still reading, and snuck a glance at Jay. Why couldn't he notice her the way she looked at him? She knew exactly when they met, when she laid her eyes on the most hottest guy alive.. or dead. Are angels alive? She didn't know.. and what had made him so cold?
She was a fox at school, she knew it. She wasn't vain about it but she did dress to impress and god did the boys love her. She knew Jay was different, that Jay was a man but why wouldn't he make a move on her? She was in highschool but still she was 17! He'd forever be 23 years old.
"Would you dears like anything else?" an older lady who owned the diner came over. She was a little heavy, but a kind quiet woman and nodded when they politely shook their heads no.
Snake looked up at Jay who stood in front of their table, arms crossed and glaring down at a copy of the symbol on the paper Snake held. "Jay what is it?" Snake asked, eyebrows pushing together in frustration, he's never seen Jay this rattled..well, ever rattled.
"It's not a symbol.. it's.." Jay lost his words, his eyebrows pushing more together and shaking his head. It couldn't be
The diner's door opened and the bell off the door chimed as black high heels clicked loudly over to them slowly and then stopped behind Jay, he was too lost in thought to turn, staring down at paper. The stranger stood there, and crossed their long tanned arms, tilting their head a bit. It was a she, and she had long blonde hair and big deer like brown hazel eyes. She caught Spinner and even Manny's attention.
Wow. She was gorgeous.
"It's a message..." came the soft female voice that made Jay's skin crawl and the heart he didn't know was there, beat hard. His eyes slowly lifted from the book, but he didn't turn.
Emma
Jay turned, and Emma too paused to get a good look at him, sizing him up and down. Looked the same, just as curse-ingly handsome with a little bit of danger leaking off of him. They shut the others out as they spoke..
"Whose the pretty stranger?" smirked Spinner for him to frown embarrassingly when Snake gave his son a look.
"I'm sorry do we know you?" Manny asked, eyes shifting from Jay to Emma and hadn't ever seen Jay look so tense. Nothing EVER bothered a guy like him.
Jay blinked, trying to snap out of it and replaced his look of shock with anger, "What are you?" he sized her up and down, trying to think less about what kind of demon she probably was now rather than how beautiful she still was. It was a confusing thing to go through.
Emma raised a perfectly arched eyebrow at him and tried to shrug as innocently as she could, "Don't you remember? I'm just a sad pathetic human looking for someone to guide me?" she wrinkled her nose in disgust, swaying her finger on the table near by her. Dusty. "A Damsel in Distress." she taunted, looking back at him with a twinkle in her eyes.
That's what she use to be. Not anymore. She was WAY more powerful now.
Snake stood up and stood next to Jay, pushing a cross in front of the girls face. "Look at her tan," Manny almost noted jealously and gave her father figure a look, "She's no vampire."
The blonde girl smiled with a silent giggle she shook her head, watching the man step back and Jay looked away as if her smile was painful to him. "Emma." he said out lout, sternly, and a bit of hardness in his voice.
The blonde was standing in front of diners counter, and couldn't help but entertainingly lean back against it, and jump herself up, sitting on the top of it and swinging her feet for a second, her long legs crossed over another. She wore fitted blue tight jeans and a white tank top with a little black leather jacket.
"Excuse me Ma'am-" the older woman and waitress went to complain about the blonde sitting on the counter and probably complain about the fuss the young girls appearance seemed to be making on her costumers, but the girl simply put her hand up and the woman stopped..like..frooze. Wasn't moving or even blinking. All just by the little power in Emma's hand.
Snake stared, he's never seen this before.
"This is Emma." Jay says in a tone they couldn't read, his eyes still cold and distance as he didn't remove them off Emma but finally dropped his shoulders and looked down.
Emma smiled happily.
"Is she evil?" Spinner whispered in Manny's ear. She glared.
"She's a fallen angel?" Jay guessed, squinting his eyes a bit to look Emma closer, stepping toward her, "Right?"
"All thanks to you." she comments and it went dead quiet. She then nodded to that 'symbol' over between Snake and Jay. "You know how the Chinese have weird symbolic writing? So does the devil." She told them.
Snake eyed her, "Why are you helping us?"
"I'm helping myself too, trust me." She confirms. Jay tilted his head, wondering if she really was on their side. She seemed serious, and the look in her eyes was dark.
"Why?" Jay spoke up again, eyes burning into hers.
Emma shrugged slowly, "Maybe because I don't want to be Hell's bitch anymore." Her voice was so deadly for such an innocent looking girl. The three could tell there was something between these two.
"Fallen Angel?" Manny repeated, still trying to get her head around it, "I don't understand the theory's on them..I get Guardian Angels but.." she drifts, eyeing Jay.
"I'm sure you do." Emma seemed to bitter about Manny 'getting Guardian angels' and seemed to jealously squint her eyes at Manny who eyed Jay and then back at her.
Manny sighed, she wished! This guy was tough.. but in all 5 minutes, this mystery girl has gotten more emotion out of Jay then she's ever seen in years!
Emma then looked down at her hands and then played with her finger nails, "There's different kinds of angels, simple angels who still live in the kingdom of heaven. Guardian Angels walk the earth protecting humans. Fallen Angels are the followers of Lucifer, or the Devil, or whatever you kids call them these days.. the ones who didn't follow Gods order to love and care for humanity and like to come up with plans to rip this world apart and try to go back up."
"You didn't obey?" Spinner asked Emma.
Emma shook her head no at Spinner, "No I'm not an original fallen Angel. I was once human, like you" She stared Jay down as she spoke and explained, "This is my punishment, I was turned into a fallen because Hell wanted me. I made a deal with the devil."
Snake had to ask, "What was the deal? You know the devil?"
Emmas eyes flashed angrily and just ignored him, "That's the devils message of saying 'soon'." Emma told them and had to ask, "Where did you find it?"
Snake nodded to his son and foster daughter, "When we were patrolling tonight in the woods. We found it-"
"It was carved in a dead girls body." Jay bluntly said, getting over the morbid details and going straight to the morbid end. He wanted to know what Emma knew.
Spinner shivered by the flash of it, he's seen many things but.. that took the cake. The girls eyes were still open, so pale and dead too. Reeked of death and bloody from the carving of that symbol.
"What's soon?" Snake asked Emma
Emma gave him a look and Jay looked down, trying not to smirk. She was shocked the man was so dumb. "If it's in Satan's language.. maybe it means he is coming soon." She taunted while jumping off the counter
Manny tightened her hold on her knife, a little afraid of the stranger..and maybe a little jealous. She went to stand and Jay grabbed her arm from doing anything and muttered quietly, "She'll kill you in a snap."
Manny obeyed, sitting back and Jay turned back to Emma who walked over. He was still a bit stunned, "He wouldn't.." he drifts.
Emma tilted her head up at Jay and studied him under her long eyelashes, "You don't want to see an old friend?" she stepped in front of him closely..so closely it hurt.
He clenched his jaw slowly, keeping his eyes burning on hers. Then Emma's taunting remarks and tone seemed to vanish, and she went serious, pitied them a little.
"He wants you all to burn." She confirms before walking off slowly.
Jay cornered his eyes and watched her leave until out of site, she didn't open the front door, she vanished when she walked up to it, and the woman from behind the counter unfroze, and blinked, looking around confused.
But not as confused as them.
4 days later..
"Jayson." Came Snakes voice on his answering machine, "You have to pick up, you need to help us. If this Satan thing is true.. we need to start thinking of how to stop it, if we can stop it."
But there was no answer.. Jay wasn't showing his face since the news that was brought upon them. Since seeing Emma.
"GET OFF!" Manny seemed to beg a big nasty demon that held her up against the wall until her hand grabbed her knife from her pocket, and she busted her head against the demons, stumbling it back and letting her go long enough for her to slice the knife across it's throat.
It fell dead.
"good job, Manny." Said Snake, patrolling the grounds with her. It seemed since finding that Devils message, more demons have been showing their faces, coming closer to the city.. like they weren't scared or hiding anymore now that their 'big boss' was coming up to earth.
"Where's Spinner?" Manny asked, looking left and right.
"OUF!" Spinner was thrown into a tree by a possessed man, what was with everyone throwing him into trees? Spinner tried to crawl up but the man grabbed him and threw him again, but after he threw him, someone grabbed his throat.
The man turned towards Jay and his big black covered eyes widened. Jay turned the guys head and cracked it, and it also fell down dead.
Spinner caught his breath and crawled up, "Always make an entrance." He joked to Jay who looked down at the man. It sucked killing possessed humans.. but it was unlikely to unposses them. Once a spirit or demon entered, it did not leave unless it wanted to..but why would it when it finally had the chance to be a person again?
"Where have you been?" Spinner asked him.
Jay just looked around and shrugged, "Around, I got word that there may be something brewing in the Gannah fields."
"Gannah fields? Only living thing up there is the Anderson family." Confirmed Spinner who then smirked, "Their kinda hill billies, but not evil. Just wierd!"
"Come on." Jay said, rolling his eyes but snickered. Spinner was okay to him. Wasn't a bad guy, just a big goof head.
Spinner now pounded on the front door of the Anderson house as Jay stood on the porch steps looking out the cornfield. Snake and Manny waited behind Spinner. No one was answering the door.
"Move." Snake said, going over and picked the lock, "Thought I taught you this." He told Spinner who went a little red and shrugged. Woops.
As soon as they opened the door and stepped in, the smell inside was overwhelming. A horrid, rotten smell that went straight to the stomach.
"That's definitely not a good sign." Manny covered her mouth as they began a search of the house. Manny stuck with Jay.. you could guess why.
They went through the kitchen. It was a mess for sure; plates of food sitting out, now spoiled and growing mold. Though it was apparent no one had touched it for awhile, the amount of piled dishes and open boxes of food told Jay that cleanliness wasn't on their list of virtues to begin with.
Snake let out a gasp as he went into the living room and they rushed in behind him. Manny nearly gagged with the rest of them; the guys had found the source of the smell. Three corpses sit on the couch, completely void of nutrients. It looked as if the life had literally been sucked out of them. Gross.
"Check for sulfur." Jay stated calmly and went to the window. Could of been a demon or spirit who did this.. they always left sulfur behind. Moments later a quiet movement was heard on the porch and he motioned them to circle the area.
Spinner saw Manny take off for the front door and cut in front of her, ignoring the annoyed look as he took the lead. She was after all like a sister.
It was too quiet outside. He motioned for Manny to stay inside before walking quietly along the porch. Suddenly he was blindsided by the butt of a shotgun as it slammed into his face, chest, and then the face again. Damn. He tumbled back onto the ground. As his head stopped spinning he heard the metallic click of Manny's gun and saw her standing behind the stranger. Bet she was glad he went first. The Stranger put its gun down and raised his hands as Manny took his gun til Jay stepped out.
Jay stood at the door and blinked, "Sean?"
The guy looked at Jay, "Oh," he furrowed his thick shaped eyebrows together, "I had no idea you would be here."
"I could tell you the same thing." Joked Jay, "You told me to check it out, had no idea you were going to come."
"Another old friend?" taunted Spinner, rubbing his head. All these people just popping up.
"He's another Guardian." Said Jay when a redhead ran up behind Sean, "This is Ellie." He also introduced.
"Another Angel?" muttered Manny, not surprised if she was.
Ellie shook her head, "No.. I leave that up to my boyfriend." She joked, kissing Sean's cheek who just grinned a bit. Manny gasped in a bit shocked but then nodded. Oh. A human.